the next day
Rouge finished packing her duffle bag and walked out of the bathroom.
The others were just getting ready to go.
Knuckles leaned against a wall as he turned to Shadow with a question in his throat. "So where do we go next?"
Shadow didn't turn to look at him he was facing the window. "Rome." He stared out the window for a few more moments. "We should get going." He walked over to Amy who was sitting on the end of the bed. He took her hand in his. "I know this place, I can chaos control us there." He pulled Amy by her arm so she was now at his side. "I'll come back for you two." Shadow glanced and Rouge and Knuckles as he held up his green chaos emerald and then disappeared.
Amy's eyes were snapped shut as she felt herself traveling through what felt like cold wind she just held onto Shadow tighter. She felt the wind cease and she opened her eyes she was right in front of the famous Roman Coliseum. Amy looked upward to the top of it. Shadow leaned over her shoulder and whispered in her ear. "I'll be back." He disappeared in a green flash. Amy sighed as she felt the warmth of the green flash then walked toward into the Coliseum.
Rouge stood with Knuckles on the balcony. Knuckles felt the wind blow through his dreads, he looked at Rouge who was standing next to him she wasn't smiling and she seemed so distant her gaze lots in what seemed to be nothingness. Rouge's gaze was broke when she felt Knuckle's hand wrap around her own. "Where are you?" Knuckles asked the question in a soft voice.
"I'm sorry it's just-"
In a huge flare Shadow had appeared. "Come on I don't want to leave Amy alone."
Knuckles and Rouge looked at each other and then back at Shadow; Rouge stepped forward and took shadow's hand. "Okay ready."
Shadow held up the green emerald. "Chaos control!"
When the three reappeared in front of the Coliseum Amy was not there. Shadow turned to the entrance and walked toward it.
Amy was standing in the very center of the arena she was the only one in the whole place because it was Sunday no one was there. It was so quite her ears twitched when she heard Shadow's foot steps as he appeared in the open doorway. "Shadow I want to stay a little longer you can go head and let Rouge find a place for us to stay." She glanced into the seating area that outlined the huge circle.
"As you wish." Shadow backed into the darkness of the shadowed corridor.
Knuckles had not dropped Rouge's hand yet. "Tell me what's wrong."
"I'll tell you when we're alone."
Shadow had just emerged from the arena. "Come on I'm going to teleport you to the center of the city so you can find somewhere for us to stay."
"What about Amy?" Rouge took a step toward Shadow.
"She wants to stay here for a little while longer and I told her she could." Shadow turned and put his hand on Rouge's arm and chaos controlled. When the teleport was complete Knuckles and Rouge found themselves smack dab in the middle of Rome. "Pick somewhere and I'll get you there."
"No need, I think we'll stay here." Rouge was looking a big fancy hotel called 'The Roman Palace' "Look when you and Amy are ready to come back all you have to do is chaos control to the hotel sweet."
"But we can't afford a swe-" Knuckles began.
"Just trust me Shadow I know what I'm doing just remember hotel sweet number one, Knuckles and me will be in sweet number two." She smiled as he held up two fingers to show their room number. Then she took Knuckles and headed for the hotel, Shadow rolled his shoulders and then chaos controlled.
Amy had reached the very top edge of the coliseum and was looking down. 'I wonder what it would be like?' her pink quills danced in the wind as she looked down into the streets of the city. She felt a little woozy as she wobbled on her feet slightly she began to fall forward, but a hand grabbed her wrist pulling her from the edge. "You could fall if you're not careful." It was Shadow who had saved her.
"Is that such a bad thing?" Amy didn't turn to face him she only looked out over the vast land filled with roman buildings and fountains.
"hum?" Shadow couldn't understand the complex emotion changes of this pink hedgehog. Shadow had always been able to figure out a person easy, what made them tick, and what made them fall apart but Amy was different he could barely even scratch the surface of her being.
"I've fallen over a 100 times off a building like this before and I've never been caught." Amy's voice was soft and calm as if what she was telling Shadow had no significance in the real world.
"But how-?"
"If you're thinking of Sonic you're wrong, Sonic has always caught my physical body not because he wanted to or anything I'm sure but he's never caught my soul he's always let if fall and now I don't think I can call it back again." She sighed slowly. "Humm…the funny thing is that Sonic thinks he has feelings for me now and it's really only jealousy."
"Jealousy?" Shadow questioned.
"Yes he's jealous…of you." Amy turned to face Shadow.
"Of me?"
"Um-hum, remember that night at the museum when I asked to go with you?"
"Yes."
"Well Sonic saw me with my arms around you and disappearing without even screaming for help, he understood something I didn't want his help I wanted to be with you and then realization hit him he no longer had me and Sonic always wants what he can't have and when he realized he could no longer have something he had owned for so long it mad him feel angry…angry towards you because he feels like you took it away and you didn't…I did." She had a few tears in her eyes as she turned back to the edge of the arena. "And so I wonder what… what it would be like to fall and let my soul and body go with no one to save me at all."
Amy took a step forward with intentions to jump; but again Shadow pulled her back this time he placed her in his arms. He didn't know why he just felt he should do it. "You should know that I will always be here to catch you and your soul when ever you fall."
Knuckles was standing next to Rouge as she looked around the lobby. "So miss hotel sweet how do you purpose we go about booking the two most expensive rooms in this entire place?"
Rouge smiled as she looked over at the front desk. "Oh come on I thought you would have figured it out by now."
"Don't tell me, I have to make another distraction right?" Knuckles folded his arms and looked at Rouge he really didn't feel like it today.
"Please knuixe I promise to be good the rest of today." She gave an innocent smile as leaned on his shoulder.
"Fine but I get to choose what we do for fun tonight." Knuckles looked around the place he saw that there was a huge entrance where the lobby connected to a hallway that led to things like the pool, the gym and all that stuff. He also noticed that above this entrance was a line of about ten huge vases, of course the were decoration and probably very expensive but Knuckles had a plan in store for these things. "Okay I cause your little distraction now." Knuckles causally walked over and leaned on the on the wall of the entrance. When no one was looking her took his elbow and jammed it into the wall causing it to shake and all the vases fell from the small ledge and began smash allover the floor. People were screaming as they ran around thinking they had heard a gun shoot or something, of course just as last time all the front desk people had left their post to see what the cause of the problem was. Knuckles had quickly ran back to the front desk and looked over it to see Rouge finish typing something in on the main computer and then she jumped back over the counter.
She made it just in time as a man walked up and stood at the front desk again. "Exuse the wait we had a slight mishap now how may I help you?"
"Yes my husband and I booked the second hotel sweet." Rouge spoke very aristocratically.
"Your name please." The man asked.
"Von and Amanda Nickson." Rouge answered. Knuckles looked at her weird what was she talking about.
"Ah yes here you are and here are your keys please enjoy your stay."
Rouge began to walk off with Knuckles. "Oh and two friends of ours will be arriving soon to take the first sweet be dear and make sure it's ready for them." Rouge then continued on with Knuckles.
Amy's face was hot with a blush but she didn't care she put her hands on his face and then she moved closer and embraced Shadow with a kiss. The kiss was long and deep filled with passionate feeling. When Amy finally could hold the kiss no longer she pulled away her eyes were slightly closed as were Shadows. Her eyes began well with a few tears she wondered what the consequences for doing such a thing to him would be. Shadow saw the tears in Amy's eyes he gently took his thumb and whipped them away then he wrapped his arms around her in a tender embrace. "Amy…"
She opened her eyes slightly as she took her head from his shoulder and looked into his red eyes. "um…"
"I want to show you something." He took out the green emerald. Amy instantaneously closed her eyes at the sight of it. "No." Amy listened as she felt a hand run across her cheek. "Don't close your eyes." She opened them slowly. "I promise you'll be fine." He pulled her a little closer and once again he lifted the emerald into the air. "Chaos Control."
Amy held her eyes open against her will as she saw the green light engulf them. Amy could not believe what she saw it was like black night and all around her were stars sparkling with all their radiance, she could also feel the wind which she felt every time she chaos controlled with Shadow. It was as if they were traveling through space. "Shadow it's beautiful." She rested her head on Shadow's shoulder as they seem to come nearer to a whole at the end of the star lit void. When they entered Amy closed her eyes because of the bright light that once again seemed to swallow them. When she reopened them she found they were in a hotel room. Amy released her grip on Shadow's body as she looked around. "Where are we?"
"Some Hotel Rouge picked out." Shadow walked to the sliding glass door that led to a beautiful terrace much bigger than the last one and the banisters were beautifully carved out of stone. He opened it and felt a breeze blow through his black quills. He turned back around be he saw that Amy had already locked herself in the bathroom. Shadow then observed the room it was quite nice. One king sized bed, plasma TV, chilled champagne, assorted food, you know all the stuff you find in a fancy place like that. Shadow threw off his shoes as he sat down on the edge of the bed. Then he noticed that the sound of the shower in the bathroom had stopped. He turned his head to the door and oddly he saw it open and steam poured out and then something he really didn't expected happened.
Amy walked out of the bathroom she was still wet and she had a red towel wrapped around her body. She walked over and stood in front of the black hedgehog. His mouth was slightly ajar and his cheeks were burning red. "Shadow…" She came a little closer. He somehow instinctively felt an emotion stir with in him this was lust, Shadow pulled Amy to him and kissed her gently. Amy allowed Shadow to pick her up and lay her on the bed and then he took the towel from around her body with passionate intentions. Amy's hands moved down his chest to the button and zipper of his jeans. "Shadow I…" She was so fazed by Shadow's actions that she couldn't speak. He didn't answer her; he only muffled her words with a deep kiss. The moment finally came when Shadow hit the peak of the moment he took the one thing she could never get back her virginity her love. Amy winched and made a slight scream as she breathed in heavily and let all the passionate tensions in her body disappear she closed her eyes and could feel her heart pumping madly. Shadow moved his lips to her neck and kissed it sweetly. Amy heard him say something but it was stifled by his kiss. He pulled his head up so he was facing her. "I love you" was all he said before he stole another fervent kiss from her. When Shadow could no longer hold his kiss he released her and lay down beside Amy. She turned over and huddled up close to him her head resting on his chest. "I love you too." Amy closed her eyes and fell asleep.