Chapter 4
Shadow awoke the next morning to the smell of breakfast in the air. He quickly got off of the couch and walked into the kitchen where he was greeted by Rouge.
"Hi Shadow, I made you some breakfast."
Shadow said nothing.
"Do you like bacon?"
Again, Shadow said nothing.
"SHADOW!"
Shadow looked at her with a glare before answering.
"I don't eat."
"Oh sorry, I didn't know."
"Well, I didn't expect you to."
Rouge simply huffed at this comment. 'Man, we've known each other for a while and I still don't know a damn thing about him.'
Shadow walked back in to the living room.
"Rouge, has Tails called yet?"
"Oh no, he hasn't."
Shadow closed his eyes for a minute. When he opened them again, he stared at a pair of emerald green eyes.
Shadow turned his head in annoyance. "What?"
"Oh, I was thinking, maybe we could have some fun today."
Shadow arched a brow. "What?"
"We could go out shopping or something."
"No."
Aw come on Shadow. Just one time. Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasssssssseeeee?"
"Humph, fine."
"Yay, I'll go get my purse."
A couple of minutes passed before Rouge walked back with her purse in hand.
"Ready to go?"
"I was ready 5 minutes ago."
"O.K., jeez."
Rouge walked out of the mansion followed by Shadow.
Downtown Station Square
Rouge was walking down the sidewalk with Shadow close behind. All he heard was Rouge's voice.
"Uh let's go in there, no over there, over there, I've got to have that."
Shadow got the pleasure of carrying the bags. Finally they came to a stop at a Café and took a break.
"Are women always like this?"
"What do you mean Shadow?
"Buying everything in sight."
"I do not do that!"
Shadow just looked at her.
"O.K., maybe a little." She answered while blushing.
After a couple of minutes of silence, the waiter arrived.
"May I take your order?"
"Yes please. I'll have a mocha latte and my friend her while have"-
"Nothing."
"Are you sure Shadow?"
"Yes."
"O.K., your loss."
The waiter left and returned with Rouge's order. She quietly sipped on it while Shadow sat with arms folded, eyes closed.
"I see your having a good time."
"No I'm not, this is a waste of time."
"Come on Shadow, loosen up."
Shadow was about to respond but the bank across the street blew sky high. Shadow tackled Rouge to the ground right before a piece of flying metal hit her chair. She turned red at having him on top of her like that. He got off and helped her up.
"Are you alright Rouge?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Shadow turned towards the rubble and saw a silhouette in the dust. A gust of wind came forth to reveal it as a white and silver hedgehog with 4 chaos emeralds circling around his head. The silver, the red, the dark blue, and the light blue. The evil one turned towards Shadow and Rouge.
"Well well, if in isn't my little brother. Having fun with the bat are we?"
"Shut up Eclipse."
"No need to be so harsh Shadow. "
Shadow decided to change the subject. "What are you doing with those emeralds?"
"Ha, your mind is so delusional Shadow. I will collect these to kill you and rule this planet!"
"Not if I can help it."
"Oh, but that's just it, you can't help it."
"I wouldn't be so sure."
Shadow turned back to Rouge. "Get out of here."
"No way, I wanna help."
"You will, just by staying out of his reach. Now please go."
Rouge was shocked that he displayed this much emotion towards her. She nodded and flew off towards her house, leaving Shadow to face Eclipse. The dark hedgehog turned tpwards his brother again.
"You are so pathetic Shadow. Displaying emotion towards that bat."
"Yeah well, at least I can feel."
"And that is your weakness Shadow."
Shadow pulled out his green emerald and fused it into his body by pressing it hard into his chest. His red stripes blinked green about 5 times before the color subsided.
"Nice trick Shadow, but I can do everything you can."
The emeralds around him stopped rotating as he took them in his hand and pressed them hard against his chest. The gems sank into his skin. His entire body was blinking from white to silver, to red, to dark blue, and to light blue before subsiding.
The two hedgehogs got into a fighting stance.