Chapter 8

The next morning Tails woke up about 5:30 A.M and stumbled around the house, Sonic had already left with Sam to get to training early. Tails accidentally walked in on Marissa when she was changing, she heard him walk in and her ears perked up

"HIYA!" she whipped around and kicked Tails to the ground and shut the door, she didn't realize who it was until she was already in her light red armor, she began to blush before she opened the door

"I'm so sorry Tails" she apologized after she helped him up "I really am"

"It's okay, but you did look a little pretty" Tails was blushing now, and started to laugh a little, and soon Marissa started to join in and she was blushing to, then she just leaned over and kissed him, and just pulled away really quickly, and she was bright red, brighter than her armor

"I shouldn't have done that…" she stopped, Tails started to kiss her now too, the kiss lasted for a minute, and they pulled away from each other

"Marissa, the truth is, I love you, and I have since I met you" Tails blurted out, and turned red and ran down the hall towards the brown, wooden door. He ran outside with a smile on his face 'at least I know that she likes me too' Tails thought, he then burst in the fortress and went flying into the training room and started panting

"What's wrong Tails?" Sonic asked and he ran for Tails, who's chest was inflating and deflating like a balloon

"Nothing" Tails said cheerfully as he turned around "I'm not feeling so well all of a sudden" his entire attitude just changed, and his face turned red, and he fell to the ground like he was just killed, and Sonic picked him up, but Tails got up himself, he started to walk blindly, and he stumbled back to the house and from there his memory went blank, like a page ripped out of a book

Tails awoke in the guest room alone, he then realized he was in Marissa's bed, and he got out of the room, but nobody was in the house, but he ad slept all night

"Ok, either Marissa slept on the couch, but I doubt it, or she slept with me, that's more likely after what happened yesterday" Tails said in a very sleepy voice, he got dressed and went outside, but he saw only a hooded figure at the gate, and two dead guards, and Tails made a stone/steel sword and edged towards the figure, he then saw that the figure had skate/shoes on 'he looks just like shadow…no, he disappeared two years ago' Tails thought, and he got so close that Tails took of the figures hood really quick, and turned around and looked at Tails

"Shadow?" Tails outburst

"Tails?" Said Shadow

"What are you doing here?" asked Tails

"Uh… uh… attacking. he-he" Shadow whispered, Tails looked in shock for a moment and then-

"SONIC! SAM! SOMEBODY! ATTACKER!" Screamed Tails and the alarm went off

"Attack! Attack!" said Zaku over the speaker, he thought they were about to go to war, but when the knights came out, they laughed and turned away, but Shadow created a shockwave that shot the knights back into the fortress, and most of them died

"Shadow, I once trusted you, and you turned into a monster when you disappeared from the face of our planet!" Tails was really angry and, again, his eyes started glowing, he had a sudden surge of power, and picked Shadow up without moving, and threw him against the wall

"I've had enough of you for one day you little prick! CHAOS CONTROL" Shadow warped away, across the planet

Meanwhile in the forest…

"I don't know how to tell him I like someone else, he'll probably never talk to me again, and he'll completely ignore me" Marissa sobbed, she knew about Tails true feelings, but there was a four year age difference, he was 14 and she was 18, just then she heard someone sneaking around "who's there?"

"ha-ha-ha" it was Shadow who chuckled, and he lunged to knock Marissa out cold