Well, yay, I'm updating this story too, as I said I would. Yay.

Disclaimer - I don't own Sonic, Shadow or the camera obscura.

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It was dark as Sonic walked towards Shadow, who sat silently under the cherry blossom tree, waiting his arrival patiently. Sonic sat down next to him.

"I haven't been here in so long, I didn't even remember it until now. It all seems so obvious." Shadow took his hand comfortingly and smiled.

"You've nearly solved the puzzle, soon, we'll be together again, just like we were before…" he trailed off. "But the next tasks you shall face are the hardest you have encountered, it will take all your skills, and without the camera, now it's even harder." He smiled, "But I believe you can do it, you have to." He leant his head on Sonic's shoulder as his image began to fade. "I look forward to being with you again. But for us to be together you must trust me, look into the abyss, it may not make sense at first, but all will become clear, when you cannot see."

Sonic looked at him in confusion as he slowly disappeared.

"But how can I see clearly, when I can see nothing at all?" He mused out loud as he glanced nervously at the abyss. But all doubts exited his mind when he thought of Shadow's words. 'Of course I trust you.' He slowly walked over to the abyss, he remembered the last time he'd been here, he was only young, about five years old, but he remembered as clear as though it had only happened yesterday.

Sonic was playing in forest, in was a clear summer day, and he stopped as he came across the abyss. His childish curiosity outweighed the cautious voices in his head telling his to run quickly in the other direction, and he went over to see what was in it, when he was stopped by a man.

"No child, you must not look down there." Sonic remembered being confused by this.

"Why not."

"That is the abyss, unspeakable horrors happen to those who gaze into its depths, you must never look inside, understand?"

Sonic nodded and edged away, then ran away, he remembered not liking the man, he was strange and scary. That night he'd dreamt of a strange mansion. Nothing was ever the same again.

It seemed strange how one little occurrence could ripple through your life until it effected everything, for your sleep at night, to your nervousness around people who looked eerily familiar. Sonic was trapped in these thoughts as he kneeled over the abyss. He looked down into the depths of it. Nothing happened.

Then everything was black.

"AAAGGHH!" Sonic clutched his hands to his eyes and screamed in pain. "My eyes, my eyes!" He opened them and looked around, he couldn't see anything, everything was dark. "I can't see, Shadow?" He reached out his arms and stumbled around, trying to get his footing. He was slowly making his way through the forest when he slipped.

He remembered falling, tumbling down a steep slope.

Then he awoke in the mansion. Sonic tried to see around him in vain, he couldn't see anything, what if a spirit came now? He had no camera, he could barely walk never mind run.

"Shadow why?" He shook his head as the began to get frustrated with stumbling around. He had managed to support himself on something when he heard Shadow's voice in his head.

"Now, things will soon become clear."

He shakily stood and bowed his head.

"How Shadow? You're not making any sense." He felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Just trust me, if you don't, we're doomed." The hand disappeared, leaving Sonic alone in the room.

"Shadow?" He slumped and carefully tried to move round the room. What room was he even in? He cried out as he tripped over something lying on the ground. "This is hopeless." He drew his knees to his chest and began to sob quietly as he felt the darkness engulf him, the darkness that was there when he opened his eyes, it was worse than any other he'd ever experienced. "Shadow."

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I know it was short, but I'm tired, deal with it. Really short.

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