Sorry it's taking a while, nobody reviewed lately and school has been bothering me lately since I owe work and got a lot of homework. But anyway here is the next chapter!
Last Time: Shadow picked Rouge up by her neck choking her. Knuckles punched Shadow in the stomach which caused him to fall backwards.
Nikki walked to his side since he was not moving; Shadow grabbed her wrist and stood up with her dangling in mid air.
"Shadow stop this now!" she cried. Shadow made no response to her; Nikki held her hand up to touch his face.
Her hand stated glowing a bright blue; Shadow's mind was soon filled of the memories of the things in his darkest of pasts. And more then that Nikki was also being affected by this mind power.
Shadow's face had gone blank and the memories swerved into his mind. Soon there was the pain, the pain of something heavy in his chest. So heavy he could not carry it.
Shadow's eyes filled with tears for the first time since the Space Colony Ark incident. Shadow opened his eyes; Nikki had been standing over him. She herself had been crying too, she was very pale in the face, and she was soaked and wet.
"Shadow I'm so happy you came back." she said. Knuckles and Rouge came to take a look at him. They had a series of scratches and bumps on them.
He picked himself up and felt his arm hurting a bit. He grabbed it flinching.
"Here." said Nikki, she put her hands near his arm and it glowed a pure white color. After a minute or so then the pain was gone. Shadow looked at her shamefully.
"I never knew that you had healing powers."
"I didn't until now, and I couldn't communicate with spirits either." She looked up at the raining sky; it was giving birth to its tiny children that were falling to Earth.
"I think there is more supernatural energy here than other place in the planet." said Nikki
"Yeah, that would explain the things we've seen." said Knuckles, Knuckles shivered a little.
"Come on we better get inside, where is Sonic?" asked Knuckles
"Oh Shit!" Rouge jumped up and started to panic a little.
"I left him back at the cabin were Tails had kept us!" Rouge grabbed Knuckle's arm and started trying to pull him out of the woods. They started to fallow each other out of the woods, the only problem was finding there way out of the woods.
"Guys, is it just me or its getting darker." Nikki asked a little sarcastically.
"Getting darker." They all replied to her instantly.
"Damn it!" Shadow yelled, "We must be going deeper into the woods instead coming out the way we came!" He slumped down on the ground under a tree trying to protect himself from the rain.
"Well, Sonic is doomed; Tails is a vamp now, and Nikki's powers or growing abnormally strong." Nikki did in fact show signs of growing over the next few hours, not because of the healing powers and the talking to spirits thing. But her body was somehow changing too.
She had an abnormal energy states around her now. Her spiritual energy which everyone has a little bit of was now visible to the naked eye witch is completely unnatural.
Rouge and Knuckles had fallen asleep. Rouge had her head on his shoulder and Knuckles was leaning up against the tree, they both looked pretty relaxed and peaceful. Shadow and Nikki however were the only once that were awake.
Shadow seemed to watch Nikki with intrigue because Nikki's spiritual energy was pulsing around her and growing gradually, her eyes had grown dark circles around them, and she looked very tired, her face was also pale.
"Nikki," he called to her, she lifted her head to look at him. She looked really out of it like she wasn't really there in her own body.
"Go to sleep, your really gone." he said, Nikki nodded unconsciously and automatically fell a sleep. Shadow watched over them for about an hour and a half then suddenly his eyes grew heavy and he fell a sleep gradually.
… Shadow's Flash Back…
The ARK was made for the benefit of man kind, Dr. Gerald Robotnik along with his granddaughter Maria who was a 12 had grown up in Space on the ARK. Mostly it would have been any child's dream to be in Space but not for her. The empty darkness bothered her the most.
"Maria." called out a voice from behind her, it was Shadow.
"Hello Shadow." she sighed she turned away and stared at the Earth, she had dreamed of going there and live among others.
"We'll go there someday Maria, I promise." Shadow said, he walked up next to her and stared out the window with her. "Just the two of us." Maria, her Grand father, and everyone else on the ARK were humans, unlike Shadow who was a Hedgehog.
Maria had blonde hair with a blue head band in it, and she had bright blue eyes that were very gentle, she wore a blue t-shirt, a blue skirt. Shadow loved Maria there wasn't anything in the world that he wouldn't do for her.
Maria smiled at Shadow. "Hope that you can keep that promise."
"I will don't worry." Shadow grabbed Maria's hand and squeezed it, suddenly an alarm went off, and a hail of gun fire was heard throughout the colony.
Shadow ran out of the control room and saw the professor running over to him.
"Shadow, grab Maria we have to hide!" he yelled, Maria peered her head out of the door.
"Grand father your hurt." Shadow looked at Gerald's arm which was bleeding.
"Forget that the G.U.N soldiers are after Shadow we have to leave the ARK." Gerald grabbed his Grand daughter's hand and started to run a littler down the hall.
"You two go ahead I'll try and slow them down." Shadow grabbed Maria's hand and ran as fast as he could.
"THERE THEY ARE THIS WAY DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!" yelled a G.U.N soldier.
Shadow looked up ahead there was a door in front of them that was where the capsules were stored; Maria and Shadow ran through the door Maria locked it trying to by them some time.
Shadow walked up to one of the capsules He opened it.
"Maria here get-" Maria suddenly pushed Shadow inside the capsule and locked it.
"Maria what are you doing you'll die!" Shadow pounded his fists against the glass. Maria simply ignored him, she typed in where he was to land and now all she had to do was pull the release lever.
The door opened, Shadow started to panic, The G.U.N soldiers pointed their guns to Maria.
"Alright girl, step away from the lever." Maria scowled at them, and pulled it down. The computer came on announcing the count down. The G.U.N soldier that was in front pulled the trigger.
Maria fell to the floor in front of him blood was all over the place. Shadow screamed out her name, she looked up at him and smiled.
"Shadow, for all the people on that planet please just give them a chance, a chance to be happy." The light in Maria's eyes started to fade a little. "Sayonara Shadow the Hedgehog."
"Two… one… release sequence completed…" Shadow suddenly felt himself falling from the ARK along with a capsule, he then went into a cold sleeping state one that would last 50 years later.
… Back To Reality…
Shadow had awaken to the sound of screaming Nikki, Rouge, and Knuckles were gone they were all somewhere in the woods.
Shadow got up to his feet and looked around, he ran deeper into the woods towards the screaming his heart did a leap when he saw Knuckles on the ground.
He was bleeding quiet badly and bruised. Shadow bent down to his level, Knuckles looked up at him and coughed out blood.
"They surprised us, they grabbed Nikki heaven only knows what they did with Rouge." said Knuckles.
"Who was it?" asked Shadow. Knuckles looked up at him.
"I think you'll be surprise it's someone you know quiet well." he replied instantly.
Sorry if this chapter was really crappy I've beenhaving writters block, I'll try doing the next chapter a lot better.
Okay, that's it for now I have this whole thing planned out and I know how I'm going to end this Fan Fic too. I think you'll all be surprised on the next chapter.
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