(Sonic and co. are property of SEGA and Sonic Team.)
"I can't believe I forgot their numbers…"
I moaned into Roxxi's pillow.
Roxxi and Ogwa were in one room, Petite was in another, and Carly and Carlos were in the last.
All of the rooms were about a sixteenth of what my room's area.
In other words, only about the size of a regular bedroom.
"How do you live like this?"
I groaned looking around the Black room.
"Well, at least our room's cool."
Ogwa shrugged.
It was true, there was a PS2, a Gamecube, a computer and a TV in their room, but the rest of the space was taken up by our three beds.
"Hey! Sonic Team is a non-profit organization too! How come they have so much fancy stuff?"
Roxxi pondered for moment and then lay down on her bed.
"I think I know why."
I admired the garnet ring Shadow gave me for my 17th birthday.
It was shaped like fire and sparkled like a star.
"Why?"
Ogwa said getting in her capsule and powering down her robotic half.
"Because Shadow's rich. I mean it. The guy's freakin' loaded. Guess what he gave me for my 18th birthday?"
I asked.
"A gun?"
Roxxi tried.
"That was my guess."
Ogwa agreed.
"Nope. A designer dress, a plasma screen TV, and a necklace just like this ring."
I showed them my ring.
"Ooh! Its soooo pretty! How'd you get it?"
Roxxi cooed.
"I'll give you three guesses."
I looked at Ogwa.
"Shadow, the Emperor of Darkness, and the pain in the butt prince that rules over Earth at this moment."
She retorted.
"Right, correct, and Bingo!"
I giggled.
"It's odd though. Shadow goes and spends all this money on you. He dumps two of his girlfriends so that he can spend time with you and he strands his brother in the Sahara for swearing about you and then he turns evil and leaves you in the dust. None of this adds up."
Roxxi scratched her head.
"I know."
I lay down on my bed too.
"So… It's eight. Do we really have to go to bed yet?"
Roxxi asked.
"Yeah, my real half ain't exactly tired."
Ogwa replied waking her robotic half.
"What'd we do?"
I asked.
:"Well… we could always send an e-mail to that annoying jerk of a friend, Shadow. And not put a returning address."
Roxxi sat up and grinned at her computer.
I was shocked.
Not at the fact that she wanted me to send an e-mail to Shadow, at the fact that she had internet access.
"Um… I guess."
I hopped on the computer.
Ogwa got out of her capsule and sat on my bed.
The e-mail read:
Dear Shadow,
I know that you would probably behead me for not calling you prince but I sincerely don't care. Maria is no longer on earth so call off all your search parties. She's not exactly happy about what's going on at earth. But she wants you to know that when she next sees you she has some questions to ask. If she doesn't like those answers or if she doesn't get any answers she'll most likely kill you, or at least bruise you up pretty good.
Love,
Go ahead 'n guess.
"Hm… I like how you signed it."
Ogwa said, scanning the computer screen.
"Send!"
Roxxi chirped, pressing a button on the keyboard.
Message was successfully sent.
Okay? Cancel?
Okay.
"Well… that's that."
I went back to lying on my bed.
"So, do you think everyone on earth is okay?"
Roxxi asked.
"I can only hope so."
I replied.
Jwan's POV
"Hm?"
When I woke up my whole body was sore.
"What's going on?"
I asked looking around the room.
I was the first one up.
We all seemed to be in a cage or cell of some sort.
I didn't seem to be wearing the clothes I fell asleep in.
"Wow… what kind of fabric is this?"
I asked, not talking to anyone specifically.
"Do you like your new servant clothes?"
I turned and saw Shadow grinning at me through the cell bars.
Suddenly a thought occurred to me.
"Who put these clothes on me?"
I asked.
Shadow laughed.
"If he went anywhere near me…"
"Don't worry. I had robots change you."
He said still laughing.
"I'd better still have my same underwear on…"
I growled.
"Jwan, no offense or anything but… you're not my type."
He said walking away.
"I'd like to know if his type even exists."
I grumbled.
"How does Maria cope with his guy? He's a complete nut job! Then again she probably knows that."
"There are tons of ways to cope with crazies, Jwan. But there's only one way to deal with Shadow."
Tikal had apparently woken up.
"And what's that?"
I asked.
"Go get Maria."
She came over and sat down next to me.
"Maybe you haven't noticed but we're fresh outa Maria's at the moment."
I rolled my eyes.
"Well… we'll have to wait for the next shipment to come in, won't we?"
Tikal said.
Maria's POV
The next day I woke up totally drenched.
"Did someone pour a bucket of water on me last night?"
I asked Ogwa when I stepped into the living room.
"Nope. Last night you were sweating really bad and at one point you started crying. I didn't know what to do so I woke up Roxxi. Roxxi tried to wake you up but it didn't work."
"Oh…"
I sat down on the junked up couch.
I looked around the room.
"How do you get ice cream on the ceiling?"
I asked pointing to the 17 ice cream cones that hung from the ceiling.
"Carlos wanted the room to look rustic so he put rubber cement in some ice cream cones and stuck them to the ceiling to make it look like a stalactite."
She rolled her eyes.
"I don't know about rustic but you got primitive down pat."
I said, commenting on their messy house.
Carlos walked in with a bag of chips and sat down at his recliner and ate while watching television.
Ogwa rested her head in her hands and cried.
"I'm gonna go get us some coffee, I think you'll need it."
I said, patting Ogwa on the back.
