Welcome back, I guess? Turns out people actually want more of my weird stories. So… here you go! Also, please, give feedback. Is the pacing ok? Are the characters…. In-character? Help me out!
Shadow opened the door to his dorm, grumbling. He unpacked his school bag in his room just before sitting on the bed. He sighed, trying to forget what he had seen. He looked around, looking for something to distract him. His eyes landed on a ruby. It was in a diamond-cut, resting on a stand. He received that gem from Rouge, who had said she 'found it'. Chances are, she found it in a jewelry store and decided to 'borrow' it for all of eternity. Nonetheless, Shadow kept the gem, for reasons unknown to everyone but himself. The gem's stand was placed on a simple, oak wood desk. Behind it was a shelf, which was lined with lots of textbooks. In the centre of the desk was a red laptop. Beside it was a simple black coloured lamp. Around it, the walls were painted a mix of red and black. In the corner of the room was a basketball, as well as a guitar. His bed had a simple red cover, which was black on the inside. His pillow was plain white, being one of the few things that weren't either black or red. His roommate often complained to him about the lack of variety, so he bought the white pillow just to shut him up.
"...Should I talk to him?" Shadow thought, laying down in bed. He was silent for a good while, his mind recalling everything that happened. After a while, he shook his head and got up.
"Why am I thinking about this so much? The worst that can happen is he attacks me. If that happens, I'll just crush him. There. Problem solved." Shadow decided, hopping out of bed.
He walked out of his room, and into his small living room. There was a white mattress on the floor, with a TV resting on a stand right in front of it. Opposite the TV was a brown coloured couch, seated behind the mattress. Wooden planks lined the floor, stopping at the glass sliding door. The door prevented anyone from stepping onto the balcony unless someone was to, y'know, open it. The walls were a neutral beige colour, and the floor's wood planks were a chestnut brown. Under the TV were a few video game consoles, along with a couple of video games. They'd occasionally play them together if Silver managed to pull Shadow out of his room.
Shadow walked up to a white door, which was situated beside the door to his bedroom. He gave it a knock and waited for a response. The door didn't open, and instead, he heard the faint sound of music.
"Must have his earphones on again…" Shadow grumbled, before opening the door.
The door opened to reveal his roommate's room. The walls were painted teal, and the floor was a white carpet. Against the wall of the room was a white and gold, futuristic looking desk. Messy doodles and school notes were scattered everywhere along his desk, even covering his white laptop. Above the desk was a window, which was opened, allowing the wind to gently blow the indigo curtains aside. On another side of the wall was his bed. The bed had light blue covers, a golden frame, a grey pillow, and a small chao plush resting beside the pillow. Laying under the bed was a flute, and beside it, a badminton racket. Floating (literally) in the centre of the room was his roommate. He had headphones on, as he silently hummed a tune. Papers were floating around him, as he worked on his math homework. There was even a glass of water among the sheets of paper. In front of him was a worksheet, with the pencil writing on its own. The pencil paused for a second, as the roommate calculated a math problem in his head. When he finished, the pencil began to write the answer down. After seeing all this, we wondered just how many things his roommate was working on. Then, taking a deep breath, Shadow walked up to his psychokinetic roommate.
"Silver!" Shadow screamed, startling the white hedgehog.
"Ah!" Silver yelped, dropping his hold on the floating items. The papers lost their cyan glow and started falling towards the ground. At the last second, Silver caught the glass of water before it could crash onto the floor. Silver then landed with a thud, as he started to get up, one of the reasons why Silver had a carpeted floor.
"Ngh… what is it?" Silver asked, taking off his headphones. Shadow took a deep breath.
"Why did you challenge me yesterday?" Shadow asked. Silver cocked an eyebrow and started floating again.
"Challenge? What challenge?" Silver asked, doing a loop in the air before facing Shadow again, this time upside down.
"Yesterday, you challenged me to a rank battle. You lost and started blabbering nonsense. Then you just…. left." Shadow explained.
"I did? Why would I rank challenge you? You're the undefeated king. Besides, I don't wanna be king anyway." Silver responded.
"But… hrmph. Are you lying?" Shadow bluntly asked.
"W-what?! Lying?! W-why would I… lie?" Silver stuttered, earning a glare from Shadow.
"Tell it to me, straight," Shadow growled, his eyes shining a blood red.
"I-I swear! Shadow! Flippin' king Shadow! I didn't!" Silver protested with his hands in the air.
"Don't lie!" Shadow shouted, throwing a chaos spear.
"I'm not! I'm not!" Silver yelled, dodging all the attacks. One of the spears landed near Silver's phone, which began ringing. Shadow stopped to examine the phone. It seems like it was a call from Blaze.
"W-well looks like I need to go… I have to … um…. study with Blaze!" Silver yelled, darting over to his phone.
"You are not leaving this room!" Shadow yelled, blocking the entrance.
"Uh… nicechattingwithyouBYE!" Silver yelled, pushing Shadow away with his psychokinesis and darting out the room. Then Shadow heard the sound of the door slamming shut, just before he landed on the carpeted floor.
"Danggit…" Shadow muttered, getting up. He dusted himself off before looking around Silver's room.
"Maybe I can look around his room…" Shadow thought, shuffling through the papers Silver dropped.
He found a doodle of Blaze, a math worksheet, a sketch of Sonic rollin' around at the speed of sound, a piece of paper where he did his rough work, notes for a science project, and… an envelope labelled "Interesting things that happened that you shouldn't look at… SHADOW" Of course, whatever you're told not to do, you do, so Shadow ripped open the envelope.
"Journal entries?" Shadow asked, seeing dates on the several pieces of paper that were inside.
Shadow shuffled through them, reading a few. He found out that Silver liked milk, he went shopping for flowers with Blaze, he was planning some kind of April Fool's joke, he was learning how to teleport, he liked potatoes, the list goes on. He kept searching until he finally found the one that was dated for yesterday. It read:
Tuesday, March 16, 4012
Where do I start? Today was quite… eventful. Tikal almost got killed… again. Darn Jet was trying to force her to do his language assignment… again. She refused, and Jet was gonna give her a beating…. again That is until Blaze stopped it…. Again. I do admire Tikal's strong will though. If she had more than just healing abilities, she would've been able to fight back. But she's a healer, not a fighter. She's the only healer in the school. That's also her only use among the Royals. Whenever they do a Turf War against another school, she's only there to heal. They only ever approach her when they need to heal someone. If Tikal wasn't a healer, the Royals wouldn't even know her name. She'd just be another person to watch. The Royals never care. They're always so high up in the clouds. They don't know what's going on below them. What goes on beneath them is none of their business, according to them. The high tiers are always doing things they shouldn't be doing. But no one can stop them, after all, they're high tiers. The only ones who can, are the Royals. But they don't know what's going on. They don't. freaking. CARE. That's why I don't ever want to be a royal. No, I want to stay down to earth. I don't want to be so ignorant. I'm already missing out on a lot of conflicts. If I rise higher up the ranks, I'll know less and less. Shadow can keep his crown. Amy can keep her throne. I want to stay grounded. I want to stay humble. I want to stay… human. Or should I say mobian? Whatever. Point is, the Royals are so powerful, they can't even be considered mobian. No, they're god level.
Heh, that was quite a long rant I just wrote. Also, who writes "heh"? Me, apparently. I just remembered. I was walking past the library, and I overheard Amy and Rouge talking. Apparently, Blaze has rank challenged Amy? Odd, I don't remember her telling me. Tomorrow after school, I'm meeting with Blaze to talk about it. If we need to pass a message to the Royals, we'll bring Tails along. He'll tell Sonic. And Sonic's loud mouth will tell the rest. During the conversation, they said they wanted to hold a meeting with Sonic and Shadow. Apparently, they don't want the boys to know they have 'girl meetings', as they call it. So they're going to be doing some acting during the meeting. I wonder how much they'll lie about?
...I have a bad feeling that tomorrow after school, Shadow's gonna ask me about rank challenging him. I don't know why since I wouldn't do it. Maybe an evil clone challenged him? Ha! As if. Well, I have to go to sleep now. This was a rather long entry. An entry Shadow better not see. Pft, who am I kidding? Fate has a weird way of doing things. So, here's a note for you, Shadow! I have no memory of challenging you. I might not have a very high opinion of you Royals, but you're a pretty great guy to be around! Well, when you're not busting through my door and telling me to wash the dishes. Anyway, have an imaginary cookie for reading this long piece of writing!
~Signed, Silver
"..." Was all Shadow could say, before putting the paper back into the envelope. He went back to his room and sat down on his bed.
"What the heck is going on?" Shadow mumbled. Sighing, he grabbed his phone from his desk and began to type.
Shadowking37: Meeting at 5:00 PM
Soft_rose:?
Shadowking37: Spoke to Silver
Soft_rose: Ah
SonicspeedX: How'd it go Shadz?
Shadowking37: You'll find out
Diamond-ring: Someone's keeping secrets
Shadowking37: Like you're one to talk
Diamond-ring: Touché
Shadowking37: Also, can you talk to Blaze, Amy?
Soft_Rose: I guess
Soft_Rose: Forgot, she went off with Silver
SonicspeedX: What're they doing anyway?
Shadowking37: Tell you at the meeting
Diamond-ring: You really are giving it a lot of hype
Shadowking37: Oh trust me, I think you'll find it quite interesting
SonicspeedX: This better be worth it
Shadowking37: It will
Shadowking37: Amy, talk to Blaze when she comes back, alright?
Soft_Rose: Alright
Shadowking37: See you guys at 5
SonicspeedX: Cya
Diamond-ring: Bye~
Soft_Rose: See you there
(Amy's room)
With a sigh, Amy put her phone away. She sat down in her pink desk chair, which was situated right behind a wooden pink desk. The walls had white polka-dots against a pink background and a famous boy band poster just above her bed. Her blanket was neatly folded, and guess what? She had a pink blanket! Her Pillow was white with red hearts, her laptop was pink, her lamp was pink and white, her pencil case was lined with red and pink hearts, and just about everything she had was either pink, red, or white. The few things that weren't though, were the plushies on her bed and desk. She had a chao one, a puppy one, a cat one, a unicorn one, a flower, the list goes on. It was as if a pink kitty barfed pink vomit all over her room.
"Talk to Blaze, huh?" Amy asked herself, lightly tapping her desk with her fingernails. She glanced at a bracelet made of seashells.
"Hmm, still have to give that to Sonikku." Amy thought, picking it up. She intended to give it to him as a gift, as a way of saying thanks for helping her finish the history assignment. Before she could think anymore, she heard the door open.
"Blaze?" She shouted, sticking her head out her room door.
"Hey." Blaze responded, entering the living room.
Their living room was pretty much the same as Silver and Shadow's but pretty colour swapped. Instead, there were shades of pink, purple, white and red everywhere. Also, instead of video games resting under the TV, there were books.
"That ended a lot quicker than I expected." I said, closing the door behind her.
"Yeah, it did." Blaze replied.
"How'd it go?" Amy asked, following her to her room.
"Just peachy." Blaze said, before closing the door to her room. Amy was left outside, cocking her head.
"Peachy? Really Blaze?" Amy shouted into her roommate's room. The only thing she got in return was silence.
"Odd. Better tell Shadow." Amy muttered, going back to her room.
Amy sat down in her chair again and picked up her phone. She then went onto her private chat with Shadow.
Soft_Rose: Talked to Blaze
Shadowking37: Talking to Silver
Shadowking37: Well, I was
Soft_Rose:?
Shadowking37: Just closed me out. I'll try talking to him again. Later.
Soft_Rose: Why not now?
Shadowking37: From what I can hear in that room, it's not good
Shadowking37: Avoid talking to Blaze for now
Soft_Rose: Then what about the meeting?
Shadowking37: Tails was there. I told Sonic to get his side
Soft_Rose: Ok then
Soft_Rose: What do you think is happening to those two?
Shadowking37: Silver's been working on the more telepathic side of his ability
Soft_Rose: And?
Shadowking37: He might unconsciously be working on clairvoyance
Soft_Rose: How can you unconsciously work on an ability like that?!
Shadowking37: I don't know, but his hunches are getting pretty accurate. If what he thinks is true, we aren't dealing with Silver and Blaze at all
Soft_Rose: Sorry, what?
Shadowking37: Tell you at the meeting. I need to go
Soft_Rose: Alright, bye
Shadowking37: Bye
"What is going on?!" Amy yelled, covering her mouth immediately afterwards and glancing at the direction of Blaze's room.
"Geez, wonder if Sonikku's faring any better…" Amy muttered.
(At Tails' room)
"C'mon buddy, what happened?" Sonic asked his best friend. The two-tailed fox was sitting on his bed, his eyes wide and trembling.
His bed was yellow, the author's getting lazy with room descriptions, and blueprints were hanging on the walls. A tool kit was resting on the table, with safety goggles right on top of it. One of the fox's bazillion projects was on the table, with various metal parts scattered around it.
"I-I can't say." The fox stated, his eyes still avoiding eye contact.
"Come on lil' bro! Why not?" Sonic shouted. Sonic and Tails knew were really close, so much so, that they call each other brothers.
"I j-just can't." Tails muttered. This caused Sonic to heave a big sigh, before going towards the door.
"Talk to me later when you're ready. Whatever's going on, you'll think of some way out of it. After all, you're freaking 8-years-old and you're fixing supercomputers like it's nothing." Sonic smiled, just before closing the door. As soon as Sonic left the room, Tails' ears flicked towards the door, trying to hear the sounds of Sonic walking. When he determined that Sonic was far enough, Tails bolted towards his computer.
"Download the recording, download the recording!" Tails yelled, quickly pulling out a USB from his glove. He inserted the drive into the computer, pressed a few files, and it started downloading. As soon as it was done downloading, he quickly moved on.
"A-alright, hacking!" Tails muttered, his fingers flying across the keyboard. He quickly accessed the school's security cameras and found the camera that recorded their meeting. He deleted the recording from the camera's memory, sighing as he did so.
"Done… Now all there is left…" Tails said, removing the USB from the computer. Carefully, he took out a lighter and brought the flames up to the drive. Slowly, the USB turned into ashes, leaving behind the smell of smoke. Tails opened up the windows, allowing the smoke to go out the window without triggering the smoke alarm.
"T-that's it… the only thing left of the meeting is the audio recording on my computer…" Tails muttered, lying down on his bed. "And the memories that will haunt my dreams."
(Silver's room)
Silver lay flat on the floor of his room, thinking of the past hour. First, Shadow asked him about rank challenges, then… the meeting happened. It was supposed to be simple information sharing. They had plenty in the past. Tails was usually there, geeking out whenever we mentioned something of interest to him. But this time, Tails wasn't blabbering about some number theory we barely know about, this time, Tails had his eyes open wide, and his mouth hanging open.
Sighing, Silver lifted some crates he had in the corner of the room. Silver occasionally used them to practice his abilities. He smashed them against the back wall of his room, creating a loud bang. Naturally, every wall in the school is made from the strongest available material, for when the students get into fights. This wall, however, had an extra layer to it, designed specifically for Silver to throw stuff at it. This, like many inventions in the school, was created by Tails.
"Silver? You smashing the crates in frustration again?" Shadow's voice rang out from behind the door. Shadow knew very well that banging stuff against the wall was one of the things Silver does to relieve stress.
"Yeah, why? Oh right, you want to come in and find out every single detail, then report it to your little group of Royals, don't you?" Silver shouted, venom dripping from his voice.
"Get your act together! You have no reason to say that!" Shadow responded.
"Wanna bet?" Silver asked, slamming the door open.
Floating in front of Shadow was the envelope he opened earlier that day. Shadow could only stay silent, cursing himself in his head for not hiding it away or something. Before Shadow could respond, Silver slammed the door shut again, leaving Shadow with the sounds of more crates crashing.
"Fine, come see me when you're done throwing a tantrum." Shadow huffed, going back to his room. Inside, Silver dropped the crates and flew towards the window.
"I wish I could tell you Shadow… Tails does too… but I can't." Silver muttered, glancing out the window towards the girls' dormitory.
Suddenly, Silver winced and started grasping his arm. He quickly realized that his glove was getting covered by fresh red blood, sending him into a panic. He then flew to his bed and grabbed a bottle of disinfectant from across the room. He quickly dabbed the wound with the disinfectant and then grabbed some wrapping bandages. He took one last glance at the wound, trying to forget the events that lead to the injury. There, covering his entire arm, was a large burn mark.
(School roof)
"C'mon Shadie~ Tell us!" Rouge yelled, pestering Shadow.
Amy and Sonic only stared at Shadow, also wanting the information. When Shadow grunted and pushed Rouge aside, Rouge huffed a little, crossing her arms. It was then that the roof fell silent. The silence was unnatural, so Rouge eyed everyone carefully. Sonic would usually be pestering Shadow like crazy, poking him and talking in superspeed. Amy would do the same, just in a less annoying way. But the way they both refused to say anything was bothering her. Sonic and Amy were staring at Shadow, leaving Rouge unnoticed. So, she squinted her eyes at Sonic, her eyes turning a sapphire blue. Images flashed in her head, all of them involving Sonic talking to Tails. Next, she peeked into Amy's memories, discovering her small conversation with Blaze, and the texts she sent to Shadow.
"Rouge." Shadow said, snapping Rouge back to reality.
"Yeah?" Rouge asked, depowering and staring at Shadow.
"We agreed on no mind reading." Shadow stated, piercing Rouge with his glare.
"Yeah, well, things are getting weird here, and I want to know what's going on." Rouge stated, unfazed by Shadow's glare. Before Shadow could respond, Amy decided to intervene.
"Let's not fight like little children. Alright?" Amy declared, clearly annoyed.
"I actually agree with her." Sonic added.
"Hrmph. Alright. Sonic, what did you get outta Tails?" Shadow asked
"Not much at all." Sonic answered, shaking his head. "He kept saying the same thing."
"What did he say?" Amy asked.
"I can't tell you." Sonic replied.
"Why not?" Rouge asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No, I can tell you-" Sonic tried to say, before getting interrupted by Rouge.
"Then, why didn't you tell us?" Rouge asked.
"I did, it's just-" Sonic started.
"Do it then!" Rouge yelled.
"I'M TRYING TO SAY-" Sonic screamed.
"Tails kept saying that he couldn't tell Sonic." Shadow explained.
"THANK YOU!" Sonic yelled.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Rouge exclaimed, suddenly regretting her life decisions. Beside her, Amy was struggling to contain her laughter, Sonic was panting heavily, and Shadow was emotionless as always.
"Moving on, I got nothing from Silver, and Amy got nothing from Blaze." Shadow reported.
"It's about their little meet right? Amy told me." Rouge said.
"About that." Shadow said, gaining the attention of Amy and Rouge.
"Yeah?" Amy asked, trying to hide her nervousness.
"About our last meeting, how much did you lie about?" Shadow replied, rather bluntly.
"Um…. pardon?" Rouge asked. Being the spy she was, she kept calm in the tensest situations. Amy was biting her lips, and Sonic just stood there with wide eyes.
"Did I stutter? Must I repeat myself?" Shadow pressed, his eyes narrowing into a glare. "Do I need to remind you who's King?"
"Nope. Say, where'd you get this information Shadie?" Rouge responded, amazing Amy at the fact that she could remain so calm.
"Why don't you ask Amy over there?" Shadow questioned, causing Amy to yelp in surprise.
"Amyyyyyy?" Rouge asked, turning towards her. Rouge kept her usual nonchalant pose, but you could tell from her voice that she was anything but.
"I-I swear, I didn't!" Amy protested, her arms going up in the air.
"Really now?" Rouge asked.
"Really!" Amy yelled. Before Rouge could continue, Shadow interrupted.
"She's telling the truth." Shadow said.
"Then-" Rouge started.
"HOLD ON!" Sonic yelled. Rouge and Amy turned towards him, and Shadow closed his eyes while assuming a slight smirk.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but slow down! What the heck is going on here? You guys were lying?!" Sonic yelled, throwing his arms up into the air. Amy and Rouge glanced at each other, before sighing.
"Lookie here, alright? Amy and I, we have meetings of our own. The whole part about me pressing Amy for her Blaze encounter was a little act. We needed a way to bring it up, without you finding out about our meetings. That's… pretty much it." Rouge explained, using her hands to gesture here and there.
"That's…" Sonic started, taking a deep breath. "...IT?! That's all?! Geez, you girls really do blow everything out of proportion over the smallest of things! Good lord, SAVE ME!"
"Um… that was offensive." Amy stated, raising a finger.
"Psh, whatever! Honestly though. Shadz and I have our own meeting too! What's so bad about that?!" Sonic screamed.
"Uh… thought you'd be extremely mad about it…. But ok." Amy said.
"I am!" Sonic yelled.
"So….." Rouge started, breaking up the argument.
"...Take this." Shadow responded rather randomly, throwing Silver's journal entry on the floor.
"Hmm?" Sonic asked, reacting the fastest and running to grab it before it even hit the floor.
They gathered around it and started to read. At first, they had curious expressions. At one point, Sonic rolled his eyes and growled out Jet's name. Sonic and Jet never were friends. Soon, their curious expressions shifted to that of surprise, and hurt, in the case of Amy. But they continued to read on, faster now, as Shadow watched their eyes zip from left to right. Near the middle, Sonic's eyes started shining, as his eyes started moving at speeds that were incalculable. In the next second, Sonic dropped the paper, causing Amy to yelp and pick it back up again. They continued to read, as Sonic stepped back to process what he read in superspeed.
"W-what?" Sonic asked, slightly hurt but more surprised than anything.
"I know." Shadow simply replied, his arms crossed and his eyes closed.
"Every night, Tails would tell me, 'you should pay more attention. Some people don't like the way you are acting now.' I've always dismissed it, but now…" Sonic started, recalling the nights that Tails would scold him. "But now… I finally know what he meant. Come to think of it, Tails does talk to Silver and Blaze quite often…."
"I suggest you pay more attention to what the two-tailed frea- fox says next time." Shadow stated, careful not to use the word "freak". The word haunted the young fox's mind, and if you referred to him like that in front of Sonic, he would make sure you spent some nice bonding time with the school nurse.
"Yeah…" Sonic noted, raising an eyebrow at Shadow's choice of words. They stood in silence, both thinking about their own thing. That is until Amy and Rouge finished reading.
"Are we… really like that?" Amy asked.
"I have to admit… he has a point." Rouge stated, looking back at the paper.
"He does." A voice said. They all turned their heads to look at the intruder, mostly surprised they couldn't detect them coming. There, standing by the entrance to the school roof, was a certain pyrokinetic cat.
"B-blaze?" Amy stuttered.
"Hello." She responded.
"What're you doing here?" Shadow asked, a hint of malice in his voice.
"What're you doing with Silver's entry?" Blaze replied.
"What do you think?" Shadow questioned.
"What do you think I'm doing here?" Blaze asked.
"..." Everyone said.
"Ouch." Sonic whispered.
"Do you know the proper way to answer a question?" Shadow finally asked.
"Do I look like I'm in grade 1?" Blaze responded.
"Are we playing 20 questions?" Shadow asked.
"Can we stop using only questions?" Blaze replied.
"Wow, I must be constipated, 'cause I don't give a shi-" Shadow started.
"Does it look like we're in an M rated fanfiction?" Blaze interrupted.
"She's good." Rouge whispered, while behind her, Amy was getting really frustrated.
"Didn't we agree not to break the fourth wall?" Shadow asked, quickly growing tired of this conversation as well.
"Didn't we agree not to swear?" Blaze retaliated. Dang, this girl's on fire… pun not intended.
"How'd we go from a perfectly normal plot-related question to breaking the fourth wall?" Shadow asked.
"How'd we go from a perfectly normal question to playing questions only?" Blaze asked.
"How about you both just shut it?!" Amy yelled.
"Fine." Shadow mumbled.
"Alright." Blaze agreed, shooting Shadow a look that said, "I totally won that." Shadow could only glare in response.
"So Blaze, what are you doing here?" Rouge asked.
"Here to ask you for a favour." Blaze responded, crossing her arms and closing her eyes in a typical Shadow way.
"What is it?" Sonic asked. Her eyes flew open revealing them to be glowing a golden yellow. She took a small step towards Shadow, who only raised an eyebrow in response.
"What is she doing? Challenging the King?" Amy thought, her full undivided attention towards Blaze and Shadow.
"Out with it. Stop trying to be so dramatic." Shadow growled, his eyes flaring a crimson red. "Need I remind you who's King?"
"That's the second time he used that line today. This day is obviously not going well." Sonic muttered.
"No, you don't. Just hear me out." Blaze responded, her eyes still glowing and glaring at Shadow.
"I'm listening." Shadow answered, on guard and cautious.
"Good on you for staying calm under his threats." Rouge thought, her trained eyes scanning the situation. Her eyes stopped dead on a small object poking out from Blaze's sleeve. It was hiding under the shadows (Ha, shadows, get it?) of her sleeve. This, of course, caught Rouge's attention, as she was now identifying the object.
"I'm only telling you this once, so pay attention." Blaze said, taking another step forward. As she stepped forwards, the sun started reflecting off of the object's surface. Wait no, it was a blade's surface.
"Shadow! Look out!" Rouge screamed, getting the other's attention. However, she was a little too late.
"Stay out of our business!" Blaze yelled, swiftly drawing out the knife and setting it ablaze. (Man, the puns just never end.) In the next second, a huge gash appeared on Shadow's stomach, grabbing everyone's attention.
"Shadow!" Amy yelled, running in to help. But before anyone could take another step forwards, Blaze decided to strike again, stabbing him thrice.
"Is this really the King? Is this really the one that Maria loved so dearly?" Blaze taunted. At that point, Shadow couldn't take it. No one mentions her and gets away with it. No one mentions her and goes away unscathed. No one mentions her and lives to see another day. Not even Blaze.
"CARE TO REPEAT THAT?!" Shadow screamed, a chaos spear in hand and nothing but murder on his mind.
Well, isn't that just amazing? It's not the cliffhanger I wanted, but it'll do. BTW, thanks so much for the 3 favs and 4 follows I have so far! That's... honestly a lot more than I expected... so thanks! In case you were wondering, no, Blaze and Silver are not the villains. I wouldn't dare give such a role to them. Instead, someone else is at work here.
Ok, time for something completely off topic. You guys saw the new Sonic design, didn't you? What do you think of it? From what I can tell so far, pretty much everyone just thinks it's ok, or they say they expected something worse. I have to agree with the majority. Some things just make me want to go in a pit and die, but I could probably stand looking at it for 2 hours straight. I think the movie's looking ok so far, but I can't really say anything until the trailer comes out. But fingers crossed that it doesn't become another Sonic 06.
Wow, I wrote more about the movie than I did about my own story. Anyway, this is getting long, so I better shut up now. Bye!