She ran out of her castle for the first time ignoring the Toads that called the name that wasn't even really hers. Tears were streaking down her face like miniature waterfalls. She had never cried this hard. Not when she was kidnapped, not when her parents scolded her as a child and not even when they left leaving the kingdom to her even though she was barely twelve at the strange thing was she wasn't sad. She didn't have to hide anymore. When she was young Peach had a rebellious spirit she wore jeans and played the guitar spending hours on end in the woods as well. For some reason she felt as if she had been missing out on nature as she had always wanted to experience it but, she never could. I guess that comes with living on a space station your whole life a voice in Peach's head whispered. She groaned she was already treating those crazy visions as memories of her true past.

What the young girl wasn't aware of was that she was being watched. A large reptilian figure watched her from the shadows. "What is he princess doing by herself at this hour" he wondered "bah! Who care I'll just kidnap her right now." Dashing out of the blackness quite clumsily he snatched the surprised girl and held he close too his scaly face. Usually the princess realized struggle was futile and jus went along with Bowsers antics but this time she wasn't have any of it. She punched and kicked at his oversized hand screaming at him to let her down. Ignoring her worthless pleas he was about to turn around and head back to his castle when she yelled something different something with an extreme power behind it "CHAOS BLAST."

For the first time ever Peach's struggles were effective a strong blast that seemed to originate from her sent Bowser flying and he dropped her. Collapsing to the ground the tears still relentlessly streaming down her face the young girls mind raced trying to decipher what had just happened. emThat was chaos energy/em a voice in her head whispered. A hand was placed on her shoulder causing Peach to look up. It was Shadow. He reached out his other arm to help her up and she took it. Hugging his familiar body she spoke "Sh-Shadow i-it's me Maria," feeling his arms tighten around her he whispered "I know.

Authors note: hey guys sorry I haven't been updating lately and this is kinda a short chapter I've been kinda busy. Quick question who wants the friendship genre to turn into romance I think this would make a break ShadowxMaria/Peach story. Please read and review and oh yeah I own no characters