Wow. I finished, I actually finished. I thought I'd never finish! I'm so proud, also i need to say thank you to EVERYONE who took the time to review. It makes me happy, and helped me finish this. I never expected such a good response for my first story. Yay me! Well yes, this is the last chapter. -Sniffle- But don't worry, I'll probably be putting up another Sonic story after my planned Harry Potter one. So it's all good.

Well I hope you enjoy the last chapter, I finish with my longest chapter of the story yet! (Don't get too excited, I expect it's all just babble!)

Anyway, yes, thank you sooo much to everyone who read and reviewed A Rose's Revenge. It makes me feel all warm and fluffy. ;D

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A Rose's Revenge - Chapter 11

A Happy Ending?

Amy slowly, and reluctantly released her grip from Shadow's hand. "Okay." She whispered to him softly, before turning to exit the base with the rest of the group. Amy was terrified and her insides squirmed uncomfortably as all she could think about as she left Shadow behind, was if she would ever see him again. The others seemed to have the exact same look across their face, only there was something else hurting her. Amy felt like strings had been attached to her heart, and they were being tugged forcefully. It left Amy thinking about Shadow, and a thought haunting her: What exactly did she feel for him?

Shadow watched the other, and a certain pink hedgehog safely exit the set-to-blow base. He couldn't help but wonder what they were thinking, what Amy was thinking. He didn't know she was thinking the exactly same think as he was… He watched closely until they rounded a corner and were out of his view. Clenching his fist and – almost nervously – adjusting the rings on his wrists he kick started his skates, before any air of worry or nervousness evaporated as he rounded on the four still remaining in the base besides himself.

The three were still fighting – Diamond and the two other hedgehogs going against her. They both looked at equal match. But you never judge a book by it's cover – the energy Diamond emitted from her and suddenly changed into chaos energy merged with her own and the two other purple hedgehogs were thrown against a control panel. Shadow winced, the stoic frown he usual held now a full grimace. He had to admit – he was the tiniest bit scared of the damn telekinetic. However, he knew his chaos energy controlling abilities could easily match her telekinetic ones. But he didn't have an emerald…

He'd deal with that later. Shadow continued to scope the room – planning his move. Hunter was still in the corner against a chair where Knuckles had been beating him to a pulp; Shadow could see a bruise on his cheek faintly forming the shape of Knuckles' 'spikes'. He had to smirk a titch, he also noticed the revolvers by him and the fact he was beginning to regain consciousness. Sighing as if he had to do a chore, Shadow skated gracefully over to him, picked up the pair of revolvers which were loaded; and with one swiftly hit the man on to back across the head with the handle of one. Shadow smirked as Hunter flopped back again, once again unconscious.

"Never try to kill me again." Shadow muttered slightly, he realized he was talking to someone who could hear, but really didn't give a damn. He then started to look around again, still holding the revolvers and floating above the ground due to his skates.

Diamond was approaching the other so called 'blood relatives' of hers to Amy's information. She didn't look to fond at them, she looked more angry than she had ever looked. Usually her eyes would be pink when she did this sort of thing – but Shadow noticed the pure white they were. It was freaky, and he took them as a danger sign when the other two were suspended in the air and flung in different directions. The smallest of the two whom had darker fur was flying directed towards him.

"Whoa!" Shadow yelped, and just managed to dive out the way as she collided into a wheeled chair and skidded back in the chair until she hit a wall. Shadow saw her bare her teeth like an angry dog before she shook her head, opened her soft grey eyes before they blazed into a powerful green, she jumped up and began to head towards Diamond again. Shadow breifly held his arm out to stop her. The purple hedgehog stopped at the sudden outstretch, saw the male being tormented by Diamond and gave him a vicious glare.

"Let me past." She suddenly growled, almost snapping at him, wolf like now it seemed. Shadow raised an eyebrow at her, she seemed young. At the oldest she was 11. This made him frown, he wasn't too sure why. Nevertheless, what had Cream called them? Kady and Steven? No that wasn't it. Katie. That's it, the other one didn't matter right now.

"Katie is it?" He looked down at the smaller hedgehog who suddenly tensed – Shadow felt the cool sensation sweep over him like he had felt when Diamond had tormented him with his own memories. He shook it, off, but it was gone within seconds anyway. So telekinesis did run in the family.

"Yeah. It is, Shadow. What's it to you?" Katie asked, still glaring up at him. She seemed to have a certain hate for him, but that was Shadow, you either loved or hated him.

"Your name means nothing." Shadow stated bluntly, looking emotionlessly into the aggravated child's eyes. "It's who you are, and what you can tell me to help get rid of that freak."

Katie let out an over dramatic and angered sigh, obviously impatient. "That's Stephan." Katie said, nodding her head to the male hedgehog that resembled Diamond. They had now engaged into meelee attacks, hitting and blocking each other. Shadow noticed breifly each time they made contact bursts of colored light came from the point of the contact's origin. Curious.

Katie continued. "He's the freak's twin brother. I'm her sister. She's out of control, we came to stop her. Took years to locate her. Now if you don't mind, we'd like to do our job for our planet." She finished her short, rude sentences, huffing at Shadow and pushing past his arm. "Oh and, there's nothing hard about stopping her, it's just getting past the defense." She muttered, then ran off.

"Wait, what? Your planet?" Great, Shadow thought. Just like the black arms. It seemed whenever he came into contact with 'aliens' as it was, he ended up in mental and physical pain. He'd had the mental, he hoped to escape the physical.

Shadow jumped down the small set of steps and started to run towards the fight; much to his dismay to be stopped and distracted again. In the center of the room was the circle and the broken glass where he was being held not five minutes ago. A sudden idea came over him, and he smirked looking at the location of Diamond and Hunter. Hunter was still out cold, Diamond was still putting up a good fight with the other two. Shadow nodded, set off again, to be stopped again.

Now rather anxious for a fight, and slightly worried about just about everything else Shadow spotted a white fluffy fox tail. Crap, Shadow thought then ran to it. Lilly was situated behind a steel pillar, tapping away at a laptop. She jumped and nearly shot Shadow when he got close but breathed and put the gun down.

"I c-can't do it!" Lilly exclaimed looking distress. "The place is going to blow, I can't rewrite it! The system won't let me. I managed to delay it by another ten minutes, but I can't stop it!" Suddenly she burst into incoherent babble, making Shadow back off a bit. It was kind of scary, the artic fox had always came across so calm and collected.

"Lilly." The fox stopped, the icy blue orbs looked up at him, almost helplessly. "Shut up." The fox's snout suddenly crumpled in slight confusion, she hadn't expected that. But really, had she been expecting a savior? A hero? Maybe. Looking into Shadow's eyes, she couldn't help but feel that air about him… Without warning the fox was picked up with one of Shadow's gloved hands, she was flung over his shoulder after he'd thrown the revolver away. He began to walk with her hanging over his shoulder.

"H-Hey!" She exclaimed, wriggling in his uncomfortable grasp. "Let me down!" She almost screamed. Shadow sighed and held her tighter, shutting her up. Walking into the hanger which was conveniently next to the control room, he thrust her onto a GUN jet's wing. She growled at him, and looked like she was about to pounce before Lilly huffed and opened the cockpit. As she began to climb in, the stopped and looked back at Shadow who'd begun to walk back. "This the first time you've blown this base?"

"Nope." Said Shadow shortly, not turning back to look. "Except, last time it was the whole island."

Lilly laughed, that was definitely sarcastic in some ways. Even those she suspected it to be true. "Awr, disappointed?" She watched him walk off without a reply, before getting out a few things. "Shadow!"

Shadow stopped, looking briefly over his shoulder. In Lilly's cupped hands were the chaos emeralds, all seven. Included the drained, dead looking one. He quickly ran back to her and she reached down filtering them into his hands. He looked up to say thanks, to find the fox's face a inch too close to his…

"Make sure she pays.." Suddenly Shadow's neck was in a death grip of a hug. Shadow stood awkwardly, eyes bulging for a minute when she hadn't quickly let go. He wasn't used to this situation having never really hugged that much… He shuffled uncomfortable, not knowing how to react. Thankful he didn't have the option of hugging back as he held the emeralds. After a awkward few seconds Lilly finally released her grip and scurried into the plan. Shadow stood there for a few minutes, a bit shell-shocked by the experience before he made a face and turned back.

"Amy!" Suddenly a blue-blur was in front of her, clawing into a metal robot with the same blue sharp quills. Amy couldn't help but glare at him, angry.

"Sonic. I can fight for myself now, you know?" As the group ran along the concreted robot-ridden edge of the base, Sonic looked embarrassedly at the pink hedgehog – he wasn't really used to Amy this way. He looked down bashfully.

"Sorry.." Sonic muttered, so used to being the hero of her. Now he wasn't.. it felt a bit empty that his number-one fan wasn't his fan at all now. Amy grimaced as an unwlecome wave a guilt hit her seeing his sad eyes. She quickly shook it off and ran slightly ahead of Sonic, who had been pacing himself for the group.

"There they are!" Amy glanced up, at the end of the run way. Near to where Knuckles and Rouge were teamed up demolishing the army of robots, was two planes. One black and silver, the other blue and yellow. Amy glanced at Tails, wasn't he the only pilot?

"I'll take the other one tails, you take Knuckles and Cream. I'll take Amy and Rouge." Tails nodded as Amy looked bewildered at Sonic, only hoping he could fly without killing them all. He was always more comfortable on the ground…

As the group hopped into their designated plane's, Amy and Sonic both smirked when Knuckled nervously, and uncomfortably glanced back to Rouge boarding a separate plane. Sonic couldn't wait until this was all over and he could crack that teasing joke he'd been saving…

He shook his head, then hopped onto the black and silver plane as the Tornado took off. Hoping into the pilot seat he started the engine, only to be met but shouted of out rage.

"You can't leave without him!" Rouge declared, a hand on her hip, the other pointing accusingly at the blue hedgehog. "Are you crazy, if you take off he'll die for sure!" Rouge had always had a soft spot for Shadow – she always felt the strangest need to.. mother him.

"What are you doing you idiot?! DON'T TAKE OFF!" Amy had screeched in unison with Rouge's fist sentence. "You can't leave Shadow behind! It's going to blow, and he's in there… He'll get our, he will.." She seemed to be talking herself into something as she collapsed into a seat, a soft shimmer in her damp eyes. Sonic frowned confused, at once turning the engine to standby to not anger the girl's anymore. But, why was Amy so upset? It slowly hit Sonic, like the daylight in summer. It was so obvious, but he couldn't help but feel sadness too. At least he could make it out to be worry for Shadow.

In all truth, the cool hedgehog had no doubt Shadow would live. Sonic had fought with and along side the black hedgehog. He knew what he was capable of, and if all failed he could use chaos control. There was nothing to be scared of, right? Or was the blue blur missing something here?

Nevertheless, with Rouge tending to Amy's weeping eyes and heart, all the three could do was wait….

.. And of course get furious shouts from Knuckles over the radio demanding to know why they were stalling and to get their butts in the air.

Shadow frowned, he was holding the dead chaos emerald in his hand, the other six held uncomfortable in his other arm. Was their any way to return it's power? The Master Emerald wouldn't have helped. It was to stop and control it's power, not to amplify it. His gaze drifted to the other six, a thought struck him. Could he possibly transfer a equal amount of energy from the remaining six to re power the seventh? It was risky. If it didn't work it would have been a waste of time.. But he needed…

Shadow sighed, his decision certain and he lay the seven in a circle, then placed his hand over the dead one. Closing his eyes he started to wield and manipulate the power of the emeralds, willing strongly for them to share and equalize their power. As in all major development of pure power; there was a bright flash of blinding light then nothing. Shadow took his hand away to peer at an almost normal completely normal and restored chaos emerald. Be her noticed that this, and the other six were all significantly paler. He just hoped it would still work.

Shadow placed the emerald back down onto the ground as a cry of pain came from one of the fighting three. He stood in the middle of the circle and began to control the power. They began to rise and circle him, shaking with the raw chaos and power Shadow glew bright then opened his eyes in super form, smirking slightly as he observed his arm and all the black fur that was shining that brilliant white-gold.

This was it.

Shadow flew straight to the group and intervened, pushing away the worn out fighting duo and began to battle with Diamond himself. All three seemed to pause in shock at his form, Shadow particularly enjoyed Diamond's surprised expression. It was hard to surprise a girl like her. He smirked then began to fight with her.

Shadow strikes fast and hard, Diamond barely managed to keep up; struggling under the chaos power and speed. She barely managed to get up telekinetic shield defenses before he came into contact. And he was getting closer to hitting her. The shields started from 5 inches, that crept to 3 after several blows. Before slowly reducing to just one.

Shadow allowed himself to breathe after realizing he had been holding his breathe, then as quick as he bounced away from the shield he attacked again – and to everyone's astonishment – he hit. The purple hedgehog was heard yelping, before she was flung back skidding along to floor. Shadow didn't waste a second, he dived at her and started to absorb the chaos energy that she had consumed.

This was extremely painful. Diamond began to scream, yield and whimper as the yellow vapours poured into Shadows gold fur. He grimaced, her scream was not nice. Then walking calmly to the circle he placed Diamond into it, then turned to get Hunter.

He wasn't there. Shadow only had a second to ponder in confusion when another cylinder container trapped Diamond and himself. He frowned and looked up to see a slightly dazed Hunter grasping his strewn revolver, his hand on a panel. Shadow smirked it himself, his look unintentionally sinister

"Fool."

That one simple word, in his tone made every part of Hunter's skin and spine shiver in the fear of this creation's unknown power. But that's just it, the fear of the unknown is always the end of you. Shadow suddenly disappeared – making Hunter yell in shock and surprise and attempt to scramble away. When he saw the shoes in front of him, he could only hope.

Faith's only good for those who aren't completely helpless. Hunter, staring at Shadow's feet; was completely helpless. Shadow picked the man up roughly, disappeared and re-appeared in the container, floating above and unconscious Diamond, and dropped him onto her form. He made a small 'hmph' at them then muttered a small 'chaos control' and began to walk calmly to the control panel parallel to the container.

"What are you planning to do?" The boy-ish voice made Shadow jump as he found Katie and Stephan behind him, they looked like curious playful puppies peering over his shoulder eagerly. Shadow grimaced, glared then shrugged them off and began to tap the keys. He felt a cold rush, the need to kill everyone psychic, then heard an informed 'oooohhh…' from behind. He growled and looked up as the container began to fill with misty blue smoke and what looked like water.

Shadow crossed his arm, a stoic frown on his muzzle as he watched the water begin to freak around the pair. Hunter had gone from banging viciously against the transparent container, to looking horrified at his legs. Shadow grinned, satisfied when the forms of those who'd caused him hell were frozen and inanimate.

Then pressing the keys again the container disappeared.

"Where's it going?" Katie asked when suddenly Shadow's form became normal, and the chaos emeralds lay around him.

Shadow spoke as he collected the emeralds. "Onto a plane." Shadow didn't see the two purple look at each other sceptically then nodded.

"Riiiighht.." Katie said, giving Shadow's bent over back a patronizing pat, then they both just vanished. Shadow had the most horrible feeling they were about to find it and take it somewhere… 'safe'. Shaking if off he calmly began to walk out the base. Ignoring the nagging sound of alarms and a women's recording voice exclaiming the base would be in bite in less than 3 minutes.

In a flash of light the walking Shadow appeared out side onto the landing strip, he looked back to see a small cargo plane take off. Damn. They had taken her. He just hopped they go back to this other planet, sure enough it looked like that's where they headed.

Still, then why was Shadow left with the unsettling feeling everything wasn't quite over yet? He couldn't help but worry. It felt.. informal, unsigned, cast aside. Like everything was going to start again tomorrow.. What was this uneasy feeling of pure dread? Had it all been to easy maybe? Then he heard the voice that confirmed to him everything was quite over.

"Shadow.." The meek voice of Amy Rose made the ebony hedgehog's ears twitch. He looked up as she leaned out the cockpit. She'd been crying, he could see that. It made him frown with a peculiar sadness and slight worry. Then he looked at her smile, and smiled back; a pure, innocent smile. Rouge and Sonic leaned over as well helping him pull himself into the plain with the seven chaos emerald.

No-one said anything, it was like the peace after the storm. Or was it the peace before the storm? Shadow didn't care. All he scared about what the hand squeezing his anxiously as Sonic took the plane into the air as the base behind them blew into countless pieces.

"Diamond?"

"… Dead… Well, frozen." Rouge stared into Shadow's emotionless face; her own wrinkled in confusion. Shadow hadn't been bothered to say every detail, and had told them the outline. Well, Rouge distinctly remembered his outline to be.

"Stephan, Katie, Lily, Diamond, Chaos Emeralds, Fight, Freeze, Eject, Escape. Happily every after." In that sarcastic, yet unemotional tone of his. It was slightly hinted with a tone of laughter. Shadow knew how to tick Rouge off, and got a slight pleasure when she made that aggravated 'ooooh!' and stamped her heels. Made him want to giggle. But Shadow never giggled.

Shadow ignored Rouge's interrogation, and let his gaze drift to Amy who had been quiet ever since they'd escape. She hadn't said anything since she'd said his name.. Amy was sat, curled up in the corner chair of Tail's apartment. She looked so troubled… But everything was over.

Shadow frowned, suddenly hushed Rouge who looked very taken aback, and shooed her from the room into the kitchen where the other were discussing where to keep the emeralds. Shadow slowly crept to sit silently beside the timid Amy, he ten turned to her, and leaned over so he was dangerously close to her. Amy didn't react – only simply looked up at him. Shadow waited for something, anything as he searched her emeralds for anything…

What happened?

Shadow's eyes bulged as his back lay flat against the cushion and Amy lay over him, her lips pushed firmly, determined only his. Shadow couldn't even take a moment to breathe. He was shocked! It was like being hugged by Lilly but ten times worse!

.. And ten times wonderful. Suddenly the awkward, uncomfortable feeling washed away as Amy's body fit perfect with his and Shadow automatically closed his eyes and ever so slightly tilted his head. Shadow placed his hand delicately onto the small of Amy's back and, shocking her slightly, pulled her closer.

Shadow tried hard as his lips gracefully pressed against Amy to figure out what this feeling was inside of him. It was like a burst of all his good emotions. Happiness, affection, anxiety, worry, excitement, anticipation, joy and something else he'd felt before but was having difficulty interpreting…

Amy's pure sense of worry and dread in her bold move melted away as he kissed back… He had kissed back… Amy's heart fluttered as she softened her kiss, and let her emotions run riot. Amy knew she loved Shadow.. She finally knew. She had been so scared, so scared he would reject her like Sonic had and she would have to bare with the constant heartache and worry all over again. But all of that evaporated as he held her.. Oh she'd stay here for ever, in his arms hissing his soft lips…

Oh, wait, no. She needed to breathe. Amy – despite her sudden outrageous hate and anger towards the need to intake oxygen – gentle and elegantly pulled away, allowing her eyes to flutter open cutely as Shadow stared up at her in astonishment.. And.. wait, fear? Amy started to worry, he did hate that.. he was just being-

"I l-love you."

Shadow had stumbled, finding the words had been hard enough, saying them had been hard enough. Nevertheless.. Amy stared into Shadows crimson eyes as her heart missed not a beat, but quite a few as if it were tremouring.. The fear in his eyes doubled. Amy couldn't help but smile widely. He was scared she wouldn't say I back..

"I love you too.." The first words she had said in ages, and Shadow was more pleased than anything to hear them. He leaned back up to kiss her, but more passionately and much deeper. As if he needed it like he needed air.

"Er…" The sudden sound made them break apart. "Are we… interrupting?" They both, slowly and shyly, looked up to see the whole group in front of them. All 6 holding a chaos emerald, Sonic in front of them and was holding 3. Rouge and Knuckles were trying to his their faces, their smiles cracking for a pure need to laugh and giggle. Cream was already giggling, looking estatic with Cheese making excited circle's around her head.

Amy blushed brighter than Shadow's eyes, and when to move off of him. Only to be held down by both Shadow's strong arms. Their was a certain sparkle in his eye and something in his smirk as Amy was forced – not unwillingly, though – to stay laying onto Shadow's frame.

"Yes, in fact. You are." Shadow told them, smugly. Amy seemed to have sparked a change in him, but then again, she always had. That was it – Knuckles and Rouge burst into uncontrollable laughter, doubled up and covering their mouths.

Sonic couldn't help but roll his eyes, then passed them both the a chaos emerald. Looking quite edgy when he got close to the pair, he looked back at Knuckles and Rouge. "And what are YOU two laughing about. We all know you're at it too." The whole group started to holler in turn now, making both Rouge and Knuckles turn a healthy shade of scarlet.

"Yeah! Well." Knuckles blurted out, embarrassed then (accidentally) roughly strung his arms around Rouge's tiny waste. "What's it to you?!" It didn't work as well as Shadow had pulled it off and Rouge pulled away, hitting him over the head.

"OW! Batgirl! What was that for?"

"You Knucklehead! Learn how to handle a lady!" They continued to argue and glare ion what looked like distaste.

"Mother told me, this is what a 'love-hate' relationship is." Cream said, grinning at the arguing pair. Tails chuckled softly and nodded.

"It is."

Sonic recovered from his laughing fit. "I can feel the feeling of love in this very air!" He began to look around, pretending to fire cupid's arrows at the two couples grinning stupidly.

Amy manged to stop giggling, and lifted her head from Shadow's chest and looked at Sonic, holding the emerald she was given. "So, erm, what's this for?"

"We're all going to take one!" Sonic exclaimed, him, Tails and cream, now ignoring the feuding hunters. "There's seven of us. You, Shadow, Knuckles, Rouge, Cream, Tails and me!" Sonic finished proudly, holding the blue emerald up in his hand. "We'll all keep one safe."

Shadow shrugged and held his red one. "Fine with me." Amy nodded in agreement, frankly astonished Sonic had come up with something that made sense. although she had her suspicions he didn't do it by himself.

Still, amidst all the new found laughter, joy and love in him as he watched his friends fight, joke and just mess about. Shadow still couldn't shake off that uneasy feeling.

Yaaaay! SO every thing's more or less good!...

Apart from the few subtle hints of pure doom approaching, but I'm sure everything will be fine.. xD So as you guess, I might, like i said MIGHT, do a sequel in the future.. Maybe. Haven't made my mind up.

So, thanks for reading! Hoped you enjoyed it.

-Stamps huge red stamp at bottom of page reading 'COMPLETE'-

- Emz