By Life Comes Sacrifice
Episode 5
Leveling With Shadow
Knuckles and Tails slept on the steps of the ruins. Sonic could not sleep. Shadow paced back and forth. Sonic decided to talk with him, since there wasn't anything to do. "What's up Shadow? Why aren't you sleeping?"
Shadow looked into the Master Emerald. It glowed a beautiful green light. "Would you be able to sleep if you were me? If all you were looking for was found, but then it ended up being gone. Never existed?"
Sonic felt sorry for Shadow but a real hedgehog didn't go around saying things like that. They didn't even talk about stuff like that. Sonic wasn't use to it. But he still felt sorry for Shadow. "It must have sucked to be up of ARK and have shit like that happen to you…"
Shadow continued to look at the emerald. "It did, I had to watch as Maria, My creator, my friend, die right before my eyes. You wouldn't know what that is like. To know that your friend died because they tried to save you…"
Sonic's smiled fell. He had not talked about Amy since their last adventure. Amy was no longer around with them. "Actually…" Shadow turned and looked at Sonic. Sonic did not meet his gaze. He looked down at his shoes. "I do know how you feel."
Shadow looked at him, confuse. "What are you talking about. All you're friends are here…Knuckles, Tails… Are they not your friends?"
"Yes they are…" Shadow turned to leave, thinking that Sonic had lied to him to make him feel better, "But I also lost the girl I loved most in my life…"
Shadow stopped walking and looked back at Sonic. "That pink hedgehog?"
Sonic nodded. "Yeah, Amy… She died saving my life…" Sonic held back tears. Amy's voice swirled around his head. Don't be such a crybaby Sonic. I'm the girl, I'm suppose to cry, not the Hero…
Sonic sat down on the steps of the ruin and put his face in his hands. "It's all my fault…"
Shadow sat next to him and patted his back for comfort. "What happened?"
Sonic closed his eyes and raised his head. He still was looking down at his hands though. "Eggman. He set up a trap and Amy was the bait. She saw me coming and she ran out in front of the beam of the laser so I wouldn't get hurt. I wasn't fast enough…She got hit and she started bleeding…" Sonic wiped a tear from his cheek. "I tried everything to help her…to stop the bleeding…but I couldn't. If only I was a little faster, I would have got there just in time to save her, but… I was too slow…"
