… I honestly have nothing to say.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shadow the hedgehog or any other Sonic character in this story, SEGA does.
Shadow sat upon the wing of the bi-plane as it flew through the air, the hedgehog's eyes scanning the ground.
"See anything?" Linda called over from the cockpit, her voice being torn away by the wind.
He shook his head, still searching diligently. Eileen was in the co-pilot seat, craning her head over the edge of the plane to look for herself. Then her eyes widened as she cried out, "Shadow! I see something shining over there!"
The hedgehog whipped around and saw it for himself, something glowing on a hilltop. He dived off the plane and hit the ground running, leaving the aircraft far behind. The hilltop loomed above him as he looked up the side of it, small flickers of hope in his heart. Shadow stepped back, and then charged at the cliff, running straight up the side and grabbing the ledge. As he pulled himself over, the plane landed itself next to him with a screech, Eileen hopping out and running over to him.
"Did you find anything?" she questioned him, looking hopeful.
The ebony hedgehog shook his head slowly, turning to face the setting sun, not able to look at it anymore. On the ground lay a large chunk of torn and slightly singed metal, but there was one word printed on it in shining yellow letters. ARK. Eileen looked confused. "Shadow," she asked him. "do you recognize this? You look a little… distraught."
Shadow could taste bile in his mouth. "Space colony ARK." He said, his voice full of mockery and resentment. "It's the place where I was born. It's also the place that I fought Black Doom right before I came here." He fingered his inhibitor rings, spinning them around his wrist when a pair of arms flung themselves around him, making the hedgehog stumble a bit. Eileen held the ebony hedgehog close to her, sighing slightly.
"Don't worry Shadow, we'll find a way to get you home." The hedgehog pulled away quickly.
"Did you hear that?" he asked the girl, who looked at him oddly.
"Hear what Sh-" then she heard something. It was a crackling sound, like stepping on leaves in the fall. Or like those leaves burning.
Shadow felt a wave of heat hit him as he ran to the edge of the cliff. Down below a small portion of the field was ablaze, and it was spreading fast.
"Quickly! We have to go!" Shadow yelled to Eileen, helping her into the plane. Linda started up the engine, a cloud of black smoke billowing out from the front.
"Something's wrong! I can't get it to start!" Eileen's mom yelled to the two, a look of panic on her face.
Something made Shadow look back at the small piece of shrapnel from space colony ARK, and when he did he noticed a faint glowing light from underneath it. He quickly jumped off the plane, dashing toward the fragment. As he slid the piece of metal over, he inhaled sharply. A small sliver of an emerald, not even enough to call a shard, was halfway buried under the ground. Shadow recognized it as the emerald that Black Doom had, a pale blue one.
Shadow scooped it up and ran over to Eileen and Linda. "Quick! Take my hand!" he told the two, trying to sound confident. As the flames grew higher, licking the edge of the hill, he knew this might kill him. An emerald fragment of this size barely held any power, so he would have to use most of his own. "Chaos control!" he yelled, a white light surrounding them.
He awoke to Eileen and Linda standing over him, looking concerned. "Is he gonna be alright?" Eileen asked her mom, a frightened look in her eyes.
"I have no idea Eileen…" Linda told her daughter, holding her close.
Shadow groaned, lying up slowly. He clutched his head, trying to convince himself that it hadn't been blown off. "Wh-what happened?" he asked slowly, his memory failing him.
Eileen looked at the hedgehog with a worried look on her face. "You saved us Shadow. One minute we were at the hill, then somehow we were at home. We dialed the fire department and they used helicopters and fire trucks to put out the fire."
Shadow's memories came flooding back to him. Chaos control. Sometimes he wished he had no idea what it even meant. He opened up his clenched fist to see the emerald sliver, the glow casting an eerie blue wash in the room.
Eileen looked at him. "What's that Shadow?" she asked him picking up the piece.
"That Eileen, is a piece of a Chaos Emerald." Shadow told her, causing a look of disbelief to spring onto her face.
"But I thought you said the emeralds have no power here?" she told him, her confusion shared among the three.
"Well, that's what I thought too…" Shadow trailed off as a thought hit him. "I really can't stay here." He told the two, who rolled their eyes. They were used to his little 'I can't stay here' speeches. They never worked.
"If this emerald of Black Doom's made it through, he most likely did too." Shadow told them. "And if he is here he won't stop until he has me dead. To him your lives are nothing; he will take them without a second thought. He is pure evil." He ended his monologue by looking out the window. "I even suspect this fire was his doing." There was a silence as the information sunk in, then Linda said something that startled them all.
"Well then." She said, getting up. "I guess we have no choice but to move away from here now do we?"
Eileen was wondering if this was all a big hallucination from the smoke. "You want to what now?" she asked her mom, a look of disbelief on her face.
Haha.
Still nothing to say.
-that's a dinosaur, signing out.
