Mysterious Encounter

I've done a bit of research on the disease rabies, and it's actually very interesting. Also this is the hardest chapter I've written in my whole life, (curse you writers block! Curse you! ).

Commander had always had his doubts. Employing that thief Rouge was a mistake, making him very doubtful. Hiring that huge robot, E-123 was probably a huge mistake, due the large amounts of destruction that GUN had to pay for.

Then they offered Project Shadow a job. It was the president's idea, and being lower ranked than him, he had to comply. Oh how he hated that black devil, just waiting for him to fail, so he had an excuse to fire him.

Rouge and Knuckles cut through the dense bush, gasping for breath. Rouge looked up from her brief rest and saw what looked like cave.

"In there." She panted, jumping into the air and sailing forward.

Knuckles smelt the blood before he saw it. Most of it was covering a deceased fox, and some of it was slowly oozing out of dark forms mouth. Rouge crouched down to get a closer look. The odd creature had a narrow face, which ended in a point where at its forehead two long narrow ears. Two long red stripes ran from its eyes. It had a long fox like tail, with a red zigzag pattern streaking down its back. All along its right arm was what looked like a bandage?

Rouge looked up from the animal, which was currently unconscious.

"Where's Shadow?" she whispered. Knuckles shook his head. "I don't know, but I think he might be..." Rouge looked around. A green glint caught her eye.

There, by the face of the animal was the green Chaos Emerald. Rouge picked it up and held it to what there was of light in the dim cave.

"He found it first." She said, eyeing of the gem.

Shadow's world was dark. Muffled voices were murmuring somewhere far away, and a dull green glow was radiating in his head.

Urgh, it was all that Chaos Emeralds fault, or was it his for being so careless? Shadow then remembered what type of condition he was in. He had to wake up or he would die.

Rouge lowered the shining gem from her face, and stared down at the creature. It suddenly twitched. Rouge took a step back.

"Knuckles?" Rouge murmured. "I think we should get out of here now." Knuckles knelt down near the animal and poked it. It stirred slightly, and moved its paw forward.

"It's waking up." Knuckles whispered, tapping it again on its nose. "Knuckles!" Rouge shouted nervously. "Don't wake it up, what if it's rabid?"

"Since when were scared of an earth animal?" he chuckled looking up at her slyly. "Since a huge plate sized spider tried to bight when I was on an expedition in the Amazon." Rouge said.

A growl snapped through the air. The creature's eyes flew up angry and lunged up at the startled Knuckles.

"Shit!" Knuckles shouted leaping away, and readying his battle position. "Rouge ladies first."

"Gladly." She muttered darkly, throwing a powerful kick at the monsters leg. The creature slammed against the cave's wall, causing the entire cave to shake violently.

"Let's get out of here!" Knuckles shouted above the noise, as heavy rocks poured from the ceiling. He grabbed her hand and ran out of the avalanche.

"The Chaos Emerald!" Rouge yelled, restraining against Knuckle's tight grip. "Leave it." He ordered running off into the forest, taking a shouting Rouge with him.

Shadow's head was throbbing as he felt something rip from his face and fall onto the ground with a thud. Rocks were falling all over the place crushing whatever the hell came of his face.

Shadow groped desperately for the shining emerald, as a boulder just above him began to loosen from the noise. Shadow, finally grasping the gem, immediately teleported away, just as the boulder crushed the ground beneath him.

Amy had just finished planting her new daisy when she heard a crash about a block away.

"I wonder who that is." She muttered dully, rubbing her dirty hands clean with a rag. Standing up and brushing of any dirt that might be on her bum, she dashed at the noise.

Shadow painfully crashed on top a filthy rubbish bin, spewing garbage all over a five meter radius. Angry shouts plagued his aching ears as he staggered up. He felt so fatigued, and couldn't really remember where he had just been.

"Oh Sonic!" said a pink blur squishing him in a bear hug. "I missed you so much why do never visit me?" Amy looked up at the startled and rather smelly hedgehog. "Wait... you're not Sonic! Sorry Shadow!" Amy said quickly detaching herself from the half lidded hedgehog.

"Hey are you okay?"She asked worriedly. Shadow looked at her for a moment, then after some thought nodded. "I just have a headache, it'll go away soon." With that Shadow departed to his apartment.

Well their apartment really. Rouge had let Shadow live with her until he could back on his feet, which, much to her annoyance had taken quite a long time. Shadow had gotten there in a flash (of chaos energy) and set the green emerald onto the table.

'Why didnt I teleport here first?' he thought to himself, sitting on the couch and staring down at his right arm. 'Did my injuries affect the Chaos Control?'Shadow carefully peeled of his torn up bandage and headed for the shower.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

'Okay, the shower was a bad idea.' Shadow thought miserably to himself. 'At least I'm not smelly anymore.'

Shadow eventually found some ointment in Rouges' make-up cupboard and winced as he rubbed it into his long, no longer bleeding cut. "Now I gotta find some more bandages!"

There... reviews would be nice. And maybe some ideas... Now also I have a little completion. Which coupling should this one be?

1 Shadamy

2 Shadouge

3 Sonadow

4 Other.