Chapter Twenty-One
Birth Complications
As the team stared at the figure they were shocked to see none other than the ebony black coloured, red eyed hedgehog, Shadow. He stood there covered in bruises and cuts, he had three scars, one deep one on his shoulder, another above his right eye and part of his ear was ripped away.
"Shadow!" cried Espio dropping his knife in shock "How…?" "You're supposed to be dead!" cried Knuckles, "yeah!" said Vector "we saw you chaos control the exploding planet away from us!" "But…" cried Vanilla speechless "you're alive? How can that be?"
"None of that matters right now!" snarled Shadow "where's Rouge!" Everyone was surprised, and shocked even to answer "tell me where Rouge is!" Shadow demanded. Tails quickly pointed at the door where they could still hear Rouge screaming as she was giving birth. Shadow quickly turned to the door and ran towards it.
Inside the delivery room, Rouge screamed in agony as she gave another push "well done!" cried the midwife, "almost there now!" "Come on Rouge!" called Sonic "you're very brave!" Rouge nodded and gritted her teeth as she pushed hard, as she did; a cry of a baby was heard as it took its first breath.
Rouge fell back as the midwife wrapped the baby in a blanket; she looked up to see a small black hedgehog that looked exactly like Shadow, minus his red stripes and tiny bat wings with a red stripe across the top of them. "Congratulations!" smiled the midwife "it's a boy!" Rouge smiled through her tears "Angel" she whispered as she touched the baby's forehead.
As soon as she did, the door burst open and Shadow appeared, as soon as they saw him, Amy and Sonic were shocked. "Shadow!" cried Amy "how…?" Shadow glared at her, then walked towards the bed, the midwife who was still holding Angel cried out in alarm, "that's my lover!" shouted Shadow "Rouge!"
Rouge who was still dazed by giving birth saw Shadow appear at her bedside, "S...Shadow?" she gasped, she didn't know if she was dreaming or if it was real, "Shadow…? Is it really you?" "Rouge!" Shadow cradled Rouge's head and stroked her cheek "I'm here, I'm alive" Rouge felt tears appear in her eyes as she held his hand that cradled her cheek, "Oh Shad…" she sobbed "I knew you'd come back to me!"
The Midwife, Sonic and Amy watched in surprise, yet it brought joy to their hearts to see Rouge and Shadow reunited and Shadow was alive after the Metarex attack. "Shadow" said Amy "Rouge gave birth to your child…." Shadow looked towards the midwife on the other side of the bed who was holding his newborn son.
Shadow felt tears appear in his eyes as he saw the little hedgehog look at him with his sparkling aqua eyes, as he did, Rouge let out another gasp as she felt the labour for her second child kick in, "ok Rouge" said the Midwife handing Angel to Amy "you ready for the second one?"
"Huh?" asked Shadow "she's having twins!" said Amy happily, Shadow smirked at Rouge and squeezed her hand, "give all you got bat-girl" he said, Rouge nodded and gritted her teeth as she pushed hard. "Again breathe calmly!" said the midwife, Rouge nodded and pushed harder and harder.
"Good well done!" said the midwife, "its coming! I can see its little head!" Shadow grinned and kissed Rouge's forehead as she continued to push, gritting her teeth against the pain. Soon the second baby emerged, it was a small white bat with black stripes on his body similar to Shadow's markings and ebony black wings.
But as soon as it emerged the midwife looked terrified "WHAT!" cried Shadow "what is it!" "She's not breathing properly!" cried the midwife as she wrapped the baby in a blanket. "What!" cried Shadow in a panicked voice. Rouge felt tears appear in her eyes, "no!" she cried.
The midwife quickly called for help and more medical staff rushed in to help the little bat, Rouge began to cry and sob, whilst Shadow stood in shock, Amy and Sonic were also terrified, then Amy felt baby Angel moving around in her arms and gurgling. Amy looked across to Rouge crying and gently shook her shoulder.
Rouge looked up at Amy, her eyes were red and puffy and her face was soaked with tears, Amy then carefully handed Angel to her. Rouge gently cradled the baby hedgehog who lay in the blanket cooing at her, his tiny black quills scratched against the blanket.
Rouge sniffled and kissed his forehead, smiling weakly through her tears, Shadow then looked over from staring at the door and went to sit next to her, he put his arm around her and his other hand stroked his son's tiny head. "My son…" he whispered "my amazing handsome son"
Rouge leaned against his chest as more tears fell, "Shhh" whispered Shadow soothingly, although he had a couple of tears, mainly mixed feelings of the joy of having his first son but also terror of whether his daughter was ok or not. Sonic and Amy were also worried about the little bat.
So Shadow's returned! Horray! But what is this? The daughter needs medical attention!
Stay tuned for what's next!
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