"I'm telling you, he won't listen!" I said as we walked up the walkway to Tails workshop. Shadow continued to stride to the front door, I pushed myself and walked faster to keep pace with him. I sighed as we reached the front porch ,finally getting out of the rain. Wringing my braid I winced at how loud he rapped the door. As we waited for Tails to open the door I studied the ebony hedgehog. He was so…different. He held an air about him that made you wonder who exactly he was.
"Shadow? What are you-" I looked up to the voice to meet sky blue eyes
"I thought I told you to get off my property!" He growled as I hid behind Shadow.
"See?" I mumbled as Shadow stepped forward, his palms upward
"I have reason to believe her, Tails….May we come in for a moment?" He said as he let himself inside the house, still looking at the ground I followed him indoors. Tails pushed past me and led us to the living room
"This better be good, Shadow." He said as he sat down on the sofa. He eyes watched my every move, like I was going to attack or something.
"I know her story sounds ludicrous, but I believe she's telling the truth." He said never leaning back in the couch, I shifted my weight, nervously fiddling with my damp crimson braid.
"Really? Because last I checked fairies are old wives tales told to naive little girls." He glowered at Shadow then gave me an accusing glare. I felt my face redden from how stupid I had sounded.
" I thought the same, but then I saw 'his' ring." Shadow said as he held out his hand to me, I blinked then reached over to my backpack and pulled out the ring then passed it to him.
"She could have lifted it from his house!" Tails growled as I felt my heart stop
"I've never stolen anything in my life!" I said jumping to my feet as Tails stared at me coldly. I felt a hand roughly grab my wrist, looking back I saw Shadow giving me a deathly glare. With one swift tug, he yanked me back on the couch.
"She couldn't have stolen it. This is the ring you made specifically for him. That Faker never takes it off. It also has your signature mark and if I recall that faker had told me that you had also inserted a homing device inside. If she's lying and had stolen it then the other would be at his home, if she's speaking the truth then it will be another location entirely." Shadow said with a slight smirk on his face as he handed Tails the ring. Snatching it from Shadow, Tails started to flip it over scanning over every detail. We sat there in silence for five minutes when Tails sighed and looked at Shadow
"You're right. This is the one I gave Sonic. But I'm still going to run the homing device. Follow me." He said getting up and began to walk out of the room, I quickly jumped to my feet and followed Shadow into an other corridor. I gasped as Shadow spun around and pinned my wrist to the wall.
"You'd better be telling the truth, Anita. I swear if you make me look like a moron for trusting in you, you will dearly wish you hadn't. Understood?" He growled as I quickly nodded and took a breath after he released my wrist. I stared after him…scary. I closed my eyes for a minute after taking several different hallways till we reached a computer room.
"Wow." I said as I spun around taking all the technology in, Shadow wasn't as impressed as I was and had followed Tails to the main computer in the room. A small pedestal rose from the computer for Tails to place the ring, after retreating the ring inside the machine several different documents and files pulled up on the main screen. All you could hear was the fast clicking of the keyboard. I had no idea how someone could type so fast, his fingers were a blur! He spun around to me, his face in shock.
"Y-you…you were right. He's in the Lazuli Forest. Or at least the other ring is." He said looking from me to Shadow and back to me.
"That's the forest behind my house. That's where I first saw him. I was following a loose page that flew out of my book when I ran into him, I tried to get out of the forest by myself, when he told me that with out his help I would be stuck there because of the roundabout fey and-" I started to ramble when Tails looked at me, his jaw clenched. This wasn't good.
"Look I believe that Sonic might be somehow trapped in the forest, but I still don't believe the whole fairies thing. I want you to show me where you last saw him and maybe we can find a way to break him out." Tails said as I felt a small smile come to my face
"Well actually you can see him now. Is there a tree nearby?" I asked as Tails stared at me then nodded. Thankfully there was a door that lead right outside instead of having to go through all the hallways. The sky was finally starting to clear up as we stepped through the wet grass, standing off to a corner was a huge oak tree. I walked towards it and started to climb it, since I was near the ocean I wasn't sure whether it would work. Once I was sitting on a thick branch I sighed enjoying the ocean breeze then sat up straight.
"Sonic? Umm…Sonic could you come out?" I said softly hoping the others wouldn't hear me, especially if Sonic doesn't show up. Closing my eyes I listened to the rustling of the leaves, I jumped when I felt a hand rest on mine.
"I'm right here. So did you find them?" He asked with a soft smile, I threw my arms around him then pulled away.
"Tails is standing at the bottom of the tree, he doesn't believe in fairies." I said as he lightly chuckled then smiled at me
"Figures. Tails is a great kid, but sometimes he takes reality a little too seriously. Come on!" He said motioning me to climb down, Tails and Shadow watched me hesitantly.
"Well? Is he going to show up or not?" Tails snapped crossing his arms, I smiled and looked up.
"Yikes Tails! When did you get so snippy?" Sonic laughed as he leaned against the tree, Tails gasped as he stared at Sonic
"S-sonic?" He said softly and began to walk towards him, Sonic grinned and waved.
"Hey buddy! What's up?" He replied as Tails ran forward and hugged him, I smiled happy to see the two together again. I turned around as Shadow walked up to me, he stared at me then at Sonic.
"So where've you been Faker?" Shadow asked still staring at Sonic, Sonic's head snapped our way. Eyebrow arched he looked at me.
"You didn't tell me, you brought Shadow." He said as I looked at the two of them
"I didn't know you two knew each other…Hey you two kinda look the same." I said looking back and forth, they both sighed shaking their heads. Obviously they got that a lot.
"Okay, I think I owe you guys an explanation." Sonic said as he sat on the wet grass still touching the tree, I plopped down on the grass wincing as I felt my pant legs getting wet. This was going to be an interesting story…