Amy was sure that there was someone in the corner of the room. But everytime she looked at it, it disappeared.
After a pretty long dispute, the three hedghogs and the bat decided that Amy would sleep in a guestroom, Sonic would sleep in another guestroom, and Shadow would sleep on a couch. He wasn't too pleased with the decision, but knew that it was far better to sleep there than awkwardly sharing a room with Amy. Deep inside, Amy knew that sharing a room with Shadow wasn't so bad. But she also knew that it was better to keep quiet than confirming Rouge's suspicions.
That's why Amy was now lying in a bed in Rouge's rather big guestroom, in the middle of the night, feeling like an insomniac because of that figure in the corner. She considered walking over to Sonic's room, but she figured he wouldn't believe her. It was quite childish after all. Outside, it was pitch-black, not even the moon was shining. The only lightsource was a glistering Chaos emerald. It's light was calming and-
Wait. A Chaos emerald?
Amy stiffened. Why was one of the very rare gems sparkling in her – Rouge's – room? She brought out her her Piko-Piko hammer from nowhere, leaped out of the bed and almost fainted of fear and shock when she collided with the mysterious someone that she thought was hiding in the corner. But it seemed like it had used the emerald as distraction while it got out from the shadows, right in front of her. She shut her eyes, and the poor hedgehog would've screamed if the strange figure hadn't put a hand to cover her mouth. Said hedgehog opened her eyes again... And found herself staring into Shadow's crimson-red orbs.
"You!" Amy exclaimed and slammed her hammer right into his head. Shadow wasn't aware that she would react like that, but he guessed that he should've been used to it by now. He rubbed his aching head and glared at her. "What are you doing?" Amy growled. "You can't just sneak into someone's room, 1.00PM, and scare people like that!" Knowing Shadow, scaring people was probably his way to have fun.
"Hn." Actually, he had thought that she was asleep. "Why aren't you snoring in bed like every other hedgehog does at night?" Amy narrowed her eyes.
"Because someone decided to act like a... shadow... and hide in my room! And why didn't you tell anyone about the emerald?"
"Well, It was not me. And the emerald is certainly not mine."
His answer sent cold shivers down her back, and suddenly the light fom the emerald didn't feel too pleasant anymore.
Shadow lit a lamp. As soon as the light reached the corner, they saw something — someone — leap through the window. And it/he/she had looked exactly as Shadow! Amy glanced from Shadow to the window and back again. After a while, she mumbled: "Are you sure that that wasn't you?"
Then they noticed that the emerald was still there. "I didn't know that there was a dark purple emerald." Shadow ignored her;
"You alert the others, I go after that lookalike." He hesitated and watched the emerald carefully. "Don't go close to it." He said and jumped out of the window.
Amy stood there as hypnotized by the emerald. It was so perfect, surely it wouldn't hurt if she touched it? Its glossy surface threw back the light so beautifully, and a dazzling purple color filled the room. Something that wonderful couldn't be dangerous, right? It was like it wanted her to-
"Amy! What did I say about not getting close to it?" Shadow's angry voice snatched her back to reality. Suddenly the room wasn't dark purple anymore, and she found herself standing four inches from the mysterious gem, Shadow glaring at her. And how could she not had noticed that the sun was shining outside? Everything was confusing.
"Huh?"
"For how long have you been staring at it?" Amy cringed at his voice, he sounded just like a father scolding his child. But she could swear that there was concern in his usually emotionless eyes. He was worried about her!
"I..."
"Never mind." He was getting weak! Who cared if the pink brat was hurt? Apparently he did.