Sorry about not uploading recently but I'm busy because I've started school. I will upload as I finish chapters. Just expect a delay because of school, homework and writer's block.
Yes, Amy had lead the cushy life since birth but despised every second of it. Shadow, on the other hand, had been struggling to survive for as long as he could remember, and at age nine was when things got harder for him.
Flashback Shadow had been swabbing the deck of his father's ship since dawn and had just about finished at midday. Shadow stood proudly at the bow of the ship and looked at the (more or less) spotless deck. With a sigh of content, he walked into his father's cabin to inform him of his work.
"Dad! I just finished swabbing the deck like you told me to!" Shadow cheered. Scar looked at the boy cheering in front of him and sighed. Shadow had never been much of a pirate. He was too friendly and cheerful.
"Good work Shadow." Shadow stopped cheering and suddenly ran outside quickly. Scar was baffled by the young hedgehog's actions so he decided to follow him. When Scar walked out of him cabin, he saw the reason Shadow had ran out onto the deck.
Scar looked doubtfully at the writhing creature that was attached to his ship.
"When they said watch out for the giant octopus, I thought they were winding me up..." Scar then remembered why he was out here.
'Where's Shadow?' Scar's blue eyes darted all over the ship then at the octopus. There was his answer.
"SHADOW!" The octopus was holding Shadow near it's beak in one of it's eight tentacles. No matter how much Shadow writhed to get away from it, the suckers kept him anchored to the spot. Scar didn't know what to do. If the octopus did let go, Shadow would fall into the sea.
Shadow was slowly being dragged towards the beak of the giant red octopus. Fear etched across his features, he didn't know what to do. He'd never been attacked by an octopus before. In his panic, Shadow could think of only one logical solution. Make it let go. But how? Shadow was looking frantically at his surroundings. Nothing to help him. He grimaced. His only option was... to bite it. Shadow opened his jaws wide, his white fangs glistening in the sunlight then chomped down hard on the tentacle that was wrapped around him. The tentacle unwrapped itself from Shadow, dropping him into the cerulean sea. He was about as buoyant as a rock so quickly sunk to the bottom of the sea. He was loosing air. Fast.
End Flashback
It pained Scar to remember that day. How he had almost lost Shadow to the unforgiving sea... but in another light, he was glad it happened. Shadow must had hit his head off a rock or been shocked into a personality change because after that encounter, he was as good a pirate as any (and learnt to swim...).
Shadow was now the captain of the ship he had fallen off nine years ago. He had a fearless crew (except for Silver...) and was known as 'The Heartless Hedgehog' throughout the world. His ship had only one alliance, and that was with the ship known as Gold Digger. Gold Digger was the only female dominated vessel. It was also the richest. No ship could rival the sheer amount of gold their captain had stole from gullible men. That captain was Rouge the Bat.