Yay an update! I'm really sorry for being slow. I'm off school in two weeks so my updates should be more frequent.
Amy had just climbed down her make shift rope and was heading for the harbor. She had no idea which ships where in the harbor at that time but there had to be one at least. Any pirate ship would do, she wasn't looking for any ship in particular. If it was there she would try to stow herself away on the ship Gold Digger. That way, even if she was caught there would be no... unpleasantness.
Her black shoes tapped slightly on the cobble stones of the street. She had to stay as quietly as possible to avoid drawing any unwanted attention to herself. The next few minutes would be crucial for her because if she didn't find a ship she had little chance of this sort of opportunity presenting itself again.
She rounded the last corner before the harbor. Several vessels presented themselves and at least five were pirate ships. Just as she had expected. They were here to deal with merchants who had no interest of profession just of how much gold laced their customer's pockets. She continued to run until she was at the harbor. She stopped and scanned the flags of each ship with her emerald eyes. She could not see the skull and cross bones that Gold Digger had high on it's mast.
'Looks like it will have to be any random pirate ship then...' The thought that she could be boarding the most dangerous ship on the seven seas never occurred to her as she walked slowly up the draw bridge of the infamous ship 'Chaos Storm'.
After she was on the ship she headed straight for what she thought was the cellar. She walked into the narrow corridor; floorboards creaked as she continued to walk. It was surprisingly light in this passageway which was unusual for a cellar.
She finally made her way to the end of the wooden corridor and opened the door at the end.
'The captain's quarters?' She thought. It was true, she had just stumbled upon the living quarters of Shadow the Hedgehog. Of course, he was no in there, but that did not change the fact that it was indeed his room on the ship.
"Silver, stop bugging me. I'll get Rouge to think it over, I promise." Voices echoed down the corridor. Amy's ears folded back to listen to the sound as she quickly ran into the room and slid under the bed in the room.
Shadow walked into his room forgetting that he had left his door closed and it was now somehow wide open. He quickly scanned the room remembering why he was here. The map he needed. That was the map to the place where he and Rouge would plan their next attack on the Marines. He would often laugh to himself about how gullible the Marines were. They once fell for a diversion that was blatantly obvious. Shadow was starting to believe that they were either complete idiots or smart enough not to mess with him or his accomplice. The latter seemed more likely, but it was the Marines he was talking about.
Shadow started to search on his desk for the old map that he had put there less than two hours ago. However, no matter how much paper he looked through, he couldn't seem to find it.
"Ah, I remember now... I put it under my bed just before I went out to make sure that non of the crew tried to steal it thinking it was a treasure map..." Shadow mumbled to himself as he walked towards his bed. Just as he was about to bend down to look for the map, Silver called from the hallway "Shadow! Some idiotic pirate captain has just asked for a fight." Shadow sighed then walked into the hallway.
"Aim all cannons at the ship and be ready to fire on my command."
From underneath the bed Amy sighed with relief. She had avoided being found. For now anyway. She started searching for the map under the bed and found it not long before she heard "FIRE!" then a loud cannon shot. The shot shook the entire ship. She was unsure if that was the force from the shot that had been fired or if they had been hit by the enemy in the short space of time between the words 'fire' and the ship rocking. She shook her head and threw the map from beneath the bed until it almost slid out of the door.
The battle of boats had lasted less than half an hour with the challenger also being the loser. The challenger had been pitiful and hardly worth the water they displaced but it had relieved Shadow's utter boredom. He was still quite bored, just not as much.
As Shadow tried to retire to his room for the second time that day, he almost trod on the map he had been looking for. he looked at the map completely confused then at his desk.
"I must be going insane from boredom..." He mused. He scanned the room quickly then realized he could see something pink underneath his bed. He frowned at the unidentified pink object and decided to investigate.
By throwing the map from under the bed Amy had avoided contact with Shadow whilst he was searching for his map, but in doing so she had put herself in more danger when he searched the room.
Shadow walked past his desk, opening one of the drawers then dropping the map into it and closing it. Amy's emerald eye followed his every movement. Heavy black boots plodded along the wooden plank on the floor. He was approaching her hiding place. He stopped when he got to the bed. Amy's eyes darted across the room to find any way to avoid Shadow. She couldn't find one.