Again, sorry for the short chapter. I will try to write more next time. ^^; Many thanks to you people who are reading this and posting reviews! They really help boost my confidence and spark the flame to write more!
Amy instinctively shut her eyes tight remembering the words her father often said.
'If you can't see them, they can't see you.' Of course, that was the kind of thing you said to children about monsters under the stairs or when you were playing hide and seek but Amy didn't care. She was hoping he would get distracted again and leave. She would have no such luck.
Shadow knelt down then put his head against the wooden floor to look under his bed.
"What are you doing under my bed?" Amy slowly opened her eyes and looked into Shadow's crimson eyes.
"Sh-Shadow?" Her emerald eyes sparked with new found hope as she recognised Shadow from that stormy September night ten years ago.
"Yes, I am Shadow. Now answer me. Why are you under my bed?" He notcied that her ears had drooped at his words. He was clueless as to the reason because he had lost his memories after falling off the boat when he was nine.
"Don't you remember me? From ten years ago? The Marine captain's daughter?" Shadow was getting more and more confused as she asked im questions that he didn't know the answer to. As she spoke, the only thing that made any sense to him was the part about her being the daughter of a marine captain. In a split second Shadow had hatched on of his ingenious plans to get some extra gold out of the Marines next time he encountered them.
"Oh! That was you? Sorry, I've had a lot to think about recently and a lot of my memories seem to have disappeared. What was your name again?"
After two weeks of pretending he was surprisingly starting to feel quite bad about deceiving her. She seemed like a nice girl, but a nice girl couldn't buy you food for your crew. He had a hunch that she was the daughter of a Marine called Thorn Rose but he couldn't be completely sure about it. He'd ask his dad when he was passing by the skull isles later that month.
Shadow had been told via airmail that he was to meet Rouge at the specified coordinates on the map she had given him in two days time. This was where Amy would become a good bargaining tool. When he told Rouge that Amy was the daughter of a Marine, she would immediately ask if they could use her to get more gold as well as offer a place on her ship to her. That would benefit Shadow in two ways - he would get Amy off his ship and get his room back to himself (because she had been sharing his room with him so that the other pirates couldn't be perverted).
"Shadow, I am NOT going to give her a place on my ship."
"WHAT?" Shadow had asked Rouge if Amy could have a place on her ship and she had refused.
"Why on earth not? You have room!"
"Shadow, have you SEEN her? She isn't pretty enough to even step foot on my ship." Rouge had stuck her nose in the air with that 'oh no you don't' look on her face. Shadow sighed deeply with frustration. He couldn't stand sharing when it was with people he knew, so sharing with a girl he hardly knew was defiantly not an enjoyable experience for him.
"Fine. So when do we attack?" Shadow tried to take his attemtion off the fact that he was almost ready to hit Rouge and focus on what he was happy doing.
"In one day at noon." With that, the gold grabbing ivory bat got out of her seat and walked out of Shadow's room.
Amy had been told to wait outside the room for the conversation to end. Normally, she would have kicked up a fuss, but because Shadow himself had told her to wait she was prepared to overlook her stubborn attitude. He was the one she had based her 'perfect man' list of after all. Amy wanted to know what Rouge and Shadow were talking about because she didn't like the idea of that bat in the same room as Shadow without anyone else in there with them. Every second ticked by slowly until she couldn't take it much longer. She pressed he pink ear to the door and heard "Shadow, I am NOT going to give her a place on my ship." With that she smiled and moved away from the door and down the corridor.
I'm tired now so I won't be writing any more today. Thanks for reading so far! I still haven't even started the best bit. :D