These are getting shorter slowly... geh...
Amy was oblivious as to the rest of the conversation so she didn't know that Rouge had insulted her and Shadow had not defended her. What she doesn't know can't hurt her I suppose.
Rouge had walked out of Shadow's room and was strutting down the corridor. She thought she could see something pink, but she put it down to poor eyesight towards anything that didn't shine or was of no value to her. She saw pink a second time and squinted to look at what was in front of her.
"A hedgehog?" She muttered. There was a pink hedgehog looking out of one of the port holes on the ship out to the calm blue sea.
"Damn... a storm is coming this way... better warn Shadow..." She looked away from the port hole and ran towards Shadow's room.
"Ah!" Amy ran into Rouge then fell to the ground with a echoing thud. She screwed her face up in pain then opened her eyes and looked up to see what she had ran into.
"S-sorry... I-I didn't see you there." Amy said rubbing the back of her head. Rouge just glared at her then walked past.
Amy was dumbfounded for a second then remembered why she had ran into the white bat. She shot back up from her seated position and ran through the door to Shadow's room.
"Shadow there's a storm coming this... way..."
Shadow turned around and saw Amy. She had gone a bright crimson colour as she stared at him. Shadow had taken his top off to go to bed when Amy had ran in to warn him of the storm. To a normal hedgehog girl, seeing a male with no shirt on was perfectly normal, however, since Amy was nobility, she was not used to it.
"You... your... sh-shirt..." Amy stuttered. Shadow looked at his chest then shrugged.
"I'm going to tell Silver about the storm." Shadow walked out of his room, still shirtless, and went to tell his crew about the storm.
Seconds after he had walked past her she remember that the bat might not be off the ship yet. She didn't want Shadow to embarrass himself by showing that gold digger his chest so she ran after him.
"Shadow! That bat might not be off the ship yet!" She called after him. He stopped.
"So? She's seen me shirtless before and so have the rest of my crew. It's no big deal." She froze. That bat had seen Shadow with no shirt on?
"The Shadow I know wouldn't have done that sort of thing..." Something snapped in Shadow's mind. The Shadow she knew had hit his head and turned into this Shadow. The old Shadow was dead.
"Well, the Shadow you knew is dead. This Shadow is only keeping you on this ship for ransom." Then he continued walking.
Amy stared after him for a few seconds as tears bubbled in her eyes. She roughly wiped them away and ran to the deck of the ship. She could see Shadow talking to Silver. She glared at the onyx and crimson... beast that she had once known then looked across to the rails on the side of the ship. She gritted her teeth then ran at the rails.
"Sayonara, Shadow the hedgehog!" The words he heard burnt his ears. Those were the only words he remembered from before being found by Scar.
"Ma-Maria!" He stated in disbelief. He saw a pair of brown boots go over the side of the boat and dashed for them. He was too late.
Amy crashed into the water, a wave shooting to the sky from the impact.
"MARIA!" Shadow screamed at the water. He was blinded by sadness so had no idea that it was Amy who had just hit the water. He gritted his teeth and glared at it.
"Knuckles, take over the ship while I'm gone!" He shouted before vaulting over the edge and hitting the water himself.
Finished chapter 5. ^^ I'd just like to say thanks to the people who have reviewed this and any constructive criticism is welcome!