What the royal couple seen through their eyes was a beautiful sight indeed.

It was a quiet meadow, abound with evergreen grass and soft soil. The tree that Shadow saw earlier was an oak tree that shaped out into an umbrella with a majestic outline, its branches reaching out to any extent.

To the right of the large plant, surrounding bushes and neat shrubs of roses blossomed and bloomed, making the place a blissful garden. Hybrid tea roses of different kinds: Blue Moon, Peace, Mirandy, Angelique, Purple Passion, all the gorgeous varieties assorted into a rainbow sea of bouquets. Vines curled around the boulders and trees, creating a devastating but artistic design that you only would find in Mediterranean lands and pastures.

What made the area more angelic was the large clear spring sitting in serenity. The sight of it would make it more precious, not wanting to ruin its lovely, clean surface. By the spring, a large but wide waterfall adds to the calm atmosphere, its rushing noise like sweet music to the weary and thoughtful. Besides the waterfall, a dark cave could be seen, but the strange about it is that it's shining…

Truly, this place is heaven.

"Shadow…is this for me?" Amy gaped in wonderment.

"Happy birthday Amy," Shadow replied.

In a burst of excitement, Amy took off her shoes and ran near the spring, putting her petite feet in the water. The mist from the waterfall tickled her face, in the simultaneous process cooling off her perspiration. Shadow walked behind, at ease that Amy is happy with her new spot. All he wanted was for her to be happy, her knowing that he did something that really touched her heart. This is the one paradise that both of them will share…to be happy together, without the outside world interrupting.

Amy turned over on her belly in the soft grass, staring at a yellow rose. "Shadow, what I want to know is how did you find this place?"

Shadow, out of his thoughts, looked down at Amy for a moment. He had a strange glare in his fiery orbs, as though they were hungry…longing…

She looks so delicate lying like that…wait a minute! Where did that come from?

"I was just taking a search around the area, until I saw a glowing light. I didn't know where it came from, so I came up here and discovered this mysterious place. The funny thing about it though, it's almost like there was an energy that lured me here. Like a spirit that supposedly lives here... it wanted me to find this place."

Twiddling with the rose's petals, Amy had taken Shadow's words into deep thought.

"Yeah, I see what you mean. This doesn't look like a place I've ever seen. And that energy you were talking about, I can sense it too." Amy said.

Then, a fantasized theory popped up.

"Ummm, Shadow?"

"Yes Amy?"

Her face suddenly brightened, grabbing Shadow's hand and dragging him to her level. The prince looked at her in surprise.

"Shadow, do you think this is the heaven everybody keeps talking about?"

He frowned a bit in puzzlement, but he managed to keep a smile down. "I wouldn't know - I'm not dead yet."

"No, I mean…maybe this is the one kind of heaven that the skies lost a piece of. Maybe,"

And she clasped her hand into Shadow's lovingly.

"Just maybe, it was destiny for us to enjoy our love in a secluded land where nobody would think to find us, and this is the perfect place for it to grow."

He stared into the cool spring, Amy's words delving deep into his mind and heart. Maybe she's right. And as he realized this, it was as though his arguing, troublesome mind was put to rest. Being put to rest, where his heart can be to its content with his beloved.

Shadow reacted by clasping Amy's hand tighter into his. And then he added to Amy's revelation,

"And also where our love can prosper." Shadow replied in peace.

"Forever." Amy sighed.

Both just sat there on the grass, viewing the quiet spring, the waterfall's song lulling their state of minds. It takes them right back to the night of the ball, the romance and attachment growing stronger by the minute.

Amy got up and stretched the muscles in her body, and then a mischievous idea popped in her head. She's going to get Shadow back for scaring her like that, remembering that little cuddle attack long ago at her home.

After taking off her gown, she walks up on him from behind.

In instantaneous motion, she snatched Shadow's arms and dragged him towards the spring. His eyes looked a bit confused at what she was doing, but soon his eyes widened when it dawned on him. Fearing the worst, he had the audacity to ask the unthinkable.

"Uh Amy? W-what are you doing?"

Amy giggled and smirked at the tone of his voice. Well, there's a Shadow she's never seen before.

"Come on Shadow! Come swim with me!" she exclaimed.

Frantically, he looked for anything that might makes him float. Damn, he forgot to tell Amy one important thing. His parents never gave him a lesson. He can't swim!

"Amy, sweetheart, wait! I don't know how to-" Shadow pleaded.

But it was too late.

Amy pushed the nervous black hedgehog down into the water, but Shadow was thinking this is war, so he grabbed her under dress and dragged her along for the fall.

The couple made a large splash, both of them underwater. Shadow struggled to get at least some balance, and then came up to the surface. Soon as he found his buoyancy, he sternly searched around the water for Amy, mad as hell.

"Amy, where are you? You almost made me drown with that little stunt."

Wow, he seems really mad, Amy thought. She only wanted a little fun, she didn't want to make him furious.

She made her way up the surface, only to find that Shadow wasn't in the water anymore. Looking around in frustration, she saw him the poor devil, dripping wet. Trying not to laugh, she swam closer to him in a consoling mood until she got a good look at him.

Amy immediately saw that in the glare of the sunlight, his wet figure visibly traced the muscular tones on his torso. His pose made him look so attractive and dominant, something that always made Amy's heart flutter.

Good lord, he's a sexy Adonis when he's soaking wet. God, if these times only invented some device where you could preserve that image forever…oh Shadow, you devil. Amy passionately complemented.

Trying to dry himself in an irked attitude, he looked behind him to see Amy looking dreamy in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" he asked, clueless.

Amy snapped out of her girlish thoughts. "Oh! I just wanted to see if you cooled down there. You sounded mad about it."

"I was a little pissed, only because you never asked me."

"Well, I didn't know you couldn't swim!"

"I didn't know you wanted to swim! You would've let me know."

"Awww, I just wanted to have some fun. Don't have to be a prude about it."

And with that, she stood herself up in the waterfall, shaking her hair.

As soon as Shadow turned around, he felt time slow to a stop at the sight of Amy.

The shocking truth that under her dresses was a curvy, hourglass shape made itself present and known through her white under dress. The pink hedgehog's eyes shimmered in radiance to her soaked hair, lips outlined in a full symmetry. Her hips looked a bit…developed. The way she walked in the water made her move in a seductive rhythm, making Shadow awestruck.

The feeling, the troublesome beast from his dreams, had been awakened once again in his chest and heart.

But this time, it was propelled to a maximum passion. Like a blazing fire, it raged at the sultry picture of Amy. His heart raced with full adrenaline, his face suddenly turning hot, his actions now curbing on impulsive. Normally he had the self control to keep down this sensuality, but it looks like the beast had finally taken over. Shadow the Hedgehog couldn't take it anymore.

Amy, eyes closed at the task of showering herself under the falls, looked back at Shadow with peculiarity. His eyes... they were strangely…hungry. But the different type of hunger. Like a hunger for fulfillment to the pleasures of the flesh. The air suddenly got tense, as Shadow slowly approached the pink maiden, his eyes stuck on her body.

She herself got desirable and shaky when his body was dead close to hers, his warmth making her melt in his presence. Shadow's controlling emotion made him automatically wrap his arms around her waist in a gentle touch. Amy saw that her love's eyes still had that hungry lust in them. And no sooner, so did her soul. It ignited at the feel of the black prince's arms closing in on her.

The couple stood in the water, enjoying this tender moment. What they didn't know that their teenage hormones would escalate their actions further.

"Shadow…" Amy swooned in whisper.

At a moment's notice, Shadow carried his Amy, his beautiful, precious, delicate Amy, into his robust arms bridal style, still gazing his eyes up and down Amy's blossoming form, and treaded in the cool water, guiding the lusting couple towards the dark but haunting tranquility of the cave…

So, do you want me to go into the intimate, nonexplicit details of their passionate moment, or do I pull a J.K. Rowling on this story (which means that I don't go into the details and just go on with the story) ?