Silver and Shadow were still sleeping by the time Maria left the house to go to her meeting with a new friend near the city.
Silver suddenly opened his eyes and yawned, Shadow was still sleeping peacefully.
(Hey, I wonder if Maria is down stairs.) Silver barked as he ran down stairs to look for her.
He walked in the kitchen but she wasn't there, then he leaped on the counter top and sniffed for her scent, it smelled like her but it was stale.
Shadow finally woke up after having a feeling that Silver was gone from the bed and he was down stairs. He went down stairs and noticed Silver was on the counter top.
(Hey! Get down shoe brian!) Shadow hissed.
(I'm looking for our owner!) Silver whined.
Shadow howled for her, but Maria wasn't answering, she left.
When Chadly came home, Silver and Shadow acted normal and whined.
"Aw, hi guys. Where's Maria, I need her because I had a hard time at work today." Chadly explained as he went up stairs. Finally Maria came in through the door.
Silver and Shadow wagged their tails and ran towards her. They both licked her hands as their welcome.
"Hi Silver, hi Shadow." Maria greeted them.
"Hey Maria, my job is hard without your ideas." Chadly sighed.
"Oh, what should I do?" Maria asked.
"You don't remember?" Chadly asked.
"Oh yeah, your writing ideas." Maria replied as her dad made her follow.
Silver and Shadow followed from behind and went into her dad's office and watched Maria's dad type while Maria said the ideas out loud.
"Ooooooooooooooooooooow!" Silver howled.
"Shh... My dad needs ideas otherwise he can't hear me." Maria said.
"Okay, now I see where your coming from." Chadly noticed as Shadow howled.
"Okay, I'm coming." Maria sighed as Shadow and Silver led her to her room and they both got into their bed, they wanted to be tucked in.
"Aw... Are you guys tired?" Maria asked as Silver and Shadow answered in a yawn.
She tucked them in and then he petted them a goodnight then they were both asleep. Maria went into her closet and got dressed her PJ's then she went to go brush her teeth. After she was done, she got into bed as her dad came in and tucked her in.
"Goodnight Maria." Chadly said as he kissed her forehead.
"Goodnight dad." Maria answered as she went to sleep.
During the night...
Eggman wonders around in the forest and looks for a little girl so that he could gain ideas about destroying the whole word without having cheap machines that always break.
He told his robots to scan the area but they were stupid to listen and they failed to follow orders that Eggman told them to do.
"No no no! For get it! We will try california instead stupid idiots!" Eggman shouted as they left the area.
But some other person was looking for Maria, they wanted her for the money and to use her as a working maid.
The person looking for Maria was in the city hiding from the cops and he was a chaemeleon, he was working for Eggman Nega. It was Espio, he was working for him.
"Hey Epsio, did you find Maria yet?" Eggman Nega asked.
"No sir, but I might have an idea." Espio grinned.
"Okay, but make it fast." Eggman Nega whispered through the walkie talkie and hung up.
"Now to find that girl!" Espio said as he ran through the streets looking for Maria.
The next day...
Maria was walking down stairs to eat breakfast before she woke up her pet werehogs, Silver and Shadow were still sleeping in bed.
Chadly got out of bed and got dressed for work as usual, he also fixed his hair and hurried down for breakfast, then he was off to work.
Maria was about to go up to her room until someone knocked on the door.
It was Espio. She didn't like him.
"Have you seen Maria?" Espio asked her.
"Uh no, I don't know her." Maria lied.
"I'm going to look some where else then." Espio said sounding frustrated.
Maria sighed with relief, she knew that Espio took children to get money and she didn't want to risk being taken away by Eggman Nega.
Silver and Shadow looked at her, they were worried about her as well, they didn't want to lose her either.
"It's okay Shadow and Silver, I will be fine." Maria reassured them.
Silver purred and licked her hand while Shadow purred and put his paw on Maria's lap. Maria pets them both and walks up to her room.
The two werehogs follow her and watch. They noticed that she was reading a book and they jumped on top of her bed to look at the pages. Lots of paragraphs on each page made the book seem too confusing.
Silver and Shadow tilted their head to one side as they read each line.
"Oh hi guys, I'm reading a chapter book, it might be too hard for you to read it. It's about a young man." Maria explained.
Silver and Shadow still kept their heads tilted to one side until Silver howled and licked the book page.
"Oh Silver. You messed up this page." Maria moaned.
Silver whimpered and purred, he loved her anyway.
"It's okay boy." Maria replied while petting him.
Shadow looked annoyed and he clawed Silver's behind, it wasn't pretty.
"Oooooooooooow!" Silver wailed.
(Shoe Brain!) Shadow hissed.
(What did I do!) Silver whined.
Shadow walked away and went down stairs to drink water as Maria went to fix her book that Silver licked.
"Shadow is being mean again?" Maria asked.
Silver purred like nothing happened so that he could tll her that he was getting along well with him.
"Okay. You guys have been good while my dad is out." Maria praised him.
Silver looked up at her and then he went down stairs with Shadow.
(So shoe brain have you learned not to lick people's book!) Shadow hissed.
(Your being mean again!) Silver howled.
(Oh shut up! I will be nice if you stop doing stupid things around here!) Shadow snapped.
Silver ignored him and drank out of his milk bowl, Shadow wernt back up stairs and got into his bed and took another nap.
Silver sat down, then he climbed up the table and jumped to the window and looked out of it, he saw lots of kids playing outside and running around big objects.
(If others kids saw us, they would think about how we are ugly and that we are dangerous.) Silver sighed.
Maria came down stairs and noticed her other werehog sitting near the window, she walked towards him and ran her fingers through his fur. Silver purred and looked back, he really liked it when she did that.
"Come on Silver, do you wanna help my type up a letter?" Maria asked as Silver nodded and followed her up stairs.
Maria jumped to her chair and started typing, her letter was a story about a lost hedgehog. Silver watched the letters appear on the screen as she typed them in.
"So is this good?" Maria asked as Silver read her story. It was half way finished.
Silver nodded and she smiled, then she kept on going. Shadow was still sleeping, his was head tucked under his paws.
Silver whined when she made a typing error, Maria searched for the error and corrected the word.
"You are so smart. Thank you Silver." Maria smiled and patted his head.
Silver smiled and continued to watc her, he enjoyed the sound of the keys when she typed. Shadow started twitching in his sleep and Maria noticed that he was having a bad dream.
Silver didn't get up to see if he was okay. He sat there watching, he didn't want to wake up Shadow on his own.
"Hey Shadow, are you having a nightmare?" Maria asked as she shook Shadow awake.
Shadow opened his eyes slowly and yawned, he was running in his dream. He growled because he was about to catch a robber, it was good dream.
"Sorry, I thought you were having a bad dream." Maria apologized as Shadow turned around and went back to sleep.
Silver was waiting for her to continue.
"Okay Silver, I'm going to save my story and this point and continue it later because I'm losing ideas for it. I promise." Maria said as she picked up Silver and went down stairs.
Shadow was twitching in his sleep again, he was chasing after those robber again in his dream.
Maria took Silver down as her father came in the door and walked in.
"Hey, we might want to take them to the vet to make sure that they aren't sick." Chadly said.
"Oh I forgot to tell you about that." Maria gasped.
"It's okay, I forgot too, but at least I remembered today." Her dad replied as he took Silver and looked at him.
Silver tilted his head to one side and whined.
"You need shots." Chadly said as Silver knew what he was talking about and he tried to ran from him.
"Silver, it will help so that you don't get sick in the future." Maria said calming Silver down.
Silver relaxed and sighed, then he looked up at her.
Shadow was still dreaming, he almost caught the robbers but they got away and he woke up from his dream with a howl.
Chadly walked up stairs and greeted Shadow, then he went into his room to work on the 3rd paper about a guy who walked into the mall and stole a phone.
Shadow hissed and went down stairs to meet up with Maria, who was waiting from him.
"Hey Shadow." Maria said as she picked him up.
Silver decided to play with the tennis ball, he liked that game.
Shadow still looked at Silver with an annoyed look, he liked Silver, but he was annoying to live with.
"Grrr... Bark!" Silver barked and chased after the ball.
"Be careful Silver." Maria warned as Silver hit his head on the wall.
Silver shook his head and continued to play with the tennis ball again. Shadow purred and licked Maria's face, then he got down and watched Silver chase after the ball.
Chadly came out and told Maria that Silver and Shadow are going to the vet tomorrow morning. Maria nodded and went up stairs that night. Silver and Shadow followed her.
"Hey guys. You might want to go to bed now because your going to the vet tomorrow." Maria reminded them.
Silver and Shadow exchanged glances and watched her type the rest of her story until Silver yawned and walked over to the basket and fell asleep in it. Shadow followed him and fell asleep too.
Maria was finished, then she saved the story and got ready for bed. Chadly was up till 10:00 P.M then he went to bed.
Silver was dreaming about the vet, it was nightmare. The docter stabbed him and hurt hiim while Shadow was dreaming about catching the robbers who stole money from the bank.
Silver was afraid of the vet but will he panic when the shot hits him?
Silver and Shadow are still friendly to each other in the story, but will they get along after their shots to keep Maria happy? Find out in chapter 3!