Blue hedgehogs and ginger tea is a nono

He woke up thrashing. "Hold still already Shadow! We must have pumped a lakes worth of water out of you! And there's still more." Shadow's eyes opened, he saw Sonic staring down at him. Meanwhile, in the background, Rouge was calling Sonic one hundred different kind of idiot, or moron. "Alright alright already Rouge! I was a fool for giving him that kind of dare! Please let it go now?" Asked Sonic, clearly irritated.

"No! And what's more, from what Tails can gather with that memory thingy of his, Shadow had a hallucination! AND ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!" Sonic tried to walk off but Rouge punched him. Amy gasped. "Do you have any respect for the well being of others?! Or is it only for your selfish freaking self?!" Shadow watched this, faintly amused, but still coughing up water. Mephiles pounded his back happily as he listened to the argument.

"Hey Shad, sounds like you've got yourself a girlfriend!" Rouge whirled and punched Mephiles in the nose, and he almost fell into the water, Shadow caught his arm and pulled him back before that could happen.

"You keep out of it crystal mouth!" Growled Rouge, before turning back to Sonic. Shadow spent an interesting half hour listening to their arguments. Then Shadow sneezed. Everyone froze, and turned. Shadow glared.

"What?"

"You... sneezed....." Rouge put a hand on Shadow's forehead. "You're sick..... you're freaking sicker than before..... SONIC!!!!!!!!" She ran after the blue hedgehog, yelling death threats, while Amy followed Rouge, yelling death threats in case Rouge carried out her plans.

***

So now Shadow was stuck back in bed...... and it was worse than before. His back was pressed into the wall, and the blanket was bunched around his waist and legs as his forehead rested on his kneecaps. Why? Why did it seem like someone was determined to make his entire existence miserable? Seeing Maria again... and feeling like it was real.... heck, he'd even felt the push.... had he run into a branch or something? He sighed in frustration. Why did he have to get a hallucination? Why not Sonic? He sighed again, this time in resignition. Nothing bad ever happened to Sonic. He'd never risked anything..... really risked it that is. He'd never lost something precious to him, like family. Did the blue hedgehog even HAVE family? "Why is everyone being so nice to Shadow and not me?!" Sonic's voice came from the corridor. Shadow looked up, then quickly changed his position so he was laying down, and not looking like some beaten up prisoner. Sonic stalked into the room. "Hey Shadow." Shadow glared at him and gave him no reply. "Need the tissue box?" He asked, trying to get a response. Shadow gave him a scornful look and glanced at the table, which drew Sonic's eyes to it, showing there was a tissue box there. Sonic ran his hand through his quills (his left hand... interestingly enough). "Look Shadow, I'm sorry about what I did, I know it was spiteful... and only to humiliate you etc. I'm just not that clearheaded sometimes."

"You're NEVER clearheaded as far as I'm concerned." Said Shadow, frowning.

"Well yeah, you say that."

"Sonic you will get out of Shadow's room unless you want me to murder you." Said Rouge, who came in at that precise moment. The blue hedgehog stood and exited, waving at Shadow, who only gave a glare. Vanilla walked in with a tray and a familiar looking mug..... Shadow stifled a groan.

"Ginger tea and mandarin oranges for you Shadow." Said Vanilla, smiling pleasantly, she put it on the bedside table and left the room, closing the door quietly, another pair of ear plugs sat on the tray beside the mug.

***

"We're playing truth or dare again. Shadow gets a turn. So we'll go up and play it in his room." Said Rouge, with a look that allowed no arguments. They sat down in a circle, and Shadow looked at them, slightly puzzled, until Rouge explained what they were doing. He nodded, he was going to go to sleep until Rouge told him he had a turn to dare Sonic, because of what Sonic had done.

"Fine.... I dare you to drink a cup of cold ginger tea..... preferably left sitting three hours." Sonic looked confused, but Rouge grinned fiendishly. When Sonic saw that he guessed there was something sinister afoot, and complained.

"Don't I get to choose whether or not I choose truth or dare?"

"No, because I chose it for you." Said Rouge.

The next day

"OH MY GOD IT BURNS!" Sonic screamed, Shadow chuckled through his wince, hearing that was worth the pain to his ears. He listened to Sonic searching for some cold water, and finding none. He chaos controlled downstairs, and chaos controlled above a pond, dropping Sonic in. "OH MY GOD I'M DROWNING!" Sonic now screamed. Shadow recorded this. When Sonic noticed he wasn't sinking, or even up to his chest in water, he looked sheepish, until he noticed the camera. "YOU'RE EVIL!" Shadow shrugged and chaos controlled back to his room.

I thought that would be fun. :P There's a hidden message in the chapter. Sorry it's so short..... and the message is three words long..... :) See if you can find it, if you can, leave the message in a review within these: ""

And also, tell me what you think! ^_^ Thanks to Angel heart-chan for giving me the idea for Shadow daring Sonic to drink ginger tea. ^_^