Alright, the first chapter of the sequal to For an Emerald is finally here! It took me a while to work out and write, but I hope you all enjoy! Don't forget to read and review!
Angel Island was silent to all those who could not hear its breath, even the guardian of the island and Master Emerald was completely silent as she lay on the stairs of the shrine and stared at the few clouds in the almost perfect blue sky. The now 15 year old Femur the Echidhog slowly reached towards a cloud that reminded her of her father, the shape resembled the Blue Blur well. Her appearance hadn't much changed over the years, though her quills had gotten longer to the longest reached her mid-back.
"...Are you just going to leave me here in silence?" She asked to seemingly no one, sitting up. The white sleeves of her dull blue turtle neck t-shirt nearly reached her elbows, the neck a bright yellow and shirt a little loose at the bottom. Her bright yellow mid-thigh length shorts were a contrast to her dull blue boots almost reaching to her knees, trimmed in white and a black line going down the center. It was probably her gloves that were the oddest though, white with a line of dull blue going down the side and finger on each side.
"I didn't realise you were bored." Responded a male voice, a dull green echidna appearing at her side. He appeared only two or three years older than her, eyes a familiar purple and muzzle tan...dull green spikes growing from his knuckles. He wore a dark green coat trimmed in black that covered the sides of his mouth despite it being open, reaching to his knees. A pair of dark green shorts with white trimming the ends of the legs with the only other thing he wore, a white lace tied around the shorts in a bow to keep them up.
"Of course I'm bored; there isn't anything to do on this stupid island!" The hybrid growled, glaring up at the echidna but not moving.
"That is hardly the way for the Guardian of Angel Island to speak." The purple-eyed male reminded the girl, who in turn growled a little louder and bared her fangs.
"Shut up." She snapped, the green male looking at her for a moment.
"...Would you please make up your mind Femur?" He asked the glowing eyed girl, who stared wordlessly at him for several seconds. "If you would like me to leave I will." The tanned male responded, the peach girl grumbling something before sighing.
"No, no...talking to a projection of my charge is far better than talking to myself Masa." It was the echidna's turn to glare at the girl. "What? I'm sure as hell not calling you Master and Emerald sounds like a girl's name." She pointed out, the boy sighing at her response.
"I suppose you have a point." Masa admitted, his guardian smirking.
"Of course I have a point, I'm Femur the Echidhog." Femur smirked for only a moment longer before sighing once more. It had been three years since her parents had left permanently for the mainland, and she hadn't seen or heard from either of them since.
"...Do you miss Fang?" The echidna asked as he slowly sat beside the girl.
"Of course I do, he's my brother..." Fang the Echidhog was Femur's younger brother by five years, a purple echidna with hedgehog ears and flat quills...she hadn't seen him since her parents had left either. "It appears Uncle Tails couldn't care less about me, now that my parents have left...no cares about me..." The moments the old guardian and her family, beyond her daughter, left was the last time the hybrid had seen anyone beyond Masa.
"Femur...they do still care, I am certain." The purple eyed boy tried to assure her, only to get another glare.
"Of COURSE they care Masa...that's why they haven't tried to even talk to me since they left me alone on this stupid island! It's not like they don't know I can't leave!" The glowing eyed girl's snarl was much angrier this time, angry and hurt...her mother, at least, had ended up having friends who came to visit her; the girl would return to a simple corpse the moment she stepped off the island and it had become clear that no one intended to come visit her. "If I hadn't seen you since I was born I'd assume I was insane from being abandoned and alone so long." She added, lying back down...she snapped back up again the moment she saw the hedgehog-shaped cloud.
"Femur..." The emerald projection didn't know what to say to that...the girl was clearly lonely, and he doubted that he or her ancestors could help that loneliness.
"Are you talking to anyone particular?" The sudden male voice snapped the undead girl's attention to the bottom of the shrine, how had someone gotten on the island without her or Masa noticing?
"Sh-Shadow!" The guardian exclaimed, the projection of her charge disappearing. "Wh-what are you doing h-here?" She asked, certain her cheeks were pink...ever since he'd gotten back the Master Emerald for her when she was two and helped her save her mother she'd had a crush on the anti-hero. The fact that he hadn't physically changed since then was admittedly a bit of help with that.
"I had little better to do." Shadow responded, used to the girl's stuttering around him at this point. After Rouge had disappeared he had quit GUN, giving him quite a bit of free time...he understood the anger born from feeling all alone, he hadn't any intention to let the Faker's daughter end out cold and cruel as he had. With Eggman long dead he expected at least Sonic to come see the girl, it was not as though the ex-hero had much better to do...however from what the girl had said she hadn't seen anyone since her parents left her the official guardian three years ago, though the immortal hedgehog himself had been planning to come by for a little while now.
"O-oh..." Femur murmured...to be honest she didn't mind if he simply hadn't had anything better to do, seeing the dark hedgehog at all was a privilege to the hybrid. Seeing her crush was certainly a lot better than talking to Masa, considering he was a projection that only she could see anyway. "How um...have y-you been?" She asked, hoping the keep the man there for as long as possible. He cocked an eyebrow at the question, but figured that she'd been talking to herself for the past three years and simply wanted a true conversation.
"I am..." To be completely honest, the black and red hedgehog didn't know how to answer that question. Whenever Rouge or Sonic had asked it he'd abruptly changed to subject...he simply wasn't good at small talk.
"S-sorry..." The red and blue hybrid apologised, realising that she was making him feel awkward.
"...And you?" The red eyed male asked after several moments of silence, the girl's wide eyes showing that she was surprised by the question.
"O-oh, uh...lonely, I g-guess...fine b-beyond that..." The glowing eyed girl responded, blushing softly again. The skater's eyes narrowed, it seemed he had to have a word with his rival.
"...I see...good." Shadow said after a moment of thought, the guardian staring at him with wide eyes again. "I must...be going." He stated, wanting to go talk to her father.
"R-really?" Femur asked softly, looking sad.
"I will return again." The dark hedgehog assured the hybrid.
"Alright, th-thanks." She smiled at him before he disappeared in a flash of green.
"...Femur?" Masa asked as he appeared beside her once more.
"Don't say a word Masa, not a word." The undead girl groaned, knowing full well that he was going to make fun of or question her reaction around the anti-hero. "Not a word."
Poor Femur XD. I'm sorry, I just can't help picking on her. I'm trying to keep Shadow as in-character as possible, but that's easier said than done in this case. Nonetheless, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. See ya!