I let out a sigh "Pull over!"

He banked right and skidded to a stop in an alleyway. I hopped out of his arms and fixed my apron to be a shirt again. He turned to not face me and cleared his throat.

"Right- so why don't we just chaos control home?"

"I'd rather not." he spoke to the wall.

"Why not?"

"I can't risk it with your frail-." he looked over to me for a second "... Body." then quickly went back to talking to the wall.

"Ok I am not that frail. I've taken a few of your beatings. Just teleport us home!"

"Woman, do you want your chest to implode and your heart to rupture?"

"No! But I doubt one more chaos control is going to do that!"

"You're an idiot- and I'm not doing that. I'm not going to risk it. Now tell me where I have to go." he held out his arms and I crossed mine. "No."

With a straight scowl his arms flopped down to his sides. "Fine." he turned and started to walk off.

"I'll figure it out myself."

"You don't have the emerald with you, do you?" I hummed.

He stopped and looked over his shoulder to me, a straight and bored looking face "No. I do not."

"Wonderful!" I threw my hands up in the air "Well I kind of don't want to cruise all the way back home in paper and my underwear!"

"Oh believe me I don't want to hold you in just paper and underwear but you don't see me putting up a fit."

I let out a scoff "Yea ok. So you like men then?"

"No I like women just fine- but you are a whiney and stupid human teenage girl. Not a woman."

I glared daggers down to him and balled my fists, closing some of the distance "Care to repeat that." I snarled.

"You are a whiney and stupid teenage girl. Not a woman- oh wait- and your deaf."

"You're just a walking and talking stuffed animal with shit for memory and serious detachment problems." I hissed in return.

His brow shot to his muzzle in a glare. With his ring less hand, he grabbed the outside of my thigh and my energy was cut in half. I let out a small yowl and dropped to my knees.

"I could kill you with one touch. You know that." his voice was low and dangerous.

I half limply swung an arm and barely missed his face with my fist.

In return he grabbed my wrist and like an idiot- I swung with the other.

He then had ahold of both my wrists. I let out a small yell as he absorbed more of my energy.

He released my arms and I flopped over onto my side, barely having enough strength to breathe and stay conscious.

He knelt down next to me; his voice was a harsh whisper "Now I can't even begin to fathom how you thought that would work."

I just laid there and wheezed; the concrete was becoming cold.

He leaned down a bit further, his crimson eyes burning and I was legitimately terrified. "Now I'm trying to decide on whether to leave you here or take you back to that hospital. I could care less what happens to you- honestly, you really aren't that important."

I heard a grunt from a woman and next thing I knew, Shadow was sent thru one of the brick walls of the alleyway.

"I knew you were mean but I never took you to be such a creep, Shadow!" Amy's voice was, for the first time, music to my ears.

She held her Piko-Piko hammer off to one side "C'mon let's get out of here!" she grabbed my arm and helped me up. I had trouble standing; my legs kept shaking as I regained energy.

She pulled on my arm as she started to run, tugging me along.

"Shit you just kind of- nailed him right in the face." I breathed as my energy was restoring and my running was becoming less sloppy.

"Thanks!" she smiled brightly and led us into a poorly lit neighborhood. I thought of how strange the situation she just saw looked.

A pretty much naked, minus everything except underwear, bra and a paper gown, was lying on the ground with Shadow knelt near- way too near might I add- saying that he was "Trying to decide what to do with me".

... Yep- that would seem pretty weird.

I knew how pointless it was to run at human pace away from something faster than the speed of sound but the fact that he didn't have an emerald put me at ease. "So what are you doing dressed like that? I do my time of going around the mall and I don't think that's in style anywhere." she asked after letting go of my arm and I ran next to her.

I let out a chuckle "I just came from the E.R."

"Oh well in that case you look like you're in good shape."

"Well you should have seen me this morning. I was throwing up and bleeding everywhere- not even remotely fashionable."

"That's an image I didn't really need but thank you." she stuck out her tongue in disgust.

"Sorry about that."

She banked around a turn and I followed suit, dashing into a large park. She came to a stop in the middle of the field "There- I think we're good now."

I gave a nod as I looked around.

A bright light caught my attention and I looked down to see the ring on my wrist glowing.

"SHIT! He's tracking the ring!" I attempted to twist and expand the ring like I had watched him do many times before.

"Why do you have one of Shadow's rings?" she asked, obviously very confused.

"I'll explain later." I continued to fuss with the damn thing and had no luck.

"No. No. No. No."

A rush of wind hit me and Shadow hovered at eye level, one hand gripped over the ring on my wrist. "Don't think you can run away with my stuff, human."

He turned and stopped Amy's hammer with a flat hand.

They glared to one-another before Shadow tossed her away easily by her hammer; his hand not leaving my wrist.

His attention snapped to me and a shiver rocked my spine as I caught his intense eyes with my widened ones.

Tears started rolling down my cheeks. I could not tell you why I was crying. All I knew was that I was scared didn't want to even attempt to fight him anymore.