"Stop crying, Allie..." Shadow growled lowly and I stiffled my tears. With a small tug from him I was on my feet. I stared down to the ground- god I had been so stupid. All he wanted to do was get home and I couldn't even do that...
"Now don't take this off. Understand me?" he was obviously irritated.
"Let go of Me." my voice was little and I tried to pull away.
"If you take off the ring- you can die."
"I won't take off the damn thing! Now just-" I stammered a bit "-just let go of me!"
He did as I had asked and Amy's voice jumped into our conversation "be careful with him- you never know when he'll turn and get ya."
Shadow turned and glared her daggers. "I deserved everything that's happened... I attacked first in the alleyway- he was just retaliating." I barely looked up from the ground only to peer over to the ebony hedgehog.
"He should at least go easy on you! Shadow- you of all people should know how fragile humans are." Amy jabbed at his nerves and he responded with a very animalistic growl.
His low growl intimidated me and it wasn't even in my direction.
"Don't even start." he snarled and she readied her stance, a small grin playing on her features. They both lunged and began fighting.
With a strong swing of her hammer, Amy made the first strike. Shadow returned with a block using his forearm and he punted her away with a strong kick. She flipped midair and landed on her feet, skidding to a stop. She held out her left hand and a secondary hammer appeared. With an angry yell she started hurling hammers in Shadow's direction. About eighty percent of the hammers where deflected and the other twenty percent made some decent hits.
They launched at each other again and the battle continued.
Shadow hit away another hammer and I had to leap out of the way as it crashed into the earth. With another heavy punt, Amy was sent to the ground. Unable to correct herself this time she hit the grass shoulder-first and tumbled. Shadow landed with a small thump and began a walk toward the pink hedgehog.
A gust of wind hit the park and Shadow was taken off his feet as the blue blur spun straight into him.
Shadow flipped and landed a small distance in front of me.
"Sonic!" Amy cheered with a bright smile.
"Why don't you pick on someone with your own strength?" Sonic grinned and Shadow let out a small scoff.
Both hedgehogs jumped and attacked with a homing attack first. They rebounded off each other and quickly zoomed back to clash again, repeating the hits a multitude of times. As they honed in on each other again shadow uncoiled at last second and kicked sonic to the ground.
He recovered quickly and launched back at shadow, who was thrown back a bit by Sonic's uppercut.
They ran back into contact and began throwing kicks and punches.
"C'mon Sonic!" Amy's voice pierced the air at an annoying pitch.
Both hedgehogs punched at the same time, sending both flying away from each other. Shadow tumbled backwards once before pushing off his hands and doing a couple handsprings then skidded back to a stop on his feet.
I didn't see how Sonic ended up on his feet again but he was near Amy and once again Shadow was by me. I turned back slightly to face the panting hedgehog.
"Kick his ass, Shadow- you can't let him beat you!" I whispered harshly back to him and he gave a nod to me before dashing away.
Both hedgehogs collided with a loud THUMP and bounced away from each other again, returning to the spots they were prior to the hit.
"Beat him, damnit!" I growled to Shadow, who upon hearing me brought a small menacing grin to his features.
"It must be nice to finally have someone cheering for you, Faker." sonic scoffed and I caught the cold glare from Amy.
Shit.
"I mean she always was on your side to begin with- even when I was there she obviously wanted you around instead- for whatever reason I have no idea." Sonic continued.
Amy cut sonic off with a small and angry tone, questioning him on how he knew me.
"I love how this whole thing just became about me." I grumbled sarcastically.
"You brought it upon yourself." shadow let out a small chuckle.
"Well I wasn't just going to sit here and be quiet."
"When are you ever quiet?" he stood up a bit more normally, cracking his neck as sonic still received an interrogation.
"When I'm unconscious. You should know this sense it's your fault most of the time."
Shadow let out a small chuckle and spoke up, this time to sonic. "Are we going to finish this, Faker, or are you just going to take your cheerleader's verbal beat down?"
I let out a small laugh at both Sonic's and Amy's reactions.
Sonic and shadow charged and continued to tear up the ground and park even more. I watched the hedgehogs dance about the sky and jumped from a near collision to a hammer.
I snapped my attention to a raging Amy, who was coming ever so closer, another Piko-Piko hammer appearing in hand.
I strung out various swears and profanities as I realized that she was way stronger than me.
She wasn't stronger than Shadow however, but still strong enough to seriously do some damage. I grabbed onto the handle of her hammer that was stuck in the ground next to me and gave a tug.
Damn, it was like Thor's hammer and I wasn't going to have any luck moving it.
She lunged at me and started swinging. I fell backwards with widened eyes and my adrenaline began screaming threw my system.
I barely dodged a few of her swings as I rolled about and shuffled across the ground. Using my height to an advantage I gave a strong kick up when she came up close to take another hit.
I came into contact with her chin and she stumbled back a bit from shock.
I took this chance to gain more distance between her and I.
"Come on Amy- I'm not the enemy here!" I pleaded as I nearly dodged another toss.
"You're on the enemy's side so that makes you the enemy." she growled and was close to me again, taking swings.
"Ok maybe you're right- but you said yourself I'm a fragile human! I'm not match for someone like you!" I let out a yelp as I rolled away from a newly made crater.
I had never seen Amy as scary as this. I mean I was terrified for my life and a bit humiliated if a pink hedgehog was the end of me.
I was able to land another lucky hit and I shuffled away.
I didn't really gain any distance this time. I looked up to see Shadow and Sonic pre-occupied with each other.
"Hey! Ultimate Life form! Your whiney and stupid human teenage girl is going to die here!" I called out, catching Shadow's attention as he got a good hit on Sonic. He looked over just as I tripped and managed to avoid yet another hammer.
I had no idea how I kept getting away from those things.
I was just thankful that I could get away from them.
But I had spoken too soon as the face of a mallet hit me and I was painfully flung across the grass. I tumbled harshly across the ground and stopped on my stomach. I coughed and wheezed to try and refill my lungs.
"Chaos spear!"
A spark of pure energy hit Amy and she stumbled down to her hands and knees as the spear surged over her system.
Shadow gave a strong hit to Sonic and snapped over to where I was on the ground
"You're telling me I have to fight your battles too?" he grumbled.
"Yep- I am pretty useless in this predicament." I grunted as I got to my feet.
"I've never seen Amy like that- It's scary." I huffed, holding my side.
He scoffed "So you're scared of her but not me?"
"I don't know if she'll hold back or not." I coughed again and he looked over his shoulder to me. He faced fore ward and I could see him trying to plan.
Amy was brought back to her feet by Sonic and their attention turned on Shadow and I.
Amy let out a small growl and Sonic stopped her. "Calm down now, they're not worth it, Ames."
"If you say so." she hissed, glare not leaving my direction.
Jesus- I pissed her off something major.
"I don't expect you to hold back next time!" Sonic challenged with his signature grin. Shadow just sent him a glare and didn't reply.
"Let's go, Ames." Sonic gave her a small tug on the arm to get her moving. They dashed off without another word and left Shadow and I standing there.
He reached back with his ring less hand and pressed it over my injury. A warm wave went over my skin and tingled. He let go and the aching in my side ceased.
He turned around and faced me "Better?" his voice was flat.
"Yeah- thanks..." I rubbed the area on my stomach a bit before looking over to him.
"Now what?" I asked.
He let out a sigh "I hadn't expected them to leave. Well- not that soon anyway."
"Did you not use any chaos attacks because of your ring imbalance?"
He nodded "It's a long human walk home with an unconscious hedgehog to carry."
"I could always borrow a certain hedgehog's shoes and the trip would be much faster." I gave a small smile. He scoffed
"Not a chance."
"Speaking of home- can we go there now?" I looked around the now trashed park. Various hammer where scattered about the lawn.
"What are we going to do about the hammers?" I asked.
"Nothing. That's not our problem."
"You can't pick them up?"
"No, only Amy can."
I flopped down to my knees and sat on the ground. I peered up to the dark hedgehog from my spot in the grass. He looked down curiously "what's wrong?"
I let out a sigh "I'm tired…"
He let out a sarcastic laugh "Right because you fought two fights, correct?"
"Hey! I did my fair share of running about dodging all but one hit!" I pointed to him harshly.
"Ha- I don't run away."
"You also can take a hit from that hammer, where I, a human, cannot."
"You seem fine to me." His eyes flicked to the spot on my stomach that had been hit and he crossed his arms. "Oh and before I forget-" he started and I stood up. "Just so we're clear- you are not my human."
"Yea yea we're clear. I just said that to get your attention." I waved the conversation out of the air.
He shook his head slightly than held out his arms "Let's go, the sun is rising."
It was an awkward motion to sort of lay back and fall about two feet into his arms. The fact he had to carry me in minimal clothing was obviously uncomfortable for both of us. I stiffened a bit and I felt a small prickle to his fur.
"Get back on the highway."
He nodded and shot off with a strong jolt.
We leapt onto the practically empty highway and his shoes ignited with energy. We rocketed down the highway and banked smoothly around the bends in the road.
The rush was amazing. I had never experienced speeds of this level and I had to yell over the wind to give my chauffeur directions.
"Mind the curves going down this hill!"
A grin struck his features and he lined up to a tree that was leaning off the face of the cliff like hill. My skin prickled as he sped up and crouched a bit, his grip tightening.
"Hold on." His voice was calm but mine however-
Well…
I screamed a lot when he used the tree for a ramp and jumped off the top of the rather steep and tall hill. We soared away from the hillside and I wrapped my arms around his shoulders.
With a few taps to his ankles, his shoes exploded with enough thrust to cause us to fly.
"OH MY GOD!" I yelled, grin widening as I watched below. I let out a loud laugh "THIS IS SO AWESOME!"
I felt him chuckle and with a small pivot, we barrel rolled.
"That's where Molly lives!" I called out while upside down and pointing in the direction of the small town in the valley.
We soared closer to the face of the next hill and he turned to face upright again. He leaned back and brought his feet forward, counteracting the simple "A body in motion" rule.
We landed with a small bounce and he shot forward again.
I cheered from the insane rush that was pounding my nerves.
"Do you know how to get home from here?"
He nodded and took a few turns.
We were soon racing threw my neighborhood and he jumped, landing us in my backyard.
He set me on my feet and I wobbled from the change in gravity.
I started up a giggle fit and he was bemused by my small laughter.
"Oh my god that was so cool! We have to do that like seventeen more times! We flew! Like birds! Just WOOSH!" I swooped my arms at the sound effect.
"How did it go?" he chuckled.
"WOOOOOSH!"
He let out a small laugh and for a brief moment he actually had a smile.
Hey Guys!
So i know Amy was a bit out of character here but she was pissed so i tried to convey that.
I was so happy with how Allie's "Hey- yea- uh IM BEING ATTACKED!" line to get Shad's attention came out!
lol i made myself laugh.
haaa...
so long long chapter this time! hopefully i'll be able to start writing them this long from now on!
please review and gimmie your feedback!
~FurrReal