My shadow, my shadow, my shadow
As Julien-K sings in Sonic Hero's, "The Shadow of myself, just who am I?" That's exactly what Shadow wonders everyday. As the years go by, Shadow's shadow of his past starts to fade away. But when an upstroke of events starts to randomly happen, it drives him closer to his old past. When he looks down at his shadow, he sees a little girls shadow stare back at him, but as it starts to turn into a bat, he drives himself away. Please enjoy, My Shadow.
CHAPTER 1-HEDGEHOG
Silence. That's all I ever want. Silence. If only I could get that. Silence. WHY CAN'T THEY BE SILENT?
"Shadow! Hit the beach ball back Shadow!" The loud noises come from everywhere. They're yelling my name. "Come on Shadow! Hit it over here!" They won't shut-up. "Shadow!"
"WHAT?" I reply.
"You going to hit the ball back over here or what?" Sonic replies. Ball? I look down. The beach ball is in front of me. I pick it up and throw it back. "Thanks! Hey Shadow?" What now? "You wanna play?"
"No."
"Aw, why not?"
"I don't want to."
"But it's fun!"
"I don't care."
"Eh, forget him!" I sit back down; it's high noon and the sunbeams on me. Summer, hot, sweat, really, really, hot.
"Hey Shadow." Rouge says, sitting next to me. "Shoo, it's hot today! Why are you sitting right here in the middle of it?"
"Because I feel like it." She smirks and grabs my wrist.
"Come on you fool!" She leads me to the water. "Get refreshed, it's hot and water's a good cool down." She runs into the water. She turns back around and stares at me. "You coming?" I shake my head. She rolls her eyes. "Oh come on, it's just water!" But then it turns black. Something is coming out of it. It's a ship, it's-it's space colony ark? "What the-?" She never gets to finish; she suddenly gets pulled into the water.
"Rouge!" I said as I awoke. I looked around but everything was the same. The same torn down old ship that we used as our "home".
"You call?" Rouge said as she walked into my room. She stared at me for a long time realizing I was sweating. "You ok? You don't look so good."
"I'm fine."
"Aw, did you have a bad dream?"
"No." She stared at me again.
"You said my name, actually, more like yelled."
"I did not."
"Yes you did!" She said putting her hands on her hips. I turn away from her, leaving. "Where are you going?"
"Outside." She rolled her eyes.
"Outside where?" I shrugged. "In this summer heat?" I start walking again. "Whatever." I walked outside to be greeted by the morning heat. 8am and 70 degrees, only getting hotter. I began to walk. Where you ask? I didn't know. Somewhere. Seconds, minutes, hours passed, as I never stopped. I came upon a building. I had never seen this building before. I turned around to realize I had traveled farther then I had expected. Suddenly, a bell rung as children with lunch boxes came out to eat. They were all breeds. Animals and humans together.
"Shadow?" I heard a familiar voice. It was Sonic. "Shadow, what are you doing here?" I did not reply.
"What are you doing here?"
"Oh, Vanilla puts Cream through school but she couldn't make it to eat lunch with her, so Tails and I came." He looked back, like he was wondering. "Hey, where is Tails?"
"Over here Sonic!" He said waving his hand as he came running towards us. "Carrying this food is heavy, what'd you pack?"
"Same ol' stuff, CHILI DOGS!" Tails rolled his eyes. He looked at me like just then realizing I was there.
"Oh hey there Shadow, what are you doing here?" I still did not answer.
"Tails, Sonic! Could my mother not make it?" Cream asked.
"Sorry Cream, but no." Sonic replied. She stared at me then.
"Oh, hi there Shadow." She said looking down. "Well, come on you three, let's eat before lunch break is over!"
"Alright, man am I hungry!" Sonic looked at me as they began. "You going to eat with us?" I shook my head. He shrugged. He was about to bite into his chilidog when he noticed that I had something on my mind. I was looking out into nowhere when I suddenly saw that dream again. I saw the look on Rouge's face when she got sucked into water. What did this mean? "Uh, Shadow? Are you sure you're ok?" I looked back down at him.
"I'm fine." I sat next to them. I had nothing better to do. They started eating as I just watched the kids eat and the teachers talk.
"Ya know Shadow, looking out into space is a sign of craziness." I snapped out of it and looked at him again. "Hey, so how's Rouge?" Did he just ask me that?
"I don't know."
"Eh? What do you mean you don't know? You two practically live together." Ew.
"You and Amy and Tails practically live together too."
"Ah, touché. I'm just saying, it's obvious that you two have a thing going on."
"What are you talking about?"
"Like you don't know?"
"No." He stared at me with this look like sure, uh huh, whatever.
"Well then, simple question. Do you like Rouge or not?"
"As a friend, yes."
"No, I mean do you like her more then that?"
"Do you like Amy?"
"That's besides the point! Quit changing the subject and answer." I looked at the kids and teachers again. Suddenly, I saw a young boy with shoulder length blonder hair and blue eyes. I then saw Maria. But why? She hadn't been in my thoughts lately. Why was she back? My head started pounding but I didn't show my pain. I didn't understand, it was so out of the bloo. "Hello! Shadow? Do you like her or not?" I stared at him.
"No." I got up and started to walk back to that same old junky ship that we called "home." But I didn't know that things were about to change.