Sorry this took so long, I've been going through some writers block for this story.

Shadow didn't look all too pleased with Sonic's win, Amy could see why but this time it was for a differet reason. She, nor anyone else saw what he had done to disarm the beast. Knuckles stood next to him as they both watched Sonic relish in the glory of his so called 'victory'. "You see it?" Shadow asked.

"See what?"

"How Sonic won."

"...yeah. But looks like no one else did."

"..." Shadow remained silent, watching as his old captor Eggman came to Sonic and pulled him out of the arena for a chat. There was the familiar nasty smile on the old bastards face, the exact same one that Shadow remembered he would have before he raided a village for slaves or did something that would no doubt hurt many innocents. The ebony hedgehog left the stands silently, ready to investigate. Knuckles watched him leave, with no doubt that something bad was going to happen.

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"You actually listened to me during your fight. Impressive." Eggman mocked. Sonic just rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, so how am I supposed to beat that emo slave again?" Shadow's nostrils flared at the word 'slave'. He hid behind a large stone pillar, listening in on the blue hedgies and the slave owners conversation.

"You are to use this..." Shadow heard something plop into Sonic's hand with his acute hearing. "On your chaos emerald for the chaos battles. It will give you an extra power boost and end the fight rather quickly. Now leave me or we will surely be caught." Shadow left with a really bad feeling, his mind dead set on getting Sonic not to use whatever he had.

Outside

"Shadow? Shadow? Where are you? Geez, that guy... the fight is about to start in a few minutes and he's not even here!" Amy yelled in an exhasperated tone. She heard the clanking of metal behind her. She turned smiling. "Shad- Oh. Its you." Amy's face fell with disappointment. There stood Sonic, in his golden armor.

"What do you mean, 'its you'? Aren't you glad to see me princess?" He asked with a grin. Amy snorted and continued to walk. Sonic strode next to her in silence. "So... who do you hope will win?" He tried to lure into conversation.

"I'm hoping either Knuckles or Shadow will win. But best of luck to you anyways." She said politely. Shadow came around the corner and found Sonic and Amy talking. Curious, he hid for a bit and eavesdropped on them.

"I know what you're thinking."

"Oh really?"

"You're thinking that I will be on my knees begging you to be with me because you're giving me this 'Playing hard to get' act." Amy laughed and Shadow bit back a chuckle. It was almost pathetic how Sonic deluded himself.

"If you believe that I'm not going to stop you." Amy said, chuckling as Sonic continued to convince her and himself of this. But her amusement as well as Shadow's stopped short when Sonic backed her up into a wall with his arms on either side of her waist. Shadow gripped the marble wall so fiercely it crumbled in his grip.

"I do believe it. I also believe that we were meant for each other. I want to marry you Amelia."

"Well too bad. I don't want to marry you." she said, pushing him away and running off.

"Amelia!" He tried to run after her, but was held back by someones grip on his collar.

"Sooniiicc..." Said a VERY scary voice of a familiar enemy.

Later

"Okay, now starts the Chaos battles! Who here is pumped?" The announcer was met with thousands of screams. "That's the spirit! Now, I want you all to welcome our first competitors! Knuckles the Echidna..." That name was met with the cheer of a certain batty princess and some other of the red echidna's fans. Knuckles came out and waved to the princess, grinning broadly. Rouge blushed but tried to hide it as she waved back. "and Jack the wolf!" A gray wolf wearing just pants walked out and waved to his wife and kids in the stands. Knuckles looked at who he was waving to.

"Cute kids."

"Thank you."

"Are you really after the hand of a princess?" The wolf shook his head.

"No, I already have my own princess. But what I do need is the prize money." Knuckles nodded and couldn't help but admire the guy for going this far for his family.

"May the best man win." The wolf and echidna shook hands before going into their corners. The gunshot sounded. Jack sprang first, in his claws was a red chaos emerald. Knuckles produced a purple one and the two males began to fight.

Outside of the arena, Amy watched curiously as the older wolf punched Knuckles across the face with a giant paw created by chaos energy. Knuckles countered this attack by launching a chaos spear. "Hello Rose." Amy nearly jumped out of her flats. "Calm down, it's just me. Or is that what you were afraid of?" He joked. Amy blushed but shoved him slightly, earning another chuckle from him.

"You wish. You just surprised me is all!" She excused, making a childish pouty face.

"Are you nervous princess?" He asked, surprising her again with the tone of his voice. Unable to look at her, he directed his attention to the battlefield. Knuckles picked up a boulder and threw it at Jack. The gray wolf broke it and was taken by surprise by a uppercut. Amy looked at Shadow, she could see the uncertaincy in his ruby eyes.

"...A little. But I have full confidence that you will succeed in defeating Sonic!" She said. Shadow looked up at her and gave her a small smile only for her. She blushed, he was just so handsome!

"Thank you Amy, that means a lot to me." He said.

"WINNER! KNUCKLES!" The hedgehogs looked back down to the battlefield to see Knuckles and Jack bruised, but shaking hands. Before Jack left, Knuckles whispered something in his ear. The wolf's eyes widened and a smile spread across his face.

"You have no idea how much this means to us. Thank you." He said, then left. Knuckles went out of the arena. Prince Sonic was confused why the wolf would be happy after losing, but shrugged it off.

"Next! Prince Sonic of Wyndie and... Shadow the Hedgehog!" Sonic laughed to himself and clutched the small sack Eggman handed to him.

An hour later

Sonic and shadow stood in front of each other in the arena, their armor on and in fighting positions as they circled one another. "Hope you're ready to go back to slavery." Sonic said.

"Hope you're ready to be humiliated." Shadow replied, bringing out his emerald. They glared at each other until the announcer called the start.

"BEGIN!" Sonic launched himself at Shadow, fangs bared and his eyes a burning inferno. Shadow dodged and attempted a strike to his back but he blocked it. Amy held onto Cream's hand fiercely as the battle continued. Cream was anxious as well, but could see the deep worry within Amy.

"Take this faker!" Sonic roared, doing a spin dash. Shadow didn't reply but blocked the spin dash with a sheild made with chaos energy. His emerald glowed brightly as he used the power. Shadow brought a hand from it and launched his first attack with a chaos spear.

"That all you got faker?" Taunted Shadow. Sonic growled and came back with another spin dash. It nailed him in the stomach and sent him flying into the stone wall.

"Oh no... I can't bear to watch this." Amy said, covering her eyes. All at once Shadow knocked Sonic back and used another chaos spear on him, this time making a direct his to his side and sending him back a few feet.

"When I'm finished with you, you'll wish you were never born!" Sonic cried out, holding the bag Eggman had given him and taking out a strange necklace. Dangling from the string was a dragons tooth, a very strong magic and chaos item when used correctly. A tornado came and Shadow and Sonic were spinning around rapidly and clashing very loudly. There were flashes of chaos energy within the tornado.

"My son has learned some new tricks. Very impressive." Said the queen. The tornado exploded with flashes of light and the winds didn't cease, no one was able to see into the whirling winds. There were sounds of grunts and hits.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" But no one was able to understand who the person that shouted it was. There was one more massive explosion of bright vivid color, making everyone have to squint, and then the winds died down. Sonic and Shadow stood there, both bruised and heavily injured by one another. Sonic lost his footing and fell to the ground. The crowd cheered, then Shadow fell. The announcer ran onto the stage and raised Shadow's arm. "WE HAVE A WINNER HERE FOLKS! Shadow the Hedgehog!" More cheering. The queen threw her wineglass in anger. Amy and Cream hugged each other and cheered. Bernard smiled, knowing that Sonic was never able to master the techniques he had given to Shadow. Medics rushed to bring the hedgehogs out and into the medical bay. Tails and Cream stayed while Amy left to go check on Shadow.

Medical Bay

There were a lot of people there. Mostly competitors or disqualified ones. Some had horrible diseases or wild monster bites. "Shadow? Is Shadow here?" Amy asked. The nurse ushered her over to one of the cots. There he lay with some bandages and a towel on his forehead. She sat next to the cot.

"Amy?" He asked. She took his hand and held it.

"I'm here Shadow. Are you feeling okay?"

"Y-Yes... I'll be fine." He said. Amy breathed easier and they both smiled at each other. The queen passed by, narrowing her eyes at the lovely two hedgehogs. She whispered something to one of the maids and the maid bowed then went away.

Outside

"You idiotic hedgehog! You used the dragon tooth too soon!" Eggman roared. Sonic flinched. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Seems that I will have to resort to my second plan." Eggman left with a swish of his cape.