The rivalry : Shadow's survival



Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! That should cover that part lol.



Intro: The defeat of the final hazard has turned out not to be Shadow's ascend to the other side. After the battle everyone went back to there normal lives. Sonic is still his same old self. Tails is still working on making the perfect combat machine. Amy still goes shopping regularly. Knuckles is still protecting the master emerald with his life and Dr. Robotnik has begun working on a new plan for world domination. Everyone's life is the same……..except for a familiar female bat who is trying to come out of her life as a thief.

Her name is (like you already didn't know) Rouge. She has changed somewhat. Her crush on knuckles has vanished. And she lives alone in station square. She decided to take knuckles advice and live a normal life. But she is about to find out that that is impossible………..



It was another rainy day and rouge was walking down the sidewalk with her hands in her jacket pockets. She stared down at the sidewalk with her fur dripping wet. She sighed and looked up at the night sky without even thinking about were she was going. Her life changed a lot every sense the ARK incident. Except for one thing….. she was still alone. Like she had always been. She shivered from the cold of the rain and tried to keep warm by folding her wings over herself. And she started thinking about the one hedgehog that plagued her mind ever since the end of the ark incident…..Shadow. They only spent a little time with each other but that was enough for her to miss him horribly. It seemed that every time she blinked she saw his handsome face. She tried to stop thinking about him many times before but it was no use. " I think I'm going crazy." She thought out loud.

It has only been two weeks since she saw Shadow fall through the atmosphere, but it seemed like years. She walked up the front stairs to the apartment building in which she lived and entered the main hall and got on the elevator and went up to the 5th floor. She had no idea if Shadow survived or not, but she was sure that he was dead. And the more she thought about the image of shadow burning up in the atmosphere the more she wanted to cry. She got off the elevator and walked down the hallway. She stopped at a door marked B4 took her door key out of her pocket and unlocked her front door and entered. She turned on the light reveling her furniture. It was all pink an black that's the colors that her apartment mainly consisted of. She took off her wet leather jacket and put it on the rack sitting next to her door. She took off her boots and set them next to the door. She headed toward the bathroom. She entered and shut the door behind her. She turned on the bath water and set the temperature. When the tub was full she removed her clothing and slowly moved in the tub. She sank in the water so that you could only see her head above the bubbles and then she saw that image of shadow again. That made her emotions give way……She sat in the tub and broke down crying. "Oh Shadow.." she said trying to hold herself together.

Later that night she stepped out on her balcony with her black robe on and watched the moon light shine over the ocean. That reminded her of shadow. In fact the color black reminded her of Shadow. The dark reminded her of shadow. The night sky reminded her of Shadow. Every time she saw a mobian with red eyes it reminded her of Shadow. She could not stop thinking about him. She looked down at the sandy beach trying to rid her mind of him. And that is when it all begun. She saw a dark figure that appeared to be a mobian limping across the beach. And without thinking she leaped from her 5 story high balcony and landed on her feet and approached the familiar looking figure. And what she saw changed the current events in her life greatly. "Sh…..SHADOW!?" she yelled in surprise. It was Shadow he was badly injured. He gripped his arm which looked to be broken in 3 places. His face was cut up and had stains of dried blood on it. His back was badly burned from his fall through the atmosphere. Rouge would have broke into tears if she did not see how bad he was injured. But tears did roll down her cheeks. She was trying desperately to keep herself from breaking down. Shadow finally spoke. "ra……rou……Rouge.." After that shadow collapsed right in front of her and she rushed to his side and knelled next to him.

To Be Continued………..

Well hoped you liked the first chapter. And if you want me to update this story all you have to do is review.