Chapter One

"Shadow, Shadow where are you!?" Those words echoed through the forest as Amy screamed and pleaded in vain.

"Where are you..." the pink hedgehog whispered falling to her knees from dizzyness. A yellow rabbit a few years younger than her gentally placed her hand on the worried hedgehog's shoulder.

"It's okay Amy, we'll find him." she said with a week smile lying gracefully on her face. A white bat searching nearby was looking for any trace of the black hedgehog that saved them from their horriable fate.

"Huh?" she muttered under her breath. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something shinning in the bushes. She began to rummage through the meshy bunch of leaves and branches. In the middle of the bush was a gold colored bracelet.

Shadow...

The bat picked up the bracelet cautiously. With a shakey hand she trouched the ice cold surface of the golden band. "Amy, Cream you might want to see this." the bat said. Amy gathered herself and walked over the rabbit named Cream followed close behind.

"What is it Rouge?" Amy asked. The bat called Rouge slowly turned around. In here hands she held the bracelet she had just picked up. Amy gasped, "S-shadow..." the words seemed like poison on her lips. It hurt to much even just to say his name. Rouge placed the band in Amy's hands.

"I think you'll need this more than us." Rouge said. Amy fell to her already dirtied knees and began to cry. Her heart was a weak and fragile one it almost fell apart at the thought he could be... No it was too horrible to think about.

Don't be such a weakling

Those words echoed in her head.

'Shadow is right I need to stop being so weak!'

Amy forced her body to get up, "I'm going to go look for him myself." she said with a serious look on her face and tears still coming from her eyes.

"But Amy, there is nothing to look for. Shadow sacrificed himself so we could live happily, he wouldn't want us lingering in the past and be miserable." Cream told her. She usually isn't the one to be negitive, but she did have a point. What if he really is gone?

Amy shook that thought out of her head.

'Shadow has made it through the ark AND metorex incidents. He can make it through anything!"

"I don't care if he's a live or not, he's still my friend and I'm to do whatever it takes to make sure he's okay!" With tha Amy began to run through the dense forest, leave a shocked Rouge and Cream behind.

'Hold on Shadow I'm coming!"

After running for awhile Amy came into a clearing. From there it lead to a beach were the sun was setting just over the vast waters of the ocean.

'Wow it's so beautiful here. It's a good thing I'm wearing my bathing suit underneath my dress.'

Amy quickly slid off her short red dress and jumped into the water. It was... surprisingly warm. Even though it was summer she never expected it to be THIS warm. She quickly shrugged it off and dived under the water. It was crystal clear underneath and it was breath taking. There were so many different colors of reefs and coral, and the fish were all different shapes and sizes. It was like a whole other world!

'I wish this would never end.'

But sadly like all living creatures Amy had to breath sooner or later, so she turned her she toward the surface and began her journey upwards. Unbenownst to her something was waiting for her to surface...

Amy came up gracefully throwing her head back to look like a mermaid form one of those kids movies she had watched with Cream. She giggled at what she had just done. Swimming back to shore she enjoyed her last minutes in wide spread ocean that had given a few minutes just to leave her world and forget her troubles.

The sand felt heavenly beneath her tired and tense feet. It was like walking on clouds of cotton candy.

'I hope it's the pink kind.'

Amy laughed at her thought. When her and Sonic went out together sometimes she always got the pink kind and he got the blue. They both always laughed at how ironic it was. She always smiled then. Than it happened. She met Shadow the black Hedgehog. He was almost identical to Sonic and could mimic his every more perfectly. But there was a difference; he was all black and had red streaks running through his jet black quills. And he lost someone who was most dear to him. A young blond girl named Maria. It would explain why he was always so sour towards Sonic because he was jealious had so many friends who cared for him and Shadow now had none. In the short while she knew him Amy and Shadow had become very close. Amy had replaced the emtiness that was in his heart with something he could cherish forever. A friend... Than it all changed when an evil alien named Black Doom appeared and threatened to destroy there planet. But Shadow was the only one who stood up and challenged him. Shadow eventualy destroyed Black Doom and saved the planet. But in doing so Shadow had to sacrifice himself for the selfish people who used to despise him so much. After his selfless sacricfice Amy thought she would never feel love or joy again. But today was different. For the first time in two months she was genuinely smiling and enjoying herself.

Amy merrily walked back to where she left her clothes only to discover they were gone! All of a sudden Amy was stuck with fear. What if she was being watched? What if who ever or whatever it was wasn't friendly and was planning on doing unspeakable things to her?

"Looking for these?"