Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Broad Horizons ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8

Shadow slowly opened his eyes to see four familiar faces infront of him: Sonic, Susan, Sonie and Amy.

"W-...? What happened...to me...?" Shadow looked at the group.

"You were attacked by Lark and Freita, fortunetely, we found you and were able to get you to a hospital before any of the damage got too serious." Sonic said to his comrade.

"We thought you were dead, then we saw you move your hand, thats when we went to the nearest hospital so that you could get better!" Amy said to Shadow who was rubbing his head, still hurting from Lark's vicious swipes.

"I remember...this girl...a white hedgeghog girl.......I managed to see her...but I didn't get a good look at her...did she...?" Shadow asked Sonic, hoping he kenw the answer.

"Well, this white hedgehog told us that she found an injured black hedgehog and attacked his assaulters on the spot. Thats all we know, then she left." Sonie said.

"I wish I could've thanked her..." Shadow said to himself.

"Maybe we'll meet her again...!" Susan said, trying to lift Shadow's spirits back up.

"Maybe so...but...I can't help but realize that these two guys are threats that should not be taken lightly..." Shadow commented to Sonie.

"Well, Sonic told me all about these guys, apparentely they seem to be after you, Shadow." Sonie said.

"Why me?" Shadow asked.

"I don't know...whatever it could be, though, they must need it...I mean, they almost killed you to get you..." Amy commented.

"I just hope that next time I'll be ready to fight them, especially that Lark fellow...damn, those claws he got are sharp...!" Shadow said, rubbing the sore area of his face where Lark had slashed him.

"If I know you, Shadow, you'll be back and ready to fight in no time at all!" Sonic said, slapping Shadow on the back.

"Yeah...! I know I'll be ready...yet I just hope that girl is ok..." Shadow said the last comment to himself.

<Meanwhile, at the outskirts of the city>

"Boss, come in! Lark reporting in!" Lark spoke through his wristwatch.

Suddenly, a picture of a gruff, portly man appeared on the screen, shouting instructions to Lark and Frieta.

"...That is what you must do, if not, then leave it to me!" the man said to Frieta.

"Got ya! Over out!" Frieta said to the man before shutting off her wristwatch, turning the screen off.

"Well, one thing is for certain...whoever that girl was that saved Shadow is only going to get in our way!" Lark said.

"We must eliminate her if we are to proceed with our plans for capturing Shadow, he is injured, yet he has his friends watching over him." Frieta replied.

"We gotta use our heads on this one, Frieta! We can't just go in there hoping to capture Shadow at this point in time; he is weak, but he is under guard by his friends, and we cannot have our mission in jeapordy!" Lark commented to Frieta.

"As much as I hate to say so, you seem to be right, Lark...its settled then, we find this hedgehog girl, take her out, then we go after Shadow!" Frieta said to Lark, awaiting his approval.

"Thats correct, Frieta! Now, we must find that girl...I'll be sure to thank her for the kick to the face she gave me..." Lark said, his spiked knuckles gleaming in the setting sunlight.

<Meanwhile, back at the hospital>

"Shadow, it isn't going to do you any good just laying there with nothing to do! Lets see whats on TV!" Sonie said, trying to cheer Shadow up.

"I told you already, Sonie...I don't want to watch any TV right now...don't make me mad, please." Shadow said to Sonie, extremly pissed at Sonie's persistence.

"There might be something on there that you'll like!" Sonie said.

"FINE!!!! TURN THE DAMN TELEVISION ON!!!!"

Sonie fell back in his chair from the surprise of Shadow yelling at him.

As Sonie turned the TV on, Shadow eyed him with curiosity, amazed that Sonie managed to keep his cool when he couldn't.

As Sonie flipped through the channerls, one, in particular, caught his attention.

"Hey! Stop at that one!" Shadow sat up from his bed to watch the news report.

"...And this just in, police are at the scene of a hostage situation near downtown Motople. Two subjects have been seen clutching a young, white hedgehog girl by the throat with the male subject threatening to slit the girls throat with some kind of weapon on his knuckles...we take you live to the scene where our Pat Roberts is on the scene, Pat, whats the situation with the subjects and the hostage?"

"Cindy, its a very bad situation right now, the male figure seems to have enhanced knuckles with spikes on the front, that is where he mis cluchting the female hostage! Police negotiators are trying to talk some sense into these two, but so far all efforts have ended with no success-"

"Let me go you freaks! Someone help!!!!!!"

Shadow saw the females appearence and saw that she closly resembled that of the one who saved his life from these very two figures.

"Its her!!!!!" Shadow jumped out of his bed and ran out the door towards where the girl was.

"Shadow, wait!! You need to heal!!! SHADOW!!!!!!" Sonie yelled after Shadow but got nothing.

Sonie threw the remote down and dashed after Shadow, hoping to stop him from doing this.

<Meanwhile, at the hostage scene>

"Why are you doing this?!" the girl hedgehog yelled at Lark.

"Shut up!" Frieta slapped the girl in the mouth, making her scream some but got muffled when she saw Lark's knuckles pressing against her throat.

"Now, if you know whats good fo-...?!" Lark never finished his statement as he was met with a vicious kick to the face, knocking Lark off his feet and unconcious to the ground.

"LARK!" Frieta went to kick Shadow but got punched in the face by the girl hedgehog.

"Are you...ok...?" Shadow asked the gir, blushing as her eyes met his.

"Y-y...yes...I'm fine...now I am...thank you..." The hedgehog girls emerald eyes met with Shadow's crimson red, and, for awhile, they just stood there, eyes locked together as if in a trance.

Finally, Shadow spoke to the girl hedgehog.

"Um...about what you did for me that night...thank you for saving me...I never...got your name...?" Shadow was blushing like crazy and he knew she had to have seen it.

"Oh...my names HedgieGirl...but you can call me Gina." Gina said.

"Oh, well, Gina, my name is Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow replied to Gina.

Shadow was at a loss for words at the moment, completely amazed at how pretty Gina was.

"Damn!" Shadow mentally ahouted in his head as he saw Gina.

"So, um...I suppose I should say thank you for saving me...too...Shadow..." Gina said, blushing as well but not as evident.

Shadow was completely at a loss of speech, he didn't know if she was the companion that he had been lacking but then Gina did something that completely erased any doubts Shadow had.

Shadow blushed a beet red when Gina kissed him on the lips, Shadow could only return it with the same intensity, which wasn't much.

When their lips parted, Shadow was wide-eyed and mouth open in amazement.

"........!!" Shadow never managed to say a word at that moment, but soon he was brought back into reality by a flashing of a camera.

"Got it!" Sonic looked at Shadow's face as if to say, "Got ya!"

Sonic had taken a picture of Gina and Shadow kissing and it was true that 'A picture is worth a thousand words'

"I'm gonna get you for this, Sonic!" Shadow grinned at his friend.

"Maybe so, but I got you first!!" Sonic said as Amy, Sonie and Susan joined in the laughter.

"Yeah, I guess you did..." Shadow chuckled a bit, then realized that Gina was right next to him.

"Shadow...? Thank you for saving me...I saw you were in danger and knew that you wouldn't survive without hlep, so I got those creeps off you...I guess you felt compelled to do the same for me, huh?" Gina asked Shadow.

"Yep, thats right, Gina...It was the least I could do...for a friend..." Shadow said.

End Chapter 8