The Power Couple (Sonadow One Shots)

My Dark Angel

Shadow sighed, as he watched Sonic interact with his friends from where he sat high up in a nearby tree.

Why couldn't he just make himself go down there and join him already?

He knew the blue hedgehog would be more than okay with that, given how often he had tried to befriend Shadow, but the ebony hedgehog just couldn't seem to let himself indulge in being happy for once.

It not only went against his nature, but also the Black Arms and Demon ways.

You see, what nobody knew, was that having been created with the blood of a demonic Black Arms alien, Shadow was capable of causing much more destruction than anyone was already aware of, and even had his own Demonic form that could be revealed whenever he was angry, or just trying to scare someone.

He'd never felt the need to do that last one, but he did have to constantly remind himself not to let it out whenever he was in the middle of a battle, or someone was getting on his nerves.

Another reason for Shadow's hesitance to join Sonic though, was that he had recently realized he'd fallen in love with the speedster, and the last thing he wanted was for him to find out he wasn't completely Mobian.

Well, he already knew he was scientifically engineered, and that he was a hybrid, but not that his other side came from a horrific alien race.

And Shadow wanted to keep it that way.

It was true that the longer he went without confessing to his desired partner, the more his heart ached. But he felt certain that Sonic would reject him regardless of his heritage.

At least by not telling him how he felt, Shadow could spare himself the heartbreak, and continue on dreaming of what a life with the cobalt hero could be like.

When he eventually snapped out of his thoughts a few minutes later, and looked back towards where the small group had been however, he frowned after seeing that Sonic was now gone.

So were the others, but Shadow didn't care about them like he did Sonic, and only the blue hedgehog was on his mind.

'Oh well. Maybe it's for the better that he left.' Shadow thought, though it saddened him greatly to not be around the cheerful speedster. 'The more he's around me, the higher the chance that he'll find out about my Demonic side, and I don't want him to become afraid of me.'

And with that, Shadow disappeared in a flash, as he teleported back to his house. Unaware that soon, he would use his Demonic form in order to take down a previously constant thorn in his side for good, before then revealing his leniege to Sonic anyway.

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It was only a few days later that it happened.

Shadow had been trying to sleep after a stressful day at G.U.N, but continued to have horrible visions as he slept. Which kept him wide awake for hours at a time before he'd eventually fall back into a restless slumber. Only to wake again a short time later.

As annoyed as he was by this, the hybrid knew that the visions were trying to tell him something was wrong with his beloved Sonic.

Why?

Well, because in every single one of them, there was a dark figure looming over the blue hedgehog, as he lay injured, on the ground.

He was a wreck, looking like he'd been through Hell itself with how his normally bright blue quills were now dull and disheveled, his body was covered in cuts and bruises of varying severity, one of his legs appeared to be broken, and he was crying.

That last one alone would have been enough to send Shadow into a panic, wanting to find out who or what had upset Sonic, but now, he was outright furious!