SonAdow High School Life

Shadow the Black Pearl

This whole court shindig is reminding me of another movie I watched before, about a man that turns in to a uncontrollable green monster, they want to lock him away without understanding that he actually is a really good guy.

“Sonic!” The judge called for maybe the third time, “If you’re mind has finally touched down to Mobius, would you please come to the stand?”

“Oh, y-yes sir.” I nodded standing up.

“Mr. Hedgehog, how would you describe your relationship with Shadow?” Someone asked.

“My relationship?” I thought for a moment and smiled, “Well, just a week or so ago, me and my best friend Tails got into a little ‘argument’. But we’ve always been great friends, he’s like a brother to me-“

“Mr. Hedgehog…eh, ‘Sonic’ is it? Please just answer the question.”

I crossed my arms being interrupted in my point, “I’m getting to that… Tails and I have had our ups and downs, rough times in our relationship; nothing’s going to be perfect all the time. There for, I would say my relationship with Shadow, isn’t perfect. We’ve had our ups and downs just like everybody has had at one point or another.”

“I see. So tell us, what was your very first encounter with Shadow?”

Oh yikes… my first encounter? I thought back on the many past days. When had I met Shadow??? It had to be the middle of the year. That’s right, I never had any time to really pay attention to him, he was ‘the new kid’ and in a different grade level. However we crossed paths at lunch, he’d always sit by himself… in a rather dark corner with just darkness steaming around him. Not even the jocks bothered to pay attention to him, they pinned him as too weird to approach. Rouge would sit with him, in turn so would Knuckles, Blaze and Espio. But when was my first encounter? I always thought I had caught him glancing at me… but he’d possibly been too shy to strike conversation.

“Actually, our first meeting had kind of got off to a bad start. We crossed each other in the hall, at the time we didn’t know much of each other but there was a fight.” I looked down remembering the events. We had bumped into each other and I dropped everything I had been holding…

-Flash back-

“Oh, I-I’m sorry.” I bent down quickly to get my papers and book that fell to the floor. Great just what I need on a Monday, a run in with that shady new kid and to be late. I picked up a paper almost stuffing it in my book but then realized it didn’t have my name on it. I stood up seeing he didn’t even bother to move an inch, who does he think he is? He bumped into me just as much as I ran into him; he could have helped out too.

Despite the situation I gave a smile and handed over the paper, “Here, I think this one is yours.” He just looked at it and back at me. Whoa, red eyes… “Uh, sorry about the run in.” He still just looked at me and glanced down at the paper and back at me until finally his fist just connected with the side of my cheek and had me flung against the wall. I was a bit much in shock to spring up like usual, I mean I’m at school and it was a simple bump in the hall! What’s wrong with this guy!? When I didn’t get up he snatched the paper from me and walked away. I wasn’t bleeding but this was going to bruise… great what am I going to tell mom?

-end-

Now that I remember it, I wonder what exactly was going through Shadow’s mind at the time.

“So you had gotten into a fight? Why is that?”

I shrugged, “I don’t know honestly. Since that day I’ve made sure to try and avoid him as much as possible, but one way or another we’d always run into each other, and he kept leaving me with bruises.”