Stubborn Love: Lost In The Amazon (Sonadow)

Together Again

A/N: This chapter may seem a little short, but this was on purpose. I wanted this chapter to just focus on the sweet moment between Sonic and Shadow when they finally find each other again. And plus, I wanted there to be a little build up before the next chapter after what happens at the end of this one.

Day 15

It's been five days since the two hedgehogs had been separated, and any hopes of finding each other had started to diminish. As they travel by the river, they call out each other's names, but sadly, they are met with silence.

Sonic is moving more slowly now. His ant bites have healed without complications thanks to the first aid kit in his bag, but the young hedgehog is suffering from malnourishment after discovering that the ants had chewed through the rice bag, scattering the rice that was supposed to be the hedgehogs food source and making it inedible. But even worse, Sonic the Hedgehog has also been bitten by a few mosquitos already. He is quite sure he has already gotten the Malaria disease. The effects just haven't shown themselves yet.

With Shadow, things weren't looking too good for him either.

The thing following him before was still following him, making the ebony hedgehog jumpy and paranoid at every sound, unsure if it was just a normal Amazonian animal… or the Devil Dragon.

Not only that, but even as the ultimate lifeform, Shadow is still prone to the harshness of the jungle, and with all the walking through the wet jungle he has been doing, without stopping to give his feet a rest, Shadow the Hedgehog now has trench foot.

“Sonic!” Shadow called out once more. Again, the poor hedgehog is met with silence. He whimpers as he looks around. He can feel his eyes filling with tears again as the thought of losing the blue hedgehog for good re-enters his mind. “Where are you?”

Shadow sighed and sat down on the ground. He felt foolish. There was no way Sonic was still alive out here. If he hadn't drowned in the river, then surely the predators of the jungle had already gotten him then. Sonic wasn't like him. He wasn't an ultimate lifeform, and he was not immortal. He was vulnerable, and at the most the hedgehog thought, very, very dead.

Shadow couldn't take it anymore.

He screamed in a pitiful mixture of anger and sadness, tears streaming down his face as he cried out the blue hedgehog's name, only to have it echo right back at him. He shouted in anger, throwing Chaos Spears at every direction in his tantrum, not caring about where the energies of Chaos hit. He only broke out of his mental breakdown when he started hearing twigs snapping and leaves rustling.

He turned towards the sound and growled, knowing full well it was the creature that has been following him this whole time. He couldn't stand it anymore. He was tired, angry, and devastated. He was in no mood to play this creature’s game.

“Well, come on then!” He shouted at it. “Come out here and take me if you want me so bad! Stop following me! Stop trying to scare me, and just kill me already!”

In his rage, he challenged his energy into his palm to create another Chaos Spear, sending it directly towards the noise. What he didn't expect though, was a response.

“Woah!” A voice cried out as they clearly dodged the attack. “I know that attack anywhere. Shadow?!”

“Sonic?!”

Sure enough, out of the ferns right in front of the ebony hedgehog, a blue hedgehog stepped out, holding a G.U.N military backpack covered in tin cans on his back, and a walking stick in his hand. And despite how dull the blue was and how weak the hedgehog looked, it was clear to Shadow, that this was Sonic.

As the two laid eyes on each other for the first time after five days of being separated, all hell broke loose. Tears filled their eyes as they dropped absolutely everything onto the ground and ran up to each other, embracing each other in a tight tearful hug.

“Oh Shadow!” Sonic sobbed into the ebony's white chest fur. “I was so scared! I thought I lost you!”

“Me?! I thought I lost you!” Shadow scoffed through his tears as he held onto the azure body tightly. “Do you have any idea how worried I was?! You're not like me Sonic! I thought you were dead! But I never stopped looking! I never gave up!”

“I never stopped either! I knew I would find you eventually! But I was just so frightened! You have no idea what I went through these last five days!”

“I don't care! I'm just glad that you're ok, and that I have you back!”

“Oh Shadow!”

“Oh Sonic!”

Suddenly, without warning, Shadow grabbed onto Sonic's face and lifted it up to his, staring directly into emerald green eyes filled with tears of relief, fear, and sadness. Sonic stared back into Shadow's ruby red eyes, filled with the exact same tears. Shadow smiled and laughed quietly through little hiccups as he suddenly started kissing Sonic's face all over. Quick little pecks all over Sonic's cheeks and forehead.

Sonic had to admit, the action really surprised him, but at the moment, he didn't care. Butterflies began to fill his stomach as Shadow continued to kiss him, relaxing his muscles to lean into the ebony hedgehog's touch. When Shadow finally stopped, they looked at each other, muzzles completely red from the event, but smiling nonetheless.

“Uh, sorry if that was going a little too far.” Shadow quietly chuckled, butterflies filling his own stomach. “Maria used to do that to me whenever I was upset.”

“I don't mind.” Sonic shook his head. “My mother used to do the exact same thing.”

“Why is it that it always makes us feel better?”

“I think it's because it lets us know that they care. Kinda like when I do this.”

Suddenly, Sonic grabbed Shadow's head and brought it closer to him, laying a gentle kiss onto the ebony's forehead. It wasn't as much as what Shadow did to him, but it was still just as sweet.

“Yeah… I definitely feel better now.” Shadow smiled warmly.

“I do too.”

The sweet moment between the two hedgehogs however was suddenly then interrupted when something struck out of the ferns right towards Shadow.

The crimson streaked hedgehog screamed out in pain when he suddenly felt a thousand sharp fangs digging into his leg. As quick as it happened, it suddenly stopped as the creature let go and slunk back into the shadows of the jungle, watching as it's prey fell to the ground in pain.