Return of Gerlad's Legacy

Chapter 2: Fate's Cruelty

Five days later

Sonia turned off the TV. She really hadn't been watching it anyway. She was just trying to find something to do. Things were usually more exciting when Shadow was around. True he didn't talk much, but he would come up these stories about adventure and other worlds. Most of the time he had taken his own life and messed with it little to be more appeasing.

What I wouldn't give to have him right next to her now making one of his stories, she though t as leaned on the couch. She then slapped herself in the forehead. I need to get out before I go crazy. Maybe I'll go the girls. They'll know how to cheer me up. She got up off the couch and took a shower. She grabbed her purse, and grabbed keys for the bike. She went down the stairs to the parked Suzuki Hayabusa in the driveway. The only reason they owned a motorcycle was that Shadow could run fast enough to equal Sonic. She couldn't. She was strong, not fast. So, she and Shadow had bought it so she could keep up. It was her version of Tails' Tornado.

She put her purse in the side bag and turned on the ignition. It purred like a cheetah. She put her foot on the gas and it ran off just like her brother.

"Sonia, come on in!" practically scream Tails' fiancé. Sonia entered the cottage and put her purse on the kitchen table. Amy was sitting on the coach watching a soap opera. Bunni was teaching Sally how to make gumbo. Cosmo was humming to herself as she went back to putting up the laundry. And Blaze had locked herself in the bathroom.

The girls would usually hang out at Cosmo's cottage because the guys didn't bother them. They said that they weren't interested in their female stuff. Tails had built the house for Cosmo as a welcome home present and because she loved to be near plants and cottage was built in the forest near Tails workshop. He didn't like her being too far away.

"Why is Blaze in the bathroom?"she said half not wanting to know.

Cosmo sighed, "She's been throwing up since breakfast. Won't tell us what wrong." She folded her dresses with a small smile on her face.

"Why are you smiling?" said Bunny coming in the room with a good bit of gumbo on her apron. Her robotic arm opened the broom closet and took a mop out.

"What are you doing with that mop?" Amy said.

Bunni sighed deeply. "Sally's a sweet gal but she can't cook gumbo."

"She blew it up, didn't she?" Sonia said a little smile growing on her face.

Bunni nodded grimly. The Amy giggled. Bunni said again trying to change the subject, "Now what were you smiling about, hon?"

Cosmo smiled again. "You mean to tell me you haven't noticed it. Blaze and Silver have been married for two years. No children. Silver is usually gone with Shadow, Rouge, Jet and Tails on their missions. Now suddenly she starts throwing up and won't tell us what's wrong. My bet is that she's pregnant."

"You're probably right."

"Why do you say that, Amy?" Bunni said skeptical.

Amy smirked. "She ate four plates of pancakes, each one holding five one inch thick pancakes this morning for breakfast. Just wait for her to come out."

They waited for a half hour for Amy's prediction to come true. In the meantime they talked about the jobs that they had already or were planning on starting. Amy for instance was already starting a fashion line. Bunni was getting into a cooking show and she was bound and determined to make Sally her apprentice even if it killed both of them. Sally joined the conversation (after she had

cleaned herself and a good bit of the kitchen off) and said she was becoming an engineer. Comso had been offered to teach Advanced Biology at a very prestigious collage. And Sonia was getting advice to go into designing dress as well, but not the same type of dress that Amy designed. Her dresses were made for one special purpose: marriage.

Finally, Blaze did come out of the bathroom. She looked horrible. Her eyes were bloodshot and had bags under eyes. Her purple fur was messy. She was wearing pajamas, but her hair was still in its usual short pony-tail.

"Hey Blaze, something wrong?" Sonia said trying to be cheerful.

"Hey Sonia," Blaze said with of a cough.

Amy smiled "Is there going to be a new addition to your family?" Blaze blushed like a tomato. Amy screamed happily and hugged Blaze. The other girls dropped what there were doing and hugged their pryokinetic friend. Sonia was really happy for her friend.

But when you're married to the Ultimate Life Form, fate is cruel.

RING

RING

"I'll get it," Sonia said. She went over to the phone and picked up the receiver.

A woman's voice ran through it, "Is a Mrs. Sonia Hedgehog there?"

"This is she," she replied.

"Are you sitting down?"

Sonia looked at the receiver confused, "Why?"

"I have soon bad news for you." Sonia complied by pulling a wooden chair forward and sat in it.

"What is it?" she said. She prayed that this was not what she dreaded it was.

"We regret to inform you that your husband, Mr. Shadow the Hedgehog has fallen in the line of duty by protecting his comrades from the Black Ar—"

Sonia didn't hear the rest of the message. She had collapsed in the chair. She cried like she had never cried before. Her husband was dead. The man who had become the other side of her heart, her entire world was dead. It couldn't be! He was immortal. He was too strong to die. He—"NO!" she wailed. "SHADOW! SHADOW!" He couldn't hear her calls. He was gone.