Innocence (Sonadow)

Chapter 8

The next morning, the bright sun softly shone it's rays through Sonic's white curtains as it rose into the heavens, awakening to announce a bright new shiny day.

Sonic slowly opened his eyes out of sleep and yawned, allowing the fresh oxygen to awaken his brain. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes with his left hand as he clutched onto Shadow with his right arm. When he looked down to see if he was awake yet, Sonic was shocked.

Instead of an ebony and crimson hedgehog, Sonic was holding onto a white fluffy pillow.

“Shadow?” The blue hedgehog sat up, looking around for his new friend, but he was nowhere to be seen in his room.

Sonic got out of bed and went out to the hallway. “Shadow?” He called again, but he got no answer. “Was it a dream?”

Confused, Sonic went to the guest room and opened the door. The sheets from the bed were missing and there was a large urine spot on the mattress. White gloves with red and black cuffs still laid on the bedside dresser. Remembering that Shadow had accidentally wet the bed last night due to a nightmare, Sonic was assured that it wasn't a dream.

But if that was so, then where was the young-minded hedgehog?

“Good morning, Sonic.”

Sonic turned around and was greeted by Tails. The fox was wide awake and freshly showered, he must've woke up about an hour ago.

“Good morning, Tails.” Sonic greeted back. “Hey, have you seen Shadow? He wasn't in bed when I woke up.”

“I thought I saw him heading downstairs before I went into the shower.”

“OW!” A painful whine suddenly yelped downstairs.

“That sounded like him.” Tails frowned.

“Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no!”

“Shads, you alright?” Sonic called downstairs.

Suddenly, the smoke alarm went off around the house. Panicking, Sonic and Tails ran downstairs and were shocked to see smoke coming from the kitchen.

“Shadow!” Sonic gasped and ran into the kitchen, Tails following close behind.

In the kitchen, panicking with the handle of a smoking pan in his hands held at arms length, was Shadow the Hedgehog. He turned to his friends and cried out in terror.

“Sonic, Tails, help! I don't know what to do!”

“Put the pan down, Shads!” Sonic gasped and ran to the sink. “Tails, turn the stove off!”

Shadow quickly put the pan back on the stove as Tails quickly turned it off. Sonic reached under the sink and pulled out the fire extinguisher before rushing to the stove. He pulled the pin out and aimed the nozzle at the pan on the stove before squeezing the lever, spraying CO2 onto the smoking fire and putting it out. Tails flew up to the smoke alarm and unplugged it, turning the loud beeping noise off.

When the fire was out and the stove was covered in foam, Sonic put the fire extinguisher down and turned to Shadow, who was currently cowaring in the corner of the kitchen, tears dripping from his eyes in shame. He also seemed to be nursing his hand.

“Shadow, are you ok?” Sonic asked him in a worried tone as he promptly approached him.

“*sniff* Yeah.” Shadow sniffed. “I just burnt my hand a little.”

“Let me see.”

Hesitantly, Shadow held his left hand out to Sonic, exposing the slightly blistering wound to his blue savior. Sonic gently took his hand and inspected the wound.