The Virus

Chapter 1

The sonic crew just finished another battle against Eggman and are now celebrating their victory.
"Easiest battle yet guys!" Says sonic while finishing his chili dog.
"Your so dreamy sonic!" Daydreams Amy.
"Amy..." sonic sighs annoyed. The television then turns on with the news.
"This just in!" Stated the news person. "There is a virus in the world our scientists have just found out. Though it is not deadly nor contagious, we must stay away from it at all times. There is no cure yet but when there is the world will be saved. Note this virus is extremely rare. The scientists call it the Zosa virus. We do not know it's symptoms yet. That is all." Tails then turn the Tv off.
"That sounds bad!" Amy exclaims. "If anyone had it I would stay away from them forever and I would never want to near a freak like that!" Once Amy calmed down sonic ran off.
"Where is that hedgehog going?" Shadow asked to himself and followed his rival in secret.

~Sonic's POV~

"...and I would never want to near a freak like that!" Amy Exclaimed. Geez be harsh why don't you! You don't know what I have to go through. I then start to feel like I need to cough and fear struck me as I ran off. I made my way into my home and grabbed a bucket and started coughing. You see... I have this so-called Zosa virus as the scientists call it but what it is called akimbo virus. It's where you cough up slime. It is not deadly but it scares me. I then feel the slime climb up to my throat and I cough harder feeling the slime fall out of my mouth and into the bucket. I hear the door open but I can't do anything about it so I continue coughing and spitting up into the bucket.

~Shadow's POV~

I followed sonic in secret and I see that sonic ran off into his house. I was about to knock on the door but hear sonic coughing heavily. I start to sweat with worry and I open the door and head into the living room to see sonic coughing up what looks like mucus.

"Sonic!" I hasped and ram oner to him and rubbed his back slowly.

"S-Sha-*cough* *hack*-adow?" He asked while continuing to cough.

"Don't talk just get all of that up. It's okay." I continue to rub his back and his coughing comes down to a stop. He lays next to me breathing heavily.

"S-shadow? W-what are you doing h-here?" he asked me, his voice shaky.

"I saw you run off so I followed you to make sure you were okay," I explained calmly. "What happened?"

"..." He stayed silent.

"Sonic... please tell me and I may be able to help you."

"...I have the akimbo virus."

"The what?" he caught me off-guard with that one.

"Its what the scientists called the Zosa virus." I gasp at that and took out my phone. "What are you doing?"

"I'm calling an ambulance to take you to the hospital," I stated. His eyes shrunk and grabbed my arm.

"Shadow don't please!"

"But-"

"I'm okay shadow really, I've been dealing with this my whole life. I know how to take care of myself. Please don't take me there."

"...Fine." I put my phone away and hugged him. "But tell me the next time you feel one of those attacks come on okay?"

"Why do you even care?"

"What of course I care!"

"Then you have a funny way of showing it all we do is fight and do you know how many times you sided with Egghead! You even said you hate me!" sonic ranted. I never felt so guilty until now. I hugged him and I felt tears prick my eyes.

"I'm sorry sonic... Ever since Maria died I never knew how to control my emotions and when I don't understand I get angry and all of those times that I sided with Eggman, he tricked me into thinking that he brought Maria back from the dead. Please sonic...let me help you... I'm so sorry..."

"I-I forgive you and thank you for helping me." sonic moved away from the hug and stood up to get rid of that mucus.

"Sonic."

"Yes?"

"Why do you cough up that mucus anyway?" he laughed and took the bag of that stuff out into the trash bin.

"It's not Mucus shadow, Its slime," he said and went to go and get a drink.

"Why do you cough up slime?" I asked him as we sat down onto the couch.

"Its where my blood starts to go to my lungs and clots with mucus and the oxygen I breath is makes it into this slime-like substance that needs to be coughed up. I don't know how I got it but what I do know is that anyone that sees me like this calls me a freak and then runs away screaming. The only way I can reduce the effects of this is tons of water and staying away from people who have even the slightest of allergies." Sonic explained.

"So when spring comes around its even worse isn't it?" I asked sadly.

"Yes when its spring I cough every 5 hours... It scares me to think I coughing up this mess."

"It will be okay don't worry." I but my hand on his cheek. He blushed yet leaned closer to me and we were about to kiss until the doorbell rung.