never letting go // sonadow

Part 1

It was a nice and sunny day. The city streets were bustling with energy as Sonic and Amy strolled by, hand in hand. Above them were bright and colorful waving banners that welcomed visitors to the spring festival.

The couple took a moment to stop at a local selling stand and Sonic handed a few coins to the seller. He thanked the seller as he was given a heaping load of pastel cotton candy in return and he gently offered it to Amy. He watched the amazement in his girlfriend's eyes as she took it.

"Wow!" she gasped, enthusiastically taking a bite. "This cotton candy has our colors: pink and blue!" She looked up at him with a twinkle in her eye and a fond smile. "Looks like our love was meant to be, huh?"

Sonic's heart twanged in guilt. "I-I guess so," he laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head.

The peaceful atmosphere of the spring festival was cut short by screams of fear erupting from behind him. Out of instinct, he snatched Amy and dove to take shelter in the shadows of an alleyway between city buildings, causing his girlfriend to drop her cotton candy. He whipped around to see a huge crowd parting down the middle to reveal two familiar figures running as fast as physics could allow them to.

"SHAAAAAAAAAAADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" screamed Dr. Eggman, zooming by on a hovering mechanism. "You emo hedgehog! Give me back my Chaos Emeralds!"

Shadow was sprinting away from Eggman faster than the speed of sound, barely able to hold three presumably stolen emeralds in his arms without dropping them. As he raced by, he made eye contact with Sonic for a split second and almost dropped the emeralds. Chills ran down the blue hedgehog's very spine, before Shadow sped away along with Eggman who was right on his tail.

Amy blinked, peeking out from behind Sonic's shoulder in the direction of Eggman and Shadow's high speed chase. "What was that?"

Sonic leaned outward and narrowed his eyes, trying to spot them from a distance. "I have no clue. But they're probably already long gone by now, so I guess it should be safe."

The two hedgehogs reluctantly returned to the streets and decided to take a little break at the local park nearby. Sonic collapsed on a bench and Amy took a seat beside him.

"Ohoho, am I, perhaps, interrupting your pathetic little date?"

Sonic lifted his head to look at Eggman on his hovering machine thing. An evil smile stretched across the gremlin's face.

"Go away, Eggman," he said, completely unfazed. "I don't have any Chaos Emeralds today. Come back tomorrow. Or next year. Or never. Never would be nice, though."

Before Eggman could even react, he was kicked right in the side of his face. The doctor crashed to the ground and his floating machine exploded into about a million different mechanical parts.

Shadow stood above the pile of machine parts, smirking.

"You - you HEDGEHOG!" Eggman wailed pathetically. "I spent years working to build that thing!"

"You should've left this place instead of pointlessly bothering these poor people, even if they are annoying."

Sonic scoffed. "Annoying? How dare-"

Shadow's eyes flashed dangerously. "I wasn't talking to you."

Sonic shut up right away.

The dark hedgehog turned to face Eggman again, who was still cowering on his knees. "Now, leave, before I have to use these Chaos Emeralds on you."

Eggman, knowing how powerful those emeralds could be, especially if three were used at the same time, smartly chose to make a run for it.

"Um, thanks for saving us back there ...?" Amy hesitantly spoke up.