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The day was calm, the wind had just the perfect breeze, the sun was setting, and the aroma in the wind was a pleasant smell of lavender and lemon. There on the edge of a cliff was a field of lavender, and there lay an ebony and scarlet figure, surrounded with nothing but silence. What more could a guy ask for?

“Late again?” Shadow asked, as he arose from the field he laid in, and shifted into a sitting position, clenching his knees and legs with his arms.

An indigo blur emerged from the forest surrounding the field, carrying what seemed to be a picnic basket.

“Not too late.” Sonic replied, as he walked closer towards his scarlet marked “partner”. He arrived next to the brooding hedgehog , and sat himself down.

“I promise I have a good excuse this time.” He stated, reaching into the basket for something, and pulling out two wrapped desserts.

“I stopped by a nearby bakery to get something,” He continued, handing one of them to the hedgehog beside him. “Thought you might like one.”

Shadow accepted the gift, and unwrapped it out of curiosity. It was a squared slice of what seemed to be tiramisu, swirls and toppings of black and red raspberry’s, and shavings of dark chocolate. It looked almost gourmet, if not for the sonic-shaped-head stamped onto a chocolate coin.

“…tiramisu?” He asked, staring down at the dessert, and then back at the hedgehog next to him.

“Yeah,” Sonic replied. “You mentioned you liked it once, so when I saw these,” he said, as he unwrapped his box, unveiling the same dessert, with the small change of blueberries instead of raspberries. “I though you’d like it, and I figured that if you liked it, I might too.”

His face shifted into a gentle hearted smile, and he closed his eyes in excitement.

The ebony hedgehog simply stared, as a small smile began to take form on his face, while his eyes dropped in appreciation.

“Thank you.” He said.

“No prob’ .” The indigo hero replied, handing a miniature fork over. “Try it at the same time?” He asked.

Shadow nodded in agreement, and as sonic began a countdown, they took a small bit from their sweet, and popped it into their mouths at the same time.

The texture was just right. Shadow’s was fluffy and soft, tart but rich at the same time, it was a perfect blend.

Sonic’s was about the same, the exception being his was a bit sweeter, as he had replaced the raspberries for blueberries, and the dark chocolate for milk chocolate.

They took a moment to really appreciate the flavors, before they offered each other a taste of their desserts, and they exchanged forks with pieces of cake on them.

“Wow..” Sonic said in awe. “They’re both so good.”

“Truly.” Shadow replied. “Where did you say you bought these?”

“Dunno.” Sonic replied, handing back the fork.

“Some small bakery on the way here next to chao fountain, you should stop by there sometime.”

“Perhaps.” The scarlet streaked hedgehog replied.

The two finished their treats, as they chatted together, exchanging laughs, and cheeky remarks.

The day had finally come to an end, the sun had set, and the moon was arising.

“I’m glad we finally got to do something like this.” The índigo hedgehog stated, leaning against the shoulder of his ally.

“It’s, been a while.” Replied the ebony one, wrapping an arm around the back of the other.

They both started into the far distance, in calm silence, as the flicky’s and owls chirped, and the breeze flowed.

“To think after all this time, we’d end up like this.” Sonic interrupted. “To think we’d finally go on, a real, date. Or whatever you wanna call it.”

“Yeah.” Shadow responded, still staring into the vast distance. “It’s taken a lot to even get here, but, it’s not so bad I guess.”

“Uh, rude.” The blue one replied. “I guess it’s not so bad with you either.”

Shadow let out a small chuckle. “Cállate erizo.”

They both let out a small laugh, and they leaned back onto the floor, clasping their hands together.

“All those shenanigans lead to this huh?” Sonic asked, facing his rival.

“I suppose so.” The ebony rival responded. “To even think, that you could take things serious is a thought of it’s own.”

Sonic made even more playful remarks about being offended, while Shadow just laughed, and scoffed at him.

What may those shenanigans be? You might ask. It’s quite the story, a story about how the two rivals who are always opposing each other, end up with each other, somehow.

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The bright sunlight shines down on the roads of green hill zone, and running on the tracks is none other than sonic the hedgehog, the hero of mobius, and beyond. Today seemed to be a good day, eggman’s plans had been thwarted yet again, and sonic was on his way to rouge’s apartment to give her some intel she had asked for.

He arrived at the apartment gates, she lived in apartments G.U.N provides to their employees. He talked to the gate security and they let him in. He then made his way to her apartment door, and rang the doorbell.

“Well hey there handsome~” a cunning bat said, as she opened the door to let him in. “ I was expecting you, the gates-man said I had a visitor.”

Sonic entered her apartment, it was filled with paintings, and gold details on every piece of furniture. There was a chandelier in almost every room, and lots, and lots of, gems.

“Thanks.” Blue said, closing the door behind him. “What did you say you needed that intel for again?” He asked, pulling out a usb drive from his right hand glove, and handing it to the sly thief.

Rouge took the usb drive and sighed. “It’s a long story, a juicy one too. Care for a coffee and gossip?”

Sonic chuckled. “Sure why not.” He sad with a shrug. “ I’ve got time i’ve got all the time in the world.”

Rouge led him to her coffee table, which was located next to one of the kitchen counters. Sonic sat himself down in one of the seats, and took a look at the room around him.

“Man, that’s a lot of coffee…” he thought, as he stared at a stash of coffee bags on the counter. There was lots of them, coffee beans, ground coffee, coffee flavored tea, espresso shots, etc, etc. If you could name a coffee product, it would probably be in that pile somewhere.

“How do you like your coffee hun?” Rouge asked, pulling out 3 mugs from the cabinet above her.

“Ehh, like half coffee half milk?” Sonic replied uncertainly. “I dunno, I hardly drink it. Surprise me!”

“Alright then blue, just don’t get mad if you don’t like it.” Rouge said, with a playfull, yet flirtatious wink. ( You know how she is.)

Rouge finished preparing the coffee moments later, she left one mug on the warmer burner of the stove, and brought two for her & blue. She sat herself down, and passed a mug to the hedgehog in front of her.

Sonic thanked her, and blew on the hot liquid before bringing the rim of the mug to his lips, taking a sip.

“Hottt…” he said, after taking a sip. “It’s surprisingly good though.”

“Glad you liked it.” Rouge replied. “You can take the rest of the bag home with you, that one’s actually one of mine, and I’ve got plenty more, just don’t let it go to waste, you know I’m not one to share.”

“Gotcha.” Sonic said.

The two of them drank their coffee’s, and gossiped about what was in the intel drive rouge desperately needed. Turns out, G.U.N had been raiding old eggman bases, and since they were aware rouge had “teamed up” with him before, they laid her off all the missions, without even telling her.

“I know something was up when they cut my team’s hours. I’ve worked only about 23 hours this month, when I usually would have about 35.”

“That’s odd.” Sonic replied. “Guess they still don’t trust y’all huh?” He asked. “They know that you parted from egghead long ago, and you never really aided him in anything, you were just mainly using him, so if anything they should be putting you on that mission ya know?”

Rouge took a sip of her drink. “That’s exactly what I’m saying. Oh well, they’re missing out in the end.”

“Mhm.” Sonic replied, as he took took a sip from his mug.

They continued the conversation, talking about how G.U.N life is for rouge, and how much she loves the apartment they gave her. She then showed her a piercing she had just gotten, two diamond studs on her ears.

“Don’t they look dazzling on me blue? The shade of pink just makes me look gorgeous.”She asked.

Sonic looked at them, they were in fact very pretty, and very shiny, they looked as if they could shoot out a beam of light with how polished they were.

As sonic opened his mouth to speak, a charcoal and ruby presence entered the room, with a flash of light. It was shadow.

“Yes, you do look gorgeous with them, and as always.” he responded.

The bat and the blue hedgehog lowered their eyelids at each other, before bursting into laughs. They didn’t know why they messed around with each other like that, it was just an element of their friendship. They both knew it wasn’t nothing serious, just goofing around.

Shadow had teleported into the living room (which was right next to the kitchen.) when sonic had began to say that. So when he arrived, that was the only thing he had heard.

“Oh, welcome back handsome~.” Rouge said, turning her head back to face him. “There’s a coffee on the stove for you dear, like usual. Just make sure to turn it off once you get it.” She said, with yet another one of her flirtatious winks.

Shadow stared at sonic, in confusion. Why was he here, and what on earth had he walked in on?

“‘Kay.” He said, not even nothing to look towards rouge. He simply turned towards the kitchen, and made his way there.

“Geez, what’s up his ass this evening?” She asked aloud.

(Y’all istg this is a real saying, it just means what’s wrong with them/why are they in a bad mood or pissed😭)

Sonic let out a sudden laugh, “I haven’t heard someone use that saying in ages.”

Rouge lowered a brow at him, “You calling me old?” She said with a mischievous smile.

“No ma’am.” Sonic replied.

The two of them laughed once more, and sonic arose from his seat.

“I should probably get going.” He stated. “It’s getting late, and I still gotta pick up lunch for me n’ tails.”

“Alright then,” rouge replied. “I’ll see you to the door, just be a dear for me and leave our mugs in the sink?” She asked, handing him her mug.

“Yeah, of course.” Sonic said. “I’ll do you one better and wash em.”

Sonic took off towards the kitchen, and he noticed shadow was still in there, leaning against the counter while sipping on his coffee, and popping bare coffee beans into his mouth.

“Gross…” sonic though to himself. “Who on Mobius eats straight coffee beans?”

He set the two mugs in the sink, and added soap to the sponge in a plastic holder next to the soap bottles.

“What’re you doing here?” He asked the ebony hedgehog, who stood there in silence.

“I live here.” Shadow responded, as he took a sip of his coffee.

“Oh.” Sonic replied.

“That makes so much sense, that’s probably why there’s so much coffee.” He thought to himself.

“I would ask you the same thing,” the wine tinted hedgehog asked. “But I don’t really care, nor do I have the time to be asking such foolish questions.” Shadow left the room, taking his mug upstairs with him.

“Okay…” Sonic said to himself, as he dried off his hands.

He went to the front door, where rouge and him exchanged goodbyes. He then left the apartment complex, and started making his way home.

Shadow sat in his bedroom. Why the hell was Sonic here? And what the fuck was he saying to rouge? He didn’t know why, and he couldn’t label it in the moment, but he felt frustrated, confused, and slightly envious. Why though? Why was he even thinking about any one this, it’s all stupid either way, that’s none of his business. Why did he care if rouge and sonic were friends? Rouge has knuckles, and sonic had Amy in mind, so surely nothing is going on there, right?

He told himself different things, multiple times. He couldn’t stop himself from overthinking, he hated it. He hated himself for it. If it’s so stupid, why can’t he stop thinking about it?

He ended up falling asleep to avoid those annoying thoughts. He was going to go to sleep either way, he had just came back from a mission for gun, it was the first mission he’d had in a while.

(Poor shadow, it’s not as deep as he thinks it is. Little does he know it is just a simple misunderstanding.)

Sonic sped his way to tails workshop, he had picked up some chili dogs on the way for them to have for lunch.

Tails’s garage door was open, so sonic walked right on in.

“Hey bud.” He said, placing the bag of food down into the nearest table.

“Oh, hey sonic.” Tails said from underneath the tornado. A recent sand storm had damaged it, so he had been busy with repairs all day.

“Got us something to eat, c’mon, take a break.”

“Your probably right.” Tails said, getting out from underneath the plane. “Thanks.”

“No problem dude.” Sonic said, giving tails a cheerful smile.

The two bestest of friends at their meal together, and then discussed things about the tornado, it was technically sonic’s plane, though tails practically owns the thing at this point.

The day passed, and the two ate together once more for dinner, before they said their good nights, and went off to bed.

Sonic was brushing his teeth, when he suddenly remembered something he’d learned today. He never knew that shadow and rouge Lived together, it makes sense though. They were working for the same company, and and the same team, so it makes sense that they’d be roommates.

The thought itched at him for some reason, he didn’t know why though. He thought, maybe rouge and shadow were more than just roommates, she seemed to know his schedule, and already had things prepared for him. Not to mention she’s always calling him handsome almost every chance she can get. He and rouge did that, yeah, but it was more of a mutual playfull kind of thing towards each other. (But then again, rouge is always out calling everyone else handsome, so what’s he worrying for?) Whatever it was, sonic couldn’t shake that feeling, what if shadow was secretly a thing with rouge? She is his closest friend after all, yet he seemed a bit cold towards her today, what was that all about?

He finished up in the bathroom, and bolted to his bed. He took off his shoes, replaced his gloves & socks, and sprung onto the bed, trying to go to sleep, but failing. Why did the thought of shadow potentially dating someone, bother him? He wasn’t mad about it, he just couldn’t get it off his mind. He shouldn’t care though, it’s not like he’s trying to compete or anything.

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The next day came, and our blue hero was off doing his usual mid-day run. He was in the woods today, he liked the challenge of running in crowded spaces, he enjoyed the thrill of parkour. He also preferred to be out around this time, it wasn’t so hot, the wind was always at a good pace, and the trees gave him plenty of cooling shade.

He was about halfway throughout the woods when he noticed a nearby chao garden, so he stopped by to take a look. He entered the garden, it was a small one inside of an apple orchard. He noticed a couple chao he’d seen before, and some new ones he’d never seen.

As soon as he took foot into the space, a familiar chao rushed towards him. It had a striking resemblance to him, it would practically be him if he were a chao. He had known this chao since before it had evolved to look like him. It was his chao yes, but he didn’t keep it as a pet, he wanted it to live a free live. The chao hugged on his leg, and then proceeded to jump up into the air as if it wanted to be held.

Sonic picked up the chao, and it crawled onto the top of his head.

“Hey there bud.” He said, tickling the chao with his finger.

He walked on into the rest of the garden, with the chao still laying on his head. He greeted other chao, fed a few who wanted to eat, and watched as a couple chao gathered for what seemed to be a race.

The chao jumped down from Sonic’s head, and into onto the floor, as it then immediately  rushed over to the startup for the race alongside a few other chao.

Sonic was intrigued by this, as he went over with a couple other chao along the side, watching as about six chao lined up to race to the other side of the garden, where the finishing line seemed to be a small, shallow pond. A chao aside him flew into the air, and dropped an apple onto the floor, signaling the start of the race. The chao participating took off, and bolted towards the pond. The track was simply a straight line, nothing to difficult. The chao were head to head for first place, the chao identical to sonic, which sonic had decided to name “Speedster”, had been battling against another chao for first place. The race was anticipating, these chao were fast, faster than any another chao he had seen. They were probably speed-type chao he figured. Right as the finish line approached, Speedster went ultra fast, taking first place. It was almost as if he was storing his energy, or just simply waiting for the last moment to use his true speed. Speedster was the first one into the pond, and then six more chao followed him, one by one. The chao on the sidelines cheered, as so did Sonic, as he clapped his hands together for all the chao. Speedster was rewarded with an enormous apple, it took three whole chao to carry it over! Speedster accepted it in awe, as it jumped up to the apple and hugged it in appreciation and happiness, it had won the race after all.

Speedster offered some to the rest of the chao who participated in the race, and to Sonic. The chao gathered around as Sonic split the apple into even slices, and passed them around to the beloved & tired chao. They each ate their pieces as they smiled and laughed, happy that the race was won.

Afterwards, Sonic decided to explore more of the apple orchard, he had never come across this spot before, so he wanted to see all he could. The chao sat atop his head again, as the two made their way to the middle of the apple trees, they noticed a quiet spot, where there was nothing but a small open area, and a few flower bushes surrounded by more trees.

The chao hopped down from Sonic’s head, and signaled him to follow. Sonic followed after Speedster, as they approached a small field of white & yellow flowers, hidden by more trees & bushes. Speedster took off into the field, and began to roll around and play in the flowers. Sonic smiled at the sight, and sat himself down, feeling the breeze between his quills, and the bright sun in his face. The chao ran across to him, carrying a white flower, and handing it to him. Sonic accepted the flower with a smile, and the chao continued to play in the field.

Sonic held the flower between his fingers, just staring down at it, smiling as the wind flowed on the petals and his quills. It’s been a minute since he took the time to lay low, and relax for a while. He’s always on the go, never stopping, just running, as free as the wind. He forgot one of the reasons he enjoys running so much, it’s the fact that where ever he goes, there’s always a sight to see. The world was huge, and marvelous, magnificent even, he really wished he’d take time and appreciate it more often. He knows to do what his heart tells him, to keep running and never stop. And he enjoys it yeah, the thrill of high-paced adventures, the adrenaline flowing through his body, the feeling of being free to do whatever he pleases, it was amazing. He never wanted to stop, he was Sonic after all, the fastest thing alive. He could keep running for days, the thrill never left him, it was simply part of who he was. But his speed wouldn’t go away, so did he really care if he took a few minutes to relax? He could always get up & go whenever he pleased, he’s learned that simply staying still isn’t bounding you down like chains, it’s giving you an opportunity to ease yourself.

The world would keep going, and Sonic along with it, so long as he had the spirit to flow free.

His smile widened once again, as he looked up to see the chao rolling around in the flowers.

“Cute.” He thought.

He looked up once more, to where he saw another chao, peeping from behind a tree. The chao looked quite like Shadow, it’s color scheme being ruby & obsidian, and it’s marking in the same place as Shadow’s. The chao noticed Sonic had seen him, and began to step forward, when it stopped and turned its head back.

“Spunk.” a voice called, from behind more trees.

The chao rushed back towards the voice, and Speedster was quick to follow it.

“Hang on bud, where you goin’ ?” Sonic asked, getting up from the ground and following after his chao. He followed behind the tree where the other chao had been, and to his surprise, his emerald eyes met with the eyes of crimson, of none other, than Shadow the hedgehog.

“Shadow?” Sonic asked, a bit confused. He stepped closer towards the other hedgehog. “What’re you doing here?”

The coal colored hedgehog faced him, also in shock. What on earth was he, that annoying blue rat out of all people doing here, and why now? He had never seen him here, let alone anyone else. So why was that damn hedgehog asking him what’s he’s doing here?

“Does it matter?” Shadow responded. He was holding that chao Sonic had seen, it sat quite comfortably in his arms. But when it caught eyes with Sonic’s chao, it immediately jumped out, and ran towards it. The two chao jumped onto each-other, tumbling around in the grass, like they were wrestling.

Sonic looked away from the chao and back to Shadow. “Nah, just curious what the ultimate life form is doing in an apple orchard.” He said, while lowering his eyelids, he knew that always got on shadows nerves.

“Tch.” Shadow scoffed. “It’s none of your concern.” He said, clearly annoyed.

Sonic didn’t seem to care, as usual. He keep persisting. “You also here with your chao?” He asked. “I’m pretty sure I heard you call that chao by name earlier.” He said, with a devious smirk.

“And?” Shadow replied. “What if I was? Again, I don’t see how what I’m doing concern’s you.” He really didn’t have the time, or energy to deal with this today, he just came here for one thing, peace & quiet. Not to be interrogated by that idiotic hedgehog.

“Woah, woah.” Sonic said, holding his hands up in the air, and taking a slight step back with his left foot. “Calm down Mr. Edge-hog, I’m just asking something out of curiosity? I didn’t know you also had a chao, let alone a chao that also looks like you. Just trying to spark convo since you’re here, but I guess your pissed for some reason, my bad.” He said, his eyelids still lowered, and a cocky expression plastered across his face.

The lapis toned hedgehog looked across to the chao, who instead of tumbling around in the field, were laying down in the grass closely alongside each-other. It seemed like they were tired, since they just laid there, staring upwards at the very little bits of the sky visible through the trees.

“Seems like they get along.” Sonic said, smiling at what he’d seen. It was adorable, he couldn’t help it. “Don’t you wish we were like that?” He asked, oblivious to what could’ve been implied.

“…what?” Shadow asked, confused and slightly shocked. What the hell did sonic mean by that?

“You know, actually talking or hanging with each-other, instead of always beating the crap out of each-other whenever we meet.” Sonic said, slightly raising an eyebrow.

“We’re rivals idiot.” Shadow responded. “Why on earth would we co-exist?” Why would they though, he couldn’t think of any worse torture than having to be stuck all day with that blue buffoon.

“Eh, depends on how you look at it.” Sonic quickly replied. “Take this for example, me and knuckles started off as rivals, we use to fight all the time, but now look at us, best of buds! Sure, we still compete and spar every now and then, but just because your rivals doesn’t mean you have to hate each-other?”

Shadow looked puzzled, wasn’t the whole point of being rivals to be against each-other? Their rivalry wasn’t even an officially stated thing, it was just natural. They both had incredible speed, the same strong determine and will, and they were both hedgehogs of course. It would be obvious that they should always compete. So why was this guy trying to make a friendship out of this? And why with him, out of all people? Sonic had plenty of friends, so why on mobius was he trying to befriend him? Every time something like this happened, all Shadow could think about, was why him. Him, him, him. He didn’t want to get close to people, he had enough people in his life already, Rouge & Omega, that was plenty. He didn’t want to have anyone else to worry about, or anyone else to worry about him. He was fine how he was right now.

“Clearly you don’t get what being rivals means.” He responded “We shouldn’t be friendly, acquaintances should be the limits. I’ve helped you before, and you’ve helped me. Nothing more.”

“Who says that we can’t be friends?” Sonic said. “Who even declared that we’re rivals, it’s not like it’s set in stone or anything. Even if we were to be friendly, there is a thing such as friendly competition, you know that right?”

Sonic looked back at the chao again. “Look at those two, weren’t they just fighting?” He asked. “Now they’re just laying there, in peace. Who says that can’t happen? We have our chao as the perfect example.”

Shadow took a glimpse himself at the chao, unfortunately sonic was right.

“I didn’t even know you had a chao, and that it knew the one I’m raising.” Shadow responded. “Even so, I don’t think it’s necessary for us to be more than acquaintances. We have fought along side each-other, sure, but nothing more should come out of that.” He replied, still denying it.

Sonic sighed, “When will you give up man?” He asked. “Admit it, it’s fun when we’re fighting, even if it’s against each-other, I can tell you at least get some dopamine from it. I’ll admit it myself, it’s nice to have someone on my level, that I don’t have to hold back as much on.”

“As much?” Shadow asked, repeating the other hedgehogs words. “I’m man enough to admit the same, it is enjoyable to spar without holding back as much, and it is enjoyable to win without defying expectations.”

Sonic laughed at that. “Heh, is that a challenge?”

“If you can handle it.” Shadow replied, matching sonics expression.

Sonic put his game face on, ( which was really just the same expression he currently has, those lowered eyelids he always shot towards shadow, and that damn smirk.) He spun into a spin dash, and jumped towards shadow, knocking him into a nearby tree.

The two of them spent the remaining afternoon sparing. Going all-out, never holding back. That was something that was always guaranteed, that the two of them would do their absolute best. That was something that that enjoyed when they fought, that they could actually compete, and not just win by a long shot, it was always a close call between them. (Even though the winner always claimed that they clearly won, with no struggle.)

They got tired after a while, but they were both on their feet, huffing and puffing out air.

Between breaths, sonic managed to say. “Let’s call it a day huh? I’m all sore, and I should be heading out soon, it’s dark outside and I gotta get lil speedster home.” He said, pointing at his chao with his thumb.

“Speedster?” Shadow asked, also sore from the fight. “That’s what you named the thing?”

“Hey, I think it suits em’.” Sonic replied. “It’s better than Spunky.” He continued with a chuckle.

Sonic walked over to where the chao were, they were fast asleep, cuddling against each other in the field of grass. Sonic picked up his chao, and held him in his arms. Shadow made his way over and did the same, holding his dear chao close.

The two stood in silence as the nights breeze flowed around in the air, it was a nice night, the moon shined down on the ground through the cracks of the trees, the flickys chirping in the near distance, and the smell of the apple trees was quite pleasing.

“This isn’t so bad, huh Shad’s?” Sonic asked, staring up at the moon. “Tell me, when we sparred just now, did you do it with hate, or with enjoyment? I saw you, so don’t deny it, you had fun shadow.”

Shadow didn’t reply, he just thought to himself for a moment. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, the blue hedgehog was right, he didn’t have any malice or hate in the moment, instead he was enjoying himself, he could feel the adrenaline flowing through him with every punch, it was an odd feeling. A feeling he’d never cared to acknowledge before.

Sonic knew Shadow wasn’t going to reply, so he decided to take his chao back to the garden. Shadow followed after him, still holding his chao in his arms.

“You comin this way too?” He asked his ebony rival.

“Why wouldn’t I?” Shadow replied. “I’m not going to leave my chao alone, of course I’m going to return it to it’s proper home.”

Sonic smiled, he didn’t know if Shadow realized, but he’d finally got him to admit that he did, in fact have a chao.

They entered the garden, all the other chao were asleep, either on humongous flowers, or inside little hutches that had been surprisingly well made, obviously by a mobian, and not the chao.

They placed the chao side-by-side into an open hutch, tucking them in with an oversized leaf.

“Wouldn’t wanna separate them.” Sonic said, smiling once more when looking at the chao. He couldn’t help it, they were so precious. And one of his favorite things to think about were all the creatures he saved whenever he saves the world, it brought warms thoughts to him, he was proud of himself. It was nice to see these kinds of small things.

They backed away from the chao, and sonic stretched his arms outwards.

“It’s not so bad.” He said aloud. “If only you would give friendliness a try, I guess I’m going to have to get cream to give you lessons!”  he said, with a genuine smile. “Later Shad’s.” He said, giving his rival a signing-off motion with his fingers, before racing off home.

Shadow stood there, alone. But not completely. He was still surrounded by other creatures, but it wasn’t the same. He remembered something Rouge had told him the other day, “You need to start making more friends hun, enjoy your time here, make good memories. Would she really have wanted you to be alone all the time? Or would she have wanted you to find someone to relate to, and admire. I’m not always here you know, and Omega’s always getting repairs for the reckless damage he gets. It’s not hard to accept more people hun, it really isn’t. Let go of that fear you have, and be more accepting.”

Maybe Rouge was right. He thought. Maybe it was time, but was that blue idiot really worth befriending?

Before he thought more on the subject, he chaos controlled himself home, and crashed into his bed. He was surprisingly tired, which doesn’t usually happen to him. It typically only happened after he had his yearly medical exam, or when he sparred with Sonic.

Sonic, he thought. Against his will, Sonic was all he thought about for the second night in the row before drifting off to sleep.

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This was lowk inspired by this one idw frame lmao😭⬇️