#this is two tents and a bonfire away from becoming Ultimate Camp

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That Makes Us Two:  Chapter 5: Name

None one dares to say a word. The whole ride was quiet, just the waves of the ocean hitting the coast could be heard; getting stronger as the full moon showed upon them.

In silence, both hedgehogs made their tents.

"I'll be looking for the fragment by myself...I think I know where it is.", Shadow said softly.

"I'll go with you," Amy said, still a bit embarrassed from before.

"No, believe me, its dangerous. No one lives in this Island...the forest makes you see things you don't want to see."

Alright, how in the world did Shadow know so much about these places? Amy knew that he was a hedgehog full of mysteries but that fact that he was been here before intrigued her way too much.

"How do you know so much?"

"What do you mean?"

"You have been to all the Island we've been through! And people know you! Like how?"

"I kept looking for the Chaos Emeralds since I was 10, I finally found all of them some years back but..." Shadow hesitated, " that's not important."

Shadow walked away, looking into the vast forest in front of him.

Amy had never seen Shadow like this.

Anxious, determined, aghast, shaken...terrified.

And she couldn't do anything...just watch him go into the dark forest.

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The last place on earth Shadow wanted to be...was here.

He had promised to never come back to this place. He despised it with all of his beings and although he knew that nothing was real...

deep down he really wishes it was.

"Are you ready to talk now Shadow? Last time you just ran away from me."

A blond, blue-eyed female hedgehog had been following him for a while now.

He tried to ignore her.

"Alright then, run like the murder you are."

"I am not a murder!" Shadow yelled back at her, he sighed knowing that after this mistake there was no way back.

"The leader of the Echidnas told you about it, Elena told you about it, I told you about it...and you still decided to look for the Chaos Emeralds." The girl twirled around him, brightly playing with her blue dress.

"It was a mistake...I am sorry.", Shadow looked at her, seriousness on his eyes.

The girl had stopped twirling and stopped right in front of Shadow. "And because of that...you killed me!"

"No, I-"

"YOU KILLED ME!

"Stop...Please!"

"YOU KILLED ME!"

"No!", Shadow fell into his knees as he covered his ears and closed his eyes.

"YOU KILLED ME!"

"I KNOW! I KNOW I DID! AND I AM SORRY!"

"Shadow!"

Shadow opened his eyes as he recognized the voice. Amy was standing in front of him, extreme concern in her expression.

"Are you ok? Who was that girl? Why was she saying that?"

Amy knew that she was asking too many questions and at the moment it may not be the best.

But the only way to help Shadow was to understand what he was going through. As well that Amy couldn't see the girl's face but her blue attire was familiar to her. As if she had seen those clothes before. She found this more intriguing

"I told you..." Shadow breathed slowly. "I told you to NOT follow me!

"Shadow..."

"ARE YOU THAT STUPID? DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

"But Shadow, I-"

"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Amy didn't say anything else, she just walked away.

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Amy tried to be angry at him. She was just trying to help him.

She wanted to hate him, really HATE him.

But she couldn't.

Even when she says she does, she doesn't.

Yes, from the few encounters she had with him before, he was evil.

But he wasn't all that bad.

He was kind without him noticing it.

He helped people without expecting anything in return.

He protected her, even if he didn't need to.

He cared for her because he wanted to.

Shadow the hedgehog was just misunderstood.

And she wanted to understand him, but whenever she tried, he pushed her away.

"Just like I do."

Amy looked up to find Sonic in front of her, smiling.

"Sonic..."

"You are just so annoying! When we were little you used to chase after me EVERY SINGLE DAY! I hated you honestly!" Sonic began to walk around Amy, she knew that this must just be her mind playing games.

"You were so annoying that I had nothing but say yes to your stupid request...do you really think I love you? HA! I am only dating you because I feel pity for you!" Sonic said.

"No, you told me you love me!"

"I just feel bad that you wasted so many years on me! But don't worry, I'll dump you the moment you get back from your trip."

"No, you are lying!",Amy said as she walked away.

"You are walking away because you don't want to hear the truth...you know its true." Sonic smiled at Amy one more time before disappearing.

With tears in her eyes, Amy exited the forest.

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Shadow didn't want to see Amy, at least not after screaming at her. It wasn't her fault and strangely enough, Shadow felt guilty about it. However, he didn't know how to make it right. He had made it back safely to the camp after successfully retrieving the broken piece of the Purple Gem. They just needed one more and their torture would be over. One more destination so Shadow could say bye to the pink one, forever.

It was probably better this way.

He saw her sitting down on the sand, watching the bonfire slowly burn away. In deep thought, she didn't notice that Shadow had sat next to her. A few minutes passed and none of them dared to say a word.

It was hard to describe it, but deep down they just knew that something was going on between them. They just didn't want to admit, they were too scared, too afraid and confused to even mention it. Nonetheless, it seemed like tonight could be the night, it was now or never.

"I am glad you made it back safely," Amy said almost like a whisper. Shadow stood quiet, still not wanting to say a word.

But he had hurt her, and even if he won't admit it at loud...

He had a soft spot for the pink little brat.

"When I was a baby I was 'blessed' with the power to control Chaos Energy, I am assuming my parents were afraid of me, so they gave me to the Echidnas so I could learn to control my power. I was a prodigy and wanted more. Legend has it, that if you have all Chaos Emeralds, you will possess magnificent powers! Super strength, the ability to fly through the skies...So, by the age of 10, I left the Echidnas to go find the Chaos Emeralds. Three years passed without any signs of them. One day, while in my travels, I found her... a young hedgehog named Maria..." Shadow paused and looked over to Amy, she was waiting patiently for him to continue his tale. Shadow looked over to the burning flames as he continued.

"Maria was an archeologist, the best one out there. She had pint pointed all the locations of the Chaos Emerald. I didn't want to take her with me, but she refused to tell me the locations unless I took her...And so I did. Two years passed, we visited many places around the world. Everyone warned me about the dangers of the Chaos Emeralds, but I never listened. I wanted more, I wanted to be The Ultimate Life Form...When we finally collected all Chaos Emeralds, I tried to infuse myself with them just like in the legend...but I couldn't control their power...it was just too much and I was still so ignorant! On my negligence...I ended up killing Maria."

Shadow saw how his hands trembled. shaking as he remembered the scene perfectly. Him, going Super, the immense radioactivity and power coming out of him, him trying to stop the Chaos Energy to come out of his body. Maria running towards him to save him, her falling into his arms...lifeless.

"I became the Ultimate Life Form, at the cost of my only friend's life."

After that, the burning of the bonfire was the only thing that could be heard. Amy was speechless, more at the fact that Shadow had opened up like this to her.

He had a terrible past and because of it, he couldn't move towards the future. Not to blame him, the death of a loved one-

"You..loved her...didn't you?", Amy said more to herself at the realization, but her thoughts had escaped her lips.

"No...I think I still love her...and the fact that I was never able to tell her...its the thing the I regret the most."

Amy had no other words that could describe her feelings right now. Why does her heart feel this way? Like it had been broken? Like her expectations were not met...Like she wanted Shadow to have a different answer.

Amy took a sigh, "Thank you, you didn't have to tell me all of that."

"I know I didn't have to...but I wanted to."

What was going on? Why was Shadow so...so him? In this past week that they were together, Amy felt something she had never felt before. She just couldn't describe that feeling. It was even weirder because every time she would talk to him, she would be looking at her self. Her facial expressions, her body language, and she liked it. And it wasn't as she was liking her self...she was liking him. She was liking Shadow.

She likes him.

His stubborn personality, his terrible attitude, his kind personality, the moments he would show vulnerability...

She had to admit it...that she was wrong about him.

Shadow was just more than the facade he would put in front of people.

And maybe, just maybe...she was falling for that.

The air had become heavy as they stared at each other's eyes. Amy didn't know what to say next, should she something personal about her? Or just change the topic drastically? She opted for the first option.

"I sometimes think...that may be ...I am with the wrong person..."

"What do you mean?"

"Before...I used to pressure Sonic into dating me ...so now I think that maybe...he is not in love with me." Amy began to play with her thumbs, clearly showing her nervousness. "I never said anything but...I think Sonic is too nice to realize or say anything for that matter...that he is not in love with me"

"I honestly don't know what to say...." Shadow said as he looks over to Amy. He clearly didn't know anything about love, and he preferred to stay quiet than to give bad advice. "...Amy, I don't think I am fit to give love advice."

"It's ok...I am bad at this too"

"That makes us two."

Amy left out a small giggle. Shadow wasn't only bad at love, but at making puns too.

Which only made him more entertaining to watch.

"Actually, are you ever going to tell me how you know my name? I don't remember telling you." Amy remembers asking him about it before when they were on the cave, but he had evaded the question.

"I don't remember," Shadow responded quickly. Of course, Shadow was lying, the story about how he learned about her name was embarrassing, to say the least.

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Maria was extremely sick, and the closest civilization was Hedgehog Village. Shadow placed the small ship on the coast. He covered all his body and face with a long coat, the coat's hoodie covering his face as well.

Shadow had gained a reputation, a bad one. Everyone was looking for him, so he had to go undercover if he wanted to find help for Maria.

He arrived in the village and didn't where to go. He walked fast enough until he noticed a hospital.

He walked in and went straight to the nurse station.

"I need help, there's someone extremely sick." The 15-year-old Shadow felt uncomfortable, he had never been at a Hospital before.

"You must bring that person here." The nurse said.

"But she's very delicate! She can't move, I need a doctor to see her-"

"Sorry sir, she needs to be here, if you want a doctor to see her, you need to make an appointment at least 3 hours before the-"

"She's dying! She needs a doctor now!" Shadow had grabbed the nurse by her collar and she was about to call the guards.

"I'll go help if you keep your hands away from the nurse."

Said a voice from behind, interrupting Shadow on his act. He released the lady.

"Miss Rose, you can't leave the hospital, you are still at training.", The nurse said angrily,

"This person clearly needs our help, isn't that's why we are here for?" Amy spoke as she tried to get a peek of the covered man.

"If you leave now, then don't bother to come back. You will be expelled from this nursing training."

Amy grabbed the guy's hand and smiled at the nurse.

"Thank you for having me."

Shadow walked Amy to his ship where Maria resided on a bed, she was very sick as she tries to keep breathing.

Amy examined her checking all of her symptoms and wrote them down.

"Has she eaten something like chicken or fish recently?" Amy asked the coat man. She had to admit that he looked kind scary but if he had gone to look for help for his friend, he couldn't be that bad of a guy.

"She ate sashimi yesterday.", Shadow responded.

"Then that says it all, she has mild food poisoning, I'll give her some medicine and make sure she drinks a lot of water. "You have to be careful, if she has a weak immune system, she could have died."

Amy couldn't see the face of the man, but he stayed quiet. "...But don't worry, she will be fine!"

Shadow sighed of relieve as he heard those words. " I am in your debt..."

"Don't worry about it." Amy got closed to Maria. She pulled out a small glass container that had medicine. She put small drops on her mouth and saw her slowly react to it.

"You gave up your training to help a stranger...why did you do that?" Shadow asked her.

"A long time ago, someone helps me when I needed it the most...and I asked him the same thing...he said: I did it because it was the right thing to do." Amy thought of Sonic fondly and about that memory that made her fall in love with him.

With that, they began talking a little bit more, Amy stayed for a few hours just to make sure Maria's process was going good. As well that she tried to get to know more about the coat-man/hoodie guy. The fact that Amy couldn't see his face was intriguing enough.

"I am a bad guy and I deserve everything that happens to me but..." Shadow said as he looked over to Maria. "Not her..."

Amy didn't know why, but she felt bad for this person. She wanted to help him in any way, but as to now the only way she could help was to help his friend. Comforting words were the only thing she could give him right now.

Amy stood up from his seat, watching Maria sleep peacefully now. She was ready to leave the couple to continue with their journey;

"Just remember this, when you feel lost and have nowhere to go, Amy Rose will be here, waiting for you."

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"Yeah, I don't remember how I learned your name...the fake probably told me when we fighting or something," Shadow said to Amy, unconsciously placing his body closer to hers.

"I don't remember telling you."

They heard an external voice, this scared them as they were both aware of the fact that they were the only ones on the Island.

Amy and Shadow both turned around towards the beach, as their eyes adjusted to see better the silhouette of the person standing in front of the.

There he was.

Sonic The Hedgehog.

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