Shadow is holding onto Maria as she was still in pain. Station Square was a couple yards away. The rap on Maria’s back is starting to turn all red because of the blood she has lost.

“Damnit. Why can’t this fucking train go any faster?” Shadow thought while looking out of the window.

“Shadow.” Maria whispered as she opened her eyes a little. Shadow moved his gaze from the window to her. “Shadow, are you mad at me?” Maria asked.

“No, Maria. I’m not. I was just thinking of stuff.” Shadow said

“Heh, sorry for such being a damn burden to you, Shadow.” Maria said as she closed and fell asleep. Shadow looked at her, surprised by her colorful language, but smiled at her.

Meanwhile:

The others were watching the scene before them and smiled.

“They look sooo cute together.” Rouge said. The others nodded their heads in agreement.

“From the looks of it, it seems that they are in love with each other.” Espio said.

“Its true, Espio.” Tails said smirking. “Maria told me her secret about herself and Shadow on the Ark 50 years ago.” Tails said turning towards the others and still smirking.

“Well, what happened between those two?” Vector asked.

“Well, Maria told me that she and Shadow kissed and told each other that they loved each other.” Tails said smiling at the group.

“What!” They said unison.

“No wonder that Shadow wanted to destroy G.U.N.” Sonic said with his eyes widen.

“Yep.” Tails said as he pulled out a glass bottle out from his jacket’s pocket.

“Tails, what’s that thing that you have?” Knuckles asked as he saw Tails opening it and drank a mouthful of the liquid.

“Gas.” Tails said as he put the bottle back in his pocket.

“Are you crazy?! You could kill yourself!” Amy yelled with her eyes widen along with the others except Rena.

“You wanna bet?” Tails asked as he walked towards the opening (look back on ch 7). “Shadow, you want to make the train go faster?” Tails asked as he turned his head around.

“You bet!” Shadow yelled as he stood up with Maria still in his arms. Tails nodded.

“Maria, do you still have enough energy in you?” Tails asked as he looked at Maria. Then Maria opened her eyes and wiggled out of Shadow’s arms but leaning on him for support.

“Hell yeah, Tails. I may be week now, but that doesn’t mean I have no energy in me.” Maria said smiling at Tails.

“That’s good to hear.” Tails said. So, do you know what to do then, Maria?” Tails asked

“Do you mean to create a barrier with my psychic powers, than yes.” Maria said letting go of Shadow.

“Ready?” Tails asked.

“Ready.” Maria said. Then Maria closed her eyes and pointed her open palms towards the opening (back on chapter 7). Then Maria had a blue aura glowing around her body. Then the others saw a barrier that was outside the opening. Then they turned their heads towards Tails. They see small flames coming out of his mouth.

“Flamethrower Attack!” Tails yelled as he let his flamethrower go. His flamethrower was more like an overheat attack thanks to the gas that he swallowed. When the flamethrower hit the barrier, the train shot off like a bullet. Everyone had to hold onto the seats except for Tails and Maria (they had practice this many times with this combo). When Tails stopped his flamethrower and Maria used her psychic powers to slow down the train so it can fully stop at the station.

“Ok, I’m going to take Maria to the hospital to get healed up.” Shadow said as he picked up Maria bridal style. Maria was blushing when he did this, but she didn’t know why and he rushed off towards the hospital quickly.

“I guess that we can take you two back to our house.” Amy said as she looked at Tails and Rena.

“Ok.” Rena said while Tails just looked away, unsure about this.

“I wonder how Charmy is doing with the kids.” Vector said out loud.

“Wait a minute! You guys have children?” Tails said in shocked.

“Yeah, didn’t we tell you?” Espio asked. Tails shooke his head still in shocked.

“Well, their nice kids and they take after me, Knuckles, Amy, and Sonic.” Rouge said hugging Knuckles.

“I never knew that you and Knuckles would get hitched, yet again have kids.” Tails said.

“Well, its true, Tails.” Knuckles said hugging Rouge back.

“Well, I’m happy for you guys.” Rena said holding her hands together.

“Well, let’s go.” Sonic said leaving, being followed by the others. Tails was very nervous about this whole thing.

Meanwhile with Shadow and Maria:

Shadow just made to the hospital with Maria. Shadow looked down at Maria and smiled as she had fallen asleep, but worried as she was still losing more blood. Shadow entered the hospital and ran over to the main desk.

“My friend needs a doctor and fast!” Shadow yelled. Not a second sooner did a couple of nurses and a doctor came and took Maria out of Shadow’s arms and started to take her in the operating room.

“You may want to wait in the waiting room.” The doctor said as he walked into the operating room. Shadow went to an empty chair and sat down, thinking.

“I really hope that Maria will get better.” Shadow thought as he waited.

Two and half Hours later:

Shadow was starting to pace back and forth. Then the doctor came out of the operating room with blood on him.

“Mr. Shadow.” The doctor said.

“Yeah?” Shadow asked worried.

“The operating was a successful.” The doctor said while Shadow sighed. “Do you want to see her?” The doctor asked. Shadow nodded and followed the doctor to Maria’s room. When they got to the room, the doctor opened the door and let Shadow in. Shadow saw that Maria was asleep. “I’ll leave you alone with her.” The doctor said as he closed the door. Shadow walked towards Maria and sees that her ears were moving. Then here eyes shot opened.

“Is the doctor gone?” Maria asked as she turned her head towards Shadow.

“Yeah.” Shadow said.

“Good. I can finally get out of gay ass shit of a bed.” Maria said as she jumped out of the bed.

“You can’t, Maria. You’re still recovering from the operation.” Shadow said as he puts a hand on her shoulder.

“I don’t give a shit. Besides, I can always heal myself with my clear bell.” Maria said as she pulled out a see through bell from her hair.

“You mean to tell me that you could’ve healed yourself.” Shadow said in a annoyed and angry voice.

“Yeah, but it will only work on bandage wounds.” Maria said as closed her eyes and the clear bell started to glow. Shadow had to shield his eyes because the glow was really bright. Then the bell started to cease its glow. Shadow opened his eyes to see Maria wearing her blue and grey dress (While the bell given off the light, Maria changed into her clothes before Shadow opened his eyes). “Okay now that that’s over with, I’m going to get changed again.” Maria said as she started to mess around with her left bracelet. When Shadow heard this, he started to blush.

“How? You don’t have any clothes with you.” Shadow said as the blush was still on his face.

“Who said I had to bring clothes with.” Maria said as she was still messing around with her bracelet. Shadow was blushing even more. “The thing is, Tails made a small computer for me and putted it in my bracelet. I can choose between clothes, accessories, make-up, maps locators, shoes head pieces, etc.” Maria said. “Here we go. This outfit is perfect.” Maria said as she pushed a green button. Shadow had to shield his eyes again as a bright light engulfed Maria. When the light faded Shadow opened his eyes. But when he did this, his eyes widen. Maria is wearing a leather black top that started above her breast and stopped under her breast (but it stopped a little above her stomach). On her shirt was a rose shaped out of red and green diamonds. She was wearing a black mini skirt that stopped a little above the knees, on the side of it had a red rose on it. Maria’s shoes were black and red high-heels. The make-up on her face was black eye-shadow, red lipstick, black eye liner. Maria’s bangs were in her face that covered her left eye (since she didn’t pick out a head piece). Only one thought was running around in Shadow’s head.

“Damn, Maria looks so sexy wearing that outfit.” Shadow thought as his eyes were wide, his mouth opened a little, and blushing like crazy.

“Well, let’s go, Shadow.” Maria said as started to walk towards the door as Shadow followed behind. While they were walking, Shadow couldn’t help but to look at her. Then his eyes widen. Shadow saw what appeared to be a scare from a bullet and that was when he remembered.

“Now I remember. Maria was shot by a GUN soldier back on the Ark 50 years ago.” Shadow thought as he continued to stare at her back. Maria felt his gaze on her and stopped to turn around.

“Are you ok, Shadow?” Maria asked as she looked at him worried.

“No nothing’s wrong.” Shadow lied. Their was defiantly something wrong with him but he doesn’t know what it is yet.

“Well, ok.” Maria said as she continued to walk towards the house (she knows the way because she has twice the sense of smell than any dog because of her beast form of Suicune).

Meanwhile at the House:

“I don’t think this is a good idea, guys.” Tails said nervously while being pulled by Sonic and Knuckles.

“Why are you making this a big deal any way?” Sonic said trying to get Tails to move.

“First of all, I was framed for murder. Second, I ran away. Third, I was tortured by a mad man. Forth, I had been beating the shit out of gangsters who entered my turf. And lastly, I have the power of the fire dog Entei.” Tails said as he pointed to all of his fingers on his right hand.

“You need to stop living in the past, Tails. One day, you might be like Shadow when we first met him.” Knuckles as he lets go of his arm. Sonic did it as well with the other arm. Tails sat down on the grass Indian style.

“Please, Tails. Give this a chance.” Rena said as she bent town to face Tails. Tails looked at her for a while. To him, Rena reminded him of Cream.

“Why did Cream have to be killed? I wanted to tell her that I liked her more that a friend.” Tails thought as he looked down to the ground with sad eyes. “Fine, I’ll give it a shot.” Tails said as he stands up and faced the door.

“Don’t worry, Tails. The children are friendly and I’m sure that they will get along with you.” Rouge said as she grabbed onto one of his arms.

“Yeah, Tails. They won’t hurt you.” Amy said as she grabbed onto his other arm. Then they started to drag him towards the door.

“Lord, what have I gotten myself into?” Tails thought as he saw the door coming closer.

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YEAH!! Finally chapter 9 is Done!!(starts to dance all around the room listening to music)!!

Sorry it took this long guys because I had a HUGE writer’s Block. Also I was working on my other stories “Holiday Happiness” and “Clawed Love”. So don’t give me any flames if this chapter is crappy.

Also, I need some help to do the next chapter. So if you guys have any ideas, tell me big time. Plez

--Suicuneluvr