Several minutes after Shadow was wheeled away, another nurse spoke to Ratchet and Maddie to explain the situation. "Your Freind...... A...... S-Shadow... She seems to have somehow gotten a rare and extremely toxic poison in her system. She seems fine, but the poison slowly  destroys her from the  inside. It takes nearly a year before the victim finally succumbs to the toxin. Your friend appears too have had it  in her for  about 2 months."  They were  speechless for a moment before Maddie growled, " so you're telling us our friend is slowly dying!? How did this happen?" The nurse nodded and replied, "Well, this particular poison can be  ingested or could come in contact with a wound and soak into it, or injected, like a venomous snakebite. Lucky for your friend, her case isn't too serious,  and we have the  cure here. the doctors and other nurses are treating her as we speak."  Ratchet's eyes widened and he gasped.  The nurse looked at Ratchet strangely. "Is anything the matter?" "I could really use some water?" Ratchet rasped, overreacting. The nurse bought it however, nodded and left the room. Ratchet looked atwheeled  and frowned. " I remember what happened. The men that separated the team injected Shadow with some type of poison.  That is what is killing her." Maddie  scrunched up her face  and thought hared. "What if more of the pack was injected? They could be in trouble!" Ratchet nodded. "We don't know. If thret were, I. Sure they're being taken care of. If not,they're fine." Maddie agreed to what the amn had said, but something told her that this optimism wasn't very common  before they lost their memories. She figured if she was right, she might as well  enjoy it while it lasted.

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After half an hour of waiting, Shadow was wheeled out of the operating room with a small bandage wrapped around her left wrist. She smiled brightly and said, "the doc said d to go home and rest. The stufff they were trying to get out was mainly infecting my left arm.  That doctor was so nice, I even got a rootbeer flavored dum dum!!" Moon was also sure this wasn't how Shadow usually was. As the trio began to leave the emergency department, Ratchet with a sling cradling  ratcheged  arm, and Shadow with a bandage wrapped around her wrist,  Maddie wrote a house  address she remembered passing when she went to get help  for Ratchet to send the bill to, and they stepped out into the humid, 90 degree heat.

 Sorry for the late update! I haven't been on wattoad in the last month.. Shadow belongs to @DarlkShadowWolfgirl! Please follow her and read her books!