Shadow was still feeling bad as he hasn't seen Amy in days. However, every three weeks Sonic would make him write her letters.

He wanted to go and apologize to Amy but his work has kept him all day at G.U.N. Sonic would be with him, once in a while, he would even go to their meetings which was surprising to Shadow. Sonic wasn't one to stay too long in one place.

"Further research has indicated that the subject known as Infinite has been confirmed alive after a recorded video of him was sent to us by one of our spies," G.U.N.'s commander said.

Agents in the room had suddenly changed their expressions.

"Do we know where he is right now?" Sonic asked as he put his legs on top of the large table.

"Yes." The commander said as he stood up from his seat.

"Where is he?" Shadow asked softly but firm at the same time.

"He is..." The commander took off his glasses and suddenly one of his right eyes turned yellow, "Right here"

As he finished saying that, he released a blast of energy which caused the whole room to explode.

Some of the buildings' remainings landed on Shadow, hurting him badly. Sonic had landed on some of the crumbles of cement, wood, and dust. The rest of G.U.N.'s agents were knocked out or way to injured to move.

The G.U.N HQ building was still standing miraculously.

Shadow felt the heavy remains been taken off his body but he soon realized it was Infinite doing him the favor.

"Who is weak now?!"

Shadow had to admit that he was surprised. Infinite's new ability to shapeshift was impressive. 

Shadow felt his body self healing quick, he was getting his energy back but needed to buy more time.

"Between you and I...It's not me." Shadow said with a cocky smile on his face.

"Well, let's try and see what you say it's true."

Infinite didn't want to lose any more time and began to quickly beat up Shadow. Giving no time for his body to heal.

Shadow received a direct hit to the face.

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"Come on Shadow! The only way we are going to get out of here is if we work together!", Amy said as she walked behind the black hedgehog. They had been fighting since they got lost in the forest. The forest was a strange one, Shadow couldn't use his Chaos Control and his rocket shoes weren't working either. Amy couldn't even pull out her hammer.

"I told you to not come with me," Shadow said as he walked angrily. "I told everyone I didn't need a teammate, I work better alone."

"I didn't want you to be alone, what if well...something like this happened?"

Shadow turned around and looked at Amy.  "I don't need you!"

She had to admit, that even when Shadow was angry, he was still a very attractive hedgehog, he had a perfect complexion but his red eyes, which she didn't mind.

But even with his attractive self, she wasn't going to let him get away with screaming at her.

"Fine! I don't need you either!", Amy said as she turned around and began to walk the opposite way from Shadow. 

"Fine by me!"

Shadow began to walk away as well but he felt a strong pain in his chest. He has never felt pain like that before and although he wanted to keep walking to keep his pride, he couldn't hold for long.

He fell to his knees with a loud 'Thump' and Amy immediately ran towards him to help him.

"Shadow, are you alr-"

"Stay away! I don't need you!" He said as he pushed her away.

Amy's face changed her expression. It would have been so easy for her to just walk away and leave him alone. But she made it her new goal to get through his thick skull.

"Listen. ... I am gonna take care of you whether you want it or not so just..." Amy paused to get more air as she picked up Shadow on her shoulders, he couldn't even move in protest. "...So just let me help you."

Shadow sighed, defeated and he hated it that feeling.

"You are so stupid."

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"Not so strong now, Shadow?!" Infinite had picked him up by the neck, preventing him to get air. 

Infinite threw him into the ground. "Come on! I'll give you a chance! Come on! Fight!... Fight me!"

Shadow tried to stand up as he eyed Sonic, knocked out. He was still breathing which was good. Shadow felt his right eye bleeding and his immune system trying to stop him from bleeding. He was so injured that he wonders if his body would be able to heal during a fight.

But he wasn't going to down without a fight.

He charged for a punch but infinite was easily dodging every single punch Shadow was trying to give.

"Pathetic," Infinite said as he kicked Shadow right in the chest, making him fall to the ground and hit his head.

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Shadow couldn't remember for how long Amy was walking with him in her shoulders.

May be hours, maybe days.

They had finally reached a cave. It was raining a lot and Amy was still somehow able to make a small bonfire.

Amy had torn a part of her dress to use it as a handkerchief. She went outside and use the cold water of the falling rain on the handkerchief. She then went back inside and placed it on Shadow's head. He has a fever and Shadow was nowhere used to that.

"Somehow, this forest is making your immune system to give up... you've never been sick before, right?" Amy questioned.

"What do you think?" Shadow said sarcastically.

"You know, you could be a little bit nicer, I carried you all the way here and you are not that light."

"I didn't ask you to help me."

"UGH, YOU-" Amy calmed down. She wasn't going to let Shadow get the best of her. "Don't worry Shadow...even if you are mean to me, I'll still help you."

"As I said, I don't need you! I don't care what happens to you, so I'll make it clear. I'll leave you alone as soon as I  get better, so if you want to leave before then, do it now!" Shadow said it and Amy new that he was dead serious. She sighed and took hold of his hand.

"And like I said, no matter how mean or horrible you are to me or will be...I won't leave you alone. Not now, not ever."

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Shadow opened his eyes, his head feeling heavy. He didn't feel this way for a very long time. He had to admit that it wasn't a good feeling but it was very reminiscent of the past.

"Wow, you really have grown weak," Infinite said as he walked towards Shadow who was still feeling fuzzy from the kick he received. "I wonder if a certain pink hedgehog has to do with it."

Oh no.

"I don't know... what you are...talking about." Shadow's chest hurt badly, he took pauses to speak as getting air to his lungs pained him a great deal.

"You perfectly know what I am talking about. Pink and green eyes, very beautiful indeed, such as unique combination, like goddess indeed." Infinite hit Shadow with another energy blast, making his body fly to the wall. "Maybe I should pay her a visit once I am done here."

Infinite grabbed Shadow by the neck once again but this time Infinite made sure to kill him slowly. Shadow felt his lungs run out of air and slowly he began to lose consciousness.

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Shadow had to admit that at this point he was just faking to be sick.

But he was just so intrigued by the pink one that he just wanted to see more of her.

He was still weak, and his legs will still tremble when he tried to stand up but overall he was doing good.

He couldn't let the pink one know however, he was just enjoying too much the way she would take care of him.

Her warm smile when she would come back with food. Her small talk and her positive character had made it's way through his horrible personality.

Before he couldn't stand any type of company but if it was her...

then it was worth it.

"AAAHHH!"

Shadow heard Amy scream and with his weak legs, he tried his best to go fast but wasn't helping much.

Finally, he reached her. He saw her laying down on the grass, bleeding a lot and in a delicate state.

Amy was still conscious and saw Shadow walking towards her.

"No...leave! Shadow someone is here...you have to leave!" Amy begged him but saw Shadow still trying his best to walk towards her. "I said leave!"

Amy began to throw rocks at him, unable to move the rest of her body. She could only use her hands. She was laying down on her stomach. "That thing is going to come back soon...leave!"

Amy kept throwing rocks at Shadow, actually hitting him and to be honest it did hurt him. "Don't you understand? I am done for, save yourself!"

Amy grabbed another rock, she was careless but the rock she grabbed was really pointing and very sharp and she threw it at him without thinking much at it.

The rock went straight for Shadow's right eye and with the movement, it made a deep cut. Starting from the top of his eyebrow, covering his eyelid and down to his muzzle.

Amy gasped as Shadow reached her and was able to perfectly see the damage she had done.

Shadow was never going to heal from that cut and this event will forever remain with him as a form of a scar.

It began to rain once again.

"You said...you said that as soon as you got better you were going to leave me," Amy said crying as she feared for Shadow's life. "You are better now...so why don't you leave?"

Shadow felt something coming, enormous power was coming towards them. Tremendous steps coming their way.

"RAWWWWWWWW!"

The enormous monster arrives again, making his presence know with a loud scream.

The monster was a gigantic shadow, just that. It had a phantom shape but it had no eyes, no mouth, no extremities.

just a shadow.

Shadow looked at Amy and held her hand.

"Because no matter how mean or horrible you are to me or will be...I won't leave you alone. Not now, not ever."

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"Now you will DIE!" Infinite had finally decided to kill Shadow he clutched his hand which held Shadow's neck.

To his surprise, he felt Shadow's hand grab his arm and then break it.

Infinite screams releasing Shadow as the pain of his arm been broke in two ran through his body.

He looked back at his enemy, his body was healing faster than usual and within a minute he was fully recovered.

Shadow had only been able to do this once,  years ago in that forest.

and now.

Shadow smiled to himself, he couldn't give up. He still had a long time he wanted to spend with Amy.

He wasn't going to leave her alone. Not now, not ever.

Shadow cleared the left over blood in his mouth as he said to infinite: "Let's play."

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Amy ran to the hospital. She didn't stop until she reached the room.

There he was, Sonic was in bed sleeping and Shadow was sitting on the sofa. Amy sighed in relief as she saw both of them were doing good.

"How's Sonic?", she asked Shadow as she got closer to Sonic's bed.

"He will be fine. He got beat pretty badly but he was able to give Infinite a good fight...all by himself." Shadow lied, but he wanted to give Sonic all the credit.

"And you? How are you?"

"Perfectly fine, I wasn't there when Infinite attacked." Shadow lied again. 

A silence fell into them and it was very awkward, it the first time they had seen each other since the fight.

"I am sorry Shadow," Amy said. "I should be able to understand you better."

"I am sorry that I let my anger on you...I forgot about that day." Shadow said as he stood up from his seat.

"Day?"

"Yes, but now I remember... Actually, someone told me to give you this letter." Shadow held Amy's hand for a bit and then let it go. "I'll leave you to yourself so you can read it."

Shadow walked away, he wanted to go home so he could dream about the pink one. So he could dream that it was him saying to her all the things that were in that letter.

Amy sat on the couch that Shadow was sitting on before, and open the letter as he gave Sonic one last look and began to read...

"I have to admit that this love is hard. I think of you all the time when I am sad, when I am anxious, when I am stressed and the reason why I am happy is because of you. I have to be honest, I had thought of leaving you, of starting new. However, I go back to remembering that day. The day when everything changed, the day you entered my heart. That day I killed a demon, but you killed the one inside of me. Since then I promised to myself that no matter how cruel life is, I'll still be your shadow. Always there for you, whether you share my feelings or not...I won't leave you alone. Not now, not ever."

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