Sonic Forces Au:

Somehow Shadow ended up in Amy's trap. He was too entranced by the full moon that he didn't pay attention to Amy's: "Stop! Don't look at it!." But he still did. He didn't realize he was holding Amy's hand tightly, forcing her to stay with him in the lover's pond.  Amy closed her eyes whatsoever, knowing that it will be her doom if she dares to look at it. A minute passed and Shadow finally noticed the pink hedgehog next to him. Before he was entranced with the full moon, but now for some reason, he couldn't dare to look away from her.  Amy felt a strong gaze on her, she slowly opened her eyes noticing Shadow's crimson eyes oh her.  Amy could keep away her sight from the moon but she wasn't capable to not stare at the two beautiful red gemstones in front of her.  As she saw Shadow wanting to turn around to look at the moon once again, she remembered. 

"DON'T LOOK AT THE MOON IDIOT, IT'S A LOVE SPELL!"

But it was already too late.

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"So, you don't feel...different?"

"No"

"Sure? Not a tiny bit of I don't know...love?"

" No, and go away already"

    Amy followed Shadow around the forest after the accident. What it was meant to be a love trap for Sonic had ended up horribly wrong. Shadow was there at the wrong moment and wrong place. "Well...I guess it didn't work after all. Although the villagers did say that this was their strongest love ritual they had."

"No, it didn't now leave me alone", Shadow wanted to faster as if to get away as soon as possible from the pink hedgehog but for some reason, his body wasn't letting him do so. He even stopped walking to make sure she would catch up to him.

"Sorry for the mess then. I'll see you around...I think", Amy gave Shadow a thumbs up kinda glad that her plan didn't work. Honestly, she couldn't imagine Shadow in love, especially with her.  "Wait!"

    Amy turned around immediately as she heard Shadow yell. It went silent a couple of seconds and Amy waited for Shadow to respond but that never happened. Instead, the only thing she for from him was a "Nevermind, go."

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    Shadow really thought that he was going crazy.  Whatever he would do she would be there.  Sleeping, eating, running, even fighting...she would be there! Just what the heck did she do to him? Everyone was meeting today. Rouge, Sonic, Tails, Silver, Blaze and even the Chaotix Team. From what he heard the Fox boy had finally been able to repair his ship so everyone was able to go back home. Except for Knuckles who decided to stay and guard the Master Emerald. Initially, he was planning to go back by himself since he wasn't one to stay with big crows. However, knowing that Amy would be there, that dragged him to come. He wanted an explanation as to why she was in his head all the time. Even as he got closer to the massive ship, he couldn't stop thinking of her. Her voice, her soft skin, her laugh, her hair, her eyes, her-

"Oh hey handsome"

    It wasn't her.

"I have no time for this Rouge"

"Oh, but you do have time for Amy, don't you?", Rouge said teasingly and she knew that she had hit a soft spot in Shadow as she watched him flinched.

"How...do you know?", Shadow asked her. He still couldn't believe that Rouge was that aware of her surroundings.

"I saw you two at the lover's pond...you looked so in love with her. Even now I can tell that you look forward to seeing her." Rouge gave him a small hit on his shoulder. She was proud to see her little 'brother' getting along with the girls, especially with a nice girl like Amy.

"That was an accident...and after that, I couldn't stop myself from thinking about her." Shadow looked down to the floor. "That pink hedgehog said we had fallen into a 'love trap' of hers...I don't believe in those things. I must have eaten something bad."

"Maybe you just have a thing for her Shadow...its normal to like someone"

"Me? Like that pink-"

"Oh, look its Amy!"

"Oh heck, hide me!"

    Shadow hide behind Rouge's wings. Amy was right there, in front of Tails' ship talking to the blue bur very happily. "Rouge go talk to her", Shadow demanded her. He wanted her to be away from the blue as soon as possible. However, for some reason, he couldn't dare to talk to her.

"What? Why?", Rouge was very intrigued at Shadow's sudden change in personality. She never expected him to be the soft type.

"I don't want her to be near the blue rat"

"Oh, who would have thought you would be the jealous type", Rouge had a smirk on her face, ready to start her devilish plan. "Just do it!", Shadow said a little bit louder.

"Alright, whatever you want...AMY! SHADOW WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!"

"Oh, fuc-"

    Shadow made a note to himself to make sure that he will make Rouge pay for this. Shadow noticed now that Sonic and Amy were coming their way. He came out of Rouge's shadow and step aside. Trying to get his cool back, Sonic greeted him and so did Amy.

"What did you wanted to talk about Shadow?", Amy said smiling and that completely froze him. He didn't say anything, he just stared at her face in awe. Not noticing that time had passed between them.

"Sonic dear, I need to talk to you in private about this mission. Would you give me a few minutes of your time?.", Rouge broke the ice and heavy air around them. Saving Shadow in a sense. "Sure thing Rouge", Sonic said along with his goodbyes to Amy and Shadow before leaving with the bat.

"So, you wanted to talk to me-"

"I can't stop thinking about you! I don't know why it just happened! I just want to be near you!." Some weird force had taken over him and he just blurted out his feelings. He noticed Amy's panicked face, at least she wasn't mad at him. "Shadow...I am so sorry...you are in love with me because...because I was stupid enough to believe that Sonic would fall into my trap.", Amy said angrily at herself for forcing Shadow into her mess. A few moments passed and the last thing Shadow wanted was to make her feel sad. He wanted to say something but the words wouldn't come out.

"But I am going to fix this...come on!", Amy grabbed Shadow by his hand and he could tell that he was falling for her all over again. "We are going to go see  the lady that told me about the spell." Amy turned around and faced Shadow, confidently smiling at him, the bright sun shining on her delicate face. Shadow thought he was in the presence of a goddess. He couldn't deny it anymore.

"You will be back to normal...I promise!"

He had fallen for Amy Rose.

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    Amy and Shadow had stopped at the local nearby village of Green Hill after Amy reassure everyone else in the ship that Shadow and her will take their own path.

            "Would you both be alright?"

            "Yes, we just need to do this by ourselves"

            "Well, please take care"

The last thing Amy remembered was Sonic's preoccupied face. Like if something was bothering him. She decided to let go of him for the few days she will be with Shadow. She had more sympathy for him now and was seeing a side she had never seen before. He was caring about her well being and she felt guilty about the whole situation she implemented on him. Shadow had forced emotions bestowed upon him. Feeling something you don't want to feel...it must be something horrible to experiment, right?

    However, things didn't turn out the way it was supposed to be.  As soon as they arrived at the village, Shadow had fallen sick. Something strange even to him. The villagers gave Shadow and Amy a small place to pass the night by. This was probably the worst night Amy ever had. She had never seen Shadow in such a bad state. He was sweating, trembling, mumbling to himself. For a moment she really thought she would lose him.

    She was next to him, sitting on a chair next to his bed making sure that he was comfortable at best. However, her current duty was interrupted when someone opened the door forcefully.

"MISS AMY! MERCENARIES! THEY ARE DESTROYING THE TOWN!.", A girl fox entered the room crying and desperate at the situation. Amy took one look at Shadow. She had to trust him that as the Ultimate Life Form, he couldn't fail her.

"You stay here and take care of Shadow for me...I'll take care of the mercenaries." Amy stood up from her chair but realized that something or better say someone was stopping her from doing so. Shadow held her hand very delicately and he whispered something that only she could hear.

"Don't leave me"

"I'll be back, I promise"

    This was probably the worst night Shadow ever had. He couldn't do anything. He couldn't move nor speak even breathing was hard for him. Of all of his five senses, the only one that was still strong enough to keep him from losing himself was his hearing. And Chaos, it was torture. He could keep on hearing the blasts, the collapsing of buildings and the constant fighting on what he supposed was Amy against the mercenaries.

    Although the fox girl was trying her best to take care of him, Shadow didn't want anything else but Amy on his side right now.  Being in 'love' with her made him see her in a different light. She was caring for others, positive and tried her best always. Amy had always been like that but it wasn't until he was in love that he actually took the time to notice all of her good qualities.

    Now that he had realized this, he couldn't bear the thought of Amy getting hurt. He constantly tried to stand up, to go and save her, to go and try to do anything to help her.

    But he knew that in his current state he was going to be more of a distraction to her.  Shadow kept looking towards the door, waiting for the moment that Amy came through that door.   There was nothing he could do but to trust her and the promise she made to him.

        Shadow really wanted to see Amy come through that door. He really tried keeping his eyes opened and every time he would close them he would blame himself for not being strong enough. This was a battle he had lost.

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    Shadow heard the birds chirping and felt the heat of sunlight hit his eyelids. He opened them slowly and remembered everything from the previous day. He stood up quickly, already having full control of his body.  He looked for Amy around the room but found nothing, he went outside and found the villagers re-building their town as many houses and small shops were demolished by the mercenaries.

    He walked some more and there he found her. Amy was helping to pick up logs. Shadow walked up to her and noticed bandages and scratches all over her body.

    Amy expected a 'Good morning' or something like that but instead, she faced Shadow's death stare.

"Did-did I do something wrong?", Amy asked him and she noticed that Shadow was looking up and down at her body.

"You said that you were going to come back," Shadow said nonchalantly.

"But, I am back"

"Back to the room I mean, look at you! You are a disaster! And you still are helping around? Amy, I was worried about-"

    Shadow kept babbling and Amy just let him vent out.  Two minutes had passed and after Shadow finished his side, Amy began hers.

"Sorry Shadow, but these people still need my help and I am strong. I handle the mercenaries just fine"

"Yeah, that explains all your wounds", Shadow said sarcastically.

"Anyways, what about you? You said you were worried about me, but I was scared to death yesterday! I didn't even know you could get sick!" Amy defended herself.  "I...I honestly didn't know either. I think it was more of a physiological thing...my mind and body were always connected but this time...", Shadow looked at Amy in the eyes, not wanting to hurt her for what he was about to say.

"...My body had never experienced such thing as love. You know, your body actually changes some type of chemicals when you experience the feeling. My mind accepted the fact that I was in love but not my body...that probably triggered my sickness," Shadow was trying to be as delicate as possible by choosing his words but it seemed like it didn't matter since Amy looked down to the ground in disappointment. 

"I am sorry"

"It's not your fault"

    Amy felt horrible. First, she forced Shadow to have these unwanted feelings for her. Now Shadow had a terrible internal battle within himself because of her. However, she was finishing this now.

"Let's go...we are going to go see the witch that told me about the spell right now", Amy grabbed Shadow by his wrist but Shadow resisted by not moving. "Shadow, what's wrong?", Amy looked at him, preoccupied that he may be feeling ill again.

"I don't want to get rid of this spell", Shadow looked directly at her eyes and he grabbed her hands softly. Speaking loud, he wanted to make his point clear.

"I want to stay in love with you"

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A/N: Did you miss me? The first story of the year, I think. This one shot will only have two parts, which the second part I will write very soon. Thank you for reading the first part of this short story.

Shadow may be a little out of character but its all about the love spell...or is it not?

Is Shadow really in love? Or is it just the spell talking? Mmm we will see.