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PROLOGUE
      Blue petals, shimmering like sapphires, fluttered like down feathers in the delicate hands of Amy Rose. The air was sweet with the perfume of spring flowers, the grass beneath her feet were cool to the touch, and as she tilted her head towards the warm morning sun, she was drowned in golden bliss. Her mind went into a hazy dream as she stared at the clear blue sky above her. Sonic. Her beloved hero was never too far from her mind. Sonic's messy quills that usually framed his face in a blue tidal wave. His emerald eyes, two inviting forests of never-ending joy. His hands. His smile. His nose. His everything.
      Who cares if she was living a lie. As long as he was hers forever, she didn't mind his ignorance. More importantly, she didn't care if she never went back to that place again. She didn't. She wouldn't. Never again.
CHAPTER 1
      "He loves me. He loves me. He loves me...Oh! He's going to marry me!!!" Amy Rose squealed as she plucked the petals of the blue rose in her hand. Smiling, she threw down the empty stem and sighed happily. "Oh, Sonic. You'll be mine for sure today!"
      Determined to succeed, she jumped up, ready to charge ahead into the world, and took a deep breath. Almost instantly, the melodic siren's song of chaos emeralds hit her ears. Some were very faint and some were clear, getting louder and louder in an incredibly fast rate. In the distance, she could see a blue burr heading her way. Without another thought, Amy ran down the little hill she was sitting on and threw herself on the speeding owner of the chaos emerald.
                                                     CRASH!
      "Oh, Sonic! I knew you couldn't stay away from me!" Amy squealed as the hedgehog underneath her grunted, trying to squirm away from her deadly hug.
      "Umm. Amy? I don't think Shadow likes being pinned to ground." Sonic said.
      Amy blinked and stared at the annoyed Ultimate Lifeform before leaping onto Sonic, who was more than prepared for the crushing touch of the pink female. Shadow slowly rose and dusted himself off as Sonic endured the usual affectionate gestures. She let out a small purr as Sonic returned her hug in a friendly manner. Between the power radiating off the two male hedgehogs and the chiming treasures they each carried with them, Amy was having a little difficulty remaining sane. Her entire soul itched to claim the energy. The strength used to keep down her urges sent shivers down her back.
      "You know Amy, I realize that it's a warm day outside, but if you're shivering, you should still cover up," Sonic said. Amy looked up into his eyes and smiled.
      "If you're worried, you can always warm me up. I won't mind," Amy murmured, making Sonic blush.
      Shadow cleared his throat. Amy huffed at the interruption. Sonic silently thanked Shadow for the interruption.
      "If you don't mind, Amy, I think Sonic and I should finish our little race," Shadow said as kindly as he could.
      Amy smiled at him. She really wanted to yell at him, but how could she? I mean, it wasn't as if he did anything wrong. It was her fault for interrupting their race to begin with.....but then again, why should she care? She was just starting to get cozy with Sonic and he interrupted them! Just because he's some unearthly, alien, "Ultimate Lifeform" he thinks he can do anything he wants! Not on her watch!
      Just as she opened her mouth to yell at Shadow, the unthinkable happened.
      The scent of Cheiras, the only flowers that grew near the Gorziken Kingdom, swamped the air in a sudden frenzy of stormy energy. The three hedgehogs were engulfed in a smokey haze as the presense of another chaos emerald approached. Amy Rose's previous irritation reached new levels. Impossible! There was no way they could have found her this early! She had made sure to smother her essence to the normal levels of a young female hedgehog. This turn of events was going to destroy everything she had worked hard to build here! How dare they! More importantly, how will she cover this up? What would Sonic think? About this? About her? The mere idea of losing Sonic sent her heart in a spiral towards the ground. Either way, she had to lose her disguise. If she left it on, she would be defenseless against their attacks and even if she did, the only reason she put it on in the first place was to get closer to Sonic, which has been ruined thanks to them. Reaching into her essence, she shredded the cloak she put over her chaos energy, freeing it from years of captivity and slamming it against the intruders.
      Shadow and Sonic flinched away from Amy's overwhelming energy.
     "Wha-" Sonic started.
     "What's going on?" Shadow demanded. "Who are they?"
      "Unwanted visitors from Gorziken Kingdom." Amy growled as the storm surrounded them.
      "That's an unusually cruel thing to say to your superior," a honey rich voice said from the storm. The smoke in front of them cleared to present a beautiful young tigress with an army of jaguars fanned out behind her. "Then again, you did betray us by running away."
      "Princess Kara," Amy spat. "How in the Blue Moons did you find me?!"
      "Lucky guess?" Kara shrugged. "It doesn't really matter. I need you to return."
      "Unlikely."
       Kara snapped her fingers and within seconds, the jaguars had completed a circle around them. Kara glared at Amy with hot fury.
       "You don't seem to realize your situation, my dear Rosetta," Kara purred.
       Then, Amy Rose did the most childish thing you could possibly do in a situation like this. She stuck out her tongue.
      Offended, Kara pounced, missed, and tackled Sonic instead. Before Kara could even feel shocked, Amy summoned her hammer and launched it at her.
      "Keep your dirty paws off my Sonikku!"
      Kara blinked slowly as realization dawned on her. "Oh? How interesting." She summoned a silver gun engraved with curly ivy designs and pointed it at Sonic. "Say goodbye!"
      She pulled the trigger, but Sonic had reacted fast enough to dodge it just in time.
      "You're going to have to be faster to get a piece of me!" Sonic said, giving Kara his trademark smirk. Jumping high into the air, he started to spin dash the surrounding jaguars, but after the first ten went down, Sonic ended up on the bottom of a mountain of jaguars who had thrown themselves at him in a desperate attempt to stop him.
      "I didn't realize you made some pretty strong friends, Rosetta." Kara growled. With another snap of her fingers, the jaguars on top of Sonic handcuffed him to Kara. "There now. If you want your beloved blueberry back, then you're going to have to return with us."
      "Wh-! Hey! I'm not a blueberry!" Sonic shouted.
      Amy continued her silent refusal.
      "I see." Kara said. She moved closer to Sonic, cuddling up against him and purring sweetly. Amy grit her teeth and swallowed the oncoming insults she had. "Fine then."
      Kara took Sonic's chaos emerald and then her own. Amy's eyes widened.
      Amy turned towards Shadows and reached towards his chaos emerald.
                                              "CHAOS CONTROL!"
      The world around them evaporated, replaced by the chaos energy hurtling them towards a new destination. Amy sent blast after blast of her own energy, forcing jaguars to fall out of the energy travel zone. Summoning up a final blow, Amy aimed at Kara.
      "Wait, Amy! Stop!" Shadow cried and launched himself at her. The unexpected attack forced Amy to cause an explosion between her and Kara, sending both parties out of the chaos energy zone.
      Lush green trees and bushes appeared around Amy and Shadow, indicating that their location was in some peaceful woods. The sky was painted in every different shade of orange, but the sun itself was a bright yellow. There weren't any grass, however. In replacement, the ground was covered in Cheiras. Their scent was everywhere around them. Amy blinked open her eyes to glare at Shadow.
      "Why did you stop me, Shadow?!" Amy screeched. "I could have gotten her!"
      "Did you forget Sonic is handcuffed to her? If you hit her, he would have gone down together," Shadow shouted back.
      Amy blinked. She was still mad, of course, but he had a point. Frustrated, she growled at him.
      "Whatever. Get off me," she commanded as she realized she was pinned under Shadow. Shadow's ruby eyes flared.
      "No."
      "What?!"
      "Not until I get some answers," he growled. Amy glared at him.
      "Fine! What do you want to know?"
      "I want to know what's going on. Who was that, why did she call you Rosetta, and what did she want with you?"
      Amy huffed. Oh, great. It was storytelling time.
      She started with the day she met Kara. She was a young duchess back then and as proud as any other wealthy seven year old girl. On a cool autumn night, she went to Gorziken Castle to attend the tenth birthday of Princess Kara, the Daughter of Night. It was a very special day for Kara, because it was the day she would be given the Gifts of the Blue Moon. However, when the Priestess was about to bestow the Gifts upon her, the Blue Moon rejected Kara. It gathered itself into a ball of energy and flew away from her. Panicked, Kara chased after it. The whole thing created chaos with people rushing to get out of the way of the Gift and Kara. During that time, Amy was on the balcony when the energy ball headed straight for her. As the Gift fused with Amy, Kara ran into her, toppling them both over and into the fountain below. Afterwards, the Priestess announced that the Blue Moon had chosen Amy to have the Gift for a reason. Because of this, she was forced to live with Kara in the Castle. Despite it all, Amy and Kara became great friends until the night the King and Queen were killed.
      It happened in the throne room, right in front of Kara and Amy. An assassin dressed as a farmer released a flock of chickens and during the commotion, shot Kara's parents. Kara hated Amy from then on. She believed that Amy wanted her parents dead since she did not even try to save them with the Blue Moon's Gift.
      "Okay....so I get that she hates you now, but why would she want you to return?" Shadow asked.
      "The Gift of the Blue Moon's purpose is to defend Gorziken Kingdom from its enemies," Amy sighed. "Kara needs me to be the Kingdom's weapon. That's why she calls me Rosetta, you know. Rosetta, Princess Kara's living pink shield. With me by her side, she got many of the neighboring kingdoms to bow down to her rule."
      "Is that why you ran away? Because you didn't want her using you anymore?"
      Amy paused. "I ran away because I fell in love with Sonic, of course! It was love at first sight I tell you!"
      Shadow stared into her eyes. He knew she was lying, but realized it was not the appropriate time to ask. He knew better than anyone what it was like to be haunted by the past.
      "Okay, so I told you what's going on. Would you please get off me now?" Amy mumbled.
      "One more thing."
      "What is it?" Amy asked, annoyed.
     "I'm feeling kind of giddy."
     "What?" Amy watched as Shadow's normally hard ruby eyes liquefied. "Oh no."
     Caught up in her own story, she didn't realize how late it had gotten. The half moon was gleaming in the sky in all its silver glory and the Cheiras were in full bloom. This was one of the natural defenses of Gorziken Kingdom. During the day, the Cheira's filled the air with its sweet scent, but every night, its petals opened to release happy toxins. Naturally, Amy was immune because of the Blue Moon's Gift. Shadow on the other hand was neither immune nor used to it.
      "Ammmyyyyy," Shadow whined. "I wuvv youuuuu!"
      Amy blushed as Shadow hugged her and nuzzled into her neck. How was she going to track down Kara and Sonic with Shadow in this state?

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PROLOGUE
      Blue petals, shimmering like sapphires, fluttered like down feathers in the delicate hands of Amy Rose. The air was sweet with the perfume of spring flowers, the grass beneath her feet were cool to the touch, and as she tilted her head towards the warm morning sun, she was drowned in golden bliss. Her mind went into a hazy dream as she stared at the clear blue sky above her. Sonic. Her beloved hero was never too far from her mind. Sonic's messy quills that usually framed his face in a blue tidal wave. His emerald eyes, two inviting forests of never-ending joy. His hands. His smile. His nose. His everything.
      Who cares if she was living a lie. As long as he was hers forever, she didn't mind his ignorance. More importantly, she didn't care if she never went back to that place again. She didn't. She wouldn't. Never again.
CHAPTER 1
      "He loves me. He loves me. He loves me...Oh! He's going to marry me!!!" Amy Rose squealed as she plucked the petals of the blue rose in her hand. Smiling, she threw down the empty stem and sighed happily. "Oh, Sonic. You'll be mine for sure today!"
      Determined to succeed, she jumped up, ready to charge ahead into the world, and took a deep breath. Almost instantly, the melodic siren's song of chaos emeralds hit her ears. Some were very faint and some were clear, getting louder and louder in an incredibly fast rate. In the distance, she could see a blue burr heading her way. Without another thought, Amy ran down the little hill she was sitting on and threw herself on the speeding owner of the chaos emerald.
                                                     CRASH!
      "Oh, Sonic! I knew you couldn't stay away from me!" Amy squealed as the hedgehog underneath her grunted, trying to squirm away from her deadly hug.
      "Umm. Amy? I don't think Shadow likes being pinned to ground." Sonic said.
      Amy blinked and stared at the annoyed Ultimate Lifeform before leaping onto Sonic, who was more than prepared for the crushing touch of the pink female. Shadow slowly rose and dusted himself off as Sonic endured the usual affectionate gestures. She let out a small purr as Sonic returned her hug in a friendly manner. Between the power radiating off the two male hedgehogs and the chiming treasures they each carried with them, Amy was having a little difficulty remaining sane. Her entire soul itched to claim the energy. The strength used to keep down her urges sent shivers down her back.
      "You know Amy, I realize that it's a warm day outside, but if you're shivering, you should still cover up," Sonic said. Amy looked up into his eyes and smiled.
      "If you're worried, you can always warm me up. I won't mind," Amy murmured, making Sonic blush.
      Shadow cleared his throat. Amy huffed at the interruption. Sonic silently thanked Shadow for the interruption.
      "If you don't mind, Amy, I think Sonic and I should finish our little race," Shadow said as kindly as he could.
      Amy smiled at him. She really wanted to yell at him, but how could she? I mean, it wasn't as if he did anything wrong. It was her fault for interrupting their race to begin with.....but then again, why should she care? She was just starting to get cozy with Sonic and he interrupted them! Just because he's some unearthly, alien, "Ultimate Lifeform" he thinks he can do anything he wants! Not on her watch!
      Just as she opened her mouth to yell at Shadow, the unthinkable happened.
      The scent of Cheiras, the only flowers that grew near the Gorziken Kingdom, swamped the air in a sudden frenzy of stormy energy. The three hedgehogs were engulfed in a smokey haze as the presense of another chaos emerald approached. Amy Rose's previous irritation reached new levels. Impossible! There was no way they could have found her this early! She had made sure to smother her essence to the normal levels of a young female hedgehog. This turn of events was going to destroy everything she had worked hard to build here! How dare they! More importantly, how will she cover this up? What would Sonic think? About this? About her? The mere idea of losing Sonic sent her heart in a spiral towards the ground. Either way, she had to lose her disguise. If she left it on, she would be defenseless against their attacks and even if she did, the only reason she put it on in the first place was to get closer to Sonic, which has been ruined thanks to them. Reaching into her essence, she shredded the cloak she put over her chaos energy, freeing it from years of captivity and slamming it against the intruders.
      Shadow and Sonic flinched away from Amy's overwhelming energy.
     "Wha-" Sonic started.
     "What's going on?" Shadow demanded. "Who are they?"
      "Unwanted visitors from Gorziken Kingdom." Amy growled as the storm surrounded them.
      "That's an unusually cruel thing to say to your superior," a honey rich voice said from the storm. The smoke in front of them cleared to present a beautiful young tigress with an army of jaguars fanned out behind her. "Then again, you did betray us by running away."
      "Princess Kara," Amy spat. "How in the Blue Moons did you find me?!"
      "Lucky guess?" Kara shrugged. "It doesn't really matter. I need you to return."
      "Unlikely."
       Kara snapped her fingers and within seconds, the jaguars had completed a circle around them. Kara glared at Amy with hot fury.
       "You don't seem to realize your situation, my dear Rosetta," Kara purred.
       Then, Amy Rose did the most childish thing you could possibly do in a situation like this. She stuck out her tongue.
      Offended, Kara pounced, missed, and tackled Sonic instead. Before Kara could even feel shocked, Amy summoned her hammer and launched it at her.
      "Keep your dirty paws off my Sonikku!"
      Kara blinked slowly as realization dawned on her. "Oh? How interesting." She summoned a silver gun engraved with curly ivy designs and pointed it at Sonic. "Say goodbye!"
      She pulled the trigger, but Sonic had reacted fast enough to dodge it just in time.
      "You're going to have to be faster to get a piece of me!" Sonic said, giving Kara his trademark smirk. Jumping high into the air, he started to spin dash the surrounding jaguars, but after the first ten went down, Sonic ended up on the bottom of a mountain of jaguars who had thrown themselves at him in a desperate attempt to stop him.
      "I didn't realize you made some pretty strong friends, Rosetta." Kara growled. With another snap of her fingers, the jaguars on top of Sonic handcuffed him to Kara. "There now. If you want your beloved blueberry back, then you're going to have to return with us."
      "Wh-! Hey! I'm not a blueberry!" Sonic shouted.
      Amy continued her silent refusal.
      "I see." Kara said. She moved closer to Sonic, cuddling up against him and purring sweetly. Amy grit her teeth and swallowed the oncoming insults she had. "Fine then."
      Kara took Sonic's chaos emerald and then her own. Amy's eyes widened.
      Amy turned towards Shadows and reached towards his chaos emerald.
                                              "CHAOS CONTROL!"
      The world around them evaporated, replaced by the chaos energy hurtling them towards a new destination. Amy sent blast after blast of her own energy, forcing jaguars to fall out of the energy travel zone. Summoning up a final blow, Amy aimed at Kara.
      "Wait, Amy! Stop!" Shadow cried and launched himself at her. The unexpected attack forced Amy to cause an explosion between her and Kara, sending both parties out of the chaos energy zone.
      Lush green trees and bushes appeared around Amy and Shadow, indicating that their location was in some peaceful woods. The sky was painted in every different shade of orange, but the sun itself was a bright yellow. There weren't any grass, however. In replacement, the ground was covered in Cheiras. Their scent was everywhere around them. Amy blinked open her eyes to glare at Shadow.
      "Why did you stop me, Shadow?!" Amy screeched. "I could have gotten her!"
      "Did you forget Sonic is handcuffed to her? If you hit her, he would have gone down together," Shadow shouted back.
      Amy blinked. She was still mad, of course, but he had a point. Frustrated, she growled at him.
      "Whatever. Get off me," she commanded as she realized she was pinned under Shadow. Shadow's ruby eyes flared.
      "No."
      "What?!"
      "Not until I get some answers," he growled. Amy glared at him.
      "Fine! What do you want to know?"
      "I want to know what's going on. Who was that, why did she call you Rosetta, and what did she want with you?"
      Amy huffed. Oh, great. It was storytelling time.
      She started with the day she met Kara. She was a young duchess back then and as proud as any other wealthy seven year old girl. On a cool autumn night, she went to Gorziken Castle to attend the tenth birthday of Princess Kara, the Daughter of Night. It was a very special day for Kara, because it was the day she would be given the Gifts of the Blue Moon. However, when the Priestess was about to bestow the Gifts upon her, the Blue Moon rejected Kara. It gathered itself into a ball of energy and flew away from her. Panicked, Kara chased after it. The whole thing created chaos with people rushing to get out of the way of the Gift and Kara. During that time, Amy was on the balcony when the energy ball headed straight for her. As the Gift fused with Amy, Kara ran into her, toppling them both over and into the fountain below. Afterwards, the Priestess announced that the Blue Moon had chosen Amy to have the Gift for a reason. Because of this, she was forced to live with Kara in the Castle. Despite it all, Amy and Kara became great friends until the night the King and Queen were killed.
      It happened in the throne room, right in front of Kara and Amy. An assassin dressed as a farmer released a flock of chickens and during the commotion, shot Kara's parents. Kara hated Amy from then on. She believed that Amy wanted her parents dead since she did not even try to save them with the Blue Moon's Gift.
      "Okay....so I get that she hates you now, but why would she want you to return?" Shadow asked.
      "The Gift of the Blue Moon's purpose is to defend Gorziken Kingdom from its enemies," Amy sighed. "Kara needs me to be the Kingdom's weapon. That's why she calls me Rosetta, you know. Rosetta, Princess Kara's living pink shield. With me by her side, she got many of the neighboring kingdoms to bow down to her rule."
      "Is that why you ran away? Because you didn't want her using you anymore?"
      Amy paused. "I ran away because I fell in love with Sonic, of course! It was love at first sight I tell you!"
      Shadow stared into her eyes. He knew she was lying, but realized it was not the appropriate time to ask. He knew better than anyone what it was like to be haunted by the past.
      "Okay, so I told you what's going on. Would you please get off me now?" Amy mumbled.
      "One more thing."
      "What is it?" Amy asked, annoyed.
     "I'm feeling kind of giddy."
     "What?" Amy watched as Shadow's normally hard ruby eyes liquefied. "Oh no."
     Caught up in her own story, she didn't realize how late it had gotten. The half moon was gleaming in the sky in all its silver glory and the Cheiras were in full bloom. This was one of the natural defenses of Gorziken Kingdom. During the day, the Cheira's filled the air with its sweet scent, but every night, its petals opened to release happy toxins. Naturally, Amy was immune because of the Blue Moon's Gift. Shadow on the other hand was neither immune nor used to it.
      "Ammmyyyyy," Shadow whined. "I wuvv youuuuu!"
      Amy blushed as Shadow hugged her and nuzzled into her neck. How was she going to track down Kara and Sonic with Shadow in this state?