Who knew: chapter 23

Who knew: chapter 23

Shadow's POV

I woke up to find myself having slept the whole day away. It was already late in the evening, so i don't think that i would be able to have so sleep now. I stroked my belly as the baby seemed to be asleep. That made me a bit sad. It made me feel alone as he or she was my only company now and probably would be for a very long time to come.

I sat up on the bed that i had moved into the warm room. At first i wanted to rest for a while, but i ended up falling asleep. I yawned and stretched myself a bit. I groaned as i heard and felt my stomache growl in hunger. I hadn't eaten in quite a while. This wasn't good. Food was something i need right now. I don't think if the child would survive on chaos controll like i did. So i didn't know if i had to eat for it or not. But i had to just to be safe. Meaning that i would be needing to get food somewhere. But where?

This were going to be some very long months and even years if i didn't know how to get my hands on food. This issue just made everything more complicated for me. I guess that i had no other choice then to go out into the cold and search for them. Well, i had to if there was no other way to take care of both of us. I really didn't think this through, did i? Maybe if i had then i would've been able to take care of us, but it just wasn't meant to be.

With a hurting heart and my head down i took my winter coat and pulled it on. I searched for the entrance and walked out into the cold.  I turned into the direction of the camp as i wanted to walk back to that area and search for signs that could lead me into the direction they had escaped to. But something else caught me eyes. It was a hare. So animals still lived in this forest althought it had been burned down around the ruins of the city by Eggman's attack. I sighed. This was going to be hard, but if i wanted to survive then i had no other choice.

Rouge's POV

"have you found it yet, Tails?" Knuckles asked as Tails was rummaging through his stuff. He was trying to find the device that could detect chaos emeralds or any signals of chaos energy in general. Shadow was a master in chaos controll. With all that energy in him he is going to give off quite a bit of energy and the device was going to detect it and lead us to him. I couldn't wait till he found it. I was so worried for my friend. Especially with his condition.

"here it is!" Tails yelled as he held it in his hands. "finally!" Knuckles said as he was getting a bit impatient from all the waiting. "well, what're you waiting for? search for him!" Amy practically demanded as she looked over his shoulder at the small remote-like thing in his hands. Tails turned it on and searched for any signals.

A few minutes passed and both of them gasped. "what's wrong?" I asked. The two of them turned to me and Knuckles. They had shock and fear written all over their faces. "what? come on tell me!" I said as they were starting to scare me with their silence and expression. "there's none." Tails said. "none? what do you mean?" The red echidna next to me asked the two kids who were crouching in front of us. "there is no signal. Shadow isn't giving off any chaos energy." Tails said with a shaky voice.

"what does that mean?" Another voice asked. Me and Knuckles turned to look behind us and saw Sally standing there. She had a shocked and worried expression on her face. But i doubt that this worry was for Shadow. Tails was hesitant, but his mouth finally opened to tell her. "Shadow can't survive without chaos energy. this could mean that he died." The small kitsune said and immediatly started crying on the thought.