Mystic Ruins Hotel

Shadow: *turns to Sonic* Well hedgehog?
Sonic: Well, I guess my gift for you can be--
Shadow: *suddenly socks him in the face*
Sonic: *flies back a bit* Ow! What the heck Shadow!?
Shadow: You know Sonic, that's the best gift so far. *smirk*
Sonic: Do you want your gift or not!?
Shadow: You mean I get to beat you down more?
Sonic: NO! *throws a box at Shadow*
Shadow: *catches and opens it* ...What is it?
Sonic: *obviously miffed* You're the Ultimate Lifeform! YOU FIGURE IT OUT!
Shadow: -.-
Sonic: Watch. *puts his Chaos Emerald in the device and grabs onto Shadow* Chaos Control: Locate Tikal!
*Sonic and Shadow dissapear in a light*

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*light appears right next to Tikal*
Tikal: ! Oh! Shadow! Sonic! What a... surprise to see you here!
Sonic: Hey Tikal. *looks at damages* Woah.
Shadow: *sees Mana yelling at time frozen Whip and Knuckles floating in the pool* Faker...
Sonic: Yeah, Tikal, I think it'd be safe you just come back to the birthday party.
Tikal: Oh no! I forgot it was today! Forgive me Sonic, Shadow.
Sonic: Yeah. It's no problem. Chaos Control: Locate Tails!
*Sonic, Shadow, and Tikal dissappear in a light*

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*They all reappear*
Sonic: And that's what your device does.
Shadow: And you came up with this?
Sonic: My idea, but Tails made it.
Shadow: ...*thinking of all the ways he could use it to his advantage*

Rei: *blink blink*

Sonic: What?

Rei: It just seems like something from my world.

Sonic: Really?

Rei: Yeah, then again we do have quite a few similar devices.

Sonic: *seems a tad irritated* We're not going to go into the whole "alternate universes" mumbo jumbo again, are we?

Rei: Hn......

Sonic: *mubles some unintelligent things*
Amy: Well, anyways, Tikal, did you bring a gift for Shadow?
Tikal: I di- Oh... No... I left it at Angel Island...
Sonic: Why don't you go pick it up real quick? We can wait for a bit.
Tikal: Um, Okay. *takes device with a somewhat clueless look*
Shadow: Come with me. *holds onto Tikal, and telports them out*
Amy: Now we just wait.
Sonic: Great...
Amy: Do you have a gift for Shadow Rei?

Rei: Um.. Yeah, Actually I do.

Amy: Mind telling us? ^^ He's not here, so we can share you know.

Rei: Well, I'm not sure how good it is. But I got him a brand new hover-cycle.

Sonic: Wow. That's a pretty good idea.
Amy: Can you imagine if we got that for Mana's birthday?
*Mobians who've seen Mana drive before imagine the scenario, and then shudder*
Sonic: That's a scary thought...

Rei: *flinches at memory* That would be really bad idea. Plus, I've done it before, it was gone in a day.

*Shadow and Tikal appear in a flash of light*
Amy: You're back! Great! ^^
Tikal: Umm, I'm not sure if you'd like it Shadow,... but it's something that was a normal custom to give in my time...
Shadow: *opens it and finds a blue jewel* It's a...?
Tikal: It's like a good luck charm. I thought blue might be a good idea because of Maria.... >>
Shadow: And new ring surpressors.
Tikal: I know your current ones hold many dear memories,... But it might be a good idea to start fresh.
Amy: I think those are some good gifts Tikal!
Tikal: *blushes* Thank you Amy.
Amy: Okay! Rei?

Rei: *pull a small box out of bag* Here.... *Hold it out to Shadow.*

Amy: Isn't it a little small...?
Sonic:
Shadow: *opens it* ...?

Rei: It's from my world so it compresses into a capsoal(sp) form when you need it too. Just press the button and throw it over there. * Is refering to the empty area a short distance away from us.*

Shadow: *presses button and tosses it into open space, and the hover cycle pops out*
Sonic and Amy:
Cream: Wow! That was amazing!
Tails: Woah! *looks around bike* Wow! That's some technology to seal something like this! I wonder if... *starts babbling about technology*
Shadow: *regains composure* This is... great Rei. Thanks. *smiles*

Rei: *rubs arm in moment of shyness* Your welcome. Happy Birthday, Shadow.

Sonic: Alrght! Last gift! Cream! Tails! You're up!
Cream: Okay!
Tails: Alright!
*they both exit the room and return with a large square object wrapped up with a bow on it*
Shadow: Wow... That's pretty big.
Cream: Please open it Mister Shadow! ^^
Shadow: *takes off the wrapping* Wha....
*The gift turns out to be a collage of many pictures of everyone with Shadow in everyone of them, which have some quite humorous ones as well*
Cream: They're pictures of all of our times together! Do you like it?
Shadow: It's pretty good. Where did you get all these pictures?
Cream: Tanya gave most of them to us. It's good she got these pictures too! ^^
Shadow: *too absorbed with pictures to be freaked out by the fact Tanya was able to collect all these pictures without them noticing*
Sonic: Were those two trained in the art of stalking?
Shadow; This is great Cream. Tails. Thank you.
Cream: *smiles broadly*
Sonic: Okay, so the party we sceduedled for Shadow is done,...
Amy: But now we can head over to my house for Sonic's party! ^^

Rei: *looks over the pictures*

Amy: Are you coming Rei?

*Ear twitches*
Whip: Wait, where'd Tikal go!?

Mana: *glare glare glare* You have more important things to worry about. Like how the hell you're going to pay for these damages!?