The next day at the indian village, Nebula was taking Shadow to the river to help him get a drink of water. Shadow's injury was getting better and he's able to walk again and he did not feel pain anymore.

"No snow anymore. Spring season has arrived" Nebula said.

"Yes. Thanks for helping me the last few days. If you didn't come to help me I would have been either crippled or killed" Shadow said, smiling a bit.

"You're welcome, Shadow" Nebula said smiling back. Then they watched how some salmons were jumping out of the water and some otters swimming there as well.

"I was saving this the other day when you were injured. Here" Nebula gave him the fresh apple.

"Thanks" Shadow takes it and takes an bite out of it, "Tastes fruity and fresh"

"Yeah, and I got to admit these otters at the rivers are kinda cute" Nebula said.

Shadow looked at the river to see the otters jumping out of the water and catches fish in their mouths. From a distance a beaver were building dams.

"Come, let's go to the meadow" Nebula said and turns into her raven form. Shadow nods and turns into his horse shape to run after Nebula. They ran and flies past the pine trees in the forest to find the right way to the meadow. Shadow's mane and tail flew in the wind while running and he looked up at Nebula flying like an eagle.

"Show me what you got, big boy" she said in telepathy.

"Oh yeah?" Shadow smirks and ran faster, dodging the trees in the way and Nebula flew sideways to avoid the branches in the trees.

"Not bad. Oh, we're getting close to the meadow" Nebula said.

Shadow nods and just as they are about to reach there, a wild bobcat appeared out of nowhere and leaps onto Shadow, biting him in the neck.

"NEEEEEEEIGH!!!" Shadow neighed in pain and tries to shake the bobcat off him, but it claws him and keeps biting.

"SHADOW!!" Nebula gasped and flies down to help him.

"No, I got this!" Shadow said in telepathy and keeps jumping up and down to get the wild cat off his back.

"RRAAAWWWRRRR!!!!" the bobcat was still hanging onto Shadow but this big horse is not gonna let this beast win.

"GET OFF ME!!!" Shadow grunts and rolls down on the wild bobcat to the ground. The bobcat flinched in pain from Shadow's heavy weight but no serious broken bones.

"NEEEEEEEIGH!!!!!" Shadow stands on his hind legs and waves his front hooves to show the wild cat how tough and strong he is, "GET LOST, WILD BEAST!!!" he neighed and almost stomps his hooves on the ground close to the bobcat, snorting in anger.

The bobcat got scared and ran off in the forest while Shadow chased it, making sure that the wild cat is gone and doesn't come back. Shadow snorts again and smirked in victory, letting the bobcat run off.

"Shadow, that was awesome!" Nebula said in telepathy.

"That's why I love facing danger in the forest" Shadow said in telepathy.

"You like danger? And it doesn't scare you?" she asked and morphs back into a hedgehog.

Shadow morphs back to a hedgehog, "Yeah. It's very exciting to learn to not feel fear" he said.

Back at the village,

Sonic in his wolf form was practicing against Silver in his deer form in a fight.

"Please don't injure each other, boys" Amy said.

"We won't" Sonic said to her in telepathy, softly biting Silver on the neck.

Silver then knocked him off and throws him at the grass, counting his hoof, "Alright, this might hurt a bit" he said to Sonic and rushes at him with his antlers down, Sonic moved out in the way and Silver missed him.

"Ha! All bark and no bite!" Sonic smirked and wags his tail as a taunt.

"Ha ha ha. Well here I come again, big wolf" Silver charges at Sonic again and this time he got Sonic between his antlers, pinning him down on the ground.

"GET OFF ME!!!" Sonic growled and kicks Silver off.

"Ow!" Silver groaned and got up on his feet, shaking his head a bit. Then Sonic rushes at Silver and jumps on Silver's back pretending to bite him again. This caused Silver to fall over with Sonic.

"Ugh! What the hell?!" Sonic groans.

"Give up, flea dog?" Silver chuckled.

"Never, tree head!" Sonic smirked and clawed him.

"OW!!!" Silver screamed in pain and turned back to a hedgehog, "Hey man that hurts!" he yelled at Sonic.

"Sorry Silver" Sonic said in telepathy and turns back to a hedgehog as well.

"Guys you were not careful" Amy said to them.

"I know, I know. Sometimes it always feels like a real fight than a practice fight" Sonic sighs.

"Next time we better be careful" Silver said, touching his forelocks that were his antlers.

"Well at least you are both okay" Amy said and hugs Sonic.

"Yup. Since you're a gypsy, do you know about palmistry because we don't?" Silver said.

"Yes I do. Let me start with Sonic's hand" Amy said, looking at Sonic's hand, "Hmmm.....you have a very good heart line for a hedgehog I see. Oh, and this one means your bravery is very strong"

"Do I?" Sonic asked her curiously. Amy nods and lets go of his hand.

"I can see why you're always brave at fighting predators because you don't get coward" Silver said.

"Yeah. That's who I am, Silver. Well if you excuse me I need to go for a walk in the forest" Sonic said. Amy and Silver watches him leave and then Amy checks Silver's palm.

"Wow, your head line has a lot of wisdom I see. Oh, and this one means you're a little shy. Your palm has a lot of wisdom in you" Amy said.

"Am I? I'm not that shy but I am very wise indeed" Silver said with a slight blush.

"Yes, according to your palm you are a little shy" Amy said.

"Alright, I am. But I'm also naive" Silver said.

"I've noticed that, Silver. You are a sort of naive too" Amy said.

"Oh, thanks for reading my palm" Silver said and goes to his tent. Amy then decides to go after Sonic.

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"Killing things is not my style, Shadow. I know there are some bad people out there but killing is never the answer to bring things back to normal. Which is why I care for wildlife creatures in the forest" Nebula said.

"I understand, Nebula. I can't kill animals that got babies with them, without a mother the babies are vulnerable to threats" Shadow said.

"Same too. Except I hate bugs like spiders and ants. They creep me out" Nebula said.

"Really?" Shadow asked her. Nebula nods and she looks up into the sky where the sun was high up.

"Yep, spiders may have the killing blow in their mandibles" Nebula said.

"You mean like poison?" Shadow asked her.

"Yeah. But those I fear has not much poison" Nebula said. Then they saw Sonic walking nearby.