• Shadow, you are my best friend.
    I trust you more than I trust myself.
    You've taught me how to push myself beyond my limits, without even saying a word to me.
    You've shut yourself away from the rest of the world, and have only shed one tear throughout your whole life.
    A black and red blur that rips across the world in confusion, and hopeless anger.
    Your masculine voice, that chimes repeatedly in the ears of anyone who listens.
    In unimaginable immortality, you are the Ultimate lifeform who represents freedom itself.
    Your first trusted companion, who was lost on that day, on the Space Colony Ark.
    To witness such a tragic display, the stains of scarlet splattered on a bright blue dress of an innocent girl, who wanted you to live on and protect this Earth.
    But the race she wanted you to protect is the race that killed her.
    She was willing to forgive them, so why can't you?
    You scowl at the gentle smiles of strangers.
    Forced to compete with your opposite, who is everything that you're not, and nothing you are.
    Filled with the fragrance of nature, the full aroma of skimming through the grass, trees, and shrubs.
    Searching, tracking, tracing down your true identity.
    The sharp, piercing flesh wounds, or the deep emotional scars?
    To eliminate one, you must bear the pain of the other.
    You, whose opposite lies within them.
    Strong, but vunerable.
    Brave, but terrified.
    Your crimson eyes that can burn holes through the most mentally stable person, and freeze the flaming sun itself.
    Jet black fur, that ripples through the wind.
    It can shield you from the outer world, but not from your own deceitful thoughts.
    Blood red stripes that symbolize you.
    Rage, malice, vengeance, wrath, courage; these are all you.
    But maybe someone wil come along and melt the chilling barrier that you have formed to protect yourself.
    Until then, keep on searching.
    So this is my dedication to you, Shadow.
    You, whose better judgement os clouded, fogged, buried beneath the unreachable space into eternal stardust.
    You, who does not share his moments of joyous ecstasy, or his gut-wrenching sorrow and dejection.
    You, the only Ultimate lifeform.