Chapter 1: Prologue and Aftermath
It had been three months and four days since Cosmo sacrificed herself to save her friends, and Tails counted nearly every second that went by since then. Tails was in his house thinking about that day, "Why why Cosmo? Why did you force me." he mumbled to himself as he sobbed. Suddenly there was a knock on the door, "who is it?" Tails said with traces of sadness in his voice, "its Cream, please open the door Tails.". Tails sighed as he got up from his seat on the couch and proceeded to the door.
Tails opened the door to see cream as normal as usual, except for the fact that her Chao, Cheese was not present. "Hi Tails, umm I was wondering if you wanted to go to the lake spot the I was telling you about.", This wasn't the first time that Cream had asked Tails to 'date' her. Ever since Cosmo's death, Cream felt that Tails needed someone in his life. He did but not now, not after the dramatizing experience he had. He even had a count of how many attempts she had made 27, this making it 28, "No thanks, Cream im not feeling well today." Tails said moderately politely, "That's what you said the last time." Cream said angrily, "Well im serious now so I'll talk to you later.". With that Cream left leaving a trail of anger in her attitude.
Tails closed the door and sighed falling to his knees, and resumed crying. He arose from his knees and sat down on the couch, "Tailsan" it was Cosmo's soothing voice. Tails looked next to him and saw the figure of Cosmo standing there with her hands clasped together by her mouth. This wasn't the first time that Tails had seen the ghost of Cosmo, she had frequently appeared right when he seemed depressed the most. Tails had mostly took this as a sign of comfort, but other times he had seen this as an act of torment. Right now was a bit of both, "Cosmo I just want you to come back it is my deepest wish, please just come back.". The ghost of Cosmo only stood there with her hands clasped as she always had when Tails saw her, "That's all you ever do is just stand there and say nothing! Cosmo I need you now more than ever. Ahhhh!", Tails screamed as he burst into tears. After about 3 minutes of sobbing his timer beeped. He pressed the button on his watch to seize the noise, he rose from his seat and walked over to the plant that he had ever since a seed, a seed that was tossed by Cosmo. This is what made the plant so special, it was from Cosmo, he poured the water and gave plant food and hovered over it for a while. He sat and thought about Cosmo for a while longer and let a tear drop from his eye and into the plant. A faint and un noticeable glow came from the soil in which the plant was contained in.
Tails left the plant and sat on the ground beside the couch, he then began breathing as if to obtain a state of meditation. Espio had been teaching Tails to relax after seeing how depressed he was. He taught Tails a few basic meditation skills during his break from his job as a chaotics member. Tails frequently practice these skills for it did help but only seemed to come back and haunt him the next day.
Another knock was heard on the door, "Tails? Tails I know you are in there. Com'on bud let me in.". Tails recognized this voice, it was Sonic, it seemed that sometimes, that Sonic was the only one able to cheer Tails up. Tails sprung to his feet and ran to open the door. Before he did he wiped all traces of tears and sorrow from his face. Tails opened the door, "Hey bud how you holdin up," Sonic said with his arms crossed resting on each other, " oh im doing fine." Tails tried to hide his current feelings, "no you're not, you usually like to work on projects, like trying to refurbish the X-Tornado, but anyway I found something that you will want.". Sonic grabbed tail's hand and place a seed in it, it was the same seed that he had from Cosmo. Quickly Tails had gotten a pot that matched the existing pot that had the first seed from Cosmo. Tails put in the soil and carefully placed the seed in, and buried it. "wow thanks Sonic" Tails said almost to quietly, "no problem, if you need anything just ask.", and with that Sonic sped of into the night.
Tails looked at the clock "10:35pm", "gahh that's really late, I best get to bed." Tails rushed off into the bathroom and quickly showered off before going into his bed. Tails had completely forgotten about the incident and was exhausted from crying, thus allowing him to fall asleep instantly.