Twelve Faces of Death
Chapter 1
Note this story is a follow on from my first one so if you haven't read that this one will not make much sense.
~~~3 and a half years after the great demon attack, which had now become know as the week of hell.~~~
For the past three and a half years everyone had just got on with there lives. Sonic was still running, Amy was still running after him. Knuckles just spent all his time sitting on the step in front of the master emerald. Mitchell had gone back to the half life like nothing ever happened. Tails and Cosmo just went on living with each other, always having fun.
It was 9:00am on the train to Station Square. Tails and Cosmo were both sitting on the train as it rolled along. Tails was sitting up straight while Cosmo was laying into his shoulder still tired from her not getting enough sleep. Ever since the week of hell Cosmo had been having nightmares every so often. Usually about what would happen if the demons returned for her. She was almost asleep when the judder of the train pulling into the station brought her back to reality.
"You ok Cosmo?" Tails asked as he helped her to her feet.
"I'm fine, don't worry, it's just that I didn't get a lot of sleep last night" Cosmo replied as she pulled herself in to an awake position.
"Nightmares again?" Tails asked
"Yes, I don't know what to do. When ever I have one I can't seem to get back to sleep again" Cosmo explained
"Well don't worry about them now we have a big day ahead of us" Tails said as he took hold of Cosmo's hand and led her down the Train platform and out of the station. They walked up the street toward the museum. Tails was due to give a speech about the new exhibition which was set to open today. It was a special exhibit about the Demon attack on the city. Tails and Cosmo continued to walk down the pavement until they reached the outside of the museum.
"Well we're here" Tails said. Cosmo just smiled at him and walked inside while tails followed. The inside of the museum was huge. It hade about 12 columns supporting the ceiling which were about 30 ft high, each carved with incredible care. Tails walked over to the reception desk and rang the bell. About a few seconds later a very tall white dove walked over to the desk and looked down at Tails.
"I'm here to give a speech at the opening of the new exhibit" Tails said as he pulled a small card out of his pocket and put it flat on the desk. The receptionist looked at the card with a critical eye for about ten seconds before smiling. He opened the door beside the desk that read 'staff only' to let them both through. Tails took the card and put it back in his pocket, then took Cosmo's hand and led her down the hall to a room near the end. They walked through the door and into a small grey room filled with large boxes and stage props. It wasn't nearly as nice as the other room were.
"Where are we Tails?" Cosmo asked as they walked through the small room.
"This is a backstage room where they keep all the props for demonstrations and speeches" Tails explained. They walked down a narrow hall and up some stairs till they reached a door and some more stairs.
"This is where you need to go" Tails said as he pointed at the door. "Take this ticket and go to the seat number on it. I got to go get ready for my speech" Tails said as he passed Cosmo her ticket.
"Ok thanks Tails and good luck with your speech" Cosmo said as she opened the door and walked through closing it behind her. Tails walked up a few more stairs and round a corner to a small room leading onto a stage. There were about 4 other people in the room with him.
"Oh hello Tails good to see you could make it" a tall and well dressed bear said as he walked over to tails and shook his hand.
"Thanks professor" Tails replied
"Hope you don't get stage fright in there" the bear side with a bit of a laugh.
"I hope so too" Tails replied with a bit of a stutter in his voice. Cosmo walked in to a huge room with a stage at the front and what looked like about 300 seats facing the stage. The room was full of people who were all looking for their seats and talking among themselves. Cosmo walked over to the front row and looked for her seat. About 5 minutes after everyone was in their seat the stage lit up and silence fell over the room. A small male lion walked on to the stage dressed in a pure white lab coat. He walked over to the podium at the centre of the stage and began to speak in to the microphone with a very nervous voice.
"Er...Hello and welcome to the Grand museum of science and history. Thank you all for coming today to see this presentation on our new exhibit. I hope you will enjoy your day here and take some knowledge away with you. The day will start with a speech from Mr 'Miles Prower' and then you will be able to look freely around the exhibit as you wish, thank you and enjoy." The lion walked quickly off the stage and over to the room where Tails was. The tall bear walked over to the wall of the small room and picked up a microphone from the wall. He spoke in to it and his voice was projected across the main stage.
"And now to present his account Miles Prower" he turned and signalled Tails to go. Tails took a deep breath and walked on to the stage. Instantly he was struck with a wave of fear when he saw all the people. Tails took another deep breath and continued walking till he reached the podium. Tails could see Cosmo smiling at him so he smiled back and began to talk.
The presentation took about 20 minutes before Tails finished talking and walked of stage. Everyone got up and walked over of the main double doors, down the hall and over to the main exhibition room. Cosmo followed them and walked over behind Tails who was talking to the professors of the local university. When Tails was done talking Cosmo jumped him from behind and hugged him tightly.
"You did awesome Tails" Cosmo said as she hugged him. Tails blushed as the professors' laughed a bit.
"Aw you two look cute together" one of the men said
"You have a superior mind and the girl of you dreams by the looks of it" another man said. Tails began to blush heaver as Cosmo hugged him.
"We will leave you two alone" the last man said as they all walked off to look around the exhibit. Cosmo and Tails walked over to the main exhibit and stood there looking at it. It was the book that Brimstone wrote. He had left it behind when he left.
"This is the very book you used to bring me back to life" Cosmo pointed out as she held on to tails arm.
"Yes it is" Tails replied as he looked at it with her.
"Excuse me er Tails can I get a photo for the paper." Tails turned around to see a small brown fox. He was wearing a light brown suite and he was holding a large camera.
"O er sure what do you want a photo of?" Tails asked.
"Well how about one of you next to the book?" he asked.
"Ok" Tails answered.
"Do you mind if I get in the shot too?" Cosmo asked
"Oh no go right ahead" he said as he aligned his camera shot. He took a couple of photos when Cosmo got an idea. Before he took the third shot Cosmo leaned over and kissed Tails on the cheek, which took him completely by surprise. Tails blushed and looked away before he could get any more shots. Cosmo giggled at what she had just done and it was all on camera. "I will leave you two alone" the fox said as he walked off. Cosmo giggled again as she led tails off to somewhere out of the way so he could regain his composer.
Meanwhile somewhere in the mounting tops of the Himalayas.
"Hopeless, hopeless, HOPELESS!!" he yelled as he threw his fist in to the rock face beside him leaving a huge crack all the way along it.
"Don't be so hard on you self" Sera said. A serum was a 20 yeas old snow wolf and an experienced mountaineer. Her fur was a pale grey colour and she wore a thick coat with a furry collar with a huge back pack on. She held herself up on a medium sized hiking stick.
"But I have been up here three years and I still haven't figured it out." Brimstone said in anger
"Just relax for a second and sit down" she said as she sat down slowly followed by Brimstone. The view of the side of the mountain was breath taking, a valley of clouds passing through the mountain tops and down the sky. A valley filled with a pure white sheet which stretched all the way across the vast landscape. The towering mountains stood tall over the blanket of cloud trapping it in a never ending vortex.
"Now why don't we try some meditation?"
"Ok I could use something to relax"
"Now breath deep let the clear clean mountain air filter out all your other thoughts"
"Ok"
"Now answer me this question. Who are you looking for?"
"My long lost love"
"What is her name?"
"Aleerea"
"Why is she lost?"
"She was killed and her soul was split up and scattered through time"
"Why did this happen?"
"It was to stop me from winning the fight"
"But why was her soul split up?"
"So I could not resurrect her"
"And why were the pieces scattered through time?"
"I guess that was to stop me finding them and putting them back together"
"Exactly how many pieces was her soul split into?"
"Twelve"
"Why twelve?"
"I don't know"
"Does it have something to do with the fact that they were scattered through time?"
"Maybe, there are twelve hours on a clock"
"Yes, do you think there is one for each hour?"
"If there was one for each hour then they would have to be implanted into other person of a close resemblance so they would stay in sync with the time line they were in"
"What do you mean by implanted?"
"Like a disease that would cause them incredible pain"
"So that soul would cause them to die?"
"No it would only die if the person died themselves"
"So if they die the soul dies as well?"
"Yes but they all would need to die within a closest synchronised time period to kill the whole"
"What is a synchronised time period?"
"When any objects of a close connection are split up in to different time periods they would link those time periods together like the links in a chain"
"So they all synchronised to one of the twelve hours?"
"I guess so"
"So what would happen if they were to die within a twelve hour period?"
"They would kill the whole" Brimstone instantly shot up to his feet. "That's it. It's a twelve hour count down"
"What's that?"
"That is the only way to fully kill an immortal. It's the Twelve Faces of Death" before sera could say another word Brimstone disappeared in a gust of wind.