An Injured Chao

A/N: Hey guys had this idea for a little while so thought I'd try it out. Would like to wish everyone a happy new year, one of my new year's resolutions is to hopefully update my other stories, I do apologise for that though just had a lot of stuff going on recently.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic X

Chapter 1

It was a beautiful day over the Mystic ruins as a very tired pink hedgehog walked the same path that she'd been on chasing a certain blue hedgehog. She'd failed in catching the blue blur as he used a sonic boom as soon as she almost caught him. Amy sighed as she walked while gazing up at the sun, "oh, well maybe I'll catch him, next time." She muttered as she placed both her hands behind her back.

The pink hedgehog had almost reached her cottage home when she passed some trees and bushes along the dirt path, she thought nothing of it at first but then a faint whimper caught her ears. "Huh, w-what?" Amy mumbled as she stopped at the spot she thought she heard the sound and listened more closely and she heard it again.

Amy frowned and began pushing her way in through the bushes and she heard the sound again, "I wonder if that's what I think it is?" She muttered as she pushed through more bushes and let out a horrified gasp as she laid eyes on a very injured chao.

"A…A c-chao? The p-poor thing's badly hurt," Amy gasped in shock as she tried to approached the light blue chao who was crying and whimpering the poor thing had bruises and cuts all over it and it was covered in leaves.

The chao barely saw Amy approach him and he suddenly panicked and hissed at her trying to bat her away with his hands. "E-easy, it's alright…I…I'm going to help you." Amy said calmly she slowly approached the chao and bent down to its level on her knees.

The chao tried to back away but found he didn't have the strength so he just hissed more but as soon as Amy placed her hand on his head the chao suddenly stopped hissing at her. He gazed up at the pink hedgehog through his watery blue eyes feeling shocked that he was being showed kindness something that he's never experienced.

Amy gasped with worry when the chao closed his eyes "oh, no. He….C-can't be?" She whispered a tears almost escaping her eyes but she stopped when she felt a pulse and she sighed in relief. "I have to get him home." She said and reached for her dress ripping apart off and she covered the chao to keep him warm.

She picked him up gently and kept him close to her as she ran the rest of the way to her home, "hang on little guy." Amy muttered as she ran cradling the chao.

She soon made it to her home and quickly she got to her living room and placed the choa on a pillow on the couch. Amy raced to her kitchen and grabbed her medical supplies and got straight to treating the chao. After an hour the hedgehog had finally dealt with every cut and bruise on the poor chao who was now sleeping.

Amy sighed in relief as she finished and placed a hand on the chao's tiny one, "you should be okay now and after some rest you'll be up and about in no time," she mumbled with a smile and looked around and found a blanket which she placed over him.

She kept him there while she cooked her dinner and sat and watched TV till she was ready for bed, she gently cradled the chao and carried him up to her room to where she placed him on a chair that was just beside her bed. She placed the blanket on him and then got into her bed, where she read a book for a bit. Amy glanced over the chao after she felt herself get tired and she closed the book over and set it aside "I wonder what happened to you?" She mumbled with a yawn. "You'll be safe here though…" Amy said as she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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The next morning Amy had been up early and tided around her house and was going to spend the day making cookies. Her original plan was to look for Sonic but since she had the chao staying with her she thought she'd stay at home until the chao was ready to go outside.

Up in her room the blue chao was starting to wake from its sleep, "c-chao.." He softly chirped realising he was sitting on a soft pillow and under a warm blanket. It seemed to like the feeling he'd never had this before and then memory of being held in a cold cage flashed in his head, the chao's eyes widened and he got up in fright fearing that he might still be in one but then he saw that he wasn't.

The chao flew in the air and stared at the chair that he was just on and sighed in relief. Suddenly he heard humming coming from downstairs and strange smell was drifting through his nose. He flew downstairs and stopped when he saw Amy in the kitchen. He watched Amy in wonder as she placed cookies in the oven.

Amy took her oven gloves and sat them on the counter as she noticed the chao peering through the doorway. The hedgehog gasp with a smile "oh, your awake," She said as she was about to head over to him but he hid behind the stairs. Amy paused in her way worry washing over her, she slowly approached the chao and saw him cowering on the second stair.

Amy bit her lip as she bent down on her knees and place her hand on the chao, "h-hey it's okay, there's no need to be afraid, I…I won't hurt you." Amy said softly as the chao stopped shivering and peaked an eye round at her. She smiled down at him and the chao starred up at her with its eyes wide open. Amy got up "you can come in when you're ready." She said as she made her way back into the kitchen.

The chao flew in the air again still with his eyes wide open no one had ever treated him so nicely before, he expected to be beaten. "Chao," He mumbled before flying into the kitchen Amy grinned when she saw this, "don't worry little chao, you can trust me, maybe I should give you a name would you like that?"

The chao seemed to think and nodded as he flew to the table, "Okay, hm, how about Echo?" Amy thought out loud.

The chao looked down at the ground but then lit up a little since it liked it "chao, chao." It nodded.

Amy grinned happy the chao seemed a little trusting of her and he liked the name she still couldn't help but wonder what happened to him "okay, Echo it is."