Adventures Through Emerald Eyes (A.E.L. Series #1)
by Epic Awaken
DISCLAIMER:
The following is a non-profit, fan-based production.
Sonic X, Sonic the Hedgehog, and all interrelated characters, settings, events, and notions from those series are the property of Sega Enterprises, Inc., Nintendo Co., Ltd., Sonic Team, TMS Entertainment, Saban Brands, unmentioned parties, and the original production team.
Please support the official release.
xx
****MUSH-WARNING!****
The following story is about passionate love, and thus contains a lot of "mush." Haters of heartfelt moments be warned...
xx
Series Proclamation
The following tale is classified by Epic Awaken Studios to be part of the Awaken Epic Love Series (A.E.L. Series) of romantic ships, consisting of pairings from popular media (tv shows, cartoons, movies, comics, books, etc.) that the author, Epic Awaken, believes were meant to happen.
Adventures Through Emerald Eyes
by Epic Awaken
The following is a story about life's epic ride, about the journey one takes on their way to the finish line. There's so much to see and so much to do, but the ride is much better, when shared between two.
Location: Parallel Planet Earth (Mobius). AU Sonic X
Time: An undefined period following the events of the final episode of Sonic X.
Adventures Through Emerald Eyes
Prologue: The End of a Dream
"Soniiic!" the pink hedgehog called, shielding her eyes from the whiteness that enveloped them. Her body turned and twisted in the air, jolting to a halt as her hands absorbed the impact with a cold, violet earth. Blackness filled the sky, as the bright flash from the chaos control faded into distant memory. It was replaced by bolts of gold lightning that convulsed like dying snakes overhead. "Ah!" Amy squealed, rising to defend her eyes from a tumultuous whirlwind of maroon, alien gas. "Where is everything?" she uttered, peering through the whipping wall of soot. Emerald eyes grew double-wide as she made out the silhouette of a familiar companion, three trademark spikes on the back of his crown. "Sonic!" she cried, racing up to his side.
The blue hedgehog hunched over on his right knee, still clutching a piece of the leaf-colored gem. His lower jaw lay agape and his pupils shrank as the white-gloved fingers of his hand crept in ever tighter.
"Sonic?" Amy spoke. Bring on the hurricane around them, or lava, or an earthquake, or even a black hole like the view overhead. Nothing, in all of the cosmos, would've disturbed the pink hedgehog as much as seeing the expression of her carefree, blue beloved, as he sat before her now. "He should never have to live to see his face look like that!" she thought.
Curling the tips of his digits in, Sonic watched in horror as the olive fragment shattered into a million pieces, vaporizing into green dust in his palm.
"Ah!" Amy gasped.
Flickering with fire bolts, the blue hedgehog's eyes shot up to the horizon as his teeth locked into a snarl. "It was never a real emerald!"
"What!? But that doesn't make any sense!" the pink hedgehog exclaimed, shouting over the howls of the relentless, midnight mass of swirling smoke that encompassed them, "It hasn't moved this whole time!"
Sonic's emerald eyes narrowed as he gazed at the jade sand in his grip. "We haven't either..." he whispered, recalling what Tikal had said. The blue hedgehog's fingers contracted with care as he stood and launched the glittering powder away. "None of it's moved! We've just been running around in circles this whole time!" he growled, clenching both fists again. He wheeled left to face her, a firestorm of anger released in his veins. "Everything, from the very beginning, was just a distraction..."
The two hedgehog's jerked their heads towards the sky as a sharp crack of thunder erupted above. In the center of their gaze, an enormous ball of rotating pearl light began to throw out shards of electricity, hissing with bursts of jagged fury.
"Sonic, I'm scared!" Amy let out, biting her lower lip with a frown as she rushed up to latch onto his left arm. Her emerald orbs snapped open as the blue hedgehog turned and wrapped her up in a full hug, blanketing her from the wind. A part of Amy wanted to bury her head deep inside of Sonic's soft chest, but the other was firm, vowing to see the moments through with him until the very end.
"Don't worry, Amy," Sonic said, turning to gaze into her green pools of life. As he looked at her there, tucked up safe in his arms, the speed-busting hero couldn't help but smile, and he pulled her in just a little bit more, "I won't let them hurt you..."
An expanding deposit of moisture began to swell at the base of the pink hedgehog's eyes, and her lower lip began to tremble and shake. There was no denying a feeling like this. Despite all of the lies, life with him was simply pure bliss. "Sonic?" she uttered, releasing a sigh.
"Yeah, Amy?" he answered.
"I won't let them hurt 'us'..." she declared. Her arms slid around him and she pulled him in tight.
Adventures Through Emerald Eyes
Chapter 1: Eyes on the Prize
"Oh, come on!" the pink hedgehog huffed, allowing her lashes to fall as her body slumped forward, "You know that's not the real reason that I stayed here!" Her jade orbs darted briefly towards the lush, green grass, before drifting steadily off into the humid horizon. Over the sprawling canopy of dancing, emerald-capped trees, there were white birds, five of them, soaring high into the hills beyond, through the foggy, blue-tinted glow of far-away mountains.
"Well, maybe not," her long-eared friend replied, looking to the ground herself for a moment with the most minuscule of smirks, "but I can see why Sonic would like to live out here, too!"
The pink hedgehog's lips curved upward as she sat back against the wooden planks of her tan and black lawn-swing and sighed, briskly shutting both of her eyes. "Yes, Cream. There sure are a lot of wonderful woodland trails around here that Sonic likes to run on...though...he doesn't really like to stay in one place." Her lips and gaze suddenly dropped. Blinking, she swallowed and looked back to Cream. "I do still get to see him a lot here, though," she uttered, composing a meek smile.
Cream's amber-colored eyes shot around several times before they finally came to rest upon her spiky-haired friend. "Hmm...Do you think he'll ever..." she began, pausing to swallow, "settle down?"
Staring intently, the pink hedgehog frowned, "With who, me?" she asked, peering down. Her green orbs slid shut. "I don't know..." she started, rising up from the swing, "All I do know is that it just wouldn't be right for Sonic to ever settle down completely, not from running everywhere, not from seeing the world!" Emerald eyes shimmered with moisture as she gazed into the sky, right fist balled-up over her chest. "If he ever stopped running," she spoke, streams of thin tears escaping over her cheeks, "he wouldn't be the hedgehog that I love anymore! His kind heart and his free spirit are what keep me in a daydream and then keep me up at night!"
Cream smiled warmly at her friend, as the pink hedgehog's two hands clasped together and her mouth began to tremble.
"There's never been another like him before or since! He cares so much about everyone, about always doing the right thing! ...And then, what does he do with it, with all of his fame and glory? Once Sonic has saved the day and all of this world is again in peace, he runs off into the distance, just to get lost in the adventures of life!" Sniffling, she went on, "But I swear, to this day, that it isn't because of what he's done that I'm so madly and truly in love with him...it's because of who he is," she quivered. Her voice suddenly became very soft. "If the world were to turn its back on him today and accuse him of everything that's ever gone wrong on this planet, then I would still long for him, because...because I know just who he is...and I've never known anyone else who's made my heart yearn for their presence this much... He's the sweetest, most pure-hearted soul that I've ever met..."
"A-my," Cream let out, watching as her friend wiped away another tear with her right hand.
Amy returned to her seat next to the off-pearl rabbit on the lawn-swing. "I only wish that I could be as fast as him, Cream, even just for a day...so that we could do his adventures together," she said. The pink hedgehog slid the interior sides of her red and white boots together. "...And maybe so I'd be a little less boring."
"Amy!" The rabbit shot back, sitting up straight, "How could you say that!? You're not boring! You're amazing!"
With a shy chuckle, Amy replied, "Thanks, Cream. I knew you'd say that...but...the truth is, compared to Sonic, I'm just a pretty girl with a hammer..." Smiling, the pink hedgehog looked down. "Sure, I lose my temper sometimes, and I guess I'm alright against a couple of Eggman's robots, but-"
"Now that's enough!" the rabbit cut in, standing up on the swing's bench, "You have a heart of gold that is every bit as strong and as good and pure as Sonic's! And you are amazing! You can do things with that hammer and your temper and your bravery that are right up there with everything that blue hedgehog has done!" Shaking a finger at Amy, Cream went on, "And I think that the only reason Sonic hasn't expressly shown his full love for you is because you're just too clingy on him, Amy!"
Blinking, the pink hedgehog sat up. "'Clingy'? But I love him, Cream!"
"I know you do!" the rabbit replied, "But you'll have to tone it down a bit if you want him to really notice you, in my opinion. I'm not saying that you need to stop showing your affection completely, but you need to focus on yourself for a change and really let your beauty shine!" Cream smiled, "Show him why Amy Rose is someone he'd be the luckiest hedgehog in the world to be with!"
Peeking at her feet, Amy took a finger to her mouth. "Well, I guess I really haven't done a whole lot besides wearing a few pretty party dresses now and then. I mean, I've always kind of had a sense of adventure, but...maybe instead of just waiting for him to come by all of the time...I could...mix it up by having him hunt me down elsewhere." A flash of light ran across Amy's emerald-colored eyes. "And then maybe I'd become a little bit of a mystery to him! I could be something that he wants to solve, or engage in, maybe even someday become engaged to through marriage!" Amy beamed, cupping both hands together. A sea of floating, rose-colored hearts fluttered about within her mind. Green orbs sliding south once more, the pink hedgehog uttered, "I just have to make sure that whatever I do is true to myself as well. That way, when he likes it, it's still the real me!"
"But, Amy, he already does like you! And you love going on adventures!" Cream said.
Blushing slightly, Amy replied, "Yeah, I know. It's true. I do like adventures. It's...part of the reason I like Sonic so much...among a whole sea of other things...and I know he shared his feelings with me to an extent when he said that he'd never leave me...I still have that flower at my bedside." Frowning, she went on, "I just...never get to see him enough, and I...wish I could spend more time with him instead of waiting for days on end for his blue blur to return on the horizon...A girl needs more, you know?" Her smile returned. "Maybe this will get him interested."
"Oh, I just know it will!" Cream beamed.
With a nod, Amy replied. "You're right!" She stood from the swing, placing both fists on her hips and displaying a wide smirk. "Look out, Sonic! You're not the only adventure-prone hedgehog in this world anymore! It's time for Amy Rose to show you what a girl of my kind can really do!"
Oh, Amy! We could all learn a thing or two from your undying affection and sheer determination! But will it pay off? Only one way to find out...STAY TUNED, Folks!
xx
Please feel free to message me with all of your comments, questions, suggestions, or concerns via PM or my email!
STAY TUNED for Chapter 2: Hammer Time! ...Coming SOON! (Progress updates on my profile!)
- Epic Awaken
"Awaken Your Epic Dreams"