A Side project I decided to do as a break from my other stories. It's Sonalze, just letting you know ahead of time, and if you like it, well try reading this then. It will have more than a few chapters, how many I have no clue on that yet. This is a different more approach for me, more of a saddening mood type thing, something I haven't attempted till now. So read and let me know what you think.

Promise

Chapter 1

I have no difficultly remembering that day.

There were numerous amounts of people in attendance, all for her mourning. So many faces just filled with emotion that you could cry even if you had never know her.

Tails, Amy, and all my friends were in attendance that day, as well as Marine, Silver, and many others from Blaze's dimension. We may be all different in many ways, but on that day we all shared tears over our long lost friend.

I remember that Silver was one of the few who really got deeply crushed by her death. They had been very close friends since they were little, I remember Silver telling me about the adventures that she and him had. Silver looked up to her like not many did, it made her feel like it was a responsibility to watch out for him. He told me once that she was just like the sister he never had.

When I first saw him earlier today, he was a complete wreck. It looked like he had gotten absolute no sleep the entire night, and I could tell that he was struggling inside himself to keep from breaking down.

I was the one who was insisted to choose the location of her funeral, and I knew exactly not where I wanted to bury her, but where she told me once that she would love to be buried at.

There was this very dense packed woods by Tails' workshop that she asked me to venture though with her, it had been one of the first days that she had been in our world. She was acting as leader, something I could tell from first sight that she was good at. I got lead though the forest at a pretty quick pace, to where I had no clue.

The wind was whipping that day, and I could feel the water droplets from the surface of the leaves around me pick up into the wind and fly into my face.

It had been in early April, I think like the 6th. That would explain why it had been sort of chilly out, I remember wearing a green jacket too. She was in her usual attire, that sparkling purple and violet cloak of hers, I had always like that.

We were still running, it had been around 5 minutes by now, and while I wasn't even tired from any of this, I could tell that her pace was beginning to slow, and she almost faltered over an overgrown tree root, to which I caught her quick before she hit a rock in front of her.

She continued her pace though afterwards, before she had told me it is one of the most beautiful sights she had ever seen in her life. I had been on my morning run, but I knew she was dying to show me, so I let her drag me around.

I looked up and could see a patch of further growing blue, and my guess was that we were almost near to where she wanted to go with me.

"Come on, we're almost there Sonic!" She exclaimed with excitement.

Her pace again slowed as we neared the conclusion of the forest, I could now obviously tell that this is what she wanted to show me.

As I began to enter the clearing, I had to say that it was really quite impressive. Flowers of all different varieties dotted the land, and the ocean was just very beautiful to look at. The space between the edge of the forest and the ocean was really huge as well, it would be a great place to put a park of some sort. But the thing that I found really cool was the rock formations near the edge of the cliffs, it looked amazing how the water carved the rocks.

We just walked around and talked for most of the day, and I remember her saying that if there was any place that she would want to be buried at, that would be the place. She even chuckled after mentioning that because she thought she would go on to live a long time.

Sadly, she is mistaken.

I wasn't around with everybody else at this time, I was too heartbroken to be near the casket as this moment.

You may ask, heartbroken? But yes, I had loved her with a burning passion and desire. I had first sensed something with her the first time we met each other. This got Amy into a very angry mood, after all she always wanted me for herself.

But I just found something in Blaze that I haven't found in any other woman in my life. What you might ask, I was never entirely sure, but she was just somebody that I had to have.

She saw me in the same way actually, and about a few weeks after we first met, we began dating. At first I tried to keep of me and her secret because Amy would really kill me if she found out that I was interested in someone else.

But soon we really did get very deeply in love.

About a month ago was Blaze's birthday, I had planned out a big party with Tails at his home. We invited everybody pretty much, and gave her the best party she had ever had. But it was after the party that made it the greatest birthday ever.

The two of us were seated on his lawn, illuminated by the shimmering full moon above us. She had been really sad about the fact that I didn't get her any gift, but didn't show her disappointment because she figured that I did most of the preparation for the party.

"Aren't you wondering why I didn't give you a gift?" I had asked her.

"Well… sort of. It's because you were working on the party, right?"

Then I turned to her on the signature one knee, and pulled right out of my hand a stunning gold ring with a beautiful diamond on the top that sparkled along with the moon's bright light.

She just stared in awe, completely caught off guard and not expecting anything like this.

"Blaze…will you marry me?"

Tears welled up in her eyes, one of the very sparse times that I had actually seen her cry. I knew she was a tough person, and tears were not well known to her. But she did show them this time.

"Yes… Yes!" She squealed in joy, and jumped into my arms, sending both of us to the ground. I then gave her a passionate kiss, and she returned the favor, and we were like that until we had to part because we were breathless.

I put the ring on her finger, and it was a good fit, not too loose that it would fall off, but not too tight where it would get stuck. I also made a very significant promise after I had told her that.

It was that I would always make sure that nothing would ever happen to her.

That haunts me so much now. That promise I had made that night to her, is one that I would break.

About a week before today, Eggman randomly showed up and captured Blaze. Figuring that it was just another sad attempt at him trying to succeed at something, I didn't right away run over to save her, but I did start to run over to his base.

Nothing could have prepared me for what I would see next.

I arrived at the base, to see her limp on the ground, a pool of fresh blood surrounding her body, and staining her cloak a deep bold red. Her eyes were abandon of any sort of life, and it's if she had been alive just seconds before. Seconds before…

I looked up, seeing a flying eggmoblie before me and a doctor within it holding a pistol in his hand. He just sneered at me, and sped off, before I was even able to make a move. I didn't understand his means of her death, but I knew that I would someday find him and get my revenge, and it would be more than he even imagined.

I rushed her to a hospital as quick as I could, maybe somehow there could be a tiny amount of hope left. I was immediately approached by nurses who took her body for emergency surgery, leaving me standing frozen in the Emergency room, my blue fur stained with her blood.

Another nurse asked me sadly if I wanted to wash the blood off, which I refused. Instead I questioned the location of the room she had been taken to, for which she answered 400, but not to go in, I wasn't allowed.

And I waited, and waited, until finally a doctor exited the room, and walked up next to me, asking if I was the one who had brought her into the hospital. I nodded a yes to the man, however was not pleased with his look of sorrow. Then he said he was sorry, and that she didn't make it.

All the emotions I felt at that time, it was just too much. I collapsed onto my knees, and just tried to cry all of it away, just wished it was a dream and that none of this was happening. But it was not a dream, no, this was all happening before my eyes.

That night, I didn't sleep at all, and every night since then I had been having countless nightmares with her in every one of them. I even got an offer from Amy a few days ago if it would be any help if I slept in her home for a night. That transitioned me to have another nightmare, and the worst of them all, where woke Amy with my relentless screaming for Blaze. She did help though, as she began to comfort me the rest of the night, giving me at least a few hours of some type of rest.

And today was the day I had been dreading. The last goodbye I would give to my beloved, before she would be put away forever. I was asked by Tails if I wanted to speak at the funeral. I answered him with "It's not a matter of me wanting to… it's that I have to."

But I just didn't know if I could stand having to do a speech in front of everybody I knew, about something that I truly was able to avoid. I would more than likely break down into tears and go insane, something I was on the verge of.

But as the days after had passed, I had began to start to blame my own self for her death. I had underestimated Eggman, and would have never known he was going to really do as he did.

And the dreadful fact that I had just been too slow to save her killed me inside. A million ifs were circulating within my head.

If only I had seen this coming…

If I had been more careful…

If I hadn't had underestimated him…

If I had been a few seconds earlier…

If I had kept my promise.

Wow. This is one of the strongest chapters that I have ever written, or that's my personally perspective of it. More dark and sad than my other things, a different route that I took. Well it's not the end yet, so I'd like to hear what you think of it, and reviews will be happily accepted. Also read One Tree Hill if you are a Sonalze fan!