The New Year's Spiral
They sat anxiously around the small table, each glancing at the clock every so often. Then they went back to writing out their "New Year's Lists".
It was only five minutes now, but it felt like an eternity away.
Amy didn't really care. Because everyone else had already thought-out their New Year's Lists- at least to some degree. But she had very few ideas of what to write this year.
This year she wanted something different.
While her list would always say "Marry Sonic" at the very top, she wanted to have some other things this year. Things she could try just as hard at. And …something to help their world that was still healing from the past attacks. (Besides, Sonic would surely pay more attention to her if she was keeping a promise to help their world. He digged that kind of thing, right?)
She was getting quite agitated at this, and the quiet ticking wasn't a pleasant reminder.
She sighed loudly and looked up at the others. "What did you guys write?"
Rouge dusted her page of erasor remains and looked to her, a look of satisfaction on her face. "Simple. Some diamonds, some garnets, and some emerald."
"Oh…"
Cream gave her a short, questioning look but tried to hide it. "Well…I wrote that I wanted to learn to cook some more recipes with Momma, and go on more adventures with Mr. Sonic!"
Amy's heart fluttered at the word. "I-I might write that last bit too." She quickly marked that as second.
Still, no way to 'change their world'.
Blaze, who had been standing looking at the clock, turned to face her. "I'm not writing a list. I'm just going to see how it goes. There's no point for me to try to live up to a list, when I should just focus on the tasks I'm given."
Amy thought of that for a moment, before Cream gasped. "Look! One more minute!"
In a rush, Amy began to write the first that came to mind onto the list.
Marry Sonic
Go on Adventures with Sonic
Help out the civilians
Help clean the town
Save some money for repairs
Then, the clock struck midnight.
She cheered along with Cream and Rouge, but Blaze remained silent as was expected.
For a long moment after, she forgot all about the list.
When she did remember it, she didn't regret it, of course.
She knew she could get those things done. Sure, no problem.
Author's Note: I have two more chapters to this, so hopefully this works out. I wanted to write it as a bit of…honesty for the New Year, heheh.
Set somewhere in the aftermath of Sonic Forces, because apparently the towns could use some help.