("Sonic") These indicate when a character is speaking
('Hmph') These indicate when a character is thinking
*WARNING* The following story contains mild depression and alcohol consumption. Read at your own risk.
Just wanna touch on a few things here.
Firstly, this is one of the first stories that I've ever written.
Secondly, I don't own Sonic The Hedgehog, or any characters in the series, all of the content in this piece of fiction belong to SEGA.
Thirdly, This story will contain depression and alcohol consumption, so if you're offended by any of these things, please click the back button and pretend that this doesn't exist.
And last but not least...The characters in this story will probably be OOC (Especially Sonic), so if you don't like that, don't read.
But aside from that, let's get this show on the road!.
Summary : The once legendary hero, Sonic The Hedgehog, now sits in depression. Some of you may be wondering..."Why?"...Well...Everyone knows that being a Martyr is tough...but even more so when you're doing so for someone you love...Sonic can only watch on in sorrow, as the love of his life, Blaze The Cat, shares hers with someone else...
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The Princess, The Timetraveler, and The Martyr.
Her beautiful eyes...
Her calming voice...
Her gentle laugh...
All of these things are the reason why I am so deeply in love with her.
However...This...fairytale match made in heaven, was not to be...
I glanced on from where I sat 'pon a bench, watching the object of my affections, run around with a huge smile on her face.
...The same smile that brought me to such a state of vulnerability...
I wished and cried to myself so dearly that the I were reason of her smiles.
...It seems that fate didn't agree with me however...
Alongside her, was a bright white furred hedgehog who looked identical to me.
Jealousy and resent was all I held towards him...
These feelings were always snuffed out, as soon as I witnessed the joy he brought to her heart.
...Joy that I could not.
"Hehe Silver!, stop it!" She let out a scream, as the smile that never ceased to make me weak in the knees, appeared again.
"No mercy for Blaze!" He let out a childish howl and lunged at her, letting loose a barrage of tickling.
I grit my teeth, and clenched my fists, to the point where the fabric of the gloves I wore, nearly torn.
If only...If only it was I that could make her smile and giggle in joy and happiness.
If only...If only...
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P.O.V Switch : 3rd Person
A blonde, human male was standing outside of a jewelry shop, a cell phone was what he was holding to his ear, happily chatting away.
"So Darling!, I think I have a great idea of where we should go for our honeym-" A man who'd been wearing a grey hoodie, roughly shoved past the man, interrupting his talk.
The man glared at the uncaring form of the person who'd rudely bumped into him. "Hey!, be more careful!" The man shouted at the hooded person. He didn't even turn around at the sound of the other man's voice, leisurely pretending he didn't hear anything.
The man scowled in the hooded man's direction for a while, before sighing and raising the phone to his ear again.
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A little further along, the same hooded man continued to walk down the footpath. His hands roughly shoved into his pockets.
Suddenly, a drop of rain, followed by continuous rainfall, had soaked the mans grey jacket.
The man showed no reaction, he continued to walk through the rain, not caring if he'd catch a cold, almost as if the fact was trivial to him.
After he made slow progress for a while, he stopped at an apartment building.
He entered and saw a human female sitting behind a marble desk. She wore glasses that seemed to suit the blouse she wore.
She looked up from the desk and smiled widely, making the man remember the painful memories that he harbored.
'Hm...good customer service...' A shadow of a smile made it's way to his face, before all signs of it faded as fast as it arrived.
"Do you need something? sir?" She asked politely.
The man nodded, "Yes I'm here to see..." He threw back his hood, revealing a deeply stressed and troubled being.
He had extremely dark circles under his eyes, making the usual brilliant green hue of his eyes, seem dull and uninteresting.
His blue fur seemed dark, and much wilder than usual, but most of all...Sonic The Hedgehog wasn't sporting the famous grin of his anymore. Instead, it was cold, depressed...and almost...lifeless frown.
"Shadow The Hedgehog...".
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"...Sonic..."
"...Shadow..."
These were the only words that were shared between the two, once arch rivals, upon Sonic's unexpected entry.
Shadow was shocked to see the state that the once bubbly and annoyingly carefree hedgehog was in.
...Shadow had heard from Amy and Tails, but he didn't quite believe it himself, until the very sight of him, made the ebony anti-hero believe what they'd said entirely.
The former hero wore a scruffy, grey jacket with multiple holes in it, along with blue jeans that were torn and scratched.
"You look like...crap" Shadow stated bluntly, making Sonic scoff.
"I've been getting that a lot recently" He admitted with a joyless smirk, making Shadow smirk in return.
"You know...when Amy and Tails told me about your state, I didn't believe them at all...but now..." Shadow trailed off, making Sonic sigh in annoyance.
"I'm here about the job that Team Dark and GUN need help with" Sonic hastily interrupted him. Shadow just grit his teeth, "Don't interrupt me, faker..." Sonic glared at the ebony hedgehog, and the ebony hedgehog at he.
After a few minutes of silent warfare, Shadow sighed and grabbed the blue blur by his shoulders. Shadow gazed into his lifeless eyes. "...If you're in this state during the mission, I can't count on you, so I need to know, just why you're like this!" Shadow growled, to which Sonic roughly shoved his hands off and turned his head aside, as if he was ashamed of something.
"You...don't know what I've been through..." The hedgehog whispered through stinging tears, enraging his black and red counterpart.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH!?, I'VE NEARLY NOTHING LEFT IN MY LIFE, SONIC!, I THINK I 'KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH!" Shadow nearly screamed in the face of his rival.
"..." Sonic remained silent, making Shadow even angrier.
"FOOL!, I've watched the person I loved dearly, die in front of my very EYES!" Tears began to gather in the eyes of the Ultimate Life Form, making Sonic's eyes widen as he remembered the death of Maria Robotnik, one of the few people that Shadow showed open affection to.
"...I'm...Sorry" Sonic whispered.
"What?".
"I'm sorry" Sonic repeated, sympathy evident by his tone of voice.
Shadow just sighed and wiped his eyes with his index finger. "...Will you tell me now?" Shadow asked a now solemn Sonic who'd took a seat on the floor, beside the door.
"...Have you ever had...romantic feelings for someone Shadow?" Sonic asked uncharacteristically, making Shadow tilt his head in confusion, before coolly crossing his arms and leaning against the wooden wall.
"...Well..." Shadow thought back to his time that he spent with Maria, before shaking his head reluctantly. "No...I haven't".
Sonic nodded and continued, "...Imagine someone who you would give your life for...Someone who you'd give everything up for, so that they could feel an inkling of happiness..." Shadow nodded at Sonic's words, not having to have thought more than a second to understand.
Sonic removed the glove from his right hand, gazing at the peach colored fur that covered the whole of his hand.
"...Now say that you did give everything up for them...but they completely ignored this...completely ignored you...and this very fact makes your heart ache...would you be able to handle this?" Sonic's words left Shadow to ponder for a while.
Shadow, after a moment, finally came up with an answer, "...I'd learn to cope with it...as long as the person I cared for was happy, then I'd easily give up my happiness...no...my sanity" He spoke with true nobility, making Sonic smile ever so lightly.
"...That's exactly what I'm going through Shadow..." This made Shadow's eyes widen, as he glanced down at the still smiling hedgehog.
"W-Wha?" For the first time ever, Shadow was dumbfounded.
"...For over four years...since I was 15..." Sonic's smile faded into a look of extreme sadness, tears now falling freely from his energy-less pools of green.
Shadow stood rigid, absolutely shocked by what he'd just heard.
"...Who...?" Shadow asked regrettably, making Sonic's tears intensify.
"Blaze The Cat..." Shadow's frown deepened. He knew the foreign feline, and he also knew that she was with Silver The Hedgehog. A time traveling doppelganger of both Sonic and Shadow.
Sonic began to sob. "They...were down at th-*sniffle*p-park to-geth-*sniffle*-er" Sonic was about to continue, before Shadow floated an ice cold, can in front of Sonic's face.
"Sonic...have a drink...it...helps to...ease the pain" Shadow spoke with genuine sympathy for someone he'd once viewed with no respect at all.
Wordlessly, Sonic took the can of alcohol and cracked open the seal.
Shadow watched as the once glorious hero, turned depressed sociopath, drunk his sorrow away, drinking can after can.
It wouldn't be long before Sonic was out cold on the floor.
Shadow looked down at the hysterical hedgehog, and then out of the window of his apartment.
He saw the two culprits of Sonic's pain, and grit his teeth in fury.
'It seems the most resilient of Martyrs...have their breaking point after all...' Shadow thought, before picking up the half awake hedgehog, off of the floor, and placed him onto his couch.
With one last glance at Sonic, Shadow hastily walked out of his apartment, determined to find a way to get Sonic back to his normal self.
'I vow that Sonic shall be...' Shadow clenched his fists '...A Martyr no more!'
...And this is the result of me listening to The Arms Of Sorrow (Killswitch Engage) While trying to write fanfiction.
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