A note from Senyara: Just a few quick things. I only own Drake, Sara, Jenny, Tony, April, Malisio, and Suraka. I couldn't write the whole summery so I'll just fill it out here.
Summery: Cosmo returns to find that many things have changed among her friends. Sonic has ditched Amy and the female hedgehog found love in an unexpected person. Eggman has also vanished, along with her love; Tails. Will Cosmo be able to find him before it's too late, or will new feelings for someone else take her beloved fox's place in her heart instead? R&R please, this is my first fanfic.
Chapter 1
A Flower returns
Silence gripped the galaxy. A single blue planet floated in the middle of a great big space in the universe. Its moon glowed with a gentle aura, and reflected the warm rays of the sun. The planet revolved slowly as it began to make more trips around its star. Nothing had disturbed its noiseless obit for years.
Just as the brightly glowing moon was making yet another cycle around the planet, a small, plant like space craft shot out of a nearby warp hole. It seemed to be moving eagerly as though it wanted to reach the world A.S.A.P. A small figure sat in the cockpit. Its driver was a plant/alien hybrid.
"I just hope that the others are still there." She thought desperately. "Especially Tails. I'd better focus now, Come on Cosmo! You've done this a million times! Just land at the island." The small craft broke through the atmosphere and to a small island out in the blue ocean. Cosmo moved the controls so the ship would go into a dive. The hybrid slowly leveled out to see which landscape they had to land in. Cosmo looked through the area and spotted the floating piece of land that was oh so recognizable.
"There's Angel Island!" She squealed with delight at the sight of the familiar hovering rock. "I'm here! Gasp and there's Tail's workshop! I'll land there first!"
A small dome rested on the mountain side. When the ship landed on a flat rock, Cosmo leaped out, ran to the door and began to bang on it loudly. She expected the ingenious two-tailed fox to answer the door and have an immediate expression of shock and happiness, but instead of her beloved Tails at the door, a young female echidna answered her call.
She wore jeans of a light sea green color, blue shoes, a black shirt, and a denim jacket. Her eyes were a gleaming aqua blue, and her fur a delicate light red shade streaked with silver on her dreadlocks, arms, and across her bangs. The shirt stopped barely above her waist, showing a bit of her midriff. It was just enough to see some silver streaked there, too. She looked to be around 13. The echidna's gaze glowed with curiosity at the visitor.
"Can I help you?" She asked with interest.
"I'm looking for a Miles Prower." Cosmo said with concern. "Doesn't he live here?"
"Nobody's lived here for a long time." She replied mildly. "I found this place just this morning. I thought it might make a nice clubhouse for me and my friends."
Cosmo was flabbergasted. Surely Tails wouldn't have moved away from his friends, or was his grief for her 'death' so great that he couldn't bear to live here anymore?
"I might have the wrong house." Cosmo choked out in astonishment. "Sorry for bothering you."
"That's ok; I have to go home now anyways." She pranced out of the workshop, hurried to the side of the building, and removed out a small bright green skateboard. Before she took off, she turned to the nervous looking plant creature. "My name's Jenny Stone, by the way. Catch 'ya later!" She hopped on, and zipped down a mountain path.
Cosmo looked worried. "It's been how long?" She asked herself. "Surely Sonic and the others couldn't have left?" She scanned the landscape. "Maybe I should check Amy's house, she told me once she would never leave this place. If she's not there, Knuckles definantly will be. He would never leave the Master Emerald, or at least what remains of it." The newcomer hurried for the path where Jenny had skated off, and hiked down.
(Half an hour later)
When the hybrid was nearing the place where Amy lived, the young girl spotted a small pink thing moving through the trees, picking blueberries every now and again. It was unmistakably Amy to her. She had the same red dress and shoes on. Cosmo shrieked with happiness, dashed through the oaks and tackled the pink hedgehog in a huge hug.
The small 10-year old squeaked with fear and surprise. She managed to get the stranger off and dashed to the bushes, screaming, "DDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The green girl lay dazed on the spot were 'Amy' had dumped her. Her hurt turned immediately to shock as a very familiar voice sounded through the shrubs, asking with concern, "What's wrong Sara?"
The plant hybrid could do nothing but gap at the next hedgehog that passed through the berry clumps. He was black with streaks of red on his quills, arms, and his face was covered in saw dust. The pink hedgie, who came up to his waist, cowered behind his legs. He froze at the sight of her; his bright red eyes staring at Cosmo.
"Cosmo?" He choked with absolute astonishment, his gaze fixed on Cosmo. She felt pretty nervous, remembering the time he had tried to kill her. What really shocked her was the fact that he ran right up to Cosmo and hugged her.
"I'm so glad you're alive." He said.
"Sha…Sha... Shadow?" She whispered with dismay.
"Daddy that green lady attacked me." Sara squealed with fear. "Send her away."
"DADDY!!!???" Shouted a very shocked alien. " You got married?! With whom?!"
"Umm…" Shadow hesitated, while rubbing the back of his head, looking both proud and embarrassed. He backed away from Cosmo, as though he knew what her reaction was going to be. "Amy?"
"YOU GOT MARRIED TO AMY???!!! I THOUGHT SHE AND SONIC WOULD BE ALL OVER EACH OTHER BY NOW!!!!!!!" shrieked a very confused Cosmo. How long had it been since she had been here? The ebon hedgehog let out a soft, friendly chuckle.
This was a very different Shadow than the one Cosmo had met a while back. Before the raven-colored hedgie had been serious, expressionless, very savage looking, and held the air of forbidding. But now he looked as though he had been drained of all anger and contemplation. He had a gleam of friendly humor and warmth in his cherry colored iris. He no longer kept a frown on his face, but a wide smile at seeing Cosmo again. Shadow's own aura had now been changed to a welcoming one.
"What's going on dad?" Another voice echoed through the forest. This time a male hedgehog entered the clearing. He had so much resemblance to Shadow it was nearly impossible to tell which was which. The only difference was that he had Amy's emerald green eyes, while Sara had her father's ruby eyes. He wore kaki pants, black sneakers and a black tee with words in bloody red, 'When I snap you're first on my list.' His face had flecks of blue on it, as though he had been painting. He looked as though to be around thirteen, like Jenny had been. "I heard some screaming so I stopped painting the house to come and investigate, and who is this?"
"How many kids do you have?" Cosmo asked, looking absolutely baffled.
"These are my only two. Meet Drake Skylar. That's our surname now, and this is Sara Skylar, my daughter, as you know." The pink girl ventured out from behind her father slowly, and smiled nervously at Cosmo. Now up close she could see her fur was a darker shade than Amy's had been, and there were a few flecks of black and red on her bangs and quills, but she looked quite similar all the same.
Cosmo was getting pretty restless. Her need to be with Tails was stronger than ever. Her gaze left Shadows daughter and to the raven hedgehog. "Can somebody explain what has happened while I was gone?" She complained, her impatience now going beyond its limits. "Where's Eggman and Sonic!? How long has it been since I stopped the Meterax!? Why did you marry Amy? How did you survive that exploding planet? And another tiny thing; TAILS WORKRSHOP HAS BEEN EMPTY FOR A LONG TIME!!! WHERE IS HE!!!???" All the anger, betrayal and fear she had felt ever since Cosmo had gotten back to Sonics world had finally poured out of her. Her face was contorted with rage and pain, and tears of anger glittered from her sapphire colored eyes.
At first Shadow looked rather shocked to see the usually gentle Cosmo screaming like this, and then his expression changed instantly grim at the mention of Tails, much like the old one, yet he had a glow of sorrow and pity in his eyes as he looked at her. Sara had hidden behind her brothers legs this time when the alien had started up. Drake looked from Cosmo, to his father, over to Sara, and then back to Cosmo again. Confusion glittered in his emerald eyes as his gaze traveled to the hybrid. Shadow shut his eyes for a brief second, and then opened them.
"You best hear what happened to Tails from Amy. She was an eyewitness. Now come on," He turned to leave, and looked back. "I can tell there's a story to be told."