Sapphire and Emerald eyes

Prologue

Sapphire the Hedgehog

In loving memory of a dear mother and a faithful daughter

Two blue hedgehogs one much taller than the other stood in front of a grave in a solemn cemetery. There were too heavily packed bags beside their feet while in the taller blue hedgehog's arms was a hedgehog pup cooing softly. The sixteen-year-old hedgehog looked down with emerald eyes to his twelve-year-old sister who was looking stoically down at the grave with sapphire eyes.

"You know, you haven't cried at all since mom died. Why don't you let it go, Anna?" He asked kneeling down to her. Anna clenched her fist against her brown cargo pants.

"Mom said that crying won't solve anything." She said in a cracked voice as she began to shake. Sonic smirked at that, like him and their mother, she was just as strong.

"But it helps to get the weight of your shoulders." He smirked, sadly putting baby Kaze in one arm and opening up a free one as an invitation for his sister to take. Anna tried to resist, she did, but she couldn't hold it in. She ran up to her brother and hugged him fiercely and let the tears fall silently.

He was proud of her for not keeping everything inside. It's hard enough that they lost their mother, but they lost their house and more than half of their inheritance to the man their mother was in debt to. So Sonic decided that they would travel to another town that might need jobs.

Sonic was brought out of his thoughts as Anna pulled back a bit to look up at her big brother, he could see the tear stains on her cheeks. He reached into his jacket pocket to produce a handkerchief and wiped her face. He smiled at her reassuringly and nuzzled her head before taking out her favorite beanie and resting it on her head.

He moved her short bangs away from her eyes; she looked so much like a boy. Though he and their mother didn't mind, there was always guys chasing after her and Anna was never interested in relationships like her big brother.

"So what do we do now, big brother? The house is sold and we have all of our things with us. Where do we go from here?" Anna asked as she picked up her backpack.

"We'll be going to the next town up north since the south seems too busy." Sonic replied handing Kaze to Anna while he strapped on his own backpack.

"Okay, but do we even have enough money to get there?" Anna asked reaching into her bag to produce some origami flowers she had made, since they couldn't even afford to buy a bouquet of flowers, and handed them to Dash, "Okay, Kaze, let's leave the flowers for Mommy."

Dash squealed as he dropped the flowers onto their mother's grave. Sonic smiled at his younger siblings, they always try to make the best of things. "Now say bye bye, Kaze."

"Bah, bah, Ma!" the five month old hedgehog pup waved.

"We have enough money to last us two weeks and we have enough food on us to last us an extra week so we should spend our money wisely." Sonic told his sister as he took Dash so she could put her backpack on.

"What about the electronics we have? We could sell those since we don't have electricity to charge them." Anna suggested buckling up all of her straps.

"Good point, we can't even afford the iPhones anymore." Sonic sighed looking down to his little brother's emerald eyes after taking him from Anna, "We'll have to sell a few things to get by if I don't get a job."

"Yeah, even the guy mom was in debt took all of the money out of our college savings, the prize money you earned in your track races, and the money my publishers paid me too." Anna sighed as they began to walk out of the cemetery and began to head north.

"Well there goes for our dreams for you going to college, Anna." Sonic sighed readjusting Dash so he could sleep in Sonic's arms.

"I'm too young anyway; I'll just wait five or six more years." Anna shrugged nonchalantly as they passed a park filled with happy families playing.

"But it was our dream for you to go to college and become one of the youngest prodigies in the world." Sonic frowned as he reached into his pocket to produce and plastic bag filled with three pacifiers. Kaze was getting fussy in his big brother's arms. Kaze reached for his pacifier and suck on it fiercely the moment it came in contact with his mouth.

"It doesn't matter as long as I have my brothers." Anna smiled reaching up to grasp her big brother's arm.

"Then I'll have to find work and work extra hard for us then, don't I." he smiled as they continued walking on. They continued on north without a mere glance over their shoulder, there was no going back except for the grave of their beloved mother.

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One month passed and it was by far the hardest the hedgehog siblings had gone through. It was bad enough that it was winter, they had gone through two snowstorms and the food they had brought with them had somehow quickly gone bad or had fallen out of their bags from the endless falling from strong snowstorms. They would have been able to find an inn, but in this economy, a room had cost much more than Anna and Sonic had anticipated.

They were forced to resort to heavily branched and leaved trees in the forests they passed by as shelter for most nights. They always had to buy water and formula for Kaze and begrudgingly formula was expensive too. Trying to save enough money, Anna and Sonic had to eat every other day in a pattern to save enough money for Kaze.

Sometimes if they were both starving they would share the same meals. They had already sold all the electronics they had at hand, from their iPhones to their handheld videogame consoles, from their laptops to their back-up cell phones. Sadly though, all that money was enough for a single night in an inn with room service and one bed.

Within that one month, they had already passed a few towns and so far they couldn't find any jobs. No one would take Sonic as an employee because he either didn't have a car or a place to house him and his siblings. Hope was already dwindling and it was already affecting Sonic and Anna greatly.

No one seemed to want to help the hedgehog siblings at all. The two were currently walking along a highway on the pit stop lane since a bus wouldn't let them in since they couldn't bathe as often as they wanted to. So now they were headed to the next city called Station Square.

Hopefully with its abundant shops and buildings Sonic might get a job and a cheap apartment. Looking down towards his younger sister, Sonic could see Anna holding onto his arm for support. She had caught a fever not too long ago and they were nowhere near a store with the appropriate medicine for her.

He looked down to Kaze who was sleeping strapped to his chest thanks to some useful straps and extra clothing they had. Luckily the pup wasn't sick, but he did grow thin due to the change in his eating routine. In order to conserve his food, he had to eat eight times a day instead of twelve times a day.

They just couldn't keep up with his feeding schedule in the beginning. He had already gone through all of the tins of formula in the first week because of his voracious appetite. Sonic just hoped that they were at least almost there because they did try hitchhiking, but the last time they hitchhiked they ended up in a pedophile's car and well… let's just say that Sonic had to call the authorities while Anna had the pedophile in a reverse chin lock with a laughing Kaze sitting by her leg.

Suddenly, he heard a car horn blaring behind him so he and Anna turned around simultaneously only to see a truck veering out of control and heading towards their way! The two didn't have enough time to dodge, but Sonic was able to turn around in front Anna to protect her and Kaze from the full force before the truck collided against him and Anna. The next thing he knew he was tumbling down a bumpy hill while trying to protect Kaze from getting injured.

It almost felt like forever until he felt the uncomfortable impact of solid… concrete? Slowly and painfully, Sonic opened his eyes to see that he was laying on his right side Anna laying on her stomach in front of him and a crying baby Kaze who sounded unscathed. Sonic shut his eyes tightly and coughed harshly which resulted in spewing a small amount of blood which stained the concrete beside him.

He weakly opened his eyes and used the remainder of his strength to reach Anna, he was scared that she might be dead because she looked to not be breathing and blood was oozing from abrasions and bruises on her body like him. Just then, he saw her convulse and she began to cough herself which resulted in coughing blood as well. Sonic almost collapsed from relief, but he continued to crawl over to his little sister and nudged her onto her side.

"Anna, can you hear me?" He asked desperately shaking her.

"Ugh!" Anna grunted shaking from the pain clenching her fists. She opened her glazed eyes and looked up at her older brother, but all she saw were mere blotches. Luckily though she knew it was her brother because she could see sapphire blue which was their family color.

Sonic was lucky that Anna had opened her eyes, but he was worried about the glazed look. Putting a reassuring hand on Kaze's head, he looked around for the first time to see that they were on a large concrete platform with a concrete wall mounted along a large hill at least 10 meters behind Anna. Large pine trees seemed to surround the area, but the highway could be heard not far from here. Just then, an opening in a large sized hill caught his eye. It was a metal door left slightly open, but there didn't seem to be a light behind it.

"Anna, I think I found shelter, but I need you to stand up, can you do that?' He asked softly putting a hand onto his sister's shoulder. Anna looked at him blearily before putting both arms on the floor to push herself up, but she gave up the moment her left arm tried to lift her up. He knew it; she must have broken it.

At least he was lucky enough that his right wrist was only fractured, slowly he got to his knees and moved forward to take his ill sister into his arms. He carefully stood on his two feet and was able to hold his composure as best as he could. Each step was a hindrance in itself as Sonic begrudgingly walked to his goal at hand: to get shelter for himself and his siblings.

It almost felt like an eternity, but he finally made it. He opened the door and was marveled to find that it was decorated like a one room apartment. There was a door at the end of the room adjacent to the door so he thought that it could be the bathroom.

He closed the door behind him and saw a futon a couple feet in front of him. He walked up to it and gratefully fell to his knees carefully resting Anna on the farthest side, then he unstrapped the now whimpering Kaze in the middle while putting his favorite blanket on top of him. Finally after unstrapping his and Anna's backpacks off, he collapsed on the remaining empty space beside his baby brother.

He opened his eyes to see Anna already unconscious and Kaze looking at him with watery eyes. He reassured his brother he was fine by resting his fracture right hand onto his brother's blankets and begun to hum the lullaby their mother always sung to the baby at night. Big, wide sapphire eyes looked at him before the lullaby began to lull the baby and within minutes he could hear soft intakes of breaths.

Relieved Sonic finally welcomed the black curtains of unconsciousness.


Nya: I know it has been a while since I have written anything, but goddamnit I have a life and I just got affirmed that I will be having an internship job for SEGA so be happy for me. Just to let you know I made this story from a repetitive dream I had during my summer vacation so please give me some feedback and no flames. If I see any negativeness or flames I shall SPAM THEE! As for Kon she is too busy with life like me so please don't expect me to publish a chapter everyday. maybe every week now that I have access to computers at school every day so... yeah. Bye NYA! X3