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Vol three of the Save Me trilogy is here!
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Save Me, Vol Three-- Naught's Sunrise.
Chapter one.
Station Square and the surrounding areas were dark and covered in a never-ending blanket of storm clouds,the moon shone like a misty orb through the clouds.But at closer inspection, it wasn't the moon at all,between the forgotten buildings of the city below, a brilliant white hedgehog floated. His ears twitched at the slightest sounds, his fang-like teeth showed in an unforgiving snarl, ready for anything that got in his way.
He landed on the top of the nearest roof, folded his arms and smirked at the pathetic sight below him. A mass of green aimed their guns at him. With a bored sigh, Phoenix raised a single glowing, hand and watched with golden eyes as each and every gun melted in a sea of hot liquid metal. The startled screams that he heard were sweet music to his ears. Upon seeing large tanks approach, he floated down to land just feet away from the vehicles. He tilted his head to one side, snorted and flew off.
He looked high and low for a challenge, hearing a soft sound, The Phoenix went to investigate. A tiny, insignificant rat, that had dared to go out in search of food, scampered out in front of him. It froze, nose twitching and raised itself onto it's hind legs. The hedgehog looked at it with interest and landed softly onto the pavement, he crouched and reached out a hand. The rodent sniffed hopefully at the fingers offered and then let out a squeak in alarm as the hedgehog growled. It's tiny body was glowing silver.
The white hedgehog had stood up and with a hand raised, he lifted the rat in a force field. He listened to the frantic squeals of terror with deaf ears. With a disgusted snort, he drew back his arm and lashed out.
The rodent was dead before its body smacked into the wall behind.
The Phoenix sighed, " Not even a challenge." He dusted his hands and closed his eyes. He listened closely, soon he heard them--sirens, and a lot of them. The pendent in his chest plate glowed dimly, telling him that his powers were in need of re-charging. He smirked at it, then opened his arms and rose into the night sky.
Enough time to have a little FUN !... He thought happily.
Master Emerald Shrine-- Knuckles' hut. (See? I wouldn't let anything happen to my fave hedgehog--Mazz84.)
The Master Emerald had done it, it had safely teleported Sonic and the others back to the planet's surface, with no side effects... well, unless you count being knocked out for over ten hours a side effect.
Something wet touched his head. Startled, Sonic yelped and tumbled out of the bed he was in. Carla, who had dropped the cloth she was carrying in surprise, crawled up and leaned over the side of the bed ,peering at Sonic through his propped up feet.
Sonic was sprawled down the narrow space between bed and wall, rubbing his head. He opened his eyes with a groan, and seeing Carla staring at him, pouted at her.
Carla fought hard to keep a straight face, she really did, but failed miserably. She snorted and broke down in a fit of girlie giggles, she howled with laughter, banging her fists on the mattress. Her long flowing hair covered her face as she collapsed onto the bed.
Sonic continued to pout, before snorting himself and joining in the laughter. He took the hand offered and got back up. Once there, the two looked nervously at each other before another attack of giggles overtook them. They crumbled into a pathetic heap, holding their sides, tears running down their cheeks.
After they had calmed down, they laid side by side. Sonic on his back , his arms folded behind his head. He slowed his breathing to a strange sound that had filled the small room. Leaning up onto one elbow, Sonic looked at Carla, the black and white feline was laying on her front, her head resting on her arms, long hair covering half her face, and found the sound was coming from inside her chest. It took him a minute or two to realize that Carla was purring.
Now being the slow learner that he was, Sonic knew that domestic cats purred when they wanted food, but Carla was an Android and didn't need food, so it wasn't that. Curious, he reached out a hand and lightly stroked her arm. The purring became deeper and louder as Carla huddled deeper into her arms.Sonic smiled warmly at her, remembering another reason why cats purred, ( well, he was a slow learner) cats purred to show affection.
He suddenly saw her in a new light. Pushing back her messy fringe, he kissed her temple softly before settling down beside her. Listening to her constant purring, Sonic drifted back to sleep.
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Outside, watching The Master Emerald glow and dim, the misty form of Shadow waited to join the rest of himself. Amy was resting in the hut, wearing the pendent. Knuckles had warned him that his heart had to merge before his soul could, if they rushed it, Amy would be seriously hurt,so Shadow had nodded and gone outside.
The ghostly hedgehog huffed and paced. Patience was not one of his strong points. He looked into the giant gemstone and was shocked to see a faint vision of the old Temple in the overgrown forest. Before he could even start to question the Emerald for showing him this, a small red light caught his attention ,it was coming from the hut, surely the merge wasn't completed already?
He entered the cramped house and walked down the narrow passageway, bumping into Knuckles, who like Carla, was carrying a damp cloth and on his way to tend to Amy. He growled low in his throat, Knuckles raised his brows at the sound.
" I will look after her."
" Hey, Shadow. I'm just helping out, man, just--"
" I said.. I will do it! No one else." He lifted a hand and the cloth flew from Knuckles fingers, to hit the wall opposite. Shadow frowned at him, " Understand ?"
Knuckles nodded, and walked out to continue whatever it was he was doing. The ghost hedgehog went into the room, stepping over the small heap of dirty clothes to arrive at the side of the bed where Amy lay, sleeping.
The pendent around her neck glinted in the dim light. Shadow nodded in understanding and reached over the lift it from her. Amy murmured and huddled deeper in the covers. He slipped the necklace over his head and at once grunted as he regained his lost and shattered memories, he grabbed the side of his head and slowly dropped to the ground. He tried the raise himself up onto his knees and made a grab at the corner of the bed, as his memories sorted themselves out . As his heart connected to his soul, Shadow cried out, crumbling to the ground in pain. Amy jerked awake and leaned over the bed.
" Shadow! Shadow, what's wrong!?" Throwing the covers off, she knelt at his side, but found she could nothing but watch as the ghostly hedgehog pushed himself from the floor with his hands,arching his back inward.
Looking up , Shadow snarled at her, his eyes ablaze and slashed at her with his fingers.
"Sh..Shadow..?" Amy reached out a trembling hand.
" Get..away f-from... me !" He spat back.
" Shadow ,please.. you can fight this..come on! Please..don't leave me again.." She wiped her eyes, "Don't leave me.."
Shadow curled into a tight ball, and then unleashed a powerful shock wave, that filled the whole room with golden, sunshine golden, light. When the light had faded, Shadow stood with the unconscious Amy in his arms. The merge had transformed Shadow in his Super form, though he was still a ghost, he was semi-solid. The pendent fell from his neck and with a soft sigh, broke in two as it hit the floor.
With affection, he placed Amy carefully onto the bed, draped the blanket over her shoulders and kissed her temple " I'll come back. I promise you." Taking one, last look at her sleeping form, Shadow used Chaos Control and teleported away.
A minute later, he found himself outside the old Temple. Sighing deeply, he climbed the stone steps and made his way inside. Once in there, he conjured a glowing orb of light to act as his guide.
" OK, Master Emerald. You sent me here, what am I looking for ?" He traveled deeper into the depths of the forgotten Temple, passing murals on each sides. He stopped as he noticed that the murals in this part of the Temple were all the same, lifting the orb of light, his red eyes widened as he read the old script. " Oh, sweet Maria....."
The wall size mural showed a huge bird shape flying over a burning globe. Either side of it were two yellow star shapes. Below the globe ,in a row, were seven different coloured triangles. Down the sides of the picture were the words:
Slegna ginylf eht fo snos owt eht esu. Nihtiw wodahs eht esaeler dna,semalf revlis eht lleuq ot.
" I've got to tell the others. Quick!"
Someone from the darkness quietly said, " My, my..leaving so soon? Pity, I wanted to have some fun." They stepped out into the dim light with an evil grin, metal knuckles cracked and red eyes glowed dangerously. " Happy to see me, my yellow counter-part ?"
Shadow raised his fists and growled, " YOU !?"
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