Another Amy Rosey-mainie-characterie story! Yes! :D But just like "Brainwashed" this story is not a super lovable and adorable romance… it's adventure themed^^ (Sorry?) But I have a weird brain, so I might change my mind and add romance to the story in the future… we'll see! And most importantly, a story is nothing without its readers, so if you think that this is completely worthless and disgusting and horrible (please tell me if you do) then of course I'll do my best to change it!
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Love you, and thanks for reading this, if only this far. I really hope you'll enjoy.
Cream the Captive
The evening was chilly.
The cool breeze brushed Shadow's skin, whispering and howling in the grass and above and through the trees far below the steep hill. For how long hadn't he been listening to this sound, back in the days and up till the present? How it resembled freedom and wilderness, but at the same time reminded him of loneliness and sorrow.
Shadow gazed out over the landscape; the hill, the field, the forest below, the mountains far away in the distance, and the shining golden horizon above the distant sea. The sunset was fierce and it colored the clear sky flaming red and reflected itself in the deep sea, making the great water seem even more powerful, mysterious and erratic than it already was.
Shadow stood motionless and silent while his thoughts wandered far away. The evening was chilly, indeed. The black hedgehog didn't move a muscle until a familiar voice suddenly broke the silence from behind: "Well, well, well. Look who it is, standing her all by himself, all alone," the voice said.
Shadow tilted his head slightly so that he could see in the corner of his eye who it was. His visitor sneered as he continued: "Long time no see, Shadow."
A week later…
It was in the middle of the day, and a happy Amy Rose was on her way to Cream's house, where she and Tails had been invited over for tea; Sonic would've been invited too, but it is hard to give an invitation to someone who's running around the planet all the time, and is not easy to get in touch with.
Amy frowned a little at the thought of Sonic; he had seemed to be a little on edge lately. It was probably because of the fact that nor Eggman or anyone else had caused any trouble for a while now.
Amy sighed and gazed up into the sky as she walked; she herself thought that it was rather nice to be able to relax and take it easy for a while, to be able to hang out with friends or just chill out, but obviously that was out of the question for her blue hedgehog friend. He always wanted action and adventures, not laziness and boredom. And still he manages to keep good contact with his friends, Amy thought, which is rather impressive. Or maybe not, since he was the planet's hero, after all.
The female hedgehog kicked a stone as she turned right and passed a hill; she would make Sonic go out with her one of these days. Someday she would, for real. Amy started smirking and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks as she started fantasizing about that one day: She would be elegantly dressed in a beautiful new rosy dress, a pink shirt, shining boots and a new headband, decorated with pretty flowers, and she would meet up with Sonic in Twinkle Park, and he would smile and wave at her, and then she would run into his arms and…
"Amy!"
Amy snapped out of her daydreaming and found herself standing maybe thirty meters away from Cream and Vanilla's house, and to her surprise she was encountered by a horror-struck Tails who came running up to her with a wild face expression. "Amy!" he repeated as he stopped in front of her. "Oh, I'm glad you're here..!"
"What?" Amy looked at him in confusion, and when she glanced over his shoulder she could see an upset Vanilla sitting by the doorstep, hiding her face in her hands and crying. "What's happened? Where's Cr…" Amy interrupted herself, and her eyes widened when she realized.
Tails seemed to have read her thoughts, because he nodded sadly. "Yes," he said. "Cream's been kidnapped. There's no evidence, but I bet my tails that it was Eggman," he continued.
Like always. Amy felt the anger rise in her stomach and she clenched her fists. That goddamn eggbrain…! And here I thought that we finally were gonna have some time for some tea. She shook her head and looked at Tails, dead serious; "Where's Sonic?"
Tails shook his head and flung his arms out. "Sonic could be anywhere!"
Amy stomped the ground in frustration. "Aaargh! Where is that hedgehog when you need him?!" she exclaimed irritably. Really, how could he be running around his daily routes at a time like this? And he's the one who wanted some action…
"Oh my, what should we do, you two?" It was Vanilla who had spoken through her sobbing, and now she was looking at Amy with watery eyes, desperately searching for help from the pink hedgehog.
Amy closed her eyes tightly and remained silent for a few seconds, before she came to the obvious conclusion, and she opened her eyes and met Tails and Vanilla with a determined and straight face. "It's crystal clear!" she exclaimed. "If Eggman has kidnapped Cream, and he's surely about to use her for some idiotic take-over-Mobius purpose, then we must save her!"
Amy looked at the other two. "Right, Tails?"
At first, her two-tailed friend seemed nothing but absent-minded, but then he pulled himself together and met Amy with the same confidence which she herself hopefully had and replied: "You're right, Amy. Of course you are; we will save Cream before Eggman gets the chance to get on with his plan, whatever it is."
Amy nodded shortly. "That's right." She smiled at him. "I knew you would agree, Tails."
Tails returned her smile, but before he was able to say anything, Vanilla interrupted him with a rather concerned look on her face. "Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked anxiously. "Maybe we should wait for Sonic…"
"Waiting for Sonic can take forever!" Amy interrupted. "We don't have time for that. Cream might be in danger as we speak!"
"Yeah, I agree with Amy," Tails said. "We should at least get to Eggman's Headquarters and check things out first." He walked up to Vanilla with a reassuring smile on his lips; "Don't worry. I promise we will bring Cream back. But if Sonic happens to show up while we're gone, you can tell him about all this, and I'm sure he'll come help."
"That's right," Amy nodded and turned around, prepared to set off. "We will make sure Cream won't get hurt, Vanilla," she said, and she and Tails started walking in quick pace. "Just you wait, she'll be back before you know it!" she called over her shoulder as she and Tail's started running, and they barely heard when Vanilla called after them to be careful.
This might've been a stupid choice, Amy was fully aware of that, and so was Tails, but they couldn't just sit around and do nothing while their friend was in danger.
They'd already been running for a while when something struck Amy, something that she maybe should've thought of before, and she turned to Tails who was running beside her. "Have you got any idea of where Eggman's Headquarters might be?" she asked.
To her relief, Tails nodded. "Do you remember my CEL?"
CEL. C.E.L…. Oh yeah, the Chaos Emerald Locator that they used back on Chris' planet, which did exactly what its name said. "Yeah, what about it?"
"As you know, it locates the Chaos Emeralds specific locations," Tails said and took it out – from nowhere – and held it up in front of her face, "and since this is Eggman we're talking about, if I recall things correctly, then he should still have at least one Chaos Emerald since Sonic's last fight with him, which means—"
"That you'll be able to track him down since he probably keeps the Chaos Emeralds in Headquarters?" Even Amy was able to figure it out from there. "Great, now we have a location!" She felt her hopes rise and even convinced herself to smile a little.
"Yeah, let's just hope that the Auto Reconstruction of the X Tornado is complete by now," Tails remarked as they closed in on his house.
They ran into Tail's garage and found the great, shiny – Tails had just been washing it – elegant X Tornado stand as if waiting for them to hop in, in front of them. It all went very fast; Tails hopped into the driver's seat and instructed Amy to sit behind him, he fumbled a little with the controls, pushed a few buttons and pulled a few levers – something Amy wasn't able to follow – and then he looked at a screen with some weird coordination texting, and he sighed in relief and turned his head and said reassuringly: "It's alright, Amy. The update is complete. Otherwise we'd have to wait at least a few hours before I'd be able to cancel it properly, without the whole thing blowing to pieces," he added to himself as he started the engine.
Amy watched as the ceiling opened above them, and then after a few moments of loud noises, the X Tornado set off up into the sky, and they were on their way. So far so good, she thought as she glanced down at the landscape. I just hope that Cream's alright.
"Are we there yet?" Amy asked when they'd been flying for over twenty minutes. She'd expected them to be there much sooner, since Tails claimed to have increased the machine's maximum speed.
"Nearly," Tails replied distractedly, as he constantly stared at the CEL.
Yeah, that's what you've been saying for the last fifteen minutes. "Maybe we can take a shortcut or something?" Amy suggested.
Tails blinked at her. "Shortcut?" he repeated. "We're flying the straight route towards Eggman's Headquarters. There are no shortcuts, we're on the shortcut," he remarked.
Amy sat back in her seat with a sigh. She gazed outside, and then after a few moments, something caught her eye; there was a strangely odd distance to that tall cliff over there, she'd noticed. They'd been flying straight towards it for a while now, and they'd still not moved closer to it at all.
Amy frowned; that was really weird. She leaned forward to the back of Tails seat. "Hey Tails, where exactly does the CEL tell us to go?" she asked.
"Straight up ahead," Tails replied calmly. "Towards that cliff over there."
"But we've been going that way for a while now," Amy said hesitantly, "and we've still not gotten any closer."
That seemed to stir her fuzzy friend's mind; he frowned and gazed at the huge cliff with a suspicious look. "Now that I think about it…"
Amy waited patiently as he rooted around among the controls, but she was starting to get nervous now. She looked outside and narrowed her eyes; and then she thought that for some reason, the area around the cliff was slightly indistinct and kind of blurred…
As Amy's worry slowly got the better of her, an alarm suddenly started screeching, and she gazed at Tails for answers. And to her dismay, her friend looked startled, even frightened as he stared down at the screen and logged himself into all of his complex systems; "What is this?" he exclaimed.
"What is it?!"
"The alarm just called because that cliff over there is surrounded by some sort of visual force field that tricks the vision…"
Tricks the vison…? Amy's eyes widened. The cliff! "Tails, the cliff! Look out!"
Tails reaction was fast, but it was still a few moments too late, and the following happened very fast: They must've entered and broken the force field, because suddenly – after a blur of dimness – their vision became stable again, but as it did, they also realized that they had indeed been going straight towards the huge cliff all the time, but they'd simply been deceived by the force field. And by now that huge cliff was only about thirty meters away from them, and no matter how much Tails desperately veered or how much Amy screamed in terror, half of the X Tornado still crashed straight through the giant rock, and the poor flying machine and the poor creatures that were inside, helplessly dived downwards in terrifying speed; the left wing was broken and the side was overwhelming with smoke, and they dived through clouds and dust as they fell.
Tails shouted something but Amy was unable to hear because of the roaring engine and the alarming alarm, and in panic Amy covered her ears and shut her eyes tightly before the X Tornado finally slammed onto the ground with the strongest impact and the loudest and longest crashing sound she'd ever heard, before Tail's screamed and everything went black.
This was very sudden, Cream's kidnapping, I know, but I just wanted to get the story going… (I know it's kind of original and lacks imagination) Which is probably the worst kind of habit for an author xD
There might be more to this than what have met the eye up till now, and I really hope that you'll give this story a chance… if not, then I am grateful for you to have read it, if only this far.
Note: The kidnapping of Cream is not the main plot.
Thank you a lot! Have a great day! :D (Night?)
