2.
Don't talk of love 'cause shadows blur
Murmuring me away from you Don't talk of worlds that never were The end is always ever true There's nothing you can ever say Nothing you can ever do
There he was… Nowhere.
In the despairing nothingness between worlds… Between dimensions… Between emotions.
He's been traveled through all of it… All the sad shadows… Glimpses of other lands… Tears in the space / temporal continuum…
He could see all of it… He could feel all of it… He became part of it, even before he entered it.
The shadows engulfed his body and his soul as well, transporting him somewhere or some time… He wasn't fighting them… He embraced them… He just followed the current…
The current of time…
The current of space…
The current of sorrow and love…
Hopefully… The current that shall bring him to his final destination.
To Her… Or to Death… Which would come first.
In the midst of this hopelessness… He could watch the other universes… The other worlds passing besides him… Or vice-versa… Who knew?
He could see them, like if he was seeing through open windows… The aforementioned tears in this nothingness.
And so, he could see some of the endless possibilities this chaotic life was all about…
He first saw a world that looked so similar to his own… As far as he could remember, of course.
There was a great forest… With tall trees and full of life… Full of nature. And then… There was that city… That gruesome, lifeless, ominous iron made city.
And there was a madman who ruled that city… A bald, orange mustached, fat madman with demonic black and red eyes and a mechanical arm. The form of his head resembled the one of a pear.
He was laughing… Laughing like possessed… Laughing like the devil he seemed to be… Or chose to be.
He saw innocent anthropomorphic like creatures being put inside an horrible machine… And almost instantly turned into machines of their own… Robotizied slaves for the madman's army.
But that was not all… There was a group, hidden in the great forest, who was defiantly resisting against this crazy human…
Some of them looked so familiar in Void's eyes, even though he couldn't quite place them in his mind…
There was an half robotizied bunny girl with a peculiar accent but a very sweet voice… There was a fat looking walrus dressed like a mechanical geek… A rather coward coyote in a military outfit… A chipmunk lady with gorgeous red hair and a blue jacket…
Speaking of blue… There was that cobalt colored hedgehog… He could run very fast it seems…
Void had no doubts… That was that Sonic character he heard about… There was a version of him even in this dimension…
Only… He seemed a little bit smaller and goof looking than Void thought. He had a backpack on his shoulder from which he would occasionally pull out a golden glowing ring… Or a strange smelly hoagie with a sausage in it.
Strange…
And finally, Void saw him… This dimension's Tails. He looked slightly different from the one he already knew… He was smaller and his fur was more fluffy… His color was deep orange, almost brown, instead of the regular yellow-orange…
Among all, he seemed to be completely and utterly harmless… He had a childish behavior… The kind of behavior one would expect from children of his age…
In this dimension, it seems, he was not a warrior… Nor a mechanical genius… Just an innocent child who could fly… He was seen as nothing more than that…
And that bothered him, Void could say, it hurt him in ways that no one of the others could ever imagine…
That's why this kit did what he did… He flew away from his group… His surrogate family…
Right into the madman's grasp.
"No…"
Void was forced to witness everything…
"No…"
The cries… The torture… The beating and the blood…
"No…"
And ultimately… The robotization.
"NO!!!"
This Tails, this innocent child, was no more… Thanks to this war… Thanks to one man's madness… Thanks to other people's indifference.
And Void couldn't do anything to avoid it.
This dimension was doomed.
As this window closed, another was opened…
This new world seemed to be the result of some deranged childish mind… Its roads were twisted and contorted with constant loops and random… Well… Randomnities all over the place. The cities were deformed and preposterous… Not to mention its ridiculous inhabitants.
All in all, this entire world resembled a twisted surrealistic painting. On one of those improbable roads, two blurs were running like mad… A blue blur and, just a little behind, a brown one.
A little ahead from them, two peculiar figures were setting some kind of a ludicrous trap… Almost as ludicrous as these two individuals looked.
One was a tall, robotic chicken with a rather obnoxious and loud voice… The other was a small tank like, boiler like thingy with one of the most stupid facial expressions Void could ever imagine…
The trap was a cartoon classic: grab the food – fall into a pit with a Siberian mechanical tiger in it… And the food was, of course, a chilidog.
The two dumbots were snickering within themselves, already pre-tasting their success…
Suddenly, a blue hedgehog dressed like an inspector of some kind, asked the two of them if they had the regular authorization to place innocent chilidogs in the middle of the road with the sole purpose for attracting fast hedgehogs into deadly traps…
Realizing that they actually didn't have it… The two nincombots darted towards the aforementioned meal in order to remove it from the way… Only to fall into their own trap and getting disemboweled by a nasty robotic feline.
The hedgehog then dropped his camouflage reviling himself to be this dimension's Sonic the Hedgehog… His buddy, a younger version of the Tails Void knew, came out from his hiding spot and, along with his big hedgehog brother, darted away towards another adventure…
And the observing Seedrian could have swore he heard someone yelling how he hated a certain hedgehog…
A weird dimension, indeed… Too comical and light hearted to be real.
Real life was harder than that, as the lonely voyager sadly knew… He couldn't help but smile at this sight, though.
Sometimes, a good old laugh was the best of medicines.
Moving on… The next window showed him a peculiar land… Or better, a non-land… As a matter of fact, this world used to have floating islands and cities placed above the clouds… Far above from the forgotten dark ghost of earth's past civilizations…
He could almost immediately locate this planet's heroes… Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower and… A certain red dreadlocked echidna with a stupid cowboy hat on his head… Fighting against a metallic copy of Sonic and its creator… A funny looking, rotund man with enormous brown mustaches that covered grand part of his face…
And there was a cat like girl around… Wait! A cat like girl!? Could that be… Oh no, she's just a puny hybrid between a feline and human girl…
This world, in Void's opinion, seemed a little too much… Anime like… So to speak.
He dismissed it fairly rapidly and proceed with his voyage.
And then… It came this vision…
This time, it was not planet Terra Firma… It was some kind of a spaceship… In front of a little bright planet…
With a single huge tree on it.
That tree… Was a living, breathing person, as Void realized. A powerful yet, innocent being who was using its abilities to block a greater evil… But for how long?
For just the time someone else needed… To kill her.
Her? How did Void know it was a Her… And then, as another piece of his jig-sawed memory came into place, he realized who she was…
Her name was Cosmo… His own mother… The one he was born from… Only, this one, was not the Cosmo he remembered… She was this dimension's version of her… And she was as powerful as his real mother used to be…
And she was about to die…
She was about to sacrifice herself for the wellbeing of a whole galaxy... For some reason he couldn't understand.
And the one who should terminate her along with the very same menace she was blocking… Was none other than that spaceship's own captain and creator, which happened to be in deep love with her…
This dimension's Tails.
He was alone on his captain's chair… Alone and consumed by his own tears, sorrow and grief… Unable to push the fatal button… The trigger of her certain demise… The trigger of this ungrateful galaxy's salvation.
He cried, he pleaded Cosmo to be with him… To not depart from him… Her voice echoed through his mind…
Asking him to do it… Because, that right there, was her destiny.
"… Bullshit!" Void muttered within himself.
But it was too late… Through tears and screams… Through pain and sadness… Through love and death… The button was pushed… The cannon was activated… And the two golden super hedgehog beings that, for some reason, were inside of it, were shot right through the planet…
Shattering it...
Destroying it…
Erasing it from existence.
And so… It was over. Cosmo was no more… Leaving a broken fox alone in his own living hell.
Void was eyes widened… Unable even to think. He just witnessed the tragic conclusion of a tragic love story… And why? Because she thought it was her destiny to do it?
Again… It was bullshit… To drop a life like that because of a credence… Then again, he had no rights to judge her choice…
In the end… No one had it.
The question remained though… It's been her choice… Someone else's choice… Or her believes' choice?
And the answer was always the same: He was not bound to know it…
Life is Chaos.
Apparently, his journey was about to end… A portal opened itself right in front of him… He could finally escape the lifeless shadows this pure nothingness was engulfed with…
Escape this ominous sense of finality and rejoin with life again… And perhaps, just perhaps, with the very object of his quest…
The object of his crow-like black dreams… His Blaze.
And so… He left the namesake emptiness he was in… And re-entered Life…
Or so he thought.
He looked around… He looked right and left, up and down, and everywhere the spectacle was just the same… He found a blaze, only not his own…
He found a blaze of a world… A wasteland drowned in constant flames and lava reefs… A burning Inferno of eternal sufferance… A flaming tomb.
He stood on the peak of a tall skeleton of a building, observing this world… Feeling its torment and experiencing its trauma.
The omnipresent voice of his master, Dark Gaia, told him that this dimension has been damned by the so-called Flames of Disaster… At the mention of such name, something clicked inside the mind of the young Seedrian…
In his world, Blaze has been considered a cursed being… The Beast of Flames itself… The Bakeneko.
And he has been the one who healed her… With his powers… With his love.
He had doubts no more. She ended up here… How did she do it, he didn't know… Not even his master knew…
It… Just… Happened.
This was it. All he's been forced to go through and through out… All he's suffered… All the people he murdered… All of this things were meant to bring him here…
He was about to find her again… He was about to hug her and be with her, once again.
He was…
"Hello?"
Void abruptly snapped out of his thoughts and immediately turned his head towards the new comer…
And there she was… Right in front of him…
Young…
Beautiful…
Perfect.
His princess, Blaze the Cat, was there and for the first time from Chaos knows when, Void felt a whole new emotion filling his soul… He felt happiness.
"Who are you?" She asked.
And then… Void's world shattered like a broken vase… His broken being.
Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name Every night I burn Every night the dream's the same Every night I burn Waiting for my only friend Every night I burn Waiting for the world to end
