Sorry for the LONG waiting, but I rewritten this chapter from the very beginning(3 times), because I wasn't satisfied with it.
Disclaimer: I Still don't own any Sonic character. Sega owns them...
I hope you will enjoy
Chapter 2: the curse
"That's weird." I said
"Yep. I know." David answered
"No you don't. I meant that you said it is easier manipulate time than travel in it. "
"Why would that be easier?"
"I did it for quite some time. We all did."
"What?"
"That's true." Sonic said with his usual lazy voice.
"Not a thing." Shadow said.
"Gods, and I thought that it's impossible."
"We thought the same from your stuff" Tails said.
"So you traveled time before? And what it was like?" Victoria, David's girlfriend asked.
"Well, these are long stories." Sonic said.
"We have time." David said
"Yeah, and we want to know!" Victoria said eagerly.
"I think you're the best story teller between us, so it's your turn Silver." Tails said
"I could do better if I would want to." Shadow said, and Sonic and I face-palmed ourselves at the same time.
"Please stop with this 'I'm better in everything' stuff already Shadz." Sonic said
"As I said, if I would want to. But I don't, so let's start it already." He said
"Well, you see I came from a world devastated by flames. It would be about 200 years from now."
I saw David and Victoria's jaws drop, and I continued the story. At the end, they were as amazed, as shocked. They had a hard time to believe all this, but they eventually accepted our past adventures.
"So..." Victoria said
"So what?" I asked
"You are blessed by the gods?"
"Not really. It's just that we got the power so we could free them, and for it they let us keep it." Sonic said
"Like when you bring a lost thing back to it's owner, and he or she gives you a reward for it." Shadow explained further.
"So what is your opinion guys?" I asked them.
"You're coo- What is that?" David said, and pointed to something behind us, so I turned around and saw...
"What the heck?" I asked shocked seeing a large flying fortress of Eggman. Just an another ship we have to destroy.
"Will this guy ever learn?" Sonic asked.
"Have no idea, but I don't care" Shadow said.
We heard a cracking noise from the ship and a sound like someone is tapping a speaker.
"Is this thing on?" We heard Eggman's voice "I said I will return, and I just happened to finish this thing, so I thought: Why shouldn't I destroy you with it?" Eggman said "Now, prepare to be defeated Sonic."
"He is always wants to destroy Sonic. What are we, pieces of junk?" Shadow asked me "I'm the ultimate life form after all. He should want to destroy me first, because I'm a much larger threat than that blue faker would..." He said but David stepped next to me, and I gave him my attention.
"Ummm... Is he always like this?" David whispered into my ears.
"Kinda" I said, and added "I simply shut down my mind when he starts a speech like this."
"Nice." He whispered "I think I will join you." He said, and we shared a laugh.
When Shadow finished his speech eggman's voice cracked trough the speaker again.
"Have you finished already?" He asked sarcastically "Because if you did, you should look up."
We all looked up, and saw a gigantic cannon ready to fire on us, with fully charged power. IT fired, and before any of us could react, it stopped right in front of our faces
"NOOOOO!" David yelled, pushing us away.
"Hey, hey, easy!" Sonic said
"You are able to move?" He asked
"What the heck?" Shadow asked looking around. "Guys, you might want to see this."
I turned my head, and...
'The time is frozen around us? Impossible!' I thought. The scenery was breathtaking. Seeing a bird stopped in mid-flight, Eggman's laser standing still, and how the whole world motionless around us.
I felt like there would be nothing between me, and the whole world, like I would be in the top of everything. 'This is so peaceful. I don't want it to ever end.' I thought, and tried to see as much as I can.
"This is amazing!" Tails said in awe.
"Yeah. I've never seen anything like this before." I said in awe too.
"David, this is beautiful" Victoria said. "So that's how you see the world?"
"Yes, I do." He said, but just a second later he grabbed his head, and a painful look appeared in his face, and soon he is screaming in pain. We all run to him worriedly, and trying to help him somehow.
"Dude, what's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"Pain... can't...keep-"And he collapsed, and is now lying on the ground, unconsciousness.
At the exact same moment he passed out, the time started to flow again, and Eggman's laser hit the ground sending a shockwave out, what I was barely managed to outlast still on my feet.
"We still have a fight to win" Sonic said to us, and turned to Tails "Hey, Tails. Brig David and Victoria to safety, while we kick Eggman's butts." He said.
Tails simply nodded and hummed, and took David's body, and grabbed Victoria's hand to drag her in the Tornado's direction.
"Are you all right, Silver? You seem off." Shadow said to me.
"Yeah." I said gaining back my attention.
"Then let's kick his butt." Shadow replied, and we attacked Eggman at the exact same moment.
Sonic attacked the turrets, curled up into his cannonball like form, while shadow used Chaos Spear to take out the Engines, one by one. It's a real mess that this ship actually have 14 of them.
I in the meantime opened up the Hull of this monstrosity and an open path to it's power core.
"Wait, what are you doing? More importantly, how could you survive that blast?" Eggman's voice came trough the speaker.
"Time to say goodbye to your ship, Eggman." I said opening up the last panel to the power core. "Sonic, your way is clear!"
With that Sonic jumped into the hole I made, and crushed the power core. The ship started to fall, completely disabled.
We quickly flew towards the ground, sonic carried by my psychokinesis. I maintained control however, because I knew he don't know how to control it yet.
The last thing we saw before the explosion, is that Eggman flown away in an escape pod.
"I hope with this double action, We shall not see him within 2 weeks." Sonic said.
"I agree, I have a date with Blaze at the weekend, and I don't want him to interrupt." I said.
"Aren't you two married?" Shadow asked "You don't have to bring her on dates anymore."
"You are dead wrong, Shad. I bring her on dates in a way to express I still love her, and thanks to my job, I even have the money to do so, and as an addition, I really enjoy going out with her."
"Your job sucks. Who wants to work on a construction site as a living heavy lifter?"
"Hey, it is 2 in 1. From one side, I earn some money, so that I can handle myself, and most importantly, I can buy stuff we need with Blaze, and the other is that I have a paid training with my powers. What do you think, how could I open up this much panels within 41 seconds?"
"Well... It's... I-It sucks, and this is final." He said in a grumpy way, and turned his back to me like a child. "Good work, by the way." He said. "You too, Blue" Yep. In the last few months we finally started to hear compliments from the "Ultimate life form". When he first gave us a compliment, me and Sonic got a shock for the next hour, and we both asked "Who are you, and what have you done with Shadow?". We even meant it.
"Thanks Shadow, You did great as well." Sonic said
"Yeah, you really kicked the ass of that ship, or should I say engines?" I replied as well.
"This is nothing for the Ultimate life form."
"Not this again." Sonic said, rubbing his temples.
"Let's go see how are those guys." I said, and the good mood has gone immediately.
"That guy didn't seemed well." Sonic said.
"Yeah. Maybe it's something serious." Shadow agreed.
"Let's go then." Sonic said, and we hurried as fast as we could.
Back at our house we went to Tails' lab as soon as we arrived. I didn't even knew about it until I moved in. It is in the basement of the house.
"Hey Tails, what's up with him?" Sonic asked Seeing tails trying to calm down a crying Victoria.
"Not good. I ran some tests, and it turned out that this is serious."
"What's wrong?" I asked in shock
"It's his power." He said
"WHAT? What his power? Speak clearly!" Shadow said a bit more worry what we would anticipate from him. These last few years really changed him a lot.
"It consumes him. The more he use it, the more damage it makes." He said in a grieving tone.
"This is bad." I said, and however we just met this guy, but he was already close to me. Maybe because of the fact that we both have this thing with time, no matter how different the two is.
"Is he going to be all right?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, for now." He said
"What do you mean for now?" I asked
"If he is keep using his power, he is going to die." He said, and we all lost all words.
'He will die? But why? And how?' and millions of other questions rushed trough my head. Sonic was the one who finally broke the silence.
"But if he don't, what would happen?" He asked
"Nothing. He can live a complete, peaceful life. This thing only makes effect if he is using his power."
"So if he doesn't using it for some time, will he be all right, and will he be able to use it again?" I asked
"I'm not sure, but it seems that it is not that simple. It looks like these side effects are not fading over time. He have limited amount of time left to use his powers."
"Did you told him?" Shadow asked
"Yes. He woke up in the Tornado."
"And where is he now?"
"I am still running some tests in him, so he is in that machine." Tails said
"And what kind of tests are they?" I asked
"I'm trying to find a cure to the side effects. These tests are used to find the source of his power, and analyze it for 100%."
"Good, but hurry up with it. I don't want to lose this guy." I said
"Sorry Silver, but even if I can find what causing this side effect on David, I am still not sure if I can negate it." He said
"But will you try your best though?" Victoria asked Tails, still sobbing.
"Sure thing. I promise I will do all I can." Tails replied. For this, Victoria smiled, and we all smiled at her.
"Do you need anything?" I asked Victoria
"Would you bring me some water please?"
"Off course." I said, but before I could go Sonic stopped me
"I think I will be faster." He said, and within a second he stood before Victoria with a glass of water in his right hand. "There you go."
"Wee need someone to watch over David for the night. Would you call down Blaze?" Tails asked me.
"Sure."
"Who is Blaze?" Victoria asked
"My wife. I have a feeling you will like her." I said, and went upstairs into our room.
"Hey, my warm hearted angel. I'm back." I said to Blaze. She was sitting in her chair reading a book.
"Hey, honey. Have you kicked Eggman's butt again?" She asked
"Yep, but we have someone injured..." I said with sadness.
"What?" She was scared. "Who had been hit?" She asked in panic
"A guy called David. He saved all of our life today."
"Who is David?" She asked confused.
"A guy we ran into today. I will tell you in the way down to the lab."
"The way down?" She asked
"We need someone to watch out for him at night, and Tails asked me to ask you."
"Of course, but why not one of you?"
"Well, he have a girlfriend too, and she is worried, so maybe some chat with an another girl would do some good for her too." I said
"Well, maybe you're right." The love of my life said, and we started our trip down to the lab.
"Hello, I am Blaze the Cat." Blaze introduced herself to both Victoria, and David who got out of Tails' machine in the meantime.
"I'm Victoria." "And I am David the Tiger." They introduced themselves.
"I will look after you for the night." Blaze said to David.
"Thank you." He thanked her. "So she would be the Blaze, you talked about?" He asked me
"She is." I said
"Well, I'm sure she is a good wife." David said.
"She surely is, you can bet on it." I said proudly.
"Aw... thank you sweetie." Blaze told me and kissed me.
"Please, we asked you at the beginning to keep this for yourselves." Sonic said
"You say this like you would never had been caught doing the same with Amy." I replied
"Burned!" Tails said, and Sonic started to blush madly.
"In your place I would stay quiet Tails." Shadow said with an evil grin.
"Why?" Tails asked with a puzzled face
"I saw you yesterday. At the Kitchen" Shadow said, and Tails's face gone crimson red, and his mouth hung open. Curiosity got the best of us, and what Shadow earned was a storm of begging.
"What have you saw?" Sonic asked
"Come on, Shadow. Out with it." Blaze asked too.
"Tell us, Shadow!" I said with excitement, but quickly added "Please?" as I know shadow doesn't like to be ordered around.
"Please don't." Tails begged for Shadow, but with little effect, as the answer came with an evil grin as a companion.
"I saw him and Cream kissing in the Kitchen" He said, and all of our jaws dropped. Well, except for David and Victoria, who didn't knew them. It wasn't that they liked each other was the one what shocked us, but the one that they actually kissed each other. 'Well, thinking of it, cream is 13, and Tails is 15 now, so it's not a big surprise that they started out something more serious.' I thought, finally able to think clear again.
"Well, good luck, buddy." I said, and this brought out both Sonic and Blaze from their shock, and they also gave their good wishes for them. After that, tails finally overcoming his embarrassment, finally went back to work on the test results. He ordered David to stay in bed for at least 2 days, and I showed-to be honest levitated- him to the boys rooms, and let him chose an empty one. In the meantime Blaze did the same with Victoria, and she went to David's room. Off course Victoria went with her too, and refused to leave his side, until she went to sleep. When the rest of the guys arrived, They all introduced themselves to David and Victoria after we told them what happened, and greeted them with their usual warm smile. Cream was Dead embarrassed first that Shadow saw her and Tails, but in the end, the two of them told rest of the gang about themselves. They got cheering, and hundreds of congratulations. It turned out, that Espio even won a bet against Vector, about this turn of events.
I don't know what the tomorrow has in store for us, but with David and Victoria on our side, our world just got a whole lot bigger.
That's it for now. I am also happy to announce, that the plans for the whole story are now finished, and are only waiting to write them down, more detailed. This very story will contain 11 chapters. I hope you will like them all.