Love Will Find A Way Chapter 2
As daylight broke out over Mobius, Sonic awoke to find himself nose to nose with his two-tailed friend.
He jumped at the speed of light away from him, and shuck his whole body like a wet dog!
He watched the fox sleeping like a baby, and wonder if he would ever awake from his deep sleep.
Turning away, Sonic strolled over to the window, and let out a small groan as he found rain battering down on the ground. He stood there watching the rain for 5 minutes before realising he was in a daze.
As he snapped himself back into reality, a bright coloured picture on the fireplace caught his eye. A wide smile invaded his face as he took it in.
It was from 5 years ago, way before Sonic and Tails had left. It was taken on the beach, and the sun was beaming down upon two females, who were laughing with their arms wrapped around each other. One was a young rabbit, which wore a red bathing suit and flip-flops, the other female was a pretty petite pink hedgehog, who had a 2 piece suit on and a pair of sunglasses resting on her head.
The picture brought back memories, some painful and some overwhelming.
By now Sonic had regained the memory of the night before with the pink hedgehog, and grinned as he allowed himself to relive the moment.
IButterflies erupted inside him as if they were battling viciously.
Sonic had experienced this many times during his travels from the slightest thought of Amy, so it was no surprise that it was happening now!
He walked down the small garden path as the pebbles below his feet crunched, clenching his hand into a ball he rapped on the door three times then stepped back and noticed that his breathing had become short and fast.
Behind the door he heard movement and the door glided open to reveal Amy.
She looked into his eyes and he looked into hers, they were both frozen to the ground at the sight of each other.
Amy was taller and her quills reached past her
shoulders, her body had perfect curves and her legs were long and
toned.
She was dressed in a pair of denim shorts and a red
t-shirt, as always the red headband was placed on her head.
Sonic felt his jaw drop at the sight of her but quickly closed it again and dropped his gaze to the floor.
She didn't say anything but
she ran to him jumping up at him with her arms outstretched.
Sonic
caught her and swung her round in a circle as he hugged her back./I
Something behind Sonic grunted and interrupted his daydreaming causing him to pounce into a fighting stance…he let out a sigh of relief as he found Tails rolling over into a newfound position mumbling to himself. Sonic walked past him to the door laughing lightly to himself.
II'll go see Knuckles today…I'm guessing he will be on Angel Island'/I Sonic thought to himself.
Though as he ran out of the front door he quickly regretted his decision as within 5 seconds he was drenched to the bone.
He took longer than usual to get to Angel Island partly because of the rain and the sloppiness of the ground beneath his feet, but also because he planned to run by Amy's house to check on her.
He could see her small house coming into view, and then he saw the mass of flowers covering her garden.
As he ran by the house he let the aroma of the flowers invade his nostrils making them flare. He couldn't see Amy's silhouette anywhere in her house so he thought she would still be in bed, and continued running until he finally arrived at his destination.
'KNUCKLES' Sonic shouted, searching around for the echidna.
All of a sudden he saw a flash of red and was instantly hanging upside down from the nearest tree by one leg.
Sonic opened his mouth but was interrupted as the bright red echidna came up into his face screaming:
'Who are you and what are you doing on my island? Are you after the Master Emerald? Good luck buddy I have fists of steel'
Sonic crossed his arms looking at Knuckles seriously, but he couldn't hold it and burst out laughing.
'Knuckles you idiot, its me Sonic!'
Knuckles looked at him closely then realised his mistake, he jumped up the tree and cut the rope holding Sonic.
'Wo wo wo, Knuckles, wait'
But it was too late as Sonic came crashing down to earth on his head, Knuckles jumped down and laughed at the blue blur sprawled across the grass.
Slowly Sonic sat up rubbing his aching head and threw knuckles a piercing look.
Within the years he had been away, Sonic noticed that the echidna hadn't changed much, the most noticeable change was the bounds of muscle poking out of him.
Sonic was quite impressed by his new look but couldn't think straight as he stumbled up onto his feet.
Knuckles patted him on the back, which almost threw him to the ground again, but luckily he managed to regain his balance.
'When did you get back? How did it go? Is Eggman gone for good? Is the Master Emerald safe now?'
Knuckles bombarded him with question after question, all of which passed through one ear and out the other!
'I got back last night, it went well, Eggman isn't gone…yet! And I have no idea how safe your Emerald will be!'
Knuckles look at him dumbfounded.
'But I'll explain another time, I need to ask you something!'
'What is it?'
'I went round to see Amy last night when I got back, but when I got there I found out she had a boyfriend called Cruise! Do you know anything about him?'
Knuckles stood thinking for what seemed like forever.
'Amy's got a boyfriend?'
Sonic rolled his eyes 'Yes, do you know anything about him?'
'No is he a hedgehog?'
'Yes he's a hedgehog, he dark red and wears black boots and black fingerless gloves and…what?'
Knuckle's face had dropped as Sonic described him, making Sonic become agitated more and more with each millisecond.
'There's only hedgehog I know who matches that description, and he's really called Crimson! He worked with Eggman, but on the other side of Mobius. I'm guessing that when Eggman went off to fight you he sent Crimson over to keep an eye out!'
Sonic didn't like where this was going but he wanted more information.
'He's really dangerous, I've heard that he's been convicted of everything under the sun, but because he's physic he avoids being caught easily…SONIC WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'
Sonic had shot off after hearing everything; he needed to get to Amy's before Cruise did!
The rain was still pouncing on him from the sky as he ran, but it didn't bother him.
I"Almost there…almost there!"/I He kept repeating to himself.
From dead ahead an ear piercing scream was let out which sounded very much like Amy, Sonic was at her door 5 milliseconds later and smashed the door down.
He gasped in horror at what he saw…
The living room looked as though a bomb had hit it, and Sonic saw Crimson's hedgehog friends cheering. Sonic could feel his blood boiling as he saw them.
Amy was being held up against the wall unable to move from the telepathic powers of Crimson! He saw the hedgehog standing close to her, kissing her. Amy tried fighting back but it was no competition, she screamed bloody murder as Crimson's hand snaked its way up her vest top.
Sonic jumped into action smashing into Crimson's side.
He caught Amy as she fell from the wall and placed her on her feet
"Amy, get out of here! Go to Tails' workshop, its safe there!"
She didn't telling twice as she ran for her life, tears pouring down her eyes!
By now Crimson was standing and eyeing up the blue hog. But Sonic was ready for any trick he wanted to pull. Like last time, both of Crimsons cronies had disappeared, and Sonic was stood wondering why Crimson hadn't started attacking yet but it all became too clear as he felt something knock him the floor from behind him.
He fell to the ground with a bang and tried to get back up, the only problem was, he couldn't move!
"Like to play dirty eh?" Sonic snarled
"Is there any other way" Crimson replied calmly, watching as Sonic failed to break free.
Suddenly the other two hedgehogs where on top of Sonic, punching him and kicking him, all he could do was lie there and take it.
The taste of blood swished around in Sonic's mouth as they repeatedly hit him, but his beating was cut short as 2 figures emerged in the broken doorway.
Sonic couldn't see what was going on but had become very aware that nothing was happening.
With 2 swift punches both the hedgehogs were knocked off Sonic and fell to the floor unconscious,
"Well that was easy" Said a voice, all to familiar to Sonic.
He heard a yell and realised he was able to move; quickly jumping to his feet as he studied his saviours!
"Tails, Knuckles? What are you doing here?"
Tails stepped towards Sonic "Amy ran into my workshop and told us everything, so were here to help!"
Sonic looked around the room and saw that Knuckles had taken out Crimson, who was slumped against a wall, out for the count!
"Well looks like its over, I didn't even get a chance to fight!" Sonic joked.
Knuckles walked over to them shaking his head, "To say he's really dangerous, that was easy"
Sonic laughed but found it hard because of the immense pain it created.
"Guys, I'm going to see Amy, I'll catch you later"
He ran from the broken house, which caused him great pain too! But it wasn't going to stop him! He felt horrified by what he had seen and, by what Crimson tried to do.
Before he knew it he was in Tails' workshop. Scanning the room, he quickly found the pink hedgehog curled up in a corner in the foetal position. Tears were streaming down her face and her clothes were stuck to her from the rain.
Sonic felt his heart pierce at the sight of her, and walked over to her slowly.
He slumped down the wall next to her and put an arm around her. She jumped at his touch and pulled away from him.
"Amy its me Sonic, don't worry everything's ok!" He tried to assure her.
She looked up at him in horror,
"Sonic what happened to your face?" She said, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a compact mirror and handed it to him.
Opening it Sonic saw that his left eye was puffed up and his mouth was bleeding, also his eyebrow had a small gash in it along with bruises down his chest.
"Don't worry Amy I'll be fine, its just a few cuts and bruises" He said, trying to hide the fact that he was shocked from the amount of damage. "What happened Amy?"
He shifted close to her again and tried to put his arm around her.
Once again she shoved it away then jumped to her feet.
"What do you care? Your probably just trying to do the same as he did!" She screamed in his face.
"No Amy…"
"Don't lie, you just want to use me like he did…just leave me alone" Her tears were worse than the pouring rain outside She turned on her toes and ran out of the workshop and out of sight.
"Amy" Sonic shouted after her, then he looked down at his feet and said "I would never use you."