Here's chapter two of the new make-over! Hope you like it. And if you're wondering, if you look at the Little Mix music video of their song Black Magic at the beginning you'll see the font. I tried looking for the name of it, but it just didn't work out.
Witch Fact: Though the terms "wiccan" and "witch" can be interchangeable for some people, like a person can be pagan and know how to practice witchcraft.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, except OCs and the the story.
Chapter 2: Nine years
The sun had long since risen over the horizon. It was about 7:30 when Miss Rose, or Amy Rose, had reached her shop, Nature's Magick, in downtown Station Square. It was small shop with the name in a rather strange black painted font that looked like it was straight out of spell book. The outside was painted a dark, dark green and in the window you could see different books, charms, candles and crystal balls on a beautiful display.
It was true that she had left her home for a while, a good four years, but then had returned with her new found abilities as an expert witch! She always knew she had a knack for the mystical arts, but it was quite a shock when she found out. And she found out about it, kind of by accident. It happened when she and the one she still, regrettably, loved, Sonic the Hedgehog had gotten into a nasty argument.
"Nice going, Amy!" Sonic, at age 15, barked. "Now that Egghead has the emerald!"
They had just lost a battle over a Chaos Emerald to Eggman, and now the two stood in a meadow not far from the city; they couldn't stop arguing over who's fault it was.
"Hey!" 12-year-old Amy snapped back. "You were the one who was suppose to keep it safe, not me! It's not my fault if you suck at your job!"
Sonic tightened his fist and his veins pulsed in fury. How dare she say that?! "I suck at my job?! You can't even keep yourself safe, let alone anyone else! I should know since I'm always saving you!"
"Well, if that's how think, next time just Eggman kidnap me! If I'm lucky, maybe he'll make me his slave; it'd still way better treatment than you've ever given me!"
"Fine! Get kidnapped for all I care! I could use a break from you! How can anyone love someone as annoying and useless as you?!" he roared as his temper met it's peak.
Amy gasped with her hand clasped over her mouth; tears forming in her eyes. How could he say something so...cruel?!
Sonic was in just as much shock along with mountain of regret hanging over his head. Did I really just say that?!
The heartbroken pink hedgehog just stood there with her short quills curtaining her face away from Sonic. He heard a heart-wrenching sob escape her lips and could see her shoulders quivering.
"Oh, A-Amy, please don't cry!" he stuttered, hastily. "I-I'm so, so sorry! I don't know why I said that! I-I didn't mean it, honest!"
Another sob was heard. "I hate you..." she choked out.
Sonic froze. Did he hear that right. "W-what?"
Amy felt something inside her. It burned and spread from her head to her toes. It was a strange, unfamiliar feeling and she noticed that the pressure of it rose as her emotions and stress built. The grass around her swayed with the mysterious energy that was slowly boiling within her; the sky growled and grew dark and ominous. Sonic ignored the sudden change in weather; what he had just heard was much more usual, in the worst kind of way.
"I HATE you!" she screeched, as all that power and pressure exploded, and rocketed towards Sonic. A bold hot pink energy shot at him, which he had just barely dodged. The bolt had had left an angry, burnt hole in the ground; smoke rose from the destroyed soil. Sonic and Amy eyes widened.
Sonic kept staring at the vicious looking mark. "A-Amy, what was- Hey!" he called as he saw Amy run off with tears in drenching her cheeks. "Amy! Wait, come back!"
"Leave me alone!" she cried.
And then she was gone.
Amy shook her head of that memory. She knew she didn't really hate Sonic; she was just upset. However she couldn't let go of what he said.
How can anyone love someone as annoying and useless as you?!
The words plagued her quite often, though she chose not to let it get to her.
"Meow..." her pet cat, Isis, whined as she tugged at the leg of Amy's jeans. It was already October and it was getting that crispy chilliness that Amy loved.
Amy snapped out of her daze. "Oh, sorry about that, Isis, you're right! We need to open up shop."
She took out her keys from her long flowing wool coat and unlocked the door.
Nine years, it's been nine years since that day. The day that Sonic and Amy actually got into a fight, a rather ugly fight, and the day that Amy disappeared from the team. After Amy had run off, Sonic gave her a few hours to be alone, knowing that might be what she wanted. But, when he went to go look for her to talk to her about what happened, her presence was scarce. He looked in her home, Cream's house, Tails' workshop, but she wasn't there either. He asked all of his friends if they happened to know where she was. All he found out from Cream was that she thought she saw Amy walking for town. And for the rest of the day, Sonic searched all over the city of Station Square. He zipped up avenues, down boulevards and through many streets. He asked several people if they had seen a pink hedgehog anywhere, nothing. She was nowhere to be found.
Nine years is a long time and Amy still hadn't returned. No one has found any way to contact her and she never sent any sort of message to them about her location or well-being, not even to Cream and Vanilla's place for reassurance. Everyone wanted to keep the hope of seeing Amy again, but their faith was slowly slipping away, even Sonic. Sonic had told the others about the argument; no one was pleased with him.
Of course, he wasn't pleased with himself. He regretted everything he said to Amy on that day. He wished Amy had stuck around long enough for him to at least apologize to her before she took off, though he also wished she had never taken off in general. They all did.
I HATE you! Oh, how he hated hearing those words from her. Coming from someone he cared about (a lot) just made it even worse.
Even now, after all these years he still carries that regret with him, no matter how many times Tails, Knuckles, Silver and even Shadow have tried to snap him out of it.
The one thing he didn't tell them about was that strange burst of power Amy shot at him, most likely by accident. Since he couldn't really explain it himself, he thought maybe it was best just to forget about it.
As the years went by, not a lot had changed around Station Square. Tails still had the habit of cooping himself up in his workshop with his latest inventions, while also developing a bit of a crush on a cute little rabbit girl he knew. Shadow would sometimes disappear for a while; the only difference is when he goes missing, he doesn't keep going for nine years. Knuckles is the same anti-social grump he always was, along with still having Rouge coming around to have fun teasing him and getting him mad. Obviously, the bat hadn't changed over the years, except that after all those times she spent admiring the Master Emerald Knuckles was still guarding, she realized it wasn't just the emerald she liked; she also began taking a liking to its echidna guardian as well. Cream still lived with her mother, and was as sweet and innocent as she was when she was 8. She was still as sweet as they came and always kept her hope that she would see Amy again.
As for Sonic, he was as fast as ever, but still carried that heavy weight of guilt around with him, if only he had at least one clue to where Amy was. He really wanted to make things right with her and hopefully start over. But oddly enough, he started seeing another girl he met in town, a yellow, almost blonde, hedgehog named Ivy.
Tails and the others, sincerely, didn't approve of Sonic dating Ivy. She never really cared about them and they supposed that she cared about Sonic since he seemed happy. Even though nothing had changed, life was never the same without Amy. But little did this group of heroes know that their missing companion would soon be returning to them with a few surprises along with her.