I have not forgotten!

4 — Not So Friendly

It is an endless canvas that colors are tossed upon. Pure, uninterrupted blue that stretches seamlessly across my field of vision. The sky is alive, growing at each passing moment, a constant changing canvas for the world to see. It is like a painting of—"We've been in the air for eight hours now," Sonic complained, breaking Amy away from her thoughts. "I just want to stretch my legs already!" He said, stretching out his limbs as he lay across one of the plane's wings.

Amy huffed, glaring at him from within her cabin. "I told you already get off of there or you're going to get yourself hurt!" She warned.

He rolled his eyes, glancing over at her boredly. "What the worst thing that can happen?" He asked sarcastically. "I'm already dead."

"I think Sonic is right, though." Miles interjected, glancing back at the fuming pair behind him. "We still have a long journey but I think we should get some supplies before we reach the forest. Once we get there we won't have any human contact for who knows how long. We need to prepare ourselves for whatever happens."

See, Sonic said with his eyes as he wiggled his brows over at her much to her dismay.

Amy puffed up a quill from her forehead and turned away from the blue hedgehog. "Annoying." She muttered, causing him to roll his eyes at her.

"Moody." He said back, loud enough for her to hear and snap back at him with a glare.

"Excuse you?" She said lowly. "What did you just call me?"

"Mood—dy." Sonic said slowly, arms crossed, and a smirk plastered on his face.

"Why you!" Amy snapped, jumping up from her cabin and reaching over to Sonic on the plane's wing, causing him to jump away from her with a frown. "Come here!"

"Yo! Are you trying to make me fall?" Sonic snapped.

"So what? You said it yourself!" Amy snapped back, trying to grab his leg. "You're already dead!"

"Ah, come on, guys!" Miles said worriedly as he turned back to them. "That's dangerous!"

Unfortunately his calls got unnoticed as the hedgehogs continued fighting and yelling at each other, causing the plane to swing back and forth. It was like the only sane individual was the young fox. Did they seriously not notice the plane swaying?

He had to do something!

"I see a city down below!" Miles called out, pointing at whatever direction, hoping to deprive their attention away from one another. Surprisingly, it worked. Both hedgehogs immediately simultaneously turned and looked off where the young fox pointed at.

"Where?" They both wondered out loud.

"Down there somewhere," Miles lied with a sigh of relief. "Just keep looking."

"Oh, I see it!" Sonic suddenly said, causing the young fox to jump in surprise.

"Seriously?" Miles gasped out as he followed her pointed finger and sure enough far below a small city made itself known. "Oh, wow… there really is a city way out here…" he said breathlessly, scratching his cheek in wonderment.

"I'm starving!" Amy mumbled, rubbing her belly. "Let's go!"

The fox couldn't agree with her more.

"Hold on tight!" Miles called out, flying over to the nearest clearing he could find. He seriously needed a break from these two. They were driving him crazy!

On his left, there were the butchers, milkmen, and fishermen, the artisans were to his right, and the produce, higher up the street was what struck Sonic most. The streets were not in the best condition nor were some individuals.

Some mobians were even half dressed, walking around crazily, completely out of their minds and with no shoes on but what surprised the hero the most was that everyone seemed in different. Like this was something so natural. Somehow, even in the last three hours he had still not become accustomed being in such a bad environment.

Yes, he did see homeless in his living life but not like this. Not this thin and insane. They needed help and what was worse was that he could even see some families were wearing clothes so ruggedly that he wouldn't be surprised if they might have been homeless as well.

"What happened while I was gone?" Sonic wondered in disbelief as they walked down the dirty streets with a look of bewilderment. His eyes casted over the unfortunate souls barely staying alive in the sidewalks. It was a sickening sight to see.

"Robotnik happened." Amy said simply, throwing a indignant glance at Sonic.

"I can't believe it," Sonic muttered quietly in disbelief. "I knew Robotnik was evil but not this evil…"

"You're just realizing this now?" Amy said with a pointed look, frowning. "He killed you, did you forget?"

Sonic remained silent considering she wasn't wrong. He clutched his bony hand which was now hidden within white gloves provided by Miles and pulled on his fingers. He still couldn't believe Robotnik could go so far even though he was seeing the proof before himself.

It seemed so out of character and surreal.

"I almost forgot I had to buy some apples!" Amy announced, breaking him away from his thoughts as he frowned at the gleaming pink hedgehog in annoyance.

"Seriously?" He asked, clicking his tongue. "We literally passed them like ten minutes ago."

Amy waved him off."I'll be quick, alright?" She said walking back from the direction they had came from."Just wait here and don't get into any trouble."

"Whatever you say, princess." Sonic mocked, rolling his eyes as he held his arms crossed behind his neck.

Amy gave a sigh but made no comment on his nickname for her and left, disappearing within the crowds. Sonic rolled his eyes once more as he turned to the blonde fox who was gazing with precious eyes at homemade jewelry from a shopkeeper. How boring. Or so it was until he saw two soldiers walking towards a shopkeeper to his right who seemed to cower in fear almost immediately.

Sonic's eyes followed them as they crept closer and he was tempted to to get involved, like the hero he was, but he held off, waiting to see what they would do.

"Come on, old man." One of the half robot soldiers said with a cruel laugh as he stood before the shopkeeper. "How much do you have from today?"

"Please, I barely made any money today. I've just made enough this whole week to buy my family some food to eat. I'll pay you another day. I promise!" Said the quivering old man as he held his hands out as if to pray.

"Does it look like we care what happens to your family?" Asked the soldier asked with a wicked grin as he held his hand to the scabbard strapped around his waist. "Show me the money old man unless you want to make this harder than it has to be."

Sonic clicked his tongue in irritation as he watched the scene before his eyes unfold. He couldn't stand to watch any longer. He had seen enough.

"Alright, what do you think about these?" Miles asked, looking over a pair of necklaces on sale. He held two stone necklaces as he turned to look at Sonic. "This one matches my eyes but this one has a really cool color and—Sonic?"

Miles blinked, looking around to notice that the cobalt hedgehog was missing. That's when he noticed him walking over to a pair of soldiers tormenting a poor old man. This wasn't good…

"Sonic, wait!" Miles called out, running after him. "Oh, my chaos sake," he said nervously.

"Hey, you there!" Sonic snapped, drawing the attention of the soldiers.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Growled the lead soldier with a low glare.

Even though Sonic's smirk wasn't visible underneath his cloak, his stance made it obvious that he was super confident. "The guy who's going to give you some lessons on how to treat your elders, you prick." Sonic said with crossed arms.

"Oh, yeah?" He laughed out as he looked over the cobalt hedgehog. "And how are you going to do that exactly?"

"Like this!" Sonic announced as he sprinted over and slammed his fist on the soldiers chest only for the soldier to move less than an inch from his current position.

"Is this some kind of joke?" Barked the soldier with a chuckle as he and the soldier beside him shook their head in fits of laughter.

Sonic chuckled nervously. "Well actually you were supposed to fall down and—" A punch to the face and the cobalt hedgehog went flying back, slamming into wooden produce crates.

"Sonic!" Screamed Miles, running to his aid as he tried to remove the broken planks from on top of him.

The soldiers laughed louder as the fearful crowd of bystanders glanced in despair at the abuse of the soldiers. This was nothing new to them. It was a typical occurrence ever since the battle that took place years ago.

"That's enough!" A voice hollered.

A growl of annoyance escaped the lead soldier as he felt something hit the back of his head, making him stumble. "Who the hell threw that?" He yelled out, swinging his body around.

"I did," Replied Amy ever so simply as she made an apple continuously hop from her hand, a braided basket being held to her hip with the other. "And I have a whole lot more of those if you're feeling hungry."

"A girl?" The soldier laughed incredulously. "My, actually, I am feeling pretty hungry but for something else." He said suggestively, looking over the pink hedgehog with a perverted look.

"Hey, you, dirtbag." Hissed Sonic from behind as he stood up from the rummage, voice laced with venom and disgust. "Didn't your mother ever teach you to respect a lady?"

"Sonic, stop trying to teach them things!" Miles screamed in despair as he did his best to hold back the dimming hedgehog (which was surprisingly easy since he was quite light).

If only he listened to his own advice, Amy wondered with a roll of her eyes but was taken aback when she looked over at Sonic and noticed through his hood that his eyes were on fire. Glowing wildly like green embers as he stood proudly, like if he hadn't just been thrown across the market place.

She could feel her breath become stuck in her throat as she watched him. There seemed to even have been a fire gleaming within his eyes that ignited even in death. It was fierce. It made her wonder how mesmerizing and frightening he must have looked when he was alive and in battle.

It must have been one breathtaking sight.

"Don't you dare talk about my mother, beggar." Snapped the soldier, stalking over to Sonic who stood without wavering his stance as the soldier began to take out his sword. "I've had enough of you!"

"This isn't good!" Miles whined nervously as the soldier came running towards them with his sword held high above his head and ready to slice them in half.

The sword struck down but if failed to hit its target as Sonic suddenly swung a wooden plank across the soldiers face, making his head twist at the contact and fall to the ground and onto the broken wood.

"Come on. Let's get out of here!" Sonic shouted, running towards Amy and grabbing onto wrist as he pulled her along with him with Miles tagging on from behind in a hurry.

"Come back here!" The hurt soldier yelled out as the other one helped him up and they ran after them. Luckily the head start of the Sonic Team made them able to escape faster.

The Sonic Team ran past the crowds of mobians and through very alley they could possibly pass as they began losing the the soldiers behind them. They were even able to successfully sneak behind a building and hide as the soldiers ran past their location.

"Well that was adrenelling!" Sonic laughed as he jumped from side to side excitedly and released he pink hedgehog's hand, oblivious to the fact that the pink hedgehog and blonde fox were out of breath and barely able to stand.

"Are you crazy?" She whisper-yelled in an angry voice. Her serious green eyes stared into his and Sonic couldn't help but feel a bit intimidated as his ears flopped against his head. "I told you not to get into any trouble!"

"What did you expect me to do?" Sonic snapped, motioning towards the direction they had just ran from. "The guy was harassing some poor geezer and you expect me to just stand there and do nothing?"

"Exactly that!" Amy's voice rose, making Sonic take a step back, not from the loud noise, but from shock from her words.

"How the hell can you tell me to sit back and act like nothing's wrong?" Sonic snapped as he stood over her with a fake grin which held deep disbelief.

"As sad as it is I just can't let you jeopardize the plan." Amy replied, never faltering back, crossing her arms.

Sonic glared. "Are you serious right now?"

"You barely managed to get out of that mess," Amy hissed incredulously. "You couldn't even defend that guy without getting a fistful in your face. News flash. You don't have any powers!"

Sonic glared. "It doesn't matter if I don't have any powers because it's the right thing to do."

"The right thing to do is leaving them to their own devices," Amy answered as she held her head as close as she could to meet his glare. "They've survived this far without your help, they can survive a little bit more."

There was a moment of silence that loomed over the two hedgehogs. A type of silence that even Miles was afraid to interject into. It was as if there was a dark, tangible, aura circling the two that would pull him in if he made any movement to get close.

It was a bit frightful.

After a moment Sonic spoke. "You're so heartless." He bit out, pulling away from her with a thin frown. "

Amy gripped her fists and shut her eyes tightly. His words hurt. However, as much as it hurt, she simply had to be the bad guy in this situation. If they risked the plan now they wouldn't be able to save anyone in the end.

"I don't think he meant it." Miles said with a small smile as he patted her back.

"Thanks, Miles, but I think he did." The young witch said with a sad smile, shrugging hopelessly as she herself began following Sonic back to their campsite. "Come on, Miles."

The young fox frowned as he watched the rest of his teammates make their way back through the alleyways. To be completely honest, he didn't feel like being with the two of them. Everything felt tense and uncomfortable when he had to be around them.

However, he couldn't leave them alone. Chaos knows what those two would do if left alone. It made Miles quiver. He didn't want to be the cause of those two strangling each other after not keeping an eye on them.

As they set up camp in the remote location within the forest, both hedgehogs continued to ignore and glare at one another whenever possible. Even now they both sat at opposite ends of the fire pretending that neither existed. It was really horrible.

It made Miles grim.

No one had even commented on his survival skills of being able to make a fire and make a decent meal. An idea formulated in his mind and he grinned. "Anybody hungry?" Miles offered, trying to lighten up the mood as he handed Amy what he had cooked. "Want one, Sonic?" He offered, holding out one of the grilled jerk prawns with vegetable kebabs on a stick. "It's really good!"

Sonic glanced at the food on a stick with a thoughtful look that Miles couldn't comprehend. It looked like he was distrustful of his cooking. Though the fox's doubt vanished when the blue hedgehog took the stick with a look of determination.

Miles watched hopefully as the hedgehog lifted the food to his mouth and chewed on the food. Sonic held a stoic expression as he swallowed but Miles hoped he enjoyed it. His hope vanished, however, when the food slipped through his throat, to his body, and fell out of his rib onto the ground.

"Well isn't that a waste of food?" Amy mumbled distastefully,

"Right, because you want all the food for your fat self." Sonic snapped back, causing the pink hedgehog to flare up and send him a warning glare. Miles could of sworn he even saw electric currents pass between the two. Their distaste with one another was quite evident. The poor blonde fox didn't like being in a crossfire like this one bit.

"Come on, guys!" Miles offered as he waved his hands between the fuming hedgehogs. "Let's change subjects!" He gave a nervous chuckle. "So… uhh… Amy! How did you bring Sonic to life exactly? I don't think you ever fully explained that to me." Miles said with a smile as the pink hedgehog turned to him with a sour look.

She bit her lip, doubtious. "I performed a necromancy ritual."

"What's that?" Sonic asked, leaning against the trunk he sat against with a curious look on his face.

"A supposed practice of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, to bring someone back from the dead, or to use the deceased as a weapon, as the term may sometimes be used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft." Miles explained as he chewed on his food. "Only a level three witch can summon it."

Sonic tuned to the pink hedgehog. "What level are you?"

Amy didn't answer for a moment as she stared at her food nervously. Not bothering to look up at him. "...level one…" she mumbled at last.

"Seriously?" Sonic laughed out, his voice full of sarcasm as he looked over at the pink witch with distaste. "No wonder it didn't work! Why didn't you just get a real witch to do it?"

Amy sat looked down at the fire but her eyes reflected hurt but she made no remark back which surprised the cobalt hedgehog. "Excuse me." She said suddenly, standing up and covering her face as she walked towards an open pathway by their camp. It almost looked like she was trying not to cry. Sonic rubbed the back of his neck but his stubbornness didn't allow him to speak up and so he stayed seated as the pink hedgehog stormed out.

A moment of silence paced between the two males until Sonic began to cringe at being watched by the young fox. And so he glanced over at him with a broken smile, "What is it, Tails?" Sonic chuckled out sarcastically, knowing full well why the blonde fox was giving him a look of disappointment. Though it wasn't his fault. His argument was justified.

"She's devoted her whole life in finding your body and tying to master spells without a teacher," Miles explained heartedly, frowning.

Sonic raised a questioning brow. "Her whole life?"

"Finding your body wasn't easy." Miles began as he gave a sigh. "When you scattered the chaos emeralds your body was also transported and buried overtime. That's why Robotnik could never find you but though her tarot cards and spirit guides she was able to determine your location after countless fails. Just saying your name is illegal, you know? No one else was willing do do what she did"

Sonic felt himself taken aback by the blonde fox's words. He didn't know the extentent of what the young witch had gone through. He had been hooked up on arguing with her constantly that he didn't realize how insensitive he was being.

This wasn't like himself.

He had been so stressed lately with everything that was going on that he couldn't help being so moody constantly. He always felt mad. Sad. And he didn't know how to handle his emotions with such a change of events. It didn't help that the young witch was being quite stubborn back but he shouldn't have been arguing back in the first place. He was supposed to be their hope.

"I'm a real ass, aren't I?" Sonic asked rhetorically as he placed a hand over his forehead.

"Well uh…" Miles trailed off nervously.

Sonic raised a palm to him. "You don't have to answer that." He said, pulling himself up and brushing himself off.

"Where are you going?"

"Going to talk to that wicked witch of course." Sonic explained, walking towards the path Amy had taken just a few seconds ago. "Don't worry. I'll be back soon."

Sonic crept through the darkened forest, following the footprints of the witch. The silver strands of the clouds passing in front of the moon cloaked his movements in the shadow, and he made little sound stepping across the cold, wet leaves beneath his boots. The forest felt eerie. He was surprised the young maiden wasn't afraid of walking within them alone.

Then again, she was a witch and she had resurrected a corpse on her own.

This was probably nothing to her.

"Ames, come on where'd you go?" Sonic asked, walking through the branches that stuck out on the path of the forest. He paused when he noticed the footprints had disappeared. That girl was making them vanish so he couldn't find her.

He clicked his tongue.

Just great.

A cold breeze passed by him and he surprisingly felt a type of shiver run down his back. It felt… otherworldly to say the least. His eyes drifted towards the breeze which flowed towards a bush that was just awe feet away from him.

He smirked.

So that was where she was hiding.

"Look, I'm sorry, okay? Now will you come out of there and talk to me?" Sonic said, kneeling in front of the bush with an irritated look. "Ames, get out of there!"

"Out of where?" Amy asked from behind him, making Sonic jump in surprise and twirl around to face the annoyed pink hedgehog who was crossed armed.

"What the…?" He trailed off as he glanced back at the bush and a butterfly flew out of it.

"What are you complaining about now?"

Sonic furrowed his brows as he watched it fly away. He could of sworn he felt a presence. "Nothing." He mumbled, shaking his head. It was only a butterfly.

"Okay, then stop following me." Amy snapped, twirling around and pushing past more branches, going deeper into the forest.

Sonic huffed. "I'm trying to apologize so stop acting like a child!" He complained, following her from behind when a branch slapped against his face. "Yeah, Ames. Real mature." Sonic said with a roll of his eyes as he shoved the branch away from himself and continued following her to an open pathway.

"I don't want to talk to you, okay?" Amy snapped, stomping her foot on the ground and glaring at the cobalt hedgehog with anger that held a tint of sadness.

Sonic gave a sigh, stepping towards her. "Ames…" he began before he felt the ground shift below him and they froze. His eyes staring down at the moss below the both of them that seemed to be cracking.

What is chaos sake?

"An earthquake?" Amy said fearsomely, trying to adjust her footing.

Sonic's eyes frayed wildly around them as he noticed it was only the area that they were stepping on that was breaking beneath. They had unknowingly stepped on top of an opening that was covered in moss and it was crumbling beneath their weight. This wasn't good.

"Hold on to me!" Sonic yelled, yanking the pink hedgehog against his chest and to shield her from getting hurt. But there was no time to run. And with that, the ground below them dispersed and they found themselves falling down a deep hole.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter :)