A Rose's Thorns
A young girl at the age of twelve walked down the street with a purse in her hand. She had short pink hair that curled at the ends and green eyes. She wore a red dress with a skirt with a white end to it that went down to her knees, and Red and White boots that went up below her knees. On her wrists were golden bracelets. On her head was a red hair band.
As she walked down the street, she noticed that the streets were not as crowded as they usually are. She had a depressed look on her face. She looked at her wrist with concern. She had a secret she kept from her parents and friends, and it was interfering with her life.
"Should I tell them?" she asked herself. She looked at her wrist. She remembered the day it happened, a week before today.
"Hi, my name is Ami Hoshino," The girl greeted the shopkeeper. She was in a small shop that sold small figurines. She was getting a birthday present for her mother. Her mother loved figurines. She had a case of them in the living room of their house.
"You're the one who ordered that cute little pink figurine right?" a beautiful blond hair shop keeper cashier asked. "It's right here." She bent over under the cashier desk and picked up a small box. She gave the box to the twelve year old girl.
"Thank you ma'am," Ami thanked with a bow. After paying, she turned and left the store.
On her way, she decided to stop and sit at a nearby bench in the park she used to play in as a kid, and look at the figurine. She sat down, and looked at her surroundings. It has not changed much since she was a kid. There was still a bunch of old playground equipment, a bit rusty, but still entertaining.
She looked at the box and opened it. She picked up the figurine. It was the figurine f a small girl that looked around five wearing a pink southern bell dress playing the violin. Her mother liked collecting this series of small figurines, they looked so adorable. Ami could not help but smile.
She was about to put it back in the box when she noticed something more inside the box. She put the figurine next to her and reached inside it. Out of the box was a tiny trinket of some sort. It looked like a small pink mallet. The mallet was barley the size of her pinky. She wondered what something like this was doing in the box.
"Was it a piece of the figurine?" Ami asked herself. She looked at the figurine again. Nothing appeared to have been broken off, and there was no reason a mallet would be put in a figurine like that. Ami was puzzled.
She took a closer look at the tiny mallet. There appears to be words on it. She read the words. "Piko… Piko… Hammer…" The small hammer began to glow. In a flash of light, the mallet began to grow until it was as big enough in order for her to hold with two hands. The orange shaft was about two to three feet long, the head was red and yellow larger, and was as wide as trashcan lids. There were large P shapes on the sides.
"What is this?" She asked confused. "Did somebody put this in the box by mistake?" the shaft of the mallet began to shine a pink color. Out of the shaft began to form into a ring like shape. The ring, and floated with its loop through the shaft. It went down the shaft, around Ami's right wrist and attached itself to her wrist vanishing into it. The stunned girl dropped the mallet and looked at her wrist confused.
"I still can't believe what happened that day." She thought looking at her wrist. "Piko-Piko Hammer, my Pink Meta-Ring, and… her… as if my life was not complicated enough because of my illness, now I got all of this. What else can happen?"
She looked up at a building. It was the library she needed to go to for research. She had a test she needed to study for. She entered the library ready to study.
"Why are we here?" Naoto asked looking bored. Mile sat at a computer in the corner of a library and was looking up information with a barrier of books surrounding him. He glanced frequently at the computer and each book hoping to gather information. Naoto had the Chaos Emerald in his hand. He tossed it in the air and caught it multiple times.
"We need to gather more information on the Chaos Emeralds, and the constant rumors of Mobian sightings." Miles explained.
"Oh yeah, those rumors," Naoto said twirling the emerald on his finger like a basket ball. "You think they maybe true?"
"Some of them maybe rumors, but some maybe really Mobians." Miles said.
"Or humans that transforms into Mobians." Naoto stated balancing the emerald on his head.
"That's right," Miles said agreeing with him. He looked at him. "Go look at the news magazine rack for any rumors about Mobian appearances." His expression turned into an irritated one. "And stop playing with that emerald before you do something dumb."
"Okay, fine, if you're so worried I'll give it to you." Naoto said giving Miles the Emerald. He walked over to the magazine rack.
He looked around until he found the news section. He picked up the most current magazine to date and looked through it. He found a section with Mobian appearances.
He looked over the section, a column which had a list of Mobians that have been seen. "A large Mobian was seen in the Mystic Ruins out of town, a pink female Mobian that has been seen around the city, a reddish-brown Mobian and a yellow and black flying Mobian spotted in the slums of the city at once, there's been a lot of those Mobians appearing in the city alone." It made him think. "I wonder who those two from yesterday were working for." He was referring to the ones that call themselves Greed and Lust. And who was their boss Cardinal?
In the entrance of the Library, Ami walked in and looked around for a place to study. She spotted a place for study near the magazine rack. She walked over to the table. On her way there, a force impacted with her knocking her down. She had bumped into a blue hair boy.
"Ouch," she exclaimed. "Watch where you're going you…" she stopped when she saw the boy who bumped into her. She saw that the boy was older then her, was well built, had fair blue hair, and had a face she believed was very handsome. Her heart jumped as if she had just received her first kiss, or had just been married.
"Sorry," he said picking up the purse she dropped. He extended a hand to help her up. "You Okay?" he asked. She just sat there looking up at him and his face, staring at him in his green eyes.
She quickly got up on her feet and grabbed both his hands getting inches close to his face with hearts in her eyes. "It must be fate we were to meet." She said in the voice of a romantic. The blue hair looked at her a little frightened by the sudden romantic gesture. "My name is Ami Hoshino, and what is your name my blue haired prince?"
"Uh… Naoto Ryder…" Naoto replied with a sweat drop on his head.
"Naoto," she repeated. "Your first name is so prince like, much like the noble knight Lancelot." Naoto pulled his head back as her face got closer. "And Ryder, that is such a lovely last name." She let go of his hands and turned her back thinking. "But I wonder… Ami Ryder." Naoto began to sweat bullets. "Does that sound good to you?"
"Shh…" an old lady who works in the library said pushing a cart of books said passing by, symbolizing that Ami was being to loud.
"Sorry ma'am," she apologized with a bow. "It won't happen again ma'am." She turned to face Naoto. "So, what do you think of…?" Unfortunately, he was not there. "Naoto?" she looked around. "Where are you Naoto?"
Back at the computer Miles was at, the eight year old noticed Naoto running towards him. He stopped in front of Miles breathing heavily.
"Miles, we gotta go." Naoto called frightened. "I got this crazy girl called Ami I bumped into who thinks she's in love with me."
"A girl," Miles asked. "So a girl has a crush on you. What's the big deal?"
"I barley met her a minute ago and she's already calling herself Mrs. Ryder." Naoto explained. "We need to leave before…"
"Naoto," he heard a familiar voice say. He turned and saw her. Coming at her was Ami waving happily at him. Naoto farsightedly ran behind Miles.
"Is that here?" Mile asked.
"Yep," Naoto replied. "What do we do?"
Miles sighed over Naoto's lack of ignorance when it came to girls, despite being older. "Just tell her you aren't interested. She'll understand."
When Ami was of arm length away from them she smiled and began in her romantic voice. "I'm so glad I found you." She noticed Miles getting up from his chair. "Who's this?"
"I'm Naoto's foster brother Miles." Mile replied. "And you must be Ami."
"Oh, so he told you about me?" she asked. She began to blush. "So already you're introducing me to your family. Oh, I feel like a bride already." Both Miles and Naoto sweat dropped.
"See what I mean, she's nuts." Naoto whispered to Miles. "Don't worry, just tell her. It's not like she'll attack you or anything."
"Fine," Naoto said with a sigh. She got from behind Miles and looked at Ami directly. "Look Ami, you seem like a… nice girl…" what really went through his mind is insane. "But I just met and all."
Her face became a saddened face. Her eyes looked like they were about to cry. "W-What are you saying?"
"I'm saying, maybe we can just be friends." Naoto said sounding like a question. Ami lowered her head. After a few seconds of silence, Naoto took a step forward to get a better look at her. "Ami…?" he asked.
She looked up at his face. Her eyes seemed somehow different. They looked crueler then before, as if an angry demon had possessed her. She reached behind her back and a light emitted from it. She then growled angrily and yelled out, "You… bastard…" from behind her back she pulled out a large mallet and swung it.
Naoto quickly jumped back avoiding being struck hard by the mallet. The mallet hit the computer Mile was working on and it was knocked to the back of the library wall.
Mile and Naoto held each other looking at Ami with fear. "Where did that come from?" Miles asked in fear.
"The mallet or her sudden mood swing?" Naoto asked as much afraid as Miles.
Ami pointed the head of the mallet at them. She had an angry expression. "What, am I not good enough for you or anything you?"
"N-No that's not it," Naoto said frantically trying to find the right words. "It's just that… well… I…"
"Save it you piece of carp," she coldly yelled. "I don't want excuses from you. What I want to know is why I don't appeal to you. What is it?"
"Well…" Naoto started. "It's just… you're so young, yeah that's it. You're in Middle School right? I'm in High School, people won't think too highly about it."
She just stood there looking at him. "Good thinking, I think she's buying it." Miles whispered.
"So you're saying…" she began. "…I'm not developed enough for you?" One thing passed through Miles' and Naoto's mind. "Oh Crap." They didn't know much about girls, but one thing they did know was that nothing makes a girl angrier then telling her she's not sexy enough for them. "What do you prefer those High Schools with a developed figure? Is that it?"
"Shh…" the same librarian from before said. She stood behind Ami with the book cart she pushed earlier. "Young lady, if you don't keep it down, then I'm going to have to ask you to leave, do you under…" she was interrupted as Ami swung her mallet and knocked the book cart across the library to the other side. It crashed through the wall, creating a large hole in the wall leading outside.
The lady looked at Ami with fear. Ami pointed the head of the mallet at her. "You got something to say to me you ugly hag?" The librarian turned tail and ran away in fear. Ami turned back at Naoto and Miles. "Now as for you…" Unfortunately they were not there… again. She swore looking around for them.
Naoto and Miles snuck between and hid behind bookshelves, trying to avoid Ami.
"What kind of excuse was that Naoto?" Miles asked angrily. "Now we'll be lucky if we live through today."
"What about you and your advice?" Naoto asked. "Just tell her you aren't interested. She'll understand. Good advice Miles."
"How was I supposed to know she'd turn out to have a bad temper?" Miles asked. He then noticed the purse in Naoto's hand. "What's that?"
Naoto looked at the purse. "Oh, it's her purse. She dropped it and I was going to give it to her, but she went all romantic on me. I forgot I still have."
"Let me see that purse." Miles instructed. Naoto gave it to him. Miles began to look through the purse.
"Hey, don't you think she'll be more pissed off when she sees you looking through her purse?" Naoto asked.
"I'm looking for answers." Miles explained. He looked through and saw a wallet, a coin bag, a diary, some papers, gum, pencils, and a pamphlet. Miles took the pamphlet out and looked at it. It was titled "Living with DID".
"DID," Miles repeated thinking. He turned around and looked at the book case behind him. He reached up and took down a thick book. He turned his back from the book case and looked through the book. It did not take him long to find it. "DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder,"
"What's that?" Naoto asked.
Miles explained. "It says it's a psychological illness that either gives a person another identity, which means makes a person believe they are someone else, or it can give a person multiple personalities. Ami must had DID."
"Come to think of it," Naoto said. "That librarian from earlier, Ami apologized for being loud. Now she's willing to attack that old lady."
"Her personality must have changed when you turned her down." Miles stated. "And it changed without warning. Not only that, it says here most of the time people that have DID don't even know about it when it take affect. Ami is probably unaware about how she's acting."
"So basically she just turned into another person, and she doesn't know it?" Naoto asked.
"Precisely," Miles said agreeing with the theory.
"So what do we do about her?" Naoto asked. "Her other personality seems like she'll tear apart this library."
They all the sudden heard a crash. They turned to the left. A large book case had crashed into the wall of the library.
Miles recognized the book case. So did Naoto. "Where did you get that book from again?"
"The Science Section," Miles replied.
"And what section is that book case over there?" Naoto asked with a sweat drop.
"The Science Section," Miles replied with a sweat drop as well.
They both began to sweat small drops. "And where was the Science Section?" Naoto asked.
"Behind us," Mile replied. They both turned around saw Ami standing before them. They jumped back in fear.
"So, there you are." She stated pissed off. "Are you trying to sneak away?"
"Look Ami, you aren't yourself," Naoto stated. "If you don't stop this somebody's going to get hurt really badly."
"Like I care," Ami yelled ready to swing the mallet again.
"Stop," Naoto yelled with his right wrist glowing. His Blue Meta-Ring had appeared. Ami froze in place. "Listen Ami, if you don't stop it now, I'm going to have to stop you." Ami was silent as she stared at the ring. "You don't know what this is, but I don't want to use it. Now listen, stop it, I don't want anyone to get hurt, especially not you."
Ami still remained fired. After a few seconds, she put up her right hand. "So I'm not the only freak in the city." Around her wrist appeared a Pink-Meta Ring.
"That's a Meta-Ring," Miles stated. "But does that mean…"
"I can turn into a Mobian too." Ami finished. "Now, let's fight."
"So she's another Human who can perform Chaos Metamorphosis." Naoto thought. "And with her other personality, she'll be dangerous if she transforms." Naoto looked at Miles. "Miles try to get everyone out of the library." He whispered.
"What about you?" Miles asked.
"I'm the one she's after." Naoto said. "I'll distract her while you get everyone out. If she uses that Meta Ring the last thing we need are people watching."
Miles nodded. "I understand."
"Good," Naoto said. "Now, you go that way, I'll go this way. Ready? Go!" Miles ran to the right as Naoto ran to the left. Ami looked from left to right deciding to chase after Naoto.
Naoto lead her to an unoccupied part of the library. It was the corner of a library where there were books that nobody reads as much as they used to.
Naoto turned and faced Ami. He looked around and saw nobody around, only him and Ami. No security cameras, no by standers, they were alone. "Ami, this is your last chance. Please stop this. You're not yourself. You're a completely different person."
"Is talking all you know how to do?" Ami asked angrily. "Dammit, you're worst then my mother." Her ring began to glow. "Enough talking, we fight now!"
"Then you leave me no choice." Naoto said with his ring glowing. The blue buzz saw symbol started to appear on the ground.
Chaos Metamorphosis… Sonic the Hedgehog…
In a flash of blue light, he transformed into the blue Mobian Sonic the Hedgehog.
"Now it's my turn." Ami called as a symbol appeared under her feet. It was a pink circle that had a Hammer like design. A pink light transformed the girl.
Chaos Metamorphosis… Rosie the Rascal…
In a flash of light, she transformed. Her clothes were similar to the ones she wore as human. But she herself was different. She was a pink female hedgehog her hair like quills going down and curled. Her head band had on it was the symbol from earlier on the very top.
"She's a Hedgehog too," Naoto in Sonic's body thought. He thought it best to contact Sonic. "Hey Sonic, you in there?" he called out using his mind hoping that Sonic would listen.
"I'm here," he heard a voice similar to his say.
Before he knew it, he was once again in a space of grey matter, cut off from the outside world. He had been there before in the fight with Fang. Everything that he witnessed now is a flash before his eyes. He was in his human form, and standing before him was Sonic the Hedgehog.
"So Sonic, you know that hedgehog?" Naoto asked.
"Unfortunately," Sonic said rubbing the back of his neck. "Her real name is Amy Rose. Her nickname's Rosie the Rascal. She's had a crush on me. Very much like Ami there."
"She had a split personality?" Naoto asked.
"If you call being sweet one moment, and attacking me with a big hammer if I said no to a date the next, then yes." He had an irritated voice. "Looks like you not only have my powers, you have the same luck in attracting frightening girls."
"So you got any suggestions?" Naoto asked. "I don't want to hurt her, but I can't let her destroy the place."
"Try knocking that hammer away from her." Sonic suggested. "That hammer is called the Piko-Piko Hammer. It's Ami's main weapon. She does not have many physically strong properties. Take it away from her and she'll be easy to defeat. But be careful, she knows how to use it."
"And what do I do after that?" Naoto asked.
"Try and find a way to turn her back." Sonic suggested. "If you rejecting her turned her into an angry hammer happy, then maybe you can do something to make her like you."
"Like what?" Naoto asked.
"You could tell her you love her." Sonic suggest jokingly.
"Any other suggestion?" Naoto asked irritated.
"Okay, then just give her a hug." Sonic said with a shrug.
"Much better," Naoto said approving the plan. "Alright, operation convert Miss. Hyde to Dr. Jackal. See you around."
He exited the area in his mind. He was in Sonic's body once again. He looked up and saw Ami running towards him about to swing the mallet. Sonic jumped back and dodged the attack. The mallet slammed on the ground leaving a small crater like dent in the floor.
"That was close," Sonic thought. He looked around to see what he can do to knock the hammer out of her hand. As he did, he dodged the attacks that Ami threw at him one by one. She swung the hammer quickly and ferociously, but he was able to dodge them all with his excellent speed.
As she did, she swung around knocking a lot over. She knocked book cases across the room, machines, computers; anything in her path was demolished.
"Man, she destroys anything she sees." Sonic thought. It gave him an idea. "Maybe that's a good thing." He looked at a book case a few yards in front of him. He spun into a ball and fired at it.
"Get back here," Ami yelled running over, chasing him. She was not far behind. As Sonic impact with the book case, he ricocheted off it, and bounced over Ami. Ami unable to hit him in time slammed the book case.
"Now," Sonic thought. He uncurled, and landed on the ground. With his speed, he ran towards Ami and tackled her. Both hedgehogs tumbled to the ground. Ami's hammer was knocked a few feet away from them.
What Ami did not notice was that the book case she just struck was attached to a wall. Sonic had used the vibration from impact with the book case to loosen the grip of her hammer. Then Sonic tackled her so that she would drop it.
Sonic was on top of Ami who was struggling to get up. He pinned her down preventing her from getting away.
"Listen to me Ami," Sonic started. "I'm sorry for breaking your heart." Ami still struggled to get him off her. "But that's no reason for going on a rampage." She kept on struggling. "Listen, yesterday I met two other people just like us. And Miles, he's like us too. Those people said if GUN were to find out about our Meta-Rings, then they would arrest us." She stopped struggling for a little. "They said that GUN does not care for our rights as humans. Gun would see us as threats. They would do experiments on us, turn us into weapons, we would be nothing more to them but things they want to use for their own personal gain." Ami silently listened to him. His words appear to be getting through. "Please Ami. I don't want to be one of GUN's personal science projects. Me or Miles, and despite what you did here today, I don't want them to take you away either." Ami's eyes opened wide. "You're a good person Ami, I know it. You don't deserve to be one of GUN's weapons."
When his words got through, Ami's eyes became kinder. They became the same green kind eyes from earlier. "Naoto," she whispered.
"Naoto," they heard someone call. They looked over at Miles who stood before them. "We got to get out of here quickly. The police are on their way." They could hear the sirens coming closer.
"Do you still have the emerald?" Sonic asked.
"Right here," Miles said showing the Blue Emerald.
"Give it to me," Sonic instructed. Miles tossed the emerald to Sonic who caught it. The Chaos Emerald began to glow. Sonic used his Chaos Attack.
Chaos Control…
A flash of light covered the three.
It was late, almost sunset. Ami, Naoto, and Miles were at the park. Naoto and Ami breathed heavily sitting on a bench at the park. The affect after transforming back to their human forms had taken their toll. Ami had turned back into her kinder personality.
"I'm sorry," She apologized. "It was my fault all this happened."
"Don't be ridiculous," Sonic assured. "It's not your fault you have DID."
"Yeah, besides Naoto was the one that provoked you," Miles said. "He's technically the one to blame."
"Hey," Naoto said angrily.
"But anyways Ami," Miles interrupted. "We're looking for other Humans with Meta-Rings. Have you seen anymore around other then us?"
"No," Ami said shaking her head. "You two were the very fist I met."
"Oh, I see," Miles said with a nod.
"But…" Ami remembered. "There is someone I think may have one."
"Really, who," Naoto asked interested.
"She was a young girl with a brown hair." Ami explained. "I was baby sitting her one night, and when I thought I was alone; I took out my Meta-Ring to look at it. When I went to her room to see if she was sleeping, I noticed her diary opened next to her bed. I noticed it had the words "my baby sitter has a Meta-Ring". She must have been watching when I took it out. I wondered how she knew. I came up with the idea she had one too. I didn't want to wake her up, so I let her sleep, and wait till her mother came home. I decided to talk to her about it next time I see her."
"Can you introduce us?" Miles asked.
"Sure," Ami agreed.
Naoto got up from the bench. "We should head home." He stated. "It's getting late, and this neighborhood isn't very pleasant at night." He looked over at Ami who got up. "Want us to walk you home?"
Ami smiled as she latched onto his right arm. "Oh that would be so great, being lead home by a daring boy such as you, protected from muggers and kidnappers."
"As you she needs protection." Naoto said irritated.
Miles signaled Naoto to bend over to his level. Naoto did so as Miles whispered in his ear. "I suggest you don't make her angry. You don't want her to become Hammer Happy Ami again, do you?"
Naoto out of fear aloud Ami to hang onto her arm as they walked. He did not want to have to go through that experience again.
As the three walked away from the bench, Ami turned around and looked at the bench through the corner of her eye. "That bench," she thought. "It was where I found my Meta-Ring. And now it was where I became friends with Naoto and Tails." She smiled as she put her head onto the arm she embraced. "Maybe my Meta-Ring isn't so bad after all."
Meanwhile on top of a high skyscraper, a fifteen year old green hair, and a seventeen year old blond hair looked at the city below. They were on the very top of the tallest skyscraper in the city.
The fifteen year old had in his hand a communication device. A voice had spoken through it. "Suzuki, you know you're objective right?"
"Find the target," The green hair named Suzuki said with a nod. "Search for it and take it in, don't destroy it."
"Good," the voice said. "As long as you do that, I'll be sure to pay you handsomely."
"But sir," Suzuki continued. "What if we did destroy it? Will we still get paid?"
"I am paying you to retrieve it without damaging it." The voice said angrily. "But since I don't want GUN to get it, if you destroy it you will only get half of what I promised you. I want it in one piece though. Do you understand?"
"Yes sir." Suzuki agreed. "We'll try and bring it back in once piece. Suzuki, over and out," He turned the device off, and put it away. He looked behind him, past the older one. "Boss, do we really have to bring it back without being damaged, that's boring." He was referring to another figure hidden in the shadows.
The older one growled angrily. "Yu agrees with me. Why can't we rough it up a little?"
The figure stepped out of the shadows. She was a young woman around her late teen years, skinny with a lovely figure. She had long violet hair done in a pony tail, and blue eyes. She wore a brown cowboy hat, bat, boots, and glove, a brown sleeveless belly button shirt, and dark violet tight pants. She had a tiny fang coming from the left side of her mouth. On her belt, were two large pistols.
Their leader started in a deep New York Accent. "One, we're mercenaries not a demolition crew. Two that Egg Head said we only get paid half if we destroy it. I promised him it in one piece." The older one growled angrily while Suzuki pouted. "And three," She grinned. "That old fart didn't say you can't rough it up, so bring it back and say you tried."
The older one grinned again banging the knuckles of his boxing glove together and the younger one called out excited. "Boom Baby, oh yeah, thanks boss, you're a pal. Let's go Yu." The two walked to the ledge of the sky scrapper and leaped off it. A light emitted from the ledge.
"Suzuki and Yu, those two need to be watched like children." She thought. "Maybe I should have just gone myself." She turned and sighed. "On the other hand, they have been getting restless. And besides, I got my own mission." She took out one pistol and twirled it quickly on her finger, and put it back in its holder. She grinned, thinking about the fun she was going to have.
To be continued…
For Ami, I was looking for that Kagura Sohma personality. I really don't know if I did a good job on her or if I just butchered her. She'll probably have more of that personality later on in the story.
Ami's real name was originaly Amy, but I decided to rename her Ami, which is prenounced (Ah-me).
Anyways, as for the names. Suzuki for green Hair, and Yu for Blond hair. I believe you'll understand why in later chapters. As for Ami, couldn't find a good name, her Mobian is Amy's other name, Rosie the Rascal. Her last name is Hoshino, the name of her creator. Well, that's the best I could do.
