Chapter 4:
Compassion
Normal POV:
Needless to say, Alice did get a stern talking to from Amy, but luckily Yukiko was there to lessen the punishment. Without sex for a week sounded doable to the parents, but to Alice it was borderline torture. Issac was also punished in the same way, seeing how both of them were in the same room with their parents. Reigi and Samuel kept their secret of sharing a lustful compassion from earlier. The raccoon and indigo hedgefox had similar reputations to keep. For right now, the two lucky, unpunished couple had gone to the indoor swimming pool. Many others had also gathered there.
Reigi sighed. "Think there's a lake around here? I'd rather be alone with you." She said.
He agreeably nodded. "Let's ask your Aunt, Kokoro, she may know of such a place."
Reigi frowned "She doesn't seem to be in the best mood, though..."
"We're on her good side. She'll probably be levelheaded with us, don't worry." Samuel comforted.
Reigi took his hand and they left the swimming pool. She felt so good around him, good to be with him. A funny thought popped into her head. If they were to join in a relationship and have a cub, what would that make it? A Coonhedgefox? A Hedgecoonfox? A Foxhedgecoon? She didn't want to think about the possibilities. For now, she just wanted some private swimming time with her new boyfriend. She didn't want Alice to know about them, especially now. If she did, she'd be aggravated and jealous. Any other time she would be hounding over her shoulder, asking for how she liked the feel. Reigi couldn't lie that it felt like nothing she ever felt before. A voluptuous experience, one that she would want to repeat as long as she could, every day with him. Before this, Reigi thought of sex as a drug, she was mostly correct about that, but it was so much more. She was tented just thinking about it, but she didn't care. Samuel had taught her to love who she is, to love what she can do. Before too long the secretive couple had arrived at Tails' dorm room. They heard noises, moaning above all, Aunt Kokoro and Uncle Sonic were hitting it off.
"Talk about hypocritical." Reigi said.
"No kidding. I wonder if this is how they deal with stress?" Samuel asked.
A voice sneaked up behind them. It almost sounded like a whimper. The two jumped, turning around to the voice behind them. Yukiko stood there, her blood covered right hand to her breasts, clenched by her other hand. Blood dripped to the ground, behind her you could have followed the trail of blood to where she had been.
"Aremaa! Mom, you need to get that checked out! That's getting worse!" Reigi said very concernedly.
"I just did, nothing was apparent to cause this..." Yukiko said with a painful frown.
Reigi quickly turned around and banged on the door. "Kokoro! Sonic! My mom is bleeding again!"
The door was flung open. The two mates stood there in bathrobes, aghast with Yukiko's bleeding.
Tails POV:
My god. Placing a hand on my sister's back and another on her shoulder I lead her into the room slowly to avoid speeding her heart and increasing the blood flow. I sat her on the bed and went into the bathroom, grabbing a First Aid Kit, taking it out to her. I fished out some gauze and bandage wrap, along with a rubber tourniquet, just in case. I tightly tied the tourniquet around her upper arm, then bandaged the bleeding area, finally wrapping it with the gauze.
"Sis, geez, you're beginning to scare me. Did you go to the infirmary?" I asked. My heart pounding in fear for her health.
"I did, they couldn't find any probably cause for this." She said.
Now I was really worried. This had been happening for a year now and has progressively worsened. Why was all this crap happening at once?! The demon, her bleeding, Alice's and Issac's uncontrolled sex drive, which really wasn't that big of a deal, but still. What the hell next?!! I started crying, this was all too much.
"Sister...what's going on..?" I whimpered.
Yukiko POV:
I wrapped my arms around her, pulling her close to me. Only a fool wouldn't be scared and I was no fool. I am terrified what this wound was doing to me. I have insomnia because my dreams are of bloody ones, blood on everything, even on my family, my blood. I walk about without a drop on me. Why is this happening? What is causing it to happen?
"Kokoro, I'm sorry that I worry you so. I'll be fine, I'm not about to leave you." I said, putting on my very best smile, or the best I could.
"Sister...Yukiko..." Tails whined into my breasts.
Samuel POV:
This was no place for me, this was a family matter. I decided to slip out the open door when nobody was looking. I just couldn't believe what is happening to Yukiko. Did I pity her? Maybe a little, it's hard not to. She is dying by the looks of it. I want to know why, though. So does everyone else. If she dies, I couldn't bear the look on Reigi's face, or anyone else's, for that matter. As I've heard, Sonic is the hero of Station Square, but Yukiko was the hero of RiverLog. It's just not right, why does she have to suffer so much? I know about her family, and her murderous grandfather. So much pain...
Moaning from behind a door to my left snapped me out of my thoughts. I opened the door and sure enough there were the sexaholics, Alice and Issac.
"You guys...Give me one good reason as to why I should say anything about this." I said.
Alice POV:
Wow, this was really bad. Samuel caught me with my shorts down and my throbber in Issac's tail hole. I wasn't sure what to say. My blush kept me from doing anything. I just stared at him for a minute. I was thinking about a word that started with a "u". Ulder...ultin...
"Ultimatum." I finally got out.
"Alright, what do you have in mind?" Samuel actually looked curious and crossed his arms.
"We'll, uhm...what do you want us to do for you to keep your mouth shut?" I couldn't think of anything. Samuel is not one for hard labor, so I doubt his decision would be bad.
"Reigi told me about you using bondage on her. No more and we have a deal." He said.
Kuso, that would be about sex. I liked to please my sister. Yes, I'm a bit of a slut, but everyone is in their own way. I'm paraphrasing my fox mom, of course, but it's true. Dammit, I am getting soft.
"Deal, not can I get this load out before I explode?" That sounded kinda rude.
"Whatever, just keep to your word." He said and shut the door rather hard.
Finally!
Amy POV:
Perhaps I'm going overboard with all these frozen pizzas. I didn't want to put them back, though. From the moment I tasted one three hours ago, I needed more, more, more, more. I'm being generous with twelve, I could have gone with thirty, maybe fifty. As I walked I couldn't feel but a little guilty for Alice. She was just trying to express herself. Issac is a good kid, too. I guess I was worried that Issac may have done something with her femsex, i.e. cum in that spot. He didn't though, I geuss I could remove the punishment on Alice, Issac was up to Kokoro. Wow, I had forgotten how much stress is released when I'm shopping. Perhaps I can talk the Resident's of RiverLog into a some more modernization. Well, maybe not. The people of RiverLog use trading, not money. If all the women became hooked on shopping, the shelves would be bare all the time.
"Whuaoh!"
Slipping on something wet beneath me. I stumbled, the stack of pizzas teetering all over in my arms. I didn't fall and I didn't lose any of the pizzas. That's a million dollar moment. I took a short moment to soak up the glory, after which, I looked back to see what I had slipped on. It was a red liquid, wiping my red boot on the floor, smearing the fluid that was on there.
"Blood? Oh no Yukiko!" I shouted.
My feet started to carry me. I don't want anything to happen to her, she is mine, I'm hers, we're supposed to be together forever.
Amelia POV:
"Is that Amy?" I asked myself, observing the red and white boots. The rest of her was blocked out by a stack of thin boxes.
As the hedgehog bolted in my direction I thought it best to move out of her way. As she came nearer I have a pretty good guess that she noticed me, because she threw the stack boxes up into the air. I had no choice but to try and catch them. Amazingly each one fell into my arms. I think Amy called that a "Million Dollar Moment", whatever that was.
"Hang onto those for me!" She shouted back to me as she continued on her path of apparent panic.
"Amy! Wait up! What's going on!?" I shouted to her.
Amy skidded to a stop and turned around to me. "Yukiko...she's bleeding again." She huffed.
Her concern became my own. I went over to the hedgehog and evenly split the load with her. We started off in a dash. I fell behind, I didn't have as much stamina as she did. I wonder where she got it. It took us a few minutes to get there and I was exhausted.
"You okay?" Amy asked.
I swear she could run the worlds circumference. "Yes, just..."-I huffed-"peachy."
Amy leaned down and put her stack of boxes under mine, taking the load before I collapsed. She is so thoughtful. The strength in my arms was barely enough to open the door. I must be out of shape. The hedgehog entered with graceful balance, mine was more of a clumsy saunter. I fell to a sit in a nearby chair.
"How do you do it, Amy?" I asked, still huffing.
"Practice." She said with a smug look. "I go for a morning jog every morning, you should come with me sometime." She then added.
"Sounds fruitful." I chocked a small laugh out.
Ivy POV:
Yukiko was not under exaggerating when she said word spreads around fast with these people. She was bleeding again? What was that supposed to mean? I hadn't received word about this. How long has it being going on? I needed to see this with me own eyes. I entered the room. And wlked over to the bed which she lay on.
"Yukiko, how are you feeling?" I asked.
"I've been better." She replied.
She had not lost her sense of humor, that's a good sign. I pulled my cell out, hit five, then call. It's Rouge's speed dial number, thought it would come in handy one day. I'm glad I was right.
"Rouge. We have a medical emergency. I'll explain the details later, but for now Yukiko needs medial attention. I'll pick up the bill.
"Okay, first thing: Can she move around?" She asked.
"Maybe, but I don't want to chance it."
"Okay, can you bring her here? I'm on duty right now. Just got out of I'll be sure I can help to treat her personally."
"Thank you. I'll be sure to tip you. See you in a moment." I finished and hung up.
I tuned to Yukiko, she looked as if she was just barely clinging to consciousness. "Yukiko, we're going to get you to the hospital, okay." I said. She stared to sit up, but I stopped her. "Don't move around, hon, we'll take care of that."
Normal POV:
Ivy had called in a gurney from the infirmary and Metal brought it to the bedside post haste. Robotnik lifted the fox from the bed carefully and set her on the gurney. Yukiko was to tired to move and lay perfectly still. Ivy moved her from the room, Amy by the kitsune's side the whole time, holding her uninjured hand. The Hedgehog's eyes were glossed over, keeping her tears behind her eyes. She was worried sick. She didn't want to think this would be the end for Yukiko, her love, the other half of her heart. Robotnik and the others listed as Amy cooed Yukiko all the way to a docking bay inside the Albatross. She selected a small, almost plane like, vehicle. With a carefulness, Robotnik pushed the gurney up into the plane.
"I'll be right back, everyone. I need to grab something." Ivy said.
The other's were too concerned with Yukiko to question what she was going to get. With each passing minute the fox seemed be to getting weaker. After ten grueling minutes Robotnik returned. Tails confronted her.
"What did you need to get?" Tails asked.
Ivy was silent for a short time. "A last resort." She said flatly.
The yellow fox dreaded what it could be, but she held hope that there would be no "last resort" measure. With everyone buckled in the plane started. It hovered of the ground then took off into flight. Sonic decided to stay behind and look after the children that weren't with them. Those being all except Reigi. Amelia wasn't used to such speeds and started to look a bit green around the edges.
"Hey...is there, uh, something I can throw up in?" She asked very quietly.
"The seat in front of you, it should have some bags in them." Ivy said.
She reached in a took one out, she held it over her mouth.
"Amelia, put it over you nose and mouth, exhale and inhale slowly, that should help." Amy advised.
Amelia did as told, breathing in and out, taking an occasional breath of fresh air, then going back to the bag. She gradually began to regain her color. Staring at the floor helped a lot, too. They didn't spend much time airborne, but to the raccoon it seemed like years had been knocked off her age. The plane lowered itself slowly for Amelia's sake. Everyone patted the coon's back for hanging in there, she was the first off the plane, needless to say. Her gut still felt like it needed to heave and did such. She doubled over, loosening the nauseating knot in her stomach next to the plane, and feeling good that she got that out.
"Ogh...I needed that." Amelia said, leaning against the plane's metal body.
Yukiko laughed and everyone sighed with relief for the fox. She wasn't in critical condition. Again, Ivy seeing that as a good sign. The gurney Yukiko lay on was brought off with the same carefulness as it was put on. They rushed to fox into the hospital, Rouge was ready and waiting for her kitsune friend. If these professional doctors and nurses can't figure out what is wrong with her, then Ivy's last resort will be the only option for the blue kitsune. Robotnik prayed that it wouldn't come to that. Yukiko was brought to the emergency rooms. A sedative was administered by Rouge personally. The others sat in wait in the waiting room. Amy didn't care how long it took, if they did it right, she would wait here for years if she had to. Tails estimated it would be an all-nighter before they get to see her. All they could do was wait, wait...and pray.
