These are not songfics. Let me just get that fact out of the way right now. They're short stories inspired by songs. I discovered Scribbler doing something similar with the Kingdom Hearts Videogame series, and decided I'd like to give it a shot.

A note for this fic: I always had a couple of issues with Earthia/Hearthia. Oh I liked her. I mean, she was clearly an emotional and capable leader. She did the best for her clan. Kept them together through terrible experiences. Maintained her dignity into maturation and beyond...

...Raised her youngest daughter to die. It's a tricky issue, you know?

Standard disclaimers apply. Reviews and concrit are both appreciated.


4. Inama Nushif (Montage), Brian Tyler, (The Children of Dune Soundtrack).


Cosmo doesn't believe that she had ever done anything particularly well in her life, until the day she met Sonic.

The daughter of the Seedrian clan leader (if it could still be called a clan) was not expected to do much well –only consistently. Her clumsiness and awkward daydreaming never mattered to her sisters. She was to do her chores and count her growing blessings and visit mother every day, to sit in her branches and play games like any ordinary child. She had never been expected to fight, the way generations before her had. She had never known of such things. She was not like Starla who had watched her husband's body mutate and change before he died. She was not like Miss Aurora who watched all her children perish in the great forest fires of their home planet (and who spoils Cosmo and Galaxina enormously as a result).

Mother called Cosmo a late bloomer: Her Beautiful Child, Her Future. She called Cosmo all these things and more, without words, yet Cosmo heard them all. Love, as Cosmo knew it, was the feeling of soft leaves brushing against her cheeks and the smell of fresh sap and cool bark.

But that (as Sonic might say) was then, and this is now. The Metarex came and took the life she knew away from her; they took her mother, sisters and home, and revealed to her the stark, harsh truth of a universe that was filled with thorns.

It is only now, as she and her friends hang in the very depths of space at galactic coordinates 0,0,0, that Cosmo is beginning to understand precisely how and why she survived. It has nothing to do with the unwitting spy device concealed within her eyes and ears.

She is here to die, that much she knows. She feels it in her heart and mind and in the steadily spreading growth of her body. In the tickling sensation of blossoms opening. In the distant yet so near sound of Tails sobbing into the power cannon's controls.

It is only when she is asked to do this, to mature –as is the fate of all her species– and become their salvation, that Cosmo realises there is one thing in her life which she is now required to do perfectly. Her. Cosmo Earthia, who has never done anything spectacular in her life, now knows that she is about to become the most beautiful thing in the galaxy. She will die, and she will become the rebirth of her species...

...Never again to feel sunlight in her hair and grass between her toes, Cosmo thinks. Never to sense the touch of Tails hand, or watch Chris, talking quietly to himself as he works on some complicated design, or hear Sonic laughing in the face of destruction.

She is not entirely sure why mother is asking this of her. But she understands why it must be her, nonetheless. She wants to explain this to them, but all she can think of to say is "don't worry about me, fire, don't worry about me, don't worry, fire, just fire, it'll be alright, just fire, it's over, it's all over now.

'I love you, Tails. Goodbye. Fire."

And he does.

Long ago (or at least, it seems that way), Cosmo Earthia was born to save the galaxy. She knows her purpose. She knows that this is what she was always meant do, and she is happy. She wants her friends to know how happy she is as the light of the power cannon and Sonic's almost gentle violence tears into her new, strong body, Dark Oak beneath her.

She says goodbye again. Silently, and in a form unseen by any of them but Tails. She brushes unseen fingers against Chris's face and wipes the tears from Cream's eyes. She returns to Tails and kisses him, the way she has known other flesh-creatures to. It is a ritual of theirs, she thinks. One to show how much someone means to you.

She knows, in her heart, how much they mean to her. That is why she will do this. That is why she will give up everything to save them. Why she will blossom and die and celebrate the incredible beauty of her purpose. Destiny has nothing to do with it.

In the farthest reaches of space, Cosmo finally does something perfect, and she is happy.


"Hatt al-hudad (Through the tempest)
Al-maahn al-baiid (be it deluge or sand)
Ay-yah idare (A singular voice)
Adamm malum (speaks through the torrent)

Kali bakka a tishuf ahatt (Sacrifice is her gift)
Al hudad alman dali (one that cannot be equaled)..."