Notes: Rewritten as of September 22 2013
Chapter 4
Unimformative
"…I guess that makes sense." Knuckles had his arms crossed as he addressed Tails. Thankful his friend had understood, Tails nodded and turned to Chip.
"Thanks for being calm about it," Chip said. He could've sworn the echidna was on the verge of storming off, but had kept his poise. He started to fly back to Sonic, but was stopped due to a gently tug on his leg.
"I think we have a few questions for you first mister," Amy huffed, placing her hands on her hips, "Why is sonic like that again?"
"Yeah, what happened to him?" Tails asked shyly.
Sonic looked at Chip before laying his head back on the ground, "I know I said I wouldn't do this alone," he said to Chip, "…but explaining everything right now would be useless."
"But Sonic!"
"Tails please understand." Tails quieted. "I know you just want to help, but explaining what happened won't help anything right now."
"…Alright."
"Thanks." Sonic sighed and closed his eyes, letting out a small noise of pain.
"What's wrong Sonic?" Amy asked.
Sonic opened his eyes slightly, "Cream, can you help me with my cut now? Sorry I wouldn't let you before."
Cream shook her head before stepping forward and gingerly wiping his cut clean, "I should be sorry, not you. I should've fixed this whether you let me or not."
Shadow chuckled from above, "Yeah right. In this form he probably would've bitten your head off."
Sonic closed his eyes again, "I couldn't have."
Tails eyes hardened in worry, "Hey, Sonic...why haven't you moved yet?"
Chip turned to face Sonic and patted his head reassuringly, "He can't."
Trying to refrain from freaking out, Amy asked, "What? Why?"
"Changing your genetic makeup takes the energy out of you for a while."
Sonic frowned to himself, before motioning for Chip to come closer, and whispered into his ear.
"What should I tell them?"
Chip watched him sadly, then shrugged as if to say 'Which matters more?'
Sonic sighed, before whispering sadly, "I wonder why I made a promise to protect them, when the darkness will just make me hurt them."
Chip looked at his friend sadly. "I'm so sorry." he whispered,
"What're you whispering about?"
Chip jumped, before turning around and smiling innocently at Amy.
"Nothing?"
Amy growled.
Sonic sighed, "I made a deal with the gods of Gaia. I thought I was to weak to properly protect you all when I was a normal hedgehog. I knew I was stronger in this form, so I said to heck with it." He gestured to himself, "Now I can protect you all better."
Before they could react, Chip added, "There's a catch though." They turned to him. "Because Dark Gaia's gone, the darkness that keeps Sonic like this doesn't have an outlet. It'll probably try and kill him, or at least hurt his sanity."
Sonic sighed through his muzzle, wincing as the action made his wound sting. "Sorry guys," he mumbled. "I didn't think that would happen."
Cream finished cleaning his cut and bandaged it quickly, smiling sadly to herself.
Yawning carefully, Sonic turned away. "I'm gonna get some sleep. Wake me in the morning."
Then there was silence.
Cream stared sadly at Sonic's bandages, frowning when blood began to seep through them. "How did he get this anyway?"
"Chi chi!" Cheese chirped beside her.
"Oh," she said simply and returned her gaze to Sonic. "He needs to take better care of himself."
Amy's head snapped up, "Wait! When the sun rises, wont he be normal again? Just like before?"
"No. I'm afraid not." Chip placed a hand on his sleeping friends ears, rubbing them affectionately, and smiling when he earned a quiet purr.
They just sat there in silence, wondering what was going to happen, and what had already that they didn't know about.
Something was wrong in Tail's mind. Something that Sonic had said.
Something that he knew he had to remember.