A/N: This story is also found on my crappy Deviantart account: loor101 . deviantart . com

you can find links there for references/pictures of those birds.

Without Words:

Chapter 4

Amy shook her head in denial, "No." she thought "There is no way he could have lost his voice completely to the point of not making any sound at all…"

"Sonic," she began. "Sonic are you sick?" she asked hoping that would answer her uncertainties.

Sonic shook his head no.

"Well, if you're not sick, how come you can't make any sound at all? What happened?"

Sonic looked up at her again and touched hand to his throat again reminding her that he can't talk to explain what had happened.

"Oh, Right." Amy said slightly embarrassed she asked that when she knew he couldn't talk.

"Hmm. Well there must be some way you can show me…."

She paused for a second, thinking of any solutions.

"I know! Why don't you write it down for me?"

Sonic thought for a moment and then nodded, that seemed like a good idea. He then looked around the vast cornfield and frowned when he saw there was nothing he could write with or on.

Amy noticed this too, so she walked over to Sonic and held his hand tight, "I'm sure Tails has some paper at his place. Come on Sonic, let's go." Sonic smiled and picked her up again as they began their journey to Tails workshop.

Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman was having a celebration party with his robots at his ever-moving headquarters in the sky. There were robots dancing everywhere and drinks all around,

The doctor already seemed to have too much champagne.

"At last!" *hic* " I finally don't ever have to hear that stupid hedgehog's voice again! And it's all thanks to me!" *hic* he boasted, spilling his drink everywhere with his hand gestures.

"Doctor, don't you think you've had a little too much now?" a concerned bartender robot said from behind the counter.

"Now why would I have too much?" *hic* "I got rid of the hedgehog's voice! That's something worth getting drunk over…." He said as he took another slurp.

"But Dr. Eggman, sir. Didn't you originally want to wish for your taking over the world?"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Dr. Eggman screamed so loud that the record player stopped and the other dancing robots stopped and stared.

"Lemme tell you something mister…." *hic* "I… WILL get that wish, and I'll do it with your help as well."

"My help sir?' the robot questioned monotonously.

"Yes. You go and see if there is any other object in this world that will grant me wishes."

"But sir, I'm just the bartender."

"DON'T question me." *hic* "Now go!"

"Yes sir" the robot chimed before running off.

Dr Eggman then noticed the stares from the other robots,

"What are you all gawking at! Get back to work!"

A simultaneous "d'awww" could be heard from them before they rolled around to start cleaning up.

Eggman held his glass up to the light and looked upon his own reflection.

"Just you wait and see hedgehog, I'm going to make sure you will be silent for the rest of your life." He said as a smile crept up on his face.

Sonic was having second thoughts. He and Amy arrived at the workshop within a matter of minutes, but now he kind of wished he took a wrong turn or something, he did not want to face Tails and attempt to explain what happened to him. But here they were at the doorstep, and he couldn't just take off now, no matter how much he was dying to.

"Come on Sonic, let's see what we can do here." Amy said pulling his hand, breaking him away from his thoughts. Amy rang the outside doorbell of the workshop, "Tails! It's me Amy! Open up! I have Sonic with me."

Not a millisecond later did the door open, Both Sonic and Amy were expecting to see the studious two-tailed fox at the door greeting them but Sonic's breath stopped short and his eyes widened greatly to see a familiar red echidna at the door.

"Knuckles!?" his mind screamed, "What the hell is he doing here!?" Now more than ever did he want to take off running, knowing Knuckles, he probably would not let Sonic live it down that he couldn't say anything back to him. Since he and Knuckles did always have word fights, Knuckles would surely win every time now, especially now that Sonic cannot call him a Knucklehead back.

"Oh hey Knuckles." Amy greeted cheerfully as if he lived at that workshop.

Sonic was on the very verge of making the rash decision of dashing out of there, but Amy pulled him inside before he got the chance. Soon after, Knuckles closed the door, leaving Sonic no chance now to randomly run off.

"Yo. Amy, Sonic." He said casually barely making eye contact with him.

Sonic wanted to ask why Knuckles was there but since he couldn't say anything, he waited until Amy got her chance to ask him.

"So what brings you here Knuckles? is there something wrong with the Master Emerald?" Amy asked, for she was probably wondering the same thing Sonic was.

"Actually" Knuckles started "ther-"

"Hey everyone." Tails called coming down the workshop stairs unknowingly interrupting Knuckles' sentence.

"Sorry I couldn't get to the door, I was working on some things for Knuckles and was right in the middle when you guys came, so I asked him to get it."

"That's okay Tails." Amy said

"Knuckles was about to explain why he was here." She looked over at Knuckles so he could finish his response.

"Hm? Oh yeah, well The Master Emerald emitted a lot of strange energy earlier this morning, it was so strong it woke me up. When I looked to see what it was, I saw an odd looking colorful bird sitting on top of the emerald. It was not like any bird I have ever seen before. When I tried to approach it, it flew off towards the sun and disappeared. It was very weird."

"That is weird." Amy said not really knowing what to think of it.

"So I came to Tails to try to see if I could use his computer to try to find out what kind of bird it was. I don't know why, but something is telling me that that bird was trying to tell me something… something important."

"The computer is conducting a search now." Tails added. "It takes a little while for it to look through all the information so while we are waiting, you can tell us what happened with Dr. Eggman, I know you were going to try to stop another one of his plans Sonic, how did that go?" Tails asked.

Sonic didn't answer and appeared to be uneasy at first, but after a second of trying to decide how to go about this. He just smiled and gave a thumbs up gesture to Tails as if saying, "It was all good."

"Well that's good." Tails said to the thumbs up, not even giving any thought to the wordless answer. Sonic was usually pretty nonchalant about things, so Tails assumed it was just him being Sonic.

Amy however noticed that Sonic was lying to the fox and echidna. She looked to Sonic questioningly but Sonic gave a small shake of the head no telling her that she shouldn't say anything for now.

Just then a loud *bing* could be heard from up the stairs.

"Ah, looks like the computer is done searching, let's take a look at what we got." Tails commented to the sound as he made his way up the stairs with Knuckles, Amy and Sonic following right behind.

"From what Knuckles described the bird as, it appears there is only one result." Tails said while pressing buttons and looking at the screen.

"The Aria firebird." He said enlarging an image of it.

"Is this what the bird looked like Knuckles?" Tails asked the echidna.

The image was an artist painting of a magnificent l bird. It was brightly colored like a Painted Bunting, but it had the body structure of a Peacock with a red crest on the top of its head and the tail feathers of a Lyrebird; on its chest, it appeared to have what looked like a foreign symbol.

Knuckles' eyes widened at the image, "Yes!" he shouted. "That's exactly what it looked like..hmm but that's a painting. Is there any real images of it?" Knuckles wondered.

"I'm afraid not Knuckles. It says here that The Aria Firebird is a mythical creature."

Tails began to read out loud what the information said on the screen.

"The Aria Firebird is a mythical bird first told of by an unknown ancient civilization. According to the discovered writings, the Aria Firebird supposedly gave the gift of speech and song to the more advanced species after the evolutionary breakthrough of the Mobians.

It was believed this was the reason that Mobians can talk and their primal ancestors could not communicate through speech. It was also believed that the Aria's egg could grant a single wish.

However, it is said that if one with an evil heart were to make a wish on its egg, it will provoke chaos and awaken an evil creature that will wreak havoc and cause the entire world to fall silent for a thousand years…."

A/N2: Dun dun Dun! Will Sonic be able to stop these turns of events??? Will he ever get his voice back?!?! Review! and it shall continue ^^