-Winds of Heat 1: Crossing Hearts

No Author's Note, on with the story!

CHAPTER 7: A Shocking Discovery

General POV

In Blaze's Dream

The lavender feline appears next to Sonic, walking down a long road with houses surrounding it. 'Why does this road seem so familiar?' Blaze thought to herself. She knew she was not in Station Square, but rather some other place. Some place that seemed to bring back a lot of memories.

"Hey Sonic?" She turned to Sonic, only to seem to have a thought running through his mind. He still snapped out of his thought when she called for him though.

"What is it Blaze?" He asked.

"I don't quite remember how we got here, and I'm not exactly sure where 'here' is. Do you know where we are?" asked Blaze.

"I thought you would know by now, we are in your dimension Blaze! Your world was crashing into ours and we found the source to be coming from your world instead of ours." Sonic concluded. Blaze nodded, confirming what she heard from him.

The two walked down the long road for a while, only to find out something the two would not be wanting to see. As they got on top of a hill that the road was going over, they could see out in the distance a tragedy happening. Clouds as dark as space itself hovered and reigned over the city ahead. Lightning clashed the buildings, setting them ablaze on contact. Blaze's castle was in ruins, and the screams of the citizens could be heard from afar.

"Oh...my..." Blaze said, nearly fainting from the site of her beloved city being teared apart like paper. Sonic noticed her weakness and held onto her before she could hit the ground. "Don't worry Blaze, we will take care of this, I promise." Sonic said sympathetically towards Blaze.

Blaze nodded in agreement. The two then wandered off into the post-hellish city.

End of dream

"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP"

Blaze shot up as soon as she heard that obstreperous sound. 'What is that sound?!' she thought to herself. She noticed the sound was coming from a little box next to Sonic, on top of a bed stand. She was shaking Sonic, trying to get him up to stop that sound.

"Sonic, wake up! WAKE UP!" She yelled. "Sonic isn't...here... leave a message... after the beep..." Sonic murmured. He was obviously half asleep.

Blaze got annoyed and went to go turn it off by herself. She picked up the device, studying it a little bit. 'How do I turn this off?' she thought. She noticed a huge button that said SNOOZE on it. She pressed it and the sound managed to get silent.

'I'm glad that's over! Now how to wake up Sonic...' Blaze thought, planning on ways to wake up her new boyfriend. She went over to his side in the bed. Suddenly with an idea, she decided to take action.

She began to kiss Sonic's neck, leaving slightly red marks on his neck. Sonic began to stir up out of his sleep as she was doing this. Blaze then noticed Sonic's eyes opened up. "Good morning!" She said, giving him a hug as he got up. "Right back at'cha" Sonic said, rubbing his eyes a little bit, "you sure do know how to wake up someone." he said. "What can I say, I'm a natural!" Blaze just replied.

Sonic and Blaze got out of the bed and did their morning needs. They met up at the couch to watch a little TV before heading out for a run through the city. "So Sonic, how do you do your runs in the morning? I can't even believe you wake up this early just to run around! And what was that thing that kept beeping in the morning anyways?" Blaze said, running her mouth, letting curiosity control her.

"I like to run in the mornings because there is less traffic. Oh, and that's my alarm clock! It makes that sound to wake me up, which I can see it didn't do its job today, but that's ok, I would rather have you wake me up than that." Sonic said, bringing Blaze into a kiss. Blaze blushed a little when they broke apart.

"Ok, its 6:30 right now, if we go now, we can come back here and eat breakfast, then I have to meet up with Shadow. He said he needed to show me something. But I'll ask him if you can come along!" Sonic explained.

"Sure, lets go!" Blaze said. Before Sonic even had a hint of what was about to happen, Blaze took off outside the door and down the avenue. "heh, women...err, cats?" Sonic said before chasing after Blaze.

Sonic, obviously much faster than Blaze, caught up to her in less than a minute after she took off. They were running through the streets and sidewalks, racing up buildings and sliding down chutes. The two thought that the city was their own playground. They raced through every part of town, including the industrial facilities which was Sonic's favorite part. They had a lot of fun, until while they were running, Sonic bumped into Shadow on accident, causing them both to fly in one direction.

Blaze trailed a little behind Sonic, so she was not close enough to get caught in the accident, but she did witness it. "You two alright?" She asked as Sonic and Shadow brushed themselves off after the hard landing. "We've taken harder hits before, thanks for asking." Shadow said with a grin on his face.

"Sonic, you're late, where have you been?" Shadow said, obviously mad at Sonic. "Sorry Shadow, I got a little carried away running around town with Bla- I mean, my girlfriend." Sonic said.

"Alright, but this is very important, you need to come with me to see this. I think it's bad." Shadow said.

"Sure I'll follow, but what about Blaze? Can she come too?" Sonic asked. "Yeah she can come too, I just hope she is not afraid of heights." Shadow said. When he said that, Blaze cringed a little. She is afraid of heights, not a lot, she has gotten over it a little bit over the years, but she still gets a little nauseous when she is up high. She still gathered the guts to go, since she will probably be with Sonic, she will hopefully not be afraid.

"I'm ready whenever you're ready Sonic." She told him. Shadow then grabbed both of their hands with one hand and held his Chaos Emerald in the other hand. A few sparks zapped around them, and soon, they were standing on top of a floating platform.

"Wow space! I haven't been here since we chaos controlled the ARK back to its original spot...wait a sec... this IS the ARK!" Sonic said, unbelieved that he is back to the same spot where he battled out the hedgehog standing right next to him. He looked down to see the still-glowing earth. "Hey Blaze, you should come check this out!"

"Blaze walked over to where Sonic was kneeling down by, she looked down, only to back away slightly. Sonic noticed this and tried to comfort her. Shadow then walked up to them.

"Sonic, I know you enjoy being back here, but I need to show you something. I would have chaos controlled us into the ARK, but the main power supply shut down about 7 months ago, so its almost as black as the sun's adversary." Shadow explained.

"I took us to the opposite side of the spot where we are suppose to be, I knew you would like to grind your way there." Shadow said.

"Thanks Shadow! Blaze, you want to follow behind me?" Sonic asked as he turned to Blaze.

"Sonic, I don't think I can, well, do this" She said. "Don't worry Blaze, I will carry you if you want me to." Sonic told her. Before he could say anything else, he found Blaze wrapped around him, as he held her bridal style.

"Ready!" she said. Sonic just smiled as he took off on the first rail. Shadow trailed not far behind. Sonic jumped from rail to rail, ran across some platforms, and rocketed his way across the bottom platforms of the ARK. As he was doing so, Blaze looked down to see the earth beneath their feet. "If you drop me Sonic, I will murder you!" Sonic took extra precautions with this as for he is carrying her. Finally after about 30 minutes of grinding, they made it to the furthest platform, which looked out into space instead of the earth.

Sonic put Blaze down so she could walk by herself. Sonic's arms were a little tired from carrying her, even though she only weighed about ¾ of his weight. "Shadow, I don't understand, its just a bunch of space. What could be so bad about it?" Sonic asked in wonder.

"Just wait for it." was all Shadow said.

After about 2 minutes of waiting, finally what Shadow was talking about appeared before Sonic and Blaze. A large Pulse of energy shot itself across the darkness of space, enlightening anything within a close range of it. It came from a source, which doesn't look like its too far away from Earth. It looked much like a black metallic cloud with lightning shooting through it, but instead the color of the lightning was not one color, but many different colors at a time. It also looked like it was growing.

"Whoa, what...is that?" Sonic said in disbelief. 'No, it can't be, can it?' Blaze thought to herself. "That looks a lot like... the dimensional rift..." she commented. "Oh yeah when we defeated Eggman and Eggman Nega at the same time?" Sonic asked. "Yep, but this time, I don't think its just us that's going to be going through the rift this time Sonic." Blaze also said, but Sonic didn't hear the last part of what she said.

"We don't know for sure what the cloud is, but when it gets closer, we will probably know what it is at that point." Shadow added on.

"Hey what is that?" Sonic asked pointing over to the direction of the cloud. A mass of orange light appeared before their eyes, and the light seemed to be heading close to them, very fast. "Sonic, we need to get out of here!" Blaze yelled.

Shadow took their hands and chaos controlled them back to earth in a split second. They could see the ARK perfectly clear in the sky, even though it was daylight outside. They saw the mass of orange light strike the ARK, literally striking right through it, causing a massive explosion on the ARK. The tremendous explosion caused daylight to be even brighter than ever.

"No..." Shadow said. He dropped to his knees and looked down at the ground. Sonic approached him. "Shadow... I'm sorry to see that happen to the ARK, but we need to see what we can do about that before it strikes the ARK again!" Sonic said, pointing over to the ARK which seems to still be in tact even after taking a colossal hit.

"It's not over for it? How did it manage to survive that hit?" Shadow asked to himself in disbelief. "I don't know, but we need to stop it before it reaches the earth!" Sonic said. "Blaze, do you know anything about this?" Sonic said, turning towards the by-standing feline.

After a long sigh, she answered. "Yes Sonic, I know what that is..." she said with a low voice. "Its a dimensional cloud. They are suppose to be wondering around both your and my dimensions. I never thought that one could get so close to here, especially so quick." She told them. "What would happen if we were to somehow enter these dimensional clouds?" Sonic asked, expecting the worst.

"It looks like its about the size of the earth. If we get sucked into one of them, we will probably get transferred into another dimension." She concluded.

"How do you know all of this?" Shadow asked

"Because, it happened to me and my planet before..." She said. "What do you mean it happened to your planet?" Sonic asked. "Well you see, we use to be next to this one planet called Mobius, but then the cloud came in and transferred us to where we were now. Nothing bad really happened. It was just dark for a few seconds and then it was bright." Blaze explained.

"Wait, Mobius is my home planet! So you were living on the distant planet that we never saw again?" Sonic asked, completely astonished as to what he just learned.

"Yep." Blaze said. Shadow interrupted them. "Well Blaze, is there any way to stop this thing?"

"Well, no..." She said. "So we just wait for this thing to take us somewhere else? That's it?" Shadow asked. "Yeah, that's pretty much it." Blaze concluded.

"Grrrrrrrrrr". Sonic looked down at his stomach only to notice that he has not even eaten breakfast, neither has Blaze. "Come on Blaze, lets go eat breakfast. We will see you later Shadow!" Sonic said before taking off with Blaze.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I hope you guys are enjoying this story as much as I am writing it! If it seems that the story is going to get a bit, outrageous, don't worry, later chapters will be toned down a bit! Another thing, Blaze seems to not act herself when she is with Sonic (I may have mentioned this before) because her affection towards him. If you think its weird how she acts towards others against how she acts towards Sonic, than that is why!

See you in chapter 8!