The Beast Within 06
Everyone stared at Sonic horrified. He had just killed a man. Sonic looked down at Greavenson's corpse. He looked at his hands, red with the mad man's blood. His hands shook as the blue runner processed what he had just done. His bottom lip trembled.
"Sonic?"
Amy took a nervous step closer to her frighting lover. "Are you okay?" Sonic shook his head. One fast head jerk. He wasn't okay. He just added another name to the body count. The blue runner looked around at the damage he had caused in his fury. His friends walking slowly to surround the Anthro. His brother was bleeding from the chest.
His friendly rival bleeding at the neck.
He had cracked his adopted older brother's armor.
Tears filled Sonics' eyes. He was murderer. Greavenson had turned the blue hero into a murderer. And despite his pride, Sonic broke down and cried. A sob escaping his throat, as he watched his friends move in on him. "I'm a monster. You should have let me die." Sonic looked from his friends down to his blood soaked hands, his tail slipping between his legs like the frightened animal he was. He was going to be put to death for the crimes he committed this past month.
"Sonic." Manic approached his brother, and tried to place his hand on his frightened older brothers' shoulder. Sonic cringed away from the contact. "Don't touch me." Sonic backed away from his brother's advance. "Sonic."
"I said don't touch me."
Sonic pushed his brother away. The younger of the two landing on his rear. Manic looked up at his brother. He shook his head. "It's not your fault. Dude, you were just upset." Sonic shook his head. He ran his hands through his hair. His breath coming in fast gasps as his horror film- like memories washed over him. Manic got off the ground. His wound nearly forgotten, as he tried to calm his brother. "Bro calm down. It's gonna be okay."
"No. No it isn't Manic. I just took a man's life. I-I've killed my own kind. I've taken pregnant women's lives. Husbands, and wives, and children are dead because of me." Sonic said it in a way that made it sound like he was crying. "I deserve to die just like Greavenson did."
"No! No that isn't true Sonic; you had no control over what Greavenson made you do. You are the kindest person I know. And you would never hurt anyone." Sonic stared at Amy, much like he had done when he had kidnapped her.
"What about what I just did huh? If I'm so good and wholesome then why did I just kill a man?" Amy flinched away from Sonics' hysterics. She didn't have an answer for her lover. "See? You don't have an answer."
"But I do." Sonic looked at his dark counterpart. "Shadow?" "Sonic stop kicking yourself for killing that asshole of a man. He had it coming to him. You had no control over anything that you've done this past month so stop bitching about. You are the most annoying thing on the face of the planet…. But- and if any of you ever repeat this I will cheerfully beat you to death. But Sonic you are also the most compassionate thing on the planet. Your sense of justice is annoying at times but it's what makes you an interesting rival."
Sonic blinked at Shadow. He had just said something NICE to him. Mighty spoke up. "He's right Sonic. You are annoying as hell; me and Jessie know that better than anyone. But your huge heart. And your self-righteousness is what made Greavenson want to turn you into that beast in the first place."
"It was?"
"Yeah. Greavenson wanted to bring you down so he turned you into the exact opposite creature that you usually are. Shadow is right. Stop freaking out about what you couldn't control. And as for you killing Greavenson. Dude you just did the whole world a favor. So just relax bud." Sonic looked at his circle of friends. It was obvious that they all believed in Sonic. And will be happy to over look his month as a beast. He smiled softly. "Thanks guys. I'm sorry for whatever I did." He looked at Amy. "I'm sorry Ames. For everything." Amy smiled at her lover. "There's no need to be sorry. I knew it wasn't the real you." Sonic smiled at his girlfriend. Then his hand flew to stomach. The runner's stomach making a monstrous sound. "Dude are you okay?" Sonic shrugged at Manic. "I think I'm gonna be sick." Sonic groaned as his stomach made another hideous sound. Sonic covered his mouth then took off towards a nearby tree. The confused Anthroes soon heard the hedgehog emptying his stomach of all blood, and raw meat. Sonic groaned loudly. "I'm gonna be sick for weeks!" the blue runner complained before throwing up some more. His friends shaking their heads sadly as they were forced to listen to Sonic pukeing. Sonic lumbered back out into the clearing. Moving deadly slow while he held his stomach.
There was blood around Sonics' lips.
"Let's get you back to the base bro, before you throw up any internal organs'." Manic moved to support his brother. Sonic groaned before pasting out in his brothers arms.
"Awe! Come on Bro! You weigh a bloody ton!"
Manic complained as the two guardians moved to take the hedgehog from the green Anthro. You would never get them to admit it, but Sonic did feel heavy. Probably left over muscle from his forced transformation. They carried Sonics' lifeless body back to the fighter base. Sonic groaning from time to time. And several forced stops whenever the hedgehog puked in his sleep. His friends taking turns giving CPR to the sick Anthro.
*6 months later*
Months go by quickly and fall comes and goes. We join up with our heroes at the freedom fighter base. Sonic is healthy as he should be; still taller, and thicker than the runner should be though. Despite his attempts he couldn't lose the weight (several pounds of intense muscle) he had gained when he was a beast. But the extra strength had come in handy a few times while his fighter cell was on a mission. And despite how useful his perfect six pack and 14' in. biceps were. He hated them all the same. Now that his build was more 'fighter' than 'runner' Sonic had slowed down. This was nonsense to Manic and Shadow. Sonic could still run circles around his twin. And though he would never admit it to Sonic, Shadow was and knew that he was slower than his hyper active counterpart.
That first month had been hell for Sonic and his friends. The blue Anthro spent half his day on the toilet or with his head in a trashcan. Several times his friends had to give the hedgehog CPR whenever his body tried to drown him in blood. Once to his friends' dismay, during one of Tails test to make sure the Malach was completely out of Sonics' system. Sonic had gone into cardiac arrest when he saw the full moon. But the next month he was completely clean, and Amy was happy to strut around with her taller, bulker boyfriend. At first the world was distrustful of Sonic, after he came back from a month of living like an animal. But as he began to shrink (he had out grown Manic, Shadow, and Jessie) and the fact that he went out of his way to live a more of a meat-free diet. He was able to win everyone back over. But then fall came around, and with his new thicker body. No one was able to keep Amy off of him. Not even Echo or Knuckles. But Sonic didn't mind it at all. Then everyone got a sweet little surprise.
Amy had gotten pregnant that fall.
The guys (expect Sonic) have tried to get Amy to abort the child. From fear that the baby may come out like it's still healing mutated father. But Amy won't have of it. She snarls and snaps (yes, her jaws) at anyone who dares brings up the produce. Further proving the little monster that was growing inside of her. Jessie, Sonia, and Queen Aleena (she visits from time to time) are happy for the happy couple. That and they can't wait for the wedding. That's right fan girls. Sonic the hedgehog is soon to be a married man.
"Sonic?" Where was he? Amy asked herself as she waited for her fiancé. She was already 4 months pregnant with their baby, and Sonic had left to get her some food to silence her cravings. Her hand flew to her stomach when she felt her little baby kick. She caressed her swollen belly happily. Excited that she was carrying Sonics' child. She growled slightly as her stomach growled. She knew that Shadow and the others were right about her mutant baby, but she couldn't bring herself to abort the child. "You're my little mutant baby." She smiled as she rubbed her belly. "Don't you mean' our'?" Sonic wrapped his arms around his pregnant lover. "Where have you been? We've been starving." Sonic chuckled as he kissed Amy. "Sorry. Manic and Mighty slowed me down. They want me to talk some sense into you. Try to get you to abort…" Sonic trailed off when he saw Amy narrow her eyes. She growled. "Chill babe. I don't want to get rid of the baby any more than you do." He nodded to the huge mountain of meat on the table. (Their friends were all too happy to get them their own place. Seeing that Amy was pregnant.) "Eat up. I remember the hunger. I'm surprised you didn't jump at it soon as I got in." Amy didn't answer her husband-to-be. Her mouth already busy. She couldn't get the meat done fast enough. Sonic shook his head. Smiling softly as he watched his fiancé eat. Amy looked up shyly. She licked her lips. "Sorry. I keep forgetting that you don't like to see me eat." "It's gotten easier. Besides, I'm probably gonna have to watch our kid eat like this for the rest of our lives." Amy smiled and kissed Sonic on the lips. "I went and saw Tails and Jessie today." "What they say?" "That I'm not completely cured." Sonic watched the blood drain from his lovers face. "Not in that sense babe. The rabies thing is out of me, I can't turn anyone. And I won't die." Sonic was surprised to see Amy still looking scared. "What's up babe?" "You're going to leave me again. This time with our baby. You could still be mad about what I did. You could kill me and the baby." Silent tears fell down Amy's face. "Hey! I highly doubt that and so does Tails and Jessie."
"Huh?"
"I asked them about that, and they said I probably won't. I'm still in love with you. I mean we're getting married in a couple of months. And you're pregnant. That has to count for something right?" Amy didn't answer. Sonic looked for something to make her feel better. "I love you. And I'll never hurt you or the baby." Amy smiled shyly. "What else happened?" Sonic turned his head. "Nothing Ames." Amy immediately became distrustful of her fiancé. "Your hiding something." "What are you talking about?" Amy moved closer to her lover. Sonic took a step back. "What's wrong?" "Nothing's wrong." "Why are you nervous then?" Sonic didn't answer her. Watching Amy as she moved closer to him. She was going to get the information one way or another. She placed her hand on Sonics' chest. Tracing the muscles there. "What happened?" Sonic smiled at his lover. She was going to try and seduce the information out of him. Even though she was hugely pregnant. Sonic still found her hot, and Amy was going to use that. Her hand slid slowly up from his chest to his neck. Sonic licked his lips. He had gotten better at resisting her, but he couldn't hold on much longer.
"Stubborn little thing aren't you?"
Amy smiled. Time to bring out the big guns. Amy kissed Sonics' chest. Then his neck. Then greedily down his jaw line. Sonic shuddered with pleasure. Amy smiled seductively; she found the right combination for this safe. She repeated what she had done. And Sonic cracked under his lust for his fiancé. He hungrily kissed Amy's neck. She laughed at Sonics' lust. "You're a dangerous little thing aren't you?" "You make it so easy." Sonic chuckled at the thought. Amy was just as dangerous as Rouge with her top off. With the right swing of her hips, she could have Sonic crippled on the floor. "You've gotten better though." Amy scratched underneath Sonics' chin.
"A little."
Sonic smiled as he watched Amy walked away to sit on the couch. "I won far and square. Now tell me. What are you trying to hide?" Sonic sighed. "Your too cute for your own good." "Stop stalling." Sonic smiled. "Tails thinks I'm going to transform in about a week. I'm going to be able to turn back I promise." Sonic spoke the second part quickly when he saw tears well up in Amy's eyes. He sat next to her. "Jessie and Tails are going to make more of the 'cure'. The first dose last me 6 months. They think that if they keep giving it to me. It'll stop my transformation." "You're going to have to rely on a damn drug?" "I hope not. But if I don't take the shot then I'm going to have to take care of the beast's needs first. If it's hungry, I have to turn to feed it. If it's lustful…." He eyed Amy's swollen stomach. Amy hugged her stomach protectively. Sonic chuckled. "I doubt it'll do anything serious to you or the baby. Tails says the beast should want to protect you and the baby. Seeing that my- his scent is all over you." Amy relaxed a bit. She kissed Sonics' cheek. Sonic smiled. "Still nervous?" "A little. More so about how the baby will come out than about the beast. If that thing is still inside of you. Then Shadow and the others are probably right about our baby." She sighed and placed her had on her stomach. "My baby, the mutant." Sonic smiled at Amy. "You know… we still haven't picked out any names yet." Amy smiled at her fiancé.
"What did you have in mind?" "Depends. What do you want the most? A boy or a girl?" "A boy. That looks exactly like you, without any interference from me." Sonic frowned. "What? You rather have a girl?" "It's not that. You don't want our child to look like you?" "Not really. You're just so...perfect. I don't want to mess our kid up." Sonic scoffed. "I'm anything but perfect Amy. Monstrous would be a more effective word for me." Amy rolled her eyes. Sonic continued. "If I have to choose. I want a son. That's a perfect spilt between me and you. You have no idea how perfect you really are." Amy smiled. "So boy names huh?" "Maybe some girl ones too. You never know." Amy smiled. "I want to name our son after you. Sonic jr., that or Stefan." "Stefan?" Amy shrugged. "I like how it sounds." Sonic smiled. "I like Stefan. The only thing I could think of was Samuel." "I like that. Okay...what about girl names?" "I have quite a few of those. Ashley, Amy." He smiled at his wife to be. Amy smiled back. Sonic continued with his list. "Kara. I have a whole bunch more." Amy smiled. "You sure you don't want a girl?" Sonic shrugged. The others would laugh at him if he ever told them that he always saw the doctor handing Amy a pink blanket, when he imagined their baby. "Do you have any names?" "Not really. If it is a girl we can use Kara. I like that one."
"Awe how sweet. The happy couple is picking names for their mutant brat."
Amy snarled at Shadow. The dark hedgehog took a few steps back. Sonic turned to face his friends. His twin brother and sister, Shadow, and Mighty were visiting Sonic and Amy. "What's up guys?" "Came to see if you were still you, and not some mutant mutt." Sonic rolled his eyes at his brother. "You talked to Tails." "Yeah and we're all worried about you two."
Sonia spoke up. "The guys are worried. Me and the others think that you and the baby will be able to control the beast in Sonic." Amy smiled. "Least someone has faith in me and Stefan." The boys looked at Amy's swollen stomach. A growl began to rise up in Sonics' chest. He suddenly found himself very protective of Amy. "It's started already huh?" Sonic snapped out of it. "What are you talking about?" Manic eyed his slightly older brother. "Your acting like an animal again. Your starting to forget things." "I am?" Sonic looked around at his friends. His eyes stopping on his fiancé. His pregnant lover looking away. "Is that true Ames?" "Yea. You leave late at night, and you come back….bigger. I-I thought I was just having a nightmare. But then you told me what Tails said." Sonic ran his hands through the mass of quills on his head. He couldn't remember anything. "Why didn't you tell me?" "I kinda hoped that it would go away." Sonic licked his lips. "I'm not going to hurt you or Stefan." "I know, and I really want to believe that but-." "You're afraid of the beast." Amy nodded. Sonic sighed and looked back at the others. "Is that the reason you walked all the way over here?" Sonia shook her head no. "This is." Sonia turned on the flat screen. (Sonics' other baby.) And a report about a recent murder was on. Sonic frowned. "Did I do that?" "No. Your fiancé did." Amy and Sonic looked up at Shadow. "I did that?" Shadow nodded and turned the TV up.
'… Recent DNA test shows that the blood recovered from the scene does not belong to Sonic the hedgehog. So the beast shot on sight was not Sonic, but another Anthro with the same symptoms of The Malach virus. (Reporter holds hand up to ear piece) This just in, video footage from the street camera has now been released to the public. As you can see in the footage, there were two beasts on the scene last night. The one to the right has been identified as Sonic in his beast form. But the reddish beast to the left has yet to be identified. Officers believe that the blood sample belongs to that of the second beast, and more blood test have been ordered. If anyone has any information of the identity of the reddish beast please contact authorities these beast are extremely dangerous.'
Shadow turned to Amy "Where were you last night?" "Here, at home asleep... I think." Mighty stepped around Shadow. "You think or you know?" "I-I don't know. Maybe. I don't remember leaving last night." "And neither did Sonic 7 months ago. Amy you have to try and remember. Where were you last night?" "I-" Amy tried to remember. She remembered going to sleep that night. Sonic had laid on his back and Amy had cuddled up next to him. Then she had gotten hungry in the middle of the night. She had woken Sonic up on her way to the kitchen. Sonic had followed to see what was wrong with his fiancé. One of the kitchen windows's had been opened, the moon had been shining through…. Then her stomach started to hurt as the baby started thrashing around inside of her. Sonic had come over to her to see what was wrong. He had gotten caught in the moon's light too.
Amy looked back up at Mighty. "I-I did do it. I remember Stefan kicking me awake last night. I was hungry and woke Sonic up on my way to the kitchen. The-the window was open and the moon lit up the kitchen. Then Stefan started spazzing out inside of me. It hurted so much. Then Sonic came in. That's all I remember." Shadow nodded to himself, and then turned to Sonic. "Do you remember?" "Yeah. It's fuzzy but I do remember." Shadow looked at Amy. "You have to abort the child." "No! Never, he's my baby!" Mighty looked at Amy. "You have to Amy, before they trace that blood back to you. One mutant hedgehog was bad enough. Two will unleash an Armageddon." Amy shook her head, staying true to that stubborn streak in all hedgehogs. "It's my baby, and I don't care what happens to these stupid humans. My baby deserves to live." "Humans aren't the only ones at stake here Amy. The beast eats Anthroes too. Don't you remember how close Sonic came to eating us?" Amy's bottom lip trembled at the memory. Sonic stood up in front of Mighty and pushed him away from his fiancé. "I think it's time for you to leave." "Sonic" He looked at his siblings. "Your upsetting my fiancé. I think you all need to go." Shadow stood firm. "You know were right about this Sonic." "Maybe. But you're not going to force Amy to do something she doesn't want to do. Now leave or do I have to escort you out of my house?" Shadow moved away from Sonic. "Just because you have a 6 pack now doesn't make you big and bad." "Your right." He gripped Shadow's shoulder, squeezing it hard. Shadow flinched underneath his counter parts hand. "Because I have 14 inch biceps, now that's what makes me big and bad." Sonic pushed Shadow. The dark hedgehog wiped himself off. "Fine, we'll go. We're come back when you two are sane again." They all left. Sonic looked back at Amy. "You didn't have to kick them out."
"Yes I did. Now what are we going to do about our mutant son?"