Amy Rose at the Hunger Games

Chapter 6: "Long Time no See"

The next day was hard for Amy as she tried to move on without Marine. Since her passing, Amy felt lonely, home sick, and deeply missing Cream and Mighty, just like she felt before meeting with Marine. However, she did not shed a tear or looked sadden, because she knew the people at the Capitol would want to see strong tributes that can handle a death of a fellow ally very easily. As she hide her mourning, she focused on finding water, and explore more into the arena. With everything becoming calm, she can now have the opportunity to somehow enjoy the scenery of the forest. It reminded her so much back at home.

"Hey Amy!" Mighty came over to Amy before they were ending their hunt. With it being mid-summer, there was plenty of plants, berries, and forest animals to find for food.

"What is it Mighty?" Amy asked.

"I found some berries. I was wondering if you think they are safe or not." He replied. He held his hand out as Amy looked at them.

"The berries are yew berries from a yew plant. Their very toxic, and even deadly." She said. Mighty was surprised.

"Thank goodness I came to you first. I was ready to save some for my mom, my brother and sister, and even for me." He said.

"Well, now you know they aren't safe. Let's continue hunting, it's going to get late soon." Amy said to change the subject. She wanted her mind focus on other things then on the Hunger Games because the election will start in two months. And Mighty nodded as he threw the yew berries and they went on with their hunting.

"I wish I can do that now with Mighty again." Amy thought as she continued walking through the arena.

That night, she found a tree near a river that was easy enough to climb and sleep in. After the symbol of Panem appeared, it faded with a triumphant tune, meaning that no one died today. It didn't surprised her because towards the end less and less tributes die, which makes the games longer. However, the people at the Capitol will become bored and the Gamermakers will then start disasters or release their created creatures that will kill the tributes or bring them closer so that they have no choice but to fight each other until one remains. She hopes they won't do anything tonight or too soon, and she wondered what they'll do if the people becomes bored. They can start anything such as a wildfire, a drought, an earthquake, a flood or a tsunami, or even release a horrifying creature.

"I don't know what they'll do, but I know they would want all but one of us dead." She thought as she was playing with Marine's boomerang in her hand. She put it away, still thinking that it was her fault that her friend is dead, and wishing she did more to protect her. Remembering her pin, she took it out of here pocket and looked at it. Remembering that Cream gave it to her for protection, she also remembered that she made a promise to Cream, and that she will be safe and return to District 6 and be with Cream again, and the mocking jay pin was the symbol and reminder of Amy's promise. She put it back in her pocket before going to sleep. She was very tried from exploring the arena, and after putting the boomerang away, she closed her eyes and dreamed of hunting in the woods with Mighty and making sure that Cream was safe and happy.


After she ate a breakfast of leftover berries and a leg of a squirrel, she went out to adventure some more again. The forest was calm and beautiful. Summer flowers were growing under shaded trees, and the birds where in their trees singing their sweet songs and flying around to catch bugs. She saw a deer with a fawn not far from her and decided to not kill them. They were beautiful with their summer coat and were innocent of everything around them. But as soon as they saw Amy, they took off and ran gracefully in the wind.

After walking in the forest for almost four hours, she decided to rest on a dead tree.

"I think I should organize my backpack." She thought. "I think there could be stuff in there that's no good."

So she un-zipped her backpack and placed her things on the tree she was sitting on. For being in an arena with everyone out to kill her, she felt calmed and relaxed. She didn't know why, but she was glad to feel relaxed. After she took her stuff out, she saw a lot of crumbs, leaves, and some twigs were needed to be taken out. She got up and shook for backpack upside down when she heard a twig snapped, and it quickly alarmed her.

She quickly got her bow and an arrow ready to be shot. She stood still and listened very carefully. Around her felt tensed, but not as tensed as she felt back when her and Marine were ambushed by the Preps. She looked behind and around her, and saw no one. She lowered her bow down a little and slowly relaxed when she saw a fox walking nearby.

"It's just that stupid fox." She thought with relief.

Still feeling the atmosphere around her was tense, she figured it could be just her feeling that. After all, she's moving more into the arena, and she could easily get caught by the Preps or someone else.

As she put her bow and arrows down, she started to put away her stuff into her backpack, making sure everything that she had was still there and that everything was still good to eat, drink, or use. She was just about to zip her backpack closed when something came out of nowhere and knocked her down to the ground with a hard blow.


The sudden impact caught Amy off guard. She tried to get quickly back on her feet like a scared, helpless animal, but she got knocked down again, and with everything happening so fast, she wasn't sure who's attacking her.

"I'm done for if it's Jet or Wave!" She thought to herself as she got up. She finally got the chance to scramble on her feet to see her attacker stopped to get a dagger out of his belt. It was Sonic.

"What?! He's attacking me? For what and why?!" She thought as her heart dropped with not only fear, but with dread. She can tell Sonic was different then the last time she saw him. Instead of looking fine, strong, and with an independent attitude, he looked agitated and weak. The Hunger Games are taking a toll on him. With the dagger in his left hand, he went in front of Amy's weapon so that she won't get to them. She is now defenseless.

"I'll kill you! There's no way your leaving this fight alive!" He cried out. He really wasn't the same. She remembered Sonic didn't wanted to kill her. He even said it himself during training.

"To tell you the truth, I really don't want to kill you." She remembered him saying when they were making their nets on day two of training.

She didn't wanted to kill him as well, but if it came down to it, she will have to.

"Fine then!" She yelled.

And that's when Sonic threw his dagger at her, but she moved in time that it missed and hit a tree instead. Sonic ran to get it as Amy went and tripped him. He fell, but he got up and spin dashed her when he saw she was getting her bow and arrows. As she went down from the impact, she could feel a part of her chest was overcome with a sudden, painful feeling. She saw a rock next to her left arm and quickly grab it. As she moved onto her back and onto her knees, she saw Sonic was struggling to take his dagger out of the tree. When he couldn't get it out, he went for his sword, and went into a ball with great speed to do a spin dash. While doing this, he had the sword out, and Amy knew he would want to slice her in a very quick way. Just when he was about to attack her, Amy threw the rock with all the strength she had. She didn't know how she did it, but she hit the rock on Sonic's head. He dropped his sword and fell down on his side, moaning.

Though Amy was hurt, she ignore her pain in her chest as much as she can to get up and get her bow and arrows. She went over to Sonic as he still laid there and she had her arrow aimed at him. They gave eye contact to each other as they were catching their breaths.

"It's...it's over...Sonic." Amy said while her arrow was still aimed at him. He moved on his back. Amy saw blood coming out of Sonic's right side of his face, above his right eye.

"Go ahead...kill me. Kill me now that you have the chance now that I'm down. Go ahead, just do it! End my life!" He demanded.

She could've done it right here and now, and then she would only worry of killing the Preps and hoping for Stics and Knuckles to die. She could've rid of him forever so that he won't go back to District 6 alive, but she couldn't. She couldn't release the string so that the arrow will end the life of Sonic.

"I...I...can't...do it." She said as she stepped away and drop her bow and arrows, letting Sonic know that she won't kill him.

Surprised at this, Sonic slowly got up, and stood still while starring at Amy, he looked dazed as the blood still poured above his face.

"If you're not going to kill me, then...I won't kill you." He said as he dropped his sword to the ground.

Right now they probably got the Capitol's people mad that they didn't have to see Amy and Sonic fight and kill each other, but Amy didn't care if they were mad. She was just glad that someone spared her life, and that her and Sonic won't die this time.

Suddenly, Sonic went to sit on the fallen tree and was holding his right arm, this made Amy realized that he's hurt. More blood was coming from his face.

"I shouldn't've done that, I made it worse." Amy heard Sonic murmured to himself.

"Are you okay?" She asked as she sat next to him. He looked at her while holding his arm.

"I'm fine, really I am. My arm just aches." He said.

"Let me see it." She said. Reluctantly, he slowly took his jacket off, and when Amy saw this injury, she gasp.

"Sonic! It's infected! Look how bad it is!" She cried. She was horrified to see an injury this bad. It was a large cut that ran to his bone. Large scabs of blood and puss surrounded it, with more puss coming out whenever he moved it. The area outside of it was red and swollen.

"It's nothing." He said, trying to make Amy not worry about it.

"No, it is bad. I can tell Jet did this, and he really did a number on your arm. Please let me help you."

So Amy made Sonic to let her help him as she got her medical kit and cleaned and bandage his face injury first. It was a deep cut, but it'll heal without any problems. She wasn't sure if she should feel guilty of hitting Sonic with the rock or proud of herself for doing so. After that, she was tending to his injured arm. It hurt Sonic a lot, but Amy can tell that he was glad that someone was looking after him. They were silent the whole time until Amy was starting to take out a bandage.

"Hey, um, I hope I didn't badly injured you after...I attacked you." Sonic said breaking the long silence.

"Well, I might have some broken ribs, and a few cuts and scrapes, but I'll be fine. I needed some action to keep busy in here anyway." Amy replied as she looked up at him. "But why did you attacked me?" She asked.

"I...found out that you had a medical kit, and I wasn't sure if you were going to let me have it. I guess I got desperate, in which I am. Like you said, Jet really did a number on my arm, and I thought I was gonna die from it. I couldn't stand the pain and misery anymore! But after you helped treated it, the pain that I couldn't bear, is going away." He paused for two seconds. "Thank you Amy, for...helping me."

Amy felt glad that she can help Sonic, and she wanted to help him as much as she can. But deep inside, she felt a little apprehensive to trust Sonic. After he joined with the Preps before, he made Amy to have doubts of trusting and becoming a close friend to him. Is he still working with them? She wondering if he's tricking her so he can kill her. And it's sad too, she knew him as long as she can remember and considered him a good person that can help her when she needs it and now she can't trust him. She took this thought out of her mind as she finished wrapping Sonic's arm. It's just too much and confusing.

"And another thing." Sonic said. Amy looked up.

"What is it?" She started, but Sonic didn't said anything, but looked sincere. He would make the Capitol confused and upset if he apologized for attacking Amy, which it's something that the tributes should not do. She knew what he wanted to do and she nodded as she finished wrapping his arm.

"There, now your cut can get healed properly, if it can. I can't believe Jet really injured you so sever like this. At lease we know how much more of a threat and dangerous he is, especially with a sword." Amy said. Sonic nodded.

They got up and Sonic helped pick up Amy's weapon with his good arm. They promised that they'll help each other and kill Jet and Wave and try their best to survive and win.

"Can we be allies?" Sonic questioned. "It would make sense since we are now going to help each other."

"I think we can yes." Amy said, even though she wasn't sure. She might as well give him a chance and try to trust him, but she will have to be careful."

"Great!" Sonic said happily. "I'm glad that we are finally together after all this time. We'll beat Jet and return to home in no time!"

With a smile, Amy agreed.

They decided to head up north and search for a river to collect fresh water. Though they were hurting and were tired, and know that it's best to rest then keep moving, they have to keep moving, otherwise they won't find important resources, get ambushed by Jet or Wave, or whatever can happen. Amy figures that they'll try to rest later at night.

But as they went on their journey, the clouds were rolling in and were becoming thicker and darker. A wind was picking up, making Amy realized that the forest was feeling from hot to becoming cold. She shivered when a blast of cold wind struck her.

"Are you noticing a change in the arena?" She questioned Sonic. He looked at her and looked around the arena. They saw frost was developing rapidly on the ground, and the leaves were quickly dying from their trees.

"Yea, I have a feeling the Gamemakers released a disaster."

And he was right. They released Sudden Freeze, it's one of the worse disasters to ever be in the games. This is when everything freezes rapidly with subzero temperatures. Snow becomes more frequent, there's no place to find water that's not frozen to ice, and some animals go into hibernation and vegetation dies, which makes it hard to find and eat them. Many tributes die from freezing, starvation, or of hyperthermia. Thick snowflakes were coming down with a strong wind. They zipped their coats and put their hoods over them.

"Change of plans, we got to move south, and we need to find a cave or somewhere that's warm." Amy commanded, and that's when they headed off in search for shelter before night fall.


The snow was still falling into late at night. The wind died down, but there was a strong freeze that made everything bitter cold. Sadly, Amy and Sonic couldn't find a warm shelter, and their food supply was low and their water was turning into ice. They could only find warmth of their blankets, coats, and a small fireplace that they built. To melt their water, they had their water bottles and canteens next to the fire. Amy's chest still ached, and she was glad that she can get some rest. However, it was too cold that they couldn't sleep. They think that is 10:45 at night

"I think we should be in a tree, we're at a pretty good open spot for Jet to find us." Sonic said.

"I don't think we'll see him or Wave for a while." She responded. "This weather is slowing them of their tracks." She huddled more into her coat and blanket.

Now that they're alone, they can finally take it easy a little and relax, they been through so much tension and anxiety. Amy was now meaning to tell Sonic of him joining the Preps earlier in the games. She wasn't sure if she should say anything now, but she had to, that way if she did, maybe she could understand his reason and trust him more.

"Well, here goes nothing." She thought.

"So, um, I've been meaning to ask you something." She started.

"Yes?" Sonic responded.

"Why were you with the Preps?" She asked. Sonic sighed as he put on his coat more close to keep warm.

"They forced me to come, mostly Jet, to hunt you down. I told them I knew where you were so that I can save myself and try to escape when I had the chance to." He said.

Amy was surprised, but continued listening and trying to ignore the pain in her chest.

"On the opening of the games, I went to look for you, but then I got ambushed by Jet and Wave. I fought them, but Jet was stronger. He pinned me to a tree and told me to stay silent while Wave had a throwing knife aimed at my throat to kill me with if I tried to escape. I said to him I didn't wanted to hurt them or cause trouble, but to find you. He said to me, "Oh, so you know where Amy is?", and I told him yes as a lie. But that's when he said to me as I was still pinned to the tree to take him to you, but I didn't knew the real reason why, but I figured he wanted to kill you. That's when Silver and Blaze came with Tails and they forced him to the ground. Wave told Tails that he's working for them and they'll kill him if he tried to escape. The poor kid was terrified and was looking for me to help, but I couldn't give it to him. And after all that time I was acting calm and I didn't took them serious." Then he looked at his injured arm with a frown.

"I guess I should've been easy when being next to Jet, I never knew he was that powerful. He didn't looked that much strong in training, but I guess he was holding back his true self." He said.

Amy quickly remembered on the night before the games that Shadow told them to watch out for Jet and the others, he knew all along and including her that he was very dangerous.

"Thanks for telling me. I was very confused why you were with them. I was in one of the trees on the night that Sally died. I couldn't see much, but I heard you guys were around and Jet told you to kill Sally." She said. Sonic was surprised.

"If I really did have you confused, which I probably did, I'm sorry. I was stuck being with those bastards." Amy didn't said anything but she looked onto their fire. They were silent.

As Amy looked onto the fire, Sonic decided to interrupt the silence.

"So tell me what's being going on with you this whole time." He said. "I bet you had a lot of adventures and maybe some fun." Amy looked up at him.

"I don't think I would call it fun because I nearly died a few times, but there's so much to tell you, I don't know where to begin." She replied. Sonic just smiled and got closer to her and the fire.

"Tell me everything in your own pace, I will listen to all of it." He said. So Amy told him about what she did and her journey so far, and her friend Marine, and they both did together as they suffered through the freezing night. After that, Sonic told what he did. Amy was glad that she had someone to trust and be with again.


Amy and Sonic continued their travel slowly the next morning. They were both very cold, tired, hurting, and hungry. Over the night a tribute died, and they couldn't get to sleep because it was very good. They now can't feel their hands and skin. In the morning, they caught a squirrel with one of Sonic's traps, but Amy knew it wouldn't last long for both of them. By mid-morning, they were still continuing their adventure more south of the arena.

"The Gamemakers sure made the forest beautiful even though we're freezing to death." Sonic said as he was admiring the snow and ice covering the ground, trees, and everything around them.

"Uh huh." Amy said. She didn't spoke much, she's worrying and she's trying to keep a secret to Sonic.

Over last night, she noticed that she's been feeling sick. And all her signs of her illness was showing that she's coming down with hypothermia. Many of her people in District 6 dies from it every winter. Even though Amy is cold, she's realizing that she's starting to shiver less than before and is having a hard time walking around the arena, and the knee deep snow isn't making it easy for her. And because she's not eating, she's losing energy, making her dizzy.

"I just got to keep going." She kept thinking. "Cream needs me, and I have to win for her."

"I'm still amazed of what you said to me last night Amy." Sonic said. "You blew up the Cornucopia and the Preps supplies, plus you killed Silver too, in one day?! That's amazing! You really got guts and bravery to show them that you're not afraid of them! It's still sadden to know how Jet killed Tails and what happened to Marine, it sounded like you and she were a great team and friends." He said.

Amy didn't said anything, but tried to stay strong. She knew that the Gamemakers and everyone in the districts and the Capitol knows she's sick, and she didn't wanted to worry Sonic.

"Oh no, please don't." She thought as she felt her stomach becoming nauseous. She stopped walking and was taking breaths to relax her stomach, but it wasn't helping. Sonic noticed that she wasn't following him.

"Hey Amy, what's wrong?" He asked. She looked at him, but she went down and threw up. Her chest pounded with pain and she felt even more sick. Sonic ran to her side.

"Oh my gosh, are you okay?!" He said, becoming worried. When her stomach relaxed, she looked at Sonic with very sick and tired eyes, she can tell that Sonic knows that she is not well.

"Please tell me, are you sick?" He questioned. But she couldn't answered it. She suddenly felt dizzy and was seeing black circles. After that she felt herself falling to the ground before everything went dark and silent.


Author notes:

First, I apologize for not up-loading this chapter on time. It took me months to finish because my personal life got in the way, as well as having a hard time coming for ideas for this chapter. It felt very boring a little to work on, and right now, I think chapter 6 is my least favorite chapter that I worked on. But hey, at lease their some sonamy (not cringy or weird) moments on here! Anyways, here's the regular announcements!

I thank you for reading my sixth chapter of "Amy Rose at the Hunger Games". If you hadn't read my other chapters yet, then please do. Also, if you like this chapter, then please give me a review or like it. My future chapters will be in between 3,000 to 5,000 words, so expect more chapters like this at this length. I'll be publishing chapter seven, "Becoming Close" on March 31, 2018. Remember, this is a crossover about The Hunger Games as well, so there will be death and battle scenes in the chapters, so please read with caution!

Please remember: I do not own any of the Sonic characters, and even the Hunger Games itself. I'm a fan of both franchises that I thought it would be fun to put both of them in one crossover story for fun and for you to enjoy reading, and not to make money out of, so I take no credit for anything here. All credits of the Sonic characters and ownership of them goes to SEGA, and credits goes to Susanne Collins, who wrote, and owns the Hunger Games trilogy.