Anata No Tame Ni
Shadow heard the scream, and his attention diverted from the corpses a moment. He knew he had just killed the white hedgehog, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy, but at this point he didn't care. He looked around curiously to see where the voice could be coming from.
Suddenly, a purple cat jumped him from high in a tree. "You killed Silver!" She screamed. "You killed HIM!" She pointed at the body of the young Tails.
"I ended him quickly," Shadow chuckled darkly, his eyes wild with madness. "He should know better than to get in my way." He smirked.
"LIES!" The cat's hand became aflame. Shadow felt it lighting his coat. The warmth…was he being burned?
The flames did indeed engulf him, but death was nothing new to him. Tears he could not cry waited in his eyes. "Sonic…" he whispered. "I'm sorry…"
Blaze was fulfilled. She had killed the one who had killed Silver and her love. Now, to go after Sonic. She watched the corpse burning, the flames dancing a great relief and satisfaction to her.
"Sonic!" She cried out. "On a battlefield stained with blood, come face me! I DARE YOU!" She laughed, her arms becoming stiff. "Come to your death!"
A breeze came up around her, and Sonic appeared. There was no gleam in his eyes, and his form was thin and sickly and little. He seemed a different hedgehog than before. Blaze sized him up, her smile growing wider and madder.
"So, the story changes again." This voice of his…it wasn't his. It was older and more experienced. It was eerily calm. "You are the murderer of this vision?"
"Shut up!" Blaze growled, her hands instantly aflame. "You're the murderer! You killed Silver! You killed them!" She gestured towards the dead bodies of Amy and Knuckles. Sonic looked at them for a moment, his eyes glazed and dull.
"They are ended before the world," he whispered. "Is it enough… Is it enough, Mu Enka1?" He was saddened by this, but wearied at the prospect. "Is it not enough?"
Blaze's fire grew more, angered by the fact that he was not affected as she was by the deaths before him. His mumbling only confused her, only made her furious. He was mad, she supposed—better to end him now, rather than later.
"I," she giggled madly, trying to get his attention. It worked; he looked. "I—I, I killed this black thing here! Shadow, Shadow! Shadow is burnt!" She laughed, kicking the burnt corpse with the tip of her boot.
"Kage ga yakete shimau," Sonic murmured. "Is this not enough?"
Blaze rushed at him, her hands on fire, pushing him back several steps. Sonic grit his teeth and put his wrists over hers. His gloves caught on fire immediately, burning his hands beneath. Her hands made burnt marks in his shoulders, and he squealed as the fire spread across his fur. Blaze was deliberately commanding the fire to burn him slowly, making it all the more agonizing. Sonic wailed, bending at the knees as he burned, crying ash.
"Ah!" Sonic cried, closing his eyes as the fire burned his skull. "Mu Enka! Devil! Is it not enough that they all suffer?"
"And my love!" sobbed Blaze, pointing at the corpse of Tails the Fox. "Killed! Killed before he can see his teenage years!" She was crying so much now that her fire burned and flared.
"Mu Enka!" Sonic cried. He watched a whirlpool overcome Blaze, drowning her like a wave engulfs a child at the beach. The whirlpool, dark and purple swirling in color, dragged her under, her sobs haunting him to the end.
His end came quite quickly. The last thing he remembered was a pain in his chest, adding to the feeling of burning flames.
For you, and for you alone
I suffered and I died.
For you, for you alone,
I cried and cried and cried.
The ashes could not be formed
You were twice too late.
1 "Smokeless Fire" in Japanese
