Gabriela's Pov
I was in a dimly lighted room, there was a single door with an ebony knob. I tried to escape but the door led to the endless dark and I just couldn't go back. The room had just suddenly appeared around me, like a fog. I leaned against the wall, knees pulled up to my chest, my head in my hands as tears slipped down my face. Without even realizing it, I had fallen asleep but when I woke up I found a single stemmed rose laying in front of me. I picked it up as I remembered a date with Sonic
"Give me a minute!" I shouted as I quickly grabbed my purse and headed for the door then took an other look at myself.
"Bye mom! Bye dad!" I said as I ran down the stairs to see Sonic standing there with a smile.
"Hey there. You look beautiful." He said as he gave me a light kiss, I blushed fidgeting with my purse.
"Thanks, so where are we going?" I asked as he chuckled then stared at me with a flush on his face.
"Here, I wanted to give you this." He said as he handed me a single bright red rose. It had to be the most beautiful rose I had ever seen, perfect in everyway…
I lifted the rose to my nose as the memory burned in my mind, then I felt a single prick. I looked at my hand to see a small line of red trickling down my palm, Sonic always de-thorned it. It wasn't from Sonic. I knew that, I had wanted it to be. I stared at then threw it across the room wanting it to wither and die so I wouldn't have to look at it.
"Is that some cruel joke?" I said hoarsely as the tears continued to fall, a hand clasped around my arm pulling me to my feet. I looked away from his fierce emerald eyes.
"And here I thought it might lighten up your mood." He chuckled darkly as I shivered and pulled myself away from him.
"What do you want from me! Please tell me! So I go, please." I begged backing away from him as came closer to me. I was backed against the wall once again, his hand came under my chin forcing me to look him in the eye.
"What I want is you. Your essence. Your soul. Give me that and you'll be free." He said as I shivered. My soul?
"You're a monster!" I shouted trying to push him away from me, but he kept me trapped there.
"That as it maybe, that is who I am. I will stop at nothing to get it, either you give it to me or you're bonded to me. Those are your only options."
"Neither! I won't! Sonic will get here soon. He'll defeat you like last time! He's done it before he can do it again!" I said as he chuckled again leaning closer to me.
"That's highly unlikely. Simply because…we are neither in the past, present or future. We simply exist. No one and nothing can enter this place except the pure of heart, the pure of soul and me. And apparently your brother willingly relinquished that title." He whispered next to my ear then began to laugh. Then there was no hope. I'd never escape. He moved away from me as I sank to my knees and sobbed, I didn't care what he thought of me. I wanted to go back. I wished that I had never gone into that shop. I should have known, I should have known…
Sonic's Pov
It was impossible. I couldn't find a single Chaos Emerald any where, Tails' tracking device couldn't pick up on anything. I've literally looked everywhere possible and where I didn't look Shadow and Silver looked. I ran back to Tails' workshop to find Shadow and Silver there waiting for me, neither of them had found any.
"Tails this has to be broken. I mean, how could the emeralds disappear?" I said handing him the handheld detector, he frowned shaking his head.
"There's nothing wrong with it, Sonic. I've already looked over Shadow's and Silver's there's nothing wrong." Tails said as I blinked in shock.
" If there's nothing wrong then why aren't any emeralds showing up?" I said moving the handheld device towards Shadow in Silver when it lightly began to beep. I stared at it as Silver began to stare at the floor, slowly I walked towards him and the beeping continued to get louder and louder.
"Okay! Okay! I have two emeralds, but these are from the future." He admitted as I sighed, this was impossible but a small start.
"Alright, then there's three left. I mean we need seven of them, it doesn't matter whether their from the future, right?" I said as Shadow stared blankly at the wall then a slow smirk appeared on his face.
"If that's true then maybe we need to look into the past and the future. If Silver was able to time travel, why couldn't we?" He said I felt a grin spread across my face, Silver shrugged.
"I suppose you could try it, but it is strange that the emeralds disappeared. But we have to try something." He said as I walked towards them.
"Then lets do this!" I said as we stood in a circle, Tails ran up to me his hand on my arm.
"Wait! You cannot come in contact with your past self. If you do then you could drastically change the time line and make the future worse-"
"or better." Shadow said as Tails shrunk away for a moment, I smiled and lightly ruffled his hair.
"No prob Tails. We'll remember." I said as he nodded then backed away from us. Silver pulled out two chaos emeralds, a clear one and light blue one.
"These are the ones I used to get here, we can use them again but how far into the past should we go?" Silver asked as he handed Shadow an emerald, I looked at Shadow neither of us having a clue.
"Well…Gabriela had one when she was little maybe we could start there." I said as Silver and Shadow nodded and walked up to each other.
"Chaos Control!" They shouted and within seconds a misty blue portal appeared, we looked at each other then Shadow ran in first followed by Silver, I was the last to go. With a quick wave at Tails I dashed in before it could close…
We were in a nursery. I looked around the room thinking for a moment it was Justin's old room when I noticed the walls were a light rose pink and a crying baby. We looked at each other. This wasn't right. But this had to be Gabriela's room. I peeked out the door to see that it was Gabriela's room or would be her room.
"This can't be right." Shadow said as the baby's cries continued to get louder, I sighed walking over to the crib to see familiar green eyes staring up at me. A baby girl, barely a few months old, was laying in the crib flailing her arms and kicking her legs in a yellow one piece pajama with a duck on the shoulder. I stared at her for a moment trying to piece everything together when I finally realized what had happened. I quickly picked up the baby girl trying to soothe her tears, she sniffed and lightly whimpered for a few moments then rested her head on my shoulder.
"Sonic! What are you doing?" Silver hissed in shock as I lightly bounced the baby trying to get her to go back to sleep.
"We're not to tamper with the timeline, especially considering we're not even in the right one." Shadow said taking a step towards me as I bit back a light chuckle.
"Oh, we're in the right time line. We're just a few years too early." I said as the two of them stared at me in confusion, I smiled and moved the baby girl to cradle her in my arms as she started to fall back asleep. Shadow stared at the baby for a while then his eyes widened as he got closer.
"You mean this is her?" He said as I nodded, Silver came closer still unsure.
"Her? Her who?" He asked as I lightly chuckled, Shadow began to smirk shaking his head.
"It's Gabriela. We got here when she was baby, she told me that she got the emerald when she was five years old at a souvenir shop." I said as Silver just stared at her that's when I noticed he was shaking.
"Silver? Hey are you okay?" I asked then glanced down at the sleeping baby in my arms then I noticed she was glowing an eerie light blue…and that she was barely breathing. My head snapped back at Silver to see his hands glowing.
"What are you doing!" I snapped turning Gabriela away from his sight. Shadow snarled then pushed him back.
"You don't understand! She's the cause of my future! She's the reason Mephiles became ruler! If I kill her now then my future is safe!" He said trying to get closer to me, Shadow stood between us as Gabriela began to wake up again.
"This is why you came back to the past! To destroy her!" Shadow snarled as Gabriela began to cry again.
"It's it the only way to save the future! I must!" He said trying to step past Shadow as I leaned Gabriela against my chest trying to calm her back down. How could he even consider killing her! He'd never even met her!
"Even if it means killing a child! A baby! An innocent baby who hasn't done a single thing wrong or bad! A baby who is barely aware of her surroundings! Can you stand there and kill her without any remorse, can you stand there and look at her while you take her life!" I shouted forgetting we had to be quiet. Silver stood there for a second staring at me as we heard the sound of Gabriela's parents rushing upstairs towards the room. Silver stared at Gabriela then…
The joys of cliffhangers... I just love writing them! Hehe! Well is there any hope for Gabriela? Can Sonic still save her? Will Silver succeed in killing baby Gabriela? Find out within the next few chapters! Also I know you're wondering if Sonic will propose to Gabriela so the answer is...to find out at the end of the story. Hehe! Thanks for all the awesome reviews! Please keep it up and ~God Bless!~
