Chapter Eight
The Funeral
A couple of days later, Angel went to the Mobotropolis Cemetery to attend his parents funeral, he walked with Bella wearing a smart black suit with a tie and he was holding some flowers in his hands, one was a white rose, and the other was a red rose, Bella held his hand as they walked to the cemetery.
"Angel" she whispered "are you ok?" Angel nodded, biting his lip and trying to hold back tears, "Angel" whispered the white goose, "you'll be fine, everyone at the Orphanage is here to look after you, you're gonna be safe, and Shadow and Rouge's solicitor is taking care of everything your parents owned so you won't be left with nothing"
Angel nodded, he understood he was going to be taken care of, but he felt so scared. When he arrived he saw a big area of the cemetery had been set up with a marquee with chairs and two stands were there to hold the coffins. There was even a large white screen where a slideshow would take place.
Angel walked with Bella to where a large crowd of Mobians dressed in black were standing, Angel recognised them instantly, He could see Sonic and Amy standing there with their ten year old twins, Flash and Amethyst. As soon as they saw him, Amethyst and Flash ran up. "Angel!" cried Amethyst, she threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly "are you ok?" "Let him breathe sis!" said Flash also running over. Angel hugged Amethyst hard as tears filled his eyes.
Sonic and Amy then walked over then hugged him "oh Angel" said Amy "we're so sorry" Sonic nodded, he seemed pretty upset, even though he and Shadow had been rivals, he still felt devastated at Shadow's brutal murder. Silver and Blaze were also there, as was Tails who was comforting Cream and her elderly mother Vanilla.
The Chaotix were also there, Charmy was crying and Espio and Vector were crying to console him. Even the Babylon Rouges were there, including a couple of Mobians Angel didn't recognise, one was a male Falcon and a female Parrot. Angel recognised Jet and Wave, he also saw Storm with a female blue kestrel who was crying in his arms. When they all saw Angel, they all went around comforting him and giving their sympathies.
As they were crowding around Angel, they saw some cars and a Van pull up, it was a large white van, then some figures stepped out, they were all dressed in black clothes, just after they arrived, a car pulled up. The Mobians who stepped out of the van were three women, one was a ginger cat, one was a white poodle, and last was a brown otter. Out of the cars came a brown spaniel, and a brown lioness.
Out of the other cars stepped two female swans and a brown sparrow, "it's Rouge's friends" said Amy "it's the Deadly Six" the three women from the van were each accompanied by policemen who had them handcuffed to them. Each of them were crying and dabbing their eyes.
"My Godmothers!" cried Angel, he walked over to them, as he did, he walked up to the Lioness Darlene, Darlene looked down at the little hedgehog, she then got down on her knees and hugged him. "Oh Angel" she whispered as tears fell from her eyes "I'm so sorry"
Angel cried as he hugged the lioness, the other murderesses also walked over and hugged him too. Kaliyah the Kestrel was crying harder than any of the other women, "how could they?" said the white poodle Chloe, "how could those bastards murder Rouge and her husband?!" Nicholas the Poodle who was her police guardian hugged her and tried to calm her. The other murderesses dabbed their eyes.
The two swans, Jenny and Julie looked at Angel, they both had red eyes from crying "I can't believe that Rouge and Shadow were murdered for no reason" sobbed Julie "Razor the Wolf, how could he be so brutal, and kill our friends?" "I know Ju" said Jenny. They looked at the flower arrangements they had made around the marquee, "we did the flower arranging" said Jenny "we wanted to make this place really nice"
She looked at the flowers; most of them were arrangements of white lilies and red and white roses. After they had served their sentences at the Mobotropolis Women's prison, they had set up a Flower Arranging Business together. Angel looked up at the swans. "They are beautiful" he whispered.
The Sonic Team bowed their heads, "that bastard" said Sonic "Razor the Wolf, killing Shadow and Rouge…and for what? His sick pleasure!?" Amy placed her hand on her husbands shoulder but Sonic was really furious. Flash and Amethyst stood next to Angel and continued to hug him.
Soon a funeral car appeared and two men got out, one was a male black raven and the other was a black cat. Everyone then saw the two coffins in the back of the car, one was black and the other was white.
Angel felt tears well in his eyes, then the priest a male badger appeared, "would everyone please take your seats" he said calmly. Bella lead Angel to the front, Angel sat down and clutched the two roses in his hand, the Sonic Team and the Chaotix sat on one side whilst the Murderesses, Jenny, Julie and Ellen sat on the other side.
As soon as everyone was in their seats, some Mobians dressed in black carried the two coffins to the front and placed them on the stands, then they put two big photos of Shadow and rouge on their coffins, they put the one of Shadow on the black coffin and the one of Rouge on the white coffin.
Angel then heard some of the Sonic Team sniffling as they saw the photos of Shadow and Rouge, Angel then stood and placed the flowers he had on his parent's coffins. As he did, he looked at them both, "I love you…I miss you so much" he then walked back next to Bella and sat down.
The priest then walked up and began the funeral. "We are gathered here to remember two great members of Mobotropolis, two lives taken away too soon; they will be missed greatly by all of us!" Angel sniffled and he heard the Sonic Team and the Murderesses sigh in sadness.
Angel looked over his shoulder and looked at everyone. Sonic and Amy were holding hands and crying, Vanilla and Cream were crying with Tails trying to comfort them both, Big was wailing. All the Murderesses were crying into tissues, and the Chaotix, the Babylon Rouges, Amethyst and Flash were simply sitting in silence.
"I know you all have loved them dearly, and you will miss them" continued the priest, "let know this, that God was taken them from this life to join him in his Kingdom of Heaven". After a while, the priest looked at Angel and nodded to him, "and now, their son, Angelous, would like to read a poem dedicated to them and his way of saying goodbye"
Angel then walked up to the alter to begin his speech, he pulled out his scrapbook that he had written his poem in, as he looked at what he had written, he had drawn dark gothic art and figures around it, such as black roses and gravestones, some of the gravestones had blood and tears on them and above the poem was a weeping angel crying blood. Angel then took a deep breath and began his speech:
Here I stand, in a world of hurt and neglect
Never knowing what I had done to make you go away
In my head I keep on wondering what you had done to deserve this.
I loved you, and you were stolen from me,
Now I am alone in this world without you by my side
In the Dark Forest of hurt and Neglect, I feel there is no hope for me
I see where I left a rose for you showing my love
And how much I will miss you
When the autumn leaves fall, I see your face,
Yet I cannot touch it, or kiss it
You are gone from my grasp
The sun rises and the sun sets
Yet each day I feel no warmth or brightness
My lonely soul is only filled with darkness
The sun will never shine for me
The bird will never sing its happy song
Let the Darkness fall
Let the Raven cowl in mourning
As I lie awake, I hear your voice
The lullaby you sang to me,
Soothing me to sleep,
But now there is no song for me
No song can soothe the pain I feel
I am alone, and nothing can heal me
Angel looked up at the two coffins, tears dripped off his nose as he finished the last sentence of the poem.
I love you; I will miss you, forever…..Rest in peace….
Angel looked up again, nearly everyone was speechless as his poem, then they began to dab their eyes again. Angel got down from the stand and walked over to Bella who had a couple of tears, even the priest was in tears.
After a while, the priest pulled himself together and began to carry on with the service, as he was speaking, Bella lowered down close to Angel and whispered "that was such a touching speech, you really poured out your emotions" Angel nodded "I loved them Bella" he whispered "I'd give anything to turn back the clock and make sure it never happened" Bella squeezed his hand.
After the Sonic Team and the Murderesses and made a few speeches, the priest then looked up, "and now, we shall remember our dearly departed friends" he then turned on a CD player, then nodded to someone at the back who turned on a slideshow which appeared on the white screen at the front. Angel felt his emotions strangling him at the throat as he saw his parents appear on the slideshow. Then the sound of Aerosmith's 'I don't Wanna Miss a Thing' came from the speakers.
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
Far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Well, every moment spent with you
Is a moment I treasure
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
As the song played Angel could see pictures of his mother and father in pictures before he was born, some of them fighting enemies, including the Metarex, Eggman and other enemies. As the others watches they all began crying as memories of them fighting enemies as a team or even as friends and rivals returned to them.
He saw Shadow with Maria, Rouge admiring jewels, even pictures of them with the Sonic Team and the Chaotix. There were even pictures of Rouge with the Murderesses, then there were pictures and video clips of their wedding. But Angel began to cry again as pictures and video clips of him and his parents came up, showing the happy times.
Lying close to you
Feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we're together
And I just wanna stay with you
In this moment forever, forever and ever
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
I don't wanna miss one smile
I don't wanna miss one kiss
Well, I just wanna be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just wanna hold you close
Feel your heart so close to mine
And stay here in this moment
For all the rest of time
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
'Cause I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
I don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream will never do
I'd still miss you, babe
And I don't wanna miss a thing
Don't wanna close my eyes
Don't wanna fall asleep, yeah
I don't wanna miss a thing
As the song ended, Angel couldn't stand it, he threw himself against Bella and cried, he finally broke down, he couldn't bear the fact that his dream was gone, and that his parents were dead and never coming back. He looked up at the priest who stood up again and began to continue the service.
Awww, so sad, there's a second part in the next chap, I hope you liked it.
Note from Bloodrayne666: (Mobians at the funeral) Blur the Falcon and the Isadora the Parrot who are part of the Babylon Rouges belong to Neros Urameshi, Nicholas whose Chloe's Police Chaperone belongs to Rocker Raider. The Deadly Six Murderesses, Ellen, Jenny and Julie are from Beauty's Imprisonment, an earlier fic of mine.
