Chapter 9

The Immortal

"You're sure your fine?" Helen asked Cosmo as she led her in their home, setting all of their bags down, they both sat down to take a nice, long, breather. Rimas had told them that he would be back to check on them.

"Yes, I already told you that." Cosmo snapped.

Helen saw that she was flustered at the question so she dropped it. "Want to listen to T.A?" It then occurred to the human girl that the news would probably be filled with the so called Jeffrey St. Croix.

"No." The plant girl plainly said.

"I think Chris must have left some board games, games I actually understand. Want to play?" Helen tried again enthusiastically.

Cosmo sighed, "No."

"Want to finish your book?" Helen got up and reached for the little blue book which when Cosmo had her sight, she had been writing in it. "You never did finish telling me about that Eleos guy everyone seems to be mad about. I thought I saw him when I first got here, but I saw two of him which is ridiculous." Helen sighed feeling defeated.

"He was helpful, "Cosmo finally responded. "He said he knew my father, and that he was closer to me than I thought." She shrugged feeling pressure on her shoulders.

"I'm sure he was a great… person." As Helen felt gawker Cosmo fell face first on the couch and began to weep. Helen reached for Cosmo and played with her green hair. "You haven't been acting like yourself, I'm here for you Cosmo. You can trust me."

"I miss him!" Cosmo cried.

"Tails?" Helen asked, understanding completely how the green girl felt.

"Yes!" Cosmo wailed.

"Will you tell me what's going on?" Helen inquired.

"I can't! You'll think I'm a bad person!" Cosmo continued to wail.

"You're talking to the queen of spoiled brats! I cried whenever I didn't get what I wanted, till I was like sixteen." Helen giggled at herself which also made Cosmo laugh but she quieted for another moment.

"I love him… and I told him I didn't want to see him." Cosmo sniffed wiping away wetness from her cheek.

"Mm." Helen listened.

"He and I… you're going to hate me. It's… wildly inappropriate." Cosmo sniffed more loudly.

"I won't hate you. I won't even think any different of you." Helen reassured.

"Tails and I had a child together." Cosmo said and Helen's eyes widened. "It's not what you think! We… we didn't do anything. I don't know how it happened. But it did." She covered her face with her hands, wetting them again.

"And?" Helen asked trying to sound unbiased and unalarmed.

"He didn't know, but he… he gave it up to get me back. And I blamed him for it." Cosmo cried again.

Helen lay her head on top of Cosmo and in turn it made the green girl giggle. Helen started, "I don't know-"

Out of nowhere the door of their house was barged into and fell on the carpet with a clatter of broken glass and a bang. It made both Cosmo and Helen scream with fear.

"You!" The voice was of the culprit, and the black hedgehog yelled at Cosmo. "You will be the doom of us all!" With ease, Shadow sprinted towards the shrieking, green girl only to find a human girl shield her.

"You leave her alone!" Helen yelled.

"Out of my way!" Shadow yelled back and with the slightest hit sent the human girl flying across the room and onto the wall. She lay unconscious. The hedgehog noticed the green girl was blindly tripping and heading upstairs. "Don't try and run, I will finish you this time!"

Cosmo slipped and bumped her chin on the middle step of the stairs. "Why are you doing this?" She ran bumping her arms on walls and doors. She felt every door until reaching her room and closing the door. The hedgehog chuckled and slowly walked upstairs, there was the crunching of glass with his steps.

Whimpering, the green girl hid herself in her closet and covered her mouth, exasperated and out of ideas. She listened and feared, the door of her room opened and she heard footsteps. Closer and closer, and then farther and farther until she heard nothing. Cosmo exhaled.

"There you are." A black hand reached for the green girl through the closet door it pulled her through it and sent her crashing on the opposite wall. She stumbled up feeling death stinging her face and every muscle in her body. She ran out the door and fell on the carpet, not knowing where she was or where to go. "Don't even try!" He yelled, picking her up and throwing her through the upstairs window. She fell outside on the hard grass and could not move any more.

The black hedgehog chuckled again and made his way outside leisurely walking still. To his surprise there was a familiar blue hedgehog in his way this time.

"What's the matter Shadow? Have to pick on little girls half your size?" Sonic sounded more mad and redder than his usual self was like. He guarded Cosmo and hoped she was just unconscious.

"Please, I don't have time for you." With one breath Shadow took he ported behind Sonic and kicked the back of his head with great strength leaving the blue hedgehog motionless.

"Hey Shadow! Remember me?!" Shadow turned around to see the yellow fox he had once fought. It angered him that his plans were taking longer that he had anticipated.

But the black hedgehog only laughed loudly and mockingly, "Haven't we done this already kid? What are you going to do?"

"Come and find out." Tails egged him on. And as the hedgehog neared Tails readied himself. Shadow only laughed and laughed until he was ready to strike the fox, only to find that the fox was ready and hit him with one-hundred-thousand volts, a machine he had been building stuck on his hand like a glove. Powerful enough to kill an animal twice over. But it only angered Shadow more, and unable to move and being shocked, he grabbed the machine and squeezed.

Tails did not see this coming and Shadow squeezed harder and harder until breaking the machine. Then Tails yowled a mighty howl of pain and there was a sudden crack. But Shadow squeezed even until he had stopped being shocked. "Stop!" Tails pleaded now on the ground holding his hand. Shadow had broken all of Tails' bones on his hand and spat on him.

"Pathetic excuse." Shadow muttered as he stepped over the fox.

As the hedgehog neared the green girl, she tried getting up, and Cosmo asked weakly, "Why?"

The question only made Shadow smile, "I don't have to explain myself. Especially not to you." The black hedgehog grabbed at the plant girl's' throat and began to squeeze the breath and life out of her. "You won't get me." Shadow saw the girl turn a bluish color and laughed again. But there was a force that pushed him away, he dropped the girl and the force pushed him into the house making a hole where a wall should be. Shadow was temporarily incapacitated and the force was a metal hand that came back to its origin.

Cosmo coughed and passed out, Tails looked up to see a bulky, red, black, and yellow robot next to Eggman and his flying machine. His three other robots yelled, "Get him doctor!"

The evil doctor said, "Oh Shadow! I've got a new toy for you to play with!" The doctor noticed his fallen nemesis, a hurt Tails and a defenseless Cosmo. "Hurting poor Cosmo here, tisk, tisk. And did you know she's blind now? Well that's just not good sportsmanship!" The man motioned for his robots.

Decoe, Bocoe and Bokkun helped Cosmo, Tails, Sonic, and quickly helped Helen get to safety as the doctor spoke again, "Omega!" He faced his new invention and the robot whirred and looked towards his creator. "Do what you do best!"

Omega answered, "Affirmative."

End of Part 1