I've been reading your poll votes so far, and I've been giggling a lot because of them. Ooooh, who is Crystal? Just gonna have to wait and see!

This is kinda a longer chapter than usual, YAY!

And this is a brand new point of view!

Take it away ... MIDNIGHT!

Chapter Ten

Midnight's POV

Me, mum, dad, Breeze and Sonic were farther ahead than anyone else because of our speed. They told us that they would catch up as quickly as they could.

Mum, dad and Sonic were up in front discussing strategies on how to defeat the purple cat while me and Breeze just hung back and wondered in our own thoughts. Well, I know I was; a skill that I had inherited from my father.

I was thinking about mainly the devastation that was being caused right now but mainly it was all clouded. Breeze was the clearer image.

I still couldn't get my head around the fact that she said yes. She had actually said yes! We were going to be husband and wife, never to be separated. I wanted to also start a family of our own but I mentally slapped myself at the thought. It's too early I kept on thinking to myself, let her be the one to decide; after all, she's the one who'll go through the pain for it.

But it had been one of my life long dreams. To have a family with Breeze, my darling Breeze whom I loved more than my own life. She was my reason of existence, if she died then I so would I. If she went, then so would I. I hoped that she loved me too; I wanted her to be sure of spending her life with me. Of course if she decided not to go along, then I would of course let her go; but my heart would be crushed in the process.

I wouldn't have even noticed that we arrived at the island if it weren't for the sudden change of light, temperature and air. I looked in horror as I saw everything on fire, burning to the ground. I shook my head in disbelief; all of this was for a Chaos Emerald. So many innocent lives were lost.

I turned to look at my dad who had his head down in thought, he looked up towards Sonic, "Well, do we start the search?"

"I think someone should" Sonic said with a nod, "What about you, me and Midnight. Is that all cool?"

Me and dad nodded while I added, "Yes"

Personally Sonic sort of scared me. He was the father of my existence and he was always on edge whenever I got a little too close to Breeze. Lucky he doesn't know about our "special" night we had the night before I proposed to Breeze otherwise I'd be very dead.

I turned to Breeze, "Are you gonna be okay here?"

She grinned in a reassuring way, "Sure I will, go and beat up that purple bitch for me"

"I will" I said with a grin, I really meant it.

Me, dad and Sonic ran across the water and soon halted. We weren't so sure what to do. Put the fire out? Search for survivors? Search for the cat? Search for the Chaos Emerald?

Luckily dad came up with a quick suggestion, "Sonic, why don't you go and find the Chaos Emerald, me and Midnight will find the cat"

Sonic thought over the suggestion before nodding, "Okay, you be careful you two" he said before darting into the burning blaze while me and dad went off in the opposite direction.

I started to cough a bit because of the billowing smoke but I managed easily enough. Dad's eyes were very alert, searching for any sign of movement. I tried to do the same.

It was so far a failure. There wasn't even a sign of a twitch in sight and the fire was getting larger by the minute. We had been searching for an hour.

"Dad, do you think we should try to find the others and see what they're up to? We've had no luck with the cat"

"No" my dad said in his usual low tone which was only a vocal deeper than mine, "We have to keep trying, she can't already disappeared into air"

"Wouldn't surprise me with all of this smoke" I added, my dad just frowned at me before once again focusing on the sights around him. I sighed and followed his example. I looked to my left, there was a crumbling building, in front was more fire, behind a flame had just gotten higher and to my right was Sonic lying face down on the ground ... wait a sec... SHIT!

"Dad!" I yelled pointing to Sonic's body. He looked to where I was pointing and he gaped in shock, "SONIC!" he yelled running to his side.

I approached my soon to be father-in-law and prayed that he was all right, I had seen the devastating effects of his death before and I didn't really want to see it again.

Dad flipped Sonic on his back and shook his shoulder, "Sonic, Sonic!" he kept on repeating while he placed a finger to Sonic's wrist to check for a pulse.

Luckily Sonic opened his eyes and began to cough heavily, dad sighed in relief before turning serious, "Sonic, what the hell happened?"

Sonic groaned and coughed a little more, he looked past me and dad's shoulders and struggled to say something. He mumbled something that sounded a little like "Crystal"

"What?" me and dad asked.

"Behind you, Shadow she's behind you" he croaked. I hardly turned around before something collided with my face.

"Oof!" I fell down on the ground and soon dad followed, a feminine laugh erupted around us and I looked up. Standing before us was none other than the dark purple cat; her golden eyes glowing in triumph.

"Well well, who do we have here then?" she said in her dark voice, smiling down upon me. I growled as I tried to leap at her but she put her hand out and suddenly my chest was on fire. I screamed out in pain and collapsed. My dad quickly came to my aid and put it out, he turned to growl at the cat, "Well who the hell are you?"

"The name's Crystal pal, now how about your name"

"It's Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog" my dad said darkly as he got up from kneeling beside me. "What did you do to my friend?"

Crystal smile turned into an evil grin as she stared and the heavily breathing Sonic, "He was getting in my way; I merely had to get him away from my path"

That sent dad on boiling edge and he darted to attack Crystal. She stepped away and sent a flame towards his back. Thankfully dad dodged and tried to do a homing attack and almost hit her but she was too quick and almost danced out of the way.

While my dad was involved with Crystal, I ran to make sure that Sonic was alright. He was still conscious, but barely. He looked up at me with pleading eyes, "You have to help your father, she's too powerful to take on by himself" he said in a weak voice.

"No, I need to make sure that you're all right" And already I could tell that he wasn't. His right eye was swelling up, hip lip was bleeding and bruises and cuts were covering every part of his body. He had many burns. He also looked close to falling unconscious again.

I didn't know what to do; medical stuff was never my strong point. While I tried to think of what I could do, I turned to find out how my dad was going.

He was fighting well; he had a few cuts and bruises but nothing too bad. He was quickly dodging the oncoming flames but every time he tried to attack the cat she just pelted him with flames, making it impossible to land a punch. I'm sure that if my dad had any chaos emeralds he could kick her ass but he had none.

Soon, halfway through throwing fire, she stopped. She twitched and snarled to herself, "Someone knows". With that unusual comment, she leaped away, leaving dad in a dumb struck position.

All I could think of was WTF? She was winning! She just ran away when she had the upper hand! WTF?

Dad shook himself back to reality and glanced at Sonic, who was now unconscious. He ran to his side and lifted him up in his arms. "We gotta get back" he said flatly and with that we ran back as quickly as we could.

We remained silent even as we skidded across the red water. We could easily see that there was a sort of medical area set up around Tails. TJ was supporting an arm in a sort of sling, Ruby had a couple of burns across her wings, Knuckles was bruised and then I almost fell down in shock, Breeze was lying down unconscious.

I immediately ran to her side, praying that she really was unconscious. Tails seemed to sense my worry and rubbed my shoulder, "Don't worry, she'll be fine. She just had a tough battle, she-"

"SONIC!" Amy cut Tails off with a scream as she saw dad approaching us. Now that I compared both Sonic and Breeze together, Breeze only seemed as if she was knocked to sleep by a mere feather.

Tails face whitened as he ran to dad, "What the hell happened?" he demanded.

"We don't know the exact details" Dad said as he lowered Sonic to the ground, "We just found him like this but we do know that he was previously fighting Crystal, she's the-"

"Cat, yeah, I know" Tails said darkly while he took a little blood sample from Sonic. He looked up at everyone, "I'm sure if I treat Sonic well enough he'll be fine so don't worry"

That took a massive load off my mind, then I remembered that Tails hadn't finished what he was saying before, "So, what else is up with Breeze?" I asked.

Tails suddenly wore a very small smile, "Well, when I did some blood tests to make sure she was fine I kinda found out a little something unexpected"

I paled immediately, what was wrong with my angel?

"What? What's wrong? Is she okay? She doesn't have cancer does she?"

Tails smiled more, "No, but it does depend whether you want to call this good news or bad news"

I cocked an eyebrow in confusion, both Amy and mum were now grinning at me.

Tails took a breath, "Congratulations, you're gonna be a dad"

OMG OMG OMG! I had to add that to the plot, I just had to! So, Midnight and Breeze are gonna be parents... me so happy for them!

Anyway, next up we shall see what really happened to Sonic during his fight with Crystal.

Thank you for all of you're reviews, they make me very happy!