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10. Avoiding
Levina paced angrily back and forth as Eggman continued to work furiously away at his desk. She couldn't believe that the idiot scientist had failed to catch Amelia…again. Even with her help he was still unable to complete one simple task. She was beginning to wonder if teaming up with him was actually the best idea. Her sister had always been a tricky one. She was always the one who refused to submit and that left her with no choice…
It was all her sister's fault. Levina scowled as the painfully memories clawed their way back into her brain. Everything that she did and planned on doing was for the greater good, but she ruined it all. She couldn't let her sister get the better of her again. Not now, not ever.
"Will you stop pacing?" Eggman demanded as he slammed his hands down on the desk. "I'm trying to concentrate."
"Tell me again what happened." Levina ordered as she stopped pacing to glare at the doctor.
"I told you, Amy broke free and stole the chaos emerald."
"The chaos emerald." Levina twitched in fright. Doctor Eggman had left that piece of critical information out. "Did…did she use it?"
Eggman nodded and Levina gasped in horror.
"NO!" She cried out. "We can't let that happened again! We have to keep Amelia and the emeralds separated otherwise this whole thing will go up in smoke…probably literally."
"What are you babbling on about?" Eggman asked in a tried voice as he went back to making notes.
Levina tugged on her lilac fur manically before pulling out the green chaos emerald which was glowing brightly. Brighter than ever.
"Doctor, think about what I told you. How the chaos emeralds came into being. You're a smart man, figure it out." Levina growled out through clenched teeth.
Eggman thought for a moment before his glasses shined as he recognised the problem.
"Oh dear." Was all he could mumble.
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Amy pushed her way through layers of thick green shrubs with Sonic close behind her. Small rays of sunshine peaked through the canopy of the trees and Sonic looked around in fascination.
"This place seems familiar." He noted.
"Really?" Amy asked in surprise. "I thought I was the only person who knew about this place."
Sonic doubted that as he had practically seen every inch of the planet. He didn't think there was really any new place left for him to discover. He thought he might've run past this place before and that was why it seemed so familiar.
The trees began to part more and they sped up as it became easier to walk on the evening out ground. The light got brighter as they could see the blue sky above them and Sonic welcomed the warmth that had been shielded from him while in the shade of the thick trees.
"So?" Sonic said, making conversation. "Did your aunt raise you?"
Amy nodded. "Yeah ever since my mother died. She's the only family I know."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Sonic said sadly, but Amy just waved him off.
"Don't worry about it." She reassured. "I don't even remember her that well; I was very young when she died. My aunt's a fortune teller and works with magic and voodoo. She gave me the tarot cards on my fifth birthday and I used them all the time. That's how I found out about you."
"I don't really believe in that junk." Sonic rolled his eyes.
"Some of it is creepily accurate though." Amy smiled.
"It's mostly an illusion." Sonic explained. "Tails said they had a special way of doing it in order to make them look reliable."
"There's no convincing you on anything is there? What about me? I just used magic right in front of you. Was that an illusion?" Amy asked.
"Well yeah there's that kind of magic, but predicting the future? Nah, it's a load of crap to me." Sonic chuckled.
Amy rolled her eyes at Sonic's scepticism. They continued walking until the trees parted in a beautiful archway decorated with wild flowers and blended in so well with the natural environment, no one would've guessed it had been created by a person rather than nature herself. Sonic's eyes widened as he took in the beautiful meadow down the small embankment of the hill. It was small, but cosy and colourful wildflowers grew everywhere and the soft sound of a stream could be heard nearby.
"I definitely remember this place." Sonic gasped out in awe as he smiled at the view.
Amy turned to face him with wide eyes.
"You know this place?"
Sonic nodded. "Yeah, I come here all the time just to think. I found it accidently a few years ago and I've been coming here ever since."
"But I thought only I knew of this place." Amy whispered as she turned to admire the view.
"How do you know about it then?" Sonic asked with great interest.
"Because I created it." Amy replied with a small smile.
Sonic stared at her with his mouth agape. "What do you mean?"
Amy laughed at his expression. "It took me years to complete it, but ever since I found out about my powers, I came here to practice them. I finally created this little safe haven for myself and I come here whenever I'm feeling sad, need time to think or just want to get away from everything."
"Whoa." Sonic breathed as his eyes roamed over all the flowers and trees. "It's beautiful."
"Thanks, I had no idea someone else was breaking in every once in a while." She giggled.
"Sorry."
"No no I don't mind." Amy sighed. "Seen as it's you, I'm willing to share." She smirked and Sonic rolled his eyes.
Amy skipped down the hill and Sonic followed before he sighed in content as he collapsed onto the thick grass and placed his hands behind his head. He couldn't believe that one of his favourite places on the planet had been created by Amy. The girl has good taste, he thought to himself as he absentmindedly plucked a small flower from the ground and brought it up to his nose.
"No time for lazing around Sonic." Amy shouted from the other end of the meadow. "I need to find my aunt."
Sonic sat up looking at Amy in confusion. "She lives in a field?"
"No silly." Amy laughed. "This tree will tell me." She said as she pointed to a tree at the edge of the meadow.
Sonic looked at her as if she was insane before Amy chanted a few words in another unknown language and the tree moved slightly.
Sonic stood up and slowly approached as lines began carving themselves into the tree bark. He rubbed his eyes to check if he was seeing things, but sure enough, Amy was still stood there thoughtfully as she watched the lines carve themselves into the thick bark.
"Is that a map of the planet?" Sonic asked as he tilted his head to one side, recognising the shapes.
Amy nodded before squealing in delight, making Sonic jump.
"She's only a few miles away! This is awesome!" She shrieked.
"Why where is she?" Sonic asked.
Amy pointed to the small dot on the map. "Just outside Emerald Coast."
"I'll have us there in no time." Sonic smirked as he ran over, picked Amy up and was soon speeding towards the small coastal town.
The world blurred past around them before Sonic slowed down as they arrived at their destination. Amy sighed as Sonic placed her down and she wished with all her heart that she had the excuse to hold onto him for longer. Sonic raised an eyebrow at her once he caught her staring at him and Amy quickly looked away and blushed, trying to calm down her rapidly beating heart.
Sonic cleared his throat awkwardly before smiling down at her.
"So where does your aunt live?" He asked and Amy looked around.
The small town was quiet and peaceful as the sun was just beginning to set over the ocean, turning it into a range of colours from dark blue to orange. Amy's eyes caught a small cloud of smoke rising into the sky and smiled.
"I'm guessing over there." She said and began walking towards the rising smoke.
Sonic wordlessly followed before different brightly coloured tents came into view, all of which surrounded a large campfire that families were beginning to happily gather around. A few anthropomorphic animals were walking around or sat outside their tents enjoying the evening sun. Amy seemed to know where she was going and ignored all the heads that turned to stare at them.
A few people waved at him, obviously recognising who he was and he would wave back slowly before Amy stopped in front of a bright pink tent.
Amy hesitated before calling out. "Auntie, are you in there?"
There was no response and Amy huffed before there was a crashing noise from inside. Sonic and Amy looked at each other before bursting into the tent.
"Ah man! That was my favourite rug!" The middle aged pink hedgehog groaned as she picked up the broken teapot from the delicately patterned rug that was now covered in broken china and a puddle of tea.
"Auntie Jem!" Amy yelled in excitement before Jem looked at her in confusion and shock.
"I'll pay you later, just leave me alone!" She yelled as she held the broken tea pot in front of her, using it as a weapon.
"What? No Auntie it's me, Amy." Amy tried to reassure her and Jem squinted at her before smiling.
"Little Amy, well not little any more so it seems." Jem laughed as she pulled Amy into a tight hug, crushing the younger pink hedgehog to death.
Sonic repressed a chuckle as he could see where Amy got many of her crazy habits from.
"And who's this handsome young man?" Jem elbowed Amy as she released her. "Is he your new boyfriend?"
"Friend." Sonic corrected and Amy's face dropped slightly before plastering a smile back on her face.
Jem grabbed hold of Amy's ear and pulled her head down to whisper into it. "You better keep a close eye on this one. If you don't go for him, I will!"
Sonic and Amy both blushed and Amy yanked her ear out of Jem's grip, who began making her way towards Sonic.
"I'm Jemima, but people just call me Jem." She smiled at him, tightly grabbing hold of his hand and shaking it violently.
"Sonic." Sonic gasped out his name before breathing a sigh of relief as Jem let go of his hand.
"You are most welcome here." Jem laughed before groaning as she put her foot in the puddle of tea.
"Snap, I must clean that up." She groaned. "Now what were we just talking about, ah yes as I was saying, Simon really needs to control all those dark chaos. If they chew through my expensive and valuable quilts again then he'll have me to answer to."
Sonic looked at her in confusion as Amy slapped a hand against her face.
"No auntie, we weren't talking about that." Amy sighed in frustration.
"Well we need to talk about that!" Jem exclaimed slapping Amy across the top of her head. "That man is out of order!"
Amy rubbed her head before interrupting Jem's rant.
"We need your help Auntie."
"Oh?" Jem said as she halted her ranting. "You're a clever girl Amy, you don't need little old me anymore."
"No, but it has something to do with my powers." Amy explained.
"What about them dear?" Jem asked. "You've never expressed an interest in them before."
"Yeah well, now they're getting stronger."
"And now loads of people know about it and are coming after her." Sonic added and Jem groaned.
"You always did get yourself into a lot of trouble." Jem scolded as she smacked the back of Amy's head again.
"Ah!" She yelped. "Will you stop doing that?"
"No, because I still have hope that one day it will knock some sense into you." Jem mumbled as she made her way to some dark wooden drawers and began rummaging through them.
"I apologise on her behalf." Amy whispered to Sonic.
"No worries, she's funny." Sonic smirked.
Amy rolled her eyes. "You say that now."
"Ah ha! Found them." Jem shouted in excitement as she pulled out a pile of dusty cards.
"No auntie, we don't need our fortunes read, we need answers on my powers." Amy said. "What do you know about the legend of the hypernova sisters?"
Jem almost dropped her cards at Amy's question before she regained her composure. "What's that you say? You want me to read your fortunes? Well sure!"
She pushed them both onto some chairs in the corner of the tent, ignoring their protesting. She quickly pushed a table in front of them and pulled up a chair herself and began shuffling the cards while Amy groaned at the sight.
"Auntie please, answer my question." She pleaded.
"I have a feeling she's avoiding the question." Sonic murmured which made Amy frown at her aunt.
"Why are you avoiding the question?" Amy pried and Jem stopped shuffling for a moment before she slammed the cards down on the desk making both Sonic and Amy jump.
"Tis a dark tale and not for the ears of lovely young people such as yourselves." Jem said darkly before smiling happily again and holding out the crads. "Now who wants to go first?"
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