Hey guys! Okay so it's been forever since I've updated this but after reading over it and remembering what my original idea for it was, I decided that I would update it. About time right? Anyways, thank you to all those who favorited and alerted this story. I appreciate it and I apologize I haven't updated it earlier. Here's chapter ten of Last Stand! Oh here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does however own her OCs: Illusion the Cat, Charcoal the Cat, and Beacon the Sparrow.
Here's the chapter!
Chapter Ten
"What?!"
That was the first thing to escape out of Vector and Charmy's mouths as they listened to what Espio had to say. Illusion had escaped from the hospital, and Espio looked down as the duo glanced at each other, then at their ninja companion. Leaning against the wall was Beacon the Sparrow, the new recruit. Compared to everyone else's reaction, Beacon didn't seem one bit surprised by this news.
"I sort of figured something like this would happen," Beacon stated as he walked away from the wall and toward the trio detectives.
"How did you figure that?"
Beacon shrugged.
"Charcoal mentioned how Illusion blamed herself a lot if something went wrong so I wouldn't doubt that she blamed herself for the at-"
"That was your fault though!" Charmy interrupted, glaring at Beacon.
"I already apologized! I didn't know that Illusion wasn't my family's murderer!"
"Did that give you-"
The honey bee stopped talking when Espio whistled loudly. The arguing duo averted their attention to Espio, whose gold eyes held a determined look.
"Enough arguing you two," Vector whispered as he cleared his throat and stated, "I believe Espy and I have the same idea in mind. We'll look for Illusion."
Espio nodded, "Because if we don't look for her, then Charcoal will surely kill her."
"Aren't you being a little dramatic about this? Illusion's fourteen, she can take care of herself."
"I don't want to risk the chance that perhaps Illusion would die by Charcoal's hands," Espio quickly replied as a faint blush crossed his muzzle.
Beacon tilted his head and smirked, "ah so that's why you want to look for her? You're scared that your crush will di-"
The sparrow bowed as he gasped for air that Espio knocked out of his lungs. Espio seemed slightly irritated.
"Lets talk about this when we find her."
Beacon sighed, "good luck without me."
"HUH?!"
The sparrow shrugged, "listen, as much as I would like to stay, I have no reason to. I know that she's not my family's murderer and I know I won't learn anything by staying here. I'll be on my way to find for the murderer who destroyed my family. So this is where we part ways."
The Chaotix stared as the sparrow walked toward the door. He stopped as he gripped the doorknob and looked back at Espio, "If something happens, don't hesitate to call me. You have my number after all."
A bright stream of moonlight entered inside the Chaotix Building and left the trio in silence as the sparrow walked out calmly, as though he was going out for a little while, going for a small little walk. Of course the trio knew that he wasn't going to come back, not for a long time.
Vector looked at Charmy who had started to become nervous as he flew around the crocodile's head. He then shifted his orange, blazing eyes to Espio.
"Lets go," Espio stated as he darted out in a purple blur. It wasn't too long until Vector and Charmy ran out of the building and followed after Espio.
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This was bad; Illusion knew that much as darkness shrouded her in a black veil. The cracked, uneven sidewalk threw her off balance a few times and the soft lullaby that her stomach was growling every few minutes just made her want to sit down and cry. What was she thinking by running away from Espio and the others? She didn't even know why she tried so hard to live, her family was dead. Good as dead, and yet... she strived to live.
The white cat growled out of frustration of being lost in the streets and sat down on the sidewalk. But no tears came as she started to think about all the things that could go wrong while she was there... until one thought crossed her mind.
"... I'll never see Espio again if I keep walking away."
Silver tears flew from her green eyes almost as soon as the thought rushed through her mind, shattering all control on her emotions she once had. Illusion looked at herself and saw that she was seven, and it was times like these that she wished that she wasn't as abnormal as she was. Scared of anybody seeing her in her moment of weakness, she camaflouged with her surrounds, got up and ran down the nearly empty streets.
Her footsteps slowed after a few minutes of running and she collapsed onto the streets. Her heart felt like someone had just ripped it out of her chest and crushed it under an unlimited amount of pressure. She cried out in confusion, in fear, in anger, in every emotion that clawed at her in the moment.
"CHARCOAL! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY NOW!!" she screamed at the dark sky with anger, and her green eyes narrowed in anger and she kept crying.
"Illusion?"
Illusion's ears perked up after hearing her name and she was about to run when a small hand took her own.
"Illusion, please calm down," without even looking, Illusion could identify who was leading her back to the Chaotix. Charmy.
She let her tears fall and she ripped her hand away from Charmy, "I'm the reason why everyone's dying!"
Charmy stared at her with his innocent, naive honey colored eyes and he took both of her hands and hugged her tightly, landing so he was just a few inches smaller than her. Illusion's eyes widened and she hugged him back, crying harder than she had when her parents died.
"M-My family's dead, my brother's a murderer, and I'm a freak. How am I suppose to say 'look at me, I'm happy'? Charmy, because of me, Espio could've died... you could've died. I need to go away, get out of your li-"
"Enough."
Illusion's heart skipped many beats and her heart started to pound rapidly and hard against her chest as Vector and Espio came into view. Vector saw that Illusion was crying, and Espio looked hurt by seeing Illusion like that. Suddenly the trio gave her a hug that nearly suffocated her.
The cat hugged Espio though, rather than anyone else.
"Your family isn't dead Illusion."
Illusion looked at Espio who said that quietly. His voice cracked only once around the word dead, but his voice could've been mistaken for the wind. The words that came from the chameleon, made Illusion feel safer, made her feel like she could do anything.
"You still have us."
"Yeah Illusion!" Charmy cheered as he flew around them. "You're like a sister that we never had!"
Vector lifted the seven year old Illusion and put her on his shoulders, "we're taking you home."
Illusion snapped out of her happiness for a split second, "B-But what if he comes back? H-He could kill y-"
"He could. He never will though," Espio replied in a tone that made Illusion wonder what was going through his mind. "He can try, but he'll fail."
Charmy followed Espio and he seemed happy until he looked toward an alley way, where a metallic shine was captured in the light of the moon. The bee stared at the shine and he suddenly heard a click coming from the alley. Charmy flew toward the trio and pushed them to the ground as three loud gunshots pierced the silence air around them. That's when everything seemed to move too fast for anyone to grasp.
Illusion instantly was launched back into her crying frenzy, Espio took out a kunai and was ready to kill whoever shot at them, Charmy was held by Vector who got up and started running with Illusion and the bee. Espio was left behind, providing the perfect distraction so the others could escape; Illusion didn't like that. The cat bit Vector, who yelled in pain, dropped Illusion and called after her as she darted toward Espio in a very fast pace.
"ESPIO!" she shouted at the chameleon as she kept running toward him.
"Illusion, get out of here!"
"Over my dead body! I'm not leaving you!"
"If you think I'd leave you behind, then you're out of your mind," Illusion added in her mind as she closed her eyes and her scythe appeared in her hands.
"A scythe? That pathetic old thing? Aren't you a little dumb to carry that around? Long range weapons rule over something as simple as a scythe, let alone a kunai," Charcoal explained as he pointed the gun at Espio. "Or do we have to learn that by losing Espio?"
Illusion camaflouged and suddenly Charcoal cried out in pain as a large slash mark appeared on his face, deep enough to draw blood even. The white cat made her scythe disappear as she ran toward Espio, grabbed his hand and ran as fast as her seven year old body would let her. No strike that. She was sixteen now. She was determined not to lose Espio, Vector or Charmy. The cat knew she wouldn't let anyone in her new family die like her old family had.
Bullets whipped past the duo and Illusion held back her urge to cry from fear. That was her brother's method of trying to get her to doubt herself. Illusion felt herself being lifted and she saw that Espio was now carrying her, bridal style. He then camaflouged her and himself and Charcoal flew past the duo and into a dead end alley. That's when the duo made their escape.
As Espio carried her calmly back toward the Chaotix Building, Illusion couldn't help but wonder the question that would haunt Espio and herself throughout the rest of the night.
"Where was Charmy and Vector?"
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Okay I know this wasn't a very well written chapter, all I do know is that I at least managed to update it after such a long time. I'm sorry I hadn't updated it in a long time, and I hope you guys enjoyed it. Please help me improve and review. I could use the help on this story.