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"Tails, wake up!" Sonic yelled. "Tails woke up in shock and screamed in fright. "What happened?" "Did they find us?" Tails asked in a panic. "No, sorry to scare you but I just wanted some food, and I was wondering if you had any?" Sonic asked. Tails glared at Sonic for a while and turned his head.
"Does it look like I have food on me?" Tails asked. Sonic looked at him and turned his head facing the ground. "Sorry, I guess that was a stupid question to ask." Sonic replied. Tails immediately felt bad for Sonic and apologized to him. "I'm sorry Sonic, I shouldn't have gotten mad at you like that, I mean after all you saved me.." Tails replied.
Sonic looked up and faced Tails's face and smiled. "No problem buddy." Sonic said to Tails. "I mean after all you went through it must have been rough for you." Sonic said as he sat up on the cave wall.
"That reminds me Sonic, what did happen to you while I was lost, and how did you save me?" Tails asked out of curiosity. Sonic looked at Tails for a moment and looked back down afterwards to think for a minute. After a little bit, Sonic looked at Tails again and began to tell him what had happened to him.
"Well, while I was waiting for you at the end of the mountains I noticed you haven't came out for a while, so I got worried and I came in to find you." Sonic said to Tails. "Well that's a relief, you did come to find me immediately." Tails replied. "Anyway, I was struck in the head by somebody, probably that old man or women because I saw a figure walk away before I was knocked out." Sonic explained.
"That's scary." Tails replied. "So when I woke up, I saw that the sun was rising up, I knew that I had been asleep for a whole day, so day and night I continued to search for you in these woods while trying to keep as much food and water as I could, but unfortunately I lost all of that when I fought those kitsune back at the cabin." Sonic finished.
"So what are we going to do now Sonic?" Tails asked in worry. Sonic just gave Tails a quick glance of doubt and looked away. "I don't know Tails, we're both injured and we don't have a lead out of this forest." Sonic said to himself as he kept thinking.
Suddenly a blue chaos emerald fell out of Sonic's quills and landed on the ground. Sonic and Tails just stared at the chaos emerald for a long time until they looked up at each other in shock. "Sonic, how long have you had that?" Tails asked. "Oh, uh, if I remember correctly, the day of our race." Sonic said while he rubbed the back of his head, as he looked embarrassed.
Tails began to fume with anger as he picked up the chaos emerald. "You mean all this time, you had a means of getting out of here quickly, given you power when you fought the kitsune, and heal our wounds, and you just forgot you had it?" Tails asked in anger and frustration. "Um, yes." Sonic replied.
Tails was seething with anger for a moment and then calmed down briefly afterwards. "Sonic, I need you to do me a favor." Tails said to Sonic. "Sure Tails, what is it?" Sonic asked. "Tails gave Sonic a serious look and turned back to his face. "I need you to heal my wounds." Tails said to Sonic.
Sonic just looked stupid for a minute. "Why didn't I do that earlier?" Sonic asked himself. "I guess whoever it was that hit me must have done a real number on my memory." Sonic joked to himself as he held the chaos emerald to Tails's wound on his leg. "When you're done with that, I need you to fix my tails, I broke them when I was trying to fly." Tails said shamefully.
Sonic quickly tried to heal up the wound on Tails's leg to he could repair the broken bones inside his tails. "Sonic, when you're done, heal yourself up, we're going to need to be fully ready for this." Tails warned Sonic. "What do you mean Tails?" Sonic asked. "Are we going to fight them?" Sonic asked.
Tails turned to Sonic and gave him a serious look. "I can't run from this anymore Sonic, I have to do this." Tails replied. Sonic finished healing up the wound on Tails's leg. The scar was still there, but there were no chances of it bleeding unless he did something to make it bleed. Tails stood up and began to walk back and forth.
"I can walk normally again!" Tails said excitingly. Tails sat back down so Sonic could finish healing up his tails so he could fly again. In the meantime, Tails began to explain what they needed to do to defeat the kitsune. "They're immortal when it comes to age, but when an outside force strikes with them, then they can die." Tails explained.
"So, we can just kill them normally?" Sonic asked. "Well not exactly, we have to take out the bodies they are possessing first, you see, after they enter the dead body once, it can't be repossessed if it's killed again." Tails explained. "So when the host body is taken out, the kitsune will emerge to their true form, and we can take them out from there." Tails finished explaining.
Sonic finished up healing Tails and Tails began to propel his Tails once again. "It feels so nice to be using these guys again." Tails said to himself. Sonic began to heal his wounds right after he finished with Tails.
"So Sonic, are they still back at the cabin?" Tails asked. "No." Sonic replied. "But before I gave out, I carried you to a far away place in the forest." Sonic said to Tails. "I must have passed out from the exhaustion and dropped you while I flew into this cave from my speed power." Sonic said to Tails. "Convenient." Tails replied.
Tails looked out the cave and saw no sign of the kitsune in sight. "Alright Sonic, once you're finished healing yourself, we'll move out, and please try not to forget that you have the chaos emerald." Tails asked. "Don't worry buddy, i'll always have it in my hand." Sonic replied as he finished healing up his wounds.
"I'm ready." Sonic replied. "Sonic, you really are the best friend I could of asked for." Tails said with a smile. Sonic smiled back as they began to search for their final battle.
Sorry if this was a short chapter, but the finale goes up tomorrow, so be looking foward to that. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter, feel free to review and tell me what you thought about it, and I hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the story. Take care.