The last chapter was I guess the climax of the story, I'm pretty sure of it. Now comes the falling action (according to my English class) of the story. Trying to find the cure becomes more involved now, and it will still be just as dramatic as always. Now, did everybody die in the explosion? Of course not!! Otherwise, the story would have been over. But, let's see what really did happen.
Chapter 11
(Amy's pov)
I woke up to the feel of sand all over me, I forgot why we were even on the beach. Then I remembered that Sonic was hurt, and I started frantically looking for them and the others.
"Sonic!? Tails!? Where are you!?"
I dug myself out of the sand, I was nearly submerged in it. Then, I began to dig through all the grains of it, looking first for Sonic, since he was hurt to begin with. After a few minutes, I began to see what looked like a blue hand, and I knew it had to be him. I dug around his body, and carefully pulled him out of the sand, and laid him down next to me. He still was in bad shape, and some sand had gotten in cuts, but my dress helped a lot of the sand stay away from the major ones.
Then, I looked for Tails, I hope he was alright, since he was the one who flied the plane here, and I really don't have a clue how the work the X-Tornado anyway. While I was digging in one part of the sand, I saw some moving to the right, and then a hand came out, which happened to be Tails's.
"Hold on Tails!! I'm coming!"
I scampered to the spot next to me, and began excavating the sand there, now being able to see his entire arm.
"Okay I'm gonna pull you out on the count of 3 okay?"
I heard a faint okay, and then started to count down.
"3… 2… 1…," and I pulled on his arm as best as I could without hurting him. It resulted in him flying out of the sand and landing on top of me.
We were now staring into each other's eyes again.
"Are you okay?"
"As long as you are, I am," was his answer.
I gave him a grin, but I was still worried about Sonic. Then I remembered, Shadow!!
"Tails, did you see Shadow!"
"No, I think he's still down there!"
The two of us started frenetically digging again in the sand looking for him, but we saw no sign of him. I turned around and started digging towards the ocean, and then I saw his body right by the shore, with a nasty cut on the top of his head.
"Shadow!!"
Tails had heard me, and followed me towards the shore where he was laying on his back, the water around his head turning a reddish color as the small, calm waves knocked against his head.
"We better hurry back, Sonic won't last the rest of the day, and Shadow's is really bad too, come on, you carry Shadow, I'll get Sonic."
Together, the two of us carried our friends to the X-Tornado, which was a little banged up from the explosion, which still left many trees and plants on fire, which we had to avoid while going to the plane. When we got there, I took a towel that was on one of the seats and wrapped it tightly around Shadow's forehead, making sure that the bleeding stopped, or at least slowed down.
I laid them both down on the back 2 rows, since it was big enough to do that, and strapped them in, along with myself.
"Ready Amy?"
"Yeah Tails, come on, we have to get back fast!"
"Alright, lets go, engines on," he said while turning on all the engines, "Ready for takeoff!" And the plane went into the air and headed back for his workshop.
(Back at the workshop, where everybody was waiting worried)
"That's it, I'm gonna go looking for them, I can't just wait here anymore," Knuckles reacted.
"I wouldn't, if it was that dangerous where they didn't take any of us, it must have been really dangerous, and I wouldn't worry too much, Amy and the others are responsible," Rouge answered.
"Well, alright, but if they aren't back in an hour I'm gonna go after them."
(Tails pov)
As we were nearing my home, I told Amy to call 911 and get 2 ambulances, and then afterward call my home phone so we can notify everybody about what happened.
"Okay Tails, the person from 911 said that they will send 2 as fast as they could, mainly because they heard me mention it was Sonic. Let me call you place now."
"Okay."
She called up and started talking to Rouge, telling her that we got caught in an explosion, and that Sonic, as well as Shadow were hurt severely. She was especially worried about Shadow, he and Rouge were very close, not relationship wise, but as friends.
"Amy, wrap it up now, were gonna land in a minute."
"Alright, hang on a second."
She finished her conversation with the bat, right when I was ready to land. I was surprised when I got back, the ambulances were already there and everybody was outside waiting for us. And not just ambulances were there, there was police and other important people, it looked like there was a huge crisis, but it only was fro Sonic and Shadow.
"You sure they'll be okay?"
"Shadow should be alright, considering he wasn't hurt too bad, but Sonic, well, I don't know," Amy answered Rouge, her eyes beginning to water up.
I came over and gave her a comforting hug, "Amy, you don't have to worry, he'll be fine. Besides, its Sonic here, he always comes out of these things one way or another, right?"
She did have a small grin on her face, she knew it as well as I that there wasn't many people as perseverant as Sonic, and he wouldn't die too easily, he would put up a fight first.
"You should get some rest anyway Ames, you have some cuts and bruises, and you look really tired, come on, you can use my bed, okay?"
I told everybody that hey can go if they wanted, and I'll update everybody on Sonic and Shadow when any knew info is given.
After everybody had left, I lead Amy up to my room, and tucked her into my bed, it was only 5:00pm, but she was asleep in an instant.
I went back downstairs to check on the testing that I had been doing, and to my surprise it was done.
As I strolled through the results, I read some of the symptoms for the disease, some of which were fainting, severe headaches, coughing, fevers, and more and more. The last one scared me, it said… shutting down of body systems, completely, which in a sense is death.
I looked at what types of chemicals were used in the virus, and most of them I were familiar with. But I did find out the main ingredient used in the cure, so it would be easier to locate it.
And that was chaos dust.
Only one place has chaos dust, and that was thousands of years ago, I had heard, and read. Nowadays, it didn't exist, or did it?
I started a worldwide scan using my computer, of any form of chaos dust in existence. However, it would take about 4 to 5 days in order to complete the scan. I was wiped from today, so I decided to go to sleep, even though it was so early.
As I went into my room, Amy was awake, and clutching her head like she was in extreme pain, and she was crying as well.
"Oh my god!! Amy, are you okay?"
"I don't know, my head, it hurrrts!!"
"Here, I'll get some aspirin, wait here."
I headed over to my medicine drawer, and then it hit me.
That was another symptom, and it was earlier than suppose to be.
just if your wondering, this is short, and more of a transition chapter to the next, I didn't want it to be too long. The next chapter should be a lot better, I count on it. Sorry if this seemed a bit more boring than usual, but I promise the next will be longer and more exciting. Should be done by tomorrow. See ya!