Two days later
Future note: I'm going to write in third person now, unless I have to go into first at some point so I can make this easier for everyone. Thanks for reading this.
Sonic's View!
Sonic woke up in a dark place filled to the brim with noises of animals; was this one of his dreams again, in the jungle? How long has it been since he's had one of these? When he opens his eyes there was a bright light coming from the left, then a shadow flew past him in the sky; no, a lot of shadows passed his view. Sniffing the air Sonic smelled smoke from a fire some where far off, at the realization of what this might mean he immediately sat up and was met with animals fleeing in the other direction, he suddenly felt the urge to rush past the crowd to the source of danger, also thinking he might get to see the figure again after all this time.
He kept running through the chaos, seeing the entrance ahead with fire burning all around him in the jungle. When he made it there he saw something unreal, the dragon was there again, breathing fire. It was burining everything in it's path from the mountain poring water to the trees that fell down after. In the center of the pond was the figure; just standing there like nothing was happening, looking down. Sonic ran toward them, not caring about the water slowing him down he stopped behind them as he heard whispering. "It was all my fault, ... I couldn't save them in time." They said, a guys voice blocking the mayhem around them, the world being muted by one Nocieas. Sonic remained quiet, not wanting to disturb him. "I'm sorry I couldn't save them Sonic, I'm sorry that I..." They turned around, Sonic finally seeing their full apperance, he was suprised to see the Nocieas from before, crying his eyes out infront of him. " I, I couldn't save you." Sonic tried reaching out to comfort him, hold him, any physical thing would do, but he started sinking into the pond unexpectedly.
He kept going down and down with no sign of stopping, he tried swimming up but to no avail. He saw the nocieas reaching for him, he reached out too but as he did the dragon loomed over the Nocieas, he tried to scream; shout, yell, try to warn him. The dragon breathed out, the fire enveloping the Nocieas until he disappeared. Sonic wanted to cry, but his vision turned black before he could.
He woke up with a gasp, holding his hands close to his chest until he could feel his heart beat strongly through it. He calmed himself down by taking deep breaths like how he learned in survival training, a dripping sound reached his ears from the right that draws his attention. In said direction was a hedgehog, but it wasn't, it was the Nocieas from that night! Sonic shifted, doing so he made a rock fall off the boulder he was laying on, the Nocieas heard and turned around. He smiled. "It seems you have awoken." They looked at Sonic, wringing a cloth in their hands. He examined the room before addressing him, seeing that the room wasn't much, it was a little underground cavern with stagmites above them and to complete the somewhat beauty of it was a small, colorful aqua pond that lights the room up in the center. The Nocieas furrowed his brow. "Are you feeling okay?" "Yeah, pretty good. You?" Sonic asked, the Nocieas shook his head slowly. "Please do not concern yourself about me, right now I must make sure you are in good condition."
The Nocieas crawled to Sonic with it's tail swaying side to side, this way Sonic could see him better. This was the same Nocieas from the nightt before with pink and bluefur, the same one behind the Nocieas with the similar fur color as Shadow. Thinking of Shadow, Sonic wondered if he was okay, Jess too, but Scourge he couldn't bother thinking about; with his egotistic lifestyle Sonic thought he could do whatever he wanted. He was probably off wondering where they are while carving a sharp point on some random stick with his pocket knife to skew them with, he shakes a little at the sight. The Nocieas sees this and puts his forehead to Sonic's, Sonic turns red from the closeness. "You do not seem to have a fever, but you're shaking very badly." "Oh it's nothin', just had dejavu." Sonic looked at the Nocieas and felt his breath being taken away somehow, he had lovely blue eyes that when Sonic glanced a them he thought he could fly, but staring at them almost made him feel like he could drown in them for hours. It was a beautiful blue that could remind you of the sea, but behind it all was the intensity of the storm ahead. It made Sonic shiver again, but the Nocieas was still contemplating on Sonic's fever.
The Nocieas backed away, a tint of pink spread across his cheeks. "I'm very sorry, I shouldn't have been that close to you." "It's okay, don't sweat it." He said rubbing his nose, the nocieas smiled before crawling back to the pond in the middle. They sat in silence as Sonic shifted again, he came up with a conversation starter. "What's your name?" "Darimitcoosamius, but please use Darik if you want, may I have yours?" "Well, my name isn't as sophisticated as yours but it's Sonic, the pleasure is mine." He reaches his hand out but Darik dosen't take it, noticing this he reacts quickly. "I'm sorry, do I take this gesture?" "Well, if you want-" Darik grabs his hand shaking it side-to-side vigorously. "Very sorry, I didn't know what that meant." Sonic chuckled. "It's alright, but remind me to teach you how to shake hands okay?" Darik nods his head. Sonic sits upright with his legs crossed, he put his hands in his lap and to his suprise touches his you-know-what, Sonic looks down to finally notice he was naked. "What happened to my clothes?" "Me and Dark took them off so your healing process would be faster." Darik reached for the cloth he had before to unfold it, on it was a yellow stain on the right. Sonic rubbed his side and felt sore. "What happened while I was knocked out anyways?" Darik shakes his head. "I do not know myself, but one of your friends might." "Okay, but what do you know?" "That you are able to move freely and that your friends are okay, they have been expecting you for some time. You can go visit them right now if you wish." "Alright!" Sonic got up while covering his privates. "Then I'll take my pants and go."
"Are you sure? Before you woke up you had an... accident." Darik showed Sonic's pants, they were covered in red but green and yellow too. He didn't need to hear the next part to know why it was there. "It went through your armour as well." "My 'armour'?" Darik showed him his underwear. "Okay you know what, I'll just go comando." Sonic made for the exit but Darik stopped him. "Sonic, though this might be of no help it may give you comfort. Me and Dark took it off you while you were healing, and it was the only thing that didn't get marks on them." Darik presented his parka, the green still clean and the inside black. Sonic tried to battle the fact that he didn't need to wear it, but Darik's kindness got to him. He took his parka, putting it on and zipped it up dispite the discomfort.
"Thanks, do ya know where I can find 'em?" "Follow the path outside, you will make it to a split, go in the direction of the blooming flowers and you will reach Persephone garden to where Dark has allowed them to stay." Sonic nodded, 'follow the path, make it to a split, find the blooming flower, make it to my destination.' He thought over and over again as if he were looking at a gps. He went in to a sprint position, he froze for some time before giving a grin to Darik. "Thanks, see ya later?" "Indeed, if you see Dark please tell him to meet me here, and give my hellos to your friends." "Sure, bye!" He dashed off, leaving Darik in the cavern. He sighed. "I hope he'll be okay."
Sonic ran around following the road like Darik said, he looks in the sky were the sun is in the middle, Sonic stopped running to decide to look around for awhile. He recalls Darik not to long ago mentioning the place his friends are staying. "Persepone garden..." The name sounded fantastic, Sonic dosen't remember a lot in history but he can remember that Persephone was the greek godess of nature. She controls the seasons, when her daughter is with her the plants flurish, but when she goes to spend time with her father Hades, the plants died and dried up. Sonic looked at the jungle around him, the beauty it held was unexplainable, he was so amazed. He's seen so many pictures of amazing places but this one takes the cake. Most of the pictures he'd look at in magazines and books almost looked beautiful until you went there and found out that the picture was taken 10 years ago, but this forest would be something permanent no matter the weather. He was about to start running when he felt energy from a bush close by, he wanted to ignore it but his body moved on it's own. He pushed the bushes apart to go through and walked farther in, when he pushes the 12th bush finding a hole with stairs leading down. He knows he should stop, that this may be going too far somehow since he doesn't know what this is, but he walks down slowly until he reaches a somewhat hollow room with 7 gems hovering over each of their own metal bowls.
Sonic felt magnetized to it, like he was being pulled closer and closer the more he stared at the beautiful gem, he found himself reaching his hand out to one red gem in particular. He was a centimeter away from grabbing it, when a hand grabbed his wrist. He turned around to find Jess, smiling at him while pulling his hand away from the glowing diamond. "I don't think that's a good idea pal." He opens his mouth but Jess puts a hand up to halt him. "Let's take this outside so we don't make Dark and Darik upset." Jess motions him to follow him up the steps, Sonic looks back at the gems before cathcing up behind.
Scourge's view
Scourge was enjoying himself, he was being fed grapes by the love of his life, Marizal. He closes his eyes and coincidentally remembers what happened after the guys left, after he changed into his new clothes he went out to look for them, while he was walking he decided to follow the stream when he found three guys and two girls looking at him. He wanted to ask them what's up but he looked to to see a dead body on the ground, it was a girls but her back was split open with bood flowing everywhere. They took him in for inspection but found that he had nothing to do with it so they let him go and gave him the opportunity to join them, Scourge of course said yes. But with the guys being gone he decided to take off to search for them, but Marizal pulled him back in, she wanted him to stay and enjoy himself, not to worry about his friends. This went on for about two days until Scourge felt he needed to bring it up again. "What would happen if they got killed by whatever did that? Isn't that a crime or something?" "I'm sure they're okay, besides, they are big strong men like my Scourgy." She pops another garpe in his mouth, he chews away slowly. "Besides, it's there fault for not being careful, and if they died let's hope they're in a happier place." "Yeah you're right, they can take care of themselves without me. They already have before I got here." Marizal took another grap off the vine about to drop another in his mouth until the door opened to his 'prison cell' opened.
"Hey guys, we're gonna go explorin' farther out, wanna come?" The guy, Jordan, said while holding a dagger. He was a badger that Scourge got along with over the two days, Scourge got up from the couch stretching as he did. "Yeah, I've been lazying around too much for, might be good to go out and look for those idiots." "Then I'll come too." Marizal got up, taking Scourge's arm. "Well we're gonna be out for two days so better pack up." He left, Scourge going through the door with Marizal by his side. "We're leaving so soon?" "Naw, I gotta get my clothes from the camp. Thank god they buried the bodies so I won't have to smell it." "Was it as terrible as they say?" Scourge goes back to the day seeing the group approach him, asking him what he did, Scourge didn't know what to say until he saw who was on the ground. One girls back was split open down the middle, a guy had scratches down his chest like it was by a tiger, another one was still alive but his arms were broken, the last one got his neck snapped.
Scourge held his thorat thinking about it, just the other day they found another student in the bushes with his head bashed into mush, but it's nothing new to him since he's seen that shit before back his my home town. Scourge recalled seeing a tiger when we first came here, so he figured that was the culprit but when he saw the others it seemed like something else did it. "Scourgey you good?" "Um yeah, just thinking. But yeah it was brutal." Scourge walked past the rocks near the stream and up the small hill he once stood on. "But don't worry babe, these woods don't scare me." Marizal swooned, climbing up to join him. "That's why I love you babe, no monster could ever scare you." Scourge kept up the faceade, but inside he was terrified. He didn't know that the animals in this forest were so deadly, sure he saw some murders here and there in his home town but how can animals crack your head? How can they take your arms and your still alive? He was afraid, but he wouldn't let that show, especially to Marizal.
"So you guys ready?" Jordan shouted to him. Scourge nodded, looking to Marizal and kissing her forhead. He pulled his glasses out and put them on. "Let's go."
Wow.