Tears formed in his oceanic eyes and splashed down his pale, scarred muzzle as he turned and walked back over to Lysander. His feet dragged and time felt like it was slowing with every step.
Why?
I'm seconds away from dying…
I'm seconds away from breaking apart…
All of his friends flashed through his mind, he didn't turn to look back at them, tears continued to dribble and splash onto the ground from his muzzle.
He closed his oceanic eyes in pain before reopening them to look up at Lysander. Blood was leaking from Lysander's left eye.
The same eye I had once ripped out…
The crimson liquid also started to leak from all of the other stitched parts of his body. Upper arms. The side of his head. His chest and sides. His tail. His back quills. And then last, his legs. It clotted and matted the blue fur that was darker than Luke's own. Lysander's red eyes were glowing.
Luke nodded to Lysander before he closed his eyes as energy gathered within him.
The sky began to darken as storm clouds rolled overhead. Lightning crashed, followed by the roar of thunder.
The dark blue hedgehog's eyes flew open, his eyes were glowing brightly and he began to float off of the ground. An aura of light surrounded him.
"What is thy choice, Lucian?"
I choose…
To save this planet and all those whom live on it!
Light stabbed through Luke's chest and he gasped in sudden pain. It felt as if fire were consuming him. He screaming in agony, the tears began to flow freely again.
He could hear Eclipto growl at his friends to stay back. He could also hear Lysander's agonized scream. What was odd, though, was that he could actually feel Lysander's heartbeat. The feeling was comforting, but the light that was consuming him was too painful. It was searching for something.
My life force?
You can have it…
Just let my friends survive!
The light soon dissapated and transformed into a golden sword with jewels encrusted into the hilt.
Luke fell to his knees as he grasped the sword with both of his hands. Lysander's form had faded, but Luke could feel his presence next to him. Luke's vision was starting to blur, the light that had stabbed through him had created a massive wound on his chest that was bleeding heavily, splattering the ground with red.
Luke attempted to raise the sword, but found he was too weak from blood loss to move his body. The tears stung his eyes as they continued to freely fall down his pale cheeks. Lysander's presense next to him shifted and Luke felt his arms move the sword up and turn it so it faced down, towards the ground.
The one whom carries this curse shall be the one whom saves this planet, or destroys it.
I have chosen to save it.
I will be the barrier.
My soul, the key.
My demon, the lock.
The chaos emeralds and kinetic emeralds began to glow.
Luke gritted his teeth in pain as Lysander helped him stab the sword deep into the ground. A pulse of energy erupted from the sword, blanketing the ground in a soft light energy. It soon traveled up the dead trees, to the top most branches and pulsed off once again.
Everything suddenly began to come back with life. The trees turned green with leaves. The once stone-ridden ground, now covered with lush, green grass.
Luke gripped at his chest in pain and fell backwards, only to be caught by Lysander's faded form.
"Well done, Child…" Lysander whispered in pain.
Luke could not understand him, though.
What's going on?
His body was becoming limp.
"What's going on?" Luna whispered, frightened, her icey blue eyes were frantic.
Shock's expression was completely frightened. Luke and him had once been pretty good friends, he wanted to apologize for punching him, still.
Flower's ears lowered at Luna's question. She felt sorry for Luke, having to go through so much pain in such a small amount of time.
Marine had tears rolling down her cheeks. She knew Luke was still recovering from the fact of Shock and Luna being together, now, and that he still had to forgive himself for standing in the way of them for a little while.
Scourion's mental stability looked like it had faltered, he was on his knees on the ground. He had just lost his only best friend. The one he had considered his brother. His second younger brother.
Eclipto looked at Luna, his eyes blank, and voice emotionless. "He just completed the Prophecy."
"Meaning, he sacrificed himself to save all of us…" Scourion mumbled, sobs messing his words up slightly.
They all ran over, suddenly.
His eyes drooped as he felt all of his life's energy leaving his body and being ripped out of his chest. He could feel arms holding him, but his vision had already fled him. He strained his ears to hear a voice begging him to live. His arms went limp at his sides, his wings were sticky and blood clung to the once pure-white feathers.
"I'm s..sorry.. for... Every..thing..." He whispered as the last of his life faded away from him and into the Earth.
They all stared in horror as Luke's breathing stopped, his pale chest stilled. Scourion collapsed back onto his knees and cried into Luke's blue fur.
Luna collapsed onto her knees, as well. "N..no.. Luke…come back!"
Shock stood there, then turned away, trying to hide the tears that had started to drip from his muzzle.
Marine and Flower both stared down at Luke's blood covered body in horror before they both began to cry, as well.
The dark hedgehog, Eclipto watched from a few feet away before he turned around emotionlessly and walked away to the trees.
Scourion ripped at the grass with his claws, tears were flooding down his tan cheeks. "Why?… Why did he have to die?… He did nothing wrong!"
The blood red wolf cried harder when the dark red phsycic asked those questions. She still wanted to be Luke's friend. Why did he have to be taken away before that could really happen?
Scourion began crying into Luke's blood matted fur once again as rain began to pour from the storm clouded sky. The water began to mix with Luke's blood and with the mud, turning it into a nasty, red-brown color.
What none of them noticed was the light blue chaos emerald that was pulsing with light. The emerald rose from the mud and flung itself into a tree, hiding itself in the branches.
None of his friends left his body, but they knew that eventually they would have to take his body away from there.
FIN…
For now.
There shall be a sequal, incase anyone wanted to know! It will be called 'Fallen Roses.'
