Oh wow, I've gotten 4 review already! For some of my older stories it's not that good, but I'm still happy. Here is the next chapter for all you reviewers! On with the story!
"Ok, everything is in the room, just like you wanted." Knuckles muttered, having followed the floor plan that David had made while waiting for him, thinking that Alexiss had drawn it since he had yet to see David and thinking that it looked like a little kid had drawn it, but deciding not to mention such since Ana might attack him with her ball and chain if he did. "Why did you get all this stuff anyway? Have a new guest or something?" He asked with his usual guarded curiosity, Alexiss about to tell him that her little brother had come to live with them after a fight with her parents so Knuckles didn't get mad at her for making another part echidna when Ana decided to speak first. "It's all for David, Alexiss' creation. She made him with my DNA and hers, so he's got nearly all our bloods, echidna included." Ana stated happily, pulling David from his hiding spot in the kitchen and showing him proudly to Knuckles, Alexiss inwardly smacking her own forehead at Ana's stupidity. Alexiss opened her eyes, having closed them when she inwardly smacked her forehead, only to see Knuckles glaring at her dangerously. "And just who gave you permission...to make another part echidna?" Knuckles yelled, throwing a punch at Alexiss at the end part of his sentence, Alexiss dodging it with surprising ease. "I didn't realise that I needed permission." She stated calmly as she flipped to dodge another punch, landing near a wall, her back pressed against it. "Well you did!" Knuckles roared, throwing a punch strait at the fox-girl's face. It happened too fast for anyone in the room to see clearly, all they knew was that one moment Knuckles' fist was about to connect with Alexiss' face, and the next his fist was held tightly in her left hand and she had a look that could scare even E-123 Omega. "There is no need for violence." She growled with her ears flattened backwards against her head and her fangs bared as well as her pupils more slitted then usual, Knuckles flinching at the tone in her voice as well as the physical signs of her anger, trying to pull his fist from her hand but she had a surprisingly strong grip and he was unable to.
Ana stared dumbfounded at the seemingly random anger that Alexiss was exhibiting, until she suddenly noticed something shaking in her hands, and looked down to see that David was trembling in fear of Knuckles. So that's why Alexiss is so angry...because Knuckles scared David. Ana realised, holding the small boy in a comforting hug to help calm him down. "You've done your job here; take your payment and go." Alexiss said dangerously and the last word in a much deeper tone then the rest, Knuckles nodding as Alexiss let go of his fist, quickly grabbing the grapes he'd gotten for helping before leaving the mansion in a hurry. There was a thick silence for a moment before Alexiss sighed, her ears going back to normal as she closed her eyes, before opening them to reveal her normal pupils and walking over to David, who was still trembling even with Ana trying to comfort him. "It's ok David, Mommy's fine." Alexiss told him, David wiggling from Ana's embrace and running to hug his mother in obvious relief that he hadn't lost her to the scary red Mobian. "Everything is ok David, Mommy's not hurt." Alexiss lied, blood dripping from the hand that had stopped Knuckle's fist as the other arm was wrapped around David in a comforting hug. Ana knew that Alexiss didn't want David to worry about her, and this was the reason that she was hugging him and ignoring the wound in her hand, so Ana said nothing about the blood dripping from Alexiss' hand. "How about you go check out your room, see if everything is in place like you wanted, ok?" Alexiss asked as she pulled away and hiding her hand behind her back so he wouldn't see it and worry, David nodding happily and quickly running to check out his new room.
"Are you ok Alexiss?" Ana asked suddenly once she was sure David was out of earshot, Tails still looking at where Knuckles had ran out the door in shock of what his friend did. "Mostly, except the twin holes in my hand from Knuckles spikes and the fact that I have to mend my glove now...don't even feel the pain." Alexiss admitted, taking off the glove covering her left hand to reveal that the spikes had almost gone strait through her hand. "That's probably not good..." Alexiss muttered, trying to move her fingers only to find that she couldn't, not realising that she couldn't earlier because she'd been more focused on hiding the hand. "There's no way this could heal Alexiss, the wounds are too deep." Ana stated in panic, Alexiss sighing before slapping Ana to calm her down. "I'll just make a new one, won't take more then an hour or two." Alexiss stated, stretching as best she could before disappearing into the basement.
"What's going on?" Came a familiar female voice suddenly, drawing everyone's attention to see Eclipse in the doorway between the room and the hall to the guest rooms and being held up by Sonic. "Knuckles came to help Ana and Alexiss with something, but he got mad at Alexiss and attacked her." Tails said, still sounding shocked. "Alexiss used the data from Project Shadow, fixing up all the problems, and created a Mobian boy from my DNA and hers in three days and named him David Phai. We needed Knuckles help to put the stuff we'd bought for David's room in his room, but when Knuckles found out about him he was angry that she'd created another part echidna and attacked her, and at first she just dodged his punches, but when she noticed that he was scaring David she got mad in return. She caught his fist in her hand, the spikes digging into her hand deeply, and basically told him to leave. After he did she comforted David, and when he left to check his new room she took off her glove to reveal that the spikes had almost went all the way through her hand, so she's in the basement now making a new hand since her old one is useless." Ana elaborated when she noticed the confused looks on Sonic and Eclipse's faces. "You'd think Knuckles wouldn't get mad, since no matter what there's no way any child of his could be a full echidna." Ana murmured to herself, showing one of her rare moments of wisdom, causing everyone to look at her in shock. "What? I'm smarter then I act!" Ana stated, feeling offended that they'd thought she couldn't have a moment of wisdom.
"How can you expect people to know you're smart if you're always acting like an idiot?" Came the familiar voice of Alexiss as she suddenly appeared beside her best friend. "You're not helping." Ana muttered angrily, seeing a flash of silver. Upon closer inspection it was revealed that the silver was Alexiss' new metal hand, her glove already mended and no real indication of what had happened except that hand. David flew into the room, the huge smile on his face showing that everything was in place, hovering in front of his mother when he noticed her hand and the smile disappeared. He looked at the door that Knuckles had basically ran out of, his flattened ears and bared fangs making it rather clear that he was NOT happy with the Echidna. "It's ok David, I'm fine." Alexiss assured him, hugging him like she'd done before to calm him before he followed the reckless nature he'd gotten from Ana. "It's getting late, you really should have been in bed hours ago..." Alexiss said, looking at the clock, only to see that it was past midnight. "Sonic, take Eclipse back to her room, she needs more sleep if she wants to be back to normal. After that you and Tails can leave and come back tomorrow. Ana, you go to sleep two. I'm going to go tuck David in." Alexiss said, each Mobian nodding and doing as they were told while Alexiss went to do as she had said she would.
A week or so later.
"I was hoping to thank Alexiss for letting me stay here for the past week as well." Eclipse said, looking around for the fox-girl. "Sorry, but Alexiss isn't home right now. She decided to take David to the park today." Ana explained, Eclipse nodding in understanding, David was a child after all. "Then I suppose you'll just have to thank Alexiss for me later." Eclipse stated, Ana nodding, holding out her hand for Eclipse to shake. "Thank you for letting me stay here Ana." The black and red hedgehog said, shaking Ana's hand before feeling a vision coming on once more.
Vision.
I found myself in a room that I'd never seen before, and the first thing that I noticed was the feeling of cold, harsh loneliness that ran through my body. Everyone was wearing black versions of their usual outfits and I suddenly realised that I was in a funeral home. I was inwardly glad when I began to look around the room, at that time probably to see the reactions of my friends, but at this time I was trying to see who was missing from my group of friends. Many people were either looking at the coffin in sadness or crying, but the people who seemed to catch my attention were the ones who'd saved me long ago, but one was missing. David was crying as quietly as he could manage, Ana holding onto him and trying to comfort him, though it was obvious that she wanted to be doing the same thing he was. "Why...why did she always think she could do everything on her own? Why did she have to give her life for ours?" I heard Ana whisper, and the truth of who was dead hit my like one of Sonic's kicks, though I quickly pushed the thought aside in a desperate attempt to tell myself that the one I knew was in the coffin was invincible and could never die. I felt a comforting hand on my shoulder, and turned to see that it was Espio who was trying to comfort me, Vector and Charmy behind him. I couldn't tell if I was Clowy or Eclipse at the time, so I didn't know if he was trying to comfort me because someone else couldn't or because I wouldn't let someone else do so. "Do you...do you want to see her?" Espio asked me, his voice sounding a little choked, and I slowly nodded. We slowly walked towards the coffin with a blue-purple Snap Dragon flower in my hand and Espio's hand still on my shoulder, and I absently noticed the date was exactly a month from the current date, before I stopped a few feet from the coffin with my body trembling. "It's ok...you don't have to do this if you don't want to." Espio told me as I quickly shook my head, knowing that if I didn't see the person in the coffin that I'd never come to terms that they were actually dead. I finally made it to the coffin after what felt like an eternity, looking down at the face of one of the people who had come to make my life a little happier. "Alexiss..." I whispered as I placed the flower in her hands, turning to Espio and finally breaking down after I'd done so.
End of Vision.
Eclipse pulled away from Ana in panic, her eyes wide at the event that had been revealed to her. "Eclipse? What's wrong?" Ana asked, looking rather worried, Eclipse absently wondering how Ana would react if she found out that she'd just seen Alexiss' funeral. "N-nothing just...sudden power shortage is all." Eclipse replied, smiling slightly in a way that she hoped would calm Ana's nerves. "Do you want to stay here a little longer?" Ana asked, Eclipse shaking her head. "No, I've got to get going. There's no way Vector and Charmy will be able to help Espio heal without my help." Eclipse pointed out, Ana nodding in agreement, before Eclipse quickly Chaos Controlled away.
Ok, two things. One, for those of you who don't know, blue-purple snap dragons are my favorite flower, which is why Eclipse gave one to the character that is me in her vision. Two, please don't kill me! I know that you're all probably really mad at me for that vision, but you'll just have to wait to find out what happens next. The more reviews I get the faster I write, and without one I won't post the next chapter, so review, review and review some more people. Now, I'm going to go and hide from the angry mob this chapter is sure to bring. Bye bye. -hides-
