Chapter 21: A Family Reunion

Midnight reappeared in a house that was filled with darkness. However, the full moon was able to give her some light from the windows. Quietly, she walked into a large room that looked like the kitchen. On the refrigerator, she saw some pictures held on by some magnets. All of them were photo shots of her, and three other hedgehogs. She was able to know who they were. The man was her father, the woman was her mother, and the little one was the little sister. In order to wake them up for a big surprise, Midnight walked out of the kitchen and slapped an expensive vase off of a table. Then it shattered into pieces.

Upstairs, Mr. and Mrs. Rose was asleep. So far, their life has gone from happiness into sadness. After Melanie told the news reports about Amy, Danny has been furious yet worried about her. As for Kayla, they haven't told her a thing. During his sleep, Danny heard a sudden broken glass. He gasped as he sat up and opened his eyes. His wife yawned as she opened her eyes.

"What's wrong, Danny?"

"I thought I heard something", Danny got out of bed. "Check on Kayla for me."

Slowly, Danny opened their bedroom door and walked out. He put on a house coat and his slippers. Tip toeing, he began to find his way to the stairs. Then he began to go down the steps carefully and cautiously. Meanwhile, Melanie found her way to Kayla's bedroom. She opened the door quietly and took a good look at her. Thankfully, her young daughter was asleep. In fact, she looked like she was in a deep sleep. Melanie sighed in relief. But then, she heard a loud scream from her husband. She gasped as she ran out of Kayla's room and headed down the stairs. The little hot pink hedgehog sat up and rubbed her eyes.

"Danny?" Melanie ran to her husband and found him on the ground. "Oh, my god, what happened to you?!" she gasped as she noticed a huge hole in his left shoulder.

"I…" Danny held his left bloody shoulder in pain. "Look out!" he pointed ahead of him.

As Melanie turned around, a sudden weapon stabbed her in her right thigh. She screamed in pain as the weapon got pulled out of her skin. Weakly, she fell back, but her spouse caught her in time. Both of them scooted back slowly as they looked ahead to see who stroke them. Danny rose up slowly and then touched the wall to see if there was a light switch. He flipped it and he and Melanie gasped in shock. In front of them was their older daughter, Amy. She was dressed in black, wore black make up, and had a hand-held chainsaw in her right hand covered in blood. All she did was staring at them with her red eyes.

"Amy?" Danny asked fearfully. "Is that really you?"

"See, I told you that I wasn't lying!" Melanie pointed at her daughter in fear.

"…" Midnight continued to stare in silence.

"Amy…Don't chu remember us?" Danny spoke as calmly as he could. "It's us, your mother and father."

"Please, Amy, wake up", Melanie begged sadly.

Fearsomely, Amy began to walk to them as she held her weapon in place. Danny growled as Melanie shivered in fear. They were so scared of their own daughter! Who ever thought that she would try to kill her own parents?! All of the news reports were true. She was the one who was brought back to life and did robe the jewelry store. The two hedgehogs began to back away from her as quickly as they could. Just then, Amy stopped. She noticed that someone was missing.

"Where is she?" Midnight demanded an answer.

"Who?" Danny asked curiously.

"The little one", Midnight growled furiously. "Where is she?!"

"Kayla", Melanie guessed in thought.

"Big Sister?" a young female's voice said out of nowhere.

Midnight looked back slowly as her red eyes continued to glow. Danny and Melanie gasped in fear. Standing about five feet behind Amy was Kayla. She was seen in a long light blue gown that matched her chao stuffed toy that she held in her left arm. From the look on her face, she looked shock and worried. At that moment, Midnight knew who she wanted to kill first.

"Kayla, run!" Danny yelled out to her.

"Save yourself!" Melanie screamed for her life.

"Big Sister…" Kayla shook her head slowly. "Why are you hurting Mommy and Daddy?"

"…" Midnight blinked twice in confusion. "You…Little Sis…"

"That's right", Kayla smiled a little. "It's me, Kayla, your little sis. How did you come back to life? I thought that you were dead…"

"That…I do not want to share with you", Midnight spoke calmly as she prepared to use her weapon again.

"Don't just sand there! Run!" Danny yelled out for Kayla.

"Quiet!" Midnight snapped at him furiously. "Or else, I'll kill you first!"

"Amy…" Melanie began to have tears. "Don't do this. We're your family. We love you very much."

"Liar", Midnight hissed in anger.

"No, she's right", Kayla spoke and her older sister looked at her. "We do love you very much. Ever since you died, we've been very sad. But now that you're here…I don't know what to say…"

"Deal with it", Midnight began to walk to her.

"No!" Danny ran to her.

Before he grabbed Midnight by the arm, she turned around and back handed him down to the floor. Melanie gasped as she watched her husband groan in pain. After that, Midnight turned to Kayla again. Surprisingly, the little girl wasn't scared at all. Even though she watched her parents bleed too death and get injured, she didn't bother to run away. It made Midnight think for a while, but she didn't really care. She only wanted to please her beloved, and that what she was going to do. None of them knew that they were being watched by a black crystal ball. The crystal ball belonged to a dark creature that was covered by a large red cape. He was in a large room with lots of lit up candles along with Sin. The master smirked evilly as he watched his fiancée.

Near the Rose's house, Sonic and the others were running as fast as they could. Since Kia couldn't run that fast, Shadow decided to carry her on his back as she held on. Knuckles and Rouge followed them by flying in the air. They were on their way to save Amy's family from herself. If they don't get there in time, then they would be next to getting killed! And last, since Shadow was Amy's new lover, he would be the last one to die. However, they didn't think about what might happen if they were too late. Each time they did, they would go faster and faster in a second.

"We're almost there", Sonic spoke.

"Hurry!" Kia ordered.

"Can't chu see that I'm running as fast as I can?!" Sonic yelled at her angrily.

"Would you two please shut the fuck up?!" Blaze screamed at them with rage.

"Whoa, Blaze…" Silver widened his eyes as he sweatdropped.

Back at the Rose house, Midnight reached up to Kayla. She then held her chain saw in the air and aimed for her head. Danny got up and tried to stop her. But then, she kicked him and he slid back to his wife. Melanie screamed out for Kayla's life. However, Kayla didn't want to leave her sister. She wanted to help her and figure out what was wrong. As her older sister turned to her, she pulled something out of her pocket, which was on the middle left of her gown. Midnight stopped and looked at it. The object in Kayla's hand was a red diamond circular shaped locket that had her sister's name on it. At that moment, the older sister stopped and looked at it. Kayla opened the locket and it began to play a familiar jewelry box melody. Then Midnight noticed a couple of pictures in the locket. On one side, it had her, her parents and her little sister together at a beach. And the picture showed only her and Kayla together. Somehow, Midnight began to remember a lot about herself and about her family.

"Do you remember this?" Kayla asked nicely. "This's your locket. You always played this melody to help me go to sleep at night whenever I had nightmares."

"Huh?" Midnight's eyes turned back to their natural turquoise green eyes.

"Don't do this, Amy", Kayla spoke. "We're your family. No matter what happens, we'll always love you. You'll be in our hearts. Just like we said at your funeral. We missed you a lot, Big Sister."

"…Sis…" Midnight said calmly.

"We can work this out, Amy", Kayla said with a smile. "Trust us, we'll help you."

"Help…" Midnight began to ponder for the moment.

Danny and Melanie watched in shock. They were so shocked that their little daughter would be able to stand up to her undead sister! And they thought that Amy would kill her in an instant. They knew what kept her from killing Kayla. It was love, sibling love. That type of love seemed more effective than the love from her parents because they remembered that Kayla and Amy were like best friends a long time ago. Amy began to reach for her locket. Just then, Sonic kicked the door open and gasped.

"Kayla, get away!" he pulled Kayla back from her sister.

"No!" Kayla begged. "I wanna speak with my sister!"

"Sonic, thank goodness!" Melanie sighed in relief.

"What took you so long?" Danny asked as he crossed his arms.

"Oh, for Pete's sakes", Sonic sweatdropped.

At that moment, Amy got silent. Then she looked up at the blue hedgehog. Suddenly, she saw some flashbacks. She saw the times when she asked him to marry her, but he always turned her down and takes off. After seeing a few flashbacks, she growled and her eyes turned red again. Sonic guarded Kayla from getting hurt. Lucky in time, the rest of the group came in from behind. Shadow gasped in fear of what he was seeing. Yet again, Amy was possessed by evil.

Back with Sin, he began to wiggle his fingers slowly as he watched his beloved. He giggled evilly as a smirk came up on his face. Then the powers somehow reached into Amy's mind.

"Kill them", Amy heard those words from Sin. She nodded and turned to her parents. The mother gasped as the father got back up and got into his fighting position.

"What are you doing?!" Sonic grabbed Amy's shoulders and shook her hardly. "Wake up!"

"Hands off", Midnight hissed. She grabbed a hold of Sonic's neck and threw him forward. A familiar red echidna appeared and caught him in time. However, she didn't care. She started walking to her parents in a quicker pace.

"She's terribly possessed", Kia gasped in shock and fear.

"How can I stop the evilness inside of her?" Shadow began to ponder to himself. Suddenly, he began to remember that when he kissed her, she somehow didn't try to kill him. Maybe that was the only key to turn her back to normal. It was love. After seeing a short flashback, Shadow rushed to Amy.

"Shadow, no!" Rouge called out.

"Amy, please stop!" Shadow hugged her from behind as tightly as he could.

"Huh?!" Midnight stopped and froze. Moments later, everything was silent. Somehow, she began to remember those hands that were around her heart. She felt them before at a beautiful pond area near a jungle. Just then, she began to remember what her life was like in the past and what happened before she was hypnotized.

Sonic and the others watched in shock. They never thought that Shadow had so many feelings for Amy. Obviously, it was very surprising. Danny and Melanie were shocked too, because they thought Amy was in love with Sonic. But now they saw who the right one for her was. Kayla blinked twice because she never saw a guy wrap his arms around Amy's chest. Kia felt just a little bit jealous, but she was relieved that Shadow was able to stop Amy from going crazy. Midnight's eyes turned back to normal as so did her attitude. Then she began to have tears in her eyes. She began to feel ashamed of herself. She figured that Sin was only using her to destroy all of those who loved her dearly. And she just couldn't believe that he would use her like that, especially to his own fiancée! But then, she realized something. Shadow was the only man for her. She slowly held his arms and squeezed them a little sadly.

"I'm sorry", Amy whispered calmly.

"It's ok", Shadow smiled a little.

Back at the mysterious room, Sin growled with anger. He was so angry at Midnight, but mostly at Shadow. Now he was getting serious. His eyes turned red as he clenched his fists. Then he vanished. At an instant, he reappeared in front of Midnight. He used his powers to push Shadow off of her and gripped her by the neck hardly. Everyone gasped as Shadow slid back to his comrades.

"Get your hands off of her!" Danny got up and punched Sin in the back hardly.

"Hmph!" Sin elbowed him in the gut as heard as he could.

"Ack!" Danny coughed out some blood and collapsed to the ground.

"No, Danny!" Melanie gasped in fear.

"Daddy!" Kayla cried at for him.

"It's Sin!" Kia pointed.

"I did warn you, didn't I?" Sin asked his fiancée. "Now you'll suffer the consequences."

"Get your hands off of her!" Shadow got up and charged at him.

"No, don't do it!" Silver yelled out for him.

"Dammit", Sin hissed. He threw Midnight out of the way and stopped Shadow's upcoming fist. Within a blink of an eye, he pounded him to the ground. Then he stomped on his stomach hardly. He watched Shadow cough out some blood and laughed evilly.

"No…" Midnight got up weakly. "Stop."

"Hmph", Sin walked to her. He grabbed her by the neck again and watched her squirm.

"Hang on, Amy!" Sonic rushed to save her life.

"She's mine!" Sin yelled as his eyes glowed red. In a flash, he and Amy vanished.

"No!" Sonic stopped.

"What's going on here?" Danny asked slowly.

"Ohh!" Melanie fainted.

"Oh, dear God", Danny gasped as he held her up by the shoulders.

"Mommy!" Kayla ran to her parents.

"Ugh…" Shadow groaned as he got up on his feet. "He got away…"

"Uh-oh…" Kia began to have a bad feeling.

Sin and Amy returned in the same bedroom as before. She blew her last chance, so she was going to suffer the penalty. As for Sin, he knew exactly what he was going to do to her. Aggressively, he grabbed her by the shoulders and tackled her to the bed. Even though Amy tried to get away, she was too weak. Sin pinned her arms to the bed and then pounded her in the stomach. She groaned in pain as she continued to squirm. Then he punched her in the lower area. That made Amy a little bit weaker. Sin got on top of her and began to reach for her zipper.

"Don't!" Amy begged for mercy.

"Too late!" Sin began to rip her clothes off angrily.

Downstairs near the front door, Desiree was sitting with Nina, Wrath, and Kage. Through the whole night, they wondered if Midnight killed her family or not. Not only that, they wondered where the other Chaos Emeralds were. Sin did tell them that he sent out some other demons to find them and told them to wait. But why? Why couldn't he let them find the rest of the emeralds? Maybe he thought that they were too weak to handle Shadow and the others? Just then, they heard a loud scream of horror coming from Sin's bedroom all the way upstairs. What in the world was going on up there? Suddenly, Desiree figured what was going on. Her own rival, Midnight, Sin's fiancée, she was getting raped. She stood up and walked to the middle of the room. Then she chuckled evilly.

"There you have it, you little bitch. There you have it", Desiree looked up at the huge blackish red ceiling.

"Uh-oh…" Wrath said. "I don't like the sound of that."

"Yes!!" Desiree shouted with joy. "Let her have it, my love! Take that, Midnight!" She let out a long evil laugh as she began to enjoy more of Midnight's screaming of horror.

"Goddamn, you're crazy", Nina sweatdropped.

"Who cares!?" Desiree stopped laughing with a smirk. "I'm just glad that she's getting what she deserves! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Her laughing continued through the whole time Midnight was getting horrible tortured by Sin.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyy goooooooooood!!! Oh, noes! Poor Amy, shoot, I mean Midnight! That doesn't sound good, like what Wrath said. So what's next? Will Shadow and the others get serious now? Tune in next time!