*~~~~~Ch 25~~~~*

Star and Shadow were left behind. They were surprised that Sonic ran full speed ahead and leaving them. Shadow thought Sonic really cared for her.

"That was unexpected." Star said panting.
"Yeah, I never saw him run that fast."
"He must really love her."
"Yeah. We need to hurry up if we want to help too."
"Yeah, let's go."

Star and Shadow ran to catch up with him.

Keith laughed and got up.

"So, you actually found us. That's a surprise. I thought you didn't care about her anymore?"
"I'll ask this once again. Where is Amy?"
"Amy? Hmm….Amy…Where could she be?" Keith laughed again. Sonic punched him.
"Where is she?!"

Star and Shadow appeared. Keith's eyes widened as Star appeared.

"How…But.. I thought you were dead?!"
"I thought better of you Keith." Star said disappointedly.
"Oh little sister, I'm actually happy you're not dead."
"Don't call me your little sister because from now on, you don't have one."
"Oh! C'mon."
"No."

Keith grunted and backed away. He didn't realize Sonic was behind him. Sonic grabbed him by the neck and threw him against a wall.

"Where is Amy?!"
"I'm not telling you because you don't deserve her!"
"You don't deserve to live." Said a voice.
"Who said that?" Keith asked.

Sally walked up to him. She was hiding under a tree, it was night, so that meant nobody would know she was there at all.

"Sally, you came back for me…"
"Shut up! I would never return to a bastard like you. You deserve to be killed."
"Sally." Sonic whispered.

Star quickly ran to the house Keith was keeping Amy in. Keith got up and chased after her. Luckily Shadow stopped him by crashing into him. While that was going on, Star managed to get inside.

"Amy?! Amy?! Where are you?" Star shouted out to her. Star searched all over the house until she came upon this room. It was locked. Star struggled to get it open.
"I'll help." Sally said behind her.
"But how-"

Sally used her all her strength to open it. Star walked inside and gasped. Sally too gasped in horror of what they were seeing.

"Amy!" Star yelled out.
"Oh no." Sally whispered sadly.
"Amy! C'mon! Help me!"

Star and Sally quickly and nervously got Amy down and laid her on the floor. Star knew how to give her CPR and did that on her. Sally too tried to help, but it was useless. Amy was unresponsive.

"Amy. Please. Wake up." Star said crying.
Nothing.
"Please Amy…."
Still nothing. Amy didn't move. Star cried and sobbed. Sally was in shock. They heard footsteps entering.
"What-What's going on?" Shadow asked horrified.
"What the…" Keith said confused.
"Amy…" Sonic said confused too.
"What happened?" Shadow asked again.
"Amy….She killed herself." Star cried.

Sonic swallowed hard and took Amy in his arms. Sonic looked at her face, she still looked pretty even though she was dead. He noticed the blue dress she was wearing. He smiled sadly and started crying .

"I'm too late! Too late!" Sonic wailed. "Amy! Come back! No! Please…Amy…"
He looked down at her again, his tears dropped on her face. He gently kissed her and sobbed quietly. Everybody looked away at the sad scene. Except Keith. He shook his head and sighed.

"Poor girl. We were really going to have a great future. Oh well." Keith said uncaringly.

Sonic eyes opened. He started shaking in sweat. He gritted his teeth and breathed in heavily. His eyes were turning white. He gave Amy to Star and shut his fists together. The color of his fur was turning dark. Keith was startled at this. Shadow took Amy from Star and told the girls to get out. He carried Amy's body down stairs and outside. He knew something bad was going to happen. As all of them cleared out, they heard a collision behind them. Part of the house was destroyed. They realized Sonic threw Keith hard enough to crash through the brick wall.

" Ouch…"
"You will pay for this!" Sonic yet again punched Keith very fast Keith didn't even know what was going on.
"Hey! Calm down! It's not my fault she killed herself just because she had a pathetic life!"
"Why you little!" Sonic kicked him in the stomach. Keith gasped for air.
"So you wanna play dirty? Fine then." Keith turned into a different color. He had red eyes and his hands were covered in fire. He too had a dark power.

"Oh no." Star gasped. She remembered this happening a long time ago. She scanned through her memories, but nothing came up. She knew she saw him like that, he did something, something really horrible in their childhood. It made them go to the orphanage….She couldn't remember. This frustrated her. Shadow wanted to help Sonic too, but he couldn't leave Amy. Sally noticed him thinking hard and knew what was going on.

"Give her to me. You go help Sonic. You deserve to fight by his side."
"Thank you." Shadow ran by Sonic's side. He was prepared for anything.
"You decided to fight too, huh? Doesn't matter, I'll still be able to kill you anyways." Keith shouted at them. Sonic looked at Shadow and nodded at him. Shadow nodded back knowing Sonic thanked him.

"Be careful…" Star whispered. "Be careful…"