Hello. I started this pretty late, so yeah. ShadowandMadonna got an account. Yay for her! I discovered the City Escape theme, and I love the modern remix of Crisis City. Go Fiddling! (I'm a cellist though) I also love love love love Sonic music now. Though I don't like rock (at all) I love Live and Learn. Give me Party Rock Anthem or Solaris Phase 2 and I choose SP2 any day. Here's the honorable mentions: Fight the Knight, Reach for the Stars, Wrapped In Black, and EVERY SINGLE SONIC SONG EVER!
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"Dad, I'm ready. So where are we going?" Blaze asked as she smoothed back a stray hair.
"Um… Intel was quite vague…" Inferno rubbed the back of his head and looked uncomfortable.
"In other words, you have no idea." Blaze crossed her arms. "Isn't that just great?"
"Actually, we know they didn't escape physically. They left no tracks whatsoever except for a few around the emerald. So…" Inferno shrugged, giving up on defending himself.
"How could they not walk off? Daddy, you're sure this isn't a joke, right?" Blaze narrowed her eyes, looking skeptically at him. "
"I don't think Marie would joke about this." He said dryly.
"Okay. So they flew off. That is possible, considering, you know, me, Tails..." Silver said.
Blaze nodded, then said, "That makes sense, but that doesn't help us locate them. Either of you got any ideas?" She heard a sound and whipped around in a defensive position, but it was only a maid.
"Oh, it's only you Galena. What brings you here?" She asked.
"It's the court's decision on your actions Princess. You are bound by law, as of now, to not take action unless your duties have told you as much." She fumbled with her hands, looking as if she was forced to deliver this message.
"Princess? I'm the only- Oh." She looked back at her father. "HE gave up rule when he left. I've been ruling this kingdom for the last five years. I'm the oldest one with royal blood!"
"Well, your father's actions were forced upon him, and he never resigned legally he still is technically king, making you a princess. Your mother fulfilled his role until you were old enough, where you were a substitute in his absence, and-"
"Substitute! You tell me, that for five years I protect the master emerald, I had to fight Nega and apprehend him, and I was just a substitute?!" Blaze huffed, looking annoyed as her father stepped up to the maid.
"Tell the court that murder is of the highest degree, legalizing this venture. Should they say others than the king may go, I haven't ruled these people in years. I came back because of Ember's death. I can leave under the pretense of my mission is uncompleted. Now go, and tell Sapphire to meet me in the court yard. I have something to tell her. We'll go tomorrow. And Blaze, I haven't said it yet, so now's a good as time as any, I'm sorry about stopping what could have been the best day of your life and turning it into your worst." He ran off, as Galena sighed and left.
"Blaze, what do you think of your father? I'm getting mixed signals here, and I just want to hear you say it." Silver blurted as soon as Inferno had run.
"I don't know. Before he was a great father, and now he's so distant." She glanced toward the direction of where her father had run. "I just want live my life, and he is not making it easy throwing all these curveballs. I want to hate him, and yet I can't hate him. Honestly, he's not a father anymore, but he isn't even trying, making it awkward. Silver, this is why I'm such a worrier. Things like this happen to me." She slammed her fist against the castle wall, frustrated.
"Blaze, I understand you want constants in your life. I can't give you a father, or a sister, but I can give what I've got." HE kissed her, and she let him, but when they separated she gave him a wary and worn gaze.
"I love you, and you can give me a lot. At least you're a constant I know won't shake up at the worst possible moment." She smiled and then yawned. "Crying your eyes out and confronting your father makes you tired. Here, I'll show you my room." Silver followed her into a large bedroom with a blue and gold canopy bed. The walls were painted white with orchids lining it. She had a bedside table and lamp.
"I'm going to sleep, if you need help go ask anyone. You'll technically be a king soon." She gave him a soft kiss on the cheek and yawned once more. "See ya." Silver backed out of the room and closed the door, almost immediately bumping into Sapphire.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I'm looking for Inferno." She sighed. "I've been so skittish ever since he arrived. I can tell Blaze isn't happy, but he's the man I love. I just wanted to see him again. Oh, you don't want to listen to me ramble. Do you know where he is?" She sighed.
"HE's in the courtyard, but I can see where Blaze inherited her skittishness." Sapphire gave a weak laugh, but Silver could see that she was really stressed. "Don't freak out, you have an entire kingdom to fall back on. Don't fret so much. It's Blaze's Achilles Heel that she's so worrisome. You should relax." She let out a breath, and gave her thanks. If this was his everyday life, he really needed to get a better one. "Can I come?"
"Sure Silver. Just don't intervene. Thanks." Silver followed her until they reached a pair of double doors. The courtyard was pretty, with white-washed stones making a path snaking through the luscious green grass. A stone bird bath held a small Red-breasted robin and a cardinal. As soon as Silver neared them, they flew off, landing somewhere in a nearby cherry tree. Inferno was standing near a fountain that seemed to be the centerpiece. Silver hang back at the cherry tree as he listened to the conversation.
"I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you yet alone, and I wanted to say something." Inferno took Sapphire's hand and laid his own above it. "My actions have been unforgivable. One daughter, heartbroken losing a dad, another never having a father. Blaze can't forgive me and won't. If you would permit me, I wish to apologize for my actions and take back whatever fragments of love you have left for me." Silver was surprised, Inferno seemed to be a calm, diplomatic person, yet here he was, asking, no, begging for forgiveness. Sapphire removed her hand from Inferno's.
"Your actions have left one girl without her love and two girls without a parent. You have done everything to deserve punishment. That's the facts. However, I am very irrational. Ever since that day, I just wanted you back, wishing to take back everything I had said." A brave bird had landed on her shoulder as she spoke, ruffling her white robes. She took it on her finger and kept it close to her. "But, I had to let you go and couldn't say anything to you. Every bit of love I've ever had is and always will be for you and my children. It is I who wanted forgiveness, so you shan't need any." She released the bird from her finger.
"Sapphire, I don't deserve you or Blaze. I'm just glad I have you both." He gave a watery smile and then stood upright, regaining some of his strict demeanor. "I've came to say that I'm quitting this mission. I can't live without my family. It breaks too many hearts."
"Around others you're a king, but to me you're just a cat, with emotions and a heart." She hugged him, and when they separated, she sighed. "Hearing those words from you seem to ease me. I guess I was tense about how you felt about me. You treated me as nothing more than an acquaintance and I was scared. I'm just glad my children have a father. I love you." She smiled.
"I love you as well. We will avenge Ember and then our family can finally settle. Finally we'll be able to live our lives as normally as we can." The red cat nodded to his spouse and he turned around and curtly left, but with a small smile on his face.
"Sapphire, you must really love him to forgive him." Silver said as she came back.
"If Blaze had to leave for fifteen years, would you welcome her back?" Sapphire asked.
"Of course! I love her!" Silver said.
"Then you deserve her. If you can truly love her, you can marry her without question. That's what true love is about. Forgiveness, trust, and patience. If you have those virtues, you can wait for anyone." She said philosophically. Silver was confused that she would say this, but he nodded and went along with it.
"Where is she anyway?" Sapphire asked, changing the subject.
"Where is- Oh, she's asleep in her bedroom." Sapphire nodded.
"Can I ask you a few questions? No one would ever doubt your loyalty to her and your love is absolute, but I have some questions, just to make sure." Silver sighed and nodded and Sapphire started. "If she said she was going to bear a child, how would you react." Silver was already blushing, but answered.
"I'd be incredibly happy for her, and I'd make sure she'd be safe those months. What kind of question was that?" Silver said.
"Hm. Just play along, and you'll understand eventually. And if she told you that she had to leave and would probably never come back, what would you do? Answer that one truthfully." This sounded an awful lot like the question she had asked him earlier. He was suspicious that she was talking about things that had happened to her.
"I would probably beg her not too, but she would do it anyway, and with good reason. The months afterward I'd probably miss her, but not hate her." Silver looked at her.
"And if she died, what would you do." That stopped Silver's thinking process dead in its tracks.
"I couldn't live without her, so that I can't tell you." He said. Sapphire looked up to the sky.
"Well, that answers my questions. They may seem odd to you, but they answer questions I've been asking. Thanks Silver. I think Blaze should be awake. She doesn't sleep for long." Sapphire gestured towards the double doors.
"See ya." He left and walked down the corridor.
Sonic: That's where you end it? This chapter was just making Inferno slightly more likable.
Amy: There was none of us in it. Just Silver, Blaze, Inferno, and Sapphire!
Tails: Just get on with it. You update so slow it hurts!
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