Sorry for the shortness in the last chapter, but here's the next one =D

Chapter 25-Hope

Moontooth's POV

I can hear the commotion of discussion, "What does he want?"
"Has he really got Amy?"
"What should we do, Sonic?"

They are all in a frenzy of panic yet I manage to disguise my worry by putting up my calm expression. I'm worried though, I'm very worried.

It appears the ebony hedgehog is wary of me, I wonder if he knows I know it's Amy...

But that must mean he knows too!

That's not what I'm worried about though...

Amy was the one who told me about hope, she was the one who saved me from the bullies, she was the one I could always count on...

They we both changed...

I look down at my hands; my sharp claws are exposed on my right hand. Whereas my left one is the home to my glove with a hundred functions! I've installed an assassin knife quite a while back; therefore killing has never been easier for me. Physically that is...

It still hurts me mentally, my mother's death and how it pushed me over the edge. But my hope and faith in my religion keeps my strong, it keeps me sane...

Every night I go to the church, put on my old clothes which consist of a black 70's leather jacket and my father's aviator sunglasses.

I don't have the glasses anymore, Amy does...

Nonetheless, I still go to the church. I go there, get changed and light candles.

A red candle for each person I've killed that night...

Why red, I hear you ask?

Because it is a symbol of the blood I've caused, the blood I've spilt and the blood I've witnessed. You see, I also light three other candles which are also red.

One for my mother asking that she is okay and that she's happy. I don't want her to be ashamed of the person I'm becoming... the person I've become.

One for my father, the man I never knew. But that doesn't stop me from respecting him, no matter who he is! Around my neck, I have my father's old dog-tags including the one with his name: "Gregory Moontooth". My father, the man whose DNA runs through my blood!

And finally, I light a candle for her. The person she used to be and furthermore the person who has also split a lot of blood.

My thoughts are pushed aside as I hear someone talking.

"So the hammer, Tails? What's it got to do with Eggman?" Cream asks quietly, scared of the answer.

"It's not the real one!" I say drifting in and out of my thoughts.

The others freeze except Shadow and Tails, who then speaks, "Exactly, it's a replica of the real one. I found it in Amy's house when Thorn brought back the real one... Which brings me to ask, how did Eggman get hold of the real one? Nobody has seen Amy in ages..."

I look down at the floor as a flashback enters my mind...

"I have to leave for a short time... seek me inner wish..." I told her, with a sigh as I took out my pilot sunglasses and placed them over my crystal blue eyes. "I hope we meet again..."

However before I finally got away, she threw an object towards my back.

I caught the item quickly, without turning around; after all I've got wolf senses.

As I looked at down at it I recognized it instantly and therefore my hands formed a tighter grip. I was shocked to say the least after all it was... her hammer?

"Your hammer...?" I found myself asking.

She looked down at the aviators in her small hands; her eyes sparkled letting me know she was smiling underneath her mask.

"I don't need it..." She said to me, crossing her arms. "And I don't think that it's fair I get a memory and you don't..." She let out a small giggle before we said goodbye, once again.

"He got it from me..."

After a month had past I had finally returned, returned to the city I left. Yes, I know that a month isn't that much time... but I desperately felt I had to see her again, immediately!

I hoped that she wanted to see me too as I had waited for this night to come, and now it had.

I changed my attire into that of "Moontooth".

I thought that it might be the final time where I strolled around as "Moontooth"...

But I was wrong.

Without warning the roof I was stood on collapsed, but I managed to activate my grappling hook and I then attempted to swing out of the way of danger...

I got caught though, by the famous Dr. Eggman.

He laughed at either me or possibly at the joy of capturing me. I didn't care what he was laughing at I just wanted him to stop that infuriating noise.

"It appears you could come in handy though."

"What makes you say that?" I yelled at him, feeling the pain of the metal crushing my ribs.

"Are you really so stupid...?" He said while controlling a robot to show me an article from last month's newspaper.

I read it silently shocked at what the text stated.

"'Claws and kisses, Moontooth and Thorn team up...? What the hell is this?" I shouted angered at the press' false accusations.

"Oh please!" Eggman begged, letting the metallic arm crush me further.

A shout of pain echoed through the night sky as I thrashed about trying to escape...If only I could reach one of my weapons.

"You and Thorn both killed Derek; you both left your mark. Her lips AND your claws. It's obvious, the clues are in black and white, plus it also makes sen..." He stopped talking, finally. His eyes locked target with a weapon on my back. But it wasn't my weapon...

"Where did you get that hammer...?" He questioned me.

Only one thought came into my head...

I needed to get out of there...

Thankfully I managed to get out alive but not without losing the hammer. In addition to that, I never got to see her that night, I haven't seen since she gave me the hammer.

But I know that we will meet again.

"You gave him it?" Sonic said, his temper flaring. I know he's no killer, but his darkened aura could have fooled me.

"Calm down" I say to him, trying to reason with him.

"Calm down? Calm down? Just who do you think you are, telling me to calm down...?"

"SHUT UP!" Rouge, the bat, yells.

"Amy is possibly captured by Eggman and we're not doing anything about it except arguing, that's not going to help her though is it? So put your differences aside and START WORKING TOGETHER FOR AMY!"

She finished yelling at us and sat back down, her ears twitching in anger and her face reddened on Amy's expense.

"She's right you know." I say turning to him, offering my gloved hand out towards him. He shakes it briefly.

"So... What do you think the evil 'genius' wants?" Knuckles announces.

The cocky blue hedgehog replies confidently, "That's easy! He wants all the chaos emeralds that we have, simple!"

But his pride is shot down when Shadow corrects him.

"He wants life or death!"

Okay so shoot me, I added another cliff hanger =P LOL

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that chapter and a lot of it is thanks to SwedenSpeedway and his third chapter in -:When the moonlight finds the flower:- So yeah, a big thanks to him! Hope it seemed like Moontooth and everything was okay for you =D

Now please R&R, hope you enjoyed!

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