Epilogue
Rosy's POV
Me and Scourge have been married 9 years now. 4 years after Syro was born I welcome a baby girl into the world. Sharla Dela Hedgehog, beautiful pink fur only a darker shade than me, light tan skin and blue eyes like her father. 4 years after her, I welcomed another boy and girl, Scourge Dron Hedgehog Jr., soft green mint fur, blue eyes and tan skin. We usually call him SJ. And Susie Diamond Hedgehog, very light cotton candy fur, with green eyes and light tan skin.
I closed my dairy hearing the all to familiar words,
"MOM! TELL SYRO TO STOP!" Syro, now 8 years old, will be turning 9 soon.
"I HAD THEM FIRST!" Sharla, now 4 years old.
"HOW ABOUT BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!?" Ahhh, my Scourgey poo. Sigh.
I walked out my private relaxing room making my way down stairs to the leaving room. Scourge was holding our, seven month old, baby boy SJ and baby girl Susie. I am really hoping that they are the last ones. He was using his foot to keep Syro and Sharla back.
"Get back, you two! Back!"
I shook my head at them and chuckled. I looked to my side seeing Amy stomp in. She was 7 months pregnant with her third child. Hopefully this pair wouldn't be twins. I was hoping I wouldn't have twins at all but I guess that couldn't happened.
"What is wrong with you three?!" She walked up and took SJ and Susie from Scourge. "For goodness sake their not toys!"
I looked as a light blue and lavender hedgehog came in, both 7 years old. Syphoon had light blue fur, green eyes and peach skin. His twin sister, Sphrodite, had lavender fur with light tan skin and green eyes. I know, I know but Amy wanted them to have those name and they got them.
Sonic came in looking annoyed. "Guys, what the hell!? We're supposed to be getting ready for the damn ceremony!"
"Ohhhhh Uncle Sonic cussed!"
Scourge glared at his brother. Sonic only rolled his eyes at him. "Look we need to be getting ready."
I sighed. "Sonic is right. Come on guys." I said taking SJ and Susie from Amy. Scourge stuck his tongue out at Amy causing Syro and Sharla to giggle and make her look back. But, of course, Scourge is teaching them to be sneaky so by the time she did they had stopped. I shook my head at them it can only get worse.
X
We arrived at the cemetery to find the rest of the family there. Bliss and Bark added another son to the family. He was bright yellow furred hedgehog. Howl and Woof were now 9 years old. Their baby brother was 4 years old, Bliss named him Blitz after her brother. Me, Scourge, Amy and Sonic's children ran to greet their cousins.
"Well, well, look at you two." Bliss said cooing at SJ and Susie who giggled back at her. Well, SJ did. Susie was a bit shy. "Oh come on Susie you know me."
Bark chuckled. As he wrestled with the boys playfully. "Not with that hair cut."
Bliss narrowed her eyes before turning back and glaring at Bark I was sure. "I wanted my hair cut short. Get over it."
Bark mocked her making the boys chuckle at him. Bliss heard him but she only turned back around to play with the twins more.
"Hey, guys!"
We all looked back to see Sonia, Shadow and their little girl, Maria. She was named after Shadow's foster sister. She was only 3 but acted so much like Shadow. She looked like him too except her quill were straightened out by a decorative hair band that held her quills together. You would actually think she was a echidna if you didn't know any better. She had Sonia's fur color but black stripes on her quills like Shadow's red ones.
We all hugged one another having not seen each other since the twins were born. We looked back and saw Scar, Alejandro, Leon and Amethyst. Scar and Alejandro were done after Amethyst. Leon was now 10 years old and looked more like Scourge than our own son did. Amethyst, like most of the girls in our family was daddy's little girl. She couldn't help it, she was only 8.
Manic and Rouge was coming up behind them. She and Manic had two children of their own. Which took forever because I was sure they wouldn't ever have any. Two boys, 3 and 2. A white hedgehog, Manic Jr. Who would have thought? And Mint, the baby boy. Does is sound funny that his fur is also mint like SJ's?
"We're all here!" Sphrodite squealed getting a tackling hug from MJ before he got to the rest of us.
"How have you guys been?" I hugged Leon tightly knowing that he, Howl and Woof would have a much harder time. They were there that day their grandfather passed. Leon remembers much clearer than Howl and Woof though.
"Good Auntie, what about you?" He asked looking up at me. I could see he was a little sad I smiled down at him getting a small smile back.
"Okay, I guess. It's your mom, aunt and uncles that needs you the most." I said pointing at them. He nodded to How and Woof to follow him up to Sonia, Scourge, Sonic, Scar, and Manic.
Me, Rouge, Amy, Alejandro, Shadow and Bark watched the sibling all hugged each other and crowd in front of a grave.
We all looked to one another before we went to our respective partners to give them support. I read the grave stones out loud as Sonia started passing out the blue and green roses we placed on their graves two times a year. The first time for Emerald and the second, for Jules.
"Here lies. Emerald and Jules Hedgehog."
I felt a pull on my dress as I looked down and saw it was Syro.
"Yes?"
"Is grandpa and grandma happy?"
I smiled a little bit bigger trying to hold my tears back and nodded rubbing his head. I was so close to giving both to him when Jules dead. It hurt me that he didn't get to see Syro or all his other gracious grandchildren, nieces and nephews but I knew he was happy. Instead of staying in one place we moved on. Let THIS hedgehog name flourish. But little did we know there was another soul grieving today…And all on her own.
Off POV
Seating in front of a grave weeping on the cold and wet ground on her knees was a yellow canary. Her name was Melody and she was only 8. On this faithful day she lost the only person she had left in the world before her father was murdered by the person he tried to get revenge on. And if it weren't for her father's friends her mother would still be here.
The tombstones she wept in front of read,
Here lies Battle Kukku 17 aka Speedy and Tune DeMayo.
The girls grandmother and aunt told her that revenge would solve nothing, her example was their father. When pushed to the limit who knows, who will do what. But this small girl was pushed to the limit, and revenge was the only thing that could extinguish and sooth the fire of hatred that burned her heart...
~The End?~
Syro age 8, Sharla age 4, Scourge Jr and Susie age 7 months. Parents: Scourge and Rosy
Sphrodite and Syphoon age 7. Parents: Sonic and Amy
Leon age 10 and Amethyst age 8. Parents: Alejandro and Scarlettle
Maria age 3. Parents: Shadow and Sonia
Manic Jr. age 4 and Mint age 2. Parents: Manic and Rouge
Howl and Woof age 9 and Blitz age 4. Parents: Bliss and Bark