Sophia's Pov
"Oh my god! I can't believe how much its changed!"
I swear if I hear Brandy say that again I'm going to scream. I thought to myself as we snuck past the crumbling buildings of New York city. Brandy had to be the most annoying person I had ever met and Fiara…don't even get me started on her. She wasn't annoying. No, she was a know-it-all. Only Andrew didn't see that, he would actually listen to her and take her advice. She was so smug about everything. And to make it worse Margaret was in love with her, she was her new idol…I used to be her idol, her role model. It was like I was being forgotten, that I was the annoying sister.
"There it is! The Empire State Building. That's where the Silver District is. Last time I entered through the front door…I doubt I can do that again, but maybe we can find another entrance." Andrew whispered as Fiara and Sky nodded then Sky's eyes lit up. We were only a few yards away from the huge building and could see lights in the window.
"I had heard that there were underground levels in the Empire State Building. Maybe we can go through the sewers and get in?" Sky asked as Andrew smiled and lightly ruffled the top of Sky's hair.
"Great idea, little buddy. Lets do it to it." He said as he looked around for a sewer hole, I looked at Margaret to see her grimacing along with Amile. Ooh her. Okay what I said about Fiara and Brandy wasn't entirely true…Amile is the one that got under my skin. She was almost stitched to Andrew's side, what's worse is that he liked it.
"Eew. We have to walk through the sewer?" Amile asked as she shivered, Andrew looked to her with a small smile.
"I'll carry you, Amile. No worries. I'm sure Margaret can hang onto my back, right Maggie?" Andrew said as Margaret nodded in agreement.
" You'll be exhausted, Andrew. I'll carry Maggie and besides I can fly so we won't even be touching the ground…If its okay with you Maggie?" Sky said his face flushing as he twisted his tails nervously, that was another thing. Puppy Love. Sky was beginning to fall for my little sister. It was like everyone had someone. Amile and Andrew. Sky and Margaret. Even the Sonic Heroes were married…except Shadow. Him. I shivered at the thought of him. At the thought of that I had danced with him. That I had sung for him. I wanted him dead. Oh how I wanted that. The clang of metal against concrete snapped me from my thoughts as Andrew moved the sewer lid from the hole.
"Well here goes nothing." He said and began his decent into darkness. Then he screamed.
"ANDREW!" Amile cried out as she ran to the hole.
"Amile wait! I'm fine! Its just that the ladder broke, you're going to have to jump down." Andrew shouted out of breath, Amile then began to whimper.
"J-Jump?" She stuttered as I rolled my eyes.
"If you want I can just push you." I said as she shot a me a glare, Fiara shook her head at me then moved towards Amile.
"I'll catch you, Amile. I promise you'll be okay." Andrew shouted to her, she grimaced then closed her eyes as she stood at the edge of the manhole. She stood there for a good five minutes till I began to get frustrated.
"Will you please jump already!" I snapped as she bit her lip, then without thinking I gave her shoulder a light shove, witch sent her flying into the sewer. We could hear the soft grunt as Andrew caught her, I quickly jumped in after her thinking my sweet brother would catch me…I was wrong. I splashed into the dingy water, I gasped I was drenched head to toe in filth.
"Why didn't-" I began to growl as Andrew gave me a sorry look, while Amile rested against his chest. Why that little…
"In coming!" Sky said as he flew down into the sewer with Margaret in his arms, then Fiara and Brandy dropped in also. Brandy was about to shriek as her legs were covered in who-knows-what but thankfully Fiara clamped her hand over Brandy's mouth.
"Will you be quiet? Any more noise will give us away!" She snapped as I sighed in relief, it was about time someone told her to shut up.
"Okay, I know this isn't the greatest…um…entrance, but what matters is that we get to Finn and the others safely. So no complaints." Andrew said then he began sloshing down the sewer towards the empire state building.
"If we don't die of the stench first." Brandy muttered as I couldn't help the smirk, she did have a point there. It stank to high heaven, I'd imagine Hell smelling like this. An hour passed and we found no openings, no doors, no nothing. And what's worse is that Brandy had begun to complain, not that Andrew would have noticed, because him and Amile were too busy flirting with each other.
"How much longer are we going to have to- Aieeee!" Brandy began again and as I was about to turn around to yell at her, she began to scream.
"What are you screaming at?" I shouted over her shrieks, but she just kept pointing at the water. I looked to see something long floating on the top of the water. I looked closer then stumbled back when I realized what it was…a body.
"Andrew! You'd better come look at this." I called out as he stopped then came over to me. Then saw the dead body. He placed Amile down so he could take a better look at the body, then gasped for breath, he turned to me with tears in his eyes.
"A-Andrew? W-What's wrong? Do you reconise who it is?" I asked nervously as he nodded then came up to me biting his lower lip. That was a bad sign and Andrew still hadn't said anything yet.
"S-Sophia…its…its Dad." He gasped out as tears began to stream down his face, I felt a stab at my heart and before I could think about controlling my emotions I threw myself into my brothers arms as we sobbed. I loved my father, but I wasn't as close to him as Andrew was. Andrew was almost my father's shadow. And now he was gone. Then I felt another stab at my heart, if dad was gone then that meant my mom was gone too. My parents were practically joined at the hip, they'd never leave each other. Never. I could hear the sloshing of feet then I felt Margaret clinging to Andrew and I. We all hugged and clung to each other, but now it was just Maggie and I crying, Andrew stood there holding us. Being the rock that he was born to be.
"Shhh…I you girls miss him. I…I…oh god, I wish you two didn't have to see him like this….I'm so sorry." He said trying to contain himself as we cried over our broken family.
"Andrew! You have nothing to be sorry about, this isn't your fault." Fiara snarled as she came closer to us, Andrew sighed shaking his head but Fiara continued.
"This isn't you fault, Andrew. It's the Sonic Heroes. If they hadn't caused this, then we wouldn't be in this mess! If you want to avenge your father's death then defeat Sonic the hedgehog." Fiara said staring at him with a fire in her eyes as Andrew nodded in agreement.
"You're right. But…I'm not just doing it for my parents…its for everyone's. For every child and every orphan. I'll make this right. I have to." He said then let us go. I quickly wiped my eyes as Margaret walked over to Sky, he gave her a hug and she clung to him for a bit. But the second Andrew was free, Amile came running over to him.
"Oh I'm so sorry, Andrew." She said hugging him completely forgetting the sewer water. He hugged her back then picked her up and began to walk again, but it was only a few feet till he saw a light.
"I think that leads into the building. I'll go up first and check it out. Wait for my call." He said then began to climb up the rungs towards the light. I sighed crossing my arms as we waited the a wave of bright light washed over the sewer. I could make out Andrew's form climbing out of the sewer and into who-knows-where.
"Clear." Andrew softly called and before anyone could move Amile raced for the ladder and almost scaled the wall. I scoffed then began to climb with Brandy behind me. I pulled myself into a small room filled with boxes and crumbling walls.
"Looks like a storage room." I said looking around as Sky and Margaret flew into the room. Andrew looked around then headed for the door.
"Come on. We need to get to the main computer room, Sky I want you to shut off all the video cameras, then get all the information you possibly can. Can you do that for me?" Andrew asked as Sky placed Maggie on the ground, he looked up and smiled.
"Of course! No problem!" He said happily as Andrew smirked then headed out the door. Just as I had thought before this was going to be a long day….
Whew! So sorry about the long wait for the update! Been so busy and…putting off Bonds Tested. Hehe.
~Danielle, Finn, Maia, and Steph belong to Suki-Rose Essence and Mobian Districts is based off of Oblivion!~
~Fiara belongs to Dawn's Midnight Cookie
~Brandy belongs to The SSS Team