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Sonic ran into the throne room where his parents stood talking to each other, probably about wedding and coronation plans, Sonic didn't care about any of it.
"Mother, Father"
Sonic's voice instantly got the king and queens attention.
"Yes Son?" Aleena responded.
"The one in the dungeons, Shadow. Princess Amy told me he was to be hung tomorrow, is that true?" Sonic asked.
Aleena and Jules exchanged looks then brought there attention back to Sonic.
"Scourge found evidence of Shadow's dark past, so many pictures, all of people that I remember that have gone missing but never returned.. but I guess we now know why" Aleena said sadly. "He must pay for his crimes"
Jules nodded. "We should've never let him near you, Scourge told us that this killer was after you next, we're lucky that it wasn't too late."
Sonic's breathing became quick and heavy as if trying to stop sobs from coming out instead.
"Sonic? Are you alright, you seem as if you're hyperventilating" Aleena said.
"N-no.. I'm fine.." said Sonic trying to regain control of his breathing.
Later that night, insomnia had decided to settled in preventing the teenage prince from forgetting his worries with sleep. Sonic stared out at the stars outside his closed balcony doors until he eventually fell asleep with a single tear going down his cheek.
Sonia and Manic stood in the hallway outside Sonic's bedroom.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Manic asked. "After all we were lucky the first few times when messing with dreams but for something this big we could, you know.."
Sonia nodded in understanding. "I know, but if we don't do this, our brother and his love will die"
END OF CH.26
I'm sorry that this is incredibly short but I had a headache when I wrote this chapter and because of it couldn't write