-Chapter 29-
The sakura hedgehog jolted up in bed. She frantically looked around, but nothing was there. Amy promptly got out of bed and cautiously moved around the room. She had heard HIS voice again. HE was here. In her room somewhere. Amy stood still to see if she would hear any more noises. Seconds clicked by and there was nothing. The cherry-pink female then turned around to head for the door. Only to see Mephiles instead of a door.
Amy let out a gasp and was about to scream. The demon put a hand to her mouth and instantly took away her voice. She literally couldn't speak or make a sound.
'Wha...What happened to my...'
"Since you can't seem to stop screaming my lovely," Mephiles whispered in the girl's ear. "I'm going to have to take away your little voice for a while."
Then the demon proceeded to lick her neck, causing poor Amy to shudder. She continued to struggle with all her might, trying to at least make some noises to alert the others in the next room. Mephiles however was way ahead of her, and thwarted her feeble attempts. He made a bored and rather annoyed sigh as Amy squirmed in his arms.
"I have to wonder where on earth you get all this energy, my dear." The demon said.
Eventually however, Amy became tired from struggling. The energy she had was quickly sapped from exhaustion. She started to cry. Amy didn't want to go back with this monster. It was bad enough that she was forced to carry his child. Mephiles pulled her closer and began cuddling his cherry-pink mate. He was especially interested in the precious cargo down bellow in her abdomen.
"I've missed you..."Mephiles cruelly whispered in Amy's ear again.
This only made Amy cry harder. She thought she was doomed. Then, miraculously, someone was coming down the hall. It was Sonic. Here was where Mephiles got careless. He was so focused on Amy, that he didn't seem to notice the blue blur's presence. As he made his way towards her room, the demon continued to torment Amy.
"Now then, my sweet." he cooed devilishly. "If you promise to behave, I'll give you your voice back."
Amy had to admit defeat. She didn't have a choice now. After relenting to Mephiles' clutches, he returned her voice into her throat. Then he suddenly realized that they were not alone.
When Sonic came down the hall, he immediately felt and sensed something was not right. It was erringly quiet. He decided to check up on Amy. He got to her room and found the doorknob extremely cold. Feeling vastly suspicious he busted the door open and saw the demon with Amy in his hold.
"AMY!" he cried.
Mephiles pushed the sakura hedgehog aside and attempted to swat Sonic away. However, Sonic managed to block his fist with his own and soon they were locked neck and neck. Amy watched in horror as they fought with each other. Eventually they went flying out the window. Amy let out a cry which was heard by the others out in the main room. Sonic and Mephiles continued to dish it out outside.
"Let. Her. GO!" Sonic hissed.
"You just love to piss me off, don't you blue creature?" Mephiles angrily rasped.
Back inside, Amy was frozen on the floor with shock. Tails, Vanilla, and Cream came rushing in to investigate all the noise.
"What's going on?" Tails exclaimed.
"Oh dear, Amy are you alright?" Vanilla cried when noticing the cherry-pink female on the floor.
"Y-yes." Amy sputtered as Cream and her mother helped her up. "...but Sonic.."
Tails rushed over to the shattered window and saw the demon and the blue blur fighting.
"Stay in here, okay?" he told the girls. "I'm gonna go help Sonic!"
Knuckles was gliding as fast as the wind could carry him. After landing in Mystic Ruins, he immediately took off on foot. Already he was sensing Mephiles' dark aura.
'I hope to God I'm not too late..' he frantically thought.
When he got near Tails' Workshop, he heard fighting. The crimson echidna quickly detoured his course and went towards the sound of battle. After getting a visual on Mephiles, Knuckles charged at him and slugged him right square in the jaw, causing him to fly towards the left.
"Knuckles!" Sonic and Tails both cried.
They rushed to the ruby guardian who was out of breath.
"Where's Amy?" he rasped. "Is she okay?"
"She's alright." Sonic replied.
"Good. Now quick, do you know another area where Amy can hide until we destroy this basterd?"
The cyan hedgehog and saffron fox exchanged glances and nodded.
"Yep." Sonic said.
Knuckles then pulled out the blue chaos emerald.
"Then you take her there, Sonic." he told the hedgehog.
"Why just me?" Sonic asked.
"It'll be safer that way. And using a chaos emerald will make it harder for Mephiles to find Amy."
There was a moment of silence between the trio until an explosion from the demon's crystal lances broke it.
"Alright." Sonic agreed. "You guys be careful."
"Good luck, Sonic!" Tails said.
With that, the blue blur took off.
When Sonic reentered the Workshop, the walls and foundation were shaking from all the ruckus outdoors. He quickly went into the room where Amy was and found her lying on the bed in a stupor, surrounded by Cream and Vanilla.
"Oh, Mr. Sonic!" Cream cried. "Amy fainted while you were outside!"
Sonic's expression softened as he scooped his female counterpart up carefully.
"Knuckles wants me to take her into hiding for a while." he told them. "I wish I could bring you two with me."
Vanilla nodded in understanding but then became a little stern.
"You take extra care of her, Sonic." the female rabbit told him. "All this stress and excitement is good for her right now."
Sonic made a smile and a wink.
"Don't worry, I will." he assured them.
"Goodbye, Mr. Sonic." Cream said, close to tears. "And tell Amy I said goodbye!"
Sonic nodded and then held out his chaos emerald.
"CHAOS CONTROL!"
In a flash, he and Amy were gone.
