Chapter 2
Maria let out another heavy sigh. Sleep seemed to be a difficult task at this moment.
"You can't sleep?" Shadow asked. Maria opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"What was your first clue?" she answered back jokingly sitting up off of her makeshift pillow. They stared at the outdoors that was beyond the cave.
"Do you remember how bad I wanted to see ocean?" Maria asked.
"If my memory is right we read a lot of Jacques Cousteau books," Shadow answered back.
"Yeah! We were gonna get Aqua Lungs and go scuba diving and look for underwater treasure!"
Maria sighed. Those were the simple and fun times aboard the ARK. No one there threaten to kill her or the one that she always looked up to as her older brother. His memories always on point to the smallest of things that Maria couldn't believe that he had forgotten it all.
"What caused the amnesia?" she asked. She looked over at him and saw his body stiffen.
"I...don't want you to think less about the Professor," Shadow admitted.
"Considering that the only valuable option he had was to put your blood in to my veins without even a second to think about the consequences of his actions...I don't have the respect that had for him like I did when I was up there," Maria said quite blankly, "So whatever you're gonna tell me will not change that."
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Onyxia walked down what should be the last flight of stairs that led to the prison cell on the ship. Her brother had forced her to be the caretaker of the prisoner that they had on board. She could hear the hedgehog starting to stir as she reached the bottom step.
"Where...am I," the hedgehog asked. Nothing to him look a bit familiar.
"Well beyond you time," Onyxia answered, watching the hedgehog jumped from being startled.
"Forgive me," she sighed handing over some water and a bun through the bars of the cell, "My brother has you here as his prize possession as he believes that you are one of the three wielders of Chaos."
"Wielders of Chaos?"
"Yes. When the Wielders of Chaos from Past Future and Present unite, then all of darkness will turn into light. But if within the past were to alter, then this will lead to the greatest falter."
"That sounds like some odd poem," The silverish hedgehog said.
"Well yes," Onyxia told him, brushing her white hair from her eyes, "But the Arcainian people believe that this is a prophecy of our success. My brother Umburn is to lead our people to victory, to obtain the three wielders and he believes that pulling you from your time of 200 years in the future, that you are indeed one of these wielders."
"Wielders of Chaos," the hedgehog pondered, "Wait are you talking about the Chaos Emeralds?"
"The...Chaos Emeralds?" Onyxia repeated to make sure that she had heard it right.
"Yeah, there's 7 of them," he explained, "There is great power if all 7 are collect by one person and they can be used for good or evil."
"Well I would like to keep that between us then. My name is Onyxia, Crowned Princess of Arcaine," she said with such grace that would make her family proud of her.
"Um...well...My name's Silver," the hedgehog spoke nervously, "and I'm a hedgehog."
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"So wait," Maria said working through the whole story in her head, "You're telling me that Grandpa programmed the ARK to fall into the Earth, because I was dead?"
"Precisely."
"And you thought revenge for my death was a great idea for everyone and just went along with it?!"
"I'm not proud at that one," Shadow mumbled, his ears flatten to his head.
"And the Biolizard came and shove the ARK...you know what I'm not even gonna say that part, and you and Sonic used the Chaos Emeralds to go 'super' and you and him Chaos Controlled the ARK back into its proper place and you fell to Earth and woke up not remembering anything?"
"That's what happened."
They were both silent for awhile.
"Well that would explain why the moon looks half robotic now," Maria said as she looked up at the moon.
"Yeah, not GUN's greatest of ideas," Shadow chuckled to himself.
"Speaking of GUN," Maria started with a sigh, "our little stunt at the castle is gonna draw them into Soleanna."
"Yes," Shadow agreed, "We should have thought that out better."
"Yeah, well where to now?" Maria asked as dug into her backpack, pulling out a small flashlight and a map. She made a mental note to thank Nokia when she was able to go back home to Station Square for the map. It had helped them more than once. They looked over the map for potential locations.
"We haven't been to Central City yet," Maria told Shadow. He looked at the city that was in the middle of everything .
"If that's your choice, I won't argue," he huffed.
"Alright! So I'll grab food and we'll hop on a train tomorrow night then," She yawned in response.
"You're exhausted. Get some sleep," Shadow said, pulling Maria down to his chest as her acting makeshift pillow. Her head softly landing in his white chest fluff.
"No fair. You can't just put me in the most softest and comfiest spot. That's cheating," Maria murmured into him, her eyes closed.
"Can and did."
"You should sleep too."
"I will sleep when we are out of this mess and are safe from harm," Shadow told her, but it looked like it fell on deaf ears as she was already gone.
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AN: I like the Sonic X's idea of how the moon got actually fixed so I used it my story but instead of Eggman it was GUN that fixed it. Also shout out to my husband for playing the Sonic games he's never played! It keeps me motivated to write haha. Thanks for reading!
-Darko out!
