(A/N: hi again! Sorry it took a little longer to upload this next chapter! Thank you to my two new reviewers! Serpent and sonicgirl12! It's nice to know there are a few people reading this ^_^ I had no idea there was an alternate ending out there Crow T R0bot! That's really interesting. I'll have to look into it.
Oh yeah! And incase you would like to see them, I have a few pictures I drew for this story posted in Netraptor's Fan Art Gallery ^_^ the link to my gallery is in my profile!
The S&S pictures start on page 6! Feel free to check them out and add a comment!
Ok! One more chapter after this one and this story will come to and end and then I can post another story! TTFN!)
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"You wish to marry this Thursday? My, my! That's awfully soon don't you think?" Friar Chuck asked Antoine, who had stopped by the church to make the arrangements for the wedding.
"This ez what Lord Acorn waz to be saying, so et will be done," Antoine stated.
"And what does Sally say about this? What do you think she will think about it?"
"She ez weeping over Geoffrey. Lord Acorn ez being worried about her. Zat is why he ez rushing zee marriage."
"Oh dear...I see," Friar Chuck nervously replied. Sally marrying Antoine would ruin everything.
The church doors opened and Sally walked in, holding her head high. When she saw Antoine, her heart sank. He was the LAST person she wanted to see.
"Ah! Sally! How good et ez to be seeing you, my love!" Antoine greeted, taking Sally's hand and kissing the back of it.
"Same here..." Sally cringed but tried her best to keep a straight face.
"What ez et you are 'ere for?"
"I need to talk to the friar if you don't mind."
"Ah, oui, oui my love. Zen I will be seeing you Thursday!" Antoine smiled and blew her a kiss. Sally managed a fake smile but stuck out her tongue at him when he turned around. When he left she clasped her hands together and looked up at Friar Chuck.
"I already know your problem Sally and it pains me inside," Friar Chuck put a hand on Sally's shoulder.
"Oh friar! What do I do? You have to help me! If you can't, I swear I will kill myself! Please! Give me advice!" she pleaded.
"Your situation is tricky child, but I think I might have a solution. Though be warned, it is as desperate as killing yourself." The friar said as he walked over to a door, motioning Sally to follow him.
"I would rather die than ruin my marriage to Sonic!" Sally watched as Friar Chuck opened the door to reveal a staircase. She followed him down into what looked like a dark, damp basement. Lining the shelves and tables were herbs and bottles. It almost looked like the setting to a mad scientists lab.
"All right then, here is what you will do. Go home and accept Antoine's marriage proposal. Wednesday night, when you are alone and right before you go to bed, take this bottle and drink what is inside," Friar Chuck instructed, taking a small vial of green liquid off a shelf. He handed it to Sally who held it up to the light to get a better look at the contents. "That potion will run through your veins and your heart will just about stop. Your body will grow cold and stiff and you will appear dead for forty-two hours. So in the morning when they find you, they will assume you are dead. And as customary, they will lay you in the Acorn tombs. While you sleep I will write to Sonic and inform him of our plan. I will instruct him to come here. When you awake in the tomb, he and I will be there. Sonic will then take you back to the Great Forest with him. This will solve your problem! Unless, you are afraid to try it, that is," the friar explained.
Sally stared at the bottle for a minute and thought the plan over. Though she wasn't at all sure this was the right idea, she was indeed desperate. "I am not afraid! I'll do it!" Sally held the bottle tightly against her chest.
"Ok then," Friar Chuck nodded. " Go home and be strong. I will send someone to The Great Forest with a letter for your husband."
"Thank you friar! Good bye!" Sally curtsied then hurried back up the stairs and out of the church. "Love, give me strength!" the squirrel prayed.
***
Lord Max hurried around the mansion, giving orders to any servant that crossed his path. "We are not ready for this wedding, Alicia! But it is for the best. Where is my good-for-nothing daughter?"
Lady Alicia and Bunnie hurried to keep up with the ground squirrel as he rushed around the house.
"She went to Friar Chuck's mah lord." Bunnie informed him.
"Gone to confession has she? Good for her! Maybe HE can talk some sense into her!"
The sound of the front door opening and then closing announced Sally's return.
"Here she come mah lord! And she looks mighty happy!" Bunnie said excitedly. The smiling Sally rushed up to her father and hugged him.
"I am so sorry Daddy! Please forgive me! I was foolish to disobey you!" Sally apologized.
"This is wonderful news my dear!" Max smiled down at his daughter. "Send for Antoine! Tell him I have moved the wedding to tomorrow!"
Sally swallowed hard. She wasn't expecting that! She started to panic until she remembered the small vial in her jacket pocket. "Umm...I saw him at the church! I gave what love I could to him." Sally explained.
"Excellent! This is how it should be! I should thank that Friar for what he has done to you!" Max patted his daughter on the head.
"Bunnie, will you help me get ready for tomorrow?" Sally asked. Bunnie nodded happily and followed Sally back to her room.
"Tomorrow? Are you sure about that, dear? We are already short on time! It is nearly night!" Lady Alicia exclaimed to her husband.
"I'll stay up all night and prepare for this wedding if I have to! Go help our daughter get ready! I'll assist Antoine in a moment. I am overjoyed to see the change in Sally!" Max smiled brightly.
***
"This dress is best," Sally proclaimed, handing her nurse the gown. "Now if you don't mind Bunnie, I would like to get some rest." She tried to shoo Bunnie out of the room. But just as she was trying to get the rabbot to leave, Lady Alicia entered the room.
"Do you need any help, dear?" her mother asked. Sally let out an annoyed sigh.
"No thank you! We've taken care of everything!" the teenager practically shoved her mother and nurse out the door. "Good Night!"
"Good Night!" both Alicia and Bunnie replied in unison.
"Who knows when I'll ever see them again..." Sally sighed after shutting the door. She walked over to her bed and sat down. "Perhaps Bunnie could stay to comfort me...No! I have to do this on my own!" she said determinedly. Sally reached into her vest pocket and held up the vial. "Am I doing the right thing? What if this doesn't work? What if I have to marry Antoine tomorrow?!" Sally rambled off the consequences if the plan were to back fire. "No! This potion will prevent that!" the squirrel assured herself.
Sally pulled open her nightstand drawer. She reached inside and pulled out a shimmering dagger. She held the weapon in front of her and looked over its glimmering surface. She then laid the dagger down on the bed beside her and turned her attention back to the bottle.
"What if this is actually poison? Would Friar Chuck try to hide his sin of marrying Sonic and me by killing me? No of course not! He is a holy man and I trust him. But what if I wake up before he and Sonic come for me? That tomb is so dark and full of death! I couldn't possibly stand being there alone! And Geoffrey is there! What if his ghost is waiting for me? NO! That isn't true! I'm just scaring myself! Oh Sonic! I'll do this for you!"
With that said, Sally uncorked the vial and held it up to her lips. In one swift gulp, the potion was gone. Sally took a deep breath, waiting for the potion to take a hold of her body. A moment later she felt light headed and dizzy. She moaned in agony as she dropped the bottle and held her throbbing head. With one last breath, Sally collapsed on the bed.
***
In the hall of the Acorn's mansion, the same one where the party took place, Lady Alicia and Bunnie help the servants prepare for the wedding. Lord Max, who looked quite worn out, entered the hall.
"Mah lord! Ya'll ought to get some rest! Don't want ya to be sick from lack of sleep!" Bunnie scolded as she carried an arm full of dishes past the ground squirrel.
"I'll be fine! I've stayed up all night before. Don't worry about me." He yawned. Bunnie rolled her eyes and returned back to what she was doing. Lord Max watched as a few servants passed him, carrying logs and baskets. "What are those for?" he asked.
"The cook," one of the servants answered.
"I see...well, fetch drier logs for the fire! Ask Rotor, he knows where they are!" Max ordered.
"I know where they are, no need to bother Rotor," the servant replied and then hurried off to comply with Max's wishes.
"Goodness me! It's nearly morning! Antoine will soon be here with the musicians!" Max exclaimed as he noticed the rays of sunlight coming through the curtains. "Bunnie! Go wake Sally and get her ready! Hurry!" he ordered. Bunnie nodded and left the hall. The rabbot quickly made her way up to Sally's room.
***
"Sally Girl! Rise and shine suga!" Bunnie called as she entered the squirrel's bedroom. Bunnie waited for a response from Sally but heard nothing. "Come on Sally, we haven't got all day darlin!" she stated, a little louder this time, but still no answer.
Bunnie walked up to Sally's canopy bed. "Ah said, wake up Sal..." Bunnie cut her sentence short when she pulled back the curtain surrounding the bed. Sprawled out on the bed was the teenager, still in her vest and boots from the day before.
"Sally?" Bunnie said in a soft whisper. The rabbot reach out to touch the lifeless looking girl with her organic hand. She quickly pulled it back when she felt Sally's cold, stiff body.
"Oh no! Sally Girl! NO! She's dead! NO! Mah Lord! Mah Lady! Someone! Anyone!" Bunnie shouted at the top of her lungs.
Lady Alicia was the first to hear Bunnie's cries for help. Hearing the urgency in the nurse's tone of voice, Alicia nearly ran to Sally's room. "What is it? What is the..."
Lady Alicia gasped at what she saw when she entered the room. Bunnie knelt on the floor, sobbing loudly. She held the limp Sally Alicia Acorn in her arms.
"Oh no! My child! My only child!" Alicia cried as she collapsed to the floor beside Bunnie. "Wake up Sally! Please No! Someone! Help!" she screamed.
Lord Max was the next one to come into the room. Oblivious to the situation at hand, he started to scold his daughter.
"For shame Sally! Get out here! The groom has arrived!" Max exclaimed as her entered the room. He was in shock at what he saw.
"She's dead! She's dead!" both Lady Alicia and Bunnie wept.
"This can't be! Let me see her!" Max insisted, kneeling down beside them. He gently touched his hand against his daughter's cheek. Sure enough, Sally felt cold and lifeless. "No! Death has claimed my child!"
At that moment, Antoine and Friar Chuck entered the room; behind them were the musicians and Rotor.
"Is the bride ready to go to the church?" Friar Chuck asked.
"She's gone! Antoine my boy! Death has taken your wife from you!" Max cried.
"I 'ave waited all morning to be seeing this?" Antoine stated in shock.
"My poor child! She is gone! Death has taken her from me!" Alicia sobbed, stroking Sally's hair.
"Ah never thought I would live to see this day!" Bunnie hugged the cold teenager tightly.
"My love! My life! Dead!" Max moaned, baring his head in his hands.
"For shame! Think in a different way of this tragedy! Heaven had always had a part of young Sally, now Heaven has it all." Friar Chuck tried to comfort the grieving family. "Now come, bring her to the church. We shall morn her with respect."
"All our plans for a wedding are now to be used for a funeral," Lord Max sighed. He and Antoine gently took Sally from Bunnie's arms and carefully carried her out of the room and past the musicians and Rotor.
"We should go..." one of the musicians said. Rotor shook his head.
"Please, play us a song to lighten the mood," Rotor suggested.
"Now is certainly no time to play!" another musician answered.
"Here! I'll pay you with this!" the walrus offered as he picked up the dagger lying on Sally's bed.
"Put that away!" a third musician warned. "We were thinking more along the lines of silver."
"Fine! But tell me, why is it that musician's love the sound of silver?" Rotor asked.
"Because silver has such a sweet sound!" the musician smirked.
"Are you saying your music is not good enough for you to be paid in gold? Ha!" Rotor laughed as he left the room.
"What a strange man..." the musician commented to his comrades as they watched Rotor leave.
Oh yeah! And incase you would like to see them, I have a few pictures I drew for this story posted in Netraptor's Fan Art Gallery ^_^ the link to my gallery is in my profile!
The S&S pictures start on page 6! Feel free to check them out and add a comment!
Ok! One more chapter after this one and this story will come to and end and then I can post another story! TTFN!)
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"You wish to marry this Thursday? My, my! That's awfully soon don't you think?" Friar Chuck asked Antoine, who had stopped by the church to make the arrangements for the wedding.
"This ez what Lord Acorn waz to be saying, so et will be done," Antoine stated.
"And what does Sally say about this? What do you think she will think about it?"
"She ez weeping over Geoffrey. Lord Acorn ez being worried about her. Zat is why he ez rushing zee marriage."
"Oh dear...I see," Friar Chuck nervously replied. Sally marrying Antoine would ruin everything.
The church doors opened and Sally walked in, holding her head high. When she saw Antoine, her heart sank. He was the LAST person she wanted to see.
"Ah! Sally! How good et ez to be seeing you, my love!" Antoine greeted, taking Sally's hand and kissing the back of it.
"Same here..." Sally cringed but tried her best to keep a straight face.
"What ez et you are 'ere for?"
"I need to talk to the friar if you don't mind."
"Ah, oui, oui my love. Zen I will be seeing you Thursday!" Antoine smiled and blew her a kiss. Sally managed a fake smile but stuck out her tongue at him when he turned around. When he left she clasped her hands together and looked up at Friar Chuck.
"I already know your problem Sally and it pains me inside," Friar Chuck put a hand on Sally's shoulder.
"Oh friar! What do I do? You have to help me! If you can't, I swear I will kill myself! Please! Give me advice!" she pleaded.
"Your situation is tricky child, but I think I might have a solution. Though be warned, it is as desperate as killing yourself." The friar said as he walked over to a door, motioning Sally to follow him.
"I would rather die than ruin my marriage to Sonic!" Sally watched as Friar Chuck opened the door to reveal a staircase. She followed him down into what looked like a dark, damp basement. Lining the shelves and tables were herbs and bottles. It almost looked like the setting to a mad scientists lab.
"All right then, here is what you will do. Go home and accept Antoine's marriage proposal. Wednesday night, when you are alone and right before you go to bed, take this bottle and drink what is inside," Friar Chuck instructed, taking a small vial of green liquid off a shelf. He handed it to Sally who held it up to the light to get a better look at the contents. "That potion will run through your veins and your heart will just about stop. Your body will grow cold and stiff and you will appear dead for forty-two hours. So in the morning when they find you, they will assume you are dead. And as customary, they will lay you in the Acorn tombs. While you sleep I will write to Sonic and inform him of our plan. I will instruct him to come here. When you awake in the tomb, he and I will be there. Sonic will then take you back to the Great Forest with him. This will solve your problem! Unless, you are afraid to try it, that is," the friar explained.
Sally stared at the bottle for a minute and thought the plan over. Though she wasn't at all sure this was the right idea, she was indeed desperate. "I am not afraid! I'll do it!" Sally held the bottle tightly against her chest.
"Ok then," Friar Chuck nodded. " Go home and be strong. I will send someone to The Great Forest with a letter for your husband."
"Thank you friar! Good bye!" Sally curtsied then hurried back up the stairs and out of the church. "Love, give me strength!" the squirrel prayed.
***
Lord Max hurried around the mansion, giving orders to any servant that crossed his path. "We are not ready for this wedding, Alicia! But it is for the best. Where is my good-for-nothing daughter?"
Lady Alicia and Bunnie hurried to keep up with the ground squirrel as he rushed around the house.
"She went to Friar Chuck's mah lord." Bunnie informed him.
"Gone to confession has she? Good for her! Maybe HE can talk some sense into her!"
The sound of the front door opening and then closing announced Sally's return.
"Here she come mah lord! And she looks mighty happy!" Bunnie said excitedly. The smiling Sally rushed up to her father and hugged him.
"I am so sorry Daddy! Please forgive me! I was foolish to disobey you!" Sally apologized.
"This is wonderful news my dear!" Max smiled down at his daughter. "Send for Antoine! Tell him I have moved the wedding to tomorrow!"
Sally swallowed hard. She wasn't expecting that! She started to panic until she remembered the small vial in her jacket pocket. "Umm...I saw him at the church! I gave what love I could to him." Sally explained.
"Excellent! This is how it should be! I should thank that Friar for what he has done to you!" Max patted his daughter on the head.
"Bunnie, will you help me get ready for tomorrow?" Sally asked. Bunnie nodded happily and followed Sally back to her room.
"Tomorrow? Are you sure about that, dear? We are already short on time! It is nearly night!" Lady Alicia exclaimed to her husband.
"I'll stay up all night and prepare for this wedding if I have to! Go help our daughter get ready! I'll assist Antoine in a moment. I am overjoyed to see the change in Sally!" Max smiled brightly.
***
"This dress is best," Sally proclaimed, handing her nurse the gown. "Now if you don't mind Bunnie, I would like to get some rest." She tried to shoo Bunnie out of the room. But just as she was trying to get the rabbot to leave, Lady Alicia entered the room.
"Do you need any help, dear?" her mother asked. Sally let out an annoyed sigh.
"No thank you! We've taken care of everything!" the teenager practically shoved her mother and nurse out the door. "Good Night!"
"Good Night!" both Alicia and Bunnie replied in unison.
"Who knows when I'll ever see them again..." Sally sighed after shutting the door. She walked over to her bed and sat down. "Perhaps Bunnie could stay to comfort me...No! I have to do this on my own!" she said determinedly. Sally reached into her vest pocket and held up the vial. "Am I doing the right thing? What if this doesn't work? What if I have to marry Antoine tomorrow?!" Sally rambled off the consequences if the plan were to back fire. "No! This potion will prevent that!" the squirrel assured herself.
Sally pulled open her nightstand drawer. She reached inside and pulled out a shimmering dagger. She held the weapon in front of her and looked over its glimmering surface. She then laid the dagger down on the bed beside her and turned her attention back to the bottle.
"What if this is actually poison? Would Friar Chuck try to hide his sin of marrying Sonic and me by killing me? No of course not! He is a holy man and I trust him. But what if I wake up before he and Sonic come for me? That tomb is so dark and full of death! I couldn't possibly stand being there alone! And Geoffrey is there! What if his ghost is waiting for me? NO! That isn't true! I'm just scaring myself! Oh Sonic! I'll do this for you!"
With that said, Sally uncorked the vial and held it up to her lips. In one swift gulp, the potion was gone. Sally took a deep breath, waiting for the potion to take a hold of her body. A moment later she felt light headed and dizzy. She moaned in agony as she dropped the bottle and held her throbbing head. With one last breath, Sally collapsed on the bed.
***
In the hall of the Acorn's mansion, the same one where the party took place, Lady Alicia and Bunnie help the servants prepare for the wedding. Lord Max, who looked quite worn out, entered the hall.
"Mah lord! Ya'll ought to get some rest! Don't want ya to be sick from lack of sleep!" Bunnie scolded as she carried an arm full of dishes past the ground squirrel.
"I'll be fine! I've stayed up all night before. Don't worry about me." He yawned. Bunnie rolled her eyes and returned back to what she was doing. Lord Max watched as a few servants passed him, carrying logs and baskets. "What are those for?" he asked.
"The cook," one of the servants answered.
"I see...well, fetch drier logs for the fire! Ask Rotor, he knows where they are!" Max ordered.
"I know where they are, no need to bother Rotor," the servant replied and then hurried off to comply with Max's wishes.
"Goodness me! It's nearly morning! Antoine will soon be here with the musicians!" Max exclaimed as he noticed the rays of sunlight coming through the curtains. "Bunnie! Go wake Sally and get her ready! Hurry!" he ordered. Bunnie nodded and left the hall. The rabbot quickly made her way up to Sally's room.
***
"Sally Girl! Rise and shine suga!" Bunnie called as she entered the squirrel's bedroom. Bunnie waited for a response from Sally but heard nothing. "Come on Sally, we haven't got all day darlin!" she stated, a little louder this time, but still no answer.
Bunnie walked up to Sally's canopy bed. "Ah said, wake up Sal..." Bunnie cut her sentence short when she pulled back the curtain surrounding the bed. Sprawled out on the bed was the teenager, still in her vest and boots from the day before.
"Sally?" Bunnie said in a soft whisper. The rabbot reach out to touch the lifeless looking girl with her organic hand. She quickly pulled it back when she felt Sally's cold, stiff body.
"Oh no! Sally Girl! NO! She's dead! NO! Mah Lord! Mah Lady! Someone! Anyone!" Bunnie shouted at the top of her lungs.
Lady Alicia was the first to hear Bunnie's cries for help. Hearing the urgency in the nurse's tone of voice, Alicia nearly ran to Sally's room. "What is it? What is the..."
Lady Alicia gasped at what she saw when she entered the room. Bunnie knelt on the floor, sobbing loudly. She held the limp Sally Alicia Acorn in her arms.
"Oh no! My child! My only child!" Alicia cried as she collapsed to the floor beside Bunnie. "Wake up Sally! Please No! Someone! Help!" she screamed.
Lord Max was the next one to come into the room. Oblivious to the situation at hand, he started to scold his daughter.
"For shame Sally! Get out here! The groom has arrived!" Max exclaimed as her entered the room. He was in shock at what he saw.
"She's dead! She's dead!" both Lady Alicia and Bunnie wept.
"This can't be! Let me see her!" Max insisted, kneeling down beside them. He gently touched his hand against his daughter's cheek. Sure enough, Sally felt cold and lifeless. "No! Death has claimed my child!"
At that moment, Antoine and Friar Chuck entered the room; behind them were the musicians and Rotor.
"Is the bride ready to go to the church?" Friar Chuck asked.
"She's gone! Antoine my boy! Death has taken your wife from you!" Max cried.
"I 'ave waited all morning to be seeing this?" Antoine stated in shock.
"My poor child! She is gone! Death has taken her from me!" Alicia sobbed, stroking Sally's hair.
"Ah never thought I would live to see this day!" Bunnie hugged the cold teenager tightly.
"My love! My life! Dead!" Max moaned, baring his head in his hands.
"For shame! Think in a different way of this tragedy! Heaven had always had a part of young Sally, now Heaven has it all." Friar Chuck tried to comfort the grieving family. "Now come, bring her to the church. We shall morn her with respect."
"All our plans for a wedding are now to be used for a funeral," Lord Max sighed. He and Antoine gently took Sally from Bunnie's arms and carefully carried her out of the room and past the musicians and Rotor.
"We should go..." one of the musicians said. Rotor shook his head.
"Please, play us a song to lighten the mood," Rotor suggested.
"Now is certainly no time to play!" another musician answered.
"Here! I'll pay you with this!" the walrus offered as he picked up the dagger lying on Sally's bed.
"Put that away!" a third musician warned. "We were thinking more along the lines of silver."
"Fine! But tell me, why is it that musician's love the sound of silver?" Rotor asked.
"Because silver has such a sweet sound!" the musician smirked.
"Are you saying your music is not good enough for you to be paid in gold? Ha!" Rotor laughed as he left the room.
"What a strange man..." the musician commented to his comrades as they watched Rotor leave.