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ME! So, if you steal her, I will hunt you down, and you will never see the
light of day again. I'm joking really, but don't steal them, and if you
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Chapter 9: bad dream.
Roxie was turning in her sleep all night. "Do you think we should wake her up?" said Rouge as Tikal, Amy and her watched Roxie turn. "I don't think so." Said Tikal. "She's sweating! Look at her!" said Amy. "Not really. Its cold sweat, the kind you get when you have nightmares. Roxie then started to cry silently. "She's crying. I've never seen her cry before." Said Rouge. "Let her sleep. She's had this dream before. I know it." Tikal said as she got up. Amy turned towards her. "How?" she said. Tikal turned around. "When she was little, she would do this. And then she would wake up telling the same horrible dream." Tikal said. "I hope she's okay." Rouge said as she looked at her friend.
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Roxie was in a laboratory, in a chair. "Huh? Where am I?" said Roxie as she looked around the room. She saw 10 capsules all around her that contained what looked like dismembered Human beings. "Ugh.that's just not right." She said. Roxie then heard a voice, cold and drawling. "I see you have awakened, Alexandria. I thought that you would love to see this." Said the voice. "No, and who are you?" said Roxie as she searched for him. "My name is Jacob Colen." Said Colen. "Dr.Colen.heh.I thought you would have more respect for your own race." Roxie said as she saw him come out of the shadows from behind a capsule. "Yes.well, unlike the human race, it cannot live forever, so now I am cyborg. You see, they are more, how should I say, more civilized." Colen said. "I never could tell the difference, you never seemed to have a heart." Said Roxie coldly.
"Don't make this harder then it is!" he said as he slammed his fist on a capsule, causing the glass to break and a human to fall on the ground and start twitching. Colen pulled out a gun and shot it, causing it to lay there silently. "Ugh. Why it is hard, Colen?" said Roxie. "I am restraining myself to go to you right now and rip your heart out." Said Colen. "As if you can." Said Roxie with a dark look. "Lets get to the point, please." She said. "With pleasure. The reason why I won't kill you, though it would really be satisfying, is because I need you." Said Colen. "Me? Okay.you are crazier then I thought." Said Roxie with a disgusted look. "No Alexandria. I want the blood that flows through your veins." Colen said. "Oh, okay then. With that, it's easy for me to determine what you're going to do. You're gonna' place it into other cyborgs or A.I and create a living army to rule the world. That's what all scientists do. It seems their ideas get more pathetic every time." Roxie said. "Yes, well, that would be the sensible thing to do? Eh Alexandria? Only this time, to rule the whole galaxy." Colen said while he made a gesture.
"You're way outta' your league. And what is it with you and calling me Alexandria?" Roxie said. "That is your real name. Do you really think I'm out of my league? Well then. Beta, bring them in." said Colen as he snapped his fingers and a robot then brang in a group of people and placed them in front of the chair where Roxie was. "What would you like me to do with Sonic? Knife, gun, or laser gun, giving an instant shock to his body. I would prefer knife, since he would lose more blood and die slower." Said Colen as he snatched a knife and neared it to Sonic's throat. The blade had an icy gleam to it. Sonic tried not to gulp down his fear, because if he did, he would near his throat even more to the blade. "Don't you dare." Said Roxie as she looked at Colen. "Sorry.Roxie. I couldn't stop him." Said Sonic.
"Ah yes. breaking your legs was the only way to stop you." Said Colen. "Shut up!! Sonic tried his best and that's the only thing that matters!" said a voice. "Amy?" said Roxie as she looked at what looked like Amy Rose, only that she had a lot of blood stains on her dress and lots of scars on her cheeks and hands. Blood from an open wound on her arm was dripping on to her hammer which was in her hands, which was tied in front of her. "What are you going to do Amy? Now you have the courage to save your hero?" said Colen as he neared Amy and placed his hands on her head firmly. Amy spit in his face. "Yes, but I can't save him or my friends." Said Amy as she put her head down. "You were always the.'dumb one' as humans would call it." Said Colen. "For someone as sweet and as nice as her, she doesn't need courage to save someone." Said Roxie. "What does she have in this?" she said.
"Nothing, only to torture you." Said Colen. "It's what all idiots do." Said another voice. "Shadow?" said Roxie. "Yeah, it's me." He said. Roxie looked at him in the dark. Shadow looked pretty beat up. He had one long scar down his cheek and some blood coming from his nose and some dripping for his mouth, running down his neck and staining his white fur. "Ah, the ultimate life form. Not so strong now, are you?" said Colen. "Say it! Say you're not strong enough!" Colen screamed in his ears. "Never." Shadow said. Colen then punched him in the head. "Peace and quiet." Said Colen. "Stop it, please. Why make them suffer for something you will never get?" Roxie said. "That's where you're wrong. And just for that, these three are next." Said Colen as he pointed to Amy, Tikal, and Rouge. "Let's see how far the rabbit hole really goes." Colen said.
"Nice knowin' ya' Roxie." Said Rouge. One of her gloves was ripped down the middle while her left wing was bent forward and the other backwards. Some blood was coming from her ears. "Yeah, we had fun." Said Tikal. Tikal had some different clothes. She wore black leather pants with sneakers and a red leather jacket. The jacket had some holes in them, and in her pocket she had what looked a 9mm gun. Some dark stains were seen on her jacket, supposedly blood. Tikal's hair was tied in a pony-tail, with her locks falling over her face widely. "You'll see us again." Amy said. "Stop talking like that!" Roxie said. Her best friends were gonna' die and she couldn't stop it. "Bye." they said sadly. "No!" Roxie said as she watched Colen pull back the trigger. Roxie looked up and broke free. She held her hand up and stopped the bullets in the air. Her bracelets were glowing fiercely. "What the?" said Colen as he looked at them as they fell on the floor. Roxie then lunged at Colen and began trying to strangle him. "You won't get me this time. I'm a robot." Said Colen as he pushed her off him and quickly shot everyone in the room except her. "Julian, Links?" Roxie said as she saw them fall. "I didn't know you got them." Roxie said. She then turned her eyes else where and saw two familiar looking people on the floor.
"Tails and Knuckles.you're sick." Roxie said with a growl. "You could join me and give me a bit of your blood, or you could die. Either way, I still get your blood." Said Colen as he waved the gun around. The gun slipped off his finger and smashed in to a capsule. "Damn!" Colen said as he bent off and hit the human over the head and got his gun. Roxie quickly ran to him and with all seven chaos emeralds in her hand, she got close to him and quickly blasted him with her energy from her bracelets. Roxie became hyper but could only last for a few seconds, since she didn't have a lot of rings. She blasted him into the next room. She ran to see if he was dead. The blast burned all the fake skin of him and left his true self. "You need to do that 10 times to kill me but the Chaos Emeralds are already draining you of energy. Let me make it easier on you." Colen said as he got his gun and shot her numerous times. Roxie fell down hard. Blood was coming from her wounds. She landed against the steel cold wall. She would no longer feel any pain, but she could feel tears coming down her cheek and mixing with the blood. "You lose." Colen said as he began to laugh. "I failed you, everyone." Roxie said and the last thing she would ever hear was Colens' cold laugh echoing in the room.
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Roxie then woke up screaming.
Meanwhile, in Knuckles house.
Shadow was leaning on the window sile. "I don't like the feeling I'm getting here." Shadow said. Shadow then walked over to Sonic, who was drooling a little in his sleep. "Wake up, Sonic." Shadow said. Shadow then kicked Sonic, causing him to wake. "What? What is it?" Sonic said. "I think we should check on the girls for a sec." Shadow said. "Why?" Sonic said as he got up and put on his sneakers. "'Cause I think something might happen." Shadow said. "Alright, let's go." Sonic said. Sonic and Shadow walked out of Knuckles house. At that moment, they heard Roxie's scream. The two then quickly looked at each other and sped off toward Tikal's house. The two then arrived at Tikal's house and opened the door. They heard quiet sobs coming through a room.
"Is she alright?" they asked Rouge who was near the door when they entered. "Not really. You guys go check on her." Rouge said.
Rouge pointed to a room down the hall. She then went into what seemed to be the kitchen. The two entered the bedroom to see Tikal hugging Roxie in her arms while Roxie was crying silently. Amy was near the window, and for some reason, she kept on staring out of it. "Hey." Shadow said.
Roxie then looked at Tikal's face, and she smiled weakly. Roxie then got up and threw herself at Sonic and Shadow's arms. "He's back, he's back, he's back." Roxie muttered. "Whose back?" asked Shadow. "Jacob Colen.Dr.Colen." Roxie said with a shudder. "Colen?" Sonic said. Tikal then got up from the bed and walked to a chair and sat down.
"Dr.Colen was a scientist in genetics but one day, two hedgehogs that were into science came to work for him. Their names Ryoko the Hedgehog and Blaze the Hedgehog. One day, while Ryoko was watching some workers gossip, she told them about how Blaze and she were the last descendants from an ancient hedgehog tribe and how she found out that she was expecting a little baby girl hedgehog, who was 6 months already, and how she supposed that she would have the greatest power from the tribe than herself and Blaze. Unfortunately, Colen overheard the conversation and immediately went to work on finding more info about the tribe. One thing he shouldn't have found out was that the power of the tribe was great enough to rule the world and possibly, the galaxy, with the help of course, from our ancient echidna tribe. You see, the hedgehog tribe was friends with our echidna tribe. I remember a long time ago, when my father was still alive, there was a princess, my age, who looked exactly like Roxie here. We used to visit each other every day and go into the woods and she would play with the chao. She taught me how to get them to the hero and dark stages, but I forgot how. She had such a likeness for them. Then." Tikal said. "Then what?" Shadow asked.
"Then there was Chaos. Once he was released he terrorized all the tribes around us. I warned the princess that he would come. She, with her father and family came to live with us. Once I calmed Chaos down, I showed her the Chaos emeralds. It was a bright sunny day, you know, the dream-like ones, we were sitting with the chao around us, she was feeding them and I was holding them. I remember it so clearly." Tikal said.
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"Hey Tikal! Tell me about the legend." Said the princess. "Alright." Said Tikal. "When you have the seven Chaos emeralds around you, you can go super and hyper, with really cool powers. But, you must have a good soul." Said Tikal. "Obviously. Let's try it!" said the princess. They placed the emeralds around them; they stood up and held hands. "Ready?" said Tikal. "You betcha'." Said the princess. "1, 2, 3!" they counted as a bright light surrounded them and they suddenly became super and hyper. Tikal and the princess opened their eyes. "Hey! No fair! You're hyper!" said Tikal as she looked at the princess who was hyper. "Cool! I guess it's because I'm stronger then you." Said the princess. "Strength doesn't count." Said Tikal. "You know what I meant. The power inside you, silly girl!" said the princess. "Oh." Said Tikal. They then heard some leaves moving and no wind was blowing. "Get behind me." Said the princess as she got out her sword which she called 'Red Thunder' or R.T for short. Tikal quickly darted behind her with the chao. "Who are you and show yourself!" she shouted. A hedgehog came out of the shadows with a knife held close to the throat of an artic-blue colored fox. "Help me." Said the fox. "How dare you hold that knife close to that fox, and you from my own tribe! What's your name you piece of filth!" said the princess. "The name, my princess, is Katan the Hedgehog." Katan said as he lowered his head a little. "Then you are surely evil, are you not?" said the princess. "Why, how did you notice?" said Katan. "Hand over the fox, Katan. Before I lose my temper." Said the princess. "I hated seeing you enjoying life with that idiot girl, Tikal, who calls herself a princess, while I had to stand around and watch you go by. Always going around with her, and never playing with us, your people. But I don't care anymore, 'cause I can get back at you. Killing someone from our , or should I say, MY tribe would hurt me dearly, but killing this fox here in front of you, knowing that you will do whatever it takes to rescue him, I gotta say, its' not hard for me to choose which one." Said Katan as he was about to cut the fox's throat. "YOU WILL NOT KILL HIM!!!" the princess screamed as she lunged R.T into Katan's chest and pulled the fox away from him. As R.T met Katan's chest, he quickly took the blade and plunged it in her heart. "Princess!" said Tikal as she rushed to her aid. "You win some you lose some, I guess." Said the princess. "You can't die on me now!" said Tikal. The fox kneeled down beside the dying princess. "Are you okay, Links?" said the princess. "Yes.thank you for saving me." Said Links. "You are my friend; I would risk my lie for them..." Said the princess. "Tikal, the power of the Chaos emeralds is draining me quickly. Please, hand me the silver one." Said the princess. Tikal quickly grabbed it and placed it in her hand. "In this emerald I will seal a bit of me inside, so you'll always have me with you. But one day, there will come a time where someone needs it the most; she will have my spirit, my courage, and my undying love for freedom. Oh, and Tikal, call me by my name, for once, alright?" Said the princess. "Maybe I'll see you all in another time." said the princess as she slowly closed her eyes. The hand that was clutching the emerald was still gripping it fiercely, but the hand that was holding onto to Tikals' went limp. As the princess took her last breath, it seemed to pass into the emerald which seemed to glow from it. The princess really did seal herself inside of it. "Alex?" said Tikal as her voice started to quiver. "Alex!" Tikal said through sobs as she embraced her dead friend for what seemed for eternity.
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Tikal slowly put her head down.
"What was her name?" said Roxie. Tikal looked up at Roxie and smiled. "Her name was Alexandria Malaya." Said Tikal. "You miss her, don't you?" Roxie said as she put an arm around her friend. "Yes." Said Tikal.
"I know a guy named Links, but his name is 'Links Prower.' Not 'Links the fox.' He's such a good guy. I'll invite him and Julian to go to the carnival with us." Said Roxie. "Such talk like that means that you're feeling better, aren't you?" Tikal said. "Yeah, it was just a dream." Said Roxie. "Alright then." Tikal said.
"Let us stay with her, please. Until she falls asleep." Sonic said. "Alright. Then you go straight to Knuckles house, ok?" Tikal said. "Ok. What time is it?" Shadow said.
"2:13 in the morning." Tikal said. "I'll go to sleep now. I wanna' have the energy to give the surprise in the afternoon." Roxie said. Roxie crept into the bed and was soon fast asleep. The guys got up and said good night to Roxie. They were almost out the door, when Shadow turned around and looked at Tikal. "Take care of her, okay?" Shadow said. "I will. Now go!" Tikal said as she pushed them out the door.
Chapter 9: bad dream.
Roxie was turning in her sleep all night. "Do you think we should wake her up?" said Rouge as Tikal, Amy and her watched Roxie turn. "I don't think so." Said Tikal. "She's sweating! Look at her!" said Amy. "Not really. Its cold sweat, the kind you get when you have nightmares. Roxie then started to cry silently. "She's crying. I've never seen her cry before." Said Rouge. "Let her sleep. She's had this dream before. I know it." Tikal said as she got up. Amy turned towards her. "How?" she said. Tikal turned around. "When she was little, she would do this. And then she would wake up telling the same horrible dream." Tikal said. "I hope she's okay." Rouge said as she looked at her friend.
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Roxie was in a laboratory, in a chair. "Huh? Where am I?" said Roxie as she looked around the room. She saw 10 capsules all around her that contained what looked like dismembered Human beings. "Ugh.that's just not right." She said. Roxie then heard a voice, cold and drawling. "I see you have awakened, Alexandria. I thought that you would love to see this." Said the voice. "No, and who are you?" said Roxie as she searched for him. "My name is Jacob Colen." Said Colen. "Dr.Colen.heh.I thought you would have more respect for your own race." Roxie said as she saw him come out of the shadows from behind a capsule. "Yes.well, unlike the human race, it cannot live forever, so now I am cyborg. You see, they are more, how should I say, more civilized." Colen said. "I never could tell the difference, you never seemed to have a heart." Said Roxie coldly.
"Don't make this harder then it is!" he said as he slammed his fist on a capsule, causing the glass to break and a human to fall on the ground and start twitching. Colen pulled out a gun and shot it, causing it to lay there silently. "Ugh. Why it is hard, Colen?" said Roxie. "I am restraining myself to go to you right now and rip your heart out." Said Colen. "As if you can." Said Roxie with a dark look. "Lets get to the point, please." She said. "With pleasure. The reason why I won't kill you, though it would really be satisfying, is because I need you." Said Colen. "Me? Okay.you are crazier then I thought." Said Roxie with a disgusted look. "No Alexandria. I want the blood that flows through your veins." Colen said. "Oh, okay then. With that, it's easy for me to determine what you're going to do. You're gonna' place it into other cyborgs or A.I and create a living army to rule the world. That's what all scientists do. It seems their ideas get more pathetic every time." Roxie said. "Yes, well, that would be the sensible thing to do? Eh Alexandria? Only this time, to rule the whole galaxy." Colen said while he made a gesture.
"You're way outta' your league. And what is it with you and calling me Alexandria?" Roxie said. "That is your real name. Do you really think I'm out of my league? Well then. Beta, bring them in." said Colen as he snapped his fingers and a robot then brang in a group of people and placed them in front of the chair where Roxie was. "What would you like me to do with Sonic? Knife, gun, or laser gun, giving an instant shock to his body. I would prefer knife, since he would lose more blood and die slower." Said Colen as he snatched a knife and neared it to Sonic's throat. The blade had an icy gleam to it. Sonic tried not to gulp down his fear, because if he did, he would near his throat even more to the blade. "Don't you dare." Said Roxie as she looked at Colen. "Sorry.Roxie. I couldn't stop him." Said Sonic.
"Ah yes. breaking your legs was the only way to stop you." Said Colen. "Shut up!! Sonic tried his best and that's the only thing that matters!" said a voice. "Amy?" said Roxie as she looked at what looked like Amy Rose, only that she had a lot of blood stains on her dress and lots of scars on her cheeks and hands. Blood from an open wound on her arm was dripping on to her hammer which was in her hands, which was tied in front of her. "What are you going to do Amy? Now you have the courage to save your hero?" said Colen as he neared Amy and placed his hands on her head firmly. Amy spit in his face. "Yes, but I can't save him or my friends." Said Amy as she put her head down. "You were always the.'dumb one' as humans would call it." Said Colen. "For someone as sweet and as nice as her, she doesn't need courage to save someone." Said Roxie. "What does she have in this?" she said.
"Nothing, only to torture you." Said Colen. "It's what all idiots do." Said another voice. "Shadow?" said Roxie. "Yeah, it's me." He said. Roxie looked at him in the dark. Shadow looked pretty beat up. He had one long scar down his cheek and some blood coming from his nose and some dripping for his mouth, running down his neck and staining his white fur. "Ah, the ultimate life form. Not so strong now, are you?" said Colen. "Say it! Say you're not strong enough!" Colen screamed in his ears. "Never." Shadow said. Colen then punched him in the head. "Peace and quiet." Said Colen. "Stop it, please. Why make them suffer for something you will never get?" Roxie said. "That's where you're wrong. And just for that, these three are next." Said Colen as he pointed to Amy, Tikal, and Rouge. "Let's see how far the rabbit hole really goes." Colen said.
"Nice knowin' ya' Roxie." Said Rouge. One of her gloves was ripped down the middle while her left wing was bent forward and the other backwards. Some blood was coming from her ears. "Yeah, we had fun." Said Tikal. Tikal had some different clothes. She wore black leather pants with sneakers and a red leather jacket. The jacket had some holes in them, and in her pocket she had what looked a 9mm gun. Some dark stains were seen on her jacket, supposedly blood. Tikal's hair was tied in a pony-tail, with her locks falling over her face widely. "You'll see us again." Amy said. "Stop talking like that!" Roxie said. Her best friends were gonna' die and she couldn't stop it. "Bye." they said sadly. "No!" Roxie said as she watched Colen pull back the trigger. Roxie looked up and broke free. She held her hand up and stopped the bullets in the air. Her bracelets were glowing fiercely. "What the?" said Colen as he looked at them as they fell on the floor. Roxie then lunged at Colen and began trying to strangle him. "You won't get me this time. I'm a robot." Said Colen as he pushed her off him and quickly shot everyone in the room except her. "Julian, Links?" Roxie said as she saw them fall. "I didn't know you got them." Roxie said. She then turned her eyes else where and saw two familiar looking people on the floor.
"Tails and Knuckles.you're sick." Roxie said with a growl. "You could join me and give me a bit of your blood, or you could die. Either way, I still get your blood." Said Colen as he waved the gun around. The gun slipped off his finger and smashed in to a capsule. "Damn!" Colen said as he bent off and hit the human over the head and got his gun. Roxie quickly ran to him and with all seven chaos emeralds in her hand, she got close to him and quickly blasted him with her energy from her bracelets. Roxie became hyper but could only last for a few seconds, since she didn't have a lot of rings. She blasted him into the next room. She ran to see if he was dead. The blast burned all the fake skin of him and left his true self. "You need to do that 10 times to kill me but the Chaos Emeralds are already draining you of energy. Let me make it easier on you." Colen said as he got his gun and shot her numerous times. Roxie fell down hard. Blood was coming from her wounds. She landed against the steel cold wall. She would no longer feel any pain, but she could feel tears coming down her cheek and mixing with the blood. "You lose." Colen said as he began to laugh. "I failed you, everyone." Roxie said and the last thing she would ever hear was Colens' cold laugh echoing in the room.
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Roxie then woke up screaming.
Meanwhile, in Knuckles house.
Shadow was leaning on the window sile. "I don't like the feeling I'm getting here." Shadow said. Shadow then walked over to Sonic, who was drooling a little in his sleep. "Wake up, Sonic." Shadow said. Shadow then kicked Sonic, causing him to wake. "What? What is it?" Sonic said. "I think we should check on the girls for a sec." Shadow said. "Why?" Sonic said as he got up and put on his sneakers. "'Cause I think something might happen." Shadow said. "Alright, let's go." Sonic said. Sonic and Shadow walked out of Knuckles house. At that moment, they heard Roxie's scream. The two then quickly looked at each other and sped off toward Tikal's house. The two then arrived at Tikal's house and opened the door. They heard quiet sobs coming through a room.
"Is she alright?" they asked Rouge who was near the door when they entered. "Not really. You guys go check on her." Rouge said.
Rouge pointed to a room down the hall. She then went into what seemed to be the kitchen. The two entered the bedroom to see Tikal hugging Roxie in her arms while Roxie was crying silently. Amy was near the window, and for some reason, she kept on staring out of it. "Hey." Shadow said.
Roxie then looked at Tikal's face, and she smiled weakly. Roxie then got up and threw herself at Sonic and Shadow's arms. "He's back, he's back, he's back." Roxie muttered. "Whose back?" asked Shadow. "Jacob Colen.Dr.Colen." Roxie said with a shudder. "Colen?" Sonic said. Tikal then got up from the bed and walked to a chair and sat down.
"Dr.Colen was a scientist in genetics but one day, two hedgehogs that were into science came to work for him. Their names Ryoko the Hedgehog and Blaze the Hedgehog. One day, while Ryoko was watching some workers gossip, she told them about how Blaze and she were the last descendants from an ancient hedgehog tribe and how she found out that she was expecting a little baby girl hedgehog, who was 6 months already, and how she supposed that she would have the greatest power from the tribe than herself and Blaze. Unfortunately, Colen overheard the conversation and immediately went to work on finding more info about the tribe. One thing he shouldn't have found out was that the power of the tribe was great enough to rule the world and possibly, the galaxy, with the help of course, from our ancient echidna tribe. You see, the hedgehog tribe was friends with our echidna tribe. I remember a long time ago, when my father was still alive, there was a princess, my age, who looked exactly like Roxie here. We used to visit each other every day and go into the woods and she would play with the chao. She taught me how to get them to the hero and dark stages, but I forgot how. She had such a likeness for them. Then." Tikal said. "Then what?" Shadow asked.
"Then there was Chaos. Once he was released he terrorized all the tribes around us. I warned the princess that he would come. She, with her father and family came to live with us. Once I calmed Chaos down, I showed her the Chaos emeralds. It was a bright sunny day, you know, the dream-like ones, we were sitting with the chao around us, she was feeding them and I was holding them. I remember it so clearly." Tikal said.
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"Hey Tikal! Tell me about the legend." Said the princess. "Alright." Said Tikal. "When you have the seven Chaos emeralds around you, you can go super and hyper, with really cool powers. But, you must have a good soul." Said Tikal. "Obviously. Let's try it!" said the princess. They placed the emeralds around them; they stood up and held hands. "Ready?" said Tikal. "You betcha'." Said the princess. "1, 2, 3!" they counted as a bright light surrounded them and they suddenly became super and hyper. Tikal and the princess opened their eyes. "Hey! No fair! You're hyper!" said Tikal as she looked at the princess who was hyper. "Cool! I guess it's because I'm stronger then you." Said the princess. "Strength doesn't count." Said Tikal. "You know what I meant. The power inside you, silly girl!" said the princess. "Oh." Said Tikal. They then heard some leaves moving and no wind was blowing. "Get behind me." Said the princess as she got out her sword which she called 'Red Thunder' or R.T for short. Tikal quickly darted behind her with the chao. "Who are you and show yourself!" she shouted. A hedgehog came out of the shadows with a knife held close to the throat of an artic-blue colored fox. "Help me." Said the fox. "How dare you hold that knife close to that fox, and you from my own tribe! What's your name you piece of filth!" said the princess. "The name, my princess, is Katan the Hedgehog." Katan said as he lowered his head a little. "Then you are surely evil, are you not?" said the princess. "Why, how did you notice?" said Katan. "Hand over the fox, Katan. Before I lose my temper." Said the princess. "I hated seeing you enjoying life with that idiot girl, Tikal, who calls herself a princess, while I had to stand around and watch you go by. Always going around with her, and never playing with us, your people. But I don't care anymore, 'cause I can get back at you. Killing someone from our , or should I say, MY tribe would hurt me dearly, but killing this fox here in front of you, knowing that you will do whatever it takes to rescue him, I gotta say, its' not hard for me to choose which one." Said Katan as he was about to cut the fox's throat. "YOU WILL NOT KILL HIM!!!" the princess screamed as she lunged R.T into Katan's chest and pulled the fox away from him. As R.T met Katan's chest, he quickly took the blade and plunged it in her heart. "Princess!" said Tikal as she rushed to her aid. "You win some you lose some, I guess." Said the princess. "You can't die on me now!" said Tikal. The fox kneeled down beside the dying princess. "Are you okay, Links?" said the princess. "Yes.thank you for saving me." Said Links. "You are my friend; I would risk my lie for them..." Said the princess. "Tikal, the power of the Chaos emeralds is draining me quickly. Please, hand me the silver one." Said the princess. Tikal quickly grabbed it and placed it in her hand. "In this emerald I will seal a bit of me inside, so you'll always have me with you. But one day, there will come a time where someone needs it the most; she will have my spirit, my courage, and my undying love for freedom. Oh, and Tikal, call me by my name, for once, alright?" Said the princess. "Maybe I'll see you all in another time." said the princess as she slowly closed her eyes. The hand that was clutching the emerald was still gripping it fiercely, but the hand that was holding onto to Tikals' went limp. As the princess took her last breath, it seemed to pass into the emerald which seemed to glow from it. The princess really did seal herself inside of it. "Alex?" said Tikal as her voice started to quiver. "Alex!" Tikal said through sobs as she embraced her dead friend for what seemed for eternity.
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Tikal slowly put her head down.
"What was her name?" said Roxie. Tikal looked up at Roxie and smiled. "Her name was Alexandria Malaya." Said Tikal. "You miss her, don't you?" Roxie said as she put an arm around her friend. "Yes." Said Tikal.
"I know a guy named Links, but his name is 'Links Prower.' Not 'Links the fox.' He's such a good guy. I'll invite him and Julian to go to the carnival with us." Said Roxie. "Such talk like that means that you're feeling better, aren't you?" Tikal said. "Yeah, it was just a dream." Said Roxie. "Alright then." Tikal said.
"Let us stay with her, please. Until she falls asleep." Sonic said. "Alright. Then you go straight to Knuckles house, ok?" Tikal said. "Ok. What time is it?" Shadow said.
"2:13 in the morning." Tikal said. "I'll go to sleep now. I wanna' have the energy to give the surprise in the afternoon." Roxie said. Roxie crept into the bed and was soon fast asleep. The guys got up and said good night to Roxie. They were almost out the door, when Shadow turned around and looked at Tikal. "Take care of her, okay?" Shadow said. "I will. Now go!" Tikal said as she pushed them out the door.