Christmas Angel Chapter 5
By Angnix

(Wow, I can't believe how many reviews I have gotten for this fic, and to address a couple things you guys said, I know all this stuff not because I have a relative in the medical profession, but if you really want to know me and my grandma were in a car accident over 2 years ago, I got out relatively okay, but she hit her head very hard and fractured her skull and had brain injuries, she is still not the same today, many of my own memories and feelings went into this story. And I had no clue there was an episode of Sonic X where Sonic and Amy had a psychic connection, I am only keeping up with the ones they show on the Fox Box. And I don't know if a Chaos Emerald can do that either, I sort of made that up, but remember the Chaos Emeralds are associated with miracles and some of my reasoning behind that is in fact in this chapter. And sadly this is the final chapter; it is just a short story, but hopefully you will like the ending.)

Tails ran out of the hospital, he decided to go get the cookie since he could fly up to the roof and get it. Sonic now had a very serious look on his face.

"I don't want to freak you out guys, but I am going to go to sleep now. She can talk to me clearer when I am not awake, that how she told me about needing the blood earlier when I was unconscious and I wasn't even holding the Emerald."

Sonic closed his eyes still holding onto the Emerald tightly. Soon he found himself drifting through some sort of strange, thick fog. Sonic was compelled to call out.

"Amy? Are you here Amy?"

"Sonic! Sonic!"

Sonic went toward the sound of her voice. Sure enough Amy was there, she was now running toward Sonic, Sonic then noticed a strange voice in the background.

"Nurse, hand me the smaller forceps, this fragment is in a delicate spot. . ."

Eventually Sonic was just inches away from Amy, but something invisible prevented him from touching her.

"Amy, I'm here now, it will be okay."

"Oh Sonic, it's been so horrible! I remember falling off that ladder, then there was this bright light, so very bright. I was in the light, but then another light appeared, the Chaos Emerald light. I went toward that one, but then I was in this horrible, horrible fog! I can hear everyone talking, but I can't get out of this fog! I can't see past the fog, I can't fell past the fog, but by some sick twist of fate I can hear past it! But then I saw you, off in the distant part of the fog. Now you were able to find me in here!"

"It will be okay Amy, It will be okay."

"But Sonic, I am so scared, the doctors are having trouble. The light almost got me again when I could hear the doctors saying I was bleeding a lot and talking about how you were giving me blood. Then I saw you again, but you didn't see me, so I yelled at you and told you that most of my blood was gone. You heard me, but you didn't see me. The light is farther away now, but I can still feel it reaching out to me, death wants to take me away."

"Amy, you are not going to die, I have already used the Emerald's power and I have given up my very blood for you, it is said that blood contains the spirit of life, I have given up part of my spirit to keep your spirit here, now my blood flows through your veins, my life is your life now, my strength is your strength. And by the way, I know about your cookie, I told Tails to get it for me."

"Sonic, how about if you wait till Christmas to open it now, if the light has taken me away by Christmas then you can open it up and a little part of me will still be with you. But Sonic, I don't understand, you have made it clear to me so many times that you find me annoying and you don't love me, but if you didn't love me, then why did you go to such extremes for me?"

Before Sonic could answer he found himself being pulled rapidly away through the fog. He woke up to Tails standing over him with the box in hand.

"Thanks Tails, but now I have to wait till Christmas to open it, Amy said so."

"Sonic, are you sure you can talk to Amy? How is that possible?"

"I don't know, but the cookie was on the roof, right?"

"Yeah, it was."

"Tails, there is just something you just can't explain, for example, have you totally figured out how the Chaos Emeralds work?"

"Well enough to make a fake one, but it was still imperfect and not nearly as powerful. The Chaos Emeralds seem to have something else, something I cannot duplicate I guess."

"Well Tails, I think I know what that element is, it is said Chaos is Power, Power enriched by the Heart. It's the Power that comes from the Heart that allows Amy to speak to me."

"Is it just the power of her heart then, or is there something in your heart too that has formed a connection with Amy?"

Sonic stood there contemplating, did Amy reach out to him, or did he reach out to Amy? And all those things he said to her, he told himself he was just trying to comfort her, but was that true?

"Tails, I don't know."

Just then Dr. Petersen walked into the room.

"The surgery will be over in another hour, the shattering wasn't as severe as we first thought and none of the fragments have pierced her brain, there is a lot of swelling in her brain however, but it is already starting to go down a little bit. We also successfully patched up her torn artery, she is loosing no more blood, but we did have to give her every single drop of blood you gave Sonic, almost all of the blood in that girl now is yours. Since we made the transfusion her oxygen uptake has improved so much she is now off the respirator. But I will still warn you Sonic, she did suffer damage to her brain still, and the way her brain readings are looking I am afraid she will never wake up."

"She will wake up! I know she will, and in time for Christmas too!"

An uneasy hour passed, Sonic tried to talk to her again but for some reason now he couldn't, he was hoping she didn't go away for good, that maybe she had said all she needed to say. But Sonic really did want to answer her question. Finally Dr. Petersen came back in.

"You can go see her now."

Sonic was the first to walk up to her. He touched her remaining quills lightly.

"I hope you can still hear us Amy, Tails found the box on the roof just like you said. Anyways, enjoying my blood?"

Sonic chuckled a little. But then Sonic had a revelation, he jumped up in the air and shouted.

"MY BLOOD! She can't absorb the Chaos Energy very well, but I can! With my blood now maybe she can!!!"

Sonic placed the Chaos Emerald in one of her hands while still holding on to it himself. The emerald glowed extremely brightly, but this time most of the brightness was around Amy, not Sonic. She began to move slightly, then her mouth began to move.

"So-Sonic, Sonic."

Her eyes very slowly opened, Sonic looked back and smiled.

"Welcome back Amy."

"The Emerald light outshone the fog."

"Amy, Chaos is Power, Power enriched by the Heart. It was the power of the heart that outshone the fog, not the Emerald."

Then Sonic took Amy's hammer from Chris and gave it to her. The hammer glowed with the Chaos Emerald, then in a burst of hearts the hammer seemed too had disappeared, but actually it now was where it was supposed to be.

~*~

One week later, Christmas Day. Everyone was gathered around the Christmas tree to open presents, the angel doll was placed at the top of the tree. Cream opened up one huge box rapped in red paper, inside were several children's books from Ella.

"Thank you Ella! Did you get Cheese something too?"

"Of course I did!"

Ella handed Cheese the small present, Cheese opened it and found a cute little striped wool hat.

"Chao Chao Chao!"

Tails got a new set of tools, Christopher got a new bike, everybody got great gifts, but they considered their best give of all Amy. The hospital allowed her to go to the Thorndyke Mansion for Christmas, her head might have been covered in gauze, her left arm and leg were still in casts, and she was in a wheelchair, but she had a huge smile on her face. The decorated box with its curly ribbon, gold glitter, and pink gel-glue was resting nicely under the tree. Sonic picked it up and slowly opened it. He looked at it and smiled.

"Its way too pretty to eat Amy, how about if I put if up in the freezer so it stays like this forever, okay?"

Amy didn't say a word, she just smiled back.

"I have something for you too Amy!"

"Oh no Sonic, you have already given me much more than you needed to, what else is there to give?"

"Well, actually what I have for you is outside."

Sonic wheeled Amy outside, but then he started to run while pushing her down the road. He still couldn't run as fast as he normally could, but he was recovering faster than the doctors expected, just like Amy did.

"Sonic, this is kind of scary! Where are you taking me?"

"You'll see."

Sonic stopped her near a sparkling lake, he for some reason then ran off into the woods, but then he returned with something behind his back.

"Amy, I now you gave this to me, but now I want to give it back to you."

Sonic held out his arm, Amy's eyes filled with tears. She recognized those shells, it was what remained of the bracelet she made for Sonic, strung back together with new string.

"So-Sonic, when did you fix this?"

"The day you tried to give it to me, I rescued it when Chris and Tails pulled us out of the water that day."

Amy couldn't help it anymore. Huge tears now were streaming out of her eyes and down her cheeks. Sonic went over and put his hand on her shoulder, that made her cry even more but then she grabbed Sonic and laid her head on his chest. But instead of backing away Sonic instead drew closer to her. Then he did something that shocked both of them, he pressed his lips to her lips. But what they didn't notice was the boat that was out on the lake, Sonic happened to pick a spot where Dr. Petersen liked to fish, especially on Christmas because no one else was on the lake.

"Ha! I knew she was your mate!"

Sonic looked at the doctor with a slightly annoyed look.

"Mind your own business Dr. Petersen. . ."

THE END