The Chao Cure

Even though he was so warm, he was so cold at the same time. Everything has changed. Moving on? Could it be betrayal? Or is it just his imagination playing a cruel trick on him?

Sonic yawned as he sat up. His night was the same as yesterday: Boring. You'd think living amongst the living dead would be exciting, but the truth is that they're much deader than living, that's for sure.

He had to move out of "The Palace of Sins" because he'd been enjoying it too much. Plus, like the spirits want Sonic to turn back. It's true, the small chao's melody had strange spiritual powers, and the spirits wanted no one else to be healed by them. These were the bad spirits.

Sonic snuck over to the Palace to visit Zippy. He gazed around until he spotted the small creature.

"Hey Zippy!" he called out. Some of his blue fur had been stained again and his eyes were red, but no blood shot. Zippy saw him and pranced over. He got into position and began to sing, but now the lyrics were different:

"Listen Well The Song You're Told,

And Only if You're Brave And Bold,

The Cure You Seek Is In You're Soul,

You're Soul's no longer Dark As Coal."

Sonic then began to give off a faint glow. All the tears and blood were gone and his fur was an ultramarine blue. His emerald green eyes shone outward and the black robes were now white. His spikes had become smooth and a golden halo appeared above his head.

"Huh?" Sonic asked. His voice was calm and soft, like when he used to speak to Amy. He flicked a finger at the halo and looked down at the white robes, tied on with a golden rope.

Sonic turned to Zippy, "Wait, you're a dark chao, where did you learn an angel song?"

As if on cue, a small angel chao walked out. Quite an array of beauty with two messy hairpieces stuck into the air and large dragon wings. A bunny tail and seal arms were covering pure blue fur. A light blue angel halo hovered over the chao's head.

Sonic's jaw dropped as he recalled the young chao. Kosmo was him name and he was a very powerful chao, with all it's status above average. Sonic's chao, that he raised himself, was standing right in front of him.

The two chao both began to fly forward, taking Sonic's hands and bringing him with them. They hovered out of the darkness and into the light, where a golden gate stood. Beyond that gate, angels were singing of a paradise known with only one name: Heaven.

Sonic stepped forward, but then his chao started to drag him back into the darkness. Sonic was confused. I'm an angel now… why am I still in the darkness? Then, the darkness was gone and there was nothing.

"Sonic…" Amy muttered to herself, "What would we be doing today if he was here…" She sighed and gazed out the window. Rain. It's been raining for three days now.

"Maybe there'll be a flood," Tails had said.

"I hope not," Amy had replied.

Amy still looked out there. Tails was staying over at Cream's today. She finally got her own apartment across the street. Now Tails was thinking of moving in with her, to keep her company.

Amy would be so lonely without anyone. She's met with Phillip again. He's been so nice to her, and for a hyena, he's pretty cute. Amy's thought about it, and maybe she should move on. There isn't any chance of Sonic coming back… is there?

"No… I have to stay loyal to Sonic…" Amy said to herself, "And besides, Phillip is just a friend…"

As Amy thought this, a knock came to her door. "Come in," she called.

"Uh… Hello Amy…" Phillip said nervously.

"Oh! Hi Phillip. What's up?"

"Oh… uh… I just wanted to be sure you were okay, you know, cause I heard that Tails is going to move and all…"

Amy walked up to him and wrapped her arms over his shoulders, "You're so sweet!"

Phillip blushed, "Nah… I just wanted to be sure you were okay is all… you can let go…"

"Do I have to?"

"Well, I guess if you don't want to, I can't really force you but… The height difference makes me have to bend over and my knees ache…"

"Oops! Sorry."

Amy released him slowly as Phillip bent slowly upward. Their eyes met and they froze. They both stood there, staring at each other, and then leaned closer, finally meeting in a kiss. It wasn't until a crash sent Amy up into the air, only to be caught by Phillip, did they stop.

"W-what was that?" Amy asked shakily.

"I'll check, you wait here…" Phillip replied, setting her on the couch and walking into Amy's room to investigate.

Sonic's eyes flew open. He last remembered darkness, and now he was on a bed. His eyes fell upon every corner of the room. It took less than a minute to remember it; Amy's room. The dry colored wallpaper, the soft cushy bed, and the dim lighting arrangement.

Then, as Sonic tried to get up off the bed, he tripped over something and fell to the floor. Whatever had happened, he was defiantly in the real world. Only the real world hurts that much.

While Sonic tried to get back up, he saw the door fly open and a black colored hyena walked in. It took only a glance for each of them to freak out.

"You! You're supposed to be dead!"

"You! What are you doing in Amy's house!"

"You we dead!"

"So you think you can just move in on my fiancé?"

"Well I didn't know you would come back at the exact moment I kissed her!"

"You son of a bitch!" Sonic then reached out for the lamp that sat on the bedside table and started to whack Phillip with it.

"Don't you insult my mom!" Phillip yelled, picking up a book to hurl at Sonic.

Amy ran in at that moment and screamed, "What in the world is going on in here!"

Sonic stood up, whacking Phillip one more time, setting the banged up lamp back on its table.

Amy stared, "W-what? S-sonic? B-but you're…dead…"

"Not anymore… I guess…" Sonic shrugged.

Both Amy and Phillip took a couple of steps away from Sonic. "You aren't Sonic…. Who are you!?" Amy yelled.

"Amy, it's me! Sonic!"

"Who ever you are, leave here, now!" Phillip snarled.

"B-but… it's me…" Sonic stopped. They weren't going to believe him. He stared at the ground a minute before speaking, "Fine… I'd thought you'd be happy to see me... I was wrong…" And with that, he jumped across the room and opened a window, "Farewell…" He jumped.

"Wait!" Amy screamed, running to the window, but she was too late. Sonic had leaped onto a pole below the window and began to leap away, down onto the street, where, in a streak of color, he was gone.

"…Sonic…" Amy muttered, then burst into tears. Phillip walked over and set a hand on her shoulder.

Sonic ran through the city. I can't believe she would do that to me… I haven't even been gone a year and she's already cheating on me! Thoughts raced through his mind as fast as he ran through the city. If she didn't believe him, would anyone else?

Sonic ran until a familiar statue caught his eye, the Master Emerald shrine. Am I already here? That was fast. If Amy won't believe me, maybe Knuckles will. Sonic ran up the tall steps where a big green gem stood. Sonic looked for Knuckles and was about to give up when a red figure attacked him.

They both ended falling down the steps to the shrine and landed in a pile at the bottom.

Knuckles was the first to stand, "Alright, who are you and what do you think you're doing sneaking around the Master Emerald?"

Sonic stood up smirking, "Slow reaction time, eh? I must've stood there 10 minutes before you finally jumped me."

Knuckles looked at whom he was talking to and leaped back in surprise, "Whoa! A… g-ghost?"

Sonic sighed and rolled his eyes, "Yeah… I'm a ghost… How many ghosts have you met in your life that can attack you?"

"Plenty!"

"Knuckles! I'm not a ghost! It's really me… Sonic!"

Knuckles stared in disbelief, "Prove it!"

Sonic sighed, "Fine…" He then dashed past Knuckles and in a matter of minutes appeared back in front of Knuckles, "How many people you know that can run across the continent in minutes?"

Knuckles' eyes widened, "Sonic!? Is that really you!?"

Sonic nodded, and was then finally regarded as alive.

"Dear god! How?"

"Well… I have no idea," Sonic answered casually.

"Wow! Did you tell Amy? She's really been missing you!"

Sonic's face went from happy to angry, "Missing me? You call kissing another man right in front of me missing me?"

Knuckles looked shocked, "She was kissing another guy? Wow… that's harsh…"

"I know that… Can we change the subject…"

"Hey, just one thing…"

"What?"

"You weren't… really trying to take the Master Emerald… were you?"

Both were silent, then broke out into laughter, this must've been the happiest Sonic's been since before he died.

"Of course I wasn't trying to steal it, you idiot," Sonic laughed.

"I know… Just checking. Even though she has custody of it, I still catch Rouge trying to take it to a jewelry store to cash in for money."

Then, while both of the friends were still trying to catch their breath, a small creature skipped over to them. They both looked down.

The creature smiled and then spoke, "Whatcha' doin'?"

"Nothing sweetie, go back to Mommy, okay?" Knuckles said softly.

"Okee Dokee!" Amethyst said cheerfully.

"Cute kid," Sonic said, snickering.

"What's so funny?" Knuckles asked.

"The whole concept of you being a dad."

Knuckles bopped him upside the head then was tackled by something, "What?"

Amethyst had returned, this time having attacked her father and pulling him to the ground, "Mommy' tryin' to take the shiny thingy!"

"Rouge!" Knuckles shouted as the female bat flew down from the shrine.

Rouge looked at him, "What do you want?"

"Are you trying to take the Master Emerald again?"

"No…" Rouge lied, having a sack big enough for the gem fall out of her hands, "Oops…"

"Rouge!"

"Sorry… I want to be rich! Why can't we sell the…Huh?" She stopped, looking over at Sonic, "Ah! A ghost!"

Sonic sighed. "What's with your family and ghosts?" he asked Knuckles.

Rouge shook her head, "Sonic? Is that.. is that really you?"

Sonic nodded, "Yeah… It's me…"

Rouge looked shocked, then got her normal expression back, "Rose from the dead? You expect me to believe that? You must think I'm an idiot!"

"I believe him!" Knuckles grumbled.

"Well, you are kind of an idiot, Knuckles…" Sonic snickered.

"Why you…" Knuckles leaped at him, fists ready to punch, but Sonic easily avoided it and ran behind Knuckles, who fell over.

"Why didn't I see that coming…" Knuckles mumbled.

Rouge was laughing, "It is you! You're the only one who would finally tell Knuckles what he is!"

"I'm not an idiot!" Knuckles yelled.

"Don't deny the truth," Rouge told him, her voice raising.

"I'm not denying it, I'm saying it isn't true!"

"Well neither is the fact that we both share custody of the Master Emerald!"

Now they were having a fight, "Don't start that again!"

"I can say what I want!"

As they argued, Sonic looked over at the little girl, who was hating every minute of the fight, tears falling down her face.

"Hey! You two knock it off!" Sonic yelled at them, shoving each of them onto the ground with a plop. The two were about to tear Sonic limb from limb, when he pointed at Amethyst.

"Oh… Sweetie… it's okay…" Rouge cooed, picking up the little girl.

"Yeah, we're just having a bad day," Knuckles told her, but the little girl didn't stop crying. Rouge then kicked Knuckles in the face, causing a knocked-out expression on his face. Amethyst began to crack up.

"Hee Hee Hee! Funny!" she cheered.

After a while, they had all gotten reacquainted and Rouge was now aware of Sonic's problem.

"Geeze… And it's not like you've been gone years…"

Knuckles looked over at Rouge, "Hey, you told her she should move on!"

"Yeah, I meant in a few years, not right away with the next guy she met."

Sonic stood out of the conversation. His biggest problem was where he would sleep tonight. Without a home, he'd freeze to death, it being winter and all.

Sonic couldn't stay with Knuckles. What about Rouge and Amethyst? He can't stay with Amy anymore, after today.

"Maybe… You could move into your old apartment?" Rouge suggested.

"Strange… I thought they destroyed that one, considering what happened in it." Sonic said aloud.

"They did? Hm…" Knuckles said.

All three sat in the living room, trying to think of a place for Sonic to stay.

"Hey! I know! You could live with Tails. I heard he was going to have to move in with Cream, but I don't see why he can't move in with you. All you gotta do is buy yourself a new apartment and no more worries," Knuckles suggested.

Sonic agreed to this and then ran off to go find Tails. "Bye guys!" He called before disappearing into the sunset.

In the city, Sonic ran about until coming to the complex where Tails lived. Apparently, he had his own apartment, but it got too lonely so he was going to sell it and move in with Cream.

Sonic was so excited, he didn't watch where he was going and collided with someone.

"Oops! Sorry about that!" Sonic said helping the person up, only to find that it was Tails who he ran into.

"Oh, that's alright…. What the!?" Tails yelled, realizing whom he hit. He took a few steps back, "B-b-b-b-but…"

"Tails!" Sonic yelled, embracing him in a hug, "I'm so glad to se you!"

"Eep! Uh… Nice to… see you to…" Tails was shocked, "Wait… Sonic?"

"Yeah?"

"Weren't you dead?"

"That's what I thought about you, but that sure wasn't true."

Tails thought about that, then gave Sonic a hug in return, "It is you!"

It took both boys to realize a whole lot of people were staring, and the fact that they were hugging in public, so they immediately pushed off of each other.

"Uh… So... How'd you… Come back?" Tails asked.

"I'll explain later, but in the meantime, can we get some food? I feel like I haven't eaten in months!"

Both froze at that, and then began to laugh so hard, their sides hurt.

After getting a bite to eat, Tails took Sonic up to his apartment.

"Hey, Sonic?" Tails asked.

"Yeah?"

"Uh… How come you aren't with Amy right now? I mean, she did miss you."

Sonic's cheerful expression faded, "I'm not happy with Amy right now…"

"Oh… I guess you met that Phillip guy, huh?"

"Yeah… So… That's the rat's name…"

"He's a hyena,"

"Then doesn't he laugh?"

It took Tails a minute to figure that out, "Maybe… he holds it back… I have seen his hands twitch like he's trying not to do something, and if you try to make him laugh, he gets really mad,"

Sonic remained silent.

"Why don't we change the subject…" Tails suggested.

"Okay. Oh Tails! I… wanted to ask you something…"

"What is it?"

"Uh… Since I'm not really living with Amy anymore… Do you think… Maybe…"

"You wanna be roommates again?"

"…We still finish each others sentences?"

"Weird isn't it!" They both yelled, and began to laugh all over again.

"Okay, you can go back to Amy's and get your stuff, I'll tell Cream she won't have to baby-sit me in her apartment."

Sonic snickered at the "baby-sit" but left to go get his stuff anyway. He still couldn't get what happened between Amy and him out of his mind.

Even though Sonic was so warm, he was so cold at the same time. Everything has changed. Moving on? Could it be betrayal? Or was it just his imagination playing a cruel trick on him?

The End

The End For A Chapter

The Renewal Of A Friendship

The Beginning Of A New Lifestyle

In Dedication

To all those Candies

That we got for Valentines Day

And are already gone

One Day Later

Wishes are Eternal