Chapter 18: Pure Amazement
Shadow and Kyra spent the day together, but Shadow always seemed to want to go somewhere else. He was forced to go clothes shopping, shoe shopping, food shopping, and every other shopping, but nothing was bought. It was all just browsing. He seemed to memorize exactly what she wanted, for he nagged how annoying certain things were hours after leaving them.
"Its about…two hours until fireworks." Shadow looked to the sky for the time, Kyra found this quite strange.
"Uh…I won't ask.
What now?" Shadow stopped, a thought obviously came to mind that
would work in his favor.
"How about you go there," he pointed
to another dress shop, "and I'll go there." He already started
in the directing of the television store.
"…Fine…" The gray hedgehog rolled her eyes at his sudden laziness and scurried across the street to look at more fine skirts and formalwear.
Knuckles released the energy he had, sending out the most beautiful and destructive wave anyone has seen. The shadow of warriors screamed and scrambled about, only to be disintegrated by the green glow traveling around them. Every single one…gone. Their spears dropped hard on the ground, they had been real. Now it was just Sonic, Sarah, Knuckles, and Marko. But then it became just the three hedgehogs as Knuckles gave way to the darkness and fell down the hill after hitting the ground below his sacred gem.
"Knuckles!" Sonic ran to his side, not too fast so he could stop in time.
"Now that he's out of the way…" Marko started forward for the gem when something happened. Sonic could see it all now, but his dream was now different since…Sarah is here.
"No!" The purple hedgehog leaped forward, cutting off her father's path to the green jewel. She leaped and twirled in the air, smacking her father multiple times in the face with her hard grass shoes and powerful feet. He stumbled backward, running into the rock arch behind him.
"Sarah…!" He was amazed that the attack was so strong, and it came from his daughter.
"This is for leaving me when I was small!" She crouched low, once again created herself into the air, and brought her heel down hard right in the middle of Marko's body. A white light erupted from the slam, too bright to look at for anyone else. But it came to Sonic's attention…a voice.
"Thank you…Sonic, for bringing me and my father to peace after all these years." Sarah was in his head, telling him this.
"Sarah!" He shouted out right before the light dimmed, leaving Sonic at the head of the still unconscious echidna. The only ones there, and it looked as though no one else was ever there…
Nighttime, Shadow feared it for once. The park for the viewing of lights was packed, but Shadow had taken Kyra up in the trees…since…she (uh) wanted to. It wasn't the safest of all places to sit, or the most comfortable. So, she decided to hang on close to her loved black hedgehog, and to make it so he couldn't push her away. But to her surprise, he was the one who pulled her close, placing his hand around her waist and leaning her head on his shoulder.
"Shadow…" He made the sound for her to quiet as the first shot rang out above and people cheered their hearts out. It was a brilliant, long show and a never ending grand finale, but it was dark once again without the lights, and the two sat in the tree together.
"Shouldn't we get down now?" Kyra whispered.
"You want to?" He smiled, his eyes still closed. She laughed inside, letting go of one uneven breath.
Morning dawned on Sonic and he was back in the city. Tails had finally caught up with him, and Amy followed him to Sonic. Sarah was nowhere in sight, but the memories remained in the blue hedgehog. Knuckles had woken in the night, telling Sonic over and over again that he was fine and to go home.
"So…what happened?" Tails asked once again.
"Well…how about we just leave it a memory? Lets go down to the beach so I can finish my vacation." Tails agreed as the two best friends followed the car-stained road to the warm sand of the blue ocean.
"Whatever happened to Sarah?" The two tailed foxed asked for the first time.
"I guess we'll never know, will I…" Sonic trailed off as he got the well deserved rest he truly needed.
Sonic story done now, and that leaves us with Shadow. Next is the last chapter...so hold your breath...cant...breathe!...well that didnt work. Review pwease?