Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails " Prower, Knuckles The echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat or other character's made by Sonic Team. I do own RX and Maya hedgehog.
Summery: In a depressed moment, Amy does something no one had expected, and Knuckles faces something he had never expected to. Warning, Sonic Adventure 1 - 2 and Heroes spoilers.
/Telepathy/
A good deed gone wrong
Part II
Shielding his eyes from the intense green glow, Knuckles grunted as he noted the light dying down after a few seconds, the still of the air broken by a light gasp as a body fell down. "Amy, what the hell did you think you were...?" His angry words died off as he noted who was sitting on the ground before him. "Tikal?"
The peach colored Echidna girl looked up with a gasp, her blue eyes looking right at him with a confused stare. "You, you're the guardian?" Looking to the sides, she blinked a bit. "How, where am I?"
Completely put off guard, Knuckles could only close his mouth as he moved his gaze to the Master Emerald, the gem glowing as brightly as ever. Tikal was back, the only other one of his kind he had known somewhat, was back.
Only a few seconds later, did something else occur to him as he shook of the daze. "Where is Amy?" And a dark feeling formed in his stomach as he remembered her wish clearly.
Reaching the scene right after that, Tails and Cream panted from a frantic run as they watched Knuckles and the echidna girl, Tails blinking in surprise as her name came back to him. "Tikal, but how?"
Standing up with a small shaking to her legs, Tikal swept a stray quill back and cast a look at the one who asked the last question. "That, is something I would like to know as well."
"Amy." Knuckle muttered the name with a mixture of feelings behind it, his eyes having turned from Tikal to the Master Emerald. "She made a wish on it, and it was granted."
Even more puzzled, Tails scratched his head as he cast his focused from Tikal, to Knuckles and finally to the large green gem. "But, I didn't think the Master Emerald granted wishes."
With a more alarmed expression on her face, Tikal had turned to face the object behind her, a feeling of dread running through her body as she gazed into the interior of the emerald. "She made a wish, with her heart's full power, and the emerald granted it."
Growing concerned at that statement, Cream shyly stepped forward a bit, catching the female echidna's attention. "If the emerald granted Amy's wish, why isn't she here then?" Looking more distressed, Cream's ears began to fall down behind her head in a scared manner. "Did she wish for her to go away?"
Knuckles grunted a bit as he crossed his arms. "Her wish isn't important right now, what happened to her because of it is." Facing Tikal, he slowly sighed as he relaxed a bit as he noticed just how confused she was, as well as scared. "I'm guessing that there was a prize to pay for the wish?"
Shaken out of her own confused state, Tikal turned back to the others, a sad look filling her face. "Yes." Taking a deep breath as she tried to calm down, as well as get her thoughts and emotions back under control. "The master emerald is powerful, but it can't grant a spirit a new body without something to work from."
Looking even more distressed then before, Tails ears dropped down onto his head as he frowned deeply, his mind already figuring out what Tikal was talking about. "You mean, that when Amy wished for you to return..." The statement a good guess on his side, as her return could only mean something like that. "...She gave up her own life in return?"
Shaking her head in a negative way, Tikal lowered her head and closed her eyes. "Balance must be maintained, my spirit resided in the Master Emerald along with my friend Chaos, as my own body was lost years ago."
Knuckles eyes widen in shock, as he too understood what Tikal was saying. "She traded places with you, you became flesh and blood again, and Amy."
"Became a spirit residing inside the Master Emerald." Tails finished as he snapped his head around to face the gem.
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Opening her green eyes slowly, Amy shook of the daze and tiredness she felt. Her body aching like it wasn't used to moving around. "Sonic? Cream, Knuckles, Tails?" Calling out the names of her crush and friends, she blinked as no one answered her.
In fact, the whole world was oddly silent, except for a strange dripping sound nearby.
Pushing herself up, she stared into a brightly blue sky, puffy white clouds moving lazily across it, and all of it above the solid looking stones of the familiar emerald shrine, with nothing out of the ordinary. "Aw, it didn't work!"
Her words echoed through the air for a bit, her eyes filled with annoyance as she turned to leave the shrine, she stopped as she looked back up over her head. "Funny, I didn't think that the stone ceiling was still planted above the Shrine?" Her eyes moving to the side, she stared at seven thin stone pillars reaching high into the air. "And I know those weren't there last I checked."
Around her, several small eyes stared puzzle as the pink hedgehog talked with herself. Then the eyes moved as their owners talked with one another as quietly as they could. Reaching some kind of agreement, the small beings moved out to see who it was that had entered into their area.
Feeling a bit more unsure of where she was with each passing minute, Amy backed away from the Gem and stopped, Her ears twitching as they picked up a familiar sound nearby, something she had hard a lot in the last few years.
Turning around to face the origin of the sounds, she stopped moving as she saw several small blue and white creatures hovering in the air around her, curios looks on their small faces. "You're, chao."
"Chao!" Came the happy response as the being floated closer to her, several of them with a question mark over their heads as they moved around her, trying to poked her in a way to find out more about her. "Chao?" The whole thing stopped with a curious sound from them, the faint sound of dripping water fading away.
Amy blinked again as the small beings moved away from her, an uncertain feeling to them as they hovered about a meter away from her. "What's wrong?" Amy asked as the strange dripping sound filled the air again. And this time, she had clearly heard where the sound came from.
Turning around somewhat hesitantly, she froze as she faced a very familiar transparent creature about her height, a small pink brain floating around inside of its head as two huge green eyes focused on her in a questioning manner. "Chaos!"
The dripping sound filled the air again as Chaos stepped forward at her outburst, one arm lifting up to touch her as he came closer, his eyes narrowing a bit if it was even possible.
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"She's what!"
Holding his ear away from the small radio, Tails wondered if calling Sonic was such a good idea, but he needed to know what had happened. Yet, judging by the outburst, it might not have been the best thing to do at the moment. "I'm not sure, but Knuckles said she made a wish at the Master Emerald, and somehow, it came trough." Listing to the silence on the other end, Tails bit his lib a bit. "Tikal, said that she might."
The two-tailed Kitsune was interrupted as Sonic's voice shouted through the radio again, but in a surprise way instead of an angry one. "Tikal, what about her, is something wrong with the Master Emerald again?"
Turning to see Tikal and Knuckles quietly talking together, Tails shook his head a bit. "No, not really, from what I understand, she's here because of the wish Amy made."
A deep sigh followed that statement, and Tails would later swear he heard something like a head hitting a wall. "Okay, So Amy's gone, and Tikal's free from the Master Emerald."
Taking a deep breath, Tails got ready to hold the radio away from his ear. "Yeah."
The fact that he wasn't holding the radio close, was a good thing as several swear words come out of it less then a second later, drawing in the attention of Knuckles and Tikal who stared confused at the scene. And Cream, she was busy pressing her hands against her ears, several of the words matching those her mother didn't want her to hear, not yet at last.
TBC.
AN: Thanks you all for the many reviews, it made me very happy, and eager to finish this chapter of the story extra fast. Hope you all like the basic plot so far. And remember to review.
Review Response:CyberWarriorRose: Thanks for the comment, hope you like this chapter as well.
Eless the hedgecat: Romance? Um, I haven't really considered any couples. But I'll think about it, and see what I can come up with.
Knux girl: Thanks for the nice comment.
Dione Kitane: Thanks for the comments, I'll work on the description bits, and I'm trying to improve my grammer, hope it has gotten better since the last chapter.
Firehedgehog: It's okay, I know what it is like to be busy and in need of more time.
