Author's Note: Yay, my second chappie!
Indescribable Loss, Chapter Two
It had been a couple days.
Amy was so hungry, that she would swim to shore if she could.
But she was too weak; she couldn't even stand.
Lying her head on the raft, Amy felt the motion of drifting on the sea. 'Everything is hopeless,' she thought. 'Tails should have seen me by now.' She rolled over onto her side, stomach rumbling. She stayed that way for half an hour, then got bored and felt around in the pocket of her tattered dress. She fumbled around for a while, and then retrieved some paper, a pen, and an empty aspirin bottle. "This should be interesting." She said. She unscrewed the cap, wrote an S.O.S. and stuck it in the bottle. "Oh please, reach the shore," She said to herself. "I am going to die here..." She said a little prayer, and sent the bottle afloat the rolling seas. She watched it bob up and down, tumbling in the waves, and disappear from sight before coming up again for awhile, until it was eventually out of view. She sighed, and couldn't help but think of Sonic.
She would cry, but she was too dehydrated and tired to cry right now. Not to mention hungry. 'How I couldn't go for a whole cow right now...' Amy sighed, and rubbed her stomach.
Tails, Rouge and Knuckles---------------------------------------------------
Tails was getting tired. He flew overhead, searching for any signs of Amy.
"Did you find her yet!", screamed Knuckles, getting impatient.
"NO! Not YET!", shouted back Tails. Rouge sighed, and yelled up to Tails.
"TAILS! I'll take over for you now!", she said, and Tails came back down, caressing his sore tails. Rouge scanned the horizon, squinting her eyes against the bright orange sun. She turned the other direction, hovering in place. She shrugged down at the other two. "I don't see her anywhere!"
"We should probably set up camp.", declared the fox, and the other two nodded.
Fifty minutes later, they had set up an emergency tent that Tails had brought with him, and a bonfire was blazing outside; the sky around them turning an indigo shade, the dull stars becoming brighter. Knuckles was out finding some food to roast, so the bat and the fox were left at the camp to talk.
"I really hope we can find Amy," Tails began. "She must be so afraid, wherever she is." Rouge mumbled in agreement.
"Really, I'm sure she's fine." She reasurred the young kitsune, stroking his head. "She can take care of herself." The fox locked his blue eyes with hers, and finally surrendered.
"If you say so."
Amy had given up all hope, and sighed as she stared out onto the endless horizon. Then suddenly, she heard a great roar, as if of an engine. Scrambling to the front of the raft, she squinted her eyes and tried to see in front of her. It was a motorboat speeding towards her, which eventually came to a jarring stop. Wondering who it was, she cautiously stood up on the sturdy logs as the crew filed outside.
It was the hedgehog and echidna, Shadow and Knuckles! "Shadow!" Amy cried, running up on deck and embracing him in a tight hug. "Knuckles!" She repeated as before. "Thanks so much for saving me!", she said gladly, and bowed down at the hips.
"No prob", assured the red-orange echidna, his sharp purple eyes softening. "We had to." Amy's grin turned into a full smile, and she once again admitted her happiness.
"Let's get going", Shadow said. "We have to get back to Rouge and Tails." Amy's eyes widened.
"They're okay!", exclaimed the pink hedgehog.
"Yes", replied her black-and-red companion. "See, Knuckles was with them. But he got captured." Amy looked over to him as he was mentioned, him nodding in reply. "So I rescued him, and we escaped with this boat I found docked at the shore. But we now have to return for them, otherwise we'll have to break them out too!", he finished.
"Definitely!", agreed Amy.
Reassured, Amy grinned as they sped back towards the island coastline. It was going to be a long day. But at least there would be food on the island, right...?
