Meichan: THE EVIL ONE IS BAAAAACK!! Yup, it's me alright. I have
returned. There you have it, as blunt as I can get-well actually I can get
worse. Thanks to all the reviewers that well, reviewed. And this chapter
is dedicated to everyone and also my best friend-no, not you Seth-my best
friend Jessica. You have always helped me out when times were rough, even
when I was being a burden to you-hey I was five, so sue me.
Seth: TOO MUCH MUSH. NEED. AIR.*falls over*
Meichan: Shut up Seth, I have my reasons.heeeeeey, HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE?!!!
Seth: I have my ways of getting into my little hikari's mind.
Meichan: Grrrr.stupid Yami of mine.
Seth: I'll ignore that-for the moment. And by what means are these 'reasons' you keep referring too? We'd all love to know, do pray tell.
Meichan: Oh, just the fact that my Yami is a psychotic, egotistical, baka and I'm the little innocent hikari. *sniffs*
Seth: .yeah sure, let's just get on with fic; I have better things to do than baby-sit you.
Meichan: *pouts* I am not a baby, just because you're taller doesn't mean anything!
Seth: Face it kiddo, you're the shortest in the entire grade level, not to mention that many of the 6th graders from that school near by are indeed taller-and you're a freshman!
Meichan: Well you're the pyromaniac! Ugh.never mind, *blushing* let's just get started on the fic.
Seth: 'Bout damn time.
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Part Four
Maria, Maria
Kyou mo kitto kono machi no dokoka de
Deatte Me ga atta futari
Hageshiku maku ga aketeku
Again, somewhere in this city today
Two people will meet and fall in love;
The curtains are violently opened;
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"Hey Tristan, look over here!" Tristan ran up to his friend Jessica who was pointing at something that looked like a blue fur ball that just got coughed up by some cat. "Do you think it's still.alive?" Tristan looked at her for a moment and poked the lifeless looking 'thing' with a stick he found near by. "Eh, dunno, but then again everyone that lives in this realm IS dead you moron." Sonic felt something poking him and groaned. "Jess, he's starting to wake." He looked at her and she gave him a nervous glance. "I've got one word Tristan, RUN!" And they ran and they ran. "Huh-wha.?" Sonic looked around looking for something that at least looked remotely familiar.
//What the hell did I get myself into now? // Sonic though to himself not realizing that someone was watching his every move.
"Don't you remember Sonic?" A voice spoke up from behind him. Sonic whirled around pissed that someone would just go and enter his mind like that, but what he saw amazed him. "You're-you're that girl Shadow kept on mentioning!"
*flashback*
Shadow was gripping onto Sonic's hand gazing into his brilliant emerald eyes.
"Sonic go on, let go, you won't make it if don't let go!"
"NO! I WON'T LET YOU DIE!!"
"Sonic, I."
"Losing you would be like losing a part of my soul-you're like a brother to me; you're the only one who truly understands what it's like to be different, to never know why."
Shadow stared at him fixated on the azure hedgehog that he had only known for a short while. Shadow closed his eyes and sent Sonic a mental image of the one he lost that was so dear to him. All of Shadow's memories were suddenly flooding into Sonic's mind, all the joy, bliss, anger, and pain he had suffered in his short life-span. Shadow opened his eyes revealing the tears that he held back for 50 years. Sonic just looked at him amazed.
"Sonic that is why I have to go, it's already my time. I've lived long enough in this world, and don't let my death be in vain."
Sonic looked at him wide-eyed. "Shadow stop talking like that, you're gonna make it!"
"Sonic...promise me, "
"Yes, anything!"
"Don't ever loose that innocence, don't let the dark win. I promise you, I will return.in a way you'll never expect."
And with let that he let go, falling into the planet's gravitational pull; the pull that would end his very life. Sonic couldn't believe what had happened; his new friend was gone forever. "Sayonara Shadow, the Hedgehog."
*end flashback*
"That I am, Sonic. That I am."
He stared at the ground; he was tired, not physically but emotionally. "Then tell me, where the hell AM I?" She looked at him and smiled sheepishly, this was going to be hard trying to talk to an over-hyper and rather sardonic azure hedgehog. "Shadow did warn me that you were impatient-so I'll just get to the point. You're in Limbo, Sonic you're dead." Well that was blunt, blunt as you can get especially for an angel. "I'm.dead?" Maria nodded in reply wondering about his reaction. And yet it surprised her. "Whoa.COOL!!"
"Sonic! How could you think like that? You've got friends down on Earth that truly are gonna miss you-and yet all you can say is "cool"?" Maria scolded.
"Well yeah.NO MORE AMY!!!! LIFE-WAIT, DEATH COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!"
Maria sweat-dropped at the sight him literally bouncing off the walls laughing hysterically like a mad man. No one said this was gonna be easy, but did it have to be this hard? She sighed to herself hoping that it would finally click in his feeble mind sometime soon, come to think of it; they didn't have very much time to begin with.
"Sonic please calm down, there is a reason why you're here and it's not to spend all of eternity in your own little world. Shadow is in need of your help once more and we don't have very much time." Sonic immediately stopped at the mention of his late friend.
"Shadow." he mouthed almost inaudibly, but Maria had caught it. "I can't help you! I couldn't help him then, and what makes you think that I can help him now?!" His lash out surprised her very much; the boy was troubled and deeply affected by Shadow's death. "Oh Sonic, it wasn't you're fault that he did what he did-it just happed to turn out that way, Shadow wasn't even supposed to die and neither were you. Sonic these were merely freak accidents; there was really nothing you could do. Once Shadow's mind is set, there's no backing down, the same goes for you too little one." Sonic looked at her, unaware of the tears streaking down his face. The pain and heartache he must have endured were now present in his emerald eyes, the memory of Shadow's death was forever etched into his soul; this feeling Maria knew all too well.
"Tell me, what can I do?" His eyes pleaded at her, begging away at her own crystal blue eyes. "Listen well Sonic, Shadow's body is still alive but his soul is somewhere else. Shadow needs to be reunited with it in three weeks, and that's not a lot of time. I need you to go back and search for his body but beware it's not gonna be a pretty sight to see."
"But Maria, where is his soul? I mean shouldn't he be here, with us?"
"No he's not. I sent him back; he's currently residing in a host body I've chosen. If I hadn't, his soul would be stuck here and he would have never been able to keep his promise he made to you." He looked at her oddly, "What promise.?"
"The promise that he'll be back, and in a way you'll never expect." She replied.
"But how am I gonna get back, you said I'm dead."
She smiled mischievously at him. "Did I say dead? What I meant was unconscious and sinking deeper and deeper into the ocean. Remember your little 'accident'?" Sonic gulped, he hated water and what was worse was the fact that he couldn't swim. Does everyone know I can't swim? "Well actually yes, everyone knows you can't swim." The look on his face gave her a bit of satisfaction, knowing she had tugged the right strings there was no way in hell that Sonic was going to let himself die in such a dishonorable defeat.
"Quit reading my mind, Miss. Maria."
"Whoops sorry there, Sonic dear." Sonic walked around a bit contemplating the information that he had just learned. "And what if I were to refuse this offer.?" Maria knew exactly where this was going. "You'd get thrown into Hell and the only company you'll have will be dear o' Amy Rose."
"Noooooooooo!!! I do anything, anything. Just don't make go there with tha-that pink psycho!!! Please, I beg you!!" Wow.my plan worked after all.
"I'll there to assist you since you'll need my guidance. I'll go in a different body of course, that way I won't draw any attention from Shadow. He already knows about my other form but he knows me as Angel the Hedgehog, not Maria Robotnik."
"I see, so who's the lucky host? You didn't tell me his name."
"Well you see.Sonic dear, um.uh it's a girl and her name is.uh."
Oh no, please no. Oh dear God no.not her.Sonic though to himself.
".her name is Amy Rose the Hedgehog."
Sonic's face went deathly pale. "Oh dear God help us all."
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Seth: TOO MUCH MUSH. NEED. AIR.*falls over*
Meichan: Shut up Seth, I have my reasons.heeeeeey, HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET HERE?!!!
Seth: I have my ways of getting into my little hikari's mind.
Meichan: Grrrr.stupid Yami of mine.
Seth: I'll ignore that-for the moment. And by what means are these 'reasons' you keep referring too? We'd all love to know, do pray tell.
Meichan: Oh, just the fact that my Yami is a psychotic, egotistical, baka and I'm the little innocent hikari. *sniffs*
Seth: .yeah sure, let's just get on with fic; I have better things to do than baby-sit you.
Meichan: *pouts* I am not a baby, just because you're taller doesn't mean anything!
Seth: Face it kiddo, you're the shortest in the entire grade level, not to mention that many of the 6th graders from that school near by are indeed taller-and you're a freshman!
Meichan: Well you're the pyromaniac! Ugh.never mind, *blushing* let's just get started on the fic.
Seth: 'Bout damn time.
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Part Four
Maria, Maria
Kyou mo kitto kono machi no dokoka de
Deatte Me ga atta futari
Hageshiku maku ga aketeku
Again, somewhere in this city today
Two people will meet and fall in love;
The curtains are violently opened;
* * *
"Hey Tristan, look over here!" Tristan ran up to his friend Jessica who was pointing at something that looked like a blue fur ball that just got coughed up by some cat. "Do you think it's still.alive?" Tristan looked at her for a moment and poked the lifeless looking 'thing' with a stick he found near by. "Eh, dunno, but then again everyone that lives in this realm IS dead you moron." Sonic felt something poking him and groaned. "Jess, he's starting to wake." He looked at her and she gave him a nervous glance. "I've got one word Tristan, RUN!" And they ran and they ran. "Huh-wha.?" Sonic looked around looking for something that at least looked remotely familiar.
//What the hell did I get myself into now? // Sonic though to himself not realizing that someone was watching his every move.
"Don't you remember Sonic?" A voice spoke up from behind him. Sonic whirled around pissed that someone would just go and enter his mind like that, but what he saw amazed him. "You're-you're that girl Shadow kept on mentioning!"
*flashback*
Shadow was gripping onto Sonic's hand gazing into his brilliant emerald eyes.
"Sonic go on, let go, you won't make it if don't let go!"
"NO! I WON'T LET YOU DIE!!"
"Sonic, I."
"Losing you would be like losing a part of my soul-you're like a brother to me; you're the only one who truly understands what it's like to be different, to never know why."
Shadow stared at him fixated on the azure hedgehog that he had only known for a short while. Shadow closed his eyes and sent Sonic a mental image of the one he lost that was so dear to him. All of Shadow's memories were suddenly flooding into Sonic's mind, all the joy, bliss, anger, and pain he had suffered in his short life-span. Shadow opened his eyes revealing the tears that he held back for 50 years. Sonic just looked at him amazed.
"Sonic that is why I have to go, it's already my time. I've lived long enough in this world, and don't let my death be in vain."
Sonic looked at him wide-eyed. "Shadow stop talking like that, you're gonna make it!"
"Sonic...promise me, "
"Yes, anything!"
"Don't ever loose that innocence, don't let the dark win. I promise you, I will return.in a way you'll never expect."
And with let that he let go, falling into the planet's gravitational pull; the pull that would end his very life. Sonic couldn't believe what had happened; his new friend was gone forever. "Sayonara Shadow, the Hedgehog."
*end flashback*
"That I am, Sonic. That I am."
He stared at the ground; he was tired, not physically but emotionally. "Then tell me, where the hell AM I?" She looked at him and smiled sheepishly, this was going to be hard trying to talk to an over-hyper and rather sardonic azure hedgehog. "Shadow did warn me that you were impatient-so I'll just get to the point. You're in Limbo, Sonic you're dead." Well that was blunt, blunt as you can get especially for an angel. "I'm.dead?" Maria nodded in reply wondering about his reaction. And yet it surprised her. "Whoa.COOL!!"
"Sonic! How could you think like that? You've got friends down on Earth that truly are gonna miss you-and yet all you can say is "cool"?" Maria scolded.
"Well yeah.NO MORE AMY!!!! LIFE-WAIT, DEATH COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!"
Maria sweat-dropped at the sight him literally bouncing off the walls laughing hysterically like a mad man. No one said this was gonna be easy, but did it have to be this hard? She sighed to herself hoping that it would finally click in his feeble mind sometime soon, come to think of it; they didn't have very much time to begin with.
"Sonic please calm down, there is a reason why you're here and it's not to spend all of eternity in your own little world. Shadow is in need of your help once more and we don't have very much time." Sonic immediately stopped at the mention of his late friend.
"Shadow." he mouthed almost inaudibly, but Maria had caught it. "I can't help you! I couldn't help him then, and what makes you think that I can help him now?!" His lash out surprised her very much; the boy was troubled and deeply affected by Shadow's death. "Oh Sonic, it wasn't you're fault that he did what he did-it just happed to turn out that way, Shadow wasn't even supposed to die and neither were you. Sonic these were merely freak accidents; there was really nothing you could do. Once Shadow's mind is set, there's no backing down, the same goes for you too little one." Sonic looked at her, unaware of the tears streaking down his face. The pain and heartache he must have endured were now present in his emerald eyes, the memory of Shadow's death was forever etched into his soul; this feeling Maria knew all too well.
"Tell me, what can I do?" His eyes pleaded at her, begging away at her own crystal blue eyes. "Listen well Sonic, Shadow's body is still alive but his soul is somewhere else. Shadow needs to be reunited with it in three weeks, and that's not a lot of time. I need you to go back and search for his body but beware it's not gonna be a pretty sight to see."
"But Maria, where is his soul? I mean shouldn't he be here, with us?"
"No he's not. I sent him back; he's currently residing in a host body I've chosen. If I hadn't, his soul would be stuck here and he would have never been able to keep his promise he made to you." He looked at her oddly, "What promise.?"
"The promise that he'll be back, and in a way you'll never expect." She replied.
"But how am I gonna get back, you said I'm dead."
She smiled mischievously at him. "Did I say dead? What I meant was unconscious and sinking deeper and deeper into the ocean. Remember your little 'accident'?" Sonic gulped, he hated water and what was worse was the fact that he couldn't swim. Does everyone know I can't swim? "Well actually yes, everyone knows you can't swim." The look on his face gave her a bit of satisfaction, knowing she had tugged the right strings there was no way in hell that Sonic was going to let himself die in such a dishonorable defeat.
"Quit reading my mind, Miss. Maria."
"Whoops sorry there, Sonic dear." Sonic walked around a bit contemplating the information that he had just learned. "And what if I were to refuse this offer.?" Maria knew exactly where this was going. "You'd get thrown into Hell and the only company you'll have will be dear o' Amy Rose."
"Noooooooooo!!! I do anything, anything. Just don't make go there with tha-that pink psycho!!! Please, I beg you!!" Wow.my plan worked after all.
"I'll there to assist you since you'll need my guidance. I'll go in a different body of course, that way I won't draw any attention from Shadow. He already knows about my other form but he knows me as Angel the Hedgehog, not Maria Robotnik."
"I see, so who's the lucky host? You didn't tell me his name."
"Well you see.Sonic dear, um.uh it's a girl and her name is.uh."
Oh no, please no. Oh dear God no.not her.Sonic though to himself.
".her name is Amy Rose the Hedgehog."
Sonic's face went deathly pale. "Oh dear God help us all."
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