Angry Passion, Chapter 5: Tails' Findings
I don't know if the chapters will keep coming as they do, I just got a Nintendo DS, which could keep me preoccupied. But I digress; here's your Chapter.
Tails' P.O.V.
I've been up for the past week in the library, barely able to keep my eyes open, looking at nothing but black and white smudges on newspaper. I can't fall asleep, I gotta do this… gotta do it for Sonic-c-c…
Snore…Next thing I know, I'm in a dream. Everything is black and white… I'm sick and tired of black and white! I clutch my head in frustration, who is Cinder? Where is she from? When am I going to find the answer?
"Tails…" called the voice. "Don't give up, you'll find your answer…" the voice was sweet and pure and innocent, unlike my cruel reality. Everything before me brought itself into an eclipse, the voice becoming a white light.
"Is this the end?" I whispered, scared out of my wits. I ran for the light, it came into my grasp… and I find myself staring at a newspaper again.
"June 23rd, 1964… Hedgehog Girl Gone Missing?" This certainly had to be the answer.
"Reports show that local resident, "Cinder" the Hedgehog, has gone missing and is nowhere to be found. 'She just disappeared into thin air,' says Robert the Hedgehog, her 8-year old brother. Police have checked every house, manor, and apartment, but the girl has seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth. Please report back to Station Square Police if found. She has dark brown fur and blue eyes, 3 spikes running down the back in a column-like fashion."
"This girl… Cinder. She's been missing for more than 40 years to this day. But the girl I saw a week ago couldn't be any more than 14. Is it possible advanced cryogenics existed way back when?" I thought aloud. "It doesn't matter. I gotta tell Sonic."
Normal P.O.V.
Tails rushed out of the Station Square Library and found Sonic outside. "Sonic," Tails gasped, out of breath. "I found something out about Cinder."
Sonic smiled. "Tell me the good news, little buddy."
"Well," Tails began. "Cinder is really a girl who got lost almost 40 years ago. She seems to have not aged at all these 41 years, and I'm suspecting cryogenics is to blame." Sonic scratched his furry blue head.
"But wait, what's cryogenics?" he asked.
"It's a process where a body is frozen in a block of ice and won't age while in stasis." Tails lectured. Sonic gave out a small "Oh." All of a sudden there was a large explosion in the heart of Station Square, to which our little heroes quickly scampered.
"It begins." Cinder stated. "It begins with a simple jewel robbery, a jewel priceless financially, but a value of power. But how might it work?" Cinder stared at the jewel in her hand, then to the molten door of the museum, then back to the jewel. It was red, like a ruby, and when the sun hit it, it would sparkle with oranges and yellows and pinks.
"Stop right there!" shouted Sonic.
"Why should I?" Cinder sneered. "I live by my own fashion. Maybe you should stop for a bit." Cinder circled her index finger around Sonic, creating a faint ring of fire, which glowed and grew into a larger ring.
Sonic was lifted into the air by Tails, and kept out of harm by the ring. Sonic charged at Cinder full speed, and Cinder blocked her face with her hands. Almost immediately, a shield of warmness appeared in front of her. Sonic took a sharp turn, missing the fire shield by a hair.
Cinder let the shield down, and prompted, "Sonic, I don't want to do this, but…" she was cut off by a click.
"Cinder! Where are you?" called the voice. Cinder held her ear closer to her face.
"I just got the gem. I'm in a fight with Sonic," she reported. "And don't talk so loud!"
"You need to report back to home base NOW," the voice insisted, to which Cinder replied with "Roger that."
With a simple command, Cinder placed one hand on the ground, the gem in the other, and skyrocketed to a building top. "Until we meet again, Sonic the Hedgehog!" she shouted. Cinder escaped, gem in hand, never to be seen again.
"Who was she speaking to, I wonder." Tails said questionably.
"I don't know, Tails, but I have the feeling it was Eggman up to his old tricks again," Sonic replied.
"Well, Sonic, we won't know until we know." Tails trailed off.
"I retrieved the jewel," Cinder stated calmly.
"Excellent, excellent," Robotnik replied. "Give it to me. I need to analyze it to make sure it's the real thing." Cinder casually handed it over and walked off.
In the meantime, Robotnik had finished the analyzation (STOP laughing!) of the jewel. "It is the real Fire Gem," he said. "It stabilizes heat around it, and has a strange effect around Cinder. It seems it gives her more control over it, to get out of a battle with Sonic alive and without machines."
The gem made him wonder. Perhaps another being was sealed inside, giving power to whoever it was with, like the Chaos Emeralds? Only time would tell him this. For now, he could just sit back and watch.
Another short chapter? I'm really starting to bog down on my work. - -; Anyway, I have noticed I get reviews about every other chapter. It makes me sad… oh well. Have a good one, guys and gals.