Chapter 16 I'm Falling Even More In Love With You

"Sonic?" the voice said again

Sonic turned slowly.

"A-Aurora..."

She walked toward him slowly.

He took a step back,"B-but you're- I mean I thought you were-"

Before he could say another word Aurora threw her arms around him.

At first he was startled and did nothing but he found his arms slowly lifting until they were around her as well.

"Just hold me..." she whispered.

He closed his eyes "Aurora..."

They were both silent for awhile, just frozen in their embrase as if there was no one else in the world but them. Every second that passed just made them fall more inlove with eachother.

"Sonic, please, don't ever let me go..."

He stroaked her face.

His eyes opened a little.

"I thought I'd lost you again..." he said softly.

She grabbed his hand and kissed it softly, "I'm never lost to you."

She looked up at him, she looked so beautiful, the fire flies around them made her face glow.

"No matter where I am, I'll always," she brought a hand to his chest,"be in your heart." She smiled, "I know you'll always be in mine."

"Aurora..."

Aurora slid her hands up Sonic's chest, giving him that sensual tingling feeling, and all the way back around his neck.

He kissed her neck, her head rolled back and she moaned in delight, then he held her close. I've never felt like this before.. He thought. I wish we could just stay like this forever..

They let go of eachother, and she looked up at him, eyes half way closed.

All he wanted to do was kiss her and for that instant nothing else mattered to him. From the look in Aurora's eyes she wanted to kiss him too.

Sonic stared at her seriously, then grabbed her arm.

Sonic lightly grabbed her chin and began to bring her face toward him.

"Sonic..." she said quietly.

He licked his lips,"Don't speak..."

Aurora breathed slowly and jitterly, her heart was beating a million times a minute.Her eyes tottered back and forth in a fearful way even though she wasn't scared.

Their lips were very close now.

Her eyes closed and in a whispered breathy voice, she said, "I love you, Sonic the hedgehog..."

Their lips just barely touched.

I love you... He thought.

Suddenly Aurora burst back out of his arms flinching in pain.

"Aurora? What's wrong?" Sonic asked concerned.

She cuddled her head on his shoulder, "Just a little longer..."

Just a little longer? Why did she say that? What was wrong with her?

She flinched again and cried out.

She held her head, "STOP IT!" she screamed.

"Aurora!" he ran to her.

She pushed him back, "Stay away from me!"Aurora shook her head hard, "GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" She looked directly at Sonic with pleading in her eyes,"RUN!" Aurora threw her head back,"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Then suddenly she was perfectly fine.

"Aurora! Are you okay?"

She laughed, "Of course I'm okay. Now where we?" she said resuming their current position.

Sonic held her back, "What happend?"

"It was nothing. Don't worry about it."

Nothing? "No! You're lying to me."

"I would never do that." she said walking toward him,"Trust me."

Trust me? Where have I heard that before?

"Trust me," she said again.

She slowly slid her hands onto his shoulders and then she tried to kiss him.

Sonic almost went back into it when something inside his head screamed an answer to his question, "MY DREAM!"

Something doesn't feel right. He held her back.

He gazed deeply into her eyes, but there was no Aurora there.

"You're not Aurora!"

Aurora glared at him.

Sonic finally noticed the blinking red light on her forehead.

He reached to take it off, but Aurora grabbed his hand.

"Shut up, you fool." said a mixture of Aurora and Dr. Eggman's voice.

"Eggman! What have you done to her!"

"I couldn't afford anymore mistakes so I made some adjustments."

"What have you done with her!"

"Oh she's here, just barely, after I kill you, I'm going to dispose of this body and Aurora will be gone."

A silver dagger buzzed threw the air.

Aurora caught it.

"But don't worry I'm sure you'll meet in another life. HAHAHAHAHA!"

Aurora went to stab Sonic but Sonic grabbed her hand.

"Give up! One way or another you're both going to die!"

Sonic grabbed Aurora's arms, "Aurora! Can you hear me?"

Aurora smacked him and he fell.

"HAHAHA!"

Sonic stood and tried again, he gazed deeply into her eyes as if trying to find her, "Aurora! Come back! I love you!"

Sonic froze. He was shocked that those words slipped from his lips, I love you? Yeah he had thought it, but he'd never said it to anyone before and after all that time of denaying it and lying to himself he had finally just let it out.

Aurora kicked him back, "You might as well be romancing me because I'm practically the only one in here!"

Aurora kicked Sonic down then stabbed him in the gut.

Sonic held the dagger, and coughed.

"HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHA!"

"SHUT UP!" Sonic said kicking her.

Sonic coughed again and pulled the dagger out.

He struggled to get out of the water but Aurora chased after him.

Aurora grabbed him, turned him around, and punched him. Sonic fell on his back splashing water everywhere.

Aurora bent down grabbed him by the throat and pushed him under. He struggled for air.

Sonic brought a foot up and kicked her off of him. Then grabbed her and held her under.

WHAT AM I DOING! I'M GOING TO KILL HER!

Sonic brought her up so she could breath.

"Go ahead and kill her, I don't care." Aurora chuckled.

Sonic just breathed.

"Very well then, I'll kill you!"

Without warning Aurora stabbed Sonic again, this time dangeriously close to his heart.

Sonic made a choking noise as he reached to remove it.

Aurora brought the dagger back to deliver another blow but Sonic moved out of the way, then turned and kicked her.

Sonic quickly made his way out of the water and ran (the best he could) away.

Sonic staggered through the dark trying to find his way out of the forest.

Millions of thoughts were racing through his mind, but Sonic didn't have enough strength to figure out what do do about them all.

He was breathing hard, the kind of breathing you might hear when someone is having an ashma attack.

He strength was ceasing with every step he took.

He stumbled through as he dripped and fell into a puddle. He tried to use a tree branch to help himself stand back up but he wound up falling back down again.

"GET BACK HERE SONIC!" Aurora and Eggman's voice shouted.

Sonic coughed hard then tried again to lift himself back up with the tree branch and succeeded.

He just hung onto the tree branch while standing trying to catch his breath.

"I still have Aurora!" Aurora and Eggman's voice shouted.

Sonic stopped and looked back.

"Meet me on the bridge at Meteor Head tomorrow night, at midnight, or you'll never see Aurora again!" the voices shouted.

Sonic thought about it and went on.

"Don't worry Aurora, I'll save you," he said to himself.

Suddenly he tripped again, dirt collected into his wounds.

His open wounds were hurting emencly now, it was so painful Sonic fell on his back groaning in pain for abot 15 minutes.

He finally gathered up enough strenghth to carry on then continued out of the forest and made it out.

Things around him started to blur.

"I've got to stay awake." he said to himself quietly.

He made it to the street of sation square, his vision was double now and he could barely stand now.

'Sonic?" he heard a voice say as it echoed through his head.

He looked for the source of the voice, he saw two black blobs.

"Are you okay?" it asked.

He couldn't believe it! He knew who the voice was! But how could this be?

Sonic strained to say his name, "Sh-Sh-Shadow?"

Then he collapsed.