Author's Note: I wrote like a whole file in a day. For some odd reason. I mean, how smart am I. Aren't these supposed to take like, FOREVER!
File 7 Bright Smile
Entry 3 1 Thing
"You teamed up with Eggman?" Knuckles asked.
"We did it before," Amy argued.
"Yeah, but the world was at stake!"
"So? Now Sonic is at stake! He saved the world! What if after he dies, Eggman takes over?"
"Can we not talk about death?"
"Is there a problem, Knuckles?"
"Yeah, actually, there is."
"What's that? You're scared to die?"
"Who said that?"
Shadow sighed. "Are you going to stop?" He asked. Amy had splinted his arm, and they were sitting around a fire by the Doctor's ship. Unfortunately, the Doctor (the moron that he is) couldn't run heat inside the ship because of 'elementary issues'.
"What have you been up to anyway, Shadow?" Knuckles asked, looking like a haunted Echidna.
"Hm." Shadow replied. He didn't bother to reply to his question.
Amy sighed. "How are we supposed to make good conversation if no one wants to talk? It's ridiculous." No one said anything. "You see!" Amy cried.
"…G'morning…" The trio turned around to see a yawning Miserie.
"You're awake!" Amy said, smiling. "Great! We've got someone for you to meet."
"…Yeah…?" Miserie asked, rubbing her eye. She blinked at the fire and then looked up in the sky. "Was I asleep for so long?"
Shadow didn't say anything. Amy, however, put her two cents in.
"You were tired. We have been walking nonstop. You deserved that rest." Amy said.
Knuckles looked a little confused. "So who are you?" he asked.
Miserie looked over at him. Her green eye glinted. "…Hi!" she said, suddenly energetic. "I'm Miserie! Who are you?"
"I'm Knuckles." Knuckles said. He stared at her for a second. "Why do you have that over your eye?"
"My…oh. Uhm…" She smiled. "It's nothing big."
"Hmm." Knuckles said. He gave Amy a long stare.
As the four started talking, the moon rose higher above their heads. The fire died out and soon there was nothing left but smoldering ashes.
"…Is it really that big?" Miserie asked. She loved hearing about the Master Emerald. Knuckles, who understood it, had been telling her all about the Emerald.
"Yeah, it's really that big." Knuckles said.
"Wow!" Miserie squealed. "I want to see it!"
"Maybe after all of this is ov" Knuckles started to say when an explosion rattled the four onto their haunches.
"What the HELL!" Shadow cursed.
"Owwww!" Amy cried.
"Eeh?" Miserie said softly.
Knuckles had already fallen face first into still hot ashes. "Ahh! Hothothothothothotho"
"Oh my GOD, the forest! It's on fire!" Amy cried.
"Look!" Miserie pointed. Shadow looked. There was a figure in the fire!
"thothothothothothothot" Knuckles kept yelling. Shadow threw a rock at him.
As a burning tree fell in front of Amy, she screamed, "WAHHH! KILL HIM!"
Shadow got up to go help Amy, when he saw a tree falling where Miserie was. He quickly got her out of the way. Another explosion and the figure disappeared. Miserie shrilly shrieked, "NOOO! AMY! LOOK OUT!"
Above Amy's head was a third explosion. Shadow tossed Miserie onto the ship. "Stay there!" He told her.
"but Shadow"
"Stay!" He said firmly. He turned around to find Amy, scrambling around in the dirt. "Amy!" He yelled.
"Shadow!" Amy cried, sounding scared. There was a fourth explosion, sending Shadow reeling to his feet.
"What the hell!" He said angrily. He looked into the sky. He couldn't believe his eyes.
Knuckles had picked up Amy and bumped into Shadow on his way to the ship. "What are you- Oh my frickin GOD, what the hell are those!"
Above their heads was a bizarre display of lights, and dancing dizzily with them were planes that swerved and dove at a whim. The lights turned out to be some sort of explosive, and they blinked bright red before exploding into a wave of hell-like fire.
"Shadow!" Miserie called from the Ship. "hurry! The Doctor says we can leave soon!"
"My walkie-talkie!" Knuckles cried. "Where is it!"
"We can't stay and look for it!" Amy screamed at him from his arms. "It's probably broken by now!"
"She has a point." Shadow said.
"Hurry!" Miserie screeched.
Shadow took one last look at the light show. "Let's go." He said to Knuckles, who was looking for his walkie-talkie.
"Okay!" Knuckles and Amy chorused.
As they all got aboard the ship, Miserie grabbed onto Shadow's good arm.
"What are we gonna do?" she cried. Her lip started trembling. "We're so lost! Where are we gonna go?"
"Don't cry!" Shadow said. "We'll… figure out something…"