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A/N: Please don't kill me! I know I should have posted sooner, but not only was this chapter hard to write, but I have also been very busy working on speeches and stuff like that for debates. Plus; it was hard putting the lines into that nice smooth way that I'm known for for some reason. On top of that I have been working out getting ready for football season. Coach wants me to weigh 210 pounds in solid muscle and I only weigh 204.
Yeah I know it's not an excuse! And I am sorry to keep you guys waiting...
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"Amy killing you! Like that will ever happen…." Tails joked as he looked at a still shocked hedgehog sitting on a chair in their kitchen. " It was all just a dream Sonic, I don't think that Amy even has the audacity of even thinking about something as that…"
Tails walked toward his shaking friend with a cup of orange juice and handed it to him sympathetically; worried about his friend.
"Like I told Shadow Tails, I've had nightmares before, but this on is trying to tell me something…It felt so real…"
Tails chuckled.
"Sonic this is Amy we are talking about?" Tails mentioned. "Plus, its probably your subconscious telling you to stop treating her the way you do…"
Sonic simply glared at Tails in animosity.
"What?"
The Balance: Bartering
Ever since Sonic awoke from his dream, no, his nightmare. He had not been able to stop thinking about it; reiterating in his head over and over again as if he was watching something of his distaste by force.
He couldn't understand it, but it had felt so genuine to him. His neck still stung by the thought and he kept chafing his head occasionally to ease the throbbing, unnatural twinge on the right side of his skull. The same spot were Amy hit him with her hammer in his daunting, ghastly dream.
Shadow had told him that he had just slept in a wrong position or maybe fell off the bed, but that wasn't enough for him. The thought of coincidence was too volatile to assume; including that he had felt as if he was hit by something.
Using his harsh words of generosity, that Shadow normally said to Sonic when he was being ignorant, wasn't even braking down the wall of anxiety. Soon, though, the irritated black hedgehog had gotten sick of the blue hedgehog's manner and began to ignore him completely, heading off to his early morning run (skate).
On the other hand, Tails stayed by his friend side, still worried about his long time friend; brother in soul and in an odd way he could feel what Sonic was feeling. Though he never experienced anything such as Amy killing him in a dream, Tails knew how it felt for he himself had nightmares of him dying before in his life as well.
And the same comforting knowledge that was passed down to him by the cerulean hedgehog ironically was going to be the same thing he was going to tell his friend.
"Sonic…" Said Tails as he handed the orange juice to him again.
The hedgehog looked up and saw a glass of orange liquid and took the juice. Though his hands were still shaking, he was able to put the glass to his mouth and sip its contents; slowly bringing the glass down on the table.
"Remember what you always told me about dreams…" Tails said as he pulled up a chair next to Sonic, sitting on it.
Sonic looked at his friend and smiled.
"That they only are true if you have it more than once." They both said simultaneously.
The quilled anthro looked down on the table as he began to fiddle with the glass of juice in front of him, moving it so it would swirl in a way.
"And isn't this just your first time Sonic?" Tails asked.
"Yes…it is Tails."
"Then what are you so worked up for?"
Sonic sighed, his shaking dwindling.
"I suppose you are right, but you don't understand…" The hedgehog replied sadly bringing his head down once again.
Tails looked at him in question.
"Understand what?" The fox asked in question, head moving to the side a little.
Sonic looked at Tails once again.
"Out of all the people, why was it Amy? I understand if it was Eggman, Metal Sonic, heck even Shadow, but why Amy? Out of all the people that I know, why her? It just doesn't make any sense…"
"And are they supposed too?"
A long silence passed by as the hedgehog and the fox locked looks.
Sonic weakly smiled at Tails.
"No…"
The now tranquil hedgehog stood up from his chair and gulped down the rest of his juice and walked toward the stairs.
"Where are you going?"
Sonic turned his head around looking at Tails at the corner of his eye.
"To my room." Sonic answered in a wary tone. "Just getting some time to clear my mind…"
"O.K. whatever…" Tails replied nonchalantly, shrugging as he stood up himself as well. "When you come back down we have to head for my workshop. There is something I want you to try out…."
Sonic put his right hand up in acknowledgment as he continued to rise up the steps.
While Sonic was turned around, the two-tailed fox noticed something while the hedgehog climbed the steps…
Tails stared at Sonic's back and squinted his eyes. There was a gash on the back of his right upper quill and it was the area where the hedgehog assumed he got hit in the dream he had.
Tails blinked once and the gash was gone…
Confused, the fox shook his head and walked toward the kitchen, but he couldn't help wonder…
"Hey! Sonic!" The orange fox yelled as the cerulean hedgehog was about to open his door.
"Yeah Tails?"
The fox shook his head again wondering if he was collaring Sonic's paranoia. Plus, he didn't want him to think he was daft or give him a reason to freakout again.
"Never mind…"
Waving, the hedgehog opened his door and slowly walked in sitting on the right edge of his bed.
Despite Tails words, he thought still lingered in his head, stuck in the front of his mind. He tried to think of happy moments in his life, but the vision would just burn through to the top of his head. Sonic couldn't stop thinking about it and he wondered when he would stop.
He looked up at his group picture and for some reason he stared at Rouge. He took his head down again, but looked at portrait in the corner of his eye to see that the picture on the wall had changed.
The white bat was covered in blood; beaten to a pulp and Amy was standing right next to her holding her hammer in the air.
The same heinous pink hedgehog that Sonic saw in his dream…
The blue hedgehog jumped back immediately in fear falling over the bed, hitting the carpeted parterre headfirst. He got back up rubbing his yet again throbbing head and peered at the image with one eye open.
Everything went back to normal…
Sonic sighed and slumped himself onto the bed in confusion and frustration.
"What in the hell wrong with me…."
Amy had awakened at a premature hour than she normally awoke at and had just been lying on her bed pondering about the reverie she had last night. All she remembered was a voice similar to hers saying that she was going to change. The pink hedgehog swore though that there was more to it, but the more she tried to remember the more it seemed to float away from her mind.
As if something in her was blocking it…
She was used to these kind of frightening unexplainable dreams though, due to her parents deaths she would dream about them once or twice a year and none of them were very amiable…
The alarm rang and she simply bent over to the side and turned it off.
"8:00 AM, guess it's time to get up…"
The hedgehog slowly pushed herself off her divan and headed toward the bathroom to wash herself off and do the regular routines you would do in the morning. When she was done, Amy put on her normal white bathroom robe, walked out the bathroom, and began to go down the stairs…
As she was about to take the last step, Amy felt jolts run through her entire body.
Her instincts had kicked in; which was odd because her natural animal nature never kicked in, except only at times of determination. Like when she was saving the flicky bird from the robot that Eggman had created.
So this was a little different than past events, almost as if her subconscious was trying to tell her something.
Amy looked down wondering what the feeling was about and scrutinized her surroundings. Noticing that nothing seemed out of the ordinary, the hedgehog took the last step and continued walking to her bar-like kitchen. She picked up her T.V remote and turned her television on that was in the living room putting on the news channel.
Amy walked to her refrigerator that was next to the washing machine and looked down realizing that she had stepped on something wet with her bare foot. Slowly bending over, she picked the clothing of the floor as drops of water began to hit the tiles below.
Her red dress was soaked…
"Why are my clothes wet?" She said aloud to herself. "Didn't I take a Taxi to avoid being wet by the rain last night?"
Amy tried a bit harder to commemorate her thoughts, but the only thing she remembered was that she and Rouge were running through the grass. Everything from that moment on was a blur.
The pink hedgehog tried harder, but the more she tried; the foggier it would get…
"Why can't I remember anything?" Amy asked as she held out the wet clothes front of her. "What… happened yesterday?"
Suddenly there was a knock on the door followed by the door bell ringing, but Amy didn't notice it until it went off a second time, for she was more focused on getting her thoughts together.
Coming back to reality, Amy put the wet clothing over her right fore arm and walked out of the kitchen then to her door down the living room. She opened the door to see a black hedgehog standing before her. His arms were folded and he had a very serious half-agitated look on his face.
"Shadow! What are you doing here?"
"If you are going to be freaked out forever over some irrelevant dream be my guess, but I'm not going to sugar coat anything for you!" Shadow snapped frustrated before he stepped out the door of Sonic's Town House tenement.
"GET OVER IT!"
The black hedgehog slammed the door behind him and walked down a couple of stairs leading to the sidewalk.
"That hedgehog…getting worked up over a dream…" Shadow mumbled to himself as he stood still on the sidewalk, absorbing the warm morning sun against his black fur almost instantly.
Truthfully, Shadow was worried about him, but he hated to see Sonic the way he was. He was angry not by the way Sonic was acting, but by how weak he seemed. Shadow always looked toward Sonic as being the type of person to deal with all problems. Even when it came to feelings, Sonic was always the one to be in complete control.
In spite of being the Ultimate Life, Shadow always felt weaker than Sonic for he had the ability to handle his feelings better. He was able to contain anger and grief within himself; something that the black hedgehog was never good at…
With a sigh, the hedgehog trudged forward keeping a well-paced run. Soon his rocket skates began to flare from the sole of his light metallic shoes and he took of in a streak of red and black.
After about a good thirty minutes, Shadow was making his return and he noticed that he was approaching Amy's house.
He didn't quite understand the feeling that he felt wedge within himself, but something was telling him to stop. Shadow was always the person to follow his instincts and intuition at all times so he followed what his brain was telling him, halting to a stop.
Quickly the black anthro got out of the street and to the sidewalk, and stood before the house of the female hedgehog.
For some reason a strange poignancy suddenly fell on Shadow. Feelings that he only felt at times of battle or dangerous situations.
The feeling was caution…
Which was very strange, since there was no type of danger around unless a drunk driver was about to run his or her car on the sidewalk and attempt to run him over.
Shadow, though, thought this feeling was preposterous. Why would he feel this way approaching Amy's residence?
Suddenly it struck him. Shadow remembered the dream Sonic had about Amy and he looked to the side in wonder.
Shadow chuckled…
"This is ridiculous…" He said as he approached the house hold and commenced knocking on it and ringing the door bell.
No answer…
Annoyed, Shadow touched the button again and stood back folding his arms.
The door opened and the pink hedgehog emerged from her house.
"Shadow! What are you doing here?"
The ebony hedgehog's eyes battered back and forth looking for an excuse.
"Umm, I was just a little worried about you… after- you know… yesterday."
Amy glared at Shadow. A face that the black anthro never expected to come from a person like Amy.
"What do you care! All you boys are the same!" She spat. "You would have done the same thing too!"
Shadow was a bit taken back by the remark.
"I…"
"What!"
The black hedgehog simply glared at the pink hedgehog in anger.
"Nothing…" He muttered as he turned around and left enraged.
Amy stared at Shadow in anger as she watched him storm off, but suddenly she began to feel very faint.
And the world around her went black…
Shadow was about to take off, but his concentration was disturbed when he heard a loud thump behind him.
"What the…"
The ebony hedgehog turned quickly to see that the pink hedgehog had collapsed on the ground.
"AMY!"
He ran toward the fallen girl, kneeled down, and held her head. Amy's eyes shot open, surprising Shadow a little.
What surprised him the most though was that he was staring at a pair of eyes that seem very different than before. She looked…scary. Eyes that felt like they were perforating through him and taking a chunk out of his very soul…
"Are- are you OK?" Said Shadow.
"I'm fine…" She answered darkly as she began to get up.
He tried to assist, but the pink hedgehog rudely shunned him away.
"I don't need any help…" Amy said answering to his polite gesture.
"What happened?" Shadow asked worried.
There was a slight pause…
"Tripped." Amy answered quickly.
"OK…"
"Sorry…for the way I was talking to you…I didn't mean anything that I had said." Apologized the pink hedgehog in a tone that seemed as if she was forcing the words out.
"Its cool." Shadow answered. " If I were you though I would have kicked Sonic's ass long time ago. You have a reason to be upset."
Amy smiled weakly.
"That could be arranged…" Amy replied, giving the male anthro a weak smile.
They both laughed a bit
"Do you want to come inside and get something to drink before you go."
Shadow took a second to think.
"Fine."
Amy smiled as she picked up her dress from the floor. Shadow glanced at it to see that it looked damp and there was a big piece of fabric ripped from it.
He was going to ask Amy a question, but he decided not to.
Shadow began to enter the house, but as soon as he placed his right foot inside, Shadow felt his whole body quiver and felt an odd feeling run down his spinal cord.
This time his instincts were not joking…
"Shadow what's wrong aren't you going to come in?"
Shadow began to back away from the house his eyes widened in shock.
"Shadow!"
"I- I need to do an errand for Sonic…" the black hedgehog lied. "Maybe I'll come back later…"
Amy rolled her eyes.
"Yeah…Whatever." She said slamming the door in his face.
Shadow had never felt a feeling like that before. It almost like his brain was telling him that if he entered something was going to kill him.
"What was that all about?" He wondered. "Whatever it was… I hope I never feel like that again."
Taking another glance at the house, Shadow took off. The farther he was from Amy the better he felt, but if he would have slowed down and looked behind him, he would have noticed Amy staring at him heinously as he was skating down the road.
"Lucky…" Amy growled. "I almost had you…"
An hour had past by and the orange two-tailed fox was in the closet looking for his utility belt of supplies that he had made a habit of carrying with him always. He began to wonder what Sonic was doing up in his room so long, but Tails knew better not to bother him.
Suddenly the fox herd a knock on the door.
"I got it Sonic!"
Tails ran to the door and opened it to see the guardian of the Master Emerald in front of him.
"Knuckles! What are you doing here?"
Knuckles looked at Tails with a saddened face.
"I need to talk to you and Sonic…"
"Why?"
"Its about Rouge…" Knuckles said sadly as a tear trickled down Knuckles' face.
"Tails, Rouge is in a coma."
I bet most of you are like WTF is going on and that's a good thing. Its funny, but there are a lot of foreshadows that I put in this and the other chapters. A good detective would have figured out the pattern by now.
Amy is turning to be quite odd isn't she…
R&R