Dragon Blue

Disclaimer:Sonic and his friends and foes are © SEGA, Aquaphina and the other Seagon/Aquari are © Imperfection07

Rating: Teen (Warnings: Violence, language, Frightening "Scenes", character deaths, and some sensuality)

Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance (Other: suspense/tragedy/horror)

Summary: Aquaphina's whole life changes after she finds the Green Chaos Emerald that leads to many events that have to deal with the destruction of her home and family, new enemies, and a blue hedgehog. (Sonic-X universe)

(A/N: Going to be descriptive character deaths and violence in this chapter, please warn if this goes past the rating)

Chapter 2: Paradise Lost

Previously:
Aquaphina spotted the glow from the gem before holding it at eye level. The glow had become brighter and almost blinded the Seagon and Aquari.

"What's it doing!" Echo asked, holding onto his sister who continued looking at the emerald in her hand. Aquaphina continued staring at the gem before lowering it and looking in the direction of the huge submarine.

Fear growing in her eyes, Aquaphina spoke only one word: "Swim…"

"What…?" Echo blinked before Aquaphina grabbed her brother by the hand and swam away from the looming submersible at a fast rate.

"SWIM!" Aquaphina yelled, swimming close to the ocean floor as possible as an escape method her kind used. The Aquari immediately understood and tried to keep up with his sister, adrenaline going through him.

"Can't we just tell the thing to leave us alone!" Echo asked. Aquaphina, unlike her brother, knew about the hazards of approaching one of these underwater tanks that just appear from the surface world. She did see one as an Aquari a few years ago but her mother had kept herself, Aquaphina, and the still unborn Echo (within his mother's womb) in a safe hiding spot while Kraken went out and got the huge…thing to follow him and lose interest in his family.

Now they weren't hiding, they were now swimming for their lives, and their parents weren't there…

Echo was near tears from panic, being a young Aquari as he was. Aquaphina sensed the sudden quaking going up her hand which was securely latched onto Echo's wrist before pulling her younger brother into a tight hug. "We're going to be okay Echo…" She whispered putting all her faith in her acquired speed she had earned by getting taught to hunt by her own father.

"M…mom…" Echo whimpered. Aquaphina clenched her teeth and swam at a ninety degree angle to the left towards a sunken colonial ship which she used to play in as an Aquari. The wood was perfectly preserved with algae and other microscopic sea life that had grown on it. The sails and skeletons of the dead were dissolved into nothing, being eaten up by the plankton.

"I can't lead this thing to the colony…" Aquaphina mentally noted before swimming into the ship's destroyed hull. "I've got to lose it…but how?"

Meanwhile, inside the ship…

"This is impossible! There can't be anything going that fast underwater!" Someone ranted. "That hedgehog can't even swim for crying out loud!"

"Well doctor…maybe the Chaos Emerald got eaten by a fish when it landed in here…" A yellowish robot commented.

"SILENCE YOU IDIOT!" The mad scientist snapped causing the robot to cringe and duck under his chair.

"Gee Eggman…he was only giving his opinion." A gray robot replied.

"Well…do you have any good ideas!"

"Well, you're the one with the high I.Q. Eggman…" It replied. "You're the leader sir!"

"He-he! That's right!" Eggman grinned before grabbing a whole bunch of cards, putting them inside a machine, and pulling a lever. "Ha-ha!"

Aquaphina continued holding onto her brother and the Chaos Emerald as she listened to the submarine's movements.

"A-Aquaphina, will we make it?" Echo whimpered. Aquaphina looked at her brother with a half smile of unknown reassurance before her fin-ears stood on end and she went even further into the wall, trying not to disturb the water around herself.

"Why's it silent!" She mused before hearing a loud screech of metal scraping on metal and her teeth clenched. "Shit…"

In a swift moment, Aquaphina ducked down from a metallic tendril that drilled through the wood where her head was. Echo yelped before his sister swam out of the ship in time for another tendril to slam into the two, separating them.

Echo crash landed on the sea floor sending up sand as Aquaphina collided with a rock wall, still clutching the emerald in her hand. Looking to her right she had spotted a jellyfish robot floating in place next to the submarine as its tendrils/tentacles moved up and down in a synchronized manner. Echo was still lying flat on the ground scarcely breathing due to the deep scar on his side and a small amount of blood was seeping from it.

The Seagon clenched her fist and got poised. Using all the strength Aquaphina could muster, she swam straight at the robot like a torpedo, knocking it into the side of the submarine's hull before shooting directly at Echo, grabbing him, and swimming straight for the colony.

The Aquari shuddered in her arms and clutched at the wound as the salt water stung it. Aquaphina, worried as she was about her younger brother, clamped her nearest hand on his wound to stop the bleeding and held him closer. Echo whimpered as his tail became more and more limp and the rest of his body became numb. The strike dealt by the robot was a bit fatal to his fragile form. Almost like a small hourglass dolphin that had been rammed by a larger porpoise species.

"Sis…sister…"

"We're almost there Echo…" Aquaphina cut him off.

"I'm…sorry…" He mumbled out.

"Echo!" Aquaphina glanced down at her brother and felt fear shoot up her spine when she saw his eyes becoming more unfocused from the blood loss. "Echo don't you dare do this to me!" She cried out, slowing down and holding him in a tighter hug.

Echo continued mumbling out "I'm sorry" as he closed his eyes and tried to keep a good grip on his sister.

"It's okay Echo!" Aquaphina shuddered. "I'm going to get you to mom and dad then everything will be okay!" Her brother continued apologizing in his pained and half alive state before she cradled him like her mother had done with Echo when he was first born and swam as fast as she could to the huge reef.

As she neared her temporary home, Aquaphina continued to mentally slap herself remembering she promised her brother that everything would be okay and it wasn't. Echo's breathing was becoming more and more labored which scared Aquaphina even more.

"Please stay alive Echo… Please stay alive…" She wheezed before crying out her family's identifying call in an attempt to warn the entire colony. Indeed, the entire colony switched their attention to the Seagon whose eyes were watering as she clung onto the small Aquari who was getting weaker and weaker by the second.

The huge jellyfish robot continued swimming next to the huge ship as Bocoe and Decoe were trying to locate the Chaos Emerald's energy signature. Eggman was too busy grumbling about the huge dent in his battle ship and how to get revenge on the fish that had the nerve to strike back at it.

"Hurry it up down there!" Eggman finally shouted down.

"It's moving pretty fast doctor! Almost like Sonic!"

"No matter, Clurken 2.0 will get the job done…" He sneered before glancing at the radar screen. "Interesting…there's a whole bunch of them…"

"Uh…shouldn't we be attacking now?"

"Indeed. Clurken, full speed ahead!"

Aquaphina was getting more and more desperate as she swam towards her mother, almost crying and trying to hold back the sorrowful cry that was building up in her throat. She knew her brother was passing on slowly.

"What happened to him!" A Seagon asked worriedly as he swam up.

"We were attacked by something! I don't know what it was! It looked like a monster…" Aquaphina babbled, unable to think straight.

"Aquaphina!"

The Seagon, tears clouding her vision turned in the direction of the voices as she held onto her brother. She knew all too well her mother and father's voices.

"What happened to Echo!" Kraken asked quickly as he noticed the small amount of red drifting from his son. Aquaphina immediately placed Echo into Angel's arms and tried to explain.

"Echo grabbed this thing (points at the Chaos Emerald), we swam a bit away from the colony, I caught him, we were teasing each other, a submarine appeared…"

At this, every Seagon gasped and looked at each other, worried.

"It chased us, we went into the old ship, I tried to make a getaway but the monster that came out of the sub cut us off and hurt him…" Unable to continue she dropped to the ocean floor, which was at least three feet below, and clamped both hands over her face as the waterworks erupted. "I'm sorry…"

"We have to leave now…" Kraken said aloud.

"What!"

"But we just got here."

Angel looked down at Echo who was barely moving before caressing his cheek and shushing him.

"M-m-mom…it's not her f-fault…" The Aquari shuddered as he tried to keep the calm feeling of his mother's arms around him.

"Shhh…Echo…" Angel whispered. "It's okay…"

"He'll live. He's healing alright…" Another female Seagon commented as she pointed towards his wound.

"I'm…going to be okay?" Echo wheezed.

Aquaphina barely removed her hands and she stared at the Emerald in her lap that was glowing brighter. Fear shot up her spine and her blue eyes widened.

"Oh no…"

Right then, Clurken 2.0 charged straight at her. Panicking, she dodged before the creature's tendrils could ensnare her. The Seagon behind Aquaphina, before she dodged, wasn't so lucky and got impaled by the metal that was pointed straight ahead. The other Seagon swam about frantically like fish being attacked by a predator. Most of them wound up getting themselves killed while Angel, who was holding onto Echo, and Kraken swam after Aquaphina.

Aquaphina continued swimming away from the colony with the emerald in her hands.

"It's my fault, it's my fault…" She continued repeating with tears threatening to cloud her vision even more.

"Aquaphina wait!" Angel cried out as she tried to catch up with her daughter.

Clurken continued laying waste to the colony leaving many Seagon and Aquari either dead or dying.

"Clurken! Stop wasting your time here! The girl with my Chaos Emerald is escaping that way!" Eggman shouted from within the submarine. The jellyfish-like robot immediately dropped the seemingly final Seagon before charging in the direction where it sensed the emerald's energy.

Inside the submarine, Decoe and Bocoe continued looking out at the dead Seagon littered all over the ocean floor.

"Uh doctor…was killing all of them necessary?" Bocoe asked. "You never went this far before…"

"Hah, as long as we get the Chaos Emerald it doesn't matter." Eggman grinned before the radar caught the remaining four's heat signature including the Chaos Emerald's energy sig. "Clurken, attack them!"

The four other Seagon were caught off guard when Clurken charged directly at Aquaphina, clutching at her with its tentacles. The Seagon released a shriek of panic before Kraken lunged at the jellyfish robot and delivered a sharp kick to its hull. The shock from the blow damaged the robot which was forced to release Aquaphina from its grip.

"Get out of here! I'll hold it off!" Kraken shouted before Angel grabbed her daughter's hand and swam a good distance away. Aquaphina still looked downwards whimpering "It's my fault" over and over.

"It's not your fault Aquaphina! You wouldn't have known this was going to happen!" Angel tried to reassure her daughter.

"YES IT IS!" Aquaphina snapped, tugging her hand from her mother's grip. "I went into the trench and found this damn thing!" She nearly bawled as she held the emerald out.

"It's because of me everyone's dead!"

Echo whimpered and glanced at his sister who was near tears once again. To be honest he never saw his sister like this. Usually they were too busy taunting each other about who was the fastest swimmer, playing in the sunken ship, and other such things. Now it looked as though the world was crashing down on her.

To Aquaphina it was like that…

Whimpering, she clutched the Chaos Emerald in her hands and shuddered. "Because of me…"

"Aquaphina!" Angel suddenly cried out before shoving her daughter and son out of the way of the tentacles. A sharp stab noise caused Aquaphina to gasp in shock and horror once she saw that same red color drifting from her mother. Angel rested a hand on the tendril that had went completely through her before looking at her daughter who was holding onto Echo and shuddering even more.

"M-mother…"

"Aquaphina…" Angel smiled weakly at her daughter. "Take care…of your brother…"

That was before another tendril slammed into the green haired Seagon sending her plummeting to the bottom, a trail of blood seeping from the gaping wound left after the tendril was removed. The green hair floated upwards and was mixed with the blood, turning it a dark brown with hints of red.

"MOTHER!" Aquaphina screamed before Angel's battered corpse sunk until it disappeared into the depths of the sea. "No…no…please no…"

Flashbacks of her mother holding Aquaphina as a child went through her head. One about the comforting arms surrounding her during the first submarine encounter made Aquaphina clutch onto her brother and her teeth clenched, cursing out how this reality was too vivid for her to handle. All the pain burbled up inside and the Seagon threw her head back releasing a shrill scream.

Kraken's eyes had widened when he saw his wife sinking into the ocean depths. In a rage he swam at Clurken, intending to kill this killer who had taken Angel's life. He would've made it if Clurken hadn't about faced and caught him with its tendrils. Aggressively, he thrashed and tried to break out of the robot's grip before feeling an electric shock go up his spine.

"Hehehe, Clurken's upgrades make him just like a real Jellyfish!" Eggman grinned.

"If he's a real Jellyfish, Clurken's bound to be at least 90 percent water then…" Decoe grumbled.

"HEY! I HEARD THAT!"

Aquaphina turned and her eyes widened once she saw her father struggling. Managing every last drop of courage she had left, Aquaphina streaked at Clurken and rammed into it, knocking it away and setting Kraken loose in the process.

"Sis! It's dad!" Echo's eyes widened when he saw Kraken sinking as well, being set free too late. His sister side glanced her father before glaring at Clurken and clenching the Chaos Emerald in her grip.

Aquaphina's teeth clenched, revealing sharp fangs that weren't there when Echo last checked. Shivering, he saw her calm blue eyes become a sharp green without pupils as though she was tapping into the power of the emerald.

"SHI'NE!"

The Seagon charged directly at the robot and rammed right into it, extending one fist as she held onto Echo. In a swift moment she drilled right through and turned, glaring at the robot which sparked for a moment before exploding.

"Sister!" Echo cried out as he tried to force Aquaphina to release the emerald from her iron grip. Finally unhooking the gem from Aquaphina's hand, Echo looked up to see his sister's pupils shrink before her eyelids closed shut and she started falling before a shark-like robot snatched them up in its huge robotic jaws and swam back to the submarine.

To be continued…

Some more explanations:

"Shi'ne" – Japanese phrase for saying: "Die" (in this case Aquaphina's pain and rage enable her to tap into the Chaos Emerald's power.)

Why Echo survived – Didn't want Aquaphina to be the last of her kind.

Clurken 2.0 – Seemed the best logical choice for a sea robot that Eggman/Ivo would use in such situations.

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