Sorry this chapter is so sort. ;

Chapter 12: Come With Me

"Chase…" Marie was blushing madly as she looked at the panther. What was she to do?

"Marie please come you're the only one who can help me." He had large eyes as he pleaded to her.

"I'll go." Marie took his hand. "Where is Sonic?"

"Last I saw he was on the rooftops near the entrance to the lair."

"Okay then." She closed her eyes and in a flash of familiar light they disappeared.

The two reappeared on the roof of the building that was right next to the lair entrance. "Look!" Chase pointed across the tops of the buildings to a battle that raged a small distance away. Sonic was surrounded by a hoard of blue ninja. Chase and Marie ran toward him quickly. "Marie you take the ones on the left I've got the others."

"Right." Marie ran as fast as she could and when she reached her target she did a swift kick under about three of them causing them to fall. She still had to left to deal with. "Now you see me now you don't" She vanished. Her two opponents looked around in confusion. "Here I am boys." She appeared behind them. She placed a hand on each of their shoulders. This time when she disappeared she came back to a spot in midair over the ground. "Bye bye." Marie took her hand from each of them and vanished back to the edge of the roof only to watch the two ninja fall to the ground. She saw one ninja that still stood in her mists. She did another kick and had him landed flat on his back. She jumped him and had him by the collar area of his shirt. "Why do you keep attacking them what is it you want?" Marie was speechless when the ninja suddenly disintegrated in her grasp and was blown away in the wind.

Marie turned quickly enough to catch Chase take care of his enemies.

Chase ran straight at his adversaries and did a flip right into the chest of the first ninja sending him and the one behind him straight into a wall and they fell unconscious. He stretched out his arm and he lifted it upward and with the motion of his arm the three remaining ninja were lifted up off the ground. Chase's eyes turned to slits. "Leave my master alone." He slammed them up against a brick wall and then he had them thrown off the building. He turned around looking for the ninja he and Marie had injured but they were already gone.

Sonic was lying on the ground he looked like he might be dead. Chase was at his side immediately. "Master are you alright?" He was looking at Sonics body unsure of what to do.

Marie sat down by his side and looked at Sonic. She put her hand to his heart. "He still has a beat he's alive." She placed her hand then on his neck and wrist. "He's got a pulse to he's going to be fine." "We should get him back to the labyrinth."

Chase nodded and picked Sonic up on his back and then the two proceeded to the lair with the injured teacher. Marie had helped Chase get Sonic situated in his bedroom and now they were just coming out.

"Thank you for bandaging my Master's wounds Marie."

"No problem." "Chase…" She was a little red as she began to speak.

Chase listened as they continued to walk down the corridor. "What is it?"

"Why did you…kiss me before?" She was blushing madly now as she kept her view fixated straight ahead.

Chase stopped and grabbed Marie by the wrist. "It's because I wanted you to understand how much I needed you and…how I still need you Marie." He grasped her tightly in a hug.

Marie allowed the embrace. She had her head resting over his shoulder. She closed her eyes tightly. She thought that this might have been what she deeply wanted at some point but now she wasn't so sure. Maybe there was something else that she wanted a great deal more.