An Injured Chao

Chapter 3

Amy huffed angrily as she watched the three hedgehog's run off and her hammer evaporated into thin air. Echo flew beside her eyes wide open he looked at Amy then flew over and hugged her round her neck surprising her. "Oh, Echo," she giggled and hugged him back.

The two walked back through the Mystic ruins heading for home when Echo suddenly tugged Amy's left hand as she was holding her shopping in her right, "hm, what is it Echo?" She asked as the chao looked as if he wanted to show her somewhere.

"Chao, chao, chao." He cried happily starring up at her.

"Do you want me to follow you somewhere?" Amy asked titling her head slightly.

Echo nodded letting go of her hand and flying in front of her leading the way, Amy smiled "okay lead the way."

The pair walked for a while through the trees across a couple of small rivers, passed a lake a couple of old ruins and they eventually reached an area that was covered in vines and tree branches. Echo paused in his flying seemingly looking around for a way through.

Amy sighed "I don't think we'll get through that Echo, I could try my hammer that might work but I don't think so."

Echo frowned but then gasped when he saw a hole "chao, chao!" He called catching Amy's attention.

Amy made her way over to him "oh a way through way to go Echo, let's go."

The two crawled through for a little while then at the end of the tunnel they reached a sight that Amy had never seen before. She awed at the beauty of it her eyes wide as she placed her shopping on the ground "oh wow, this is so beautiful…" Amy said starring at a sparking lake surrounded by tall trees and branches to keep it hidden and wild flowers along the lake's edge.

Echo sighed in relief he hadn't been here since that awful day he was captured. Amy gasped when she saw a lot of chao flying around, some were playing while others relaxed. The pink hedgehog noted that something was different about these chao.

"Echo did you live here?" Amy asked the chao beside her.

Echo nodded "chao."

Suddenly a bunch of chao saw them and were happy to see Echo, they happily flew over until they saw Amy suddenly becoming hostile towards them Amy gasped stepping away. They would have attacked her if Echo hadn't stood in front of them "chao, chao, chao!" He yelled furiously.

The other chao stopped eyes opened wide as they starred at the both of them, Amy sighed in relief as they backed down. "Thank you Echo." She said patting his head.

"Chao." Echo nodded leaning into her hand earning him strange looks from the other chao.

"Now, now what's all this noise about?" Came a voice to the left of them.

Amy gasped when she saw an older looking chao flying towards them very slowly, he was holding a long stick and he had a long beard, he was a bit darker blue than the other chao and he also had a leaf designed crown on his hid. Echo lit up in happiness when he saw him.

The older chao gasped in shock when the younger chao flew towards him hugging him full on. The older chao hugged back "oh my chaos my son has returned, I thought I'd lost you!" He cried almost in tears.

Amy and the other chao smiled at the sight the two pulled back and the older one noticed Amy he glared at her "it's one of those creature's quick let's get her out of here!"

Echo eyes went wide as the chao charged towards the pink hedgehog who put her hands up in defence, "w-wait!"

"CHAO, CHAO!" Echo cried out angrily once again in front of her this stopped his father which stopped the others.

"My son you know we can't have them here, they're after our powers why are you defending her?!" Echo's father asked bewildered.

Echo explained his story to them, they only watched on in shock and disbelief. Echo's father flew towards Amy making her nervous and she stepped back. "I must apologise; I was too quick to judge. I thought all you creatures were the same I must thank you for saving my son and I know just how to do it."

Amy relaxed a little "oh it's okay, my name is Amy, Amy Rose."

The chao nodded "it's nice to meet you, the hedgehog who saved my son. I must, must reward you, but first let me introduce myself I am king Zoto ruler of these chao's." He said bowing his head which prompted the others to bow too.

The fuchsia hedgehog eyes widened at them but she smiled bowing back "it's very nice to meet you all."

Zoto smiled and motioned for her to follow "come with me Amy I want to show you something." Amy nodded as she walked beside him with Echo on her other side.

…..

Meanwhile back in Tails workshop Sonic the hedgehog was lying around the fox's workshop watching Tails fix the Tornado. His ears perked up when he heard the fox mutter to himself, "now was it red wire or blue wire?"

Sonic sighed sitting on a chair leaning against the wall hands behind his head "I pretty sure it's blue."

Tails looked up from his work over and at the blue hedgehog "how do you know?"

Sonic shrugged "I don't know, just a guess."

Tails sighed in annoyance "weren't you going on a run?"

"Been there done that," Sonic sighed.

Tails shook his head "why don't you go another one? I need to work."

The hedgehog got up and started walking around "Tails I've basically been everywhere today, so It'd just be plain boring doing it again."

Tails rolled his eyes and went back to working "go spend time with one of our friends."

"Tried that already, well everyone except Amy. Hadn't thought about going to see her." Sonic said thinking to himself. Come to think of it he hadn't seen the pink hedgehog in nearly a month which really surprised him, what could be keeping her occupied? He shrugged he might as well find out. "Okay Tails I'm off catch ya later buddy."

Tails closed his eyes from the sudden gust of wind caused by Sonic's departure he groaned when he saw all the paper lying around "Sonic…."

The blue hedgehog was now on his way to the pink hedgehog's house he stopped when he reached it suddenly feeling nervous "come on Sonic it's just Amy," He muttered starring at her home. He frowned when he spotted a shady looking hedgehog sneaking around the windows.