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A Sonadow Story:

Hero's Heart Corrupted

Chapter 8: Friendly Fall

"Sonic!"

Two small arms were thrown around said hedgehog's blue body, surprising him. The Blue Blur looked down to see his little brother holding him in a firm hug that seemed like he wouldn't let go for a while. Pure worry and concern was written all over Tails' face as he buried his face into Sonic's peach chest. The blue hedgehog soon returned the hug, although he was still utterly confused with the whole situation. Shadow simply watched, being just as confused as his blue counterpart.

"Tails, what's going-"

Sonic choked back a shriek when he glanced up at his house. The roof has completely collapsed, its remains littered all over the floor. Ash covered the floors also where the five once walked. The walls to all the rooms were burnt down as well, showing the inside to every room in the destroyed house. All of the appliances and furniture in the kitchen had either melted from the flames or burned, depending on the material they're made out of. Everything else in every other room in the house had also burned to a pile of ashes, except one thing. Sonic's favorite cobalt blue couch was still standing in the middle of the living room, or what was the living room, untouched. Knuckles and Rouge were at the couch now, Knuckles lifting up the surviving furniture to move it out of the house and Rouge just lying on the couch, annoying the red echidna. Good thing he was carrying the couch so he couldn't try to throw any blows at the albino bat other than insults.

The blue hedgehog could only stare at his house in distress. The latter hedgehog next to him could sense his high level of distress, but didn't say anything nor do anything. The black and red streaked hedgehog felt that it would be awkward in front of the blue hero's friends, knowing that they were supposed to not get along with each other. Shadow knew that they had become unofficial 'friends' during their travel to the murder site and he also knew that it would affect him and Sonic's reputations as rivals. He still couldn't figure out how it all even happened. They had been together on many missions and adventures, but they were only known as allies and never really interacted unless they had to talk about something related to the quest they were on. This one had however changed their whole perspective, or how they think of each other now. Quite odd, but true.

"I knew you made it out alive!" Tails released the hug and smiled at his big brother, who smiled back. Shadow could easily tell that it was fake (like Sonic lol, since he's a faker :D), but the twin-tailed fox didn't seem to notice.

"How did this fire even happen?" Sonic asked, trying to act as calm as possible.

Tails frowned a little, but soon began to chuckle. "You won't believe this! We had the fire department over here a while ago and they said that the cause of the fire was, get this... pancakes!"

"...Pancakes..?" Sonic had trouble keeping his voice even, but after so much practice, he still did. He remembered the pancakes he tried to bake this morning for him and Shadow, and had to leave to rush to the crime scene. He had forgot to turn the stove off before leaving and it resulted in burning his whole house down. He basically destroyed his own house. His dark rival was thinking the same thing, but didn't glance at the blue speedy hedgehog. Instead of acting like anyone else would, Sonic smiled down at his little brother.

"Eh, we'll just call the constructors and have them rebuild us a house. Hopefully it won't be as much," he spoke reassuringly and placed a gloved hand on the fox's shoulder, who smiled back up at him. Shadow scowled at his blue doppelganger and turned away from the two. The moment was ruined once again by another shriek.

"SONIKKU! I have found you, my darling!"

Said hedgehog was soon on the ground with his biggest fangirl on his back, her arms wrapped tight around his neck. Although he was trying to untangle her arms from his neck, Amy didn't seem to notice the poor blue hedgehog's struggle for air and just kept death-hugging him.

"I started coming here right when Tails called about the fire! Are you okay, my Sonikku? If you were even touched by the fire, whoever started it will pay!" the obsessive pink hedgehog pestered him while letting him get up from the grassy ground, The Fastest Thing Alive gasping for air. The black hedgehog next to the two had to rub his ears a little so he could clear the ringing from Amy's squeal before, glaring at her with a menacing scowl and his back still facing them. Meanwhile, Sonic was nervously grinning at the pink hedgehog, knowing that he was the one who caused the fire.

"Hehheh, thanks Amy, but there's no need for that. And don't worry, I made it out unharmed," The poor blue hedgehog chuckled while Amy grabbed onto his arm, smiling sweetly.

"And hiya Shadow! Nice to see you again!" Amy forced the sentence through her mouth, actually hating the fact that he was here.

All she got in reply was a 'hmph' from the antihero and only made her hatred rise. Whipping her head around to face her beloved hero, Sonic was instead facing his brother, the fox bringing up a very important question.

"Where will we be staying now, since we can't sleep at the house?" Tails questioned as he placed a gloved hand under his chin, the question catching everyone's attention.

"To start off, I wouldn't consider the Master Emerald a home, Knux!" Sonic joked and the red echidna gave the blue hedgehog a not amused look.

"I wasn't going to suggest that, for your information." Knuckles growled, which only made the victim of the growl chuckle. Amy tried to pipe up, but Rouge beat her to it.

"My home is only big enough for one, sorry Blue." The albino bat apologized, but the blue hero only shrugged casually. Tails quickly spoke before Amy again, which was starting to infuriate her.

"I could stay over at Vanilla and Cream's house. I believe they have a guest room for me," he suggested. Sonic turned his head to face his black doppelganger, who shortly returned the gaze with his arms crossed over his chest.

"I already know you have your own arrangements, since your house is still in good shape and not rubble like mine, hehheh. Think you can drop Tails off at Cream's house, since I still have to figure out mine?"

Shadow was silent for a long set of moments. He didn't know whether to respond yes or no, since he was in front of the blue hedgehog's friends. Taking a deep breath, he put on one of the most darkest glares on his stoic face. Sonic began to panic in his mind, afraid that his black counterpart will refuse to help him. He then remembered that he had asked that question right in front of all his closest friends and realized his error. The blue hero had also noticed the quick change in their relationship from rivals to unofficial friends. He kept his cool and looked at the latter hedgehog casually. Shadow continued to glare at his blue rival, but as he did, he swiftly walked over to Tails' side, not glancing away from Sonic.

"You're lucky that your house is burnt down, stupid hedgehog." The black hedgehog deeply growled at the speedy hedgehog. Sonic waved it off as he usually did with a large smirk across his peach muzzle.

"But wait Blue, what about you?" Rouge pointed out with a certain red echidna still pouting with his arms crossed over his chest at her side.

Sonic opened his mouth to speak, but felt his arm get squeezed tight from the pink hedgehog next to him, her eyes shining.

"Sonikku, you can stay at my house until your house is rebuilt!" Amy blurted out with a huge smile across her face, holding onto his arm like she was a little girl hugging a teddy bear on a bad day. Sonic just slightly smiled.

"Problem solved!" he said reassuringly to the group.

Meanwhile, Tails felt the air around him grow uneasy, looking up at Shadow at his side. The black hedgehog was glaring intensely at Amy, who was promising the blue hero she was clinging on that he would enjoy his stay at her house. The antihero's fists were clenched and his crimson eyes were flaming with intensity. Tails took a teensy small step away from him, glad that he was unnoticed from the movement.

The twin-tailed fox snapped back to Sonic when he heard the blue hedgehog's voice sound.

"What are we waiting for? Let's get some rest! It is getting dark, after all." He pointed up to the sky, everyone's gazes following.

Wow, time did go by pretty fast, Tails thought, the sun only a quarter from disappearing behind the moorland hills. As everyone said their goodbyes, he continued to watch Sonic and Shadow and he was surprised. The two hedgehogs were looking at each other, like they were speaking just through looks. Shadow actually wasn't glaring at his blue rival, but was simply looking at him like they never were rivals with an expressionless face and arms still crossed. Sonic on the other hand didn't carry a smirk, but a soft smile. The Ultimate Lifeform soon returned the slightest of smiles to The Blue Blur. It wasn't much, but it was something! Out of the corner of his eye, Tails saw the others parting ways and turned his head away from the two hedgehogs like he never saw them, letting out a cough. The rivals quickly returned to their glaring contest from before, like that scene never happened.

Amy ran back over to Sonic and grabbed his hand in hers, him gaining a nervous smile that Amy never notices.

"Come on, Sonikku! Let's get going!" The pink hedgehog cheerfully said as she started to pull him away. The blue hero slightly groaned and turned to Tails and Shadow quickly.

"See ya later Tails and peace, Shads!" he shouted before disappearing behind the hill.

Tails waved after him happily while Shadow just stared at where the blue hedgehog had disappeared with an expressionless gaze. After standing there for a few moments, Shadow whips around and starts walking in the opposite direction of Sonic and Amy.

"Let's get going, Foxboy." he grumbles without turning his head as he continues to walk. Tails frowns and turns to the dark rubble of the used-to-be house of Mobius' blue hero before flying off after the antihero, wondering if anything worse will happen.

I need to find out what happened. Where Sonic and Shadow were at, why the house burned down, what has survived, and why Sonic and Shadow were smiling at each other before.

Catching up with the black hedgehog, Tails watched as Shadow pulled his neon green Chaos Emerald out of his upturned spines and raised it into the air with one hand, his other hand holding onto Tails' arm so the kitsune would transport with him with no doubt. At that very moment, something flashed through Tails' mind, something that could be so hugely important, it could solve all the questions he had in his genius mind. The yellow fox's eyes widened.

The disk!

"No, Shadow, wait!-"

"-Chaos Control!"

The two Mobians were surrounded by a neon green light, disappearing into thin air in a matter of seconds.

~With Sonic and Amy~

Blue and Pink traveled slowly in the direction of the city, still traveling through the moorland. Amy still clung on Sonic's arm as she smiled sweetly up at him. The blue hedgehog continued staring up ahead, grinning. He tried not to pay much attention to her because if he does, she usually talks him into some weird topics about them getting married and all that, even though he wasn't really her boyfriend. He just went with the flow, wanting nothing to change. He was happy with the way things were, and wouldn't want them any other way. His thoughts were interrupted when his obsessive fangirl rested her head on his shoulder and sighed.

"Something wrong, Ames?" The blue speedster quickly asked, used to asking this question a lot. The pink hedgehog shook her head with her sweet smile still on her peach muzzle.

"Nothing, Sonikku. It's just when Tails told me that they couldn't find you during the fire, I started to really worry," she breathed out softly, Sonic listening to every word and his grin gone. Amy hugged onto his arm tighter with her smile growing wider.

"But what matters is that you're safe! I don't know what I would do if I lost you!" she cheerfully lightened the mood again as Sonic's grin reappeared on his face and he nervously scratched his head in embarrassment with his other arm. That comment was flattering, but awkward to him, and yet made him chuckle inside. That all disappeared when Amy began to talk again on a subject that he wasn't very fond of.

"You know, they also told me something else that had happened," the pink hedgehog spoke with a small frown. The Blue Blur froze mid-step and turned to face his number one fangirl. He never said anything as she spoke.

"They told me that last night, Shadow had woken them up and said that something had actually frightened you so very badly," she said, staring down at the ground. Sonic's pupils shrunk to pea-sized emerald orbs and his face paled, afraid that she would actually believe them in him was being a huge coward. Luckily, the pink hedgehog was still staring at the ground and didn't notice his expression change.

"They even said that you were shivering and curled in a ball!" Amy continued on and the blue hero paled even more. There was a long pause after that... until Amy began to giggle.

"And after all that, I just told them that they were being silly and hung up to come see you! Isn't that just a bunch of nonsense? I know my blue heroic boyfriend would never do that!" She hugged onto his arm even tighter, and the victim of the hug just nervously chuckled again as his face regained color and his pupils went back to normal size.

The obsessive fangirl then gained a large smirk on her muzzle and she got on her tip toes, getting next to Sonic's ear.

"Speaking of which, boyfriend, can I get a kiss from you right now, with nobody around to see?" The pink hedgehog whispered seductively. The blue hedgehog's ears folded back as he gulped and tried to think of a way out of the situation.

"Uhh, umm... I think we should really get going now! Wow, look at the time! It's gonna be night soon! I'll get a head start!" Sonic pulled his arm free from her hold and pretended that he had a watch on his wrist, which he didn't. Only the tiniest bit of the sun was still visible in the navy blue sky. The Fastest Thing Alive sped off at high speeds the rest of the way toward the city to Amy's house. The deserted pink-furred hedgehog let out an irritated groan and stomped off after him, angry that she still hasn't gotten a kiss from him. As she stomped away, in one of her hands was a camera, in which she was going to take a picture of them if she had gotten the kiss. Who knows what the purposes are for it.

~At Amy's House~

"Do you have any chili dogs here!?"

Streaks of blue sped around the small kitchen, in search of any ingredients that would finalize in making a chili dog. Amy giggled as the blue hero frantically searched around.

"Of course I do, my darling Sonikku." she sweetly spoke as she stopped The Blue Blur in his tracks and him giving her a confused look. The pink hedgehog walked through the kitchen and reached up into a small cabinet above her, opening the wooden doors and showing all kinds of condiments inside. Sonic could make out the labels of sauce and a plastic bag containing hot dog buns. The blue speedster's eyes lit up with temptation and sudden happiness. Amy giggled once again at the beaming blue hedgehog.

"Since it's your first night here, I will make you your favorite food for dinner tonight. Let me get what I need out and I'll get started!" she said cheerfully and rushed Sonic out of the kitchen so she would have space to cook. As Pink turned around and moved to the fridge, Blue stepped into the living room and made himself comfortable on the couch, which was as pink as Amy. It was fully night now and in a matter of moments, a depressed cry rang out from the kitchen.

"Everything okay, Ames?" the blue-furred hedgehog on the couch called out, looking over the pink couch. Amy came out from behind the kitchen door frame, frowning and having her hands on each side of her face.

"I just looked in the fridge and I'm out of hot dogs!" The pink hedgehog whined and threw her hands down to her sides dramatically. "I don't want to keep you waiting, but I have to go get them to make dinner. I'm really sorry, Sonic!"

Sonic just waved it off with a grin. "No sweat, Amy! I can wait until you get back," the blue hedgehog said casually and kicked back on the couch again.

Amy gained a bit of a sad expression at that. "Actually, I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to the store! Pleeease, can you come?" begged the pink-furred hedgehog as she looked at the speedy blue hero with shining forest green eyes.

An uncertain look covered Sonic's peach muzzle at once at that question, unsure of how to answer. Not having enough tolerance anymore, he shook his head with a dull expression now, something like Shadow would use. "I'm sorry, but after the day I've had, I just want to kick back and relax for a bit."

Amy's shining eyes lost their shine and her ears drooped.

"Oh, I'm sorry for even asking the question, I should have known you would say no," she sighed and straightened her dress out before walking out the front door. The Fastest Thing Alive felt a bit bad for refusing to go, but he couldn't do everything. Dead silence filled the house now and the speedy blue hedgehog enjoyed it. He threw back his arms to rest them behind his head like a makeshift pillow. He closed his eyes and put on the smallest of grins. He remained like that for a good 10 minutes.

Sonic's eyes opened again suddenly, his grin dropped to a straight face. The supersonic hedgehog sat up on the couch and groaned, rubbing his head and flattening his ears back. He was hearing a strange static sound and doesn't know the cause of it. It sounded so familiar, like he had heard it from somewhere recently, yet he couldn't think of where or explain why it sounded so familiar. The confused blue hedgehog tried rubbing his ears, flattening them all the way back, and many other methods, but nothing could silence the static noise. His head then snapped up to where he was looking completely straight forward, this action out of his control.

I can't move my head!

The now terrified hero wanted to cry out, but he couldn't move his face either. He gulped as his head started to move ever-so-slowly to the corner of the room, where Amy's powerless TV stood.

Sonic stared at the TV for several long minutes with no reason but the fact that his head was moving on its own. He tried countless times to try and jolt his head away using the force of his arms yet nothing worked. The TV stayed in its state, powered off with a black screen. Yet to Sonic, it was like it was calling out to him. This sensation began to grow overwhelming, and he soon gave in to it. His vision began to go black, locked in his own subconscious...

~With Amy~

Happiness to no end filled the pink hedgehog as she skipped across the deserted part of town she took as a shortcut to the supermarket. She hummed a little tune as she went, her little pink handbag swinging back and forth on her arm. Her arms were behind her with her hands and fingers entwined. The joy of her hero waiting at her house for her to return just filled her with the brightest glee. Her forest green eyes shined and exposed her joy. She began to picture Sonic in her head, welcoming her home. She couldn't help but disconnect her hands from behind her and clasp them together again next to her right cheek, sighing in delight.

"Oh, my darling Sonikku, I'm actually kind of glad that your house burnt down!" She giggled and continued to skip through the deserted shortcut. The supermarket was only a block away.

Amy froze when she thought she saw something quickly go by one of the buildings into an alleyway on her left. Turns out the deserted shortcut wasn't so deserted after all.

"Hello?" she called out and walked over to the opening, but looked only to find nobody there. Now disturbed and her happiness nonexistent, she proceeded to walk toward the supermarket again, looking over her shoulder every few moments. The pink hedgehog then felt a draft of wind on her right side, quickly whipping around and pulling her Piko Piko Hammer out of her handbag.

Again, no one was there. This aggravated the obsessive fangirl, making her swing her hammer at the air a few times.

"Whoever is out there, STOP MESSING WITH ME!" she screamed and did her last swing at the air. She gasped when the hammer suddenly left her hands. The hammer landed two yards away from her, unknown of how it had been separated from the flustered pink hedgehog.

The blunt weapon sat in the middle of the pathway, completely up for grabs. Amy's first instinct was to run for it and be armed again, and she did. She panted as she ran, running as fast as she could in her boots. The sound of a can hitting the ground distracted her and made the pink hedgehog turn her head to look behind her. By the time she turned her head to look back at her hammer, the hammer had vanished from the ground. Amy stopped and was now violently trembling as she frantically searched her area, trying to catch any sight of a figure.

"This isn't funny! STOP IT!" The pink-furred hedgehog cried out and dropped to her knees, sobbing hysterically. She covered her face with her gloved hands and cried into them, hoping that her hero would appear to rescue her from this nightmare.

"Oh Sonic, please help me!" she yelled from behind her hands. It was then a miracle happened.

"Amy!" a voice called out her name.

The voice sounded like an angel's call to the terrified pink hedgehog, because she recognized it instantly. Looking up from her gloved hands, she could see a figure on the other side of the pathway, the moonlight shining on it. Nobody could mistaken the cobalt blue spines, dazzling red and white-striped shoes, and snow white gloves for anyone else.

"SONIC!" Amy cried in relief and got up from the ground, running to her blue hero. She got to him and pulled him into a tight hug, crying tears of joy. Sonic didn't return the hug though. Amy was confused by this and looked up to see his eyes were actually closed, his head lowered to face down at the ground.

"My darling Sonikku, are you okay?" The fangirl said to him, smiling but yet concerned for him. Sonic was silent for a few moments, not giving any reaction to let the pink hedgehog know that he had heard her. She was about to speak again, when Sonic finally returned the hug, and a little tight. He grinned.

"Oh, I'm okay," Sonic said, never opening his eyes to make eye contact with her. What made it more weird is that he said that sentence in a voice of monotone and was starting to hug her really tight. Yet, Amy didn't mind, until a yelp escaped her mouth when she felt something sharp, like claws, dig into her back. Her smile disappeared off her muzzle when she was beginning to find the blue hedgehog's grin growing quite creepy. As she was still looking up at him, he finally turned his head toward her and opened his eyes. She choked back a shriek, knowing nothing would take back what she just saw.

"But you won't be."

There was a high-pitched scream, then a gurgle, then just silence...

~End of Chapter 8~

I don't hate Amy! D:

So yay(?), first character death! Mwahahaha, what's in store for this gruesome story? ):D

Sonic: It's funny how you decided to kill Amy first of all the characters, hehheh.
Thunder: Pfft, whatever. :P
Shadow: Be expecting for flames. *crosses arms* Like I care.
Thunder: But I know what, or who, you care about though. *winks and smirks*
Shadow: ...?
Sonic: ?
Thunder: Until next time, my fabulous readers! ;D