Heya everybody, I'm back with a new chapter! So, before you read this onbe, I want to give all of you all my thanks for encouraging me on writing more and also for your support!! Now, since the chapter before was a bit, I'll say, boring, I made this one longer, better and most of all, more exciting!!! Yupp, this chapter here kicks ass!!
Well, I prefered the 1. one, but this one's awesome as well!! This is the part when things get interresting!!
Son anyway, enjoy the rest of the holidays(for me only two days, crud!!) and most of all, grab yerselves a pack of popcorn or chips and some drinks and enjoy this fanfic!!!
Yours truly, Cool Jay
Sonic the Hedgehog: The True Power of Music
Chapter Five
The smell of food that soared in the air woke me up, a smell so deliciously good; it was very hard to resist it. At first, I didn't want to get up. I was still too tired because I didn't sleep well. But then again, I was hungry. So I slowly opened my eyes, seeing a big silver trey with some breakfast on it.
"Wha…? When?" I asked in a yawn.
I sat up and put my feet on the ground, rubbed my eyes and looked again. A nice breakfast was waiting for me. I didn't feel so sure about this, it looked so delicious, but too delicious for a prisoner.
"This must be some trap." I said suspiciously, hesitating to even approach the table.
"I can assure you that it's just a simple breakfast and if you think it's poisoned, then you are greatly mistaken."
I looked to my left and jumped in surprise.
"Eggman!" I exclaimed.
He was standing there with his arms crossed in the shadow. He stepped up with the same grin he had yesterday and adjusted his glasses.
"Good morning, Christine." He greeted me after in a bow, "Did you sleep well?"
I sat there quietly. I didn't have the strength to answer his question and faced the ground, avoiding any eye contact with him. He walked towards me and when he was close enough, he stopped right in front of me.
"You must eat if you want to have some energy." He spoke, "There wouldn't be any reason to poison you. Besides, I am not that type of villain."
Actually that was quite true. Eggman was evil, but not evil enough to poison his enemy.
I looked up at him and asked: "Then why do you need me?"
He put his arms behind his back, then answered: "Because I want to use your music to dominate this world."
Confusion spread out on my face. I was guessing that he would right away say that it was a complete joke. But the way he smiled showed me that it was really his intention.
"Are you serious?" I asked astonished.
"I am very honest about this." he replied, then turned his back on me and carried on, "Have you ever heard the legend of Alkhazyra?"
"Alkha-who?"
"I guess that would be a 'no'." he said, "You see, Alkhazyra was a simple girl who lived decades ago, but she was extremely gifted with her music. She dedicated many songs to her people, especially to the gods. Appreciating her offers, they blessed her with powers beyond imagination, capable of creating and, which she didn't want, destroying things by a single sound of her music."
He walked around me in a circle and continued: "People admired her music, but when they discovered her powers created through her music, they began to fear her. One day, they decided to dispose of her because she was a major threat. How saddening it was to be slain by those who loved her music and to whom she placed her trust." He let out a sad sigh and adjusted his glasses once again. "But before they killed her, legend says that she transferred all of her powers into a white-stoned necklace with the help of a white glowing crystal with amazing powers."
I felt a strong heartbeat within me. Wait… White glowing crystal with amazing powers?
"A Chaos Emerald!" I said out loud.
"Correct." He stated, "Now, according to legend, if somebody who craves for music wore that necklace and activate it somehow, Alkhazyra's powers would be reborn in that person's body. And with my technology, I could control that person."
Uh oh…
I let out a gasp and looked up to him. "You… You don't mean…?" I stammered, realizing what his intention was this whole time.
My reaction made him smirk. "Exactly, I'll be using your body as vessel to transfer her powers." He sneered, a malicious grin forming on his face.
My eyes widened in shock and I began to tremble. Me and my music, causing the destruction of this world?
"But why my body?" I asked, "Couldn't be somebody else's?"
"No." he responded as he continued to circle around me, "It must the body of a young person who is very gifted in music."
"But there are others than me."
"True, but the white Chaos Emerald can tell which body it should be, like the moment it nearly crashed on you."
As I avoided his gaze, that icing moment of shock made me realize that that Chaos Emerald didn't fall on me by coincidence.
"So…" I started and glance back up at him, "It was because of you that Emerald fell on me!"
"Yes, I planned to track you like that." He grinned, then he stopped right in front of me, "And thanks to you, I'll be soon the ruler of this world."
"You… You already have the necklace?!" I asked, trying to choke the words out of my throat as if it was dry.
"Unfortunately, I don't." he replied, turning his back on me, "But I have an idea where it is. And once I have it, the transfer will begin."
Then, he walked off to the door and turned his head back to me. "Now if you don't mind, I have affairs to take care of, like discovering how to transfer these powers into your body with that necklace. So, I would suggest you to eat, or else I won't be able to become emperor."
He left through the door, which already closed as soon as Eggman passed through. His loud laughter echoed on, but it slowly began to fade away until there was nothing but that eerie silence. And at that moment is when I really woke up. Now it was sure to me that I had to do something, I had to escape. But first, I had to do what Eggman told me to do: eat breakfast. I don't follow orders, but I am hungry and I need all the energy I can have to get out of here.
I went to the table, took the plate with pancakes on it. I ate them quickly all up and downed that glass of milk on the trey. Once I finished my meal, I looked around this room, checking everything out to see if there was a way to escape. But it was all in vain.
I sat back down on my bed, my head in my hands and started crying.
"I don't want to help him." I sobbed, "I just want to get out of here-"
Suddenly, an alarm went off. I jumped in surprise when I suddenly heard loud bangs outside from that one wall across me, and they kept on getting louder. And then, the wall in front of me burst open. I lifted my arms to shield myself in reflex, then lowered them as soon as it was calm again. I looked at it and the other side was a figure that was hard to recognize because of the dust.
"There you are. Are you all right?" the figure spoke with such dynamism.
It was that voice!
When I looked up, however, nobody was there anymore. Gone. I felt my hopes fade away.
"Wait!" I cried, "Please, don't leave me alone!"
"Youhoo, it's okay. I'm right here! Ya don't need to panic."
I looked right next to me and there, sitting on my bed, was him.
"Waahh!" I cried and, clumsy as I am, fell off the bed. I landed with my back against the floor and grunted in response.
"Oww… Not my back again…" I groaned with my eyes shut.
"Whoops!" he laughed, "Didn't mean to startle you!"
I opened my eyes, hoping that what I saw just now wasn't a dream or a hallucination. It wasn't at all. Sonic the Hedgehog was really sitting on my bed.
"S…Sonic…." I stuttered, "I… I can't believe it. Is it really you?"
"Yeah, who else?" he asked in a playful voice.
I reached my hand out and touched gently his face.
"Oh my God! You are real!" I said aloud, rubbing his cheek.
I understood then that he was stunned when he had his eyebrows raised up as I still had my hand on his face.
"Oh!" I exclaimed, pulling my hand back in embarrassment, "I… I'm sorry."
"It's nothing." He chuckled, then jumped off the bed and reached his hand out to me to pull me up, "What's your name?"
I grabbed his hand and answered stunned: "Chris… Christine."
"Everything's all right now, Christine." He replied, "I'm gonna get you out of here."
Surprisingly, he picked me up in his arms in a bridal way. Woah, honestly, I was always wondering how Elise felt when she got picked up like that by Sonic the Hedgehog. And now, I had my answer; boy, it was so awesome!!! I could feel that I was slightly blushing for the upcoming attempt I was thinking to do, but I got all my courage and ended up leaning against his chest. It was a wonderful feeling. I felt like I was the luckiest girl in the world.
No, wait, let me rephrase that: I felt that I was luckiest being in the whole universe!
"Hold on tight." He said coolly.
I put my arms around his neck, and a smile formed on his face. Then he started running, holding me tightly in his arms. I could find a word to describe how it was: it was unbelievable. First, he was simply walking, then, his speed accelerated and he ran faster and faster through the whole fleet at such an unimaginable and high speed. I was still a bit scared to see the whole thing. Holding him tightly, I had my eyes shut. He obviously noticed that, or else he wouldn't have said this next: "Christine, open your eyes."
I hesitated, but gave in and opened them up. We were on top of the fleet, feeling the air blowing on our faces. The view we both had from here was… amazing. As we looked down, we could see a beautiful lake and some plains around here and with a touch forest, all of that sometimes hidden behind the white, pure clouds.
"So quick…" Was my response to Sonic's indescribable velocity.
"You haven't seen anything yet." He responded, trying to impress me.
"Stop right there, Sonic."
Doctor Eggman appeared with his little floating ship in front of us, standing tall with his hands behind his back. He wasn't pleased at all, that was for sure.
"Well, look who finally decided to show up." Sonic sneered.
"You always stick your nose into business that doesn't concern you." He said with a frown, "Hand over that girl if you know what's good for you."
I turned my head away from Eggman onto Sonic's chest, holding him tightly in a hug. I didn't want to become his prisoner again.
"Please, I don't want to go back…" I started crying.
Sonic looked down to me, then tightened his grip and he said with a grin: "Sorry, Eggman, but Christine doesn't like it here. In other words, there's no way I'm gonna hand her over to you."
"Then die!" Eggman bellowed, calling out his robots. One after another appeared, surrounding us in a circle. They were closing in on us, weapons aiming at us, or rather a Sonic. That really didn't look good at all!
"Sonic!" I cried.
"Hang on and whatever you do, keep your eyes open to see how great it is to run so fast!"
Trembling, I nodded silently.
"All right, let's get this party started!" Sonic said.
He jumped over the robots and ran towards Eggman.
"Oh no you won't!" Eggman yelled, then started pressing on buttons, commanding his little ship to swing its arms at us. Sonic jumped on one of them and ran along its arm towards Eggman. For that Hedgehog, everything just seemed like a game. He wasn't the slightest bit worried of getting hit or not. You gotta admit, he's very gutsy.
"Wise guy! Missile launch!" the doctor cried angered.
The ship launched missiles at us, but Sonic dodged them so easily, hopping on one after another.
"Is this your best shot?" Sonic called, provocating the Doctor as he jumped over him, "Lame."
It was so impressive. Everything appeared to be so easy for him. I was really amazed to see everything in blur as he ran towards the tail of the fleet, because he was so fast. I had a feeling of wanting to go faster. And what surprised me as well was the fact that he didn't care about the danger that was on our backs, like the explosions of missiles behind us. He never looked back, but kept on running forward with a smile on his face.
"Do you trust me?" he suddenly asked.
I was confused about that question, but replied honestly: "Of course I do."
He sped up more, not seeming to stop.
"Then get ready for the biggest jump of your life!"
I looked up at him in shock, then tilted it forward. He was going to jump off that fleet?!
"Are you serious?" I exclaimed, "No, wait!"
No more jumping, there's nothing more I fear than jumping. The memories are coming back… It just reminds me of the day when…
Flashback:
"Sydney, we can't get out of here!" I cried, "We're stuck!"
We were captured in this burning house on the balcony, completely surrounded by flames that were going to bring this place down to ashes.
"Well then we'll have to jump. Hold on tight!" He said and grabbed me.
We jumped.
We fell.
Then nothing but darkness engulfed me.
Darkness and sorrow and most of all, fear.
End Flashback:
"No, there has to be another way!" I cried.
"Just trust me!" he said and smiled brightly, as if there was nothing to worry about. He knew what he was doing and that was a bit reassuring, but I still gulped and prepared myself, in any case, for my death.
"I'm gonna die…" I whimpered, but Sonic just chuckled.
That was it. He jumped and I screamed. And when I mean scream, then I mean scream as loud as you can, as if you were really going to let out your most eerie scream before your biggest fall down to your death. And what killed me was that Sonic was not screaming, but cheering. "Woohoo!!"
And besides that, what honestly scared me was that everything seemed to be heavier and that we were really going to fall down to our death. I shut my eyes again, frightened.
"Keep them open, Christine!"
"But we're falling!"
"Hey, if you face your fear now, you'll be able to face it again with no problems and you'll be able to do something about that." He explained, "So open them up!"
"All right." I said while I was trembling in fright.
I took a deep breath and opened them. I was scared that we were in the air, falling actually. But when I looked in front of me, I saw a cliff with a field ahead of it.
I see. He planned to jump from the fleet to that field all along.
He landed smoothly on the ground and kept on running. He didn't even stop to have a breather, nor did I ever get the feeling that he was completely out of balance. Would you ever be able to keep your balance if you jumped off a fleet and land on a cliff without losing your balance? Nah, I didn't think so. That is simply because you're NOT Sonic the Hedgehog.
My view was bleary, but I saw so many things in a short amount of time. Fields, forest, roads, then green plains. It was so awesome to run so fast! You could really discover new things in only a few seconds. And maybe that was one of the reasons why Sonic loved running around and not sitting around.
At the green plains was where he stopped. Unbelievable, he didn't break a sweat nor was he out of breath. I was the one who was completely out of breath, even though I wasn't the one who was running.
He put me down, but when I tried to stand, my legs were too weak to support the weight of my body. So, I let myself sink to the ground and sat down.
"My god. I'm still shaking…" I chuckled.
"So how does it feel to go fast?" he asked me, sitting down right next to me.
"It's incredibly cool!" I exclaimed, "But how did you know that I was captured by Eggman?"
"Very simple, I happened to saw you being kidnapped by him, but I was a bit late to do anything to save you."
"But you still came, and that's what counts." I said gently and smiled, "Thanks a lot. Without your help, Eggman would have-"
I didn't want to finish the rest. I looked melancholically at my trembling hand and began to think everything over. Eggman's plans, my sentence to doomsday.
I saw his hand suddenly grabbed mine. I raised my head and gazed at him. Frankly, his green emerald eyes were simply wonderful. Eyes were the most beautiful jewels you could look at, but his were worth more than that. You couldn't find that kind of bright, energetic color in ordinary people's eyes.
"Heh, guess you're not used to that kind of dangerous stuff." He chuckled as he stared at my hands.
"What'd you expect? I'm not a running hedgehog like you, always ready to face danger." I replied.
Then, the thought of the store came up in my mind. I gave him a glare and when he looked at me face, into my eyes, he made an uneasy expression.
"What?" he asked innocently.
"You know, you didn't have to freak me out in the shop with the bag of sugar and the bag of flower." I said sternly.
He first simply stared at me, then burst loudly into laughter. "You knew it was me?"
"I was a bit unsure, because I didn't know that you existed. But the Chaos Emerald and Eggman proved me the contrary."
"Well, it was funny to see your panicked face!" he laughed.
I pulled my hand back, away from Sonic's grasp. After I pulled my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around my legs. What was going to happen to me after this? Where can I go and be safe from Doctor Eggman?
My eyes began to swell. "All of this is so confusing…" I sighed in a sob.
"What's the matter?"
"I'm thinking about Eggman…"
"What did he do to you?" he asked me.
"It's not what he did, it's what he's gonna do to me." I answered, "He's going to use me to take over the world."
"Nothing unusual about him, but why does he need you?"
I clenched my arms tightly and responded: "Because I'm the vessel of an incredible power that he's going to use to rule this planet, probably even beyond."
I explained him that story the Doctor told me about, the legend of Alkhazyra, leading to many conclusions and most of all, leading to my fate.
Then I burst out into tears. "Everything's so confusing! First I find out you guys are real, and next thing I find out is that my fate is to be the one to dominate or even destroy this world. And what I hate the most about this is that it's my music that will cause the chaos. I'm completely scared, and I have no idea how to avoid this from happening."
Sonic watched me as I cried on my knees, me, who was being so desperate to find a way to change this. He stood up, took my hand and pulled me up.
"Well, just to let you know, I'm not gonna let that happen!" he said and gave me one of his thumbs-up, "Me and my friends, we're gonna make sure you'll be safe."
"Promise?" I said, wiping my tears away.
"I promise you that!" he chuckled, "I always keep my word."
All of a sudden, Sonic ended up in my arms and it took me time to realize that I was the one who really did that. I was giving him a warm hug, appreciating that he'd be here to protect me when I would be in danger.
"Thanks, Sonic, for everything." I said in tears, "I don't know how I'll make it up to you."
"Hey, knowing that you're all right is more than enough to me." he said, "But there's one thing I'd like you to do for me."
"Anything." I whispered.
"Could you smile for me?"
I broke up the hug with a confused look, then burst into laughter moments later.
"Yeah!" he said, "That's all what I need…"
Then, I felt abruptly so dizzy and my eyes closed themselves. That wasn't my order, but apparently, I was so weak. The way I trembled proved me that. And next moment, losing balance, I tilted over to the left and my head was going to hit the ground first. Lucky that Sonic had fast reflexes too. He caught me in his arms before I made impact with the earth.
"Christine!" Sonic shouted, "Hey, say something!"
I opened my eyes halfway, looking deep in his face, then responded: "I'm sorry… I feel so dizzy and weak…"
"Hang in there, I'll bring you to a safe place." he said, then picked me up and started running, "Just don't give up."
"I'm sorry, I… I can't keep… my eyes… open…" I whispered.
"It's okay, just stay with me."
"Uh…"
I slowly shut my eyes and let the complete darkness overwhelm me. I let it guide me into my world of dreams, far away from the reality, ignoring what was happening around me in the real world. Ignoring everything except Sonic's warm chest and hands, making me feel safe and secure, even if I wouldn't be here to see or to experience it the rest of his adventurous and exciting running.
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