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Chapter 2

For the next year or so, Blaze taught Silver how to fight. He was not a master, but he was far better than when they had first met. She could not teach him how to control his psychokinesis, so Silver had to teach himself how to control it. He had greatly improved his psychic abilities, but there was so much more he could learn. Unfortunately, there was no master who could help him to further his abilities. Blaze and Silver fought off Iblis and his fiery minions bravely, but still that monster lived. One day, after yet another battle with Iblis, Silver shouted, "I can't take this anymore!"

"Silver, calm down", Blaze said

"We do the same thing every day Blaze! We wake up, fight Iblis, try to find something to eat, go back to sleep, and then start it all over again the next day. We aren't any closer to beating him than we were yesterday or the week before last. Iblis is just as powerful now as when we started! There are only 15 humans left in this city now. We had to move to a new shelter and everything because of him", Silver said

"I know Silver, but we have to keep trying", Blaze said

"I'm just so frustrated right now", Silver said

Silver's mental state had been the one thing that had not improved since he met Blaze. He still had nightmares and often had hallucinations during the day. Blaze picked up on this and tried to help, but she could only do so much. She was not a psychiatrist and had no idea how to fix him. As was the case with Iblis, she could only fight the disease, not destroy it completely. She tried to calm him down and snap him out of his hallucinations, but her solutions were only temporary. What complicated matters more was that Silver could not shake the guilt and the mental scars of seeing both sets of his adoptive parents die in a fire. A fire that, in both cases, had been caused by Iblis.

Silver then had one of his hallucinations. It was always the same thing, fire and screams, things he had seen and heard much too often in his life. He ran towards this hallucination, getting closer and closer to the edge of a sinkhole that was filled with molten lava. Blaze saw this and quickly ran after him, grabbing him before he fell in and pulled him away from the edge.

"Silver, snap out of it", Blaze yelled, lightly shaking him as she did this. Silver slowly did as she commanded.

"Sorry about that," Silver said

"It's alright", Blaze said

The two then began to walk back to the shelter when a black hedgehog with no mouth appeared before them. Despite not having a mouth, he was somehow able to talk to them.

"You seem troubled", the hedgehog said to Silver.

"How do you know", Silver asked

"Because I watched you fight and what happened afterwards. Iblis is causing your pain, and I know who set him free", the hedgehog said

"Who...who would want to free such a monster", Silver said

"Follow me and I'll show you", the hedgehog said

"Alright, come on Blaze", Silver said

"Okay", Blaze said. She didn't trust the black hedgehog completely, but felt confident that she could take him on if he turned on them.

Silver and Blaze followed the black hedgehog to an abandoned building, where he turned on a computer that showed a picture of the "Iblis trigger", a blue hedgehog with green eyes and red shoes.

"He is the one who caused this, the Iblis trigger", the black hedgehog said, pointing to the picture.

"Thanks, but how will this help us beat Iblis", Silver said

"The Iblis trigger is dead now, but if you go back in time, you can kill him before he does any of this", the black hedgehog said

"And how do we do that", Silver said

"I can transport you and your friend to the past. There you will find him. His friends call him 'Sonic the hedgehog'", the black hedgehog said

"If it'll fix this mess then I'm in", Silver said

"Could I have a word with you in private", Blaze asked Silver. The two then went off to a far corner of the room where Blaze said, "I don't trust this guy. How do we know he's even telling the truth? Let's go home Silver and tell this guy 'thanks, but no thanks.'"

"And fight another indecisive battle with Iblis? Blaze, this guy is giving us the opportunity to make things right. My parents will be alive again along with all of the other victims of Iblis. Maybe I will finally know peace. Maybe the nightmares and hallucinations will go away along with the pain. I'm not going to let this chance slip by just because you're suspicious of him. I'm going Blaze and if you don't like it you can stay here", Silver said

"Have you finally lost it", Blaze said angrily

"Maybe I have Blaze, but there's a chance I can get it all back. Wouldn't you do the same thing if you were in my shoes", Silver said

"Go ahead, but don't come crying to me if this black hedgehog turns out to be a fraud", Blaze said, turning her back to him.

Silver then walked back over to the black hedgehog and said, "Sorry about that. I'm ready when you are, Mr..."

"Mephiles, Mephiles the dark", Mephiles said. He then sent Silver back in time to Soleanna, 200 years in the past. Silver was in the old town and had never seen such a beautiful city before with its Venetian architecture and clean streets. The people, while some were miserable, were much happier than those back home. There was much more of them too. Silver went around the town asking people if they had seen a blue hedgehog with red shoes. He had no luck at first, but finally he began to get hints which led him to a plaza where, in the distance, he could see a blue hedgehog and an orange fox walking in his general direction. He hid from view until they reached the plaza and when they did, he jumped out in front of them and said to the blue hedgehog, "you are the Iblis trigger" in a rage-filled tone of voice.

"Who", the blue hedgehog known as Sonic asked

"Don't play dumb with me! I know who you are and what you will do in the near future! I'm going to end you right here, right now", Silver said in that same tone of voice.

"Stand back Tails, I need to teach someone a lesson", Sonic said to the orange fox

"But Sonic, I want to help. No one messes with my best friend", Tails said

"Thanks Tails, but I can handle this guy all by myself", Sonic said

"If you say so", Tails said. He was confident in Sonic's abilities, but he hated it when someone threatened his best friend. He followed Sonic's orders reluctantly and hid behind some boxes.

Then the fight started. At first, Sonic was winning. Sonic was faster than Silver and dodged all of his attacks with relative ease. He avoided the objects that Silver hurled at him and even managed to get in a few homing attacks. The tables turned, when Silver successfully hit him with an iron table from a nearby restaurant. Silver continued to attack the blue hedgehog with any object he could use his psychokinesis on, bricks, chairs, tables, boxes; anything could be used as ammunition for Silver's assault. Earlier in the fight, Silver was screaming in agony after Sonic's homing attacks. Now Sonic was the one doing it. Tails heard these screams and desperately wanted to help, but stopped himself, both out of fear of Silver as well as respect for Sonic's orders. These screams were followed by the breaking of bones before one last blood curdling scream could be heard coming from the blue blur. Silence fell for a few seconds before a loud splash. Tails looked to his right and saw Sonic's body sinking into the river. He then looked behind him and saw Silver looking up to sky and shouting, "I did it! I killed the Iblis trigger!"

Author's note: thanks for reading. Chapter 3 will be coming soon. Please review.