3.
I will never know myself until I do this on my own
And I will never feel anything else, until my wounds are healed
I will never be anything till I break away from me
I will break away, I'll find myself today
They will find me… They are so close… No… Nononononononononononono… Stay away from me… STAY AWAY FROM ME!!! It was not my fault… I just… I couldn't… I… I… I need to know who or what I am… Why am I like this… Cursed.
Angst was consuming his fragile mind… His claws were still stained with her blood.
Her soft, warm, innocent blood…
She only tried to help me… They both were doing their best to help me… To help this undeserving, pathetic creature who could barely remember his own name…
Grief had the better of him a whole lot ago. He stood alone in the deep jaws of this city's downtown.
Alone. Engulfed with solitude. Suffering his heart out of his little form. Regretting everything he'd done… Even though, the fault wasn't his own, he did believe otherwise.
I shouldn't even be alive… Yes, let them find me… Let them kill me. I deserve it. There is nothing left for me to live…
Suddenly, his damaged mind fixed itself once again on the ever lasting image of his beloved one, the one he didn't even know the name… That lavender cat girl that tormented him in his dreams.
He sighed… Or better, he cried. For what he knew, she could have died and it bothered him the fact that he couldn't remember it.
He sat on the dirty ground, besides a trash container and some spare rat and cockroach.
He hugged his knees and sobbed quietly… Incapable of understanding his surroundings, this whole world… And his own self too.
The un-mistakable and ominous sound of police's sirens echoed through his delicate hearing system… They were looking for him. They would find him, eventually.
He had a choice… He could stay there, waiting for their arrival and accepting his fate…
Or…
He could fight and live through all of this and why? Because, despite everything that happened… Despite everything that will probably happen… He still had hope.
He wanted so bad to find himself again, to find his memory and his past…
And to find her… Whether being alive or not.
He was alone in this world, he would have to accept that in order to survive, he was a danger for everyone who would dare to near him…
But, as he realized, he would have need to break away from his own grieves and torments in order to step up and live.
No more self-pitying.
No more twisting sorrows.
No more so-called friends… He was on his own and he needed… He NEEDED… To carry on, or die trying.
For the first time since his tragic awakening in that hospital, Void realized that he wanted to live… Wanted to fight… With all of his might.
Slowly, but convincingly, the white dressed Seedrian rose from the ground, determination was visible in his namesake eyes.
The Emptiness of his soul was starting to be filled with hope and stubborn will… Exactly what he desperately needed in this hour.
The sirens were even closer now. He had to move.
He started running through the deepest part of this ominous city… It was already nighttime. He ran passed bums and bewildered prostitutes, feral cats and dogs, street thugs and so on…
The sirens still after him… Still close… Like cursed ghosts.
Finally, he found shelter in an abandoned alley… Which happened to be a dead end.
Darn…
He was trapped like a mouse… To his relief, however, the sirens faded away.
Only to be substituted by a low chuckle.
"Who's there!!?"
A chuckle that suddenly became a growl…
"What do you want from me!?"
… A growl that became a snarl…
"No… No… Please don't…"
… A snarl that soon became a roar…
"NO!! IT CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!! NO!!!"
… The un-mistakable roar… Of a feral beast.
It was finally visible now… During the last day, It caused the Seedrian to lose control, It tried to possess him or at least to test his resilience… Now it was dark and this being's other form just showed up.
And It was right in front of him… Right in front of the terrified Seedrian…
The werehog has arrived and it wanted him.
And so… He finally met ME! This world's Solitude… This tale's narrator…
The beast had dark fur, it's quills were humongous and his eyes were red as blood. It didn't mutter a single word…
It just grabbed the arm of the fear petrified boy… Suddenly, something rather peculiar happened.
The creature's powers started to be absorbed by the unwilling Seedrian… Who screeched in utter pain for that…
When it was all over… The beast returned to its normal aspect… Its daylight aspect, I should say…
His normal, black furred, red striped, crimson eyed… Hedgehog aspect.
And this world's Shadow the Hedgehog smirked to his young victim… Clearly satisfied with his handy work.
By now, Void has fallen on the ground… Shaking like mad. His eyes were widen and the saliva that came out from his mouth suggested that he was having a seizure.
The Ultimate Life Form lowered himself to the boy's height and whispered something that Void would have never forget as long he would have lived…
"This power… It is your burden now. Have fun with 'Him'." And then… He just disappeared into the darkness of the night.
Not so long after Shadow left… An acute, disfiguring pain engulfed Void's chest as if ready to blow up from the inside…
He couldn't breath… He couldn't think… It was unbearable.
His suffering screams of agony echoed through the downtown scaring all of its inhabitants out of their pants.
He didn't know for how much time it lasted… A minute, an hour, the whole night… Who knew?
When it was over he simply fainted, unable to sustain it anymore…
He was found in the morning, still unconscious…
The two-tailed fox took him on his shoulders, blaming himself for not having been able to find him earlier since his prized invention, the Mileselectric, couldn't detect his presence because of a strange, seemingly inexplicable, interference… He spun his namesakes and rose in air with the fainted Seedrian on his back.
Flying in that predicament turned out to be more difficult than he thought but he managed to do it anyway.
It took all the kit's strength to transport his guest right back to the Mystic Ruin, with several breaks for regaining breath that is… But after a whole day, Void was now serenely asleep in his bed, in the security of Tails's workshop.
The vulpine was feeling slightly better now… Unlike the day before, when Amy was hospitalized and her unwilling assaulter ran away.
Tails knew that things were going to be more difficult from now on… Everybody knew that the "Black Eyed Monster" was still alive, more importantly, G.U.N. knew… And they knew he used to hide it.
They could not stay there for too long, they needed to leave as soon as possible… Luckily for them, there still was one person the fox could entrust his life with…
A certain pickle sandwiches lover he learned to call father.
Inside the sleeping plant's head, however, things weren't looking so optimistic…
"What… What happened?" The Seedrian asked to no one in particular.
The answer came in the form of an ominous roar… And a giant snake like, dragon like creature…
"WHO ARE YOU!!!?" The panicked namesake eyed boy yelled rather than asked.
The beast seemed to smile… If its awful scowl of a dented muzzle could be considered such.
"Who am I?" It replied with its animalistic, twisted voice. "I am this planet's Will… And your new master… I AM DARK GAIA!!!"
If it isn't a twist, don't you think, Shadow?
Indeed… I bet no one expected to see this story's narrator to actually be a part of it… Or the participation of the latest Sonic Villain for that matter.
I would like to thank you for your collaboration, without you this wouldn't have been possible.
I'm curious though, how are you going to explain this mess of a plot to your eager readers?
Well… I haven't thought of it yet… I'll just improvise.
… Fang? Is that you!?
……. No.
I knew it… I KNEW IT!!! You and Fang the Sniper are the same person!!!
Sigh. Well, it's true… In a way. He's part of my twisted personality… Don't tell anybody!
Ehe… Don't you worry about it. I can keep secrets… But there's a price, of course.
All right, you will have your own spin-off series (maybe), now shut up and enjoy the rest of the song.
This story is over!
I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've held so long
(Erase all the pain till it's gone)
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
Somewhere I belong
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I'm somewhere I belong
Somewhere I belong
And what about Blaze?
You'll see… Or maybe not? I don't know… I still have to decide it… Eheheheheheheheheheh.
A/N: Continues on "Void of Love"