The Costs of Victory…
Sonic stared down at his hands, and for a moment, his conscience had returned to him. "What… why… did I do this?" He asked himself.
Amy then noticed Knuckles and Rogue rapidly approaching. "Quickly, Knuckles, destroy it!"
Knuckles did not hesitate for a single step, but it was on his last step that Amy remembered something. "Knuckles, no!"
But it was too late, and Knuckles did not hear a word she said, too observed in executing his action. In one powerful stroke, he slammed the diamond down on the Soul diamond, shattering it, and breaking its hold on Sonic. Yet it wasn't until he saw the warp gate disappear did he fully realize the cost of his actions.
Yet to the surprise of them all, someone was through the warp gate. She was sitting on the ground, staring into space, lost in its night sky, and very, very confused.
"Look, it's Cosmo!" Amy cried excitedly, and she went to hug her. Cosmo hugged her back, almost as if she had forgotten how to hug someone. Then she looked around, and she became worried. "But where's Tails?" She asked. Cosmo looked around, and the fear lit up in her eyes.
"I don't know, he was right behind me." She said.
Knuckles looked down to the ground. "It's all my fault." He stated. "I shouldn't have destroyed it. Now Tails is stuck there! We've failed him, we've failed Cream—."
"No, it's my fault." Sonic said. "I failed my best friend; I killed Cream, I… I did this… this is my fault." He turned his head away so they would not see his tears, and Sonic quickly wiped them away. Amy went over to him and squeezed him hard, as if that would help. But it didn't keep the bad thoughts out. "I killed Cream… I failed Tails… I failed to help the world…" He kept telling himself.
Cosmo started crying, and Zoran looked at Cream's body. Zoran looked around at the suffering. "I've failed to protect the Answer. I've now lost the Answer, but I won't allow that to be much longer!"
Zoran placed his hand on her heart, and as he struggled to control and execute the magic, the wound began to heal, but what the magic was really doing was capturing her soul before it drifted away, and place it back in its body. As his sight started to leave him, he stated to her. "This is not your grave."
Zoran never saw whether he succeeded or not. He fell to the ground of fatigue, and collapsed, his eyes closing, and darkness overcame him.
A/N: The last chapter. Sigh…. I hate cliffhangers. Does this mean there will be a sequel? Is Zoran dead? Did the spell work on Cream? Poor Tails, is his fate reversible? All shall be revealed… in the second Volume of the trilogy!