Alright. Let's see if I can finally get to a point where I'll actually FINISH the story! (crosses fingers)
Disclaimer: You should know this by now! Dark, and everyone's past belongs to me! Yay!
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...I go where the wind takes me.
I am like a bird. Free and unrestrained by the chains that bind regular people to the earth on which they stand, while I am free to zoom by without a care in the world. Some of these earth-bound people have sad eyes. Eyes that wished they were as free as me.
I'd like to help them...but I can't.
I can't support someone else's wings while my own are heavy with their own burden.
Maybe once everything is through, may then I can teach the others to fly. To come and go as they please.
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My main priority now is finding my best friends. I need their help right now.
As much as I'd like to go it alone, I knew deep in my heart that if I just sprang in without any plans or back-up...
It was suicide.
And I couldn't die before HE did. Only when HE was dead could I finally resign myself to the cold hands of the afterlife. Not before. After.
I found myself laughing at these crazy thoughts. "Afterlife? What afterlife? I'm not goin' anywhere but to Eggman anytime soon!" I told myself. "...But first I gotta get Tails' help." I put on an extra burst of speed. I knew exactly where the young two-tailed fox lived and I was determined to get there before it got too late.
I'm nothing but a blue blur as I speed along the sidewalk. People look in awe as I speed by in a second and then they can't see me anymore.
I grinned to myself as I finally pin-pointed his house. It was pretty sweet. Not to big, but not too small. It was the perfect place for him.
"You'll always stay by my side, won't you buddy?" I asked to no-one in-particular. "'Cause that's the way you are. You want to help me to be happy." A small smile stayed on my face as I rang the doorbell.
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I could hear a bit of desperate scrambling inside the house before the door was suddenly yanked open.
A look of shock crossed my face.
There stood Tails. Or what I assumed was Tails. There were purple bags under his eyes and the eyes on their own had a half-crazed haunted look to them. His fur looked a little worse-for-the-wear as well. As if he hadn't really been looking after himself.
"S-S-...Sonic?!" He half-yelled in disbelief. I looked behind him to see Shadow and Amy standing there with an equally disbelieving look crossing their tired faces. "P-please, come in." He stammered quickly.
I slowly walked into the large front room, trying hard not to pay attention to the shattered porcelain lamp that had been hastily swept into a corner. The door was quietly shut behind me as Tails joined the rest of the 'cheerful' band.
"Tails...what-?" I was cut off when Amy suddenly started to hug me tightly; tears flowing freely.
She'd cried over me before, but MAN, it was way worse this time.
There was only one thing that I could think of that would possibly be freaking her, and everyone else around her, out like this.
The demonic gene.
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"...You knew!" I was crushed back into reality by the bitter voice of the once kind fox standing near me. His eyes were glinting a dangerous red hue.
"You knew this whole time...and you never told ANYONE!!" He screeched, pointing a gloved finger accusingly. "Why didn't you SAY something?! Do you WANT the world to end?!" He continued his mad ranting and I took a step back, somewhat afraid of what the angry fox-child would do to me if I got too close.
Amy had stopped crying and looked up at me with wavering green eyes. Shadow had started to glare at me as soon as he'd connected the dots and figured out why Tails had started yelling in the first place.
"Sonikku?" She asked in a choked voice.
I couldn't stop staring into her eyes. They had some sort of hold on me, and I was unable to look away. She could sense the betrayal that was emanating from me. "Wh-what else haven't you told us?" She asked. She looked so childish right now...and then I wondered why I'd bothered lying in the first place.
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I was about to tell her that I was sorry. That I'd never meant to cause her this unnecessary grief. That I should have told them sooner, but I didn't want her to become upset...
Unfortunately, Tails beat me to the punch.
"H-he...Can't love you Amy. And you can't love him! It's not right!" He told her. She looked at him with scared and confused eyes. Wondering why she shouldn't be able to love me. It only made sense, right? After all, I was cool, I was suave, I was what any hero should be!
"...why?" She asked quietly. I froze. Things weren't supposed to happen like this!
"Because..." He started bitterly. "...he's your brother."
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A startled, half-strangled cry was torn from Amy's lips as she broke down right then and there. I wanted to hug her, and I moved to do so, but it only caused her to blindly stumble away. Her eyes were shut tight, too repulsed to even glance at her ex-hero.
I...how could he DO this to me? I thought angrily. I'd been his FRIEND! "Sonic...you used to be my friend...but you betrayed our trust." Tails said to me. His voice dangerously low. I hadn't noticed until it was too late that Shadow had moved to block the door, and there were no open windows in the immediate area.
Tails had moved to shield Amy from me. An insane fire was sparkling in his eyes as he looked at me with pure, untamed, hatred.
Tails had purposefully turned them against me! He'd made my already scarred life worth less than nothing.
He wanted a fight? He was gonna get one!
I was about to spring when Tails had already jumped at me. I was too stunned to move out of the way as he crashed into my slightly larger and more lithe frame. Snarling with claws extended.
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I noticed dimly that Shadow was going to aid him in my downfall, but the kitsune shot the darker hedgehog a fierce look that made him instantly back down. I tried vainly to hit him off, but he had a vice-like grip on my legs that I knew would stay strong even if he died. Thick red blood was flowing freely from my leg as he reached blindly behind him for the gun that was kept somewhere nearby.
Shadow seemed to know what he was looking for, and was sure the young fox wouldn't protest if he used his powers to deliver the weapon into his hands.
Once more I tried to kick him off.
This time he went spinning towards the opposite side of the room. Leaving cracks on the wall. Amy was crying again and I tried to limp towards the dazed fox when he suddenly regained his composure and a sickening crack was heard as a bullet went straight through my good leg, obliterating the bone before shooting out the other side of my leg and embedding itself into the carpet below.
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The blood was flowing very freely through my leg. I was loosing way too much too fast, and the leg burned worse than anything that I'd ever been through my entire life. Possibly worse than everything combined.
I'd quickly buckled, unable to stand and I lay there crying out and sobbing from the terrible pain.
Tails loomed over me, his face stony and uncaring as he aimed that damned gun at my heart. There was a cold chuckle from him as he placed his ever ready finger on the trigger.
"Now you won't betray anyone ever again, bastard." He said coolly. I spat a long stream of curses at him, wanting to get my life's worth of 'shits' and 'damns' and 'fucks' before he pulled the trigger.
Too bad I never did.
With one quick pull, the lead ball shot straight through the center of my heart. The blood bubbled and fountained out, drenching my fur before my vision suddenly got hazy and I finally gave out.
Damn...I never...got to kill...him...
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Sorry to anyone that liked Sonic, but he really was a bastard in this fanfic, and he had to go. If you're wondering why I suddenly switched to him, he was originally going to Tails because he'd found Eggman's new secret base and wanted help storming it. Too bad he's never gonna get that wish. R&R please, as that's the bloodiest thing I've ever written. (hmm...I guess this fic should be rated M now...)