For You, Eternal Parte 3
"Amy! Look out!"
The red eyes were mesmerizing. The female couldn't move one step. She could barely breathe. Suddenly, something with the strength of a bullet hit her from the side and carried her away. Amy, dazed, poked her head around Sonic's arm, only to see a giant red laser cutting the ground behind them. "Sonic!" She gasped. "What was that?!"
Sonic sighed deeply and took a deep breath. "That's the decked-out robot that beat me." His bandages blew in the wind he made like white flags of surrender. The rain pelted against their fur and collided with the smoke to create an eerie mist.
Amy felt like she was in a late-night television horror movie. "Sonic," she murmured, trembling as he put her down. "I'm scared."
Sonic nuzzled her, the rain dripping off the tip of his black nose. "I know, young Rose. Don't worry; I'm not going to be beat this time."
Amy hugged him. "Please don't die, Sonic."
Cobalt's eyelids closed over lively emerald orbs and he was gone. Rose trembled, the handle of her piko-piko hammer hot in her sweaty hand. She knew that this robot could wound and beat Sonic. The mist made it hard to see the robot. Its faint outline was that of a cobra, spitting lasers from its mouth, but it appeared to have legs as well. Amy saw her beloved blue one racing around and attacking at every interval. She was crazy just standing still, but she wasn't as fast, as strong, or…even as brave as her Sonic was.
Fear caused her vision to blur. She cursed her own tears as she tried to choke down her sobs. She feared not for her own life, but for Sonic's.
The only thing that could possibly matter at a time like this.
There was a deafening crash and a bellow of victory. Amy noted that the blue blur had faded from sight, becoming nothing. Sonic was wounded and the robot was going to kill him. "No." Amy whispered, gripping the hammer tightly in both hands and running forward at full speed. "No! Not him!" She prayed hurriedly to whatever god she believed in to give her the strength to protect the one she loved as her hammer raised.
She was in front of Sonic soon enough, out of breath but defensively stationed in front of him. Things were happening too fast for her to recognize and no details could be determined. It seemed to her all a vivid dream. The tip of her gold and red hammer collided with the nose of the cobra-like robotic menace, sending the thing on a wild rampage. It was too realistic for it to be any number of Robotnik's better creations. Amy, stunned by her own actions, turned around to check on her one true love.
Nothing. He didn't move, he didn't speak. The bandage around his neck had been torn open, making the cut open again and placing fresh wounds, like those of teeth marks, upon it. The tan fur of his chest was stained deep red and, as Amy lifted him up a little, she noted that a stab wound lay just a few inches from his heart. His breathing, if any, was infrequent, his heart throbbing dully.
Well, at least he was alive. How alive he was had yet to be determined, but it was obvious he couldn't fight. Amy dashed forward, her hammer raised, to try and catch the monster off guard.
It was one of her many mistakes.
In this state of complete madness, the cobra was more alert than usual, and lashed out at her with all it had. The tail whipped around to slap the side of her face, pushing her into a nearby tree with the impact. Amy thudded into the tree, momentarily stunned. Blood gushed from her full cheeks and a hot flush crossed them.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And this becomes your weapon.
Anger in her normally gentle sea green eyes flared like hot flames as she stood, brushing branches and mud from her dress and picking them out of her quills. The misty rain washed the blood from her face and made the tips of her pink appendages stick to her shoulders. "I will protect him." She vowed, looking the wild robot straight in its hypnotizing eyes.
Perhaps there were no more famous last words.
Amy cried as she lashed out with her hammers, throwing and tossing them to and fro, hardly ever hitting at all. Her vision, and in fact all she did, became a wild blur to her as her madness became apparent. The cobra screeched as she hit it repeatedly with the many rapid strikes. However, she was not as athletic as her blue boy and soon ran out of breath and strength. She fell to her knees and looked up once again into the eyes of the strange robotic menace.
The cobra seemed fiercer now, its outer shell having been pulled away to reveal the pulsating veins of a live creature. It was now completely a mutant snake, mad with mistreatment and beyond all help. And, she too, was beyond rescuing.
Like many great heroines who have reached their time, she closed her eyes and bowed her head as her life flashed before her eyes. She saw her obsession with Sonic, the many rejections, the many rescues, and of course, the one kiss that had made her life worth living. And, Amy found herself at peace with death. It wasn't surprising. She'd done what she came to do: protect her love until the end.
But…her end never came. Amy dared to look up, only to give a gasp of horror.
Sonic's beautiful cobalt fur was stained red with the blood dripping from his wound. His quills were straight and his arms were shaking with the strain it took to keep the beast fro killing her.
"Sonic!"
"Hi, Amy," Sonic grunted, digging his toes into the dirt. He was trembling even more now, possibly from blood loss. "I can only hold him off for so much longer, so…" he breathed. "I need you to go."
"What?!" Amy stood and brushed herself off again, not really wounded except for a few cuts down her arms.
"You heard me." Sonic answered sternly, grunting again as the snake pushed against him. His fingernails dug into the fleshy snout. "Go, Amy! Run! It's your only chance!"
"But, what about you?!" Amy whined, tears coming to the corners of her beautiful eyes. How could I lose him, just when I've got him?! It isn't fair!
Sonic chuckled. "Heh. I'll be okay. Now, go! Before Eggman sends his other robots out to get you!"
"I can't Sonic!" Amy protested, throwing her arms around his waist despite the creamy liquid still flowing from his wound. "I'm not going without you. I can't, I…" And she buried her face in the bloody blue fur of her too-much-of-a-hero true love.
"Amy." Sonic's attention turned from the snake and they were face to face in a moment. "I love you." One hand caressed her cheek. "I'll always be with you. In the wind, in the grass, in your room, watching you. I'll never leave you. I never have." And he smiled as the snake saw its chance and closed its jaw over Sonic's middle.
"Sonic!" Amy wailed, reaching her hand up after him.
"Run!" Sonic commanded, tears falling from his eyes as well as his pink true love turned and fled. "I love you!" He called after her before the mist concealed her tiny pink body.
Amy didn't care which way was home. She could figure that out later. But right now, she had to get away, to follow what might've been his last order to her. It saddened her that this might be the very last time she would see him. But, his words nonetheless echoed in her head as her tears obscured her vision.
"I'll never leave you, Amy. I never have."
