So chapter 5 is here. Up until now nobody said me to continue, so i might ABANDON this story. Please let me know if you enjoy it. I don't fear to say that I desperately need it. Sorry, but I am living a hard time, and I seek for any kind of support.

Chapter 5: Time is running out

Agony, the queen of air. What a horrible creature she is. She hadn't simply stolen Tails' life essence, but also using David's own power to keep us here, and with that slowly killing him too. His condition is getting worse with every minute. He is having headaches every now and then, and the time between is quickly decreasing. Our time is slowly, but steadily running out. If he dies before we could get Tails' life essence back then... we don't know what we will do.
However David just joined us yesterday, it feels like we would known him for years. Even with the battle against Rage we moved in perfect sync, and knew what was the other thinking without any words. Blaze is trying to help both him, and Tails, without much luck.
"David? Can't you break us out of this frozen time?" Tails asked
"I could for a while now, but I won't." He replied
"But why?" I asked confused, and the others all looked shocked at him
"What would happen with you then? We have to get your life essence or what back first."
"Don't worry because of me. If you all get out, it worth it for me."
"I shall leave nobody behind." David said with determined eyes and voice. "I promised myself after my mother died, that I shall not let anybody die, and..." His voice trailed off
"And what?" Sonic asked
"I would never leave behind a friend."
"We just met yesterday. Why would you risk your life, and call someone your friend you barely know?"
"I don't know why, but I feel I meant to meet you guys, and I think about all of you as my friends. You are the first ones I can really call my friend since my mother died."
"Thanks dude." Sonic said, and even shadow let out a small smile.
"Guys, he is getting cold." Blaze said touching Tails' forehead. "I have to keep him warm" She said and concentrated to heat up his body a bit. She had to do it very carefully to do not overheat him.
"If I estimate it right, we only have 2 hours left to find Agony." Shadow said, and stared at the dark distance. Things became brighter since Rage died, but the visibility is still under 500 meters.
"We have no more time to waste then." Sonic said, and we continued our journey in this place. It surprised us all that we had also been teleported into this desert like place we never saw, but I think we can thank it to those elemental freaks.
"Look who's gotten this far." Agony's voice came from the darkness. "And the fox is still kicking? This is so...boring. I think I have to speed things up a bit."
With that she appeared in front of us, and looked at us.
"Here is the queen of the freaks" Sonic said grinning. "You came to us instead of having us search all around for you."
"I came to ask you a question." She said "Do you know why am I called Agony?" She asked
"Why?" I dared to ask. Bad idea.
"Because I enjoy watching others in agony. I cause unbearable pain. Isn't that right, fox and tiger?"
They both glared at her like if they could kill with it that monster would be nothing but ashes by now. The monster just grinned, and continued "Your pain is not from the body, but from the mind, and that's what real agony is. You are dying piece by piece until nothing remains, while you both want to bring everyone else back safe, even if it costs your own life, while knowing that your the other one would do the same, which means both of your deaths. What beautiful sight."
I grinned my teeth as pure hatred filled my every thought. I wonted nothing more, nothing less just to kill this monster.
"This is the same reason of Chaos, Rage, and Despair's name too." She added
"Why don't we have the Chaos Emeralds when we need them?" Sonic muttered under his breath
"You seek your little rocks? Well, we had better use of them."
"So you were the ones who took em?" Shadow asked with his chaos gun at his hand
"What did you thought? They grown legs and walked away? Off course I took them."
We found it curious that the emeralds disappeared last week, but we thought that they only got separated for some reason we don't know, just like after Chaos Control.
"So that's how you are at perfect state." Sonic said, and grinned. "And I started to be afraid that this is your week form."
"All right then, but before I go again, I give you an another gift, and " She said, and we saw green glow emitting from shadow's mouth and Sonic started to panic
"NO! Not him too!" He screamed in fear, and soon a green bubble popped out of his mouth. I realized immediately what is happening. The bubble was just like the one came out of Tails. She stole Shadow's life essence too. It flown to the monster, and stopped next to a now appearing orange one, what I could find between a million others, the life essence of Tails. Shadow collapsed to the ground, like he would die. The things happened to Tails are replaying in my head just like a movie. No... this can't be how it ends!
"You bastard!" Blaze screamed in pain, and launched an attack, but the monster easily dodged it.
"I have a proposition. I go to my place, and if you can find me, and defeat me within an hour, I will give these back to your little friends, but if you don't... Well, you would die anyways, so you have nothing to lose." She said, and disappeared once again.
"I hate her!" Sonic said with anger.
"Me too." Blaze said
"What should I say then?" Shadow asked weakly.
I lifted him up too, and Blaze started to check up on him.
We ran at full speed, only with our instincts leading us.

We spent more than 40 minutes searching, but with no luck.
"Agh." David screamed up in pain again. He panted heavily like he would just run down the whole length of the Marathon.
"Are you all right?" Blaze asked him.
"I'm fine, thanks. Worry about Tai-" He said, but was never able to finish, because an another wave of pain reached him.
"Silver, we are running out of time." Sonic said.
"I know." I said, and looked at our downed friends. Tails was unconscious for more than 20 minutes, and his vital signs were getting weaker and weaker with every minute. Shadow is looking like he wouldn't slept and ate for a week, and his conditions is getting worse too. David is also having a hard time, now having a headache in every second minute, with two waves of pain. He is sweating mad, and his panting is getting worse with every single one.
"She is close. I can feel it." David said coming out of the pain. "That way." He points to the right of us. We are following his directions, and...
"Agony!" I grunted as the form of this horrible creature appears in front of us.
"Well, well. You actually found me!" She said evilly.
"Now give our Tails and Shadow's life essence back!" Sonic yelled
"I said if you can find me, and defeat me. You only found me." She stated coldly.
"Then we have no other chance, than to defeat you." I said, and carefully put down the guys to the ground. "Please take care of them my dear, while I will deal with this monstrosity with Sonic." I asked Blaze
"Take care, my love." She said, and kissed me. We both knew that most possibly we shall never see each other again, so we let the moment last for as long as possible. After we finisher, Sonic spoke up.
"Hey, if I die here, please one of you tell Amy that I loved her, and will always will."
"I shall not." I said, and he looked at me in shock. "Kill this moron, and tell her yourself." I said, and he nodded with a smile on his face.
Then this is how it ends. At least one of us shall not leave this battlefield. We, or the monster. This is not from fun like Eggman. Someone will die, here and now.
Thanks for reading, and I really hope you enjoyed.