Chapter 7: Desperation.

When shadow and I have arrived, the others lied on the ground, Agony and Rage in the hand of Despair.
"My little toys returned." The rock monster said with a wide grin. "Time to say goodbye to your friends"
with that they all got lifted into the air on floating ground chunks, and then the small pieces of the ground turned upside down, and almost got slammed back to the ground with our friends under them.
"You made a big mistake!" I said holding both my friends, and the small pieces of the pavement in the air with my psychokinesis.
"The blue guy told the same when I knocked out the cat." He replied, and I felt the ground shaking under me. Before I would lose my balance I lifted myself up, and Shadow turned on his rocket shoes too.
"What do you want with an earthquake if we don't touch the ground?" Shadow asked teasingly, but we both regret it soon enough. In the exact same moment when shadow finished stone spikes shot out of the ground from under us, and one of them almost ripped my arm down. I could only move away in the last moment.
"That was close." I said sweating
"Too close, if you ask me." Shadow said, and I saw he was bleeding. One of the spikes cut his left leg, and an another one scratched his nuzzle right under his right eye. He was lucky it didn't reached his eye.
"Shadow!" I screamed seeing my friend.
"Don't worry, I'll live. Now revenge us." He said, held the cut tightly. "I can't run with this. I have to leave him for you this time."
"Consider it done." I said, and looked up at his head, and... nothing? His head was flat. No horn, what was the common weakspot for the other three elements.
"You think you can defeat me? What a joke. The others said the same for each other before I took them out one by one." He said. 'It can't be he have no weakpot, can it? No, he must be... but where?' I started to become desperate.
"Where is your horn stuff? Someone stole it, or what?" I asked trying to look calm.
"You don't have to act, kid. I feel your despair, and I love it." He said, and grinned. I let my expression to change to dreadful when he said "And I don't have that weakspot the others did."
his grin become even wider. "I sooo loved as the others found it out, one by one, as they tried to defeat me. The way they became more, and more desperate. Their faces when they realized it was hopeless... that was priceless!"
"You damned beast." I said while I frowned
"What do you think, why did they sent me? Nobody could defeat me, ever."
"I thought Agony was the strongest."
"She never were. I just let her win, so she thought she was the top dog, but in truth. She never had a chance against me."
"Why wouldn't she? She surely knew your weakspot."
"But it worth nothing. It id deep within my very core. Nothing can lay a finger on that."
I started to grin furiously, and my confidence returned in the blink of an eye.
"Why aren't you desperate? I just told you can't get even close to my weakspot. Why are you grinning?" Despair asked. He was finally getting scared
"Because I'm your worst nightmare. Now that I know where it is, I can destroy it, even without touching it." I said, and his face changed from scared to dreadful.
"Nobody can rea-" he said, but before he could finish his chest was wide open, and a small ball was pulsing red in there.
"You're dead." I said, and cracked one of his spikes he used to attack Shadow out of the ground, and sent it right into the small ball.
Despair stopped all kind of movements, and one of his spikes fell off his back. That was followed by one of his stone tooth, and soon one of his arms. This went on, and on until he completely fell into pieces. The only thing remained was the small red ball, stabbed by the spike floating in the air.
The ball's pulsing was slowing down, until it stopped, and fell to the ground, breaking into pieces in the process.

Two days have passed since I destroyed Despair.
I brought everyone back. They all soon got better, but David. He is still in coma. Chaos was more than happy when he found out he have a brother and a sister. I am happy, because now he and Tikal finally have some company. Ever since that incident, Tails and Blaze see Tikal and Chaos too. I wonder if David will too...
"Silver, can you come down please?" Tails asked from the Lab's door. I saw something was off.
"Of course. What's wrong?" I asked, and closed the door behind me.
"His powers." He said, pointing at David "They reached the critical limit. That last time was too much for his body. He will be lucky if he ever wakes up."
"What?" I was shocked. 'It can't be. He can't... He was just wanted to help us. Wanted to do some good. It's...'
"It's all our fault." Tails gave voice to my thoughts. "If he wouldn't wanted to fight with us, or at least we wouldn't just asked him to hang out with us, then maybe none of this would have happened."
"Yeah." I said "We are the ones responsible for all of this."
"What should we do now?" Tails asked
"I don't know."
"What have we done?" He asked, and a single drop of tier rolled down his cheeks.
"We will work it out somehow."
"You didn't saw her, Silver."
"Whom?"
"Victoria. You didn't saw her crying on top of him for hours." He said, trying to hold back crying "And all I could say, is that I can't help him." That was it. He burst out of crying.
When he finally stopped, we gathered up everyone, and told them everything from David's current state.

3 days later, David finally regained consciousness. We were all overjoyed that he is back.
"Silver, you okay?" He asked me.
I turned around, and looked him in the eye. "No, I'm not." I said honestly.
"I told all of you, THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT!" He said
"But we sure feel like it would."
"I know. Shadow didn't came out of his room ever since, and Sonic is nowhere to be found."
"I is running non stop since you got better. The way you cried..."
"I'm so sorry."

Flashback

"What?" David asked in shock
"If you use your power ever again... You will... die." Tails said
"No... It can't be." He said, tears gathering in his eyes "Without that I will be just as useless I was back then. Without them I would have never been able to save my love, and with them I could have... I could have..." He never managed to finish. He was crying loudly, and we all cried with hi,, silently.

End of Flashback

"Are you sure everything will be fine?" I asked him.
"Nothing will be fine, but..." He paused for 10 seconds "I will somehow pull this trough."
"Tails asked me to give you this." I handed him the small cellphone Tails gave me "If you ever need our help, just call us, and we will be there in a flash."
"Thank you. All of you. I don't know how to repay you."
"You don't understand. This is how we show our gratitude to you. You saved all of our skins back then. Without you, we would have never survived. We are the ones in your debt."
"You saved me too, so let's say we're even." He tried to fake a smile, but he failed miserably.
"Are you sure you want to go back?" I asked him
"Yes. I can't stay here anymore. I could be no help, and it would just remind me to... you know..."
"I understand. It was good to fight side by side with you."
"Goodbye." He said, and he joined Victoria, who was waiting in the streets. Normally all of us would be here to say goodbye, but after what happened none of us was able to look into his eyes. We all felt horrible after what we did to him.

3 months have passed. Things got back to normal, and we all live our life, however most of us still stops every time we walk before his room. We barely spent days together, but it feels like we've known him for years. We all miss him.
I woke up in the morning, and yawned. Blaze wasn't in our bed anymore, so I just made our bed, and got dressed. I went down, just in time to see Shadow bringing back the mail.
"Mailtime!" He shouted, and everyone came to the hall from all parts of the house.

"This came for you, Sonic. I bet this is an another faker-fan." He teased. I'm glad he is like his old self again.
"Very funny, looser, but I'm still better than you." Sonic replied, and took the latter.
"Tails, this is for you" He said, and handed a box for him.
"Great, the new parts for my latest experiment has arrived!" He exclaimed happily, and started to walk back for the lab.
"And this one came to all of us from..." He froze mid sentence, and he started to shake.
"What's wrong buddy?" Sonic asked teasingly, but when he saw the label he froze too, and then looked away.
"Who's it from?" Charmy asked as he always does. No reply.
"What's wrong guys?" I asked, and tried to understand the situation.
Blaze stepped there, and her face became dark too. 'Something terrible could have been there.' I thought, and wanted to look for it myself, but Shadow finally spoke up.
"It's from David." He said, and we all felt the pain renewed.
Shadow opened the letter, and read it loud. It read:
"Hi guys.
I hope you are all doing well. We returned to Angel's peek, and live our life with Victoria. I write because we would need your help here. Remember the monster I spoke of, what attacked her when we met? Well, it returned. It smacked the emergency phone before I could call you, so I had to write. Please come as fast as you can.
See you soon.
David."