Chapter 7 "Power Hades"
Spike started running as far away as he could trying to forget what was happening to him, he faked enthusiasm but that didn't last him long.
The further he ran the more he saw unfamiliar things.
There were trees of gold and red and green leaves so bright and about the land was a far beautiful country with waterfalls all around with an easy terrain in the distance.
Spike didn't say anything, he preferred not to anyway.
As night fell to the starry sky Spike laid down sleeping on his pack; he was tired and passed out in the middle of the grassy field he stopped at.
The wind blew softly moving his quills up and down as he laid there resting.
There was a lovely sound to the air almost like a song whispering and welcoming sleep.
As Spike's eyes winced in the bright daylight he yawned and slowly got up.
He'd slept the whole night and was surprised he was not rained on or bit by mosquitoes or ants.
He felt refreshed and the day before was slower in his mind even if it was repeating the memory.
"Guess I should keep moving." He thought.
A few hours later and his pace slowed down; he was running up a rocky path but it turned into walking soon afterward.
It was a slope that curved up into the mountains there were boulders and rocks as far up as you could see.
As he walked up the slope he felt a slight rumbling feeling but was ignoring it, the bag over his shoulder was enough to distract him.
Spike grunted continuing up the slope then turned to the other side of it.
Soon he felt more of the rumbling and there was a piercing sound that made him cover his ears.
"What was that?!" Spike exclaimed.
A young male hedgehog was screaming in terror, when Spike looked at him at first glance he appeared a lot like his father in the light.
And as the rumbling continued the rocks at the top started falling, faster and faster they ran down the slope shaken up from the rumbling ground.
Spike soon saw what it was the other hedgehog was afraid of; the hedgehog's leg was stuck in between two small boulders.
Spike ran towards him, the light was so bright out where the slope was facing he couldn't see clearly and as the rocks tumbled down the cliff Spike saw he only had a small window of opportunity.
Running by as fast as his feet let him Spike leapt valiantly for the fellow hedgehog, as he leapt he grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him out of the rut.
When the pair looked back they saw the rocks tumble and crush the two rocks the hedgehog was stuck in previously.
Both breathed in an out, the tension they just went through was bone-chilling.
The hedgehog got on his feet rubbing his leg that was just freed.
"You…you just saved my life." The male hedgehog said with surprise to his voice.
Spike looked back seeing that now he had let his bag of supplies get crushed completely by the rocks that ran down the slope.
Spike was also in an irritated mood as it was; he was irrational and still confused and now he had no supplies.
He shot angry eyes geared toward the hedgehog he saved.
The hedgehog was younger then he was; he looked about age nine or so.
He had goggles placed over his head just above his eyes with his quills streaked down brown colored along them.
He had black eye patches around his eyes and a pair of red gloves with a design on them and he had white fur in the front and bluish gray fur everywhere else.
He had big innocent looking eyes when he looked at Spike, like he'd come into bad circumstances as well.
"I'm sorry you lost your supplies…" the hedgehog said.
Spike breathed in and out quickly holding in from yelling since the hedgehog seemed sincerely sorry.
Spike still felt upset but wasn't going to take it out on him.
"You must be super smart or something, my sister's little and she barely understands anything." Spike said.
"For a moment I thought you were my father." Spike said distantly. "I guess I came into a lot of luck since you're not."
The hedgehog shrugged his shoulders.
"Well thank you for saving me, I tripped and my leg got stuck and I couldn't get away…" the hedgehog said shaking himself. "Well my name's Power, Power Hades."
"Hi…I guess." Spike said still feeling a little distant. "Why were you out here all by yourself?"
"My family recently, died…I didn't have anywhere to go so I figured I'd look around for somewhere." said Power.
"Really…" Spike said understanding the fellow hedgehog's situation.
Spike stood tall trying to show he wasn't upset about anything. (When he really was upset)
"My name is Spike Streak." He said. "And I'm out on my own quest…"
"What type of quest?" Power asked curiously.
"Well…" Spike said not really wanting to talk about it. "I have ambition to take this planet but I'm worried I have to do some pretty low things to get there, my father you see went too far with his goal which was pretty much the same thing...he did some unforgivable things…But I want to be better then that."
Power half smiled. "Well, do you feel you have to do this alone or…?"
Spike looked at him with a confused expression. "Why do you ask?"
"Well as I've said before, I have nowhere to go; maybe I could…help you?" Power said feeling very nervous.
This thought had no accrued t Spike, as of now he wasn't ready to have a friendship he was still hurt about what had happened.
Still it puzzled him to say the least; he'd never considered the possibility of having a teammate.
His gut told him Power was important somehow, he couldn't explain the instinct.
"My life's really complicated right now…" Spike said shrugging his shoulders. "I honestly don't know about it…"
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