Chapter 4:Knowing each other

Hey everyone tired and this is the fourth chapter of Mark the Assassin. Hope you enjoy it as much as I like writing this story Hehehe.

Mark is walking with Amy at the park. Away from most of the people there. Mark is talking about his past and how he got here and what is he. Mark finally finished his story. Amy got a little shocked. "How a fifteen-year-old kid got through all this?" she thought.

"Well that's my story." Mark said to Amy. He was watching Amy as she was watching Mark the whole time seemed so interested on his story.

"Wow. It's hard to believe that someone like you got through all of these. I never imagined something like this" she said shocked more than ever. "But you still didn't answer in one question."

"What question?" he asked confused.

"What are these red things on your jacket?"She was so curious about these.

"Blood." He answered without giving her a single glance.

"What? How you even got so much blood?" she asked curious and shocked. She didn't believe in her ears."That was blood? The whole time? Mark is wearing bloody clothes?" Amy thought. "He definantly needs new clothes to wear!" thought again.

"Remember when I told you that I was fighting monsters? Well, some of them cut my skin; other scratched me to disarm me etc. But they failed miserably."

"I can't…believe it. This is blood? Wow Mark, never crossed something like this on my mind». That was the least she could say. She was still in shock. Everywhere he has scratches and blood?

"Believe it or not this is the truth."

"So…weird question but did you make any friends here?" asked again curiously. The most obvious answer is no of course.

"Indeed. Her name is Tikal. Do you know her?" answering Amy's question and asking her something else.

"A brown hedgehog? Yeah, I know her. Is she like the only friend of yours?"She didn't believe it. They had a common friend. What a coincidence.

"You could say that. She's the first person I met here." His head was facing down. He was a bit afraid. But of what? How a deadly assassin could be ever afraid of anything after all those adventures?

They were both quiet. None of them were talking. Amy was looking at him closely. Under this hood she knew he was hiding something. He realised he was sad. She wanted to help him. She touched his shoulder. "Mark, what's wrong? Is it something I asked or told you?"

"No Amy! It's not that" said Mark still depressed.

"Then what? What happened?" she asked again more curious.

"It's umm…nothing. It's nothing"

"It's not anything. What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I told you" Mark suddenly got a more furious tone.

"No it's not. Mark you can tell me. Don't you realize I care about you?"

"How you care? We just met each other" asked confused.

"I just…do, alright?"

"Oh god!"

"It wouldn't kill you if you would tell me, you know. It might make you feel better" She smiled at him.

Mark didn't want to say what was bothering. It was a huge secret he kept from everybody. He didn't want anybody to know about this. At day he was human and at night he was transforming into a…hedgehog. He didn't want people to learn about see him like this. He was hiding this even from Amy and Tikal. He was a bit afraid of their reaction. But he knew he couldn't keep it for long. He could try to keep it secret as long as he could. As long as it was possible. Something interrupted his thoughts. A female voice next to him.

"Hey Mark. You listen already?"

"Oh sorry Amy"

"So the whole time I was talking to myself?You don't have any...anyways" the sun started going down. "I'll pretend this never happened if you come back tomorrow morning here. Friends?"

Mark wasn't really in the mood for a friend.

"I guess so"

"Alrighty. See ya tomorrow." She smiled at him and started walking the other way.

Amy started walking the other direction. She was going home. She was happy. When he finally reached home she opened the door of her apartment, removed her boots and went straight to bed. She was very tired and wanted some sleep.

~Mark's POV~

At least she finally left. Now I'm alone again. How I prefer to be. She was weird. The good weird. Interesting girl. But why she said that she cares about me anyways? We just met. I can't understand her .Oh no. Not this. Not now please.

Spikes started growing on Mark's back. More white-grayish fur started growing too. He was transforming into a…hedgehog .Mark was truly a hedgehog. But only at night.

How I even going to say Amy this? Or even Tikal. What is this curse? How I have to be a hedgehog too? What am Inhuman or hedgehohg? I don't even know Amy's reaction to this. But she is a hedgehog too right? But…oh god. What I'm going to do now? I can just leave. But I promised her not to. She will never know. But promise is a promise. I will let her down. I will hurt her. I don't want to hurt her. Not that I care about her or something. I just met her. But you know what? I don't care about anyone. But...Tikal? What about her? I can't just leave without saying goodbye, can I? I will let them both down. I can't do such thing. Well then I will have to be there. I will just tell her tomorrow that I don't want to be friends. It might be hard for her but I will have to tell her. I'm not looking for friends.I wanna rest now, in which tree should I sleep?

The next day

Amy woke up. Got up from her bed, brushed her teeth and put her shoes on. She couldn't wait to meet Mark again. She was thinking he was interesting and mysterious. A bit attractive. She wanted to get to know him better. She got out of her apartment and started walking. When she finally reached the park she saw Mark behind a tree. Hiding from people. She finally reached him.

"Hey Mark" Amy said happily with a smile.

"Oh hey Amy. What's up?"

"Nothing really. Just excited"

"For what?" he asked curious.

"Nothing personal stuff."

"Alright then. So now what?"

"How about taking a walk for starters? Do you have any better idea?"

"A walk it is"

They started walking across the park. They were talking for half an hour for several of things. She wanted to get to know that mysterious human more. After all she knew it was going to be a challenge. He was trying to hide stuff from her. As conservation gets more and more interesting Mark feels more comfortable with her. But he still hasn't told her about his real self. About being a hedgehog. It was difficult for him to admit it to somebody. He was afraid of her reaction. But deep inside he knew that he had to tell her because she will learn about it anyways.

"Mark. Mark is you here?"

"Oh sorry Amy. I was thinking about something."

"What is it? It must be interesting!"

"Well…it's not the right time."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Nothing, let's talk about something else shall we?"

"How about relationship and stuff?"

"Umm…I don't know whatever you want" he lied. Things like that were making him feel awkward.

"Alright, so…do you know Sonic the Hedgehog?"

"No I don't. Who is he?"

"He's a hero" she answered. Mark heard about this word. He didn't like it. He believed that the society was doing whatever he wanted with heroes. Like they were puppets. That's why he didn't like this word. "So he saved me some times. So I got to know he a bit better and now I love him but either he pushes me away either he runs away"

"You love him for who he is or what he did?"

"What do you mean?"

"What I'm trying to say is that, when you love someone for who he truly is that means you also love his character. By loving his character means you also love the negative things he has on his character jealously for example. But if you love him for what he did you don't truly love him. It's something that will disappear. I don't call this love. That's my point."

Amy stood still thinking about what he just said. "Is he really right?" she thought. "He has a point on what he's saying."

A voice stopped Amy's thoughts. A two-tailed orange fox was approaching them.

"Hey Amy. I was looking for you everywhere."

This fox was a younger inventor, but way too smart for his age. But still, he remained a kid.

"Oh hey Tails. What's going on?"

"Wait, I-I have to…catch my breath."

"I will catch your breath for you!" Mark thought. He laughs by himself.

"What's so funny?" Amy said to Mark annoyed.

"Oh it's…nothing. Hehehe!"

"Anyways Tails. What happened?"

"Remember that thing you wanted from me to find? Well I did find it. There you go." Tails gave Amy a paper. "By the way who is he that you are with? Never seen him around." He asked.

"Oh he's a friend of mine. Mark this is Tails."

Mark looked at the fox.

"My real name is actually Miles Prowers but my friends call me Tails. Nice to meet you."

"My pleasure."

"Are you from around here?"

"No, I'm not"

"Then?"

"You have no idea."

"So Mark why you are wearing this hood? It's like warm in here"

"Not your business fox."

"Chill. It was just a question"

"EEYY! Umm...Tails, do you have anything else to do?" Amy said wanting to calm them both down.

"Oh yeah, I have to finish something on the X-Tornado. See ya later guys."

That fox finally left. Mark was a bit confused. He never saw a fox with two tails. It was kind of weird and new to him.

So yeah…this is the fourth chapter of the story. Hope you like it. I got demotivated lately. But I always get motivated again in like one or two days. So rate if you liked it. See ya in the next chapter scrubs.