Chapter Three: A painful past

Sonic groaned. This was not good. This hiking trip was supposed to be fun! A nice outing with Tails, instead of running around at the speed of sound, he could chill out and smell the flowers. But no, oh no, that was too good for Sonic. The blue hedgehog kicked a twig lying on the floor in anger, he was lost. Oh no, not somewhere nice, but in this godforsaken forest, there was mud everywhere and it was getting dark.

Then, he heard rustling in the bushes nearby, after flinching, he slowly approached it.

"Heya Sonic!" an annoyingly high pitched voice made Sonic jump, as the all to familiar young bee burst out and fell to the floor on top of him.

"Charmy? Why are you here, what are you now, twelve!?" Sonic pushed him off and stood up.

"Almost thirteen, actually." Charmy pouted. "And I was with Vector, I lost him."

"I see..." Sonic rolled his eyes and sighed, this was the moral thing to do; "Why....why don't you come with me then?"

"Great!" the annoying insect (A/N: Correct me if I'm wrong, bees are insects aren't they?) let out a squeek and flew along side Sonic as he walked.

For the next hour Sonic was consistently pestered by Charmy, trying to block most of it out by whistling - maybe that's why Vector always had earphones - he'd ask him later. It was now pitch black, but luckily Charmy had a torch, and atleast the full moon gave them a little more light. The two jumped around at light speed as they heard a horrific howl from the woods. "Wow!" Charmy exclaimed, "Was that a wolf!?"

"Don't be stupid," Sonic said as he began to walk faster, looking behind him, "There are no wolves around here. Hurry up."

"Here, doggy doggy doggy!" Charmy shouted.

"Shut up!" Sonic roared in a whisper as another howling came, it was getting closer, "Turn off your torch!"

"No!" Charmy shouted like the moody child he was. There was a rustling in the bushes nearby, accompanied by some growling.

"Come on!" Sonic could tell that they were being hunted, by what, he didn't know. Grabbing Charmy's hand he only managed to run a few feet before tripping over an almost invisible felled tree branch. His face hit the mud and he felt a sickening pain as the beast slashed his back. He then heard a scream from Charmy, and saw him be killed on sight as the beast dived on the poor kid. With the last of his energy, he saw the seven foot beast flee as Tails and Vector heard the riot, and came to his assistance. The last thing he saw was Tails stood in front of him. He passed out.

Sonic opened his eyes to find himself next to a garbage bag, recoiling from the smell, he sat up. His arm touched his back to feel the deforming scar that he had got two years ago, almost to the day. His mind cast back to poor Charmy, Vector and even Espio were heartbroken. His mind then gathered itself, and he remembered the events of about ten minutes ago. He stood up quickly, then almost fell down again, he was caught in a pair of warm hands. Looking up, he saw his old friend; Blaze the cat.

"I know what you are." As she said this Sonic's eyes opened wide with fear. He pushed himself away from her and managed to stand up under his own strength.

"I dunno... whatcher talkin'... about..." He slurred.

"It's ok..." Blaze paused, "I'm one too." She walked slowly towards him, "Come here..."

Sonic pretty much fell into her arms, half from relief, half from complete and utter exhaustion.

Sonic lead her home, as Shadow opened the door, he raised his eyebrow, "Rough day?"

"Don' ge' me shtarted..." he slurred, completely punch-drunk. Shadow then noticed Blaze, and perked up a little.

"Blaze, it's been a while."

Blaze made a weak smile, "About two years, I think."

"What have you been doing?" Blaze sighed as Shadow said this.

"Y'know.... sleeping rough I suppose..." the feline shrugged.

"What? You've got nowhere to stay?"

"Well, no, bu-"

"Come in, you can have the cou-" Shadow noticed Sonic slumped over the couch, he sighed, "You can have Sonic's bed."

Blaze wanted to argue, just to be polite, but the idea of a warm bed seemed too good. She nodded shyly and came in.

The next morning, Blaze woke up in a warm cosy bed, she smiled, looking out of the blinds to see the sun. She stretched out, then was shocked to feel a head next to her. She leapt out of the bed, almost banging her head on the wall.

"Sonic!? What are you doing!?" Sonic sat up quickly, with the traditional dumbass look on his face.

"Wha-! Where!?" he calmed down quickly and looked to his left. "Oh hey Blaze."

"Sonic! Shadow said I could sleep in this bed 'cause you were on the couch." She crossed her arms.

"Oh.... was I?" Sonic still had that look.

"Yes..." Blaze mumbled through gritted teeth.

"All I remember is those guys... then you." he laughed, "I must have come up, I was pretty much undead!"

Shadow could be heard grumbling at Sonic's remark from outside as he walked past.

Now that Sonic wasn't "undead" as he put it, he could take a proper look at Blaze, still the same beautiful face and figure as always, she was taller, obviously, and Sonic couldn't help but notice her breasts had gotten bigger - of course he was close to getting a slap when Blaze saw him looking, but anyway - she looked quite scruffy as well, and her hair was down.

"Blaze?" A thought popped into his mind, "Why are you in this dimension?" Blaze paused.

"A- It was about two years ago, I came back to see you and the portal just... shut. I was trapped here, and I couldn't find anyone..." Sonic wrapped his arm around her.

"Well, now you've got me, Tails and Shad with you. You can stay here as long as you want." He stood up and walked away, "Go have a shower, I'll make you some breakfast."

Blaze was humbled, making a weak smile, "Thankyou."


Ok, I have three things to wrap up this time around:

1: Yes, Charmy died, if you don't like it, deal with it, I'm sure the vast majority of people who read this were jumping for joy as I described him being mauled.

2: Blaze is in it, why? Because she's awesome that's why. She also has opened up many, many plot twists and heartbreak stories that I am considering. Did I mention she's awesome?

3: I'm not sure whether I'm going to keep going with this, especially since I've only gotten two reviews up to now, so if you liked reading this, please atleast leave a short review. I have a few good ideas for later on but it'll be pretty hard to write.

And thank you all for reading.

Ooh, and also, I made a TailsXCream oneshot if you support those two, "Good to have you back".