(I don't own Sonic or Sega)

Everyone else got up about the same time as they were all eating breakfast with each other. "Everyone seems to be in a good mood today." Cream said. "Yeah but were running into a big problem." Amy said looking concerned. "What is it?" Tails said looking at Amy. "We're starting to run low on food." Everyone just looked at each other for a minute. "What do we do?" Knuckles asked as he was looking outside with Sonic. "I'm not sure, but we need to find something and quick." "Hey look!" Sonic shouted as he was pointing out the window. "What is it?" Everyone but Knuckles asked. "I think it's a chaos emerald over there by the river." Everyone huddled around to see if there was a chaos emerald and sure enough there was. "Maybe if we get it I could we could finally figure out what's going on." Tails said looking happy. "So who is going to go and get it?" Rouge asked looking at everyone. There was just a moment of silence until Sonic volunteered to do it. "I'll go if I can run out there and get the chaos emerald I could probably make it back." Everyone nodded in agreement as Tails opened the backdoor for Sonic to run out. "Ok Sonic are you ready?" Tails asked looking worried. Sonic nodded and said, "of course i'm ready." "Ok then 3-2-1 go." Sonic didn't even hesitate, he started to run out the door and got about 5 feet from the river when the feeling caught up to him. " Ugh, no not again!" Sonic thought to himself. "I'm so close." Sonic then started to crawl the rest of the way to the chaos emerald, once he got there he noticed the river was black and had dead fish in it. "I'm almost there!" Sonic yelled as he was reaching for the chaos emerald. "Closer…" "Got it!" Once Sonic got the chaos emerald he felt like he could move around again. "I see So the Chaos Emerald's energy drives away this feeling." As Sonic started to run back he saw something move in the bushes. "What was that?" Sonic thought. "Maybe I should go see what it is." "ROOOAAAAR" "That noise again." Sonic thought, but before he had time to react he was attacked by something he couldn't see. "Agh, no the chaos emerald!" Sonic could feel his vision slowly fading and the last thing he heard was the sound of someone yelling his name. "SONIC!"

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"Whoa what happened?" Sonic thought as he slowly regained consciousness. "Sonic are you ok?" Sonic woke up in his bed to see all of his friends beside him. "We thought you were a goner out there." Tails said looking relieved. "Ugh my head, what happened? Amy then started telling him what happened without a second thought. "You were attacked by this huge snake!" "We rushed out to save you but the feeling caught up with us so Tails grabbed the chaos emerald and used it to drive away the snake, but you were already bitten and short of breath from where it was holding you, so we took you inside and tried to get the poison out of you." "Wait a minute, What, am I still poisoned?" "No we managed to get it out of you in time." Sonic then looked at his arm which had a thick bandage wrapped around it Sonic could see the red where his blood came out from the wound. "And what about the chaos emerald?" Sonic asked. "I have it stored in the basement." Tails replied. "Well that's good I, ugh I think i'll rest for a minute. "Ok then." Tails said. As everyone was starting to head out Amy stayed right by Sonic and asked him. "Sonic can I stay with you for a minute?" Sonic thought for a moment until he replied. "Well I guess there's no harm in it." Amy softly squealed for a moment until she realized that Sonic was still hurt and tired. "I'm Sorry." "No it's ok" Sonic said looking tired. "I wanted to ask you something." Amy said while she was blushing bright red. "Sure what did you want to ask me?" Sonic asked. "Well it's kinda obvious but do you like me Sonic?" Sonic sat up as he answered her question. "Of course I do." "I mean do you really like me?" Amy asked interrupting Sonic. Sonic then blushed realizing what she had really meant. "Oh well um." "What do I say?" Sonic asked himself. "Well I." "ROOOAAAAR!" "Ahh!" Amy screamed as she held on to Sonic on his bed in fear. "It's that noise again." Amy realized she might be hurting Sonic and let go of him. "Oh sorry!" "I-I um." "It's ok." Sonic said as he was trying to calm down Amy. "Listen to me, I do like you a lot." Amy looked at Sonic in surprise. "I like you enough that I want to protect you and everybody else here." Amy's face looked like it was about to tear up any moment. "Thanks Sonic." Amy cried happily. "Well i've promised her I would protect her, there's no backing out now." Sonic thought as he hugged Amy. "Um Sonic one more thing, I know you're not Feeling well but could I stay in here with you for the night?" "I'm scared." Sonic didn't even give a thought. "Sure you can." Amy then took off her shoes and lied under the covers as she grabbed hold of Sonic's body and didn't let go. "Am I hurting you?" Amy asked quietly. "No i'm fine really." "Actually i'm in a lot of pain but for you i'll suck it up." Sonic thought to himself. "Thanks I appreciate it." As they started to go to sleep Amy got up with one last question. "Sonic can I ask you for one last thing?" Sonic sat up and looked at Amy. "Sure what is it?" "Could you kiss me?" Sonic's face turned bright red as his heartbeat got faster and faster rapidly. "Um s-sure. Sonic then kissed Amy deeply on the lips for about five seconds as his heart kept on beating faster and faster till he thought it might explode. "Thanks Sonic, I love you." Amy said hugging him tightly as they laid down, and before going to sleep Sonic mumbled under his breath, "I love you too."

Well wasn't this a heartwarming chapter.

Sonic: You said it. That kiss felt nice.

Me: Just wait we've got more action and romance to come.

Sonic: Sweet I can't wait to see how Tails and Cream get together.

Me: Don't spoil the story!

Sonic: What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure everybody knows what's going to happen in the next chapter.

Me: Fine whatever, anyways I hoped you liked this chapter and I hope you like the chapters to come.