(I don't own Sonic or Sega)
Sonic and Tails saw Orochi's heads striking at Knuckles from the window upstairs. "We need to go help him!" Tails shouted as he grabbed their weapons and handed Sonic his sword and Knuckles's gloves. "Let's get going!" Sonic and Tails ran downstairs and started to run outside. "Wait Sonic, we need a chaos emerald." Sonic stopped quickly as Tails began to dig up the chaos emeralds. "You don't need to get one for Knuckles, he found one outside." Rouge said while she went to go get Tsume who was crying at the beast's roars. Sonic turned to Amy who was holding Flash in her arms, she looked really scared. "Amy listen, this is something I can't ignore, if we don't help Knuckles will die out there." Amy just stood still with that same look of fear in her eyes. "You better not die on me now." Amy muttered." Sonic hugged her as he took the chaos emerald from Tails and ran outside to face Orochi once again.
"So I see you're still alive." The beast roared. "Yes, and now i'm going to take you down!" Sonic shouted as he raised his sword to fight. "Tails, Knuckles, just like last time." Tails and Knuckles nodded and took their fighting positions for each head. Sonic then quickly started jumping towards the heads and slicing at them, but just like last time, it had no effect. "Guys, can you do anything to the heads?" Sonic asked while he was weaving through the strikes of the head. "No, I can't do anything." Knuckles replied. "We'll have to retreat, there's nothing we can do." Tails said. At that moment Knuckles struck the body of Orochi and the middle head coughed up a chaos emerald. "The last chaos emerald!" Sonic shouted. Sonic started to run for the chaos emerald with Orochi following from behind. "Sonic, he's coming!" Tails shouted while he frantically shot the serpent, trying to slow it down. Sonic dove for the chaos emerald, and at that same moment Orochi struck all of its heads at once. "Sonic!" Tails shouted. A cloud of smoke arose from the ground and no sign of Sonic was evident. "No." Tails thought worryingly. "Sonic, are you ok?" Knuckles shouted. All of the sudden Sonic came running out holding the seventh chaos emerald. "Yes, we got it, now it's time to finish this." Tails hurried and dug up the rest of the chaos emeralds and threw them at Sonic. "Catch!" Sonic caught the remaining chaos emeralds and began to change into his super form. "Sonic, wait!" Tails and Knuckles shouted as the dust cloud began to clear up. "What?" Sonic asked as he looked over to see that Orochi had disappeared. "What the heck?"
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles ran back to the house with all of the chaos emeralds. Tails remembered to bury them before coming inside. "What happened?" Cream asked. "Did you beat him?" Amy asked. "No, he escaped, but we did find the last chaos emerald." Sonic said in relief as he sat down on the couch. "So what do we do now?" Tails asked. "We'll take a week to rest up our strength, practice, and prepare, then we'll find Orochi and finally defeat him." Sonic explained. "We don't even know where Orochi is right now." Knuckles said. "That's why we're going to go look for him." Sonic replied. "Listen we have the chaos emeralds, we can win this battle." Sonic said with a smile. Amy sat down with Sonic holding Flash who was sleeping in her arms. "He sure does like to sleep a lot." Sonic said as he let out a big yawn. "Well so does someone else I know." Amy joked. "I think it's time we all went to be, we've had a long day." Rouge said to everyone. "You're right, I am really tired." Tails and Cream went downstairs to go to sleep, while Knuckles and Rouge went upstairs to sleep. Amy and Sonic just sat in silence for a moment without saying anything. "Sonic, are you really going to fight Orochi?" Amy asked. Sonic just sat in silence until he finally answered Amy's question. "Amy, I don't want to be in here forever, I miss running around the land freely, and I want to be able to run around with my son." Sonic looked at Flash and smiled as he rubbed his head. "Sonic, I don't want to lose you." Amy started to cry while trying to hold back her tears. "Amy, I know what happened scared you, but we can't live like this forever." Amy got up from the couch and started to go upstairs. "Amy, I promise that I'd protect the both of you, and I intend to keep that promise." Amy turned around and looked at Sonic with tears and a smile. "Just don't die." Amy said. Amy went upstairs to go put Flash in the bed as Sonic was just relaxing for a while. "Don't worry Amy, I will protect you and Flash, even if I end up dying in the end, all I want is for the both of you to live a happy life. Sonic stayed downstairs and relaxed for a few minutes thinking about his upcoming battle "Ah, this is nice, better enjoy it while it lasts." Sonic thought to himself. "Sonic, you didn't finish Flash's bed." Amy yelled. "Agh!" "Fine." Sonic got up and stormed upstairs to go finish the bed. "I guess it only lasted five seconds."
Me: So the final battle is coming up.
Sonic: you better not do anything to cause this battle to delay.
Me: No, I wouldn't do that, seriously.
Sonic: Ok, if you say so.
Me: Anyway thank you readers so much for your positive feed back, i'm very grateful that you are liking this story so far and you're what keep me persevering to write, and like always I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the story.
Sonic: Suck up.
Me: Shut up!