So yeah…no list this time around because I updated this chapter so quickly after the last one. But I'll thank you now for those who will review! They all mean a lot! Anywho, onwards, march! (Oh, and if you can't tell, the characters in this drabble are Sonic and Violet.)
Chapter ten
Hero
She was being chased.
She'd been running for a long time, how long, she wasn't sure. All she knew as that a monster had been chasing her though the streets of downtown Future City to the point of her exhaustion.
The monster was a big brown blob of something, she wasn't sure what. But somehow it could run without legs, could screech without a mouth, could scare the living day lights out of the small child.
Turning, the girl raced down the alleyway, noting the stray cats only vaguely as they jumped out of her way, trying to find a safe hiding place from the twenty foot monster. Sirens raced into the girl's ears, but she knew the police wouldn't hear them, because they hadn't earlier.
Slipping on a pile of garbage, the child hastily looked behind her, saw the monster about to lunge at her, and scrambled back to her feet.
"Daddy!" she cried urgently, still running, still panting, as she turned a sharp corner. "Daddy, come quickly! Daddy, I need you!"
She was crying now, and she slumped down to her feet miserably, panting. She couldn't run anymore. She just couldn't. Her sides ached, her feet burned, her mouth dry…
If only she could run like Daddy, or Dash, or even Flash. If only she had a hammer like her mother or Rose, to defend herself. If only, if only…
But she didn't have any of these things. She didn't have incredible speed or a giant hammer. All she had was herself and the wall behind her in the alley.
The monster, seeing its advantage, stopped charging after the five year old, but instead slowly stalked towards the shaking form lying in a cold puddle, which stared up with fear in her eyes at her pursuer.
"Daddy?" she whispered upon seeing the monster's sharp claws. "Daddy…help me."
A shake, a murmur in her ear, and she awoke screaming bloody murder. Warm arms embraced the shaking child as she cried out, afraid, confused.
"Daddy, i-it w-was gonn-a ki-kill me!" she stammered, hiding her face into her father's chest.
"No it wasn't," the father replied, as he slowly began to rock her. "I came before it could hurt you, right?" the girl whimpered a yes, and the father sighed, a bit relieved, for he had really started to worry when his daughter hadn't woken up to his voice in the start.
"He…he was s-so big…"
"But I came," the blue hedgehog replied to the violet one gently. "And you're safe. It won't hurt you. I'll always come before it can, alright?" The child nodded.
"You're my hero," she whispered softly.
The father blinked. He'd heard those words from so many people before. He'd heard those exact words form Amy bygones ago, back on Earth. But his daughter's words actually went through to the blue hedgehog. And he smiled admits his daughter's tears.
"And I'll always be there to save the day," he replied, snuggling her close. "I'll always be your hero."