Chapter Five

The Wind That Stopped Blowing

Sonic sat at the train station looking at the rushing people zoom by. To their jobs is what Sonic presumed. He tried not to think about today, yet it seemed to still be there, no matter what he thought about. He couldn't stand being there. He couldn't stand to see Shadow in his lifeless sleep. To see him in a coffin, ready to be buried in the soil where he would probably be eating by flesh-eating beetles and other insects. It made Sonic sick to his stomach. That's why when he dies again, he wanted to be cremated. Less gruesome.

"Shadow…" Sonic muttered. He couldn't get his image out of his head. He sighed and clutched on to his leather jacket. Shadow's leather jacket. The one he wore with him everywhere he went. In the freezing cold or blistering heat, that crazy ebony hedgehog would wear it anyway. Sonic opened it up a little on the left side and stared at the dried blood. It was a little hard to see, but it was there. Sonic looked away and blinked away the tear that formed in his emerald eyes. He got up and walked out of the train station and made his way to his apartment.

He suddenly bumped into someone. He looked up and saw a familiar red echidna. "Sonic!" Knuckles exclaimed "where were you? Why weren't you at the funeral?" Sonic looked down and sighed.

"I couldn't do Knuckles…It would have hurt too much." He said quietly.

"I still think you should have come." Knuckles started as he crossed his arms. "Shadow would have done the same for you. You should have seen him at yours…" Sonic looked as if someone had punched him square in the face. He then glared at him angrily.

"Knuckles…" he called. Knuckles didn't stop.

"…he had the breakdown and everything! It hurt him but he still went." Knuckles said rudely.

"Knuckles…" Sonic called again. He was beginning to get pissed.

"I can't believe you wouldn't go because you say you couldn't handle to see his dead face again! I would have gone if I had my lover die!"

"Knuckles!" Sonic called once more. Knuckles finally listened and stopped his rambling. "I really don't want to deal with stupidity right now, or your selfishness or rudeness or your sappy stories. I want to deal with my own problems right now. You have nothing to do with me anymore. You aren't a friend. You are a co-worker. We save the world, we go home. You don't want anything to do with me. So why don't you go home to Julie and cuddle on the couch while I sit in my apartment wondering what else is going to be taken." Sonic pushed shocked Knuckles aside and began to walk away.

Then, he stopped. "Oh, and Knuckles," he said still facing the other direction. "I leave the team to Tails, and tell the team to don't come back to me." And with that he walked away.

*GASP!* Sonic quit the team! Oh dear!

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