January 8, 2015
Shikokou, Kyukai
As the sun rose on another day, everybody woke up to a nice quiet Sonic, which was rather lucky. Sonic was the first one to wake up, so he decided to go out and explore a little before Yuki, Tails and Kaori woke up. Everyone else woke up after a while.
Kaori went into the bathroom and examined the shower. "Hey, Tails!"
"Yeah Kaori?"
"How do you start this thing?"
"Oh, I'll do it for you!" He walked over to turn on the taps. "Just turn the first one a little, then the second one a bit more. I'll let you adjust the temperature." He resumed to playing with the Miles Electric, presumably looking for emeralds on the Chaos Radar. Yuki shouted out to Tails to get his attention.
"Hey, fox kid!"
Tails looked up to see Yuki. "Oh, it's Tails. Yeah?"
Yuki was dumbstruck by Tails' amazing behaviour. For that blue idiot's best friend, he's way too polite. He decided to ask his original question. "Where'd your friend go?"
"He's probably gone off to explore. You know him."
"Well I'm just glad I don't have to put up with him for now."
"Uh, I'm aware that at the moment you and Sonic really don't get along, but trust me, he'll grow on you. His other friends have gotten used to him!"
"Hey, do you remember me?" Shadow asked.
"Shadow, what're you doing here?"
"Tell Faker I said hi." Then he vanished.
"That was freaky." Yuki stated.
Kaori was in the shower at that moment washing herself. It's been three weeks since I last washed myself. She was scrubbing her body with the bar of soap. So, this thing cleans your body, I imagine. It's really interesting. She smiled with enjoyment feeling nice and refreshed.
At that moment, Yuki was peeking through the door of the bathroom. So, she's washing herself in that thing, huh? Yuki found he couldn't take his eyes off Kaori in the shower. He leaned forward for a better view but unlucky for him, He fell over, instantly catching Kaori's attention. When he got up, he saw Kaori staring at him madly. Yuki's nose was bleeding crazy, and it wasn't because he fell on the floor. Infuriated, she turned off the shower, got Yuki up and fearsomely scratched him on the cheek, leaving three red marks.
KAORI SCRATCH COUNT: 2
"YYAAAAAAHHH!" Yuki was screaming up into the sky, then he threw his head forward at Kaori with a furious look on his face. "What in the name of Chaos was that for!?"
"Don't act all innocent! I know what you were doing!"
"What I was doing? I don't get it, what happened!?"
"If you're really that stupid, you were perving on me while I was IN THE SHOWER!"
"Huh, as if I'd be looking up you."
"So you don't think I'm attractive, is that what you mean?"
"Yep, that's exactly what I mean." Yuki didn't hesitate one bit when he spoke these words.
"But I saw your nose gushing with crimson blood."
"That was from when you scratched me."
"I scratched you on the cheek, and even then, it was afterwards!"
"What, so you think I like you?"
"The nosebleed? Remember?"
"Shut up, catgirl!" Yuki stormed out of the bathroom in embarrassment.
Kaori reached for the towel and began drying herself. "Yuki… What am I gonna do with that guy?"
An hour later…
Eventually Sonic got back from exploring only to have to put up with Yuki some more.
"Wait, so when Kao-Tan was in the shower, you were spying on him, right? Well, I guess you deserved that scratch."
"Shut up! It wasn't like that at all!"
"Hey, does that still hurt?" Sonic childishly poked at the marks where Kaori scratched Yuki, causing him to scream in pain. This caused Sonic to giggle with entertainment.
"Would you cut that out?! You're just doing it for the sake of annoying me!"
"I just find it hilarious. You can beat powerful demons, but you whimper over getting scratched on the face by a cat."
"If she scratched you, you would know how much it hurts!" He turned his head to Kaori, who was sitting on the right of him. "You better apologize, cat!"
"Apologize? Huh, you should be the one saying sorry!"
Yuki was hunching over staring at his palms and his voice turned evil-sounding. "For the last time, it was an accident!"
"Well I still think you did it on purpose!"
"I hate you guys…!"
"We know. I hate you too."
Later that night…
It was midnight, and Sonic, Yuki and Kaori had gone to bed. Tails was up looking on his Chaos Radar as usual. He was beginning to doze off when he found a Chaos Emerald in Shikokou. "There's an emerald right here? Somebody has to have it with them. Wait, I feel a strong presence. It has to be where the emerald is. This one's huge. It's not as strong as the demon, but it's still an awesome power." Sonic, Tails and the others are able to sense powers. I don't think it's someone friendly. It has to be an enemy. Tails decided he had to wake up everyone. He pressed a button on the Miles Electric that turned on a loud siren to wake them up. In about a minute, they all arrived in the main room.
"Yeah, what do you want? I'll prove I still got it!" Sonic boomed raring to fight.
"Listen, I've detected a Chaos Emerald, but there's a strong presence near that must be guarding it. I don't have any proof, but judging how things have been it's highly likely that it's a demon. Aside from him maybe having the emerald, it could destroy most of the city. We have to defeat it before it's too late."
"So, that means we get to kick demons in the rear?" Sonic kicked the air and hit Yuki where the sun don't shine. "Count me in!"
"Tails, what about you? Are you coming with us?" Kaori asked Tails.
"Uh, I think it's a better idea if I stay here and guide you."
"I'm in charge, right?"
"Um… about that… I was thinking it over, and I think maybe Yuki could be in the lead."
This news struck Sonic in the chest. "What, Yuko? Him?" He pointed to Yuki standing next to him. "That thing?"
"Seeing how he's been towards us so far, he'd probably get us killed."
"Yuki seems to not be as… reckless. Don't be offended Sonic, but I think you could get too excited and leave them behind." Tails walked up to Yuki. "Yuki, we're counting on you. Can you be the leader?"
Yuki sounded unenthusiastic about this promotion. "I can't."
"Don't worry, you can. You have my trust."
"It's really not that I can't, it's that I don't want to."
"Yeah, I'm with him. Just make me leader, you won't regret it."
Yuki would give anything not to put Sonic in charge. "I'll do it."
"You sure you shouldn't hand the job over to me? Because I don't think you're ready."
"I said, I'll do it."
"Well, it's your problem now."
"What's my problem? I don't get it!" Yuki whispered angrily at Sonic.
Tails analysed the enemy on the Miles Electric. "Yep, it's a demon. And it's as powerful as I sensed. It's at a monorail a while away, but Sonic should be able to get you there in no time. Once you're there, I'll be giving you support from here. You can count on me."
"Right. Sonic, Yuki, let's go!" Kaori shouted in a brave tone. However you could tell that she was worried inside.
The moment they headed out, Sonic took off by himself.
"I can tell, the moment I first met him…" Kaori sighed, "…That guy is extremely impatient."
"And no, I still haven't forgotten that scratch this morning."
"Do you even know how much of a pain you are!? I feel I can't do one single thing with you! And what was the first thing you said to me? Um…" She impersonated Yuki's voice in a way that made him sound like the bad guy. "That's none of your business!"
"I don't need your attitude!"
"Who doesn't need whose attitude?"
"You're not even making sense anymore!" Yuki walked a few steps forward, then stopped. "Girls just make no sense." He ran off, leaving Kaori behind.
"Hey! Yuki, come back! I'm not as fast as you and Sonic!"
"GET THERE YOURSELF!"
"FINE, IT'LL BE EASIER BY MYSELF ANYWAY!"
"Tch." Yuki looked back at Kaori with a sick glare. "I don't need any of you. I just wanna be by myself." He took off to the monorail.
As Yuki was running past the shibuya, which would usually be jam packed had it been any other time of the day, he was confronted by demons. There were some on the ground, and others were floating in the sky which he could use as platforms to reach higher ground. All demons Yuki and the others had come across wore masks depending on their type. The basic grounded demons wore rather basic brown masks with sinister smiles and short, sharp horns. The airborne ones wore white, somewhat chubby-looking masks with simple eye and mouth holes. First, he took care of the grounded ones with rapid punches, kicks, and the occasional ki blast.
After that, he jumped up and used homing attacks on the aerial demons to reach one after the other. They were all lined up, leading to the top of a building. Once he reached the top, he tried searching for the monorail station. He thought about climbing the Shikokou Tower to get a better look at where it was, so he leapt off and curled into a ball to bounce off anther aerial demon, use homing attacks on some more which led him on a highway.
He raced down one highway kicking demons who were in his way. Then, he used homing attacks on aerial demons creating a path to another highway, and he proceeded to that highway. As he went into a tunnel, he was ambushed by two new types of demons – some had red masks resembling the head of a Japanese dragon, and others had light blue masks resembling ice monkeys. The ones with dragon masks had fire powers and the ones with monkey masks had ice powers. Yuki evaded their flames and um… ice flames… and when they were all circled around him, did a sweep leg rotating his leg in a 360 degree circle, then once he had done a full circle, leapt into the air spinning around rapidly with his leg extended, hitting every demon around him and defeating them.
Not too long afterward he had left the highways, he proceeded to the fountain park, where he hopped through the shallow water and leapt up before the water shot up, and then the water caught him and propelled him upwards to higher ground, acting like a spring. Airborne demons were conveniently lined up so he could reach the top of a building. From there, he ran on the rooftops high above ground until when he could see the train station, he leapt off a building and dashed forward in mid-air to reach it, then ran forward until he could the train where the demon should be.
When Yuki reached the monorail, he saw Sonic lying on the track waiting, almost about to fall asleep. He tapped Sonic on his shoulder, giving him a big startle.
"Wah! Ahh! A demon!? Oh no you don't, you don't stand a chance against me!"
"Calm down, it's just me."
"Oh. Yake, it's you."
Kaori was the last to come. "Could you guys slow down a bit? I can't run that fast!"
Sonic thought this would be a good time to contact Tails to inform him of their status. "Yo, Tails! We're at the monorail now."
"Did you all get there alright in the end?"
"Sonic and Yuki ran off on me, surprise surprise." Kaori complained.
"Just stick together this time. It's very important to fight side by side! If you're in danger and need someone to help you out, you'll want a friend to fight alongside you!"
"Okay, see ya buddy!" Sonic ended the transmission.
Kaori approached the monorail. "This time, wait for me." She climbed halfway up the ladder when she noticed Yuki would be able to see up her kimono. "Don't you look, pervert!" A big sweat drop rolled down Yuki's head.
After Kaori was on board, Sonic went up second, then Yuki third. Then they noticed something funny. "Hold on a second…" Sonic realised. "At midnight, the monorail would be at the station. So what's it doing over here?" He pondered for a moment before realising something else. "And, the doors are wide open. What is this, trains not making sense day?" Then suddenly, the doors closed and the train began moving.
"I-is the train moving!?"
"No, it's just shaking and the background's moving."
"Oh, so it's not moving?"
"That was a meme!"
Tails contacted Sonic to warn him. "I analysed the demon to see what's going on. It looks like this is all the demon's work. From what I've gathered, all demons can do this."
"So, the only way we can stop this is good ol' fashioned beating 'em up, right? Well then… let's go!" Sonic sped away… or wanted to, but as soon as he took off Kaori grabbed him by his quills.
"Not this time, Sonic the Idiot!"
"Ow! Ow! That hurts! It's hurting, let me go!"
"If I do, you're gonna run away."
"I promise not you. I'll stick with you guys, okay?"
"Well…" Kaori hesitated.
"No, I mean it! I've learnt not to be so impatient. From now on, I'll be a better partner."
Kaori sighed. "Okay…" She let go of his quills, only for him to boost off.
"I TRICKED YOU, SUCKERS!"
Yuki and Kaori stood there when Yuki broke the silence. "Further more proof that you're an idiot."
"Shut up. We have to go after him! Come on!"
Yuki went over to a seat and lay down. "You go ahead. I don't want anything to do with this."
Kaori stood in front of Yuki and gave him an angry stare. "I think you better come with me."
"What happens if I don't?"
Kaori was sharpening her claws. "This'll be the third Kaori Scratch I've given you."
"No, I'll come with you!" Yuki got up from his seat wishing for mercy. No demon they had faced could compare to the Kaori Scratch.
"Looks like I've found your weakness." Kaori claimed, entertained by Yuki's fear.
"I. Hate. You."
They began to move to the next car when three demons appeared in front of them.
"Yeah, this doesn't look good." Kaori got out a slingshot.
"Are you gonna just use that? Really?"
"Yuki, get out your knife!"
"No, we can't beat demon powerhouses with these silly toys."
"Get it out!"
Yuki got out the knife even though he was sure it wouldn't work. He swung the knife around at the demons and Kaori fired stones from her slingshot. None of this hurt them at all. Yuki's instincts were right, this wouldn't do anything against demons.
"Stuff this!" He pithed the knife away and slugged the demons with his bare – well, gloved – fists. "Throw the slingshot away, kitty."
"I'm not a kitten! I'm fifteen years old!"
"Just do as I say!"
Kaori growled in frustration. She threw her slingshot on the ground. "Okay, I got rid of it."
"Shut up, just keep up with me or I'll just leave you here!"
Kaori raised her voice. "I've already started losing my patience! You know, you're so stupid some of the time. Just what is it about me you hate so much!?"
"Ooh boy, there's so much I hate about you I could write a list for a year!"
Kaori decided not to reply any further. She just walked forward and ignored Yuki.
"Hey, don't be like that! What is wrong with you, woman!?"
"I don't know. What's wrong with you? And at least don't be sexist!"
"I have no idea what's up with this chick." Yuki muttered to himself. "I stand by what I said, girls make no sense."
"I CAN HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, MR. ATTITUDE!" Kaori called out in the distance.
"You're the one with the attitude. Stupid annoying cat." Yuki mumbled without letting Kaori hear.
They proceeded to the second car where they came across five demons. "I got a new strategy, which I probably should've used before, but that was because the cat just needed me to use the knife!" He smashed the demons with fierce punches. "Hey, don't just stand there twiddling your thumbs! Help me out!"
"I'm not twiddling my thumbs, I'm just standing idly!"
"You know what I mean, just GET OVER HERE!" Yuki shot out a rope with a kunai at the end, getting Kaori in the chest and Yuki pulled her toward him and punched her in the face.
"Was that punch really necessary?"
"You know how much your scratches hurt. Use them on these guys!"
"I'm thinking about using it on you!"
"I didn't ask for your comebacks! Stop throwing everything back my way!" Yuki gave up arguing with Kaori and just finished off the demons himself. He ran up to the one at the back and leapt up kicking it in the chin, then finishing it off with a roundhouse kick as he was descending. The moment he landed, he landed three hits on the demon closing up on him, then elbowed another demon who tried to sneak up on him. He knocked them both out with a jab of both his arms at once. He ran up to the next one and charged into it, rapidly jabbed it with just one arm, ducked down and swept his leg to trip it over, then threw it against the wall. He charged up his ki to finish off the last demon. He shouted "REAPER CRASH!" and fired it at the demon easily taking it out. After he was finished, he stared at Kaori with evil eyes.
"Just to let you know, you're on the edge of that third scratch."
"Thanks for never helping me! Just sitting there being a pain!"
Yuki had pushed his luck. Kaori walked up to him sharpening her claws. "Wait – what are you doing? Oh no, please! No! NO!"
Kaori fearsomely struck her claws across poor Yuki's cheek.
KAORI SCRATCH COUNT: 3
On the third car they found Sonic fighting the demons himself.
"Hey, Sonic!" Kaori called. "Why'd you run away like the idiot you are!?" Her voice turned angry, as usual.
"Back off, I can do this myself! I didn't ask for you or Yuni to be my knight in shining armour!"
"Why. Why am I surrounded by such stubborn people?"
"They say everything you do comes back your way."
"I didn't ask for you to give you two cents worth, Yuki!"
"At least you get my name right, but then you weight it out because you scratch me like crazy."
Yuki sprinted toward the demons Sonic was fighting and sprung up to stomp on them one by one, then he performed a diving attack defeating them all with a shower of light. "Please, don't try and be a hero. You fail."
Sonic's face was red hot with rage. "You're really pushing me over the line, aren't cha?"
Tails called to inform the merry trio of something important.
"Hey guys, be careful! On the fourth and last car the demon who's behind this monorail caper seems to be awaiting you."
"How do we stop this?"
"The monorail is under the demon's control. If you take it out, the train should stop."
"What do you mean it should?" Yuki argued.
"By it should, I mean I hope."
"So there's no guarantee?"
"Hey, don't get so mad at me!" Tails was starting to panic judging by the tone of his voice changing.
"Yuki, don't you act like this to Teirusu-chan! He's just a kid!" Kaori defended Tails.
"Just because he's a kid, doesn't mean he can get away with everything."
"Listen! I detect another train 15 minutes away. You have to defeat the demon soon, or else you'll crash!"
This only put more stress on Kaori. "Are you kidding? We're gonna crash!?"
"Watch out, we're gonna crash. Ahhh." Sonic spoke in the most monotone voice ever.
Yuki and Kaori stared blankly at Sonic. "Um, why did you sound so bored?" Yuki asked.
"Because I'm pretty sure we're going to make it out of this one. Right, Kao-Tan!"
Kaori was breathing deeply holding her head. "No, no, no… What do we do? This is it! We're gonna die!"
"Great. The first mission and already somebody's lost their sanity."
"Calm down! I don't know about you, but 15 minutes is a pretty reasonable amount of time."
"Tails, I don't wanna die, I'm not ready! Please tell us what to do!" Kaori pleaded.
"Sorry. I can't give out much advice from here. I know you can all do it, don't worry." Tails ended the transmission.
"Let's go! I'm going to own this guy!"
Does he have to always be so cocky… Yuki thought. Sonic opened the door to the front car and everybody proceeded.
On the other side, they were greeted by a huge demon who looked female and looked like a giant centipede, similar to the one Sonic and Tails encountered. On its chest was kanji writing which meant "Hakai".
"So, this centipede chick must be the boss?"
"Looks like it." Kaori's heart was pounding and she was still breathing heavily.
"Are you searching for my Chaos Emerald?"
"Yeah, as a matter a fact we are. I'm willing to let you go if you just hand it over like a good boy." Sonic answered.
"I think this one's a female demon." Yuki pointed out.
"Really? I would've thought they were genderless."
"You will never get your hands on my Chaos Emerald! You will all perish at my hands and bow down to Hakai!"
"Hakai? What's that? Sounds like toothpaste."
"Yes, Sonic. We have to bow down to hygiene."
"I don't even brush my teeth."
"What, are you serious!?"
Then, Kaori detected something inside the demon. "Hey, guys."
"What, what is it now?"
"I can sense the Chaos Emerald Tails said was here. It's inside the demon!"
"Wait, you can sense the emeralds? I thought you couldn't do anything!"
"I… I just suddenly sensed the emerald all of a sudden."
"So, once we bust it open we'll have another emerald. Sounds good to me!"
Sonic attacked the demon head-on with a series of homing attacks, although none of these really seemed to inflict much damage. Sonic landed and sprung up and charging his left foot and shot it forward for a strong kick, but the moment it impacted the demon negated it and sent Sonic flying away. Persistent as usual, he tried to get up right away.
"Don't worry, I got this. You just stand back, I don't need help!" He sped forward with his Sonic Boost and leapt up, dashing toward the demon with the boost and tore a hole in the middle of her body. Imminently after, she healed.
"Sonic, get away from there!" Kaori shouted out.
"I told you, I can do this!"
The centipede knocked Sonic into a wall, leaving him unconscious.
"That is the same fate for the rest of you if you are as foolish as he was."
Kaori stood there shocked at how strong this demon was. "Yuki, you're up next!"
"Darn it all!" Yuki stepped forward. "Thanks for taking out that blue idiot, but that haven't given you a get out of pummelling free card." As Yuki ran forward to attack, the demon ascended to the rooftop of the train creating a big hole as he followed.
He evaded its attacks and leapt up to throw three punches, then circled around it and kicked it in the back, which managed to deal some damage. However, the demon head-butted Yuki sending him flying away. She then proceeded to charging forward, but Yuki managed to evade the attack and land on top on her.
He frantically threw punches and kicks while the demon flew around trying to shake him off. Eventually he grabbed hold of it and bit her, then leapt off and back onto the rooftop of the train. "REAPER CRASH!" He shot his Reaper Crash at it, but she caught it all much to his dismay, and it was countered back at him as a single, bigger ki blast, knocking him back inside.
"It looks like I won. Either surrender now or I'll kill you all!"
"Hey, don't just sit back and watch! Help me out!" Yuki ordered Kaori, who was observing the fight up to now. "Sneak up from behind or something, just hit it!"
"B-but… What should I do? I don't know, I'm too scared! I'd probably just freeze and get torn apart!" And then suddenly, without thinking twice, Kaori ran forward and scratched the demon with everything she had, actually inflicting some damage. Afterward, she was panting with her arm still raised from the attack. "Take that, you demon freak!" The demon's response? It grabbed Kaori around the neck with its body and began to choke her.
"You're all such fools. Now you will pay the price! Now that I've trapped you, two of you have fallen into the fate of my hands!"
"Let go of me, creep!" Kaori ordered as he was fidgeting trying to escape from the centipede's body choking her to death. Then the body tightened around Kaori's neck, which resulted in her letting out an ear-piercing scream. "Yu-ki…" She tried to speak with what breath she had left. "Please, help me… I don't wanna—" The centipede's body tightened even more as Kaori let out another scream. As Yuki watched, suddenly he hunched over with his fists above his body and was surrounded by an orange field of fire. He shouted out in anger as the he absorbed the field into his hands. "If you ever hurt Kaori… I'LL KILL YOU!" He ran forward with his fists clenched on each of his sides, still flaming.
"FLAMETHROWER FIREWORKS!" He leapt into the air and fired a punch at the centipede, chased as she was flying in the air and landed a second firey punch with the other hand, then as it was falling head-first, he rocketed down, and charged both his hands above his head concentrating masses of energy and smashed his hands at the demon's head, finishing her off for good and making her explode purple. As Yuki laded, he grabbed the emerald and let Kaori fall.
Yuki was going over what happened just then, looking at the blue goshenite emerald in his palm.
"Hey, Yuki. That move you did, just then…" Kaori got up as Yuki turned around to her. "Just what was that? I've never seen such a powerful move from you."
"I did that, right? I have no idea what it was. When I saw you getting choked, I just suddenly lost control of my body. Seriously, I couldn't control any of my movement. All I could control was my strength."
"I should've figured something was up with that. I knew you wouldn't intentionally save me." Kaori spoke the last half of that sentence in a sassy, taunting way.
Yuki and Kaori heard Sonic regaining consciousness as he began to stand up. "Alright, I'm back in the ring! Time for round two!" Then he saw the masses of purple covering them and the car they were in, and Yuki holding the Chaos Emerald. "Oh… did I miss out?"
"Yep, and it was probably for the best." Yuki replied in a bored tone.
"Not fair! Ever since you came along you've just been stealing my spotlight!"
"Spotlight? What spotlight? I think now we've established that I'm stronger than you."
Sonic's face went cherry red from anger. He clenched his fists and got into a fighting position. "Why don't you prove that for me?"
Kaori watched as the two bickered yet again as she let out a deep, frustrated sigh. "I'm losing my mind hanging around with these two…" Then she noticed the train was still rumbling on the tracks. She looked outside the windows to see that they were still moving. "Hey, shut up and listen to me!" She tried to break them up to tell them about this but they didn't listen. Then Tails called in on Sonic's transceiver.
"Sonic, Yuki, Kaori. Listen up!" Kaori pulled Sonic away from Yuki.
"Yes, Tails. We're listening."
"From what my device says, you've beaten the enemy, but you haven't stopped moving."
"Wait, what? I thought all we had to do to stop the train was beat that centipede!"
"I must have been wrong, it looks like you'll need to stop the train yourself."
"H-how are we supposed to do that!? I didn't even know what a train is until an hour ago! Sonic, you stop it?"
"Are you kidding? I've never driven anything!"
"Of course not. Aside from in Sonic Drift 1 & 2, Sonic Riders, Riders Zero Gravity & Free Riders, one part of a stage in Sonic Adventure, a bonus mode in Sonic Adventure 2, and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing & All-Stars Racing Transformed." Tails sarcastically responded.
"I meant to say I've never driven a train before. Yeah, I never drove a train."
"If no one can stop the train, we can just jump out. We made a big hole in the roof, we can get out of that, problem solved."
"If we don't stop it, we're going to have to pay for the damages!"
"But don't you get rings everywhere you go? I mean, those are the currency, right?"
"I think it's appropriate to go back to the train situation!"
"Oh right, the train! We're gonna die!" Kaori went back to panicking.
"Could somebody PLEASE stop this thing!?"
"I'll do it!" Yuki volunteered, seeing as no one else would do it. He ran to the controls and sat down. Just what is this thing…? There are so many controls, which one is supposed to be the brakes!? At that moment, he was almost certain that the control he picked would be the wrong one. Whichever one I pick, chances are it'll lead to our death. There's no way I can do this… He shut his eyes and pulled a lever on the right. The moment he had pulled it, his heart dropped. He was waiting to crash, but then the train started to slow down gradually until… it stopped. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. I'm… alive? I stopped it? He got up and walked back to Sonic and Kaori.
"We… we stopped." Sonic sighed in relief.
Kaori shot up from where she was sitting and glomped Yuki shouting with joy. "Yuki, you did it! Thank you, thank you so much!"
Little did she know she was squeezing the life out of Yuki. He tried to tell her to stop, but all he could do was wheeze. Thankfully Sonic was there to pull Kaori away, leaving a very grateful Yuki gasping for breath.
"Yuki, how did you know what was the brake?"
"I just… shut my eyes and trusted my instincts. I still can't believe it was the right one."
"Are you all okay? Somebody tell me!" They could hear Tails ask with the transmission still going on.
"Yeah. We're still alive." Kaori replied, still amazed they made it out.
They heard Tails let out a big sigh of relief. "I'm so glad you're okay! You've beaten all the demons and gotten the Chaos Emerald, so that's all you need to do tonight. Just wait there for a minute and I'll come over in the Death Cyclone to get you back home."
"Hey, Yuki. Thanks for saving me from that demon, even though you didn't mean to." Kaori gave Yuki a friendly look as if she had known him for a while now.
Yuki blankly stared into Kaori's eyes for a few seconds. "Oh. Sure. I'm just glad it's all over with."
"I don't know about you, but all that running and fighting made me hungry! When we get back, I'll make us some chilli dogs!"
Ten minutes later…
Sonic, Yuki, Tails and Kaori were back at the lab eating chilli dogs as Sonic promised. Sonic and Kaori were just shoving masses in their mouths at a rate which would be impossible for any human to eat. Tails was eating rather lively too. Yuki wasn't eating as usual, instead pondering the battle with the centipede demon back there.
"Yep, that's just what I needed! I just love these things!" Sonic cheered.
"I could eat all night without ever getting full!"
"You two are very childlike when you eat, huh?" Tails commented.
"The two best things in the world are running and eating chilli dogs!"
"Hey Yuki, eat yours! C'mon, don't you ever eat?"
Yuki was staring off into space, thinking about the name "Hakai." He thought he should tell the rest what was on his mind. "Who do you guys think Hakai is?"
"I hope it's not another demon. Please, I don't wanna fight two of them." Kaori dreaded.
"That demon we fought on the train had kanji on her body, which wrote "Hakai". She insisted we bow down to Hakai – I don't think that was her name."
"I don't know, this is all gettin' too confusing. We should just focus on…" Sonic stopped mid-sentence to eat two more chilli dogs, and didn't even wait until after eating to continue – he spoke while he was chewing. "…what we're doing at the moment, and that's collect the rest of the Chaos Emeralds. That's a third emerald we got back there, so now we need five more."
"Table manners! You're disgusting!"
"You can't teach an old hog new tricks. Expect for new abilities like grinding and boosting." Sonic ate his last chilli dog and remained slouched in his chair with his belly sticking out. "It's been forever since I had a feast like that! I think I'm bloated."
"Oh, you think? You ate like 50 of those things, is that enough?"
"I want you to eat yours."
"No way! It looks gross!"
Sonic picked up Yuki's chilli dog that was sitting on his plate and forced it in his throat.
"If you don't eat, you'll die of starvation!"
"He's right Yuki, I think you need to eat something."
"I just hunt wildlife in the forest, I really don't eat this type of food!"
"Just eat it."
Eventually Sonic succeeded in feeding Yuki the chilli dog.
"Yay, you've eaten!"
"I think that's the first time we've seen you eat. This is a great moment in history!"
"You shoved it down my throat."
Kaori reached for another chilli dog on her plate only to realise they were all gone – then, she could hear Sonic wolfing some down with chilli all around his mouth.
"Sonikku-kun, did you take my chilli dogs?"
Sonic paused with at least three in his mouth. "They must've disappeared into thin air."
"If it just disappeared like that, how did your mouth become stuffed with *gasp* chilli dogs!"
"I don't regret what I did. I'd happily do it again! But sadly there's no more left."
Sonic, Yuki and especially Kaori were all tired, so everyone went back in bed after a crazy night.
You may have notice I've gotten rid of the music options. This is just mostly because I've wanted to upload this chapter now - tell me what you think about the music option and if it's better with or without it. I might add music options later on.