CHAPTER SEVEN

Everything is quiet. Just the sound of the oceans waves and the trees fighting the wind.

But the quietness was gone when one hedgehog kept talking about her future married hedgehog, and one tortured to listen to the other.

Silver he was... He was dragging himself to follow Amy, but he had more important things to do, like to kill the Iblis Trigger and save everyone's future.

Silver sometimes wondered where Blaze was, did she make it here? Is she ok? Does she know where he is? Silver wishes he can talk to her now.

"Hmm... I sense Sonic's presence here. Call it my girlish intuition!" Amy said.

Bringing Silver out of his head, he stopped walking and put his hands on his waist, shaking his head, while looking at the ground.

"What am I doing?" Silver questioned himself.

Amy looked at him and he looked a little bored with her trying to find Sonic. "Sorry. As soon as I find Sonic, I'll help you find who you're looking for, Silver." Amy apologizing.

He looked back her and up at the sky. "This looks so beautiful."

"What? You mean this desert?"

"Everything is so great here isn't it? The sky is gorgeous and everyone's happy..."

"Huh?" Amy was a little confuse.

Silver shook his head and turned back to Amy. "Let's go. I'll help who you're looking for." as Silver held his hand out and continued talking, "Until we find him, were looking for the guy I'm looking for. Deal?"

Amy looked at his hand, with a smile, she opened her hand, both hands clasped together.

"Deal!"

They both walked back to the city, if they can find Sonic there.

BACK TO SONIC AND ELISE

As Sonic carries Elise, while running through quicksand, jumping on trees and destroying some robots as they got in the way. With Sonic still running, Sonic looked at his side where Elise with her eyes closed, afraid she will get hurt but he knew that would never happen to her. When Elise started to stir in Sonic's arms, Sonic looked back up to see where he is going.

Before Elise woke up, she felt Sonic staring at her so she pretend to start to waking up, as soon as she did that she found Sonic's eyes looking back at where he was running them off.

Soon what felt like hours or maybe minutes, Sonic finds a place where no one can find them. Elise felt Sonic slowing down and looked at her surroundings, she saw grass. Endless grass.

Once Sonic started slowing, he stopped running and let Elise off of him. Elise put her one foot down down on the grass, then the other and let her arms go of Sonic's neck.

She stood and turned around to look at Sonic's face, as she slightly bowed her head, with some pieces of her red hair coming up to her face.

"I have no words to express how grateful I am for your help..."

Elise pulled some of her hair out of the way, but then saw something red on Sonic's left shoulder.

"You're hurt!"

Sonic looked at his shoulder, "It's nothing."

Elise didn't believe him, so she bend down on her knees and grabbed Sonic's shoulder gently, "Don't say that."

She brought out her handkerchief from her dress pocket and started tying it around Sonic's wound.

Sonic felt embarrassed he never had someone cared that he got hurt expected for Amy that keeps bugging him, so he dealt with it before and never really cared about it. But as Sonic felt Elise's fingers on his fur, Sonic shivered again, somehow and someway she felt different from most girls he met, they would always just love him and be fangirls to him, but Elise was normal, princess or not.

After Elise finished tying the handkerchief on Sonic's left arm, she one hand on his wound and the other on his left elbow. "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

Sonic looked at her with disbelief-meant, she didn't do anything wrong.

"Smile." Sonic asked politely to Elise.

Elise looked up at him with confusion, but Sonic pointed his finger out to the sky, shaking his head to not frown only smile.

A butterfly came up to him and landed on Sonic's nose to much of Sonic's surprise, it brought up a smile to her. Her eyes widen with a smile as she saw the purple butterfly, landing on Sonic's nose, with a soft giggle, brought her hand, almost close to Sonic's nose, she flicked her fingers to let the butterfly fly away into the blue sky.

Sonic loved to see her smile because it brought a smile to him.

"Your smile... That's all I need."

As Sonic said those words the Princess and he stood up.

Sonic and her walked together side to side and started their conversation.

"Eggman mentioned the Flames of Disaster, is that why he's after you?" Sonic didn't want to believe it, but he needed to know what Eggman was planning to stop him and Elise would be safe.

"Yes. The name of the sun god our county honors is Solaris... It is told that Solaris rage would destroy the world. His wrath comes in the form of the Flames of Disaster. Ten years ago, we almost faced it's fury... I was a child then, so I don't remember it very much. I lost my father then..."

Sonic turned around to face her.

"And now Dr. Eggman is trying to cause the same disaster again... What can I do?" Elise questioned herself and Sonic, she didn't know what to do anymore, because of now Eggman is wanting to cause the same problem ten years ago when she had all of these nightmares, about her father.

Sonic walked up to her without saying anything, grabbed her hand and started running.

"Sonic? Sonic! Wait! I can't run that fast!" Elise yelled out to Sonic, thinking he didn't hear her, but he turn around as they started running.

"Don't worry! Just raise your head and run!" they both run fast together, but Elise is getting tired, she's panting a lot and her heart is speeding up.

Soon Sonic and Elise find a rest stop, Elise sits on the hill and stretches her legs, hands behind her as she's leaning on her arms.

"Feels great, doesn't it?" Sonic asked Elise.

Sonic walked up to the Princess and sat next to her, his legs crossed and leaning on his arms.

Elise looked at him as he sat down next to her. "Yes... I've never ran so fast before..." Elise still panting.

"Nothing starts when you take action. If you need to worry, then run." Sonic never said those words to anyone before.

Elise was tired still, so she leaning her head against Sonic's shoulder, and closed her eyes for a minute.

Sonic blushed a little, but turned his head away so Elise wouldn't see.

Elise opened her eyes and brought up her head, to look at Sonic, she can see a hint of light pink forming on his cheek.

Sonic turned around, not feeling Elise's head on his shoulder.

Sonic was only inches away from Elise.

Elise was looking at Sonic for sometime now, she didn't know what to do, so she followed what her heart said.

Elise leaned and their foreheads touch, they both felt a spark.

Sonic and Elise were only inches away from each, they closed their eyes and started to lean, lips almost brushing against each other.

But they both stopped each other.

Sonic cleared his throat and started talking, "Umm... Let's get back to the city, where you can stay safe..." Sonic trailed off a little.

"Ok." Elise said a little sad, that they didn't kiss, someway he felt special to her.

Sonic nod and picked up Elise and started to run back to the city.

Sonic wondered what happened if they did kiss, would this change their friendship, or ruin their friendship?