CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

BACK IN THE PRESENT

The City of Water, peaceful once again, with the Princess returned safe and sound with Sonic next to her to whole way. They whole town spread rumors to other people that the Princess is safe and some saying that Elise and Sonic were a couple. Why they all say that because they see Sonic carrying her to the castle or is it because some of the people that walk pass by the castle saw Sonic and Elise kissing at the front gates. Know one for sure, but they stop gossiping when they see Sonic.

He didn't know what was going on in the city he ignores it, all he does is just to stay close to the castle and Elise, if Eggman shows up. He was looking around the city for awhile, nothing to do but just sit and wait.

He looked around and found something. He smiled and ran up to the chili dog stand. "How many, sir?"

Sonic looked at him and is thinking, he didn't know how hungry he was so he held out two fingers. "Two please..." the man nodded with a smile and went working.

Sonic was tapping his foot, and was still looking around, no Eggman, yet. "Your chili dogs, sir." Sonic turned around and found two chili dogs in his hands. He gave the man money. "Thanks!" and left.

He found a place to see the whole city. He can even see the castle from where he was. He took a bite of his chili dog and moaned. "Dang, I'm so staying here!" Sonic said happily, he has never tasted such great chili dogs. Mostly they all tasted ok, but here, they were better than ok.

He was still looking, but still no sign.

"Maybe he gave up and left for a holiday," Sonic mumbled. He laughed at himself and looked back at the castle.

He saw a figure on the balcony, with a blue dress, similar to the color of Sonic's fur but mostly looks like the color teal. He stood up and looked more closely and found out who the figure was, it was Elise. He never real seen Elise wear any other dress than white.

She was wearing white shoes with red high heels, with some feathers on the bottom of the dress and some were in her red hair, cream color gloves and a necklace that was also white. He smiled and laughed at himself, she looks almost exactly like him

"Wow, you look very beautiful." Sonic mumbled.

Sonic still stared, "I'm so in love with you."

Back at the castle a few hours before Sonic left, Elise went into her room.

She walked up the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door with a thud, and ran up to bed and jumped onto it face down and screamed into the pillow. She wishes that she was a normal girl, with a normal life, with no evil villains, but that would mean that she would've never met Sonic.

She screamed even more, until she was satisfied that she was ok now. She looked out from her window, that leads to her balcony. She smiles to herself, she would remember when she was young, she would go out there and look up at the stars and just wish.

She got up from her bed and went to a mirror to look at herself instead. There was dirt on her dress, with some torn pieces of the dress missing, and her gloves had some cuts in it, she never really noticed any of them being torn. She took them off and found some cuts on her hands not too deep for stitches or anything. She walked to her closet, and opened the doors. Her closet was filled with other dresses that were white, but she didn't want to wear any white dress today.

She walked into her walk in closet and moved her white dresses to the side. And saw what she was looking for.

When she was young, she asked one of her maids if they can go up to dress shop, and make a similar dress that she has to wear everyday, but to make it the color teal instead. It took a lot of convincing but the maid gave in and went to the dress shop. Elise told her not to tell her father, and the maid agreed.

Once the dress came in, the maid had it laid out on the bed, ready for Elise. Elise was excited to see her new dress, she ran from the library and went into her room and looked at the dress. She loved it a lot, but she didn't know when the right time was, so she hid it in her closet and covered it with, all of her other dresses and never saw it again.

She picked it up, walked out of the closet and laid it out on the bed. "I guess this day is the one," she mumbled.

She went to her dress cabinet and opened it and took out new color cream gloves. Then she went to her jewelry cabinet and took out a necklace with white diamonds. Then last she went into she shoe closet and took out a pair of shoes that was also white, but with a red heels. She laid everything out on her bed and smiled, it reminded her of someone.

"I hope I don't get this dirty or ripped." she mumbled. She shakes her head and started getting out of her old dress into her new one.

Once she got into her new dress, she walks to her mirror and admires the dress. She almost looks exactly like Sonic.

She walks to her window, takes a deep breathe and opens the French doors and walks outside. She felt the wind blowing through her dress and her hair and smiled, walking up to the terrace and looks at her city.

She heard some of the priests, guards, and maids walking behind her and seeing if she is alright. She heard them gasping and she knew why, because of the dress.

They haven't seen her in another dress, but they stopped staring and started guarding the Princess.

It was peaceful, until something was covering the sun, and making the sky into darkness.

It was a big battleship, and a voice came on. "Princess Elise, ruler of Soleanna... By refusing to negotiate me, you have forced me to take drastic actions." everyone at the city was talking and scarred. Some started to run home, some stayed.

"Meet me at the specified point alone at four o'clock today. Failure to do so on time." As Eggman took a breath and spoke. "Will result in my leveling of this city so that nothing but ashes remain!"

Elise didn't want the city to be burned down to the ground. She looked at her shoes and was saddened that she had to do what was right. "Miss Elise...!" One of her maids said with fear. Elise looked back where Eggman was waiting for her. "I cannot allow harm to come to my people." she took a deep breath and turned around to walk out of the castle.

"Miss Elise?!" the priest said with fear also. Elise stopped walking and turned to the priest. "It is my duty as Princess of Soleanna to go... There is no other choice."

Elise closed her eyes, she really wants to cry, but she can't. So she walks to her bedroom doors, opening them and walked out of the castle to Eggman's battleship.

She closed her eyes, what happens if things went wrong? Will she able to tell Sonic, how she really feels for him? Will she even see Sonic again? She kept asking questions but then the battleship lowered and the door opened for her to get in, so she did. And there was standing Eggman. "Welcome back, Princess." He guided her to the control room, where he will be to get her and him out of the city.

Silver landed in the city. He looked around and didn't find Shadow and Jasmine. He guested they got separated, but he found his best friend there. "Blaze..."

Blaze was just standing there, had her arms crossed and was waiting for an explanation. "What did you see?"

Silver closed his eyes and fisted his hands. "The Iblis Trigger... Isn't Sonic The Hedgehog."

"I see..."

They heard a crowd talking and screaming. Some were running and some stayed where they were. "Oh my god"

"What are we going to do?"

"We need to stay calm and work through this!" and it kept on going.

Silver and Blaze walk and saw the crowd of people. "They're quite noisy." Silver said.

Blaze had her hands on her hips now and walked up to Silver's side. "Yes, I heard that the Princess here left for Dr. Eggman's base in response to his earlier threat." Silver had something clicked in his mind.

"What if his intimate objective was to release Iblis?" Blaze looks at him with wide eyes.

They nodded to each other and went running after Eggman. Silver hoped Sonic was going to make it, in time. He just had too.