CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Everyone was gone and was finding the Chaos Emeralds for Elise to perform the ritual. Elise and Jasmine stayed behind watching over Sonic. Jasmine looked over to Elise. Elise still looked shocked about what she said, about her dying for Sonic, Jasmine sometimes wishes she can keep her mouth shut and let things happen, but she couldn't let this slide, she wanted to be sure that Elise would do this.

"So..." Jasmine said, after an uncomfortable silence between them.

Elise looks at her. "Yeah?" She questioned. "Have you and Sonic kissed, yet?" Jasmine asked. Elise looked away for maybe a minute and turns her head around to meet Jasmine's eyes.

"Yes we have..." Jasmine smiled, then it faded away. "What were you two planning on doing if we all made it alive?" Jasmine wondered. "I don't really know..."

Jasmine at her for a moment, then she realized something. "Seriously?!" Elise looked back to her, with wide eyes like she broke something expensive. "What?"

Jasmine shakes her head and laughs. "Why didn't I see this before? You guys were dat-"

"Shhh!" Elise shushed her. Jasmine looked at her and said it anyway. "Dating!" she whispered instead.

Elise look at Sonic instead, and closed her eyes. "Was dating." she corrected.

Jasmine was taken back at that, she breathed in. "Look... I'm sorry if I was rude when I told you that you had to choose. But I had to tell you what the consequences would be... I'm sorry."

Elise looked back at her and smiled. "Apology accepted." Jasmine smiled at that and hug Elise, Elise hug back. They broke apart when they heard running coming their way.

Jasmine stood up but found out it was the gang, with a Chaos Emerald in their hands. They all walk up to Elise and put the Chaos Emeralds in a circle.

Shadow looks at Jasmine for a second and leaves to Omega and Rouge's side. Some of the rest just follow him and some moved to the other side. Jasmine closed her eyes, she knows everyone around her is still mad or sad for what she said, she couldn't blame them, but all but one forgave her. At least she had someone on her side, but for how long exactly will Elise have?

Her thoughts were interrupted with a hand on her shoulder. She looks and found Elise standing up, and blended down to her ear and whispered. "Is it alright if you bring Sinic to the circle?"

Jasmine turns around to face her. She smiled and nodded, "Yes." Elise smiled also. "Thank you." they exchange looks and left each other.

Jasmine walks over to Sonic's body, she bends over and picked him up in her arms. She stands back up and walks over to the middle of the circle and puts him down carefully and walked out of the circle, over to where Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and Eggman were standing, waiting for Sonic to come back alive.

They exchange a look to her but ignored her. She put her head down, closing her eyes, as she also felt Sonic's presence next to her.

Elise was outside the circle, on her knees, putting her hands together, and began to chant. "Oh Chaos Emeralds, gems of miracles. Please heed my call." Then the gems started to glow brighter. "I wish to save this world. I wish to cleanse me father's sin. And, I wish to talk to Sonic... once again!" After that Sonic's body was raising in the air with the Chaos Emeralds. She stood up and walk over to Sonic.

"Come back to us." She said, bending down to kiss him, but went to his ear first, "I love you." She whispered so no one will hear her, but she knew Jasmine did. She closed her eyes letting a tear fall on Sonic's head. She moved herself and bended down and kiss him on the lips.

Everything went bright.

Shadow, Jasmine, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Eggman, and Omega uncovered their eyes, and widen their eyes, and saw what was in front of them.

Elise was in Super Sonic's arms, holding her. Elise has her arms hanging out, with eyes closed, and not breathing.

Jasmine was first to walk over to Sonic. She looked at him, "Sonic?" Sonic looked at Jasmine, and nodded. He bended down and put Elise's dead body on the ground next to their feet.

Jasmine walks to the other side of where Sonic stands and put a hand on his shoulder. Sonic looks at her for awhile, then made eye contact with Jasmine. He stood up and hugged her, while Jasmine hugged back.

Sonic broke the hug, and walked over to where Shadow and a Silver made a circle. Sonic raised his hands and is giving power to Silver and Shadow. They closed their eyes while the power was going through them. And then there were three Super hedgehogs. The three of them look up and went up to defeat Solaris.

Everyone there cheered for them to win.

But Jasmine only spoke. "Defeat him, Sonic. For Elise."

Somewhere near the blossom tree, Elise sits and watches the flowers fall and some blow in the creek, she knew she died, she called out to everyone but they never answered, so she went to the blossom tree, where Sonic took her.

"Elise?" someone called to her. She turned around and found her parents. She opened her mouth, but words didn't come out.

She just smiled and ran to her Mama and her Father giving them big hugs. "I've missed you Mama and Father so much!" she said happily. They rub her back, but something was wrong. "What's wrong?"

Her parents look at her. "You're not meant to be here, Elise."

"Elise what happen, to get you here?" Elise looks at them. "I saved Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog's soul. We used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to bring him back." her parents look at her like it wasn't to whole truth. "I-... I couldn't let him stay dead, also he was the only way to defeat Solaris."

"Solaris?!" Both her parents say at the same time.

"Yes Iblis was set free. I cried. Because Mephiles killed Sonic. Mama. Father. I love him." Both her parents look at her and smile. "We know Elise. We've been watching over you, through the whole way." Elise smiled at them.

"But-" her father says. "You have a choice, to go back to him."

Sonic, Silver, and Shadow were fighting Solaris.

Amy and Eggman were the first to see something in the middle of the chest in Solaris. It was the core to defeat him.

The hedgehogs were becoming restless. Silver used his telekinesis to throw some big rocks at the head and some at the core. Shadow was using Chaos Control to throw some big power balls and some rocks. And Sonic was busy with using his Super speed to hit Solaris core.

Solaris will be history, once and for all!

Elise was looking at her parents for a while, waiting for the choices to be said, but they stayed quiet.

Her parents look back to her. "You have a choice. You can either can here and be with us. Or you can go back to your love one. But their are consequences that have to be made."

"What's the consequences?" Elise questions them.

Her parents look at each other and turn back to her. "You would be turned into a hedgehog. When you become one, you will be every powerful. You will still remain Princess of Soleanna. But we would like you to choose of what you want."

Elise looks at her parents thinking of living here without Sonic, how she will miss him holding, kissing her, keeping her safe from evil. Then thought about how she would look like a hedgehog, will they notice it was her? All that matter was, she was happy with being near Sonic. She smiled at those thoughts.

"I think you've already made your choice." Her Father interrupting her thoughts. Elise looks back to her Father and Mama, and nods her head to them, running to them and hugged them.

Her Father and Mama close their eyes and hug her back, with a smile placid on their face.

"What's with the dress, Elise?" Her Father asked. Elise widen her eyes and laughed, she knew she was caught.

"I'll tell you... When it's my time to come back here." Elise said.

Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were almost done with Solaris, until something bright happen.

Sonic, Shadow, and Silver fell down to the hard concrete floor, with a big thud.

Sonic turned to his side finding everyone covering their eyes. Shadow found Jasmine and ran to her protecting her found Amy almost to the edge of the stairs, he ran to her and caught her arm bringing her into embrace, he felt Amy wrapping around him and holding him tight for dear life.

The bright light was going up to the sky where Solaris was also covering his eyes.

Elise was looking at her parents as she soon started to fade.

"Good luck, my daughter!" She heard her Mama yell to her.

"I love you. I'll miss you!" She yelled back to them as she disappeared.

"We will miss you more." her Father said. He looks to his wife and they smile, and disappeared into bright light.

The light disappeared. Everyone was looking up and saw a figure in the sky, and it was falling to the ground, it was falling down fast.

"Move!" Sonic yelled to the others and they all ran to the side of the half torn piece of the castle. The figure slowed down and landed on its knees with hands supporting it with balance. Everyone was observing the figure they couldn't see it's face but they got a lot of detail.

The figure wore a white and dark brown dress, with a blue Emerald on top of it's breast, and with a gold belt around its waist. It wore a teal cape that stops to the ground. With white shoes. It had its arms showing with one tattooed with the sun god Solaris, with its mighty wings going around it's left shoulder. It also has gloves up to its elbow, with a star in middle of the gloves. With dark red hair that stop to her neck with bangs that also stop to the top of her eyes, and with a piercing on one ear, a golden ring. And it was an hedgehog.

Some backed up a little, but one went up to it, Jasmine.

"Get back here! Jasmine!" Jasmine heard Shadow growl at her but she didn't stop walking to the figure.

She stopped, and picked up a Chaos Emerald and went back to walking to the figure, and stopped walking.

She was two feet away from the figure and she had one guess who it was all she needed to see was her face. She took a deep breath and exhaled. "Elise? Elise is that you?" The hedgehog shot her head up and looked into Jasmine's red eyes.

Jasmine heart beaten a little too quickly but got back to inhaling and exhaling, when she looked into the hedgehogs grayish-blue eyes, she also had a birthmark on her left cheek, the same star that is on her gloves.

Elise breathes a little too fast but calms down when Jasmine pulls her into a hug. She closed her eyes and reopened them and looked at the other hedgehogs. She turns her head and looked at Sonic.

Sonic looks at her shocked, she wasn't human anymore, she was a hedgehog, like one of them know. Sonic just nods his head and moved to where the rest of the hedgehogs have grouped together.

Elise feels a little uncomfortable with all the hedgehogs, human, and robot staring at her, but she felt safe in Jasmine's arms for know. "It's ok... I'm ok." She tells Jasmine. Jasmine let's go of her and moves apart from each other.

The silence was broken with a raging roar above them, Solaris.

Elise looks back at Jasmine and saw there was a Chaos Emerald in her hand. "Can I see the Chaos Emerald?" she held her hand out. Jasmine looks at her hand and back to Elise. She nods her head and threw it to her. Elise caught it and looked back to Solaris.

She closed her eyes, letting the power of the Chaos Emerald go through her veins, her body started to feel weird but it felt right. Right know she was Super Elise. She reopens her eyes and bending her knees and jumps, leaving a golden trail into the dark sky where Solaris is.

She looks at Solaris seeing Solaris was weak now with Sonic, Shadow, and Silver fighting him off. She looks at him and smirked. She lifts her hand above her, letting it float into the sky higher in the sky and it disappears.

She looks back at Solaris and smiled, showing some fangs, and said the words to destroy Solaris once and for all. "Chaos Control! Let Solaris live where no man-kind will hurt him for his hatred. And let there be peace and freedom, in my kingdom and village, for my people!"

Where Elise let the Chaos Emerald float in the sky, started to glow where Solaris stands. Solaris roared with rage and went up to Elise, but was stopped with the Chaos Emerald. It created a field to trap him. And until then it started to shrink with him along.

Then Solaris was nowhere to be seen but all just a flame. The flame was similar to the one her Father created when she was young, she held the flame close to her eyes, observing as it swayed back and forth. She closes her eyes, putting her mouth close to the flame and blew it out.

Light came from the sky. The darkness started fading then the sun was shining. Elise looked around the town and saw her people all alive and safe from harm.

The people had some weird, confused, and worried faces and some were looking at her. They were whispered in each other's ears and some kept quiet looking more at her.

Elise looked at the ground from high in the sky, she let her body go down. She still had her eyes closed, while she landed on her feet. She opened them and found her people and the hedgehogs looking at her. She felt to urge to run away, because of what she have became.

She took quiets steps back and ran supersonic speed and went to one place where she can really drown her feelings.