Chapter 7: Memories

Somewhere Far Away

When Amy and Rose came back to base, the first thing Rose did was that she had punched the wall next to her causing Amy to jump. Amy glanced at Rose's fist, blood seeped through making her white glove into a reddish colour, Amy gasped but before she could do anything Rose had gone and went to her room. Amy sighed; she knew that when Rose went to her room you had to leave her alone until she had came out unless you wanted to have your head decapitated from your shoulders, then it was best to leave her be. Amy looked at the wall; she saw a little dent in the wall when she looked at it sideways on. To be honest she was mad as well not only was the jewel a fake, wasting her valuable time to get the damn thing but also she saw the person who made her into what she is now. Sonic, he seemed so sincere, he was surprised to see me but he still acted like the same Soniku that I fell in love with she shook her head not wanting to go down that road again, she knew where it lead to a whole world of hurt She couldn't afford to make that mistake, not again and not now. She went back to her room but she couldn't help but think about Sonic. All of the times he had saved her from Eggman and from Metal Sonic, she sighed once more, but then again he hated her didn't he? She growled how can she not make her mind up, she did before but since he saw Sonic just a few minutes ago her mind just couldn't choose, she was now frustrated. This was getting annoying and a real pain, she looked at the clock, 5:29 it read, she made up her mind that she was probably tired and her mind was just to tired to cope with Sonic, she changed from her black clothing into more comfortable clothes and laid in her bed, she closed her eyes and almost instantly she fell asleep but her last thought was of that spiky blue hedgehog burning away at her mind.

Rose on the other hand was far from asleep; she gazed around her room thinking of a solution for why she was distracted when fighting Shadow. All the time she was fighting Shadow her mind wasn't focused on the battle at all, although it seemed like she was but her mind was elsewhere. She was never distracted, it was the whole reason why she became an assassin, she was always focused, always ready and prepared, but she wasn't prepared for an old feeling to come back. She growled. She hated the feeling of that useless emotion, but that emotion was how she met Shadow, one and a half years ago.

With Shadow

Shadow heard a rustling sound when he slept, even though he was asleep, he was still alert and was aware of his surroundings. He opened his eyes and got to his fighting stance, he waited until he heard the rustling sound coming closer, and it was then that the source of the sound appeared. A white rabbit hopped out from the bushes and stood right in front of Shadow, Shadow rolled his eyes, he had just woke up from his slumber because of a white rabbit. He crouched down and looked at the rabbit; it looked like the same rabbit that awoke him one and a half years ago, when he was with Rose.

Back then...

Shadow was sound asleep with a certain pink hedgehog next to him, he didn't understand why but he had helped a pink hedgehog from death. He had found her with cuts all over her body, but they weren't just minor cuts, some were very deep, obviously there to cause some damage but he couldn't help but wonder how they got there. Either way, he had picked up her body and had placed bandages around the cuts to stop the blood from flowing. He had placed her besides him so that the forest creatures wouldn't come and rip her to pieces from her scent of her blood and so that he could keep an eye on her, even though she seemed sincere he still didn't trust her, for all he know she could have been a criminal running away from the law but got injured in doing so. And so there he was sound asleep when he had felt a movement around him; he immediately got up in his fighting stance and looked alert. But to his surprise he saw the pink hedgehog crawling away from him and to an opposite tree but other then her there was no threat. He picked the pink hedgehog up with ease and looked directly at her. He could sense the hurt and the sadness in her, she had a cut on her right eye and so she had it closed she also had a cut on her neck but no other cuts he could see on her face. She seemed to be afraid as she was shaking and also she tried to get out of his grip despite the pain this was afflicting on her.

"I'm not going to hurt you," he said in a stern voice as he continued to look directly at her. "If you move the pain will only increase," he continued to speak as he saw the pink hedgehog move again. She looked at Shadow as if he had two heads.

"You're not going to hurt me?" she asked innocently. Shadow shook his head while placing her back on the ground.

"Believe me; if I wanted to hurt you I would have done it already." He said while resuming his sleeping position, the pink hedgehog just stared at him; she tilted her head to one side while she continued to stare at the ebony hedgehog lying beside her. Shadow opened one eye when he heard giggling besides him. "May I ask what the hell you're giggling at pink hedgehog?" She continued to giggle as she pointed to Shadow's stomach, his eyes followed her finger till he saw a white rabbit sitting there, almost looking peaceful. He growled, how could such a thing get past him like that? He should have been able to sense the rabbit before it got anywhere near him but instead there stood the white rabbit, he grabbed the rabbit roughly by the neck and was about to toss it to one side but the pink hedgehog had other ideas. She threw a throwing star at Shadow, but he saw this and dodged it with ease, by doing so he dropped the white rabbit, the pink hedgehog saw her chance as she picked up the rabbit before it dropped to the ground, she then moved out of the way before Shadow could react. "Hedgehog, why the hell did you do that?" he said trying to keep his voice steady, instead of going out of control with anger, on the other hand the pink hedgehog just smirked at him.

"Well, I believed that you were going to hurt him." she said while stroking the white rabbit in her hand, Shadow just stared at the pink hedgehog as if she had insulted him.

"For your information, hedgehog, I was about to place him to one side," he said folding his arms to prove a point. The pink hedgehog giggled before answering.

"You was about to throw him to one side," she said covering up the white rabbit as if she was protecting it. Shadow rolled his eyes and once again resumes his sleeping position as he had grown tired of the conversation that was taking place. She giggled again before sleeping besides him while still holding the white rabbit between the palms of her hands. Shadow listened to her breathing, it was uneven but nonetheless her breathing had changed when she had fallen asleep, he looked at the pink hedgehog that was clutching to the white rabbit, although the rabbit looked as if it had gotten comfortable in her hands, together they both looked peaceful. He looked to the tree which had one of her throwing stars, he had never seen anyone move that fast (except for Sonic of course), especially when they were injured, although how she could have gotten the energy to move like that was a mystery to him.

Now...

He sighed as he took the white rabbit and held it in his hands; he stroked the rabbit just like when Rose did, looking up to the sky he noticed that it was soon to be morning, he didn't get enough sleep but he could withstand sleep without it effecting him for quite some time. He just hoped that he wouldn't see her again, he wouldn't know what to say for starters and he wouldn't know what to do either, ever since that day he regretted what he had done, but he couldn't change the past now, all he can do was to hope that he wouldn't run into Rose again.

With Sonic...

Sonic awoke with a splitting headache, well... he awoke with more then a splitting headache, his body was aching all over thanks to the beating he had token the night before, but he couldn't have blamed her after all he had done to her, he deserved more then what he was feeling right now, but he could only imagine what she was feeling that day, the day she got hurt by the man she loved.

Back then...

Amy was chasing after Sonic on a beautiful day in July; as usual Sonic was running well... Jogging away from Amy, why didn't he just run off at full speed? Well... he had something to tell the pink hedgehog and this was the only time where he and her could talk without Knuckles or Rouge listening to the conversation that was going to take place. Sonic then suddenly stop and let Amy give him one of her death hugs, when she was done he began to speak.

"Listen Ames, there's something I have to tell you." He said trying to avoid her gaze.

"Yes Sonic?" she said sweetly hoping that he was going to say what she had waited for a long time.

"Umm... Ames I think that, you should stop trying to chase me and ask me out on dates and things like that, I'm sort of getting tired of it." He said hoping that Amy would understand, but as soon as he saw a tear escape her eyes, he regretted everything he had said. "Listen Ames, I didn't mean to-"

"Its fine Sonic you don't have to say anything, there's nothing between us, I realise this now, but I never want to see you again." She said before running away from the blue hedgehog who she had once loved. Sudden guilt washed over him, what had he done? He had just hurt one of his best friends; he watched Amy's retreating form. 'It's not her fault, it was never her fault' he thought as he started to run after her.

Now

Sonic regretted that day more then any of the other mistakes that he had done, he knew that it was his fault, it was his fault that he had to open his big mouth, if only he had kept his mouth shut then he wouldn't be in this situation but no. He had to hurt the one person that had loved him and also the one person that he had loved as well, but of course now he was living the consequences, he had driven Amy to a life of crime and he knew that his big mouth had made her into a criminal after all who was he to decided who she could love and who she couldn't love? He couldn't force her to stop loving him but now look, she had driven her away from him and from her normal life and that he couldn't forgive himself, even if Amy had forgiven him, he couldn't forgive himself for what he had done to her. He got himself off the bed and went to the bathroom where a mirror was, he quickly scanned himself for any serious injuries but he couldn't found any, there were bruises on his back and along his stomach but other then that, he couldn't found any serious injuries that would take a toll on him later. He walked out of the house while speeding off to the police station, to help the police and also to find Amy.

With Amy...

Amy had woken up at 11:00, oh damn itshe thought. She was supposed to be training with Rose every morning, after lunch and every evening, it was Rose's basic routine and since Amy was learning off her, she insisted that Amy should practise training with her if she wanted to become stronger. Usually she was never late for when training with Rose but this was the first time something like this happens, she just hopes that Rose wouldn't punish her by making her train overtime. She rushed through her daily morning routine and ran to Training Facility 7. Somehow training facility 7 was Rose's favourite training room, each training facility had different surroundings and thus different rules took place in them, in this particular training facility, the surroundings were in a middle of a forest and in one corner there was a waterfall with crystal clear water, every time you would drink out of the waterfall it would always leave you refreshed which was another reason why Rose liked this particular training facility, but Amy knew that that wasn't the main reason, it never was. When she reached the training facility she could tell Rose was training very hard, she could hear the explosions of the T-Bots blowing up and the impact of how hard Rose was throwing her punches at the T-Bots (T-Bots is shot for Training Robots). Amy drew in a deep breath and practise her 'I'm really sorry' look that kept her out of trouble in her past life, she knocked on the door as she knew that Rose always kept the door locked to avoid distractions, after a few minutes of waiting, Rose had opened the door and was keeping the T-Bots from letting a single punch/kick land on her at the same time. Amy immediately helped Rose, as she knew that when it comes to training the two were pretty focused and refused to be distracted by meaningless chit-chat. Rose threw a T-Bot at Amy; this caught Amy off guard and was sent to the ground. Amy realised that Rose was pretty ticked off with her turning up late and of course this was the punishment, Amy had gotten up (because Rose allowed her to, if not Amy would be sent to the ground again and would have been punched repeatedly) but was sent back by a punch in the face, not a strong punch that would do some damage but a kind of punch that would send some impact to the opponent, Amy glared at Rose. They usually became sparring partners once in a while but Rose would never attack her without permission unless she was really ticked off about something. After a while Rose went to the controls of the training facility and shut the room down.

"I'm sorry I punched you Amy," she said keeping her back turned to face Amy. Amy nodded slowly while getting up, accepting her apology even though she wasn't facing her; this was as close as she could get to an apology so she figured that she would let this slide for now. "I'm just really ticked off at the moment." She said shaking her fist in the air to show her anger. Amy nodded again even though Rose couldn't see it she knew that Rose would sense it anyway. "But since you were late," Rose continued as she turned to face Amy it was then that Amy pulled her 'I'm really sorry!' look, Rose laughed. "You can't pull that look with me Amy, and besides, you have 4 hours of training to catch up" she said while folding her arms and walking out of the training facility, Amy sighed. She knew that there was no point in leaving as she knew that Rose would find out one way or the other, she walked over to the controls of the room and started up the training facility again, she waited for a few moments until T-Bots started to appear, she glanced up at the hologram clock above her head 11:30 it read, she sighed once more 3 hours and a half hours left she thought as she dashed to one of the T-Bots and landed the first punch...

Well... this is one of those full in sort of chapter where this sort of explains about their past life a bit more, hopefully I did a good job. If you still have any questions please review and tell me about them, and I will try to answer them in the next chapter which will be up next week (hopefully). Anyways later people, I hope you all enjoy this chapter and stay tune for next time.