Chapter 14: Damn, Valentine's Day Is Coming
It had been a week before Amy and Blackout saw Rose after what happened in the infirmary. Everything went as usual after that incident, Vengeance continued to annoy Rose until she lost her temper and fought him, Amy and Blackout continued to get along and had became best friends. Other than that things went smoothly, until of course when it was February, the dreaded month that Rose hated. Why you ask? Because of the ridiculous holiday that is Valentine's Day, and no, the reason that she hated Valentine's Day wasn't the fact that she couldn't get anyone to go to the party that Angels 4 Hell held every holiday, the reason was that no one would train with her and also the fact that the holiday was about love, and love sicken her. Even though the dreaded day was approaching she was planning to do what she does every year, train. At the moment, she was in the Diner with Amy, Blackout, and of course the annoying prick, Vengeance; they were discussing what they were going to do on Valentine's Day.
"Rose? Rose? Hello?" Amy waved a hand in front of her until her eyes were locked with hers. Amy jumped, not expecting that reaction from her. "Umm... I was asking you what you're going to be doing on Valentine's Day." Rose hmphed and looked away.
"I'm going to be training as usual, got a problem with that?" she asked her, getting her shuriken out, ready for a fight.
"I do." Said the arrogant prick next to her, he got up and smirked, his arms folded. By now everyone in the Diner was silent; they all watched the two hedgehogs and feared for the fight that was about to erupted. "Shall we take this in the training facility?" he said, but then she did something no one would have predicted, she simply walked out of the room with a grin on her face. Leaving many confused hedgehogs and other different species behind her. Did she just back down from a fight? Impossible, she would never do such thing. 'There must be something else going on' both Amy and Vengeance thought. Amy immediately ran after the grinning pink hedgehog, only to find her training, again. She sighed; doesn't she get tired with training all the time? Maybe I could persuade her to come to the party this year, but how? Just then a thought hit her, she grinned a Sonic-like grin before Blackout came with a confused look on his face.
"Something amusing?" he asked her.
"No, nothing," she giggled before walking off to hang out with Blackout as they walked to her chamber. "You know, you remind me of someone." she said after an awkward silence. Hearing this Blackout nearly fell over but quickly caught balanced.
"How so?" he asked nervously, trying desperately to keep his cool. Amy shrugged.
"I don't know exactly, you just remind me of someone, but I can't remember who." She stopped walking as if to think for a moment before walking on. "Like I said, I don't know who, you just seem familiar like I have met you before." He let out a sigh in relief as the silence continued until they reached Amy's chamber, she left the door open for Blackout to enter, realising that she wanted him inside her room; he stepped in and looked around. It was like before when she was with him and life was so much simpler, back then her room was bright pink, except for this time it was a darker shade of the colour. Other than that everything was organised like she always was in situations like this, she sat on her bed and patted the space next to her for him to sit. He sat next to her and smiled to himself, ever since that mission he wasn't able to get a chance to be alone with her, until now that is. "You know you never told me what you were going to do on Valentine's Day..." she said, trying to start a conversation but the funny thing was that she was actually nervous when she was talking to him, why? She didn't know. It was like the familiar nervous feeling when she was around Sonic, but this time it was when she was him. It was all familiar too familiar, but she could tell that this wasn't a negative feeling, it was a positive feeling, just like when she was with Sonic, ages ago.
"Well," he started off not really sure what he would say, because well what he really did on Valentine's Day was running away from Amy and her endless questions of does he want to marry her. But now, it was the opposite, it was now his turn to be chasing after her and her turn to be running away from him. Either way, she didn't feel the same about him anymore, and that thought saddened him. "I'm going to be with you since you're the only nice person that I know." He continued his sentence, realising that he had left her waiting for an answer. She giggled at his response.
"You also know Rose and Vengeance." She pointed out to him to which he nodded but she had missed one thing.
"True but you forget that I put the word 'nice' in my last sentence." He pointed out to her, she giggled once more. He smiled, he loved making her giggle, and it was the one thing he was good at when he was in her life. Amy seem to notice that he seemed a bit dishearten as she could tell with his expression.
"Is something wrong?" she asked, her curiosity getting the best of her. His head lifted as his eyes met hers.
"Oh no, of course not, Why would you say that," He gave her a lopsided grin before continuing. "Besides, you have to explain this 'party' that you mentioned to Rose, even though she wasn't listening." She ignored the last bit of his sentence before starting to explain.
"Well," she began. "Angels 4 hell always holds a party for every holiday, weather it is Christmas, or Valentine's Day, they always had a party for us members to have a day off from missions, training and all other things. So basically this is a chance for a day off from everything. But unlike Rose, she is the only person who trains on days like this." She sighed. "Even Vengeance knows when to take a break once in awhile." She shook her head slowly.
"But remember she did had a tough past life." He said since he noticed that she was being a bit harsh on Rose. She sighed knowing his point.
"I know but, I thought that she might be the exact opposite and would be relaxing in her room or something, not beating herself up every day like she usual does." Her shoulders slumped as she admit defeat, she would forget the idea of trying to figure Rose out and just give in, she would never understand her best friend not matter how hard she tried. In an attempt to comfort her, he placed an arm around her and gently pulled her nearer to him, surprisingly she didn't pull away or say anything in protest, and she stayed still for a moment before resting her head against his chest. At that moment he froze, he had never had her close like this before and he didn't know what to do next. His eyes were wide behind his dark glasses that he still wore (yes that's right he still wears them.) what should he do? Should he keep his arm around her? Should he speak? Should he keep quiet? What should he do?? But at that moment, she got up as she wanted to ask him something. "May I ask you something?" she asked sweetly, she looked at him with those beautiful eyes of hers, even though the same sparkle might have gone, the fact that she had beautiful eyes still stopped his heart for a moment.
"Umm... s-sure, anything." Her eyes stopped his ability to speak for a moment before he could find his voice again. She got up from the bed so that she could stand in front of him; she looked to the ground and began to twiddle her thumbs before speaking.
"I was wondering, well umm..." she felt nervous what if he refused? She glanced at his face, although she couldn't see his eyes, she could tell that he was
curious about the question that she was about to ask. She took a deep breath. "About the p-party, I was wondering I-if," Oh god she was more nervous than ever, "I-if you want to go with me, t-that is if y-you want t-to I mean I-it's okay if you don't, it's j-just that..." she trailed off as Blackout was now standing in front of her, a smile plastered on his face, he cupped her face still smiling as he spoke.
"I would love to, and by the way, you didn't have to ask, I was planning to go with you anyway." Hearing that her face lit up immediately, a smile of her own was now on her face. She suddenly gasped, and shoved Blackout out of her room.
"Could you get Rose over here? I need to talk to her." She asked sweetly as possible. Blackout's face went pale.
"I don't think that that is a good idea." He said as he remembered that he and Rose are not really the best of friends. Amy frowned at his attitude.
"Please? You'll be doing me a favour if you do." Hearing that he thought about it for a moment, if he did this complicated task wouldn't that mean that she would have to owe him a favour? Keeping that in mind, he reluctantly walked over to the corridor that held the training facilities and headed for the room that was marked as number 7. He was about to knock when something caught his attention, he placed his ear up against the door and strained his senses to hear anything inside the facility, but for some strange reason, he found none. All he heard was silence, he was about to continue his motion to knock on the door when the door opened to find Vengeance his arms folded and a smirk played on his lips, however his smirk faded when he saw Blackout.
"Something wrong Blackout?" he asked as he knows that he wouldn't come to Rose unless something was wrong. In response he raised his hands up in defence, as if to say nothing is wrong.
"No, no nothing's wrong, I'm just here to tell Rose that Amy wants to see her." Vengeance raised an eyebrow at what he had just said.
"Oh, and to what purpose does Amy want to see Rose for?" he asked innocently.
"To be honest, I don't know why, I'm just passing on the message." He said as he shrugged his shoulders. Vengeance grunted and let Rose pass to meet Blackout, he just gawped at her. She was bleeding from head to toe, her clothes torn, but she was able to stand, well just barely. (I sense a little déjà vu)
"What happened?" he asked her, as he thought that Amy's message can wait a little bit longer. She took deep breaths before standing straight although she winced a little before getting there.
"Nothing happened, I'm fine, just a few minor injuries." She said as she inspected herself noticing that blood was dripping from her body to the floor. 'Only a few?!' he thought but kept his mouth shut since he knew that even though she was injured, that didn't mean that Rose couldn't attack. After having enough time of inspecting herself she switched her attention back to him.
"I heard from the arrogant moron that you were looking for me." Vengeance heard what Rose was referring to him and let out a low growl, Rose didn't turn around to face him but he knew that she would have a smirk on her face right about now. "Anyway, what does Amy want?"
"Oh umm, she wanted me to tell you that you should go to her chamber, apparently she needs you for something." He shrugged his shoulders once more; Rose nodded and walked to Amy's chamber, Blackout followed suit not noticing that Vengeance followed the pair as his interest seem to have spark from Amy's message. When they reached Amy's chamber, instead of knocking on the door to get Amy's attention, she just simply half yelled.
"Amy! This had better be good, open the door!!" Both Blackout and Vengeance had to cover their ears from Rose's sudden outburst. Immediately Amy half- opened the door, only her head could be seen as the rest of her body was hidden behind the door. Her hand reached out and pulled Rose inside her room with such force that surprised everyone, shutting the door as quickly as she could she locked it and turned to talk to Rose. However, Rose's appearance caught her off guard.
"Rose! Could you at least dress a little decent?" Rose raised an eyebrow, and noticed that Amy was probably worried about the blood on her clothes.
"Don't worry, it's only my blood." Rose said as she shrugged her shoulders, not phased by the fact that she was practically standing in her own blood. Amy could've died right then.
"That's worse!! Get in the shower right now and don't come out till you're clean!" she yelled while pushing Rose towards the bathroom. Rose rolled her eyes as she undressed and climbed into the shower, washing of her own blood from her body she could now see the damage that Vengeance had inflicted on her. She had minor wounds everywhere on her body, how could such little injuries manage to lose so much blood? Even though she had many wounds on her body she couldn't help but think that Vengeance had been going easy on her this time, she growled at that. Her usual frown plastered on her face as she came out of the shower, she saw that her clothes were arrange for her on Amy's bed, she figured that Amy probably got her clothes for her but then her frown deepened. She walked closer to the bed and found what the clothes that Amy had got her, there was a red, tight training suit with places that would reveal most of her body, she picked up a piece of cloth that seem to be a piece of clothing. A red thong? She snarled when Amy came out from her second bathroom (Lucky Amy right?).
"What is the meaning of this?" she said as she held up the red thong. Amy giggled, it seemed that her plan went smoothly, sure she sent Vengeance to get Rose's clothes and of course, he went and gave her something inappropriate. Just as she planned but of course she couldn't have done it without Blackout's help. Why would she do such a thing to Rose? Well remember when Amy had an idea to get Vengeance and Rose together? Let's say that she was going to put that plan to action.
"I don't understand, I simply asked Vengeance to get your clothes. I didn't know he would pull something like this." She said innocently, Rose's eye started to twitch. Vengeance had been in her room. Looking at her clothes. But that was impossible, she had a security code on her door that only she knew, she didn't even tell Amy what it was. Unless. He had been watching her! She clenched her fists by her side, the towel that was wrapped around her starting to slip but she couldn't care less. Clearly Amy's plan didn't turn out well due to the fact that Rose was angry beyond relief so she decided to change the subject. "So umm, the reason that I wanted you here was so that you could help me pick out what to wear at the party." She said nervously as she found herself looking at the floor. Rose inwardly groaned.
"You know that I'm not good with that kind of stuff, can't you get Starlight to help you?" she said already bored of the conversation at hand. Amy huffed at her tone.
"But you know that Starlight is still out on a mission with Dash for a while now, so you're the only girl that can help me."Amy continued to whine while Rose just simply sighed.
"Alright," she said as she admits defeat, "but you owe me one." Amy smiled as she heard that, finally she was able to spend time with Rose other than sparing with each other. Amy walked to her cupboard, open the doors and pulled out a beautiful light blue dress. Rose couldn't help but stare at it for a moment before coming back to reality. "Wow, is that what you're going to wear?" Amy nodded.
"I really want this to get a certain hedgehog's attention." Amy giggled at the thought of the look on his face when he sees her in this dress.
"Let me guess...hmm" she said pausing purposely as she knew who Amy wants to impress. "Blackout right?" Amy stood there shocked for a moment. "C'mon Amy, it was kind of obvious to us girls, although I don't know about the guys." Rose scratched her head when saying the last bit. "Well? Let's see what that dress looks like on you then." She said as she pushed her to the bathroom. While Amy was inside the bathroom, Rose raised her hand and faced it at the wall; she then mumbled some words, after a few seconds a black hole appeared on the wall, she immediately stepped in and appeared in her room, the red, tight training suit and red thong that she had brought from Amy's room was putted back in their rightful place, back in the drawers where they belong. She had to act fast; any minute now Amy would have finished dressing herself and would expect her to be there, well at least she would meet a decent Rose with decent clothes on. Once dressed she went through the black hole and appeared back in Amy's room, she looked around and found that Amy was still in the bathroom, she quickly closed the black hole as she waved her hand over it while muttering another few words, just then Amy walked through wearing the beautiful dress. To be honest words can't describe how beautiful Amy looked, she wore light make up which suited perfectly with the blue dress, she also wore a pearl necklace a simply jewellery which made the finishing touch for Amy's image. Rose circled Amy so that she could get a better look at her; she couldn't help but smirk at her appearance. "I don't think that you need training to knock him dead, I think that you're perfectly capable of doing that yourself." Amy giggled.
"Y-you don't think that this is a little much?" Rose shook her head; she sat down on Amy's bed and look at Amy once more.
"You look beautiful Amy; I doubt that he would be taking his eyes off you once he sees you at the party." Amy smiled at that comment.
"What are you going to wear?" she asked her. Rose then frowned, her eyes looking away from Amy's.
"I told you I'm not going." Amy's smile vanished from her face.
"Since I could remember, you never came to the parties that Angels 4 Hell held, why can't you come to this one?" she whined. Rose looked at her for a moment.
"I don't do dancing." She simply said as she turned over so that her back was now facing Amy.
"You don't have to dance, you can just-"
"Stand there like a total idiot." Rose snorted cutting Amy off from her sentence. Amy huffed at her attitude while Rose turned over so that her body faced Amy.
"I was about to say that you can talk to Vengeance in the mean time... And...Umm..." she stopped as Rose's eye started to twitch again.
"I would rather die than talk to him." She said to Amy, her voice dripping with venom. Amy swallowed hard.
"Well, at least stay for a while at the party." Amy replied, trying her best to reason with Rose or at least to come up with some sort of agreement.
"I'll only stay for 2 hours." She said calming down as she tried very hard not to take her anger out on Amy while trying to reason with her. Amy smiled at that remark, knowing that Rose wouldn't make another offer; she decided not to push her luck and make do with the 2 hours that Rose has offered for the party.
"Good, now that that's settled, we're going to find what you're going to wear. And-" she stopped mid sentence, which attracted Rose's attention. "Where did you get those clothes?" Amy asked, as she looked closely at what Rose was wearing, but Rose just simply grinned.
"Let's say that I just found them." She continued to grin as she push Amy back into the bathroom that she got changed in. "Now go get change, you don't want Blackout to see you like that before the party do you?" Amy looked at herself, realising that she was still wearing the dress she quickly hurried off to the bathroom and got changed. Rolling her eyes, Rose waited patiently until Amy finally got changed. Exiting Amy's chamber, they then went to Rose's chamber to see if they could find something that would suit Rose for the party, but on the way there was the corridor of the training facilities. Could the pair make their way to Rose's chamber without Blackout or Vengeance questioning them? Only one way to find out... The pair walked down the corridor, being careful not to make any noise that might attract attention to them, when they finally made it out of the corridor, they both instantly sprinted to Rose's chamber. Typing in the security code for the door to unlock, the pair burst into the room and quickly shut the door. Now that Amy was in Rose's room, she took a good look around knowing that she wouldn't be able to come back in the room for quite some time once she picked out something that Rose would wear for the party. To be honest she always thought that Rose's room would be a sort of dark colour, like her personality, but to her surprise, it was a calm blue with a violet coloured strip that ran all the way round the middle of the room. There were two cupboards opposite each other while she had a couple of a drawer next to each of them, and finally a double size bed in the middle of the room. She couldn't help but compare her room to Rose's, she had two bathrooms whereas Rose had a double size bed, and it seems that every chamber had an advantage somehow. Opening the doors of the two cupboards and sliding out the draws of the two drawers, Rose stood in the middle of the room in front of her bed waiting for Amy to pick out some useless combination of clothes for her to wear at the ridiculous party. "Well? Hurry up! You're wasting my training time." She taps her foot impatiently as Amy rushes to the cupboard throwing out clothes which landed on the bed that might be used with a combination with another item of clothing.
"Hey I found something!" a muffled voice inside the cupboard said as Amy pulled out a sparkling red dress, she glanced at it up and down. To be honest the dress would be perfect for Rose, it was a crimson satin strapless form-fitting gown with a slit up the left leg it also had a black rose with a red centre at the right corner of the dress. Rose's eye twitched once more. "Is there something wrong?" she asked her, worry in her voice as she spoke.
"That dress is forbidden." She said in a monotone voice.
"Forbidden? What do you-" she got no further.
"I refuse to wear that, it brings up many weaknesses." She said snatching the dress out of her hands and stuffing it back in the cupboard.
"But it's the only thing that is appropriate for the party." She looked at all the other pieces of clothing on the bed. "All of those are just useless for something like this." She stated simply. Rose growled.
"Fine! I'll wear the dress." Hearing that Amy smiled, now that that was settled, there was another matter.
"Now for make-up," Rose immediately reeled back. She hissed at Amy like a snake as she drew out her weapons, a shuriken in one hand and a throwing knife in the other. "This is going to take a while..." Amy muttered as she tried her best to reason with the pink hedgehog that was in front of her.
Meanwhile...
Vengeance and Blackout however were choosing this opportunity to get to know each other while Amy and Rose were doing god knows what.
"What do you think the girls are talking about?" Vengeance asked as he was bored as hell.
"I'm guessing that it has something to do with the party on Valentine's Day." He said shrugging his shoulders. "Basically girl stuff." At that moment Vengeance laughed slightly. "Something funny?" he asked, an eyebrow rose.
"It's nothing, it's just that Rose is a tomboy, she would never participate in anything girly." He said as he shook his head lightly.
"Whatever there talking about they don't want us with them." Vengeance nodded in agreement. He grinned as a question formed in his mind.
"Rose or Amy?" he asked simply as he placed his hands behind his head. Blackout was wide eyed with the question at hand. Obviously pleased with his expression, he chuckled. "Everyone in this organization watches the two single females; after all we guys still have needs." He looked at himself, thinking for a moment before continuing "So I ask you which one you like?" Blackout felt uneasiness; surely he couldn't tell Vengeance that he has a thing for Amy, could he? As if he was reading his mind Vengeance said "Don't worry, we're both guys and I won't breathe a word, you can trust me." He said smiling briefly before his forever frown was on his face.
"Well, in that case I choose Amy." For some reason Vengeance smirked at that which caused Blackout to become curious.
"Who would you choose?" he asked with much curiosity. Vengeance frowned at that. "Let me guess, Rose right?" As if the impossible had happened, Vengeance frown deepened.
"Impossible, I'll never fall for that female." He snapped at him although his tone wasn't convincing. Now it was Blackout's turn to chuckle.
"I may not be like you but I know that you like Rose, it's kind of obvious, and the fact that you love to torture and torment Rose means that she means something to you." Vengeance looked away regretting the fact that he was the one who brought this part of the conversation up. Satisfied with his reaction Blackout couldn't help but grin.
"The female is only my training partner nothing else plus she is fun to annoy." He said trying to regain his composure. "So what's so special about Amy then?" Blackout thought for a moment. What should he tell him?
"She's beautiful. No more needed to be said." Vengeance grinned at that remark.
"C'mon there's more to that, give me details Blackout. Tell me what she means to you." he said trying to persuade Blackout to tell him how he truly feels about Amy. Basically because he wanted Blackout's attention away from him, but also to get to know him better, after all if Amy and Rose were going to do some girly stuff or something then it's best if they at least get along with each other right?
"Umm, since when did you want to know what she means to me?" he asked, suddenly strange by Vengeance's curiosity. He shrugged.
"Hey I'm trying to get along with you here, if you don't want to co-operate then fine." He shrugged once again signalling that he didn't really care much if they didn't get along at all. Blackout sighed for a moment, he didn't mean to be less friendly towards Vengeance it's just that he doesn't completely trust him yet.
"Sorry," there was an awkward silence before he realised something. "Hold on, how many girls are in this organization?" he asked all of a sudden. Vengeance raised an eyebrow to his question.
"Erm, only 3 however Starlight has a boyfriend, why do you ask?" Ignoring his question Blackout continued to ask him.
"Is everyone coming to the party?" Vengeance only nodded but then said.
"Well everyone except Rose." Blackout thought for a moment.
"That would mean that everyone would try and flirt with Amy!!" he concluded. Sudden anger was starting too built up inside of him. He was startled by this amount of anger that was continuing to grow inside of him, was he jealous? Never. He was never jealous, he wasn't capable of such an emotion, or was he? True he was never jealous before but was it because that Amy wasn't the purpose that he was jealous for? He frowned for a moment, so this is what jealousy feels like. Whatever happens he must keep all the guys away from Amy at the party if he wants to have a chance with her. But that was easier said than done. Vengeance was about to say something but then the training door opened and there was Rose and Amy. Immediately the two males stood up trying their best not to let anything slip that might give away the fact that they were talking about the two females.
"You guys seem a little jumpy." Rose said, naturally alert as always but then again they didn't expect anything less.
"What do you expect after we have been training?" he replied coolly as always. Blackout seemed relieved that Vengeance managed to come up with a comeback of some sort. Amy seemed to glow since she came into the room which made Blackout think why, but of course the answer will soon come, it always does.
Ah ha so another chapter done. I'm appalled with the amount of reviews I had gotten from the last chapter. Remember people, reviews motivation to continue with this story. Unless I get more reviews I'm either just not going to update this or perhaps going to delete this story, now you don't want that do you?