"S-STOP! Scourge please! Stop! I don't wanna do this anymore, please!" I pleaded out as I crawled backwards towards the edge of a huge cliff. I had seen this scene several times in movies, wondering why the girl would go to the cliff's edge of all places. Well as it turns out, you just run where ever cause your main focus is on your attacker.
"No way, sweetheart. I'm having fun." He laughed snapping a twig underneath his feet as he began to get closer and closer, the hair on my arms standing on edge as I literally sat on the edge.
"Please! I don't wanna play, Scourge! Please!" I begged as my hands reached the edge of the cliff, he shook his head azure eyes glinting with malice. He stopped looking down at me with a sneer, my heart began to race as he dropped down to my level, his nose just inches from mine.
"Give me a kiss, babe and I'll call it quits." He said lowly as I flinched turning away from him. A kiss? He was putting my life at stake for a kiss?
"N-No, Scourge I don't-"
"Wrong answer." He breathed leaning even closer to me. "Tag. You lose." His hand suddenly thrust against my shoulder as he shoved me off the edge with a laugh
A few hours earlier
"A g-game? What kind of game?" I asked not liking the glint in Scourge's eyes as he just shook his head at me then looked towards the desolate forest before us.
"Oh, you know. Just a little game of tag-"
"You know very well, Scourge, that she can't outrun you! Don't be ridiculous!" Miles snapped walking up to us as he bravely stood beside me, and honestly I was so thankful.. Scourge just huffed with a wicked smirk getting closer and closer to us.
"Aw come on, babe. Lets give it a try, I'll even give you a five minute head start. Anyone else wanna join?" Scourge chuckled wrapping his arm around me, I flinched trying to hide the grimace but felt bad turning him down.
"W-Well, I guess I could give it a shot, I mean what's the worse that could happen?" I asked with a shrug of my shoulders pulling away from Scourge as he sent me a wicked smile as I began to regret what I had just said.
"Nice choice, baby. Your time starts now." Scourge said shoving me forward towards the forest, I looked back at him for a moment then to Miles and Patches, wondering why I was the only one participating. Leaving me with a sick feeling that I made the worst possible choice of my life. I jogged away from the scene barely able to catch the annoyed and slightly worried voices of Miles and Patches, while I just ran into the deepest part of the forest I could find, hopefully I can find some place where Scourge will never find me and hide out there before making it back to home base, which I guessed was back with Miles and Patches. It was easy to see that sunset was coming much faster than I thought meaning it would get very dark, very fast and I really didn't want to get stuck in a strange forest in the dark with a pervy hedgehog after me.
"Okay, okay. Calm down. You came from that direction, so just wander a bit and try to make it back to base. S-simple as that!" I told myself taking a right and trying not to panic, when a single flash of a memory came back to me.
Whenever I feel afraid
I hold my head erect
And whistle a happy tune,
So no one will suspect I'm afraid
At first it came out as a low whistle then humming, only I didn't feel any better. Maybe, if I just say a few of the words I'll feel better. I thought to myself as I began to whisper out the lyrics.
While shivering in my shoes
I strike a careless pose
And whistle a happy tune
And no one ever knows I'm afraid.
A calm began to settle in me as my voice cautiously began to get louder and louder, my fear slowly dissipating.
The result of this deception
Is very strange to tell
For when I fool the people
I fear I fool myself as well!
I whistle a happy tune
And ev'ry single time
The happiness in the tune
Convinces me that I'm not afraid.
I sang out loudly feeling as though I could conquer the world, and wondering why I was so scared before. It was Scourge, for Pete's sake! He's dumber than a toaster! I can do this! I told myself as I skipped along to the beat of the song, glad that my fear was gone
Make believe you're brave
And the trick will take you far.
You may be as brave
As you make believe you are
You may be as brave
As you make believe you are
I sang out with a spin throwing my hands in the air and striking a pose, then stopped doubling over as I laughed at myself. Why on Earth was I being such a chicken?
"You know, sweet cheeks, you just made this game a lot easier for me?" I froze as all the happiness ran out the door screaming out 'Hasta la livsta, leaving me trembling once again. Great. I could hear Scourge, but I couldn't see him. He was teasing me. That had to be it. He was dragging this out like some sick game of cat and mouse and unfortunately for me, I was the mouse.
" I didn't think you'd be this much fun to play with, I think I'm going to keep you here for a long time." He laughed as I shrank back wondering where exactly he was and where my courage went. Just whistle a happy tune… He already knew where I was what was it going to kill me to sing, I had already lost.
Well ya, ya like to bring me down, don't you?
But I ain't laying down, baby, I ain't goin' down
Can't nobody tell me how it's gonna be
Nobody's gonna make a fool out of me
Baby, you should know that I lead not follow
I shakily sang out as I kept walking towards what I hoped was the edge of the forest, my nerves standing on edge as strained my ears to hear the tell-tale sounds that Scourge was following me, but nothing.
So what you've got the world at your feet
And you know everything about everything
But you don't
You still think I'm coming back but baby you'll see yeah...
It was the end of the forest…but it was at the edge of a cliff, I sighed shaking my head. Got away from Scourge, but wound up on the wrong side of the forest! With groan I turned around to head back into the forest or at least see if there was a new way to get away when a huge gust of wind rushed past me with a cruel laugh. I couldn't help the shriek as it zoomed past me again and again coming at me from all sides. Stumbling back I landed on my bottom as the gust of wind stopped landing in front of me with a wicked grin.
"Nice trick babe. Good to see you're learning to use your powers." Scourge snickered as I stared at him confused then shook my head.
"Powers? I didn't use any powers-"
"Yeah, ya did baby. You control your powers with your lyrics, nice. Although its not going to help you anymore. Game over." He said as I crawled backwards from him as a sinking feeling sat in my stomach.
"I wonder if Fini would get really upset if you just disappeared. To be honest, and that's a miracle in itself, I like you. And I don't like sharing. Always had that problem and always will." He smirked while I swallowed back a yelp as he advanced on me " I could just snatch you up and vanish off the face of this damn planet."
"S-Scourge. I -I think you're t-taking this game too seriously…S-Scourge?" I stammered out crawling backwards as he just continued taking his sweet time in walking towards me, every slow step eating at me, since I knew how fast he could lunge at me.
"S-STOP! Scourge, please! Stop! I don't wanna do this anymore, please!" I pleaded out as I crawled backwards towards the edge of a huge cliff. I had seen this scene several times in movies, wondering why the girl would go to the cliff's edge of all places. Well as it turns out, you just run where ever cause your main focus is on your attacker.
"No way, sweetheart. I'm having fun." He laughed snapping a twig underneath his feet as he began to get closer and closer, the hair on my arms standing on edge as I literally sat on the edge.
"Please! I don't wanna play, Scourge! Please!" I begged as my hands reached the edge of the cliff, he shook his head azure eyes glinting with malice. He stopped looking down at me with a sneer, my heart began to race as he dropped down to my level, his nose just inches from mine.
"Give me a kiss, babe and I'll call it quits." He said lowly as I flinched turning away from him. A kiss? He was putting my life at stake for a kiss?
"N-No, Scourge I don't-"
"Wrong answer." He breathed leaning even closer to me. "Tag. You lose." His hand suddenly thrust against my shoulder as he shoved me off the edge with a laugh, I screamed at the top of my lungs as I felt the air rushing past me and the sound of more people's shouting. Then it stopped. I had my eyes clenched shut afraid to find myself hovering over my dead body, but I could still hear voices and feel a cool wind hitting me. Forcing my eyes open I nearly fainted from what I saw. I was floating, or more like standing in mid air, like there was an invisible floor beneath me. Odd. I looked up to see Miles leaning over the edge gaping at me, I stared at him as my shaky breaths began to slow down. Instantly before I lost anymore courage or feet for that matter, I dashed over to the edge of the cliff hanging onto one of the ledges, while looking up to Miles, Patches and from that black and brown spec, I figured was Fiona, probably hearing my scream and actually wanted to see me die. How lovely.
"S-Somebody! H-Help me, please!" I called out hoarsely, my throat hurting from how loudly I had screamed and for some odd reason feeling extremely exhausted all of a sudden, like I had been hit by an eighteen wheeler and all I really wanted to do was sleep.
"G-Guys…I don't feel…so…well…" I said sleepily pleading for the other to hurry up and get me off the ledge, then my knees began to shake and it was so hard not to close my eyes. Maybe just for a minute…just close my eyes…
"Celine!" Miles shouted as I felt the overwhelming sleep take over before falling off the cliff once again and this time the supposed invisible floor was gone and it was a six foot drop to the ground. Sweet dreams to me…
Yes, I am alive! Okay, I KNOW this is long overdue and I've just...well I just...*sigh* Yeah I've been putting off my work, its only thanks to DojangDoll that I even considered updating this.
I've been so consumed by this new FFVII Crisis Core fanfic (On Deviant Art) that I've completely forgotten about Sonic and to be honest, I'm kinda outgrowing the blue blur. So just as a heads up, there will be no more, NEW fanfics for the Sonic Universe and I'm only finishing what I've got left because I know what its like for an author to completely drop a story because of other intrests or because they just don't feel like finishing it and I really don't want to do that to my readers. So thank you very much for the great reviews, please keep them up and ~God Bless!~
~This is a spin off of DojangDoll's fantabulous story 'Chaos Theory' once again, thanks for letting me do this! *hug*~
Songs used:
Whistle a happy tune (King and I)
Mr. Know-it-all (By Kelly Clarkson)
I own nothing! Not Sonic and Co and none of the songs, I earn no pay for this, no matter how much I'd like to.