Chapter Fifteen: Light and Dark

Sonic's body lay on the ground, no longer yellow, or even blue, more blackened and charred. Blaze was kneeling down beside him, shaking the body as tears ran down her cheeks with Silver comforting her, Shadow was stood a few metres away, looking down his nose at the hedgehog. Marine was being held by Tails, who was looking away from Sonic and up to Celestia and Mephiles, who were once again locked in combat.

Thunder-like sounds burst from the scene of the fight as the two blocked each other's moves and aimed their own at lightning speed. Tails watched in awe as somehow, Celestia managed to flip behind Mephiles before spinning him by the legs and kicking him into the distance. He then flew quickly towards the others but didn't have time to see Sonic thanks to Tails grabbing him by his collar. (it is a collar on a cloak isn't it? That bit near the neck)

"Why didn't you help Sonic!?" Celestia pushed Tails back, glancing at Sonic's body and turning back.

"He needed to be out of the picture. For now." He ignored Tails' following rantings and pushed the others to the side. He knelt next to Sonic and placed his palm on his chest, he breathed deeply for a few seconds and stood back up. "He'll be fine in about an hour."

"So what now?" This was Silver, who had just sent Marine to take his place in patting Blaze's back.

Celestia pulled his cloak back over himself so that only his head was visible, and took a somewhat cliche heroic pose. He looked up to Mephiles, who was flying towards them with speed. "Darkness can never be destroyed, neither can the light. It must be neutralised." he took his cloak off and threw it over Sonic before flying towards Mephiles.

Both Celestia and Mephiles roared as they collided. Tails, Silver, Marine and Shadow all flinched, however there was no sound. Just a white flash of light, it stayed for a few seconds, robbing them of almost all of their senses as it had done during their entrance to subspace.

Tails held his head as he stood up, he saw the others doing pretty much the same, apart from Sonic, who was still unconscious. Silver was the first to speak.

"Are any of you getting a feeling of de ja vu?" he said.

Tails ignored him, squinting as his eyes adjusted to the light. They were back at his workshop, the only sound came from a bird that was happily singing in a nearby tree.

"Ugh... ow." Sonic began to sit up, his vision was blurred, but he managed to make out the others, who had quickly twisted around to look at him. He felt a stab of pain in his back which was quickly replaced by warmth as two arms wrapped around him. Sonic weakly smiled as he recognised it to be Blaze. "Blaze... Blaze." He whispered feebly in spite of himself. He felt her arms tighten around him, she kissed him. The kiss was soft, and cut short by Sonic, who went into a coughing fit, falling out of consciousness.

"Sonic. Oh my poor, poor Sonic." Blaze whispered, to quietly for the others to hear of course. She was forced to let go of him as Tails and Silver carried him into the workshop.

"Come 'ere mate, he'll be alroight." Marine said as she patted her on the back.

Blaze cleared her throat and stood up. "I know. You go inside, dear."

As she walked in, Marine was muttering something along the lines of "Call me dear... I'll show you dear..." Blaze raised an eyebrow as she watched the raccoon, then turned.

Shadow was gone.

Marine walked into the house to find Tails stood in the front room waiting for her. "Marine, can we..."

Her common sense was over ridden by her stubbornness, she pushed past the fox. "Shove it."

"But Marine!" Tails pleaded, he grabbed her arm.

The only thing that Marine could picture was Tails snogging that rabbit girl, how could he do that!? Did he really do that? Marine assumed so, the image being so vivid in her mind. She lashed around, tearing her arm from Tails' grip, she looked so angry that he actually flinched. His heart sank as she stormed upstairs.

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"How is he?" Blaze jumped up as she heard Silver's voice from the door, she was sat on a stool next to Sonic's bed and had almost fallen asleep, it had been about two hours since Sonic fell out of consciousness, and he was still asleep.

"He's still not woken up." She said this almost as a whisper. Silver nodded and looked at Sonic, then back to Blaze before leaving. Blaze's attention went back to Sonic, she placed a hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. His chest moved up and down slowly, she sighed and put rested her head on him.

"Hey, babe." Sonic whispered weakly, coughing quietly afterwards.

"Sonic..." She whispered back, and moved in for a kiss. He stopped her.

"What about Shadow?"

"I think we're finished." She smiled slightly.

"So you love me now?"

"Well. You're no Shadow." She said casually, Sonic frowned, but she continued as she moved closer, "Then again, he's no Sonic." She kissed him, he let her this time.

"Whoa, whoa easy." He said, muffled through her lips, she smiled, and kissed him a little more softly.

"Well at least it's working out for some people." Sonic assumed that the voice was Tails' and finished the kiss, the two then turned to him, the fox was leaning against the door frame with a small grin. This seemed to convince Blaze, but Sonic less so.

Blaze gave Tails a weak smile and left, letting Tails take her place next to Sonic. "Hey buddy-oh..." he looked at the white cloak in Tails' hand. "Celestia?"

Tails shook his head, in a way that the hedgehog thought was similar to what he did after Shadow 'died', back when he liked him, of course. Sonic somehow knew Celestia wouldn't make it, but no doubt he went out with bold heroism. Sonic smiled, watching Tails hang the cloak on the bottom of the bed.

"How're you doing?" Tails said as he sat down.

"Been better." Sonic did his ever-famous grin as he attempted to sit up, after he failed miserably, Tails found some more pillows to support him. "What about you bro?"

Tails shrugged, "Been better. Y'know with Marine..."

"So, what are you gonna do? It'll probably help to tell someone."

Tails hesitated, then slouched, leaning on his elbow. "I dunno. I mean I don't even know why I bother with her. There's Cream, I think she likes me, and she's so much more..."

"Docile?" Sonic said, raising his eyebrow.

"I was gonna say perfect..." Tails looked at the floor confused and annoyed with his own emotions. Sonic merely made a 'hmm' sound. His initial response would have been: "Yup, you're screwed." But he somehow doubted that would help the young fox.

Give me your opinions on this, folks, criticisms are as good as complements. Ooh, and there's a new and improved picture of Celestia the Light for my avatar, so take a look at that. I'll be doing requests for peoples avatars, so if you want me to draw you one, just PM me, I've done Bureizu za Vampire's avatar already, and she seemed pretty pleased with it. That's all 'til the next update! Oh and by the way, I couldn't think of a better chapter title, if you were wondering.