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Chapter 9: A Dreadful Past

Amy dragged Sonic down a grassy area. The grass smoothly and lightly blew with the wind. It was midnight dark and Sonic's body made a line on the grass where she dragged him. Amy had to walk out of the graveyard and back around to the other side which looked like a Grassy fairy wonderland. The place was full of trees that were separated from each other. There was more smooth grass than trees or any other plants. Rocks or boulders were around too.

Amy stopped to take a breath. She had blood around her face and a bruise on her shoulder. It wasn't big so it couldn't be noticed as much but it was painful. She looked at Sonic who was passed out and heavily bleeding from his right side shoulder. His shoulder had somehow opened up and turned into a dark purple color. If she couldn't get help he'd soon die.

Amy then lifted him up by wrapping her arms under his underarms and pulling him up. She walked again backwards pulling him with all her strength or what was left of it. She was hurt and tired but it was more important to get to safety first.

A small little beige rabbit was eyeing Amy from behind a rock. She blinked twice when she saw blood on both of their bodies. She quickly got up from the rock taking a better look at them. A small blue creature with yellow circle in his head and purple wings soon popped up from the rock and up next to her side.

"There're hurt." She said with worried filling her words. She turned to the blue creature and covered her cheeks. "Blue, warn the others." She told him. The creature's eyes widened and he flew up into the air. It sound let out a loud squeal and made Amy flinch.

Rocks around her began shaking and trees moving. Amy yelped looking around everywhere.

"Guys, she needs help," announced the little girl rabbit.

The trees got their roots out and walked over to her along with the rocks. The plants began moving and little blue creatures came out from the bushes or high trees. Amy saw them all coming down to her.

"No, please, don't hurt us," pleaded Amy closing her eyes and holding Sonic tightly. She dropped down on the grass.

The little girl went up to her with the blue creature that had made the loud sound. Amy saw the small bunny approached but she only saw blur. She couldn't see her too clearly so she couldn't trust her. Not after what just happened.

"Relax. We only came to help." She calmly explained.

"No, No," Amy whimpered.

The girl bended down to her level and smiled warmly. "Can we please? Your friend's injured." She pointed out.

Amy felt her hand go in hers. The little girl was small. She had a cute innocent voice and her actions and words of kindness made her feel that she was one of the good guys, with the fact that she had made a good point. She nodded slowly and that's when the bunny turned to her friends. "Ok guys get her friend. Banni, Rabbi, awake Skye." She ordered her small blue creatures.

The trees moved closer to the injured. The trees grabbed Sonic from one end to the other and lifted him up to their branches for hands. The huge smooth gray rocks with their legs moved to Amy's side. "Let me help you." The little girl said pulling her to her feet. She helped her on top of the rock for her to sit down.

"Ok let's move out!" she commanded.

They led her down a hidden underground and inside it there was a huge house-like place. There were kids waiting for them to come in a fox, a plant like girl, a bee, a yellow squirrel and a raccoon. They all looked worried and scared.

"Guys we have someone to attend too. Skye?" the girl explained then turn to the orange fox. The fox went up to Amy and looked at her closely. Amy only saw blur and was now hearing echoes. She saw as the other kids helped one of the trees go in with Sonic in their branch hands. He's bleeding had increased and she saw blood everywhere.

"Oh no," he said. "What? What's going on?" questioned the bunny. The fox leaned in and touched her shoulder. With that Amy closed her eyes and all went numb.

Later that night, Amy began waking up. She blinked a few times before finding herself surrounded by small little children.

"She's awake." said a calm voice.

Amy groan getting up from which was a mattress. She held her head in her hand. "What-what happened?" Amy muttered. The blur went away and saw little kids. She froze. The girls had pink outfits of shirts and a red shirt and the boys had blue shirts with shorts. They all were smiling sweetly at her, some more than others.

"Where am I? Who are you?" Amy asked. The little kids looked at each other then back at her.

"We're the Fiddles," said the bunny with the huge red lily in her head. Amy raised her eye brows and blinked rapidly. The rabbit smiled at her.

"The Fiddles," Amy distantly repeated.

"Yes, Welcome to our wonderful place of Grassland Garden. I'm Bloom, the leader of this pack." She said sweetly.

An Orange fox that strangely had two tails behind him bend down on one knee and rubbed his chin. He carful looked at her and she nervously looked at him.

"Oh, that's-"

"I am impressed you're still alive." He suddenly said cutting her off.

"Skye," she finished sweating a drop.

A raccoon then came in front of her pushing Skye away to the side. "Wha-"

"You got in some pretty messy stuff ey here mate," She said grinning happily. Amy felt herself cough up a smile. "Nice to meet ya," She extended her arm and offering her hand. Amy gladly took it and she pulled her up. "I'm Radley," she added.

Amy raised her brow. "Isn't that a guy's na-"

"YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH MY NAME!" she began angrily but Amy shook her head and her hands. "No I don't. It's a lovely name." she quickly told her.

A green plant and bumble bee came besides her and the plant girl placed her hand on her shoulder. "Please, you're scaring our guest." She said in a calm soft voice. She turned away from Radley and to Amy. "Hello, I'm Sprinkle." She said. She then turned to the bumble bee next to her and said, "And this would be my cousin, Drizzle"

Amy smiled politely and waved her hand lighting and softly. Amy then noticed a small yellow squirrel in the same position he was in before. He was looking down at the ground and had his hands crossed behind his back.

"Who's he?" she asked.

Everyone turned.

"Oh, that's Liam," Bloom told her in a low voice.

Amy narrowed both her brows slightly in confusion. "Why is he so lonely?" she asked.

"Liam is death and mute. He…we can't do much about him." She explained. Amy suddenly felt bad for him.

"What's your name?" Skye asked with his hands crossed and a serious posture.

"I'm Amy Rose," she said. Bloom smiled and lifted her hand up. "It's nice to meet ya Amy," she said happily but Amy didn't grab it.

"I want to see my friend please." She said in a worry tone. The boys and girls only looked at each other with unsure looks.

.:XxX:.

Amy was taken up some stairs down a small room in the corner. Bloom and Blue stopped in front of the door. She turned to Amy and opened the door for her. Amy slowly stared at her and she entered with a slow pace. She saw the blue hedgehog lying on a bed with the covers up and a cloth on the right side of his shoulder. She gasped and quickly headed to his side.

"Oh no…is he…" She began asking but Bloom smiled and walked to her side.

"He's fine. He only lost some blood and was poison but my tree friends helped with that." She explained with a warm smile on her lips.

Amy let the air she was holding out and held her chest in relief. "Thank Lord Chaos," she said breathless.

Blue chirped and went up to Amy. She turned to him and the small creature held a yellow round fruit. She squinted her eyes halfway. The fruit looked awfully familiar and she couldn't help but be bothered by the resemblance of a certain blue one.

"It's not poison is it?" she dared ask. Bloom raised her eye brows. "No, this here is a healing fruit, very rare to find. Make your friend eat it and he'll regain his energy back." She told him. Amy grabbed the fruit and looked at it. Unlike the other blue fruit this one had dots on it, a darker yellow color than its original color.

"Thank you," Amy said politely.

A small bumble bee flew in through the door and in the room. "Bloom," he called out. Bloom, Blue and Amy all turned around. "We need you down stairs with dinner." He said.

Bloom nodded and turned to Amy. "You can stay here as long as you want." She said with a happy grin and ran out to the doorway with the bee and the Blue. "We'll call you when dinners ready!" she called out turning out of the room. "Chao!"

Amy was left there with a stunned stiff position. She looked down at the fruit and sucked in her lips. She turned and stared at a sleeping Sonic. She walked to the bedside and stood there in front of Sonic. She placed the fruit on a small stool next to the bed and she sat on the bed next to Sonic.

He looked exhausted even in sleep. She didn't like the way he looked. Guilt filling her chest at seeing his shoulder all...

"I'm so sorry Sonic," She sobbed. "I didn't mean for this to happen." She grabbed his hand and squished it against hers tightly.

.:XxX:.

The room was filled with the fresh sent of herbs and rice. Sprinkle was busy mixing something in the pot and was being helped by Drizzle. Radley was helping Skye fix the table and Bloom walked Amy to a table. "I'm glad you made it. We're serving some soup, rice and carrots." Bloom explained. Amy smiled at her as she sat on a chair.

"Thank you all for inviting me to eat." She said.

Skye placed a plate of fresh rice and carrots with a bowl of soup in front of Amy. "Thank you," Amy softly said but Skye didn't look very pleased. She so dropped the smile and looked down.

"Here you go. Something to drink," Radley said placing a drink next to her plate. Amy smiled at the raccoon. "Thank you,"

Amy saw the small Squirrel looking at her from a corner with that same exact frown from earlier.

Sprinkle can by placing another plate with different type of food in it. Some rapped leaf around some kind of red liquid and green squared thingy, rice and scattered black and white food.

"Give this to your Boyfriend when he wakes up." He said. Amy looked down at it. "Thank you," she said in a low voice. Drizzle then placed a large water drop on the plate of Sonic's and hers. "Dessert, everyone likes desserts." He said happily.

Amy looked up at all the kids who stared at her while she sat down.

"Is there anything else you need?" asked Bloom.

Amy looked at her. "I'm fine thank you, but the real question is…Do you need something?" She got up from the chair.

The kids stood there quiet looking at on another. Amy waited for an answer but she never got one. She didn't understand why they couldn't answer a simple question.

"Well," Amy said still wanting a response.

"You see, what we want can't seem to be done." Skye finally said his hands crossed and eyes closed.

"What do you mean?" She asked her eyes narrowing in confusion.

Bloom sighed and sat on another chair. "We were once a colony, a village with many other Fiddles. We lived happy in our land but then came Yubala, an evil witch." Bloom explained in a soft voice.

"She destroyed our land and turned our families to dark shadows who listened to every commanded she ordered." Skye added on. He reopened his eyes and dropped his hands. "That's how I got this mark." Skye turned around and in his back was a dark furry part that wasn't part of his regular orange skin. Amy looked at it in shock.

"We were the only ones who survived." He said then turned to Liam. "He lost his voice and hearing that day and he was only three."

"And now were here, Hoping that one day the Real legendary hero will be picked by Yubala and live to defeat her and save our land and bring the queen back." said Bloom.

Amy could only listen in shock.

"There have been heroes that come now and then but then we never here of them again. They die. Fail. We offer them our things and they end up lying to us. We warn them but they never listen to reason" Skye angrily said.

Amy narrowed her eyes. She clenched her fist and shook her head. "Can I see your hand please?" Amy said.

Bloom looked unsure about this and looked at the rest. They all looked questionable too.

"Don't worry. I won't hurt you. I just want to help." She reassured.

Bloom gave her uneven smiled and cautiously lend her hand to her. Amy grabbed her hand and softly folded her hand so she could carefully touch her palm with her fingers.

Amy closed her eyes and waited for a sign. She waited for something…anything, but there was nothing.

She let go of her hand shamefully.

"I'm sor-ah!"

Amy's vision went white and suddenly to a green color grass, skies gray and small houses being burned down by fire and families running away from danger.

"Mom!"

"Mom!"

She ran down the crowd of panicking animals. She tried to reach her mom but she was way up ahead. The small bunny fell to the ground being pushed by someone older. She looked up and saw a lady who was covered in pure darkness. It was on a dark gray cloud looking down at her. Bloom gasped and as the figure in the sky whipped her hand more destruction was made. "Mommy!"

Amy came back to the reality. She blinked twice and took a deep breath and let it out.

"You saw it, huh?"

Amy looked away to her side not wanting to saying much but, "I know what it's like to lose someone, but I don't know what it's like to lose it all." She softly said.

Those words made each one of their hearts sink. It hurt them knowing that maybe she wouldn't help them, cause everyone always gave them pity.

"But just because I haven't ben through this experience doesn't mean I can't help you."

Everyone looked at her with a smile forming in their lips. She held a confident grin and stood up high looking at them all.

"Sonic and I will make it to Polkka, get the staff and save Gemnissent and THAT'S a promise." Amy claimed. Everyone's expression was relief, joy and excitement. Never had theses fiddles been so happy and thankful for in their entire lives.

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