I've been running blind on the plot, and it is not pretty :( Tho' what can I do? That's what I like about running without knowing where too. You get to make it up as you go. }:) Give me what you've got imagination!

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Chapter 15: Seeing What She Can't

The day was fresh; the sun bright, a few clouds in the sky, beautiful and outside the whole world could not stop staring at them. Sonic ignored them quite fine; it was Amy who couldn't stop shaking off the nervousness. Time around this village seemed to go slower than time over at earth. Everything wasn't like the city, fast cars, smoking factories, City noises really.

"Will you stop," Sonic whispered harshly.

"Stop what?" She questioned not really putting much thought to it. She was looking around the village houses where the mobians stared right at them from the windows or doorsteps. Some were walking the dirt path with groceries in baskets made out of straws or they just carried them in hand.

"Looking at them, you're acting paranoid." He carefully said to her so she could take in the words, but she was busy looking around she didn't really hear him. The houses around her were made out of bricks, come out of plain desert sand. Others stood by wood or sticks. 'Just like the three Piggies.' She thought herself.

"Amy," Sonic called her out of her trance and she looked at him. He had a hopeless stare and shook his head in disappointment.

"What? What I miss?" She asked, blinking.

He stopped and in front of her. "Go back to the house. You can't be outside if you're going to act real traumatized about it." He ordered her.

Amy's pondering stopped and she got topic. "No. I want to stay with you," She begged. Apparently that sounded weird because everyone, including Sonic, looked freaked out. Amy flushed a slow, dark red. "Sorry that came out wrong," She cleared her throat restarting. "I-I-I meant to say if—" She was going to finish her sentence when Sonic rolled his eyes and turned. "Hey!"

"Go back. It's better if you do," He said barely looking at her as he walked off leaving her in the same place as before. Amy frowned but when she looked around seeing the mobians stare at her she couldn't do anything else but run.

.:XxX:.

She walked back into the cold dark house, closing the doors behind her. She shuttered feeling all those faces at her. She never liked acting class when she was in middle school. It gave her stage fright. This gave her nervous shivers all over. She walked forward shoving all the thoughts off her mind and came across a table. Not just any table. The Table had strange stripes and swirls of circles blue, purple and black. The stars on top of the table cloth were a golden yellow that gave out the light in the whole room. She stopped in front of the table and looked down at a crystal ball that was on top of a glass holder, which had curled standers on each of its four sides.

"Creepy," She muttered nervously, her ears folding down.

Something small then caught her attention. It was stacked in a pile all colored blue cards. The designs for the faced down cards were plain blue with only one white line what went all around its rectangular figure.

The card beginning faced down aroused her curiosity. She grabbed the card and pulled it upwards. She looked around but nothing happened. All stood still. Finding it ok she finally looked at the card. The card showed a figure of a skeleton's face and a 'X' mark on his forehead. Around it swirled lines of blood drips and black ink lines. She carefully stared at it her face closing in.

The black ink marks suddenly sparked bright lighting off the card, as if it were 3D. Amy yelped and dropped the card. The blood around it fell off the card magically and on to the carpet. Amy shook her head. 'This isn't real. This isn't real,' she kept telling herself.

She felt a bit of water in her finger and lifted it up. A red like ink lay around on her finger. Her eyes widened and she screamed.

Sonic had made his way over to the outskirts of town. The large plain field in which he had seen earlier. The grass that was green and healthy gave Sonic something to breathe about. It was perfect out here. Around him other mobians were training big strong dogs with muscles those girls could cling on too, Tigers whom fought as fearsome as Lions, a whale that was like a robot's size back on earth. Many more animals who were training out here used equipment like bows and swords, fighting.

Sonic looked at them with amusement. "Cool," He gasped.

"Yo," A deep voice yelled.

Sonic turned questionably and soon was eye to eye with a large Dog, a bull dog with strong thick muscles and 4 inches taller than him. Sonic backed away finding it uncomfortable to be face to face with a stranger like that.

"Uhh, yes?" Sonic replied nervous to see the dog suddenly grin.

"So, you're ready to fight? Huh, you're a bit puny too." He observed him up and down, studying him like an open book, each page.

"Uhh," Sonic didn't know what to say. He was standing in front of what seemed a heavy medal wrestler to him. "I'm good," He said coolly his eyebrows lowering in confusion.

"No!" The dog shouted making Sonic flinch. "You are going to fight me!" He demanded. Sonic looked utterly dumbfolded. Wasn't he questioning about fighting him. Without wasting any more time the threw a punch out but Sonic dodged it by quickly sensing he should go to the side.

"Whoa, Dude. I said I didn't want to fight," Sonic repeated, his voice raising a calm dangerous tone.

"Too bad is it," throwing another punch out at him, only hitting the ground.

.:XxX:.

Amy ran fast through the village to reach trying to find where Sonic had gone. She knew he kept headed straight but where could he had gone off to?

"I heard the legendary hero picking up a fight with the toughest fighter in town." She heard a gossip as she passed a small bakery full of ladies. Panic set on her chest and her throat went dry. Typical Sonic, getting into fights. She continued to run without stop on her search to find Sonic.

Not far she began hearing yells and stopped. She turned and gasped for air. Some men and ladies ran out of their houses and down to a large field in the outskirts of town. They ran passed Amy and down below was a hill. There were many hills in the plains but to a limit of four large hills. Belleinds was on a hill itself. Part of its town.

She could see a blue hedgehog from above and gasped in terror her hands going to her face in shock. "Sonic's fighting a sumo wrestler!" She cried out.

Down below a crowd was forming a circle. In the middle the dog and Sonic walking in circles waiting for the next move. Sonic set his hands in a fighting position and jumped into a spin dash ball. He threw himself towards the dog, but the dog blocked his move by putting both his hands in front of him. The dash spin damaged his hands a bit but the dog, with all force, pushed Sonic away sending him flying. Sonic's spinning faded and he was out of the ball, flying mid-air glaring out at the dog. He landed on his feet.

"Not bad," Complimented the dog then run towards him. "But not good enough!" The dog released a blue lightning bolt making contact with Sonic. Sonic cried out in pain then fell on the floor. He bend over holding his mid-section and gasping for air. The dog was strong, Sonic had to admit, but he had to find a way to beat him. The dog stared at him viciously while Sonic looked up, his eyes locking hard on his. His death glare poisoned the dog's smirk look into a confused scared one. The dog stood there like if he had gotten frozen in time.

Sonic got up in a flash, to quickly for anyone to see and then his fist made contact with his opponent's face. Amy reached the bottom of the hill arriving to the circle the villagers had made. "Sonic!" She yelled.

Sending the dog down Sonic evilly smirked. "That ought to teach you a lesson not to mess with me," He growled, his voice deep and strong. The crowd gasped and back away terrified. Amy pushed the crowd out of her way and she entered the crowd. She ran up from behind Sonic and grabbed his shoulder. Sonic's pupil shrunk and he turned sending a punch up to the mobian's stomach.

The contact to her stomach felt nothing more than a snack on the head to Amy. She lost all feelings to her body. She was mentally hurt more than her rib cage.

Sonic's eyes widened with his mouth falling slack and his rage disappeared. Amy fell to the floor with no air running through her lungs. The world around her fell to a stop and the voices of gasps and screams faded. Her thoughts only came to one question at the moment. Why?

She never knew he hated her this much, this proved it all. 'Next time, don't get involved with Sonic when he's fighting.' She noted to herself. Her cheeks turned a light blue and her head had begun spinning. Slowly she lost control of her consciousness.

"Amy!?" Sonic bend down and grabbed the back of her neck. He pulled her up to see his face and it was a blue, her eyes barely opened. "No!" He looked side to side seeing the villagers cry and scream. They were panicking. Amy fell downwards on to his arms and gasped but could breathe. A strong hallows feeling of guilt and worry sunk down his throat when he swallowed and he grew weak. She couldn't breathe and it was his fault. His mouth then formed a hard straight line and he targeted her lips. He had to do this. She had to breathe. He owed her. He held his breath then leaned down to her lips. He was inches away when he was pushed out of the way by a strong stick.

Lady Rosie bend her knees down and she carefully studied Amy. He hand flew out and down from her hands fell small little sparking dust. It took a moment when suddenly Amy coughed harshly and then uncontrollably coughed.

Sonic got up from the grass into a sitting position and rubbed his chest. Amy got up into a sitting position too and the color blue drained away from her face. "My chest," She gasped. Shaking his head, Sonic got up on his feet and darted to her side. He slid over to her and his hands wanted to bring her over into a hug but he couldn't bring himself to do it.

"God, Amy are you okay?" He asked instead; bring down his hands away from her. "You hurt? Did I punch you hard?"

Amy's memory reminded her again why everyone was so worried. The punch. Sonic was in total rage and had accidently punched her, not knowing it was her.

"No, I-I'm fine," She finally said, happy to be able to be breathing. She turned to him and saw something strange in his eyes. Fear and concern. Something she wasn't used to seeing. It was weird seeing this side of Sonic because he was the strong, tough, fearless hedgehog he was at school and here he was worrying if he had hurt her when he's hurt her in worst ways before.

Sonic let go of air he had been holding himself. "Jesus, Ames, You-you" He hesitated to say something else and instead yelled, "Your stupid!"

'Ames?'

Amy pouted and got up. "Says the guy who's picking up fights with mobians who aren't your type." She angrily pointed out.

Sonic got up too. "I didn't start fighting. He did," He exclaimed pointing at the dog that had now stood up. He kept his looks cooled and it pissed Sonic off. "I defend myself by fighting him back."

"Yea, fighting a sumo wrestler!" Amy exclaimed, throwing her hands up. "Your puny compare to him. Sonic what were you thinking?" She asked her voice soft and worried at the end.

Sonic looked away. Come to think of it all. He really wasn't thinking. He was aware of trouble, but then when he was fighting he went out. He couldn't stop. He had to beat him so that he was sure it'd be safe.

"I kind of wasn't," He admitted, looking surprised.

Amy shook her head and smiled. "I'm glad you're not that hurt. I saw that blast he gave you. Must have hurt." She recalled.

Sonic chuckled. "Not a scratch." He said assuredly. Amy rolled her eyes with a grin. "Keep telling yourself that Mr. Invisible." Her eyes slyly stared down then back at him. Sonic looked down and saw a few small scratches of dirt and grass stains on his pants.

"This is why I don't like pants," he muttered.

"Sonic, Amy," Rosie's voice called. They both turned finding her eyes glowering at them. Her arms were on her hips, a staff on her hand. "Head back to the Celphiz. I'll meet you there," Her voice was dark and protective in so way.

"What's a Celphiz?" Sonic asked.

"I'm guessing it stands for her headquarters." She suggested. "Come on let's go back."

.:XxX:.

They rushed in to the Celphiz and closed the door. Amy sighed and leaned against the door. Sonic did the same thing and blew out air. Never in his life has he had a little too much than what he already had.

"That was uhm," He never finished his sentence.

"Interesting," she finished for him.

"Yea," Sonic nodded breathless.

A small light appeared in front of them and it shimmered until it grew as big as a portal. Sonic used his hand as a shade so that the light wouldn't hurt his eyes too much and Amy moved her hands in front of her for protection.

Rosie appeared out from the light and soon faded away. The chipmunk angrily stalked over to the table and sat of a high chair made out of wood. The crystal orb then flashed a bright white light, sending color all around the room. Two chairs suddenly created in front of their eyes. One made out of pure gold and the other silver.

"Sit," Her directions were clear. Amy on the other hand was targeting the gold chair and didn't hear her. She was already planning on sitting down anyway. "I get gold," she muttered. Sonic shook his head and grabbed Amy's hand. He pulled her back strongly on the door making it bounce with a loud noise and stared at Rosie.

"Hey," Amy complained. She tried to run away again, but couldn't. Sonic didn't let go of her hand for a reason. She would have gone back.

"No," He said, his eyes locking on hers.

Rosie's eyes glared at him. She stood up. "Let go of her hand and sit down Sonic." She ordered, her voice dangerous and bitterly. Sonic had no time to blush, he gave Amy a stronger grip and he stood there ready to pounce at her. His teeth were clenched together and felt if he held them any tighter his teeth might break.

Rosie saw something deep in Sonic's dark eyes. Something so strong, she'd never thought she'd see. She huffed a sigh and sat down. "Alright, stay standing, you insignificant hedgehog." She insulted.

"That's it!" She let go of Amy's hand and ran to attack her but he never reached her. Amy's mouth dropped and a gasp escaped her mouth. A quick green hedgehog about the same height as Sonic sped to Sonic and grabbed his arms once in front of him and pushed him back. Sonic staggered backwards and snarled at a hedgehog that stood in front of him.

He stood confidently straightened, his arms crossed and a sly grin plastered on his lips. His teeth were sharp and his quills were long. He wore a leather jacket with fire prints on the bottom. He was somewhat familiar to her.

Amy's eyes furrowed and looked at the stranger's eyes, pale like ice, a very pale blue.

"So, you're the hard-headed Sonic I've heard about," He had a sexy voice, very deep and cool.

"Huh," Rosie huffed and she walked around the table to the other side. "Just as I suspected," She told herself. "Dave, may you give us a moment?" She asked turning to him.

He nodded and bowed his head. As he walked off Amy gazed at him in surprise. He turned to a corner and he turned and caught her eye. He had a frown and an emotionless face and then he turned and was gone behind the curtains that swung down from the ceiling to a wall.

Rosie waited to hear the sound of a door close and that's when she spoke, her voice a very serious with rage, "What were you thinking!" She exclaimed, her eyes glowering at Sonic. Sonic was confused for a moment but her next words drained the color off their faces.

"You were going to kiss her!"

"WHAT!" Amy backed away her whole body stiffening. Sonic's face was pale but quickly replaced it with a cool calm look.

"Haven't you been told yet? If you kiss your partner you will open the gates to Polkka and then Yubala will enter, retrieving the golden staff!" She explained her firm voice growing louder.

Amy shook her head and angrily stalked to his side. She grabbed her shoulder and twirled him around to face her. "You were about to kiss me?" She was boiling inside, but her voice came out broken glass.

"You weren't breathing, I was going to try CPR," He said in a flat voice but then his voice grew, "What did you want me to do. Leave you to die?"

Amy stood there looking up at him firmly. He turned back to Rosie so she wouldn't have to look at her. She turned too, finding there was no point to be mad at him. He was worried about her and must have panicked.

"CPR, whatever the matter, you cannot kiss!" She scowled them. Amy backed away to the door and leaned against it looking down at the floor. Her face was pale and she felt like she couldn't breathe. Everything about her felt dry and she could hear her own excessive breathiness from the thought of even kissing Sonic.

"Ok," Sonic muttered. Amy had heard him, but she couldn't find the right words to reply back, finding out herself that she didn't need to. "Yes,"

Rosie nodded and walked back around to the table. Meanwhile Sonic took a peek at Amy and see how she was taking it. He found her emotionless, facing the ground, and he heard her rough breathing. He looked back forwards and sighed. He was such a fool.

"Sonic," Rosie's voice intently pierced his ears. His gazed traveled to her who sat on the chair. "I may want to have a word later with you too, but first I must deal with my own business." She informed her tone low. "Dave!" She yelled.

Sonic and Amy, who recognized the name, both whipped their heads up. A few seconds later they heard a door open and in come the green hedgehog.

"Yes, Lady Rosie?" His voice was husky and rough to an edge. Nothing like Sonic, even though they did somehow look alike.

"Could to take Sonic and Amy away. Give them a tour or entertain them. Bring them back to me in less than two hours." She ordered.

"Yes, Lady Rosie." He understood and bowed his head. He walked in front of Amy and looked at the two. "Follow me outside please." He told them. He looked at Amy and with a quick nod of his head; Amy knew he had mention for her to step aside.

Amy's body flinched to the side next to Sonic's and the hedgehog opened the door, sending the strong light of the sun in. Amy grew blind for a second and covered her eyes quickly with her hands. Sonic wasn't affected by this too much.

Dave threw his hand in front of him. "Ladies first," He said politely. Amy blushed lightly and walked passed him outside. Dave then grinned at Sonic and walked outside the door. Sonic glared at him. How polite. He turned back. "Rosie, What's with the-" He stopped dead in his sentence. She was gone.

"I'm Dave. Lady Rosie's new assistant." He said happily. Amy offered a smile but it wasn't much of a gleeful one.

"I'm Amy Rose, and," She paused turning. Sonic was barely closing the door behind her and looked weirded out for some reason. "That's Sonic,"

"Sonic the hedgehog," he corrected her.

Dave smirked. Sonic got to her side and looked up at the guy. "Well, How 'bout I saw you around the place so you get to know it better. You will stay here for some time to train I heard." He stated.

"Yea, I heard too." Amy said sounding weary.

"How 'bout you don't," Sonic bitterly said.

Dave chuckled. "You have a charming boyfriend here." He commented and turned back to Amy.

"He's not my boyfriend," She spoke softly, lacking voice.

Dave kept chuckling and whirled his heel to turn. "I see your boyfriend doesn't want to come. So, you still up for the offer?" He asked.

"Sure," Amy agreed.

"Perfect," He cheerfully cheered.

"No, I'm coming," Sonic quickly said. In that moment he felt that same pressure of danger instant in his chest. It was way strong than before and felt the need to stay by Amy's side. Just to make sure.

"Well then, let's go. Shall we?"

Amy headed off fist and then Sonic after her. Sonic rolled his eyes upward and glared at Dave's ice eyes. "I'll be watching you," Sonic whispered bitterly.

"Of course you will," Dave's returned the same bittery taste back to Sonic, giving him a more reason to watch out for this new stranger.

What do you all think of Dave here }/D I like him. He called Sonic charming.

Everone please review and tell me of what you think of this so far. Thank you.