'Redemption Song'- Bob Marely

Chapter 31: Redemption

Yubala stared straight into Seth's eyes. He was nervous as he played with his fingers backing away from her. She gestured the shadows with her fingers that she wanted the two unconscious hedgehogs out of the floor.

"Put them in cages." She ordered.

As the shadows grabbed them and lifted them up to their backs they left out the door. Still quiet Seth could only stare at them be dragged away from the room.

"You grew attached to them," Yubala spoke making Seth's eyes flinch back to her. "You were planning on betraying me," Her voice demented she approaching him.

Seth stuttered in saying something and wasn't allowed to say much because Yubala suddenly yelled. "You dare betray your creator!"

"Yubala," Seth slowly let out hopelessly.

"After all I did for you this is how you will replay me?!" She roared.

Seth closed his eyes shut and clenched his fist. In one swoop he let go of all his feelings in one blow. "This all has to stop!"

Yubala's anger erupted as she launched towards him but Seth was unable to dodge her hand as she grabbed him into her hands. Gripping hard on the small puffball Seth tried very hard to breath. Her face leaned into his. "What have they done to you," She whispered harshly. She threw him to the concrete wall and the impact he had with the wall was painful that he immediately became paralyzed for a moment that he slide to the ground and didn't get up.

"Stop? But we've only gotten started!" She crackled looking at the ceiling. Seth found some strength left and picked himself up from the floor. Yubala looked down at him. "And you want this all to stop when we could be conquering all of Gemnissent." She said.

Seth narrowed his eyes and he said firmly. "No, we don't."

Yubala shook her head in disappointment and lifted up her hand to look at her nails. She twirled them and examined them as she said, "Alright, If that's what you wish for," She focused her deadly eyes to him. "Then you'll die along with them!" She guffawed and pointed her fingers to him. Seth's eyes widened as she released balls of fire from them. "You will die with all of them! Ahahaha!"

Everything felt quiet. Relaxing. He hadn't slept well for days and right now sleeping felt great. In the midst of relaxation something shook and throbbed in his head. A voice. A high voice sounding of an angel as if singing rang in his head.

"Sonic!"

Sonic's eyes fluttered open to see Amy staring down at him. She hovered above him with tears running down her eyes. Once seeing that Sonic was awake, Amy moved away, smiled and wiped her eyes. "You're okay!"

Sonic was on a cold metal floor. He rose from it and immediately his head throbbed with pain. Amy held him from the shoulder to keep him from falling over. "Not so fast," Amy said.

Sonic blinked his eyes and frowned. "Where are we?"

"I don't know." She said sounding afraid.

Sonic turned to her with an opened mouth. He looked at his surroundings. Nothing but walls of a navy metal covering them in a box. Even the floor was of the same pattern as the walls and ceiling. They had enough space to stand up and enough space for them to walk around in. They were in a shape of a box. Sonic narrowed his eyes. "They captured us."

Amy who still was sitting on her knees on the floor rubbed her arms from the shivers she had gotten from that awful truth. Sonic turned back to her. "Seth," he said. "Seth betrayed us."

Amy stayed quiet.

Sonic walked over to a wall and touched it examining it. "I never trusted him." He growled as he began to knock on the metal. Sitting in a 'w' position on the cold floor Amy watched as Sonic was trying to figure out where they were. A feeling of guilt and sadness was filling in her heart. Amy opened her mouth to speak. "I knew Seth was Yubala's nemesis,"

Sonic slowly made a turn to face her, a bleak expression. His eyes grew remote as Amy continued. "I've only known for a day or two."

Sonic was left speechless. He couldn't seem to process the information down and Amy got up from the floor wiping tears that were coming out from her eyes. "But I thought he was different. He really cares I feel it."

That's when Sonic snapped. "How could you believe that bullshit!?"

"Sonic, Seth was scared back there. He looked like he didn't know what was going on." Amy said in defense.

"Of course he knew what was going on. He was just afraid of getting his ass whooped by us." Sonic snarled.

Amy shook her head. "No Sonic you don't understand."

Suddenly Sonic was in front of her face, noses barely apart from each other. Rage filled his eyes and Amy was unable to even move back from their closeness. "No, you don't understand." He said quietly yet harshly. His hot breath brushed off against her cold skin. But what he said next was colder than the snowy mountain itself, it froze her completely.

"If you were playing this game for a death wish you shouldn't have brought in me in this. I would have rather lived here for the rest of my life than died alongside you."

It torn her apart. Like an ice crystal falling into a hard floor her heart crashed and the pieces scattered. The metal walls around them began to move and Sonic noticed taking his eyes off Amy and looking around. Amy was already in a lot of pain and fear all she could do was move to the middle of the cube like box. The walls opened up metal bars and the solid walls disappeared into the bars. The Floor was still solid metal and the rest was bars horizontal and vertical creating a cage. Outside them were more than a dozen of shadows and one green hedgehog in front of it. He smiled with greed and both hedgehogs narrowed their eyes.

"Scourge," Amy said halfheartedly.

"Aww, at least act like you're happy to see me." He said extending his arms out to them.

Sonic kept quiet as Scourge approached the cage. "My, my, it looks like you've lost." He chuckled shaking his head. "Such a shame. I expected a better battle than this."

Still they kept silent and Scourge leaned in towards the cage. "Especially from you." He said gazing at Sonic. Sonic didn't narrow his eyes the slightest but kept the same expression he had already. He turned to Amy and coyly smiled at her.

"Maybe when this is all done, I could spare your life and you and I can rule Gemnissent together." Amy flinched backwards and Scourge laughed. "So whatcha say sweetheart."

Sonic's eye twitched and he grumbled unable to do anything. Amy although snarled, "Never,"

Scourge shrugged with a chuckled. "Those words will burn with you in hell,"

Sonic's fist tightened and Amy's teeth clenched.

"We'll be going to Polkka now so rest assure for now and enjoy the ride till we arrive there." Scourge announced and turned his back to them to face the shadows as Sonic and Amy's mouths opened behind him. "All Haul the Queen!" Scourge yelled raising his fist up. The shadows all roared with high pit5ch sounds which pierced Amy's ears. She crouched down on the floor covering her ears with her hands. Sonic endured it and saw as the box began to close again the walls coming out from the bars and closing them from the outside world. Once the walls come together and closed them in, the loud screeches went away.

"Fuck!" Sonic vociferated loudly kicking the metal wall. Amy bit her lip hard to prevent herself from sobbing in hearing the defeat in Sonic's voice. She'd never heard him sound so dispirited and vanquish. She fell to her knees and slowly curled herself into a ball. "It's hopeless," She finally sobbed. "We're going to die."

Sonic could only stare at her with empathy. He knew very well how much of a heart she had and couldn't resist being friends with anyone. Yet the anger took over and he couldn't have controlled it. He watched for what seem a very long time at her sob on the floor while holding her necklace which shined on her neck.

.:XxX:.

"Get Moving!"

The box was heavy and placed on a strong marble wagon that was being pulled by a lot of shadows with Scourge leading them. The pulled the wagon down the vast of snow on the ground. The hailing hadn't stopped and was making it difficult to move especially when the snow covered two inches of snow. Snow mystical and wondrous was terror and dangerous in the snowy mountains near Yubala's Castle.

Inside the box Sonic felt the motion of the box and knew they were moving. Sonic had been sitting in a corner looking across at Amy who had fallen asleep after crying. She laid in a fatal position on the floor her hands under her ear and cheek as a pillow. Sonic sighed breathing out cold air. It wasn't as cold inside the box but he could feel and estimate how much the cold was outside.

For the last hours the shadows had prepared for their journey to Polkka which was a road away. Polka, Sonic wondered. What was it like? Nobody yet had said anything about what it was really like or how it looked like. It was always 'Get to Polkka' or 'Polkka is where you must get to."

Could it be that it was the rose. That rose was their curse. Did they have to destroy it or grab it? Sonic signed and scratched his ear. It was far from over to even get that flower, but he still had a chance to see Polkka since that was where they were going.

Suddenly a feeling of instant rush overcame him. Sonic flinched upwards. A feeling of pureness flowed through his stomach. Curious, Sonic stood up. He placed his ear on the medal wall. He couldn't hear anything and was wondering what he was feeling. He felt joy, courage and an amount of pure love.

"Amy wake up," Sonic whispered not taking his ear off the cold wall. No response from her or the outside. He turned and saw her still on the floor. "Amy," he harshly whispered. Amy made a flinch reaction and slowly regained conciseness. Her eyes opened wide and she got up from her lying position and turned to him. There were white stains down from her eyes to her cheeks. Sonic winced and turned back around to avoid looking at her. "Get up I feel something."

Amy got up staggering a bit to the side from the suddenness of order.

Sonic placed both hands on the wall and tried again to hear anything he could. His instincts weren't wrong and he knew he wasn't. Amy approached his side and stared at him. "What are you hearing?"

"I don't hear anything," he said unsurely. "But I feel something outside is happening."

Amy squinted her eyes in confusion but stayed quiet for his sake. Nothing happen for those few moments and Amy backed away her nervous feeling leaving and turned around to go back to her corner when suddenly the cube they were in started moving and they both flinched. Not knowing what was happening Sonic rushed to the middle and Amy looked around fearfully. Loud noises started being heard and clashing sounds erupted. Suddenly around them they saw something that surprised them leaving them scared out of their lives.

Their friends, the mobians that they had met in the past were fighting the shadow creatures. The Merpsters were using their stretchy arms to hit the shadows away. Then there was Scales, large and fierce, taking down multiple shadows by grabbing them in his mouth. The Fiddles containing, Skye, Radley, Sprinkle, and Drizzle were all with swords and pulling back the shadows. In the middle of everything they saw Yogi, with scratches and scars, but fighting them off as well. Amy gasped in shock. As well as the creatures from Dead Rosary that were harmless looking were fighting on two feet and armor like a real army.

Bloom came with blue and smiled in seeing her two friends.

"Bloom?!" Amy gasped.

"We need to get you out of her." She said and stepped aside. Blue moved in front of her and with his hand made strange moves and his hands began to lit up baby blue. The cage with eh bars glowed a light blue before it broke into pieces and was then out of the cage.

"Hurry, get to Mr. Seth and Queen Linda!" She cried pointing ahead of her. They turned and saw Linda using her powers to attack the shadows that were trying to grab her. Seth was flying above them and smiled when he made contact them.

"Seth!" Amy screeched.

Sonic turned feeling something behind them and saw a shadow behind Bloom. Sonic quickly jumped at Bloom and pushed her out of harm's way. Amy yelped when she heard Bloom scream. She saw them on the floor and the shadow going to them.

"Hey!" Amy yelled making the shadow turned. Distracted Sonic got the chance to get up and go to the shadow and punch them till it was only dust.

"Oh Thank you so much Sonic," Bloom happily said.

Sonic smirked at her and then looked at Amy. Amy smiled back at him.

"Hurry go with them." Bloom ordered.

"But what about you?" Sonic said.

"We'll be alright, don't worry about us." Bloom said pulling a thumbs up. Amy frowned but both ran away from the fighting crowd. Dodging the shadow's grip, Sonic and Amy rushed passed them and in front of the chipmunk with the blue dress who stared back at them with the same relief they sent back to her. Seth came down but was greeted nicely by Sonic only he had no time to be rational they had to leave. They were heading for Polkka.

Oh yea, they have finally reached the ending to it all ,but will thye be able to make it I wonder? I don't know. Find out next time until weeks pass.

BYE!