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Alright, here comes chapter twelve.
Chapter Twelve: What Happened?
Anger is something that's leathal, deadly to anyone that dares to face up to it. It's worse than any demon on the face of Mobius because it destroys bonds and kills friendships easily. Unfortunately to face up to anger is one thing, but to face up to someone that you liked who had fallen victim to rage is a completely different thing.
That's what Spades was thinking as Shadow, Rogue and himself followed the very furious Sinister. He could understand why she was angry, as far as he could understand, Angel was very important to Sinister. But what he couldn't grasp, was why she wasn't angry at the mini Rogue. After all, wasn't he the child version of the demon that wanted her dead?
He sighed as his gaze averted to Sinister and his face turned slightly pink.
"Cute..." he whispered. As a calm breeze passed by him, he glanced at Rogue to see that he was staring at him with a large grin. "What do you want?"
"... You're like me! You're in love with someone too!"
Spades blinked, "pardon?"
"You like that hedgehog don't you?"
Rogue's red eyes danced with excitement and his smile made him seem like a completely different person when compared to the older Rogue. Spades sweatdropped as he nodded.
"Yeah, yeah."
The dark chameleon grinned, "that moment you two shared was very nice."
"Huh?"
"Back at the Hikari Raid, when you were comforting Sin and-"
Spades slapped a hand over Rogue's mouth and the muffled words kept spewing out of the chameleon's mouth as though he didn't get that the hand over the mouth meant to shut the hell up. After a while he removed his hand and Rogue blinked.
"So what made her talk to you and not Toxin?"
The cat looked at the trees around them and the flashback started.
--- Flashback ---
Spades could remember pacing around the small room of the Hikari Raid, and of course he could recall how much his head felt like exploding, what he couldn't quite remember was how he wound up walking right into a wall. The exploding feeling in his head subsided shortly after that, and the cat was very happy. But what he wanted to know at the moment was what was taking Toxin so freaking long to give Sinister the antidote... well until-
The door slammed open and Sinister stormed out quickly, and she walked right into Spades.
"Sinister! You have to take this if you don't want the side effects to keep returning!"
"Get the hell away from with that... that, junk! I'm not going to take it and you can't make me," Sinister stated as she glared at the small cup filled with the lime green liquid.
Sinister rolled her eyes at Spades as he gave her a stern glance, then the hedgehog darted outside. Toxin growled angrily as she placed her full attention into a stare that was aimed right at him. Seconds passed... then minutes... a shiver slowly shot up his back and the hair on his head and on the back of his neck stood up as though he was terrified.
"What?"
"Help."
"How am I going to be able to convince her to take the stuff... actually I see exactly why she won't. It looks a bit... what's the word... repulsive? Disgusting?" Spades said in a thoughtful tone.
"Lets see. Talk to her, get her to take it and I won't be forced to shove this... repulsive liquid down your throat. Are we clear?"
Spades' expression was horrified until the cat looked from the antidote, to Toxin... then back at the liquid. He snatched the cup away and clearly stated, "I hate you."
"I know. Now just be a gentleman and help-"
"I ain't no gentleman!"
"Okay, be the damn gambler that you appear to be," Toxin corrected herself as she crossed her arms.
Spades walked toward the door and smirked, "that's better."
Who knew that Sinister was hard to find in the shadows of the tall trees that stood proudly around the small japanese like building? Spades definately didn't, but most people would take her dark clothes and her dark spikes into consideration when searching for her. When he finally found her sitting in the shadows, he was pretty shocked to see clear, sparkling tears falling from her face to the ground.
"Sinister?"
The hedgehog quickly wiped the tears away from her face and smiled at Spades, her sadness completely disguised by her mask of happiness.
"Hey Spades. What's up?"
"... Depends. What were you crying about?"
Sinister glared slightly, "I wasn't crying! Something... was in my eyes," she remarked defensively.
Spades took his seat next to the hedgehog and smirked, "that never works. Truthfully answer my question. No lies."
"I wasn't lying! Besides, you don't have to know."
There was no way she wanted Spades to be involved anymore than he was, of course at that moment, she couldn't hear his inner thoughts that had long ago made the fateful decision to stick with Sinister until her problem was solved. Spades smiled.
"You were worried about something... or someone?"
Silence... then-
"Yes. Angel."
"Angel? The weird butterfly you were telling me about earlier?"
Sinister nodded, "she's like a little sister to me. If anything has happened to her I don't know how long I'd last."
"You have friends though right? So if she's-"
"What friends?"
Spades frowned as he tilted his head, "huh?"
"What friends are you refering to? The ones that will die pretty soon, or the ones that are already dead?"
He blinked; was he sure he heard that right? He must've because Sinister looked toward the ground and shook her head.
"No one is immortal. Everyone dies, but everyone winds up dying before me."
"But... what about the Angel of Death, isn't he a friend?"
"No. He's just the person that saved me from death. Since then I've been cheating death by dealing those innocent kids, people the very thing they try to avoid every day! All my friends are dead or are going to die! Why else do you think I have no connections with anyone!?" Sinister explained as her voice cracked. The hedgehog would've never broken down like that, but her emotions were in turmoil and nothing seemed to make sense. What Spades got out of the conversation was that if Angel was to die, then she wouldn't have the courage to keep going. He would prevent that from happening... but first.
He put an arm around Sinister's shoulders and told her to be quiet.
"It's going to be alright. I promise. If something does happen to Angel, please don't give up. Try to keep going 'kay? Because I'm your friend, and unlike everyone else, I'm going to put my nine lives into use."
"That's just a dumb saying that cats have nine lives."
"How do you know? Are you a cat? I don't think you are."
Sinister sighed, "... I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe you're right."
"Glad you think so. Wanna drink? It's lime ade."
"... Lime what?"
"Ask Toxin. But it's oddly good."
Spades held the cup to Sinister and the hedgehog took it carefully. She took a sip then drank the rest of it up, "hey... you're right. It's not that bad."
The cat was in disbelief, she drank the whole thing without making a disgusted face. He would have to ask Toxin what made it seem so gross but taste so good.
"Glad you liked it... um... Sinister..."
Sinister looked at Spades and the cat's heart skipped a beat. He shook his head, he didn't want to tell her yet. It wasn't the right time.
"Nothing. Lets go back before Toxin hunts us down and uses her sniper rifle on us."
The duo got up from the shadows of the trees and began to walk back toward the house where Toxin was ready to give a lecture about taking so long. And when the news of the antidote being the thing Sinister drank... lets just say that Spades ran the fastest on that particular day.
--- End of Flashback ---
"Spades? EARTH TO THE FREAKING CAT!!" Rogue screamed at Spades as the forest was behind the foursome and now ahead of them was a white sand beach with a clean lake.
Spades was thrown out of his flashback and he looked around and he took a very deep breath.
"The air is really clean," Shadow remarked as he looked around.
"Hmm."
"Maybe we can play! I've never been to the beach before!" Rogue cheered as Spades caught up with Sinister who stopped at the edge of the lake and was now watching the reflection in the water.
"Wanna take a break from travelling Sin?"
"Why would I want to do that? Angel is counting on me. Fate and everyone else is too. I have no time for breaks."
"Says you. Yo Shadow! Help a poor guy out!"
Shadow blinked as he looked at Spades. He walked over and shot a quick glare at Spades.
"Perhaps he's right. After all-"
"Who do you think you are? Telling me what to do. You have no authority over me old hedgie, and I'm old enough to know what to do."
The ebony hedgehog stared at Sinister before he chuckled, "fair enough. But can an old hedgie do this?"
Sinister blinked until chaos spears appeared and were thrown at her. She dodged gracefully and she stuck her tongue out, "missed me! You really are old!!"
As Shadow and Sinister were at each other with chaos spears, Spades and Rogue watched from a safe distance. The duo realized that Sinister was smiling and she actually liked dodging all of Shadow's attacks.
"This is nice. She needs to have fun, just to forget about what happened for a little while," Rogue said as he smiled, "did you meet the person in charge of the Hikari Raid?"
Spades shook his head, "no... why?"
"Sorry, can't tell you until everything is settled."
"What?"
"You'll see. Just give it a day more and things will start to unfold," the chameleon replied as he watched as Sinister tackled Shadow and Spades ran to join the duo. Rogue sighed as he looked at the sky; what were the others doing? Were they having fun? He didn't want to think about what they were doing, he wanted to focus on what was going on around him now.
He started to walk over to the trio when something stopped him. A shadowy figure watched them from the top of a cliff nearby. Rogue was about to say something until the figure disappeared. A forebonding feeling washed over the dark chameleon as his red eyes scanned the area one last time before he ran toward the trio and the fun began.
But nothing can be ignored forever.
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Hey guys! Alright, so that's the chapter. I know what you guys are saying, "where's the Canon Characters? It's not a Sonic Story without them". And I know you're all right about that. Which is why next chapter is guarenteed for Canon Characters. I can't be too specific about which ones you'll see but when the chapter comes out you'll be happy to see Canon Characters rather than OCs. Anyways, please tell me what you think and I hope you guys enjoyed. Oh yeah, and my friend Mariko-ai-chan has a new forum up and I hope you guys are able to check it out!