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I think from now on I will start putting my notes above the chapter instead of the bottom. That way you can all see what is going on with me currently. Plus, I think some of my messages are not getting through to some other people and I may need to make sure that everyone knows what's going on currently for me and for the fanfictions I have. I hope you all can understand. I do not have much to say other than I have summer semester for college and it will be a bit difficult update quickly. But do not worry, I will continue to update this story. We are actually almost done with it. I think we have either eight or ten chapters left on this fanfic. So it won't be long now till it's complete. Anyways here is the next chapter!
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Shout-outs:
Nicolepokemon7 - I hope she faces her fear too. She will need it. O~O
Bajy - Let us see if Sonic and Infinte can work together along with Saura convincing them to. ^^;
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Howlerwolf43 - YES, DONT GIVE IN YOU GUYS!
Chapter 19: The Power of a Bond (Part 2)
*WARNING STARTS HERE!*
The jackal then sees the brown wolf walking straight to him and Saura. "I don't know what you're planning, but I won't let it happen," he says to Infinite as he holds his red whip out with a dark chuckle. Infinite feels Saura's shivering body increase as she shut her eyes tight. Without realizing it, the jackal pulls the female wolf into an embrace. He doesn't know what to do! He hasn't felt like this in a long time! Infinite looks at Saura as he watches her shiver. Tightening his hold on the blond wolf, the jackal glares at the brown wolf. "Pathetic," Nevil says at Infinite's attempt to comfort Saura. "Don't you see she's already given up? You should just quit while you can," he added. Infinite glares and growls madly at the brown wolf as the Phantom Ruby on his chest begins to glow brighter. How dare this male wolf call him weak! The jackal will make the brown wolf pay!
Saura suddenly noticed the glowing. She looks to the source and discovers Infinite's Phantom Ruby. Slowly, the blond wolf gently places her hand on it as the ruby continues to glow. She's seen something glowing like that before. She then looks up to Infinite. Why is the jackal still fighting? It doesn't matter anymore. She doesn't want to say anything about it. Her voice is-
"…your voice is quite lovely…"
Infinite and Nevil flinch a bit. The jackal was surprised to hear his own voice. Why is he hearing himself? While the two conscious males try to look around for the voice, Saura took in that phrase as the shivering decreases a bit. Her voice is lovely?
"I don't want you to die Saura."
Saura's tears start to dry up a bit as she continues to look at Infinite even if he's trying to figure out who's talking. Why is that; isn't he the one talking?
"Hey, don't be scared."
"There is nothing to hide from buddy. You did great out there."
Saura suddenly hears Sonic's voice. She looks to the unconscious hedgehog as she took in what he once said to her. She remembers hearing those phrases, including Infinite's, she looks at her hands, one covered in blood for covering a scratch on her neck. She ignores the red stain as she collects everything she went through to get here. Infinite and Nevil hear Sonic's voice as well and looked at him to see he's unconscious as well.
"We're depending on you."
"Nice work."
"Come on, lets go meet with him and some members of the resistance."
"I'm going with you. I know you would do the same for me if I was in the same situation."
"Everyone is saved thanks to you."
Infinite and Nevil hear these new voices as one growls while the other just listens suspiciously. Saura continues to hear the other voices and they are all familiar to her. There was Knuckles, Espio, Silver, and Tails. The blond wolf thinks about the time she was in the resistance. She sure came a long way, so, she shouldn't give up now! Saura looks around and realizes the embrace Infinite pulled her into. The blond wolf looks up to the jackal as he looks around the area suspiciously. Is Infinite… trying to help her? She remembers being in this situation before… back at the cell room. Saura thought about speaking but stops herself in fear a bit. Nevil is still right about there are others who don't like her voice.
"…you're our friend too Saura. No matter what."
Saura's eye widen at the phrase. Sonic sees her as his friend. And perhaps, the others think so too. She remembers she was trying to do the same for Infinite. Does the jackal think the same? The way he's trying to help her makes it look like that way, but she does feel something for the jackal that is a bit stronger than friendship. However, she can't stop trying. The blond wolf raises her non-blood covered glove to Infinite's face gently. "I…Infinite?" she calls out to the jackal softly.
The moment he hears Saura, Infinite quickly looks down and sees the female wolf staring at him. The wolf is trying to speak again. The jackal then feels a hand on his cheek. Seeing whose hand it is, he smiles a bit as he has his hand on to Saura's. Infinite then noticed something red sliding down from her neck that took away his smile. The jackal gently tilts her head upwards to see what happened. There, he sees the same scar he saw before now bleeding! He places his hand onto Saura's neck to stop the bleeding. He can't have her die! Who knows how deep that scratch was… "Do not die on me Saura," he mumbles as he continues to cover the blond wolf's neck.
Saura heard Infinite as she feels his hand on her neck. Saura flinched but not in fear. She watches and feels the jackal's attempt to stop the bleeding. This caused her to smile a bit as she uses her other hand to place it on Infinite's hand, the one on her neck. "Thank you," she says to the jackal.
Infinite freezes a bit when he hears Saura talking again. Not only that, he also noticed Saura isn't as scared as she used to be when he touches her neck with his hand. He looks to Saura with surprise. What changed? Why is she acting so hopeful? "I told you no speaking Saura," the two suddenly hear Nevil say in anger! Saura and Infinite look at the brown wolf and realized the anger in his eyes. Noticing what the male wolf will do, the jackal moves the female wolf behind him to protect her. Nevil noticed Infinite's actions as he lets out a maniac like laugh. "Fine, you shall join in as well," the brown wolf yells as he uses his red whip. Infinite uses himself to cover Saura. Once again, the whip goes past the jackal; and since he has a hold on her, the attack goes past the blond wolf too. "What? What is this?" he exclaims in shock and anger as he tries again.
Saura and Infinite watch in shock as the attacks Nevil tried to use kept passing by them. The blond wolf had seen this before! It was back in Metropolis when Sonic and Shadow came to rescue her when Infinite used his Phantom Ruby. That wasn't all; it happened again with the sun! She then remembered something Tails once said to her about the Phantom Ruby.
"If you use this, it can make that sun disappear!"
Saura thought about that and she might know what's going on. Could this be the cause of a Phantom Ruby? From the look on Infinite's face, he doesn't even understand what's going on. The blond wolf looks around the area and noticed something glowing in the fog. She remembered the jackal's Phantom Ruby is currently glowing. Could that other glowing object be the Phantom Ruby, the one she dropped? If that's the case, then Infinite can help by cancelling out the effect! "Infinite, I-I think this stuff is caused by the Ph-Phantom Ruby," she tries to explain.
Infinite eye narrows at Saura when he heard her. If this was caused by the Phantom Ruby, then why can't he stop it? "That's not the case," he says to the blond wolf. "I've tried to take out the illusion of this area, but it failed," he says in a serious tone. He then noticed something glowing in the background. Looking at the source, the jackal sees the glowing object in the shape of that Phantom Ruby prototype that the female wolf had. Why is that gem glowing?
Saura sees Infinite looking at the prototype, but it seems he's tried to stop it once. She looks around the area and noticed the Lightning Wispon lying where she dropped it. She could try to run and get it; however, her uncle will beat her to it when he sees what she'll do. So how can she- The blond wolf then looks at her wrist bracelets and remembers the grabbling hooks Knuckles equipped her with! That's perfect, she can use that to get her weapon back! She releases one of her hands off of Infinite as she quickly launches a grabbling hook at the direction where her wispon is at.
Infinite hears something launched after he felt Saura slightly release him. He looks to the blond wolf and noticed she is using one of her grabbling hooks. When it returns to her, it brought back her wispon. When Saura grips on to the Lightning Wispon, the jackal eye narrows a bit in confusion. "Saura, what are you doing?" he asks the female wolf.
Infinite wasn't honestly expecting Saura to answer; however, he stared in shock a bit when she did. "I'm going.. to stop this," the wolf replies. She hears the jackal mumble a what. "I have to," she added as she looks at Infinite.
Infinite and Saura suddenly hear a maniac like laugh coming from Nevil. "Stop this you say?" the brown wolf questions. "And how are you going to do that? You're worthless and weak! You can't even protect your friends nor yourself from me," he added.
Infinite growls at the brown wolf; but then, something grabbed both of his cheeks. He got ready to attack until he felt a pair of lips on his. The jackal stares in shock as he feels Saura kissing him. His heart starts pounding rapidly the same way he felt Saura's heartbeat in the cell room. This feeling, it is exactly what he felt whenever he was with the wolf, but it's stronger than before. Before he could relax in to it, Saura pulls away from Infinite. The jackal looks to the blond wolf with a slightly confused look, but he was wanting Saura to continue. "Saura," he mumbles a bit.
"Well well, I knew you felt something for that weak jackal, but I never thought I'd see it myself," Nevil says with a dark chuckle. He noticed Infinite glaring and growling at him madly. The brown wolf shows a dark smirk as he gets ready to fight the jackal. But to his and Infinite's surprise, Nevil sees Saura quickly releasing the jackal as she uses her Lightning Wispon at him. The brown wolf falls to the roof floor as he groans in pain.
"Infinite is not weak," Saura says to Nevil with a growl. The brown wolf glares madly at the blond wolf; however, he sees her glaring at him just the same. "N-none of my friends are! Not even me," she added as she attacks him again!
Nevil quickly dodges Saura's lightning whip. This is something new he hadn't seen from the blond wolf. All he's known from her was a happy child and has grown to fear the world by his manipulation and other mobians for what they've said about her voice. And now, he's looking at an angry wolf as if he's attacked her pack. Nevil glares at the female wolf. "I thought I told you no speaking! That is, if you want to be insulted by all of those pathetic creatures," he says as he uses his whip at Saura.
"Ugh, that voice sounds hideous."
"Why is she still talking?"
Saura tries to dodge the attack the best she could, but Nevil had managed to hit her left arm thanks to the phrases she heard. The blond wolf yelps from the pain as she took in what those voices said. She shivers a bit as she looks around the area. She then had her eyes on Infinite. The jackal is still there clenching his fists. But then, he turns to Sonic, who is finally regaining conscious. Infinite turns away, so the hedgehog wouldn't see his face once he realizes he isn't wearing his mask. When Saura sees Sonic regaining conscious, she remembered what the hedgehog said:
"…you're our friend too Saura. No matter what."
Saura regains her senses as she glares at Nevil. "That's true, b-but I know there are others out there who do n-not mind my voice," she says to the brown wolf. She hears Nevil growl as he looks back to Sonic and Infinite. Thinking what the male wolf will do, the blond wolf attacks him with the lightning whip. This caused the brown wolf to be flung a bit and lands in a corpse pile near the glowing Phantom Ruby prototype. Saura flinches a bit but shakes her head to snap out of it. The blond wolf looks back to Sonic and Infinite and sees the jackal getting his mask while the hedgehog is trying to get up while looking around a bit. Saura goes to Sonic and helps him up. "Are you o-okay Sonic?" she asks the blue hedgehog.
Sonic groans a bit as he rubs his head. "Yeah," he replies. Realizing who is speaking to him, the blue hedgehog looks surprised as he turns to Saura. "Saura, you're speaking?" he asks in some excitement. Remembering the brown wolf and Infinite, Sonic looks around for them. He sees the jackal, but not the male wolf. "Where's your uncle?" he asks the blond wolf.
"Th-that doesn't matter now," Saura replies to Sonic. "We need to d-destroy the prototype," she added as she points to the other glowing Phantom Ruby on the ground. "That is what's causing this..." she says as she stops around to look around the area. "…s-stuff to appear," she finishes. The blond wolf watches the blue hedgehog nod in agreement as he fully gets up. When he sees Infinite, Sonic glares at the masked jackal as the other does the same back at him. Saura gets in front of the hedgehog and shakes her head. "Sonic please, I need you to take out the p-prototype first while I distract Nevil. Besides, he's here to help us. It's thanks to Infinite that I f-found out what's going on," she tries to reason with Sonic.
Sonic looks to Saura with a surprised expression. Infinite helped her? But, why did he? Wasn't the masked jackal against them? Sonic looks back to Infinite suspiciously. He doesn't trust the jackal after what's happened. But if what Infinite said before was true, then Saura's theory about the other Phantom Ruby could be correct. He also heard the female wolf say a name he isn't familiar with. Perhaps that is the brown wolf's name. Sonic looks back to the blond wolf and smirks. "Alright buddy, let's do it to it," he says to Saura as he held his fist out. Sonic waits as Saura looked confused a bit. Once she understood what Sonic wants, the blond wolf smiles as she has her free hand to a fist and fist bumps with him.
"Not if I kill you and your friends first Saura," Nevil shouts! Saura was suddenly tackled to the ground by the brown wolf, who appeared out of nowhere. The female wolf yelps and groans in pain while being crushed to the roof floor. She looks up to the male wolf and noticed more blood stains on him than before. She shivers a bit, but glares at him.
"Saura," Sonic and Infinite shout out! Sonic looks to Infinite in surprise, but he snaps out of it as he gets ready to homing attack the brown wolf. "Hang on buddy! I'll get-"
"Sonic, destroy th-the prototype! Go," Saura says to Sonic! Sonic stops his tracks with shock. He needs to get the male wolf off the female wolf before- "Goooooo," Saura shouts at Sonic as she kicks Nevil off her! The blue hedgehog frowns a bit as he nods and heads to the glowing prototype.
Infinite watches Saura fighting Nevil, but it seems she is at a disadvantage. For starters, Saura is still damaged from all of the lashes she received not to mention her neck is slightly bleeding. And, the brown wolf doesn't appear to be hurt; the only thing that's affecting him is the physical appearance. Saura was then knocked backwards and lands next to the jackal. The blond wolf coughs a bit as the brown wolf walks up to her. Suddenly, there are glitches around the male wolf and the area. "What the?" the male wolf says in shock. He, Saura, and Infinite look towards Sonic as the fog is starting to clear a bit. The blue hedgehog appears to be trying to break the prototype by smacking it to the roof floor.
Saura watches Sonic as she deep breaths a bit while smiling. She then glares at Nevil. "I-it's over Nevil! You're tied to the Phantom Ruby p-prototype! Without it, you can't harm anyone else a-and you will never exist again," she says in determination! The blond wolf watches the brown wolf glare madly at her; but then to her surprise the male wolf starts dark chuckling as it turns into a maniac like laugh that caused both her and Infinite to flinch. "Wh-what's so funny?" she asks as her confidence dies down a little.
"You're so naïve "niece,"" Nevil says as he grabs Saura by her neck harshly. Saura starts choking as she tries to break out of Nevil's hold, but with no success. "I knew I couldn't come close to the others and never harm them they way I can to you. Even when I attacked your fox friend, the wound he had before has already been healed. And once this is over, it'll all be just a short memory for your friends. They will forget everything that's happened here over time. But for you, you've lived through this for years, so it will never go away from you. You will once again be trapped in this in your head all alone. And when this and the little war is over, your friends will go their separate ways and forget all about you," he says while trying to crush the female wolf. "But don't worry, I'll make sure you fall first before that happens," he added.
Saura continues to choke as she tries her best to stop Nevil from choking her, but it hasn't worked. Just as soon as she thought it was over, Infinite has grabbed her by picking her up. When the masked jackal touches her, the blond wolf feels the brown wolf's hand go past her as the jackal takes her away from the male wolf. Saura starts coughing as she clings on to Infinite. While comforting the blond wolf, the jackal glares madly at Nevil. "Hands off," he growls out.
Nevil growls madly back at Infinite. "You," he says with a growl. "You say you'll never become like me, yet the path you're taking is similar to how I became the way I am. You think you can protect Saura and work for that pathetic human, the same one who had murdered my brother and his mate? I admit, I appreciate the doctor for doing that, but he's weak if he just uses others to do his dirty work," he says as a few glitches appear around him again. Infinite had a shocked expression on his face, but it was hidden thanks to his mask. Before Infinite could say a word, the brown wolf pulls out a dagger like knife with blood stains at the tip as more glitches appear around him. It looks like an ordinary dagger; but to Saura, it had history with her. "I'll finish this right here an-" was all the brown wolf could say as he starts to disappear as he tried to get close to Infinite and Saura.
As soon as Nevil disappeared, the fog started to lift up as all the corpses and dead modians disappear. Saura watches as each one fades away even the blood is fading away. When the dead mobians are all gone, the wounds Saura and Sonic have received in this area started to fade away as well, like it never happened. The blond wolf feels Infinite somewhat releasing her. She gets out of his grip gently and looks at the masked jackal in concern while the fog starts to disappear. The expression is hard to see thanks to his mask. Saura looks at Infinite's eye and noticed they looked a bit shocked. Remembering what Nevil said, she looks even more worried. The blond wolf hopes those words didn't affect the jackal. She then noticed Sonic staring at the shattered Phantom Ruby prototype. The wolf walks up to where the hedgehog is at, unaware of Infinite watching her when she starts walking.
*WARNING ENDS HERE!*
Sonic noticed Saura walking up to stare at the shattered Phantom Ruby. He looks to her and then back to the shattered gem as it starts to turn to dust and fades away with the wind and rain drops. "To think, that little gem is the cause of all that commotion," he says to the wolf.
Saura nods in agreement a bit as she looks back up to the cloudy, rainy sky. "But, it's not e-entirely wrong," she suddenly says to Sonic. The wolf recollects everything that Nevil had said and looks down a bit. She then noticed Sonic looking at her with a frown. She stares in confusion until she realized what she said. Looking away from Sonic a bit, she uses her free hand to rub her arm. "It's the truth," she added.
Sonic's frown grew as he watches Saura. The hedgehog walks closer to the wolf as he places a hand on her shoulder, the one without the burnt marks. "Was everything your uncle said true?" he asks with concern. He watches the wolf a bit in silence. Finally, the wolf nods slowly as she grips her arm and wispon tighter. Sonic flinches a bit and looks down for a moment. "How long have you been on your own… before you joined the resistance?" he asks Saura.
Saura sighs a bit as she shakes her head. "I wasn't entirely a-alone. But I've been on that mental cage f-for… thirteen years," she answers. She can feel Sonic staring at her when she answered. Shivering a bit, she looks away from the hedgehog, but looks back to his hand when she feels his hand grip on her shoulder tighten a bit.
"Well, you're not alone now buddy," Saura hears Sonic say. She looks to the hedgehog in surprise. "Once we finish off Baldy Nosehair and rebuild this world back to the way it used to be, my friends and I will show you around, okay?" he says to the wolf. Once she registered who Sonic meant by "Baldy Nosehair," Saura releases her arm to cover her mouth to prevent herself from laughing but does start to giggle. Sonic noticed this and smiles. But then, that smile faded away when he realizes Infinite is still around thanks to the glitch sound. He gently moves Saura behind him. "Stay behind me," he says to the wolf.
Saura stops her giggles when Sonic moves her behind him. Saura looks and noticed Infinite staring at her and Sonic. She frowns a bit as she watches the masked jackal. He appears to be lost in thought. Nodding to herself, Saura walks past Sonic while ignoring his questioning call. The wolf got close to the jackal, who just stares at her. "Infinite?" she tries to call out. The jackal continues to stare at her. Saura's frown grew when he says nothing. "Infinite, what's wrong?" she asks with more concern. Once again, she heard nothing. Saura then noticed Infinite looking straight at her until he places his head on her uninjured shoulder. She flinches in surprise when she felt the metal mask on her. The wolf looks back to Sonic, who's already next to her to prepare an attack on the jackal but stops when he sees the jackal didn't do anything else.
"Sonic, Saura," the group suddenly hear Tails shout out! Sonic and Saura look to where they here the call. They both noticed Tails, who is also carrying the younger Sonic, heading towards them. Saura noticed Tails is completely okay which is a huge relief for her. She then noticed other familiar faces heading towards her, the hedgehog and masked jackal! There's Knuckles, Silver, Amy, Rouge, and Shadow! Did they take ou-
Saura suddenly hears growling coming from Infinite! She turns to the masked jackal and noticed he's glaring at the group heading towards them and the older Sonic while his Phantom Ruby starts to glow. The wolf tries to calm him down, but Infinite was then right behind her. Saura yelps as Infinite lifts her with both arms around her. "Saura," she hears the older Sonic shout out! Saura tries to look at the older blue hedgehog, but the jackal moves away from him. "Put her down Infinite," Sonic commands!
Infinite glares at the older Sonic as he dodges Silver and Knuckles's attempt to attack him. "You are in no position to demand me around," he says to the older blue hedgehog as he makes red cube like auras appear around him. The masked jackal launches them straight at the older Sonic and his friends. Watching them dodge his cubes, Infinite took off to another tower quickly and goes inside it as Saura struggles in his hold a bit and asking him to let go.