Chapter Nine
It had been one week since Silver had been taken away and Sonic had died in front of their house. Blaze woke up from another dreamless night and stared at the ceiling for a time, how long Blaze could not tell.
Getting up and looking at herself, Blaze saw dark green spots in her purple fur, indicating that she had caught the plague. She had gotten the plague two days ago, but had already lost all hope as she was ready to accept her fate and die. Hunger shook Blaze's body as she let out a series of fierce coughs before leaving the now silent house. In the days before hand, she would walk downstaires expecting to see either Sonic or Silver, asking where breakfast was. But the food had run out long ago. Most of the food had somehow spoiled from the plague and the village storehouse had become contaminated, destroying almost all of the food in the village. News about the plague had spread, preventing any supplies being traded from other villages.
Walking outside, Blazesat beside two wooden crosses next to the house, one marking the grave of her father with a grave that had only been filled days before, and another to mark Silver's, although there wasn't any body to bury. The cemetary in town had filled up only days ago, Shadow and Knuckles being amongst the many casualities, and the dead beagn to pile in the streets. After Silver had been sacrificed, everyone had expected the plague to go away, but it had only gotten worse.
Tails and Cream walked towards Blaze and sat down beside her. Both the fox and rabbit had contracted the plague like Blaze. 'I think we are the last ones' Cream said. 'Yeah' Blaze replied, emotionless.
Sitting there and staring at the two crosses for hours, Tails broke the silence by asking 'Hey, what's that?' and pointng towards a wooden bowl between the two crosses and a small bag. Blaze looked in surprise as she hadn't noticed it before. Bringing the bowl towards themselves, the trio looked inside to see three small white rice seeds.
'How did they get here?' Cream asked. 'I don't know, but it looks okay and food is food' Tails replied.
Each grabbing one seed and eating them, a small white glow surrounded them. They could begin to feel their energy begin to restore and saw the spots begin to disappear from their fur.
'Oh. My. God.' Cream said,checking her arms and legs. 'We're cured!' Tails said happily.
Blaze, however, wasn't celebrating, but had her backed turned to the two. 'Blaze?' Cream asked. Tails and Cream looked around her to see that she had openned the bag to see it was full of gold pieces.
'Woah! Amazing!' They exclaimed. Cream looked at Blaze to see her smiling for fist time in what seemed like forever as she was reading a letter. 'What is that?' Cream asked.
Blaze passed the letter to Cream and looked up at the sky, both smiling and crying. 'Woah, what's going on?' Tails asked. Cream had her hand over her mouth and silently passed the letter to Tails,smiling happily. Tails read the letter over multiple times before smiling and saying 'That little rascal.'
Folding the letter up and putting it in the bag, the trio stood up and made a silent agreement. They began to walk away from the village to the clifftop and stood there staring out at the landscape.
Opening the bag and taking out the letter, Blaze read the letter one more time before they left there village forever to start their new lives.
"Thank you guys for everything. -Silver"
An epilogue is on the way guys and hopefully it won't take an entire year to upload.