No Brotherly Love

A Fading Memory

Sonics POV:

It's been two weeks since I lost her, since Amy died. God, how hard it is for me to think that she's gone…forever. The only thing I can do now is, well, that's the point, I can't think of anything. My life has become so dull. Everyone around me is different. They're all saying how they'll miss her, and saying sorry to one another, but not me. I've made sure they're all alright but not a single one has cared for me. How selfish are they? Still, everyone is lost right now, Shadow the most. He's fading away, literally, and his mother is dead. I can see the sadness in his eyes. His red orbs are glazed with tears, but even with me being his father, I can't say anything to him, any words to comfort him vanish in my mind when I think of him as my son. He and I had come close to tearing each others throats apart, now we are family, bonded through blood and flesh.

I'm walking down a corridor when I hear faint singing. I follow the notes in the air until I come to the atrium of mine and G.U.N's makeshift base. When I look inside I see wooden floor boards and in the centre is flowers pushing through the small cracks, with a ray of sunlight surrounding them. I see someone caressing the beautiful flowers. Who do I know who loves flowers? Cream. I walk towards her and listen to the words she's singing.

"When I see you you'll be gone, when I can feel you I can't be wrong, so tell me now while you're here, why can't I see you my dear…"

"That's a lovely song Cream." I say suddenly, clearly startling her. She looks up to me with her chocolate brown eyes and gives an innocent smile. I smile back at her and sit down next to her.

She starts humming the same tune and I look to her, curiosity in my eyes. She looks down, blushing as if she's embarrassed. I smile to her as if to say continue. She catches on and slowly the volume of her voice rises. I close my eyes and listen, for the first time in a long time, I just listen.

Months pass. I still hadn't returned to my natural blue colour and instead was still in this dark, menacing form. The screaming voice of the city seems to have stopped for now. Over these long days, Cream and I had become close friends. We shared what had happened over the years and how we were feeling now, mostly about Amy. But slowly, the pain is dying. My worries for Shadow fade. How wrong it is to not care about your son when he will soon disappear from the earth. Amy will never fade away. The pain no longer stings my heart like a poison blade, but instead it makes me stronger. I now fight for my love, my son and my friends. The Sonic from all those years ago had certainly faded. Now my speed would be used to make swift blows to my enemy, Miles Prower. And indeed it had. Miles was now in pieces; his insanity was getting to him as he saw his apocalyptic kingdom come crashing down. Soon we'd make the final blow and I could take my revenge upon my once close friend and brother.

But for now we were looking through the city ruins, helping whatever survivors we could. It was on one of these missions that I found her, and my life would never be the same.

I was inside an abandoned church and had searched every room, only to find no one. As I was leaving, I felt as if gravity had changed direction. Rather then pulling me down it was pulling me back. I looked back into the church once more, when I saw something on the floor of the altar. I walked towards it and soon saw that it was something covered in a white sheet. I bent down towards it and reached my hand out to grab the fabric. When I clenched my fist around the material, I slowly pulled it to my right and that's when I saw her. She looked just like, "Amy…?"

Her fur was silver and her skin pale. She was wearing a ragged bride's dress which was covered in ash and was torn in places. Unfortunately, this revealed parts of her bra and underwear. I looked away blushing, ashamed of myself. I looked back down to her, doing my best not to get any rude thoughts. She groans and starts to stir. Her eyes flutter open and they were…beautiful. They seemed golden, shining like a star. Slowly, I found myself leaning forwards. I could feel her warm breath on my face, and there was so little of a gap between us. Her eyes were open, barely, and she then closed the gap between us. I was kissing someone I didn't know, but yet I was enjoying it. The rays of sun were shining through the windows on us. We pulled apart, taking deep breaths. At this moment I could see she looked injured, so I gently picked her up in my arms and left the church for the base.

On the way, she had fallen into slumber once more. 'Why was she in the middle of an altar? And better yet, why is she in a brides dress?' As I ran I remembered the kiss. 'Why did I do that? Amy hasn't been gone for even a year and now I'm…no. I'm not replacing her; it was one kiss, just one kiss.' Little did I know that that kiss had sealed something between her and me.

When we got to the base, the doctors spent hours examining her. In this time I fell asleep.

Dream:

I found myself in the middle of a street, the sky was pouring rain and it was night. I looked around, hoping to find any clue to where I was. I was under a street light that was flickering, nearly going out. I looked around me and all the streets faded into blackness, emptiness. When I looked back towards the street light, I saw a small box. As soon as it caught my gaze I heard a small cry, a baby's cry. I walked towards the young one and bent down, hanging my head above it, observing it. It wasn't crying in any common way a baby would, it was crying because it felt pain. I don't know how I knew, but I did. I picked it up and held it in my arms. I tried to calm it, but nothing worked. I tried to think of anything that could help, when it hit me, the song Cream sung. I closed my eyes and sang the words. "When I see you you'll be gone, when I feel you I can't be wrong, so tell me now while you're here, why can't I see you my dear." And much to my relief, the crying ceased. But when I opened my eyes, I saw not a child, but a flower, a rose. As I lifted it to my face studying it, I heard the crying once more and suddenly the rose burst into flames. As the flame grew, the crying became louder and more frantic. I dropped the rose to the ground and slowly it turned to ash. I stood up, still looking at what was once a child, turned to a flower which burnt to ash. 'The child was burning. The child was burning!' I screamed in my head. I looked up and saw Amy, her stomach was larger. She was pregnant. Blood cover her front and she spoke as if she was empty, soulless, "How could you Sonic? Do you know who that was?"

"N-No…" I stuttered through my growing tears.

"It was your son. It was Shadow." Her tone began to change to a hateful one, "But you couldn't realize that because you don't care about him, you don't care about OUR son! YOU don't care about OUR family! YOU don't care about ME!"

"No! That's not true! I…" I shouted, in tears now. I turned from her and saw that other woman, that one I kissed at the church. She started to walk towards me. The rain was getting heavier and Amy spoke once more.

"Sonic, can't you see? It's a bit convenient she's at the altar in a brides dress and you find yourself pulled towards her, isn't it? Can't you see? You've been setup! You're married to her now! She is your wife and now because of that kiss you'll forget about me, Shadow and everyone else! You'll be pulled into the darkness! Back to the way you were born! He set you up! Your father set you up!"

I turned to Amy, "Father…?"

Amy's tone changed to a sad one. "He was the one you saw in that factory. He was the one that had that horde of mutated humans which were infected by the virus. They were infected with his blood, your blood."

I fell to my knees as the water level began to rise because of the rain. I looked up to Amy and saw Shadow in her hands. She handed him to me and I looked down to him. The water level was so high we were now being drowned by it, but I didn't move. I looked up at Amy; I could see blue flames behind her. Before I could warn her, she was engulfed in them. I looked behind me and saw the same happen to the other female, my…wife, except she was surrounded by orange flames. I looked down to my son in my arms and suddenly we were surrounded by black flames. After this, I woke up.

End Dream.

Real World:

I woke up in the same chair I was asleep in. Except I could see the girl with golden eyes bent down in front of me, looking up at me. "You?"

"Me?" She replied with such an innocent smile. When I gave her an accusing glare, her expression changed to an alarmed one. "What's wrong?"

I looked to what she was wearing. She was wearing a very baggy shirt, which exposed her left shoulder. She was also wearing a skirt with boots on her feet. She wore fingerless gloves. At that moment I seized her left hand and looked to her ring finger. She indeed had a ring on, with strange patterns around it, they were glowing white. I let her hand go and it fell on my lap. She had a confused look on her face, so I tried to ignore it and placed my head in my hands. She let out a sigh and gently rubbed my leg. I looked down to her hand once more, then to her. She had an innocent smile on her face.

"I don't know who the lucky guy is myself if you're wondering?" She said. "I just know I can't take it off."

"Who are you?" I asked her.

"I…I don't know." Her expression changed, she looked as if she was lost. "I just remember loosing myself in a nightmare. I was confused, lost and scared. Terrified, in other words." She added with a chuckle at the end. The light began to make her golden eyes and silver hair shine. She looked beautiful, to say the least. "And then I was woken up by…" She became wide eyed. She chewed the end of her baggy shirt, smiled and began to blush. "I was woken up by a…kiss."

I was dumbfounded now. This girl had no clue who she was. She only remembers being lost in a nightmare and being smooched? Man, I know this is going to be a confusing relationship.

Hours past. Me and this girl talked and talked, well, her mostly but I never stopped listening. Cream thought this girl was Amy, but realized and apologised. The girl, who I've come to call Alicia, had decided to wander off with Cream and talk. So I saw it as an opportunity for some shut eye.

When I woke up, I decided to see Shadow. When I arrived, Shadow looked better, well, until he saw me. Metal came in and said, "Sonic? What a pleasant surprise. Listen, I've explained everything to Shadow. But something bothers me." He looked to Shadow and waved him to leave us. Once Shadow was gone he continued. "You see, yesterday, Shadow was getting worse and worse. I didn't think I could keep him with us anymore than another week before he…faded away. But since this morning, just before you arrived with that girl, he started to get better. You see, he's no longer fading. Instead he seems to be reappearing. Now, I want you to go and talk to Knuckles, he has something interesting to tell you." I nodded and left to find Knuckles.

When I eventually did find him, he explained one of his ancient stories to me. "There were two families, one of darkness, one of light. One day, a child from both sides left their families and decided to be together. The church you found that girl in was believed to be where they were to have married. But the family of light stopped the marriage and bound there enemy and traitorous daughter to the bonds of mortals, with no memory of who they were. Sonic, you know nothing of your childhood, who your parents were, where you came from, nothing. And neither did Amy. They say the only way for the pair to become their old selves is to die or die in another sense, in other words lose themselves. Now this form of yours is very dark, yet you're not evil. So is it possible that you're the son of darkness? Possibly. And Amy dies and then vanishes; Shadow starts to fade away because she's gone. Yet when you found this girl at the church, Shadow gets better. This girl looks like Amy, but her eyes etc. are different, but she's still kind according to Cream, like Amy was. She also has no clue on who she is, yet she was awakened by a kiss. And she was in a bride's dress that looked old and battered, she was also found at the church where the two lovers were to get married and she was at the altar. It all makes sense. Sonic, you're the son of darkness and this girl is the daughter of light, not only that, but she's Amy."

"Wait, so I married Amy?" I asked confused.

"Yes-what?" He shouted at the top of his lungs.

"I kissed her at the altar. I don't know what came over me, but it happened and now she and I are married." I explained.

"Ooooohhhhh…" Knuckles said.

"But what if she's not Amy?" I asked.

"Well…" before knuckles could reply, we heard someone calling.

"Sonikku! Sonikku where are you?" We looked to who was shouting it. It was Alicia.

I looked to Knuckles, expecting something. He had a smug look on his face and said, "Does that answer your question?"

End Chapter.

This was a long chapter. Anyway, is Alicia, Sonics accidental wife, Amy after all? Is Sonic really the son of a dark force? Who knows, maybe he is and maybe he isn't. You'll have to wait and see.