Luna: Scourge..*shivers* I'm cold...

Scourge: Come on Luna, we have to keep on walking. We can't risk being caught.

Luna: If the demons were planning on catching us, we would have been taken away long ago..

Scourge: They already took him. I'm not letting them take you as well now hurry up!

Luna: *stops* Sonic sacrificed his life so that we could live to fight another day. And that's what I plan to do.

Scourge: *stops and looks at her* Are you insane?! He wanted us to live, I'm going to leave it like that.

Luna: Why would he let them take him and save our lives just so we could live an extra year and then be caught! He has faith in us Scourge.

Scourge: And I have faith that if you keep believing in that nonsense you will be on the road to insanity. Now come on.

They walked threw many different alleys and streets. Finally they came to a huge forest surrounded by thick thorn bushes. They both walked straight through them. The thorns scratched at their faces and their fur. The scratches were small though, and they weren't very harmful. They had gone through these bushes many times before. And after about 10 minutes of thorns and leaves, they came to a small clearing. In the middle of the clearing, there was a fort made of brick from the castle, and fallen branches. Luna and Scourge had made it the night after they ran away. It was good shelter from the wind and the rain. A stream ran about a mile away and they got their water from it. Deeper into the forest, some kind of weird fruit grew. The fruit was bitter, but it was better than starving.

Luna: I'm going to go pick some fruit.

Scourge: Do you want me to go with you?

Luna: I'm not a baby! I'll be fine!

Scourge: I was just asking...

She rolled her eyes and ran off into the forest. Scourge shivered and realized just how cold it was. He began to make a fire in their little "fire pit". The fire crackled and he remembered his brother. When he passed out after the fight, his hands kept on randomly forming fire balls and balls of electricity. It was both frightening and amazing. He wondered if the demons kept him alive.

Scourge:*shakes head* No, Sonic is dead. end of story.

Still he couldn't help but wonder... He heard a scream in the distance. It sounded... familiar..

Scourge: LUNA!

He ran as fast as his feet would carry him. He saw a red, fluffy dog, a demon holding Luna by her neck against the tree. When Luna saw him her eyes widened.

Luna: SCOURGE! NO IT'S A-

She was cut off by the red dog who put her hand over her mouth.

Red dog: We don't want to ruin the surprise do we?

Another demon, a brown jackrabbit, came out of the bushes behind Scourge holding a needle with a mysterious orange liquid. Scourge didn't notice him though. But Luna did.

Luna: *bites the dog's hand* SCOURGE WATCH OUT!

Too late. The demon jabbed Scourge with the needle. Scourge collapsed to his knees and began to scream in pain. Luna punched the red dog in the face and ran. She was no help to Scourge if they were both captured. The demons smiled, revealing blood soaked teeth. They turned to Scourge.

Red dog: Your brother has been quite useful to us...

Scourge's eyes widened when he heard that his brother was alive.

Brown jackrabbit: What's wrong? Did you actually believe that he was dead! Ha! You hedgehogs really are stupid.

Scourge:*passes out*

Red dog: * pulls out walkie-talkie* We got him

?:Good, bring him back and give him the antidote.

The two demons tied up Scourge and half carried/ half dragged him to the base. It was a long walk and took until night to get there. They gave him the antidote and threw him into the cell with a sleeping Sonic. Sonic had already been experimented on today. His fur was covered in blood and he had cuts everywhere. He was awoken by the heavy door slamming shut and painful groaning coming from someone else. He walked up to the mysterious black outline and he could just make out that his visitor was a hedgehog. He gasped when his crystal started to glow, he noticed a green crystal starting to glow as well. He couldn't believe it! That only happened when his brother was nearby.. could it be? No, it couldn't. His mind was probably was just imagining things. The other hedgehog groaned and rolled onto his back. Slowly his eyes blinked open and now Sonic knew exactly who it was.

Sonic: SCOURGE!?

Scourge:huh?..What?*sees Sonic* SONIC!? Am I dead?!

Sonic:*laughs* Your not dead. How did they catch you? Where's Luna!?

Scourge:*hugs him* She got away. Have you been here this whole time? Why didn't you escape?

Sonic: The demons promised if I didn't try to escape they would leave you two alone.

Scourge: AND YOU ACTUALLY TRUSTED THEM?

Sonic: I had no choice! If I failed to try to escape, they would kill me and probably kill you guys as well.

Scourge: *looks at Sonic's blood-stained fur* What have they been doing to you?

Sonic: Experiments... painful ones..

Scourge; I'm so sorry, if I would have known..

Sonic: It was better for you to think I was dead.

Scourge;*gets angry* FOR WHO!? FOR YOU?! YOU LEFT US! ME AND LUNA WERE HEARTBROKEN! WE BOTH CRIED FOR 4 DAYS STRAIGHT! MOM DIED AND THEN I THOUGHT I HAD LOST YOU AS WELL! IF IT WEREN'T FOR LUNA I WOULD HAVE ENDED MY MISERY THAT NIGHT! * starts crying*

Sonic: I didn't want you guys to come after me. If we were all caught, there would be no one left to fight the demons.

Scourge: You actually believe we could fight them?! Sonic, we're 5 years old!

Sonic: If we won't fight, then who will?

Scourge: Why are we even talking about fighting them when we're still stuck here!?

Sonic: Not for long.

Scourge: What do you mean?

Sonic whispers a plan in Scourge's ear. Scourge's eyes lit up and he agrees. They both talked for hours and then went to sleep. For once, Sonic was happy again. His twin brother was here with him, alive. If only Luna was here. He silently thanked the gods for answering his prayers. Maybe they hadn't given up on him. Maybe he still had a chance to make things right.

To be continued...