Chapter 43

Flashback Of A King

Sonic paced back and forth in front of the cells doors, thinking. He had been doing this for over three hours and it was really starting to bore him. Sonic stopped and looked at the cell door. Julie-Su sat on the ground, watching him. Sonic glared at the cell bars and ran at them. He slammed his side into the bars and tried it for another thirty minutes, until he collapsed on the ground.

"This is hopeless, Sonic, we'll never get out," Julie-Su told him.

"Don't say that, 'Su, because sometime soon, we will," Sonic told her.

Julie-Su smiled and looked at the scratches on the stone walls.

"I guess whoever was in here before us, did those," she said.

Sonic looked over at the wall too and stood up from the ground. He walked over to the scratches and put his hand on it. Sonic ran his gloved fingers over the claw marks and then he froze. Something entered his mind. A memory? But who's memory was it?

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The cell was dark and grim looking and Sonic heard screaming. He looked over in the direction of the screaming and saw who Julie-Su and the others said was dead.

"King Max," Sonic said.

He screamed in pain as the full moon rose. His head throbbed in pain and he was trying to stop the transformation from happening. Sonic heard a loud screech and turned around to see Sonic-wolf and Sally-wolf. She ran over to her screaming father and hugged him. She had run straight through Sonic and Sonic realised that since it was a memory he wasn't real in it, he was just watching it.

"Father, I'm so sorry this happened to you!" Sally cried. "I only got in Sonic's way to be with him!"

She started to cry as she hugged her father.

"It is okay, my child, I will be fine," he calmed her.

She sniffed and King Max turned to Sonic-wolf.

"Sonic, take my crown," King Max said.

"But, Sire, I can't…" he was cut off by King Max. "Nonsense, Sonic, I believe you will be a better King than I have now become, take it."

King Max gave Sonic-wolf his crown and Sonic–wolf looked at him in confusion.

"But what about you?" Sonic-wolf asked.

Sally-wolf looked at him, tears flowing down her cheeks. King Max wiped them away and shushed her.

"This curse … is driving me insane … I am losing my sanity … Sonic, you know … what you must do," King Max said as he cringed in pain.

"But … but, Sire, I can't," Sonic-wolf said.

"Sonic, it is not a request, it is an order," King Max said.

Sonic-wolf gulped and grabbed the sword of Acorns out of the belt he was wearing. He looked down at it and then back at the transforming King.

"Do it, Sonic, show me no mercy, like you showed Robotnik no mercy," King Max said.

"Daddy, NO!" Sally-wolf exclaimed.

"Don't worry, you will still have Sonic," he said as he pushed Sally-wolf out of their hug and Sonic-wolf lifted the sword of Acorns into the air.

Sonic-wolf brought the sword down and it cut into the King's shoulder and sliced his heart in half. The silver burned his skin, but since his heart was cut in half and he was dead, he felt no pain. Sally-wolf cried and ran into Sonic-wolf's arms. He dropped the sword of Acorns and collapsed onto his knees, holding Sally-wolf in a tight embrace. Both Sonic's had tears in their eyes. Sonic looked over at the dead King's corpse and saw it blacken. Sonic's eyes widened.

"That's what happens when a werewolf … dies?" Sonic asked himself.

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Sonic shook his head and grabbed at it with his hand. Julie-Su ran over to Sonic.

"Sonic, are you okay?" she asked him.

"Yeah, I just saw someone's flashback when I touched that scratch mark," Sonic said.

"What was it about?" Julie-Su asked.

"King Sonic didn't murder King Max. He was doing him a favour. He was stopping him from going insane from the curse, because he couldn't handle it," Sonic explained to Julie-Su. "That's probably why Queen Sally acts like that, because she lost her father and King Sonic is acting cruel and heartless because, he wasn't ready to be King or the Mobians didn't deserve a werewolf as a King."

"You saw his … death?" she asked.

"Yes, and I saw what happens after werewolves die. It's not a pretty sight," Sonic sighed, shaking his head.

Julie-Su nodded and watched Sonic walk away from the wall and toward the cell door.

"Hmmm…" Sonic said.

"What is it, Sonic?" Julie-Su asked.

"I've done it before, but how can I control it?" Sonic asked himself.

"What are you talking about?" Julie-Su asked.

"I once attacked Scourge and Fiona in their cell through the bars and tried choking them. Even though I wasn't in control then, I felt my fingernails getting longer and sharper, so maybe…" Sonic explained.

"NO, Sonic! Don't do that!" Julie-Su exclaimed.

"It's our only chance of escaping, 'Su," Sonic told her.

Sonic tried to get angry, but he was too calm. There had to be another way to do it? He looked down at his hands and growled. But, once he growled he saw it. Small claws were protruding from his fingertips and he smiled. Sonic put his arm out of the cell door and tried picking the lock with his claws.

"What are you doing?" Julie-Su asked.

"Picking the lock with my claws," Sonic answered.

As soon as he finished that sentence he heard a soft click and he brought his arm back through the bars and pushed the door open.

"Voila. Ladies first," Sonic said.

"Very funny, but it could mess up your chances against the curse by doing that," she told him.

"So, sue me. Now come on!" Sonic said, grabbing her hand and speeding out down the dungeon hallway.