Chapter Seventeen: Monster?
At this moment, Exetior stood there in surprise. Sonic had just called him by his real name. Exetior has never heard himself being referred to as Sonic in over two years.
"You heard me! You are Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!" Sonic told him, sternly. Exetior then threw Sonic to the ground.
"How dare you call me that! That's not who I am! I am Exetior!" he snapped.
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that! But I know deep down that you know that isn't true! I know that, because I AM YOU!" Sonic yells.
"You and I are nothing alike! I have no weakness, and emotion!" Exetior retorted.
"That's bullshit! You are me, and you know it! You were the same as I was before you died in that battle! You have feelings, and you have emotions, just like me, and every living thing in every universe!" Sonic explains.
"Lies!" Exetior yells in frustration.
The gang who were watching the fight were very confused. Why have they not been killed yet? What's holding this up? They went closer to the scene to investigate the situation. They saw that it was Sonic and Exetior arguing over something that sounds personal.
"What the hell is going on here?" Knuckles thought. He was carrying Shadow's dead body, as he was the strongest to carry him.
"I don't know. They're having a discussion about something." Tails replied.
"About what?" Amy thought.
"Beats me." Rouge replies, as she is still sobbing, over Shadow's death.
"Let's leave them to do so. Don't interfere just yet." Tikal advised.
"Good thinking, Tikal. I was never going to be anyway." Cream added in fear.
"You have no weakness, huh? Well answer me this. You say that you are the saviour of emotions and love. But the biggest question of them all, why have you not killed the Amy from your dimension? Why haven't you killed my Amy yet? How many other Amys from other dimensions have you spared?" Sonic asked demandingly.
"That is none of your concern why! She's still yet to reply to the question of joining me!" Exetior replied angrily.
"Is that really the reason? Because I think I know what the real reason is." Sonic told him.
"SILENCE!" Exetior yells.
"Your anger tells the whole story." Sonic began.
"I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!" Exetior yells again.
"You know that whatever it is that I'm going to say next is true." Sonic continued.
"I MUST NOT SHOW WEAKNESS!" Exetior yells yet again.
The truth..." Sonic started.
"I MUST NOT EXPRESS EMOTION!" Exetior screams.
"... is that you..." Sonic continues.
"I MUST NOT BECOME A WEAK SOUL!" Exetior screams again.
"... STILL LOVE AMY!" Sonic finishes.
"SHUT UP! JUST... SHUT UP!" Exetior yells one last time.
At this point, he charges towards Sonic, and tries to punch him. But his super form wore off suddenly. Sonic then dodged the punch, and Exetior collapsed to the ground. After that, he heard the sound of somebody sobbing. Sonic took a closer look at Exetior's face, and saw something he never expected. There were tears. But this time it wasn't blood, they were real human tears. Exetior was actually crying.
"Wow! I never knew demons could cry." Sonic stated in surprise.
This even surprised everyone. They were looking at the monster who murdered so many people, who shows no emotion or feelings, to cry for the very first time. Who would have thought that this could be possible?
"Don't look at me! I'm no God! I'm a fraud! I am weak!" Exetior cried. Sonic knelt in front of him, and tapped his shoulder.
"No! No, it's not weak at all! It's actually a good sign that you're crying. It's REALLY great! Because that proves my point that you're still me. It shows that you are still the same Sonic that everyone loves." Sonic told him.
"But... look at me! I'm a monster!" Exetior stated, as he lowered his head, and continued crying.
"A monster? Monsters don't cry. But you are crying, therefore that does not make you a monster. You've been trapped behind this dark magic for so long, you've lost sight of who you really are. You want me to tell you who you are?" Sonic started. Exetior looked up at him.
"Who am I?" he asked, with tears still flowing in his eyes.
"You are Sonic the Hedgehog! You are the fastest thing alive. You love adventure, and chilli dogs. You stop at nothing, until evil has been stopped around your planet. You are, the hero of Mobius!" Sonic explained.
"But... my Amy doesn't love me any more!" Exetior sobbed.
"She does. I know she does. And you know as well as I do that her resurrecting you into this wasn't her fault. She was never told that the book had black magic within it. I want to help you, but I cannot help you unless you trust me." Sonic told him.
"Re... Really? You can do that?" Exetior asked him, calmly.
"I believe that I can." Sonic replied.
"How are you going to do that?" Exetior asked.
"Well it's not something that has been done before, but I'm pretty certain that this will work. You'll just have to trust me." Sonic told him.
"OK, what was it you have planned?" Exetior asked him, in a serious tone.
"Well it's hard to explain, but Knuckles, we need your help with this one. Let's go to the Master Emerald, and see if we can get this magic spell we have planned working." Sonic explained.
"What spell is this?" Exetior asked.
"It's an old story I've heard many years ago. It's hard to explain, nor has it ever proven to have worked, but this is our last chance of trying to fix something." Knuckles explained. Everyone looked at one another, and nodded in agreement.
"OK everyone, LET'S DO THIS!" Sonic exclaims, as everyone including Exetior made their way towards the Master Emerald.