Sonic and the Power of the Shade Stones
By: Cutegirlmayra1 (who, btw likes reviews and tips, etc. so don't be afraid to comment!)
Ch. 5
Amy helplessly walked around the beach, opposite of Shadow's direction. She kicked what she thought was a stone but was really the shell of a crab who glared at her fearlessly and then crawled off. She sighed, what was she gonna do? 'Hopefully,' she thought, 'Tails will repair the plane and come back to rescue me and Sonic.'. Then she thought about Sonic and how he attacked them, she shook her head. "Sonic would never attack us! He must be trapped in his body or something. I'm sure Tails will think of something to free him! Anything!" she started crying, remembering his cruel smile as he watched the plane disappear into the dark hurricane he created. "Ohh, I can't cry now.." Amy said through a shaking voice, due to her crying. She sniffed, "I have to find some way off of here.. But first, I need shelter right? That's what all the survivor shows talk about." she made her way deeper into the jungle, without knowing she was being followed…
Back with Eggman, he sat in his large chair, which now tilted to a side due to the large air ship being flung down. While he angrily thought, the other robots were repairing the ship, and Docoe was cooking while Bocoe brought over the Doctor's meal.
"Here you go, Doctor Eggman. A delicious omelet!" Bocoe placed the tray in front of him.
"Fool!" Eggman smashed the plate away from him, as it's contents were thrown into the air. Bocoe panicked but skillfully was able to catch each item and have it land where it once stood before, he let out a sigh of relief. "Can't you see that my ultimate change of world domination is on the line here! And you serve me food?!" he slammed his fist on the arm rest of the chair. "I want Sonic! Can you buffoons bring me him on a sliver plate!?" Docoe and Bocoe began running frantically around while Eggman threw a tantrum and begun flinging mechanical tools like wrenches and screwdrivers at them. Bakkun hovered up to Eggman nervously and stopped him for a moment as he held his hands up to speak,
"Hold on, Eggman! Don't we have those left over Robots like E-something or other? Like that one that betrayed you, Omega, was it?" Bakkun saw Eggman lower his fist slowly.
"True,… I do have some spares… alright. Send them to hunt down Sonic." he sat back in his chair, trying to be as straight as he could be even with the added tilt. "What are you standing around for?! Gather them up and get on with it!" he swung at Bakkun but he was able to dodge it and fly off quickly,
"Right away, Eggman! Please don't hurt me!" he exited the door, flying past the other two guard robots with electrical spears in there hands.
Eggman then looked at Bocoe and Docoe, "Well? What are you waiting for? Bring me my omelet! I'm starved!" the two robots blinked for a moment and then scrambled to appease there master, "Coming Doctor Eggman!" they shouted in unison.
Amy made her way carefully across an uneasy rock formation that looked like a bridge over two large cliffs. She wobbled a bit, and a lose rock fell. She watch it, but it never made a sound, she gulped and moved on. Below her, Dark Sonic moved skillfully on the side of the bridge, hidden within the shade and also directly behind her. 'She doesn't seem to sense my presence, I could end her existence now…' he moved one hand up, it began to charge dark power within it, Ready to blast on command. Amy moved one big foot over to the next small distance of earth near here, but something made her flinch. She turned around and looked behind her, something in her was telling her to prepare herself, but she couldn't understand what. Sonic let his hand back down, 'It couldn't be..' he stated in complete hatred. Amy moved along, looking back every now and again, and finally almost coming to the end,
"Yes! A little further now Amy. I'm sure you can keep out of Shadow's way if your completely on the other side of the island! Maybe there's a cave near those mountains over there…" she had a habit of speaking out loud it seemed, and she held her arms out wide again to balance herself on the beam or lose rock. "Please don't fall, Please don't fall." she kept chanting.
'Hmph, this creature looks pathetic like the rest of them. I suppose that last act she did was merely a great amount of luck.' Sonic raised his hand again, inching closer to her. 'However, this female has in her a Light Stone. Though it be only one, I can't allow her to gain anymore power. She must die.' he launched his attack, however, right before it left his hand, Amy had placed her foot on lose earth and started falling from the bridge. His ball of dark energy missed, and zoomed right past her as she plummeted downward toward a river. "AHHHHHHHHH!"
'…marvelous luck indeed…' Sonic dashed forward, grabbing her in air and then having some sort of dark mist fill his body, he was able to fire another dark beam that caused the raging water below them to spurt up like a large gusher and catch them. They were then sucked under the water until Dark Sonic flew out of the water and tossed Amy against the rocky wall. "OFFPH!" Amy cried out, coughing out water and feeling the dreadful impact of the rock wall beside her. "uh..huh?" she looked up, and standing in front of her was a incredibly dark figure with glowing white sockets. "S-sonic..?"
'W…what?" Sonic, within his mind, heard Amy calling his name. He opened his eyes and squinted toward the large screen. He saw his other crossing his arms and looking out the screen as well, seeming puzzled and unamused. "Wha..what happened.. What'd you do to her!?" he tried to stand up, but only was able to manage getting a knee up, he sat back down and turned toward his darker self, gasping for air in exhaustion.
The darker Sonic looked at him and smiled, "I was going to kill her, but she fell. My pride couldn't allow her to die on her own means and not by my hand.' he explained.
"Kill…her?" he looked back at the screen.
Amy slowly got up, but the Sonic before her raised a hand and she got back down. "uh… hello.." she nervously said, making her voice become even squeaker. She cleared her throat and stood up again. "T-thanks for saving me.. Again." the old Sonic did this as a daily routine, but she didn't know if this was Sonic… or his now evil side. But if he was evil, would he really save her? 'Sonic had to be in there somewhere then!' she told herself and tried to stand once more.
'Fearless… isn't she? I hate the courageous.'
He blasted the wall, she quickly dodged it. Just in the nick of time too, because the wall started tumbling down like a rock slide. She quickly summoned her hammer, and as Sonic moved to some stones on the river that were like large stepping stones, she swung her hammer like a baseball bat that sent flying boulders at him.
'Feisty though, at least she won't let herself die. Now,… this is interesting…' the dark Sonic smiled in Sonic's mind, enjoying the fact that his prey was fighting back.
'Don't hurt her!" Sonic pounced at his other self, but he was still to weak. His other turned only slightly to an angle and jabbed him in the stomach, still smiling.
'You'd best rest more before you try to fight me again,… weakling.' he took his other hand and begun choking Sonic. But something hit his head from outside the mind and he ended up just tossing Sonic to the side again, 'WHAT?!'
'You'd best pay attention to Amy, she's not one to give up easily..' Sonic said, slowly getting up, but his other growled and kicked him back down.
'We'll see how long that last!'
Amy cheered, she had hit him once! He was using some sort of dark barrier where he would move his hand and the boulder would be smashed by the field of dark energy in his hand, like a shield that pulsed from his hand into the air. He seemed to have miscalculated her last hit, and it whammed him on the head. When he moved his head back toward her, he looked ticked off. "heh heh… don't underestimate me." she said weakly, beginning to moved slowly away.
"HURRAW!" he flew at her with great speed, she was able to dodge his plows by countering with her hammer, holding it up so he hit it instead of her, but his hits were to hard. He put his hands together and raised them up high, hitting down hard as she countered it with her hammer but it flung her quite a ways back. She fumbled and slowly made her way up, he started firing balls of dark energy at her again, and a few were hitting her and she winced at the pain. The spots that he hit, simmered and seemed to burn her fur a little. 'Ouch.. This can't be Sonic, Sonic would never hurt me…' she thought to herself. 'And there's no way I can beat Sonic.. Even without the dark power he has I still couldn't beat him! It was hard enough to hit that boulder at him, knowing it would hurt him…' she held her arm that still had some steam coming off it from the last blow. "Sonic!" she cried out, "I swear, I don't know how but.. I'll save you!"
Dark Sonic stopped the parade of dark energy balls to look at her in surprise for a moment. Then laughed hysterically at her. 'Save… you? Hahaha! She can't even use her light power! How will she be able to save you?' he stopped laughing and targeted her again, 'I want her to feel it's hopeless! So when I see the last bit of life from her, it will be begging to die!' he fired them again, she danced around them though, and finally started running toward him,
"I won't give up!" she called out, leaping into the air and holding her hammer in two hands, ready to hit him. He looked up and grabbed her hammer, forcing her down and stepping on her hands. She let out a cry as she released her hammer. 'Give up. Cry for mercy.' Amy kept struggling. 'GIVE UP.' yet she kept kicking and grunting, "Let me go!" 'Why won't you just accept defeat!?' "You jerk! Your nothing but a rotten, evil and cruel spirit that took over my love! Let me go and free him or I'll knock you out of him!"
Sonic stumbled back, looking at her in pure shock. 'She… she seriously won't accept her own end..' She stood up, ready to fight again, though it looked like she couldn't even step forward anymore. "C-come on…" she huffed and puffed, there was no more strength left in her but she summoned another Piko piko hammer and pointed it at him. "Sc-scared..? Ya, well, you'd….urk.. Better be!" she moved on step forward and then collapsed. "I..won't let you…hurt … Sonic…" she fainted again, there had been to much stress on her body already, she couldn't take it much more.
'No…AMY!' Sonic tried to crawl toward his darker self, grabbing his foot he looked up, 'I'm begging you! Leave her alone, she's not a threat to you!'
Sonic looked at Amy, then shouted in frustration as his body filled with dark force.
'Foolish creatures!' he swung his leg around and bashed Sonic far away from him. 'ERG!' he then looked back with an aggressive face to the uncurious Amy on the ground. He clinched his teeth and screamed.
Sonic roared and dashed toward her, in his hand was a spear of dark power, he flinched and then shot down.
'NO! AMY!' Sonic looked up and reached his hand toward the screen, but Amy was still breathing, 'wh..what?' he looked to his other.
'..why.. Why would she not surrender?!' his whole body shook, 'How can I kill it if it's not afraid and trembling at my power! How could I kill it if it's not stupid enough to allow itself to die!? How could she not be weep and beg for her life!' the other Sonic rammed his fist to the ground. 'I won't toss my pride away for some weak and pathetic creature! I will crush it when it knows there's no hope!'
Sonic realized something then, his other was so filled with pride and the thought that he had the most frightening power that he wouldn't kill Amy unless she gave up and surrendered to him. But he knew Amy better, this creep must have not seen all of his memories of Amy. Because even in the most hopeless of times, Amy would never fall to her knees if she was fighting for something. In this case… himself.
The dark dagger upon Sonic's hand shimmered away, he breathed heavily as sweat and water dropped from his spines. He growled at Amy's fainted body and picked her up, 'At least she can be amusing.. I'll keep her alive till she knows there's no hope for her. Till then,' he held up his hand and slashed it through her body, but there was no wound on the girl. He hissed as his hand came out with a Stone that Glowed a bright white color, and cloud like mist surrounded it. It burnt his hand and he released it too the ground. However, the Stone shook and flew back into Amy's body. 'Tck … looks like my sister is already attached to her soul.. That's not the greatest sign, but as long as I keep my eye on this girl there shouldn't be a problem.. She'll be dead soon anyway.' he threw Amy's body onto his shoulder and dashed up the rocky wall. The once sunny day on the beach turned to a dark and cold night after the storm, But the clouds had rolled back in, and were threatening the island with another chance of rainfall.
Amy woke up and looked around at her surrounds, she was in a large fallen log, some leaves were around her as a kind of bed cushion and she bonked her head on the log's roof. "Ow…" she said tiredly and held her head with one hand. Then looked to see the entrance to the fallen log. She quickly crawled toward it and looked out, a light blue fire emerged at the entrance and she stumbled back, "Eep!" she cried out, moving back into the log. She looked to the other direction, it was all dark, not a spot of light. "Hmm.." she said, puzzled and a little worried. 'That dark Sonic must of spared me, I should try and get out of here anyway though, maybe try and contact tails. TAILS!' she scrambled to get her cell phone out. 'Oh, thank goodness! I totally forgot all about it!' she pressed Tails's number into the phone and waited,
"I'm sorry, you are outside our service range, please find a suitable contention elsewhere in the area-"
She hung up, looking hopeless depressed. "I should have figured.." she thought out loud again, "getting a signal on an ancient mysterious island, Oh yeah, the phone companies best outpost." she humored herself as she continued to crawl through the log. She held out a hand and noticed a boulder was blocking the last entrance. "That sly hog." she said, and Summoned her hammer, ready to swing, but before she did something had grabbed her hammer and it burnt to a crispy ash pile behind her. It was seconds, and she turned around very slowly with wide eyes.
Sonic chuckled, he threw her over to the other side. "OW!" Amy let out a cry, falling face first in the pile of leaves behind her. "What was that for!? Trying to get out?! A girl needs to breath you know!" she held her head. "Jerk.." she mumbled.
Sonic stared at her, through the low lighting of the barely visible moon, she couldn't really see his face. But she knew he was smiling, because she kept hearing him silently laughing at her. "Why you-!" she flung some leaves at him, he just burned them in mid air with blue fire. "Hey! Be careful! You could turn this whole place into a nasty camp fire!" she exclaimed, and the hedgehog chuckled again. "Listen, I don't know if this is torture or a kidnapping scheme. But I won't stand to be locked up IN A LOG!" she tried to move back toward the entrance and Sonic just sent a small ember of blue fire on toward her butt…
"!" she hit her head on the log again, and Sonic kept laughing. "YOU LITTLE-!" she summoned her hammer but he caught it again, this time flinging her over himself. Even in the crammed area of the inner log, he was able to use enough force to slide her body over his and fling her back. "Offph!" she cried out. "okay.. New plan." she turned around, glaring at him as he walked with bended knees toward the entrance, smirked back at her, and sat down right at it. Obviously, he wasn't going to allow her to escape. "…I don't get it. A second ago you wanted to kill me, now your playing guard dog?" his grin never left him. "Fine, you know what. You win." she headed back toward the boulder, holding her hammer and hopping he couldn't see in the dark. She readied her hammer, but a blast of blue light filled the area, "AHHH!" she hit the boulder and flew out. "What the heck!?" she cried out. Holding her bottom and rubbing any fire left on it off. Thank goodness her dress wasn't burnt though.
'Darn it, I really thought she had even up.' the evil Sonic snickered, 'If she had, she would be dead. But since she's still kicking I'll just amuse myself.' he sat down and laid across the back of Sonic's mind. Sonic had moved to a corner to rest and store up his energy, but it seemed his anger just fed the Dark Stone's power, he would need to calm down and think up a strategy. For now though, he was happy Amy was alright and for the time being, safe.
Amy was thrown right back in the log, this time however, Sonic had found some vines that were pretty thick and tied her hands and feet together. "…I still think your underestimating me…" Amy whispered out. It seems the dark Sonic was going to rest and go to sleep. Not on Amy's watch, she started being as annoying as she could be. First, she kicked him while he tried to sleep, so he smashed her head against the log and moved away from her. Once she recovered from the splitting headache, she glared at him and stated, "The war has only begun." she started shouted and started making a ruckus singing off tune, "LALALALALA~!" really loud. He turned around, grabbed her tail and burnt it to almost the skin. She kicked him away but zipped up. "This is hostage abuse." she stated, "You will regret your actions." he chuckled again, but only faintly. She tried to kick dirt and leaves in his face but the second he held up a dark hand filled with strange tentacle-like things that swiveled toward her she bit her tongue and lowered her head and ears. A universal sign of letting the other hedgehog know he's the alpha and that she's be good now. He lowered the hand, moved over to her, and swung an arm around her and pulled her next to him, seeming to be almost asleep. She freaked out and looked at him, "Let me go!" she whispered her command, and he only opened one eye to glare at her as if saying, 'What have we learned..?' she growled and then sighed and scooted a little away from him, only to be pulled back. He smiled for a second and then seemed to be trying to fall back to sleep. Amy hated losing… but could she really stand one more burn to herself?
She bit his ear,
Apparently yes.
She woke up the next morning and was flung out, her whole head was black with burnt fur.