Were-Sonamy
Ch. 5
Little did Sonic know his little 'side quest' with Amy was far from over yet. Just a few short days later, Amy rose was still wandering around the beautiful city till dusk slowly moved its way into her path.
"Brr... it's getting cold again..." she shivered, wishing she had brought her jacket she had back in the other town on. At least then, she'd be more willing to stay out in this cold to look for her beloved Sonic.
"Gee, I wonder why I can't remember that one day at all, it's almost as if I lost a precious memory or something... I wonder what happened. I have the strangest feeling of joy when I think of it though,... I wish I could remember."
She held her head, gazing down and trying to think of what she was missing…
As she walked on ahead, one of her hands held her arm to attempt at keeping her warm, rubbing it swiftly to try and cause some friction and get some warmth running through her again. The other hand scratched and dug into her head as she closed her eyes, lowering her head to focus on the inward thoughts of her mind, trying to think about her lost memory, and if it wasn't a just a really vivid dream at all.
It was blurry… but she could hear all the sounds, she could feel the flower…
Her eyes shot open.
She felt around but couldn't find a flower on her. "Shoot… I guess it really was a dream." She looked away, sorrowfully.
She sighed and her good spirits kicked in as she continued to walk on, her breath puffing clouds as she did so down the dark and grim street, covered in rain water from the day before.
It was one of those moments where Amy was glad she had gloves on her hands at all times though, and she slightly smiled at thinking about that before returning to her original investigation of where her memory of that day went.
After all, she wasn't one to give up just like that!
And there was something too… too real about the dream… to make it even be considered one.
"... I feel like.. I had a dream but... Oh! This is foolish! Whatever!"
She threw both hands up in the air along with her head following the action, thinking maybe this time she should give up the notion.
"I give up! It seems important but if it was I would of remembered it, right? Plus, I have a speedy hedgehog to find! I don't have time to walk down memory lane!" she scolded herself out loud, quite loudly actually to where the alleys made a slight echo of her rantings.
When Amy finally did calm down, she looked around to realize how late it was, "Uh oh, I'm out late again. It's times like these I'm happy I don't have a curfew, haha...ha.." she looked around, "kinda spooky when there's no one around though..".
The streets were dark grey and empty.
The sun was just setting and Amy swore she heard a howl somewhere in the distance.
"Hehe.. okay, Amy. Get a grip." she gulped as she walked casually onward, her eyes shifting about her as she sweated in obvious nervousness at being out so late just by her lonesome.
"I'm sure your new hotel room is just beyond here... haha.. and uh.. it's not like Eggman's up this late anyway, right? Right. So... Pfft! Your fine~ And remember! Sonic wouldn't like a cowering lady! No, ma'am! He'd like a bold, brave, and powerful woman! You got this!" she stood up straight, arching her back with nobility, and began marching with a very serious face. Her legs moved with a bouncy rhythm, and she tried her best to laugh in the face of her fears.
"Tough girl, Amy Rose, tough girl!" she encouraged herself through these small but motivational methods of 'What would Sonic want?' discussions with herself. However, as she walked on mightily, a pair of dark shadows seemed to stalk her on the ground as she moved further and farther away.
Then a few appeared largely on the walls behind her as she passed through, though she didn't see them as they slowly decreased in size but seemed to be getting closer.
It was if the shadows were living, crawling along the spooky alley walls, and down the street after her… staying out of sight!
It was really late now, and Amy dared not think about the possibility of being lost...
"...Sonic..?" her bottom lip trembled, as she allowed herself to stop and look around, before tightening every muscle in her body up and standing straight, whimpering.
Hopelessly, she began to get scared again.
A leaf flew by quickly, as the wind roared passed and made Amy squeak loudly, flinching and turning around to embrace herself.
"Phew… Just the wind.." She sighed out, relaxing a little, before she turned back around to see chameleon-like shadow creatures right above her, some were drooling.
"...Eep...AHHHHHHHHHH!" The camera, at first, is on her sniffling face, before panning out from seeing her large gaping mouth as she screams.
Sonic and Chip were making there way (downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and they're home bound~ -song starts-) through the streets, climbing over buildings, and knocking out some unwanted trouble on the way when Sonic heard a loud scream.
His ear once again twitched upward, and his beastly face came into view.
"...No..." his eyes widened at first in disbelief.
"Amy..?" he turned his head around on the chimney tops after long ranging some chaos creatures out of his way.
He was so certain he placed her back somewhere safe, and then when she had tackled him, he had hoped she would of given up her search for him in the night, being scared from last time-
He realized as he swung towards the noise and climbed and jumped over rooftops, that she had forgotten all about that.
'Darn it!' Sonic thought, 'She couldn't have learned from the first time if there never was a first time!'
"Who?" Chip was being left behind, and though he had asked happily, he was just too busy taking pictures of the fallen foes before they disappeared into lights of dark power to realize that Sonic had dashed off without him.
"W-woah! Sonic! W-wa-wai-wait for me!" He scurried in a hover within the air, and dashed off after him.
Flying up near him as he had landed on the ground again, running on all fours, he leaned down from the air and looked innocently at him. "Who's Amy, Sonic? A friend of yours?"
"You know, Amy. The girl I had you use that sleep powder on-" he stopped himself in the middle of explaining his pink friend, realizing that he was the only one with a memory of that last event too.
'Oh, that's right.' he thought to himself, 'Chip won't remember her. I suppose that's best, anyway.'
"Nevermind." he moved his hand in the gesture of saying to forget it, running along one arm and his back legs to do the motion for a second.
But Chip looked at him confused and squinted his eyes, suspicious.
He thought about what Sonic had first said, about the sleeping powder, and how he knew about that. Considering he never did really explain what happened with the ghosts and… come to think of it… how'd he even manage to find Sonic again in the first place?!
The following seconds later, his eyes shot up all wide and his mouth opened to an oval shape, spreading out like a starfish at his realization.
"Wait a second! That's-!... That one girl, with the flower you put in her hair!" Chip held the camera he had close to him, seeming really excited he remembered.
He kicked his legs and spun upward, "Yahooooo! I remember!" He suddenly gasped, putting both hands on his cheeks, and dragging them down.
"THAT'S RIGHT!" Chip swung his arms down, enraged, and flew angrily up to Sonic's face, making Sonic move back a bit. "You threw the sleeping powder in my FACE!" he was glaring dead into Sonic's large beastly eyes.
"You think that's funny to do to your friends? Huh! Do ya!" he kept moving closer and closer toward Sonic, forcing Sonic to move back every time he did so. "Why you-! I'll teach you a lesson about bullying your friends! Hyah! He-ah! Rak-rak-rak-rak! Rrragh!" He went to attempt at punching Sonic, or kicking him, or anything to exact some kind of revenge, but Sonic just stopped and raised his hand, letting him hit that, and dumbfounded that he had remembered so quickly.
"H-huh?"
"There! That'll do it! Try spraying me with sleeping powder again why don't'cha…" he folded his arms, nodded his head in approval of his revenge method, though Sonic only felt cotton on his hands, before flying a little ways away from Sonic, turning to face away from him.
He then started to chuckle, his shoulders bouncing as his head lowered down, turning mischievously back to look at Sonic, having a hand up to his sly smirk. "You two were totally flirting.."
Sonic groaned, getting upset, and shook his head.
This was the exact reason he wanted Chip to forget the whole memory scene…
"Oh Yeah! Haha! I had almost forgotten that memory... Wait.. I think I did forget it... OH NO! I forgot to take a picture of you two!" he held the camera out in front of him and stared at it in disbelief.
"Oh well, I suppose we'll be meeting her again anyway- WAIT! That was that girl that surprised you by glomping you with a hug before! In the streets of Spagonia, right? Why didn't I remember.." he put his finger to his head in thought, trying to remember the rest, looking off into the distance as if he could see something in his mind's eye.
Sonic looked worried, if Chip could remember that day with a little encouragement like that, then could Amy..?
"Hmm.. Hey! Maybe that sleeping powder… That's right! We gave her a good dose to forget the whole thing! Or at least, fake it off as a dream! Hey.. how'd you do that with me!?"
"L-listen, Chip. I'm sorry, but right now Amy might need my help." he dashed off with his large claw arm as it grappled a near by building and he swung over to it quickly.
He continued the action, looking like Tarzan as he hurried to find Amy.
"Hey! Sonic! Ooohh.." Chip held out his hand toward where Sonic had hook shot over too, and then reeled himself back, kicking his legs before blasting off after him. "I'm not done scolding you yet!"
Amy furiously and with uncoordinated swings, hit multiple times at the monster's that leaped toward her, most of the time closing her eyes and quickly saying,
"Get away-get away-getaway-DON' BETTER GET AH-WAY!"
Her last shot had hit dead-on one of the creature's head who had previously swiped at her dress.
The hit made the creature's eyes have swirls in them and faint with stars flying around its head.
The others watched their comrade go down and then turn to look at Amy again.
"Huff, puff.. huff...uh.. YEAH! That's right! Don't mess with the dress!" she shouted out and pointed to them, trying to hold a tough stance. "I ain't no damsel in distress!" she swerved her body and held up her pointer finger, femininely looking mighty of spirit.
"Yeah!" She kicked the air, getting a little too hyped…".. Uh."
She could tell they were getting upset by her actions and gloating, and a sweat drop trinkled down her face, "..I… I can handle this! But.. Oh, where is Sonic when I need him the most..?"
At that moment, the creatures raised their arms and started creeping towards her. She looked defeated, her strength was leaving her arms and she was bitterly cold. The monsters slowly approached her and all hope looked lost as she put her hands over her face as one pouched at her with a screeching yell.
A large hand grabbed the monster's head, and swung him over and out of view.
The other creatures looked dumbfounded with questions as to what just happened.
Two more hands flung out into view and grabbed two others before they disappeared, but this time into the darkness of an alley way, having lead Amy out into the open street and presently being positioned there, Amy in front of them.
"...Rawr..?" said one to the other, looking confused as suddenly a loud roar came from the shadows and a beast ran out at them, leaped up and held his fist back to punch another one out.
"AH!" Amy screamed, jumping to dodge and get out of the monster's impact zone where the creatures heads were being crushed and slammed against the ground. His hands moved like he was playing a drum and then swung like a stretchy baseball pitch.
When the creatures disappeared, the beastly monster seemed to absorb the weird substance that came out of them and started swinging and pounding the remaining creatures around him wildly.
As Amy watched, she felt herself not really scared of this Beast, though she thought herself insane due to his terrifying appearance, but more or less she felt awestruck by it.
Once the creatures were dead, Sonic shrugged back his shoulders and cracked his neck a little, then turned to see Amy laying on the ground looking at him in wide-eyed shock.
She blinked as he stared a moment, before looking down and away, a bit embarrassed.
'She must think me a monster for sure now…' he thought to himself, not daring to look her straight in the eye.
Not sure what to say, he figured he could just play along like he did last time and act like an animal.
Considering… he had acted… like… an animal moments before.
So, he walked on four legs slowly over to her, acting like a puppy almost as he bent his ears back and tried to picture himself looking more 'cute' then 'scary', desperately not wanting to frighten her.
Amy seemed to take it well, as she pushed herself up and slowly placed her hands on his head.
"Uh... hello, there." she smiled weirdly, still not sure what was going on, but seeing that the seemingly beastly creature was more like a smitten dog. She was immediately taken by his puppy like behavior, "Aw, you're not really big, mean, or scary, huh? You're just trying to save little old me, right?" she rubbed her nose against his, making him close his eyes due to being uncomfortable with that level of affection, but just opened them up, very unamused with his eyes half lowered in annoyance, before smiling.
'Works every time.' Sonic joked to himself.
The strange Beast seemed to be friendly to Amy, she started scratching its ear and the Beast happily rolled over for her to scratch its chin and chest.
"Aw.. aren't you just a big, fluffy misunderstanding!" she said, dotingly. Sonic was actually just acting, but the scratching did feel good, he was almost enjoying being a dog until Chip flew up and starting balling his eyes out in laughter.
"What the heck are you doing, Sonic?! Hahaaha! That's the funniest thing I've ever seen! It's like Beauty and the Beast! The beast tamer and the lion! Hahaaha!" he was rolling around in thin air, when Amy's eyes shot open wide.
"Wait... Did you say.. Sonic?" Sonic's eyes grew wide and he waved his hands around to try to mime to Chip to not say anymore.
"Well, yeah. Don't you remember? Oh, I guess that sleeping powder is still in effect, huh? Well, to sum it up, Sonic had me- ehm eherer ehmph!" Before Chip could ruin everything for Sonic a second time, who actually wanted to see the 'other side of Amy' that he never could as regular old Sonic, had swung up his elastic like arm to swoop Chip out of the air and cover his mouth.
As Sonic held Chip in a headlock, he looked up innocently to Amy and smiled sheepishly.
Though, a Beast's smile never did look innocent...
"...Oh um.. Your the guy I met in the street, right? I think I remember, can't you talk big guy?" she asked kindly, just slightly creeped out by his smile.
"...Er..." Sonic started, 'is it such a good idea to talk..?' he thought, and then just decided he should to help get to know the Amy he never saw before. "I'm... Sonic the... Beast.." he said that last part with a bit of a growl in his throat.
He moved up and let Chip go, slightly glaring at him to keep his mouth shut.
The response was Chip sticking his tongue out at him and then folding his arms with a 'Hmph!'.
"Haha! How cute! I have a boyfriend named Sonic!" Amy cheerfully said, getting up as Sonic did.
"Boyfriend!?" Sonic turned and exclaimed abruptly. "I mean.. uh.. is he?" he turned and scratched his nose, looking up and away, not wanting to spoil his true identity.
Still… something bothered him about the fact that Amy went around saying that… even to complete strangers.
Also, now that he was talking, he couldn't act like an overstuffed animal with a good heart, he had to be more human, and he could already tell she was backing away, a bit confused and embarrassed that he would 'roll over' and act that way.
'Dang it…' he looked to the camera as if realizing his horrible mistake in decision making.
"Well, not yet. Hehe, saw through that one huh? No no, he's to shy to ask me." Amy ignored that folly though, placing her hands behind her back and swinging to and fro like a love struck girl. She had turned to the side as well, and then softly seemed to clap her hands together, happy to talk about Sonic anytime! But also slightly embarrassed that he had seen through her and knew she wasn't really dating Sonic, no matter how much she wished he would just admit it already…
"Yeah.. right through to the core." Sonic mumbled with a 'pfft' that flew up in the night's cold.
She seemed to have not heard him as he turned back to her, gesturing an arm out to directly speak clearly to her this time, glad she didn't hear his side remarks.
"So.. uh.. where is this guy? Shouldn't he be.. uh.. with you.." he looked up and away from Amy, slightly scolding himself for not telling Tails to pick her up those two times he saw her, just to make sure she'd be safe.
He folded his arms and then released them when he saw Amy looking heartbroken to the ground.
"H-hey… what's wrong?" His big, burly voice didn't seem to show his full concern, but his eyes certainly helped in conveying his distress over her look just now, especially after what he just said.
"..He's... very busy. I'm sure he would have come to my rescue if he'd known..."
Sonic's heart sank as he suddenly, and very instinctively, pulled her close to him.
Amy's eyes sparkled for a moment before looking up through Sonic's thick, but fluffy fur.
"..Uh.." he realized he wasn't Sonic to her at the moment, and that she wouldn't understand, but quickly came up with something to try and, at least, get rid of some of the awkwardness.
"You looked cold." he countered quickly, looking down at her for a moment before shifting his head and eyes to the side of her cold body, then away.
"Oh, thank you."
She smiled at his kindness, putting her head to his chest, getting warmth through this big fluffy, and moveable heater.
The heart beat was quick and bounced in a familiar pace to her, it seemed.
'A lot like Sonic's...' she thought as a smile came to her face.
Sonic wanted so badly to say that he did come to her rescue, but held it back, squinting his eyes and looking up at the clouds rolling over the moon…
"Um.. do you need somewhere to stay?" he asked awkwardly, Chip looked at him as if he was crazy.
"Uh, Sonic?" he flew up to his huge ear, "WE don't even have a place to stay!" he whined.
Sonic shooed him from his ear, waving his big hand like a man to a pesky fly, and continued to speak to Amy, putting a hand on his shoulder, and trying to be friendly but not too creepy about it.
She should know stranger-danger, but he was glad she was trusting the REAL hero… even if he didn't look the part…
Amy knew very well this fact, but something inside her told her to trust him, especially more so for how familiar his actions were, and not so much for saving her it seemed.
"We uh, have a spot, somewhere here." he told Amy as he lifted her up on his back and gave Chip an annoyed look.
For as long as Sonic had known Chip they had been camping out in every city, town, or place they had traveled too. They would just find a place, it wasn't that hard...
Amy felt herself being lifted onto the Beast's back, and for a moment she had lost her grip and slipped a little, 'It's like trying to ride a gorilla!' she humored herself in her mind, but was telling the honest truth.
She tugged herself back up onto him as she finally found her balance.
"If it's not an inconvenience, I mean, I'm sure Tails has told Sonic I'm looking for him. He's sure to be looking for me by now! So,.. I'll just hang with you guys till He comes for me. Since, I'm pretty sure the hotel has closed about now or something.." she didn't want to admit that she had lost her way, and for some reason she felt oddly safe with this Sonic, so she felt it was a good omen to stay by his side.
"Ehm." was all Sonic could say, lowering his eyes to the side while having his head still tilted up to her, as he knew she was lying about the hotel thing…
Earlier in the day, Tails had phoned him about Amy, but he had shrugged it off thinking she had abandoned her 'quest for her love' and gone home. Apparently not…
'I should of known her better...' he thought to himself as guilt made him clinch his teeth.
"You know, I wanna hear more about this Sonic guy of yours." Chip lead the social activity of the night once Sonic had found an abandoned barn out of the city just a bit down the road and they decided to sleep there that night.
Sonic growled under the hay he had found, only his nose and one large shoe showing his location.
Next to his side, a little toward the poking out nose, was Amy gleefully sitting.
She giggled and responded to Chip happily, "Where to begin, there isn't even a starting point for me anymore~" she said in complete adoration and admiration for him.
Sonic winced under the hay.
'How could she still say wonderful things like that about me? After all she's been through?'
"Aw~ I can see why Sonic's so lucky! He has such a wonderful girl like you to look after him."
Chip brought out some chocolate and handed her some, then his eyes lit up as he quickly remembered, "You're not allergic to chocolate, are you?!"
Amy smiled and took the chocolate happily, "No! I am most certainly not!" she teased, as she took a big bite out of the chocolate, "How could the future Miss Sonic the hedgehog afford to hate chocolates? Sonic's not rich you know, I can't be a picky eater. If one day, when were dating of course, Sonic thinks to himself, 'Gee, I should buy my wonderful girlfriend something. But what?'. Now, the latest magazine article I read regarding the matter stated that 85% of guys usually pick chocolate. And, being his wonderful girlfriend, how could I refuse?" she spoke so professionally like this was a job or something of great honor and respect, that as she took her next bite Chip slowly looked back to Sonic with a flabbergasted expression.
His gaping mouth mouthed the words, 'WoW' as he turned slowly back to Amy, "Gee, Amy, that's uh.. really thought out and well informed of you." he tried to not make it sound bad, but more of a friendly note.
Sonic just rolled his eyes, turning his head in his slight disgust over her over-concerned but 'rational' thinking.
"One must consider such things, you know." She took another bite, chewing and swallowing before speaking again, being proper and remembering her manners. "You don't want to disappoint your one true love~ Now, do you?" she flicked his nose lightly and Chip sneezed.
"R-right… Well, I think it would be nice to have someone as... thoughtful… of me as you are with Sonic. Hey, just for conversation sakes... if Sonic was here… Right now even!... What would you say to him? Being through all that you have?"
Sonic's ears perked up, but to be honest she was acting like the old Amy and he was starting to lose interest in this whole ordeal. Getting more upset with Chip teasing him from behind his back in plan sight and sound.
But then she said this, and his ears slowly drooped as he felt disappointment in himself swarm his whole being.
"Well, I'd say... I missed you... terribly. And I'm… happy you're alright."
Chip almost shed buckets of tears, he was so touched, his lower lip trembled as his eyes got big and watery.
He held back his tears and sucked up his runny nose, taking out a napkin and blowing in it.
"You're... You're such a sweet girl, Amy! I can tell you really and honestly care about Sonic, huh?" he sniffed and blew in the napkin again.
"Sonic's so lucky to have you, Amy. He doesn't even know it too! That's the sad part! I bet he takes you for granted all the time! Like a heartlessly BEAST!" Chip was speaking loudly, making sure Sonic heard every word, which he did.
Sonic groaned and shifted his whole body to the side, forgetting about the hay that came crashing down on Amy and Chip like an avalanche.
Amy huffed a few stray straws of hay up from her eyes and bangs before looking to Chip, who struggled to get his upper body out of the hay.
His butt pushed and pulled till his head was finally to the surface.
Once out, Chip looked to Amy and gasped dramatically as he saw her,
"Amy, you're a BLONDE!"
The two started cracking up laughing as their giggles caused the hay to fall off them more smoothly. Amy clenched her stomach and lifted her legs up, curling them slightly as Chip just hit the back of Sonic's body, them both leaning against it, and rolled his head back, mumbling something about not being able to breathe.
"Whelp, time for bed!" called out Chip, stretching, smacking his lips and hovering tiredly over to rest on Amy's lap, snuggling there and curling up as his bushy tail tingled in joy.
She smiled and laughed a little more too, finding Chip to be adorable.
She cupped him up in her arms and leaned against the Beast called after her own love.
"Goodnight, hehe, Sonic." she said cheerfully as she sighed and closed her eyes, blinking them delicately to a rest.
"...Goodnight Amy, Sweet dreams..."
Chip looked up from Amy's cupped hands on her lap and suddenly snickered, Sonic seemed to have forgotten what happens when the sun rises, and Chip wanted plenty of rest to see the result of that miscalculation!
But first… "Hey! Sonic! What about me?" he got up, just a bit from Amy's hold, as his eyes searched the darkness in front of him, waiting to hear Sonic say something back.
"…Goodnight, pipsqueak."
"Ohhh, you care about me, and you know it!" he scooted back into Amy's arms, pouting dramatically as he folded his arms, before 'hmph'ing and turning to rest on Amy.
She just giggled and looked back and up towards the other Sonic. "Goodnight…" she turned and laid next to him, opposite side of his head.
The next morning, the pile of hay was a lot smaller than Amy remembered, and instead of sleeping on the side of a huge beast, she realized she must have fallen through the hay because now she was lying down in piles of it.
She yawned and stretched out a bit, moving her arms upward till she felt a little furry thing roll off them.
She quickly looked down to see Chip, still snoring a storm with a little bubble out his nose.
It made her smile, and as she giggled she poked him to wake him up, "Come on, little buddy! Hehe, hello says the morning!." she said sweetly, and as cheery as a mother would.
Chip rubbed his eyes and blinked a little, sliding his upper body up.
He looked to Amy with a goofy 'I'm up' smile, "Can we have chocolate for breakfast?" he asked kindly and jokingly.
Or was it a joke?
"No, silly." Amy replied as she tickled him up into the air, he laughed and tried to fly away slowly.
"Hahaha! Okay, okay, it was worth a try!" he exclaimed cutely and suddenly froze from his laughter,… an evil smile appeared on his face as he looked to Amy.
"You, uh... didn't wake Sonic up yet.. did ya?" his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Uh.. no? I just woke up to so..." Amy turned to look back behind her at the Beast, but didn't see a trace of him.
Her eyes widened suddenly in curiosity, her back facing him as she rested on her knees, looking at him over her shoulder.
"You should."
Amy's breath seemed taken from her, unsure why she was feeling so weird about waking up a beast.
"Oh, but he's a big guy and he probably needs his sleep and-"
"Not anymore…" Chip slowly hovered toward the once large pile of hay, snickering evilly as he rubbed his hands together.
"Wakey, wakey… Come on, Sonic… Wake up." Chip whispered over the hay pile, but you could tell he wasn't really trying.
"Oh, dear. I don't think he waking up, won't you be a dear and help me?" Chip flew over to Amy, his hands together like a beggar and circled her with big needing eyes.
His scheming of this moment was all he could think about last night, and now, his dream was about to be realized!
Two fated lovers! Discovering each other at last! Oh, the look on Sonic's face…
It tickled him to no end!
'Revenge is sweet!' he was still plotting all that time about how to get back at Sonic for spraying him with sleeping powder.
And today was the today!
The moment the moment!
"W-well,... you sure he won't be mad?" Amy said a little squeamishly, putting a finger to her mouth and looking to Chip, as if everything in her was telling her that the other Sonic could get mad if woken up too early…
She could see in her mind's eye a wild animal emerging with a lion's roar out from the haystack, and it made her shake a little in uncertainty.
"Oh, not at all." Chip fanned his hands out, reassuring her in his fake acting, looking at his fingers and then smiling slyly at her.
His swindle almost complete!
She couldn't understand why Chip was acting so weird, but figured it was nothing special.
"Since he's so big, you should probably climb over the hay to him. You know, to his face."
Chip put his hands behind his back and fluttered close to the side of her own face as he watched her do as he instructed.
A big smirk on his mouth, but even more so, pointing to where Sonic's head would actually be pointed too.
"Hmm..." Amy examined the hay more closely, feeling around it, "That's funny, I can't feel him at all, did he shrink or something?" When she finally was able to touch a body of some sort, she jolted in shock, before calming down and quietly bending and smiling sweetly to him.
"Hey, Sonic. Mr. Sleepyhead needs to greet the sun now. Teehee~ you told me you'd help me find my Sonic today."
Sonic moved and squirmed in his hay, and she giggled, now shaking him, she said, "Oh, come on, you! You're gonna have to get up sometime!" Just then, the hay ruffled as if Sonic realized his folly of keeping Amy there till morning. His head shot right up and stared face to face with Amy rose, as he was just moments ago laying on his stomach…
A second went by that no one spoke, Amy's hand was on Sonic's shoulder, and as his head came up, she moved it quickly off.
Amy and Sonic flipped out! Shouting in fright!
"AHH!"
The birds on the top of the barn flew at their cry of shock and Amy got up really fast after hearing their startled crows and squawks.
Amy fell through the huge stacked piles of straw as Sonic flew backwards and also got sucked into the hay, before lifting his head up like a bunny out of a burrow, shocked and startled.
Chip was holding in so many laughs that he had to plug his mouth to try and keep the silence, just before the two flung back in their shock. He reeled back his head and just let it all out, finding every bit of pleasure in Sonic's hilarious reaction!
They both dashed backwards and scrabbled to get away from the other once more, "AMY! I-I can explain!" Sonic said, as he pushed himself up against the back of the barn's walls, holding a hand out to her.
"W-what? How can this be..? What... huh? Y-Y...You're… My Sonic? Wh-what happened to you? How did you... w-when did you.. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME? And what's that?!" she pointed to something pink in Sonic's hair.
He wanted to answer all the questions, but the last one caught him off guard and he instinctively grabbed what she pointed to, feeling it slipping out anyway.
He had pulled out the pink cherry blossom that he had given her, and she gasped as suddenly the long forgotten memory of that strange night came flowing back like a flood to her.
"Y-you... you lied from the start, didn't you?" she looked at him with disbelief, and he looked up to her with grief.
"Amy.. It's not... it's not what you think!"
"What is it then?" she got up, having both arms out in front of her, keeping her up and out of the hay, leaning forward with her knees bent.
She looked enraged… or maybe just really hurt.
"It's…" Sonic looked down and away, "It's complicated." He scratched his head, feeling more and more the awkward embarrassment he was trying so desperately to avoid.
At least she wasn't… scared.
Amy huffed to the side, making some straw fly off in the same direction, and started for the door.
Storming out of the barn, Sonic cried out, "Amy!" climbing the little hills or pillars of hay to catch up to her.
But with all the obstacles he couldn't find a firm spot on the ground for his feet, and kept slipping on loose hay.
"If I'm so much a bother to you that you don't even have the decency to tell me why your some sort of... of.. Werehog, then fine! I get the picture! …Jerk!" she spun around to shout in his direction. "I'll never forgive you this time! I was really worried about you!" she started to hold her head down as tears started to form, bolting out into the open field where a dirt street was stretching from miles on end… as if having no end.
Chip flew straight up in the air, "REVENGE! That's for making me forget the first time, Sonic! You thought it was funny, well it's not!" he flew out with Amy. "Don't worry Amy, He might be inconsiderate, a bit reckless, and at times way too carefree, but you should still forgive him. After all, you love him right?"
Chip's words to her caused Amy to slow her pace down slightly, bending her ears back as her eyes were covered in shadows.
"CHIP! You're not helping!" Sonic came soaring out of the barn and into Amy's path.
"Amy! Listen! I didn't want you to know I was the Beast, okay?! It could of changed what you thought of your.. daring hero or something." He looked away from her slightly before seriously looking up towards her, lowering his hands that were meant to make her stay.
"I didn't want to frighten you."
"Frighten me?" Amy turned more violently around, more shocked than angry though, or so it seemed. "Sonic,… I hope you don't think that I care so much about how you look rather than I do about who you are. You're my hero, Sonic. I love the Speedster that I've known since I was eight years old. Even if he might change over the years, and I'll admit your change is actually quite handsome, but even if it did turn to the worse, I would still love you… no matter what."
She smiled, being completely honest about her feelings, placing a hand over her heart, and making Chip feel bad about his little scheme.
He fluttered to the barn a little ways, staying close to the barn's walls, looking down in disappointment to himself, and turning to see them every now and then.
"Amy.." Sonic slowly moved towards her, and gently raised his hand to her face, but not touching it.
"Do you honestly think I would flip out over something like that? I don't know what happened... but worse come to worse I would have just been awfully worried about you. But-!" she suddenly embraced him, something he should of expected but didn't.
"Offph!"
"I missed you so much! That was too cruel, Sonic The Hedgehog! Just.. too cruel."
Sonic, for the first time, looked down at her with a blank expression, as if seeing her anew.
With no bias, he saw the Amy he was looking for all along.
His eyes drooped as his arms almost followed the motion, and all his guilt at what a jerk he'd truly been pooled up inside of him, before he finally just released it, putting his arms around her, and holding her next to him.
He felt his whole body soar with some unknown feeling that completely expelled the awful feeling he just had in his gut.
He had only experienced that kind of rush a long time before, but it was different somehow.. very different.
"I'm sorry, Amy." was all he could really say. "I just didn't want you seeing me for something that I'm not. I didn't… want to disappoint you. Having Someone else save you besides your hero… I didn't want you to see me any differently if… if I was still the Beast."
Amy smiled through her tears, she was just so happy to meet him again, to be hugged back for the first time, that she couldn't stay anger anymore. "I forgive you, Sonic The Hedgehog."
"More like Sonic the Heartbreaker."
Sonic pulled Amy out of the embrace to glare at Chip, who had flown back on the mushy moment to bask in its touching cuteness.
His hands were up, squishing his face, as he couldn't stay away from the adorableness too long! "It's like you're already dating~" he smushed his cheeks around, not able to stand it.
Sonic then pointed at Chip and stated quite clearly, "This isn't over, Chip! I'll get you for this! I'll eat all your chocolate for a week!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Chip's eyes widened to white and a look of gasping horror came across his face, along with it stretching vertically and his hands pressed up against it.
He dashed away quickly, shaking his head and flew way up to the barn's roof and hid there, peeking over the side of it to glance at them, hiding his chocolate from their sight.
Amy and Sonic laughed, then looked at each other for a moment.
Sonic quickly released his arm from around her and stepped a few steps paces back, "I- uh, ehm. We should get you to Tails or something."
He scratched behind his head, cleared his throat for a moment.
"What? No way! I'm not going anywhere!" Amy replied bluntly to his statement, making him look at her a bit startled as she slammed a foot down to make her point.
"How come?" Sonic lowered his hand from being startled by her abrupt denial to go along with his suggestion, and looked puzzled at her actions. "Why not go back where its warm?"
Sonic had a point, although this was morning, their was still fresh dew and foggy mist that scaled the farming fields, showing it to be a rather cold morning at best.
"I just found you, Sonic! No way am I losing you again." she started to walk along the path again, determined to stay by his side this time!
"Besides, whose going to explain to everyone that you're not a Beast, but just Sonic The Hedgehog going through some kind of… of thing." She still didn't know what was happening to him, as he kept it rather silent.
"Is that so?" Sonic raised an eyebrow, smirking quietly as he got out the sleeping powder.
"You know, it's going to be dangerous, and I can't keep coming to your rescue ALL the time."
He crept quickly up behind her, closer and closer…
"Don't you worry, Sonic! I'll be fine! Your sidekick's now by your side!" she boldly struck a pose and Sonic smiled, holding some powder in his hand behind his back and walking up beside her.
"You're always glaring at danger straight in the face and then mocking it, Amy. I highly doubt you'll be much of a help than a pain." Amy stopped with an offended expression on her face as she puffed up a cheek, turning around to face him, her hands to her hips. "And what- exactly - is that suppose to mean?"
He moved back slightly behind her, "This."
"AH! H-hey, what was...that...not again,… you… jerk." she fell to sleep right after Sonic had thrown the dust in her face, and he caught her with a clever smile.
She fell forward, so he was able to grab her and slowly move her downward, before standing up and lifting her into a bridal-style hold.
"Maybe next time, Amy. I do appreciate it though.
I really.
Honestly,
Do."
Chip was upset at Sonic's decision but Sonic swore he'd make it up to Amy some time. This time, they had placed her in a nice home of friends Sonic had made in Spagonia. He told them that when she woke up, explain to her that she had passed out on the streets and that Sonic had found her and placed her here. Though, without Sonic's knowing, Chip had placed the Cherry blossom in her hand, for when she woke up. (3)
Later through the day, it was night again, and Amy was just walking with her new friends that had offered to help her when suddenly they were possessed in some kind of way and started dancing.
Then, a strange man grabbed her in that very instant too!
"HEY! What's the big idea?"
He started twirling her and laughing, "Come on, Babe. Let's dance the night away!"
"Ack, Heeelp!"
At that moment, Sonic and Chip had come on the scene.
Sonic didn't like the fact of what he was seeing. Not for Amy dancing with another guy of course, but more over the fact that the people looked possessed.
But we, the audience, know a bit better than that by now,… right?
"Woah, is there some kinda party gong on?" Chip looked curiously at the party, but seeing the weirdness of it too, He decided to pull out his handy, dandy camera out and start taking pictures.
He thought Amy dancing was cute and so started to mostly take pictures of her.
"No... something's not right here." Sonic announced as he noticed Amy's discomfort in the little 'get-together'.
As Chip zoomed in toward Amy and took a picture, the flash had caused the creatures to appear before them, and Amy spun off out of the camera's view.
"Ohohohoohh..~" she felt really dizzy from all the twirls the man had put her through, spinning out and finally stumbling down on her feet to the side, head rolling.
Chip looked out from the camera's view and seemed concerned, but also for the fact that Sonic could be right about Amy being a magnet for danger and how he might have been in the right for keeping her from coming with them.
He stated his amazement with a 'wow' and continued to say, "It's a carnival of freaks out there!" as Sonic dashed off to give them a good bashing.
Chip onlyl thought it right, and a swell idea, to take pictures of Sonic's throw down. Advancing ever quickly towards the action as Sonic moved on ahead.
After the party brawl, the people started gaining their consciousness, and so was Amy.
Sonic lifted her up with his large claw-like hands and placed her down carefully.
As she began to come to, she turned around slowly, but Sonic lowered his head to the side, not wanting her to recognize him.
He knew she wouldn't be scared this time, considering all the other first few times she met his beast form she wasn't, but if her memory is gone again, she might be scared again too. He couldn't risk that… no matter what she had said…
He also felt bad about everything that happened, though he was sort of glad it did too.
Sonic used his long arms to dash away like Spiderman, but in his heart he knew he'd be back to greet Amy rose again, some day; After all this was over that is.
Chip looked back and forth to Amy, once seeing Sonic swing off ahead and spoke outloud, "Ah, Hey."…
He thought Sonic should at least talk to her or something, but felt awkward about talking himself because Amy might not remember him.
So, he shrugged to her as if saying, 'Well, you know how he is and there's nothing I can do about it, so...' and dashed off after Sonic saying, "Wait up!".
Amy reached out for Chip, feeling a bit of familiarity to him, but he dashed off to quickly as well, speeding through the air like a tiny bullet.
She slowly remember something,… Sonic's name, and how it must have been related to the Beast that just saved her... like Sonic.
"Just now, was that... Sonic?" she tilted her head, trying to remember.
The pink flower still in her possession…
"Aah, that should calm things down a bit around here."
She heard a voice speak up, and in a bit of amazement, had turned around to see an old man, his white eyebrows covering his eyes and having a strange British accent.
"Chalk another one up for Sonic."
"You know Sonic?" Amy stumbled forward, becoming intrigued by the strange man and his brown suit.
He walked towards her, one big boot after the other. "Of course, he was here just a moment ago."
That's when everything clicked for Amy.
Her eyes grew a little wider as a movie of events streamed across them.
When the old man gestured to the direction the Beast she felt was Sonic went, all her memory had returned to her.
She put on her best sweet girl act as she placed her hands together and then grabbed the man's hands, knowing all that knew Sonic so well were usually good people, and said desperately, "Tell me, what's happened to him? Please, tell me everything you know!"
'This man must be a friend of Sonic's! If I ask him, maybe I'll finally learn what happened to Sonic! And what the heck that powdery stuff he keeps using is!' She dragged the man off the streets as he muttered something about cucumber sandwiches.
She knew in her heart, that after this whole ordeal, Sonic would come back... just for her.