SSH - Chap. 7

      The shattered remains of Eggman’s dark amulet fell into Amy’s lap, a black mist flowing from it and dissipating in the air. Amy’s mouth dropped open as she felt someone’s grip tighten on her shoulder as he sniffed loudly, wiping his palm across his face as more tears rolled down it, “Heh…Sorry bout’ that. I…..don’t know where it came from….”


Before he could move, or even hope to, Amy grabbed him so fast that he was pulled over the back of the bench and thrown into a sitting position. Amy threw her arms around his neck, burying her face deep into his shoulder as her own shoulders shook with emotion, “I…….Your back…..I can’t believe…….You came….y-you came back!....” Amy gasped hard, over and over as she tried to stop herself from sobbing, though she was failing miserably.

“Go ahead. Cry…..I’ve done my share tonight….now it’s your turn.”

Amy felt as if her heart had risen to her chest once again, when before it was as low as it could be. Finally, she broke down, her body jerking as she cried, pressing her face harder into his shoulder, her tears coming down her face unheeded. He gently hugged her back, knowing what this all had put the young hedgehog through.

Sonic rubbed his palm on Amy’s shoulder, comforting her as he murmured into her ear, “It’s alright……It’s ok……I-It…..will be ok……” Sonic’s voice cracked as he struggled to talk, his throat dry with emotion. He sighed through his nose, pressing his own face into his friend’s shoulder, trying to hold back his own tears.

The gentle moonlight from the heavens above floated down, as if on silvery paths, showering the two in a warm glow. The broken amulet fell from Amy’s lap, falling heavily to the ground as it continued to disintegrate. In the shape of a blackened crescent moon, it looked eerie in the night. However, the bright moonlit night shone brighter than the darkness right then.

Amy shuddered as she murmered, stopping every few words to breathe in as she continued to cry, “S-sonic……I can’t…..believe……we all thought……w-u we…..thought……y-you were…..d-d-dead…..”

Sonic leaned back away from Amy, both coming out of the hug as Amy wiped at her eyes with the back of her gloved hand. Her legs were swept sideways as she locked her misty gaze with Sonic’s, “I thought I was gone too Amy…..it hurt me…..so….bad….”

Amy chuckled weakly as she wiped her eyes again, trying to stop herself from gasping with happiness and shock again, “B-but…..I don’t understand.” Amy brought her eyes up to Sonic’s face again, “What happened!?”


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Sonic sighed heavily, feeling his ears fall flat against his skull. He slightly shifted in his seat as he averted his gaze from Amy’s, as he struggled to look her in the eye, “Man…..where do I begin?”

Sonic sighed yet again, reaching down and picking up the chain that held Eggman’s amulet. He let it hang in front of his vision as he held a few of the shattered shards in one palm, and let the remaining pieces still stay stuck to the metal chain. Sonic stared at the hopelessly broken amulet as it swung before his eyes….

“Whenever I took all the strength and light in my soul to destroy my soul’s inner darkness….both forces collided with a force stronger than any other I had ever seen. In doing so, it caused both the dark and the light to disappear.” Amy narrowed her gaze as Sonic continued, pressing the material of his gloves hard against the metal chain in anger, “In other words, both forces died out.”

Amy waved one of her hands in front of her face, “I’m still confused! If….if you say that BOTH of your forces died….then…” “…-How come I’m still here?”

Amy flinched as Sonic interrupted her, continuing with his grim tale, “I said they both died out. That’s what I made it look like.” “W-what!?”

Sonic suddenly threw the amulet over his shoulder, not even giving it a second glance as it flew over the edge of the terrace, disappearing over and shattering on the ground, the pieces of stone further shattering and turning into dust, now only the chain remaining, “Amy.”

Amy gasped as she saw a large tear roll down Sonic’s face, “Amy….I ran. I ran….”

Amy’s gaze only grew more confused as Sonic continued, shame covering his face as his cheeks flushed, “Only my dark form really died. Me myself…..even though I used every last thread of my being to destroy it….I still somehow survived, though I was so weakened that I collapsed when I got far enough….” Amy growled a bit, “But how were you able to get away!? It looked as if you completely disappeared forever!!”

Sonic sighed, his face paling, “It only looked as if I died. I was in so much pain….I could have…..if I didn’t have some will to live left in me. After I disappeared, I reappeared slowly, but surely, only to find you all…gone.” Sonic closed his eyes,

“I hid myself for the next few days, watching and waiting.” Amy shook her head, “But why?”

Sonic snarled, “Do you even think I would be able to show myself ever again? I almost killed you and Mist!!!” Sonic punched his fist down hard onto the bottom of the bench, causing it to rattle. “I know that it’s better this way. Everyone must continue to think that Sonic the hedgehog……

is dead.”


Amy looked down at her feet for a few moments, not sure of what to say to Sonic. Finally, after what seemed eons, Amy spoke and broke the silence, “I have a few things to ask you Sonic….and please let me finish before you say anything.”

Sonic looked hard at Amy as she brought her face up to his, her bangs sweeping over her eyes, “First off…..Sonic…” Amy closed her eyes and took Sonic’s hand, suddenly pressing something crumpled and old into it. Sonic slowly unfolded it, looked sideways at Amy, and then gazed at the note as Amy asked him, “S-sonic….

Did you really kiss Rainjha……


Out of love?”

Sonic struggled to speak as he read that note over and over, even though it was so short,

I love you Sonic. I hope you feel better soon.</i>


Before Sonic could answer, Amy spoke softly, “I…..You never even gave me a chance….” Amy closed her eyes as tears leaked from the corners.

The sides of Sonic’s mouth quivered as he slowly folded the note, holding it tight in his palm as he sighed, rubbing his hand over the back of his head spikes, “I-….I really don’t know…….I just….” Sonic sighed through his nose again, wiping over his face as another tear came down his cheek, “I just….I hadn’t seen her in so long and…..uh….”

Sonic looked up at the moon, allowing its light to dance across his glossy eyes. He was startled as Amy spoke again, “It’s the same with me and Mist. I never kissed him but…..”

Amy sighed, “I think I just…fell in love….with being in love. I don’t even know what to do anymore….”

Sonic muttered to himself, “You have no idea…..”

Amy swallowed and then looked back at Sonic again, Sonic turning his face to Amy’s at that moment, both hedgehog locking eyes once again, “But….Sonic….Your alive! I just can’t believe it!!”

Sonic’s ears fell back as Amy grasped both of his hands, suddenly rising to her feet and doing a little hop with joy, “Everything’s back to the way it was! We can just forget about all that other stuff, a-…”

Sonic suddenly interrupted Amy as he growled, “I didn’t say that I was going to stay Amy.” Amy felt her heart drop to her stomach as she fell into a sitting position in at the bench again as she cocked her head, furrowing her eyebrows in confusion, “But S-sonic…” “Amy…I can’t come back. No matter what.”

Amy struggled to keep herself from exploding, “Sonic you don’t realize! Sonic…..We all mourned for you. Some of the students even made a memorial for you, and almost everyone placed flowers, pictures, and everything else they could find on it. Knuckles put his pillowcase on it……the boys put your old shoes in the memorial…

Sonic, Shadow got put in detention because he punched a guy! Defending your memory! You don’t realize how much everyone misses you….”

Sonic snarled, “No Amy. I think it’s everyone else who doesn’t understand what’s best for them. Ever since I started attending this school, I have caused nothing but worry and bad feelings for everyone…-“ “Sonic it’s no-…” “Would you listen to me for ONCE in your life!??”

Amy was going to place her hand on her shoulder, but she recoiled as Sonic suddenly snapped at her, snarling and gritting his teeth in a firm line. She swallowed and struggled to hold back tears as Sonic closed his eyes and exhaled for a long time, “I….I’m sorry. It’s just….

It’s MY fault that I was put in that accident with Mist and Knuckles. It’s MY fault that everyone worried about me. It’s MY fault Spark gave me that amulet. And it’s MY fault that I……Amy, I almost KILLED you!!!”

Amy shook her head at Sonic, who sighed and shook his own head slightly, “Sonic please. Everyone’s willing to forget all of that!” Sonic snarled in a low tone, “No. I can never return. No matter what you or anyone else thinks, it’s better off for the world that Sonic is forgotten.” “But what about Eggman!? He’s on the rampage again!!”

Sonic sighed, “Shadow and the others can take care of him better than I ever could.” Amy growled, “Sonic please…”

Suddenly, Sonic grabbed both of Amy’s shoulders, shaking her slightly as he looked at her with frantic eyes, “Amy…listen to me. You mustn’t tell ANYONE I am still alive, you understand?” Amy shook her head. “Promise me Amy!”

Amy closed her eyes, “Sonic,….you know very well that I can’t do that.” Sonic sighed, rising from the bench with anger, “Please Amy! I can’t stay, nor will I! Please please don’t tell! Please!” Amy sighed heavily, not sure of what to say.

“Amy….you must realize that I only came back to tell you goodbye.” “W-what!? But Sonic! P-Please….don’t go…..”

Amy rose herself from the bench, blinking hard as she felt her throat tighten again with emotion. She couldn’t believe it. Sonic had just come back…..only to tell her that he was leaving.

Sonic sighed, closing his eyes and stepping away from Amy a bit, “I can’t stay here any longer….I….I just can’t….” Amy shook her head, “You don’t have to go Sonic! I don’t….

I don’t know what I would do if you left again!!”

Tears flowed openly from Amy’s eyes as she gasped, allowing Sonic to come a bit closer to her again. She let her head rest on his shoulder as her lip quivered, she letting a large gasp come from her jaws as she heard Sonic murmur into her ear, feeling his breath  on her face, “I’m so sorry Amy…..This….this is Goodbye.” Amy closed her eyes as she stood still, feeling Sonic come forward and gently kiss her on her cheek, she herself being shocked when she felt his tears drop onto her face. As he kissed her, their tears mingled together, rushing down both hedgehogs’ faces, only to fall off and drop to the ground, like little drops of silver in the night.

Amy could still feel his tears on her face as a sudden blast of air hit her body.

Then she opened her eyes.



And Sonic was gone.



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The sun had come up by now, and was filtering into the school’s hallways.

Even though Christmas was over, the students were still on Christmas break, and they aimlessly roamed the halls in search of something to get their minds off of recent events.

At the moment, Rainjha, Alex, Rainbow, Anita, Cream and Cheese were doing their best to clean up after the Christmas party that the students held there. Alex surely felt like knocking out a few teeth, and struggled hard not to as she threw aside bowls of popcorn that were strewn on her bed. The students that held the party did their best to help, but they kept a wise distance from the enraged cougar. Rainjha finally convinced Alex to calm down, though she was fuming inside herself.

Anita and Cream were disgusted that their own beds were so trashed, and Rainbow growled to herself as she wiped tissue paper from her and Abby’s bunk bed. It took them practically the WHOLE day to get it clean, even with the help of the other students. However, some of the nicer students in the bunch came up to the girls and apologized. One girl who was a young husky sighed, “We’re sorry we made such a mess….” Alex blurted out, “Yea and you als-..” She choked as Rainjha elbowed her in the side, the cat hissing and rubbing her now freshly bruised stomach.

Rockfire and Spark were working to clean the boy’s room at the moment.

Anyways, everyone else was doing their best to keep from going insane with boredom and anxiety. Daggeron was hit with a double whammy. His crush broke his heart to pieces, and one of his closest friends just died. Scythe was succeeding to make it all worse, so he wisely decided to keep his mouth firmly clamped shut.

Both Tails and Amy were nowhere to be seen. Cream said that the last time she saw Tails, he rushed by her, tears running down his face as he disappeared around the corner, wiping his eyes. She hadn’t seen him since, and whoever saw Amy and tried to talk to her, they just couldn’t seem to get much out of her. The day before she was dejected, but for some reason, she seemed even worse than before…..



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Now, several figures could be seen leisurely strolling down the hall.

Shadow, Knuckles, Mist, Silver, and Abby were talking to each other.

Shadow was snarling to himself, shoving his fists deep into his jeans pockets as an infuriated look came over his face, “I can’t believe those teachers gave me detention, and on Christmas break too. Idiots.”

Knuckles rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, letting the flat palms of his oven-mitt like gloves tighten on the upper part of his arm, “Let’s recap on what happened shall we? First you punched Greg in the face. Then, when he tried to get up….” Knuckles chuckled and pointed his right hand at Shadow for emphasis, “….you threatened to stab him with a pencil.”

Shadow snarled, “He was just asking to have that pencil shoved up his nose. It wasn’t even sharpened anyway.” Silver sighed, “Doesn’t matter. Greg is a whiny tattletale anyway, and he rushed off and told one of the teachers, quite easily taking out the part where he knocked both Tails and me off our feet.” Mist grinned, “But I took care of that by going to another teacher to tell on him! Hah! Greg isn’t so smart after all.”

Shadow glared at Mist, “That may be true, but thanks to you, I have to sit with him for two hours in detention!”

Abby shoved Knuckles slightly, “See what you started!?” “Me?” “Yes you!”

Abby chuckled as Knuckles huffed and crossed his arms even harder, “To get our minds off of mutilating people with pencils, I have to ask you guys something.” Mist moved his tuft of hair on his forehead out of his eyes, “Go for it.”

Abby folded her hands together and sighed heavily, “Well, see…..even though I don’t talk to Amy much, and I’m not really that close to her, she starting to worry me a bit.” Silver shrugged his shoulders, “Yea, same here. I asked her what was wrong with her the other day, and she only muttered, ‘I can’t say.’ And then she rushed off.”

Shadow rolled his eyes and then closed them, “She really needs to get over Sonic. She’s was a bit over obsessed with him.” Knuckles muttered to himself, Says the guy who knocked a guy in the mouth because he said something bad about Sonic. Yeah, THAT explains a lot.

Suddenly Shadow snarled, “What did you say, Echidna!?”

Knuckles opened his mouth to retaliate, but Abby flicked his ear, causing him to growl with pain and close his eyes, “Now stop that. We have had enough fighting for one week thank you.” Knuckles muttered as Shadow smiled a bit.

Suddenly, Mist stopped them all as he let an arm come in front of the other four that were walking beside him. He narrowed his gaze and pointed as he snarled, “What’s happening over there you think?”

Shadow’s eyes almost seemed as if they got a bit redder as he growled with anger, “Greg.”

Greg and a couple of his cronies had found some new person to pester and spite with insults. Greg was now flanked by two other baddies, a black and white dragon boy, and a muddy brown hawk. They both loomed over someone who had been pressed against the lockers, unable to find a way out, or any hope of escape from them.

Greg snarled snidely, “Well well….New kid eh? Let’s have a bit of fun wit’ him, eh boys?”

Mist and Abby had to hold Shadow and Knuckles back as they both struggled to tackle Greg and his henchmen. Knuckles snarled, flailing his arms like a windmill, “Lemme at im’ Lemme at im’!” Abby hissed, “Be quiet! I want to help too, but there’s too many of them!” Shadow snarled, “There are five of us, and three of them! Can’t you count!?”

Mist growled, “Yes, but how are we to know how many more he may have hiding in the shadows as backup!?” Knuckles rolled his eyes, “Ok, now you’re just being silly.” Abby growled at them both, “Quiet! Be Quiet! They don’t know we’re here!”

Abby, Mist, and Silver ducked behind nearby trash bin, pulling Knuckles and Shadow along with them. Now they were able to get a good look at the boy they were bothering.

Before anyone else could get a good look themselves, Mist blurted out incredulously,
“T-That kid! He…H-he looks…..Like m-me!!”

In a round about way, Mist was a bit right. He looked a mix of himself, Silver, and maybe a bit of Sonic combined.

The boy was a hedgehog of about average height, maybe around Mist or Sonic’s height. As Mist was still getting over the fact of the slight resemblance, he continued to look the hedgehog over.

He had a snarl plastered on his bluish/white face. He was an albino hedgehog, with the slightest bluish tint to his fur. His fur and muzzle bore the same colors, and all the shadows around him cast a grey hue on him, causing the tips of his head spikes to look as if they were grey instead of white. He had a dark colored spot on the edges of his eyes, much like Shadow and Spark did. His eyes were a blazing dark blue, and right now they were fiery with anger. The things on his body that stuck out most vividly were a large, dark blue bandanna around his neck that was adjourned with a light blue star, and equally dark wrist bands that stood out against his white gloves. He had blue shoes like Mist, with a lighter blue jagged stripe running around the back, and the bottoms a pure dark blue.

He never flinched or said a word as Greg brought his snide face close to the hedgehog’s, a new toothpick in his teeth now, “I may not have chosen the best opponent with Shadow, the traitor, but I know I will have fun with you little bud.” Greg laughed harshly as his buddies joined in with him, causing the young hedgehog to narrow his gaze and press himself harder against the lockers.

Knuckles hissed, “We can’t sit here and do nothing!?” Abby growled, “What can we do? Get ourselves in trouble, or hurt, again!??” The five figures huddled behind the trashcan could only watch helplessly at the scene unfolding before them.

Greg chuckled as he ran a finger under the boy’s chin, letting the fabric on his bandanna to fold and buckle under the pressure Greg put on the hedgehog’s face. The hedgehog raised his head as Greg’s claw ran under his throat, the boy swallowing as Greg chuckled darkly, “Oh ho! Look er’ at dis’ fellas!! Some fancy neckwear this likkle brat has!” The hedgehog gasped as Greg suddenly grabbed the bandanna in his claws, ripping it so hard off of his neck that it caused the poor fellow’s head to be jerked forwards.

“Hmm…I’d wager I could sell dis’ for a fair price, eh guys?”

Greg snapped his gaze back at his prey as the boy spoke for the first time, a hiss erupting through clenched teeth as his eyes glowed dimly in the darkness with rage, “Give. That. Back.”

Greg chuckled as he looked back at his ‘friends’, “Oi! Look at dis’ ere’!! Likkle boys’ got an attitude!” Greg brought his face close to the hedgehog’s again as he waved the bandanna just out of his reach, “You want it eh’? Well, whatchu gonna do about it?” When the hedgehog hesitated, Greg bared his fangs in a loud and long hiss off approval, “I thought so!”

Abby suddenly made a small shriek of fear and shock, but thankfully before Greg and the others could hear, Knuckles clamped his glove over her mouth.

Greg had brought his claws around hard, raking them over the boy’s cheek, causing his head to loll sideways as he howled with pain. He held the side of his face as Greg and his cronies laughed hatefully at the hedgehog’s pain, Abby with tears rolling down her face as she was forced to do nothing but watch the poor boy suffer. Greg still held the bandanna high over his head as he flapped his wings in triumph, glaring down at the boy through awful yellow eyes.

The young hedgehog whimpered with pain, removing his hand from his face and gazing at it with tears of pain running down his cheeks. Blood stains covered the palm of his gloved hand, and trickles of blood ran from both scratches that were on his face.

In the exact same fashion Sonic was injured, only not as bad.

The hedgehog’s face was torn with two long scratches on the surface of his skin, not so deep as to do permanent damage. They ran from the corner of his mouth to the edge of that patch that rimmed the edge of his eye, his eyelids half closed and his pupils hazy with pain as tears of shame and pain rolled down his face, Greg’s laughter tearing at his eardrums.


Suddenly, all five students that were behind the trashcan jumped with shock, along with Greg, the hawk, and the dragon as an awful snarl ripped through the hall, echoing through and bouncing off of the walls, magnifying it tenfold,

“That. Is. Enough”

Greg turned his face around, his body hiding the figure that stood there. His voice was deep, hoarse, familiar, but unrecognizable. For some reason, the voice had a gravelly tone to it, as if he was in intense rage. That voice tore through the halls yet again,

“Leave him alone”

Greg stammered, still with the hedgehog’s bandanna held tight in his fist, “B-…b……Ss…suh….ssuh…..”

“I said, Leave him alone. That meant now. Give him his bandanna back, leave now, or you leave me no choice but to resort to force”

Greg stood his ground, stammering, but trying to hold his fear down, “Nnn-no! Y-you can’t-…”

Shadow, Knuckles, Mist, Silver, AND Abby all jumped as Greg suddenly made a hoarse gurgling noise, his head snapping backwards as he collapsed on the floor, the boy’s bandanna flying out of his grip as a small trickle of blood came from the unconscious bat’s jaws. Knuckles and Shadow’s jaws fell open as the hedgehog’s tuft of hair between his eyes was blown sideways as the still unseen figure kicked swiftly at the dragon’s legs, pulling them out from under him and causing him to collapse on his stomach. The hawk’s shaking body was still hiding the figure from everyone’s view as the unknown snarled, “I suggest you leave, unless you want the same treatment as your leader here. Now.”

The hawk made a loud squawking noise in his throat out of fear as he suddenly flapped his wings, stumbling as he sprinted away, trying to lift into the air, but his wings felt so heavy that he kept tumbling over in his haste to get away.

Finally, all was silent, with the dragon and Greg on the ground unconscious, and the figure who intercepted no where to be seen. Abby gasped again as the boy fell to his knees with a small sigh, grasping again at the scratches Greg put upon his face.

They all rushed forwards now, Abby falling to her knees as the others gathered around, “Hey! Are you alright? W-what happened!?”

The hedgehog gasped as he wiped at his eyes, allowing Abby to tie his bandanna around his neck once more, “They cornered me as soon as I entered the hallway. And….” The hedgehog brought his face up too the five, and his jaws dropped open as far as they could before it started hurting him. He was as amazed as Mist to the resemblance they shared, and his hand shook as he pointed at him, “Y-you! Y-you l-l-ook…”

Mist shrugged, “Yeah. I recognized it too. Strange ain’t it!”

Knuckles helped the boy up as Abby pulled a piece of cloth from whoknowswhere and pressed it against his face, “What’s your name kid?”

The hedgehog averted his gaze from the Echidna, speaking softly, “Dream.” Abby smiled, “Dream! That’s a lovely name! I-..”

Before Abby could finish, Shadow suddenly interrupted, “Who was it? Who was that guy who stopped Greg? Dream shuffled his feet as he pressed the cloth against his face, Abby and Knuckles backing away from him, “I-I dunno….I couldn’t get a good look at him..”

Silver smiled, “It’s alright. We’re just glad your ok.” Abby added in as Shadow crossed his arms, agitated that Dream couldn’t tell him who it was, “Would you like to stay with us? The boys probably have plenty of room in their dorm for you.” Dream shyly looked away as Abby placed a hand on his shoulder, “I…I guess so.”




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Everyone was surprised to learn about Dream’s ordeal, and they all welcomed him as best they could. Everyone was still sad about Sonic, so it was hard to think of anything else.

Later, Mist explained who Sonic was to dream, telling him how much the blue hedgehog meant to them, and how he gave his life to protect them.

Dream thought hard to himself then, C-…Could that have…..No. No, it isn’t possible.


Now it was about two in the afternoon, about a quarter after to be exact. Since there was no school work to be done at the moment, the girls sat in the boy’s room with them, chatting and doing different things.


Dream quickly came to be a good friend to Silver and Mist. Mist tried to introduce him to Knuckles more, as Knuckles and Mist were surprisingly close friends now, but Dream was a bit intimidated by him and his new titanium gloves, so he kept his distance.

Right then, Silver, Mist, and Dream were sitting on Silver and Mist’s bed, playing a board game while everyone else played Guitar Hero. Dream winced as he was subjected to Knuckles’ horrid singing, and Alex finally shut him up by shoving a pair of her socks in his mouth. THAT kept him quiet for a while, and that kept him in the bathroom, trying to wash Alex’s feet taste out of his mouth.

Mist was steadily talking as Silver moved his piece across the board, showing off his abilities using telekinesis to move it. Mist narrowed his gaze and grabbed a glass from the nearby table as he winked at Dream, “You think THAT’S cool. Watch this!”

Mist placed the glass between his knees on the bed, holding it steady as he waved his hands over it. His eyes began to glow a deep blue as he concentrated hard, lifting his palms and closing his fists, causing the water to leap from the glass and then flatten into a large disk shape. Then, as Silver and Dream watched with wide eyes, Mist wiggled his fingers as the water stretched out, forming the appearance of a serpent in the air as if floated around Dream’s head, causing him to chuckle. The liquid like creature wrapped in a ring around Mist’s neck, Mist’s eyes still glowing as he held his hands at an arc in the air, holding the water in a liquid necklace around his neck. He chuckled, “Ta Da!!”

Suddenly, he flinched and yowled with pain, loosing his concentration, the water wavering in the air and then cascading over Mist’s shoulder and neck, drenching him with water. He snarled at Alex as she blew on her finger, letting a thin plume of smoke filter from it, smiling at her accomplishment at burning Mist’s back a bit, causing him to let the water out of his grasp.

Mist hissed as he rose from the bed, dripping as he stomped to the bathroom door, grabbing a towel and wiping his face while everyone in the room laughed loudly.

As Mist wiped his head and shoulders free of the soaking water while everyone struggled to regain their lost composure, Silver turned to Dream again, “So Dream, what bro-…D….Dream? You….ok?”

Silver cocked his head as he looked harder at Dream, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes shut tight. Silver stammered again as Dream never moved, his eyes closed tight and his eyebrows furrowed, “D-Dream? Dream!?”

Mist suddenly ran up, with his towel draped over his shoulders, “What’s the problem??” Silver shrugged nervously, “I don’t know! He won’t respond….or a-anything!”

Suddenly, Dream gasped harshly, as if he hadn’t taken a breath in the last few moments. He tottered for a few seconds as he blinked hard, his eyes dilating as he regained his composure. Mist sat down on the bed as Silver steadied the dazed hedgehog, “Dude, You alright?”

Dream swallowed, and blinked again, “Y-Yeah. I’m fine.”

Silver held onto Dream’s shoulder, worried that he would topple over at any moment, “Hey, what happened??”

Dream breathed in deep a couple times, sighing heavily as he finally spoke softly, after looking around him a couple times, to make sure no one else was listening,

“I don’t like to tell many people this but….

I…I have the ability to see into the future.” Silver gasped, “Seriousl--…!” “SHHHH!!” Silver clamped a hand over his mouth before he blurted anything out as Dream sighed through his nose, speaking  slowly again, “Yes. Seriously.” Silver shrugged with embarrassment as his cheeks turned pink.

Mist crossed his arms as Dream continued, “Anyway, I usually get visions of things, only not by my own will. They just….come. A-and….I just saw something you may want to know about.” Mist spoke rapidly, “Depends……”

Dream shook his head, “Trust me. You WILL.”

Silver lurched forwards, “Well?”

Dream slowly continued, “It came on me suddenly when Mist got up to wipe himself off.

From your description….I think it was…..S-Sonic I saw.” Mist stuttered, “S-Sonic!?”

“Yes. And I heard him saying something…..it looked like he was just muttering it to himself, though he could have been talking to someone..” Silver was stunned, “How is that possible!? He’s…..d-dead.” Dream shook his head, “Visions never explain themselves to me. They’re always mysterious, and many of them I don’t understand. All I saw, was his face and him saying something to a small yellow fox….” Mist suddenly blurted out, “T-Tails!”

Silver waved one of his hands, “What did you hear Sonic say?” Dream twiddled his thumbs as he closed his eyes, murmuring what he remembered Sonic say,

“I have caused you pain, suffering, agony,

No longer can I stay.

I must leave you now, my closest friend,….

No longer will I remain.</i>”

Dream opened his eyes a bit as he muttered, “Tails said something…..then I heard such a loud scream that it hurt my ears and shocked me out of my trance…..and my head is still throbbing from it…” Dream closed his eyes and gripped the side of his face in one hand as Mist somberly looked up at Silver,

“I’ve got to talk to Amy. Now.”



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It took a good while for Mist to find her, but when he did….

“Mist….I told you before…..I…..I can’t tell you.” ‘Tell me what!?”

Amy sighed, shuffling her feet as she and Mist sat on her and Cream’s bed. Mist sighed heavily, throwing his hands down to his sides, “All I need to know is that if you have seen anything strange today. You met the new hedgehog, the one that looks like me, right??” Amy slowly nodded, “Yeah! Dream.” Mist nodded as well, “Well…..when we first met him, someone saved him from Greg and his cronies, but we couldn’t get a good look at him.” Amy shrugged her shoulders, “Well, I don’t know. I surely wasn’t there.”

Mist sighed, “Silver and Knuckles went to see if Tails knew anything….but…..He keeps saying the same thing you are saying. ‘I just can’t tell you!’ what we would like to know, is what in the world you two are talking about!!!!”

Mist glared at Amy, “You’re my girlfriend, and you can’t tell me something that’s going on with you!?”

Amy narrowed her gaze at Mist and rose from her bed, “You know what….I made a promise, and I’m not about to break it now.” “W-What!?” Mist spluttered with anger as Amy coolly continued, “…And, I believe I was right. I fell in love, not with you, but with being in love” Amy looked hard at Mist, who’s jaws dropped with sudden shock, “If you can’t accept that there are some things I have to keep to myself…then….”

Mist almost fell over as Amy poked his nose and gaze at him slyly, “It’s over.”




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Mist was speechless for the next few hours. Then again, he guessed he deserved Amy’s breaking up with him, after how he had been such a jerk to Sonic before…….yeah.


He wasn’t too sad that Amy broke up with him, as he now realized what she must be going through, since Sonic passed away. She had left to talk to Tails, and they talked for the longest time together about who knows what.

And yet…..

Dream was haunted in his mind over and over again at that horrid scream of pain he heard….


What could it mean!?



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A figure silhouetted by the moon silently sat on the rooftop that was directly above the dorm rooms of the students, who were silently sleeping below. Most were tossing and turning in fitful sleep…..especially one certain student…..but that’s for another chapter.

Anyway, that figure sat with his arms folded over his knees, his legs bent at an octave angle, he sitting there with his gloved fingers tightly gripping the edges of his legs.

You could tell by the puffy edges of his eyes that he had shed many tears in his time on the rooftop, and now he closed his eyes with his shoulders shaking, inhaling and exhaling hard through his gritted teeth and his nose, trying to keep from breaking down again. He had to calm down…..

He had now left his best friend with nothing more than a goodbye. It was worse than leaving Amy….it really was.

Now…….

Sonic the Hedgehog lifted his tear stained face up to the moon, muttering to himself with his voice at a higher pitch through emotion, “W-what did I do to deserve this agony?”

He breathed in deep as he closed his eyes, the silvery moonlight reflecting off of another tear that silently rolled down his face, dropping off of his cheek and melting into the many shingles on the roof. He looked down at the different keepsakes that he had with him……all that he had left…..to remember them by…..

He had that small, bloodied, browned, and torn note from Amy………That small picture of He, Rainjha, and the gang after they arrived at that small island a few months ago….cracked between the hedgehog and the fox…….the small gold ring that Tails always gave to him that allowed him to go into a spin dash…….


And…….

And that small bracelet that Amy gave him when he used to live with Chris, the small bracelet adjourned with pink pucca shells and fixed after being broken by a small black thread.

All he had left…..and it still didn’t fill the void that had been torn into his heart.

Sonic knew how much pain he was putting himself and his friends into…..but he believed with every fiber of his being that this was the only way….the only way he could keep their lives from being put into any more danger.

It hadn’t happened since that amulet was drawn into his body, but who was he to say that he wouldn’t randomly turn into the Werehog again? He might even turn into Dark Super Sonic! That would be a nightmare.

Sonic sighed as he ignored the hot tears coming down his face as he sniffed, wishing he had something right then to blow his nose on or something….


Man what a fool he had been. A wretched Fool! Now he was suffering the price for it all……Who knew that school would be filled with such drama!? It hadn’t even STARTED yet!

Sonic sighed and rubbed the palm of his hand across his face, letting the liquid on his face roll off of the material of his gloves. Good thing they were waterproof….even though he doubted he would EVER have any desire to get close to any water….

Sonic pulled Amy’s homemade bracelet up higher on his wrist as it began to slip down a bit. Sonic narrowed his gaze as he saw that the small knot holding the black thread together was coming loose.

He put down the ring that he was before holding in his hand, grabbing the thread between his teeth as he tried to tie the knot with his hands while he held the thread and a few shells in his clamped jaws. He was getting spit all over the shells, but he had to fix it.

Then……

Sonic regretted FOREVER that he EVER bent over to tie that knot.


Suddenly, an agonized wail of pain and agony ripped from Sonic’s throat as he lurched forwards, fireworks and lights popping and exploding in his mind.

He roughly fell forwards on his chest, a loud grunt coming from him as his vision dulled with pain, sliding forwards for a foot or two on the shingles before coming to a dead stop. Sonic groaned as he lay flat on his stomach, his mind swimming and his vision suddenly being dropped into blackness as his full awareness went away completely.


A dark figure slowly walked up behind Sonic, and it looked as if a dark aura was coming from the backs of his ‘feet’. He roughly hoisted Sonic’s limp arm up, ripping Amy’s bracelet from his wrist in one swift movement. He mercilessly threw Sonic’s unconscious frame back to the roof’s shingles, not even flinching as Sonic groaned, his head lolling to the side as he was on his back now.

The hedgehog without a mouth that could be seen returned to his original spot beside another much larger figure, one who had his hands clasped together with glee.

If you could have seen the evil hedgehog’s mouth then, it would have been a dark smile as he crushed the shells in his claws, the very claws that he had swiped at the back of Sonic’s head to knock him to the ground. A grim chuckle ripped from where his mouth was supposed to be as he allowed the remains of the bracelet to fall to the ground, some of the shells merely dust fragments now as they floated in the midnight breeze. He continued to chuckle as the person beside him let his own evil laugh ensue, “Oh ho ho! So you think your miserable now you little…..” The person narrowed his gaze, “Wait until you see what we have in store for you and your little ‘buddies’. By then, I’ll have you on your knees, begging for me to swiftly take your life.”

Then, both of the evil maniac’s laughs combined into an evil laugh of pure horror as they stood over Sonic’s limp body, the remains of Amy’s necklace lost over the edge of the rooftop.