We're progressing in the plot quite well so far, and I'm getting really happy onto how this is turning out.

And I'm excited, my birthday is next month! XD

Reminiscence of the Antiquity, and the Posterity

Chapter VII

It turned out to be quite a short rain shower, thank god. Looking around at all the floral life that covered the ground from where I was at the alter, some plants already were beginning to droop towards the ground. I imagined quite a bit of plant life must have been killed with all the acidity that was mixed in along with the rain. Steam even continued to rise from all the stone that rose from the stones that made the altar I was in.

Cautiously I slowly walked out from under the stone roof of the altar, glancing up to the sky every minute as it still was overcast, and looked like it could rain any second. I had to let Knuckles know about this now, and about the pictures I retrieved which I still happened to have in my camera, which was unharmed.

Curious onto what the acid rain did to the island, though it was only a 5 minute burst, I wandered into the forest while I waited for Knuckles. I was shocked by what I found walking upon the trees and flora.

Insects of all different types and sizes littered the ground, most of them dead, which happened to benefit any animals who preyed on them. But even the animals were affected. Birds were on the ground, not completely dead or anything of that sort, but indeed they were injured in some sort of way. The acid could have damaged their wings and feathers, creating an inability to fly.

"Shadow? Is that you down there?"

Hmm, a sexy seductive voice from up above, maybe it's a virgin in heaven calling for me?

Or it is Rouge, which would be just as good.

"The one and only batgirl."

Rouge smiled, and gently floated down from above the island, as she was flying over it at the time. He wings contracted back so that they weren't spread out, and she walked over to me, still smiling.

"Soo, what are you doing here anyway? I mean it's not like you go into Angel Island's forest everyday."

"Take a look around." I gestured my arm towards the forest around us.

Rouge hardly noticed the forest's condition beforehand when she landed, but in observing the plant and animal life, her mouth hung in gape.

"Oh my god…"

She walked over to a nearby tree, it's leaves all drooped toward the ground, many that happened to be nearest to the sky were shriveled up. She tore off a couple of leaves, and crumpled them up, I guess she was examining them or something.

"What happened?"

"Acid rain, there was a downpour of it not long before you got here. I was under the altar during that."

Her eyes told me that she never saw something like this before.

"You okay?"

Rouge seemed to be blanked out for a second, but turned towards me upon hearing her name called.

"Yeah, I'm just hesitant on what Knuckles wants to do. I mean he seems content and all with sending Blaze back. But we have to get Sonic's agreement."

Great, we had to get approval from the one person who was in love with Blaze, and I knew it wouldn't be easy, let alone possible to get him on our side. Then again, when you thought about it the world was at stake here.

"So, other than Knuckles plan, how are you?"

Why was she staring at me like that, her eyes looked sort of seductive, as if she was thinking about me and her, well you know.

"Rouge, hello!?"

She had zoned out, completely forgetting I was even in her presence.

"Huh? Oh sorry… I'm good, a bit tired due to all my GUN missions, but fine nonetheless. How is my favorite hedgehog?" She asked, leaning her head upon my shoulder as we walked, I was beginning to blush a bit, thought it was barely discernible to anyone other than myself.

"Alright I guess."

She happened to notice the camera in my pocket, and snatched it out of pure curiosity.

"Since when do you have a digital camera, and a really nice one as well," She told me while examining the piece of electronic equipment, waiting for it to activate as she had pushed the power button.

Soon both of us could see the screen, and she gasped at the picture that appeared before both of us. As I already knew, Sonic and Blaze came right into view, their lips pressed against one another while Blaze gripped Sonic's shoulder. You could see the sides of the windows tilted along with as the photo, as I had taken this while attempting to balance on a very wobbling oak branch.

"Shadow, it isn't nice to invade privacy like that, God if I was Blaze I'd be pissed at you right now."

"Knuckles asked me to do this as a favor, he wanted proof before he made any assumptions." I countered, not desiring to look like a stalker in front of her.

While the pair continue to talk as they walked out of the woods back to the master emerald, lingering for Knuckles, a familiar cobalt hedgehog could be seen hidden among an overgrown purple lilac bush, it's voluminous blooms having the ability to block any signs that he was in the general vicinity.

Sonic had come to stop by and see Knuckles, he hadn't seen him in months, and wanted to catch up on some recent events. But when he finally made it up to the island, instead of finding his familiar red echidna relaxing on his altar, he heard two different voices, one being a female, the other a male. He caught a quick glimpse before deciding to dive into the bushes unnoticed, and wondering why the two were up there anyway.

At first he figured that they were just filling in for Knuckles who wasn't there, but when they began to walk away he became confused.

The bush Sonic was hiding in was wet from some sort of rain, but something didn't seem right as it made his skin awfully irritated, but he could just ignore it for now.

Then he heard an beeping for a couple seconds, almost like some electronic device that was being turned on. Cautiously peering over the top of the bush, he saw Rouge holding a camera, with Shadow next to her examining the pictures. Rouge made a comment about it being mean to invade privacy like that.

Then something clicked into Sonic's mind. That night with Blaze, the bright flash outside that he assumed to be lightning… was really a camera flash.

He was angry now, but continued to stay within the confines of the area he was in.

And why were they taking pictures of them for anyway?

…

I called out to the kitsune, waiting for him to respond, which he did.

Tails turned around and smiled once he saw my face, he seemed awful delighted to see my face again, but a sense within myself told me there was something he was hiding on the inside.

"Hi Blaze, how are you?" He continued smiling.

"Fine, what's that really old book for?" I gestured my hand towards the ancient book he had tucked underneath his arm.

"Oh this, I'm just doing an experiment similar to the ones the ancient elders did, and I want to use a few parts of it as a guide."

Odd, what could he be doing with a book that is like a thousand years old, I mean isn't his technology miles above the elders. So why would he even bother comparing any of his inventions to them?

"Can you tell me what it is?"

Now his hesitance began to fade, and his smile disappeared in a flash, but however he didn't seem at all worried.

"It's a secret, I can't tell you." He chuckled.

We had been walking towards his place the entire time, I had only noticed just now. Maybe I could get him to invite me over to his place for a little while, I sort of got Sonic irritated from before when I lashed out at him, still no apparent reason onto why I did that.

But it was that short vision of Silver which just made me really just hope it wouldn't happen again. It made me feel like I was mixing reality into my own dreams and nightmares, something I did not want to happen. Last thing I needed was to be assumed as a mental case, I promised that I would stay strong in Silver's sake, and I was going to keep that intact.

Once we reached his home, I saw Sonic standing there, his arms crossed over, and a really displeasing look written upon his face. Oh god, was he even more angry with me than before.

He was standing on the small front porch of Tails' home, blocking any point of entry from the front door.

"Sonic, listen, I'm sorry and everything for…"

"It's not about you Blaze, I forgive you by the way," He reassured me, smiling a bit. At least I knew I wasn't the cause of his anger this time.

"You want to know what I just found out? Huh?" He was getting enraged again, Tails just stood next to me totally dumfounded and not knowing to the slightest extent why.

"Shadow was taking pictures of you and me last night, I overheard him talking to Rouge about it."

"What!!?" Flames erupted from my hands as I clenched my hands into fists. Tails eyes bulged out of his head when he saw the sudden fire burst, and backed away a few paced to avoid getting burned.

"Tails, do you know anything about this?" Sonic was shouting directly at him now, demanding an answer from the frightened kitsune

"I uh, uh.."

"Tell me!"

Sonic went over and grabbed the book out of his hands, something I thought was unnecessary. He turned to a page in the aged book, being surprisingly careful despite his temper which was rising by the minute. Sonic stopped on a page that had a thin red colored ribbon there as a place mark. Both of us waited until he read the entire page, both of us could easily tell when he was finished, as he dropped the book onto the ground.

"Sonic?"

He completely ignored the worry of his best friend, "Do you know about this?"

Tails just stood there, I could tell he was just wreaking with anxiety because of how much he was sweating an shaking right now. I continued to let Sonic do the negating, yes I was angry, but it wasn't my style to argue with somebody, especially somebody that looked innocent like Tails.

"Alright," Sonic raised his hands up and backed off, attempting the aerate his head to an extent, "is there anything you already know about this?" he was trying as best he could to sound sincere.

"… Knuckles is behind it." Tails eyes widened and he covered his mouth, regretting he even mentioned the echidna. But quickly he seemed to toughen up, and spoke up again before Sonic could even mouth a single word.

"Just letting you know Sonic, if you read it correctly… it's putting the world at stake. We all know how you feel about that.

Sonic focused his undivided attention onto the kitsune

"I know… you can't believe it. Sonic, I could tell them that your know right now… but I'm not"

I just stood there at the present time, kicking my feet against the grass along his front lawn. Already knowing how my temper can flare at times, I stayed idle as Sonic continued to ask the vulpine questions, as I didn't want to hurt Tails. My hands continued to flame still, just small than beforehand.

"Blaze… read this."

I took the books out of his hand when he came over to me, his finger holding the specific section he had read recently. I thumbed down the page, reading the ancient paragraphs, searching for what Sonic had found in the readings.

I my vision halted on the words "back, to, and dimension."

"This is… true?" hesitantly I asked, I could feel my eyes begin to water up, but I fought the urge to cry again

"Yes, it is…"

And then something happened to me, the feeling I was beginning to experience was not sorrow or grief… but rage. Just pure unfiltered anger was all I felt, it was pulsing throughout my body, annihilating any of that sorrow that had existed. I tried my hardest to keep my cool, to keep my temper down and under my own control.

Not happening.

I made a sharp dash straight at Tails, pinning him to the outer wall of his own home, the kitsune shocked at my sudden change of personality. I continued to battle my inner self, hoping that I wouldn't hurt Tails too badly, but I had totally lost all control.

"Blaze!!!"

I was using my right hand, holding Tails up using his neck, while showing a fist full of intense flames that shot out of my other hand. His eyes bulged out of his head, fear was written painstakingly across his innocent face, but as much as I would have desired to stop all of this, I just couldn't get my control.

"Blaze, stop it!!! Let him go!!"

I jerked towards Sonic, pointing my hand of flames at him which caused him to back away, his hands up in the air.

"Tell me! Is this true?" I demanded, my voice now having a vicious and malicious tone, as I spat out my questions.

Tails looked like he was going to faint any second, his heart was pulsing incredibly rapidly, I could tell just from holding his neck.

"Y, Yes! The book… it is… true…" He croaked between breaths, gasping for air as I continued to hold him, Sonic just watching hopelessly as a spectator.

"Do you have an extra plane?" I commanded of him, still keeping him in my grip, and my tone continually spiteful.

Tails nodded, pointing to his garage, which happened to already be open. I let go of his neck, and he sunk to the ground, panting heavily as needed oxygen flowed into his lungs. He had just been in obstructive shock, all because of what I just did. His bright blue eyes were wide open, scared to death to even get up. Yet I was unable to regain my own self control, and I began running to the garage, my feet making imprints in the moist grass.

"Come on Sonic, let's go!"

Sonic followed me at first, but turned back to Tails, who had gotten up, and was standing idle, his back resting against the house. I watched as he went over to the kitsune, embracing him, a single tear sliding down his face as he held what could be considered his brother.

"… I'm sorry…" He gently breathed into his ear before walking away towards me, a saddened look on his face.

"Come on!"

He got into the cockpit of the plane, and drove it out of the garage, slowly making his way towards the custom-made runway of the vulpine. I was in the backseat, clipping on my seat belt. He moved into position, and once he was in the right place, the engines revved up to the max, accelerating our plane down the runway. I took a last look at Tails, who just watched the plane as I watched him, till he got smaller and smaller, then disappearing out of view.

…

So now Blaze and Sonic have ran away from their friends, in hope to make sure Blaze won't be touched or affected in any way.

But how will this affect the world's sake?

Oh vote on my poll if you can, but wait till the results are empty, I need to add a 4th choice.

Sorry for the wait. =)