Two

A week had past since Blaze had visited the space station. She seemed to be acting out of sorts. Everyday Sonic would ask if she was okay, and evertime another friend saw her they would ask the same thing. She gave the same answer everytime, whether it was true or not.

"I'm fine."

The truth was, she wasn't. All she thought about was losing the emerald. She could only hope that the space and time continuim would stay intact and that both her world and the one she currenly resided in, would be fine. That was the other thing- without the emerald, Blaze had no way to return home. She knew without Eggman Nega her world should be okay, since the emaralds weren't there she could count on no one attemting to take them. Unless...

Another kingdom attacks my kingdom!

That was what Blaze worried about. War was possible if another kingdom found out that not only the princess was missing, but so were the emeralds under the guard of the kingdom, and more specifically, said princess. Blaze could also be accused of stealing the emeralds, and have a bounty held against her and be arrested. Blaze couldn't handle failing, and that was the reason one phrase played through her head on repeat.

I've failed...

She couldn't handle it. It was her responsibility to guard those emeralds, and now so many things could go wrong it was hard to count. The main thing Blaze was relying on was for the emeralds to remain stablized, and the space and time continuim intact. She was running a HUGE risk, and she knew it.

She knew that the only way she could fix this was to go and retrieve that emerald. Though she had fear against her this time, it was the only way. She had been laying on a bed for the past hour, as Sonic had suggested she "rest". He was out now, leaving her alone. He had offered to take her, but she didn't feel like going to hang out with him and all his friends. She just wanted to be alone. And think. She hadn't had much of a chance to think. The past week wasn't so smooth. Knuckles was on her case about the Master Emerald, Tails about the Space Time Continuim, Sonic about her supposed "anti-social" behavior, and she just needed to relax. And now, finally, she had the chance...

But she couldn't.

She had become dreary and grey with tiredness. This was due to lack of sleep. Her body craved sleep, but her mind denied it every time. Haunting her with dark nightmares filled with evil and chaos. They were so real... She couldn't get over the fact they were so real... She only wished for a silent, dreamless sleep so she could rest. Sighing, Blaze decided to attempt to sleep again.

What were they fighting?

That was the problem. They didn't know. Everyone who could access power from any emeralds had gone super. Each ready to defend against whatever it was that was hidden in the blackness. Whatever it was had changed most of the word into cold, heartless monsters. They were all faded, and evil. Whoever wasn't lived in fear. The world was in anarchy... Sonic, Blaze, and Shadow were the only ones capable. They had decided to take the risk and defend. They flew right into the blackness, the mist readily accepting them, cirlcling their bodies. It removed the little joy or happiness that was left, replacing it with fear. She looked over at Sonic. He was no longer flying with a powerful, confident demeanor. He looked as if he was standing, hunched over. The bright yellow colour his super form had brought him was faded, all colour was faded. She glanced at Shadow, on his knees with all his colours faded and looking as if he was in pain, before she was launched backwards.

Rejected.

Blaze plummeted to the ground, her body tumbling several feet upon impact. She laid on the gradd for a few seconds, waiting for death to take her... When she noticed something. She didn't feel and pain. Quick to her feet, she looked around. The black mist above her swirled in the atmosphere, as if challenging her to try again. She looked at her hands, she was still Burning Blaze, and now she was on her own. Sonic's words echoed through her head.

"Carrying the whole world on your shoulders?"

She had been left to carry the whole world on her shoulders. Two worlds now- hers and Sonic's.

"Don't bite of more than you can chew. And be Yourself. You don't need to do everything on your own."

She had never felt so helpless.

This was biting of more than she could chew- she didn't know what this was, how it operated, where it originated, she knew nothing. She could just use the Sol Emeralds and teleport home, leaving this world to slowly waste away, but she couldn't live with having billions of lives lost at her fault. From what she knew, no one was killed, per say. They were either sent missing, or changed... And as far as doing everything on her own, she WAS on her own now.

Suddenly Blaze was knocked to the floor. The whole world and atmosphere rippled, and she could feel pulses of energy that seemed to originate from nowhere. People began appearing around her in random spots, their colours faded, and their eyes souless. Blaze looked down at herself. Her colours were changing, her form rapidly switching between her normal form and her burning form, and her body was flicking, like a hologram. She felt as if the Sol Emeralds were flickering on and off, switing between being full of power and completely weak. Just as she went to rise, there was a huge explosion.

And everything was black.

Blaze shot up, eyes wide. This dream was way to real. She felt as if she needed to run, tell someone, or burn something. The strongest feeling tugging at her was her desire to run. She raced out of the house. The looked left and right. She knew to the right was the city, and the left was open field. She raced left, going as fast as she could. She was leaving a trail of flames in her wake, but she didn't care. She needed to burn off this adrenaline rush. She changed her course, making a cirlcle around the city before she returned to the house. She took deep breaths, before she walked, calmly as possible, into the house and up to the bathroom. She splashed her face with ice cold water. She knew her flames were on par with her emotions, and right now she was very on edge and slighly out of control. She needed to take a cold shower.

I'm sorry this is so overdue. I have no excuse whatsoever, but here... hehehe

I'm writing my ELA exam part 1 and Social studies exam tomorrow... that's not why this is months late, but I will tell you my schedule to give you an idea of update times. I'm going on vacation to another province in 2 weeks for a month, and I don't know if I'll be able to write then. But, yeah. I sincerely apologive if I missed any mistakes or typo, I write my stories on wordpad because I don't have microsoft office yet.

Anyhow, thanks for being so patient with me!