SATMM Ch 30 :part 2:

"Sonic and the Mystic Mage"


Chapter 30



~*part 2*~



"I think she's healed now," said Rouge as she was done healing Amy with her lunar magic. "But I think the pain is still a little intense when you apply pressure to any part of her body."

"So, will you carry her to a safe place carefully?" I asked, a little worried(1).

"Just what I'm about to do, hon," Rouge replied. Then she touched my shoulder, "Don't worry, sweetness; I'm sure she'll fully recover in a day or less." For some reason my chest felt tight. Though I really need to believe Rouge for Amy's sake and mine.

"Yeah, just keep her safe," I said.

Rouge gave me a tender smile, "I will." Then she picked Amy up in her arms carefully. I noticed that Amy's arm was hanging down, so I took Amy's wrist and laid her hand upon her other, which was lying on her middle.  Take care... Ames, I thought to Amy so that she could pick that up.

"S-Sonic..." I heard Amy mumble.

Then Rouge flapped her wings and took off in the air with Amy in her arms. I just watched her disappear in the night sky. But I really need to have faith in myself and in Rouge because Rouge healed Amy from her severe burns.

"Gwaaaahhhh!" I heard a scream just now, which broke me out of my trance.

I turned around quickly, and Knuckles and Miia are still fighting. Miia spun her staff to create shields to defend herself from dark flame whips, while Knuckles was slamming his heel to summon large peaked rocks(2) to shield himself.

Miia turned to me while spinning her staff, "Well, are you gonna help us or watch us turn into oven-fried chicken?!"

Just then a flame buzz-saw came flying at Knuckles and Miia, and quickly, I did a spin-dash attack on that buzz-saw and it dispersed. As I stood back up wiping the sweat off my forehead(3), sighing. "Well, we both know talking to Blaze's not gonna do any good," I said.

"So what now?" said Knuckles. "Fighting her to the death is our last resort."

"Yet she wants us to kill her because she doesn't want to be a part of this," replied Miia. "I just wish we could get this Silver dude, I think he would be the one to get Blaze out of the darkness..."

"'Silver dude'?" I asked. Miia mentioning the name really caught my attention.

"U-uh, it's nothing, something I just heard of," said Miia. "But never mind that. We need to return Blaze to her former self, and fast, or else she'll burn this town to ashes."

"Good point," I said.

"We're with ya," Knuckles said also.

"And remember, guys," Miia was warning. "Don't hurt Blaze unless you have to."

We both nodded as five or six flame whips came at us. Luckily, Knuckles turned a few of the whips into stone just by touching the heads of the whips(4). As for me, I used my wind-slicer spell on the last whips, and Miia still used her shooting star spells on the buzz-saws that we're coming out randomly.

I landed on the ground, panting and sweating. "I really don't know if it's me, but it's suddenly hot in this area."

Knuckles and Miia landed to the ground, too, also sweating and panting. "It must be the flame whips and the buzz-saws, it must've been increasing the temperature in this area while we were fighting," Miia breathed.

I knew it had to be true, though I am a little confused; when I first met Blaze while I was waiting for Miia, I didn't actually feel any heat emitting off her, but right now, when we were fighting her-- Oh, duh! Of course! The temperature in this area has been increasing because of Blaze's anger(5) and sadness! But, what was she angry and sad about? More important, why?

Just then, more buzz-saws came flying at us, and I used my wind-slicer spells to disperse them, Miia used her shooting star spells, and Knuckles summoned boulders and kicked them to disperse the buzz-saws.

"Why can't you just use an exorcism spell on Blaze?" I asked Miia, sweating like crazy. The temperature must be increasing again.

"Because I think the black fire ring might be a barrier of some kind!" Miia replied. "We need an opposite force to disperse the barrier or something like that!"

"If ya guys can't get rid of it," said Knuckles, stepping forward. "Then I'll do the job!" Just then and orange-brown fire formed in his hands. "Mystic..."

"Knuckles, don't!" I said to him.

"No, Knuckles!" Miia said next.

"Fissure Blast!" Knuckles finished. Just then a powerful beam of magma and molten rock coated with energy blasted out of his hands. That crazy idiot! Doesn't he know that killing Blaze won't even solve anything?! There has to be another way to--

"Blasting Blizzard!!" a voice said. Just then along with it, an ice blue energy beam with snowflakes sparkling off of it came aiming straight towards us. Seeing it, I yelled, "Guys, look out!!" then I flapped my wings to evade it. When I looked down, though, Knuckles and Miia did evade it, but they just stepped back quickly as this ice blue snowflake beam froze Knuckles' fissure blast spell.

When the beam ceased, Knuckles' fissure beam is now a gigantic icicle, then the icicle crashed on the asphalt, causing it to shatter.

"What the hell just happened??" asked Miia as she uncovered her eyes(6).

"I don't know, but my fissure blast just froze!" Knuckles replied.

I walked to one of the larger pieces and tried to pick it up, but I yelped as my hand got burnt, so I shook it off. I could guess that the ice piece is so cold it burns.

"Hey, guys, look," said Miia as she pointed her index finger in front of her.

I looked to see a bizarre-looking white hedgehog wearing ice blue wraps and sleeves, teal boots with gold cuffs, gloves with gold cuffs, wears sequins in his quills and has bluish diamond wings(7).

The hedgehog pointed at us and said, "Don't even think about hurting my best friend!"

"Best friend?" I asked.

"Tell that to Redlocks The Echidna because he nearly brainlessly killed Blaze with his fissure blast spell, which you--" Miia stopped for a second but Knuckles yelled, "It was the only idea I have!!" I just rolled my eyes and ignored it entirely.

"Shut it or I'll make you shut it!" Miia threatened.

"I'd like to see you try!" Knuckles said proudly(8).

Miia just simply tied two of Knuckles' quills around his snout, which just shut him up. Well, he was struggling to talk, but nothing even came out, just muffles. "Okay, now where was I?" Miia said next. "Oh yeah, from my pause." Then she cleared her throat and continued, "That was you, wasn't it? You cast that spell, didn't you?"

"Of course I did," the hedgehog replied. "And I will not let you guys kill Blaze!"

"Then what will you do?" I asked.

"Let me do the talking," said the white hedgehog.

"Screw it, kid," Miia replied. "I don't believe talking's gonna do any good."

"I have known Blaze longer than any of you guys did," the hedgehog said. "So let me do this."

Nobody said nothing for a minute(9). Then Miia finally said, "Do so."

"Thank you," the hedgehog said. Then he turned to Blaze, "Blaze, it's me, your best friend Silver."

Silver? Then... that must be this "Silver dude" Miia is talking about. Plus he has to be one of the mages, he's got to be!

"I've been searching all over for you, but..." Silver(10) continued. "But I guess I found you at the right place, but at the wrong time. I didn't actually know what would happen to you, Blaze. Forgive me. Please."

Everything became silent for a moment(11), then Silver continued, "Blaze... I want you to come back. To the real world. To me. Because I'm still your best friend. And I want you to know... that everyone would still care about you as I did, and treat you as a person as I did, even if you do have pyrokinesis. And I also want you to know that you are the most amazing person I've ever met, even when we were younger, and..."

Silver pretty much mouthed something in the end, but I didn't actually catch that he was saying, but then Silver backed up three steps as we all saw the black fire ring disperse, and then Blaze's appearance began to change along with it.

Blaze's fur is turning back into a regular lavender, and her black-and-red(11) clothes are turning back to normal, plus the flame designs (or whatever they are) are dissolving.

After the de-transformation, Blaze fell onto her hands and knees. I started towards her to see if she's okay, but Miia put her leg(12) in front of me. "I think 'Silver' should attend to her." I didn't even shrug or roll my eyes. Instead I just focused on Silver and Blaze and just... watched.

"Blaze?" Silver asked. "Blaze??"

Blaze looked up and her eyes widened and start to glaze when she was scanning Silver from toe to head(13). "Silver?" she whispered.

Silver nodded slightly when he planted a small smile on his face.

Blaze's eyes begin to glaze even more, then scrambled to her feet with tears running down and flying from her face and eyes, rushed to Silver and hugged him, almost knocking him down (but he managed to keep his stance), and cried quietly into his chest fur(14).

Knuckles, Miia (her leg gout out of my way, thank God) and I walked up to Blaze, still crying in Silver's fur.

"I'm just so glad I found you!" Blaze muffled in Silver's fur.

"Actually, I was the one who found you," said Silver meekly.

"Does it even matter now that you guys are now reunited?" I asked, smirking.

Silver took his eyes to somewhere, then replied, "Now that you mention it, I guess it does not." Then he turned his attention to Blaze, "Blaze, look at me."

Blaze slowly looked up to Silver with more tears running down her face. Silver just chuckled. "Now you're the one who is naive, you know that?" he said with a smile. Then he just hugged Blaze back. Okay, granted, I am not a huge, huge fan of romance(15), but... Silver and Blaze are best friends, so they say? Heh. Well, I guess they are more than just "best friends", as they would put it. They are something else. Heck, I even wonder if Miia and I are more than best friends... Nah, it's just me.

"So, you're name's Silver The Hedgehog, eh?" I asked as I walked towards Silver and Blaze, who are still hugging each other. "Well, my name's Sonic, Sonic The Hedgehog!"

Blaze and Silver let go of each other (Blaze is wiping away her tears) and Silver said, "Well met, Sonic, and I think you know Blaze here."

"I do, but not much," I confessed.

"Uh, hold on a sec," said Miia as she leaned down and untied Knuckles quills from his snout. I just can't believe that I nearly forgot about it.

When Miia was done, Knuckles shook his head twice. "Well, thank you!" he said rudely. Then he turned his attention to Silver. "My name's Knuckles The Echidna, and I'm an earth-stone mage."

"Well met, Knuckles," said Silver. "I'm Silver The Hedgehog."

"Really? You nearly threw us off with your hairdo; we were thinking that you were a cockatoo," Knuckles noted.

"That's just my usual style [sweat drop]" Silver laughed nervously.

"Well, my name's Miia Kyouko," said Miia. "And I am, well, currently, the love-psychic mystic."

"Then you guys must be the Mystic Mages we're looking for!" Silver exclaimed. "But aren't there others out there?"

I shrugged. "Well, there were, but one of them severely burned, the other had to take care of her using her lunar magic, so, since things have gotten pretty hectic, they left the battlefield," I explained.

"I'm really sorry if I had done all this to you," said Blaze, still a little tearful.

"It's not your fault," I said. "You were under the influence of darkness."

Just then, Blaze wrapped her arms around my neck and started to hug me. "Thank you," she whispered. "For helping me find Silver... for everything."

I just hugged her back and replied, "It was nothing."

Then we let go of each other and Blaze turned to Silver, "Out of curiosity, though, how did you know that I am here?"

"Hawk brought me here," Silver replied, smiling.

"Hawk??" Knuckles asked.

"That would be me," a voice said.

We all turned around and see a man wearing a cream shirt, dark green jacket and matching pants. He looked Chinese enough, but his hair is styled in a bowl-cut(16).

"Hey, Hawk, my man! Long time no see!" said Knuckles as he ran past us towards "Hawk", and they both did a high-five.

"Well, it has been sixteen long years," said Hawk. "Looks like you've changed."

Knuckles shrugged. "Well, only in appearance."

"But just as a precaution, though," said Miia as she stepped in. "I might want to erase your memories of being her, and witnessing our powers. But look at the bright side; you won't be able to forget about meeting Knuckles years ago."

Miia then held her staff upright, then her antennae perked up, last came the orb on her staff to glow.

I then noticed that Hawk's eyes lost their glare. I just wanted to protest to stop, but I just remembered that it's telepathy, and I didn't want to interrupt Miia's work, so I just sat behind and watched.


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Miia's House*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I was laying on my cot with my hands behind my head staring at the ceiling. "Well, thanks to Eggman and the were-animals, we only have around seven or eight hours of sleep left," I heard Miia say. "What would my parents say if they find out that we sneaked out in the middle of the night?"

"I don't think they'll ever know," I replied.

Miia turned around to the edge of the bed and said to me, "I'm starting to think you are right. Besides, I pretty much doubt if they think that we went out in the middle of the night just to... you know. I mean for a speedy blue hedgehog, in my opinion, you are ludicrously... ludicrously... something that I can't put into words..."

I smirked. "Ludicrously smexy with a steaming hot body?"

"Just shut up and let me sleep!" said Miia as she quickly turned over.

My heart nearly stopped when she said that. Serves me right for forgetting that she doesn't like flirting.

I turned around in my cot, but I didn't close my eyes. Actually, I was thinking about what Silver said earlier. But then I was also thinking--wondering, actually--if Miia and I were more than best friends. Are we... like siblings? Or something else?

But then my thoughts went straight back to when half of her hands were wrapped in bandages. I could tell that she was punching a wall or something. Then I could also tell that she punched it our of anger. Something tells me that she was being bullied harshly previously. Poor kid.

For some reason this feeling that I keep on getting is rising up again. That type of feeling... wants me to do something to Miia. Something such as ki--

No way! What was I thinking?! I shouldn't do that! That'd be too... weird. Even for a human, that is. So I just pushed that thought out of my head and went to sleep.


~~~~~~Tails' House~~~~~~~~~

Blaze is sitting on the rooftop on Tails' house, looking at the stars. She was holding her pet kitten, which she named "Isabelle", in her hands. She was thinking of the events that happened recently. She even thought it was her own fault for nearly killing Amy with her flames.

"Figured I'd find you here," a voice said.

Blaze turned to see her best friend smiling slightly. "You really need some sleep," Silver said as he carefully walked to Blaze and sat down next to her.

"I know," said Blaze as she petted Isabelle gently with her finger. "But for some reason, my eyes always stay open."

"Thinking about the recent events this night?" Silver asked.

"Sort of."

"It's not your fault," Silver tried to cheer Blaze up. "You were just under the influence of the were-animals."

"I keep trying to tell myself that, but..."

Silver then noticed a small, fuzzy white bundle in Blaze's hand. "What's that in your hand??"

"...It's... just a kitten I adopted," Blaze answered quietly.

"A kitten?" asked Silver.

"I named it 'Isabelle'."

Silver smiled. "That's a pretty name for a white kitten."

Blaze only let out a small smile. "That's what I thought too."

The two said nothing for a long time. Gradually, Blaze began to feel sleepy. So she just rested her head on Silver's shoulder.

Silver noticed this and was a little surprised, but he actually didn't mind that. Instead, he just smiled. "I can't believe I'm saying this," he whispered. "But... you are hopeless, Blaze, you know that?"

Silver then turned his attention to the moonless starry sky. Completely hopeless... he thought pleasantly.



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