Amy's Story Chapter 5

Chapter Five: At Death's Door




I eyed the horridly sharp thing in terror as I tried to shove him off. In a lightning fast move, he knelt down and cut a gash across my lower leg a half deep and let go. I screamed and fell to the floor in pain. A crowd had started to form, some gasping at the bad boy in action.

"Now do you see why no one says no to me?" he snarled. He placed his knees on my arms. It felt like they would break any second. He grabbed hold of my head and turned it to the side, brushing my quills away and gave my throat a tiny slash.

I gasped, trying not to scream or cry.

If I had my hammer with me, I would beat the crap out of him.

I clutched my bleeding leg and looked up at Will, struggling for breath.

"You're gonna be a not - so - pretty chick once I'm done with you." he jeered, raising the dagger a few feet above my heart.

A blue flash and Will was gone, the knife dropping to my feet. I gazed around to see Sonic on top of Will, the collar of Will's shirt bunched up in Sonic's fists. Tails and Knuckles cut through the crowd and began shooing them away from the scene.

"Listen here, Hackman! You ever lay a hand, no, a finger on Amy and you're gonna wish you've never been born! Got that!" Sonic whispered menacingly. Will gulped and nodded, too lost in his fear for words.

Sonic got off him, still holding Will by the neck, and shoved him at Knuckles, "Would you take him to the police station? File a report of assault?"

Knuckles nodded once and dragged Will out of the shot. Tails knelt down beside me and checked out my leg and neck. "Are you okay, Amy? The cut on your neck seems okay, not to deep, but the one on your leg looks really bad,"

Sonic whirled around to face me and Tails. He sat down in front of me next to Tails, checking out my injuries as well. I threw my arms around Sonic unexpectedly and cried, "Thank you, Sonic! You saved me again!"

He chuckled, "Don't I always?" and, to my surprise, hugged me back.

"Do you think you can walk?" Tails nervously asked. I let go of Sonic and carefully stood up. He stood up with me, his arms on either side of me in case I fall. I took a slow step with my uninjured foot and seemed to be fine.

"I think so," I assured them. I took another step with my bad leg and started to wobble and slipped. Sonic put his arms around my waist before I fell face first on the tile.

"Let's answer that question with a no," Sonic decided. Tails scooted over to us and looked at my leg again. The cut was on the side of my limb and luckily didn't get to my bone, about a foot long and half an inch deep. Blood was still trickling downward to the floor.

"It's a good thing I have a first aid kit," he informed, pulling a red case out of his backpack. "But it won't be enough. You're gonna need stitches. Can you set her down, Sonic?"

Sonic and I sat down and he pulled me onto his lap. Tails took out an antiseptic cloth and started dabbing around the cuts.

"Ow!" I put in. My leg and neck began stinging, adding to the earlier pain. Sonic took my hand gave it a squeeze, insisting everything would be alright.

"Well, that should hold you But it won't last for long," Tails reported, wrapping gauze around my leg and a large band aid on my neck, "I'm going to go get the nurse," and with that he strolled down the now empty corridor.

I turned to face Sonic, "How did you know?"

"I was on my way to your locker to drop off you stuff that you left in class when I heard you scream,"

We starred at each other, his mesmerizing emerald green eyes making my heart pound harder.

"OW!" I complained. My neck was still feeling like it was being stabbed.

I looked back at Sonic to find his eyes hinted with sadness and guilt. He leaned down and whispered in my ear, "I'm sorry I didn't get there sooner,"

Then he did something I thought he would never do in a million years.

He placed his warm, perfect lips on my forehead and glided them down to my cheek.





I sat on my bed, looking at the small box Sonic gave me. I was all fixed up, stitches and all. The only things on my mind were the tiny box that my blue hero gave me, and the huge present in my living room.

The tiny gift was pink and heart shaped, with a red ribbon tying it together. I pulled the ribbon off and opened the small box.

Inside was a huge silver rose, just like the one he gave me when we returned from Earth and a heart shaped ruby necklace!

"Oh, my!" I gasped. I got up from the bed and hopped over to the vanity. I still could hardly walk and I didn't want to use my crutches. I took off the sapphire and set it in the jewelry box, replacing it with the heart necklace. It was so beautiful. I wonder how he got it?

I sat up and gazed at the silver rose. What a wonderfully beautiful thing! I got up and hobbled over to the kitchen. This rose deserved to be in the finest of my vases with the coldest water. Once the plant was in a vase, I set it on the table in my living room and looked at my watch. It was 11:50. Man would I be tired.

The silver wrapped box stood behind the couch, full of mystery. Only 10 more minutes to open it. I stumbled back to my room and snatched the Sonic doll off my pillow.

"Thank you." I praised, like it was a voo doo doll and Sonic could actually here me. I hugged it to death for a moment.

A clanking sound came from outside my bedroom door.

I set the doll down and quietly tip toed to the threshold. In the living room, the giant gift from the unknown trembled and wiggled around. A ripping sound alerted me that I should stay away. It looked like it would explode any minute. The paper turned into scraps and a yellow robot appeared with the statement E - 6 on the side.

"Find target!" it crowed. "Find target!"

I gasped when the robot turned its head in my direction. I whipped my head around, hoping it didn't hear me.

"Find target!" the robot moved somewhere into the kitchen. This was my chance. Still in my school uniform, I dashed as fast as I could with my injured leg. I tried to unlock the door, but had trouble remembering to combination. I finally got the door unlocked and it creaked open when a giant robotic hand flung out and closed it. A bright red flood light shown on me. I had been spotted.

"Target found,” The machine theorized. The hand that was in the swung and seized me around the waist. I hollered. The robot pulled its arm back and flew into the window, shattering the glass. A piece of glass cut a large slice in my upper arm.

Great another cut that I didn't want or need!

"HELP! SONIC!" I yelled and kicked, trying to loosen the robots grasp.





"Good job, E - 6!" Eggman chuckled as they shoved me into a cage. "Now we have to wait for E - 20 to show up with the other one,"

At that moment, a larger, purple robot landed behind Eggman with Sally.

"Just on time!" Eggman affirmed. He took Sally out of the machine's hand threw her in the cell, too.

"Okay, what's the big idea, Eggman?" I barked, getting up and stumbling to the bars.

"Yeah, what do you want with us?" Sally agreed.

"The same thing I try to do all the time. Try capturing Sonic the Hedgehog using you two," he jested.

"Haven't you already tried that?" I asked.

"Yeah, but it will be different this time," Eggman confided, "Come, Bokkun! We have a message to film," and they all left, leaving the flying little black creep behind.

"Later, suckers!" Bokkun said, then flew off.

"That's just great." I ranted.

"Don't you have that hammer? I'll bet you could beat down the bars if I talk about how much Sonic loves me and only me," Sally teased, but I ignored it.

"No, I don't bring it to school. No weapons aloud," I leaned against the cell wall and murmured, "Of course that didn't stop Will Hackman,"

"What? Oh, what happened to you? You’ve been cut pretty bad,"

I starred at her in disbelief, "You honestly didn't hear? I'd think that the princess of high school would be gossip central."

"Just tell me,"

I sighed," I told Will Hackman I wasn't interested and -”

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! You never, NE - VER, tell Will Hackman you’re not interested!"

"Well, how was I supposed to know? I've spent my whole life chasing your boyfriend!" I retorted.

"So what happened?" she questioned, ignoring my small rampage.

"I tried to walk away. He grabbed my arm and slashed my leg and neck with a knife,"

"Really? That's not the worst he's done. Let me tell you about the time he almost buried a girl alive . . .”

So we spent our time thinking of ways to escape and gossiping about our nearly death injuries.

"Ow!" I burst out, clutching my leg and arm, sitting down. I hadn't noticed the glass incident had also cut the stitches off my legs, and it slowly started it bring pain back into my life.

"What?" Sally asked, and then starred at my bleeding leg. "Oh . . . um . . . aha!" she pulled a ball of gauze out of her pocket. She knelt down next to me while I held my leg. "First thing we should do is check for glass, but there is none so . . ." she wrapped the gauze around my lower leg and upper arm, like Tails did when I first got the cut.

"And just to be sure . . .” she wrapped a thin coat of the white, stretchy cloth around my neck.

"Thanks." I remarked

"Your welcome, and . . . I'm sorry . . . for that card and being so mean."

"Um . . . apology accepted."

Sally smiled and stood up. A stick of dynamite fell from her vest pocket.

I stared in awe, "Where . . . did you get . . . that?"

Sally just gazed at the red stick lying on the floor. "I have no idea!" she exclaimed, “What else do I have in there?" she pulled out another stick of dynamite and a pack of matches.

"Perfect! We can blow up the cell door and get out of here!" I marveled. She smirked and set straight to work, lighting one stick and throwing it at the door. The explosion took every bar off the cell.

"Perfect!" we cheered! Sally ran out of the cage with me right behind her, hopping as fast as I could! An alarm went off, "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"

We only ran a few paces when millions of robots surrounded us. They all had guns. Moments of silence passed before I said, "I think we should have planned something."

More minutes passed before she agreed. Two robots behind us picked us up and flew to the shy deck, holding us too tight.

"Hey, watch it! I have a bad leg and arm here!" I warned, squirming in his grip.

It felt boiling hot once we got to the deck.

"Take a good look, girls!" Eggman said. The robots held us over the railing and we saw why it was so hot.

We were flying over a volcano!