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The Black Rose Pt 2 Ch 2

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Sonic sighed, relieved. "That's my Amy..." he whispered.
The man screamed and clutched his finger. He looked at it, then at Amy. The man kicked in her stomach then her ribs then her hip. He stood over her, pinning her large arms down by stepping on them. Her grounded the heels of his boots into her arms. It was extremely painful. Again, Amy was tired and didn't have all her strength, so she couldn't easily throw him off. Her head was turned and limp because of her exhaustion.
Sonic again began struggling to escape the men.
When Amy bared her teeth feebly, the man kicked her cheek. Amy panted painfuly, her mouth open.
"You're the one that caused all that trouble, right? What with freeing my witch? And rampaging through the town? You changed. You're pink now and your eyes are green. Much prettier."
The man replaced one foot with a knee, causing more pain, and got face to face with Amy. She turned her head away. He clenched her cheek between his thumb and other fingers, not using his bad hand, and forced her to look at him. He turned her head both ways, examining her face.
"Yes... quite a nice little werewolf."
Amy coughed in his face. "I'm not a werewolf! Get that through your thick head!"
The man wiped it off his face and glared at her. Amy summoned almost all her strength and swung her leg up and knocked the man off her. Amy began to crawl to Sonic, but the man kicked her in the back of her head. She fell unconscious just a mere foot in front of Sonic. Sonic broke one arm free and stretched it at Amy. But the man placed his foot on her windpipe, stopping his arm half way.
"Pull your arm back or she's done."
Sonic could already hear Amy having trouble breathing. Sonic's arm twitched. The man pressed harder. Amy began making choked sounds. Sonic quickly recalled his arm and stopped resisting. But he didn't take his eyes off Amy.
"Amy..." Sonic whispered.
"Witch! Hold her up."
Dream's hands glowed dark green and large roots sprouted. They wrapped around Amy's wrists and hung her a few inches off the ground. The man uncurled his whip. Sonic saw it and fought and kicked against the men, but they were strong and well-rested.
"Twenty lashes."
"Please!" Sonic shouted. "She's sick!"
"You want to take her lashes?" he said sarcastically.
"I'll take them all!" Sonic demanded.
"Fine. Witch! Hold up the blue one!"
The roots dropped Amy and sunk into the ground. Sonic rushed to her, now released, but only had enough time to lay one hand on her back before the roots ensnared him and suspended him.
The two men dragged Amy away from the roots.
"Forty lashes! Twenty for the girl, and twenty for you!"
Sonic closed his eyes and clenched his teeth. He heard the whip's whistle a second before he felt the keen burn across his back. He arched his back and growled but didn't try to escape for his friends' sake.
Amy's eyes fluttered open.
"One!"
This one was on the back of his legs. Amy's tears ran over her cheeks silently. Scarlet winced with every one and closed her eyes and just leaned against Tails, who's eyes were also closed. Tears slid down his face and welled up in Scarlet's eyes. Dream bit her lip.
"Two!"
One all across his quills. Every lash left bleeding slits.
"Three!"
Sonic's thoughts drifted to wonder if he could endure forty lashes.
But then he thought of Amy. Of Scarlet and Tails and Dream. He filled his head with memories and images of them and closed the outer world out.
At last, all forty lashes had been delivered. By the end of it, Sonic's wrists were almost raw from the tight roots, he was covered in bloody cuts, and was extremely sore. But he didn't care. All he cared about was how he had taken them for Amy.
"We're done with him, witch."
Dream's tears reflected the green glow that subsided from her hands. Sonic dropped to the floor and crawled to Amy. He laid down on his stomach in front of her, for that was as far as he could go.
Amy was already lying on the ground. "You didn't have to do that..." she sniffled sickly.
"Don't worry...I wanted to..." he whispered.
Amy put a shaky hand on his.
"Now string up the pink one."
Scarlet's eyes shot open and she almost dropped her piece of shirt. Tails exchanged a shocked glance with Scarlet. Dream gasped and fell to her knees. Amy panted harder and shorter. Sonic's eyes lowered into an instant scowl. He got on his knees and faced the man.
"I took hers! We had a deal!" he snarled.
"Yeah, well... I don't count a deal unless we shake. Tie her up, witch!"
Sonic clutched Amy to his chest, but the roots snaked between them and took Amy out of Sonic's grasp. Before he could get up, the two men had already grabbed him.
"No!" Sonic roared. "Let me go!" He was extremely tempted to bite their arms, but he knew he shouldn't spread the disease even more.
"Forty lashes!"
"WHAT?!" Sonic roared.
"Sonic... " Amy sobbed.
"The lashes must be delivered to bare skin; remove her dress!"
Everyone's eyes shot open. Amy weakly blushed.
"Well go on!"
A man came forward. He looked at Sonic.
"You even touch that dress..." Sonic warned. The man was terrified and ran back the group.
"Fine! I'll do it!" The man who had the whip approached Amy.
Sonic's eyes glowed dangerously.
Dream read his mind, nearly being knocked over by the rage. Sonic, don't lose your temper! You don't understand what will happen!
Dream, you have to let Amy go!
But...the whip...!<
Dream you will get much worse things from me if you don't get her away from that man!</i> Dream could hear Sonic snarling in his mind.
Sonic-
DREAM!
The man had began to pull the top piece of her torn dress off. YOU'RE A COWARDLY FOX, DREAM!
Dream froze. Her hands stopped glowing and the roots went into the ground, dropping Amy. Everyone was silent.
"You call me..." she puffed. "You call me a...coward...? A...COWARDLY FOX?!"
All of a sudden, Dream did something no one expected her to even be remotely of doing.
When Dream clenched her fists, the following things happened all at once; her right hand's splash marks glowed dark green, her right hand marks glowed light green, her right leg's glowed blue, and the other glowed light grey. The strongest wind they'd ever felt stormed from her, almost hurricane forces.
"I WILL SHOW YOU COWARDLY!"
The threw her right hand in the air and roots sprouted from all around them and shot around after the people. The villagers panicked. Dream stayed where she was but sent out roots to throw and attack the men.
Sonic looked for his friends. Scarlet was too tired to move, so she and Tails were leaning against a tree. Sonic stretched both of his arms out and yanked them to him. Amy was still collapsed in the center. He carefully pulled her to him and embraced her still-shivering body.
"Sonic..." Amy whispered. She could barely be heard over the screaming of the men. "What did you do?"
"I just encouraged Dream a little. That's all..."
Sonic, get everyone to me.
Dream, we can't. We're completely out of energy.
Dream looked at them. Her pointed her left hand at them. The green light went forward like a ribbon, dancing around. It circled around them then went through Sonic's chest. When it did, Sonic felt his energy spike.
I can't heal everyone of you, that would take too much time.
Sonic grabbed everyone in his large arms and pushed his way towards Dream. He ducked to avoid a root colliding with his head. He got behind Dream. Dream thrust her right hand into the air. Roots wrapped Sonic, Scarlet, Amy, and Tails and put them high into the sky. Dream stood on a root as it put her high above, too. The root extended towards the vast water, Dream walking on it. They were extremely high. Dream ran forward and leapt off the root. As she jumped off she went her right lug in the circle down.
"Dream!" Sonic shouted.
The water below them came gushing forward. It rocked their roots but they didn't fall.
Dream came back up! She was riding a ribbon of water like Sonic rides a rail. She went forward over the water, switching jets and circling over spots as well. The huge "lake" went into the ocean like a fire hose.
Sonic watched in awe. His friends were passed out except for almost-asleep Scarlet, who was determined to keep her "shirt" on her chest. Dream jumped off her "water rail" and landed on a root that came up and stood. She preformed somewhat of a dance, focusing on her left leg, and any storm clouds that could be seen disappeared. The hills had no water on them. It was just as it had been before, except that they no longer lush green.
Dream's left hand glowed pink and she waved at the hills.
Green grass and flowers covered them once again.
Her hand glowed light green again. She brought the roots down to the ground.
All of her limbs stopped glowing and she fell to her hands and knees, panting.
"Even though...I didn't kill...the men...was...that...cowardly?"
"Nope."
Dream smiled and fainted herself.
Sonic laid his friends down by her. When he set Scarlet down, she said, "Hey, Sony. What's next?"
"What's next? I'll tell you what's next. I'm going to find that man and rip his heart out."
"Don't lose your temper, Sonic..."
"I'll calm down when I find him!" Sonic was in a blood fury again. He ran off on all fours through the forest.
"Sonic! That's not the answer!" But he was gone.

As Sonic ran through the forest, his ears flicked to his left. He stopped and listened. It sounded like someone breathing through their teeth, really quickly. He went to the source and found what he was looking for.
The man.
Sonic approached him. His head was jerking around as if in a spasm. When he saw Sonic, he focused his eyes on him. Then he said something that made Sonic's heart stop beating for a minute.
"Hello, Sonic. If you are hearing this message, then well done! You defeated one of my finest robots. He was specially designed to find what made your blood boil. And do it. BB102 was maybe in my top five finest and most realistic. Now that you know what he was and where he came from, maybe you can calm down and listen; your girlfriend, she's horribly sick, isn't she? Well guess what; I made her sick. It's a horrible condition, really, that I invented. I injected her with it when I had her in my lab. Pretty clever, isn't it, Hedgehog? After thirteen days, she'll be no more. Bring her to me if you want her cured. If you really love her, I suggest following my orders. I'll be seeing you."
He had spoken with Eggman's voice.
I sooo rushed this...Luckily by brother wasn't around to slap me...

Again, I bet you didn't see that coming.
:iconlegaspplz: Eggman?!!?!?!?!

Sonic: :jawdrop: :worry:
Amy: :sick:
Scarlet: :worry:
Tails: :sleep:
Dream: :sleep:
Eggman far away: :evillaugh:




:iconseanvollfied: "Dream: BADASS MODE ENGAGE"




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Eggman, you just crossed the line.