Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The White Hedgehog ❯ Chapter 2

Ok, here's the next installment I hope you all like. I put a lot of effort into this, so I hope you all really like it. I wasn't going to post this, but your reviews inspired me to post this one too. So if you want more, keep up the reviews.

 

 

I don't own Sonic and crew and hold no claim to them. But any characters that are unknown to you are from my mind.

 

Chapter 2

By: Jenny Blue

 

 

The forest was well into night when the two hedgehogs started on their journey. The cobalt male was still angry with the white female for calling him speedy. But she didn't seem to mind that. The male was ready to yell at her when she turned off the path. He held his tongue and followed her to a grass-covered embankment. When he turned his head to look at something that moved in the bushes and turned back, she was gone.

 

“Yo, Kat, where did ya go?” called Sonic. He looked around for her and was about to call out to her again when he saw a part of the embankment move and open. Kathryn stared at him, an angry look on her face. “Hurry up and don't call me Kat! It's Kathryn!” She said as she turned and disappeared into the tunnel behind her.

 

“Is this how you got to Knothole so fast?” Sonic asked, as he walked through the entrance. When he was safely in the tunnel, the door closed quietly behind them, immersing them in total darkness. Sonic spun around and groped for the door. When he found it, it was solid rock and earth. He moved his hands over the ruff stone. Finding nothing of a handle or other way to open the solid wall in front of him. He looked over his shoulder nervously into the darkness.

 

“This is how I reached Knothole, yes, but how long it took? I don't know.” Kathryn replied, her voice sounding far away, yet he knew she was close.

 

“So, how did you see where you were going?” asked Sonic, but as his words echoed off the walls of the tunnel. A faint green glow began to appear and it grew stronger with each moment. He looked to where the light was coming from and could see fungus growing on the tunnels walls. “What is this stuff?” taking his hand and touching it.

 

“Phosphorous fungus, it grows all over the caves down here. We'll walk some ways in and then set camp. Come on, don't fall behind again.” Kathryn said, walking away from our hero. An evident scowl on his face.

 

They walked in silence. Each to their own thoughts. As they walked, Sonic understood how she didn't know how long it took her to get to Knothole. He wasn't sure how long they had been walking. As they walked along, Sonic could hear water dripping and things crawling in the walls. Little eyes glowed in the dark, watching as they passed. This all unnerved him a lot. He liked it when he could see what was going on around him. At lease see what was making all the strange noises around him.

 

Time past and the two kept their silent march. Sonic followed the white female in front of him. Her white fur stood out against the eerie green glow surrounding them. Her fur was a beacon in the dark for him to follow. As he walked, he watched how her white hair and quills swayed from side to side. How each step was precise, graceful and quiet. Then Kathryn veered to the right, into a small alcove and Sonic followed her and found the source of the dripping water. A small pool at the back of the little cave, being fed by dripping water from the low ceiling.

 

“We'll stay here for a bit, rest and then be on our way. You spend too much time in here and you start to loose it. Down here you don't know if it's night or day or how many days have passed. ” Kathryn said, setting her pack down.

 

“Ok, who made these tunnels? How come no one has ever herd of them till now? An who made the door to Knothole woods?” Sonic asked.

 

“I don't know. No one really knows. I was shone them when I came to Willow Town. The mobians of the village said they found it when they were making their sellers. They say they go on for miles everywhere under mobias. Knothole isn't the only place they come out of either. When we get to Willow Town, I'll find the maps they made of them. I believe they kept them in the town hall. They could help us a lot.” She answered him, unrolling her sleeping mat.

 

He followed suit, staying on the other side of the little cave. He noticed that she ate her meal slowly. She had a sensual way of it. Each bite gently passing her lips and chewed slowly. He could even see the diligent way she swallowed. He couldn't keep his eyes off her. To him everything she did reminded him of Sally. Only she had it down to a science. Everything she did was down to a science. When he lay on his sleeping bag watching her still form. He cursed himself for comparing her to Sally. She was nothing compared to Sally, she was better then Sally. An if no one knew better, they would say she was the princess, not Sally. He rolled over, trying to ignore the throbbing he was felling.

 

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 It was dark and cold here. She couldn't see anything beyond where she stood. The only sounds were her own breath leaving her.

~You know they'll never accept you. ~

She started, turning around. Trying to find the source of the voice.

“Who are you?”

~They will hate you, you know. They will fear you and run from you. ~

The voice echoed around her. Coming at her from all sides.

“No, that's a lie. They wont hate me.”

~They know what you are. They will kill you for what you are. You are evil. He will die because of you. ~

“Who will die?”

~You know who, they always die. Everything you touch dies. Your mother, father, even your sister will…~

“No, you're lying!”

~Am I? You've seen the future? ~

“But it can be changed. It has before!”

She wrapped her arms around her. Holding tight to her self. Listening to the unknown person laughing. Then out of the darkness everyone that she had ever met and died in her life came out of the shadows of this dark place she found herself in. Each of their faces had a look of either fear or hatred. They slowly closed in on her. As there hands clasped her…

 

Kathryn pushed herself up from her mat. It was only a dream. She looked around her. Sonic was still in his sleeping bag. He stirred, but didn't wake. She moved to the pool and splashed the cold water on her face. As she looked in the water, her distorted refection stared back at her.

 

“It was only a dream.” She whispered.

 

“What you say?” Sonic yawned, sitting up and stretching.

 

“I said it's time to leave.” She made ready to leave.

 

Keeping her back to him. She gathered her things. Rolling the mat up, placing it into her pack. With her back still to him. She straightened her clothes. Then smoothing her hair and quills down with her fingers. She found a small knot in it and decided to trim it when she reached Willow Town.

 

Sonic watched the small female as she readied to leave. He automatically put his thing away. Keeping his eyes on her. There was something about her that he couldn't shack. When he saw her shoulder her pack. He stood quickly and through his on. Reading to run, he sped off. Scooping the female up in his arms.

  

Sonic sped down the smooth surface of the tunnel. A stern look on his face. After resting for what was the night for them, Kathryn had agreed to let Sonic carry her the rest of the way. He could feel her head resting on his shoulder. She hadn't said much after they started again. She seemed so sad when he went to lift her. A now she laid limp in his arms. Lost in her own thoughts. He had heard her wake earlier. Then quietly watched as she got up and move to the little pool. He heard her talk, but couldn't hear what she said, so he pretended to be waking up. It hadn't worked. She didn't talk. Sonic felt her move her head. When he looked down at her for a moment he saw she was looking straight ahead and was spooked when she spoke. “The tunnel ends in another hundred feet.” He looked and could just make out a staircase.

 

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Darkness and the smell of smoke greeted them as they pushed open the door. They climbed out of the trap door in the cellar floor. Kathryn took a quick look around. Then headed for the stairs. In the quiet cellar, the stairs creaking echoed. When she opened the door, thin streams of light filtered through the window shutters. It was creepy walking through the empty house. The only noise made was by the wind outside and the echo of the two hedgehogs steps. As both neared the door and opened it, only the sun, wind and silence greeted them.

 

They went from house to house, looking for survivors. When they found none, they looked for clues for what might have happened. As they looked, they moved things that could be collected latter to the house that they had come from. Placing trunk after trunk of clothes and goods that could be of use someone back in Knothole.

 

When Kathryn came to the house she once called home, she wanted to cry. The door was kicked in, windows broken. This was the last house and like the others, left standing. All the town's people gone. Taking a deep breath, she walked inside. The furniture was turned over and things torn apart. Objects lay broken on the floor. She calmly walked through the house, placing thing into trunks for her and Amy to collect latter. When she was done, she walked to the last room in the house. As she walked to the room, she would pick up a photo book here and a picture there. Placing them all in her pack. When she reached the room's door it took everything she had to open it and walk in. She could feel the scream rise from her. It didn't matter that the male herd her, she just let it out.

 

Sonic looked around the small house. It was once a nice little place. He picked up a picture and looked at it. In the picture were four hedgehogs. A red male, a pure white female with a rosy pink baby in her arms and a small girl. She was white like her mother and the pink streaks like the babies color. Sonic realized this was Kathryn and Amy's family. As Sonic studied the photo, he remembered were he had seen Kathryn before. That's when he heard the scream. Shoving the photo in his pack, he rushed to where he heard the scream.

 

Sonic took in the seen before him. Kathryn was bent over an elder white female hedgehog. Kathryn had her head in her lap, stroking the quills and hair, rocking. The still female's form lay on the floor, laser burns on her clothes told how she had died. Sonic knelt behind Kathryn, gently pulled her to him. This was something he would never get use to and he felt like he wanted to scream himself. He held her through her crying.

 

When her crying turned to sobs and those turned to whimpers. They sat there for a time. After he helped her bury her mother. They gathered the things that she wanted to bring back for Amy. Then move that last of the trunks to the house. An she marked them has hers. Both went to the tunnel in silence. Both traveled in the tunnel in silence. When they reached the forest three days latter. Both were still silent. When they entered Knothole, both retreated to their huts. Kathryn told Amy about their mother and everyone could here Amy's cries of morning. Sonic stayed in his hut, looking at the picture he still had. He knew that Sally was would come and ask what they found. He lay there on his bed thinking of how to tell her everything he had seen.

 

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Time past, the day turned to late afternoon. Sonic still lay on his bed when Sally knocked on his door. “It's open.” was all he said. Sally entered looked around Sonic's hut. In a corner was a battered guitar. A small table and two chairs. Near the bead was a worn dresser with a tarnished mirror on it. A door that led to a bathroom. Lying on the bed Sonic. When she shut the door and sat down in a chair at his table, Sonic sat up and walked over to her. He was still holding the picture.

 

“So, what did you find?” Sally asked.

 

“Everyone was gone. Males, females, cubs, everyone. Right down to the animals. But there was one person left. Kathryn and Amy's mother. They left her behind.” Sonic fell silent, looking at the picture.

 

“Then why didn't you bring…” Sonic looked up at her, “I under stand.”

 

“Look at this.” Sonic handed the picture to her.

 

Sally looked at it and then looked back to Sonic. The question he was expecting was in her eyes. He had to turn away from them. He couldn't look in those eyes for very long any more. It hurt him too much. He only looked back when she handed him the picture.

 

“Do the adults look familiar?” Sonic asked.

 

“Some what, who are they Sonic?”

 

“The male was captain of the guard and the female was your mother's lady in waiting and personal guard.”

 

“You mean Kathryn is Kat? Little Kat, the one we played with? But they were presumed dead after Julian attacked us.”

 

“So did I Sal, but there they are. It also explains Amy's gift with the cards. Amy is Katarina's daughter. My mother and your mother's best friend. We played together as kids.” Sonic said, as he sat down. “By now all the towns people have been robotized. I just wish I knew why they killed Katarina.”

 

“Sonic, why didn't Kat say anything? Do you think she has her mother's gift? She was quite a lot of the time.”

 

“I don't know Sal, I just don't know.” Sonic said, sitting down. Putting the picture down. He placed his head in his hands.

 

Both sat in silence for a time. Then Sonic finished filling Sally in on what they found at Willow Town. An that they had moved everything to the caller of the house they came out of. Last he handed over the maps of the tunnels. As Sally left, she glanced over her shoulder to see Sonic starring at the picture again. She quietly shut the door and headed to Amy's hut. She needed to know if the young hedgehog was taking the news of her mother's death well.

 

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A week had past since Kathryn came to Knothole. She was settling in well enough. But she stayed to herself most of the time. She was only around the others when it was time for meals or meetings. But for the most part she would be seen with the children or with Amy. She seemed to like it like that.

 

She could still feel the eyes of the others on her. But she ignored them. Everyone knew she was the great oracle's daughter and it didn't change anything. She still kept her secrets from them. An only the princess seemed to want to know them. That didn't bother her.

 

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“Kathryn, can I speak with you?” Sally asked

 

Kathryn looked up from under the pile of children on her and nodded. It was her turn to watch the younger ones today and they were playing tackle the babysitter. When she withdrew herself from them and placed them into a young raccoon's hands. She followed Sally to her hut and wondered what she wanted to talk about. It wasn't often that Sally would talk to her.

 

“Kathryn, I need your help with setting up a look out post in one of the taller trees. I've noticed that you're very good at climbing. Sonic, Rotor and Tails need a hand. I'm assigning you to help them.”

 

Kathryn agreed and headed out of Sally's hut. As she walked out, the Male skunk Geoffrey walked in. She walked faster to where Sally said the three males were. As she neared their location, she could hear the two elders talking. They were talking about her.

 

“Did you see her this morning?” Rotor asked.

 

“Ya, I say her. So what?” Sonic answered.

 

“I thought I was going to loose it. That body.”

 

“Loose what uncle Rotor?” Asked Tails, as he dropped from the tree.

 

She came around the tree and smiled at Tails, “Nothing Tails, he was just rambling.”

 

Both older males looked at her. There was a visible look of relief on Rotor. Then it changed to a deeper blue when he realized she hared. She looked at him with ice in her eyes. He just smiled and hid he face behind his blueprints. Worried if she was going to hurt him or something to him.

 

Rotor gave them each a thing the needed to do. Kathryn was to clime up to the most level branches and then start removing the smaller one around them. Tails was to help her by taking them away. Then Sonic and Tails were to bring boards up for her to lay a floor and supports. Then all of them were to go up and build the platforms house and a way to get up and down.

 

It all took them three weeks to finish the look out post. As Kathryn stood outside the tiny look out house, watching for recon bots. She let her mind wonder and leaned back against the hut. She closed her eyes and let the soft breeze brush against her fur. These were the times she would think about how her life had changed and wondered how it could have been different.

 

To Be Continued

 

Well, that's it. I hope you like the redoing I've done on it. Please R&R.

Till then:

 

Those with wings,

Fly to your dreams.