Sonic X Fan Fiction ❯ Sonic X: Night of the Vampire ❯ Happy Rebirthday ( Chapter 9 )

The time was 12:43 AM. Sonic and friends had made it back to Tails' workshop and were going through any books they could find that looked like it might contain any information on Gigex.

 

“This one looks important.” said Rouge.

 

The book was very thick and by the look of it very old. There were several bookmarks sticking out of several different parts of it.

 

“It has Gigex's symbol on it.” said Knuckles. “A circular golden web with seven red dots, one for each chaos emerald… Wait a minute… this is!”

 

“What? What is it?” asked Amy.

 

“I… I think this is Gigex's private archive!”

 

“His what?” asked Cream.

 

“It's not only a record of all Gigex's missions of conquest, but was also his personal spell book. What I don't know is how something like this came into Tails' possession when it was supposed to have been lost to history.”

 

“Maybe we can ask Tails how he got it after we save him?” asked Chris.

 

“Chris makes a good point.” said Sonic. “Let's just see if this book has any clues as to how we can defeat Gigex.”

 

They opened the book to one of the marked pages. It had a painting of what looked like Gigex holding a young woman's hand.

 

“Who is that woman?” asked Amy.

 

“I have no idea.” replied Knuckles.

 

“Whoever she is she sure is pretty.” said Cream. “She looks like a princess.”

 

“Chow.”

 

“So can anyone read this chicken scratch?” asked Shadow pointing to the text below the painting.

 

“Just like I feared.” said Knuckles. “This language hasn't been used for years, maybe not even since Gigex was defeated millennia ago.”

 

“So what are we going to do?” asked Sonic.

 

Suddenly the entire laboratory was illuminated with an ominous white glow that came from behind them.

 

“Oh what now?” asked Sonic as he turned to face whatever was the source of the light.

 

High atop the tallest tower of his palace Gigex stared at the portrait that hung on the wall of his throne room.

 

“Soon… very soon.” He told himself. “My power will be infinite… And then nothing will keep us apart.”

 

Gigex heard the sound of approaching footsteps.

 

“Ahh Tails.”

 

“You summoned me master?”

 

“Yes… Something for you there.” He said pointing to a glowing crystal ball in the corner of the room.

 

Tails walked over to the crystal ball and picked it up.

 

“What is this?”

 

“The life force of one hundred beings that I hand picked myself.”

 

“For me? Why?”

 

“You know your friend Sonic the Hedgehog?”

 

Tail's muscles tightened and the crystal ball started to crack in his hands.

 

“Sonic is not my friend… Don't ever forget that.”

 

“Very well. Sonic is the descendant of my ancient enemy, you know the one who sealed me away in the sarcophagus of never ending sleep? Destroying him with his own former best friend would be revenge of the sweetest kind. Needless to say I want you to use the power of that life force to vanquish him.”

 

Tails cracked the crystal ball and absorbed the life force into himself.

 

“It would be my greatest pleasure… Master.”

 

“Excellent, when Sonic has been defeated then the galaxy will have no choice but to submit to the forces of…”

 

All of a sudden Gigex started to shiver.

 

“Wooooohooooohoooohoooo…”

 

“The forces of Wooooohooooohoooohoooo…Master?”

 

“I sense… a disturbance.”

 

“Cosmo… Cosmo.”

 

“Yes mother…”

 

“Your friends need you, now more than ever.”

 

“I understand mother…”

 

“My most precious daughter, from the moment of your birth I knew you were destined for great things. I know you will make me proud. Now my greatest gift I shall share with you… another life I give to you…”

 

“Where is that light coming from?” asked Chris.

 

“Oh my… It's coming from the flower pot!” exclaimed Amy.

 

The abnormally large flower bud in the pot was glowing like the sun, then it started to burst into bloom. Suddenly the silhouette of someone familiar appeared above it. Then the light started to fade.

 

“Hello everyone.”

 

“AAAAGGHHHH!” screamed Knuckles. “It's the ghost of Cosmo!”

 

Cosmo laughed and said, “Not exactly.”

 

Everyone else's jaws dropped.

 

“Cosmo?”

 

“You're alive?”

 

“And well.”

 

Cosmo looked just the way they remembered her, only her hair was longer and stretched all the way down her back, and the flowers on her head were in full bloom.

 

“How is this possible?”

 

“I must say It's worth coming back just to see you lose your cool Sonic.”

 

“Funny… But that doesn't answer my question.”

 

“When Dark Oak was destroyed my mother could foresee that you would need me again someday. So I left a little bit of myself behind in the seed that you found. And now the process is complete and I have been given new life.”

 

“Wow. Cosmo this is wonderful!” said Amy. “But… Now's not the best time for a reunion. You see Tails has been kidnapped by the Giaki and…”

 

“I already know.”

 

“You do?”

 

“Yes. Is the archive still here?”

 

“How do you know about that?” asked Knuckles.

 

“Because I'm the one who told Tails to go and get it.”

 

“Care to explain?” asked Shadow.

 

“When my mother foresaw that Gigex would be released before my rebirth I appeared to Tails in a dream and told him to go and get it. I also helped him translate some of it so he could use some of the magic against the Giaki”

 

“And how did you know where it was?” asked Knuckles.

 

“Because thousands of years ago it was a member of my clan that stole the book from Gigex's palace. Soon Gigex came to my planet searching for it, when one of Sonic's ancestors came and helped seal him in the Sarcophagus of never ending sleep.”

 

“So you can read this chicken scratch?” asked Rouge.

 

Cosmo laughed and said, “I could read this with my eyes closed.”