Silver the Hedgehog panted slightly as he finally caught up with the young hedgehog known as Amy Rose. She had been running about the areas around Soleanna, the City of Water, for hours now. She was just slowing down in the nearby jungle, just south of the city. He couldn't have been more relieved. It was clear that he had no idea on how to deal with energetic females. Blaze was nothing like the spunky pink hedgehog that had literally dragged him around searching for this "Sonic" character. How did Silver get himself into this anyway? The mission was supposed to be simple: travel to the past, then find and destroy the Iblis Trigger. He hadn't been expecting the task to be easy, but he hadn't expected to become distracted by something as small as a love-struck female either. Silver had to stop himself from laughing at this scenario. Amy finally stopped her search momentarily when she ran into a cliff, It went up about thirty feet, and Amy didn't really want to try and jump that. She turned to her companion behind her and saw he that he was gasping for air.
"Are you all right, Silver?" Amy asked, Silver caught his breath and gave her a small nod. She made note of his exhaustion.
"Why don't we take a break for the night? It's getting late."
Silver just gave another nod, glancing around the surrounding trees. To his left he spotted a cave entrance in the cliff, next to a small river. Amy followed his gaze, and with a smile sprinted towards it.The cave entrance was a small tunnel, and Amy couldn't tell how far into the cliff it went, the two hedgehogs entered the cave to get some rest. The cave led to a small niche that made a circle about twelve feet in diameter and six feet to the top, leaving plenty of room for the hedgehogs to sleep for the night. Amy set up two "beds" from leaves she had collected from outside, then went on to build a small fire. Silver jumped just a little when she finally got the flame going, his survival instincts against Iblis coming out, but he calmed quickly at the sight of Amy relaxing by the fire.
"So, Silver..." Amy scanned her brain trying to think of something to make conversation with. "Who are you looking for anyway?"
Silver was quiet. He sat himself across the fire from the female and debated with himself about exactly how much he should tell her.
"I'm searching for the Iblis Trigger," he said. At her puzzled face he continued. "In the near future, the Iblis Trigger will destroy...where I'm from. I've been sent to stop him."
He felt he had to choose his words carefully. Amy just thought he was from some other location in this time period. It might complicate things if he tried to explain that he was also from the future. Silver wasn't sure if time travel was possible in this era, and if it wasn't then she might think he was crazy for suggesting otherwise.
"Sort of like a prophesy then?" Amy asked. Silver nodded. He guessed that was one way to put it.
"Pretty brave of you, going off on your own to save your home."
"I wasn't alone," Silver explained, though he felt slightly elated at her words.
"I got separated from Blaze. I'm looking for her too, I suppose."
"Well, don't worry." Amy gave him a wide smile, though this concealed a flash of jealousy. Who was Blaze? The name sounded familiar, but she couldn't place it.
"Like I said, you help me find Sonic, and I'll help you find the Iblis Trigger and this Blaze of yours." While Silver was in high spirits at Amy?s offer to help him his happiness faded, as he also felt rather annoyed that whoever Sonic was took up so much of her attention. He couldn't exactly place the reason for his annoyance though.
"I think it's time for bed," Amy said with a yawn. In truth, she wanted to get away from the subject of his female friend. She laid herself down on one of the leaf beds, across the cave from Silver's. "Don't worry about the fire. It'll burn itself out. Good night, Silver."
"...Night, Amy." Silver replied quietly. He placed himself on his own bed, facing Amy. Unfortunately that direction also faced the campfire. "Don't worry about the fire...it'll burn itself out." he repeated.
Silver still instinctively felt tense because of the fire, but those thoughts didn't last long once he caught sight of Amy's serene sleeping face. He kept an eye on that until he fell asleep himself.
Fire...smoke...rubble...heat...a roar and a scream from Blaze...!
Silver sprung awake, shocking himself out of the nightmare about Iblis. Could he not escape that monster even in his dreams?! He let out a groan and slammed his palm to his forehead.
Wait a minute...why was everything so big? He looked to Amy and yelped, she'd tuned into a giantess!
No...that wasn't right... Silver reasoned after he'd calmed himself. If everything was bigger...than that ment...
Ho-no...
"I've SHRUNK!" Silver exclaimed at the top of his voice, his shout sounded like a chipmonk on helium.
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