Sonic Dimensions (ON HIATUS)

Chapter 8

"So there are other emeralds from other dimensions," Wave sat with the book in her hands, the others who remained in the vault gathered around her, "The main ones that are known of are the Chaos emeralds, the Sol emeralds and the Camelon emeralds. The opener of the portals already has the Chaos emeralds, and is most likely going after either our emeralds or the Sol emeralds."
"That means Blaze could be in danger..." Sonic muttered, and he stood up. "Do you know if there's any quick way to travel through dimensions?"

Storm and Wave looked at each other, and Storm stood, punching Sonic into a wall. He yelled out, and heard some things fall to the floor. "OI WHAT WAS THAT—" He looked down. Rings. There were rings on the floor. Of course, that's why Storm punched him.
"According to this book," Wave informed him, standing and picking up a ring from the floor, "rings aren't just used to store energy, they are also used to travel between dimensions peacefully. The rifts are created due to an imbalance in space caused by the emeralds' power."

Sonic took the ring from Wave's hand and examined it. He thought hard. Was he ready? They had only just discussed what they wanted to do, but there wasn't exactly a real plan. The only one will the full plan was currently comforting their sibling in a different room. He picked up each ring, around 8 of them, and placed them on each of his fingers. Lancelot looked at him with concern, but Sonic just gave them a thumbs up.

Later on, once everyone had exited the vault, Sonic took Lancelot into a separate room in order to talk to them. They ended up in the armoury.
"Is everything okay?" Sonic asked, to which Lancelot shook their head. They said nothing however, which prompted the blue hedgehog to keep talking. "Whatever's going on in your mind, you can tell me. Even strong knights have emotions they need to discuss." The knight looked at him, then began to speak.
"I'm... afraid."
"Of what?" Sonic asked.
"I'm afraid that you could get yourself killed." Lancelot confirmed, stepping forward, "If those rings are what stores your energy, you could get seriously hurt if you use them all up. And if this person has all this power... just think of what he could do to you..."

Sonic sighed and put a hand on Lancelot's shoulder.
"Lancelot..." he muttered, his other hand rising to the knight's visor. They made no protest against it, so Sonic slowly lifted it up, revealing the scarred face of Shadow. "I've done things like this before. I assure you, if anything bad happens, I can handle it. None of us are going to die, not me, not you." Lancelot looked away from him.
"But I'm weak..." they spoke.
"The strongest people I know cry and get hurt all the time." the blue hedgehog responded, resting a hand on their cheek, "You are no different from them, I'm sure of that. I've known you for long enough."

"We met yesterday..." the black hedgehog muttered.
"And I've made friends with people who wanted to kill me in a day." Sonic responded with a half-hearted chuckle, because even if what he said made him laugh a little, seeing Lancelot upset made him feel awful. Lancelot looked him in the eyes, the eye contact making their cheeks flush up.
"I've already lost one person I care a lot about..." they told Sonic, standing closer, their muzzles close together, "I can't bare to lose you too..."
"You won't... I'll make sure of it."

The two examined their position, standing in a content silence. Sonic was the first to ask the question.
"Is falling in love with another guy... normal?" Lancelot blinked and looked Sonic up and down.
"I never heard anything against it."
"I've heard a lot of people in Mobius yelling that it was sinful and disgusting."
"They're the disgusting ones for trying to control an uncontrollable force." Lancelot's response made them both laugh and look back into the other's eyes.

"So have you ever..." Lancelot began. Sonic spoke instantly.
"No. Did you want to... try it...?" The black hedgehog stood in quiet for a moment, processing the question, then nodded.