Sonic X 1: Returning

CHAPTER 4: Sonic Finds Faith

Rouge walked up to the rest of the gang at the pond, getting an annoyed look from Knuckles. "And where did you disappear to, Bat-girl?"

"I wanted to see what her parents was like, that's all Knuckie." Rouge relied. "They seem very nice, but I think we should wait for Emily to introduce us. Oh, and their going to a place called church so I hung out and helped her get ready."

Sonic looked up at Rouge. "What's church?"

"Beats me." Rouge said with a shrug.

"Hmm," Sonic said looking at the van. "I got to check this out,"

"Faker!" Shadow warned, but the blue blur was already dashing up to the van and hiding under the axel. He slipped under the car just as I was getting in the back seat.

I cringe as I was hit by a burst of wind. I look around, knowing that whenever Sonic was rushing around, a gust of wind almost always followed.

"You alright, honey?" My mom asked.

I smiled at her and nodded. "I'm fine,"

My dad starts the car and we drive around the corner to church.

When the van stopped, Sonic waited for me to go inside. Luckily, it was only five thirty so there weren't many people in there. As soon as the coast was clear, Sonic made a mad dash inside and hid in the ventilation system and waited for service to start. He had two vents on either side of him so he could see into the audience and the stage. He almost immediately spotted me hanging out with my friends.

I almost immediately spotted Sonic in the ventilation system. My eyes widened when he winked one of those bright green eyes at me. I felt my body tense up for a moment but then the service started. The worship leader got up on stage and began strumming on his guitar to my favorite song. Marvelous Light.

"Into Marvelous Light I'm Running,
Out of Darkness, out of shame,
By the Cross You are the truth, You are the life, You are the way!"

As the song went on, I kept looking at where Sonic was, I couldn't see him now and this worried me at first. At least he was hiding no one expected.

Sonic had turned away from the vent facing me and was looking at the band when they started playing. He loved the sound of a guitar being played, but this song was very different from what he listened to, it wasn't rock, it was something that really grabbed his heart.

"I was once Fatherless, a stranger with no hope.
Your kindness wakened me. Wakened me, from my sleep.
Your love, it beckons deeply, a call to come and die.
By Grace now I will come, and take this life, take your life!
Sin has lost its power! Death has lost its sting! From the grave you've risen, Victoriously!"

Sonic didn't really know what the song meant. 'A call to come and die? Why would I do that?' Sonic pondered. 'Once fatherless.... That sounds like me... I lost my parents to an accident I don't remember.... Why is this song getting to me like this?'

"Into Marvelous Light I'm Running,
Out of Darkness, out of shame,
By the Cross You are the truth, You are the life, You are the way!"

Now Sonic couldn't help it. He listened to the song and quietly sang with it. It felt so good to sing it, almost like a rubber-band had been taken off his heart to allow blood to flow through it again. It stung and made his body tingle, but it was a wonderful sensation.

"My dead heart now is beating. My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs. Now I'm free! Now I'm free!

Sin has lost its power! Death has lost its sting! From the grave you've risen, Victoriously