Maria Robotnik, the hedgehog

Death

(Warning! Descriptions of blood and death!)

The gunshot echoed through the lab, and Shadow's screaming her name could be heard.

"MARIAAAAA!"

Air was knocked out of her as the bullet pierced her chest. Her knees buckled and she collapsed, hitting the floor.
Blood seeped from her stomach and drowned her lungs.
Everything was fading fast.

She could only keep her eyes on her little brother, Shadow, who was now going down to earth...without her.

She stumbled to her feet, coughing up blood, staining her blue dress.

"Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog...." She managed to say, then she slammed her fist on button and he was shot out of the ARK. Screaming her name.

She collapsed again, her strength giving out.
"I'm sorry little brother, enjoy life for me..." she choked out as the agents came into the room.

"YOU IDIOT WHY DID YOU SHOOT HER?!?"
She heard someone scream, but his response became distorted as the sense of hearing slowly left her.

Her vision became blurry, and clouded, the only thing she could see was the floor she was lying on and the blood she coughed up staining it.
Then everything
Went
Black

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Maria

The sky was black and soulless, and I laid there, staring at it.

Nothing seemed real.
It all seemed like a dream that I would wake up from. And when I woke up, Shadow would be sitting on the floor like he always did, reading a picture book or scribbling gibberish in a notebook, waiting for me to wake up.

But I never woke up.

It was cold here, and I felt no air in my lungs. But I was alive.

No I wasn't.

The shot replayed. The bang of the gun and Shadow's screams.

Blood choking out my lungs.

It was all real.

There was no dream to wake up from.

I sat up and stared.
Darkness, that's all that surrounded me.

I'm dead.

I could feel small drops hitting the ground beneath me.

I'm crying?
It feels so long, I think I might have forgotten how to cry.

I weeped and sobbed, as I sat there in the starless sky.
No one was there to be with me.

I would never see my grandfather again and hear all his wonderful lessons.
I would never get to say good morning to everyone on the ARK.
I would never get to see Shadow again.

It felt strange, to sit here and cry and there was no small hedgehog to sit there next to me.
To hold onto my arm when he was scared.
No one to read stories too while he was getting tested.
No one to talk to and fantasize about life on earth, without illness.

I don't remember when I stopped crying.

Time seemed like it never existed.

I wandered through darkness, every footstep feeling weighted.

Nothing.

I didn't even now how much time had passed when I realized I was starting to sink.

Then I couldn't move anymore.