Revlis the Hedgehog

Chapter seven- The Hospital

    I dropped to my knees. Right onstage. I was holding the knife with one hand,  trying to keep it from coming out. I was panting, and I could tell the knife had punctured something. I glanced up into the audience to see a green Hedgehog smirking at me.

    He wore a jacket that looked a little like mine, but it had flames on the shoulders. He wore sunglasses on his head, and had two scars on his chest. His eyes were a piercing ice blue, staring right at me. My vision slowly faded to black as I went limp on the floor and went into the dizzying blackness.

    I woke up in the hospital, tubes were going everywhere. Some hooked up to my arms. Some hanging limply from a silver bar beside my bed. I reach up to my face with the arm without tubes and felt a tube going into my mouth and down my throat. I was on life support.

    I saw Silver asleep beside me in a chair that was pulled up next to my bed. I moved my head to look at him. The tube on one arm shifted and clinked against the pole it was attached to. It wasn't enough to wake up Silver, but it kinda startled me. The tube going down my throat was extremely uncomfortable, making it difficult to swallow. I stared at Silver. Then suddenly images flashed through my mind. I was reading Silver's mind and watching his dream.

    He was dreaming about how we used to play in the meadows behind my house. I loved those times. Then he jerked and suddenly a knife went through my dream self's chest. The dream me fell to the ground, and as he did so, yanked the knife out and blood came gushing from the deep gash mark.

    The dream Silver yelled, "No! Revlis!" and then the dream ended with a very disturbing image of me in a pool of thick, red, sticky blood. All of which was coming out of the gash on my chest.

    I thought hard and tried to yell at Silver in my mind to stop the dream.

    Silver, stop the dream! You're not losing me! I'm fine! I yelled in my mind, hoping that Silver got the message. I guess he did, because the dream became nice again, with the flowery meadows and my house. I turned my head in the other direction.

    I was just about to drift off again, when Reflects silently comes in the door. I jerk my eyes open. When he sees that my eyes are open and staring at him, he smiles. Not a large smile, but a soft one.

    "Hey, buddy." he said softly. I was quite surprised to see that he was being so nice to me, after almost killing me the other day.

    I smile as best I can with the tube in my mouth. He comes over to sit beside my bed in the other chair on the other side. I sighed. He gives me a notebook and a mechanical pencil. My ears straightened in excitement. I took them from him gently and nodded my thanks. He also gave me a box of colored pencils. I smiled again.

    "For you to communicate or draw in." He replied gently. "For now, at least." he added, gesturing to the tube in my mouth.

    I opened the notebook to the first page and wrote:

Thanks, Reflects. What made you nice all of a sudden? First you're trying to kill me, and then you're giving me a communication device. Why?

    I showed him the message and he read it quickly.

    As not to wake up Silver, he whispered," Cause I screwed up before. I figured it out that the only way to get friends, was to treat them with respect." he explained.

Oh. Well, that makes sense. I also noticed that you have rings on your wrists and ankles. What're they for?

    "I'm an Ultimate Lifeform. One of them at least. There are a lot. Like Shads is one, I'm another. And there's a few that I don't know." he said simply.

Reflects... why do you have two tails instead of one? And why are you referred to as a Hedgefox?

    "Because..." he hesitated. "I don't know."

Oh. Well who's your family?

    "I don't-" he swallowed nervously, he had a look of uncertainty in his eyes, as if he should tell me or not. "Have one." he said finally.

Oh. Sorry.

    "Its alright..." he had started to tear up, so I decided to cheer him up.

Want to see me draw a picture?

    "Sure." he perked up.

    I drew something like this: (if it's half on one page and half on the other, then I'm sorry) :

     /\_/\

    ( · - · )

     | >< |

    (____)___

    Reflects started snickering. And then giggling. And then it went to full blown laughing. Silver heard it and woke up, wondering what was so funny.

    "What?" I showed him the picture and he started laughing too. I started to laugh a little, as not to jar whatever was punctured or broken.

    Then the nurses came in to see what was so funny. I showed them the picture and they started laughing also. The whole room was filled with laughing just because I drew a silly picture.

    Then the doctors came in. "Sorry to interrupt this party, but we have to... do it." they said. Everyone left, even Reflects and Silver. The doctors came over to my bed and put me in a bed that was extremely uncomfortable and rolled me down the hall. I knew exactly where they were taking me.

    They were taking me to the operation room.