The Prophecy (Part One) (re-editing)

Chapter 22 - I'm Not Flat!

~Third person~

"KNUCKLES! MY BABY!"

"Rouge, don't--!"

But it was too late. The bat already plunged onto the echidna, smothering him with her hugs and just about causing him to choke on the cookie he was eating.

"Rouge, it hurts.."

"Sorry, I'm just glad you're okay." Rouge sat on the edge of the bed. She smiled and looked down at him lovingly, sweeping a misplaced quill from his face.

Seconds later, Tails and Valentine ran in, breathless from chasing Rouge up the stairs. She had shouted Knucles' name at the front desk and threatened the poor woman, who was desperately attempting to look him up on the computer, to give her his room number or it'd be the last day she saw sunshine.

"Knuckles!" The kitsune yelled, kneeling at his bedside, completely out of breath. "Are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Geeze, I'm not dying, people." He replied, sitting up and reaching towards the nightstand to retrieve an envelope. "Sonic and Amy came by this morning to see me and dropped this off, saying that only Tails could open it. Then Amy started crying, and Sonic gave me this bag of cookies and rushed out with her."

The young fox ripped the envelope from his hands and tore it open, unfolding it and scanning it over.

"..Oh.. gosh.."

"What? What is it?" Valentine asked, peering over his shoulder.

"Sonic can't spell. He even spelled my name wrong.."

"No, I meant-- GAH, GIMME THAT!" The cat ripped it out of his hands and cleared her throat.

"'Dear Tales,

We decidid to go off and get marryed.

Love,

Sonic and Amy.

P.S., flip it over and reed the back. I rote the reel letter theire in case someone else red it.'"

Rouge scoffed. "Way to make it obvious.."

"Is this some kind of joke they're playing on us?" Knuckles wondered aloud.

Valentine started to flip it over, but Tails grabbed onto it. Valentine pulled; Tails fought for it.

"Valentine! He wrote it for me! What if it's private?" He pleaded helplessly as she stood on her tip-toes and held it up so that he couldn't reach it.

"Give it to him, kitten." Rouge said with a slight glare. It annoyed her how Valentine was the oldest and yet she acted like a kindergartener.

Valentine rolled her eyes and lowered it for him to take.

He grasped it desperately and flipped it over, reading it in his head.

'Tales,

the reel reason we're leaving is becus I kno I'm going to have to face something soon. I just kno it, its bothering me. keep that a secret, becus I didn't even tell Amy yet. we need to find the other gems before the dogs do and I need you guys to stay theire were its safe, I'm taking Amy becus I kno she'll try to come after me, and it'll cach her on the way. but you have common sense. don't be mad at me. I only want you to be safe, so please wait for us. remember, your my best friend, and I counting on you to leed the others, becus I know you can do it.

but theires also something I need you to do, and that's to wait a few days for Nux to get better, then go to Creem. I can't help but feel like something is going to happen to her. and I took your transmeter thing befour we left the shore, so if you need me then you can find out a way to contact me from it, I kno you can somehow becus your a geenes.'