Nightmare Ending

Chapter 3

Kito's p.o.v.

I walked through the halls that I've gone through thousands of times before but have always managed to get lost somehow. I inwardly growled as I went down another hall and found myself unsuccessful. I sighed then heard a grunt and went closer to it. I found myself walking closer to the training room and looked inside to see the little apprentice. I watched as he jumped into the air and made a blue orb and threw it into the moving target and growled as it missed by a hair. I chuckled at his frustration and he turned to face me in surprise.

"Oh! Kito, I didn't see you there. What's up?" he walked over to me and I sighed.

"I seemed to have gotten myself lost... again." I rubbed the back of neck and he looked at me confused then chuckled

"How could you get lost so easily? We've been in this castle for ten years and..."

"I know, I know. You don't need to scold me about it." he chuckled again and looked back into the room.

"If I tell you where the transport room is, will you train against me?"

"Is that a threat?" I made my words more harsh then I needed to but hey, I'm on duty and I can't slack off. He looked back at me and sighed.

"Third door to the left... and practice your teleportation. Your going to need it." he looked at me one last time before going back to finish his training 'Too bad I can only travel short distances...'

"I'll train with you as a thank you later, K?" he chuckled and waved me away as I walked to the room. Once I set the coordinates, I got into the pod and teleported to Athens. As soon as I made it onto the land, I looked around and saw Dll off in the distance with the targets and I inwardly chuckled. 'Now to begin.'

Dll's p.o.v.

I watched as the five was all practicing their fighting. Shadow was against Seelkadoom, Knuckles against Nazo, Tails against Infinite, Rouge against Fleetway and Cream against Mephiles. I have the foggiest idea of why they wanted to help them train but at least they get a chance to practice against others. I was sitting on a branch of a tree when I heard voices come our way.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, I heard it from the council themselves." I jumped down and turned to see Scourge and Sawyer walk my way.

"Hey guys, whats up?" they looked at me and then back at each other and sighed.

"More like down, the home planets are being overthrown." I scratched my head.

"And?" they gave me a shocked expression and I chuckled. "I already know about the problem at hand. I give a report about them every day." I chuckled as they looked at each other and sighed again.

"And here I thought you would be clueless." I smirked at Scourge's words and he looked towards the training grounds. "How are they doing?" I sighed and waved them towards the tree I was in and we sat down at the base.

"They want to get in action but I know they aren't ready for it." Sawyer chuckled and I looked at him confused.

"Dll, always the one to worry about others before your own safety."

"And how you always try to do the right thing." I sighed and looked at the ground

"If only..." I stopped myself from talking when I felt a sting in my eyes. "If only this never happened. I tried multiple times to change anything but no one would listen. Reality won't waver, time won't move backwards... I'm practically useless." a fat tear rolled down my check and I didn't care. I first started thinking that X had gone completely insane before and I mentally tortured myself for not noticing sooner. I would see my blood stain anything it touched as punishment for the terrible things I could've stopped from happening. The cold metal and punishments weren't enough and I almost tried to commit suicide. I wanted to erase the pain but I couldn't. Everyone needed me so I stayed alive for them. I stopped cutting myself when Sawyer threatened to take them away from me but I could still hear the betrayal that echoed in his voice. At night, his words would always come fluttering into my mind, telling me all the things I should've done but I didn't. Then I saw that he was right. X was only doing what we were born to do and it flew over everyone else's heads. I took the responsibility of training the five so I might be able to set universe peace but that was always light years away. It was only a figment of my imagination but I still believe in it. I still have hope that X would see how wrong he was before and that killing is only meant for other purposes. I tried to tell the council about how we could change other things so we could make a better future but they've denied my suggestions. Now, it's me and some type of partial participation from different immortals that barely care for others. Honestly... I want to see everyone suffer. If I'm really going to be truthful with myself, then I would like to see everyone fall for mercy on there mistakes. Something no one thinks about until it happens to them. Personal loss is something they just think will scab over. It never does. I sighed once more as I looked at the two hedgehogs in front of me and I stood up. I looked over at the training grounds and back at there confused faces. "Can you two watch over them so I can clear my head?" they gave a silent nod as I walked towards my house. I stopped just outside the door and looked up at X's bedroom window. I smiled as all the good memories I had before flooded my mind. All the good times that we would do together and the things we never did. I sighed once more and flew up to the glass and pressed my head against. 'Why is this so difficult to understand? I just want my brother back.' I pulled away from the glass and breathed onto it causing it to fog up. I drew a happy face on the grey spot and placed a big fat X straight through the middle. 'One minute here, next minute... gone.' I placed the palm of my hand on the drawing and pushed farther away letting myself to float along with the force I was making. I heaved out another sigh and when I turned around, I yelped when two yellow eyes stared into my soul. I froze like a statue and tried to process whoever was standing millimeters from my very mouth.