Just a Dream

Chapter 23: Creature

It was a regular day.

The sky was blue. The grass was green and everything seemed to be normal again. Amy was dragging herself down the small trail of marble down a hill valley. Not feeling any energy coming from her legs she hopelessly stared down at her feet. Sonic took a quick peek at her and his upper lip lifted abjectly. They had been walking for miles and still the sun was hot, the grass was the same color and the road never ended.

"Amy?" Sonic felt his lips move without his restrain.

She turned and eyed him curiously. Sonic offered her a smile and walked a little closer to her. "How you doing?"

Amy surprisingly smiled back and replied, "I'm fine,"

Sonic gave her a comforting bump on her shoulder and she giggled half-heartily. Seth suddenly plopped on to Sonic's shoulder startling the two. "I see you two are close." He pointed out.

Sonic swayed Seth off his shoulder and moved away annoyed to what he said. Amy glared at Seth who when saw her glare stared back a little confused. "I'm not saying it's bad or anything. Hey, I think it's sort of cute." He admitted.

Amy's glare faded. Sonic meanwhile stormed up to Seth who flew just on top of his head. As Sonic tried grabbing Seth, Amy stopped walking wondering why Seth said that. Everyone they encounter was either separating them or telling them not to become too close. Seth was the first to tell them that it was okay, but why?

"Come here Seth, so I can strangle you!" Sonic growled his voice deep and threating. "Why are you getting mad at me? I'm just being honest." Seth yelled down below.

Amy watched hopeless as Sonic jumped midair trying to grab Seth in his own hands, Amy's guess, kill him with his bare hands if she didn't stop it right now.

Amy rushed to Sonic's side and held him back. "Stop it both of you!" she scold, looking away from Sonic and to Seth. Seth came down to Amy's level and crossed his little arms.

"We need to stop fighting and keep walking down. We'll never get anywhere if we never arrive there." She told them. "Seth, why aren't you leading the way?"

Seth flew forwards saying, "I am!"

Amy made a disgusted face and let Sonic go with him a firm look. Almost as if he could read her mind, he sighed and relaxed his nerves. "Lead the way then," he muttered coldly.

Seth so did continue flying down the trail leaving Amy and Sonic walking behind. Amy stared at the puff ball to her great benefit. Sonic nervously rubbed his neck and chuckled. That caught Amy's attention and she slowly turned her head. Sonic didn't bother staring back and rubbed his finger against his nose. "What?"

"Nothing," he turned around stiffing up.

Nobody, again, talked. They walked and walked which felt like hours of long footwork until they reached the top of a small hill where the marble trial led. It wasn't so steep so climbing wasn't so difficult. Looking down the hill, Sonic and Amy gasped in awe at the beautiful flower patched valley they came upon with. Its flowers held beautiful colors and small animals like butterflies and other small insects. Like the other valleys that they had seen in Gemnissent, all of them had same texture in color. The kind of healthy green you'd see in good taken cared of grass. The one thing was this wasn't just a field full of grass and a few flowers. The whole area seemed to be covered in it.

"It's gorgeous," Amy squealed finally.

"It's priceless!" Sonic said, not taking his eyes off the valley.

Seth smiled and with his hand introduced the land; he bowed slightly and smoothly said, "This here is the richest land of all Gemnissent. It's called Dead Rosary."