Amy's POV-
I am currently running through the Dark Forest. A forest entirely made up of dead trees, with a constant shadow hanging over it. The eerie quiet spoke of danger hiding just around the bend. The forest was always cold, and despite anyone's best efforts, you can never light a fire there. It sent chills down peoples' spines just looking at it. No one dared enter. "What kind of person would enter a place like that?" you ask? Well, me. And the guards h***bent on chasing me down.
My name's Amy Rose, and I'm the Queen of Thieves in the land of Mobius. Its hard to believe, even for me sometimes, that I'm only 18 years of age. I'm immortal, too. And at the moment, I'm pretty friggin' thankful for that. If I wasn't, h***, I would've died a long time ago.
Being the Queen of Thieves? Not easy. At all, in any way shape or form. I'm not a common thief that's just arrogant and overconfident. Other thieves I've encountered, are the arrogant fools who had thought they could get away with the perfect crime. They couldn't, and they learned it pretty fast when they'd get caught and be thrown into prison or hanged. There have only been three, that have been able to escape the claws of the kingdom and evade such punishments. Myself, a man named Mephiles, and the supposed "best of all thieves", Shadow the Hedgehog.
That hedgehog is a fool. He knows nothing of boundaries. At the moment, he's called the King of Thieves. Information I had collected by eavesdropping. He's the boss of this gang of thieves. This supposed, "gang", are just a bunch of newbies in the art of stealing. Except for this guy called Scourge, from what I've heard. But, I suppose listening to a bunch of morons is very stupid of me.
I launch myself into a high branch that can support my weight in the tree above me and continue from tree to tree to conceal myself. I swear, being chased by these bas****'s is wasting time.
My pursuers are knights of the Gem Kingdom. Whom are very possessive of their expensive rocks, and will chase thieves to the very edges of the land to retrieve their stolen items. They only have one ruler, a queen by the name of Rouge. She loves jewels and other shiny expensive items. If someone steals something of hers, she makes sure that the thief is caught, and the gem retrieved. The punishment is always hanging. You don't survive if you're caught by the Gem Kingdom. Ever.
So this little chase will actually take some effort on my part. Most times, the knights that are running me down give up and head back home. The Gem Kingdom though, they get their stuff back.
Jumping from the tree and back out onto the trail, I stop in my tracks to see that the knights had caught up. I hear the familiar shing!s of swords being drawn and I knew the knights wouldn't hesitate to take blood. They were ready to kill me, should they get the chance. "Alright!" The leading one shouted out. It was a thundering noise, because of how dead silent it usually was in this forest. "Give back the gem and we might let you live!" He commanded. Knuckles the Echidna, I recognized him as. He and I both knew he was lying about the "getting out alive."
I turned around with my head held low. "H*** no, you cocky hot head," I growl at him. Knuckles yells in a fury and charges at me with his sword clenched in his fist. I roll my eyes as he gets closer to try and cut me down. I twisted around him, easily evading the oncoming blow and spin kicked him in the head. The blow sent him flying into a tree.
I look over my shoulder to see Knuckles getting off the fallen tree. He tosses his sword to the side and raises clenched fists. "So you want hand to hand combat, aye?" he calls out. "Well, you got it!" He runs at me with his fist held high and angled at my face. My head moves back and his fist shoots out in front of my face. I take his arm tightly and use his unbalance to flip him onto his back. The thud of his body against the dirt was accompanied with a pained grunt.
