I live in the future
200 years to be exact,
I don't think I can hold these flames back.
Sometimes I wish it were just you and me
In fields of green,
But thats just in my dream,
My dream of an absolution!
~Chapter 1~
The sun was high in the middle of the sky, beating down on the young white hedgehog, Silver, who was flying around West Crisis City. To him, seeing all this destruction was normal, but back where he now lived, East Crisis City, it was being rebuilt and it looked almost brand new. Silver liked East Crisis City, but it was too full of people all busy with building back the city and starting up a normal society once again. Silver just liked to get away from that every once and awhile by coming to West Crisis City and looking for things that could be put in the library back in the East.
At the library he had made friends with the professor in charge of rebuilding it, and whatever he found in West Crisis City, he brought back for the professor to examine and put into the library. Silver didn’t think of it as contributing since everyone else was mostly working on construction while he was doing errands for a professor. The work he did kept him busy but he never stopped thinking about Blaze and he wanted her to be here to see how their sacrifices had turned into giving people the chance to live normal lives.
Silver lowered his eyes at the thought of Blaze giving her soul up to house the Flames of Disaster. The image of her disappearing entered his mind and he shook his head as an attempt to remove the thought.
“I can’t think about that now…” He muttered to himself, as he lowered himself onto a destroyed road. He brought his gaze upwards and scanned the area when he caught a glimpse of something. It was a semi-destroyed sign and he could only make out the last word.
“College huh…?” he stated. “Colleges have lots of books and important papers.”
He decided to look around and see if there was anything salvageable to bring back to the professor. He walked inside the somewhat crooked building and began the search for books, papers or some artifacts. Unfortunately the whole lower levels of building were totaled from the flames and lava, but Silver continued upwards hoping there might still be something left of this college.
As he reached about the 6th floor he found papers scattered about, as well as books and ruble. However, when he went to pick up the books, their writings were completely illegible and the papers would fall apart. He sighed in annoyance and continued up the building. On the 8th floor he found a curious looking room sign. It read ‘School Research Laboratory.’.
“School laboratory? That’s got to have books in it.” Silver said, as he pushed the door open. He walked into the room to find that it was probably the only one in pretty good condition. Looking around he saw a lot of book shelves containing many books, papers scattered around the floor, and a few artifacts hanging from the walls.
“This is like a goldmine of knowledge. If only the professor could see this.” Silver mused, walking up to one of the bookshelves and pulling a few books off. He sat down and opened them, leafing through the pages and scanning through the words. Some were about archeology, oceanography, astronomy, and many more subjects that Silver had only heard about.
“Man this must have been some sort of IV League College. These books are way past my understanding.” Silver muttered picking up a book on Geography.
He stayed there for hours just scanning through the books debating on which ones were good enough to bring back to the professor. Most of them were in really good condition, and they were all ones the professor would love to read through. He had practically emptied all the shelves when he came across a journal and small cracked glass box holding a bracelet inside. Silver grabbed the two off the shelf and sat down opening up the journal. On the inside cover there was a neatly signed name: Professor Pickle. Silver scrunched his face up in confusion.
“Professor Pickle? That’s a weird name.” Silver stated before turning to the first page. Sure the name this guy wrote was neat but his notes were completely scattered about, smudged, and faded. Silver squinted his eyes in an attempt to make out some of the wording but it was hopeless. The only one who could possibly make sense of this was the professor who wrote his notes the same way. However, Silver still continued to try and read some of the entries. One caught his eye that was titled ‘The Broken Planet’. His curiosity rose as he looked down the page to try and decipher what it said. Unfortunately the only thing he was able to make out was the very end, which was a few pages later within that particular journal entry. It read, ‘the destruction has ceased and the planet is now whole once again. The beast has been put to rest and shall not devastate this world for quite some time. I am glad all is well once again.’
“Hmm…the Beast has been put to rest? I wonder what that means. It couldn’t be Iblis since he’s within Blaze…” He trailed off at the thought of Blaze coming back into his mind.
He shook his head and closed the journal quickly, then placing it with the other books in the already large pile. He turned his attention over to the glass box and picked it up. He unlocked the latch that was holding the small box closed and removed the cover, gently placing it on the ground next to him. He took the bracelet out of the box and set the box down next to the cover.
The bracelet was a silver band with a greenish orb on the top. Silver turned it around and looked at it through different angles but there was nothing else on it other than the green orb.
“Hmm, I wonder what it was doing with this Pickle guy’s journal? It doesn’t look very significant.” Silver questioned, as he removed his left glove and slipped the bracelet onto his wrist. “I guess I should bring it back to the professor since he likes artifacts no matter what they are.”
Silver slipped his glove back on and just left the bracelet on his wrist for carrying convenience since the large pile of books was going to take a bit of effort to carry. He brought himself up into a standing position and turned towards the bookshelves once again. There were still tons of books left and with the pile Silver had already managed to make he decided that what he had should be enough for the present time. The professor would probably tell him to go back and collect the rest of the books later once he saw how many there were in such good conditions.
With that, Silver picked up some of the books in his arms, and lifted the rest with this telekinesis, and walked out of the Research Lab. He walked to the nearest window and leapt out, catching himself with his telekinesis and started making his way back to East Crisis City.
As he flew, the sun inched closer and closer to the horizon and a strange silence followed along with it. With the coming night, everything seemed to slow down, and completely stop making Silver uneasy. He started to fly faster as the sun disappeared below the horizon, leaving everything around him in complete silence. It stayed silent for only a short time when out of nowhere, a large quake started to shake the city. Silver jumped in shock from the sudden earthquake and flew faster to make it back to East Crisis City. However, he didn’t travel very far. The bracelet on his wrist suddenly tightened, and he could feel sharp needle like objects penetrate into his wrist. This caused a large surge of pain to travel throughout his body. He shouted in agony as he grabbed his wrist, losing the concentration he had on keeping the books afloat and letting them fall to the ground below. The pain from his wrist increased immensely as the orb’s color turned into a dark purple, and a misty aura surrounded it. Silver’s grip on his wrist began to loosen, and he started to lose the concentration he had on holding his own body in the air, and began to fall towards the ground. Another wave of pain surged through his body, knocking him unconscious just before he crashed into the ground.
