allmyfandomneedsInto The Temple
This was a request for @insanitywarriorhybrid12 based on #19 this kissing meme (so the same as the one from the last post XD)
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“Amyyyy, are we there yet?” Sonic groaned, his feet dragging along the stone temple floor. He stayed close to the walls, his fingers running over the cracked stone, the tips occasionally going over the beaver-shaped carvings in them.
The pink hedgehog looked up from her tablet and over to her blue companion. “For the twenty-fourth time, Sonic, no, we’re not.” She looked back down, continuing to walk without looking at where she was going. “If you want to get to the end faster, why don’t you go on and run ahead?”
He looked over at her, cocking an eyebrow as if she were crazy. “No way! I almost drowned in lava the last time I was in here! I’ll probably fall into a pit of piranhas or- or get flattened by a giant ball rolling down the hallway or something!” His arms flailed in the air as he spoke, and Amy couldn’t help but giggle slightly at him.
“Awe, you do have some sense in that big spiny head of yours,” she said, patting his cheek.
Sonic’s arms dropped down to his sides as he pouted. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Amy didn’t answer, only suppressing her laughs as she walked on.
Sonic didn’t even get why they were back at the Buddy Buddy Temple. As far as he knew, this place was only to test one’s teamwork, not hold priceless items and stuff like that. But Amy had insisted that there was some secret treasure hidden somewhere in here, so there they were, walking through the torch-lit hallways, Amy leading the way as she followed the directions on her tablet, and Sonic trailing behind, making sure neither of them set off any kind of booby trap or anything like that.
He doubted there was anything in there in the first place. He had gone through most of the temple with Eggman, and they didn’t find anything having to do with treasure. Not even the beavers’ long-lost scriptures said anything about it. The two hedgehogs had been wandering through the temple for quite a while too, and they had yet to stumble upon anything that he hadn’t seen yet. In his eyes, they were practically walking blind.
Sonic was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn’t notice Amy has stopped walking until he rammed right into her back. He stumbled back, and he looked at her, expecting to get scolded for bumping into her, only to see her jade eyes trained on the pictures on the door she was standing in front of.
“Find anything yet Ames?” Sonic asked as he walked up beside her, his eyes going over the pictures as well.
“Maybe…” She looked away from the door and back at her tablet, tapping a few things on the screen before her face broke out into a wide smile. “It’s just on the other side of this door!”
Sonic scoffed, crossing his arms as he looked down at the pink hedgehog. “Please, it’s not ‘just on the other side of the door’,” he said, mimicking Amy’s voice at the last part. “I betcha there’s a lava pit waiting for us.”
“Oh quit being such a pessimist and help me open this door!” Amy went over to the lever on their right. “The sooner we get the treasure, the sooner we can be out of here and you can stop whining.”
“Alright, alright…” Sonic mumbled something about Amy being a ‘bossy little know-it-all’ as he went over to his lever. They pulled their switches at the same time, and the stone door slid open, revealing pitch black darkness ahead of them.
“Just on the other side, huh?” Sonic said with a smirk.
“Well, there’s no lava pit,” Amy countered back. “It’s probably just a little further ahead.” She walked ahead, her small form slowly being swallowed by the darkness. Sonic inched after her, watching her steps closely. He squinted his eyes, trying to see ahead of them before his eyes widened.
“Amy wait!” He reached out, grabbing her around the waist and pulling her back into his arms. Her back slammed into his chest as he held her close, his wide eyes staring at the edge of the pit she almost stepped into.
His heart pounded in his chest from the close call, and Amy was completely still in his arms as she registered what just happened, her eyes glued to the edge of the pit just like Sonic was.
He let out the breath he didn’t know he was holding, his arms slowly moving away from Amy’s chest. “T-That was close…” He slowly went past her, looking over the edge. “Do we have to go down?”
The pink hedgie lifted up her tablet above her head, the light from the screen illuminating the area a few feet ahead of them. She still had to squint a bit to see before she brought the device back down with a frown. “It appears so. I don’t see the other side.”
“Okay. I’ll go down first.”
“Are you crazy? There’s no telling what’s down there!”
“Well, I don’t want you to get hurt.” He turned back to her, their gazes meeting. “Whatever’s down there, I’d rather it be me to face it first than you, Ames.”
“Sonic, just wait and-”
He didn’t give her a chance to finish before he turned back to the pit and leaped over the edge. He heard Amy yelling after him, but he didn’t care.
Better me than her, he thought.
He twisted around in the air, aiming his feet at what he thought would be the bottom of the pit. He still couldn’t see anything as he fell, but he figured the bottom would come sooner or later.
Seconds after he thought that he finally hit, but it wasn’t the soft thump of his feet hitting stone that he expected.
No…it was probably the sound of his nightmares.
SPLASH!
The water quickly swallowed up his body, and he felt himself quickly sinking into the liquid.
This is worse than lava, this is waaay worse than lava, Sonic thought as he tried to swim back to the surface. Everything was much darker under the water, and he felt like his chest was slowly crushing itself as his lungs ran out of air. He felt something grab onto his hand, but that didn’t stop him from struggling against it, despite the fact that it was pulling him upwards.
Sonic’s movements began to slow down as he started to lose consciousness, though before his world went black, his head broke the surface of the water. He sucked in a deep breath as he coughed up the water in his chest, his energy coming back to him as he started flailing around again, trying to find something to pull himself out of the water.
“Sonic, calm down, you’re okay now!” he heard a familiar voice say, but the words only went in one ear and out the other as he continued to struggle. A pair of small hands suddenly grabbed the sides of his face, and his head was yanked to the side as his gaze met Amy’s. He stopped moving for a moment, though his breath was still ragged and his heart was beating in his chest faster than his feet could run.
He finally noticed the dim torch light not to far away that illuminated where they were, and he could see Amy’s head only inches from his own, her quills messy and matted to her head, a worried look in her jade eyes as she stared at him.
Sonic’s eyes widened as soon as he saw her, and his arms wrapped around her body in a tight hug, anything to keep him from drowning again.
“Sonic, let go, you’re fine!” Amy tried prying him off, but his grip only tightened as his eyes scrunched closed.
“N-No…I-I can’t…”
“Yes, you can.” She managed to get him off and make him look at her again. His ears were folded back, and she could see the pained expression in his emerald eyes.
“I’m not going to let you go, Sonic,” Amy said softly. “Just stay calm, and I can get you out of the water.”
“I can’t…I need to get out now…” He pulled against her grip, attempting to get to the shore himself.
“The shore is just over there. Just calm down, and you’ll be out in no time.”
“I can’t…! Amy, I-” Sonic was cut off when her mouth slammed into his in a firm kiss.
His eyes widened, his body went slack, and his mind went blank as her lips locked into place on his.
Her eyes were shut tight, her hands gripping his bandanna to keep him in place.
Sonic’s heartbeat began to slow down from the warm feeling of Amy’s lips, and how they felt so good on his. He pressed back on her, though not even a second later her lips broke from his, leaving him in a daze.
He hardly noticed when her hands left his cheeks and grabbed onto his wet gloved hands, slowly leading him to the shore. His fuzzy mind stayed on their brief kiss, and how badly he wanted her to kiss him again.
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