From Ashes to Ashes, Chapter 6	

	Sebrina is sitting on one the extra bed made for her, staring outside the window, looking at the stars.
	"What's wrong, Sebrina?" Amy asks
	"Who, what?"
	"That is your name, right?"
	"I don't know," Sebrina says, confused.  "How, how did you read my thoughts?"
	"I don't know, it just happens."
	"Then, tell me, tell me about me."
	"OK, I guess," Amy goes on reading Sebrina's mind and telling her about her past.
	Sebrina shakes her head "It's not true, it's can't be."
	Amy sighs, "It is."
	Sebrina screams, "EGRESS!"  Sally wakes up only to see the room flash, with Sebrina gone.
	"What happened?" Sally asks.
	"She went home Sally, she went home."

Ashes to Ashes, Chapter 7

	
	This is the Little Planet, a magical planet, only appearing over Never Lake at the end of each Mobian year.  It is a season of the Eternal Dawn, a period of four months that the sun stays fixed rising from the east.  Deep within the zone called the Tidal Tempest lays the ruins of the great hall of the NiGHTS of Mobius.  Inside, Sebrina is resting, exhausted from using her magic.	

	Sebrina awakens.
	
	"Where, where am I?" Sebrina asks herself, slowly regaining consciousness.
	The is a sigh here in the background.  "You are in what was once the great hall of the NiGHTS of Mobius Sebrina."
	Sebrina rubs her eyes.  She sees Erica.
	"What?  YOU!  BOLT!"
	Sebrina tries to fire at magical bolt towards Erica.  All that happens are sparks fizzling in my hands.
	"Your magic doesn't not work here Sebrina," says Erica.
	"Why, why are you here," Sebrina asks, coming to her feet.
	"The same reason you are, Sebrina, to find out about our past."
	"I already know about my past.  It's terrible, it's painful, and it's all your fault!"
	"You do not know all, Sebrina."
	Sebrina and Erica in unison, "Who said that?"
	"I did."  A cloaked figure approaches them.  "I am Seditious Sage, successor to Mal, and the last leader of the NiGHTS of Mobius."
	"What do you know?" Sebrina and Erica asks.
	"I know more than Amy told you Sebrina," Seditious pause, gasping for air, "and Erica, I knew the father of your son Damien.  Please, let us continue this conversation in the scrying room"
	Sebrina and Erica reluctantly follow Seditious.  They enter a large room illuminated by a large crystal ball.
	"Please," Seditious pause, again gasping for air, "be seated, there is much for you to learn."
	Sebrina and Erica sit down in front of the giant crystal ball.  Seditious touches the ball, and scrambled images appear within it.  A figure of a small echidna is shown.
	"Is that me?" asks Erica.
	"No, it is actually Sebrina," replied Seditious.
	"That's impossible!  Look, I'm a fox!" exclaimed Sebrina.
	"You were changed into your present form to help conceal your past Sebrina." Seditious pause again to catch his breath.  A picture of little Sebrina is shown, held in the arms of a female echidna.  "Sebrina, your parents were very humble, and there parents before them.  They willing gave you up to the NiGHTS of Mobius I hope for a better life for you."
	"A better life?!  YOU turned me into a killer!"
	Seditious sighs.  "It was the way of our clan.  The NiGHTS were an elite group of assassins, thieves, terrorists, looking to bring an end to the monarchy."
	"But why?"
	"We strived to bring Mobius under a new rule, a better rule, a democracy."
	"By killing people?!"
	"That was one of our modes of operation."  Seditious takes another deep breath.  Another image is shown in the crystal ball.  It is Sebrina, learning to arts of magic.
	"You become quite a magician Sebrina despite your echidna origin.  You were a valuable asset to the NiGHTS."
	"That was until Erica came along."
	"Not true," Seditious again bring up another image.  It was an image of Sebrina and Erica, playing.
	"What?!  It's here fault I had to leave!"
	"You have no reason to leave Sebrina.  While Erica was superior as a warrior, you were superior in the arts of magic."  Seditious takes another breath.  "You two became quite a team."
	"The NiGHTS were planning to kill me!  I overheard the meeting!  They didn't want me, they wanted Erica!"
	"The NiGHTS feared that you would become to powerful.  In the end, though, it was decided that your life would be sparred."  Seditious again pauses to catch his breath.  "A magical barrier was placed instead."
	"But they kept mentioning Erica.  What about Erica?"
	"Yes, what about me?" asks Erica.
	Seditious brings up another image.  This time it was of Erica, holding her son, Damien, who was nine month old at the time.
	"What you overheard was the counsel decision about Erica's retirement from the NiGHTS of Mobius."
	"You mean they were going to kill her?!" asked Sebrina.
	Erica and Seditious in unison, "No."
	Seditious continues, "Erica requested that she leave the NiGHTS so that she could peacefully raise her son Damien.  The though of having her killed was out of the question, for her son father was Mal, my predecessor.  Mal took pity on her, and granted her leave, but only on the condition that her memory be erased so that the NiGHTS would remain a secret," again Seditious pause to take a breath.  "Erica was given a new home on the Floating Island by the NiGHTS, always being watched personally by Mal."
	"But, but, I'm dead," stuttered Erica, "Is this Mal's doing?"
	Seditious sighs, "Yes, it was.  Mal was watching when the storm that killed you and your son occurred.  Mal brought you back here, and revived your body."
	"But why?  WHY?!"
	"Because it's painful to loose a loved one.  Mal didn't want to loose you."
	"What about Damien?"
	Seditious sighs "Damien's body was never found."
	Erica breaks down into tears.  Sebrina tries to comfort her.
	Seditious continues, "Mal along with the NiGHTS found the cause of the storm.  It was the doing of Doctor Ivo Robotnik.  He and a group of the best warriors the NiGHTS could muster sent out of destroy Robtropolis.  He was killed during the raid," Seditious takes another deep breath, "His last words were that he loved you Erica."
	"But, why, why the raven, why do I have to kill Robotnik?" Erica asks, wiping the tears from her eyes.
	"That is not certain.  Perhaps there is a greater power at work there."
	
	With those final words, the room glows to white, the crystal ball dissolves to dust, and all that is left of Seditious is his cloak.

	Erica is still trying to hold back her tears.  Sebrina take her hand, comforting her.  Erica looks up at her.
	"It's OK Erica, it's OK, everything will be fine,' Sebrina says.
	"No, no it's not OK!  No I can't rest until the blood of Robotnik is on my hands."  Erica clenches her fist, and proceeds to leave the great hall.
	"Where are you going?" asks Sebrina.
	"To kill Robotnik."
	"By yourself, not a chance," Sebrina grabs her hand, "I know people who can help, and you'll need it."
	Erica thinks for a moment.  She agrees to go with Sebrina.
	"EGRESS!"

	Back at Knothole, it the middle of the night, moans are heard from Sonic's room.
	"ZUT ALORS!" Antoine screams.

	Sonic was tossing and turning violently in his bed, his quills turning green, his eyes burning red.  Sonic leapt at Antoine, and started to punch the life out of him.

	"HELP!  HELP!  HELP!!!" Antoine screams.  In a matter of second, Ashe bursts into the room.
	"OK Psycho, let's rock."
	Sonic leapt at Ashe.  Ashe shot him with his cannon at full force.	Sonic was sent flying across the room, but he wasn't out, again his leapt at Ashe.
	"You just don't know when you quit, do you?"
	Ashe dropped his gun, he wanted some action.
	Psycho grabbed onto Ashe, biting and scratching, kicking and clawing.  Ashe responded with his fists, jabbing him a few times in the stomach, and landing one powerful hit to the jaw.  Psycho was sent flying out of one of the windows.  Ashe leapt through the window after him, landing right on top of him, beating the life out of him, but nothing seems to stop him.  Psycho again get the upper hand in the fight.  The commotion attracted everyone in Knothole.  Sally pushed her way through to see the fight up close.
	"SONIC!  STOP!" she screamed.
	Psycho stopped and stuttered.  "Sa, Sa, Sally?"
	Ashe crept up behind Psycho.
	"ASHE!  NO!"
	Ashe leapt at Psycho from behind.  Again, Psycho turns the table and proceeds to beat on Ashe.  No, Marigold makes her way to the front.  She quickly flipping through Tails' book.  She mumbles something, a both Ashe and Psycho are lifted and held in the air away from each other.
	"What the ...?!  GET ME DOWN, NOW!" Ashe screams.
	"Like, OK," says Marigold.  She mumbles something and Ashe is dropped on his head.
	"Thanks," Ashe remarks sarcastically.
	Psycho is still held in the air, struggling.  He groans, "Get me down!"
	"Not until you, like, cool of," says Marigold.  Again she flips through Tails' a book and mumbles something.  And gush of water comes from her hand, getting Psycho wet.  Steam rises from Psycho, and the quills turn back from green to blue.  Sonic drops from the air head first.
	"Oww," Sonic says, shaking his head. "What, what happened?"
	"You're Psycho, that's what!" Ashe screams at him.
	"Ashe, like, don't get him mad," Marigold says.
	"What, who, Psycho, me?" Sonic seems confused.
	Ashe tries to explain as calmly as possible what happened.  Sonic can't believe what he's hearing."
	"It can't be me, I, I," Sonic stutters.  He looks at Sally.  "Tell this isn't happening Sal, tell me!"
	Sally turns her eyes away from Sonic.  Sonic start to cry, "Why, WHY ME?!"
	"Like, calm down you big cry baby," says Marigold, "I think I can fix you up."  Marigold flips through the book again and mumbles something.
	A strange feeling comes over Sonic "What, what's happening to me?" he asks.
	"I'm, like, trying to get the Psycho out of you."
	Sonic feels a tearing sensation through his body.  He screams in pain.  Then the pain stops all of a sudden, Marigold can't complete the spell.  Marigold is breathing deeply.
	"What wrong?" asks Sally
	"I, I don't know, it's, like, I'm drained."
	
	Suddenly there's a flash of whites.  Sebrina and Erica have arrived.
	"Did I miss anything?" asks Sebrina.
	The Knothole gang quickly fills Sebrina in on the details.
	"I see, Mary, can I see that book?"
	"Like, sure," Marigold hands Sebrina Tails' book.  Sebrina takes a quick glance.
	"Ahh, that old spell.  OK, who's the patient."
	Everyone points to Sonic.
	"OK, here goes nothing." Sebrina shouts out some magical incantation from the book.
	"Not again!" Sonic scream, feeling the tearing sensation through him.
	There's a flash.  Where Sonic once there is now two hedgehogs, one blue, one green, both exhausted.
	"What, like, happened?" asked Marigold
	"Simple," explains Sebrina, "I took the Psycho out of Sonic."
	The green hedgehog comes to.  "What happened?"  Psycho looks to his left and sees Sonic lying.
	"What the ...?!"  Psycho looks down at himself.  "What am I?  Who am I?"
	"You're Psycho," explains Sebrina.
	"Not I'm not, I'm, I'm Sonic, aren't I?"
	Amy Rose now pushes her way to the front.  "Ohh!  More cute hedgehogs!"  Amy runs up to Psycho and hugs him.
	"I sure feel like Sonic," Psycho remarks sarcastically.
	"Well, you're not, you're half Sonic.  The real Sonic is over there," Sebrina points to Sonic.
	"So, like, now what?" Psycho asks.
	"So," Sally interrupts, "until we're sure you're OK, I guess you're staying here."
	"What do you mean OK?"
	"Like," Marigold interrupts, "when you're not, like, crazy, insane, loco."
	"Crazy?!  CRAZY?!"  Psycho lets out a chaotic laugh and runs into the Great Forest, lighting following his wake.
	"So," Ashe interrupts, "is hedgehog hunting season open?"
	"No, Ashe," said Sally, "I have a feeling he'll be coming back."

	To be continued

Sonic, Antoine, Tails, and Sally are copyrighted Sega/DiC/Archie/Fleetway
Psycho is copyrighted by Bryan/Psycho
Sebrina is copyrighted by Meghan/Sebrina
Ashe, Mary Gold/Marigold, Erica 'The Raven' Draven, and Seditious Sage are copyrighted by Thomas/Ashe

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