Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Gierin the Echidnat ❯ Gierin's Adventure ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

It had been a few weeks since Gierin had met Burlow and Sarah. Burlow had explained that
Gierin would one day be able to see and he was right. One night, Gierin woke up from a very
disturbing dream but she was able to open her eyes. She climbed out of her bed and crawled over
to her parents' bedroom. While she was climbing up the end of the bed, Knuckles rolled over on
top of Gierin.

"Gosh, I never knew what a piece of shit we have for a mattress."Knuckles said, rolling over
again.

"What are you talking about?"Rouge asked, she looked over to the area where Gierin had been
pinned to the bed.

"KNUCKLES, GET OFF!!!"Rouge exclaimed.

At the sound of Rouge yelling, Knuckles fell off the bed. Rouge picked her daughter up off the matress
and saw a large pair of purple eyes that glowed in the dark, Gierin looked back into the aqua eyes that she'd
never seen before but still found familiar.

"What did I do?"Knuckles asked.

"You were rolling around on top of your daughter, do you realize what you could have done?!"Rouge exclaimed.

Knuckles climbed back onto the bed and tried to get back to sleep.

The next morning, Gierin was alowed to visit Burlow and Sarah.

"Hey, Gierin, you can see now, can't you?"Burlow asked.

"Yeah, it's great. Everything is so different now."Gierin replied.

Now that Gierin could see, she could play games that she never could before. The three friends played a game
of blocks and Gierin told them about what happened to her the night before.

That night, Rouge was getting Gierin ready for bed when there was a sound of glass breaking on the floor. Rouge
instinctively hid, Knuckles ran in front of the door and tried to prevent the intruder from entering the bedroom but
the attempt was foolish. The intruder stabbed Knuckles in the stomach with a knife, he fell to the floor, bleeding
to death. The intruder ran into the room and tried to snatch Gierin from Rouge's arms but he missed. Rouge jumped
out the window and ran like crazy, she couldn't fly because Gierin was too scared to be in the air. The intruder
chased her into a dark forest, Rouge could see in the dark but she wasn't paying attention and tripped on a tree root.
She struggled to get up but her foot was stuck in the tree root. Rouge knew her life would soon end, there was nothing
she could do for Gierin or Knuckles, she was trapped and there was no way out. All Rouge could think about was the
scared child who was crying and Knuckles who was on the floor in the house, probably dead and if he was, Rouge was glad
because nobody should have go through that much misery and then die later. Rouge felt somebody slap her and then cut
her on the arm, the stranger snatched Gierin from her mother's arms, leaving her injured and with a broken heart.
Gierin screamed and hollared but it didn't do any good, Rouge looked up at her daughter and began to cry. She
wished she could do something but nothing could be done.

Gierin continued to scream until she couldn't take it anymore, she bit the man who was holding her and fell to the ground.
She ran and hid in a bush, hoping the stranger wouldn't find her.

Meanwhile, Rouge gathered the strength to pull herself free from the tree root. She ran back to the house to find
Knuckles on the floor in a puddle of blood, moaning and crying at the same time. Rouge got dressed and took Knuckles
to a hospital, she waited for almost two hours until a nurse came to talk to her.

"Is he going to be okay?"Rouge asked.

"Well, he's lost a massive amount of blood but we think he'll be okay."the nurse replied.

"Can I see him?"

"I suppose, but if he falls asleep then don't wake him. He needs his sleep, it will help him recover."

Rouge walked into the room where Knuckles was resting, she sat down in a chair next to him. Knuckles looked
up at Rouge and smiled, he was very pale.

"They think you're ganna be okay."Rouge said.

"Those bastards got Gierin, didn't they?"Knuckles asked.

"*sniffle* Yes, and it's my fault."Rouge said as she began to cry.

Knuckles lifted his hand and wiped a tear away from Rouge's eyes.

"It's not your fault."Knuckles said.

"Yes it is, she was my daughter and I let those scum bags get her. It's my fault, it's all my fault."Rouge said.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, I did what I could and you did what you could. I just hope she's okay."

Gierin was still crying, she cried herself to sleep. The next morning, Gierin woke up to a little boy sitting next to
her. He looked like a brown bat with dreadlocks.

"Hi, I'm Buvuu."he said.

"I'm Gierin."

"What are you doing here?"Buvuu asked.

Gierin explained all she could remember.

"I could help you get home."Buvuu offered.

"Okay."

So, a friendship began. Buvuu told Gierin about how he was part bat, part echidna. Gierin did the same. The
two cross-breeds shared many stories with each other, developing their friendship even more. Gierin had
always wondered if she was the only cross-breed. One day, Gierin asked if Buvuu had been kidnapped as well.

"No, I never was kidnapped. I was abandoned."Buvuu said.

"Well, I miss my mum and dad. I wonder if they miss me."Gierin said.

Conversations like this kept going on until one day, Buvuu became fed up with it.

"Do you remember your parents?"Gierin asked.

"That's it, I've had it! All you ever talk about are those useless pure-breds! Don't you get it yet?! They don't care for
you."Buvuu exclaimed.

"B-but Buvuu-"Gierin started.

"Stop! Don't you get it?! Since the dawn of time, pure-breds have feared creatures like us, we are the ones they fear!
One day, all the pure-breds will be gone and cross-breeds will be the next creature to inhabbit this planet! They fear
us because we are stronger, smarter and more advanced than them!"

"But why would they fear us if they created us?"Gierin asked.

"They created us so they could experiment on us and then destroy us."

"But if they hated us, why would they let us live?"

Buvuu couldn't answer that question.

"No pure-bred ever showed you any real kindness! It's all been a lie!"Buvuu said.

Gierin thought about all the times her mother was there to comfort her if she had a bad dream or was just scared,
how Burlow and Sarah never had a cruel word to say to her, how Knuckles had struggled to protect her and Rouge.
The pain of those memories and how it could have all been a lie was so great that Gierin fell on her knees and started
to cry in anguish.

"You see?"Buvuu asked.

"You're wrong, they all loved me and they always will, you can't change it. NOW TAKE ME HOME!!!"Giern said.