Hellllllo everyone! Much Gold, so new chapter. Yes, I just did the Doge thing, to the reviews.

Capt: He wasn't that much of a derp. It isn't that messed up, there are plenty of stories that kill someone off or get close to killing someone off!

Aura: Interesting idea, but I'm afraid that cannot happen. I got something else planned, sorry! Anyway, yes, GOLD AND EVERYONE WILL WASTE HIM!

Glimpse: Much feels, eh? YAY FOR SHOCK VALUE! Oh noes, you can't find your words! I'll look for them!

Tail: Actually, I told you that Gold was going to cry! Don't worry, apology coming in this chapter.

Alex: Okay then...

WinterBlaze31: Don't cry! Don't worry!

Flutterlikeanangel: AH DON'T CRY! THINK OF GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD THOUGHTS!

Newplayer100: Well, that is a pretty fierce reaction there. Don't worry, redemption in the future.

Also, noticed how last chapter was chapter 13? BOOM BLEW YOUR MINDS. This is another emotional and tension filled one, so stay tuned. Oh yeah, and don't cry!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respectful owners.

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Gold the Fox presents...

Eon Chronicles

Darkened Dawn

Chapter 14: Questions

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Sounds of beeping from different rooms echoed in the hall, the occasional request for a doctor chiming in every once in a while. It was quiet in this particular hallway, sounds of pain completely nonexistent. Nothing but an empty hallway with the accompanying background noises. One room was particularly silent, the beeping and call for doctors gone. Inside was the two foxes we have known this whole story. One fallen, one standing, but ready to fall. Tails was laying on the hospital bed, the wound on his stomach cleaned up and stitched up to make him look peaceful. Peaceful like he was sleeping, like how Gold thought he was before discovering him laying on that concrete ground, stabbed and brought to the end. Gold was standing right there, just staring like all there was in front of him was empty space, nothing to look at. His eyes were glazed over, the picture from garage flashing into his head again and again. Periodically, the image of his father, dead, flashed into his head. It was peculiar, he felt as if he had just went through his father's death over again. Killed by the same monster, almost the same way as well. Both scenarios had dug deep into Gold's mind, never going to leave again. Gold was actually dripping tears onto the linoleum ground he was standing on, but he didn't notice nor did he care. He didn't care about really anything right now, just what had just happened. Gold actually started to feel his legs get numb and put himself into one of the chairs that was in the room. He put his face into his hands and just let tears go. He couldn't get that image out of his head, those words he said out of his mind, replaying over and over. Out of all of this, he remembered something. He remembered the words 'We are sorry'. Still having tears in his eyes, he closed them and reopened them, and they were glowing blue.

He opened his eyes and instantly looked down, to confirm he was on the cloudy heaven known as Eather. He looked back up, noticing he still was teary. Indeed, like he anticipated, Ionia, in her "goddess" form, was standing before him. They said nothing to each other, just a straight stare. It was implied, the greeting and the cordiality, right now wasn't the time. After a minute of them just being there, Ionia started to transform as a blue light showed around. After the light dimmed down, Ionia in her "Mobian" form was left behind. She slowly walked up to the staring Gold, and they both looked at each other, standing close to each other. They both had similar eyes, bold blue, but right now, it was more like a foggy, storm blue. Then, Ionia did something unexpected. She hugged him. It was a genuine hug, like a sister would give to a brother. Gold barely reacted, just putting his head down on her shoulder, crying. Meanwhile, a blue spirit formed a shape of a Mobian and started singing beautifully. Others joined in singing in a melody, no lyrics. It was sad but absolutely beautiful. They were mourning like the two beings were in the middle of the cloud heaven. Gold and Ionia broke up their sibling-like hug and just stood there, listening to the melody playing around them. The moment was somber, absolutely sad but inspiring. Gold decided to actually try to speak.

"Why?" is all he said.

Ionia just looked at him after the question. She was actually getting teary. She had no idea why fate would play like this. She thought fate had brought the bad luck to Gold already from killing his father, but this, this was just cruel. Why was it like this? Why did this fox have this happen like this? Why did fate decide to do this?

"I...do...not know." is all she could really say.

"Why...why him?" Gold said, voice breaking in the middle of talking.

Ionia just shook her head slowly, just as confused and saddened by the death of Tails as Gold was. It was absolutely sad, just sad.

"If you want, you can see him here. He made it to Eather." she said.

Gold just shook his head. He didn't want to see him up here, that meant he was gone. No matter how long he had tried to think it wasn't real, that this was a sick trick that Dark Eon was playing, it was reality. He wanted it all to be false, all to be a dream. Gold turned around to look at the blue sky. He could imagine Tails just flying in that sky, in a brand new plane. He chuckled at the thought but quickly quieted himself when reality kicked in and told him that it wasn't possible.

"Send me back." he said, staring into the sky.

Ionia held a sad look on her face as a blue circle surrounded Gold's feet. He closed his eyes on tears and left the Eather.

He opened his eyes once again to see the body of Tails again, the memory piercing his mind again. A small beep tone played from a speaker in the corner of the room, "Gold, time's up." it said with a female voice.

'Finish the plane for me.', that last phrase stuck in his head as he opened the door of the room. He turned around to close the door slowly and got his last look at Tails. He sniffed because of his tears and said his final words.

"I'm gonna miss you Tails."

He closed the door to the room slowly so it wouldn't slam shut, shutting a door for Tails for the last time. He walked down the hallway that led to the main waiting area. Out the other side from the waiting room, came Sonic going the opposite way Gold was. They almost passed each other without a glance, both of them, extremely depressed and not in the mood to talk. However, almost meant they did glance at each other. They were about to pass each other when Sonic grabbed Gold's arm. They still didn't look at each other but stood there, side by side, looking different directions down the hallway.

"How...could this happen?" Sonic said, he already had cried over the situation and still was slightly.

"I...don't know."

"Why, all of...all people, why him?"

"I don't know." is all Gold could say.

"I thought we were protecting everyone. I thought you were protecting Tails."

"Sonic, it wasn't..."

"This is why we haven't got along in all these years, this is why. Because I couldn't trust you."

The words hit Gold like a ton of bricks.

"I should have watched Tails by myself." is the last thing Sonic said, before continuing to walk to Tails's room.

However, Sonic turned around and stood back where he was before, to say one more thing.

"I feel bad for Twilight." Sonic said before walking away, in sadness, absolute emptiness, and a pinch of anger.

Now that, that hurt. That hurt Gold so much he closed his eyes and clenched one of his hands into a fist. Those words about Twilight made him feel like just demolishing Sonic right now. How could he say something like that at this time? Gold actually turned around to see the hedgehog's back and wanted to confront him. However, something hit him lightly in the back and actually made him feel like walked back to the main foyer. Gold turned around, trying to forget Sonic's words, and saw Aura at the end of the hallway. Gold continued to walk down the hallway and past Aura who was standing in the corner.

"I can bring him back."

Gold stopped dead in his tracks, and turned around.

"Can't you see I don't want to talk." Gold said before turning around.

"I said I can bring him back to life." Aura said again, making Gold stop again, and glance backwards.

"How?"

"I can use my aura to restore his aura and save him." Aura briefly explained.

"There...there has to be repercussions." Gold said, still not turning around.

"True. I go to the afterlife, but Tails...Tails will be back up running around."

Gold thought about this offer. Obviously, he wanted Tails back. It was implied, Gold wanted Tails to be alive and for the past incident to have never happened. However, you can call it stupid or compassionate, he didn't want him back if it meant another life lost. A lot of people reading this may think that is stupid, that if Tails means so much to Gold, why doesn't Gold just say yes to Aura? It's because Gold doesn't want Tails to be safe, he wants everyone to be safe, not just one person. One life lost meant one life lost and Gold's goal is to have no lives lost.

"I...I...I can't ask you to do that."

"I will do it Gold. I know how much..."

"No, don't."

"But Gold, don't you want Tails back?"

Gold thought for a moment before answering.

"I do. But I want everyone back."

"What do you-"

"I mean no one should be dead. I...I appreciate that you care that much, but if I want him back, I want everyone alive."

Gold ended the conversation and went to the waiting room where everyone and everypony was waiting. The Mane 6 were crying softly over the death of Tails, Pinkie had her mane down and had lost her peppy attitude. Ensis was crying on Blade's shoulder while he stayed silent. Glimpse was also dead silent. Gold looked at the sad group and sat down next to Twilight, as usual. Gold just sat there, no words could be said at all. He looked at his marefriend next to him, and say that she had tears stained on her face. She noticed him looking and hugged him and God hugged back, no words said. Someone poked Gold in the shoulder, it was a strange poke however. Gold moved his head from hugging Twilight to look at the two phoenixes next to him.

"Hey, about earlier, we are sorry about crashing into you." Snow said.

"And, we are sorry for your friend. We know he meant a lot to you." Bright said, actually serious.

Gold simply nodded and went back to hugging Twilight.

"Sister, do you think?" Bright whispered to Snow.

"We cannot absorb his memory or his emotions, we would make this whole building come down on us." Snow whispered back.

The phoenixes went back to silence, the air becoming silent again with sobs and sniffles of the sad group in it.

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It was a half of an hour before Sonic arrived back at the waiting room, him getting the longest time since they had known each other the longest, being almost brothers. Sonic had no cocky attitude, no banter to throw around, no inspiration to say anything. He just felt cold and dark, like his normal fast life had grinded to a halt as reality smacked him in the face. Blade, however, was brave enough to speak.

"What do we do now?" he said out loud to the group.

Everyone was silent, some giving no attention to Blade and thinking about what had happened, some glaring at Blade for trying to move on. For the whole time, however, Glimpse was thinking everything over. He felt like he had lost someone close to him again, even though he didn't know Tails that much like Gold and Sonic did. However, he had lived through his past and could deal with sadness and death like this. For crying out loud, his whole world was destroyed and he was moving on! Glimpse got up and stood in front of everyone.

"I know exactly what we are going to do." Glimpse said.

"Listen, Glimpse, I know you want us to move on, but..." Twilight said.

"No, no, listen to me alright. I didn't know Tails for too long and I feel like how I did back on my world. That's deep, real deep I agree, but we have to move on! Gold, Sonic, I know how much this hurts to say but you have to move on. I came from a dying world and lost a friend that I never wanted to lose, and look at me, I'm still around! It hurts like hell, I know, but don't you think we should stop worrying about the past and look to the future?" Glimpse said, making a small speech.

"Glimpse, I really don't think Gold or Sonic is in the mood for this." Blade proposed.

Glimpse looked at specifically Gold and Sonic, "You two, don't you want revenge! Don't you want all these emotions to be directed toward the one who did it. Stop being sorry and sad and fight back! I propose we start looking to see if he is hiding somewhere, we start training to fight this guy, every one of us! We don't stop until the one who did this is brought to the same hell hole he threw our friend in, the hole of death. We cannot stop him by feeling sorry. We can only stop him by fighting back."

Glimpse finished his little speech with silence in the air. Before a fox spoke up.

"You're right."

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GLIMPSE THE INSPIRATIONAL GUY! Another emotion packed chapter for the ages. Next chapter, I got some awesome action planned as we have some training. Until then, thank you for reading and reviewing, leave a review if you liked this chapter, and as always,

Sonic: Your outro is starting to sound like a YouTube outro.

Well, I've always wanted to do YouTube, it would be awesome.

EONNNNNNN OUT!