The Chaos Chronicles/ Chapter Sixteen

Noon delves into Thorn's memories to help her become more in tune with herself. Rose learns of her family history from Commander Tower. Honey grows increasingly angry over her periods of memory loss.
==Included Characters==
Thorn the Fox
Rose the Hedgehog
Honey the Cat
Kyle the Squirrel
Noon the Echidna
Nails the Bat
Midnight the Echidna
Topaz the Chameleon
Commander Tower
Nightshade the Fox
Shadow the Hedgehog(mentioned)
Samuel the Fox(flashback)
Scarlett the Fox(flashback)
Nack the Weasel(flashback)
==Chapter Sixteen: Ghosts==
Noon and Thorn were sitting in the field outside the G.U.N. Fortress. It was a peaceful afternoon.
"Thorn...what memories do you have that make you so angry?" Noon asked.
"I...I don't want to talk about it." Thorn told him.
"I can understand being alone and scared." Noon replied. "You don't have to talk about your memories."
"W...what?" Thorn asked.
"Meditate." Noon said. "And say the spell: Perducat memorias 'praeteritum."
Thorn relaxed, breathing in and breathing out.
"Perducat memoria praeteritum." Thorn said.
Thorn's eyes glowed blue, and they shined into Noon's.
"I'm not sure I can help you..." Nails told Honey.
"But you have to know something!" Honey exclaimed.
"I'm sorry Honey..." Nails said. "But I don't think I can help you."
"Argh!" Honey exclaimed. "I never should've come to you for help!"
"Honey..." Nails said.
"I'm done here!" Honey yelled. She stormed out, slamming the door shut.
Nails sighed, then went back to reading the bestiary.
Noon appeared in Central City. It was the rainy season, and storm clouds were in the sky.
Noon followed a blue light through the city.
The light lead him to a large two-story house.
He went inside, and saw a family eating dinner.
There were three foxes celebrating the youngest one's birthday.
"Happy birthday, Thorn." Samuel the Fox told his daughter.
"I'd like to give you this necklace. It's been a family heirloom for as long as our family history has been recorded." Scarlett the Fox told Thorn. She handed her a pink and black necklace with an ancient rune on it.
"And I'd like to give you this watch. It belonged to my father. He gave it to me when I was your age." Samuel said. He handed her a golden watch.
"But I want real presents!" Thorn exclaimed.
"Well, what would you like?" Scarlett asked.
"Can I have a new book?" Thorn asked.
"Of course. Let's go to the book store right now." Samuel said.
They took Thorn to Cream's Book Store. Noon followed them. Thorn appeared in front of him.
"I was such a spoiled brat, wasn't I?" Thorn asked Noon.
"But wait. There's more."
Thorn picked out a book in the book store.
"Are you sure you want that one?" Samuel asked.
"Yeah!" Thorn said.
"Well..." Samuel said. "Alright."
They paid for the book and stepped outside.
It had begun to rain heavily. Scarlett opened an umbrella for the family.
"Thank you guys for the best birthday ever!" Thorn exclaimed happily.
Her parents hugged her. After they drew away from the hug, a bounty hunter appeared in front of them, gun drawn. He was a purple weasel, wearing a fedora and brown trench coat.
"Give me your money now." he said, aiming the gun at Samuel and Scarlett. Thorn cowered behind her parents.
"Alright, we don't want any trouble." Scarlett said. The two adults raised their hands.
"Now!" the bounty hunter yelled.
Samuel dug into his pocket and threw his wallet at the bounty hunter.
"Okay, just take it and leave,now!" Samuel said.
"Pleasure doing business with you." he said.
He shot Samuel and Scarlett twice. Samuel fell to the ground.
"No!" Thorn sobbed.
Scarlett was barely alive. She fell to the ground. Thorn tried to stop the blood.
"Mommy...no..." Thorn cried.
"Thorn..." Scarlett gasped. "I love you..."
"Mommy....daddy...." Thorn said. She held her parents hands as they heaved their last breaths.
Noon looked on in shock.
There was a flash of light, and he was back in the grassy field.
"I'm not proud of who I was..." Thorn told him.
"There was nothing you could have done." Noon said. "You were only eight years old!"
"That's not it..." Thorn said.
"A few years ago, I got involved with the wrong crowd. Then I became a thief. That's how I got my cell phone." Thorn told him.
"But how did you learn to fight?" Noon asked.
"I was trained by an old chameleon. He had a dojo. He gave me a place to stay...a home." Thorn said. "I gave up on being a thief after that."
"Thorn...thank you for opening up to me." Noon said.
"Now, do you feel any different?"
Thorn smiled.
"I do."
"Good. Now that you have confessed, you can be entirely in tune with yourself." Noon told her.
"Then let's get back to work." Thorn said.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked Commander Tower. She was sitting in his office.
"Rose, let me ask you a question." Commander Tower said.
"Okay." Rose said.
"How old do you think I am?"
"Um, I dunno." Rose said. "You look about...fifty-seven or so."
"Let me tell you a story." Commander Tower said.
"There once was a Professor who made a deal with the devil. He tried to create a project in order to save his granddaughter. The Professor used the blood of a black alien in order to create The Ultimate Lifeform. The Ultimate Lifeform had the power of immortality, which the professor hoped to use to help cure his dying granddaughter. However, before the Project was completely finished, the military stormed the Space Colony Ark where he was conducting his experiments. They shut the project down...and killed everyone apart of it. The Ultimate Lifeform was sent down to Earth, where he was captured once again by the military. He was later freed by a mad doctor intent on ruling the world. The Ultimate Lifeform fell saving the Earth from a fatal collision with the Space Colony Ark. The Ultimate Lifeform was revealed to be alive. Later, the black alien the Professor dealed with fifty years prior returned to Earth, intent on using the Ultimate Lifeform to destroy it. The Ultimate Lifeform rebelled against his creator and saved the Earth. Later, the Ultimate Lifeform joined G.U.N. and became one of our best field agents. When I discovered that I had been diagnosed with cancer, the Ultimate Lifeform agreed to help me. He gave me a blood transfusion, and cured me of my cancer. He gave me immortality." Commander Tower told her.
"And what does any of this have to do with me?" Rose asked.
"Rose...." Commander Tower said. "The Ultimate Lifeform, Shadow the Hedgehog...is your grandfather."
It began to rain as Thorn returned to her quarters.
"Hey, Thorn. How did your first training lesson go?" Kyle asked.
"It went great." Thorn said. "By the way...today's my birthday."
"Thorn! Why didn't you tell me?" Kyle asked.
"Sorry..." she said.
"Well, guess I get to give you sixteen birthday kisses." Kyle told her.
"Kyle..." Thorn smiled.
"Kidding." he told her. "But still, happy birthday."
He kissed her on the cheek.
Topaz was staring out the window as the rain fell. He was holding a picture of himself, Quartz, and a dark gray dog when they were younger. A tear streamed down his face.
"Happy anniversary, bro." he said. "I miss you."
Honey was back in the training room. She slashed and hacked with swords, and shot the hearts of the dummies perfectly with a gun and bow.
Midnight went into Nails' office.
"Have you discovered anything?" Midnight asked.
"A few things." Nails said. "The Jinn are made of a smokeless and "scorching fire" but can otherwise be physical in nature, often interacting with people and objects. It says that they inhabit the unseen world in between the dimensions of human and the next plane of existence. Essentially...Jinns are ghost-like entities."
"So...whoever the Jinn is...had to have died once?" Midnight asked.
Rose was walking back to her quarters, not believing what Commander Tower told her.
A black fox appeared in front of her.
"Hello Rose." Nightshade grinned.
"Nightshade!?" Rose exclaimed.
"Rose, I'm not really here. Yet. But all that will change on the Harvest Moon.Which just so happens to lie on your birthday. Happy sweet sixteen." Nightshade told her. She rippled and faded back into darkness.
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