Chapter 9
Meanwhile under the sea where Malinda dragged Sonic along with her by grabbing his arm.
"Poor little prince. It's not you I'm after. It’s actually your mother I'm after." chuckled Malinda.
"Malinda! Stop!" Aleena said as she stopped Malinda while holding her trident along with Knuckles and Tails.
"Why, Queen Aleena. What a pleasant surprise!" Malinda smirked.
"Let him go!" Aleena glared.
"Sorry, honey! He's mine now!" said Malinda as she showed her the contract. "We made a deal!"
"Mom, I'm sorry!" said Sonic sadly. "I didn't mean to! I didn't know what I was doing!"
When Aleena saw the contract she angrily tried to blast the contract but no avail.
"You see? The contract is legal, binding and unbreakable! Even for you!" Malinda chuckled wickedly. "Of course, I was a girl with an eye for a bargain. The son of the sea queen is a very precious commodity. But I might be willing to make an exchange for someone even better. And that is you."
Aleena gasped in horror to see Sonic who was about to turn into a poor soul creature by Malinda.
"Now, do we have a deal, hon?" she asked as she showed the sea queen the contract.
Aleena hesitated but she signed her name on the contract in order to take her son's place.
"Ha! It's done then!" Malinda laughed wickedly.
Sonic turned back into his normal self and then Aleena turned into a small poor soul. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles looked sadly at Aleena.
"Mom.." Sonic said sadly.
"At last! It's mine!" Malinda laughed evilly as she put on Aleena's crown and held the trident.
"You monster!" Sonic screamed angrily as he attacked Malinda but she threw him aside and threatened him with the trident.
"Don't fool with me, you little brat!" Malinda snarled and threatened Sonic. "Contact or no contract..."
Suddenly Shadow showed up underwater and threw a harpoon and hit Malinda near the arm which caused a cut. Malinda glared at the black hedgehog.
"After him!" Malinda ordered the eels to get Shadow.
When Shadow was about to swim up to the surface to get air, Mephiles and Iblis pulled him down underwater to drown him but Knuckles and Tails attacked them to set Shadow free.
"Say goodbye to your sweetheart, pretty boy!" Malinda grinned as she was about to aim at Shadow, but Sonic pulled her hair which caused her to blast Mephiles and Iblis into pieces.
"No!" she screamed in horror to see Mephiles and Iblis destroyed and then she got very furious as she began to grew massively big and she popped up to the surface while Shadow and Sonic watched her in horror as she laughed wickedly.
"You pitiful, insignifigant fools!" Malinda smiled evilly as she created a dark thunder storm, big waves and created a huge whirlpool which cause the old sunken ships float up. "Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim! The sea and all its spoils bow to my power!"
Shadow and Sonic got seperated from each other because of the waves. Shadow fell onto one of the ships and Sonic fell to the bottom the whirlpool and Malinda tried to blast the blue merhog with the trident while Shadow was onto the ship and steered it.
"So much for true love!" Malinda laughed evilly as she was about to blast Sonic.
But then, Shadow was just in time to head straight to Malinda and impaled her with the broken ship which caused her to collapse. Shadow hurriedly hopped overboard as the ship sank along with the sea witch. After Shadow got up to the shore and collapsed by exhaustion.
After the death of Malinda, the poor souls in her cave turned back into Merpeople and happily escaped while Aleena turned back into a merhog when she got her crown and trident back.
Sonic swam towards Aleena sadly and sobbed in remorse while hugging each other.
“Now, now. Sonic. It’s all over now.” Aleena said sweetly while she hugged her son and kissed her on his forehead. “I’m sorry for not listening to you and destroyed all your collection. And you’re right. Not all land creatures are bad.”
Sonic smiled tearfully and hugged his mother even more.
The next morning Sonic sat on a rock and looked sadly at Shadow, feeling guilty for all the trouble he caused and regretted about making a deal with Malinda, while Aleena and Knuckles watched Sonic.
"He really does him, doesn't he, Knuckles?" Aleena asked with a sigh.
"You know, your highness. Children got to be free to lead their own lives." said Knuckles.
"You're absolutely right. But there is just one problem!" Aleena sighed.
"What's that?" Knuckles asked.
"How much I'm going to miss him." Aleena replied sadly.
She used her trident to turn Sonic back into a hedgehog. Sonic smiled to see he got legs again and smiled at his mother. When Shadow woke up, he saw Sonic in his hedgehog form bit this time with shiny and sparkling clothes. Shadow and Sonic embraced and kissed each other.
One year later, they hedgehogs got married in the wedding ship. The land creatures and the Merpeople including Aleena, Sonia, Manic, Knuckles, Tails, Chip, Owlan Featherstein and Mrs. Gray watched them happily in tears.
Aleena and Sonic hugged each other tearfully.
"I love you, mom!" Sonic smiled tearfully.
"I love you too, my sweet boy!" Aleena tearfully smiled too.
Aleena and Shadow bowed down greetedly to each other as Aleena got back to the water and used her trident to create a rainbow around the ship and watched it happily.
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End!
