Kaika doesn't really show it, but she silently grits her teeth in the sudden contact of energy that burns her skin. [i]I'm not going to go away...[/i] Kaika repeated this thought in her head, like a mental mantra. with the best efforts to ignore the pain and with the knowledge that Kaika can't "die" as long as her soul isn't in her body, Kaika slowly moves towards Hope.
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"I hope no one's taken the other Chaos Emeralds by now, or else that would be a pain to get them back," Sonic says as he walks around, seeing as the green Chaos Emerald did not have any response to the other Chaos Emeralds.