Delicious echidna

"Try to show that you are here!!!" Said Sabre"Not hurting him !!"

"I doubt he can hear you Melody, You'll have to try something else." Said Sabre.

"I don't know, His reading are going crazy ! We needs him to calm down Dylan!"Said A rather upset Sabre. --------------------------

"Man....He doesn't look good." Said Glen.

"You said yourself that your people wanted peace." Said Spectre."Who will you listen to ? The voice of your people, or these of a bunch of bitter military men, refusing to move on? The voice of the righful ruler, or this of people trying to control everything from the shadow? Think for yourself trigun, stop following the same doctrine that led so many to disaster." --------------------------------- Glen grabbed Dylan"Well, I guess we are good." ------------------------------- It appeared that Locke was moving from time to time, as if having a nightmare...he needed to calm down, and quick. ------------------------------- "I know that you care Skye, I know..."she said in her quiet voice. "I prefer when you smile."Said Red.

"Well, that means the two of us." Said glen, talking about Zionna. ----------------------------------- "we'll teach him a lesson for giving us a scare like this, alright?" Said Red. -------------------------------------- "Not when you know that he'll be fine.." said Tikal, hoping to cheer the little fox up.

Sabre was still looking at the reading."He is getting better. if he keeps on that way, I give him a couple of hours." Said Sabre. --------------------------------- "Well, I suppose she really don't want to go there." Said Glen. ------------------------------------- "Don't think like that." Said Tikal. "I know. Hopefully, we'll be there to remind me of not acting like that." Said Red.

"Or maybe they would."Said Glen behind her."You may never know how much a kind voice or a smile might help." ------------------------------- "Don't worry."Said Tikal. ----------------------------------- "No , I don't think he knew he was hurting himself...."said Red."He must have though it was the normal course of action for a father havng new children... to watch them and make sure of their safety."

"He wouldn't want any of his children to think like that. That's why he stayed awake...To make sure you'd be alright." ------------------------------ "See? He gave you back your smile." Said Tikal.

"Don't worry. I'm sure he'll make it." Said Tikal, giving her warmest smile. --------------------------- "No Anna. He was just caring about your well being. He wouldn't want you to think like that, honey."

"Anna...."said Red."I think.... I think locke was already sick... way before you came." --------------------------------- Tikal said Nothing and Let skye hug her. She knew, in a way...

Tikal took care of what she had to do in the shop and quickly left. Then, using her link with skye, she appeared behind him. "Skye?" She asked ."What is happenning?" ------------------------------------ "Anna?" Red was getting upset.. She Knew Anna was blamming herself for what was happening..

"Hold on, I'll come as soon as I can." said Tikal. -------------------------------------------- "Don't think like that."Said Red."he loves you as much as everyone else here....as for telling the others, we would need to be able to contact them first..."

"Yes, obviously." Said Sabre. ----------------------------------- "I could also cute the air entrance in the bubble and let you die here. That's a possibility."

As tikal was still busy with the list, She felt Skye calling her ."Yes? What's going ?" She said in her head. --------------------------------------- "Knuckes? Right now he is not available unfortunaly." Said Sabre."He is on a mission with spectre." "Anna, stop saying things like this." Quietly said Red."He woudn't want you to say that." ---------------------------------------- "How you tell us what you already know while the other get here ?"

"It's alright anna, It's alright...." Said Red, hoping to calm her down."It wasn't your fault.." --------------------------- Once Trigun heals enough , Spectre lock him up in a chao bubble."I do hope than now you are more disposed in talking to us."

"Enough."Said Spectre, In a tone strong enough for him not to have to raise his voice."He has had enough for now. You can stop ."

Red looked at Mleody."I didn't know that..."She said." He was always there next to me everytime I slept...Could he have...."

Surely enough, Red came in."What happenned?" She asked, upset for Locke.

"You have no idea..."Said Sabre."I used to tell him everytime that he wasn't alone, that we could watch him as well. But he never listened...." sabre sighed."He just loves all his children the same way, and this, even if he had to put duty before everything.... I can sense that regrets that from time to time." --------------------- Spectre stayed back, waiting for his time.

"No , it isn't your fault indeed." Said Sabre."Locke cared so much about you three that he might have disregarded any form of sleep to watch you all..."He chuckled."Don't think it's unique. He did the same for knuckles..."

Sabre sat down in front of skye, listening to his every words, more and more shocked as the little fox went on.... ----------------------------- Spectre slowly backed away."I'll wait." he simply let out.

"No, he is not..." Said Sabre."But I need to know... What did happen during those last weeks ? You were with him, right ?" -------------------------------------- "We send them away trigun. We don't need them to end up as corrupted as you already are." Started Spectre."Now, if only you decided to stop this non sense..."

"I think..."started Sabre"That Locke got a stroke. His nerve couldn't handle anymore stress, And they gave in, hence the loss of conscioussness...all that stress built up, until one last stroke..got the better of him." --------------------------------- "So be it." said Spectre, following his companion.

"Thinking by any chances that he is waiting for us over there?"Said Spectre. --------------------- "I'm affraid it might be Locke himself...." said Sabre."He must have pushed himself too hard these days.... Especially after the werehog thing."