7/10/12 - An anonymous reviewer recently informed me that I supposedly "plagiarized" this from another story. I can inform you that from the day I started writing this in 2010, I have come up with this all by myself. I may have used references to things in popular culture, but no way did I copy and paste or steal from someone else. I just wanted to clear that up. I accept constructive criticism, but I do NOT take too well to being accused for something I worked on all by myself.

Enjoy :)

All that was blocking me from jumping into the cold water from atop the cliff was the incoherent feeling that built up inside of me and made me freeze at the tip of the cliff. Just one little leap, that's all I had to take. But I couldn't move.

"Come on Amy, you don't have to do it," Cream shouted from behind me.

In order to impress Sonic, yes I did. When we drove up here, I saw the way he looked in awe as he watched the girls from the outside of his window jump into the water with so much grace that would make Anna Pavlova jealous.

At first I thought it was ridiculous that someone would jump from such a steep cliff into the dark water, but the way those girls were laughing and smiling, it actually looked fun. Plus, Sonic might give me the same look.

"You think she's really going to do it?" I heard Tails ask Knuckles.

"Nah, she's all hype," Knuckles replied.

I growled quietly. That's what they think. I started picturing their faces once I jumped, and all the praise I would get when I made it back to them. Ha! That would show them!

I raised my hands above my head and got into a divers position. I was about to leap, when Cream called my name and ran over to me.

"Wait Amy," she panted, exhausted from the short run.

I lowered my hands back to my sides, and sighed. "What?"

"Don't you think this is a little...irrational?"

I looked at her. "No."

"What if you don't make it back?"

I laughed. "Are you seriously worried about that? Didn't you see those girls here earlier? They survived."

"Amy..." she looked at me with pleading eyes. "Don't do this. You can impress Sonic some other way."

I felt my face turn red. "Who said this was about Sonic!"

"Well...It's kinda obvious," Cream laughed nervously and my eyes narrowed.

"Alright, alright, you caught me. But I know this is going to work. I'll prove it to you right now." I got back to the divers position and readied myself.

"Wait Amy," she repeated. "Do you remember that show we saw on the TV about the White River monster?"

"...Yeah?"

"What if it's waiting for you down there?"

"Ugh...Cream, Cream, Cream...What am I going to do with you?" I shook my head. "This isn't the White River, plus I seriously doubt that fish exist."

My friend crossed her arms over her chest. "It's not a fish, it's a monster. Anyway, there might be some other dangers lurking around down there. Do you really want to risk your life just to try to make Sonic like you?"

I looked over my shoulder at the blue hedgehog. He gave me a little grin and a wave, which I wasn't sure if that meant for me to go ahead and jump or for me to just give up. God, he was gorgeous.

I sighed. "Love makes people crazy, you know."

"In your case, insane."

"Touche."

"Amy, please don't do this. It's really dangerous. What would my mom think if she saw you here?"

"Are you really pulling the whole 'what would your mom think' on me? Because that doesn't wor-" I suddenly felt my foot slip on something that was on the grassy cliff, and I started descending toward the water, screaming.

"AMY!" I heard Cream shout. I saw Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails' faces appear, watching me fall in horror.

My body started to turn around in a new position. I was now falling head-first and their faces disappeared. The large body of water faced me instead. Oh crap. Crap, crap, crap!

Cream was right. I was insane. And right now I am, when I wasn't even prepared, falling to what perhaps may be my death. But for some reason, I felt like I would make it. I mean, I was going to jump anyway, just in a different position and not by slipping off of some unknown goo.

Smack!

I stopped falling, but hit something hard. Very, very hard. My vision was blurring, and what could be the most horrible headache known to man was now happening to me. Suddenly, I couldn't think.

I felt myself slipping off of what might be a large rock, and into freezing, dark water.

And that's when my world turned black.

The sound of birds chirping greeted me once I gained consciousness. My head ached, and I wasn't quite sure where I was anymore. I just remembered descending into cold water, but this didn't feel like water. It felt more like dirt. Dirt and...leaves. The smell of pine trees came through my nose, and made me cough. It sounded weak.

I could open my eyes, but I wasn't quite sure if I should. What if I opened them and found a bear getting ready to devour me? Or something worse...

I decided to open them anyway, because what if it wasn't something bad? After all, in order to be in this mysterious place, someone had to rescue me from the water and bring me here, right? So that person must be my hero, Sonic, right?

My eyelids fluttered open and what greeted me was nothing but trees. Trees, trees, trees. Everywhere. Everywhere!

I realized I was laying down, so I sat up. This didn't make sense! What kind of screwed up hero would leave me all alone in a damn forest!

I stood up, and looked around as if standing up actually turned the trees into something else. But of course, it didn't.

"Gah! Why does this kind of thing have to happen to me!" I shouted at the quiet nothing that surrounded me.

An army of ants were starting to march around me, and then started to crawl up my boots and onto my legs. I had a spaz attack, and started kicking my legs and smacking them off. Some of them bit me, and I started yelling.

"Stupid bugs," I swatted some more at the ants. "You go squish now!"

After several more minutes of killing, it looked like they were all gone.

And I was alone once more.

I felt many emotions: fear, loneliness, anger, confusion, and a strange kind of calmness. Maybe it was all the nature. I don't know.

I walked over to a tree, and sat under it. I wasn't sure how I got here. I mean, obviously I would have remembered coming here on my own, but I couldn't remember anything after I hit my head, which still hurt like hell.

I remembered driving up to a mountain range with my friends, having a picnic, telling stories, slipping off a cliff like a clumsy loser, hitting something hard, falling into the water...and that was it. I wasn't sure how long I was passed out here. I didn't even know what day it was.

I was pretty sure Sonic (or any of my other friends) hadn't dragged me out. He wouldn't have left me here by myself, exposed to the dangers of nature. Was I kidnapped by some cannibalistic person who was coming to get me any time soon and have a feast with his tribe where I would be the main course?

I gulped.

I stood up and started running as fast I could, going nowhere in particular, but just trying to escape. Every step I took, I felt horrible. My legs were hurting for some unknown reason, plus my already acknowledged head ache, and now my arms were hurting.

Suddenly, I tripped on a root of a tree and fell face-down.

Damn trees...

I felt a sharp pain in my ankle, and let out a yelp. It was probably broken from the fall.

Great. Just great! I was in so much pain, and now my ankle was broken.

"This just isn't right," my voice was muffled by the dirt of the forest. I could hear my heartbeat through my ears, which was kind of scary. Maybe I would just lay here and die. Get eaten up by avenging ants or by a buzzard. My obituary would be this:

Amy Rose

Age of death: 12

Date of death: Unknown

Place of death: In an unknown forest

Cause of death: Slipped of a cliff and was rescued by a cannibal who left her in the forest. While trying to escape, she tripped on a tree root and was eaten by a variety of woodland creatures.

Thirteen. I was only thirteen. How depressing.

I felt stupid. Really stupid. Did I really believe that the only way to Sonic's heart was by jumping off a cliff? Guess so.

While I laid there, I heard footsteps crunching on dead leaves.

My heart started thumping.

It was the cannibal!

Well, like I said, I'll see how this comes out depending on your reviews. XD

I probably did some grammar and/or spelling errors, so feel free to point those out.

Thanks for reading :)