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Under the cold sunrise it finally came to an end. It was a battle so intense and so chilling to the bone one could not tell the difference between beads of perspiration and sprinkles of icy dew drops that clung to the fur of the fighters. Recoiling in pain UnDark hissed at them, offering the same plethora of insults and promises of revenge mixed in with obscenities as he retreated into his portal bound for home. As usual, UnLight caught the eyes of a few, including Shadow, who continued to chip away at his resolve conflict by conflict. He was close, but not quite at persuading him to betray Mukot, not yet.

Still this battle had proved long and difficult, not quite a war but difficult enough to require as many hands as possible, especially considering one of their most important members, Amy, could not be present. Her third pregnancy had been difficult enough; the tail end of the last major battle had nearly cost her the life of her unborn, putting her on extended periods of bed rest just to keep herself healthy. Now she was ready to have her child at any moment, and as to be expected Mukot jumped on the opportunity to strike them while they were most vulnerable.

Sonic was in Soleanna with his family. Jade and her family were far over the ocean on Spirit Island. The Brokenstar Twins were busy with their new lives in Starshine Town. Shadow had to scramble just to gather up enough power. Besides himself and Rouge, he managed to convince Knuckles to leave Amy long enough to help defend her. Hidama joined in as well, and Amy's father Cody didn't even need to be asked. It had been a long several days of back and forth between them and UnLight and UnDark, having it out on the plains beneath Angel Island, but they were victorious. Though bloodied, aching, and bruised, they had won.

Knuckles had borne the brunt of the fury; on orders of attacking Knuckles with all they had if Amy could not be retrieved, UnDark had been particularly vicious, while UnLight merely fought to get by, his resolve to hurt these people weakening with each confrontation. Shadow spent most of his time battling his younger brother, helped by Rouge, unable to pay much attention to the others. After the portal closed, he glanced to confirm Rouge was alright, then looked, seeing Knuckles in nothing short of a crumpled, bleeding heap.

His eyes widened some but not much. Perhaps it wasn't as bad as it looked. Knuckles did have crimson red fur which always made bleeding look either worse or better than it was depending on the light. Hidama was walking over to him, as was Cody, who during the battle had ripped off his torn T-shirt, his body so toughened the muscles that curved his arms, chest, and abdomen looked like custom fit body armor. He stuck his battle scythe in the ground with such force it stood straight like a flag pole with little effort. Bending down to Knuckles he didn't take the cautious approach, instead yanking the echidna up by his arm abruptly. Knuckles let out a long groan, the only noise he'd let escape him; he had learned long ago to hold his tongue when it came to his father-in-law.

To this Cody simply grinned, slapping the echidna's back with the same kind of force only other echidnas could offer. "Come on now, you're still breathing. You need to get up there and get home, in case Amy needs you."

Knuckles opened his purple eyes, glancing at the hedgehog. If he didn't completely admire and respect Amy's father, heck, if it were Shadow talking to him right then, he'd likely have rolled his eyes and pulled away. He trusted this man completely, and as with anyone he trusted, he let his pain show. He trusted Shadow enough with that as well, he just simply had his way of trying to show Cody and his wife Brooke all of the respect he could muster, even at his highest levels of stress. He hung his head and breathed deeply, but somewhat staggered.

"I could have a hole in my lungs right now you know." He coughed, droplets of blood spattering on the ground. He looked up, grinning a little at his father-in-law. "You're a horrible Guardian."

Shadow walked over glancing at Hidama, who simply shook his head, grinning. Cody blinked, then glanced at Shadow. "He's not that gravely injured is he?"

Hearing this Knuckles groaned hanging his head again, realizing the joke fell on deaf ears, as Cody was genuinely concerned about him. Before Shadow could answer Rouge walked up, roughed up but no worse for wear, hands on her hips. "Please, don't you worry about Knucklehead. He can take much worse than that. He's taken a Master Emerald to the face plenty of times before."

Shadow smirked while Hidama shook his head. Cody's ears tilted glancing at Knuckles, who let a short, gasp of a painful laugh escape him. "You, Batgirl, are not in a position to say what I can and can't handle, considering every time that happened was your fault. Remind me again why you finally gave up?" He pushed himself up slowly steadying himself with Cody's strong arm.

The white bat smirked. "I stopped when I realized your island did in fact have a gem I wanted," she said, glancing at Shadow, "Only it wasn't that dusty old rock of yours."

This caused Shadow to blush lightly, his love story with Rouge having transformed him, and her both. Hidama smiled some, while Knuckles rolled his eyes. "Good, now excuse me while I promptly gag. You stealing the Master Emerald was less painful than that." He got on his feet, cracking his neck. "I'm alright, let's go now before I really do lose whatever bile those idiots didn't beat out of me."

"Congrats on the baby Knucky," Rouge said with a wave, winking at him, a tiny smirk curling her lips.

Knuckles shook his head. "Shut up you'll just end up making something go wrong," he replied with a smirk back. Glancing at Shadow he nodded. "Hope that's all for now." He started walking back towards the island, close enough so he could make the journey back up to it. Hidama went with him, and after Cody collected his scythe he turned to follow, pausing only to look back at Shadow.

"We were lucky this time weren't we?"

Shadow looked at him, Rouge having taken his arm. With a nod, Shadow replied, "Yes, only not with the battle. ...we're lucky Amy's children survived at all." He offered the faintest of grins, knowing that Cody would immediately react with a look of bewilderment.

"C-Children...?" Cody asked, just as Shadow had expected.

"I'm not saying anything else," Shadow said with a wave of his hand. "You go see for yourself."

Cody blinked a few more times, the wave of stunning information taking a few extra seconds to process what was heard. It all sunk in when he turned and bolted to catch up the echidna brothers. To this Rouge smirked. "Shadow you sly devil, keeping that secret to yourself until now."

Shadow's red eyes glanced at her, shining with a light that had died and colored them dull in the long, long years before he kindled this love with Rouge in his heart. He shook his head, and with the softest of chuckles he replied, "Sly devil or...happy relative. I like being part of surprises."

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"Daddy Daddy! Come see!"

When his house came into view, Knuckles could see his daughter Amarie practically skipping all over the porch, while Mikomi sat in the swing, hopping up upon seeing his father. "Dad! Mom had the baby! We can hear the crying!"

Knuckles' eyes lit up even as he felt a small twinge of regret, knowing what Amy had to endure. She had her mother, but he had wanted to be there. Still, the fact that they heard crying, that was news of the most beautiful kind to him. Finding a new rush of energy to overcome the pain in his body he vaulted for the door, rushing inside. Hidama watched this seeing the two children follow him, and grinned. "Ah what a happy day this is." He too walked to the porch heading inside at a slower pace.

Brooke stepped out of the bedroom about to close the door behind her when she heard the commotion. Looking over she saw Knuckles coming for her. She smiled, happy to see him alright, and with Mikomi and Amarie at his heels. "Grandma, Grandma! Can we see now please?" Amarie pleaded.

"Well, now that your father is here," Brooke said with a smile. She put a finger to her lips. "But you must be quiet, you promise?" She glanced at Knuckles to include him, to which he grinned.

Amarie nodded quickly. "Oh we promise Grandma. We do!"

Mikomi grinned, nodding as well.

With a smile Brooke opened the door, causing Amarie to run in as quietly as she could, with Mikomi following her. Knuckles took a deep breath, trying to prepare himself. He took a step inside, frozen in place by what he saw. Brooke closed the door behind him gently, smiling all the more knowing the sight that had greeted him. By this point Cody had also entered the house, and walked up to her. "Brookie, is what Shadow said really true?"

Brooke giggled softly, touching her husband's cheek. "If what he said is we have two new lights instead of one then, he was absolutely, correct."

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"T-Two...?"

Amy looked up seeing Knuckles enter the room. She knew Mikomi and Amarie stood by her bedside adoring the little bundles in her arms, but her attention was transfixed on him. She knew instantly what he was thinking. They were only expecting one. The thought made her eyes close as she offered the shiest of smiles. Knuckles finally bid his feet to move, step by step, as if each movement required a long chain of deliberate commands to each muscle and sinew just to achieve. His mouth was agape the entire time, all of the sounds, sights, and feelings becoming lost and blended together with only one solid notion standing out against the rest.

Twins, a boy and a girl, lay swaddled in Amy's arms.

They were the long awaited miracle, the promise, a gift in apology for the suffering they had endured just to make it to this very precious moment.

He had had two children before but somehow this managed to feel brand new and completely overwhelming. His expression did not change; there was only blinking to keep his eyes from becoming dry.

Amy giggled softly, she too almost lost to what was going on around her, until she noticed Mikomi and Amarie were finally taking notice of their frozen father. She smiled looking at them. "Could you both get him sitting on the bed? Be gentle now."

Mikomi grinned and nodded, pulling Knuckles down gently so he was sitting on the bed. Somehow this registered to the echidna, watching as Mikomi went back to stand with Amarie, then looking back at the newborn twins, sleeping in Amy's arms. His eyes drifted to her face. "T-Two...Amy?"

She blushed, looking as shy as before. She nodded slowly. "The little boy surprised me when he came, after his sister," she smiled. Looking at both babies she added, "We still need to name them."

Amarie's eyes sparkled. "Oh oh! What are you gonna name them?"

As if the thought of having two new little babies finally sunk in and melted the shock, Knuckles grinned. "I believe I have the perfect names." He looked at his two older children. "We'll call them Ame, and Ami."

Amy blinked, Amarie squealed as softly as she could, while Mikomi smiled. "My brother will be Ame, and my sister Ami. That's great! They're both named after Mom!"

The echidna nodded, while Amy tilted her head. "But...why after me dear?"

With a soft chuckle, Knuckles gently kissed her cheek, pulling back slowly to look at the three of them. "Because, you are our light, and these two, are just the same. Little lights waiting to grow into the same that you are, my Amy."

Sunlight from the dawn was pouring into the room, almost as if on cue. Amy smiled as she looked at his face. Sure she had Arandor's Light, and her children all bore lights uniquely their own, but it was moments like this, that her dear Knuckles shined with his own, whether he saw it or not. They were named after her, but the light and miracles that they were came from their father, as much as they did their mother.

Ame and Ami, two special children, surviving grim odds against them, to bring their new family together and bond them, even stronger than ever.

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I don't want flames. I generally don't get them, but I really don't. I'm always taking a chance posting fan art XD

Ah so where do I begin lol You know Amarie and Mikomi already my two fan children for Knuckles and Amy. Ame and Ami, the twins, were created by ~GemzyBabeeSonamy I was so happy that she did them too X3 I simply had to doodle this drawing and color it nice, and add the story. <3

For the record this IS going in WoLaD, so think of this as an excerpt.

The reason Amy almost lost them is so they make sense in our RP universe. See, the way I explained it was Amy lost them in the old version of WoLaD, but in the dimension they came from the war ended sooner so she didn't lose them. But now I'm writing it in saying she almost loses them but keeps them...I'm guessing at some point they'll meld into the RP so well it'll be like it was always like this so...yes XD Ame and Ami are going to be in WoLaD...don't let her tell you differently XP

As for the story it is sorta based on how Mikomi was born in TSoTL and Knuckles wasn't there for it. It's why he looks stunned here, and Amy has that expression of, "Honey we had two." lol It's been ages since I've drawn any of them here and I love how everybody came out...yes I drew Knuckles and Amy with necks and in my style of drawing so, get off my behind lol

All in all I'm happy with it I tried different things with shading, like shading the clothing with color, and the like. This description is already long enough so I'll leave it at that. I'm just happy with Amy's look, the hair and everything X3

Again, I don't want anti-KnuxAmy comments so please don't post them. I'm not going to reply, and you're not accomplishing anything by posting them here. If you don't like them go post about it somewhere else please. I don't post these pictures to provide people a place to be negative about them alright? That's what your own gallery is for <3

Amy and Knuckles belong to Sega/Sonic Team.

Mikomi and Amarie belong to me.

Ame and Ami belong to Gem.

~ Halo

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Under the cold sunrise it finally came to an end. It was a battle so intense and so chilling to the bone one could not tell the difference between beads of perspiration and sprinkles of icy dew drops that clung to the fur of the fighters. Recoiling in pain UnDark hissed at them, offering the same plethora of insults and promises of revenge mixed in with obscenities as he retreated into his portal bound for home. As usual, UnLight caught the eyes of a few, including Shadow, who continued to chip away at his resolve conflict by conflict. He was close, but not quite at persuading him to betray Mukot, not yet.

Still this battle had proved long and difficult, not quite a war but difficult enough to require as many hands as possible, especially considering one of their most important members, Amy, could not be present. Her third pregnancy had been difficult enough; the tail end of the last major battle had nearly cost her the life of her unborn, putting her on extended periods of bed rest just to keep herself healthy. Now she was ready to have her child at any moment, and as to be expected Mukot jumped on the opportunity to strike them while they were most vulnerable.

Sonic was in Soleanna with his family. Jade and her family were far over the ocean on Spirit Island. The Brokenstar Twins were busy with their new lives in Starshine Town. Shadow had to scramble just to gather up enough power. Besides himself and Rouge, he managed to convince Knuckles to leave Amy long enough to help defend her. Hidama joined in as well, and Amy's father Cody didn't even need to be asked. It had been a long several days of back and forth between them and UnLight and UnDark, having it out on the plains beneath Angel Island, but they were victorious. Though bloodied, aching, and bruised, they had won.

Knuckles had borne the brunt of the fury; on orders of attacking Knuckles with all they had if Amy could not be retrieved, UnDark had been particularly vicious, while UnLight merely fought to get by, his resolve to hurt these people weakening with each confrontation. Shadow spent most of his time battling his younger brother, helped by Rouge, unable to pay much attention to the others. After the portal closed, he glanced to confirm Rouge was alright, then looked, seeing Knuckles in nothing short of a crumpled, bleeding heap.

His eyes widened some but not much. Perhaps it wasn't as bad as it looked. Knuckles did have crimson red fur which always made bleeding look either worse or better than it was depending on the light. Hidama was walking over to him, as was Cody, who during the battle had ripped off his torn T-shirt, his body so toughened the muscles that curved his arms, chest, and abdomen looked like custom fit body armor. He stuck his battle scythe in the ground with such force it stood straight like a flag pole with little effort. Bending down to Knuckles he didn't take the cautious approach, instead yanking the echidna up by his arm abruptly. Knuckles let out a long groan, the only noise he'd let escape him; he had learned long ago to hold his tongue when it came to his father-in-law.

To this Cody simply grinned, slapping the echidna's back with the same kind of force only other echidnas could offer. "Come on now, you're still breathing. You need to get up there and get home, in case Amy needs you."

Knuckles opened his purple eyes, glancing at the hedgehog. If he didn't completely admire and respect Amy's father, heck, if it were Shadow talking to him right then, he'd likely have rolled his eyes and pulled away. He trusted this man completely, and as with anyone he trusted, he let his pain show. He trusted Shadow enough with that as well, he just simply had his way of trying to show Cody and his wife Brooke all of the respect he could muster, even at his highest levels of stress. He hung his head and breathed deeply, but somewhat staggered.

"I could have a hole in my lungs right now you know." He coughed, droplets of blood spattering on the ground. He looked up, grinning a little at his father-in-law. "You're a horrible Guardian."

Shadow walked over glancing at Hidama, who simply shook his head, grinning. Cody blinked, then glanced at Shadow. "He's not that gravely injured is he?"

Hearing this Knuckles groaned hanging his head again, realizing the joke fell on deaf ears, as Cody was genuinely concerned about him. Before Shadow could answer Rouge walked up, roughed up but no worse for wear, hands on her hips. "Please, don't you worry about Knucklehead. He can take much worse than that. He's taken a Master Emerald to the face plenty of times before."

Shadow smirked while Hidama shook his head. Cody's ears tilted glancing at Knuckles, who let a short, gasp of a painful laugh escape him. "You, Batgirl, are not in a position to say what I can and can't handle, considering every time that happened was your fault. Remind me again why you finally gave up?" He pushed himself up slowly steadying himself with Cody's strong arm.

The white bat smirked. "I stopped when I realized your island did in fact have a gem I wanted," she said, glancing at Shadow, "Only it wasn't that dusty old rock of yours."

This caused Shadow to blush lightly, his love story with Rouge having transformed him, and her both. Hidama smiled some, while Knuckles rolled his eyes. "Good, now excuse me while I promptly gag. You stealing the Master Emerald was less painful than that." He got on his feet, cracking his neck. "I'm alright, let's go now before I really do lose whatever bile those idiots didn't beat out of me."

"Congrats on the baby Knucky," Rouge said with a wave, winking at him, a tiny smirk curling her lips.

Knuckles shook his head. "Shut up you'll just end up making something go wrong," he replied with a smirk back. Glancing at Shadow he nodded. "Hope that's all for now." He started walking back towards the island, close enough so he could make the journey back up to it. Hidama went with him, and after Cody collected his scythe he turned to follow, pausing only to look back at Shadow.

"We were lucky this time weren't we?"

Shadow looked at him, Rouge having taken his arm. With a nod, Shadow replied, "Yes, only not with the battle. ...we're lucky Amy's children survived at all." He offered the faintest of grins, knowing that Cody would immediately react with a look of bewilderment.

"C-Children...?" Cody asked, just as Shadow had expected.

"I'm not saying anything else," Shadow said with a wave of his hand. "You go see for yourself."

Cody blinked a few more times, the wave of stunning information taking a few extra seconds to process what was heard. It all sunk in when he turned and bolted to catch up the echidna brothers. To this Rouge smirked. "Shadow you sly devil, keeping that secret to yourself until now."

Shadow's red eyes glanced at her, shining with a light that had died and colored them dull in the long, long years before he kindled this love with Rouge in his heart. He shook his head, and with the softest of chuckles he replied, "Sly devil or...happy relative. I like being part of surprises."

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"Daddy Daddy! Come see!"

When his house came into view, Knuckles could see his daughter Amarie practically skipping all over the porch, while Mikomi sat in the swing, hopping up upon seeing his father. "Dad! Mom had the baby! We can hear the crying!"

Knuckles' eyes lit up even as he felt a small twinge of regret, knowing what Amy had to endure. She had her mother, but he had wanted to be there. Still, the fact that they heard crying, that was news of the most beautiful kind to him. Finding a new rush of energy to overcome the pain in his body he vaulted for the door, rushing inside. Hidama watched this seeing the two children follow him, and grinned. "Ah what a happy day this is." He too walked to the porch heading inside at a slower pace.

Brooke stepped out of the bedroom about to close the door behind her when she heard the commotion. Looking over she saw Knuckles coming for her. She smiled, happy to see him alright, and with Mikomi and Amarie at his heels. "Grandma, Grandma! Can we see now please?" Amarie pleaded.

"Well, now that your father is here," Brooke said with a smile. She put a finger to her lips. "But you must be quiet, you promise?" She glanced at Knuckles to include him, to which he grinned.

Amarie nodded quickly. "Oh we promise Grandma. We do!"

Mikomi grinned, nodding as well.

With a smile Brooke opened the door, causing Amarie to run in as quietly as she could, with Mikomi following her. Knuckles took a deep breath, trying to prepare himself. He took a step inside, frozen in place by what he saw. Brooke closed the door behind him gently, smiling all the more knowing the sight that had greeted him. By this point Cody had also entered the house, and walked up to her. "Brookie, is what Shadow said really true?"

Brooke giggled softly, touching her husband's cheek. "If what he said is we have two new lights instead of one then, he was absolutely, correct."

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"T-Two...?"

Amy looked up seeing Knuckles enter the room. She knew Mikomi and Amarie stood by her bedside adoring the little bundles in her arms, but her attention was transfixed on him. She knew instantly what he was thinking. They were only expecting one. The thought made her eyes close as she offered the shiest of smiles. Knuckles finally bid his feet to move, step by step, as if each movement required a long chain of deliberate commands to each muscle and sinew just to achieve. His mouth was agape the entire time, all of the sounds, sights, and feelings becoming lost and blended together with only one solid notion standing out against the rest.

Twins, a boy and a girl, lay swaddled in Amy's arms.

They were the long awaited miracle, the promise, a gift in apology for the suffering they had endured just to make it to this very precious moment.

He had had two children before but somehow this managed to feel brand new and completely overwhelming. His expression did not change; there was only blinking to keep his eyes from becoming dry.

Amy giggled softly, she too almost lost to what was going on around her, until she noticed Mikomi and Amarie were finally taking notice of their frozen father. She smiled looking at them. "Could you both get him sitting on the bed? Be gentle now."

Mikomi grinned and nodded, pulling Knuckles down gently so he was sitting on the bed. Somehow this registered to the echidna, watching as Mikomi went back to stand with Amarie, then looking back at the newborn twins, sleeping in Amy's arms. His eyes drifted to her face. "T-Two...Amy?"

She blushed, looking as shy as before. She nodded slowly. "The little boy surprised me when he came, after his sister," she smiled. Looking at both babies she added, "We still need to name them."

Amarie's eyes sparkled. "Oh oh! What are you gonna name them?"

As if the thought of having two new little babies finally sunk in and melted the shock, Knuckles grinned. "I believe I have the perfect names." He looked at his two older children. "We'll call them Ame, and Ami."

Amy blinked, Amarie squealed as softly as she could, while Mikomi smiled. "My brother will be Ame, and my sister Ami. That's great! They're both named after Mom!"

The echidna nodded, while Amy tilted her head. "But...why after me dear?"

With a soft chuckle, Knuckles gently kissed her cheek, pulling back slowly to look at the three of them. "Because, you are our light, and these two, are just the same. Little lights waiting to grow into the same that you are, my Amy."

Sunlight from the dawn was pouring into the room, almost as if on cue. Amy smiled as she looked at his face. Sure she had Arandor's Light, and her children all bore lights uniquely their own, but it was moments like this, that her dear Knuckles shined with his own, whether he saw it or not. They were named after her, but the light and miracles that they were came from their father, as much as they did their mother.

Ame and Ami, two special children, surviving grim odds against them, to bring their new family together and bond them, even stronger than ever.

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I don't want flames. I generally don't get them, but I really don't. I'm always taking a chance posting fan art XD

Ah so where do I begin lol You know Amarie and Mikomi already my two fan children for Knuckles and Amy. Ame and Ami, the twins, were created by ~GemzyBabeeSonamy I was so happy that she did them too X3 I simply had to doodle this drawing and color it nice, and add the story. <3

For the record this IS going in WoLaD, so think of this as an excerpt.

The reason Amy almost lost them is so they make sense in our RP universe. See, the way I explained it was Amy lost them in the old version of WoLaD, but in the dimension they came from the war ended sooner so she didn't lose them. But now I'm writing it in saying she almost loses them but keeps them...I'm guessing at some point they'll meld into the RP so well it'll be like it was always like this so...yes XD Ame and Ami are going to be in WoLaD...don't let her tell you differently XP

As for the story it is sorta based on how Mikomi was born in TSoTL and Knuckles wasn't there for it. It's why he looks stunned here, and Amy has that expression of, "Honey we had two." lol It's been ages since I've drawn any of them here and I love how everybody came out...yes I drew Knuckles and Amy with necks and in my style of drawing so, get off my behind lol

All in all I'm happy with it I tried different things with shading, like shading the clothing with color, and the like. This description is already long enough so I'll leave it at that. I'm just happy with Amy's look, the hair and everything X3

Again, I don't want anti-KnuxAmy comments so please don't post them. I'm not going to reply, and you're not accomplishing anything by posting them here. If you don't like them go post about it somewhere else please. I don't post these pictures to provide people a place to be negative about them alright? That's what your own gallery is for <3

Amy and Knuckles belong to Sega/Sonic Team.

Mikomi and Amarie belong to me.

Ame and Ami belong to Gem.

~ Halo