Prologue.
It all started with Emeralds. Ordinary Emeralds dug from the Sacred Emerald mines on Angel Island by an alien race called the Drakon. The story could have easily ended there, but it didn't.
Let me start from the beginning. The Drakon Empire had come to Planet Mobius many years ago when the Echidna had opened a doorway to the Nightmare Country, also known as the Special Zone, and ventured through to form new alliances with other races.
The Drakon, who had already made settlements in the Special Zone, saw Mobius as a new world they could conquer, and so they ventured into the world of the Echidna.
Eight years passed and rumors had already begun to circulate among the different allies of the Echidna of evil deeds done by the Drakon. Attacking the other intelligent races of Mobius as they searched for some kind of power source. The Echidna finally faced up to the Drakon and it was then that the Drakon made it quite clear that they wanted something from Mobius, and they would do whatever it took to find it and take it as their own.
Nine years of wars came next as the Echidna proved to be a far better resistance to the Drakon than they had expected. Even with their own allies, the Drakon where forced from all the settlements they had forged on Mobius.
They were removed, by force, from all except one settlement. This was their outpost on the Aquatic Ruins Zone. Here they had found, and learned how to use, all the ancient technology left behind by a mysterious race of Angelic creatures called the Cherub, who had long ago abandoned the island for the bigger Paradise Island.
Using this ancient technology the Drakon searched the Special Zone for a race that could help them defeat the Echidna once and for all. It took a while, but they did find a race. They found the ancient Dragon's of Mobius.
Nine years of wars had brought about many casualties to either side. However, it was by accident that the Echidna stumbled upon the true reason the Drakon searched Mobius. The nine years of wars had been a decoy. The Drakon's master plan was revealed.
The Drakon could've ended the war at anytime if they desired, with the help of the Dragon's, but they hadn't. They hadn't simply because they needed all attention to be on the war. The Drakon could not allow the other races that existed to find out their plan, as they would no doubt be destroyed. So the war went on.
It took many years of searching, but the Drakon had discovered the very thing they had been looking for. It was an unstable energy source that existed on Planet Mobius. They intended to use this energy as a means of ruling, quite literally, the universe. With this chaotic energy harnessed, the Drakon could transport themselves over great distances with little more than a thought. But, for this they needed to Control this energy, dubbed 'Chaos' energy long ago by the Echidna.
But the 'Chaos' energy proved to be unsafe to use. So the Drakon then sort out the stability of the Sacred Emeralds.
As the tenth year arrived the Drakon went to capture the Sacred Emeralds so that they could harness the true power of the Chaos energy, fusing the Emeralds with the Chaos Energy they would create the Chaos Emeralds.
Of course the Echidna wouldn't allow this to happen willingly.
It was the Echidna Prince, Lord Mameco, who discovered the Drakon's plans at first. He, along with his wife, Princess Rosariean, sort out a means of destroying the Drakon's evil ambition.
Sending their bodyguard, Alonzo Ophir, back to the Echidna, informing them of what they had found, they went in without reinforcements, seeing an opportunity they could not risk losing.
Prince Mameco lead the way into the Drakon's new mining site to the very heart of the machinery, and with the help of his wife, he destroyed the Chaos Emeralds that had been created, thus creating a chain reaction which annihilated the mine, along with the Drakon's equipment.
The mine was no longer stable, and if they wished to continue with their plans, the Drakon would have to spend a lot of time replacing all their equipment that had been destroyed, as well as digging back into the now buried mine. By the time they had done this the Echidna would be upon them. The Prince and his wife had succeeded. But they paid the price for their small victory.
They were captured by the Drakon, and for their crimes against the Drakon Empire, they were killed instantly.
With that one single act, the Echidna were changed forever.
However, it seemed as though luck favored the Drakon as they discovered that not all Chaos Emeralds had been destroyed. Six still remained completely intact.
King Pochamac, who had already lost his brother and sister-in-law to the Drakon, was filled with even greater sorrow at the loose of his son and daughter-in-law, and very slowly he slipped into the arms of depression.
It was then that two of the three orphaned children of Prince Mameco, Brightstarr and his younger brother Knuckles, immediately drew up plans of retaliation.
They knew that with their grandfather, the King, how he was they could do as they wished. And what they so wished for was Revenge!
After almost a month of searching, the two Echidna found access to the Drakon's homeworld, thanks to the mysterious device called the Mobius Ring, which now belonged to the Drakon. The device in the Aquatic Ruins Zone, which the Drakon still held in their grasp, as it was what they used to move inbetween dimensions.
The two brothers ventured deep into the heart of The Drakon Empire in an attempt to recover that which was rightfully theirs, and take revenge on swift wings to the one's responsible for their parents deaths.
The brothers found the Chaos Emeralds and also found the Drakon.
The Drakon explained that the Chaos Energy that flowed through the Emeralds now, was created on Mobius by the all the pain, hate, anguish and suffering the Echidna had caused the rest of the Mobius for centuries. All the Drakon did was find a way to use it.
This caused Brightstarr and Knuckles even more grief as everything that had happened had been because of their own races past sins.
In the typical way all villains explained their master plan before eliminating the heroes, the Drakon continued to tell Princes' Brightstarr and Knuckles how the emeralds would work. They originally planned to use 'Chaos' as a means of transporting themselves with thought, which would allow them to take control of the universe and rule it easily.
However, since the power was now in the emeralds, and it would take to long to find a new source of raw Chaos energy, the Drakon had to change their plans. Now that that plan had been ruined they had switched to their back- up plan, which was this.
After arriving on a world the Drakon intended to conquer, they would lower the emeralds to the surface and there they would begin to change all who came into contact with them. They would cause them to become Savage, Super even Hyper versions of their former selves. The Drakon would then sit back and watch the planets inhabitants tear each other apart!
With the Chaos Emeralds the Drakon would become unstoppable.
But Prince Brightstarr thought otherwise. He, along with his brother, stepped in to intervene. Together they stole the Emeralds, but escaping from the Drakon's dimension proved to be a new task. Eventually, however, they managed it and even stole the Mobius Ring so that the Drakon couldn't follow them through.
Returning back to Mobius, they where immediately confronted by the Drakon that where there, and had to escape from their base of operations in the Aquatic Ruins Zone. Which they did with help from the newly acquired Mobius Ring.
It had taken them a month to return back to Megopolis, but as soon as they were back they had the Chaos Emeralds taken to the Echidna's best scientist, an offworlder called Giser, for examining. Whilst this happened the two Princes' were given some time to rest.
That was just over two days ago, and the restless Prince's have long since stirred.
End Prologue.
* * * *
Pochamac, King and spiritual leader to all Echidna, sat on the Echidna thrown, within the ancient Megopolis City, which was located on Angel Island. The city had served as the Echidna's home for countless generations.
Princes' Brightstarr and Knuckles walked into the thrown room. They, along with the King's daughter Tikal, were all the old Echidna had left and he was grateful they had returned from their quest into the Drakon's dimension unharmed.
The old King drew himself up a little as his grandsons approached. His old brown fur looked worn but his grey eyes, that looked tired and still sad, also radiated a hope for peace, though that was considered a foolish dream by now for the Echidna. He very slowly shifted in his chair and glanced either side of him at his personal bodyguards, Braven Rain and his lover, Yin Star Ophir.
Both Princes' reached the King's thrown and bowed.
"You may rise, my son's." The King said. He then added, "There is no need to report to me, as Giser has already done so."
The Echidna brothers rose, and looked up at their grandfather. Prince Brightstarr was the first to speak. "Has Giser reported any findings as of yet?"
The old King smiled slowly. "No. He could not find anything of use, and has had the emeralds moved to my chambers. But. patience. Patience is a virtue. He may find something which he has missed."
Brightstarr gritted his teeth. If there was one thing he wasn't, it was patient. He stood no taller than any normal Echidna, but unlike most, had a very athletic build to him. It gave you the impression that whilst others had heard and seen things, he had been there and done it.
His waist-length dreadlocks swayed as he turned his head to look at his brother, Knuckles. Knuckles! So rightfully named due to the abnormal knuckles he had that protruded from each hand. Only a few Echidna every generation where born with them.
Brightstarr was the spitting image of his brother, he even shared his brothers abnormal knuckles. The only major difference between the two was that whereas Knuckles had natural red fur, which most Echidna also had. Brightstarr's fur was a golden-yellow color, and had been that way for many years now. It seemed to radiate power. It was the reason he lived up to his name.
Knuckles met his brother's stare, and didn't intentionally back down from it. The two of them had never fought before, but many times they had come close to it. Knuckles always tried to be his brothers good-conscience, which was why they would occasionally argue.
But as he looked at his brother, and he stared back at him, he knew were the conversation was, once again, going to lead.
Brightstarr's eyes fell back onto the brown old body of his grandfather. "It is clear to me." He began, glancing only momentarily at his brother who was shaking his head. "That the power contained within the Chaos Emeralds is more than enough to use for our own purposes."
King Pochamac's eyes narrowed as he stared down on his grandson. "Go on!" He said.
"For instance, we have always tried to find a suitable power source for both Angel Island and Paradise Island, the two Floating Islands." Brightstarr said, as Pochamac nodded in agreement. "Since the Cherub where wiped out by the Tantaragor, Paradise Island has remained in its grounded position to the West. Devil has said that there is no way it will ever have the power it needs to fly again. As for this Island - Angel Island - we believe that we could still get it airborne again." Brightstarr looked sidelong at his brother. "The power of the Chaos Emeralds could keep Angel Island airborne permanently."
Pochamac didn't say a word. He just stared at Brightstarr.
Knuckles took the opportunity to speak his mind. "My brother is right, grandfather. This could once again be the Floating Island it was in the past with the power of the Chaos Emeralds flowing through it. And if Devil of the Fallen allows it, Paradise Island could also benefit from the unlimited power source. Giser could research into forging more Chaos Emeralds, so both Islands can have their own separate Emeralds." Knuckles looked side long at his brother, and smiled. For once his brother hadn't brought up the Chaos Champion nonsense. He was impressed.
King Pochamac smiled. "Good ideas, on both your behalf's." He said, "And I will have Giser and Devil look into it. If that is all?" He asked, nodding his head slightly. Braven and Yin also bowed.
Both brothers bowed their heads gently. Knuckles turned to leave, only stopping when he realized his brother hadn't turned with him.
Knuckles looked back around to see Brightstarr still standing there. He was flexing his hands irritably.
"Is there something else that you wish to share with me, my son?" King Pochamac asked calmly.
Knuckles sighed and shock his head. Here it comes, he thought.
Brightstarr rubbed his arm, then looked up at his grandfather. "The Chaos Emeralds could also be used to. to further, lets say, to further someone's abilities."
The King stared at the Prince, and then glanced at Knuckles. Very slowly he moved his gloved hand up to his face and rubbed his chin. "And what are you implying?"
Brightstarr swallowed hard. A cat he knew, called Mau, had once told him that it was better to get straight to the point, than to beat around the bush. "I am the Chaos Champion, you do see that don't you?"
"I see you have great power, and great potential. Yes! Great potential." The King said, as if reasserting himself, he then flared a look of annoyance at Brightstarr. "But agree with you that you are the Chaos Champion, I do not!"
"But grandfather, I am-!"
"You are not!" Pochamac shouted, cutting his grandson off sharply, "We have had this conversation before, my son. But as I have seen myself, with my own eyes of which I use to look into the future, the Chaos Champion is not even a Echidna. And though your blood is also of the blood of Chaos, you are not him." Pochamac said sternly, and then watched as his grandson slowly sagged into depression.
If there was one thing the King could not handle, it was seeing his grandson's unhappy. "Why must you try to be that which you cannot be?" Pochamac said softly. "You are as much a Echidna, as a." The old King paused only momentarily, thinking of a creature at random, ". as a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog."
Brightstarr lowered his head and looked at the floor, compared to the stare he was no doubt receiving from his grandfather, the floor was a lot easier to face. In the corner of his eye he could see his brother Knuckles glaring at him with his purple eyes. The Prince looked at his hand, moving it experimentally as if noticing it for the first time. He then sighed again.
Before anything else could be said on the matter, the Thrown Rooms doors were flung open and the creature known only as Giser came running in.
"Milord! Milord!" Giser said, as he made his way across the Thrown Rooms floor in-between the door and the Thrown. "I've done it Milord!"
"Done what?" King Pochamac asked irritably, moving his stare away form his grandson's, and towards the bone-white Giser.
Giser made it to the thrown, got on one knee, and bowed. No one knew were he had come from, no one knew why either. All they knew was that he joined the Echidna, and was incredibly loyal to them. Such loyalty was rarely questioned. "My lord and King." He said, still bowed down. "I have found out how the Drakon fused are Emeralds with the awesome power, they named Chaos Energy, turning them into the Chaos Emeralds."
The King smiled. "Rise up, my old friend, and tell me what you can."
Giser stood up. He too was no taller than any other Echidna, but instead of fur, his skin was an ivory bone-white. He had a razor-sharp bone blade protruding from each of his elbows, and quite a good athletic build for someone you wouldn't normally see outside of a laboratory.
Unlike the Echidna, Giser didn't have long dreadlocks, nor did he have floppy ears like a Rabbit, or brown quills like a Hedgehog. Instead his head simply went up then spiked at the top. His head sort of looked like an upside down potato masher.
The only disturbing thing about Giser was that, even though he could talk, he had no mouth what so ever to speak from. His words sort of just appeared inside your head. Apart from that, you could say he was built to be someone's ultimate weapon!
"The Chaos Emeralds contain a lot more power than was first thought. A good seven generations worth of Chaos energy leaked from the Chao Sanctuary could barley come close to what is stored within the Emeralds. And though Chaos energy has been believed to be unstable, the Emeralds are quite stable, but this is due to the power radiated from the Grey Chaos Emerald, which I have named as the Control Emerald."
King Pochamac stared at Giser for quite some time. "So how does this benefit us?" he said finally.
Giser's cheekbones shifted under his skin. If he had the mouth to do so, he would have smiled! "As I had said, I have found out how the Drakon fused the Chaos energy with the Chaos Emeralds, and so that means that I to can now create new Chaos Emeralds." He said.
"But how will you do this if the Emerald mine has caved-in?" Braven asked, interrupting. "Would you not need new Emeralds?"
Giser smiled at Braven, and then turned around as the Thrown Rooms doors were opened by some Echidna. They looked tough, like the type you'd expect to just start fighting for no apparent reason.
"You see, I have thought of a way around this as well. I have already assembled a group of Echidna to return to the hunting grounds - to the emerald mine - and see if their is any way of salvaging some Emeralds. They head out within the hour." Giser said. "But I have also gathered a second group of Echidna. This very group behind me."
"And why have you done this, Giser?" said King Pochamac, looking beyond him at the rag-tag bunch of Echidna that had assembled in the center of the room.
Giser walked over to the Echidna, and stood in front of them. He then turned around to face the King. "Well, they're here to try out a little theory."
"What do you mean?" Knuckles said. "What theory?"
Giser shock his head, and glanced behind him at the assembled Echidna. He then looked up at the King, and bowed. Slowly, at first, the Echidna behind him also began to float down to one knee.
Giser then looked up again. "Milord, I give to you the Echidna that will get for you. the Master Emerald!"
It all started with Emeralds. Ordinary Emeralds dug from the Sacred Emerald mines on Angel Island by an alien race called the Drakon. The story could have easily ended there, but it didn't.
Let me start from the beginning. The Drakon Empire had come to Planet Mobius many years ago when the Echidna had opened a doorway to the Nightmare Country, also known as the Special Zone, and ventured through to form new alliances with other races.
The Drakon, who had already made settlements in the Special Zone, saw Mobius as a new world they could conquer, and so they ventured into the world of the Echidna.
Eight years passed and rumors had already begun to circulate among the different allies of the Echidna of evil deeds done by the Drakon. Attacking the other intelligent races of Mobius as they searched for some kind of power source. The Echidna finally faced up to the Drakon and it was then that the Drakon made it quite clear that they wanted something from Mobius, and they would do whatever it took to find it and take it as their own.
Nine years of wars came next as the Echidna proved to be a far better resistance to the Drakon than they had expected. Even with their own allies, the Drakon where forced from all the settlements they had forged on Mobius.
They were removed, by force, from all except one settlement. This was their outpost on the Aquatic Ruins Zone. Here they had found, and learned how to use, all the ancient technology left behind by a mysterious race of Angelic creatures called the Cherub, who had long ago abandoned the island for the bigger Paradise Island.
Using this ancient technology the Drakon searched the Special Zone for a race that could help them defeat the Echidna once and for all. It took a while, but they did find a race. They found the ancient Dragon's of Mobius.
Nine years of wars had brought about many casualties to either side. However, it was by accident that the Echidna stumbled upon the true reason the Drakon searched Mobius. The nine years of wars had been a decoy. The Drakon's master plan was revealed.
The Drakon could've ended the war at anytime if they desired, with the help of the Dragon's, but they hadn't. They hadn't simply because they needed all attention to be on the war. The Drakon could not allow the other races that existed to find out their plan, as they would no doubt be destroyed. So the war went on.
It took many years of searching, but the Drakon had discovered the very thing they had been looking for. It was an unstable energy source that existed on Planet Mobius. They intended to use this energy as a means of ruling, quite literally, the universe. With this chaotic energy harnessed, the Drakon could transport themselves over great distances with little more than a thought. But, for this they needed to Control this energy, dubbed 'Chaos' energy long ago by the Echidna.
But the 'Chaos' energy proved to be unsafe to use. So the Drakon then sort out the stability of the Sacred Emeralds.
As the tenth year arrived the Drakon went to capture the Sacred Emeralds so that they could harness the true power of the Chaos energy, fusing the Emeralds with the Chaos Energy they would create the Chaos Emeralds.
Of course the Echidna wouldn't allow this to happen willingly.
It was the Echidna Prince, Lord Mameco, who discovered the Drakon's plans at first. He, along with his wife, Princess Rosariean, sort out a means of destroying the Drakon's evil ambition.
Sending their bodyguard, Alonzo Ophir, back to the Echidna, informing them of what they had found, they went in without reinforcements, seeing an opportunity they could not risk losing.
Prince Mameco lead the way into the Drakon's new mining site to the very heart of the machinery, and with the help of his wife, he destroyed the Chaos Emeralds that had been created, thus creating a chain reaction which annihilated the mine, along with the Drakon's equipment.
The mine was no longer stable, and if they wished to continue with their plans, the Drakon would have to spend a lot of time replacing all their equipment that had been destroyed, as well as digging back into the now buried mine. By the time they had done this the Echidna would be upon them. The Prince and his wife had succeeded. But they paid the price for their small victory.
They were captured by the Drakon, and for their crimes against the Drakon Empire, they were killed instantly.
With that one single act, the Echidna were changed forever.
However, it seemed as though luck favored the Drakon as they discovered that not all Chaos Emeralds had been destroyed. Six still remained completely intact.
King Pochamac, who had already lost his brother and sister-in-law to the Drakon, was filled with even greater sorrow at the loose of his son and daughter-in-law, and very slowly he slipped into the arms of depression.
It was then that two of the three orphaned children of Prince Mameco, Brightstarr and his younger brother Knuckles, immediately drew up plans of retaliation.
They knew that with their grandfather, the King, how he was they could do as they wished. And what they so wished for was Revenge!
After almost a month of searching, the two Echidna found access to the Drakon's homeworld, thanks to the mysterious device called the Mobius Ring, which now belonged to the Drakon. The device in the Aquatic Ruins Zone, which the Drakon still held in their grasp, as it was what they used to move inbetween dimensions.
The two brothers ventured deep into the heart of The Drakon Empire in an attempt to recover that which was rightfully theirs, and take revenge on swift wings to the one's responsible for their parents deaths.
The brothers found the Chaos Emeralds and also found the Drakon.
The Drakon explained that the Chaos Energy that flowed through the Emeralds now, was created on Mobius by the all the pain, hate, anguish and suffering the Echidna had caused the rest of the Mobius for centuries. All the Drakon did was find a way to use it.
This caused Brightstarr and Knuckles even more grief as everything that had happened had been because of their own races past sins.
In the typical way all villains explained their master plan before eliminating the heroes, the Drakon continued to tell Princes' Brightstarr and Knuckles how the emeralds would work. They originally planned to use 'Chaos' as a means of transporting themselves with thought, which would allow them to take control of the universe and rule it easily.
However, since the power was now in the emeralds, and it would take to long to find a new source of raw Chaos energy, the Drakon had to change their plans. Now that that plan had been ruined they had switched to their back- up plan, which was this.
After arriving on a world the Drakon intended to conquer, they would lower the emeralds to the surface and there they would begin to change all who came into contact with them. They would cause them to become Savage, Super even Hyper versions of their former selves. The Drakon would then sit back and watch the planets inhabitants tear each other apart!
With the Chaos Emeralds the Drakon would become unstoppable.
But Prince Brightstarr thought otherwise. He, along with his brother, stepped in to intervene. Together they stole the Emeralds, but escaping from the Drakon's dimension proved to be a new task. Eventually, however, they managed it and even stole the Mobius Ring so that the Drakon couldn't follow them through.
Returning back to Mobius, they where immediately confronted by the Drakon that where there, and had to escape from their base of operations in the Aquatic Ruins Zone. Which they did with help from the newly acquired Mobius Ring.
It had taken them a month to return back to Megopolis, but as soon as they were back they had the Chaos Emeralds taken to the Echidna's best scientist, an offworlder called Giser, for examining. Whilst this happened the two Princes' were given some time to rest.
That was just over two days ago, and the restless Prince's have long since stirred.
End Prologue.
* * * *
Pochamac, King and spiritual leader to all Echidna, sat on the Echidna thrown, within the ancient Megopolis City, which was located on Angel Island. The city had served as the Echidna's home for countless generations.
Princes' Brightstarr and Knuckles walked into the thrown room. They, along with the King's daughter Tikal, were all the old Echidna had left and he was grateful they had returned from their quest into the Drakon's dimension unharmed.
The old King drew himself up a little as his grandsons approached. His old brown fur looked worn but his grey eyes, that looked tired and still sad, also radiated a hope for peace, though that was considered a foolish dream by now for the Echidna. He very slowly shifted in his chair and glanced either side of him at his personal bodyguards, Braven Rain and his lover, Yin Star Ophir.
Both Princes' reached the King's thrown and bowed.
"You may rise, my son's." The King said. He then added, "There is no need to report to me, as Giser has already done so."
The Echidna brothers rose, and looked up at their grandfather. Prince Brightstarr was the first to speak. "Has Giser reported any findings as of yet?"
The old King smiled slowly. "No. He could not find anything of use, and has had the emeralds moved to my chambers. But. patience. Patience is a virtue. He may find something which he has missed."
Brightstarr gritted his teeth. If there was one thing he wasn't, it was patient. He stood no taller than any normal Echidna, but unlike most, had a very athletic build to him. It gave you the impression that whilst others had heard and seen things, he had been there and done it.
His waist-length dreadlocks swayed as he turned his head to look at his brother, Knuckles. Knuckles! So rightfully named due to the abnormal knuckles he had that protruded from each hand. Only a few Echidna every generation where born with them.
Brightstarr was the spitting image of his brother, he even shared his brothers abnormal knuckles. The only major difference between the two was that whereas Knuckles had natural red fur, which most Echidna also had. Brightstarr's fur was a golden-yellow color, and had been that way for many years now. It seemed to radiate power. It was the reason he lived up to his name.
Knuckles met his brother's stare, and didn't intentionally back down from it. The two of them had never fought before, but many times they had come close to it. Knuckles always tried to be his brothers good-conscience, which was why they would occasionally argue.
But as he looked at his brother, and he stared back at him, he knew were the conversation was, once again, going to lead.
Brightstarr's eyes fell back onto the brown old body of his grandfather. "It is clear to me." He began, glancing only momentarily at his brother who was shaking his head. "That the power contained within the Chaos Emeralds is more than enough to use for our own purposes."
King Pochamac's eyes narrowed as he stared down on his grandson. "Go on!" He said.
"For instance, we have always tried to find a suitable power source for both Angel Island and Paradise Island, the two Floating Islands." Brightstarr said, as Pochamac nodded in agreement. "Since the Cherub where wiped out by the Tantaragor, Paradise Island has remained in its grounded position to the West. Devil has said that there is no way it will ever have the power it needs to fly again. As for this Island - Angel Island - we believe that we could still get it airborne again." Brightstarr looked sidelong at his brother. "The power of the Chaos Emeralds could keep Angel Island airborne permanently."
Pochamac didn't say a word. He just stared at Brightstarr.
Knuckles took the opportunity to speak his mind. "My brother is right, grandfather. This could once again be the Floating Island it was in the past with the power of the Chaos Emeralds flowing through it. And if Devil of the Fallen allows it, Paradise Island could also benefit from the unlimited power source. Giser could research into forging more Chaos Emeralds, so both Islands can have their own separate Emeralds." Knuckles looked side long at his brother, and smiled. For once his brother hadn't brought up the Chaos Champion nonsense. He was impressed.
King Pochamac smiled. "Good ideas, on both your behalf's." He said, "And I will have Giser and Devil look into it. If that is all?" He asked, nodding his head slightly. Braven and Yin also bowed.
Both brothers bowed their heads gently. Knuckles turned to leave, only stopping when he realized his brother hadn't turned with him.
Knuckles looked back around to see Brightstarr still standing there. He was flexing his hands irritably.
"Is there something else that you wish to share with me, my son?" King Pochamac asked calmly.
Knuckles sighed and shock his head. Here it comes, he thought.
Brightstarr rubbed his arm, then looked up at his grandfather. "The Chaos Emeralds could also be used to. to further, lets say, to further someone's abilities."
The King stared at the Prince, and then glanced at Knuckles. Very slowly he moved his gloved hand up to his face and rubbed his chin. "And what are you implying?"
Brightstarr swallowed hard. A cat he knew, called Mau, had once told him that it was better to get straight to the point, than to beat around the bush. "I am the Chaos Champion, you do see that don't you?"
"I see you have great power, and great potential. Yes! Great potential." The King said, as if reasserting himself, he then flared a look of annoyance at Brightstarr. "But agree with you that you are the Chaos Champion, I do not!"
"But grandfather, I am-!"
"You are not!" Pochamac shouted, cutting his grandson off sharply, "We have had this conversation before, my son. But as I have seen myself, with my own eyes of which I use to look into the future, the Chaos Champion is not even a Echidna. And though your blood is also of the blood of Chaos, you are not him." Pochamac said sternly, and then watched as his grandson slowly sagged into depression.
If there was one thing the King could not handle, it was seeing his grandson's unhappy. "Why must you try to be that which you cannot be?" Pochamac said softly. "You are as much a Echidna, as a." The old King paused only momentarily, thinking of a creature at random, ". as a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog."
Brightstarr lowered his head and looked at the floor, compared to the stare he was no doubt receiving from his grandfather, the floor was a lot easier to face. In the corner of his eye he could see his brother Knuckles glaring at him with his purple eyes. The Prince looked at his hand, moving it experimentally as if noticing it for the first time. He then sighed again.
Before anything else could be said on the matter, the Thrown Rooms doors were flung open and the creature known only as Giser came running in.
"Milord! Milord!" Giser said, as he made his way across the Thrown Rooms floor in-between the door and the Thrown. "I've done it Milord!"
"Done what?" King Pochamac asked irritably, moving his stare away form his grandson's, and towards the bone-white Giser.
Giser made it to the thrown, got on one knee, and bowed. No one knew were he had come from, no one knew why either. All they knew was that he joined the Echidna, and was incredibly loyal to them. Such loyalty was rarely questioned. "My lord and King." He said, still bowed down. "I have found out how the Drakon fused are Emeralds with the awesome power, they named Chaos Energy, turning them into the Chaos Emeralds."
The King smiled. "Rise up, my old friend, and tell me what you can."
Giser stood up. He too was no taller than any other Echidna, but instead of fur, his skin was an ivory bone-white. He had a razor-sharp bone blade protruding from each of his elbows, and quite a good athletic build for someone you wouldn't normally see outside of a laboratory.
Unlike the Echidna, Giser didn't have long dreadlocks, nor did he have floppy ears like a Rabbit, or brown quills like a Hedgehog. Instead his head simply went up then spiked at the top. His head sort of looked like an upside down potato masher.
The only disturbing thing about Giser was that, even though he could talk, he had no mouth what so ever to speak from. His words sort of just appeared inside your head. Apart from that, you could say he was built to be someone's ultimate weapon!
"The Chaos Emeralds contain a lot more power than was first thought. A good seven generations worth of Chaos energy leaked from the Chao Sanctuary could barley come close to what is stored within the Emeralds. And though Chaos energy has been believed to be unstable, the Emeralds are quite stable, but this is due to the power radiated from the Grey Chaos Emerald, which I have named as the Control Emerald."
King Pochamac stared at Giser for quite some time. "So how does this benefit us?" he said finally.
Giser's cheekbones shifted under his skin. If he had the mouth to do so, he would have smiled! "As I had said, I have found out how the Drakon fused the Chaos energy with the Chaos Emeralds, and so that means that I to can now create new Chaos Emeralds." He said.
"But how will you do this if the Emerald mine has caved-in?" Braven asked, interrupting. "Would you not need new Emeralds?"
Giser smiled at Braven, and then turned around as the Thrown Rooms doors were opened by some Echidna. They looked tough, like the type you'd expect to just start fighting for no apparent reason.
"You see, I have thought of a way around this as well. I have already assembled a group of Echidna to return to the hunting grounds - to the emerald mine - and see if their is any way of salvaging some Emeralds. They head out within the hour." Giser said. "But I have also gathered a second group of Echidna. This very group behind me."
"And why have you done this, Giser?" said King Pochamac, looking beyond him at the rag-tag bunch of Echidna that had assembled in the center of the room.
Giser walked over to the Echidna, and stood in front of them. He then turned around to face the King. "Well, they're here to try out a little theory."
"What do you mean?" Knuckles said. "What theory?"
Giser shock his head, and glanced behind him at the assembled Echidna. He then looked up at the King, and bowed. Slowly, at first, the Echidna behind him also began to float down to one knee.
Giser then looked up again. "Milord, I give to you the Echidna that will get for you. the Master Emerald!"