The sky was engulthed in darkness, the only light coming from the bolts of lightning that flashed across the sky. the angry ocean crashed against the side of the cliff, as if trying to reach the little house that stood on the edge of the drop. Fierce winds threatened to rip the roof off the small house, but the well built house stayed still.
Inside the house, Sonic the hedgehog was lying on his back on the cold floor. He blinked and saw two blurry shapes, one red, and one yellow.
"Sonic, are you alright?" asked Tails.
Sonic blinked a few time and the room came back into focus. Knuckles helped the hedgehog up on his feet.
"Where'd that face kicking Emo go off to?" Sonic asked in a harsh tone as he brought a finger to his nose to see if it was bleeding.
"Shadow walked out the door to look for the other emeralds." Knuckles told him. "He took the green emerald with him."
"I don't like this, not at all." Said Tails, who was looking out the window at the storming sky. "I've got a bad feeling about al of this. The storm reminds me of that horror movie. We shouldn't be splitting up like this."
Tail's ears were flattened against his heard in fear, but sonic put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, don't worry man." Sonic said confidently." It's not like Eggman is gonna come along and pick us off one by one while were looking for the emeralds."
"It's not Eggman I'm worried about."
Meanwhile, Shadow the hedgehog was walking along the side of the cliff. He usually liked to walk round in the rain. He liked the smell and the sounds of a light rain. But this was no light rain. The heavy rains beat down upon Shadow's head so hard that shadow thought it was beginning to hail. But he ignored the rain and paid attention to the green emerald in his hand. It was glowing in his palm like a great green torch.
'Eggman has made these emeralds more powerful then he ever could have imagined'. Shadow thought. 'If he were to get his hands on them now, he could accidentally destroy the world! I have to find them before he does.'
Shadow broke out into a run as he made his way to the mountain, were he was sure a chaos emerald had landed.
"So, if the scanner is all screwy, then how are we gonna find the emeralds? Just run around until we trip over one?" Sonic asked tails, who was sitting at his computer, going through file to see what if he could find an alternate way of tracking them.
"I could probably find them all, no sweat!" Knuckles said proudly. 'after all, I am the worlds greatest gem hunter!"
"I thought your were supposed to be a guard?" sonic asked. "how can you be a hunter if all you ever do is guard the master emerald. It's like if I was an Olympic runner but I also worked at a desk Job."
"Oh no!" tails Suddenly exclaimed.
'What's wrong Tails? " Sonic asked. "don't worry, I don't plan on getting a desk job any time soon."
"It's not that!" Said the two tailed fox. " but I was checking my E-mail and I saw that Amy and Cream are coming here today! They're sailboat must have been caught in the storm!"
'Are you sure, Tails?" Asked the Echidna. "for all we know they might be safely on land."
"They would have arrived her already if they were."
Wind rattled the windows as Sonic looked outside and frowned. He grabbed the Blue Emerald and walked out the door.
"Sonic! Were are you going?" knuckles chased him outside.
"If Amy and cream are stranded at sea, then I might be able to rescue them."
"But you can't just run across the water and lift them off the boat." Knuckles argued.
Sonic looked at him and smirked. " Who says I can't? "
