Greetings fellow Authors. The second chapter turned out great, but this one is going to be exciting!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shine, as she belongs to Sprx777. And Bio belongs to me. Once again...not all of the Sonic Characters are here...sorry! And they also belong to SEGA.
Chapter 2: A New Discovery:
In dark night, large footsteps were heard somewhere near the spot where Shine came from. It was none other than the mighty creature, carrying his captive ran at full spead to his special hiding place in the forest. It ran at incredible speeds that would possibly match Sonic or Shadow's own, while holding onto Shine with ease. When he looked forward, a large scale of great trees stood as if surrounding or protecting something within. When the creature got closer, it jumped through the bushes, and rolled abit until stopping and looking at the inside.
Protected by large trees that were high as towers, as well as long branches that covered the skies abit, a large mighty castle in a field stood in the to years of aging and moss growing, the once proud and beautiful marble color of the castle was covered in it's own natural camoflauge. The towers appeared to be powerful and even produced an ominous feel to them. the creature passed the black, rusting gates and shut them behind it with it's mighty tail. Before entering through the large and dramatic wooden doors, it looked to the moon and sighed.
Upon entering the castle, the inside was possibly even larger as well, as he walked up the stairs with the red rugs covering each step. The walls may have been worn out and the windows might have tiny cracks, but the castle itself was still in good shape. Walking up a few more stairs, the creature made it's way to a tower. Once entering, it looked at the red floored room with marble walls and a large bed that looked quite comfortable, especially for a Mobian. Being in this particular room brought a brief memory. But before he could dwell or even begin, he gently layed the feline on the bed. It was a queen sized bed, with scarlet drapes, and white bed sheets. The pillows were remarkably fluffy, as though they were never slept on in years. Even the room was in good shape all together. Dusted, and cleaned. Completely preserved.
With this in mind for the beast, he knew it would be perfect for the girl. But why? This question wouldn't be answered, as he walked out of the room, taking one small glance at Shine, before leaving entirely. Upon his leaving with closing the door lightly, Shine opened her golden orbs and looked around. She didn't really think much of the fact that she was in a foreign room due to the simple fact that her head was throbbing and her trains of thought were blurring due to pain.
"Ugh..." She said before attempting to lift herself up.
She failed and only sighed before trying to clear her head and remember what happened. She couldn't think very clearly and it was really annoying her. She continued to lay there attempting to remember, but then she decided to close her eyes and go to sleep. Her mind slipped into a memory type of dream of what had happened, but what's a dream with out a strange ending?
"In Shine's Dream..."
Shine was running as fast as she can, away from whatever was chasing her. The skies were the same as the night, with stars shining abit, and the trees rustling and hustling by the wind. She was afraid and kept on running, until she tripped. She lost her left sandal, and looked up to see a giant figure. To everyone's surpise, it was Shadow. He was laughing, and pointing at her.
"I win, Shine! You fail epically!!" he laughed, while the ground shook. Cracks appeared, and mini shadows slowly walked up to the cat, grinning evilly with twisted ideas for Shine.
Her eyes widened, and she screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
"In the Real World..."
She snapped out of her sleep screaming and looked all around her. She sighed in relief, looked under the blanket to be safe and then sunk into the covers yet again. The sun was rising and it shown through the window. That made her smile a little as she looked out of it, but something in the back of her mind was nagging at her.
"Hmmm.....wait a minute...." She said to herself before taking a closer look at the room.
She gasped when she realized that she wasn't in her room this time. The room was far more fancier than her apartment. It almost reminded her of her castle in the future, but slightly older. She looked out the window, but the view of the rest of the forest could not be seen, except for the large field surrounding the castle. Everything else was blocked by the wall of trees that hid the castle.
"What...how did I get here?" Shine said to herself.
She got up, brushed the dust off her dress, and decided to look around this place, hoping to know where she was exactly. Little did she know or hear was that the owner...was still here, as heavy breathing was coming from somewhere at the bottom of the castle.
"Meanwhile..."
The scene shifts back to where Amy and Rouge were going off to see Knuckles on Angel Island, a place that floated in the skies.
The red echidna was sitting on the stone steps of the temple that held the all mighty Master Emerald. Resting his head on his arm on the steps, he was nodding in and out of sleep, but was mostly was falling into a nap. His snore could be heard from the bottom of the steps of the once beautiful temple on his island that had a name that fit it's magestic appearence and mystery that holds. Most of which even the echidna was never aware of.
"Hey Knuckles!" Amy shouted after seeing the red echidna.
Knuckles awoke and looked at the pink hedgehog with a little annnoyence. "Hi Amy. What's up?" he said as he got to his feet and wiped the the dirt from himself.
Rouge came right up beside Amy with a slightly concerned look. "What happened with you and Shine last night?"
"Oh that? Well, when we were going off to find the "beast", Shine got so afraid and went back to her apartment." he explained with a small snicker. "Why do you ask?"
Rouge looked at him with a little more worry. "Because we didn't see her in chorus today. She always goes to the class, and she wasn't there..."
Amy shared a similar look to Rouge and added, "She also didn't come over with me and Cream for tea..."
Knuckles chuckled a little more before saying, "She's probably hiding in shame from losing to Shadow's challange. After all she is like Silver, a little prideful."
"This isn't funny, Knucklehead!!" Rouge suddenly snapped abit at Knuckles. "Shine hasn't even answered our calls!"
Knuckles sighed before calmly getting and, then shouting from no where, "She probably didn't want to hear from someone as batty as you!!!"
Amy pulled out her hammer, which the size matched her anger, and said "We are serious, she always answers our calls!"
Knuckles saw the hammer and then immediatly took a step back to calm down and keep out of swinging range. He knew how crazy Amy is with her hammer, especially when she is angry. "Look, all she did was leave a note saying she was going home." he explained calmly. "In fact, why don't we go to her apartment...ALL of us?" he glared at Rouge abit.
Amy and Rouge nod before the white bat returned the glare and took flight while Amy grabbed on to her wrist and rose with her. A couple of minutes later, they arrived on the third floor of the buiding known as Station Inn, and went to room 312. Shine's Welcome mat was sitting in front of her door with little kittens in a basket smiling at them.
Amy couldn't help but smile at her welcome mat before knocking on her door. "Hello? Shine? Are you okay in there?"
There was no reply. This got them abit worried, so Amy knocked on it again. And yet still no reply. Knuckles got somewhat tired, and decided to start knocking abit louder than Amy this time.
"Shine come on, it's not that bad!" he shouted abit, just so Shine can hear them.
But yet again, there was no reply. Rouge tried the door's knob and found it was unlocked.
"Looks like she forgot to lock up again." Amy said as she recalled how she was a little too trusting of the neighborhood, even if they broke in on more than one occasion and had to get her stuff back for Shine from the vandals.
The trio nodded in unison and entered the empty apartment. The place was untouched and cold from lack of anyone entering the previous night. This got both girls even more worried, if Shine wasn't at her own home. Then they thought something bad had happened.
"You don't think...something happened to her while she was heading home, do you?" Rouge looked at Knuckles with a very concerned look.
Knuckles looked back a little bit worried himslef. He hadn't thought that she might have been taken, hurt or worse...In fact, he half expected for her to make it home alright.
"Well, I'm sure she's fine. You know she is..." He said this to try and lesson the worrying girls, but also to lesson his own worrying. But unfortunately there was no other way to finish his sentence. He took one small look again at the girls, and sighed. "Let's go find Omega. Maybe he can find Shine."
With the two girls nodding, the trio left to go see the robot that was quite good at tracking things.
"Back with Shine..."
Meanwhile, Shine was still in shock from having found herself in this new environment. She was happy that her nightmare was only a nightmare, but worried by the simple fact that she was in a room that wasn't her's and couldn't see any way out of the forest from her current position.
"Okay, I'll just step outside and find a way out from there." She thought to herslef and turned to the door of her room to get out.
But after when she had opened the door and closed it after leaving the room, her eyes immedietly widened as she saw something large near the doorway of the other side of the walkway. A large scaley lizard creature of some sort, with a huge build up body that was larger than Omega's. Possibly 5 times his size. It had green snake like eyes, as it looked at Shine. The sight of the creature took her breath away, her heart began to race as she saw this creature. Her initial instinct was to run for her very life. Adrenaline rushed into her veins as she ran as far as her tired legs could carry her down the hall.
Just when she got to the exit, the large creature had fallen in front of her, and she fell backwards on her butt. The beast had started growling, and was slowly walking up to her, his eyes looking quite fierce like a true snake. With fear trembling upon her, she slowly backed up with her eyes wide open, and some sweat coming down from her head. Could this really be the actual monster that was killing the livestock and few mobians?
"S-stay back..." she stuttered, while her body was shivering from the monster's large teeth. "Don't...come...any...closer..." she closed her eyes, awaiting her fate.
With a loud and mighty roar, the creature looked back at the cat, and got closer...and closer...
And now you all know why I called this Scales of Love. XDDDD So what will Shine do now? Is she trapped here forever, or will she find a way out?
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