Chapter 4: Dreams Of Origin

A half hour later, Silver, Blade, Ty, Shade, Metal and I were in my old hut. I couldn't help but smile at the place as it brought back such wonderful memories.

Shade was eating an Angel Island salad happily. We weren't sure what to feed him, but he seemed to like the fruit the best.

Blade and Silver took the scrambled eggs I made and Metal had an apple. I was making something for myself something with Ty, who was apparently still shocked he was surrounded by characters from a videogame plus. I was telling him about all my adventures and what I had been up to in the last eight years.

"So…" He said. "You're one of two of these Protectors?"

"Yeah," I answered, showing him my wrist. It had a white crescent moon shape on it like Knuckles mark. Silver had the same mark on his wrist. "It's a job that's taken me on some wild adventures."

"Like that Mephilis guy." Ty said.

I nodded.

"Alright," Ty said. "But you still haven't told me what the deal with that necklace is."

I look down at the Emerald shard. "It's a piece of the Master Emerald." I told him. I figured since he now knew about Mobius, he might as well know the rest of what I could tell. "It's a large green gem that Knuckles, Silver and I protect. But Silver's the next Guardian in line."

Ty smiled. "So that would explain why you didn't want to tell me about it at first."

I nod.

"What is a chaos emerald anyway?" He asked.

"You don't know what a chaos emerald is?" Silver asked.

Ty shook his head. "Never seen one anyway."

Silver smiled and pulled his out. It was the white one. Knuckles was letting Silver and me carry an emerald. Silver chose the white one while I took the green. What can I say? Green's my favorite color.

Ty looked at the emerald. "Looks like a large glowing diamond."

"Trust me Sweetie. It's better than a regular old diamond."

I smiled at the voice and looked up. There was Rouge the Bat with Shadow. She had on her usual attire as she came in to greet us. "Hiya Em, I heard that you were back in town. And who's tall dark and handsome here?"

I laughed as Rouge and I hug. "It's good to see you too Rouge. And this is Ty Johnson. An old friend of mine."

"Well nice to meet you Ty." Rouge said, offering a hand to shake.

Ty, who was clearly still trying to wrap his mind around the ordeal, shook her hand. "Nice to meet you Rouge."

Shadow regarded Ty for a moment before looking at Silver, Blade and me. "Knuckles wants you guys back up on the island. He said you can bring Ty and…" he looked at Shade, silently asking for his name.

Shade lowered his head a little. "Shade…" he answered.

Shadow nodded. "Shade can come as well."

"Alright," I said. "Are you two coming?"

"Not me I'm afraid," Rouge said. "I need to report back to GUN. But Shadow said he'd go. And I think Sonic's going too."

"Awesome!" I look over at Ty and Shade. "You guys are going to love Angel Island."

"That's the floating island I heard of right?" Shade asked.

"Yep." Blade said. "It's where I found you too."

"Hold it!" Ty said. "Islands don't float."

I only smiled. "This island does."


Knuckles was waiting by the portal for us when we got there. Shade never left my side while Metal stayed on my right. I had warned Shade and Ty that it pinched your lunges a little, but it was like stepping through a door between rooms.

Ty gasped a little when he came through, but drew in a breath at the sheer beauty of the island. The tropical flowers were blooming and they filled the air with a sweet tropical scent.

"I landed here?" Shade asked in amazement.

"You Lived here?!" Ty asked, also in shock.

I smiled. "Yep. Best place on Mobius." I look over at Knuckled and waved. "Hey Knuckles!"

"Hey Em!" Knuckles called back as he came over. Great to see you again."

"Great to see you too Knux." I replied, meeting fists with Knuckles.

Silver smiled as he came through with Blade. He loved it here on Angel Island, you could tell.

Ty came over to Knuckles and shook hands with him. "It's a pleasure to meet you Knuckles."

"Likewise Ty." Knuckles said. "Any friend of Em's is a friend of mine. But, there are places here you can't go."

Ty looked around.

"It's mainly just the Emerald chamber." I told him. "And it's hidden, so you won't be able to find it easily anyway. Unless it was a total accident and you got lost in the maze. Then you'd have to face an angry Knuckles."

Knuckles grinned and cracked his knuckles to make his point.

Ty stiffened a moment. "Emerald chamber, off limits, got it."

We laughed at his reaction and Knuckles gave him a thumbs up. "Don't worry," He told Ty as he turned to lead them up the path. "I won't hurt ya,"

Ty relaxed a moment.

"Much." Knuckles finished, making Ty Stiffen again.

We laugh again and follow Knuckles up the path to his house. We were to stay on Angel Island for a while so that Silver could continue training. Blade wasn't allowed in the emerald chamber yet, but he didn't like the sound Emeralds made anyway. With his ears so sensitive, he could hear nearly anything.

The sun was already down, and since I fed everyone back at knothole, we were settling in for the night. I took a spare room with Metal while Ty slept on the couch downstairs with Shade.

The spare room was spacious, with a mattress on the floor with plenty of quilts and pillows. Metal had a cot, he never liked real beds for some reason, I guess he was just used to a cot.

Silver and Blade shared a room since they were brothers, so my old bed under Silver's was now Blade's. I didn't mind, Blade lived here now anyway.

I lay in hammock and started to drift off. I didn't remember ever being so tired. "Goodnight Metal…"

"Goodnight Em…" Metal replied, also sounding tired.

I smile and was soon asleep, listening to the lullaby of the crickets and night creatures.


I soon woke up but I wasn't on Angel Island anymore. I was in some kind of lab, but it was still a bedroom.

Where am I? I wondered, but I've had this dream for the past several nights. It was the Space Colony ARK. This suspicion was confirmed when I looked out the window at Earth. But this time, it was Mobius.

The dream me walked down the halls of the ARK, finding it odd that I knew which way went where. There were doctors around me, but I didn't say anything to them, I knew they wouldn't answer. So I felt for like a ghost in this dream.

I soon stop and go into a room. The room was full of scientists as well as a couple of echidnas. That's different… I thought. The dream usually ends when I enter the room.

The echidnas were dressed in tribal styled clothes and they were observing something in a tube. At first I thought it was Shadow. But Shadow never mentioned Echidnas when he woke up, and Maria wasn't here.

"She's waking."

I look at the head scientist and realized with a start that it was Prof. Gerald, Shadow's creator. But… he looked much younger. Maybe his mid-to-late-fourties. And like Eggman, he had red hair, though it was starting to grey a little.

"Is she ready yet sir?" Asked another scientist. "Or should we put her back under?"

"No," Gerald said. "Let her out. "She's at an age where we can see if it worked."

The scientist nodded and flipped a few switches. The glass container filled with green liquid started to tip back so it was laying flat. Tubes were attached to the glass and the liquid started to recede.

I stepped closer to the tube and looked in, knowing no one would stop me. I look in and gasp. It was her! The girl I saw a while ago when I was looking for the Emerald Shard. She had red hair that matched the echidna's, but, she looked like me with only a few differences.

Her eyes flickered and soon opened. They were bright amber eyes. They were so bright you'd think that if you turned out the lights, they'd shine like a cats.

She was quickly blanketed and lifted out of the container as Gerald came over to her. "Hello little one," he said in a gentle voice. "How do you feel?"

"A… a l-little dizzy sir…" She replied, her voice eerily familiar. "And cold…."

"Not to worry," Gerald said. "We'll fix that right up."

She smiled at Gerald before looking at me. I froze. No one in this dream at looked right at me before.

She smiled at me. "It's you."

The dream suddenly shifted to the Master Emerald. It was shinning brighter the longer it stayed in my vision.

Em…. Em!... Wake up….


"Em? Em, are you okay? Wake up."

"Hmm?..." I moaned as I slowly woke up to see a dark shape in front of me. As my vision cleared, I saw it was Blade. I look around and found that I was on the wood floor, tangled in the quilts.

"How did I end up down here?" I asked, slowly sitting up.

"I was wondering the same thing." Blade replied. He sounded like he was talking regularly, but I figured he put a sound bubble around us so we could talk. "And I'm wondering why you didn't wake up when you fell."

"No kidding…" I said with a small stretch. "Did I wake anyone else?"

"No." Blade said. "Just me. What was wrong?"

"Nothing, Just a weird dream of a place called Space Colony ARK." I answered. I then told him everything that happened in the bizarre dream.

Blade listened silently. When I finished, he hummed and looked down in thought. "Think you should go see the Master Emerald?"

"Why?"

"Since it was the last thing you saw, maybe it's a key or something."

"But," I said. "It was glowing like a spike was going on."

Blade yawned. "We can ask Knuckles in the morning…"

Blade's yawn made me yawn a moment later. "Alright… Sorry I woke you."

Blade smiled a somewhat rare smile. "No problem. Try to go back to sleep."

I nod and climb back into bed and watch Blade go back to bed before falling asleep again.