Chapter Seven
Emerald Killer
The next Morning Sonic and Amy took a trip to Angel Island to see if Knuckles was ok, Amy had the picture of him that she had taken when they were at the Theme Park. They found Knuckles as usual sitting at the Master Emerald Shrine, he was sitting on a small deckchair looking at the sparkling green emerald throwing a few stones.
"Knuckles!" Amy called, Knuckles looked up to see them coming up the stairs, "oh hey guys!" he called cheerfully, "Knuckles!" said Amy "we have lots to tell you!" "What?" asked the red echidna, Amy was waving some photos above her head. Knuckles leaned back and continued to throw stones, "what is it you want to show me?" he asked.
Amy kneeled in front of him, "look Knuckles" she said "I know this sounds crazy but since the roller coaster incident I had a look at the photos I took, and after Espio's death, I believe that death is following us since we skipped it!" Knuckles's violent eyes went wide, he then began to scoff.
"And what do the pictures have to do with this?" he asked, Amy held up the picture of Espio she had taken at the theme park where Espio was standing in front of the games stalls, she pointed to the baseball cannon that was near his head. She also pointed to the knife thrower and juggler behind him.
"Remember Espio died with two knives in his throat and eye from that launcher he uses to practice his ninja skills!" she said "I believe his picture gives us a clue!" Knuckles looked at Amy and Sonic and shook his head, "you're crazy!" he said "you're two crazy mother fuckers!" Sonic narrowed his eyes at the echidna.
"Knuckles!" he said "this is serious! Espio is dead! And…" "And I'm next in line!" said Knuckles "no way!" he looked at Sonic and Amy again. "Look Knuckles!" said Amy, her voice getting louder with irritation, "Cream, Big, Froggy, Vector, Charmy and Chris died on the Roller Coaster! And Espio was sitting behind Vector and Charmy…" she paused.
"And you were sitting behind Espio!" she held up the picture of Knuckles for him to look at, "we're not joking around Knuckles! We mean what we say!" Knuckles shook his head again. Sonic couldn't believe it, he'd always known Knuckles to be a gullible idiot, but this time he didn't believe a word.
He knew Knuckles never feared death, hey he fought the Metarex without a sweat, and he always managed to pound Eggman's robots to pieces without getting a scratch. Yet he was always pretty gullible, but now they were talking about death coming to him, Knuckles was letting his cocky attitude take over.
"Do you the reason why you're still alive?" said Sonic starting to get really pissed off at Knuckles's attitude, "it's because of Amy you're still alive! If she hadn't got off the roller coaster along with the rest of you, you'd be dead!" "no way blue boy!" said Knuckles throwing a few more stones at the nearest pillar.
"I'm alive because of me!" said Knuckles "strong intelligent me!" Sonic scoffed in his head "intelligent my foot!" he snarled. Knuckles then continued to throw more stones at the pillar of the Master Emerald. "I'm not gonna be put off by your little superstitious predicaments!" said Knuckles throwing another stone. As he threw the stone Amy looked at the pillar it hit and then flashes and images came into her head of the photo and the pillar.
As soon as the image vanished, Knuckles threw another stone and the pillar began to fall, "Shit!" screamed Amy, Sonic noticed and using his speed he pulled Knuckles out of the way. As he did the pillar crashed down where he was sitting two seconds ago, crumbling into tiny rocks and stones.
Knuckles stared in shock where the pillar had fallen, he began to laughing in triumph, "wow!" he yelled "yeah!" he stood up, "watch did I tell you? Huh? It's not gonna get me! Death will never take me!" he walked over in front of the Master Emerald and stared at the fallen pillar in front of him.
He then lifted his fist and smashed the pillar, as he did he yelled in triumph, but then a pillar behind him fell, and before Sonic or Amy could do anything, even scream, the pillar crushed Knuckles into a bloody mess. As the pillar crushed him, the echidna's blood was sprayed all over Sonic and Amy. Amy screamed in terror and sorrow and Sonic too yelled in shock and sadness.
Much later the police arrived in helicopters on Angel Island, They took Knuckles's body or what was left of it as it was so badly crushed and mangled by the weight of the pillar away in a body bag to be examined. The Chief of Police, a large brown bear was interviewing Sonic whilst a policewoman, a brown weasel was trying to comfort Amy and wipe the blood off her face.
The Chief of police took some notes and nodded saying that was all they needed, "can we give you a lift back to land?" he asked nodding towards the helicopter. Sonic shook his head, "thank you officer, its ok we'll go in the plane we took, I'll drive it Amy" he said looking at Amy.
Amy nodded understanding him, the police then nodded, "ok, thank you for your information Mr Hedgehog, you and Miss Amy Rose are free to go" Sonic nodded at the police, then taking Amy by the hand lead her back to the plane they took to Angel Island. As they were walking, Sonic let Amy lean against his chest.
"Listen Amy" said Sonic "we can't give up on this! We have find a way to stop this! Now that Espio and now Knuckles are dead, it's getting too weird to be a coincidence, like you said" Amy looked up at Sonic "but how?" she said "how can we stop death?"
Sonic thought for a moment, "I think I know who may be able to help us" he said, "who?" said Amy looking up at the blue hedgehog, "her" said Sonic, "her?" said Amy looking up at him. Sonic nodded "Morgana Ravenwolf" he said "What!" said Amy "that white sorceress? How will she be able to help us?" Sonic looked at Amy "it is a hope Amy" he said "if there is anyone who knows about anything beyond the mortal Mobian world she's the one to ask" Sonic helped Amy into the plane, he then started the plane and they began to fly back to Mobotrpolis.