The title of this chapter sounds like it should be in For an Emerald...especially since it has the words For an Emerald in it! Oh well, probably been thinking too much about my other ongoing story ^^;. Not much else to say just yet, so read and review! Enjoy! And vote on the poll on my profile of making a version of Eclispe the Hedgehog Revised from Mach, Sugar and Fist's timeline; with all the couples mentioned in here as parents.


The cavern with the Master Emerald was just as the apparent Child of Chaos had imagined, yet completely different. It was lit a pale yellow by the unmoving, eternal flame on the torches on the walls with the object they were looking for in the center of it. While they were on a raised cave with a stairway down leading to the center of the cavern, the center looked like a miniature version of the shrine outside which normally housed the powerful gem.

"There..." Sugar whispered suddenly, pointing to a pink thing near the Master Emerald. "...that's Fist." She added a little louder. Without thought the older hybrid jumped at her full strength with a forward flip, falling the six or seven stories it would be between the cave and the bottom of the stairs leading to the mini shrine, landing softly with a purple-pink glow around her that was so light it was hardly noticeable.

"You two coming?" Chloe asked as she looked back up at the younger hybrid and full blood, turning to begin to walk up the shrine stairs.

"How could a hybrid land so harmlessly from such a high fall?" Mach questioned quietly as his young partner flew after the other girl, growling suddenly and dashing after them.

"So...this is Fist the Echidhog..." Chloe said as she stared at the boy, who seemed to have been pulled away from his charge and put on his back by his friends the last time they were here. He certainly looked his age of four, a hot pink echidna with hedgehog ears atop his head and a pale pink crescent on his chest that marked him as the next guardian...his muzzle and inner ears were a very dark tan and he had two dreadlocks cut to his shoulders to frame his face with the rest reaching to his mid-back.

"Now you've seen a dead body." Mach growled at the girl, causing her to turn her head to look at him and smile. The body's eyes were closed, as they should be considering all things, though the chameleon hybrid was certain they were green like his mother's.

"Actually, I haven't seen one yet." The detective disagreed, reaching into her shorts pockets and pulling out two rings. The outfit of the person the girl had said was alive consisted entirely of black and silver-grey, his black pants were rolled up to just below the knees with the inside silver grey as well as a silver-grey patch sown onto each knee. The hedgehog's eye narrowed angrily.

"He's dead!" He snarled, only for that other to begin to chuckle softly. The only thing covering the chest of the one they were talking about was a black sleeveless vest that reached only to the bottom of his ribs, the collar and pockets a silver-grey and the vest open to show his guardian mark. "What are you laughing about?!" The runner demanded.

"The fact that you can't sense this." The orange eyed girl pointed to the apparent dead toddler as she pressed the rings into his open palms, covered by gloves like his fathers but black with grey trim instead. His shoes were much more like Mach's but black with grey-silver lines and trim instead.

"What do you m-" The brown eyed girl gasped and covered her eyes with her arms as a blinding flash of green came from her apparent dead friend, the flash lasting several moments before disappearing. The girl blinked a few times and watched as the smiling older girl picked up the rings again.

"Wake up." Chloe whispered to the boy, the red eyed boy about to snap at her that he was dead before said younger boy's eyes fluttered open.

"M...Mak? Sh...Shugar?" Fist asked softly, blinking his indeed bright green eyes a few times as his friends stared at him with wide and unbelieving eyes.

"He wasn't dead; he was in a death-like coma. His soul was sucked into the Master Emerald when he used it, staying in there until the built up Chaos Energy in his body from said emerald dispersed...but since energy is limitless in this place the energy couldn't leave his body and his soul couldn't return to it. The same thing happened to that knight you were speaking of before that 'screwed-everything-up' Mach, Mom told me about it so I recognised the signs when Sugar told me. I fixed up a pair of Inhibitor Rings I carry around with me all the time to absorb Chaos Energy instead of restrict it, then lock that energy in until drawn out by someone with Chaos Powers or a machine...I basically made it like a Chaos Emerald now." The chameleon hybrid explained proudly.

"Yuu'we amazin' Miss!" The echidna hybrid exclaimed as he sat up, clasping his hands together and looking up at her with adoring and idolizing eyes.

Um...I think I just got myself in trouble by explaining that... The orange eyed girl thought; sweat dropping as she felt the red eyed boy glaring angrily at her. She peeked a look at him, seeing the oldest boy glaring at her in a way that would kill if it could...the detective made a small noise of realisation and threw the rings at the runner, which he caught. "You use Chaos Powers, right? Then you might as well have these, they could be helpful in a bind if you just don't have enough energy...it's not like they'll ever run out here after all." She smiled disarmingly at him, causing the angry hedgehog to look taken aback.

"Are you alright Fist?" Sugar asked her young friend, who smiled at her.

"I'm fiin; it's just as tha Miss sed." The young guardian assured the mechanic, who smiled at him with barely concealed joy.

"Her name is Chloe the Hedgeleon, you should thank her properly Fist." The flier pointed out, the young boy nodding.

"Thank yuu fow savin' mee Miss Clowee." He said truthfully, still looking at her like she was a hero...the oldest hybrid had a distinct feeling that look would only make the full blood dislike her more than he already did. "Waayt...yuu'we not fwom this tiimliin. So that meens...yuu must bee tha Chiild of Kaos!" And...the pink puncher's eyes only lit up more with this realisation.

"Uh...y-yeah, that's right...at least, that's what Mach tells me..." Chloe laughed nervously, she had a feeling the eldest of the group was wishing he'd never brought her to his timeline; if the glare he was giving her was any indication that she was very likely right.

"So wii aw yuu giis heew?" Fist asked them, though he was happy to be back in his body and be able to move; from the looks of it the chameleon hybrid hadn't told his friends what she was doing so they must have come for another reason.

"I came to get my Chaos Energy back." Mach stated to the boy, who nodded.

"Okay. Just tuch tha Mastw Emwald and yuu shud get yuuw Kaos Enwgey bak." The echidna hybrid stated with a smile, though it wasn't like the one he used to give her or now gave Chloe. Nodding himself, the hedgehog stepped forward and touched the giant emerald in the middle of the underground shrine.


I may be cruel as hell, but even I'm not going to kill off a 4 year old; especially not before he's even met in the story. His speech is supposed to be him sounding things out with the semi-overused W in place of the R that little kids usually have, I wanted it to be unique like Alexiss' was and this was the only way I could really think of to do so. Either way, it seems Fist's idol has changed and Mach isn't pleased...I suppose, in his position, I probably wouldn't be either. Chloe doesn't really know what to do about the little guardian and Sugar may very well start to idolize her for this as well...poor little detective. Anyway, see you all when I'm finished the next chapter.