Part 8: Waves of Destiny

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A hedgehog was falling through an empty void. A void that no light seemed to be able to penetrate. He knew not where he was going, or what to expect when he got there. The only things he had to go on were the words "Raging Ocean Rapids". The hedgehog in question was male, with cobalt blue fur, light green eyes, tan arms, and usually wearing bright red running shoes with a white stripe stretching over the sides ending with golden buckles. In short, he was worldwide famous hero, Sonic the Hedgehog.

He was normally calm in the face of danger, and rather heroic. That was normally. As of right now, he was pitifully plummeting down a deep dark abyss, screaming his head off.

"This is so not my day," thought Sonic, waiting for even just a glimmer of hope to save him from the bottomless pit, holding his shield out from him as some form of protection.

The hopeful hedgehog saw a speck of light in the distance. Sonic angled his body so that he was directly lined up with it. He pulled his arms to his side, increasing the speed of his decent.

The speck of light was now a huge spotlight shining right in his face, as he entered the light. Now that he was through the light, he could see better, allowing him to notice the huge room he was now in. It was a huge room with lots of pretty blue waves and passages, manholes could also be seen on the ceiling.

"This must be the Raging Ocean Rapids!" exclaimed Sonic, "It's huge!"

He realized he was nearing the ocean part and quickly pulled the shield under him, intending to use it as a surfboard. The hedgehog hero landed with a splash, right on top of a wave.

"At least the shield blocked most of the water from soaking me," thought Sonic.

"Yo, Sonic!" a voice yelled from behind, distracting Sonic from his thoughts. Sonic turned around to see a familiar black and white hedgehog.

"Hey, Shock!" Sonic shouted in reply, as the other hedgehog joined him on top of the wave.

"Welcome to Raging Ocean Rapids! Glad you could make it!" greeted Shock.

"This obviously isn't the sewer, so where are all the waves coming from?" asked Sonic.

"Well, I like to call this Raging Ocean Rapids, but the true name for it is, Waves of Destiny." stated Shock.

"Why is it called that?" wondered Sonic.

"Well, soon after Eggman became ruler of this world, he found all of the Chaos emeralds…" started Shock.

"What does this have to do with the Waves of Destiny?" interrupted Sonic.

"Shhh, I wasn't done. Anyways, Eggman soon built this really powerful machine that sucked the power out of the Chaos emeralds, making them useless. The power came in the form of a rainbow colored liquid that allows anyone who drinks it to gain chaos powers. In a fight I had with Eggman, he drank some before I could stop him. Some of the liquid spilled into this water. Eggman became too dangerous and forced all the rebels into hiding. Only a few escaped his wrath. I was one of the lucky ones." explained Shock.

"What about Knuckles, Cream, Amy, and Tails? What happened to them?" inquired Sonic.

"They didn't make it. Now I'm the only one left." confirmed Shock.

"Wow, so what did it do to the water?" asked Sonic.

"It makes the water react to your thoughts turning them into power just like the Chaos emeralds. If you're evil, then you suffer a terrible fate. If you're good, like us, then you just think of where you need or want to go, and the waves take you there. They lead you to your destiny." finished Shock.

"Oh, cool. So if I think of Tails' house like this, then it takes us there?" wondered Sonic.

"yep." confirmed Shock.

A ladder soon appeared, and Shock grabbed onto it. Sonic did too, taking his shield with him. The hedgehog duo was gripping the side of the metal ladder leading up to a yellow manhole.

"Is this it?" asked Sonic.

"Yep this manhole is yellow, like Tails', therefore it leads to Tails' house." explained Shock.

The black and white hedgehog leaped up and walloped the metal disc covering the manhole so hard, it rocketed off of its hinges and flew 30 feet in the air, making a clang as it roughly collided with the cobblestone street and rolled away.

"Well, that's one way to take care of things." commented Sonic, as the two hedgehogs climbed out of the hole and into a semi-dark alleyway.

They were right in front of a bright yellow house.

"That's Tails' place all right." confirmed Shock.

They started walking toward the house, finally at their long awaited destination.

Sorry for the cliffhanger, guys, I couldn't resist!

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