accidents happen: chapter 9
Sonic's POV
The whole ride was uncomfortable for the both of us. Not only because of what happened last night, although i am a little curious as to how it was, but because we were sitting with two on one seat our moving space was very limited. We hadn't said a word to eachother and we completely ignored Rouge's trolling. We were pretty glad when we had finally landed.
"Tails, where was that chaos emerald?" Knuckles asked. "it's in that cave." Tails said and pointed to the small hole in a rocky surface nearby. "how did it get in there?" Knuckles asked and kneeled in front of it. The hole was just big enough for all of us to crawl through. "i'll go first and check it out. when i give the sign, Tails will follow." Knuckles said, we nodded in agreement. Knuckles entered the small hole and crawled through it.
"it's clear!" He yelled and Tails soon followed him in. Shadow went in after him, then me and then Rouge. "this is making me claustrophobic." Tails said and continued his way down. "don't worry, bud, i'm sure that we'll be at the end of this tunnel soon." I said. I heard Rouge behind me hum thoughtfully. I didn't know why, but i had a bad feeling about it. And my bad feeling was right as i felt Rouge push me, making me bump into Shadow. "ow! Sonic! i'm still sore there!" Shadow yelled and barely missed me when he sent a kick for me. "it wasn't me, it was Rouge." I said. "Rouge! stop it please!" He yelled. "okay, okay, i'll stop." Rouge said and smiled.
We finally reached the end of the tunnel and crawled out of it. I stretched my back and groaned. "oh man, this is almost as annoying as my hangover." I said. Rouge stretched her wings and Shadow rubbed his lower back. Tails wasn't really bothered when he crawled through the tunnel because he was much smaller then us. "i think we need to go this way." Shadow said and pointed in a direction. "that's what the chaos tracker is saying also." tails said. Shadow walked down that way and we followed quickly.
Tails was walking up ahead together with Shadow. Knuckles was walked behind them while talking to Rouge and i was a bit behind them. I heard Shadow winced again. I looked at him and watched him lay a hand on his side. "are you okay?" Tails asked. "yes, i'm fine." Shadow said. "are you sure?" He asked and Shadow nodded.
We continued walking, but then Shadow winced again. "i think you should go back to the Tornado and wait there for us." Tails suggested. "no, i'll be fine. it's really no-" Shadow said, but he got cut off by a sound in the cave. "what was that?" Rouge asked a bit frightened. With her ears being sensitiver then ours she could hear something in the sound that we didn't hear. "i don't know, but the chaos emerald is right up ahead. i can feel it." Shadow said and continued onwards. But he stopped all of a sudden and gasped. "what is it?" I asked. "the chaos emerald...it's..." Shadow started, but he didn't end the sentence. "it's moving." Tails finished his sentence as he looked at the chaos tracker.
