LovelyBubbles07- Ok so after all this waiting I know your like What the Fuck, dude? Where have you been all this time!?!! Well with system failures, constant stresses of the personal level and just a plain ass kicking from trying to make seven(well actually nine) pages of pure glory for Flight of Passion 2, I'm finally resuming my main lovely little Shad Amy tour de force. Sorry for the long wait readers, Special thanks goes out to awesome reviewers: Guardian of Balance, Storm Midnight, Kitsune Disciple, Silver Sheilds, SecretAgent99, theRASTAproject, and Project Shadow. Ok peoples time for a bit of Q and A since I got reviews and some of you guys are young...and dumb...and full of cum....
JUST PLAYING DON'T HURT ME!!!*ducks for cover*
Really though Ok since you ask let me clear it up...
Q:What the heck are Super Emeralds? A: Super Emeralds will be explained in this chapter...
Q: Where did I get the idea from? A: Playing Sonic Mega Collection and growing up with the Sonic&Knuckles when it first came out and playing it like frekkin hell on the SMC.
Q: I don't read the comics, is this where this is from? A: Fuck no, Archie and the U K's Sonic Comix comics got their own kinda smart, making their own crazy lil' story lines to sell the comics. They don't mention the super emeralds neither, this was a one time thing for the Sonic & Knuckles game and for the connection of the Sonic 3 released earlier in 1994. I was five years old, ah...memories....
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Lone Rose in the Garden
Chapter 10: Our Journey to Hidden Palace, The Quest Begins
Amy's POV
Ugh...why? Why do we have to do this crap?Dressed in my brown cargo pants and white tank top and brown boots I felt like I was coming straight out of a old explorer movie. I mean I loved adventuring before I got older, now I just want to stay out of the wild. Shadow is walking in front of me with dark green fatigue cargo pants and a sandy brown t-shirt with his air shoes and it reminded me. I used to love it because I could be with my darling Sonic, but now. I'd rather be at home, next to Shadow kissing his body and....OWWW. I just stepped on something. Irritated, I complain to him.
"My feet hurt and I'm tired. Why couldn't we just teleport there Shadow?"
I looked at him and he sighed heavily, I knew I was getting on his nerves but I didn't care.
"Amy for the last time, if we do that Tails' radar will know I have an emerald. Sonic is looking out for me to use chaos energy from emeralds so he can find him faster. You know this..."
"I still think that your giving the "hero" too much credit."
Scratching my head and untangling my quills was all that kept me from glomping him and smacking him upside the head. Just to get his attention to tell him that I was ready. Shadow stopped walking and smirked. He turned around to me and I looked over and around at the clouds above. Pulling my arm he yanked me into his, embracing me.
"Whats this all of a sudden?"
I say nervously as he pulled me away slowly and brushed my long quilled bangs out of my eyes. I blush nervously and look down as I feel his hot breath tickle my cheeks the warmth of the evening sun beaming on our bodies and the steady rise of my pulse as I wait for his reaction.
"You know Amy, I've always hated that you try to cover those beautiful eyes."
Blushing even more I continue to look down but I feel his gloved finger under my chin. He lifts my head up slowly and kisses my lips softly and I taste the delicate flavor of mint on his breath. His simple kiss shook me to my very core, and all of a sudden, being out here with him didn't seems so bad. He broke the kiss slowly and held me by the waist and whispered softly in my ear.
"I know Amy, I want it too. But we have to settle this first, Ok?"
Nodding I didn't say a word I just smiled. I loved this side of him, so mysterious and yet so desirable it made me so eager and giddy. Instantly I toned it down though, so I wouldn't give him a big ass ego. Going back to his usual stoic demeanor he grabbed my hand and he picked me up bridal style.
"Let's hurry then, before night fall catches us."
Shadow's POV
We raced down the hills, leaves cracking underneath my shoes, at the Outskirts of Angel Island to get to Rouge and Knuckles, who were waiting for us at Mushroom Hill forest. The plan was that we needed to get to Hidden Palace, which was were the Master Emerald stayed before it was moved to the shrine outside. Legend says that the chaos emeralds were forged from these emeralds, there size a mere understatement for the amount of power they have. Able to turn the user not super, but hyper, stronger than before, faster than fast. The users of Hyper emeralds, Sonic, Knuckles and Tails have all experience the immense power that comes with it. Only someone with pure intentions can handle the raw intensity of the chaos energy. The only thing I worried about, was if my past will come back to haunt me by using these massive gems.
Arriving at the entrance to Mushroom Hill I stopped abruptly and put Amy down. As her feet touched the ground I looked around cautiously for anything. It was too quite around here.
"Shadow?What's-"
"Shhh..."
I didn't want her to blow our cover, walking over slowly near a large green mushroom with yellow spots I spotted a hint of red flick around and hid again. Then I heard a small, tinkling-sounding giggle and immediately felt exasperated.
"HEY!! Cut it out we're here!"
Rouge was the first one to sit up and look from behind the mushroom. Followed by a blushing Knuckles whom had an apologetic grin as he scratched the back of his head. No doubt the two were fooling around again. Don't they have anything better to do? Rouge started fumbling for her top.
"Oh? Took you guys long enough, after a while we thought you weren't coming."
I felt a vein pulsing on my forehead as I responded.
"And so this is what you did to pass the time?"
Knuckles, who was now fully dressed in his dark gray shirt and light brown cargo pants, got up and smirked at meas he leaned back casually on the mushroom putting a piece of straw between his lips to chew. Closing his eyes and crossing his arms in front of his he opened one violet orb to stare at me.
"None of you business hedgehog, lets just get this over with. Can we go now?."
I hear it, I hear my patience breaking...forming a bit of chaos energy in my fingers I walk over slowly to Knuckles who was still leaning on the mushroom, chewing silently as Rouge changed into her black and white flower tracksuit and black and pink sneakers. Reaching up to the idiot guardian I slapped him on the back and yellow and blue energy flashed from my fingers. The chaos induced reaction forced him into the ground, making a nice little crater. Walking away into the entrance I shouted back to him.
"Oh yeah we can go now..."
Looking back I saw Knuckles pulling his face out the ground, knots covering his head and his nose bleeding and broken. Amy looked a bit concerned.
"You think he's Ok?"
Knuckles growled low and screamed.
"I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT HEDGEHOG!!!"
I simply smirked and grabbed her hand, intertwining my fingers with hers.
"Meh, he'll be fine."
I shout back to them as I walk further in with the Rose.
"LET'S GO! WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY!!!"
Amy's POV
I gotta admit that was pretty funny seeing Knuckles getting smashed into the ground. The shinning of the Moon through the trees gave the forest a different kind of aura. I could almost say it was romantic as we walked through the night hand in hand. Its like its our first date, but in light of the situation it would be silly to say that. I wonder after all this, will I be able to be happy with Shadow. It would be nice to love and be loved. I walked with Shadow looking at the foliage and passages ways of the forest when Rouge calls out to us from afar.
"HEY GUYS OVER HERE, KNUCKLES FOUND THE SPOT!"
Running over to Knuckles who was apparently climbing down a mildly steep cliff to a landing below us, he motioned for us to come down as well. Jumping down onto the moonlight grassy area we watch him approach a red wood wall. He pushes a wooden lever that has been covered green ivy leaves and the wall lifts revealing another secret passage.
"Whoa...how did you know this was here?"
Knuckles smirked and looked back at us as he walked in.
"I used to use this way a lot back in the day when I first met Sonic, in order to warp between palace and here. Come on in."
Grabbing a stick I motion to Shadow and with a flicker of a small chaos spear the torch was lit to proceed into the Cave like passage. Walking inside I looked at the dark brown clay walls, the flame flickering as I looked at depictions of echidnas killing Chao and hunting, they were drawn like stories. We traveled in deeper, stepping down earthen made stairs until finally we reached the end of the cave where the depiction of the emerald shrine and the master emerald were on the large wall in front of us. On the ground was a small hot pink orb. The orb was sitting in a blue multi-ring stand with four legs. Each of the legs pointed north, south, east, and west and it sat directly under a circular opening in the cave showing the stars and the full moon shining above. Sitting there under what looked to be like a skylight, Knuckles approached strange thing and turned to us.
"It's a transporter. I use these to get around the island, come on..this one leads directly to the palace."
Knuckles jumped onto the orb and stood as it flashed white. A beam of light engulfed his body as he curled into a ball spinning in mid-air and it shot him up fast, making him disappear right before our eyes. Wow...what a trick...I feel a bit uneasy. Rouge followed suit as we came down the stairs, and I blew out the torch. Shadow walked to the transporter and looked at me quizzically.
"You Ok? You seem a little worried?"
Shaking my head I giggle at his concerned look.
"I'm fine Shadow," I look up to the orb and get a determined look. Noway was this piece o' crap relic is gonna stop me now!
"Let's go!"
Shadow's POV
After landing getting off of the pink orb transporter,this one being surrounded by red and green ribbon like metal and I stepped down after Amy and opened my eyes to look around. The floors were made of a azure crystal-like like tile and the walls were the same except they were royal purple in color. We walked down the elegant corridors of the rooms and I saw murals on the tiles of the faker in his super form battling Eggman's older creation..a giant robot which I observed in the lower decks of his labs.
"Hmph, so thats how it got so beat up huh?"
Amy looked at the picture and Knuckles looked back at us and up at the mural.
"Oh yeah...this wasn't made by me. The elders of the tribe were prophets that lived in the palace back then. They made the murals to tell the tales of the future. Obviously I should have payed more attention to them."
Nodding my head we continued forward and Rouge flew up to open the door, kicking an old rusted switch on the ceiling. The loud sound of the rusted door squeaking, made me ears want to bleed. Amy winced in pain as she covered her ears and Rouge nearly passed out from the sound. Knuckles rushing over just in time to catch her from falling. The door opened complete and Knuckles rubbed Rouge's ear as she moaned in pain.
"GODDAMN!! that door need some fucking grease..."
Rouge sat up and rubbed her ears while Knuckles helped her up. Knuckles shook his head to get out the ringing sound that we were all hearing.
"You ok? Amy, Shadow?"
"Yeah we're fine...let's just go inside."
Walking inside we noticed the light on the moon above us and the shining of lit torches as we enter the secret room. Before us laid a shrine of incomparable beauty. Metal lavender lily flowers on ancient turquoise pedestals that rested on the floor and floated in mid air held seven gray gigantic emeralds. We walked by each emerald and looked at the eighth altar pedestal which was the biggest and floating up higher than the others. Knuckles pointed up to it.
"That's where the Master Emerald used to reside. After the Death Egg was destroyed I moved the emerald to the altar outside the shrine to look after it more closely. Although after our previous encounters with him, it wasn't the greatest idea I've had."
"Among others..." I remarked nudging him.
Amy walked to the emeralds looking at her reflection in the giant stone.
"If these are the real thing, why are they gray?"
"Well thats the thing." Knuckles started as he strolled pass all of us to look up to the moon above, "The emeralds are special in a way that they must be touched by the servers of chaos, meaning either one of us, in order to be transported to an area where you will encounter tests. Each emerald has a test, although I've forbidden to tell you what it is about. You have to pass the test the emerald gives you, and in return the emerald gains its color and its power."
Rouge switched over to Knuckles who was watching the moon, violet eyes deep in thought, no doubt he remembered his trials. Leaning on his shoulder, she smiled and messed with one of his dreadlocks making him come back to earth so to speak.
"My, my, Knuxie. I never knew you to be so mysterious, its kinda of a turn on.."
Chuckling softly to himself, Knuckles reached up and held her hand from behind.
"Somethings, just aren't meant to be explained. These trails are a personal journey to see if your worthy to control the immense power of the emeralds. Fail, and you will be punished severely for trying. And I'm not talking about just a slap on the wrist, these emeralds can send you to an unspeakable hell if you're not careful. These emeralds, they weed out the evil and negative, it won't work unless your intentions are pure."
Knuckles turned to look at me after that comment and I knew why. After all I was the one that was planted to destroy the world, twice. I started to feel a bit uneasy, it seems like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. But I have to, to protect Amy. This isn't just about pride anymore, its about being excepted, about being able to be happy with her and to enjoy life. Maybe these test can help me realize why I'm here and if I deserve her. I walked up to Amy and grab her hand, caressing it gently. She turned to look at me with her beautiful green eyes, eyes that showed so much love and compassion to me for all these years and she smiled and nodded.
"Do your best Shadow."
Smirking I kiss her on the forehead and walked to a gray emerald. Looking back at the group I throw my green emerald to Amy and motion out to her.
"Take this thing out far somewhere so he can find it without coming here."
"Shadow!"
I turned to see Amy's face shinning with tears streaming down her cheeks. I felt a twinge of pain in my soul as she ran to me to kiss my lips, the soft scent of her cherry gloss lingering as she pulled away, holding my face in her delicate hands. Shaking her head she looked down to the floor as her tears dropped splashing on the ancient tile.
"Don't...die... ok?"
"Amy...don't worry. It's going to take a lot more than a couple of tests to take the Ultimate Life form out."
She looked up to me and grinned brightly through her tears at the comment as Knuckles and Rouge walked up to help her. Whispers of good luck and pats on the back were floating around me but all I heard was the sound of her tears, dropping on the ground as they walked away. I heard Knuckles mention that they would come back 2 days from now to see if I had made it through, and that they had to lock me in here so that not even Sonic couldn't interfere. I stood at that very same spot for a minute as I heard the doors of the palace close behind them.
Frowning as I normally did I walked up to pedestal and looked the emerald up and down.
"All this to stop a Blue idiot."
I jumped onto the emerald and it flashed brightly as a white light enveloped my body and I saw no more.
TTFN
Well its done...sorry its smaller than FofP2 massive pages but I think that going into the first trial in this one is a bit much...this is just the intro...believe me there will be more sex...and more craziness and more AHHHH!! Sorry it took so long to come back...but don't worry updates will be on the regular now!Look on my profile to see your fav stories progress by percentiles and just to stop by and vote on the poll! YAY!! Oh yeah...seriously wiki up the super emeralds...its a great opportunity for great stories!!!...just don't steal mine...or Jade will Kill you...
Jade: *grins evilly and holds up katana* I'll do it...
SHE'LL DO IT!!!!WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!! *ahem, sniffs* AAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!
Poppin' Out!
-LovelyBubbles07