Chapter 10: The Chaos Emeralds

Shadow saw many things: Sonic going over to Dark's side; him and Dark getting the emeralds to fuse, and Shadow, along with Super, finding some way to defeat him once and for all. The Chaos Emeralds were helping as well. Once the vision was over, Shadow fell to the ground in shock.

"How long do we have until that happens?"

"I don't know," Super said. "A few days, maybe a week."

"That doesn't sound like much time."

"No, it doesn't. We must find the rest of the emeralds."

Shadow nodded. "Where to first?"

Super closed its eyes as a golden aura surrounded it. It looked at Shadow and smiled. "To Angel Island."

"Where on the island?" Shadow looked around.

"The shrine. I saw the Master Emerald in my vision."

"Let's get moving then." Super smiled. It closed its eyes, and the two vanished in a flash of light. They appeared on Angel Island and looked around. "What now?" Shadow asked.

The other hedgehog chuckled as it looked at the Master Emerald. They were going to merge with it. "We need to merge with the Master Emerald." Super walked up and looked at Shadow. "Come on."

Shadow looked confused. "Why?"

"Just trust me."

Shadow nodded. Silver grabbed his hand and they two screamed in pain as they felt themselves merge with the Master Emerald. It glowed brightly and hovered in the air. The Master Emerald remained there as it started summoning the other emeralds.

Why did you have us merge with it? The consciousness of Shadow asked Super's.

We can call the emeralds to us.

I see now. Did we merge with the Master Emerald forever, or can we come out of it?

I don't know. Super paused. Maybe I should have thought of that before we merged with it.

Shadow chuckled. It's fine.

We'll find out later.

The consciousness of Shadow faded away, as did Super, and the Master Emerald glowed brightly as it waited. Meanwhile, Dark was on the ground again as he searched for the Chaos Emeralds.

"I sense one," he said. "But where could the others be?" The hedgehog looked around. He eventually saw something glowing in the rocks, and bent down. After moving a few of the rocks, Dark found a Chaos Emerald.

"That's one down, six to go," he said, grinning. "I suppose I should get back to killing for now. But first...let's see what Sonic's up to."

Dark closed his eyes and found Sonic's consciousness. Sonic, he said telepathically. I know that Super is in control of you now, but I must ask you to regain it for now and help me.

Find the other emeralds? Sonic's voice responded.

Yes, that's right.

Sonic's voice chuckled; there was no need. He was doing it as they spoke. I'm doing that right now.

Very well. Come to me when you find them, Dark said.

I will.

Dark nodded and broke the connection. He chuckled and laughed maniacally. His influence over Sonic was nearly complete. Soon, he would be with Dark. The hedgehog vanished to go to Station Square, ready to kill once again. For the first few minutes after he appeared in the city, nobody noticed him. He looked around for anyone that might be a good victim.

There were so many to choose from, he shrugged. "I'll just kill whoever I grab first."

Dark laughed and ran around the area. He saw a woman and chuckled evilly, then dig his knife into her chest. She gasped and looked at him. Dark smiled at her, watching the fear and life in her eyes fade as he killed her. The hedgehog laughed, and began to look for more victims. People were running from him, giving him plenty of targets. He laughed, and attacked. Soon, many people in the city lay dead as blood covered the streets. Dark laughed as he looked around at the carnage.

"That was fun," he said, and ran off to Vector's house. The crocodile had evaded him once, but Dark wouldn't let that happen again.

This time, he took a more stealthy approach inside the house. Dark teleported himself inside and saw that Vector was in his room. He chuckled and grabbed his neck, then cracked it and dug the knife into his neck. Despite the fact that the crocodile was already dead, Dark kept stabbing him. Blood gushed from the wound that the knife had made until Vector's body lay facedown in a pool of blood.