Chapter#10 Hold fast
SONG DEDICATION: I'd like to dedicate the song- Hold fast by Mercyme to this chapter, you can listen to it while reading this to get the feeling, with your limewire or whatever.
Knuckles woke up next to the master emerald. He must've fallen asleep at the shrine last night. He looked around slowly to notice the blue chaos emerald hovering to his right. He had concealed it. He looked down at his chest; his wounds from last night's fight were gone.
The master emerald must've of healed the wounds over night. Slowly Knuckles came to his feet. The master emerald shone brilliantly and he was glad to see it. Suddenly Knuckles heard a dangerous rumble. He looked for clouds, no. Then he spotted Eggman's ultimate death battle ship, it struck fear into even him.
The ship was black with red linings, and a red Eggman symbol. The ship was super long and shaped like a bullet, with jagged wings and the words EGG DEATH BETA, glowing on each side. Suddenly something came rocketing toward the shrine from the ship. Knuckles quickly jumped atop the Master Emerald in attempt to shield it from harm. But surprisingly it wasn't aimed at him or the emerald, but rocketed down to the left of the shrine.
The missile like projectile was shoved in the ground it released some white mist, then, nothing. Knuckles was puzzled. Soon the ship passed him, and Knuckles was just about to run off and warn his friends, when a holographic screen in the form of a sphere appeared around the shrine, and the horrible face of Eggman appeared.
"Hello Knucklehead" Eggman announced on the big, light screen above him. "Eggman!" Knuckles declared, what do you want? It was obvious the projectile was transmitting this holoscreen. The big screen continued to form a dome around him and the shrine. "I Dr. Ivo Robotnik will conquer the Earth today, and all shall remember this day as my invasion, and Sonic's defeat!!" Eggman laughed evilly.
"What are you babbling about?!" Knuckles demanded. "The capsules I've planted everywhere, the one transsimittig this message to you, and now all over the world, one million to be exact, anyway, these things are drills, the will drill and drill until they hit the earth's core, then lava will flood earth, and everything will be destroyed, even the oceans, to make way for planet Robotnik!" Knuckles didn't know what to say. "That's not all, Eggman said evilly "Since Sonic's exposure to the chaos emerald he will be as helpless as a worm in about twenty minutes!" Eggman laughed.
Knuckles eyes widened. He failed. Eggman continued to laugh madly, and it echoed in Knuckle's head, he had lost; the mighty guardian had failed at guarding. Knuckles face made a look of despair. He sank to his knees as Eggman's laugh continued his face became dark and lifeless. His hands dangled at his sides.
The skies grew red. Sonic was sitting against a wall in his house. His eyes were blank, and showed no expression, he was becoming as lifeless as a doll. Tails rushed up to Sonic, "Sonic!" Tails said desperately "What's wrong!?" no answer just a lifeless stare. Amy and Cream had gone out to the woods to pick flowers. "Sonic, I know you know who I am! Sonic please answer me!" Tails knew he had to remain calm but he couldn't take it anymore. This whole amnesia deal, It was destroying Sonic from the inside out, and Tails, started having a breakdown.
Tears came to Tailss eyes. "Sonic!" "Please answer me" Tails sobbed, but sadly he could not. "Sonic!" Tails cried over and over, but Sonic was still lifeless, and had such empty eyes. "Please Sonic!" Tails weeped "I know you remeber me Sonic! We're best friends! Please come back! Please!" Tails continued to cry "Please…" he trembled and then began to softly cry, curled up on Sonic's chest.
Knuckles mysteriously began to sway back in forth in front of the alter as Eggman continued to laugh madly. "Given up Knucklehead?" Knuckles clenched his fist. Knuckles suddenly shot both of his hands up into the air. "Oh powerful Master Emerald!" Knuckles began to chant "Heed your guardian's request! Summon the remaining six Chaos emeralds to me, lend me your power!!!!" their was silence. Suddenly six projectiles ripped through Eggman's holoscreen as Eggman screamed "NOOOOO!!!!" The blue emerald joined the others as they hovered around the master emerald glowing brilliantly, rotatting in a hypnotizing motion. Knuckle's pupils had disappeared and his eyes shone an eerie green as he gazed up at the miracle gems.
Suddenly Knuckles fur, turned bright neon pink, and he began to lift into the air. He raised his hands as the emeralds swan around him and his dreadlocks danced in the air. Hyper Knuckles was back.
Tails was continuing to cry, so he did not notice the bright flash of light. Suddenly a hand touched his back he looked to see, it was Sonic's hand. Sonic's eyes now shone and his serious expression upon his face he didn't even look down at Tails when he said "Tails…..don't cry" Tails was utterly astonished, but Sonic felt warm, like he was intercepting some energy, Tails then looked up to see The seven chaos emeralds hovering around them, with Knuckles, just plain Knuckles, lying on the ground exhausted.