Legend of Babylon

Chapter 10

Unspoken Words

The dark hallways of the Sky Tower were intimidating, but not enough to scare away the three cloaked beings from completing there mission. "Why did I have to be paired up with this guy?" Coal was wondering "He scares the crap out of me! He could choke me without lifting a finger!"

This was all true. Dragen had a mysterious past and was a being of wind. He could control the air around him, and even deprive someone of there oxygen. "Not much further." he said.

"Not much further!" Coal repeated "You said that forty-three floors ago!" "Ugh! I am going to die on the 300th floor!" He remembered what Phoenix had ordered he and Hexon to do after there fight on the Eggcraft.

"What were you thinking!" Phoenix yelled at the black swallow "He may be on to us now!"

"This is none of your business! I want that hedgehog dead!"

"I don't care what he did to you and I frankly don't care! You revealed our presence!"

"He destroyed our home Phoenix!" Avian growled "Dose that mean nothing to you!"

"The past is over and the future is in our grasp, and I will not let one of your mistakes ruin me again!"

"Uhh…" Coal tapped Phoenix's shoulder "I hate to inturpt this…Amusing conversation, but don't we have work to do?"

Phoenix nodded "Yes we do. Ren! Avian! Come with me. You and Hexon head to the Sky Tower and help Dragen there. He will explain the target to you when you get there."

"Awww nuts!"

Coal sighed "I should have let them keep bickering" "Uhh… Dragen, how many floors are there in this building exactly?

"This won't hurt a bit" Tails said as Sonic lied down "I just need to scan the tattoo."

"Well then go. I'm not getting any younger here."

Tails scanned the mark on his shoulder. When he was finished, the monitor on his computer(or in this case, one of his fourteen other computers) loaded the data on the screen. "Finished."

"This is odd" Storm said as Sonic got up.

"What is?"

"If you look closely, there are tiny marks in the tattoo. Zoom in one hundred percent" Tails scrolled in just as ordered. "Yes just as I thought, this is a form of ancient Babylonian writing."

"Well can't you read it?" Sonic asked.

"Even if I could, there is so much on here, its like reading a story book that never ends." Storm said "This form of writing is older than you think, nobody has been able to read it yet."

Tails found something interesting on the corner of the monitor. "I hope you mean endless literally. Look at this." As he moved the area around, he hit a section that was making more marks.

"Is it doing what I think its doing?" Storm asked. "Everyone be silent!" Silence took over the workshop, then Storm spoke again "Tails say something."

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!"

Knuckles looked surprised "Dude, that was perfect!"

As the noise returned, more characters appeared on the screen. "Just as I thought" Storm said triumphantly "Its recording dialog, keeping a record of what has been said around it."

"So this thing is keeping track of what I say?" Sonic asked.

"Not only you, but people around you, and possibly people that have had this tattoo before. I highly doubt that you had said enough to fill this entire thing."

"But what is the point of that?"

"I don't know, but at least we do know what this thing is. If we can understand this ancient language…"

"Then we will have the full story." Sonic finished. "I don't know what is going on, but I sure do want to know what is. So tomorrow we work like we have never work before."

"I do know of one source that can possibly help us." Storm said "Jet, you and Knuckles pay a visit to the Sky Tower. Find a man named Sïlacx Barodion.

"Now wait just a minute here!" Jet objected "I am in charge here!"

"You are in charge of noting under my roof!" Sonic shouted.

Storm continued "Wave, Tails, you two keep scanning Sonic to find anything else out." They both nodded. "I will go and check any Babylonian books we posses."

"Alright all of you, get some rest." Sonic said "We have a lot of work to do in the morning."