Chapter 11: Trip to Darkness City

Knuckles and Shadow started finding out their location. They walked around endlessly for hours and hours. They eventually arrived upon a small village. Inside were a bunch of Nightmarions. Except they looked different from all the ones Knux and Shad had been fighting. They were a lighter shade of color and they had lighter eyes. Some even had blue or green eyes.

"These must be the good Nightmarions." Shadow observed.

They walked through the city but were suddenly stopped.

"Halt. Who goes there?" A large, tall, alligator Nightmarion with sharp teeth, greenish gray scales, and green eyes said.

"I am Knuckles the Echidna and this is Shadow the Hedgehog." Knuckles answered.

"You may pass but we are watching you." The alligator said as he walked off.

Shad walked up to another Nightmarion. The one he walked up to was a grayish brown hedgehog a little bigger than Shadow. He had hazel eyes and black shoes.

"You there, hedgehog." Shadow called out.

"What do you want?" The Nightmarion asked.

"What is the fastest way to Nightmare City?"

"The fastest way to the capital is by jet but only the king and his royal servants can use those unless in need of emergency." The hedgehog answered.

"The king, you mean King Nightmare?"

"No way! I don't bow to that piece of trash! We are in a war with him right now."

Shadow was confused. "Then who do you bow to?"

"King Fright is who I bow to. He is the king of this village." The hedgehog responded.

"What village is this?"

The hedgehog shook his head. "You must be new around here. This is the village of Dayfright. Why are you asking so many questions?"

Shadow explained to him his quest and all the adventures he had went through thus far.

"Wow that's a lot. I'd be happy to help you out on your quest. The name's Blur." The hedgehog said as he extended his hand for a shake.

"Thanks." Shadow said as he accepted the handshake. "I'm Shadow."

Knuckles now walked up to them. "Who's this guy?"

"I'm Blur."

"I'm Knuckles."

Knux, Shad, and Blur continued talking until sounds of an explosion could be heard. All three got battle ready. Evil Nightmarions swarmed Dayfright and the two armies battled. Nightmare energy was everywhere with more and more coming every second.

"They outnumber us by a long shot!" Knux screamed to Shad from a distance.

"Just keep fighting we will definitely win!"

Blur was dodging attacks and then spin dashing. He battled like Shadow and Sonic. That is, until he let out a powerful beam from his mouth. It obliterated a lot of evil Nightmarions easily. Knux was in awe.

"I can't believe it. How did you do that?" Knux asked.

"I had a lot of Nightmare energy training early on. I can now shoot out Nightmare energy from my mouth at will but if I'm not using an emerald it drains a lot of my energy. Cover me while I rest up for a bit."

Knuckles did just that. He punched, kicked, and threw enemies at each other. The Nightmarions didn't know what hit them. Until Knux got blasted right in the chest with a small but incredibly powerful nightmare blast. He fell to the ground clutching his chest with his right hand.

He was about to get blasted again but this time would be fatal. Right before he was he was picked up off the ground by Blur running so fast he looked like a blur. He took Knux to the infirmary to rest up because he knew he was going to be safe there. Then Blur ran out and started fighting again.

After a few minute the evil Nightmarions started attacking the infirmary. They knew there were a bunch of injured heroes in there so if they could destroy it they would hurt the good side terribly. Shadow and Blur knew that Knux was inside so they rushed over to it. But they weren't fast enough. The infirmary blew up and everyone and everything inside was destroyed.

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Knuckles!!!!" Blur screamed. "I only just met him but he seemed like a great friend."

Shadow had an evil glare. He clenched his fists at the death of Knuckles. "They will pay for this. They will most definitely pay. Knux was the closest thing to a friend I ever had besides Maria. King Nightmare will die at my hands. I promise you, Knuckles, you will be AVENGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Shadow screamed in anger. He charged and attacked the evil Nightmarions ferociously. He let out chaos spears, chaos blasts, and all kinds of chaos energy. But even with his rage and Blur's anger, the heroic Nightmarions were losing the battle.

That is when the King arrived. Blur stared in awe.

"We must really be in trouble. The king never fights battles unless it is serious. King Fright is going to help us win the battle! Yes! Victory is gonna be ours!"

King Fright was a large elephant with black skin, gray eyes, and a golden crown. He started spinning his trunk around killing or severely injuring all who were hit. Then he started stabbing Nightmarions with his tusks. A bunch got stuck and he had to pull them off. Then he let out Nightmare energy and attacked with it.

But even he could stop a missile going 600 mph straight for him. But this was no ordinary missile. It was a nightmare missile, a missile made of nightmare energy. It hit King Fright and blew him into the sky. He came down with a bang. More and more nightmare missiles were shot.

Blur was scared. His king had just got hit with a missile. He ran to Fright.

"King Fright, King Fright!" Blur called out shaking him. "Get up! We haven't won the battle yet! We need your help!"

Fright opened his eyes. "Blur…. You were a great soldier. I am not going to make it. Get out of here as fast as you can."

"Don't say that! You will live! I'll just take you to the- oh wait it got blown up." Blur said sadly.

"No…there is no hope. This battle and this village will be destroyed. You must escape."

Shadow heard this and raced over to Blur and Fright.

"May we use your jet to escape?" Shadow asked.

"Sure. Now Blur…. Goodbye." Those were King Fright's final words. He passed away right then.

"No." Blur said sadly. "KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGGGG FRIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Come on Blur we gotta go." Shadow said pulling Blur into the jet, which was about to get destroyed.

Shad and Blur flew off.

"Can you lead me to Darkness City?" Shadow asked.

"Just let me pilot it." Blur said as he took the controls.

In a few minutes they had arrived at Darkness City. They landed and got out of their new jet. There were many tall, tall skyscrapers. It looked just like a regular city except that it was filled with Nightmarions instead of regular humans and animals.

Shadow looked around and was in awe. It wasn't the city, as he had seen many like this before. It was the sight of one he thought was dead, Knuckles.

"Knuckles!" Shadow and Blur screamed as they reunited with him.

"There you are I've been waiting for a while." Knuckles said calmly.

"How did you survive the explosion?" Blur asked.

"And how did you get here so fast?" Shadow asked.

"Well, while the infirmary was getting attacked they sent as many of the injured Nightmarions into the teleporter as they could. They all ended up here. I was one of those. So let's go look for Rouge." Knux explained.

End of chapter.

Sorry for the incredibly long wait. I had no motivation but I have finally finished chapter 11!