LORD OF DARKNESS
Shredder © Mirage
Chapter Eleven: Dance Crashers
- Soleanna -
The scene shifts towards Soleanna. The rest of the day had passed by and it was now nighttime here at the place known as the City of Water. It was clearly decorated, much like the festival of Soleanna when Elise lit the flames of Solaris.
Inside a large castle, we could see a lot of people here, mixed of humans and animals that were there for the part that was taking place. It was the Soleanna Dance Parlor. A wonderful event in where everyone could dance freely whenever they liked.
Over near the buffet table, we could see our heroes consisting of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy. The only thing different about them was that Sonic was wearing a tie, which was forced on him by Amy. While the pink hedgehog was wearing a fancy red dress with red heels and long white gloves. Sonic was busy eating chili dogs at the buffet table while Amy was delighted at what she was seeing.
"This is so beautiful." Amy said as she clasped her hands together. "I never imagined it would be as fancy as this."
"Your right. A lot of people seem to be enjoying this." Tails added.
"I wonder how long it will take before the others show up." Knuckles wondered as he crossed his arms. "To be honest, I'm not really one for parties."
"Well look on the bright side, Knuckles." Tails smiled sheepishly. "At least Rouge isn't here."
"Good thing, too." Knuckles added. "If she asked me out, I would refuse on the spot."
"Are you sure about that, honey?" A familiar voice asked sweetly.
Knuckles and Tails turned to see a familiar white bat approaching our heroes. Rouge was wearing a sparkling black dress, along with black heels slippers. She currently had a smile on her face.
"Speak of the devil..." Tails said with a sigh.
Knuckles growled a little. "What are you doing here, Rouge?"
"Relax, honey." Rouge waved her hand at him. "I'm just here for the party like everyone else." She showed off her hand, pretending like she didn't care. "I never said I was interested in you."
Knuckles glared at Rouge a little longer before calming himself down. "I'm keeping my eye on you."
"Yeah, whatever." Rouge shrugged.
Over at the doorway, we could see more of our familiar heroes of Larcen, Marisa, Louise, Kera, Kyla, along with Samson and Viola. Samson was wearing his usual attire of a cowboy suit while Viola wore purple lipstick and remained in her black clothing. With Marisa, we could see the young female human wearing a light green dress along with green slippers. Her mother was wearing a purple dress along with purple heels, while Kyla wore a light-blue dress and light-blue heels that showed part of her feet.
"Wow, this place is beautiful." Marisa said with interest.
"Well it certainly is fancy." Louise added. " I just never imagined how big this place was."
Kyla looked around until she saw our heroes at a fair distance at the buffet table. "There they are!"
Our heroes looked to see the Sonic Heroes enjoying themselves. A moment later, our heroes from Rio Salaz came towards them and greeted each other.
"Welcome, you guys." Sonic greeted with a grin.
"Thank you." Louise replied. "I'm guessing we're not too late."
"Nope!" Tails shook his head. "You arrived just in time!"
"That's good to hear. Then I'm guessing those druids haven't arrived yet." Kera thought.
"Nope. No signs of those guys in bath robes yet." Sonic replied.
"If they do show up though, me and Kyla will be on our guard." Larcen pointed out to his necklace.
"I'm guessing you brought them?" Knuckles asked.
"Yeah." Kyla replied, as she showed her purple necklace that was hanging around her neck.
"Well, it looks like everyone has showed up for the party." Rouge noticed.
"Where's Shadow?" Amy wondered.
"He's back with GUN Headquarters trying to get any information on those necklaces." Rouge answered. "We're looking into it though, so until then, we're just gonna lay back and wait until something else happens."
As they all finished their conversation, the spot light pointed towards Alyson Sweet and Yublein the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The two Jewelry owners. Alyson was wearing her usual fancy dress while Yublein had on a suit and still had the monocle over his right eye. Everyone turned their attention towards them as they approached a microphone at the top of a balcony.
"Hello everyone!" Alyson greeted cheerfully. "It is our pleasure to welcome you all to the Soleanna Dance Parlor!"
Most of the guests clapped their hands in response.
"And as a special bonus, I would like to announce that we are officially holding a dance competition. The only way to enter the competition is that you have to be a couple." Yublein added. "Now your probably asking yourselves; what's the prize?"
The question was answered when Spade the Pterodactyl came flying down towards the floor and landed on his feet. In his hand, he was holding a red Chaos Emerald that was incased in a small glass case. He placed it on a pillar for show.
"And now, we want the couples that are interested, please make your way to the dance floor!" Alyson announced.
Before Sonic could eat another bite of a chili dog, Amy pulled his arm to force him to the dance floor.
Knuckles smirked, seeing Sonic's reaction on how Amy was forcing him to dance with her. But unfortunately for Knuckles, Rouge wrapped her arm around the red echidna's arm and smiled at him.
"W-what are you doing?" Knuckles asked, taken back by this.
"I'm getting you to have some fun." Rouge told him, as she pulled his arm towards the dance floor. For some reason, Knuckles didn't fight back against this.
"Come on, senorita Viola." Samson gestured to follow him.
"A-all right." The female Lorikeet nodded as she followed Samson to the dance floor.
Sonic looked around to see that there were only three couples dancing together. He wondered if anyone else was going to take part in it.
"Your not starting this party without us, are you?" A familiar voice asked.
Our heroes turned to see three familiar figures standing there near the door. The figures were revealed to be the Babylon Rogues.
Sonic raised an eyebrow. "Jet?"
Jet and Wave made their way towards the dance floor. Jet had a grin on his face when he saw Sonic. "So Sonic, you finally gave into that brat, didn't you?"
That struck a nerve in Amy's head. "What was that?!"
"Why are you guys here?" Sonic asked.
"We only came here because we heard there was a Chaos Emerald on the line." Jet replied.
"We know it's a dance competition, but that doesn't mean we can't enter." Wave said with a wave of a finger.
Storm joined the rest of our heroes as he had a huge grin on his face.
"Your not gonna enter?" Kera asked him.
"No way." Storm shook his head. "Dancing is not my thing. I only came here to see that red mutt get humiliated." He chuckled at that moment.
Knuckles growled at his rival before turning to Rouge. "Listen and listen good. I'll agree to dance with you, but on because I don't want to get embarrassed by him."
"Fine. Whatever works for you." Rouge said with a smile.
A few more couples decided to join in as well. Once they were in their stance, Alyson made the next announcement.
"All right, then! Since this is all the competitors, let us start the dance competition!"
Spade started the music, as we could hear soft sweet music blaring out of the speakers. The couples held each other as they began to slowly walk around while dancing slowly to the music.
Sonic was feeling nervous as he any Amy slowly walked around while they danced slowly. Amy seemed to notice this.
"What is it, Sonic?" Amy asked. "Are you feeling all right?"
"Uh, well, not really." Sonic replied nervously. "I-I'm not really a good dancer."
"Oh, come on, now." Amy said to him. "I can guide you through with this soft music. Just take it slow, one step at a time."
"OK..." Sonic replied slowly. He took slow steps with his feet, as Amy guided him through with each step. He had to admit, at first he wasn't liking this because he thought Amy would try to kiss him, but with following Amy's advice, it was actually working. Amy stepped one foot backwards with Sonic stepping one foot forwards. Sonic's right hand was holding Amy's left, as the two stepped around in a circle while continuing to dance. After about a minute of this, Sonic was finally beginning to get use to it. Maybe this wasn't as bad as he thought it would be.
Over with Knuckles and Rouge, they were trying to stay in balance while slow dancing, but they kept screwing up by stepping on each other's foot or accidently bumping into other people while they were dancing.
"Would you get a grip, Knuckles?" Rouge asked firmly, but quietly at the same time.
"Me? Your the one who's stepping on my foot so many times." Knuckles whispered back at her with a low growl.
"I'm trying to win the Chaos Emerald, so I would appreciate it if you cooperated with me." Rouge fired back with a low voice.
"And I'm trying not to get embarrassed by Storm. Besides, your the one who dragged me into this." Knuckles pointed out.
"Then let's to put our differences and stay focused." Rouge decided with a firm voice.
"Right back at ya." Knuckles replied with a hint of anger in his voice.
Storm was starting to laugh at Knuckles making a lot of mistakes. The grey albatross looked over at Jet and Wave, who had a rocky start at first, but they seemed like really good dancers. It was like they had been doing this for years.
'You know, we should do this more often." Wave thought.
"Only if it involves something good in it." Jet added. "Dancing isn't exactly my thing, you know."
"Come on, Jet." Wave said to him. "Don't you feel good to get the stress off your body?"
"Only if it involves being the fastest." Jet replied. "As you know, Sonic and I still have unfinished business."
"Well, of course. But it was just a suggestion." Wave replied.
While the two birds were discussing about something, Samson and Viola seemed to be being good at this. At first, Viola wasn't feeling exactly perfect dancing with another person, but once she got the hang of it, it was only smooth sailing from here. As the dancing continued, Viola looked over at Larcen, who seemed to be talking with Marisa. She noticed his green necklace that was still hanging around his neck. It really intrigued her the more she looked at it. It was like she was in a trance or something.
"Senorita Viola..." The black swallow whispered in her ear.
Viola snapped out of her trance and focused her attention on Samson. "Huh?"
"Are you feeling all right?" Samson asked quietly. "It looked like you were staring off into space."
"Oh, never mind that. I was just distracted is all." Viola replied quickly. "Thanks for bringing back my attention."
Samson wondered why Viola wasn't paying attention to the dance a moment ago. Maybe it was just natural for someone to do that, so he decided to shrug it off and focused on the dance.
The music continued for another few minutes until it finally stopped. The guests cheered for their performances as Alyson stepped up to the microphone again.
"Thank you for those wonderful performances!" Alyson said with a smile. "And now, we shall determine who has danced the best out of all our couples!"
The crowd waited anxiously for the results, wondering which couple would be able to win the Chaos Emerald.
Suddenly, a loud crash knocked down the doors. Everyone turned to see what was going on.
"What was that?! What happened to the doors?" Amy asked, shocked by this.
Her questioned was answered as eight druids entered the room one by one until they formed two lines out of four druids. Everyone was confused by this.
"What's going on?" Marisa wondered.
"I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet that it must be related back to what happened yesterday." Louise said with a serious voice.
Our heroes got into stance, waiting for any signs of movement by the druids. Nothing happened as the druids stood there by the entrance way that used to be held by the doors.
"Are these the druids that you guys were talking about?" Kyla asked.
"Yeah." Larcen nodded. "There were only four last time, but I'm guessing they must've stepped up in their numbers."
Kera, the purple hedgehog, narrowed her eyes as she got her Dragon Sword ready while getting into a stance. "Why aren't they moving?"
"I don't know..." Tails wondered. "Maybe they're waiting for someone."
Knuckles eyes narrowed immediately at something else. "We got more company!"
Rouge's eyes widened at what she was seeing. "Who the heck is that guy?"
We look over to the doorway to see a new figure entering the room. The figure looked like a humanoid and was concealed by a grey and black feudal armor, possessed spiked shoulder blades, wristbands, knee guards, and a helmet with a three-pronged crown. The most notable thing about this figure was a red-point symbol on it's sash, the twin-claws on it's left hand, and the bright red eyes that were shown on it's face.
It's eyes were focused on a certain object that was on display. The figure spoke with a scary and an imitating voice. "Ah, so that's one of the seven Chaos Emeralds I have heard so much about..."
Alyson didn't looked pleased to see this new person crashing into the dance party as she quickly made her way down the stairs and got into the figure's face with an angry look on her face. "Would you mind telling me why you have barged in here like this?"
The figure looked down at the human woman's face. Without warning, the figure grabbed Alyson by the collar of her dress. lifted her up from her feet, and glared at her with it's red eyes. "Do you have any idea who I am, woman? I am the known as the ultimate evil born of destruction and chaos! From the ashes I rise like the flames of a phoenix! I am known as the one true Shredder!"
Alyson began to grow scared as the Shredder threw her with one arm in a different direction. Alyson crashed head-first into a wall, where she was immediately knocked out into unconsciousness. Everyone in the crowd was in shock.
"Alyson!" Tails exclaimed.
"She's hurt!" Amy said with shock.
Knuckles glared at the Shredder in anger. "I'll show him who's boss!" He gripped his fists and charged after him. Rouge was surprised by this.
"Knuckles, what are you doing?" Rouge asked like he was crazy.
Knuckles jumped in the air and prepared to smash the Shredder's face into pieces. Before he could get to Shredder however, one of the druids appeared in front of Knuckles and blasted Knuckles with it's dark magic. Knuckles was sent flying backwards until he landed on his back in pain.
"Knuckles!" Rouge exclaimed, as she went over to check on Knuckles.
Shredder laughed at this moment. "Did you really believe you get to me that easily? Now you will all pay for your foolishness! Druids, attack!"
On his command, the eight druids moved into action. Most of the guests had ran out the door to get to safely while our heroes were left to deal this assault.
Over with Louise and Marisa, the two sages were dealing with two druids that were about to corner them. They raised their arms in the air as they prepared to fire dark magic at the two females.
"You know what we need to do, right?" Louise asked.
"Yeah." Marisa nodded.
Marisa and Louise raised their arms in the air as a ray of light energy blinded the druids, forcing them to cancel out their dark magic. When they were blinded, Marisa and Louise clasped their hands together and blasted a ray of thunder magic towards the druids, electrocuting them until they disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Samson and Viola backed away from a druid that was attacking them with it's dark orbs. Samson and Viola were lucky to be able to dodge these attacks by jumping backwards. Samson had Viola in his arms as he kept avoiding the dark orbs that came after him. Viola kept her arms around Samson's neck as hard as she could. The druid decided to switch tactics by creating a larger dark orb with it's hands until it released it towards the two birds. Samson quickly was able to dodge it, but part of the blast sent him and Viola sliding across the ground.
Viola slowly got to her feet as the druid approached Samson with two dark orbs in it's hands. Samson was still trying to get back to his feet. Her eyes widened at this. "Samson!"
Samson looked up to see the druid about to finish him off until a windy blur smashed the druid, sending him flying across the room until it made impact with the wall. A short moment later, the druid disappeared in a puff of dark smoke.
"What just happened?" Viola wondered.
The windy blur came from Jet the Hawk, as we see him approaching Samson on his board. "You look liked to be finished for a moment."
"Thanks, amigo." Samson nodded as he got back to his feet. He turned to Viola. "Senorita Viola, are you OK?"
"Uh..." Viola was nervous to answer. "Yeah. I'm fine. No bruises or anything."
Samson sighed in relief. "That's good to hear. Now let's hope the others have better luck than we did."
Knuckles and Rouge were also being backed thanks to two druids that was going after the echidna and bat. The two anthros were eventually back into each other as the druids began to tower over them.
"Well, I knew these guys could crash a party. But I didn't think it would happen in this way." Rouge said.
"Save the jokes for later, bat girl." Knuckles told her. "We need to find a way to take out these druids before they get to us."
Then out of some strange events, they both had an idea. The two looked at each other for a moment before grinning.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rouge asked him.
"By that look in your eye, I know exactly what your thinking." Knuckles answered.
The two nodded once as they wrapped one around each other as they spinned around in mid-air. This caught the druids off-guard, as it was the perfect opportunity for Knuckles and Rouge to strike back. Releasing their grip of each other, Knuckles gripped his right fist while Rouge aim her right foot. At the same time, both druids were attacked in the stomach by Knuckles fist and Rouge's foot, as they were sent flying backwards until they disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Both of the anthros landed bak on their feet as Knuckles smirked at his work.
"Well, that didn't seem to take long, am I right?" Knuckles boasted a bit to Rouge.
His response was a quick kiss to the lips by Rouge. Knuckles eyes widened in shock. She was kissing him! Knuckles wanted to back away, but for some reason, he couldn't. Rouge's lips were locked onto Knuckles until she finally let go. Knuckles face turned red afterwards.
"It was OK. But it wasn't as good as mine." Rouge said with a wink.
Knuckles wanted to react back, but he couldn't. He just stood there. Dumbstruck at what he just experienced.
Sonic and Larcen had no trouble dodging the dark orb attacks that were coming from the last druid, seeing as how they were fast and the druid wasn't. The two hedgehogs nodded to each other once as Sonic turned himself into a buzz saw while Larcen's necklace glowed with green energy. At the right time, Sonic and Larcen dashed towards the druid at high speed. The druid had no time to react back as the two hedgehogs smashed into it at high speed, sending the dark robed figured flying backwards until it disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Sonic and Larcen landed back on their feet as they glanced at each other with a smirk.
"That was pretty sweet." Sonic said to him.
"Ah, it was nothing." Larcen retorted with a wave of his finger.
"Hey, that's my line!" Sonic replied back.
Knuckles glanced over at Shredder, who just watched the whole thing. "It looks like your ally by yourself."
Shredder snickered a bit. "Fools! I don't need help to defeat you!"
Without warning, Shredder got into a fighting stance and charged after Knuckles. The red echidna met the challenge as he jumped in mid-air and swinged his fist at Shredder's chest. The metal warrior defended himself by holding his arms to his chest, as the fists of Knuckles continued to slam away at the mid-section of Shredder repeatedly. Knuckles soon got tired of this as he landed on the ground. Without having anytime to rest, Knuckles jumped in mid-air again and swinged his fist, this time, he went for his head. However, Shredder was able to catch Knuckles arm with his left hand. He swinged Knuckles in the air and threw him across the room. Knuckles crashed into a wall before falling face-first towards the ground.
"Knuckles!" Tails cried out.
Rouge looked over at the fallen Knuckles. She frowned to see Knuckles behind thrown like that. She turned to Shredder and narrowed her eyes at him. "No one treats Knuckles like that. And I'm going to make you pay, tin can!"
"Then come at me, foolish creature! If you even dare to attack me!" Shredder shouted.
Rouge decided to test his words as she flew into the air with her wings until she was at a good height. When she was ready, got her sights set on the Shredder.
"Drill Kick!"
Rouge spinned herself in a tornado as she aimed her feet at the Shredder. The metal warrior narrowed it's eyes as it jumped in the air and striked at Rouge with his twin claws, cancelling her attack and sending her flying across the room. She landed on her back in pain while sliding across the floor. She groaned for a moment before falling into unconsciousness.
Shredder landed swiftly back on his feet and looked over at the fallen Rouge. "How weak of her. She wasn't even fast enough to strike at me in time."
And at an odd moment, a windy blur striked at the Shredder, which was enough to send him flying backwards until he landed on his back with a thud.
The windy blur turned out to be Jet the Hawk again, as the leader of the Babylon Rogues hopped off is board and rejoined with Wave and Storm, whom also had their boards in hand.
"Well, would you look at that. I was able to strike at you the fastest." Jet boasted with a grin.
Shredder was able to get back to his feet as he glared angrily at green hawk. "You annoying pigeon! You dare strike the one true Shredder?!"
"My, my..." Jet said while waving his finger. "Someone has a bad temper problem. Perhaps you need an attitude adjustment." He turned to Wave and Storm. "Let's get him!"
"Right." Wave nodded.
"I'm right behind ya, boss!" Storm said with a chuckle.
The two birds got on their boards and rode after the Shredder at high speed. The masked warrior narrowed it's eyes again as he saw the three coming towards him. As he was about to Strike, Wave and Storm splitted up from Jet. Now the Shredder wasn't sure who was going to attack first. He looked at each rogue, trying to figure out which one to take out first.
Wave went first, as she dashed after Shredder. Before the metal warrior could react in time, Wave striked at him with her trsuty wrench. The metal tool was able to make contact with his right leg. This caused Shredder to stumble, but just a little bit. While he was stunned, Storm dashed after him with his fist gripped tightly. At the right time, he smashed his fist at Shredder's left leg, causing him to stumble some more, but managed to stay on his feet.
Jet decided to wrap this up as he pulled out his fans and dashed after the stunned Shredder, hoping to make contact with him. The Shredder saw the green hawk coming towards his way. He wasn't going to fall for this a second time, so from out of nowhere, Shredder made a running boost and did a high kick to Jet's stomach, knocking him off his board. Jet flew backwards as he landed on his back while rolling on the ground in pain.
"Boss!" Storm exclaimed. The grey albatross looked over at the Shredder, whom was still standing tall. "I'm gonna make you pay for that!"
"Storm, wait!" Wave tried to stop him, but was too late.
Storm was riding his way towards Shredder with his eyes narrowed and his fist gripped again. Shredder turned to see Storm with an angered face, but he wasn't moved by this. By the time Storm swinged his fist, Shredder quickly grabbed him by the arm and threw hi moff his board with ease. Storm was sent flying in the air until he fell front-first to the ground.
"Storm!" Wave exclaimed.
Shredder turned towards Wave and stared at her. "Do you wish to take me on? Or will I kill you myself?"
Wave gritted her teeth. What was she suppose to do now?
"Hey, metal head!"
Shredder turned the other way to see Sonic and Larcen the Hedgehog standing in a fighting stance. "So you two wish to meet the same fate as the rest?"
"What are you talking about?" Sonic asked. "You crashed in here, frightened off a lot of people, and your attacking our friends. Why are you here, anyway?"
Shredder chuckled evilly. "Vermin. I'm here for the Chaos Emerald. And any who gets in my way will perish!"
"Well, then it looks like we'll have to take it to you." Larcen told him. "Ready, Sonic?"
"Right back at ya." Sonic replied back.
The two blue hedgehogs jumped after Shredder at high speed and knocked him in the chest at the same time. Shredder staggered backwards a couple of steps before managing to stop himself. He looked on to see Sonic and Larcen running after him again. Shredder tried swiping at them, but the hedgehogs proved to be too fast for him as Sonic dashed behind him while Larcen, with the power of his necklace, also dashed behind him as well. Shredder turned around, only to see Larcen standing there by himself.
"Where is that other rat?" He demanded.
"Over here." A voice called out to him.
Shredder turned the other way, but only to see Sonic doing a homing attack to his chest. The Shredder staggered backwards, and Larcen joined in as he attacked the back of Shredder's legs, knocking him backwards while landing on his back.
Sonic and Larcen rejoined together as they watched the Shredder get back to his feet.
"You inconceivable rats! You will pay for your futile efforts!" Shredder shouted at them angrily.
"Oh yeah? Just try." Sonic challenged him.
Shredder looked over at the Chaos Emerald that was still encased by the glass. Thinking quickly, Shredder jumped in the air and acrobatically landed in front of the Chaos Emerald. In a swift moment, he slashed the glass into pieces with his sharp claws. Once the glass was broken, the Shredder took the Chaos Emerald and held it in his hand.
"So this is the Chaos Emerald. It looks much different to my eyes." Shredder said with interest.
Kyla's eyes widened. "He's got the Chaos Emerald!"
"What are you going to do with it?" Sonic questioned.
"First off..." Shredder said as he glared at our blue heroes. "I'm going to take you out." He raised the Emerald in the air. "Chaos Control!"
Within a bright flash, the Shredder disappeared. Our heroes looked around the room.
"Where did he go?" Marisa wondered.
"Be on your guard." Kera told them as she gripped her Dragon Sword while protecting the ones who couldn't fight, which were Kyla. Though if she had her tennis equipment, she would be able to help out our heroes. But she had left it back in Rio Salaz, thinking that she didn't really need it.
Bad night to think that. The Shredder reappeared behind Kyla Vonstar. Kyla turned around, but only to get a large hand wrapped around her throat. Kyla tried fighting it off, but the Shredder's grip was too strong as his vice was clutched around her neck tightly.
"Kyla!" Marisa shouted in horror.
Louise had to react quickly here. She created a miniature tornado in her hand and casted it towards Shredder. The wind was able to blow Shredder off it's feet as he flew backwards until he crashed into a wall. He had released his grip on Kyla when Louise had saved her.
When Shredder was out of the way, the others went to check on Kyla.
"Kyla, are you all right?" Marisa asked with concern.
The light-blue haired female human choked a couple of times, trying to get her breathing. "I-I'm fine." Kyla said, as soon as she got her voice back.
Louise looked over at Shredder, whom was getting back to his feet. She glared at him. "Stop what your doing, or else I'm going to make you wish that you never came here!"
Shredder stared at Louise Harmon, not sure whether or not to be amused by her words. "And what makes you think you can stand up to me, woman?"
"Perhaps you don't know who I am." The sage told him. "My name is Louise Harmon. I am known as the greatest magic-user in the world, and if you harm any of my closest friends, I will destroy you!" Louise said with no fear in her voice.
Shredder took a keen interest to Louise's words. It sounded like she really meant what she said. "While I would love to test your words, I'm afraid I have no time for games." He raised the Chaos Emerald into the air again. "Chaos Control!"
Within a bright flash, the Shredder had disappeared, vanishing from the scene.
Louise took a deep breath as she looked around. A lot of our heroes were taken out. Rouge, Knuckles, Jet, Storm. Even the jewelry person, Alyson. This Shredder seemed like he meant business.
Alyson rubbed her head as Yublein and Spade went to check up on her.
"I say, my dear, are you all right?" The Tyrannosaurus Rex asked her.
"I-I'm fine..." Alyson replied a little weakly. "What happened?"
"It seemed like tin head took the Chaos Emerald and caused a bit of destruction." Spade replied, pointing out what had happened.
Alyson looked at the scene of destruction. "Oh my..." She clasped her mouth in shock. "The dance party is ruined!"
Viola was not believing was she was seeing. She didn't think things would turn out this bad. Not like this. All of this violence seemed to affect her and Samson seemed to notice this.
"Are you all right, senorita Viola?" Samson asked.
Viola didn't answer. She was just too afriad to actually say anything. By looking at her face, Samson decided to wrap his arm around her and hold her tight.
"Don't worry. I'm here for you." He told her with a grin.
"T-thanks you, Samson." Viola said with a small smile.
Wave went over to Jet, whom was recovering from his attack some moments ago. "Boy, that guy really knows how to hit hard."
"That's why we should always be careful." Wave said. "Who knows what could happen if we're not?"
Jet looked around the place. "Where's Storm?"
"Right here, boss..." Storm said weakly, as he rubbed his head in pain. "Ow...that was a hard hit if I ever felt one."
"Are you OK, Storm?" Wave asked.
"I guess so." Storm thought. "Where did that metal guy go?"
"He took the Chaos Emerald and disappeared using Chaos Control." Wave answered.
Jet's eyes widened in shock. "What?!"
"I saw the whole thing. Sonic and that other hedgehog were busy fighting him, but that guy managed to get the Chaos Emerald in disappeared with it." Wave explained.
"Oh great." Jet groaned. "Just our luck. Now who knows where that guy may have taken off to."
Sonic and Larcen joined up with the rest of our heroes. Knuckles had managed to recover, but Rouge on the other hand was injured pretty badly. There were claw marks on the side of her face, which we could see some trickles of blood.
"How's Rouge doing?" Tails asked.
"Not good." Knuckles replied. "That Shredder person must've did the damage to her."
"We'll need to get her to a hopsital." Sonic suggested. "Station Square should have one there."
"I'll call for help." Amy replied as she made her way towards a nearby phone.
The others looked down at the fallen Rouge. Larcen and Sonic got together and talked about something.
"Why do you think that Shredder person was here?" Larcen wondered.
"I don't know. But I'm willing to bet that he's working with those druids." Sonic thought.
"Do you think he might be the one responsible for the necklace stealing's?" Larcen asked.
"I want to say yes, but I don't think that guy was here for those. "He wanted the Chaos Emerald more than necklaces. Come to think of it, he didn't mention one thing about those things."
"Hmm..." Larcen was in thought. "Well, I'm not sure what exactly is going on here. But me and my friends are going to do whatever we can to figure out who that was and what do our necklaces have to do with these druids."
"OK." Sonic nodded at him. "We'll get Rouge to the Emergency Room and inform Shadow about this."
"Sounds like a plan to me." Larcen nodded once.
Sonic was in thought about the Shredder. And about the druids that were with him. Could they be after necklaces and the seven Chaos Emeralds at the same time? If so, then why? All of these weird events were getting to strange and mysterious at the same time.
A new enemy has arrived from within the Shredder. Why was he after the Chaos Emerald? Is he working for the druids? And is Sonic's theory about the Chaos Emeralds and the necklaces true? Find out on the next Lord of Darkness!
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