Sonic awoke in the middle of the night to something shaking his shoulder, "Get up Sonic." a familiar voice said.

Sonic shot up nearly hitting his head on the roof to see if his ears were playing a trick on him. He looked around and saw a blur next to him, "...?"

"What do you think your doing here?" it asked, they sounded like they were in deep pain.

"Knuckles?" Sonic asked. He stood up and as his eyes adjusted he saw him there, his stomach still bandaged and he had his hand over the wound as if to keep it from getting any worse. "Knuckles how did you..."

"You said you wouldn't go out." he said ignoring the question.

"Yeah but you're still hurt how did you get out here?"

"I glided." he said simply, "Now what made you think you could get out here yourself?"

"The same thing that made you come out looking for me." he said crossing his arms.

"Is there another stupid hedgehog around here looking for Shadow?" he asked angrily.

"There's Amy." he answered.

"What?"

"Yeah. She's out there with that Shadow guy, she's probably scarred and he's probably gonna eat her!" he said throwing his hands up.

"Sonic how many times do I have to tell you vampires don't eat their..."

"He could have already eaten her!" he said even louder.

Knuckles covered his mouth, he flinched back in pain, "We don't know where they are you need to SHUT UP!" he yelled at him.

Sonic nodded and moved so he could talk again, "So how did you get here? What about the Master Emerald?"

Knuckles crossed his arms, "It wasn't easy getting here, gliding was especially hard but I made it... and I got Rouge to go back and watch it." he said looking down at the ground.

"How did you do that?"

"I... promised her a gem." he said and sighed, "I'll worry about getting one to her later though, we're close and we need to..."

"No. You need to go back." he said Knuckles started to protest but Sonic held a hand up, "No, you're hurt Knuckles you practically have a hole through you and you could hardly glide." he said pointing at his stomach, "You can't stand up to that vampire again."

"Yeah? You're just one hedgehog, there's 2 vampires at least and who knows what else is with him!! He could have a murderous killing machine with him waiting for some stupid blue hedgehog to pop up so he can get rid of him! No way are you going alone, I'm going with you!" he said pointing to himself. "We leave tomorrow morning." he said like there was no other way.

The strange creature led them into a different room, while all the halls looked the same this room was a more rusty color and looked painted or smoothed down instead of just a rock, making it seem more like a home. Terri took a seat in one of the two couches and she pointed to the one across from her, it was the same brown-red color as the one she was one, probably from all of the dust floating around here.

Shadow sat down and Amy sat next to him, there wasn't much detail in this room other then some border decoration near the ceiling, so she had nothing to look at or focus on besides this blue talkative dragon or the very grumpy Shadow. She just kept her eyes on the dragon.

"Ok." she said relaxing back into the chair and clapping, "So who's first?" she asked.

Shadow didn't let Am open her mouth, "Where is everyone?" he asked coldly.

"Well 25 years ago after your no show the dragons and echidnas moved to a different area."

"B..." Amy tried to say something but Shadow cut her off.

"Where?"

"Well that is classified, I can't tell you even if I wanted to." she said, "But if this whole... thing doesn't work then they said to tell you."

"Why did they only send one at a time?"

"Again, after your disappearing act they waited around for a few years but didn't want to wait 25 more years. So..."she said taking a breath and pointing to herself, "They send someone every five years and well yours truly got to come when this whole thing was gonna happen."

"Do you even know..."

"Nope." she said, "I have no idea what to do." she said, "They're supposed to send someone who was around 50 years ago to help and someone who was around 25 years ago that saw the last dark moon to help but..."

"So you guard this place yourself?"

"Yeah I guess, not like anyone could get in it's a mountain." she said smiling.

"So you're like Knuckles?"

"What? Knuckles?" she asked and looked at her own knuckles, "How?"

"That's a good point." Shadow said calmly, "If there are echidnas why did they lead Knuckles to believe he was the only one left?"

"Oh so he's a person!" she said smiling and sitting up, "She sat back with a thinking face, "Hm... Knuckles Knuckles... oh yeah!" she said suddenly remembering, "That guy... well they didn't."

"What? Knuckles said he was the last one." Amy protested.

"The last guardian of the master emerald." she corrected. "He's not the last one he knows that, but he's the last one to watch that emerald of his." she explained. "So unless he has a kid...wait do you KNOW him?!"

"...yes?" she asked, the only part of all this she thought she understood was now confusing to her.

"Oh where is he!!"

"He's hunting us." Shadow stepped in. "He was anyways. I sent them back quiet a ways to give us more time..." he said and then went back to his questions, "So are they sending two echidnas or is there a dragon coming?"

"There's a..."

"Wait a minute you to keep going on and on and my head hurts now! Go back and explained all this again!"

The dragon was quiet, "Well you see once upon a time there where these two echidnas." she said holding up two fingers, "and they loved each other VERY much." she said mashing her hands together.

"No!" Amy stopped her little explanation, "Go up to... 50 years ago."

"Ooooooooooooooh." she said. "I can't."

"Why not..."

"Well the only one that knows exactly what happens is him." she said pointing to Shadow.

"Me?" he asked looking at her, "What about the person that was around 50 years ago YOU mentioned."

"Well 50 years is a LONG time for an echidna so..."

"...So they're crazy?"

"Crazy is a strong word but... well after 25 years of living in a rock...the details started to get a little, hazy. Plus, every time the story was told it was always a little different. So well you would know better then me." she said, "OR they could have made it LOOK like it was changing so the real details were secret and they could have told you to keep the story different so no one would really know what happened and..."

"No." he hissed, he looked like he was ready to rip her in two. "I know what happened I can tell you." he said, "But I won't. Not yet." he said "You're still not done telling your part."

"Can you work all of the things here?" Amy asked getting a little more into the conversation but still confused beyond compare.

"Well... you see I can work..."

"I thought you can work anything but the TV."

"Hey! Well... I can work some of the labs... and well that's about it, I'm only good with chemistry." she said smiling, "Oh but I can also,"

"Shut up."

"But don't you wanna here about my stories? Like the time that the crazy nut job came saying he was a..."

"No. I found out all I needed, I'm leaving, so talk to Amy." he said getting up; and leaving before the girl could say anything. He walked down the hall and into a bedroom, sat on a bed, and held his head.

Amy looked back at the girl, "..."

"Ok so. Mr. Sunshine is Shadow... who are you?" she asked as she stood up and stretched again.

"Oh I'm Amy." she said smiling, she stood up, "Who are you?"

"I'm Terri!" she said smiling, "Terri the Dragon."

"Dragon? So did the dragons and the echidnas live together?"

"Yeah... du-uh." she said shrugging like it was obvious, "They say that the echidnas were first and a few of the scattered dragons joined them because they searched for knowledge as did the echidnas. They were peaceful and lived together blah blah... but you wanna know what I think?"

"Ok." she said trying to keep up. She seemed to say 3 sentences in one breath.

"Ok... So I say that the echidnas where there and a 2 dragons came and they fell in love with them and well, you know." she said squishing her hands together again, "And well they CLAIMED to want to know knowledge but really they just wanted.." she went on for a few minutes explaining this while Amy just smiled and nodded like she understood. This Terri girl just thinks most things have to do with romance and... you know.

"Right?"

Amy stopped thinking about what she just herd and looked more focused, "Wha?"

"You agree right?"

"Yeah.. sure." she said, "Um so..."

"So how long have you been with your boyfriend?" she asked cutting her off. "26 years right?"

"Um... no."

"Oh... 27?"

"..no." she said, "We arn't even together."

"Oh... did he get in a fight because you wanted to be a vampire longer and live with him forever but he didn't want to because he wanted a kid and you cant do that when your a..."

"No." she said quickly almost laughing at the idea, "I've only known him for a few days."

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

"...so.

"So what's the weather like outside?" Terri asked.

"What?"

"Yeah! I've only seen outside 25 years ago!"

"What? How old are you?" Amy asked sorta confused.

"34." she said shrugging.

"You look..."

"15? I know, dragons age a bit different then you our prime age is 30-60 instead of 18-30 like you guys."

"...?"

"You see dragons aren't from here, we came form a different world altogether. But that world wasn't doing it for us so we just moved here." she said flicking her ear. "It's kind of interesting how they got here you want to hear it?"

"Not really."

"Well you see it all started..."

Amy stood up, "Sorry I have to go," she said.

"Why? Not like there's anything else to do around here but... she sat up quickly, OH I know! YOU want to go find your boyfriend and tell him you love him cause he screwed that part up when he was supposed to tell you a few minutes ago!!"

"Well not really I just." she said trying to explain that she just wanted to get a drink of water or something, he throat was dry and she was not about to have blood.

"No no, don't deny it, come on let's go find him." she said standing up and grabbing her wrist and walking out, "So what's it like outside?" she asked again.

"You know you can just go and see yourself." she suggested, she didn't even get why she didn't do that already if she was so curious.

"And give you guys 'Alone time'?" she asked and just giggled, "Ok, this is so exiting!" she said happily. She stopped at a closed door and looked at Amy. "Ok he's in there." she whispered suddenly. "Just go in and say it I'll be outside." she said.

"Wait." Amy whispered back, "How do you know he's in there what f it's a monster?"

"Isn't it obvious he's in there?" she asked confused with her, "Don't worry it's him just go in."

"I don't know if..."

Terri knocked on the door a few times. "Yes you do."

There was a noise in the room the door opened and Shadow was standing there glaring down at them. Before even Shadow had time to react Terri shoved Amy into him, they both fell down, and Terri flew out of there quietly shutting the door after them and going to go outside.