Sorry it took so long. I've been so busy.


"Hm. I never figured Mephiles was the type to lose so easily. I guess I was right." Shadow said. He had just received his call from Knuckles about the destruction of the Chaos Emeralds' seal. Moments ago he and Rouge saw the vision the other groups had seen. Now they were in Shamar and were currently making their way through a desert, which luckily had smooth enough sand for Shadow to skate on. (Shamar is from Sonic Unleashed if you don't know.)

"So, what do plan on doing about this? Rouge asked. Shadow started to speed up as he answered.

"Well, first we have to find those Chaos Emeralds before Mephiles does. And seeing as we only have one left to find and it's right here." Shadow said as his normal expression changed to his evil smile. "This will be too easy." Rouge slowed down and pointed to a town in front of them.

"Hey Shadow, I think we better slow down." Shadow slowed himself down and skidded so fast he blew some sand into the air.

"So, this must be a small town." Shadow said looking around. "But where would a Chaos Emerald be?"

"Maybe in a place where it could control something." Rouge suggested. Shadow thought about where that would be.

"Somewhere like this town?" Shadow asked noticing all of the surrounding houses.

"Bingo." Rouge said winking. Shadow and Rouge walked around town asking if anyone knew anything about the emerald. No one seemed to know anything about a Chaos Emerald at all. Eventually they had asked almost everyone. Then Rouge remembered.

"Shadow, how 'bout trying your Chaos Control. Maybe you'll sense the emerald.

"Hm. That may work." And with that, Shadow glowed a golden aura. "CHAOS CONTROL!" The ground around them began to shake. Sand started flying through the air. A cyan emerald rose up from behind a rock. It launched itself toward the sky. While in the sky, sand flew up and surrounded it. Suddenly a sandstorm formed and a sand tornado that glowed a cyan aura was directly in front of Shadow and Rouge.

"Yeah, I totally didn't expect something like this to happen." Rouge said sarcastically.

"We have no time for this. Let's end it." Shadow charged for the tornado. However the sandstorm covered the ground with more sand. Shadow was finding it more difficult to skate. However, he felt that he had no need to skate as he had gotten close enough.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow's Chaos Control seemed to do nothing this time. Rouge, who had currently been protecting herself by hiding behind a local store, called out to Shadow.

"I don't think you can reach it. There's too much sand surrounding it." Shadow, still being unable to skate, decided to try to loosen the sand surrounding the emerald.

"CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow jumped up a launched a Chaos Spear at the center of the tornado. The sand from the sandstorm broke the spear apart before it could even get near the sand. Rouge was able to fly, but not as high as she wanted to so she just used her Screw Kick near the bottom of the tornado. Her attack went straight through it and she came out covered in sand.

"Oh, great. Now I'll need a new outfit when we leave here." Rouge said brushing herself off. Her kick didn't seem to do anything as the sand tornado made the sandstorm stronger. Shadow and Rouge shielded their faces with their arms.

"I need to get in closer somehow." Shadow said looking around.

"Maybe you could try Chaos Control again!" Rouge screamed as she flew back into the sky. Shadow jumped up and used his hover skates to stay in the air.

"CHAOS BLAST!" Shadow launched this attack, along with a punch to it to make sure it hit. The Chaos Blast hit the sand tornado, but didn't slow it down. However, some of the sand was blown away from it.

"Finally something worked." Rouge said daintily still in the air.

"Rouge look out!" Shadow screamed. But it was too late. A large gust of sand smacked into her and she fell into the ground. As she got up, she started to sink.

"Shadow, help!" Rouge screamed. Shadow looked back at her. "This sand turned into quicksand. Shadow was in a difficult situation, as his skates were covered in so much sand, he couldn't move. He looked at Rouge, the monster then at the ground. Shadow closed his eyes and his body glowed a golden aura. He levitated his body out of the sand.

"COME ON SONIC, LEND ME YOUR SPEED!" Shadow screamed as he dashed towards the tornado.


I REALLY hope you're imagining as you read. It's starting to get more interesting. I hope I can update tomorrow.