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Chapter 13
"Okay, who touched the black gem I stole as Vortex?" snapped Rift getting out of the coffin and he looked...100% normal, no flesh missing, no rotting smell, no age difference, just a regular 12-year-old pure white scaled with a red stripe dragon.
"Who are you?" said Claw tilting his head.
"Name's Rift." said Rift before he noticed Claw's eye, "PUT THAT EYE AWAY KID!"
Rift suddenly changed into Vortex and Purple Lightning crackled to life in his fist and Claw covered his eye with his hand.
"Sorry! Didn't even know I had it activated."
"Sorry. Death tends to...make you jumpy." said Vortex before he changed back into Rift.
"Death?" said Spike raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, why do you think I was in a coffin? I was dead, but that cursed gem brought me back. I put it here so nobody would use it for their own ends, strangely enough you can thank my former evil half, Vortex, for that. So what are things like now?" said Rift walking around.
"Peace with the Apes, war with the Jackals." said Spike.
"That's new. Anything else?"
"Nope, not really." said Claw.
"Hmmm, you look familiar...who are your parents?" said Rift narrowing his eyes as he looked at Claw.
"Tyrannis and Emerald."
"Tyrannis?! How's the big spike-ball doing?!" said Rift excited.
"Spike-ball?" said Claw confused.
"I gave him that nick-name due to his ability to become a living pincushion. How is he?!"
"Fine. Although he does have a bad cough and his fur has got some white strands in it." said Claw looking thoughtful, "Matter of fact, he sometimes coughs up blood."
"I'm gonna have to give him a good scare. Ha hah." said Rift getting an evil gleam in his eyes and Claw, Triple, Spike and Ashe huddle in fear.
"What? I'm twelve-years-old. I'm still a kid."
"First let's get out of here before-"
*EXPLOSION*
"-trouble finds us." said Spike before a group of Jackals enters the room.
"Give us that gem brats!" snapped the lead Jackal pointing his sword at them.
"You want the gem? You go through me." said Rift cracking his knuckles.
"Heh! Too easy." said one of the Jackals before Rift changes into Vortex before their very eyes.
"You guys may want to leave, this will get messy. And I'd rather not have somebody related to Tails to have nightmares." said Vortex cracking his knuckles.
"How'd you know I'm related to Tails?" said Triple crossing his arms.
"Dead give-away with the number of tails you have kid."
"Ah man!"
"You heard the brute, let's bolt!" said Claw grabbing Triple and the group ran out of the room but not before Ashe grabbed the shiny gem.
"Good. Now then...where were we?" said Vortex as he advanced on the Jackals.
"AAAAGGGGGHHHHH! AGGGGGHHHHHHHH! AAAAAGGGGGHH-!" screamed the Jackals as Purple Lightning flashed in the room.
*Flesh ripping*
*Bones Breaking*
*Upper body flies towards the Camera*
*Grizzly Mutilated Upper Body Slides Down Camera along with squeaking noise*
Temple Hallway Intersection
"Which way? Which way?" said Ashe holding the gem in her hands.
"Uh...left!" said Spike and unknowingly stepped on a bobby trap switch and a log came and smashed into Claw knocking him down off the ledge.
*THUD!*
"Fluffy! You okay?!" said Triple looking over the ledge.
"Yeah! Go on ahead! I'll find my own way out." said Claw and the three left without him.
"Should of figured there'd be traps in an old temple. The gem from four years ago should of been a dead give away." muttered Claw as his eyes adjusted to the darkness. Suddenly a little demon that looked like a pitch black imp with red eyes popped up in front of him.
"Hello!" said the imp with a ear-splitting grin.
"Who are you?" said Claw glaring at the imp.
"Me? Moi? I'm a figment of your imagination mate, manifested by that lovely eye of yours."
"You're an embodiment of my evil, I'm not listening to you."
"Pity, I know the way out you know..."
" Fine, but don't expect me to like you."
Claw follows behind the imp. It talks to him about what he can do and all that and how much it suits him; the Devil's Eye usually chooses individuals with dark lives. Claw becomes interested by the Eye and, forgetting about his earlier oath asks about it.
"Okay... where to begin... well you know the old story, in the beginning there was sod all right? Then the universe was created. But no one asks what was there in the darkness. Needless to say it was pretty miffed. It spent thousands of years hiding in the dark until it finally created its greatest invention; the Devil's Eye. Now the Eye is the embodiment of darkness. It tries to consume you and some people go mad and some control it pretty well. There, story time over, the end."
Once the two reach the exit, Claw exits but the imp doesn't.
"What is it Dee?"
"Can't mate, I go into the light, I go poof!" said Dee, the black imp, "Well...see ya round!"
Dee disappears into the shadows and Claw shrugs it off and walks on. Claw keeps walking and he knows he's regrouped with the other three when...
"FLUFFY!"
...he gets tackled by Triple.
"Geez, you need to learn how to NOT tackle someone when you hug them Triple." said Claw getting up and removing Triple from his chest.
"Sorry, don't know my own strength." said Triple smiling.
"I don't think you ever will."
Vortex then lands behind them with a leg bone in his jaws and then he notices Triple and hides it quickly.
"What was that?" said Triple looking at Vortex.
"What was what?" said Vortex playing dumb.
"What was just in your mouth. What was it?"
"What was in my mouth?"
"That red-white thing. What was it?"
"What was what?"
"WHAT DID YOU HAVE IN YOUR F**ING MOUTH?!" yelled Triple before he fired energy beams from his tails at Vortex sending him flying back into a tree and Triple covered his mouth in shock but was grabbed by Claw and got a bar of soap shoved into his mouth.
"Watch your mouth kid!" said Claw scrubbing Triple's mouth before he fired liquefied ice into Triple's mouth and Triple began coughing and gagging.
"I'm...*cough! cough!*...sorry...*cough! cough!*" said Triple clutching his throat.
"Next time be careful of what you say, okay?" said Claw patting Triple on the head as Vortex got up.
"Wow! That kid can pack a punch!" said Vortex reverting back into Rift, "I'll be sore for a while."
"Come on, let's head back. I'm sure we've been gone long enough." said Claw.
2 Hours Later; WarFang Gates
The group enters the gates and are instantly greeted by Backlash who looks overall the same aside from the strange layer of silver fur he has and he looks very mangy.
"Hey guys! Who's that with you?! Who? Who? Huh? Huh?" said Backlash in his hyper-speed language.
Claw clamped Backlash's mouth shut.
"Backlash, speak, slower." said Claw somewhat irritated.
"Sorry."
"Does he always talk like that?" asked Rift and he scowls when Spike, Ashe, and Claw nod. Tails then flies in and lands in front of them and Claw holds Triple back.
"Tails, your son was a potty mouth earlier." said Claw.
"What did he say?" said Tails crossing his arms and narrowing his eyes at his son.
"Tell him Triple."
"I said the "F" word." said Triple not meeting his father's gaze.
"No need to punish him Tails, I did that myself. Washed his mouth out, literally." said Claw, "He also blasted Rift into a tree."
"Rift? I thought he died in a cave-in." said Tails before he noticed the white scaled dragon.
"Technically I did, these three brought me back to life with that black gem." said Rift pointing to the gem Ashe was still holding which she tried to hide behind her back.
"What gem? Oh, butterfly! What gem?" said Ashe and everybody face-palms before Joker appears next to Rift.
"Word of advice kid: Don't call her crazy. Don't ask." whispered Joker.
"I heard that! Arkham is a place filled with candy hmm?" said Ashe glaring at Joker who pales considerably.
"Uh...I just remembered I have an appointment at the daycare center, gotta run! Can't keep the kids waiting! BYE!" said Joker before he ran off.
"What happened between the two?" asked Rift to Claw.
"Trust me, you don't want to know." said Claw.
+FLASHBACK+
4 Years Ago
"Why do you kids even hang out with Ashe? She's crazier than me and Harley!" said Joker and Harley nods before the group takes one big step away from the two homicidal pranksters-temporarily-turned-good. The two feel something tap their shoulders and they turn around to see a very angry Ashe standing behind them.
*Sounds of fighting*
After only three seconds, both Harley and Joker are on the ground beaten and bruised. Ashe turns towards them.
"I'm NOT crazy! Just disabled!" snarls Ashe at them before she is distracted by a passing butterfly.
"If anything she needs to be locked up in Arkham!" said Joker getting up.
"What's Arkham?"
"Um...a place filled to the brim with candy!"
"YAY!"
"[To Harley quietly] Remind me to tell the warden that if she arrives in our world to fill her cell with candy."
"Actually Ashe, Arkham is a place for the criminally insane." said Klaxon walking onto the scene as he ignored Joker's gestures for him to stop and Ashe angrily turns towards the Clown Prince of Crime.
"A place filled with candy, hmmm?" said Ashe glaring at them.
"Puddin', I'm scared!" said Harley as she clutched onto Joker who was shaking.
"Me too Harley, me too." said Joker.
*Sounds of fighting, pained screams, EXPLOSION*
A smoldering crater is all that remains of where the two where previously standing and Ashe walks off muttering something about "all clowns are evil" as Joker and Harley climb out of the crater, burnt to a crisp.
"I'm gonna keep my mouth shut a while. *Groans*"
"Me too, Puddin'. *Groans*"
Both fall forward and are unconscious.
+END FLASHBACK+
Rift shudders at the idea of how dangerous Ashe is when he feels tapping on his shoulder and he turns around to meet the glare of Tyrannis before he is grabbed by the throat and lifted into the air.
"Alright fool, either you drop the disguise or you'll regret it." growled Tyrannis glaring at Rift.
"Or...how about I prove I'm Rift?" said Rift with a smirk.
"Fine. Prove to me you're Rift or else you're dead-meat."
"First, put me down on the ground."
*THUD!*
"GENTLY!"
"Next time be more specific."
Rift rolls his eyes before he changes into Vortex.
"How's this for proof?" said Vortex glaring at Tyrannis.
"Not enough." replied Tyrannis crossing his arms.
"Okay then. Eat this!" said Vortex encasing his fist in Purple Lightning before he punched Tyrannis in the chest sending the Tiger/Rex/Dragon Hybrid flying into a wall.
"Uh oh." said Vortex before he got a solid uppercut to his chin and then an axe-kick to the stomach followed by a roundhouse kick.
"Ow." said Vortex getting up before he dodged a black fireball by disappearing into a black-hole and reappearing a fair distance away.
"Is that enough proof?" said Vortex hiding behind a brick wall.
"Yes." said Tyrannis.
"How did you survive?"
"I didn't."
"What? But then how-" "Am I standing before you? The black gem Ashe is holding."
"It brought you back to life didn't it?"
"Yep."
"Well, it is nice to see you again. *Coughing fit*"
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Just a very nasty cough I've had for a while."
"LOOK! Angel Island!" said Klaxon pointing towards a floating island in the distance.
"What's the island doing way out here?" said Tails looking at the island carefully.
"I don't know but I'm gonna check it out." said Klaxon morphing into his Cyborg form and having a jetpack form on his back before he blasted off. Sonic suddenly appears on the scene from a blue blur.
"Yo Tails! Mind giving me a lift to Angel Island? Something's off. Knuckles said he would be here by next week." said Sonic.
"Sure Sonic. Just let me go get the Tornado V2. Keep an eye on Triple." said Tails before he sped off, almost as fast as Sonic.
"Uncle!" cried Triple jumping into Sonic's arms and hugging him and everyone snickers except Claw.
"They don't know what they're missing." said Claw and Sonic nods.
Meanwhile; Near a Cheetah Village
A man in a brown trench coat with wild and spiky blonde hair, yellowish eyes, and a ear-splitting grin stood near the entrance of a Cheetah village.
"Hello friends. My name is Fred. The words you are hearing are in my head. I awoke this morning to find myself in a strange and wonderful place, relaxing it was to be out of that asylum but oh how I didn't find civilization...until now. The people are animals that can walk upright, the ones before me are covered in fur, oh sweet wonderful, tempting fur, and oh how I tried to break my habit but alas, I was...naaaaaaaaaaughty."
*Hair Clippers Activates*
END CHAPTER