Hi guys I am sooooo sorry I havent updated, ive been so busy making up missing work, trying to get a C back up to an A, but still, I feel terible I havent updated in a month, so to make it up to you, heres the next chapter!
Chapter 12 Memories of the Past
The four of them found themselves on a grassy green hill
Tails was the first to wake
He slowly got up and rubbed the back of his head feeling slightly dizzy
"Oh my aching head" he complained
He looked over to see the others slowly comming to
"where are we?" asked sonic
"what happened to the temple?" asked knuckles
Cream just yawned
She curled up on tails lap
Tails blushed
"Um cream, its time to get up" he said slowly nudgng her
Her eyes fluttered open
"Tails?" she asked groggily,
She looked to see she was on his lap and quickly got off
"erm, so uh where are we" she asked
Tails looked around
"It seems we're back in the forest" he replied
A small ball of red light buzzed around them
"Your awake" It said
Tails looked at the ball
"Where are we?" sked sonic
"This is the past, I have brought you here for you to witness, what those emeralds did to our once peaceful island" it replied
Knuckles looked around
"So this, is the past?" he asked
The ball buzzed around them
They were engulfed in a white light
They woke up in an ancient city, made of stone
They looked around to see they were no longer in the forest
"Hey tails, any idea where we are?" asked sonic
Tails shook his head
"not a clue" he replied
Sonic sighed
"Mr. Knuckles, do you know where we are?" asked cream
Knuckles didnt move, his gaze was fixed on the city
"This this is echidnaopolis!" said knuckles
"Echidnaopolis?" asked sonic
Knuckles nodded
"The once humble city of the echidnas" he replied
Tails ears perked up
"Wasnt that city said to be lost ages ago?" asked tails
The ball flew over to them
"Yes what you see before you is the once humble city of our clan" it said
She turned the gang towards the large pyramid that stood before them
At the bottom of the steps was a young tan colored echidna girl, and a larger Dark red echidna was tribal markings and a large broad spear
"Father please, i beg of you" she pleaded
Sonic looked at the ball of light
"Whats going on?" he asked
"Please pay attention' it said
Sonic shrugged and turned back to the two
"Tikal, you know its for the good of our people!" the other shouted
The young girl shook her head
"No it wont benifit our people, it will only encourage your own selfish desire!" she argued
The echidna glared at his daughter
"I will no longer listen to the words of a child!" he shouted
Tikal started to tear up
"Bah be gone, out of my sight" he shouted
The girl ran straight for the gang
"Hey slow down!" said sonic
The girl ran right through him, and past the gates
sonic clenched his stomach
"That was weird" he replied
Tails looked up at sonic
"Sonic, were in someones memmories, we have no physical appearence" he explained
Sonic nodded
"She ran off that way" said cream pointing
The ball soped past the gates and circled around them
"This way" it called
Sonic looked at the others and nodded
They all chased after the ball of light
They eventually ended up at the master emerald shrine
The girl sat on the steps crying
Sonic walked up to her and lent out a hand, but it passed through her body
The others looked concerned
The ball of light appeared before sonic
"The dispair she suffers, is nothing compared to what she will later this night" it replied
"Why what happens?" asked knuckles
The ball flew around them engulfing them in another white light
They blacked out once more
Mean while in the temple (Present day)
there was a faint beeping noise comming from outside the doors
It steadily increased in speed
There was a huge explosion as the ancient stone doors were easily cleared
the smoke started to clear, as a fammiliar bat stepped into the sanctum
"Hmph not a very strong security" she said to herself
Her eyes darted around the room
They fixed on the pedestal and the glittering gem upon it
"Aha there you are my precious chaos emerald." she said walking over to it
"She plucked it off the perch and poketed it
"now that was easy" she said
She turned around to see the others standing
She sweatdropped
"Uh this isnt what it looks like, you beat me to the emerald fair and square" she said
They didnt answer
"Hello?" asked rouge
she walked up and waved a hand infront of sonics face
she lightly tapped him, and he fell to the ground
Rouge sighed
"Well now, it looks like as if theyve seen a ghost..." she said
Rouge smirked
"Well that makes my job much easier" she replied walking over to cream
She opened the handbag and pulled out another emerald
"thats one" she said
She checked everyone else
"hmm clever fox, mustve hidden it somewhere else" she sighed
"oh well, i still got more than i bargained for" she said taking off
She stopped in midflight and placed a small note on the pedestal
"That shoud keep them busy" she said flying off
Meanwhile at the master emerald shrine (Past)
Sonic and the others woke up to see everything get darker
"Hey who turned out the sun?" asked sonic
"Its nightime" replied cream
"Father Please" said a voice
They looked over to see the same girl, only her father had a whole hoard of echidnas behind him
"Silence tikal, This is for the good of our people, and they are your people too!" he shouted
Tikal refused to listen
"No, greed is our enemy, once you have it, you will always want more!" she said
Her father stared her down with anger in his eyes
All of the other echidnas eyes showed a lust for power
Tikal still stood bracing herself for the worst
"I Have no need to listen to the words of a child" he said coldly
Tikal gasped
"Ready men, CHARGE!!" he shouted at the top of his lungs
"FATHER!!" she screamed
The villagers stormed her and the chao, trampelling over her, leaving her hurt, and abbandned
The gang gasped
"H-how could anyone do that to their own daughter?" asked cream
The ball of light flew to them,
"It gets worse" it said
The guards set the shrine aflame,
Its cinders burned brilliantly in the night,
Panchamac, along with the other echidnas charged up the stairs
Before them the master emerald, glowed a bright green
"What?" he asked
The water that encircled the emerald poured out into a puddle before them
"What sorcerry is this?" asked an ecidna guard
A creature rose from the puddle
its body was completley made of water with two green eyes, and a working brain
"Wahh its a monster" screamed the guards running off,
Panchamac watched them flee
"Cowards!" he shouted
The creature looked at him
"If you think your keeping me from that power, think again beast!" he shouted charging at the creature
It strentched its long watery arms at him, knocking him flying back, off the shrine
Sonic gasped
"What is that thing?" he asked
"That is the god of chao chaos" replied the light
"Thats chaos?" asked tails
They watched as it reppeled the guards from the emerald
tikal slowly woke up and gasped to see chaos filled with rage
She got up and ran up the steps infront of chaos
"Please chaos, i know you are angry, but please heed my cry" she said
Chaos looked down at Tikal
"Please stop this senseless fighting" she pleaded
Chaos slowly lowered its arms
"Please, these creatures, the chao, they only want for you to be happy," she replied
Chaos nodded
Tikal smilled
"Thank you" she replied
She embraced him lightly
Sonic smilled
"Looks like thats over" he sighed
"Its not over yet..." replied the ball of light
Panchamac sprung forth from behind chaos
"Unhand my daughter, you missarable beast!" he shouted
He drove the spear through chaos's weakspot, his brain
Everyone gasped
Chaos writhed in pain as it pulled the spear out His eyes glowed blood red, filled with anger, rage and turmoil
It launched panchamac, and tikal flying in opposite dirrections
It the jumped onto the master emerald
"Tails. what is it doing?" asked cream horrified
"Im not sure" was all tails could say
The creature held out its arms and emmited a soft cry
The seven chaos emeralds lifted from their perches, and circled around chaos
The spun around him then absorbed into his watery body
A huge white flash occured, creating a huge Gust blowing everyone backwards
"What happening!" asked sonic
"I dont know!" replied knuckles
The skies turned stormy and dark, it started to rain and thunder
Before them stood a large body of water, its head formed the shape of a serpentine dragon
Its large body engulfed the entire shrine, and many of the villagers, drowning them in the process
"Cream looked shocked and horrified and clung to tails chest
Tails .sonic, and knuckles were all terrified as well
"Is that truly the power of the seven emeralds?" asked sonic in astonishment
"With that much power, who knows what one could do" replied tails
The creature slunk away from the shrine towards the city
They all ran after it
It aprroached the city and emmited a terrifiyng roar that schoed throughout the entire island
It charged a beam in its mouth, and fired it catching the entire city on fire, causing many civillians to run for their lives in sheer terror
It slammed a large tentacle down on the pyramid smashing it to pieces
"This is not good, this thing could destroy the world!" shouted sonic
"And it did" replied the light
They stared in horror as it slunk off the island into the sea
The light buzzed around them emitting yet another white flash
They woke up, to see the entire island, along with most of the world destroyed
"Chaos, your reign of terror is over!" shouted a voice
They all looked to see tikal standing next to the master emerald
The beast knocked her down with a bone shattering roar
"The servers are the seven chaos" she began
The beast moved closer
"Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart" she continued
Chaos was now looming over the remains of the shrine
"The Controller is the one that unifies the chaos!" she shouted
The emerald pulsed green
Chaos pulled back a large tentacle
"Please, I care not what happens to me, but i wish for this world to know its peace" she pleaded
Chaos slammed the tentacle down
The emerald flashed green, freezing time keeping chaos from attacking
The large body of water dissolved before her, reverting back to his original form
Chaos looked around clulessly
Tikal smilled
She then truned back to the emerald
"Master of emeralds, please, seal us away, where we along with the rest of this world may live in peace" she asked
Chaos walked up from behind her
Sonic and the others watched in astonishment
Both of their boddies glowed white, as they dissapated into the light, sealing themselves away in the emerald
Sonic smiled
"Glad thats over" he said
The ball of light buzzed around them once more
They oppened there eyes to find themselves back in the temple
"Was I dreaming?" asked sonic
Tails and the others slowly woke up
"I had a really weird dream" replied cream
Tails went up to cream
"I dont think it was a dream cream, it felt to real, and we all experienced it right?" he asked
Cream nodded
Tails looked at the pedestal and saw the note
He picked it up and scanned it
"Sonic, look at this!" he said with a worried face
Sonic took the note and read it aloud
Well, now, looks like I win again hedgehog, but no use fighting over it, after all i got what i came for, and more wink
Sincerely Rouge the bat
Sonic slammed a fist in the ground
"shoot now we lost another one" he said
"what did she mean by "and more?" asked knuckles
Cream felt her bag was slightly lighter
she oppened it and realised something
"Mr.Sonic, Tails, the emerald is missing!" she shouted
"WHAT!?" they shouted in unison
They both sighed,
"Great now we only have one emerald" said sonic
"Thank goodness its still in the Tornado 2" replied tails
They all sighed
"Where do you think she took them sonic?" asked tails
"Beats me" replied sonic
"All I know is, that well get them back!" he shouted triumphantly
Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest
Rouge entered the door to a large facility
"Alright here, are your emeralds" she said handing them to him
The doctor checked the bag to fing two of the emeralds
"well, where is the third?" he asked
Rouge shrugged, "Couldnt find it, wasnt in the foxes posession" she said
"Hmph and you call yourself a treasure hunter?" he asked
Rouge shot him a nasty look
The doctor stood up and started to walk off
"Well, these will do for now." he said storing them in a vault
Rouge stood behind him
"ahem, arent we forgetting, MY part of the bargain?" she asked
The doctor scowled
"Yes yes, here" he said handing her a small bag
She oppened it to see it was filled with rare and finly cut rubbies, saphires, and all kinds of gems
She smilled then frowned
"What, is that all?" she asked
"When you retrieve me all seven, well talk about more" he replied
She smirked
"whatever eggy, see you around" she said leaving
"Eggman grinned
"wait now rouge, I have a new proposition for you!" he said
She turned around
"Im listening" she replied
"You might as well deserve a prize for your hard work," he said
Rouge raised an eyebrow
"Being the hunter you are, im sure youll locate this stone with no difficulty whatsoever" he replied
"Rouge eyed the holoscan Dr eggman put up
It showed the master emerald shrine
"Well, now, how genourous of you" she replied
She flew off towards the shrine
Eggman grinned,
"Yes rouge, enjoy that little trinket, what i require is of much more use" he sneered
On his screen were articles and pictures of the god of destruction chaos
"Just you wait sonic!" he laughed maniacly
Whats, this, Rouge working for Dr.Eggman, and what does he have in store for our heroes? find out next time in Chapter 13!!
Untill then, Ciao!