Here we again, another chapter of Into the Unknown. At long last I have finally finished this chapter.
And I apologize with all delays my fellow readers but you see as a college student has a a lot school work to do. Now I know how well-known Youbers fell in most cases.
And thank you Teharrisonfox and Pokemongirl19 for your support as a follower and favorite
But either way, I was totally prepare for this moment and will eventually continue this story
All I want to ask, in your opinion, how is my story going along? Please, this is a story written at the era times where fanfic stories were very interesting at the time, in my opinion. And was written 4 years before submitting it to this day.
Ch 8: Instincts
"Sonic! Sonic, where are you!?" cried the young yellow fox as he ends up searching for a lost friend.
Detecting the location at his Miles Electric device, getting closer to the destination. The mystery of the unknown leads to many paths to either success or failure.
Focusing so much on his own device had nearly got the fox to lose his balance and close to falling off an unknown cliff. He felt as though he was in a different world, outside of his own mind, only focusing on one task but never bother looking at where his going at his surroundings.
Full of rubbles of stones and trees that laid to the ground as though some villainy scheme tore a hole through mother nature. When trouble goes by, there is one answer why.
Seeing the sky go from red to navy as the sun abandon the light of day made Tails a bit frighten at his surroundings.
He hears a malicious laugh close to where he is standing. Although, it was not as close Eggman's laugh but it is a lot more frightening than any villain he recognized throughout his journey.
Frightening than ever before, he refused to turn around as he knew what would normally happen in every horror movie. More evil laughs can be heard from his surrounding, scaring the fox to death. He had no choice but to look back. However, no being made an appearance as though it is smart enough to think first before acting. He looked at his communicator to scan the area in case anything shows up.
A puff of purple smoke starts to rise from the ground behind the fox, taking the form of an incomplete creature. The communicator, at the same time, makes a loud beeping sound over and over showing that a strange energy is rising dramatically. Tails quickly looked back again and this time, for a quick glimpse, saw the terrifying being.
"WAAH!" a scream was let out from his lungs and his heart beats faster as he got jump scared by the creature's devilish red eyes and razor sharp fangs. Not even aware is heading toward to the edge of the cliff and fell to the rubbles of rocks, rolling endlessly down hill.
His energy was for sure not the strongest at first, but for some reason, it raises to the top the same way the emeralds work when going into super form. Except, the wolf does not appear to possess any emeralds. Neither is his energy is positive.
The wolf starts to breathe heavily than before. His face became a lot more frightening with devilish eyes and predatory grin. The wolf's eyes glow crimson red like ruby, ones that nobody would want to mess with.
His hands were able to wrap on the echidna's hand, includes his right arm that once stood broken, that holds him on the chest. He was able clawed his prey's iron hand, leaving the echidna yelling in pain, as he is forced to let go.
He was able to swing the echidna around and threw him to tree nearby. The echidna could have sworn he had crushed arm. Something he was not able to do at first, almost as though he is using some sort of fuel, the last resort. Having the echidna experience his strength and the enormous amount of negative energy had just given him a second thought to attack.
Just when he is about to pursue him wildly to the death, he stops. He drops to the ground on fours. His malicious face began to disappear and red eyes back to emerald. Feeling as drained as ever as the energy starts to disappear, not from existing but back to normal.
'What...was...that?' he questioned in his own mind. Breathing heavily as though he was forced to run the longest marathon.
"Well, well, well, guess that little trick of yours only last a breath of your time," the echidna said as he got himself up from the tree he was thrown, "But we're still not done from here."
The echidna launched his iron fist towards the wolf again as he takes the advantage of his drained energy. Luckily the wolf was able to quickly jump to the side before he gets plastered like a flapjack. Getting up with his hand clutching at his right arm that is left dangling with no use of muscles as he, indeed, shattered his bones. Every movement from his right arm causes severe pain.
The wolf launches himself toward the echidna, forgetting about the pain, and used his left fist as his only weapon to fight back.
'Why don't I give up?' he noticed about himself the feeling of breaking the habit even though he does not stand a chance against the echidna. His punch was stopped by the echidna's gloved hand, remarkably that he did not flinch but caught his hand as though it were to be a baseball.
"And this is paying back for what you did!" he said as he swung him toward a far tree with full of rage.
The impact almost felt paralyzing to his back and fell two feet off the ground. The dizziness rages on violently as he forced himself to focus.
'Dang it!' he said to himself as he gets up and quickly entered the deep woods to escape.
The wolf feels sore and weak from the fight, but his instincts are the only thing that keeps him from giving up and staying alive. He, later on, hears a loud scream from a far distance, too high that he began to lose accuracy from the fight. The closer the sound gets to his ears, the more he becomes blind. The noise also hurts his eardrums like a high pitch sound is heard. He covers his ears as tight as he can, but the sound could still be heard. His weakness has a greater advantage for the red echidna who will not give up the fight.
"What's the matter, dog face. Becoming weak? We haven't even started" he taunted as he prepares himself for another large punch to strike the wolf. But later on, he hears a scream coming closer as well, he looked around and did not get an accurate location at where the sound is coming from. "Tails!?"
Before he knows about his surroundings, he looked at the direction where the noise was heard and saw a yellow fuzz ball heading towards him. He was, yet, too late to react as he ends up rolling with the fluff ball down the hill until they both clashes on a tree, with the wolf crashing first. Leaving the wolf had blacked out.
A moment later after
Tails' side
"Ugh...what was tha-", he felt a strong breathe blowing on his shoulder which made him shiver in fear. Considering something soft behind his back, thought he perhaps hit a tree which made him stop rolling down the hill, but it was something more than that.
He shot forward with fear and found an unconscious wolf by the tree which they stumbled upon, his ears twitching, wet nose sniffing, bare teeth slightly showing his sharp fangs. His presence is very unusual, the fact that the being has fine short hair bundle together to make his pelt thicker and his fringe style that stood slanted, covering his right eye.
As soon as the wolf came to conscious, shaking the dizziness away, he saw a yellow being standing in front of him with fear in his eyes. A distinct appearance of a young fox is no older than his own age and bright sapphire eyes.
Tails have realized the moment the wolf's bangs revealed his right eye while he looked up, the fox noticed his emerald eyes that glowed with the light of the moon that shines wonderfully.
The wolf's ears twitched again, hearing the echidna from a far distance. He tries to get up but would not find a way to get himself out of the tree because he has no support from his right arm and left leg, which he eventually injured it while rolling down the hill.
"Here! Let me help," he said as he reached out his hand to support him.
But instead of taking the extra help, he nudges fox's hand away. Saying 'I have no need for your support'. His ears start to twitch violently again as he hurried on fours but fell on his chin first and gave a yelp at his pain.
"Hold on! You shouldn't be doing-!" the fox yelled with worriedness in his voice.
With so much frustration, pain, and the sound of his voice bouncing in his head, the wolf snarls at the fox with anger in his eyes. Telling him to 'stay away'. He got himself up on fours again, stumbling, and carried away into the deep woods in the dark night as he disappears.
"Tails! Are you alright? Did he harmed you?"
"Yeah and...no...but who is he?"
"Hmph. Just someone who tries to complete with me. But don't worry 'cause I gave him a lesson for showing up to take the emerald again and I doubt he will be coming back."
"What do you mean again, Knuckles?"
"He attacked me the other night as well and I am positive with that negative energy, it has to be him"
To be continue...
Mysterious ending right?
