Disclaimer: Sonic and other characters in this book are NOT my idea, they belong to Sonic Team and Sega, and are Copywrited by Sega. I take no credit for the characters. I repeat, I take no credit whatsoever for these characters or the places in the story, such as Knothole and Mobius.

Author's Note:
Hey, people! Just to inform you, I read my fics on that site, and just now thought of this: If the reading is bothering you, just save the stories as txt. documents and use Word-Wrap. Thanks, now I'll let Skar take over.
Thank yeh. Well, this'll start the fir- er, the battle against a very powerful foe. I hope t'make it worth your time t'read. Well, here's the cast.

Sonic
Cmdr. Falco Sagot
Christin S.
Princess Sally
Miles "Tails" Prower
Alexander III (Skar)
Rotor (doesn't actually appear)
Christopher Aosis
Jestros
Jynx
Quadclaw
Viporus
Syko
Chaos
Tikal
Knuckles

{{[[Episode Ten
{{[[Mark of Chaos
{{[[Made 7/5/01


Fire Mountain.
5:00 Pm

Sonic ran into the mountain, closely followed by Falco S. and his army. He dashed up one side of the mountain. A giant, robotic dragon, controlled by Falco, flew after the hedgehog.
"Where is the android!?!?" roared Falco over an intercom.
"I don't know!! She flew off somewhere when you came!!" Sonic shouted back, jumping into a cave. The dragon tore through the cave, ripping the walls apart behind it. "Don't play stupid!! Answer me!!!" shouted Falco again, shooting a laser beam at Sonic. Sonic dodged, tripping over a rock. The rock shot a beam of light into the dragon, making it explode, and causing a cave-in. Sonic grabbed the rock and dashed out of the cave.
"This rock might come in handy!" Sonic said, tossing it up and down. He looked down at the molten rock below and saw something shimmering below.. "A Chaos Emerald!!"

He carefully scaled down the mountain, dodging fireballs along the way. Right as he picked up the emerald, the mountain started to shake..


Meanwhile, miles away.. "What are they all celebrating?" Tails asked, looking at a bunch of echidnas at some sort of festival. A little, red, glowing orb flew around Tails, saying, "This is celebrating the day that Angel Island fought for freedom from Black Isle. Several veteran pirates put up a good fight, and some of their sons and daughters survive this day."
"How come you've got to turn into a red thing when you go into town?" Christin asked.
"Well, I'm not much of one for crouds.. When someone sees a spirit, they panic." Tikal explained.
"Whoa! You're a spirit?!" Tails and Christin asked in unison.
"Yes" laughed Tikal, "You couldn't tell?"
As she said that, the whole island shook.. "Oh no!" Tikal said as Knuckles came running through the town, sounding an alarm. "Not again!"
"Attention everyone!!!" shouted Knuckles, his voice magically enhanced, "Get into shelter immediantly!!! Something has caused the island to fall!! Do not panic!! Find shelter immediantly!!" Knuckles repeated himself as everyone ran into large buildings. "Tails, follow me. Tikal and Chaos can handle the chao alone." Knuckles told Tails and Christin as he ran toward the Emerald Cave. The foxes followed, as the island shook more violently. Right as they went into the cave, they started feeling like they were on a super-fast elevator going down. Angel Island was falling.

"Sally, get out of here, now!!" Sonic shouted, grabbing Sally's hand and pulling her away from the slowly coming lava. A gaint tidal wave came and doused the volcano before it could do too much damage. "What happened?!" Sally shouted, her voice partly drowned by the sound of waves crashing. "Angel Island fell." said Knuckles, who had suddenly appeared nearby.
"Jeez, Knuckles, I wish you wouldn't do that!" Sonic said as one last wave crashed nearby.
"Sorry, it's a habit. And I see what happened here." said Knuckles, looking at the red Emerald Sonic was holding.
"...I-I caused the volcano to errupt?" Sonic asked.
"Yep."
"Nice going, Sonic!" Sally said, hiting Sonic behind the head. "You could've gotten us killed!!" she shouted.
"Ouch! I didn't know!" Sonic said. "Hey Knuckles, what's happenin'?"
Knuckles had vanished already.


"What did you say?" Christopher asked in Chaos Zone at that time.
"I said Angel Island fell before the volcano blew!!" Jynx shouted.
"This is not good... Well, we can atleast attempt an escape. SYKO!!! Now's your cahnce to prove your worth to me. Go up there and steal the Emeralds. GUARD THEM WITH YOUR LIFE!!! Got that?" Christopher said, motioning to Syko to leave. Syko nodded, hissed excitedly, then faded away out of Chaos Zone.

"Sonic, I'm sorry you couldn't find your parents.." Sally said as she and Sonic were walking back toward Knothole. Sonic was about to say something when Syko appeared out of nowhere. It hissed and charged Sonic. Sally pushed him out of the way and dodged Syko barely. It hissed angrily and grabbed Sonic with one of its claws. It drained most of Sonic's energy, then took the Red Chaos Emerald from him. It then flew as fast as it could toward Knothole.

In Knothole

"Alright, Skar... pull yourself together.. its not that hard..." Alex said to himself, walking into Knothole. He was walking toward Bunnie's hut when a semi-transparent beast flew into the villiage.
"Shoot!!" he shouted, pulling out his sword. Syko flew into the ground, tearing apart the earth and creating a huge pit.

"What's goin' on out hea'?" Bunny shouted, dashing out of her hut, sword in hand.
"Some freak just attacked." said Alex as the beast jumped out of the pit holding a yellow Emerald. The monster hissed and flew away at lightning-fast speeds, obviously stolen from Sonic's energy.
"Hey!! Come back here!!!" shouted Alex, dropping the bouquet and dashing after the beast.
Bunnie walked over to the flowers Skar dropped. "Well, what do'ya know?" she said, slightly red in the face.

"Good... two emeralds...." said Chaos, watching his minions searching for the Emeralds and putting them all in an ancient shrine. "..four... six... good job, Jestros, Jynx, Quadclaw..."

Everyone was gathered at the war room shortly after Sally and Sonic came back... Rotor was the only one who wasn't there. "What exactly's goin' on, Sal?" Dulcy asked, peering in from a window. She was getting pretty big now, and more powerful. "I heard some noises, and saw the strangest guys flyin' around."
"I know what's happening." came someone's voice in the back, creating a sudden silence, followed by a murmer of whispers. Knuckles walked up to the front. "Hey Knuckles, you coulda knocked." Sonic said sarcastically.
"Mobius is in a very dangerous situation.." Knuckles said, ignoring Sonic.
"I know Sonic has already calmed the god of destruction, Chaos. But that beast, Chaos, was created by a powerful sorceror many years ago, who also called himself Chaos. I remember the story quite well, as I've seen mages replay it in our minds.."
***********************Flash Back************************

An army marched through the woods, toward a strange place where a barren wasteland should have been. Instead, it was as peaceful a field as any, with an ancient building in the center. The soldiers, mostly echidnas from Angel Island, moved to the outer area of the shrine. "You were foolisssh to come here..." said a snake/man/beast, guarding the entrance, along with some other weird creatures.
"As you mayy recall, our Master is very busy--VERY busy-- and can't accept any visitors." said a small jester, which was part cat.
"Let us through, beasts, or else!" said an echidna, who looked quite like Knuckles.
"Why don't we let them through?" said a high-pitched voice from a bigger jester with a glass face.
"Yesss... you may.. meet our massster.." said the viper man. The five beasts flew off in five different directions as the soldiers marched closer... They were thrown back by a huge force of enegry. "No!!! We're too late!!!" shouted one of the soldiers. "Stand your ground men!" shouted the leader through the panicked shouts of his soldiers. A man floated out of the cave.. He had on a black cape, which draped down to his ankles, and was as dark as a shadow. His eyes were a light purple, and he looked no older than 18. He held out a sword with a skull making the center of its handle toward the soldiers.
"Greetings! Greetings!.. I welcome you all!!" he shouted merrily, as if he was the host of a party.
"Aww, but you have such long faces.. That's not very polite!" His eyes started glowing purple and his body radiated with dark enegry. "I guess it's time to teach you a lesson." he said, his voice becoming pure evil. He shot into the ground below the soldiers.

"Alright men.. Steady..." said the leader of the echidnas and the other soldiers. A small flame flickered out of a crack in the ground.. "RETREAT!!!!" the commander roared, trying to hurry his men away. Some other ships flew in as another flame shout out of the ground. Suddenly, a pillar of fire burst through the ground, killing three echidna and annihalating one of the ships completely. Another pillar shout out, a larger one, doing twice as much. When the flame ceased, a dark figure floated in the center of where it used to be.
"Now to finish you..."

The sorceror laughed sinisterly as colomn after colomn of fire shot out of the ground, destroyign all that was near. It wiped out over half the army and ships. A fighter jumped out of one of the ships before it exploded. He was a white fox, holding a ninja'a sword. "How dare you challenge me?" shouted Chaos, laughing still maniacally. "No matter.." He held out his hand, making water shoot out of the ground and form into a puddle of blue slime. He tossed the seven Chaos Emeralds into the puddle, and it slithered into the ground. Suddelny, a huge beast emerged from the ground, making the ground turn into a huge lake. The fox jumped onto one of the remaining small islands as the monster took form. It looked like a dragon, but its eyes were where its nostrils should have been. It had two tentacles moving aroudn it, and a cyclone circled around his neck before the rest of him went into the water.

"Kid, meet my newest creation.. the god of destruction.. Perfect Chaos!!!" boomed sorceror Chaos, followed by evil laughter as the fox got slammed by a tentacle. The fox landed on another island, barely, and sliced off the god of destruction's tentacle. It roared, but a new tentacle merely reshaped. The beast shot a beam at the man, hitting him dead on...

***********************************End Flashback**************************************

"So, this sorceror guy.. he isn't invinceable, is he?" Tails asked, a little nervous. "I mean, he's not immortal--"
"Sorry to burst your bubble, Tails, but he is immortal. And very, very powerful." said Knuckles. "You only saw ten percent of the man's power, at the most."

"Jeeze! So you're tellin' me we don't stand a chance?!" Sonic shouted.
"No, listen. He hasn't been released yet. But, the chances of getting by all of his minions by the next Solar Eclipse is very, VERY unlikely." Knuckles said.
"No way! I can kick their butts, no prob!" Sonic said.
"Then why did you get yoru energy sapped TWICE by Syko?" Knuckles mocked. A few people laughed.
"Anyway, the Black Island was a major help in winning.. I know they're pirates now," said Knuckles, looking at Alex's puzzled face, "but they used to be mercenaries. I do not know the story of how they became pirates, nor do I care much to hear it. But you have a connection to the Black Island Pirates here who's playing dumb."

Everyone looked around-- except for Alex, who looked kind of nervous. "You mean we've had one of those cutthroats with us all this time!?" a panicked voice said.
"Calm down. He hasn't slit your throats yet, has he?" Knuckles said.
"Wait a sec, don't all of them have a nickname?" Sonic asked, looking at Alex.

Alex held up his arm, revealing a tatoo of a skull&crossbones with a black snake coming out one eye and looping around the skull. "'right, Echidna-boy, y'found meh." said Alex, his accent coming back. "I'll go get m'men t'help. They'd never think of mutiny 'nyway. B'bye, ev'ry'n." He dashed out of the room, followed by an uproar of whispers.

"I must be going now. Good luck." Knuckles said, disappearing insantly.

"Great!! Guard those Emeralds with your life!!" shouted Christopher Aosis, still pwoerless, inside the shrine with the seven Emeralds. "I could absorb the Emeralds now, but I'd lose so much extra power.." he said. "Well, boys, our day is coming!! By tomorrow, we'll be free!!!!!"







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