CHAPTER 6

Tails put the gem down and put his hands up.

"Please listen to me! You are all in danger! These very bad people are trying to take all the emeralds and take over the world! Please! You have to believe me!!"

The women looked at Tails. There was a long pause. The head woman walked up to Tails.

"You pup tell truth?" the leader woman asked.

"Yes! They have robes and dark faces and try to take the emeralds from everyone!" Tails said. The women put their spears down.

"You pup not lie." She turned to her tribe, "We give stone. Pup no lie. Evil magician come and try to take earlier. She bad. Pup speaks the truth." She turned back to Tails. "Pup, you come with hedgehog and eat with us?"

Tails looked at Shadow.

"Sorry, we have to find the other emeralds before the 'evil magician' takes them and tries to take over the world." Shadow replied.

"Ahh, I see. Good-bye. Be safe on you journey." The woman said and bowed.

"Yes take care young ones. Save our world from yonder evil!" Sir Roland said.

Tails picked the emerald up and pocketed it. "Thank you! Bye!" Tails waved to the group and ran off with Shadow.

****

"We have got to get out of here!" Knuckles said to Sonic. Sonic was on the floor and stared off into space.

"Amy." Sonic said. He felt bad that he couldn't help her.

"Hey Sonic! Snap out of it!" Knuckles hit Sonic upside the head. Sonic looked at Knuckles.

"What are we going to do? Knuckles, they won't let us or Amy go until I tell tem where the chaos emeralds are." Sonic said.

"Why you? What do you know?" Knuckles asked.

"Aww, I hid 'em all so that this wouldn't happen!" Sonic kicked at the ground. "But apparently they found out it was me."

"Oh." Knuckles said.

There were a few minutes of silence between the two boys. Sonic walked over to the barred window and peeked out of it. The sun was setting.

"That hooded girl is gonna come for me soon." Sonic said. "I wonder what she possibly could do to me." Sonic went over to the corner that Knuckles was sitting in and flopped down next to him.

"Sonic." Knuckles said. Sonic looked at him. "Sonic, how long have I known you?"

Sonic thought for a minute. "Three years, now that I think about it. Why Knuckles what's up?" (A/N: Remember that peeps? Knuckles was fifteen when he met Sonic. He is now eighteen. Thus three years. ^w^)

"Well-" Knuckles was cut off again by the guards.

"Come on Hedgehog. Let's go." The guard opened the door and pulled Sonic off the floor. They took him out of the cell for the millionth time and closed the door behind them. They took him down a different corridor and to a tiny room. It looked like a bedroom and there were candles lit and a tall woman standing in the middle of it. The guards threw him in and closed the door. The woman turned around.

Sonic's eyes widened. She was beautiful. She was a snow white fox with powder blue eyes and glossy dark pink hair. She wore a maroon dress that revealed her black thong and her cleavage and black boots that rose up to her knees. She also wore a gold necklace with a jade stone in the pendant. She really wasn't much taller than Sonic himself.

"I am Kilashandra. I hope that you are not offended by the bit-personal touch to the room." She walked past him and flaunted her fluffy white tail in front of his face.

"So Sonic, please. Would you tell me where the chaos emeralds are hidden? Just one at least?"

Sonic took a second to recover. "Uhh, you have to promise me one thing."

Kilashandra took a step closer to him and came up to him with a seducing stare. "Sure, what is it?"

Sonic gulped in a breath of air. "D-don't harm Amy Rose in any way." He closed his eyes.

"Oh? Is that all?" She asked.

"Hmm. No! Don't you hurt Knuckles in any way as well!" Sonic said, trying not to look at her.

"You are sure now?" Kilashandra asked.

"Promise me, Kilashandra!" Sonic yelled.

"Fine. I promise that no one will hurt the echidna or that other girl, Okay?"

Sonic took a deep breath, regretting what he was about to do.

****

After Tails and Shadow's adventure in Aquatic Ruin, they entered Ice Cap Zone.

"Wow it is cold here." Shadow said.

"Believe me, you'll be thankful." Tails said. He pointed to the loop-de- loops, cliffs, snow banks and the long path ahead. "I know just where the emerald is here!" Tails said. "Come on!" Tails ran off, leading the way.

Shadow followed Tails through the snowdrifts and loops until they got to a trampoline suspended in the air. Tails jumped on it and flew out of sight. Shadow drew in a deep breath and jumped on it as well.

When he looked again, he was in a cave with Tails. A long tunnel was there in front of them.

"Let's go." Tails said. "There is just a clear path from here to there."

They walked down the long tunnel. When they finally made it to the end, they saw the woman in a robe there picking up the blue chaos emerald.

"Ah! Runt!" She said as she placed the emerald in the folds of her robe. "I could finally get a true two for one deal. The price was the freezing cold and the prize is you and the chaos emerald! Ho! Good, now come along." She stepped closer, prepared to lash out and grab him. Shadow rushed in front of her.

"You!" She yelled. "You are always in the way! Why don't you just leave?"

Shadow smirked, "No, I think not. Ha, you can't even get rid of a little fox. How can you hope to get rid of me?"

"You. I HATE you!" She smacked him across the face. Blood trickled down from Shadow's lips. Tails gasped. Shadow smirked again.

"Bitch." Shadow said.

"How did you know about this place?" Tails asked.

"Oh a certain somebody told me, fox boy."

Tails' eyes widened. "Sonic. he-he told?"

"You'll be surprised what you can get out of people when you have two hostages." She said smugly. Tails and Shadow had their mouths hanging open.

"So long, fools!" She threw a ball on the ground and it exploded, making smoke where it was before. When the smoke cleared, Kilashandra was gone.

"Aww, crap." Shadow said. "Now they have two emeralds."

Tails walked over to the pedestal where the emerald was. He began to push on it.

Shadow looked over at him. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Help me push this pedestal away!" Tails pushed harder.

"Okay, but what is it gonna do?" Shadow walked over to him and began to help him push the pedestal. With the two boys pushing, it gave way to reveal a latched trap door.

"Did she not think to check everywhere?" Tails opened the latch and pulled the door. Underneath, there was the silver chaos emerald.

"Tails? How did you know about that?" Shadow asked.

"I put it there by myself. I told Sonic that there were only six emeralds. Unfortunately, he is not so smart."

"He believed you." Shadow said.

"Yeah. That's why I'm always with him. I'm like his common sense and brain. Although some times, he proves himself to be quite intelligent." Tails said, pocketing the emerald.

"Some times your cunning amazes me as well. You are pretty smart for a thirteen-year-old." Shadow said as they walked out of the cave.

"What do you expect? I'm a fox!"

****

"You told?!" Knuckles shouted.

"Sorry." Sonic mumbled.

"Sorry. SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT!!" Knuckles fumed. "Sonic, you can't say anymore! No more! No matter what!"

"Knuckles! They threatened to kill you. Amy too."

Knuckles looked down. "Hey, sorry Sonic."

"You should be! Do you know how much I-" Sonic caught himself. Knuckles eyes widened, "Forget it. Forget that I said anything." Sonic went to a corner and sat down. He laid on the ground and closed his eyes. Knuckles started toward him.

"No.go to sleep." Sonic said angrily. Knuckles went to the other side and laid down and went to sleep.

****

The sunlight poured in through in little sections on the floor. Some of them landed on Knuckles' head. He opened his eyes groggily and looked around. He looked where Sonic slept last night. He wasn't there. Knuckles looked down. There he was. Sonic had slept near Knuckles. 'Probably for warmth.' Knuckles thought, 'But maybe. no. Sonic isn't like that.' Sonic snuggled closer. 'Is he?' Sonic snored. Knuckles sweatdropped. That's about the time when Knuckles realized that he was all wet.

"Damn it Sonic! Get off of me!" He pushed (rather regrettably, mind you) Sonic off himself and wiped himself off.

"Sheesh. What's wrong?" Sonic asked sleepily.

"You DROOL when you sleep and I was your pillow!"

Sonic sweatdropped. "Ne. sorry. You are a grump when you wake up, aren't you?"

Knuckles growled at Sonic. Sonic laughed tensely.

"I hope Amy had a better night than us." Sonic said. Knuckles stopped glaring at Sonic and agreed.

****

Amy sat in her room and looked around. She was bored. She dangled her feet from the side of the bed and then flopped down on the bed. She played with the corner of the sheets.

"I wish they'd let me see Sonic. I want to hug him. I miss him so much." She sat up. "I have got to find a way to get me and Sonic out of here."

Amy got up and went to her door. She put her hand on the handle and turned but the door was locked. Amy thought a moment.

"This is a big castle. There must be another way out." She looked around her room again. She spotted a candlestick on the wall.

"Hmm. I wonder." Amy walked over to the candlestick and pulled. She expected some thing extravagant to happen like a secret door to open or something. It broke off the wall.

"Obviously not." That is when she saw the sign that said 'secret exit'. She smacked herself upside the head. "Of course."

She walked up to it and pulled the lever. She waited a moment. Nothing happened. She pulled it again. Still nothing. Amy sighed. She pulled it again.

"What the hell is this supposed to doo-oooo?!" Amy fell through a trap door underneath her. She screamed and the door closed.

****

Thanks for bearing with me folks. I have all honors classes and all sorts of homework and projects and hardly any time to do anything. but that's what I get for being 8/346 in my class. So thanks again, readers. I hope you enjoy this fic as much as me. I get a kick out of it but unfortunately my sister Pixie doesn't. Oh well. See you next chapter! Taiora Yaganouchi