The Ninjas of Mobius
By Firehedgehog
Firehedgehog@excite.com
Chapter Five
"Okay, now we carefully pull
back the cloth from around the childs face," the doctor
instructed Bunny and Bunny nodded.
She did as she was told, and as soon as they
pulled the cloth off the child
Bunny discovered the child was an echidna.
Carefully they pulled the rest of
the clothing off and she saw that the child was female,
then she let the doctor clean the
wounds and put the bandages on the child which she
had yet to learn how to do
correctly.
As Bunny was putting blankets over
the child she noticed the necklace around the
childs neck and she admired the
workmanship of the silver heart, finally she was done
putting the blankets on the child.
"Thank you Bunny for the help,
I've been having an overload of patients lately and you
helping me today really
helped," the doctor said with a smile, Bunny smiled and left the
hut for her home since she was so
tired.
Sally looked at the child in the
bed, a bandage was wrapped around her head like a
bandana. The girl she noticed was in
very good shape other then the obvious injuries,
the doctor told her that the
injuries were caused by a swatbot.
"Saph... ," the girl
suddenly said in her sleep, Sally quickly wrote down the name the
child had said, whatever she had
just said could tell them where she had come from or
who her parents were.
"Sapphier... ," the girl
said and sally blinked, the word Saph and Sapphier sounded the
same so they might be the same thing
or person.
'I wonder who Saph or Sapphire
are?" Sally said musing, this musing was cut short
when the door to the medicle hut
opened. Sally looked up and smiled, it was Knuckles
and in his hands were some old
photos.
Knuckles walked into the medicle hut
in deep thought, he knew that he should know
this T'ana-lii but he didn't know
and anyway she had been dead for years.
"Hi sal, so what was that
problem earlier?" he asked her with a smile, Sally bit her lip
and pointed at the bed beside her.
Knuckles turned to look at the bed
and froze, his world fragmented like a broken
mirror. The floor seemed to fall
away from him, he felt the photos slide from his hands
and land gently on the
floor. He felt disbelief course through him and his heart beat an
unbelievable speed, he knew that
this couldn't T'ana-lii because she was dead. For
one thing T'ana-lii would be
sixteen years old by now and not a child, and then he felt
his heart freeze once again.
Around her neck was a necklace and
one that was very familiar, it was the silver heart
necklace that T'ana-lii had worn.
sally of course had noticed his reaction, Sally then
blinked wondering what was going on
here.
Slowly Knuckles with a shaky hand
lifted up the heart locket and opened it, inside
ingraved was the name T'ana-lii and
also a miniture picture of T'ana-lii and himself
putting flower wreaths on each
others heads, it was exactly like one of the pictures he
had dropped on the floor.
Knuckles closed the locket in shock
and studied the silvery blue colored echidna, he
knew that it couldn't be her but as
he studied her he saw that the body was very mature
but while she was asleep she looked
like a child.
"It couldn't be you, could
it?" he asked himself his mind numb in shock.
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Chapter Six
Sapphier smiled to himself as he came
to a bend in the trail that told him that he would
soon be at the place of Ninjas, it
had taken him three weeks for his task to be
completed and he was finally done.
He rounded the bend and stopped dead, where
the place of Ninjas had been was a
smoking ruin and rubble.
"What happened?" he asked
himself as he wondered about the ruins, he winced when
he saw the fresh graves and he
silently read the names on there markers. He had
known them all but he did not cry,
that wasn't the way of the ninjas.
"Sapphier!" a voice
suddenly called, he spun around and found himself in a bear hug.
He sighed when he saw that it was
Obsidian, the wolfs golden eyes were tearful and
joyfull that his friend had returned
alive.
"Where is
everyone?" Sapphier asked, he specially wanted to know where Galena
was since they were best friends.
"They are at the sacred place
waiting for us, but Galena... well there is something i
have to tell you," Obsidian
said and he told him about the swatbot attack and also how
Galena hurt had been found by the
softones, it was up to Sapphier to rescue her.
"I will be back once I have
retrieved Galena," Sapphier said and Obsidian nodded,
Sapphier started running using his
super speed. He once again had to go to knothole
village, sally had Galena.
How long Galena had been there she
didn't know, every now and then she would wake
up in a confused muddle and she
would call for sapphier hoping that he would be
there. What
confused her more was that the softones would call her T'ana-lii and ask
her where she was from, she couldn't
tell them about the place of Ninjas and the wound
to her head quickly made
her fall asleep again.
For some reason one of the voices
was somehow familliar, the voice seemed gentle
yet held strength that few softones
held. The voice tickled her brain that told her that
she should know that voice, but once
again it was from before the ninjas so she didn't
remember.
Knuckles knew that he was falling in
love with T'ana-Lii, since he had first seen her
three weeks ago and he had started
to remember his childhood with her that is until
she supposibly died in a terrible
accident.
He wondered why T'ana-Lii
wasn't responding to her name and also why she wasn't
talking to anyone when she was
awake, all she did was call for that Sapphier person.
He sighed and wondered if she
remembered him since he basicly looked the same as
he had when they were kids, he just
wondered why she didn't look at anyone when she
was totally awake.
"T'ana-Lii how I love thee,
though make my heart beat like a drum," he then winced at
the bad poetry he had just said,
good thing T'ana-Lii was asleep at the moment so she
wouldn't of heard him.
"Good thing you didn't hear me
say that, I'd die of embarrisment," Knuckles said
blushing red, he sighed and left his
seat beside T'ana-Lii's cot, he had to get some
sleep tonight.
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Chapter Seven
Sapphier slipped between the buildings
in knothole village, he gritted his teeth in
frustration wishing that he was
anywhere but here. For years after he had recovered his
memory he had lived among the soft
ones and he had hated it, now once again his true
identity he had to come here to save
Galena.
He remembered the accident that had
taken away everything he had known too well
and it still haunted his dreams,
when he had been five years old he had fallen down a
cliff and a blow to the head had
returned his memory to him. But he had been stuck still
with the softones for he hadn't been
able to remember the way home, finally in what
seemed light years later the ninjas
had found him and he remembered how to get
home.
Finally he came to the place he knew
Galena would be, the medicle hut. He listened at
the door and smiled when he realized
that only Galena was inside, he eased open the
door and silently slipped inside. He
growled softly when he saw that the softones had
unmasked her, but he let it pass
seeing that they had treated her wounds.
"Gale... " he whisphered,
her eyelids flickered and she woke up. He frowned now
remembering how far behind the
softones medicle technology was, but once Galena
was home she would be better in a
few minutes instead of weeks.
"Saph, please get me out of
here," she said in a very weak voice, Sapphier carefully
picked her up relieved that he could
leave now.
Then the door slammed open, he spun
around Galena in his arms to see Knuckles.
After a minute of staring at each
other Sapphier sweatdropped, carefully he used all
his skills to vanish from sight with
Gale and run for it.
Behind him he heard Knuckles yell
and alarms flare, he decided to go through the tree
branchess in case someone actually
saw him and he ran even faster.
"Gale hold on, were going to
someplace safe," Sapphier wisphered, Galena didn't
answer him since she was out of it.
Knuckles yawned as he entered the
medicle hut, he had forgotten his glass there and
had decided to
get it before he went to sleep. Then he saw the blue clothed person
and he froze, this unknown mobian
was very tall and was wearing the same kind of
clothing that T'ana-lii had worn
when they had found her. He also noticed that the
person was holding T'ana-lii, and
then before his startled eyes the stranger vanished
from sight.
After three seconds of
staring at the now empty spot he finally yelled for help, minutes
later Princess Sally and other
freedom fighters ran to him.
"Someone took T'ana-lii Sally,
please we have to save her," Knuckles said his eyes
haunted with grief, after
remembering T'ana-lii after all these years he didn't want to
loose her again.
"We'll try Knuckles, don't give
up hope," Sally said.
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Chapter Eight
Sapphier knew that Obsidian was
relieved to see him but only the wolves eyes showed
any of his emotion, quickly they
headed to the sacred place set to get Galena medicle
attention.
Finally they arrived at the sacred
place and they both rushed Galena to the medicle
facility, then Sapphier went to his
desinated room and fell into a deep sleep.
He dreamed, dreamed of
when he had first met Galena and he had also given her the
name of Galena.
A young blue hedgehog walked into
the hospital room in the hospital area of the place
of ninjas, on a bed a silvery blue
echidna girl his own age lay, there were bandages
wrapped around her face and other
places on her small body.
Earlier a ninja had brought her here
after hearing her parents trying to find a way to get
rid of her after a terrible
explosion had struck her blind, the doctors here were unable to
give her sight back but they were
using all there skills so that she would only have a few
scars on her face when she was fully
healed.
The echidna stirred and finally
awoke, Sapphier walked over and sat in the chair
beside the hospital bed.
"Hi, my name is Sapphier whats
your name?" he asked her, she turned her bandaged
wrapped face and eyes towards him
and the bottom part of her face that he could see
frowned.
"I... I... I... don't remember,
I don't remember anything," she said, to him her voice
sounding small and frightened.
"How about I give you a new
name, that is till you remember your real one, and we can
be best friends since were both the
same age?" Sapphier asked the echidna, the
echidna smiled and daid okay
in a timid voice.
"Then I name you Galena after
the gem, its fits you since your fur colouring looks like
the gems colouring," Sapphier
said and then the two children giggled, the echidna now
named Galena smiled and fell back to
sleep.
Sapphier stayed there till a doctor
told him that he had to leave, Sapphier left now
happy that he had made a new friend.
Sapphier woke up smiling, looking
out his bedroom window he saw that it was only
midnight. He rolled over in his bed
smiling happy that he still had his best friend, he
went back to sleep.
The master of all ninjas sighed as
he looked at the night sky, he had never told anyone
that sapphier was his son but he
loved him and he even loved Galena like a daughter.
He had never told Galena about her
past and he hoped that he would never have to,
her past was so very sad.
Galenas parents had never told
anyone that they had recovered her after the explosion,
that is since the softones
technology would still leave her blind and terribly scared. A
ninja had heard there plans for
getting rid of her and had seen the raw potential in the
child, letting nothing to go to
chance the ninja had taken her and now Galena lived
happily.
He sighed again wishing life was
simple, but it wasn't.
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Chapter Nine
Morning was not Galena's
favorite time of day, she prefured waking up at noontime
when the most cheerful people
weren't about. But she got up anyway when the sun was
about to rise into the sky and the
birds began there singing, today she was out of the
medicle facility and already she was
planning to work the kinks out of her body.
She got into her ninja garb and then
the only thing people could see of her were her
light blue eyes, she gathered her
favourite weapons and went into the training room
where everyone could practice.
Already there were others here, she
nodded to towards there general direction. She
started with general warmups till
her body moved gracefully and smoothly, then she
used her weapons against a practice
dummy she senced with her sixth sence.
"Hi Gale," a male voice
said, galena smiled as Sapphier walked into the room. Like
herself Sapphier was not a morning
person but resigned himself to get up before the
sun rose, he had once told her that
when he got up he always wanted to kill the poor
annoying birds who sung outside his
windows because he hated anything cheerful
when he woke up.
"Hi Saph, whats up?"
Galena asked him as she heard him lightly walk up to her, his
breathing was slow and she had to
listen hard to hear it. Around him she felt a feeling
of excitement, she knew he was
planning something for today.
"How would you like to go on an
adventure?" he asked her and she felt a warm glow of
happines from him, he wanted her to
go.
"Of course I'll go Saph, who
else would actually go on your crazy adventures," she said
in a fake nasty voice, they joked about
these adventures when ever they planned one.
"Well then Gale lets go, I just
got the map to the great tomb. The master said we an
look for the great library ledgend
says it holds, remember togeather we can find
anything," he said and they
both laughed togeather, then they both headed for
adventure.
Knuckles slung his backpack onto his
back, he was going searching for T'ana-lii. He
knew with a gut feeling that he
would find her in the ruins of the great tomb, the tomb
was found near the ruins of the
ancients. He wondered how he knew this and he
frowned, he would figure it out
later when he wasn't so worried about her.
"Knuckles be careful,"
sally said from the door of the hut, Knuckles looked at her and
smiled for her concern.
"Thanks sally I'll be careful,
I'm just going to be searching for a few days and then I have
to return to the floating
island," Knuckles said and she sighed suddenly looking sad, he
knew that once again she was
thinking of what could of happened to Sonic and
wishing that she could go search for
him also.
"I know Knuckles but everytime
a friend leaves Knothole even to hike I now fear that
they are going to dissapear, i just
wish I knew what had happened to Sonic so I
wouldn't be scared like this,"
Sally said with a slight frown, Knuckles took her hand and
gave it a slight squeeze of comfort.
"Don't worry Sally I'll be
back," he said with a smile, she smiled back.
"I count on it," Sally
said, she then turned around and vanished from his sight.
TBC Wow can't believe I'm
working on this series again, I hope to have
more chapters done soon and I would
like to thank kazianna_Breetai aka
Flamedramon_girl for creating the characters Galena and obsidian in the series.
