On their journey to the north, they developed new bounds of friendship and were considering everyone like a member of their family. Tikal was impressively independent for a princess. Sonic has a major crush on Amy, who didn't seem a bit interested in him. She seems to like Shadow and he was really jealous of his wisdom and patience. Knuckles is starting to feel things for Tikal, but always refused to admit it. The princess knew it very well. The older one was now 13 years old. They're looking for a mountain in the northern part of the planet. It was called Death Mountain. Nobody has ever reached the top. Those who tried to climb it never came back. Some people say that there's an evil spirit living there, but others said that they occasionally see a batgirl flying near the top. Sometimes, she just spends her time flying, but there are days where people see her glowing with a brown light .Of course, most of the inhabitants say that none of those things were real. After 2 years they finally found it. It was the biggest mountain they ever saw in their life...

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"Whoa! Look at this! It's so huge! It must be the highest mountain on the planet! I bet the bat girl is very strong to fly up there every day! Umm...I've never seen one before...I guess she must be very pretty..."Said Sonic.

"Stop thinking about pretty girls! You're on a quest to find chaos emeralds remember? Not a girlfriend! You should take more responsibility and stop complaining because you're jealous of Shadow!" Replied Knuckles.

"What? You're jealous of SHADOW??? Is it because of Amy?" Teased Tikal.

"Can you guys please stop??? "Said and exhausted Amy." We're looking for that bat girl, remember?"

"Yeah I guess you're right. We should get going before the sunset." Agreed Knuckles. He was like a big brother to her. Sometimes, she's wondering if echidnas and hedgehogs can be siblings...

At the beginning, the mountain was easy to climb. The earth was solid and there wasn't anything to stop them. There were only solid big trees. But arriving at higher level, rocks began to fall and trees became smaller. They thought that they'd never reach the top...

"We've been climbing for hours now, and not a sign of this bat girl. What shall we do? Wait and eat the remaining food? We should really find another way. How about...I know! Why not use your abilities? Knuckles, you can dig though walls, right? Then why don't you climb this cliff and throw some rocks to the other side of the mountain? It's going to be way easier for us to climb. "Proposed Sonic.

"Well, for once you got a point." Said Shadow sarcastically.

Knuckles climbed the high rocky cliff and at the top, he pushed down some rocks and jumped down. During this time, Sonic has been using his spin dash to cut some little trees. Tikal and Amy searched for some fruits and Shadow was replacing the first person to be tired. After hours of work, they decided to take a rest. The sun has already set so they slept under some branch of trees. Amy was awaked by a weird noise.

"Wake up everybody! Did you hear that? "She said

"Heard what? "Said a sleepy Sonic. "Oh! You're right! There's something up there!"

"Ok we're all awake now, so lets find out if it's the bat girl! And if it is, we'd better be on our guard. The villagers said that she's very strong. When she's out, it usually means that she had enough rest so maybe she's at full force now. "Advised Tikal.

They climbed higher and saw her. She wasn't very pretty and didn't look innocent either. She had those evil eyes and frowned eyebrows. She had little black wings behind her and was glowing with a brown light. They were a little scared to challenge her for a fight, so they took the emeralds out of their pockets and put a hand on them. The batgirl started to see blue light, then gold, white, yellow and red.

*What the...? Chaos emeralds? Could it be that they're also...? * She thought.

"Hi bat girl! Whoever you are, we need your help in order to defeat Robotnik. Are you going to help us? We know you have the emerald of rock! "Shadow shouted from below.

The batgirl jumped and landed in front of them. She looked at them suspiciously with a frown. She was pretty smart for a wild girl.

"Well, if you want me to help you defeating Robotnik, I'll accept. He destroyed my hometown. "She said. "But you'll have to prove me that you want to help me, not use me."

"Ok then. How can we do that? "Said Sonic, who was already starting to lose his patience.

"Fight me "She said simply.

A/N: I corrected this chapter. I'm so stupid how could I post the same chapter twice.! Sorry about that! I hope the grammar and spelling are better in this one.