All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1

The 3 Shadows, Episode 2 - Obsession

Chapter 4 - Joz's Secret Cave

Shadow and Miles found themselves being led to a secret dark cave. As the ventered deeper into the caves it go darker and darker until the Shadows completely faded into the Shadows. Soon they saw light. The glow of 5 Chaos emeralds filled a small room. Here lay the Yellow, Cyan and Magenta Emeralds alongside the Blue from Capitol City museum and the Red from Station Square bank.

On the wall near the gems was a list titled, "R.E.E". The list included the names Dr Jhonen, Dr Halo, Dr Kerr, Dr Pickle and many more doctors all scored out with dates beside them. Only one name was left untouched, which was "Gerald Robotnik". Suddenly memories of the Campfires on Angel Island came flooding back.

Anyway with no money I got desperate and I ended up allowing myself to be experiemented on. The company was known as R.E.E., Robotnik's Experimentation Enterprise, the CEO being Gerald Robotnik. It's this experiment that turned me into the Master hunter, a cold ruthless bounty hunter and well-known treasure hunter. The experiment gave me my sixth sense, the ability to sense wealth. The more expensive the item the greater the sense. But it also has given me an unhealthy obsession with Jewels.

"You thinking what I'm thinking Shadow?" asked Miles.

"That this might have something to do with Joz's curse. I'm starting to think he's not doing this out of desire but need", said Shadow.

"So what do we do now?" asked Miles

"Well, we have 6 emeralds here. Joz isn't here so he must be going after the seventh", said Shadow, "So that's where we're going"

Hanging above them silently he hung there. Joz watched on, watched and listening his new friends talk about him like he's vulnerable. In a way he felt that way. The legendary Master hunter, vulnerable as a kitten every now and then due to his gemcrazes. He needs to get all 7 emeralds to end his pain. It hurt him, the crazes. He loses his rational mind and the need for the emeralds completely takes over him. He is a puppet to these crazes and he hates it. It is understandable then that he so focused on getting revenge on Gerald and R.E.E. One was left and, even if it was the last thing he did, he would destroy him.

But it wasn't all misery. He realised that Shadow had done him a big favour. He was going to leave Shadow's green emerald until last, but instead Shadow brought it to him. All he needed to do was find the Grey emerald and get the other 6 from his fellow Shadows. He began to wonder if after this he would still be a Shadow. He was weak, he had betrayed them, and a hero cannot break a law even if it was to help him. Joz has had these gemcrazes before and always managed to get the gems quickly. But this is taking too long. And for the first time he was feeling physically weak as well as mentally. He began to wonder if he would die from it if he failed to get the emeralds in time. Since this is the longest he's taken during his gemcrazes he didn't know for sure, but he wasn't willing to take that chance. He followed Shadow and Miles and hoped that when all this was over that he would be back to his usual self, fighting alongside his friends as a Shadow.

Much Later, and the 3 Shadows, one hiding in the Shadows behind the other two, reached a large metallic fortress. It had to happen eventually. The events led to Gerald again, he must've obtained the last emerald.

Oh great, this is all we need. Thought Shadow staring at the base. They could tell it wasn't GUN's due to their being no logo. If there was one thing true about GUN above all else, it's that everything they owned bore the GUN logo.

Anyway the 3 entered the building. Inside it was as black as Shadows fur. They couldn't see a thing. That was until a bright light spotlighted Shadow and Miles. A Huge Machine with Grey Arms smashed into the 2 Shadows, forcing Shadow to drop his 6 emeralds as he fell to the ground unconscious.

Joz watched the sucker punch from far. He was far too weak to fight another Mercury robot by himself. He felt all hope of being healed flying out the window. His friends had been captured, Gerald had all seven emeralds and he was a little too weak to do anything about it. In fact he suddenly realised that not only his life was in serious danger, but so was the entire world.

What am I going to do? And more importantly can I do it, weak as I am?