Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own any of the characters used in this story.
Just as a side note, the Hidden Chamber I was referring to was the chamber in Sonic and Knuckles where Dr. Eggman came and stole the Master Emerald from Knuckles. I also haven't been able to write as much of the story as I wanted to lately, so that's why this chapter took so long to do. I'll try to go faster. Have fun reading.
Chapter 5
Knuckles slowly got up and turned around afraid of what he would see. As looked at his friends, he saw not looks of happiness or of support like he saw a few minutes ago. Instead he saw nothing but saddened and disappointed looks by his friends. Knuckles prepared himself for the worst to come.
"How could you say those things!" shouted Amy. Normally, when Amy was mad, Knuckles was anything but intimidated, but this time it was different. "She really liked you, you big jerk! I know you like her, so why couldn't you just grow up and admit it! And you actually call yourself a man! How dare you!" she said as she reared up to Knuckles' face.
"You shouldn't have said those mean things." Cream said, on the verge of tears. "Mama always said that the worst thing you could do is hurt some one you love. I always liked you as a friend, but now I think you're......a big meanie!" she said before she broke down in front of him. This comment struck Knuckles down hard on his conscience.
"Chao, chao!" Cheese squeaked angrily.
Tails quickly ran over and hugged Cream to comfort her as she cried into her hands. Tails then looked at Knuckles with a such look of anger that it shocked him. Of all of the people Knuckles knew, Tails was the last one he would expect to show anger towards one of his friends.
"Tails, I...." Knuckles began to explain.
"I always knew you were able to fight well, and that you were able to do many things, but I never thought you were able to inflict that kind of damage on someone, no matter what situation you were in." Tails said in a sad tone. "Cream's right, you're....just mean."
Knuckles couldn't believe it. His own teammate and one of his best friends was actually disappointed in him. After all of the meaningless fights he had with Sonic, Tails was anything but judgmental, but even he knew Knuckles had crossed the line this time. Knuckles slapped his forehead in frustration, and noticed the normally green glow of the Master Emerald turning blue in his other hand.
"Wait Tikal, please don't!" Knuckles begged, but it was too late. Tikal had a look that combined both sorrow and disappointment as if she too were about to cry. "No Tikal, please don't leave yet!" and in that instant, she was gone, returning to her dormant position as the spirit of the Master Emerald.
Shadow then walked up to Knuckles with an expression that almost startled him. It contained so much anger and rage that Knuckles was certain he was in for a fight. Knuckles usually would be up for an event like this, but he felt so guilty, he didn't care if Shadow did attack him."
"No, don't worry. I'm not going to hit you." Shadow said in a tone that was much to calm for him. "You're not even WORTH hitting! I admit that I'VE have done some mean things in the past, but YOU'RE just cruel!" he roared.
"Shadow..." Knuckles quietly shot out.
"Do you have any idea what it's LIKE to have your best friend leave you? To know that they won't be with you anymore? Because THAT'S what Rouge is feeling like right now! That the one person she cares for most in the world won't be by her side anymore! I know that pain all to well!" he shouted. "Maria......" he moaned to himself.
"You're.....wrong!" Knuckles shouted in rage trying to deny Shadow.
"You think so!" Shadow replied "When I was in that stasis tank and Rouge found me and Omega, she said she needed help to locate Eggman's secret treasure, but I knew that was an obvious lie. I mean, what secret treasure could EGGMAN of all people have? A secret cache of spare parts, a hidden chamber full of half-baked plans to take over the world? He's not the most complex guy in the world you know."
"What does that have to do with me?" Knuckles asked
"All the time we were traveling with Rouge on her "treasure hunt" she kept saying we have to move faster so we can find it before that annoying echidna does. All the while we were with her she kept saying stuff about the "troublesome echidna" or the "irritating echidna". If you haven't caught on, the important word isn't the adjective, it's the noun which is "echidna"! She kept going on about you more than the "treasure" she was so interested in and probably used us as a cover to mask her true feelings for you the same way you used Sonic and Tails to hide your emotions. I thought even YOU could figure that one out on your own, but I guess I was wrong." Shadow continued.
"That's....not....true!" Knuckles said, forcing out the words to try to conceal the fact that he knew he was wrong.
"You know, you don't know what you've got until you've lost it." Shadow said as he sadly looked towards the sky. "You should take care to remember that."
"Shadow....everyone....I'm sorry. Please forgive me." Knuckles said, as he quickly came to the realization that what everyone said before was right. "I've got to find Rouge and apologize for what I've done. I'll be back later after I talk with her." and with that statement he ran off into the distance of the direction that Rouge had flown off earlier.
"Rouge, I'm coming. I'll make this right no matter what it takes." Knuckles said with determination as he ran at his fastest speed. Unknown to him in his haste, Tikal's image appeared in the Master Emerald and smiled as he ran. "I promise I'll find you Rouge."
Knuckles had been running around the streets with no lead, so he decided to head over to the Mystic Ruins. He remembered that the train headed there would be set to leave in a few minutes. Knuckles quickened his pace and barely made it onto the train in time.
When the train arrived, he quickly stepped of and hoped he would find some sort of lead that would help him on his quest to find Rouge. In all of the confusion, he nearly forgot about his mission to retrieve the other chaos emeralds. He normally would put his any issue regarding his Master Emerald as a top priority to anything else, but in this case he made a huge exception, as he made a startling revelation, that he did indeed care more for Rouge than he did his emerald.
He went as fast as he could towards Tails' house in hopes that Rouge might be there due to the fact that she had made friends with him earlier that day. While he was running over to Tails' workshop, he tripped over the ditch that Tails had made when he found the yellow emerald. Knuckles could still see a faint reminisce of the emerald in the dirt.
As he ran up the staircase, he couldn't think about anything else but seeing Rouge again, not because he sensed an emerald on her when she left the city, but so he could confess his true love for her. However, when he reached the top of staircase, he saw someone else at the entrance of Tails' workshop.
"Hey, I haven't seen you in a while." Knuckles said as the figure turned around to face him casting his shadow in Knuckles' direction. "Listen, I have a favor to ask you."
Knuckles new that his extra mission would be a lot easier than he thought during this encounter. Or so he hoped......
Well, that's it for chapter 5. I'm sorry that there wasn't as much action in this chapter as I hoped, but I promise I'll make up for that soon. Besides, these scenes are instrumental for the later parts of the story. I'll try to write the next chapters soon. Until next time, Bye.
Just as a side note, the Hidden Chamber I was referring to was the chamber in Sonic and Knuckles where Dr. Eggman came and stole the Master Emerald from Knuckles. I also haven't been able to write as much of the story as I wanted to lately, so that's why this chapter took so long to do. I'll try to go faster. Have fun reading.
Chapter 5
Knuckles slowly got up and turned around afraid of what he would see. As looked at his friends, he saw not looks of happiness or of support like he saw a few minutes ago. Instead he saw nothing but saddened and disappointed looks by his friends. Knuckles prepared himself for the worst to come.
"How could you say those things!" shouted Amy. Normally, when Amy was mad, Knuckles was anything but intimidated, but this time it was different. "She really liked you, you big jerk! I know you like her, so why couldn't you just grow up and admit it! And you actually call yourself a man! How dare you!" she said as she reared up to Knuckles' face.
"You shouldn't have said those mean things." Cream said, on the verge of tears. "Mama always said that the worst thing you could do is hurt some one you love. I always liked you as a friend, but now I think you're......a big meanie!" she said before she broke down in front of him. This comment struck Knuckles down hard on his conscience.
"Chao, chao!" Cheese squeaked angrily.
Tails quickly ran over and hugged Cream to comfort her as she cried into her hands. Tails then looked at Knuckles with a such look of anger that it shocked him. Of all of the people Knuckles knew, Tails was the last one he would expect to show anger towards one of his friends.
"Tails, I...." Knuckles began to explain.
"I always knew you were able to fight well, and that you were able to do many things, but I never thought you were able to inflict that kind of damage on someone, no matter what situation you were in." Tails said in a sad tone. "Cream's right, you're....just mean."
Knuckles couldn't believe it. His own teammate and one of his best friends was actually disappointed in him. After all of the meaningless fights he had with Sonic, Tails was anything but judgmental, but even he knew Knuckles had crossed the line this time. Knuckles slapped his forehead in frustration, and noticed the normally green glow of the Master Emerald turning blue in his other hand.
"Wait Tikal, please don't!" Knuckles begged, but it was too late. Tikal had a look that combined both sorrow and disappointment as if she too were about to cry. "No Tikal, please don't leave yet!" and in that instant, she was gone, returning to her dormant position as the spirit of the Master Emerald.
Shadow then walked up to Knuckles with an expression that almost startled him. It contained so much anger and rage that Knuckles was certain he was in for a fight. Knuckles usually would be up for an event like this, but he felt so guilty, he didn't care if Shadow did attack him."
"No, don't worry. I'm not going to hit you." Shadow said in a tone that was much to calm for him. "You're not even WORTH hitting! I admit that I'VE have done some mean things in the past, but YOU'RE just cruel!" he roared.
"Shadow..." Knuckles quietly shot out.
"Do you have any idea what it's LIKE to have your best friend leave you? To know that they won't be with you anymore? Because THAT'S what Rouge is feeling like right now! That the one person she cares for most in the world won't be by her side anymore! I know that pain all to well!" he shouted. "Maria......" he moaned to himself.
"You're.....wrong!" Knuckles shouted in rage trying to deny Shadow.
"You think so!" Shadow replied "When I was in that stasis tank and Rouge found me and Omega, she said she needed help to locate Eggman's secret treasure, but I knew that was an obvious lie. I mean, what secret treasure could EGGMAN of all people have? A secret cache of spare parts, a hidden chamber full of half-baked plans to take over the world? He's not the most complex guy in the world you know."
"What does that have to do with me?" Knuckles asked
"All the time we were traveling with Rouge on her "treasure hunt" she kept saying we have to move faster so we can find it before that annoying echidna does. All the while we were with her she kept saying stuff about the "troublesome echidna" or the "irritating echidna". If you haven't caught on, the important word isn't the adjective, it's the noun which is "echidna"! She kept going on about you more than the "treasure" she was so interested in and probably used us as a cover to mask her true feelings for you the same way you used Sonic and Tails to hide your emotions. I thought even YOU could figure that one out on your own, but I guess I was wrong." Shadow continued.
"That's....not....true!" Knuckles said, forcing out the words to try to conceal the fact that he knew he was wrong.
"You know, you don't know what you've got until you've lost it." Shadow said as he sadly looked towards the sky. "You should take care to remember that."
"Shadow....everyone....I'm sorry. Please forgive me." Knuckles said, as he quickly came to the realization that what everyone said before was right. "I've got to find Rouge and apologize for what I've done. I'll be back later after I talk with her." and with that statement he ran off into the distance of the direction that Rouge had flown off earlier.
"Rouge, I'm coming. I'll make this right no matter what it takes." Knuckles said with determination as he ran at his fastest speed. Unknown to him in his haste, Tikal's image appeared in the Master Emerald and smiled as he ran. "I promise I'll find you Rouge."
Knuckles had been running around the streets with no lead, so he decided to head over to the Mystic Ruins. He remembered that the train headed there would be set to leave in a few minutes. Knuckles quickened his pace and barely made it onto the train in time.
When the train arrived, he quickly stepped of and hoped he would find some sort of lead that would help him on his quest to find Rouge. In all of the confusion, he nearly forgot about his mission to retrieve the other chaos emeralds. He normally would put his any issue regarding his Master Emerald as a top priority to anything else, but in this case he made a huge exception, as he made a startling revelation, that he did indeed care more for Rouge than he did his emerald.
He went as fast as he could towards Tails' house in hopes that Rouge might be there due to the fact that she had made friends with him earlier that day. While he was running over to Tails' workshop, he tripped over the ditch that Tails had made when he found the yellow emerald. Knuckles could still see a faint reminisce of the emerald in the dirt.
As he ran up the staircase, he couldn't think about anything else but seeing Rouge again, not because he sensed an emerald on her when she left the city, but so he could confess his true love for her. However, when he reached the top of staircase, he saw someone else at the entrance of Tails' workshop.
"Hey, I haven't seen you in a while." Knuckles said as the figure turned around to face him casting his shadow in Knuckles' direction. "Listen, I have a favor to ask you."
Knuckles new that his extra mission would be a lot easier than he thought during this encounter. Or so he hoped......
Well, that's it for chapter 5. I'm sorry that there wasn't as much action in this chapter as I hoped, but I promise I'll make up for that soon. Besides, these scenes are instrumental for the later parts of the story. I'll try to write the next chapters soon. Until next time, Bye.