I got an idea so fast! And I can't help it, thank you for reading everyone!
You know what's so fun about putting Tikal in a story? She olden times so she speaks full sentences! Isn't that cool? You know like no using shorter words like can't. (Well that's my theory anyway...)
Disclaimer: Sonic and all related characters do not belong to me.
Tikal rubbed her eyes with a balled up fist and yawned as she walked up to the window that her and Shadow looked out at the Earth everyday, she looked out at the amazing blue Earth below and gasped.
"Shadow!" She was wide awake now and quickly ran out of the room, calling the black hedgehogs name every few steps.
A door down a long hallway opened and Shadow walked out, he looked at her as she grabbed his wrist.
"What is it?" He asked and started following her as she pulled along.
"There is something wrong! The Earth! It is..." She ran up to the window and he quickly walked up beside her. "What?!" He stared in shock at the planet below... The Earth; was absolutely covered in water, there was no land in sight anywhere.
"..." They stared in silence at the blue covered planet below, until Shadow saw something.
"Wait... What's that?" He pointed to a faint glow of green around the north part of the world, Tikal took a while to see it but nodded as she did. "That looks like the glow of the... Master Emerald." She muttered and they looked at each other for a moment, they nodded to each other and quickly ran off in direction of the shuttle dock.
Later, in a Spaceship, a few miles above the water.
"How could have this had happened?" Tikal asked and sighed as she stared out the side window of the spaceship, Shadow was handling the controls and watched the water below, searching for any sign of... Anything. He gazed ahead and looked back at her.
"Tikal, look." He said and pointed ahead as she walked over to him; Angel Island. A bright green glow inluminating the whole area, making everything look a light shade of green.
"Well... There doesn't seem to be any space to land. Prepare to jump." Shadow set the controls on auto pilot and stood up.
"You not serious are you?" She asked, worry and slight fear spreading across her face; he smirked and nodded.
"Oh dear." She murmured as he grabbed her hand and lead her to the emergency exit door, he gripped the handle and turned it; the door flew straight off into the winds of speed to which they were travelling. Tikal covered her eyes and Shadow wrapped his arms around her waist and leapt out of the ship.
She felt like her stomachs fluids were crawling and her feet were dangling and trying to touch the ground that they were nearing. "Hold on." he said and she opened her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck, she looked below them and closed her eyes again. Shadow landed on a large tree branch for a moment and jumped off sideways to lighten the impact; they landed onto rough dirt and rolled down onto soft grass and slowed down just to land in front of a tree on their backs.
Shadow began to laugh; Tikal looked at him.
"Why are you laughing?" She breathed, a tinge of excitement in her voice; he just smirked and sat up.
"I didn't think we'd make it." He said and just started laughing again, it was weird to hear him laugh, maybe he was finally beginning to forgive himself for his past and get on with his life. Tikal smiled too and sat up and rested her head on his shoulder, he rubbed his nose against her head and hugged her around her shoulders.
"I am glad we made it..." She murmured and he nodded, they both stood up and looked around, everything looked green and everything that was green; looked a lighter green. The large trees, tropical plants and flowers, the water; all of it was green.
"The Master Emerald is this way." Tikal pointed off into the distance where the green glow was far stronger and brighter, Shadow nodded and they soon began to run through the few foot paths set there by either trespassers or the Guardian himself.
"Do you hear that?" he murmured and she looked around confused and just shrugged.
"I don't hear anything." She replied, they stood there for a moment to try and hear anything.
"Ma- ... Er- ... Erald.. Mas-... Er-.. Merald..." A monotone voice whispered from a location unknown around them.
"That." Shadow muttered and Tikal looked around for wherever the voice could have come from.
"Knuckles!" She said and Shadow looked ahead of them at the red echidna, there was something wrong; his eyes were glowing green. He stood just a few feet ahead of them and glared at the former spirit, he raised a hand and pointed to her.
"Cha-.. S... And-.. Po-.. Er-... Pri-.. Sss... Tik-... Lss... Hea-.. T..." He spoke in the strange monotone voice that they had heard earlier; Shadow stepped in front of Tikal and growled. "What's going on?" He asked and the Guardian just stood there, his eyes suddenly flashed from green to back to normal. "What?" He muttered and looked around and saw the two in front of him.
"Tikal! You can't be here! Chaos, he's-" Knuckles was cut short from his warning by a large wall of water going between them, the water came down on all of them and they were quickly washed away.
Later
Shadow awoke rather dizzy and as he tried to sit up, someone held his shoulders and forced him to lie down again. "Don't get up." It was Knuckles, but Shadow couldn't see anything, it was far too dark, he turned his head to his right and saw a cave exit; so he was in a cave. He could just barely see the Guardian standing near him and looking outside the cave.
"Where is Tikal?" Shadow muttered and looked up at the red echidna; he sighed.
"Chaos has her." He stated simply and sighed again.
"What?!" Shadow yelled and stood up, Knuckles looked at him and shook his head; Shadow fell silent for a moment. "She's not... Is she?" He asked.
"Dead? No.. Not yet." Knuckles muttered and crossed his arms.
"What do you mean by not yet?" Shadow growled; the echidna just shrugged.
"Something happened when Tikal was turned to normal, her gentle heart was disconnected from Chaos and his heart and hatred was unleashed again. No one can get rid of hatred, it's always there... But I guess I was hoping that Sonic actually did it..." He said and sighed yet again; Shadow looked outside the cave for a moment then, ran straight out.
"Wait!" He heard Knuckles yell after him, Shadow ignored him and continued running, everything was still a bright green and getting brighter with every step the black hedgehog took. He stopped at a wooden bridge and stared ahead of him, there was the Master Emerald shrine, a large whirlpool circled it with its fierce current but it was obvious that it wasn't normal water. He could only just see a bit of orange through the water.
"Tikal!" He yelled and ran across the creaking bridge, he got half way when a large roar screamed across the winds.
"Shadow!" He heard her voice, she was alright! He ran forward and the water roared and became far more fierce, Shadow wasn't scared by the large water creature and jumped straight at the wall of water, it repelled him and he landed back onto the bridge.
"No! Don't hurt him!" Tikal yelled from inside the wall and the wall suddenly disappeared, a puddle of water slithered beside her and took form; its brain was quite visible inside its head and its feet and hands were extremely large, it was Chaos. It growled in a strange gargled voice and She looked at it and shook her head, it took a step towards Shadow.
"You cannot! I.. I wont let you!" She stepped in front of it and held out her arms; Chaos stood still for a moment, then turned into a puddle and disappeared into the ground. Tikal turned around and looked for wherever the water creature could've gone, after a while; it seemed it had actually disappeared. Shadow ran up to her and quickly wrapped his arms around her and she gladly returned the hug.
"Don't ever do that again, you scared me." He muttered and she nodded; a few tears rolled down her cheeks as she hugged him closer. "I was scared... He said he was going to kill you..." She murmured and buried her face in his shoulder and continued to cry.
"Pri-... Ss... Tikaaaallll..."
They both gasped and looked across the wooden bridge, it was Knuckles; but his eyes were glowing green again.
"Chaos is controlling him!" Tikal yelled as 'Knuckles' ran towards them, Shadow let go of her and stepped back as 'Knuckles' swung his fist at him. "Is there anyway to stop him?" Shadow yelled and dodged yet another punch.
Tikal quickly nodded, "Yes!" She replied and began running up the stairs of the shrine to the glowing Master emerald at the top, she linked her hands and held them near her mouth. "The... Servers are the seven Cha- Chaos," She muttered and looked to Shadow to see him get punched and fall to the ground but quickly get back up, she drew her attention back to what she was doing and tried to concentrate. "Chaos is power... Power is-... Shadow!" Tikal turned to see 'Knuckles' throw another punch at Shadow but he was just at the edge and fell off; she ran down the stairs and stumbled a few times before running to the edge.
"Shadow!" She called and looked over the edge, he hit the water below with a huge splash erupting from the impact, she felt tears begin to well up in her eyes and was about to jump off the edge herself when somone grabbed her from behind.
"No! Shadow! Let me go!" She yelled and struggled.
"Are you kidding? That's suicide!" Knuckles yelled from behind her, so he was back to normal again.
"I do not care! I.. Shadow!" She cried and turned to the red echidna, he let go of her arm and stepped back, she fell to her knees and buried and face in her hands. Chaos stepped up in front of her...
Somewhere
The sound of birds were everywhere, all of them chirping with excitement, someone sat nearby but; didn't Shadow fall into the ocean?
"Hey! You're alive; just wait there I'll get Amy." An all too familiar voice said and the creature quickly ran off.
'Amy? But isn't earth?...' Shadow thought and tried to murmured something but felt like he had swallowed a tonne of water, he was all wet and was lying on something soft with what felt like sand beneath it. A swift sound ran nearby and someone trotted over beside him.
"Hey Shadow, what happened? Can you speak?" Amy's voice asked and Shadow slowly opened his eyes, everything was a bit dim, like it was the afternoon or something. He was on a beach, the water splashed at the sand again and again, palm trees nearby russled in th soft wind.
"How long have I been here?" He finally managed to whisper and the pink hedgehog looked back at Sonic behind her and he shrugged. "Only an hour or so." He said rather carefree; as usual. Shadow sat up and instantly Amy reached forward to help him but he put up his hand and managed to stand up himself.
"What's going on? The whole earth was covered in water." He asked and Sonic pointed above them. "It still is." He stated and Shadow looked up, the sky wasn't there anymore, it was all water.
"What? How is that.." He stared up in awe, so that was why it looked like the afternoon.
"Chaos can control water; something happened on Angel island and Chaos just went balistic and well, as you can see..." Amy muttered and shrugged.
"I need to get back to the floating island! What is Chaos going to do to Tikal?!" Shadow yelled and didn't even care that Amy jumped back in fright, Sonic stepped in front of her. "Hey no need to yell; I don't think we have anyway to get through that." He crossed his arms and the black hedgehog growled, Sonic smiled.
"But; I know someone who should have something." He smirked, "That is... If you can still run." He said and Shadow frowned.
"Is that a challenge?" He asked.
"I don't know; is it?" Sonic muttered along with another question.
"Guys! Don't start fighting, get to Eggman's and steal one of his ships!" Amy stood between them and Sonic shrugged and turned and sped off, Shadow soon followed; Amy looked around for a moment then started chasing after them.
"Hey! Take me along too!"
Angel Island
Tikal was still crying and sat in front of the Master Emerald, she was back in her old clothes and didn't really care about that, nor about Knuckles who wanted to beat up Chaos for controlling him and making him kill Shadow. Chaos was standing beside her, he wasn't sure what he did wrong but as long as Tikal was there, everything was going to be alright.
"Do you think just because she's back everything will be alright?!" Knuckles stormed over to the water creature and threw his arms in the air; the creature replied with a few sounds of dripping water, "Wrong! If you haven't noticed! The whole Earth is covered in water! How can anyone survive that?!" He yelled and the creature just tilted its head and looked out to the view of the sea that it had created; it raised its hand and Knuckles watched in utter amazement as the water just vanished.
"Wh- What?" He muttered and then squinted at something in the distance, "Hey isn't that! Tikal! Look!" Knuckles yelled in a kinder manner than earlier and the echidna girl turned her head and saw something flying towards them at a mighty speed; something black was easily visible on the small plane.
"Shadow!" She smiled; tears still spilling down her cheeks and she quickly ran down near the edge of the island as the plane neared them ever so quickly. The black hedgehog leapt down and landed on the grass across the bridge, he quickly ran over to the front steps of the shrine and glared at Chaos at the top of the stairs. Tikal ran over to him and hugged him, he returned the hug but continued to glare at the water creature, she turned to look at Chaos as it walked over near them. It tilted its head and a few bubbling sounds sounded from it; after a while, Tikal walked over to it and whispered something and nodded and the creature looked at the ground and nodded.
Slowly, the Master Emerald's glow dimmed and the whole island went back to its original colour, Chaos seemed strangely disappointed at something as it turned and slowly walked back up the stairs to the Master Emerald; it held its hand out to the large Emerald and disappeared inside it.
"Um... What did it say?" Shadow asked after a long awkward silence, Tikal smiled and looked at him.
"He asked if this is what I wanted and... Should he go back to the Emerald." She said and Knuckles crossed his arms.
"And what did you say?" He asked and she giggled.
"Not telling!" She blushed and turned back to Shadow. "Come on, let's go home." She murmured and He nodded, "And on the way back you can tell me what happened." She smiled and he smirked. "Likewise."
They found their ship had crashed in the forest on Angel Island but it still worked alright and they managed to get it flying again; Shadow had set the controls on Auto-Pilot so they could tell each other what had happened.
On the Ship
Shadow was sitting on a small bed in a rather small room that was only for someone sleeping in there, another bed was on the other side of the room and Tikal was currently sitting on it with her legs hanging off the edge. They had already told each other of what had happened, except Shadow was still curious about something.
"What did you tell Chaos anyway?" He muttered and she giggled yet again; everytime he asked that, she giggled.
"You weren't insulting anyone were you?" He looked over to her and she grinned and shook her head; he sighed and looked up at the low ceiling. "Will you tell me?" He asked and she also looked at the ceiling and bit her lip.
"I cannot; it is embarrassing.." She muttered and he smirked.
"Oh it's that bad is it? Okay keep it to yourself." He laughed and she shook her head. "No.. It is just..." She trailed off and began fiddling with her skirt, she stood up and and sat down beside him and began to whisper something in his ear.
"I told him that if he was lonely, if he waits he will have new friends one day. He asked if they were little and well..." She blushed and stood up and walked out; Shadow stared after her...
'What did she mean by that?' He thought and slowly something came into his head.
"Hey wait a minute! Are you talking about what I think you're talking about?!" He soon ran out after her and he could hear her childish laughter echo around the ship.
Not as long as my previous chapters but oh well; did you enjoy it? I love it tehe. Oh and if there's any spelling mistakes, I'll fix them up ASAP.