Declaimer: You know the drill...
Author's Note: Sorry I took so long in posting this, stuff has been happening' and I wasn't going to post until I had 40 reviews, but since I'm only shy of one, here! Enjoy! ^_^
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Chapter 7
Knuckles, Rouge, and Tarosamo found themselves in a dark tunnel. The only light came from a few candles that hung on the walls, lighting the way. It was cold and damp with cobwebs hanging from the ceiling corners, and a few corps was chain to the walls.
Rouge nose wrinkled up as she slightly inhaled, "This place reeks of death. Ew...it's so gross down here!"
Knuckles agreed, "Yeah, it is a bit disturbing..."
Tarosamo merely shrug, "No matter. We must continue on our way."
The three made their way through the tunnel which portrayed itself more of a dungeon than anything else. They were traveling in complete silence, except for Rouge occasional complaints about how nasty the underground path was and such. After a few more minutes of silence, Rouge suddenly let out a loud "EEK!!!"
Knuckles was at her side in an instant. "Rouge?! Are you alright?" He asked in worriment.
Rouge pointed to something that was in a dark corner. Knuckles turned to whatever she was pointing at to see red glaring eyes. "Rat!" She shouted.
Knuckles sighed, "I would've never guessed that you were so girlish."
The bat glared at Knuckles, "Just because I'm the perfect treasure hunter doesn't mean I'm FEARLESS OF RATS!! I HATE rats! I still have my feminine side, you know. And rats just give me the creeps!" (Funny, considering she's a BAT...member of the RAT family, ne?)
Tarosamo chuckled. "Rouge, you need not be afraid of such creatures. They are fairly harmless."
"Try telling that to HIM!" Knuckles and Tarosamo than noticed the rather large rat that towered behind them. Its eyes were as red as blood with large pointed fangs. It looked hungry. Hungry for an echidna and bat sandwich.
Tarosamo grinned, "Well, guys. I'm sure you two are hungry. Lunch is on me!" He pulled his sword out and slashed at the rat before it could attack. He sliced the rat through its furry chest, straight to its heart. The rat let out an aguish scream before collapsing on the ground, dead.
Rouge looked disgusted. "There is no way I am eating THAT!"
Knuckles agreed with Rouge, "I'm not eating that, either. I'm, uh, allergic?"
The other echidna only shrug, "Suit yourself, more for me." He gathered a few sticks that were lying a few feet away. After placing them on the cold tile stone floor, he created a small fire, rubbing two sticks together. Once the fire was large enough, he once again took his sword out and cut a piece of the rat's meat, roasting it over the fire. "Are you sure that you do not want any?" He asked the two.
Rouge was about to declined again when her stomach growled. She blushed as Knuckles grinned, "Well, I guess I could..."
"I guess I could too. I am kind of hungry. It's been a while since we last ate anyway." Knuckles sat down on the stone floor and took some of the rat's meat that Tarosamo had cut off. "Have some, Rouge." He took a bite of the now cooked meat. "Hmm...it's actually pretty good..."
Rouge sighed and took a seat between the two males, "Okay...but if I died from rat poisoning, I'm coming for you, Knuckles."
Knuckles grinned, taking another bite of the meat. "Can't wait, bat-girl."
Rouge grinned back, noticing how cute Knuckles is when he grins like that. She shook her head and slowly took some meat that Tarosamo handed her. She cautiously took a tiny (And I mean TINY) bite of the meat. After chewing a few dozens times, she swallowed it. The two males looked at her expectedly. "...Well...Not bad...and not exactly chicken, either..." She finished eating the meat. "That was actually better that what I thought." After she said that, a loud burp erupted from her lips. She blushed as the two looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Uh, oops? Excuse me..."
Knuckles chuckled, "Wow, Rouge. Didn't know you had it in you."
She glared at the red echidna, "Be quiet you knucklehead, or I'll tell Taro over there that you sleep with a teddy bear."
Knuckles eyes grew wide. "I—I—I don't sleep with a teddy bear!"
Tarosamo had to laugh at that. "A teddy bear? Knuckles, I'm shock."
Rouge grinned, "Oh yeah, he also sucks his thumb and talk in his sleep."
"Hmmm..." Tarosamo nodded, "And, Rouge, how do you know all of this?"
Knuckles head snapped in Rouge's direction, wondering the same thing. Rouge blushed as sweat form on her head.
"Oh, uh...a little birdie told me?" She chuckled nervously.
"Rouge..." Knuckles said in warning, his eyes narrowing.
"Oh, fine! Sonic told me. He snuck onto your island while you were asleep and taped it all. It was pretty hilarious, and just so cute!" Rouge grinned.
Knuckles growled, "I'm gonna get that hedgehog..."
Tarosamo was now lost. Who was Sonic? "May I ask; who is this Sonic character?"
Rouge nodded, "Sonic is the fastest hedgehog on the planet, or so he thinks. He's a hero, known by many. Saved the Earth a few dozen times, with the help of his friends, of course. Knuckles knew him longer than me, so if you want to know more, ask him."
"Oh, really? Sir—I mean, Knuckles, what can you tell me about this Sonic?" Tarosamo was interested in the hedgehog now for some odd reason.
Knuckles crossed his arms and slouch against the wall. "Fine. When I first met Sonic, we were rivals, I had mistaken him—" Rouge interrupted him.
"You mean tricked! Sonic told me EVERYTHING!" She laughed.
"Why on Angel Island is he telling you all this stuff?!" The echidna demanded.
Rouge stuck her tongue out at him, "That's for me to know. Now, finished your story..."
"Whatever...anyway, before I was rudely interrupted, I had mistaken Sonic for taking the Master Emerald. I fought him, of course, I found out he didn't take it. Eggman had."
"And Eggman is?" Tarosamo also lean against a wall, listening with great interest.
Rouge jumped up, "I can tell you about him! Well, Eggman, formally known as Doctor Robuttnic...I mean, Robotnic, has been tricking Knuckles ever since they met, that tells you how gullible he is."
Knuckles growled, flashing a bright red, "I am NOT gullible!"
Rouge rolled her eyes, "Knuckles, honey, you ARE gullible. You are only fooling yourself in denying it."
He grumbled and turn away from Rouge as she continued her story.
"Anyway, from what I've been told, Sonic has been up against Doctor Eggman ever since, well, practically forever. Defeating him, of course. The last two adventures were the most challenging, though."
"The last two adventures? What were they?"
She smiled, "Well, there was the ARK incident, two years ago. The most memorable one."
Raising one eyebrow, Tarosamo asked, "What makes it so memorable?"
"What makes it so memorable is that that was the time I first met Knuckles." She glanced at Knuckles, who looked totally surprised at what she said. She winked, "Well, that was one interesting experience. We started out as rivals, fighting for the pieces of the Master Emerald, claiming it as our own. When in truth, it belonged to him." She blushed, leaving out the part that happened during the Meteor Herb incident, after that battled. "Anyway, we became good friends ever since. Right Knuckles?"
Knuckles was speechless. He had no idea that she felt that way about their meetings. "Uh, yeah..."
Tarosamo nodded, "I see..." After a few minutes of silence, he spoke once more, "We should get going."
They nodded and stood up, ready to leave this tunnel/dungeon place.
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Elsewhere, in another dimension
A familiar toad bowed before the great, the all powerful, the incredible, the invincible, SAMEO. "Milord, I come bearing good news." He said, his head still held low before the demon lord.
"Speak." Even though it was one meaningless word, it held great power, coming from Sameo.
Giles clanged; he already knew Lord Sameo hated him. "Mi—milord...the three you mentioned...the two echidnas and bat. They came to me, milord. I sent them through the Internal Dungeon..."
Sameo nodded, "Finally, you've done something right for a change. I shall see to them shortly. For now, you are dismissed."
Giles bowed once more and left quickly before his boss found something amusing to do with him. He shutter at the thought.
Sameo sat down in a chair, "Slice had better fine that jewel soon...if she fails...She would have to pay, dearly...with her life...but for now, I must see how things are going with Gatherdere." He snapped his fingers and a portal came up showing the image of a tunnel like dungeon. Internal Dungeon. In the dungeon was a rat...which was the rat that Tarosamo and the gang decided to have for lunch...
"WHAT?!?! They ate my poor Gatherdere? They shall pay!! Hornrista, come fourth!" Sameo bellowed. The room he was in started to rumble a bit as a fire blast exploded from the floor. It was at least 10 feet tall. Its' body was made completely out of molted lava, a large fire horn rested on its head. Instead of feet, it had a long tail (thank of the Eternal Dragon from DBZ, sorta, kinda, not really, you know...) and large black claws. Its red fire eyes glared down at its' master.
"Hornrista, I command you to find these creatures, and destroy them!" He pointed to the portal. The demon nodded and flew off to take out its' orders.
Sameo sighed, rubbing his forehead, "All this evil business is giving me a headache..."
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Slice groan as she climbed a high mountain. "Ugh...how much farther up must I go?" The butterfly, which was named, Black Light, fluttered by her side.
'You think that's something, try flying with these little wings! It's so tiresome!' The butterfly landed on Slice's shoulder, resting its poor small wings.
Slice rolled her eyes, "You're much help."
'Whatever. No talking, get climbing. You are almost at the top.'
"Whoopie-doo." The bat said sarcastically as she finally made it to the top of the mountain tip thing. "Finally! I'm not used to all that bloody climbing!"
'Stop whining. Now, venture over there, the jewel should be at the end of that forest.' The butterfly flew over to a bunch of trees which lead to the entrance of the forest.
"A forest? You mean to tell me that climbing wasn't enough, now I need to get dirty and go through a forest? Are you insane?!" She yelled at the black wing butterfly.
Black Light fluttered to Slice's side, 'Do all your kind act the way you do?'
"And what is that suppose to mean?" Slice demanded with her hands on her hips.
'What I mean is, if they do, than the world is doom.' The butterfly headed towards the forest entrance, with Slice reluctantly following behind.
"Hey, I resent that, insect!" She yelled at the butterfly.
If butterflies could roll eyes, than that is what Black Light would've done.
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Rouge was growing tired, once again. "Where is the exit to this thing?"
Knuckles sighed, "Do you ever stop complaining?"
"Not when I'm with you." She narrowed her eyes at the red echidna.
Knuckles smirk, "I didn't know you cared."
Tarosamo was again amused. He had no idea that they were that good in hiding their true feelings from one another. Tarosamo was very observant, and quickly realize that they had a soft spot for each other. It was pretty obvious that they cared for the other, even though they argued constantly, but he knew better. He knew that they were defiantly in love, rather they knew it or not.
"Hey! Look, there's a latter!" Rouge ran to a latter a few feet away. The only problem was that the exit was sealed off. "Just wonderful! How are we gonna get out now?"
"Have you forgotten that I can punch through just about anything, Rouge?" Knuckles climbed up the latter, punching the manhole cover. It pop up and landed a few inches from the hole. Knuckles pulled himself out of the hole, than helped Rouge out as well. Tarosamo jumped out of the hold, without any help, since after Knuckles got Rouge out, he turned around to take in their surroundings.
They were now in a city. The streets were crowded and no one seems to take notice of the three figures that just popped out of the manhole. They were standing in the middle of the street, and oddly enough, no cars were coming.
"Where are we?" Rouge asked, looking at tall buildings.
Tarosamo smiled, "Welcome to Paris."
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They finally made it to Paris, eh? What does Sameo have in store for our favorite echidnas and bat? Please, review me. And those of you who did, I thank you, a million and two thanks! BTW, chapter 8 will be the best! You'll see...~_^
Oh! Dudes (and dudettes), I forgot to mentioned that Sameo is a 6 foot 2 dragon. For profiles of the characters, either e-mail me or request in a review! (If you do, more characters that aren't in this story are in the profiles, too). It's a PDF file, though. Thought I tell you that. ^_^
Author's Note: Sorry I took so long in posting this, stuff has been happening' and I wasn't going to post until I had 40 reviews, but since I'm only shy of one, here! Enjoy! ^_^
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Chapter 7
Knuckles, Rouge, and Tarosamo found themselves in a dark tunnel. The only light came from a few candles that hung on the walls, lighting the way. It was cold and damp with cobwebs hanging from the ceiling corners, and a few corps was chain to the walls.
Rouge nose wrinkled up as she slightly inhaled, "This place reeks of death. Ew...it's so gross down here!"
Knuckles agreed, "Yeah, it is a bit disturbing..."
Tarosamo merely shrug, "No matter. We must continue on our way."
The three made their way through the tunnel which portrayed itself more of a dungeon than anything else. They were traveling in complete silence, except for Rouge occasional complaints about how nasty the underground path was and such. After a few more minutes of silence, Rouge suddenly let out a loud "EEK!!!"
Knuckles was at her side in an instant. "Rouge?! Are you alright?" He asked in worriment.
Rouge pointed to something that was in a dark corner. Knuckles turned to whatever she was pointing at to see red glaring eyes. "Rat!" She shouted.
Knuckles sighed, "I would've never guessed that you were so girlish."
The bat glared at Knuckles, "Just because I'm the perfect treasure hunter doesn't mean I'm FEARLESS OF RATS!! I HATE rats! I still have my feminine side, you know. And rats just give me the creeps!" (Funny, considering she's a BAT...member of the RAT family, ne?)
Tarosamo chuckled. "Rouge, you need not be afraid of such creatures. They are fairly harmless."
"Try telling that to HIM!" Knuckles and Tarosamo than noticed the rather large rat that towered behind them. Its eyes were as red as blood with large pointed fangs. It looked hungry. Hungry for an echidna and bat sandwich.
Tarosamo grinned, "Well, guys. I'm sure you two are hungry. Lunch is on me!" He pulled his sword out and slashed at the rat before it could attack. He sliced the rat through its furry chest, straight to its heart. The rat let out an aguish scream before collapsing on the ground, dead.
Rouge looked disgusted. "There is no way I am eating THAT!"
Knuckles agreed with Rouge, "I'm not eating that, either. I'm, uh, allergic?"
The other echidna only shrug, "Suit yourself, more for me." He gathered a few sticks that were lying a few feet away. After placing them on the cold tile stone floor, he created a small fire, rubbing two sticks together. Once the fire was large enough, he once again took his sword out and cut a piece of the rat's meat, roasting it over the fire. "Are you sure that you do not want any?" He asked the two.
Rouge was about to declined again when her stomach growled. She blushed as Knuckles grinned, "Well, I guess I could..."
"I guess I could too. I am kind of hungry. It's been a while since we last ate anyway." Knuckles sat down on the stone floor and took some of the rat's meat that Tarosamo had cut off. "Have some, Rouge." He took a bite of the now cooked meat. "Hmm...it's actually pretty good..."
Rouge sighed and took a seat between the two males, "Okay...but if I died from rat poisoning, I'm coming for you, Knuckles."
Knuckles grinned, taking another bite of the meat. "Can't wait, bat-girl."
Rouge grinned back, noticing how cute Knuckles is when he grins like that. She shook her head and slowly took some meat that Tarosamo handed her. She cautiously took a tiny (And I mean TINY) bite of the meat. After chewing a few dozens times, she swallowed it. The two males looked at her expectedly. "...Well...Not bad...and not exactly chicken, either..." She finished eating the meat. "That was actually better that what I thought." After she said that, a loud burp erupted from her lips. She blushed as the two looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Uh, oops? Excuse me..."
Knuckles chuckled, "Wow, Rouge. Didn't know you had it in you."
She glared at the red echidna, "Be quiet you knucklehead, or I'll tell Taro over there that you sleep with a teddy bear."
Knuckles eyes grew wide. "I—I—I don't sleep with a teddy bear!"
Tarosamo had to laugh at that. "A teddy bear? Knuckles, I'm shock."
Rouge grinned, "Oh yeah, he also sucks his thumb and talk in his sleep."
"Hmmm..." Tarosamo nodded, "And, Rouge, how do you know all of this?"
Knuckles head snapped in Rouge's direction, wondering the same thing. Rouge blushed as sweat form on her head.
"Oh, uh...a little birdie told me?" She chuckled nervously.
"Rouge..." Knuckles said in warning, his eyes narrowing.
"Oh, fine! Sonic told me. He snuck onto your island while you were asleep and taped it all. It was pretty hilarious, and just so cute!" Rouge grinned.
Knuckles growled, "I'm gonna get that hedgehog..."
Tarosamo was now lost. Who was Sonic? "May I ask; who is this Sonic character?"
Rouge nodded, "Sonic is the fastest hedgehog on the planet, or so he thinks. He's a hero, known by many. Saved the Earth a few dozen times, with the help of his friends, of course. Knuckles knew him longer than me, so if you want to know more, ask him."
"Oh, really? Sir—I mean, Knuckles, what can you tell me about this Sonic?" Tarosamo was interested in the hedgehog now for some odd reason.
Knuckles crossed his arms and slouch against the wall. "Fine. When I first met Sonic, we were rivals, I had mistaken him—" Rouge interrupted him.
"You mean tricked! Sonic told me EVERYTHING!" She laughed.
"Why on Angel Island is he telling you all this stuff?!" The echidna demanded.
Rouge stuck her tongue out at him, "That's for me to know. Now, finished your story..."
"Whatever...anyway, before I was rudely interrupted, I had mistaken Sonic for taking the Master Emerald. I fought him, of course, I found out he didn't take it. Eggman had."
"And Eggman is?" Tarosamo also lean against a wall, listening with great interest.
Rouge jumped up, "I can tell you about him! Well, Eggman, formally known as Doctor Robuttnic...I mean, Robotnic, has been tricking Knuckles ever since they met, that tells you how gullible he is."
Knuckles growled, flashing a bright red, "I am NOT gullible!"
Rouge rolled her eyes, "Knuckles, honey, you ARE gullible. You are only fooling yourself in denying it."
He grumbled and turn away from Rouge as she continued her story.
"Anyway, from what I've been told, Sonic has been up against Doctor Eggman ever since, well, practically forever. Defeating him, of course. The last two adventures were the most challenging, though."
"The last two adventures? What were they?"
She smiled, "Well, there was the ARK incident, two years ago. The most memorable one."
Raising one eyebrow, Tarosamo asked, "What makes it so memorable?"
"What makes it so memorable is that that was the time I first met Knuckles." She glanced at Knuckles, who looked totally surprised at what she said. She winked, "Well, that was one interesting experience. We started out as rivals, fighting for the pieces of the Master Emerald, claiming it as our own. When in truth, it belonged to him." She blushed, leaving out the part that happened during the Meteor Herb incident, after that battled. "Anyway, we became good friends ever since. Right Knuckles?"
Knuckles was speechless. He had no idea that she felt that way about their meetings. "Uh, yeah..."
Tarosamo nodded, "I see..." After a few minutes of silence, he spoke once more, "We should get going."
They nodded and stood up, ready to leave this tunnel/dungeon place.
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Elsewhere, in another dimension
A familiar toad bowed before the great, the all powerful, the incredible, the invincible, SAMEO. "Milord, I come bearing good news." He said, his head still held low before the demon lord.
"Speak." Even though it was one meaningless word, it held great power, coming from Sameo.
Giles clanged; he already knew Lord Sameo hated him. "Mi—milord...the three you mentioned...the two echidnas and bat. They came to me, milord. I sent them through the Internal Dungeon..."
Sameo nodded, "Finally, you've done something right for a change. I shall see to them shortly. For now, you are dismissed."
Giles bowed once more and left quickly before his boss found something amusing to do with him. He shutter at the thought.
Sameo sat down in a chair, "Slice had better fine that jewel soon...if she fails...She would have to pay, dearly...with her life...but for now, I must see how things are going with Gatherdere." He snapped his fingers and a portal came up showing the image of a tunnel like dungeon. Internal Dungeon. In the dungeon was a rat...which was the rat that Tarosamo and the gang decided to have for lunch...
"WHAT?!?! They ate my poor Gatherdere? They shall pay!! Hornrista, come fourth!" Sameo bellowed. The room he was in started to rumble a bit as a fire blast exploded from the floor. It was at least 10 feet tall. Its' body was made completely out of molted lava, a large fire horn rested on its head. Instead of feet, it had a long tail (thank of the Eternal Dragon from DBZ, sorta, kinda, not really, you know...) and large black claws. Its red fire eyes glared down at its' master.
"Hornrista, I command you to find these creatures, and destroy them!" He pointed to the portal. The demon nodded and flew off to take out its' orders.
Sameo sighed, rubbing his forehead, "All this evil business is giving me a headache..."
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Slice groan as she climbed a high mountain. "Ugh...how much farther up must I go?" The butterfly, which was named, Black Light, fluttered by her side.
'You think that's something, try flying with these little wings! It's so tiresome!' The butterfly landed on Slice's shoulder, resting its poor small wings.
Slice rolled her eyes, "You're much help."
'Whatever. No talking, get climbing. You are almost at the top.'
"Whoopie-doo." The bat said sarcastically as she finally made it to the top of the mountain tip thing. "Finally! I'm not used to all that bloody climbing!"
'Stop whining. Now, venture over there, the jewel should be at the end of that forest.' The butterfly flew over to a bunch of trees which lead to the entrance of the forest.
"A forest? You mean to tell me that climbing wasn't enough, now I need to get dirty and go through a forest? Are you insane?!" She yelled at the black wing butterfly.
Black Light fluttered to Slice's side, 'Do all your kind act the way you do?'
"And what is that suppose to mean?" Slice demanded with her hands on her hips.
'What I mean is, if they do, than the world is doom.' The butterfly headed towards the forest entrance, with Slice reluctantly following behind.
"Hey, I resent that, insect!" She yelled at the butterfly.
If butterflies could roll eyes, than that is what Black Light would've done.
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Rouge was growing tired, once again. "Where is the exit to this thing?"
Knuckles sighed, "Do you ever stop complaining?"
"Not when I'm with you." She narrowed her eyes at the red echidna.
Knuckles smirk, "I didn't know you cared."
Tarosamo was again amused. He had no idea that they were that good in hiding their true feelings from one another. Tarosamo was very observant, and quickly realize that they had a soft spot for each other. It was pretty obvious that they cared for the other, even though they argued constantly, but he knew better. He knew that they were defiantly in love, rather they knew it or not.
"Hey! Look, there's a latter!" Rouge ran to a latter a few feet away. The only problem was that the exit was sealed off. "Just wonderful! How are we gonna get out now?"
"Have you forgotten that I can punch through just about anything, Rouge?" Knuckles climbed up the latter, punching the manhole cover. It pop up and landed a few inches from the hole. Knuckles pulled himself out of the hole, than helped Rouge out as well. Tarosamo jumped out of the hold, without any help, since after Knuckles got Rouge out, he turned around to take in their surroundings.
They were now in a city. The streets were crowded and no one seems to take notice of the three figures that just popped out of the manhole. They were standing in the middle of the street, and oddly enough, no cars were coming.
"Where are we?" Rouge asked, looking at tall buildings.
Tarosamo smiled, "Welcome to Paris."
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They finally made it to Paris, eh? What does Sameo have in store for our favorite echidnas and bat? Please, review me. And those of you who did, I thank you, a million and two thanks! BTW, chapter 8 will be the best! You'll see...~_^
Oh! Dudes (and dudettes), I forgot to mentioned that Sameo is a 6 foot 2 dragon. For profiles of the characters, either e-mail me or request in a review! (If you do, more characters that aren't in this story are in the profiles, too). It's a PDF file, though. Thought I tell you that. ^_^