Sonic quickly opened his eyes, and saw the ground beneath his feet. He was floating….so was he dead?
His arms felt numb, because they felt like they were being lifted high above his head.
Sonic quickly looked up to find none other that Tails, struggling to keep his older friend from falling down.
"Sonic, we have to find Knuckles!" cried Tails as the ocean still sent waves over the land. The ocean spray was getting to Tails' eyes, and he didn't like the salty feeling.
Sonic searched the ground below. I mean….it couldn't be that hard.
He soon found a drenched Knuckles below. He was standing on Tails' rooftop, waving frantically, hoping that they would notice him.
"So….Knuckles….What the hell happened?" asked Sonic.
Knuckles glared at Sonic as he was squeezing the salt water from his dreads.
They were drying themselves in another part of the ruins. A higher spot, due to the drenched ground below them.
Tails was spread out on the high rock basking in the sun out of sheer weariness. "It dimmed and before I knew it, The Island was falling." Knuckles retorted.
"Just like that?!" Sonic cried out. "Yeah…just like that…its strange…this has never happened before… only when it was shattered, but everything on the Emerald is still in tact." Sonic looked quite bewildered.
"That's it?" He asked once more. "Yeah Sonic. That's all that happened." Knuckles responded. "You sure?" "Yes." "I mean reaaallllly sur-" "YES ALREADY! That's all that happened!"
"…That is pretty weird then…" Sonic puta finger to his chin.
As Sonic pondered, Knuckles sat down and looked at the muddy ground. Everything was drying up now… God, the emerald caused so much trouble…
Tails sat up looking quite groggy. "You know, the silence is nice…but what are we going to do about my house?" The smaller fox called out. He looked disgruntled, upset. His arms still felt sore and he was squinting due to the salt that had remained in his eyes.
Sonic sighed. "Well, we best get down there…I hope nothin's beat up too bad…" He groaned. He leapt off the roof and made his way toward the front door.
...Seaweed painted the muddy ground.
He turned the knob, and a small portion of water left the inside of the workshop.
He took a look inside, and winced. "Crap…" Sonic looked at Tails, his hand still on the knob. Sonic's heart sank into his stomach once he saw the small fox's expression.
"Buddy...I'm sorry...It can be fixed right?" Sonic said, trying to brighten up Tails' expression. The small fox slowly nodded.
Knuckles rubbed his head, and looked down. "Guh...I'm really sorry about this...I have no idea what went on...it was as if the energy from the Master Emerald was all absorbed or something.."
Sonic moved his emerald eyes toward Knuckles, then toward the island.
He saw the emerald, sitting in its stone hold. And ugly gray color. Not even the sun made it gleam. "It doesn't look like it's going to brighten any time soon…" Sonic spoke softly...as if he was telling himself.
After a while of cleaning the workshop, Sonic finally set his cleaning rag aside, wiping the sweat off his forehead with the back of his free hand. "Whew...well… at least it looks half decent now…" Though...he couldn't say the same for how it looked outside.
A/N: Wow...I've been gone a while..Sorry guys -;; I promise I'll try to update more often..and for my viewers from before..thank you for all of your reviews..I give teh cookies to you all.