Here's the next chapter for ya'll minna! And now the moment you've all been waiting for (maybe)... .
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HERE COMES THE FOUNT OF LIGHT!

(Disclaimer: authoress does not own Sonic. Trust us, if she did, you WOULD be able to tell)
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"By the way, thanks for helping me gather all the Emeralds into one place, you gullible little fools!" Raven cried.

"Whatever you're going to try with the seven Chaos Emeralds isn't going to work, Raven!" Knuckles yelled at the hedgehog.

"Yeah," Tails added, "We can stop him with the Master Emerald! Great idea, Knuckles!"

"At least someone here has great ideas," Knuckles added, and was rewarded with an indignantly spluttered mumble from Sonic. . ."You three really ARE gullible," Raven said, his face and voice suddenly very solemn, "When I said 'all the Emeralds', I meant ALL the Emeralds!"

Without any further warning, Raven disappeared in a flash of light - Chaos Control! - and the seven Chaos Emeralds vanished with him. There was another flash of light above the Master Emeralds' platform.

"STAY AWAY FROM MY EMERALD!" Knuckles bellowed, bolting for the stairs with Sonic and Tails right behind him.

"Too late…"

Hovering well overhead, Raven dropped six of the Chaos Emeralds, letting them crash into the Master Emerald below. He held onto the green Emerald and focused its power in the same instant that the others hit. .
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"Keepers of the power of pure chaos…" Raven intoned, as the Emerald in his hand flared into a bright green star -

The other Chaos Emeralds froze in mid-bounce, and started glowing as well -

"Keeper of the power to RULE pure chaos…"

The Master Emerald began shining like a miniature sun -

"Guides to the power to reshape reality itself!"

The lights from each Emerald grew brighter and brighter, too bright to see clearly anymore -

"You know what I seek…now open up the way to the Fount of Light!"
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."Did he say the Fount of Light?" Knuckles demanded, a fist shielding his eyes from the glare.
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.The others were too busy watching Raven to answer. The white hedgehog let the Chaos Emerald he was holding drop. As soon as it came in contact with the other seven glowing Emeralds, there was a blinding flash of rainbow light.

And when everyone was able to see again, there was a pretty amazing sight to greet them. A hole, hanging in midair right where the Master Emerald had just been resting - the Emeralds themselves were nowhere to be seen. Arcs of different colored lights pulsed around the hole, but the hole itself didn't have a color at all.

Actually, it looked more like a sphere than it did a hole. But a hole it was. .
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"Aha…now I understand it," Raven smiled, still hovering well above the fantastic display he'd called into being, "High-ho, high-ho, it's down the hole I go!"

The white hedgehog cut the jets on his shoes and dropped, vanishing into the orb-like hole in space. It's surface rippled a bit, and then the ripples faded.

"Everyone freaked out by this say Aye," Sonic said.

"Aye," Tails said immediately.

"Hey Red, what was all that about a thingy of Light?" the blue hedgehog asked next.

"I thought it was just a myth…" Knuckles muttered, "I can't believe he discovered it…"

"Meaning what, exactly?" Sonic pressed.
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"Meaning," Knuckles growled, "That unless we do something quick, Raven's going to get a whole lot more dangerous and we aren't going to be able to stop him."

"Hey, don't worry Red," Sonic grinned, "'Cause 'Quick' is my middle name!"

"And here I was thinking your middle name was just 'the'," the echidna retorted, running towards the hole.

Sonic zipped past Knuckles at the last second, jumping into the hole first. Tails jumped in last, a couple of seconds behind the both of them.