Chapter 8

The Old Ghosts of the Mountains

Knuckles stood on one of the mountains as he held his bag which was filled with Emerald shards.

"This place sure feels haunted. There's no time to lose, I must hurry and find the rest of the pieces." He said to himself before climbing up to the top of a mountain and spotting a bunch of tomb stones. "Feels haunted…it is haunted…." He muttered bitterly before digging down and hitting a casket.

"Ugh, did not want to go there." Knuckles thought to him as he got out facing a ghost. It smiled viciously before shoving the echidna over the edge of the mountain. Knuckles gripped the rocky surface of the mountain and climbed back up.

"Okay you little vapor-brat. You asked for it!" He yelled and punched it. Oddly enough it faded away and a green shard dropped in front of Knuckles. "Hah, little guy thought he would withstand anything by possessing one of the shards." He tossed it in the bag and continued searching.

Shortly, Knuckles arrived on a mountain covered with train tracks. A loud horn caused him to turn and see a ghost train speed at him before zipping back through the closed wall.

"Okay…" He paused and waited before it sped on the tracks. Knuckles suddenly spotted a flash of green before the train vanished into the wall again. "The shard!" The train sped past but Knuckles snagged the shard from the 'baggage' area before gliding away. "If both of those small mountains had ghosts, I'd hate to see what is on that huge one." He thought and glided towards Pumpkin Mountain before climbing up the tall slope.

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Shadow: What's this? It doesn't have anything to do with the story!

Hey, I'm not going to leave Knuckles out! I didn't really have many scenes with him in the original story.

Shadow: Either because you're being nice or you didn't want to be flamed by a Knuckles the Echidna fan.

(Annoyed) Just-just go watch Resident Evil or something…

Shadow: (completely oblivious) I watched it fifty times yesterday.

What-you just-how can you?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

(Japan)

Japanese guy1: What was that? Godzilla?

Japanese guy2: No…it sounded like a fan-authoress about to lose her mind.