Characters Sonic, Shadow, Rouge, etc. are copyrighted to their original Sega creators. Characters such as Rika the fox, the Stranger, the Divine and future characters all belong to me. The term 'Wishmaster' belongs to the AWESOME band Nightwish based on their song Wishmaster.
Now comes Chapter 3. I hope this doesn't suck. I lost my original copy of this chapter at school! I just left it in a folder in a classroom and didn't even realize it until the next day! Now I can't find it! I was so pissed off! I just wanted to punch somone in the face. But I stopped moping (after 5 minutes) and went back to rewriting the entire thing. Since the original all came from my head, I got most of the words exactly as they were in this one. I tried not to rush through it, but I was still mad when I wrote this. This week hasn't been exactly great. But your reviews really cheered me up which makes me glad I joined this site. Hope this next chapter won't dissapoint you. Please read and review.
Chapter 3-Nightmares Come True
Knuckles, Tails, and Amy flew towards Station Square in the Tornado 3, the jet ripping through the air. They saw masses of people running from the park in the center of the city, screaming. The three in the plane could not see very well, since the park seemed to be shrouded in a dust cloud, but were able to make out a dark shape moving around in it, creating a shaking throughout the city. They were reminded of the Perfect Chaos creature they had fought before. Such memories did not ease their troubled hearts.
"What is it?" Tails questioned.
"It must be Eggman!" Knuckles replied. "...At least I hope so..." the latter he said to himself.
"Hey, guys!" greeted a voice from the right side of the plane.
"Rouge!" Knuckles shouted. "What are you doing here?"
The bat landed on one of the wings of the jet while Knuckles got out of his seat to join her. "I came to see what all the fuss was about." She looked down to the streets and saw the people fleeing in terror. "I don't like this," she muttered.
Then a blue blur ran through the streets, heading in the opposite direction of the people.
"It's Sonic!" Amy cried excitedly. "He'll be able to do something about this!" Everyone knew her faith in her hero was limitless.
As Sonic ran through the city, he saw the faces of the citizens. Every single one had a look of pure horror. Some had even stopped to cry, feeling full of despair. Sonic grew more nervous. Not even when Eggman attacked had any of the people experienced such fear.
As he got near the park he saw a blue jet flying overhead. Though it looked different, he knew exactly what it was and who was flying it. "Alright, Tails!" His famous confidence was coming back.
Both Knuckles and Rouge jumped off the Tornado and landed next to Sonic where he had stopped.
"Knuckles! Aren't you supposed to be guarding the Master Emerald?"
"The Emerald told me to come here."
"Wait a sec, it talks? I didn't know that!"
Knuckles eyes widened. "Wha- No! It does not talk! It showed me a vision!"
"Well, whatever jewels you've been talking to, I'm just glad the both of you are here."
Remembering the task at hand, the three ran through the park, seeing trees pulled out of their roots, the ground ripped apart. Once they reached the dust cloud ahead of them, it started to dissipate... and then they stopped as they laid their eyes on what none had expected.
It was a gigantic beast over eighty feet tall covered with white fur all over, and had long, gangly arms with black claws. Two long blue horns were on the side of its head, jagged at the end. Its lower body was that of a serpent's tail, spikes running along the back, coiled at the end like a stinger.
But what was more frightening was its face. Two sickly yellow eyes stared at them from a ugly, elongated face. Its long teeth was starting to decay, yet they still looked as sharp as ever, able to bite through the strongest steel.
Sonic stared at the monstrosity. He had seen this. In his dreams. Those dreams of terror. They had warned him. They did not lie. Here was the proof.
Oh my God.
"What is that?" Rouge whispered in fear.
Sonic had almost forgotten about the others. The sight of the creature had terribly shaken him. "Well, it ain't no robot!"
The monster let out a great bellow that echoed throughout the city. A shriek that sounded like the screams of the dying. The three fighters covered up their ears, trying to shut out the terrible sound. What was this thing?
Then Sonic noticed someone was standing in front of the creature. It was a young human boy. "Hey, someone's over there!" Knuckles and Rouge both looked up but Sonic was already running towards the boy.
The beast saw the blue hedgehog and reached out with one of its long arms to grab him, but was shot by missiles that came from the Tornado 3. Tails and Amy were also shocked once they first saw the creature, but came to their senses when they saw it reach for Sonic. The beast turned to the jet, which looked more like an annoying blue insect to it. Tails fired plasma weapons at it, making it forget all about Sonic.
While the creature fought its prey, Sonic had reached the boy. He was about fifteen years old, wearing jeans and a white sweatshirt, and had short brown hair that looked as if it had never been combed.
"Kid, what are you doing? It's dangerous, you have to get out of here!" But the boy did not move, caught up in the battle between Tails and the monster.
"He must be in state of shock," said Rouge as she and Knuckles came over. "I'll take him out of here." She stretched out her arms to carry him, but suddenly stepped back, her eyes open wide.
"Rouge, what's wrong?" Knuckles asked worriedly.
She just pointed. Both Sonic and Knuckles looked and stepped back as well.
The human boy had a long furry red tail.
He turned around and saw the three. "Hello!" he greeted cheerfully.
Then they noticed his pointed ears.
"I said, 'Hello!'"
And the quiver of arrows strapped to his back.
"Are you deaf?"
And the bow he carried in his left hand.
"Hmmm, must be in a state of shock or something."
The beast let out another ear-splitting scream as it tried to catch the elusive Tornado jet. "Oh yeah, almost forgot." The strange looking boy turned back to the monster with a grin that revealed sharp teeth. "Never fear! The Great Ry is here! I shall destroy this most foul beast!" He reached into his quiver and nocked an arrow to his bow, which was about as tall as he was.
"Kid, wait!" yelled Knuckles.
Too late, the boy let fly an arrow. Through its journey through the air, the arrow changed into an orange and yellow beam of light, as beautiful as the rays of the setting sun. The beam shot straight for the creature' left yellow eye. Once it hit, it put a claw over it's face, screeching in pain.
"Alright! Bulls-eye!" The boy cheered, jumping up and down. "Or to be more accurate, great, big, ugly furry thing's eye!"
Sonic and the others just stared at this seemingly demented teen-ager. "That was actually a pretty good shot," said Sonic.
The creature glowered down at the four with great hatred. His face was now even more repulsive, a ghastly bloody hole where its eye used to be. It opened its mouth, revealing rotten fangs.
"Oh, shoot!" Sonic curled into a ball and hit the beast straight in the snout, knocking it backwards with a large thud.
"Wow, you guys can fight too!? That is awesome!"
"Uh, yeah. Who are you?" Knuckles asked.
"My name's Ry," answered the boy enthusiastically. "Hey, are you an echidna? Cool! Aren't you guys supposed to be all dead or something?"
Knuckles clenched his fists, already not liking this impudent brat. "Why you little-"
"Take it easy, Knuckles," said Sonic as he tried to calm him down. "You take everything too seriously."
"Whoa, cool! A blue porcupine! I haven't seen you guys in like forever!"
Sonic looked at the kid, confused. "Um, no. I'm a hedgehog."
"Nah, you can't fool me! I know a porcupine when I see one!"
"Will you three idiots just shut up already?" shouted an impatient Rouge. "In case you haven't noticed, that big thing there is getting ready to swallow us!"
Sure enough, the creature was back up again. He slithered over to them, just the movement of his great weight creating a shaking in the earth. Wasting no time, Rouge flew straight up into the air and gave a swift kick to the monster's head. Sonic and Knuckles jumped in, the echidna giving off perfectly aimed punches while the hedgehog (porcupine?) ran in dizzying speeds, hitting the beast at every available opportunity. It tried to smash the little rodents, but they were moving too quickly from one spot to another.
But one did not move at all. The creature gazed with its one eye towards the teen-ager. Remembering that it was he that had caused the loss of its eye, it swung its claw at the boy. Before it reached him, Ry did a backflip, escaping what would have been a painful death. The claws ripped through the ground like soft mud. Before he landed on his feet, Ry pulled out three arrows and shot them through the air. Three beams of twilight hit the creature in its chest. "Yes! I win!"
As it fell backward, one of its long arms hit the Tornado 3, breaking off one of its wings.
"Uh oh. I didn't do it! It was the porcupine!"
"I'm a hedgehog, you- wait a minute! Tails!!"
Tails struggled with the controls of his jet, but with the loss of its wing, it could no longer stay up in the air.
"Tails, what just happened!?" shouted a panicked Amy.
"That monster just hit us! I'm sorry, Amy. I don't think we're gonna make it!"
The jet started a downward spiral towards the ground, the beeping of the emergency alarm blending with the screams of the two inside the machine.
"Oh no! Tails and Amy are gonna crash!" shouted Knuckles.
"What!? Amy's in there too!?" Sonic looked on with deep fear towards the Tornado. Tails...Amy...Two of the most important people to him...The plane got nearer to the ground.
No!
Sonic ran towards the jet, feeling he had to do something, though he knew it would be in vain.
Then the jet stopped falling.
Sonic stopped in his tracks, confused at what he saw. "What the...?"
Both Amy and Tails had closed their eyes, waiting for the end. When the jet somehow stopped, both thought that perhaps they were dead. No, they were still alive, still in the Tornado. It stayed up in the air, the nose of the craft pointed towards the ground.
As Sonic and the others got nearer, they saw the reason for this phenomenon. It was a lioness, standing underneath the jet, her arms held out above her head. She had peach colored fur and long brown hair tied up in a braid that reached down to her waist. Her clothes were loose fitting and had a strangely exotic look. As she lowered her arms, the jet slowly floated down. Once it reached the ground, her arms were at her sides.
"Whoa, Krysta! That was so cool!" shouted Ry as he ran over to her, his tail wagging happily from side to side.
The girl turned around, a not so pleased look on her face. "You're such a moron. I leave you alone for one minute, and you've already almost got two people killed! That's so typical of you imps!"
"Hey, if it wasn't for me, that thing would have eaten them whole."
"You mean, eaten you whole!"
Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge gawked at the two who started to argue, along with Tails and Amy as they got out of the jet. The two shouted insults at each other such as "You are so irresponsible!" and "Well...you're short!" and "What the hell does that have to do with anything!?" and so on.
Sonic, now able to ignore the fight, came over to Tails and Amy. "Are you two okay?"
"Yeah, we-we're fine," Tails stuttered. "I-I wasn't scared..."
"Sonic!!"
Poor Sonic tried to pry Amy off but she held on to him tightly, cutting off his oxygen. Why the heck is she so important to me?
A shadow loomed over them, snapping them back to reality as the monster came over to them. Its chest bore three bloody holes.
"Ry, you just stay out of the way and let me handle this!" Krysta pushed back the boy roughly and walked up to the monster, undaunted. It swung its massive tail toward her, ready to crush the lioness. She raised one hand and the tail froze in mid-swing. She shuddered under the weight of the tail, struggling with the force. But was able to push it out of the way.
Thinking fast, Sonic accepted these new allies, and pushed Amy back. "Amy, you stay here, alright?"
"Here, you guys!" shouted Tails as he threw three rings at Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge. They all caught it and felt the energy flow of the rings. Feeling refreshed they all joined in the fight with Ry tagging behind. "Hey, wait for me!"
Amy stayed behind, watching in wonder as the others fought. Rouge flying in circles as she called on her black wave attack, Knuckles with fists glowing red punching efficiently, Sonic curled up in a ball and creating a wind vortex as he ran around the monster, while Tails threw rings as he flew through the air to whoever needed them.
As the battle ensued, dust stirred among the ground. Amy raised her arms to shield the dust from getting in her eyes. Once it cleared, she saw someone sitting underneath a tree, unaffected by the screams and cries of the battle. Amy ran to get a closer look.
It was a dog with black fur and strange white markings. He was thin and had sharply pointed ears. He wore a white T-shirt and baggy, light brown cargo pants with a looped chain fastened to his black belt. He had multiple piercing on his ears, including two above his right eye. The dog sat underneath the tree with eyes closed.
"Sir, you have to get out of here! It's dangerous!"
"I know," he replied calmly. He still did not move.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked worriedly.
"I'm just fine." A park bench ten feet away was crushed flat by the monsters tail that was trying to hit the fast moving Sonic. The wood pieces nearly hit the dog, yet he sat there, unflinching.
Amy started getting nervous. "Please, Sir! You have to leave!" She grabbed his arm to pull him up and was surprised that the dog cooperated by standing up, yet his eyes were still closed.
He must be afraid she thought. "What's your name?"
"Cuervo," he replied in a whispery voice.
"Well, don't worry, Cuervo. Sonic will be able to stop it."
Cuervo just nodded.
During the battle, Rouge darted through the air, giving off her attacks. But soon the creature was able to snatch her from the air with its hand.
"Rouge!" Knuckles jumped up in the air, building up a strong punch to the hand holding the bat. But it moved farther up, making Knuckles miss. "No!"
Then out of the corner of his eye, he thought he saw black wings.
Rika the fox jumped from a tall building toward the monster. She landed a perfectly aimed kick at the hand of the beast, making it release Rouge from her imprisonment.
From the bat's pocket, a golden bracelet fell.
The fox landed safely on the ground, ready to battle the beast, her cloak flowing around her.
"Did someone send out invitations or something?" asked a baffled Sonic as he watched the whole spectacle.
Then he saw a flash of green light appear above the monster's head. He recognized that power.
No, it couldn't be...
Shadow the hedgehog landed on top of the head of the beast, a green Chaos Emerald in his hand, and a crystal sphere around his neck.
Amy, seeing the light, ran toward the battle still holding onto Cuervo, thus bringing him along.
The dog saw a golden bracelet on the ground and picked it up. He then looked intently at both Shadow and Rika.
Looked on with red eyes.
That was long. Sorry for those who don't like long chapters. I'll also be adding a lot of personal characters. I will now be working on my 4th chapter, of course that was also in my lost folder, damn it. Now you must give me a review or face the consequences. (evil laugh) Bye!