Jayln and I will appear in this chapter… and I am saying this because… she was a bit confused…
"Ah… so Eggman's planning something again…" Vinny understood.
Someone knocked on the door… or what's left of it. Tails came in.
"Tails… what are you doing here? It's 8:30!" Amy said.
"Umm… I'm picking Flame up so I can drop him home…" Tails said.
"We need more help…" Knuckles said.
"Although I'm going to regret this… really bad… I have to do it…" Flame whispered.
He and Tails were outside of Amy's house. "Umm… Tails? I can take it from here…" Flame said.
"You sure?" Tails asked.
Flame nodded with a small smile. Tails waved good-bye and left. Flame's watch communicator turned on. "Good… now go into inferno mode…"
"I can't… unless I'm really mad or when I have three Chaos Emeralds… but… when I'm mad… I can't control my inferno side… I need the Emeralds to do it…"
Eggman sighed. "Use them… fine…"
Flame took out three emeralds. "Powers of the Chaos, unite… Pure evil I will need tonight…" Flame whispered.
"Kai?" Shadow sighed. "I need your help…"
Vinny and Knuckles held back a laugh.
"Oh my god! You're actually calling me?" Kai asked him.
"Yes… I need extra help…" Shadow whispered.
"I'll be right over!" she said.
Shadow sighed. "I need some fresh air…"
He walked outside. He put his head down. What's going on? Someone has to know… Although this seems bad… I just know it'll get worse… I should get Jayln… both Kai and Jayln are good at fighting… especially side-by-side… Vinny too… I can't believe all three of them are friends… I can never be friends with Kai… just thinking about her scares me… some creepy stalker…
Shadow looked up to find the triple-tailed fox… three emeralds kept circling him. They were protecting him and supplying him with the power he needs. Shadow gasped in horror. Vinny ran outside.
"That's the fox you talked about?" Vinny asked, looking down at the small fox.
Flame smiled… but didn't talk. He took out a gun… not just any gun… a gun he stole from Shadow. Shadow's eyes widened as he searched for his gun.
"Maybe you misplaced it?" Vinny asked.
"No! I always keep it with me!" Shadow said.
Flame pointed it at Shadow. "Watch out, Shadow!"
Kai kicked him away. Shadow fell onto the floor with much force. Instead of Shadow getting hit, Kai did. She fell to the ground; hand on her upper left arm… she was bleeding. The triple-tailed fox looked at what he had done and fled. Kai put her hand on the bloody part of her shoulder.
Vinny helped them both up. She looked at the ground. The pain was unbearable… but she had no regrets.
"Kai… you okay?" Vinny asked.
"No, you dope! I'm just bleeding right here… perfectly fine!" she said sarcastically.
"Come on… Rouge knows how to fix this…" Shadow said as he grabbed her right arm.
Shadow ran back into the house. Vinny followed them but stopped. He heard the wind whistle harshly.
Somewhere out there…"Arrgh! I hit that other hedgehog! I can't believe this! I wasn't supposed to…" Flame said, tears streaming down his face.
"Calm down, boy…" Eggman said through the communicator.
"I can't do this anymore!" Flame yelled.
"You have to…" Eggman said.
Flame was back to himself… but as he heard Eggman say this, his eyes burned a fiery black. "What did you say?" he asked menacingly…
His hands burned into a black fire. "No… I won't let my inner Inferno get to me! I have to control myself!" Flame said.
"But… working with Egghead… don't you think you can get the attention you deserve?" his inner self asked.
"No… people do give me attention…"
"No… they give you attention because they think you're a freak… they think that you're weird…" his Inferno told him.
"No… you're me! You can't be real!" Flame said to no one.
"You're right… and wrong… I am your inner Inferno… what you call me… Flare… what you call yourself now… Flame…"
"NO! You are me… how can you be doing this?" Flame yelled.
No one answered him. He sighed. He was still crying softly.
Amy's house…"Ow… ow… no… ow…" Kai muttered as Rouge was mending her arm.
"Come on, Kai… you can take on huge monsters and gigantic robots… but not this?" Rouge asked, rubbing her fur with alcohol.
"Well, monsters and robots don't burn, okay?" Kai asked loudly.
A whistle of the wind made Kai's head jerk up. It was soft and gentle.
"Did you guys hear that? There's almost no breeze tonight… yet I heard something…" Kai said.
"Maybe the wound got to her…" Vinny said.
The whistle was slowly disappearing.
"Shut up! I heard it!" Kai said.
She stood up. The wind was calling to her.
"Umm… Kai… you're hurt……" Rouge said.
Kai blocked everything. She heard the soft, gentle wind call to her. Vinny watched what she was doing. Suddenly he heard the harsh wind's whistle again.
Still somewhere out there…
Flame sobbed softly. He then looked at the communicator. His anger grew to a harsh level… but his sadness prevented him from going into his inferno mode.
Amy's house…"That's it… I'm getting Jayln… Kai and Vinny have gone totally insane…" Shadow said.
"No… the wind… really severe wind…" Vinny said.
"No… gentle and soft…" Kai said.
Rouge stood up and examined both hedgehogs to see what was wrong. She looked at Kai's arm… to see if that was the cause of the hallucinations…
Jayln entered the house and hugged Shadow in her death hug. "Jay-ln… can't brea-the…" he gasped out.
She let go. "Did you guys hear the wind? It was whistling a song while I walked over here!" Jayln said.
Shadow looked at the three as if they were crazy. "Whistling a song?"
Jayln nodded.
Kai closed her eyes. She pictured a huge forest… where someone was softly crying… Vinny pictured some huge lab… anger filled all sides of it.
Shadow didn't understand what was going on. He stared at the three. "Wait… maybe… the wind's trying to tell us something…" Knuckles said.
"Huh?… Or… it's telling us about someone…" Kai said.
"What?" Rouge asked, confused.
"A forest…" Kai whispered.
Vinny shook his head. "A laboratory…"
A scream was heard upstairs. Shadow's eyes showed great fear. You can hurt me… but do not hurt my friends… especially Amy!
He ran upstairs to find the triple-tailed fox. The emeralds didn't surround him this time.
"Who are you?" Shadow asked.
"Me? I'm your worst nightmare…" the small kitsune said, grabbing Amy and jumping out the window. Shadow jumped out through the same window and followed the small fox.
Shadow kept following the fox. He was so close, until one of Eggman's huge machines landed in front of him. Shadow began destroying it… from behind him came Kai. She kicked the huge hammer away from the robot. Jayln jumped up on it's head and started destroying it's circuits. Vinny started kicking the robot's support system.
"Shadow! Go ahead and save her…" Kai told him.
Shadow gave her a smile and ran off. Kai smiled. She cracked her knuckles and gave the robot the most powerful kick she's ever done. The robot fell down, shattering to pieces.
Jayln was happy. Vinny was panting. Kai… she listened to the wind.
The wind changed… it feels trapped… trapped within the clutches of great evil…Kai grabbed Jayln and Vinny's hands and ran towards the forest behind Station Square.
Jayln- Yayness! You're in here! I promise I'll make you tougher in the next chappie…
V.B.- You're in here too! I tried to keep you in character… did I do it wrong?
Fortune Zyne- Sure, I'll take your character… but I don't know about her much… Jayln and Vinny I know because (they're my buds) and I've read a story with them in it… I've also written stories with Vinny and Jayln in it so it's easier… but I don't know Hope that much… so… if you have a story that can explain her, I'd happily read it so I can write about her!
You guys don't know what Eggman's plan is yet... his plan will probably go into effect next chappie or the next one after that... See ya next time!
) Kai-Senpai )