A/N:Again I'msorry for the long wait. The hell hole I know as school has been breathing down my neck. Thank you so much to all my reviewers and to my readers who don't review. C'mon just give a little word, a simple 'awsome' and a 'please contiue' does me a world of good. And I want to here more from muh current reviewers too.

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Children of Chaos

Sunday 5:00p.m.

Angel Island is a lonely, yet beautiful place...if you see it that way. It's quiet, always quiet. And the weather is always pleasant. In fact, I've only seen the leaves change color twice in my life, and those times weren't here on the island. The fresh waters crystal blue waves reflecting the green light the emerald emits is rather relaxing in the day...at night, the silvery moon light mingles with the glow of the master emerald and to watch it all dance upon the darken waters is intoxicating.

The master emerald, sitting in the broken alter in all its spiritual glory, spinning soundlessly among the stone ruins untouched by time. And although it's just an oversized gem stone, you can't help but get a vibe from it, a faint presence if you will.

I get up from my relaxed position on the steps of the alter and fly up just above the master emerald and let myself float down to land on top of it. I take a seat and sprawl out on my back atop the master emerald putting my arms behind my head.

I feel that presence again...it doesn't mind me laying here.

There I go sounding like my dad again. Maybe it's that presence that wills him to protect this thing. Me, I would have abandoned it a long time ago. Or maybe he protects it for his race; I don't know.. .1 can't believe I'm eventually gonna be stuck with this thing.

Dang, there's only four echidnas left (full blooded ones anyway) in the world...well five, counting Kito...I look up at the sun shinning trough the tress as a cool breeze blows and some of the leaves fall off...I turn my head and look at the ground as the emerald steadily spins...some flowers...a wed path...sigh...nothing to do...soooo bored... I wonder what A.J.'s doing.

I sit up and the master emerald spinning allows me to see if my dad is anywhere near by...he isn't, so I jump off the master emerald and hurriedly run down the steps of the alter and try make a mad dash toward the edge of the island before my dad can stop me.

I see the edge of the island, I'm gonna make it, I really think I'm gonna make. I let a mischievous grin make its way on my lips as I reach the edge of the island. I put my foot on the very edge of the island spread my wings and began to push off...

"Dante! I see you."

Dante literally frozen in mid take-off..

"Dammit!" Dante cursed knowing that he'd never get off the island now.

"I ask you guard the emerald for three hours and you can't even do that!" Knuckles scolded dropping down out of the braches of a tree a few feet away from Dante.

Dante walked heavily back toward the alter with his father right behind him. He wrapped his wings around himself like a jacket just for the hell of it. It made him look more like a demon that had invaded paradise.

"Dante, listen to me when I'm talking to you." Knuckles said still behind the sulking boy.

Dante whirled his head around and hissed, bearing his fangs. Knuckles returned the gesture with a growling noise of his own.

When they reached the alter Dante plopped on the bottom steps and sprawled out on his back with his wings stretched out and his arms above his head.

"As punishment you'll be guarding the emerald for the whole day."

"WHAT?" Dante sprang up from his position and stared wide-eyed at his father in disbelief, his mouth slightly agape. "You can't be serious…"

"I'm dead serious." Knuckles said keeping a stern face. "It's time you learn more responsibility, and it's time you start to recognize the emerald as your responsibility."

"Why? I don't want-"

"Have you ever stopped to think that I don't want this either?" Knuckles shouted not really thinking.

Dante stared at him blankly not knowing how to answer to that. Knuckles sighed and turned to leave.

"Great, what am I supposed to do for the next…seven hours, huh?" Dante asked throwing his arms up and twisting himself on the steps so now he was lying upside down.

"Here." Knuckles threw a CD player (he seemingly pulled out of nowhere) at Dante who caught it before it hit him in the face. "I was bringing it for you to listen to." And with that he walked away, back to the makeshift house that he and Dante built.

Dante looked at it seeing that there was a CD already in it. He remembered when Adrian gave it to him for is eleventh birthday. He remembered A.J. claimed he was giving it to him only because he felt sorry for him being up on that island all the time.

Dante smiled warmly at the memory.

He placed the head phones on his head, walked up the steps and resumed his place lying atop the master emerald.

He turned his CD player on listing to the first song for a few seconds then he pressed the forward button until he came to this one song in particular.

He listened as the piano played and the words intently as always. He felt that the first verse of the song sang out his feelings perfectly.

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me..

He sang quietly, tapping his foot slightly with the music. He let the course sing itself as he hummed along with it.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realize that you love me…

Yeah…

"…Yeah…" he looked over on the horizon on the island and saw that the sun was setting. He swore the emerald got warmer a little after he started singing but he pushed the feelings away back to the seemly uncaring black and red hybrid known as Adrian Heart.

When the song ended he pushed a button and the started over. He let the soft music, slow spinning of the emerald, the sunset and the thoughts of A.J. put him to sleep.

…….

Dante woke to the warm sensation on his back and realized he had slept (judging by the stars) way past midnight. He toke the headphones that were still on his head off and laid there for a moment. He realized the emerald felt like it was getting warmer, and on top of that its light was getting brighter by the second.

Dante rose up on one elbow very confused. The emerald was really starting to actually get hot and the light became more violet now. He jumped off the giant gem just as it started to spin faster. A crack splintered on the surface of it sounding like glass about to break.

Dante toke a couple of steps back unsure of what was happening as the emerald started to spin at blinding speeds.

"Dad!..." Dante called. "DADDY!" he was about to run to get his father but the emerald suddenly exploded.

Dante was thrown to the ground by the force of the explosion and curled up into a ball to protect himself as shards of the master emerald went flying all over the island and across the sky.

In the mist of the chaos Dante moved his arm from over his face. He thought he saw a figure in the middle of it all. It appeared to be struggling from what Dante could see trough the almost blinding light. Before he knew it he realized a shard was heading straight for him and it was to late for him to evade it so he covered his face again and waited for impact.

But it never came.

He lifted his arm again and nearly jumped a good five feet away from the silhouette holding the glowing emerald shard that would've hit him.

As emerald shards still flew from what was left of the master emerald the shadowed figure strode over to Dante who was frozen from shock.

He wanted to move but his limbs were stiff. He watched as the silhouette reached him and kneeled next to him. His mouth was agape but he gasped, closing it when he felt a hand gently grab him under his chin. The light from the emerald shard in the figures hand illuminated its face enough for Dante to see that the figure was the color of the night sky. The figures eyes danced upon Dante's face as if examining it. It grinned when Dante started to tremble under its gaze.

"E' zesh nute me'ne kilta." It cued to him as it turned Dante's face to the side some.

Dante could fell its nails press slightly into his cheek. He got a look at his eyes and found himself not able to avert his gaze anywhere else but at the orbs that he noticed glowed the exact same way the emerald did.

The figure suddenly lifted himself looking back toward the alter where the emerald once rested, in its place another figure surrounded by green light.

The figure that was once occupied with Dante got up with the emerald shard and ran toward the end of the island disappearing off the edge.

Dante was finally able to move again. He lifted himself on both elbows looking after his 'savior' befuddled, then he turned to look at the figure that stood at the alter. He found that the figure had collapsed and it was his dad who was holding it as the green light that emitted from it slowly faded.

Dante stood on shaky legs and staggered up the steps of the alter coming up behind his father.

"Dad?" he whispered.

Knuckles answered him with a rough sigh keeping his eyes on the being in his arms. Dante looked at it. It appeared to be a young male echidna with peculiar looking dreadlocks that didn't match his fur color. He had with a looked like a golden tiara that held a turquoise in the center, and gold arm bands. He also wore some baggy pants with some kind of cloth wrapped around his hips, and some sandals that looked like they came from ancient Rome or something.

"He's just unconscious." said Knuckles lifting the strange echidna up on his shoulders. "We'll take him but to our home 'til he wakes up. Then I'll question him."

Knuckles walked away without another word with following him silently.