Chapter 13: The temple of destruction…
It was already time to be on the road again, after camping out, Sonic, Shadow, Tails and Knuckles were walking through the jungle, and hadn't picked up any emeralds for miles. The ones Eggman is keeping were being blocked by Aerick's men, causing the guild students to be unable to sense Eggman's chaos emeralds. The students were lost, and Aerick was one step ahead.
"Guys, I don't think any emeralds are left in the Mystic Ruins." Sonic said. "There has to be, every time they scatter, two or three are around here. The ancient temple Shadow found draws their powers, like a magnet." Tails said.
"Well... then let's go search around the temple, maybe we'll have a stronger connection there." Sonic said. "Then let's go." Shadow said. They immediately ran for the temple, but not really filled with confidence.
They came to a clearing, where the temple was, only to see robots, crawling around it, like bugs, crawling around a hive. They were dismantling the outer structure, tearing the temple apart.
"They have disturbed the Master Emerald's peace for the last time!" Knuckles yelled, as he ran off to battle the robots. "I can already tell, these are Eggman's robots. I knew he and Aerick were working together, ever since that fight. Aerick's probably using Eggman to get the emeralds." Shadow said. "Come on, we should help destroy the robots!" Sonic said also now running off to battle. Soon, Tails and Shadow were also.
Sonic turned around, "What weapons do we have?" He asked. "Let's see!" Tails said. He unzipped his backpack. "Four loaded Pistols, Swords made of steel, a few knifes, our Red chaos emerald, and a tazor stunner for the robots. Oh, and I have packs of bullets for re-loading." Tails said. Each of them stalked up on weapons, and then the fight was on.
Knuckles, fighting with bare fists, Sonic, chaos blasting like crazy, Shadow, shooting at the robots with two pistols, and Tails, with a pistol, to defend off their supplies in the backgrounds of the battle.
When all of the robots took notice of the fight, they all started to grab electric staffs. Stabbing at their enemies. "We are no match for 80 of these things!" Shadow said. "Yes we are!" Sonic said blasting balls of chaos energy this way and that. The robots were very easily destroyed by any type of chaos energy.
Suddenly, a large group of the robots started heading for Tails, probably hoping to destroy their supplies and bags.
"Defend our supplies!" Shadow shouted as he ran over to Tails and started firing his pistols. "The bullets only ricochet off of their metallic armor, I'll call upon the power of the emeralds!" Shadow said.
He put out his hand and started to fire. Sonic and Knuckles soon also ran over to their supplies. What was it the robots wanted? "That's it, they want our emerald!" Sonic said. "Then they'll get it!" Shadow said. He put his hand into the air. "CHAOS-BLAST!" He yelled. There was a flash, the brightest flash any of them had ever seen, each of them, except Shadow, ducked, and closed their eyes, a wave of chaos energy was sent surging into the long assembly line of robots. Each of them reopened their eyes. To see a burning line of robots.
"Whoa… what kind of spell was that?" Sonic asked. Tails, as usual was holding a book, and said: "Chaos Blast, powerful, but quickly depletes any Chaotic Life forms chaos power. Their ability to connect with the emeralds becomes numb to the touch, and they may be unable to use any chaos powers for hours, for some, days. This is the ultimate of all chaos spells, but it comes at a great cost: You may experience numbness for an extended amount of time, and your chaos energy may be severely depleted." Tails said. "In English Tails." Sonic said. "That means that Shadow may be unable to use his chaos ability for hours." Tails said. "Mare-rith warned us about that power when chaos training us, remember?" Knuckles asked. "I remember that day, Mare-rith said never to use it, unless we were under dire circumstances, or had a really good reason." Sonic said. "At least I was able to stop them from destroying the sacred temple." Shadow said. "Yeah, I guess Mare-rith would say it was okay, under that circumstance, I mean, there were a lot of robots." Tails said. "Say, what didn't you pack in their Tails?" Knuckles asked. "I believe we have already gone over that, we were each supposed to carry specific things. Sonic had the food, I have all of our tools and books, Shadow had all of our weapons, and Knuckles was supposed to bring our extra items, such as water, maps, and our tent." Tails said. "Oh, yeah, got them already any way." Knuckles said. "Shadow, you alright." Sonic asked. Shadow was panting hard, lying on the ground, sweaty. "Ur… give… give me… some… WATER!" Shadow said. Sonic gave Shadow a cold bottle of water, and Shadow drank it all in about one gulp. "I feel so tired." Shadow said. "You will, for a while." Tails said. Is the temple okay?" Shadow asked. "I think you saved it!" Sonic said.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the ground beneath them started to shake. They all saw the temple start to crumble and collapse, it was still breaking down, but the ground was violently shaking. "We've disturbed the peace here!" Knuckles yelled above the noise of the shaking jungle.
They all watched as the temple collapsed in on itself, and the entire stone fell apart, as dust rose up from all of the rubble, the earthquake suddenly stopped. They had failed.
"What did they want from that temple?" Sonic asked. "I do not sense any chaos emeralds inside. I knew it, there are no emeralds around the temple, it has fallen. It is nothing but two stories high now, and it was once 16." Sonic finished.
"Let's go…" Tails said in dismay.
They all grabbed their supplies, and headed for the temple. Under the two stories, the steps were still standing. They walked up the steps. All the dust had cleared, and there were still a few shrines surviving inside the inner structure, which was now the outer structure, for the roof was all around the temple, and now, they were standing in what was once a dark inside dungeon. The same dungeon Shadow had fallen into, a while back. "Look guys, I never said, but when I fell into this temple, there was a shrine that had holes shaped like the Chaos Emeralds." Shadow said. He was right, there was a large stone, with seven holes, surrounding one huge hole. "Let me guess, these seven holes fit the seven emeralds into them, and that big one in the middle is where the Master Emerald goes." Sonic said. "That's right." Tails said. "Look guys, there is writing on the bottom." Knuckles pointed at the bottom of the stone. "Let me translate that language." Tails said, unpacking another book.
"It reads: Here the seven chaos go, and the one, the one who controls the all, the master. Only one, one controls the master, only one of its power. If one can unite all of the chaos, and the master in royal blood, shall rule, as I carve this, I am one of the royal blood, the king of all Hedgehog clan, our duty, is to protect anyone from this stone, and no evil shall come near it! My very son, Shadow, is destined to become a Hedgusst warrior, and only he of thy royal blood, is one of the two brothers. The Hedgusst and the Hedgehog. The Echidna clan shall never get the emeralds from this stone, for they, they have the power to harness that power for evil, some one of royal blood can fit an emerald into this stone, and only they can. The Master Emerald is a weapon for good and evil, only hope that it is never ruled upon by evil blood…" Tails said.
"It's talking about Sonic and Shadow, they have royal blood." Tails said. "I already tried to put the emerald into the stone, but it popped back out." Shadow said. "Yes, that is because you had meaning for it else where, not in that stone, not yet, watch, put our emerald back in." Tails said. "Okay." Shadow said. He fit the red emerald into the diamond shaped hole. It fit in, and popped back out. "When are they ready to stay in the stone?" Sonic asked Tails. "I don't know, the chaos has a mind of its own, only the chaos itself will decide when it shall stay in that rock. And that time is not now." Tails said. "Maybe Mare-rith knows more." Shadow said. "Should we being him here?" Sonic asked. "Let's get the next emerald first." Tails said.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard, tons of them, like an army, and it was coming towards the temple. Aerick came out of the jungle, followed by thousands of robots.
"So, you've found the temple's secret destruction. Surrender, or be killed." Aerick said. Sonic lunged at Aerick, and was seized by two robots. "Run guys!" Sonic yelled, but the robots fired stun rays at them, and each of them dropped, stunned on the ground. "These stun rays are made to stun enemies, without harm, but we just may harm you later, unless you do what I tell you." Aerick said. "Bring them back to the dome, we'll decide what we do with them later." Aerick said.
The robots seized Tails, Shadow and Knuckles too, and carried them off through the jungles, now there was absolutely no hope of escape. It was night when they finally reached the dome, and Sonic, along with Shadow had a bad feeling.
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