Ch 16: The Lost Village
Tails and May are still walking up the stairs of the lighthouse. This lighthouse is really huge. It is like the size of a skyscraper. May turns on the computer watch to see more journal entries.
'June 14, 1999 1:00 A.M.
I still haven't seen Sonic since the chaos incident. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Amy either. Wonder where they could be. I've made some modifications to the Tornado 2. Now it can run on solar energy. I made it so the solar energy will be 10 times as strong. It also has spare batteries that will last 2 hours. Bye...Tails out.
June 30, 1999 8:39 P.M.
I'm still all alone here at my workshop. I am so bored without Sonic. I wish he would return soon. I bet he is with Amy, secretly having a vacation without me. Maybe I should go see Knuckles at the floating Island. It usually is over south Africa during the summer. Yeah that sounds like fun. Bye...Tails out.'
"Tails? What is the floating island?" Tails looked back at May.
"The floating island is an island that floats in the sky. We also call it angel island. It floats because of the Master Emerald. It is like a really big chaos emerald, but it controls all seven chaos emeralds. It has the power to stop their energy." Tails turns back around. They are almost at the top of the lighthouse.
'July 1, 1999 11:58
Man Knuckles is so uptight. He never wants to have fun. I was swimming and hiking all day. It was so hot. I did cool off when I was snowboarding in the icecap mountain. Now I'm really tired. I'm just laying under the stars tonight. Bye...Tails out.'
They are at the top of the lighthouse in a big room. The shard is at the top of an altar. It looks like it is being used as a powersource for something. The energy is flowing through the floor on some weird lines carved into the stone. Tails goes up to grab the stone when the room went dark. "May, What happened?...May?" Tails notices that the rain outside is stopped.
'Only the one with twin tails can reach the shard of storms. Thy soul has to be pure to pass the trial. Place thy blade in the hole of truth.' Then the light and time comes back into the room. Tails grabs his sword and looks for the hole. It is right in the center of the room. The same carvings are coming from the hole. These carvings are not filled with the energy. Tails put the sword into the hole, but nothing happens.
"What gives...I put the sword into the freaking hole." Tails looks at the alter there are pictures on it. There is a circle with a bolt of lightning inside next to a picture of the lighthouse lit. Under those pictures is another set of pictures. It is basically the same except for the element and light. It shows water instead of lightning. "Hmm...I think I understand."
"Good, because the door is shut tight and the ceiling is slowly dropping." May is trying to open the door.
"Okay, Waterfuse!" Tails' sword becomes enshrouded in bubbles/foam. He then drives it into the hole. Energy from the sword just fills in the cracks of the ancient symbols. The ceiling starts going the other way and then it flies off the roof and is falling towards the skinny cliff. It cuts through the cliff leaving the lighthouse on a tall spire of rock. It is very unsteady. "Whoa...that was a huge crash, it sounded bad."
"Um...T-Tails, I think we have a huge problem." May is looking out a small opening on the wall.
"Lemme just grab the shard." Tails heads for the shard and grabs it. It shoots out of his hand and attaches itself to the sword. Tails runs over to his sword and puts it back away. The lighthouse begins to rumble again. It gets so bad that they fall down. The tower tilts and May slides into the wall and it breaks apart. She is just at the edge of the wet floor. "MAY, Don't move...I'll be right there."
"Tails, help me." Just then the tower tilts more. May slides off the edge, but she is hanging onto the edge. "I'm...slipping, Ahhh...help."
Tails can't get to her in time, so he lets go of what he was hanging onto and slides down the floor on his stomach with his arm outstretched. He grabs May's arm, but pulls her off the edge along with himself. They are falling for a brief moment and then Tails flies. They slow down and come to a stop in mid-air. He is still grabbing her arm. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so." Now the lighthouse is crumbling into the ocean. It almost landed on top of them, but Tails dodged it. The entire cliff that was out from the island is gone now. The storm ended as soon as the lighthouse fell. "I guess the lighthouse was causing the storm." Tails flew back over to the others. They were waiting in the car. The roof is up and the windows are up. Ace has some music playing. They land on the shore nearby. Tails goes up to the car and taps on the glass.
"Hey Tails, what's up." said Ace. Kaida is sitting next to him. She is meditating. Shadow is nowhere to be seen. "So, did you get the shard?"
"Yep, it's right here." Tails shows him the handle of the sword.
"You got the shard, good. Where is the next one." Shadow said behind Tails. Tails turned on his radar and looked at it.
"This one is to the south, way to the south. It looks like it's on another island." Tails flew over to his sub and jumped inside. "C'mon May."
"Wait, I'm going with you instead." Shadow jumped in fast. He starts wispering. "I need to talk with you, okay?"
"Sure, okay. May, can you go with them for now?" She nodded and went in the car.
"Okay, lets go!" Tails unclamps the tornado from the rocks. The top comes back down. He turns around and dives under. He starts to gain enough speed and goes full speed while rising at a steep angle. They fly out of the water and transform into a jet again. "Pretty cool, huh."
"Anyway, I need to talk to you about something. I don't know how to explain it, but...I think I'm in love with a human girl." Shadow is blushing slightly.
"So, what's the big deal? Love is love, it doesn't matter who it is."
"Do you think I should go see her? She reminds me of Maria, but it feels wrong for me to love someone else."
"You loved Maria? I didn't know that. Did she know?" Tails looks back in front of the window and pulls up fast because he almost hit the water. "Whoa, I'll put it on auto pilot."
"I was about to tell her, but that was right before the colony was attacked. She didn't even know the truth. I let her down..." Shadow has a tear going down his cheek.
"Maybe, this girl is the reincarnation of Maria. It could happen. I have done research about this, I learned that souls do really exist. Souls are attracted to any kind of spiritual energy. So the warp might have brought her soul to this girl."
"Really. Maybe I should go see her then. Thankyou, I needed that." Shadow laid back in his seat.
"I never thought I would ever get a girlfriend in my life. Back on earth I was always laughed at by the other foxes. They always said stuff like 'your stupid, you have two tails', or 'eewww get away from me'. I always ran away, I never showed them that I could fly, I thought they would laugh even more. That's probably why I never went to school with the other furries. Dammit, I said the 'f' word."
"No you didn't, I thought that you said furry." Said Shadow with a bewildered look on his face.
"I did, that is a terrible word for people like you and me. You didn't know that, Shadow?" Tails looked ahead and took over the flight controls. May, Kaida and Ace are in the hovercar down below. May is sitting on the same seat as Ace. They are struggling in the chair for room.
"Move...over." May is really annoyed.
"If your butt wasn't so big, we wouldn't have this problem." Ace really pissed her off.
"I DON'T HAVE A BIG BUTT!" She punched him in the chest. He slapped her in the face. They are just going at it non stop.
"It's okay Kaida, they will stop soon." Kaida told herself. Just then she get hit by an arm. "WILL YOU TWO KNOCK IT OFF!" Kaida grabs Ace by the foot and holds him upside down. She pushes a button and the roof retracts. She puts him on the roof. She closes the roof and Ace is still up there. He is just hanging on for his life. There is an island up ahead. It is covered in a thick jungle. Even with the sun out the forest looks very dark.
"There it is Shadow, Were going to dive into the water, so hold on." Tails does a half loop and is going straight down. The plane transforms into the sub just before impact. They go at least 50 feet under before they resurface. Tails anchors at the beach like last time. "I'm detecting two shards here. One is over there, and the other is over here." The others arrive now and Kaida slams on the brakes. Ace goes flying into the forest. There is a loud thud. It sounds like wood breaking. "HOLY CRAP!"
"Hey, I missed you." May runs over to Tails and gives him a small kiss on the cheek. He blushes slightly. "Oh don't worry about Ace, that was his punishment. Kaida is back to normal."
"I see, were in luck, the last two shards are here. Then we can finally save Sonic." Tails is really excited now. Ace emerges from the forest. He is all battered and bruised. He just walks over to Kaida and stands there. Shadow is waiting for everyone to pass. "I'll stay in front, while shadow stays in the back." Tails enters the forest. He is then followed by May, Ace, Kaida, and Shadow. The forest is crawling with vines and other over grown vegetation. The vines have thorns all over them. "Stupid frickin' vines." Tails is getting really irritated with the vines scratching him. Another vine hits him in the face. "That is IT, Steelfuse!" Tails takes out his sword and it has the steel power and is super sharp. He starts cutting all the vines in his path.
"Whew, I'm tired, that will show those vines whose boss." The path ahead looks pretty clear now. It is still very dark in the forest. It is kinda creepy. They all walk past the clearing and there is a small village up ahead. There are grass huts arranged in a circle. There are small children playing around a pole. These children are all foxes. They all have twin tails. "Whoa, they all look like me. Except for the colors."
"Uh-oh, we gots scary strangers in our village, run away." All the children run away to their houses. Then one old fox comes out of one of the huts. He looks identical to tails in color. His tails are really big and you can't see behind them.
"Who are you and what do you want? I'd suggest you leave and never-...You have two tails...it can't be." The old fox is looking right at Tails. He bows down on the ground. "You've finally returned...Milar."
"Milar? You have me confused with someone else. My name is Tails." He is a little scared of the old man.
"But you look exactly like him. Wait...Your eyes are blue. Wait...the purple monkey is on your head." The old man walks back to his house like nothing ever happened. Tails looked up and grabbed in the air, but nothing was there.
"Tails, there was nothing on your head. I think he is too old to talk." May is laughing, but she is trying to hide it.
"You need to hear the story from me, that old coot is getting out of hand." Tails looked to the left and sees a girl fox with two tails. She has pink fur as her main color and black fur where the white should be. She is a little taller than Shadow. The only thing she is wearing is a tanktop. The fur is thick enough so she doesn't need to wear pants. She has golden yellow eyes and a blood red bow in her long black hair. It goes all the way to the ground. "I'm Morgan, come with me."