A/N: Hey guys...quicker update... I finally reached 210! Hell yeah!
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Emeraldlinx: Thanks for the advice...I think i did it right this time though...and no, i'm the RB
Electra Girl: Yeah, Sonic can can be cocky at times...(aviods rocks as well)
Kniveshadow: Glad you like it and don't worry i'm not planning to end this one...
The cradle of humanity was vacuous…
There was no vitality…
No herbage…
No water…
A boundless land and sea of dissolution…
Except two beings in the midst of it all…
The
Balance: Delusion
A shocking pink hedgehog glared down in the face of Sonic who was pinned down amongst debris and destruction that once was the city of Station Square. Half by his own weakness and half by the powerful foot that was implanted directly on his chest that slowly cracking the ribs he had within; tearing at his own very existence. He breathed brutally, whisking for air as blood exuded down the side of his face. Cuts, gashes, and abrasions surrounded his entire body, dripping with the vital fluid of life as well.
He stared at the person in front of him holding a heinous pink and black battle-ax that she clutched in her right hand. Her eyes were so plagued with darkness that no mortal being could stare at her directly; blood red pupils that flared with anger, hatred, sorrow, and pain…the epitome of pure depravity and despondency.
This person was Amy Rose….
She was a monstrosity, created by the same evil that was tainted within her pure soul, a darkness that she couldn't control for she didn't know how to restrain it.
Amy was undiscerning on how to retain the evil within her because she had never had to endure such feelings and intentions in her life before. All it took was a small speck of amorality that was implanted inside Amy's essence, which emerged and twisted her into what she had become...
A demon of ultimate evil…
The pink hedgehog drew her ax upward, ready to remit the final blow. The strike that will end all the good that she kept in her black heart, a mere torn on her side that could not disappear unless she destroyed the source of the emotion.
The love she had for Sonic…
"Its time that you finally die…blue hedgehog…" The demon said wickedly as she narrowed her eyes, increasing the pressure on Sonic's chest. "I would have rather tortured you slowly and hear you scream in agony; watching you suffer to your demise, but even my cold heart can't stand for it. I hate you Sonic, but since I somehow still have feelings for you, I promise to make this quick and painless…"
Amy drew the ax higher in the air as tears began to stream from her eyes; lamentations that she thought had dried up for eternity. Her arm began to shake as if it was hesitant at the moment, but her face showed no emotion at all except the tears running down the cheeks of an apathetic face.
"Amy…" Sonic managed to choke out of his lungs. "Don't…do this…"
"And why not?" She asked tilting her head to the side slightly. "You treated me as if I was just another girl on the street! You pushed me aside as if I was just a pair of old shoes! You never respected nor appreciated me! You were the love by of my life…my North Star!"
Sonic shuddered a bit as tears began to run down his own face, giving into the pain.
"Amy…I'm sorry for all the things that I've done to you. I-I neglected you, but I did not mean to be so abrupt." Sonic said roughly as blood seeped from his mouth. "I was hiding my feelings from you all this time…my true intentions."
Sonic took one last deep breath.
"Amy Rose! I love you!" Sonic howled releasing every amount of oxygen and energy that was within him.
Suddenly the tears of the pink demon hedgehog stopped and she narrowed her eyes even more…
"I don't care anymore…" Amy simply responded icily removing her foot from its current position.
With no more hesitation, the ax she held in her hand began to descend from its upward position.
Diving towards Sonic's chest…
Tikal opened her eyes and gasped in pure trepidation.
Encased in the Master Emerald, the spirit fell to her knees as she stared wide-eyed to an unknown area above. Tears shot from her eyes, for she couldn't give credence to what she just saw or heard.
"Is…this the fate of this world?"
Only if my sister succeeds in doing this dark rash deed. She believes that if he can take over the balance completely she will take over completely, but she doesn't know by destroy the balance and ruining the sequence of the pure ones, only means total desolation and no hope of reincarnation…
Tikal put her hands on her lap and closed her eyes trying to calm herself.
"Master I don't comprehend…why did you not ever tell me about this?"
I never thought that it could happen…I thought my sister and me had come to an understanding, an agreement. In the beginning we fought constantly, but soon we found peace and combined are efforts to make the perfect world. But it's her normal ambition of darkness and greed that drove her to be this way…
I should have seen this sooner. I should have known that she would try something like this…
"I must warn the others!" Tikal said as she stood up in tenacity.
No…
"Why not!" Tikal screamed in a mix of disbelief and ire.
Without my sister being here with me, the balance had already been broken. If you didn't reside in me, the universe would have been destroyed already. Since you are not of pure good the small amount of evil that's in you is what keeps me in place. If you leave or communicate in anyway, the balance will break completely and the universe will be no more than a vast space of obscurity…
"There must be a way! I communicated with Amy and also with Knuckles in their dreams. Why didn't the universe atomize then?"
At that duration my potency had not been dilapidated. If my powers were low at the time being, I wouldn't have let you…
"So what are we supposed to do?" Tikal asked worried. "They don't even have a intimation of what is to become to be."
That is were you are mistaken Tikal. You may not be able to communicate, but I can. In my weakened state I can only send the others mixed messages, dreams, and visions. Hopefully that is all that is needed…
"Is there anything I can do."
Pray and hope Tikal that the guardians of this world can stop this onslaught of bloodshed…
The echidna folded her hands and closed her eyes.
"Then that's what I shall do…" she replied as she began mumbling the words of the ancients.
Sonic finally awoke from his belated nap. The pain on the side of his face had finally gone away, but this time he had a new pain…
His chest…
It felt as if he had something compressed across his heart; a quite jarring feeling that struck on Sonic's nerves which was on its last legs.
"Where in the heck is this pain coming from?" He said to himself in perturbation.
The hedgehog rose from his bed griping his chest in pain, finding it hard to breathe. Suddenly he heard a noise coming from downstairs.
Opening his door, he looked down from the banister to see Knuckles talking with his long time friend on the couch...
Suspicious, the blue anthro began to descend the stairs…
All this time that the two-tailed fox had known the echidna that guarded the Master Emerald he had never seen him like this…
He had never seen tears come out of his eyes and roll down his mussel…
Tails had always known Knuckles to be a hard ass, a person that had his feelings completely on lock and key. One that even in the deepest of pains and suffering, would not squeal or cry. The fox was not only sad about the news he received of Rouge's prevalent state, but also amazed that Knuckles could ever show his emotions this way.
The Tails could only pat his friend on his back in attempt to soothe him…
"What is going on?"
The two anthros looked up to see Sonic standing right in front of him.
"Somebody attacked Rouge and put her in a coma Sonic." Tails replied
"What happend?" Sonic screamed in shock."Knuckles, how did it happen?"
Seeing that Sonic had showed his face, the echidna was somewhat embarrassed on how he was displaying himself. Knuckles quickly wiped his tears away and stood forth, saving his cries for a latter time.
"Sonic, while I was sleeping, Tikal spoke to me in my dreams telling me that Rouge was in danger." He began. "I was supposed to be with her anyway, but I had a strange feeling that something was wrong with the emerald so I went back to guard it despite of the alarm systems that Tails had set up for me. I had just gone off the phone with Rouge when I had drifted to sleep and that's when Tikal spoke to me. I quickly glided to our hose in Station Square finding her laid across the grass. The only hint of who the culprit was is this…"
Knuckles handed a red piece of clothing to Sonic.
"I had found it inside the house in her room and I refused to give it to the police when they arrived." Knuckles explained.
Sonic looked at his friend in shock.
"Do you have any idea who could have done this?" Sonic asked seriously.
"No…"
Tails rose from the couch, walked, and snatched the fabric from Sonic's hand.
"This color…it seems really familiar…" Tails said in deep thought.
"Is it Eggman's?" The hedgehog asked.
"No, his red on his jacket is a lot brighter."
"Then whose could it be?" Knuckles questioned.
A thought had occurred to Tails, but his train of thinking was disrupted when a black hedgehog emerged from their door.
Shadow was panting with the face of fear splattered all over him, putting his hand on his knees trying to catch his breath. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails stared at the ebony creature in surprise wondering why the he was in such a state.
"What's up with you?"
Shadow looked up.
"Nothing…just had a strong rush that's all." The black hedgehog lied.
Sonic took a step toward him.
"Its looks more as f you were running away from something…" Sonic said in speculation.
"I shall be fine hedgehog…just getting a little excited or what you would like to call it: Being in The Zone. May I ask what the echidna is doing hear?"
"No time to explain now Shadow." Sonic replied firmly. "We will tell you on the way there…"
"Where are we going Sonic?" Asked the orange fox in question.
The hedgehog reached into one of Tails' pockets on his utility and took out the blue chaos emerald.
"We are going to Angel Island and having a talk with Tikal."
It seems that this process is taking a lot longer than I had expected…
The good in her is strong and determined, but soon I will have that part of her destroyed…
Nothing will stop me!
Not Sonic or my brother…
The demon looked out her window to see a homeless man, clothed in a long worn out black leather coat. She smiled heinously.
I am getting wearied…Its time to have a little fun and then visit my brother at the Island of spirits…
Zipping threw the space of time, Sonic and company arrived at the face of the green gem and all its glory. When the blinding white light finally subsided, everyone except the two hedgehogs were panting and sweating. Knuckles felt afflicted and Tails was trying hard to focus into the environment around him.
"How do you guys get used to this?" Knuckles yelled feeling as if he was going to throw up.
"After the first ten times…" Sonic began.
"You get used to it…" Shadow added finishing Sonic's sentence.
After a couple of minutes of recuperation, Knuckles noticed that his emerald seemed really dim, as if it was drained from its energy.
Taking off his white boxing gloves, Knuckles place both hands on the gem seeing if he could communicate with it…
"No response…" Knuckles said taking a step back.
Shadow stepped up and held his right hand up to it trying to absorb the energy it had inside.
"Shadow…?" Sonic said as he stepped up to him.
"I-I don't feel anything…" Shadow said looking at his hand in disbelief. "It's almost as if it is dead…"
A confused look came across Tails as he looked at the Chaos Emerald Sonic held.
It was still radiating in energy…
"Then why does the Chaos Emerald still works?"
Knuckles spun to Tails.
"The Master Emerald stops the Chaos Emeralds, but it doesn't control them Tails…"
"Then why is the Master Emerald acting this way?" Sonic asked.
"I do not know Sonic…I must look at the archives of the ancients and see what this is all about…."
I'm afraid that that will not do you any good. Even the knowledge of ancients will not tell you what is going to happen…
Everyone looked up to see a black draped figure floating above them with an ax strapped to the back. All that could be seen of the face were blood red eyes glowing in the darkness of her hood…
The person began to laugh manically.. .
A basic setup chapter...hope it was't too boring...
Next stop! Big super detailed fight scene!
Possible Chapter Name: First Incounters?
R&R