Hey guys! Miss me? Hope you all are having a good Christmas break! I can't wait to get this story really going, i'm syked! Well, here ya go! Chapter 2!

Chapter 2

Knuckles sat on the couch in the bridge with his arms crossed and his eyes closed. The rest sat on the other side of the room. "Do you think he's ok, Sonic? Knuckles has been acting weird all day." Chris asked.

"I hope he's ok." Tails said.

"He looks kinda sad." Amy added.

"Don't worry," Sonic started, "Knuckles can take care of himself. He acts like this every once in a while, but he's always able to pull himself out of it. Knuckles is a survivor." Sonic said giving a thumbs up. Chris didn't look so sure as he looked at Knuckles.

'I'm not so sure, Knuckles is acting pretty strange.'

Knuckles' dream

Gabbriella sat in her room combing her hair, looking in a mirror with her eyes closed and humming a song (it happens to be the song that this story is named after and if you want the lyrics to the song just email me, "Gabbriella!" said a voice from outside of her room softly. "Gabbriella!" Gabbriella walked over to the window and looked down. It was Knuckles.

"What are you doing here? You're supposed to be guarding the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds.

"They'll be ok for a few minutes. Can I talk to you for a sec?" Knuckles said blushing.

"Of course. Just give me a minute."

flash

"What is it, Knuckles?" Gabbriella started as she ran outside, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah...it's just...well uh...I needed to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"Well..."

dream ends

"Knuckles! Wake up! Dr. Eggman!" Chris yelled. Sure enough, in front of the Blue Typhoon was Dr. Eggman. Knuckles opened his eyes.

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?" Knuckles asked him crossing his arms.

"Knuckles! Sonic needs your help!" Chris screamed at him. Just then Sonic landed on the window from the outside of the Blue Typhoon. Knuckles growled to himself as he walked out of the room and out of the ship. He jumped over to Sonic.

"What's goin on?" Knuckles asked him.

"Dr. Eggman's demanding that we give him our Chaos Emeralds!" Sonic said angrily.

"What? That's crazy!"

"Yeah, that's what I said." Sonic told him smiling. Knuckles turned to Eggman's ship. On the nose of the ship was Shadow.

"Looks he's in the party too. How come I got a last minute invitation?"

"You were dreaming. It looked like a good dream too. Tell me, what were ya dreamin about?"

"Just someone...I once knew."

"Oh?"

"Cut the chitter chatter!" Shadow yelled at them. "I don't have time for games! Now...GIVE ME THOSE CHAOS EMERALDS!"

"Never!" Knuckles yelled back.

"If you want them, you'll have to take them from me, and I don't think that will happen." Sonic told him. Sonic jumped up turned into a ball and blasted toward Shadow. Right before Sonic hit Shadow, he did the same and the two kept hitting each other.

"So what am I supposed to do while you two fight? Be a cheerleader and root for my team?" Knuckles crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "That no good, good for nothing..." Knuckles began mumbling to himself. "Hmmm?" Knuckles looked up and saw that something was coming out of Eggman's ship. It was Rouge! She was sneaking out and was heading straight for the Blue Typhoon! "You better not be thinking of stealing the emeralds!"

"You better hand them over and no one will get hurt!"

"You think I'm just going to hand them to you? You don't know me very well."

"You better give me those emeralds, Knuckles! You don't need them!"

"Of course I do, you know that! Besides, what would you need them for?"

"Jewelry of course, a girl's best friend (that's not always true so don't find that offensive to some of you girls), what else would you use such a beautiful jewel for? Now...hand them over!"

"Never!"

"Shadow! Rouge! Get back! I need you in the ship!" Eggman called on the speakers from inside the ship. Rouge rolled her eyes.

"Don't think this is over, Knuckles! I will get those emeralds! Just wait!" Rouge said as both her and Shadow went back inside Eggman's ship.

In the bridge of the Blue Typhoon

Knuckles' dream again

"What is it, Knuckles?" Gabriella asked him. Knuckles was starting to sweat.

"Well...we've known each other for quite a while now, right?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well...uh...here." "I know it's kinda sudden...but..."

"Yes?"

"...and I was wondering if...uh...would you...uh...would you..." Just then the ground shook violently. Knuckles looked up and saw a huge black monster. "Gabbriella, stay here!" He ordered her as he ran off towards the monster.

"Knuckles!" Gabbriella said. Knuckles stopped and looked back at her. "Be careful." Knuckles smiled, nodded, turned around and ran again. Gabbriella opened the box and inside was a beautiful diamond ring. Gabbriella gasped as she looked at the ring and then back at Knuckles who was almost too far to see. She watched Knuckles until she couldn't see him anymore. "Please be careful." She whispered.

dream ends

Knuckles slowly opened his eyes and looked sadly on the floor. "Hey Knuckles!" Tails said as Knuckles shook his head. "Could you help me for a minute?" Knuckles stood up and walked out of the room. Outside Tails was carrying a really heavy box and he was about to fall over. Knuckles caught the box as Tails headed for the floor.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, thanks Knuckles." Tails said as Knuckles helped him up. Knuckles carryed the box the rest of the way.

later that day

Tails was in the bridge alone piloting the ship. "We outta be getting close. That island has to be around here someplace."

"Are we there yet?" Sonic asked jokingly walking over to Tails.

"Almost. We better hurry though, we need to find that Chaos Emerald before Eggman finds it! There it is! Terra Island."

in another room of the Blue Typhoon

Knuckles' dream

While Knuckles was out of the room, the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds began to glow brightly. The Master Emerald began growing dark. Darker and darker and then the Master Emerald looked as if it was growing bigger. Just then a huge black and red thing came out of the Master Emerald in the form of a huge monster.

flash

The monster began destroying the island. Knuckles walked back into the room where the Master Emerald was. He saw black smoke coming out of the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds and it was going out of the room. He followed it out and it was feeding the monster.

flash

Knuckles attacked the monster but the monster wacked him and threw him into a building knocking him out cold.

flash

Knuckles woke up later. The monster was gone. Everything...destroyed. Knuckles stood up slowly. "Gabbriella?" No answer. "Gabbriella! Gabbriella!" Knuckles ran around the island looking for Gabbriella, but...she was no where. After looking at the last part of the island, he relized that she was gone. He hung his head low and for the first time, a tear rolled down his face. "No." He walked up to a wall that was not attached to anything (pretty much it was just a wall with no wall on either side because it was destroyed), he put his head to the wall and breathed heavily. Knuckles started to get angry and clenched his fists. Then as he screamed he slammed his right fist into the wall knocking it over and leaving a huge hole in it. He stood there still with his head hung low and quietly said, "No."

dream ends

Knuckles opened his eyes and the angry face was replaced with a frown and once more one tear rolled down his cheek. "Knuckles! We need you to come to the bridge right away!" Tails said over an intercom. Knuckles jumped up, scowled again and walked out of the room and into the bridge.

"What's going on?" Knuckles asked.

"We're almost to Terra Island, where the Chaos Emerald is being held and it looks as if Eggman beat us here." Tails told him.

"But how? We left them in space."

"They must have stole our coordinates when we were in space. That must have been why he called Shadow and Rouge back to the ship." Tails answered.

"Well, what are we doing just standing around? Let's get on that island!" Sonic said. Tails nodded and the Blue Typhoon dove toward Terra island.

on Terra Island

Eggman, Shadow and Rouge walked out of Eggman's ship. Eggman took a deep breath and let it out. "Alright you two, get to work! I want you to find that Chaos Emerald pronto!"

"Hey, what's that?" Rouge said pointing in front of them. There was a glowing yellow light coming from the ground aways from them. The three walked up to the glowing light and it was a female echidna. In fact, it looked exactly like the one in Knuckles' dreams!

I shall leave you there! Sorry, you review and i'll put the next chapter up sooner! See ya!