CHAPTER 5

SHADOW VS KNUCKLES

Knuckles and Julie just finished with repairing the X-jet.

Knuckles wiped the sweat off of his forehead exhausted, "Well we're finished with the plane we should report this to Rouge."

"And Shadow."

For a certain reason Knuckles didn't care for Shadow very much, "Right, him too. Do you know where they are? I haven't seen them for a good while."

Julie shrugged, "I have no clue. Knowing the bat's passion for jewels they might be at the shrine of the Master Emerald."

Knuckles and Julie began running to the shrine.

"For Shadow's sake he better not have touched that emerald." Knuckles would probably beat him up for that.

When Knuckles and Julie got to the Master Emerald they saw Kun speaking to Shadow and Rouge and it seemed that he was there to cause trouble. Knuckles stepped in, "Kun, what the hell are you doing here?"

Kun looked over at him and sighed, "Knuckles? You again? I thought for sure I had that emerald."

"Well you thought wrong, get away from the Master Emerald. If you had the emerald in your hands it would bring nothing, but pain and suffering for everyone on this island."

"You haven't won, tonight I declare war for the Master Emerald. My men against your pathetic people. Whoever remains standing gets the Master Emerald. I'll see you there." Kun pushed Rouge on the ground and made a run for it.

Shadow wanted to hit him for that, but he had already gotten away.

Rouge crossed her arms, "He's gonna pay for that."

Knuckles helped her up, "Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" Even when Rouge was already off the ground Knuckles still had his hand in hers.

"I'm fine, Knuckles. Thanks."

Shadow noticed him holding his wife's hand and he was angry at him for that, "Knuckles you son of a bitch, get your hands off my wife!"

Knuckles glared at him and still didn't remove his hand away from Rouge, "I was only helping her. So show some respect you ungrateful bastard."

"I'll show you respect all right." He took his fist and punched Knuckles.

Knuckles let go of Rouge's hand as he fell to the ground with rage wanting to hit back.

Rouge glared at Shadow, "Shadow, don't hit Knuckles. He was only trying to help me. There's no reason to hit him for that."

"He was trying to make a move on you and I won't let him interfere with our marriage."

"Shadow the Hedgehog!"

Knuckles then came at Shadow with a punch, but fortunate for Shadow he dodged his attack because of the great speed he had.

"I thought you wanted to fight me?" Knuckles adjusted his punching position.

"I do, but I would waste you in a millisecond. I wouldn't want you to feel like the loser you are."

"Loser! You little cheap ass hedgehog. I'll make mincemeat out of you." Knuckles came at him again with another punch.

Shadow smirked, "I don't think so. Chaos Control!"

Knuckles almost had him, but Shadow had strangely vanished into thin air. "What the? Chaos Control? How can he do that without an emerald?" Then he was kicked in his back. Knuckles fell on the ground confused. He looked behind him spotting Shadow smirking. "How the hell did you do that?"

"I had some inheritance from my father, lets just leave it at that."

Knuckles got from the ground trying to hit him, but he had once again used Chaos Control. 'If he keeps doing Chaos Control I'll never get a chance to beat the shit out of him.' He then fell to the ground because Shadow attacked from behind again.

Shadow walked up to him with some yellow light appearing from his hand, "Time to say your prayers, Knuckles. Chaos Spe-" He was stopped, Rouge had held his hand back.

"Don't do it, Shadow. You need to stop being jealous all the time."

"Whoever said I was jealous?"

Later at Cobar's house everyone was thinking what they should do about the war.

Julie was the one worrying, "What are we going to do, Cobar? Should we fight or..."

Cobar shook his head, "It is best to fight to save the Master Emerald and this island."

Then Julie just thought of something, "That reminds me Shadow, Rouge your plane's fix you can go home."

Rouge sighed, "Thank god."

"No." Shadow had said out of nowhere.

Rouge looked at him confused by his feelings, "What do you mean no? We gotta go."

Shadow shook his head, "We can't leave. Even though we hate this place, we're still detectives and it's our duty to help people. We have to help save this island. We can't leave until our job is done."

Knuckles didn't know Shadow had cared about their problem. At that point Knuckles would take back all the things he said about him.

Rouge had agreed with him, "You're right. It wouldn't be right to leave when someone's in a crisis."

Cobar looked out of the window looking at the sun going down, "We had better prepare soon, there isn't much time left."