CHAPTER 6

WAR FOR THE MASTER EMERALD

When night had approached Knuckles had bought other echidnas to the shrine so they could help protect the Master Emerald.

The echidnas would do anything to protect the island at all costs.

Shadow and Rouge were there as they promised. They had to help them on a count of it was their duty.

Everyone waited for the Dark Legion to arrive and suspected Kun to have a huge amount of reinforcements.

Knuckles cracked his knuckles ready to fight, "I'll take them all on."

"Don't you mean we?" Shadow just knew he'd take all the glory.

Knuckles put his hands on his hips,"Yeah, Shadow we."

Julie checked her watch, "They should be coming any moment now."

She was right, the Dark Legion showed up with a lot of men and with spears in their hands with catapults with flaming boulders in them.

Shadow was shocked on their weaponry, "What is this the AD? We'll beat these bastards easily. With our updated weapons we'll crush these fuckers."

Rouge knew the Dark Legion wasn't playing around, "Don't push your luck, hon. I think they know a lot about handling weapons than us."

"What could they possibly know?"

Then a flaming boulder crashed down in front of Shadow and Rouge.

Shadow then had a different opinion, "Okay, maybe they do have better strategies."

"They attacked. We gotta stop them. I'll take care of Kun." Knuckles would finish off Kun once and for all, at least he hoped so.

All of the echidnas attacked each other. Spears stabbing through one another and flaming boulders crushing half of the echidna tribe. Blood was everywhere on the ground. Everywhere you turned you saw dark red liquid on the ground. It was hell at the shrine of the Master Emerald. Pure hell.

Shadow and Rouge mostly helped with their upgraded weapons.

Rouge had gotten into the habit of making guns and upgrading them so she knew which gun to have in the battle.

Shadow helped by using his special attacks. He stood a fine distance away from them, "Eat this, fuckers. Chaos Spear!" A yellow light in the shape of many spears attacked a lot of echidnas in one blow. Shadow watched as the blood scattered within the air.

Rouge ran to him, "We're winning. Most of them committed suicide to themselves and jumped off of the island and into the ocean."

"I hope one of them was their leader."

Then something just came to Rouge, "That's right Knuckles. He said he was going after Kun. Should we..."

Shadow slightly nodded his head, "It would be the right thing to do."

Later at other side of the island Knuckles and Kun were fighting each other without any weapons.

Kun came at him with a punch and Knuckles did the same. Both of their fists met each others and they both broke away quickly holding their sore hands.

While Knuckles was holding his fist, Kun took his leg and kicked it at Knuckles' ankle. Knuckles fell to the ground leaving himself an open target.

Kun pulled out a dagger and pointed it at Knuckles' head, "This is the end for you, Knuckles." He almost stabbed him with it, until Rouge jumped out at him and kicked him.

Rouge held out her hand for Knuckles to take.

Knuckles noticed Shadow coming from the forest.

Knuckles knew Shadow would start another fight with him if he touched Rouge again, "No thanks, I'll get up myself." Knuckles got up slowly ready to fight Kun again. He ran at him and pushed him down on the ground near the edge of the island. They fought acting as they didn't care if they died or not.

"Be careful." Shadow had warned.

Even when he tried to alert him, they fought on viciously.

Finally it happened. Kun and Knuckles had slipped from the edge and fell from the island.

"Knuckles!" Rouge spread her wings and jumped from the edge. She had caught Knuckles before he hit the water, but unfortunate for Kun he fell into the water.

Knuckles blushed while Rouge held him in her arms. "So uh, you do like me."

When they reached the top of the island Shadow was waiting for them.

Rouge glared at him and just dropped him on the ground painfully.

"I didn't mean it that way!" Knuckles shouted, but deep inside of him he really liked her like that.

Later that same night when the battle was finally over Cobar, Knuckles, and Julie was saying their goodbyes to Shadow and Rouge as they were getting on their repaired plane.

Shadow started the plane, "We're finally getting away from this hellhole."

"I can't wait to get back." Rouge could imagine how the rest of the guys feel about them gone. They'd probably thought that they died or something.

"You know what? Charmy's plane didn't react to a Chaos Emerald, only the Master Emerald."

Rouge sighed, "You just figured that out?"

"Was it that obvious?"

Knuckles didn't want Rouge to leave, "Wait, this is too soon. Will you ever come back to visit?"

Shadow glared at him, "Not often, I'll give you that."

Knuckles backed away from the plane and started to wave his hand and so did Julie and Cobar.

The plane took off and they left to go back home.