Ok yes I know my chapters are short and I'm sorry some of my stories are just like that and when that happens I try to post more than one chapter at a time. So here's a new chapter ok.
Chapter 4: Thief Of Hearts
Knuckles blinked a few times as he came too it was late day the sky was touched with orange and red. 'Have I been out all day?' He was leaning against the Master Emerald; he blinked a few times as he looked around. Then in an instant it all came flowing back to him, what Rouge had done what she had said, and what he allowed her to do. He sat up straight there was no sign of the bat anywhere. Knuckles shook his head slightly. "It's best she's gone anyway'. Knuckles put his palms on the stone floor to lean on them when he heard a slight rattling around his left wrist. He looked down and saw the handcuffs Rouge had put on him earlier. He stared at them for a moment and his expression began to turn to that of anger as he tore the shackles from his arm. He stood up and raised his arm over his head ready to chuck the things clear across the island when he was about to throw it something stopped him he was staring up at them the sun was making them sparkle and glisten. Knuckles brought them back down so he could look a little closer. Knuckles fiddled with them in his hands and then something else caught his eye. He flipped the cuffs over he noticed that an inscription had been made around the curlier edges of the metal bracelets. It looked like it had been carved in with a sharp rock or something of that nature. There were four words inscribed, two to each bracelet and together they read 'you stole my heart'. Knuckles slowly ran his hand across the words. He sighed as his grip on the cuffs grew tight. "What does she mean, I stole her heart, she couldn't mean…" Knuckles looked out over the horizon it couldn't be true, or could it? "No…" Knuckles turned back to the Master Emerald his face shown with an array of irritation then Knuckles threw the cuffs at the Master Emerald. They hit it hard and fell to the green gems base. Knuckles yelled in frustration. "Why is this happening!" He looked up and saw a vision of Rouge in the emerald. He gently put his hand to Rouge's face. Then when he removed it her reflection faded. "It doesn't matter now she's gone and I have my old life back everything is as it should be." Knuckles told himself this but in his heart it truly didn't mean anything he was alone now and that was cut in his soul. The cut will heal but the scars will never fade and so the sorrowed memories will live on forever.
-with Rouge-
"Why did I go out like that!" Rouge was walking around on a rooftop somewhere in Station Square. She stopped pacing for a moment and ran her hands through her hair trying to calm down. "What's the matter with me I mean I've never given into my desires that badly but I am facing lust here." Rouge looked in the direction of Angel Island and sighed. "I could go back and try ta…." Rouge then turned her back quickly. "No… I couldn't do that not after all I've done he'd never let me set foot on that island again but still I…I'm sorry if I hurt you but I needed to be with you before I left I don't know why but there's something between you and me Knuckles…I just don't know what it is." This thing between the guardian and the huntress was a type of emotion that gave them a tingling feeling inside when they were near one another and seemed to send cold chills up their spine when touched by the other, in short there was a feeling that made them weak to the other but this weakness in a way made them feel stronger it made their reason for living more powerful and purpose even more meaningful and when ones reason for being is endangered a person can discover things about themselves that even they didn't know. You can run from your weakness and your feelings but sooner or later they will catch up to you and when they do something will happen but what it is will all depend on your choices and if you deiced to embrace your feelings or more less your purpose then that will deiced which path you will take at your life's crossroads. You just have to be able to see the roads clearly and now Rouge is at her two way street it's either alone or love which path will be taken?