The 3-D is over! I actually liked it a lot; it's just that I kept messing up the animation. In other news...
Alas, I think I have found my true calling. I think it's somewhere between world domination, resident evil, and all the works of Jahonen Vasquez tightened into a neat little package and smothered in ramen. Sounds good, right? Yeah, I knew it did.
Super big demonic battle scene of doom! Don't you just love me?
"No."
"What did I tell you about interrupting me in my gloating! You shall now perish under my really bad singing voice!" (Takes out a karaoke microphone and tries to sing along with some heavy metal.)
"Oh dear god it burns!" (Shadow runs from room.)
Amy gently rubbed Sonic's back as he slept in her arms, resting his head against her chest. He had fallen asleep listening to her heartbeat, and his breathing had soon fallen into rhythm with hers and he drifted into a peaceful slumber quite fast. Amy stared down at him as thoughts raced through her head, about Tails, and about Sonic.
Flashbacks of the demons and horrors of the experience sped through her mind. The way Sonic had clung to her when he saw the blood of the corpse... Tails' scream. Knuckles, and how he called for Fliara. This place was not safe.
Fear crept into her heart; she pushed it away. Her fears consisted of many different factors, one: the possibility of Sonic's death. She prayed and hoped more than anything that he would live. That no demon in this castle would take him. That his fear would not conquer him and he could remain safe. The others were insubstantial in compare to that hope, that desire, for is well being. It overshadowed everything else.
Call it what you will, but at that moment Sonic was her main priority.
She scoffed to herself lightly; Sonic would be fine. It would only take a matter of days before he had his strength back and then he wouldn't have to depend on her so much... Amy would miss that. For once in her life she felt like she was important to the group, but Sonic's well being was more important than that. Amy looked around and contemplated on what would happen once this was over and Sonic no longer needed to listen to her heartbeat and snuggle into her embrace.
Fliara had fallen asleep a while ago, curled up right next to the electric heater. If it had been an actual fire, Fliara probably would have curled up in the flames themselves, but had made due with what she could. Amy chuckled, with that dragon's big, superior personality; she could still be adorable at times. The pink hedgehog looked around the room, at the other heroes. Knuckles and Rouge sat next to each other, leaning against the stone wall, and had fallen asleep soon afterward, while Shadow lay on the stone ground, underneath a blanket. Alexi, shockingly, had fallen asleep, (she usually never slept.) propped up against the stone wall, off to Shadow's left. Amy's thoughts wandered and strayed from their intent work on the labyrinth and it's many dangers that threatened Sonic's life.
Both Fliara and Sonic had been so worried about Tails that they seemingly forgot that they hated each other. There was a brief moment of peace between the dragon and hedgehog, but it didn't last as soon as Sonic had requested to listen to Amy's heartbeat, to fall asleep easier and keep the nightmares at bay. Fliara had made quite an insulting comment that Sonic wanted to rest his head on Amy's chest for different reasons, and thusly the two began an all-out feud that destroyed the small truce they had a few minutes ago. Amy and Knuckles had managed to calm them down, and thusly Sonic was lulled to sleep and Fliara gave up, and collapsed into slumber a few minutes later, when the sun apparently went down.
Sonic mumbled something incoherent in his sleep, and burrowed deeper into Amy's arms, his ear twitching once before he settled down again. Amy chuckled to herself; it was so ironic! Here Sonic was, nothing but a vulnerable child in her arms, while she had somehow become some strong, defensive caretaker. Sure, the blue hedgehog was quite strong and was regaining his strength back, but maybe Sonic didn't mind being vulnerable for a moment if it meant Amy would care for him. Every action was now so unlike him, but he was still Sonic, brave, and pure-hearted.
Amy heard a sound to her right and almost sprung to her feet, knowing what had happened last time. She calmed down when she realized that the sound had come from Shadow. He mumbled something in his sleep and rolled over. Upon closer inspection no one was sleeping peacefully, Save Alexi and ...Sonic. He was fine. She sighed and tightened her grip around Sonic's waist, and pulled a blanket over both of them, deciding to go to sleep. She had no nightmares.
She decided that the future was best left to fate.
Rouge was stirred from her sleep when she heard strange noises coming from down the hall. At first she brushed them off, thinking it was Amy, Sonic or Fliara, but she briefly noticed that they were asleep, and thusly woke up.
She sat up slowly, the blanket falling off of her, and looked around. She didn't see anything. She used echo sonar, and didn't find anything that way either. But she heard it. Noises. Tiny clicks and snaps, coming from down the hall.
Not again. Rouge grumbled, thinking it was the giant monster again. She gave Knuckles a push in attempt to wake him. The red echidna grumbled and rolled onto his side, brushing Rouge's hand away.
"Rouge, it hasn't even been four hours since we set up camp. What is so important?" He grumbled. Rouge stood up, and dragged Knuckles up with her.
"We've got company." The bat explained, pulling the red echidna to his feet. Knuckles, understanding, leapt into action and began to wake everyone up. In a second, everyone was now wide-awake, even Fliara, (Who knows how she managed to wake up, being a dragon. I guess that since she couldn't see the stars or sunlight, her body's clock wasn't quite working? I don't know.)
"What the hell What's the matter." Snapped Shadow as Knuckles woke him up. And by 'woke him up' I mean kicking him in the side. Hard. Alexi's eyes snapped open before Rouge could touch her and she rose to her feet before they could say a word.
When Sonic awoke, he seemed rather unhappy about it. He grudgingly removed his ear from Amy's chest, and stared up at the flustered bat.
"Whoa, whoa, what is going on!" Shadow protested, yawning. "I was having the nicest dream."
"We have trouble!" Rouge explained, looking towards where the sound was coming from. But... something was wrong. She didn't hear the sounds anymore. She listened intently, wondering if she had imagined it. Knuckles stared at her odd silence.
"What's wrong?" He asked. Rouge shook her head as she stared into the dark, confused. She knew that she had heard something. She stared at the hall, uncertain.
"I- ...I can't hear it anymore. It's... gone." Rouge trailed off, embarrassed. Sonic glared.
"You mean you were hearing things." He grumbled Sinking back into Amy's arms and resting his head comfortably on her shoulder. "You gotta loosen up, batgirl."
"Yeah." Agreed Shadow. "You woke us up for nothing. If you don't mind me saying, I think your sonar has gone 'batty'."
"Yeah, real funny, Shadow." Rouge grumbled, sitting down. "Next time I'll leave you to the demons."
"Don't do me any favors." Shadow joked. Knuckles glared.
"Tone it down! We're all jumpy after... you know... and Tails... it's no time for jokes!" The red echidna snapped. "You aught to be ashamed of yourselves. Who knows what Tails is going through and you're making wisecracks?" He snarled. Sonic and Shadow looked to the ground, ashamed.
"Hey, Rouge, I sorry, but-" Shadow's sentence was soon cut off.
Suddenly, something leapt from the darkness of the walls and latched to Shadow, clawing and shrieking terribly. The group sprung to their feet, shocked and horrified as the beast attempted to tear off Shadow's face. Alexi quickly whipped out a handgun and shot the beast three times in the head. It fell to Shadow's left, and the black hedgehog scrambled to his feet and took a few steps away from it, staring at it in horror.
It was like a Chihuahua- with eyes the size of tennis balls. Huge, gaping eyes with tiny pupils, and a huge, crescent-moon set of three-inch long teeth that curved in an evil grin. Even as it lay, dead, on the ground, it seemed to be smiling evilly. Scorpion legs sprouted from its sides, accompanying it's small, dog legs, and a scorpion tail adorned its backside.
"What the hell is that!" Shadow screamed. Rouge suddenly heard the noises again, and turned to the hall.
"I don't know. But there's more."
Suddenly, they appeared. Everywhere. Tiny, horrid, nightmares, almost entirely eyeballs and teeth, their huge eyes and tiny pupils that simply grew bigger and bigger over time, trying to see in the dark. They clicked and scurried their way across the walls, ceiling and floor, gaining from every direction.
"Run!" Shouted Amy, picking up Sonic by the waist and running down the corridor. She had the right idea. Knuckles, after swiping away one that leapt towards his face, ran after the group, his feet pounding against the stone floor. He quickly caught up to Fliara, who was lagging in the pack due to the wind resistance on her wings. Knuckles grabbed his sister's claw and threw her to the front of the pack, Where Shadow helped her along.
Sonic fought to keep up with Amy, but he kept stumbling. Amy tried to lift him into her arms, but as she slowed to get a good grip on him, the creatures lunged. One pounced onto Sonic's leg, sinking its fangs into his flesh with its huge teeth. Sonic screamed in pain and attempted to kick the monster away, but more leapt on and continued to tear at his flesh. Amy tried to pull him away from the beats and smack the other ones away, but as she struck the horrors one latched itself onto her forearm as the ravenous nightmares continued to drag Sonic away.
Alexi, hearing Sonic's cries, rose, turned around and teleported to the hedgehogs' sides, swinging her whip around and over her head, taking out three of the many attempting to take a bite out of Sonic's leg as it came around again, barely nicking Sonic across the cheek in the process. Another swipe and the rest were gone; Sonic scrambled to his feet and leapt into Amy's arms. She hoisted him up and ran with the others.
Alexi was swinging her whip left and right continuously, as the little beasts were sent flying back in sprays of their own venomous blood, when one jumped around her offenses and lunged; latching onto her shoulder. Alexi shouted in rage and gripped the creature around the stomach, tearing it away from her. It came apart at the neck; the jaws still clamped onto her flesh as blood poured from the decapitated body. More monsters leapt apon her, and even if she fended them off for a while, soon her skin had been broken in too many places and she teleported to the rest of the group. Alexi, wounds disappeared, began running along with the group.
"Those little bastards are feral!" She snapped, taking out one that had managed to keep up with the group.
"Less talking!" Shadow said. He quickly took out the pistol he had packed and paused to shoot at the monsters following them. One of the bullets went straight through the first creature and took out three more before loosing momentum. He quickly turned around and continued to run, muttering: "They just keep coming!" When he smacked into Knuckles, who had stopped running. "Guys! What's the hold up! We need to get out of here!"
"Not that way we don't!" The echidna protested, pointing ahead of him as more of the same type of monster flew down the hall towards them: both directions were blocked. Alexi promptly swore and dove into the opposing horde, hacking and slashing with her knife and tearing creatures to bits with her whip. She tuned to the other heroes.
"Well don't just stand there! We have to get through these little bastards!" She said, smashing in one's skull with her foot, as the juice from it's crushed eyes oozed around her heel. She continued slashing through them, and the others understood. Rouge, Knuckles, Fliara and Shadow began beating their way through the opposing side. Amy hesitated, carrying Sonic and looking back and forth between the two mobs of monsters. She looked down at Sonic. If she went anywhere near them, Sonic would be taken. He was too weak to fend them off by himself, and Amy couldn't defend both of them.
"I can't!" Amy called out, suddenly giving a scream as one of the beasts lunged at her, barely sinking it's teeth into her side. She threw it away before it could do any damage. Rouge noticed the two's distress, and jumped back to help them.
"Rouge!" Knuckles shouted back, alarmed. The bat didn't answer as she glided over to the two hedgehogs, picked up Sonic, and glided back to the others, at which she quickly gave the blue hedgehog to Shadow and flew back to do the same for Amy.
"Rouge! Knux! Get behind the others! Don't let those followers get any closer! Fliara, Shadow, You take the sides!" Shouted Amy, briefly looking to Alexi to verify that she would be taking the front assault. Fliara jumped to the left side and took out a couple of the beasts, before one latched its jaw onto her forearm, at which she lit a hand a flame and incinerated it. Pretty soon Fliara, (and she didn't often do this) lit herself completely into flames, and she became a giant, dragonoid wrecking ball of an inferno, made entirely of claw, fang and fury. Shadow emptied round after round of ammunition on the monsters, and they fell subsequently, but he was having the same problem as the others; no matter how many times Rouge smashed her boot into the skulls of the creatures or Knuckles crushed one under his fist, there would always be more.
"I can't keep this up, Alexi!" Shadow shouted, struggling to reload the pistol, but interrupted as a gremlin leapt onto his stomach. Alexi quickly disposed of it with a slash of her whip.
"I know!" She growled back, looking around. "Man I wish I had my chain-gun."
"Who in their right mind would give you a chain-gun!"
"I have an idea!" Fliara shouted over the squalls of the monsters. The others looked back at her.
"What?" They nearly shouted in unison.
"Me, Knux and Amy will hold them off! I think they'll give up eventually! Get Sonic, Shadow and Rouge out of here!" Fliara said to Alexi. No time to argue. Amy quickly handed Sonic over to Alexi, who slung him over her shoulder and ran through the rest of the monsters; luckily there were very few left in that direction and soon the four had gotten out while Fliara, Knux and Amy kept the remaining beasts occupied.
Fliara had actually used the buzz-saw attack, while she was on fire. That got rid of quite a lot, but there were still more. Knuckles bludgeoned one over the head, and was about to turn to another one, until he noticed... it was still moving?
"Jesus Christ!" Knuckles shouted as the injured one latched onto his fist, biting his glove. "They just don't give up!" He shouted in surprise. Fliara suddenly stopped her fighting.
"There's to many of them! We should just outrun them now!" Fliara said, turning to run. Amy and Knuckles followed. But, without warning, one of the monsters attacked, latching itself onto Knuckles' head. Fliara and Amy didn't notice. They kept running.
Knuckles didn't. The monsters mobbed over him, dragging him down, ...hungry.
...(Grins) Man that scene was good. I just watched resident evil, so I had an advantage on that one. Heh, heh.
Fliara and Amy soon outran the beasts by far; the few that were left were wandering aimlessly around the twists and caverns of the labyrinth, and even if one did find them, it wouldn't be any threat by itself. They sighed. It was over. The monsters were gone. Fliara saw the rest of the group up ahead and Amy ran to Sonic's side, immediately wrapping him up in her arms and drying his tears. He trembled awfully, and once he felt Amy's arms around him he instantly clung to her. Fliara looked down at the blue hedgehog's injuries. His leg had numerous fang and claw marks, and it was a terribly gruesome sight. Everyone was coated in the monsters' blood, and Sonic's bandages, (on his arm and chest) had been ripped off, exposing the tattered flesh of his wounded arm. He shivered in Amy's embrace as she quickly grabbed the medical kit from her pack and tended to his wounds.
"Is everyone okay? Any serious injuries?" Fliara asked. Shadow, panting heavily, stared up at her.
"Okay? After that! Are you crazy?" he shouted. "What the hell were those things?" he demanded. Fliara shook her head.
"I don't know. My guess; lesser demons." The dragon answered. She looked to her forearm, where there was a deep bite. She clamped a flaming claw over it, and winced at the mild pain as the fire closed and sanitized the wounds. Fire would almost never hurt her, but on open sores, it stung kind of like orange juice on a sore throat. Amy had a similar bite on her forearm, all had scratches and Shadow had some deep ones on his chest. They would have to rest for a moment until-
Fliara froze as something hit her like a baseball bat, and it wasn't helped when Rouge suddenly stood up and asked.
"Where's Knuckles?" Rouge demanded, looking around. Fliara spun around, staring back down the tunnel, horrified. The other heroes stared at her, even Sonic, who managed to sit up in Amy's arms. Fliara swallowed nervously, and turned around to face Rouge.
"I- I don't know! He was right behind us- I- I swear he was right there, I-... " Fliara looked to the dark hall, and realized...
"NO!" Fliara shouted, sinking to her knees, her shoulders quivering. "No, no, no!" The dragon shouted into the dark. Rouge, suddenly understanding, looked from Fliara, to the others, then down the tunnel. She glared, and ran towards the darkness. Shadow and Amy sprung to their feet in attempt to hold her back.
"Knuckles!" Rouge screamed into the dark. "Knuckles!"
Silence. And nothing but. Rouge froze, and stared down the hallway.
"He- ...he's ...really gone... " she murmured, staring down the dark hallway. Shadow nodded solemnly, and a single tear fell down Rouge's face.
It was then that Fliara burst into sobs, (which, for dragons, is a little different. I'll show you.) ...Her tears fell from her eyes, and formed into small diamonds before they hit the ground, clinking into a small pile as the dragon wept for her brother. As her tears solidified into gems, (as dragon-tears do. You know the saying 'dragons weep diamonds?') The dragons' claws burst into flame, and she stood up, her hair flying out of her face as she stared down the tunnel in rage.
"NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE CAN DO THAT TO MY BROTHER WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE!" The dragon screamed into the dark, flames storming up her claws. "YOU HEAR THAT, DAN-CHILACK! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!" The dragon screamed. Everyone jumped back, startled. "I-I'll kill you... " she muttered, before collapsing over the ordeal, the flames on her claws going out, leaving the team in darkness until Shadow lit a torch.
...Sorry, Knuckles fans, I had to have this in here. If you can figure it out, and pay close attention to details, you actually don't have to worry. But I'm cruel, and thusly won't tell you until next chapter. MUAHAHAHAHA! Now, if you'll excuse me- ..." (turns on boom box)
Hey man, look-at-me rockin' out, I'm on the- radio!
"Oh just stop! For the love of all that's unholy please stop!"
Fine. REVIEW! And thank me for the super-psycho battle scene, which I think I did a very good job on. KUDOS FOR THE MASTER!
"Okay." Said shadow, throwing a bunch of granola bars at me.
"NO! Not granola! It's my one weakness!"
And thusly komodo lost her super-powers and Shadow took over krypton- I mean- metropolis- I mean- the world.