Chapter 8
As soon as the shard came into contact with the emerald, it started to glow a fierce pale gold. The emerald started tugging in the Echidna's grip and he released it. The emerald floated to a nearby rocky hill were it hovered.
One by one, the other emeralds also began to float . Red, light blue, dark blue, green, purple, and silver all floated as everyone, including Amber, stood and watched in awe.
"What's happening?" asked Amy
Everyone just shook their heads.
The six emeralds floated over to the solitaire golden emerald. As if rehearsed, all seven formed a perfect horizontal circle and began to spin.
The spinning of the emeralds increased by the second until they were no more than a blur of rainbow.
The emeralds continued to spin as small lighting bolts crackled around and in the mystical circle.
The sky grew dark, winds picked up dramatically, and lighting roared from above. The lighting bolts were crashing to the ground inside of the circle of the spinning emeralds.
"What in the world? Knuckles, have they ever done this before?" Sonic asked turning towards the Echidna who was standing with him and the rest of the group about a hundred feet away from the emeralds.
The Echidna just shook his head without taking his eyes off of the emeralds.
The emeralds were now creating a light inside of their circle. The lighting still crackled from above and rain started to pour but no one paid attention to it.
The light inside of the circle suddenly transformed into a giant light ball and the chaos emeralds, still spinning, entered it.
The ball turned from white, to those of the emeralds. The giant ball slowly created lighting around it as two silhouettes became visible within it.
Everyone squinted their eyes as the figures became clearer in the giant energy orb. They were the forms of two hedgehogs.
Rouge was the first to see that the figures were hedgehogs. Her eyes widened.
"It can't be."
After a few seconds, everyone else distinguished the figures as hedgehogs as well and their eyes grew wide.
"Could it be…" Sonic muttered.
All of a sudden, the wind turned into a giant rainbow colored tornado and the orb faded into it, along with the two figures.
It stayed like this for a few seconds before there was a giant multicolored explosion.
Everyone's arms shot up out of instinct to protect their eyes.
When the light subsided, and everyone lowered their arms, they were met by the sight of two hedgehogs in their super forms. Their quills were blowing up viciously because of the wind and rain.
Rouge recognized the two hedgehogs, along with everyone else.
"Eclipse and……Shadow!"
