Ch.9: Power Hungry
Knuckles was in deep pain as The Devoyer started draining him of his chaos aura. The others stood around in shock, and noone dared to move. Knuckles eye's suddenly began to close and he felt himself falling onto the hard stone floor just before he blacked out. The Devoyer released his grip, savoring the taste of the aura he just drained from Knuckles body.
The Devoyer: I haven't had that good of a meal in ten thousand years. turns to face the others, eyeing them hungrily But, I wonder what tastes better.
Shadow6000 was staring at The Devoyer in disbelief. The Devoyer had promised him he could help him destroy Shadow, just as long as he got the chaos emerald. Now he see's that he was wrong. Luckily he was machine and didn't have any aura for The Devoyer to drain, but that didn't count the others out, they all had a chaos aura, and that spelt trouble big time! Sonic was looking down at his fallen freind, anger burning in his eye's. Shadow held the new chaos emerald close to his side and also glared at The Devoyer.
Shadow6000: You Lied! to The Devoyer
The Devoyer: Yes indeed I lied, a pity that you fell for it.
Shadow6000 blasted torwards The Devoyer, only to find out that he passed right through his target.
The Devoyer:laughs Foolish Andriod! Have you forgotten that I am a ghost?
The Devoyer rose up, shattering the Master Emerald's alter into a useless pile of stones. sonic and the others just barely managed to escape. Shadow had to drag Knuckles unconious body out. Once outside they could see The Devoyer floating around the chaos and Master Emeralds. The fire that the emeralds once produced was gone and they shone with their own energy, but not for long. The Devoyer was draining the energy from the emeralds, all except for the new one Shadow still had. The situtation didn't call for a pun, but Sonic said one anyway.
Sonic: Man, talk about being power hungry.
Question was what could they do now? Knuckles and Amy had been drained, the emeralds were being drained, and the only way they could stop The Devoyer with the new emerald was having Knuckles say the right spell, which couldn't happen now because his hidden study and himself had been put out of business. Hope seemed lost.
