Chapter 2:
Master Emerald Stolen!
Dalton, the Vampire Bat who was missing a hand, was flying as fast as he could back to the lair he and his master, Morgana, had dwelled. He descended and landed on a small island surrounded by large mountains and walked into a lone cave. He carefully walked down the stairs and into a well-lit room that resembled a throne room, with a large chair fit for a queen. He saw that his master wasn't there, so he decided to sneak back into his room as soon as fast as he could.
"Morgana is out right now…" A voice from nowhere said, causing Dalton to stiffen up in shock. He turned around and saw a pink echidna wearing a black battle dress, black sandals and black spiral rings in her dreads walking from behind the throne. "And she's VERY upset with yooooooou…"
"Oh…" Dalton groaned in frustration. "It's just you Kana…" Dalton then laughed a little. "I mistook you for a threat for a second there."
"You have failed, it seems…" Another voice said, making Dalton stiffen up again. Behind him, staring near the stairs was a dark green echidna who wore a gray, torn up cloak that flowed behind him.
"Not you too, Raz…" Dalton shook his head. "What makes you think I blew it?"
"Cuz you don't have the emerald, you ugly rat with wings…" Kana said as sat in the throne, legs draped over the left armrest.
Raz laughed out loud. "What happened to your hand? You can't even find an emerald without losing your hand?"
"Grr… Shut up!" Dalton shouted to the two of them. "I couldn't get it cuz I was busy with an old friend of ours."
"Spare me." Raz laughed some more. "We killed all our enemies a long time ago!"
"But this friend…" Dalton smiled an evil grin. "He was once our ally… our prince…"
Kana moved her legs off the armrest and looked at Dalton. "You don't mean Prince Ryu?"
"The one and only…" Dalton turned and nodded.
"Wow… I figured he was dead." Raz said, recalling the past battle with the Knuckles Tribe. "If he's alive, he could help our worthy cause…"
"Yeah right… I tried to convince him but he refused. He even sliced my hand off…"
"Awww…" Kana sighed. "He's not coming? Too bad… he's the only person I'd ever wanna open my heart to…"
"You mean wanna open your legs to…" Dalton said acidly. "And even then he wouldn't be the only one… or the first…"
Kana just smiled slyly. "Well the quickest way to a man's heart is in his pants… and once you have the heart, you can stab it so much easier."
Raz laughed. "We all enjoy hearing about your kills, Kana. But leave the task of killing our former prince to me." Raz pulled out of his cloak several throwing knifes that he held in his hand. "I'll skin him and make you a nice fur coat…"
"Ooooh… sounds deliciously morbid…" Kana gushed and sighed.
"Hey!" Dalton protested both of them. "I should get to kill him! I thought him everything he knows! How to fight, how to defend himself, how to murder… a shame he never enjoyed it as much as I do."
"Well Dalton…" A voice from outside the cave boomed. "Whether or not he enjoys it, he killed for us." The three villains leader, a green female echidna with blue rings in her dreads descended the stairs. She wore a flowing blue cloak that covered her completely. She was the Queen of Seers, Morgana. When she walked in, all three immediately kneeled and bowed. "Rise… Dalton, tell me what happened."
"Well Queen Morgana…" Dalton rose and started to explain. "I went to go get that emerald in the ruins, but that rogue prince, Ryu was there, apparently guarding it. So I extended an invitation to join us." Dalton raised his arm missing his hand. "But as you can see, he turned us down…"
Morgana walked over to Dalton and waved her hand over his arm. In seconds, Dalton had a new hand on his arm and an evil grin on his face. "Inviting him was pointless, servant. He would be no good to us. He's done enough for us already." She held up a small crystal ball filled with black mist.
"Is that all his hateful thoughts and desires?" Kana said in awe. "Any thoughts or desires of me in there?"
"Sorry Kana, dear…" Morgana looked at the ball. "But only murder and hate can be found in here. Because of what we had trained Ryu to be, he's had more hateful thoughts and desires to kill than any normal Seer."
"Yeah…" Raz put his knives away. "Too bad he went and turned his back on us."
"That's ok… my NEW prince is quite helpful, too."
"That Arsenal kid…" Dalton crossed his arms. "He's no Ryu, but he'll do."
"Mother…" Another young voice said. The tan echidna that had robbed Kuruso of his emerald was walking down the steps, emerald in hand. He kneeled before Queen Morgana and presented the gem to her. "I have brought to you what you wished."
"Arsenal…" His 'mother' took the emerald and stroked the echidna's cheek. "What would I do without you? You've made your mother very proud."
"Thank you." Arsenal rose up. "Please excuse me…" With that, he left the room and headed back outside.
"I tell ya…" Dalton nodded. "That kid's skilled. So far we got one emerald and 6 to go."
"Yes…" Morgana said while turning to Kana and Raz. "We should get this done now as well. Kana and Raz…"
"Yes, my queen?" They both replied.
"There is an floating island called Angel Island. Right in the middle of it is the Master Emerald. I want that emerald…"
"Leave it to us." Raz put his fist on his heart.
"There is also a guardian there… the last of the Knuckles Tribe…"
"Wow…" Dalton said in shocked. "How'd we miss some Knuckles Tribesmen?"
"Just get that emerald any way you can."
"Well…" Kana scratched her chin. "Is this guardian… a man?" A sinister smile crossed her lips.
Back in the ruins, Ryu and Sonic were staring each other down. Ryu had a white-knuckled grip on his sword and wanted for Sonic to arm himself with his weapon of choice.
"If we're to do battle, you must draw out your weapon." Ryu said while glaring at the hedgehog.
"I don't use weapons." Sonic smiled a cocky grin. "Too messy. I just use my gloved fists."
Ryu was a little stunned. He never encountered an opponent who used no weapon. Was his opponent confident, or just plan that strong? But when he thought about it, there was one person who he knew never used a weapon… Phantom…
"Uh!" Young Ryu hit the floor and dropped his sword. He looked up and saw the White Echidna with the blue rings in his dreads that knocked him down.
"Nice try, Ryu." The echidna gave a friendly smile. "Now try it again."
Ryu got up and charged. "Ha!" But the echidna grabbed Ryu by the arm and flipped him over and down on the floor. "Owwwww… that hurt, Phantom."
Phantom laughed a little and helped him up. "Sorry. But you gotta be ready for anything. Just because they're unarmed, doesn't mean they can't fight. What has Dalton taught you?"
Ryu looked at him. "Don't waste time… quick, easy wins."
"That's not always true, Ryu. Sometimes a fight has to drag out against a tough opponent so you can find out what your opponents strengths and weaknesses are. If you can use the weakness to your advantage, then you'll have no trouble winning."
"Phantom… how come you don't use weapons?"
Phantom looked at his fists. "Because… a weapon is a mean to kill. I want to keep myself away from weapons, because I think that killing is wrong. No one truly deserves to die, no matter what they have done."
"Oh…"
"Get outta here, Phantom!" The bat Dalton walked into the room. "Make room for the REAL trainer."
"Right… Well seeya later Ryu." Phantom walked out the room leaving the two to train as planned."
"Whatever he says, Ryu…" Dalton whispered in his ear. "Don't listen… if it were up to him to train us, we'd all be killed in an instant. Killing is the only means of survival…"
"Killing… is the only means of survival…" Ryu nodded.
Ryu got out of his memories and looked at his unarmed opponent. He thought about how unfair it would be if he used a weapon. So he planted his sword into the sand and walked towards his opponent, and away from it.
"What's that for?" Sonic asked.
"I don't intend to fight an unarmed person with a sword." Ryu stopped when there were just a few feet separating them. "If you fight with just your fists, then I'll do the same. I warn you though… that's all the mercy you'll get from me."
"Heh." Sonic chuckled a little. "You sure talk big…" Sonic took a few steps back. "But can ya back it up?" Sonic ran at light speed towards Ryu and got ready to punch him in the face. But he was stopped abruptly when Ryu grabbed his fist with both hands and blocked him. "I'm thinking maybe you can!"
"Rah!" Ryu flipped Sonic over him and slammed him hard into the sandy ground. Sand flew as Sonic's back hit the ground.
"Not bad…" Sonic groaned left back on his feet and started running circles around Ryu. He was creating a mini twister that trapped Ryu inside.
"What!" Ryu felt his body be pulled up to the middle. When it stopped, he was in midair and Sonic had jumped towards him.
Sonic performed three straight homing attacks and nailed Ryu with everyone. Ryu groaned in pain as each one connected and fell back to the ground. Rather than hit the ground with his body, Ryu regained control and landed safely on his feet.
"Pretty sweet, ay?" Sonic grinned as he began descended to the ground. "What the?" Ryu, however, had other plans. He leapt into the ground and hit Sonic with an uppercut. "Uh!" They went up 20 feet into the ground until Ryu had lost thrust from his jump.
"I can jump higher than normal, hedgehog…" Ryu said, as they were freefalling. He then spun in the air and kicked Sonic in the back, making him shoot towards the ground.
Sonic landed on his knees and hands, coughing from that strike. Ryu was about to land on him with another kick into his back, but Sonic moved at the last minute and all Ryu got was sand. "Huh… You may be able to jump high…" Sonic started running at full speed away from Ryu. "But I'm the fasting thing alive!" He made a U-turn and started head towards him again.
Ryu crouched down on the ground. "Keep your eyes on me…" He muttered then leapt high into the ground again.
Sonic looked up to try and spot him. "You can't get away from me… ahh!" The sun blinded Sonic's eyes. He knew what Ryu was doing. By jumping in front of the sun, he could keep Sonic from spotting him. "Damn it!"
Ryu fell to the ground and slammed both fists into the back of Sonic's head. This caused Sonic to trip into the sand and end up eating some. "I have the clear advantage here. Just get up and leave already."
Sonic spit out the sand and looked at him. "I'm not 'bout to give up now!" He leapt back to his feet and held up his fists.
"Fine then… but I gave you the chance to leave." Ryu swung him fist at him, but Sonic moved so far only an after image was left. "What?"
"Over here…" Sonic reappeared behind him and tapped his shoulder. Ryu spun around and punched him. But Sonic vanished again.
"Hold still, damn you…" Ryu saw him reappear and tried to hit him again. This kept going on for a few minutes until Ryu stopped to catch his breath.
"Tired already?" Sonic reappeared behind him one more time. "Hmm?" Sonic thought quickly to himself. "While he's taking a break, I can get the emerald and get out of here." Sonic started to dash towards the cave, but Ryu grabbed him. "Huh!"
"Got you!" Ryu shouted loudly. "Ahhhhhh!" Ryu picked him up off the ground and threw him into the stone outer wall.
Sonic hit his back on it and shouted in pain. He was in pretty bad pain, but it got worst when a part of the wall crumpled to smaller rocks and fell on top of him. He was now trapped underneath dozens of rock.
Ryu waited for a few minutes for him to move. When nothing happened, he considered the match over. "Forgive me… you were a worthy opponent." Ryu started to walk back inside the cave, when he heard the "Sonic Stage End Fanfare." "What the hell is that?"
After a second, it played again, leaving Ryu wondering where it was coming from. After another second, Sonic pushed a rock out of the way and crawled from under the rocks. He had in his hand a blue cell phone that had the fanfare coming out of it. (His ring tone! Like in FF7:AC! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!)
He flipped it open and spoke into it. "Hello…Amy! How'd you get this number? … … … You're in the what? … Hospital? What happened? … … … Uh-huh…"
Ryu stood there watching Sonic seemingly talk to himself. Ryu's never seen a cell phone before. "Has he gone mad?"
"Caught in a fire… … … Ok, lemme finish what I'm doing and I guess I'll come seeya… … … No… we're not going out on a date…" With that, he closed the phone and ended the call. He looked at the confused Ryu. "I'm gotta finish this fast, buddy. I'm needed elsewhere."
Ryu was still a little stunned over what he saw, but got out of the daze when Sonic ran towards him at full speed. Ryu held his fists up ready to fight, when suddenly, a cloud of sand dust blew over the two of them. "What!"
"Hey!" Sonic stopped running and held a hand over his eyes to keep the sand out of them. "What's happening now!"
"This isn't my day…" Ryu said while coughing and keeping his eyes shut tight.
"Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!" That laugh that Sonic knew all too well. It was the laugh of the most determined criminal mastermind in the world.
"Is that you? Eggman!" Sonic shouted while the dust settled. Sure enough, floating in the sky in his Eggcraft was the genius Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.
Ryu immediately stood at an aggressive stance and looked at the scientist, baring his fangs. "Who are you, and what are you doing in my ruins!"
Eggman groaned. "Not another one… How come every place I go, there's some fool who wants to fight me?"
"Fool?" Ryu said. "You're the fool for coming here. Leave!"
"My… awfully territorial I see. Some one having a bad day?" Eggman said in fake sympathy.
"Believe me…" Ryu scowled. "You have no idea…"
"This'll make it all better…" A small hatch from the bottom of his Eggcraft slid open and a small laser gun appeared, aimed at the curious Ryu.
"What's that?" Ryu stood defensively and watched the gun carefully.
"Hey! Get down!" Sonic yelled and pushed Ryu out of the laser path. Eggman fired the weapon and a large beam appeared and struck the ground Ryu was standing on. A huge crater was left, leaving Ryu in shock. "You okay?"
Ryu looked at the crater, mouth wide open and eyes shot open. "What… what kind of magic was that?"
Eggman laughed evilly. "Now then, let's get down to business! You there, fox, have something that belongs to me. It's a little gem called the…"
"No!" Ryu stood up, accidentally knocking Sonic to the ground. "If you mean the Chaos Emerald, then no! I won't surrender it!"
"Possessive too, it seems…" Eggman got angry and his face could show it. "Well, I'm not asking for you to surrender it, I plan on taking it by force!"
"Try it…" Ryu walked over to his sword and armed himself with it. "You'll have to kill me first."
"Ok… deal!" Eggman prepared the laser again, but nothing happened. "Whaaaaaat!" He kept pressing buttons, but the laser wasn't responding. "Nooooooo! I forgot about…"
"Forgot about me?" Sonic was grinned cockily and holding a broken laser gun in his hands. "You know better than to take your eyes off me, Eggman!"
"Leave at once…" Ryu commanded Sonic in a low tone. "This fight is mine."
"Ours…" Sonic threw the weapon away and dusted off his hands. "He's the reason I need the emerald… to keep it outta his dirty hands!"
"…" Ryu looked over at him and nodded. "Seems like we're allies through our enemies… Fine then. This battle is ours."
Eggman was so mad that his head was steaming. "Cocky, smug sons of a…" Eggman stood up and shouted in his loudest voice. "ATTACK!"
Suddenly, from out of the sand behind Eggman, dozens of Eggbots were popping up like moles. They were armed with lances, guns, rockets, and shields. They baffled Ryu even more.
"What sort of funny looking armor is that?" He turned and asked Sonic.
"That ain't armor." He answered. "Those are Eggman's robots."
"Ro…bots?"
"Don't ask questions now… here they come!" Sonic rushed towards the robots as they charged forward. Ryu ran after him, holding his sword tight.
Sonic jumped into the air and did multiple homing attacks towards a small group of enemies. He bounced off their heads, destroying them as he went along. Ryu ran towards on of the robots and swung his sword as he ran past. The robot had a slash appear on its body and blew up, surprising Ryu.
"One is dead so far, hedgehog!" Ryu called out to Sonic.
"First off, the name is Sonic." He said while fighting off 2 robots at once. "Next, they aren't even alive to begin with, so don't hold back, ok!"
"Not alive?" While Ryu was wondering about this, a robot with a lance swung his weapon at him. Ryu blocked it with his sword and in one quick slash, cut the lance and robot in half, thus destroying it.
Sonic successful destroyed the robots he was fighting and head for one armed with a gun. The robot fired, but missed Sonic. After he destroyed it, Sonic turned and saw where the bullet was heading. "Hey! WATCH OUT!"
Ryu cut down two more robots and saw the bullet out of the corner of his eye. He moved quickly and it just missed him, barely touching his face. It left a small cut on Ryu's cheek, though. But he was off guard now.
Eggman fired a large claw at Ryu and knocked him into the sand. "Ha! Gotcha!" When he retracted it, a Chaos Emerald was trapped in the claw… Ryu's Chaos Emerald!
"NO!" Ryu got back on his feet and chased after Eggman. But Eggman shot into the sky as quick as he could. "Return to me my emerald!"
"Eggbots!" Eggman shouted in his big, commanding voice. "Program four-zero-zero-one… SELF DETONATION!"
"Self detonation?" Sonic shouted. It was a big word, but even he knew what it meant.
All at the same instant, the robots stopped moving and allowed their arms to fall limp. "They all stop moving…" Ryu looked all over them. Sonic grabbed him arm and ran away from them. "What?"
"We gotta get out of here!" Sonic shouted, trying to get as far away as he can from them. "They're gonna explode!"
"WHAT!" Ryu shouted. "The…the ruins! They'll destroy them!"
"Never mind that! We gotta…" Before he could finish, all the robots exploded in a huge blast that covered the entire ruins area. Eggman flew away, laughing manically and in victory.
"Okay, Miss Rose…" The doctor was reading from his clipboard to Amy. She was now in laying in a hospital bed after getting trapped in the fire at the toy store. "No burns, marks or bruises. You'll be just fine."
"Thank you, doctor…" Amy nodded with a smile.
"Of course… we need you to stay overnight to some more observations, just to be safe."
"Uh huh…" Amy said while laying back down. She had on warm hospital pajamas to keep her warm. "But what about that man who helped me?"
"Oh? You mean Kuruso Maeda?" The doctor scratched his head and grinned. "Well…"
Amy could hear someone shouting next door. "Is that…" She said pointing towards the wall.
The doctor took off his glasses and wiped them on his smock. "Yes…"
"LET GO OFF ME, YA QUACKS!" Kuruso was lying in the bed, with 7 different doctors and nurses holding him down. He was trying to fight them off. "He stole it! He stole the emerald! I need to go after him!"
"You need rest!" One doctor shouted trying to calm him. "You have burns on your body, an wound in your chest, and a head injury!"
"Ha!" Kuruso threw one of the doctors off him, making him squeal in fear. "I've been on fire before! War-crazed terrorists have shot me at! And I get hit on the head ALL THE TIME! THIS IS NOTHING!" Kuruso got up a few inches before another doctor walked in.
"Thank God!" A nurse screamed at the doctor in urgency. "Please say you have the morphine!"
"Right here." The doctor held up a syringe full of morphine and walked over to uncontrollable patient. "Ok… this will only take a few seconds…" He inserted the needle into Kuruso's flailing arm and released the sedative into his blood stream.
"OW!" Kuruso felt it and shouted in pain. "Lousy prick! I'm gonna kick your…" The medicine started taking effect. "As… we sang our dear sweet song…" Kuruso smiled gleefully and drooled. "On moonlight baaaaa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah…" He fell back to the bed, but ended up hitting his head on the wall it leaned against. Instantly, his head started bleeding.
"Quick!" The doctor started shouted. "Get me some bandages and towels! HURRY!" The doctors and nurses rushed out of the room to get the tools.
It was another quiet day on Angel Island, the floating land that was home to the Master Emerald and its Guardian, Knuckles the Echidna. He sat on the steps that led to the altar of the Master Emerald, silently guarding it from anyone who might try to steal it.
But only one person is every crazy enough to try to steal it from him…
"Hmm…" Knuckles took a good sniff of the air around him. He could smell a very faint, very pleasant smelling scent. It smelled like really expensive perfume… like HER perfume. He groaned in annoyance. "Not again…"
He got up and walked down the steps. He looked around and prepared for battle. He knew what was coming… it came at least once a week.
Suddenly, from out of the bushes, a white figure rushed towards him and tried to spin kick him. But Knuckles held up his mighty fist and blocked the attacker.
"Don't you ever get tired of coming here, batgirl?" Knuckles asked calmly.
The batgirl was of course Rouge the Bat. The white bat had tried to steal the emerald in the past, saying that all the world's treasures belong only to her. After the events of the A.R.K and Biolizard, Rouge had decided that she would have the emerald, no matter how long it took. She had been coming to the island at least once a week, but never got too close to the emerald because Knuckles would drive her away.
"Sometimes I do…" She said with a sly smile. "But when I take the emerald today, you'll never have to worry about me again."
"Sorry, batgirl…" Knuckles pushed her away from him. "Not today…not ever…" Rouge quickly jumped at him ready to kick him in the head. But Knuckles had his fists up, ready to go. Then he saw something walking towards him. "Huh? OOOOOOOF!" Knuckles ended getting kicked hard in the left cheek by Rouge.
"Huh?" Rouge saw Knuckles fall to the ground, rubbing his cheek in pain. "You were supposed to block that! What's the matter with you today?" She then saw what he was looking at, narrowed her eyes and growled with anger.
Approaching them, walking a slow, seductive step was Kana. She had a sexy smile on her ruby red lips and batted her eyes as she walked towards Rad Red.
"Where did this woman come from?" Knuckles said with puzzlement.
"Since when… Knuckles…" Rouge glared at him, causing him to jolt nervously. "Did you start bringing women up here? I thought your job was to protect the Master Emerald, not do any kinky crap with your dates!"
"I…I swear Rouge!" Knuckles waved his hands in defense. "I don't even know this woman!"
"Oh? That makes it so much better, huh!"
"I…I…mean I never seen her before!"
"Oh… but Knuckles…" Kana said seductively. "You have seen me… I'm in your wildest fantasies. The girl who gives you sweet… satisfaction. But now I'll make your fantasies a reality. "
"I don't think I've ever had fantasies like THAT…" Knuckles scratched his head nervously.
"So…" Rouge grabbed Knuckles by the chest and started screaming in his face. "You and her are gonna knock boots!"
Knuckles looked at his shoes. He then looked at Kana's sandals. "I don't really think we can, Rouge…"
"YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!"
"No I don't!"
"Knuckles…" Kana was now only a few steps away from him. "Why don't you tell that sweaty bat to leave us?"
"Sweaty bat!" Rouge turned red with fury. "You little hussy!"
"Hold on, Rouge…" Knuckles said, trying to calm her down.
"I got news for you two! You don't need to tell me to leave. I'm going!" Rouge flapped her wings and flew away from Knuckles.
"Hey… wait! Rouge!" Knuckles called to her, but she ignored him.
"Leave her, Knuckles…" Kana got closer to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You have me…" She pushed her body against him, causing him to feel uncomfortable.
"Hey wait, miss…" Knuckles tried to pull away, but couldn't. "I…I…" Knuckles then felt strange, like his mind was heavy and his senses were weak. "I…"
Kana moved her arms down his back, gently touching them as they moved. "You're so tense… let me loosen you up…"
Knuckles was blushing and babbling. "I…I…uh…uh…I…"
Kana licked Knuckles' cheek and moved to his ear, and whispered in it in a hot, sexy tone. "Do me, Knuckles…"
"'Do…Do…Do me…'" Knuckles' face turned almost as red as the rest of him was. Knuckles was helpless, he was under her spell.
Kana smiled and ran her hands down her back. But in one of her hands, she held a razor sharp knife… A sinister smiled crossed of lips as she prepared to finish off the guardian.
"LET HIM GO!" Rouge had come back and drop kicked Kana in the side, forcing her to be knocked away from Knuckles and drop her weapon.
Knuckles quickly shook his head and regained his senses. "Uh? What happened?"
Rouge looked at him and pointed at the knife on the ground. "Your little date was about to kill you."
"What!" Knuckles was shocked. "How could I have been so unaware?"
"Cuz you're gullible…" Rouge said matter-of-factly. "And you couldn't think straight cuz you were enjoying yourself WAY TOO MUCH!" She shouted at him.
"I would have gotten myself out of that!" He argued.
"If it weren't for me, you'd be face down on ground with a knife sticking out your back!" Rouge crossed her arms over her chest and looked at Kana. "You're gonna pay for what you tried to do…"
"Grrr…" Kana rubbed her side. It was sore from Rouge's kick. "You little bitch. Think you can interfere with my seduction? I'll kill you too!"
"Bring it, slut!" Rouge stomped over to her, but she stopped when she saw something flying towards her face.
Knuckles suddenly grabbed her arm. "Stop Rouge!" He pulled her back and watched a knife fly past her face. When it was out of sight he looked at the batgirl to make sure she was ok. "That was close…"
"What was that?" Rouge asked, still in surprise.
"Damn you, Raz!" Kana turned her head towards a mess of bushes. "You missed!"
Raz walked out of the bushes, armed with several throwing knives. He had an annoyed look on his face. "Maybe if you didn't ruin my cover, I could have gotten another chance, Kana."
Knuckles look glances at both of them. "Who are you two?"
"Shut your mouth, insolent dog…" Kana stood up and glared at Rouge and Knuckles. "You two are in the presence of greatness. We're assassins, proudly serving the great Morgana, Queen of the Seers."
When Knuckles heard the word 'Seers,' he gritted his teeth and growled. "So… that would make you two Seers as well?" He still hated Seers very much. Because of them, as he says, his tribe was brutally massacred and couldn't recover so many centuries ago.
"Well look at this…" Raz started mocking Knuckles. "The brute figured it out all on his own. I thought he'd ask his precious Master Emerald for help."
"His?" Kana shook her head. "You mean ours. Once we take it of course."
"There's no way you're taking the Master Emerald." Rouge said with narrowed eyes.
"Right!" Knuckles stood a battle stance.
"I'm the one who's gonna take that emerald."
"Right!… no wrong!" Knuckles looked at her and saw her flash him a grin and cutely stick out her tongue.
"Oooooh…" Kana seethed and clutched her fists. "I'm pissed now… Raz, take the red echidna. The winged bitch is mine!" She reached under the side of her dress and pulled out 3 small black poles connected and folded together. She unfolded them and formed a quarterstaff and held in front of her.
Rouge didn't waste time and rushed after her. Raz threw his knives at Knuckles, who rolled out of the way and avoided them. He darted forward and grabbed Raz's legs and flipped him in the air.
While in the air, Raz threw a knife down at Knuckles. Knuckles deflected it with his big fist and uppercut his opponent.
"Ooof!" Being struck in the gut, Raz grunted in pain, but got back when he held 3 knives in his hand like claws and slashed at Knuckles' face. Knuckles backed away in time and let Raz land on safely his feet. "You're pretty skilled."
"I'm just getting started!" Knuckles said, beating his chest.
"That's good." Raz grinned. "Let's see if you can keep up that attitude when I do this…" Raz pulled out a small bottle of green liquid and threw it at Knuckles' feet. When it hit the ground, the glass broke and the liquid bust into flames.
"Yeeeow!" Knuckles back away and escaped the fire with only a hot foot from it. "So you're not just a knife juggler."
"And you're quicker than I thought." Raz pulled out another bottle and drank it this time. He then blew fire out of his mouth and aimed at Knuckles.
"Crap!" Knuckles ducked and avoided the flames. Raz then threw several more bottles at him, making Knuckles have to duck and back away at the same time.
Rouge attacked Kana with rapid-fire kicks, which Kana blocked easily with her staff.
"Take this!" Kana uses the staff to trip Rouge and make her fall to the ground. Kana leapt into the air and was about to land on Rouge's stomach. The batgirl quickly rolled away and Kana stomped into the ground, making her feet hurt. "Ow!"
Rouge spin kicked Kana in the side and knocked her down. "Try this one!" Rouge lifted her leg high into the air and brought it down on Kana's stomach. Her heel dug into the Seer's stomach and made her scream in pain.
Kana coughed after getting the wind knocked out of her. She grabbed Rouge's ankles, pulled back and made Rouge fall on her back. Kana climbed on her and started smacking her in the face with her slightly tight fists. She screamed 'bitch' every time she hit her.
"Die!" She grabbed her staff and pressed it down on Rouge's neck, trying to choke her to death.
Rouge struggled to breathe, but the grip too tight for her. She used all her strength to grab Kana's arms and threw her off her. Rouge coughed a few times and took deep breaths, but was interrupted when Kana smashed the staff into her head, knocking her down again. "Uhhh… damn…" She cursed as she kept breathing.
"Rouge!" Knuckles saw her state and was overcome with worry. He was also trapped against a large rock with Raz still holding the bottles of fire in his hands.
"Don't worry…" Raz took a drink of one of the bottles. "You two can reunite in hell!" He took a huge breath and blew the fire at Knuckles again.
Knuckles ducked beneath the flames again and grabbed the other bottle from Raz's hand. With a good toss, he threw the bottle into Raz face. It exploded on contact and spread fire on his face.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Raz covered his ignited face and fell on his back, writhing in pain.
Knux ignored him and went after his partner, Kana. With one good swing of her weapon, Kana tried to hit the red echidna. But instead, Knuckles grabbed the staff and held it tight.
Kana giggled nervously. She knew how bad Knuckles could hurt her. "Hey… Knickie… let's talk this out?" She suddenly felt someone grab her leg. "Eep…"
Rouge had both of Kana's legs in her grasp. "No calls him Knickie…" She let go of her legs, got back on her feet and grabbed Kana by the low cut collar of her dress. "Except… me…" She threw Kana at Raz, hearing her scream.
Kana crashed on top of Raz's stomach, making him groan out loud. "Damn you Kana!" Raz yelled while still covering his face. "You couldn't kill the bat?"
"Damn YOU Raz!" She yelled back. "You couldn't kill the guardian?"
"Are you ok, Rouge?" Knuckles helped her up, while looking very concerned for her well-being.
"Y…yeah, Knuckles…" Rouge smiled and nodded. Knuckles smiled warmly back at her. But they both got serious when they heard their two enemies laugh evilly.
Kana and Raz, with burn marks all over his face, were standing up holding 2 round gems in their hands. Kana had a blue one, while Raz had a green one. "We should have done this from the start, Kana." Raz said with an evil smile.
"I know…" Kana said with the same smile. "But it would have ruined our fun." Both gems started to glow. "So… Slogra will attack the bitch and guardian."
"While Gaibon takes the Emerald." Raz nodded. The gems both fired bolts of lightning, the blue one in the sky, and the green on the ground.
In the sky, a horrible, muscular gargoyle with wings flew in the sky. Its skin was dark blue and eyes were beady red.
On the ground, charging towards Rouge and Knuckles with spear drawn, was a dark green lizard monster with long neck and beak.
"What are those things?" Rouge shook in fear from the monster she was seeing. Meanwhile, the lizard monster got closer to then.
"Get away, Rouge!" Knuckles pushed her out of the way of the monster's spear while dodging it. The monster then spun around and stabbed its spear into his shoulder blade. "ARGH!"
"KNUCKLES!" She saw blood flow from wound and onto the spear tip. The monster hissed and stabbed him again, in the same wound. Knuckles scream in pain while Rouge got back on her feet. "NOOO!" She kicked the monster in the face and made him stumble back.
After shaking its head a few times, the monster regained his senses, only to be punched by Knuckles. Knuckles then tackled it and ran it towards the end of the island. With one final thrust, he pushed the monster off the island and falling to the sea. The monster made a hiss like scream as he fell.
Knuckles collapsed to his knees and covered his wound. "Ahhhhhh…"
"Knuckles…" Rouge ran to his side, looking at the wound. The stab wound was pretty big and bleeding profusely all over his arm. "Oh no… we need to get you to a doctor…"
"Ahhh…" Knuckles face was contorted in pain as he glanced over at the Master Emerald. The other monster had it in his filthy claws while Raz and Kana was riding on his back. "No…" He groaned weakly, due to his blood loss.
"They got Slogra…" Kana said sadly. But she then smiled. "But we got the emerald…"
Raz laughed. "Let's take this over to Queen Morgana. We'll come back for you two." He pointed at the angry Rouge and Knuckles. "And don't bother running away. We'll find you." The Gaibon spread it mighty wings and flew away with the two assassins and Master Emerald.
"My…" Knuckles tried to stand. "Emerald…" He got on his feet, but collapsed on his knees again, shouting in pain.
Rouge grabbed his hand and put his hurt shoulder over hers. She places a hand on the wound and applied pressure to keep it from bleeding. "I'm taking you to Station Square, hon. We need to take care of this shoulder."
"But… the Master Emerald…" Knuckles said sadly, while groaning.
"We'll get it back later… I promise…" Rouge looked at him with sad eyes and a small frown. Knuckles looked at her for a second and nodded. They carefully walked to the end of the island and started gliding off it, flying towards the city. Rouge, although upset over the loss, was glad she was there at the time. She didn't want to think about what would have happened to Knuckles if she wasn't.
What plans does Morgana have with the 7 Chaos Emerald and the Master Emerald? And what about Eggman, who has stolen a Chaos Emerald from Ryu. Will Sonic and Ryu be able to find him, or will they be attacked my Morgana and her mysterious assassins? Next Chapter will be up soon…
I don't think this chappie was a good as the first, but with all my other stuff (Dark Cloud 2, Sonic Songfics, and my Air Force life) I had to rush to finish this. Hopefully, I'll start the next chap sooner and get it done better. Wish me the best of luck! And PLZ read and review!
