Ch.4: Possessed!
When the chaos light diminished, Sonic, Shadow, and Knuckles found themselves in a chamber of a small cave. Nazo had Kimara chained to a wall where she couldn't get free. Knuckles asked Nazo " Is she going to be alright?" Nazo looked over Knuckles and answered " I can null the effects of the possession, but it may result in causing her destruction," Shadow spoke " Who's this Tails Doll?" " Don't you know?" said Nazo " Tails Doll is a phantom like me, searching for our true forms. Tails Doll has obivously found his own, for he was only allowed to you friend here enough power to destroy me. But, since I still have yet, to discover my form, I'm still just a ghost,"
"Why Kimara?" asked Sonic. "She probally found Tails Doll after he had regianed his true form" said Nazo " she's lucky that she even survived," "What are you talking about?" asked Knuckles, there was a slight hint of a growl in his voice. Nazo ingored it and answered " Tails Doll is not known for being merciful. He usaully kills someone right on the spot, but your friend Kimara has survived," Shadow could guess what that meant, by dechipering what was said so far, Tails Doll must have found use for Kimara, obivously this girl had a ability that the Tails Doll only knew about. Which could very be the reason he hasn't killed her like his other victims.
Kimara was struggling againist her chains, daring to break free. Her claws were kept away so she couldn't cut the chains and escape. Suddenly the thrashing died down, and her body slipped into a relaxed pose, her original form was coming back to replace the savage one that took over. Knuckles breathed in a sigh of relief. Kimara opened her eye's and looked at her surrounding's, it was then she found out that she couldn't move. She could already guess why not, and looked down below to see, Shadow, Knuckles, Sonic, and Nazo.
" Uh, is it possible to get down from here?" she asked. Nazo unlocked the chains and she was set free. When the others explianed to her what happened, she was shocked. "That's the second time today" she excliamed " I didn't hurt you guy's did I?" " No" said Knuckles "but you did cut it kind of close," " Why is this happening to me?" Kimara asked herself " if I hadn't found that doll this probally would have never happened," She saw Nazo look at her, uh oh, had she spoken aloud? She didn't remember doing so. What other explianation could it be?
A thought suddenly struck her and she glared at Nazo. "It's rude to peek at my thoughts you know," she said. The others looked at her like she was crazy, but noticed the question was directed at Nazo who smiled. " Sorry" he said " but why don't you tell us more about this 'doll' ?" " "Why should I?" said Kimara " your the mind reader, can't you tell?" "Look Kimara" said Knuckles "Nazo told us about Tails Doll, why can't you just tell us?" "He wants me to destroy Nazo, is that such a big deal?" Kimara asked " my parent's are the one's who gave me that Tails Doll, ever since then something's been different. I can hear his voice prowl into my head, telling me to kill, and I can't resist! Must Destroy Nazo,"
She grabbed her head trying to stop the Tails Doll from controlling her, but to no use, she changed back into her savage form, and agian leapt out at Nazo, her claws flying. Nazo easily dodged and agian her attack slid through. Shadow and Sonic tried to restrian her, but the effort proved hopeless when she broke through, sending the two hedgehogs flying into the walls. Knuckles stepped out in front of her, stopping Kimara in her tracks. They looked at each other for a moment, and for a while everything stood still, as Kimara and Knuckles looked into each others eye's.
Kimara stared at Knuckles with him doing the same. Her claws began to detract, and her normal form was coming back, but she ran out of the cave before she even reverted back. Her eye's were streaming with tears at what she had almost done. Tails Doll's control over her was gone for a moment and the tears continued to slide down. A heavy feeling of guilt hung in the air as she ran into the darkness leaving the cave behind. Noone had made a move to stop her from going off. Knuckles felt like running after her but didn't know why.
"She's a monster, but it wasn't her fault" he thought. He looked out at the darkened sky, wishing he could tell her how he felt. Little did he know that under the light of the moon Kimara was thinking the same thing.