Hey, I'm alive! Yay! Sorry that I didn't update sooner, I was busy (and had a teeny bet of writer's block). But I'm back now, for all your reading enjoyment! Yay, again! Anyway, here's chapter...6! (Oh, and the new chappie for Crimson Stripes will be a little late, since the site won't let me load it...)
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"Well, isn't this our lucky day?" Sonic asked sarcastically. The Bone Titan let out a roar, letting loose a few rocks from their place on the cieling with it's volume.
"You think I'm scared of that?" Shadow mocked, as he walked toward the advirsaries before him. "It'll take more than a pile of bones to stop me!"
"Than maybe you'd do better to fight me instead," Gemini replied. "If you're so strong, I shouldn't be a problem, right?" Shadow's reply was a charge forward, landing a punch on his counterpart's chest. Another roar came from the Bone Titan. Shadow briefly turned his head so see Sonic and the others getting ready to fight it. Unfortunately, this gave Gemini a chance to attack back, a kick right to Shadow's face.
"Not so strong without your Chaos Emeralds, are you Shadow?" The blue-striped hedgehog taunted.
"Oh, you'll see how strong I am with them in a minute!" Knocking Gemini to the ground, Shadow grabbed away one of the Chaos Emeralds from him, which was glowing a bright green. Concentrating his power into it, his fur began to glow a bright red. Sonic, who was currently trying to damage the creature before him, cast Shadow a glance.
"Uh oh," he muttered, turning to his comrades. "Duck and cover guys, Shad's gonna' blow!" All of them knowing the extent of Shadow's abilities tried to get to safety as quickly as they could, but to no avail.
"Chaos...BLAST!" Shadow yelled, a gigantic explosion eminating from him. In a matter of seconds, the room was a complete wreck. Sonic and the boys were all cut and bruised by the debris that had managed to hit them. Gemini had been blown back quite a ways, since he had been close to the heart of the attack. The Bone Titan still stood, though, now glowing a bright violet.
"You fool," Gemini said, "Look what you've done now! Exposing a monster like that to Chaos Energy like that causes the thing to go beserk! Out of control! We'll be lucky if that thing manages to leave even part of this place intact."
"And who decided to summon it in the first place?" Shadow retorted, his fur still shining a brilliant crimson. "Why don't you just use your magic to control him again?"
"You have no understanding of magic, do you?" The other hedgehog scoffed. "Either way, by the way it's looking at you, I might as well take this time to go after that other Chaos Emerald. Goodbye, loser," As Gemini began to run off, Shadow turned his eyes towards the Bone Titan. If it had eyes, they would be glaring straight at him. Without a moment's hesitation, the thing began to charge for him.
"No problem," Shadow muttered. "Now, where would be the best place to hit this thing from?" Running out of the way of the monster's path, he eyed it. His eyes landed on a mass of violet in between the mass of bones in it's head. "Bingo." Quickly, Shadow made his way to the monster, and jumped. He landed on it's kneecap, and preceded to climb the bones like a ladder to the top.
"Idiot," Gemini murmmured as he ran off. As he did, something grabbed at the back of his jacket. He turned to see Knuckles.
"Oh no you don't," the echidna said. "You brought this thing here, you help get rid of it."
"You are crazy," Gemini said. "If there's any way to rid of it, you have to take it out at that mass of energy in it's head, which serves as a sort of 'brain' to follow it's master's commands. Of course, since it's a re-animated object that absorbed Chaos Energy, it causes the brain to malfunction, so to speak, and it goes into a frenzy."
"So, all we have to do is destroy that big purple thing up there, and it's dead?" Knuckles asked.
"Yes, but there is a large amount of Dark Energy radiating from that section. Most people would most likely be killed by such exposure."
"Well, Shadow sure isn't," Knuckles replied, pointing at the once-again black hedgehog. "See, look at him climb that thing! He should be up to the top soon." In fact, Shadow was indeed close to the top, climbing up the Bone Titan's spine to get to the head. It jerked this way and that as the monster tried to his it's current target, which was Sonic and Tails.
"Well, I made it to the neck," Shadow thought to himself. "Sonic and Tails just need to distract it a little longer, and then this whole thing will be done with." He climbed a bit more onto the skull, seeing the "brain" right below him.
"Now, how to destroy this," he muttered. He still had his Chaos Emerald in his hand, so he could probably zap it with a Chaos Spear. But would that get absorbed too, like his Chaos Blast? Shadow was confused, his mind was getting cloudy. He almost lost balance as the Titan reared it's head, but he managed to grab hold onto one of the horns that portruded from it's head. Then suddenly, he was thrown up into the air. Looking down, he saw the Bone Titan below, which had managed to flip him up skywards with the sudden movement of it's skull. It was looking up at him expectantly, and then slowly opened it's mouth to catch it's hedgehog prey. Shadow began to fall, his mind still foggy.
"Shadow!" Shadow heard his name, but he couldn't make out who it was. The last thing he saw were rows of teeth in front of him, ready to rip him to shreds. Then, there was total darkness.
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While the boys were off fighting the Bone Titan, the girls had been chasing Ciel throughout the prison. Rouge was ahead of all of them, flying as fast as she could.
"Get back here if you know what's good for you," Rouge called out. "No one keeps an emerald away from me!"
"Well then, I guess I'm the first," Ciel decided, flying a bit faster than the bat. Growling to herself, Rouge suddenly got an idea. Pulling out her pick-nails, she aimed right at the hedgehog's head. With a quick throw, the pick-nails made contact, causing the hedgehog to fall to the ground.
"Score one for Rouge the Bat," she said, walking over to her prize. She picked up her pick-nails from where they landed on the ground before looking at Ciel. Oddly, there wasn't a big bleeding cut on his head like Rouge thought there would be. In fact, there was nothing wrong with it at all. Rouge wondered how the heck he had managed miss that, she heard Blaze, Amy, and Cream come up behind her.
"Hey, you managed to do it!" Amy cheered. Blaze gave a nod in agreement, while Cream just looked at the hedgie on the ground.
"Is he okay?" The rabbit asked, looking worried. "You didn't hurt him too bad, did you Ms. Rouge?"
"I don't know," replied the Master Theif. "I hit him in the head with my pick-nails, but he doesn't look like he got hurt. Either way, the emerald's mine now."
"No it isn't," Ciel lifted his head from the ground, still holding the Chaos Emerald. "I still have it, don't I?"
"You're still concious?" Rouge asked, bewildered. "I can't believe it, those pick-nails I threw are sharp."
"Well, I am," Ciel said, getting to his feet. "And I still have the emerald. I'm sorry, but you can't have it."
"Why can't we?" Amy asked. "We need it more than you do."
"You can't because Gemini says so," replied the winged hedgehog. "I owe a lot to him, and he's my brother. What he says goes." While the other girls were quiet, Cream walked up to him.
"Please, Mister Ciel," Cream asked. "We really need that Chaos Emerald. Can we please have the emerald? Pretty please?" The little rabbit turned on her six year-old charm, looking like the sweetest, most innocent thing there was. Ciel sighed.
"If you really need it that bad, I guess it's okay," He said, giving her the emerald. "I'll just have to grab Gemini the other one." Rouge glared at the young bunny, who had been able to do what she couldn't, when she heard a noise off in the distance. It sounded like a loud roar, like the sound of thousands of people screaming at once. The others seemed to hear it to.
"What is that?" Blaze asked.
"It sounds like one of Gemini's weird summons," Ciel moaned. "Those things are so evil...but I think he might have summoned it to take care of the boys."
"Well, he won't be getting his way then," Rouge said. "You guys go after the other emerald. I'm going to go help out the boys, okay?"
"Fine then," Blaze agreed, already running off down a corridor.
"Good Luck Rouge," Amy and Cream both said before following her.
"I'll help you too," Ciel said to the bat. "Is that okay? I don't want Gemini to hurt the boys too bad, even if they are mean."
"Fine by me," Rouge agreed, flying off. "I just hope I'm not too late."
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Dang, this part is going on way longer than I first thought. Oh well, cliffy! Will Rouge make it? Is Shadow going to die? WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? Find out...next time! Haha! See ya' then.
