Tails eyes went wide and he looked at shadow, his hands shaking and he stuttered.

"B-b-but that can't be right…Sonic is…well Sonic, I'm just…" he said slowly trying too find the right words, but shadow spoke the words that deep down his heart spoke.

"You're his little brother" he said and Tails looked up and saw the images of Vector being tortured slowly started too fade away, until all Tails could see was white, he looked over too Shadow and asked.

"where are we?"

Shadow looked over at him briefly before looking too the left.

"This is the point between death and life, the nonexistent world" he said softly and Tails looked around in confusion.

"If it doesn't exist how can we be here?"

"Were here, and yet we are not, this place exists through will and thoughts" he said softly, Tails had no clue what he meant, but he figured he would not get a simpler answer so he just nodded. Shadow looked back and smiled softly and looked at Tails and said slowly.

"You asked about Pure Chaos Energy" he said and Tails nodded slowly not sure what else too do. Shadow nodded and slowly raised his gloved hand and snapped his fingers, and in an instant the white empty space was gone and Tails could feel the wind against his face, on the edge of a cliff, beyond that was dark mountains and a floating island, thunder striking it and under the cliff was nothing but never ending darkness. Tails spun round but could not see Shadow anywhere. He looked up and gasped as he finally recognised the island, it was The Floating Island.

"Knuckles" whispered the young fox and with that, not even thinking spun his tails together and took off into the dark skies, unaware of what may lead ahead.

Tails landed on his feet on the once fresh green grass, now dark and dead, the altar was smashed too pieces, Tails eyes went wide with horror as he saw pieces of the master emerald shattered everywhere, he then saw a trail of blood, his eyes followed it and what he saw nearly made him die of fear. There lay knuckles, his body beaten badly, parts of the master emerald were stuck in his fur and caused blood too pour out, his face was covered in blood and Tails felt himself fall too his knees, he slowly reached for knuckles, his paw touched his fallen friends chest, his heart was not beating. Tails closed his eyes, feeling the tears form, no…knuckles could not be dead…Tails continued too find himself sobbing, until he heard a sound coming from the fallen altar, his eyes darted too the figure and what he saw was nearly as bad as his lost friend. A large lizard like creature stood their, almost half lizard, half man. Long sharp claws and blood red eyes with black thin pupils. Yellow sharp teeth that looked like it could cut through stone, powerful body and arms covered in dark green scales, a long thing tail with razor sharp spikes at the back, so sharp they could slice metal. But the thing that stood out most was the blood sprayed on his face, Knuckles blood. Most at seeing this sight would have run for their lives, some would have stood up and attacked in anger, and a few would just stand there, not able too take in what they saw. Tails did none of these. He stood up tall, looked the creature in the eye, tears streaming down his face and yelled.

"How could you! He was my friend! He never did anything too anybody!"

The creature, either did not register what he said, or did not care because he continued too walk too the shattered fox. Tails knelt by knuckles and hugged his limp body and tears streamed down his face and he cried.

"Knuckles, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I can't fight him…I can't be strong enough, I miss you so much, I promise I will get you out of this horrible place" he whispered and kissed his forehead softly and continued too cry, unaware that the ground started too form a small circle with the sign of a sun and a moon around Tails, slowly out of the ground, seven coloured stones shone and slowly rose in the air. The seven chaos emeralds. Suddenly Knuckles voice echoed through the lands.

"Chaos of power, power is enriched by the heart…"

Tails eyes widened as he heard this, he looked at knuckles in his arms and slowly he started too change, he got slightly taller, his fur turned black. Now shadow lay in his arms not shadow, and slowly he opened his eyes.

"Tails, you are the controller of the chaos emeralds, this is your time"

Tails felt himself feeling light headed and slowly his eyes closed and he fell back, he found himself falling in the air, the island was gone so was everything, he fell into darkness and drifted deeper into the never ending oblivion.

To Be Continued….