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DECEMBER 23, 2018
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The Nightly Howl
Series
Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Werehogs
Tails raced as far away as possible, knowing that he needed to get Shadow some help.
Maybe I can find Sonic and Silver. he thought as he dodged a falling tree, that had been sliced in half by a crackle of lightning. Or even Knuckles and Rouge! he dodged a series of falling trees, narrowly missing getting crushed by a tall evergreen, by a mere few centimeters.
Tails decided it was time to fly, his twin tails were like the choppers of a copter, making a small Thwack Thwack Thwack as he cleared the trees and darted into the stormy clouds above, veering to dodge the flashes of lightning that slashed through the dark skies, lighting up the ground below.
He was well above the piney floors and could barely make out the tiny triangular dark green shapes of the evergreens. He could see a strip of brown, which must have been the woodsy grounds he had been running for his life through.
The little fox saw tiny ripples, like wrinkles in a dark blue jeans, and soon realized those wrinkles were the waves that were crashing in the sea, he looked at the sandy line of beach, which looked more like a tannish line that glistened as if strewn with diamonds, in the silvery moonlight. The moon winked through the clouds, the rain had stopped pouring and the lightning had sizzled out, there was no more loud chorus of thunder.
Tails managed to get to Angel Island, his attempt at finding Sonic and Silver did not have any results, to find Knuckles. He saw the redheaded echidna sitting on a throne, fast asleep. He could see that the echidna's mouth was gaping open, as he snored, and he pawed the air with his spiked knuckled fists. He kept mumbling and grunting in his sleep. Tails hovered closer, to hear what was being said.
"Rouge...come...back...the-the-Master Emerald..." he mumbled over and over, as Tails tried to stifle a laugh. But he snorted and the echidna woke up, with a start.
"INTRUDER!" he roared as he struck at the startled orange fox, Tails dove for cover behind the throne as the redhead raged on.
"How dare you try to steal the Master Emerald!" he snarled as he slammed his fists together, ready to fight the little fox, still unaware it was Tails. "The Master Emerald is the source of Angel Island's stability! If you think you can take it, you have another thing coming!" he grabbed the throne and threw it out of the way, eyes gleaming with anger and then he struck, his fists colliding with the old crumbly pillar Tails had been cowering in front of. Luckily the fox had enough time to fly away, leaving the pillar toppling on the echidna.
Once the echidna threw the chunks of pillars off himself, he turned to Tails and realized who it was.
"Oh, Tails." he blushed, his face becoming a bright pink. "It's you. What do you want?" he asked gruffly, crossing his arms and impatiently pawing the gravelly ground with his foot.
"Shadow needs your help!" Tails screamed, causing the tired worn red head to jump with a start, landing in a pile of rubble.
"Well, then I guess we should g-" but the echidna was interrupted by a sound that, though he was not familiar with, sent a chill down Tails' spine, it was a feral and vicious howling.
Sonic the Hedgehog sighed and closed his eyes, trying to calm the thundering in his ears, that had nothing to do with the storm that billowed overhead. What was going on? Why was Shadow trying to hurt him and why had Tails been so mortified of him. Maybe...He looked down at his hands, they were perfectly normal, minus the fact they were ungloved, and then his feet, they were normal too and were shod with his signature red and golden, white strapped, buckled shoes.
He shrugged his shoulders, maybe his friends were infected by some kind of night terror, and it would end in the morning. He shuffled over to where Shadow lay, unconscious. He lay very still, as if asleep, but Sonic knew better, he had somehow threw the Ultimate Lifeform into a short, gnarly, thick trunked oak tree.
He stooped down and shook the unconscious hedgehog, but the hedgehog did not respond.
"Shads." he hissed, his throat slightly dry, he must be thirsty. But his rival friend did not stir. Sonic turned to walk away, but then he was knocked to the ground. Shadow must have been pretending to be out, as he was now on top of the struggling azure hedgehog.
"Hold still, you fiend!" Shadow growled as he charged a chaos spear, but then let it fizzle out, as he must have realized it was not effective. He then took out a gleaming forest green emerald.
"Let's go, Beast!" he snarled as he held the emerald out of Sonic's reach, "Chaos Control!" and the two hedgehogs vanished.
Doctor Eggman looked at Sonic with a cruel and villainous expression. The azure hedgehog had passed out from the overload of energy that contained his chaos powers, and was now snoring in the metal chair that was his prison.
"If only you had not tried to stop me, Sonic." Eggman chortled as he took out a control, from his pocket. "Then this would have never had to happen, but remember this, this is all your fault, not mine." The mad scientist walked over to a set of equipment, which whirred noisily and had a set of complex buttons, switches and knobs. The mad man seemed to understand this confusing machinery as he began pressing specific buttons, flipping some switches, and turning some knobs.
A contraption, that look almost like a satellite dish, emerged from the ceiling, lowering in front of the snoring hedgehog.
"Now hold still, Sonic." Eggman laughed as his glasses began to glow with a violet light that begin to spurt out of the satellite dish like machine.
The violet glowing light began to brighten, until the gleam and glare was blazing like the sun, it would have blinded anyone who stared at it, except for the fact that Sonic was passed out and Eggman had his signature goggles on. The mad scientist smiled, teeth gleaming in the dazzling dark light as it grew brighter and brighter. The spurt of light soon became a beam, that struck the heroic, azure hedgehog in his gently heaving, from the sleep he had been enchanted into, chest. The beam began to fade away, as it possessed and filled the core of Sonic.
Sonic's body underwent a change. His azure hue became a grayish blue, the tips of his stripes, wrists, and legs began to become furry with a pure white color, sticking out like feathers. His teeth, that could be seen as his mouth gaped open from snoring, split apart as fangs slid in place, the fangs were a flawless white, tipped with razor sharp edges.
His gloves tore at the finger tips, as claws began to grow from his finger nails, the gloves soon fell uselessly, scraps of the remanants, to the floor. Suddenly with a roaring scream, that turned into a howl, Sonic's eyes opened, the white scleras were replaced with a glowing, dark green, the irises melded in with them.
"Perfect!" laughed Eggman, clapping his hands together, rubbing them eagerly. "Wait until your friends see this, there hero reduced to a werehog, once again!" The evil mad man jumped up and down with excitement.
"What are you talking about?" growled Sonic, as he struggled against the restraints.
"Have a look at yourself!" Eggman shouted as he pressed a button, releazing Sonic the Werehog.
Sonic rubbed his wrists, until he could feel them again. He got up and began to take a few threatening steps towards the amused mad genius. But Eggman did not flinch or shrink back in fear, rather he grabbed a handheld mirror and turned it towards the angry hedgehog. Sonic looked at his reflection with confusion.
The howls seemed to shake the pillars of the sacred sanctuary. Tails shook and whimpered with fear. Knuckles only seemed to become annoyed and cupped his hands around his mouth.
"Will you keep it down!" he bellowed, "I am in the middle of a conversation!" And he turned back to Tails, opened his mouth to speak, but then.
Awhooooooooooooooo!
The howl seemed closer and then a feral growling and snarling sound. The sound of padding feet, as the fiend ran closer and closer to the two. Tails ket out a cry and was about to take off, but Knuckles grabbed him, keeping him from escape.
"Come on, Tails," he urged, unaware of the present danger. "You were about to tell me something!" he shouted over the wind that suddenly whipped through the air, blowing the red spines into the echidna's face.
"Let go of me!" shrieked Tails as he tried to pull away from the echidna. "We need to get going before that thing returns!"
"What?" Knuckles asked, with a puzzled expression. "We always get wolves here, its nothing. If they come close, I get some extra workout time." And he pulled Tails' closer to himself.
"You will see for yourself, little guy!" Knuckles said, not at all trying to be condescending, but it came out that way regardless. "Come on out Wolfy!" Now Knuckles did intend to be condescending, towards the howling fiendthat drew closer and closer. The shadow of the creature seemed small, like any ordinary wolf the echidna had combated with in the past, but as it drew nearer, its full height was beginning to manifest righ before the hapless echidna and the frightened fox.
"Oh..." Knuckles trailed off, purple eyes widening, as the creature stepped out of the wind and the fog, its eyes glowing a bright hazelly yellow.
"Let me go!" Tails squeaked, as he finally managed to escape from the now gaped mouth echidna. He took off with a whip of his tails, a few feet into the air, until, with a swish of its large clawed hand, it grabbed the terror stricken fox and threw him to the ground. As the fog and wind began to clear, giving in to a dusky sky, the frightening fiend could be seen.
Its brillant glowing amber yellow eyes pierced through the echidna's light purple ones. It towered over the echidna, about five feet taller. It had a silvery white color to the matted, from the fog sprayed water, fur. Its feet ended in curved clawed nails and its hands also had claws that curved and shone in the fading moonlight. Its fangs were like daggers, tipped with sharp edges and pure white.
Knuckles knew he had to do something, so he balled his hands into fists and then threw himself, with a battle cry, at the fearsome monster that loomed over him.
Sonic shook his head, dazed from the sudden assault by the Ultimate Lifeform and the unexpected travel, via his rival friend's chaos control.
"What the heck!" shouted the azure hedgehog as he struggled away from Shadow. Eyes flashing with anger, Shadow smiled. A small and mirthless smile, one that slightly frightened Sonic. He had never seen, in all his years dealing with the proud and serious ebony and scarlet stripped hedgehog, such a sinister and cold expression on his face.
"Shadow?" Sonic asked, confused and worried about the hazel amber eyed hedgehog.
"You can stop your snarling and growling." Shadow said, voice deeper and more grudd. "It will do you no good." And he advanced towards the azure hero, causing him to stumble backwards.
"Look, Shads," Sonic said with a slight tinge of fear in his voice. "Shadow, I do not want to fight with you and I would rather have you tell me what is wrong."
"Fine," Shadow growled, eyes glowing contemptuously. "Keep up the growling and snarling." He then threw a punch at the azure hedgehog, causing him to stumble back a little.
"Shadow!" he exclaimed, startled and upset. "Fine!" And he thrust out his hand agan, but Shadow had learned his lesson, as he ducked and tackled Sonic, grabbing at his legs. Sonic nearly fell over, but he managed to escape the grasp of the determined and pugnacious ebony hedgehog.
"Hold still, Beast!" Shadow screamed as he threw himself at Sonic, nearly knocking him to the ground. Sonic took his chance and grabbed Shadow, holding him in one hand.
How am I doing this?! he wondered in shock as he tried to throw Shadow to the ground, but something kept him from doing so.
"I will kill you!" Sonic growled menacingly, as he continued to hold Shadow in a tight grip. The grip tightened, vice like, around his rival friend's throat.
"Chaos -" began the gasping and choking hedgehog as he prepared to charge a spear, but the grip became tighter and tighter. Black spots appeared in his vision, his head swam as his body fought for oxygen, his windpipe was being grasped so tightly, it was restricting his ability to breath. He struggled to escape from the grasp of the monster, its eyes glowed with dark excitement, still a pupiless brillant and smoldering green.