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My fourth chapter is in the works, but due to my dedication to multiple works and other outside fanfiction life, I will not be pushing for the chapter to come out sooner than promised.

Chapter Four ETA:

January 5, 2019 - January 15, 2019

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I will be taking a break on:

January 4, 2019 and January 8, 2019.

As those days mark the dates of two of my loved ones' deaths.

Gone, but not forgotten."

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The Nightly Howl

Series

Chapter Three: Ominous Foreshadowing

Silver was asleep. He was curled up in his bed, thick blankets wrapped around him like a cacoon. His eyes were closed, his mouth was open, and he snored. Next to him, in another bed, was a cat. Her eyes were wide open, golden orbs glowing dimly with quiet thoughtfulness. She had this feeling that something was not right.

That something was dreadfully wrong and that a doom, unlike any she had ever known, had come upon her and her friends. She glanced at her snoring friend, Silver. He looked calm and peaceful, unfazed by the idea of a danger that was coming, perhaps even already here.

Silver suddenly woke up with a start, his own golden flashing with startled fear.

"Silver?" Blaze asked worriedly as she walked to the side of his bed. "Are you okay?"

"Its coming..." Silver mumbled, eyes closed, hands balled into fists.

"What's coming?" Her eyes pierced the darkness. "The danger?"

"The claws..." Silver struggled to speak, his throat rasping, as if someone had suddenly siezed it in a death grip. "The claws of the demon."

A red echidna rested underneath a stone pillar, his eyes closed, as he peacefully snored. Peacefully only applied to him, as his snores disturbed the nearby birds that were trying to nestle underneath the stone archway, of a sacred sanctuary. They would be so close to finally falling asleep, but then a train like sound would shock them into waking up and taking flight again.

The coming of the silvery moonlight, cast down rays and lit of a colossal emerald that was dead center of seven multi colored mysterious gems. The emeralds all buzzed as if snoring as well, but the humming sound was so quiet and gave off an aura of beauty and happiness, that no one seemed disturbed by it. If only there was something those little flickies could do about that snoring.

Shadow solemnly looked at the glowing sun, as it was setting. He had heard all the young cat and young hedgehog had told him. Silver and Blaze were not from his world, at least his dimension or his time. So, they would have some incite into the things that should fall upon Shadow's world and his time.

He stared at the whipping ocean waves, a lovely aqua, green, and blue. The waves lashed the sandy beaches, that the grave and proud ebony, scarlet striped, hedgehog was standing on. He began to walk into the churning waters. He felt the warmth of the waves, embracing the foamy sea.

After he had swam through the ocean waters, he found himself kneeling on a sandy shore. The sandy shore sparkled like stars and was comfortably soft and pleasantly grainy. Shadow soon found himself standing in front of a door. the door was closed and the wooded material was dark brown and had swirly patterns, revealing the age of the tree that had made the door.

This door was made by himself and his rival friend, Sonic. This was their way to Knuckles, the last living member of the echidna clan, and the guardian of the Master Emerald. Knuckles would surely know what to do about the coming danger. Shadow entered the door and with a chaos flash, he was gone.

Knuckles was finally startled into awakening, when a flashing sound woke him up with a start. As soon as he was up and jerking his head back and forth, the birds were finally able to snuggle up and sleep, dreaming beautiful dreams.

"Who is there?" demanded the echidna, slamming his knuckled fists together.

"It's just me, Knuckles." Shadow replied and looked around at the stony, crumbling ruins. "Sorry to have disturbed you from sleep."

"That is alright." Knuckles said lowering his arms to his side. "Now what brings you here?"

"I heard some news." Shadow explained, taking a seat on a stone.

"About what?" Knuckles inquired, sitting back on his stone carved throne.

"Silver and Blaze warned me about -"

"The claws of the demon." Knuckles said and added, noticing the shocked look on Shadow's face. "Those two came to me earlier today."

"Interesting." Shadow replied.

"Yes, and what I learned from Tikal far rivals that."

"What did you learn from her?"

"That the claws of the demon are fr-" But then Knuckles gave a sudden exclamation of surprise, as he felt chaos energy burning through him. He staggered around like a drunken man, then fell flat on his back, unconscious. Unable to answer the calls of Shadow.

Sonic stared bemusedly at his two friends, Silver and Blaze. The news they had told him was confusing and rather scary. But he shook it off and laughed.

"Probably some half cooked scheme Eggman man has." he smiled, thumbs up, and sped away. He arrived at Eggman's latest lair, in a matter of seconds, and pounded on the door.

"Egghead! Egghead! Come out, come out! Wherever you are!" Sonic jeered as he pounded on the door.

"Go away, you wretched pest!" came the angry reply as Eggman turned back to his work.

"I will if you open up and let me in!" Sonic promised.

"Go away!" Eggman growled as he pressed a button that autom catapulted the inces hedgehog.

"Waaaaah!" Sonic cried out as he soared into the air, landing at the feet of the bewildered cat and telekintic hedgehog. "Eggman is so stubborn." And Sonic got back up.

"Let us try!" Silver said, a determined look in his eyes.

A thudding sound and a small explosion sent Eggman jumping up with surprised fear. A gaping hole in the door, that the azure hero had been pounding on not too long ago, let in the bright sunshine and the three determined anthropomorphic creatures.

"Now tell us you mad doctor, what we want to know!" Silver said as his hands began glowing with his signature psychokinetic powers. "Before I make you!"

"Oh, alright!" Eggman surrendered, hands in the air. "What do you want to know?"

"What is the claws of the demon." Sonic rolled his eyes, impatiently.

"I do not know!" Eggman said annoyed, as he was about to return to his work.

"You don't know or you won't tell us?" Silver responded crossly, closing his eyes, ready to psychokinetically attack his opponent.

"What he means is," Blaze said, patiently giving Silver a look, telling him to 'stay quiet and let me do the talking.' "That you are involved with this claws of the demon."

"What?" Eggman sputtered, confusion written all over his face. "What is this thing you keep babbling about? Ahhhh!" he let out a shout as Silver lifted him up, with his powers, and would have thrown him across the room, if not for his friends restraining him.

"Let me go!" Silver protested. "He knows. He knows. He knows everything. Look at the gleam in his eyes!"

"I know you have been tricked in the past Sonic said, struggling to keep Silver from extending his arms to thrust the doctor into the rows and rows of machinery that buzzed and whirred.

"Thanks for your time, Doctor." Blaze said, with a humble bow. "My friends and I are going to leave you to your devices now."

And with that the three friends were gone, with Silver mumbling protestations, as both Blaze and Sonic wrestled him out the door, or rather the hole that the psychokinetic hedgehog had made. As soon as the three heroes were gone, Eggman shook his head, grumbled about how 'annoying it was that the little pests would bother him now when he was on to such a most remarkable discovery, that would be great for them all.'

"A new era." he told himself "A new era will come to be and not even Sonic or his little pesky friends can stop me now."

Sonic struggled to wake up from the haze he was in. He should've known better than to have trusted that cruel and evil doctor. He had lied to them after all. Silver had been right all along. Silver had seen through the charade that the mad man had put on.

If only Blaze and I had listened to Silver. Sonic thought regrettably. Then we could've stopped Eggman before. Then this would have never happened.

Sonic also regretted letting his guard down. He regretted ever letting himself become a werehog, overcharged with negated Chaos energy. He regretted having been too happy at the thought of being free. Being free from the darkness that had plagued him so long. Cursing him to spend restless and lonely nights, only accompanied by Light Gaia.

When Sonic had been freed, he had immediately let his guard down. Sonic had fallen into a careless peace and calm. He had sped off, alone and unaware of the coming danger. Unaware that darkness had drawn near. That the darkness had closed in on him. Until it was too late. Until he was in its clutches.

Sonic remembered when he had noticed the change in the mood. The mood of the night jog through the forst had started off beautiful and glorious. But it had soon dampened into a dark, despairing, evil impending doom. But he had carelessly brushed it off. Too concerned with being free and able to enjoy moonlight runs through a forest, free of the burden of being a Dark Gaia infused werehog.

Then it struck him. The cold sting of darkness. He had been dragged into the deep forest. Dragged to Eggman's latest secret base. And he had been ensnared by the chaos light that had controlled him. It had been endowed to him as a means of protecting his world and everyone and everything in it. For it was his duty, by birth as it was Knuckles' duty to guard the Master Emerald, to ensure that Eggman, nor any other threat, destroyed or harmed the world.

He had failed. He was now in the mad doctor's clutches. He was now held prisoner by his own empowerment. The chaos energy kept him from escaping. The energy that had allowed him to shift form, into Super Sonic. The only energy that had kept Eggman's dreams from coming true. Now, he was captive to it. And it would consume him until Eggman's will came true.

But no! Sonic had to fight this fate. He had to keep it from coming true. He had to challenge the evils of Dark Gaia and the madness of Dr. Eggman. He would break free and shrug off his destiny, the power of Chaos energy.

He would be free to stop Eggman in his tracks. Sonic would be free to rid the world of Dark Gaia, once and for all. To make sure that it would never ever threaten his world ever again, or any world as a matter of fact. Sonic the hedgehog would make sure to stop the coming of the ominous foreshadowing, even if it was the last thing he ever did.