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My fourth chapter is up and ready for reading.

My fifth 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 Five ETA:

January 18, 2019 - January 25, 2019

The Nightly Howl

Series

Chapter Four: Of Trust and Betrayal

Knuckles backed away from the monster. It snarled at him, golden eyes flashing fiercely at him.

"Sorry, Tails." he paused. "Go get help."

Tails took off running as Knuckles threw himself back at the creature.

"Stay back!" Knuckles growled, before punching the brute in the face. It howled, anger in every heart stopping, blood freezing, ear splitting syllable.

"Aww, shut it!" Knuckles snarled, slamming his other fist into its face.

The wolflike fiend fell back, then howled again.

"You can keep it up, Monster." Knuckles panted as he dove away from the beast's outstretched paws. "But howling won't do anything." And he came soaring, like a bullet, colliding with the golden eyed creature's face.

An hour later...

Knuckles huffed and puffed, trying to catch his breath. He stared at the fallen enemy, in victory. "And that is what happens when you challenge the Guardian of the Emeralds." He turned away, to examine the damage that, the monster, during the struggle, had caused.

He whirled around and saw the beast rise up, lift its head up to the moon, and howl.

"Like I said, Wolfy." Knuckles laughed. "Nothing is gonna happen if you -"

Aaaaaaaahooooooooo! A feral sound answered, ringing loud and clear through the darkness. Knuckles looked this way and that, but could not see anything. Then he heard a fierce snarling sound, turned, and saw two pairs of eyes. One was a flashing electric green and the other was a blazing golden yellow.

"Shadow!" Tails cried out, as he whipped Sonic in the face.

Sonic stagged back, then glared at Tails.

"What is up with you!" he shouted, causing Tails to shrink back. "Shadow is the enemy here, not me!" And then he was struck down by a quickly recovered, Shadow. He fell backwards, striking his head against a tree. He crashed through it, the tree collapsing down on him.

"Now that, that is that." Shadow said, dusting himself up, glancing at Tails, with a grateful look on his usually stoic face. "Let us figure out what the heck this thing is."

"There was another one." panted Tails, he was winded from the fight he had with Sonic.

"I would be more worried about me." laughed Sonic, his eyes gleaming cold.

The hedgehog and fox turned around, saw Sonic, and screamed.

"Silver?" a voice whispered to him, he flinched, turning away.

"Silver?" Silver whimpered, his heart pounding. The voice grew louder, more insistent. "Silver!"

He stared around as he saw the cluster of trees, trapping him, from ever side. The conifers were all spindly armed, dark colored bark, and had patches of pine needles, extending towards him like fingers. He backed away, bumping into someone. He turned around, eyes wide open, and ready to scream. It was...Sonic?

"Sonic?" he gasped. "What are you doing here?"

"Nothing much." grunted the azure hedgehog, as he turned to examine a nearby conifer. "Just thought I would take a moon lit...stroll." His head turned, fixing his electric green eyed gaze on Silver.

"It's not like you to...stroll." Silver said, almost incredulously.

"True." Sonic said, with a side ways glance at the younger hedgehog. "But then I am not like myself." And he grinned, revealing rows of blindingly white, sharply pointed, jagged teeth.

Shadow grunted as he was knocked down by the wolf, or whatever it was. It pinned him down, snarling, hot breath in his face. Then with a start the fell beast rose up, nosed the air, tilted its head, and howled. The howl sounded different than its usual howl, it sounded less fierce, less angry. Then it darted and disappeared into the forest trees.

"Strange." mumbled Shadow, as the Ultimate Lifeorm dusted himself off. "It is almost like someone had called him.

"Or..something!" Tails said, eyes widened. "Hurry!" he said, grabbing Shadow and carrying him off, flying into the rainy night sky.

The droplets fell in turrents, icy, stinging, cold. They felt like daggers as they struck Tails, who fiercely battld against the strong wind, that threatened to sweep him off course. Thunder clap after thunder clap, followed by lightning flash. Tails dodged the flashes, one barely missed him by a couple inches.

"Where are we going!" Shadow yelled, trying to be heard over the pounding rain, thunderous skies, and roaring wind.

"To Knuckles!" Tails shouted out, diving to miss a chunk of hail. The hail began hurtling downwards, striking Tails on every side.

"Maybe we should go back!" Shadow shouted, his quills sticking up messily, from the water. "Then we can go once its safe. Sonic will never forgive me, if anything happens to you."

"Yes, but," Tails panted, starting to feel tired from heaving up the scarlet striped hedgehog. "Knuckles needs our help!"

"Watch out!" screamed the Ultimate Lifeform, but it was too late. A huge hunk of hail struck Tails, hard, in the face, knocking the poor fox out.

"Tails!" Shadow yelled, trying to revive him. But Tails did not respond, and the two of them went hurtling, from the sky, to the depths below.

"Ahhhh!" Silver shouted out, as he saw Sonic start to change. "You're a were-werehog!" And before the azure, now blue gray furred, hero, now turned monster, could answer, the psychokinetic hedghog bolted.

"What's wrong Silver?" a familiar voice asked, as a feline cat appeared. She had big catlike, amber brown eyes, and was the color lilac.

"Blaze!" Silver panted, catching his breath. "Watch. Out. Behind. You." Blaze turned around and saw a silvery werehog staring at her, face to face.

"Oh!" she startled, then smiled. "Silver, why are you aftaid?"

"It's a Werehog, that's why!" Silver said, backing away in terror. "Get away from it!"

Blaze smiled, turning back to the Werebeast. "He's all yours."

"What!" Blaze smiled again, a cold and cruel look appearing on her face. "Run!"

Silver ran, trying to escape from the assault. The ambush. The shock. He felt tears stinging his eyes. Fire raged and roared behind him as, in an inferno whirlwind, Blaze followed close behind.

"Why are you scared?" she laughed, eyes flashing But he was not that fast, at least not like his enemy. He was knocked down, the breath cut from his lungs. He gasped, trying to catch his breath. Just as he tried to regain his balance and stand up, he saw her.

His enemy loomed over him, catlike eyes piercing into his own.

"Please, stop!" he begged, unable to keep himself from crying. For the betrayal was too much, he had trusted...And he was proven wrong again.

"Don't cry." the soft reply seemed almost like his friend's normal caring tone. "It only makes you seem more pathetic. Then with a slash of claws, he was out.