OMG! Thankees everybody! I got 4 reviews! (Starts crying tears of joy) Okay…anyways…I'm glad I haven't gotten flamed like my poor friend did and a bunch of other peoples…but…anyways…here's the disclaimer!
Disclaimer- I don't own any Sonic characters except MJ, Chibi Star, and Inferno. Kilala belongs to my friend Jena who wants the Tamagotchi Corner Shop DS game and Maya who belongs to my friend Alyson who got sick with the flu twice in the past few weeks…
"5 Years Without You…"
By MJ the Seal
Chapter 7
The First Emerald Retrieved
The green metallic menace stared at Shadow and Inferno with silver robotic eyes. Its glare was cold and showed no mercy for the two adventurers.
"Nice going Inferno! We could've launched a sneak attack, but no you had to scream at it!" Shadow harshly whispered still keeping his gaze on the creature.
"Hey it took me by surprise so shut it Shadow!" Inferno replied while standing in a battle position. "So you got anymore bright ideas?"
"Yeah listen up…we keep dodging its attacks until we find a weak spot, and when we find it we attack it at full force got it?" Shadow looked over to where Inferno was a noticed he was gone. Then he saw him charging at the Coco Creature with everything he had.
"THIS IS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICED THEMSELVES TO DESTROY YOU!" Inferno shouted as he continued to claw the creature with all his strength. He flew up to its eyes and began clawing at them but to no avail. The robot lifted up its hand and flicked Inferno away like a pesky fly causing Inferno to fly across the room and slam against the wall.
"Well…that certainly was a bad idea…" Inferno mumbled as he began to pry him off the wall.
"You think? Let me try and attack it now…CHAOS BLAST!" a huge blast of energy began to encircle Shadow and Shadow sent it in the direction of the creature. The robot took the blast head on but it only caused it to get a few scratches on its protective armor.
"What! That was my best attack!" Shadow thought in shock, amazed that the robot could have such a high defense. "What am I going to do now!"
Meanwhile
"How much longer till we reach this thing you're talking about?" A girl's voice asked as she was running around inside the Coco Tower
"Not much farther now, it's just up these stairs!" Chibi Star shouted as she flew beside the girl.
"Okay we better get to them before something happens!"
"Right let's go!" Chibi Star and the mysterious girl began to run up the steps that Shadow and Inferno ran/flew up earlier. It was going to be awhile before they even got halfway, but they knew that they needed to get to Shadow and Inferno before they got hurt…or worse.
A good 10 minutes later
Shadow and Inferno were lying on the floor. The Coco Creature had banged them up pretty badly and they were using the rest of their strength to try and get off of the ground.
"So (pant) Shadow…what are we going to do now? (Pant) I'm not in the mood to get destroyed today." Inferno said as he gasped for breathe and clutched his arm.
"I don't know (pant). This thing has been able (pant) to withstand all of my attacks (pant)." Shadow replied while struggling to stand up. "There may not be anything else we can do…"
"AAAHHHH LOOK OUT HERE IT COMES!" Shadow and Inferno barely managed to jump out of the way in time before the robot crushed them with its green metallic fists.
"Hey…who's that at the door…?" Inferno whimpered as Shadow turned his head in the direction of the doorway.
"Are you guys okay!" The girl asked as she ran up to them. Shadow instantly recognized who it was she was the person MJ went to visit the day she disappeared, Maya. Maya was a black hedgehog with lavender streaks on her legs and arms. She had lavender hair, black Capri's, a dark purple t-shirt, and black sneakers with lavender in the front. "You don't look as bad as I thought you would be but still pretty bad…Anyway, it's time to beat this thing once and for all!" Maya began to charge up a huge blast of blue electricity in her hand. It grew to about the size of the Coco Creature and she shot the lighting ball and it hit the creature straight on!
"GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The Coco Creature screeched in pain as its one weakness attacked its body at full force. "System….ma-fucutioan….systuum….shuuut dooooowwwwnnn…" A/N: I'm not stupid it's just written that way so it's all slurred! The robot's eyes stopped glowing and it fell onto the floor and went right through it.
"ALRIGHT WE DEFEATED THE COCO CREATURE!" Maya cheered as she turned to Shadow and Inferno who were now off the floor.
"Yeah…something like that…" Shadow muttered as he leaned on the wall for support. "How'd you know where to find us?"
"I got her and told her about you, MJ, Injerko er Inferno…and all that jazz…" Chibi Star explained as Inferno just glared at her. "Oh and uh…you might wanna check out that robot…it has the Emerald of Hope inside of it…I got to go make sure MJ's okay bye!" Chibi Star flew out of the tower leaving Maya, Shadow, and Inferno in the top tower.
"Well shall we go or do you guys need help getting downstairs?" Maya said as she smirked at them. Shadow and Inferno stumbled to move, but ended up falling on their bums. Maya just signed and she walked over to them. "Okay, okay I'll transfer some of my energy to you guys…" a green aura appeared around Maya's hand and Shadow and Inferno were able to actually walk!
"Whoa…how'd you do that?" Inferno asked as he began to fly around.
"I can transfer my energy in battle so c'mon let's go get that Emerald already!" Maya explained just before she jumped down the giant hole and landed perfectly onto the floor below where the robot crashed. Shadow and Inferno joined her and began to look for the Emerald.
"You guys find anything yet?" Inferno shouted as he began digging through a pile of rock.
"Nope nothing…" Maya answered. "What about you Shadow…Shadow…SHADOW!" Shadow wasn't anywhere in site until she heard the noise of something inside the robot.
"Hey I think I found something…or some people…" Shadow yelled from inside the robot before scrambling out. A bunch of people began to crawl out of the robots head looking tired, thirsty, hungry, and covered in oil.
"YYEESSS! WE'RE FREE!" someone shouted as everyone began to cheer.
"BRO!" Inferno shouted as he squeezed his way through the crowd of people to reach an older yellow dragon.
"Hey Inferno! What's up you came here to save me?" The yellow dragon replied as he stretched his wings.
"You bet…well I did have some help…" Inferno turned to show Shadow and Maya who just waved or looked at him. "That black hedgehog over there is trying to rescue his girlfriend and find some Emerald thingys and the girl just came and helped us."
"He makes the story sound so interesting…" Shadow thought sarcastically as Inferno began to further exaggerate how great he was.
"What a show off…" Maya mumbled as she continued to look for the Emerald.
"Emerald you say…maybe this is what you're looking for…" Inferno's brother pulled out a pink emerald that was shining like the sun.
"Hey Shadow is there a pink Chaos Emerald?" Inferno asked over the crowd who become silent as they heard the word Shadow.
"No…that must be one of the Emeralds of Life." Shadow said as he ran over to the pink Emerald. Inferno's brother who I'll just call Scorch gave him the Emerald and the Emerald glowed even brighter.
"Hey something's coming out of the Emerald!" someone exclaimed and everyone began to stare at the Emerald. A median, old looking brown piece of paper appeared from the Emerald and floated into Shadow's hands.
"Hey it looks like a map…" Maya said as Shadow, Inferno, and her all began to stare at the piece of paper.
"This must show us where the rest of the Emeralds are…hey look it's glowing in that one spot!" Inferno pointed out as a small bronze colored Emerald began to glow on the map. "Anybody here know how to read this thing?"
"Oh move over…" Maya said as she swiped the map from Shadow's grasp. She examined it for a few minutes and then snapped her fingers. "According to the map…the next Emerald is located in a circus town located many miles away in the east."
"Well we better get going." Shadow said before turning to leave. He felt someone grab his shoulder and turned around to see Inferno.
"Relax Shadow! We can't leave without at least saying bye to everyone in the village. Not to mention all of the cool stuff we'll get…" Inferno grinned like an idiot as everyone just sweat dropped at him.
Later
"INFERNO WHERE WERE YOU?" A female pink rabbit with blond hair, a white tank top, and a pink skirt screamed. Shadow, Maya, and Inferno just stopped at Inferno's place before setting off…not expecting a certain pink bunny to be there. "I WAS WORRIED SICK!"
"Well…er…you see it's a LONG, LONG story Star…"Inferno said while slowly backing away from the enraged Star.
"Oh and you make fun of ME for having a girlfriend?" Shadow thought as Star continued to beat Inferno over the head with an umbrella which seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"STAR CHILL! I was just about to explain before you started hitting me…" Inferno began as Star stopped her angry rage of umbrella waking. Inferno began to explain the whole situation with MJ, the Emeralds, and Chibi Star…still mostly boasting about himself…
"Do you have to leave Inferno? I don't want you to go…just when you-" Inferno covered Star's mouth before she said anything else about a first kiss.
"Aw…Inferno's too embarrassed about a girlfriend!" Maya taunted as she began to laugh at him. Inferno and Star blushed as he removed her hand from her mouth.
"Well if you're done we better leave." Shadow said with no emotion for anything that had happened.
"Yeah, yeah okay. Well, I gotta go Star…" Inferno was about to turn to leave when Star gave him a huge hug.
"PROMISE ME YOU'LL COME BACK SAFE!" Star cried as she tightened her grip on Inferno even harder.
"I will…now will you please let go?" Star let go of the now very red Inferno and the group left setting off to find the next Emerald.
"MJ…we're getting closer to rescuing you…please stay safe…" Shadow thought and the group left the quiet village onto the path through the starry night sky.
YAY! End of chappy 7! The first Emerald of Life has been retrieved and a new girl named Maya has joined the fray! But, as always with new dangers up ahead for the heroes, MJ is in a pickle as well! What has happened to her since her trip to the torture chamber! Review and you'll find out…