Edit: Well this is my second time uploading this stuff, I kinda just realize that there were no official characters until the next chapter. Go figure. :{
Well here is the new one. It's definitely going to be longer than the first chapter. Oh, and I would to give thanks to my first reviewers: TheShadowUzumaki and RuningWitSizorz. Thanks guys! You're the best! Also, I think it's time for this.
Disclaimer: All official characters belong to Sega and it's associates, for if it belonged to me, there would be either no Amy or no romance. (Hey, the wars are crazy and Sonic's suppose to be a kid's icon.)
The echidna, looking at certain death right before his eye, suddenly winces as a sphere of light engulfs him. The oncoming soldiers stopped and covered their eyes, to avoid being blinded by the strange light. The light momentarily shined it's brightest until it dimmed down. As the soldiers went to take a look at the subsiding light, they find the echidna was nowhere to be seen. Chatter quickly risen after the spectacle of light.
"He's disappeared!"
"How did that happen? We had him cornered!"
"Where did he go?"
"That slippery rat!"
"Enough" The loud voice boomed as the conversations were quickly silenced and full attention was drawn towards their chief. "That traitor must have used some sort of light trick to divert our eyes away enough for him to escape. But, by my knowledge, I know he is still in this kingdom, for even the archers would've still seen him climb up the stone walls and we have them surrounding the whole city. He must be neaAHH!"
The chief, who was giving his speech was disrupted by the sudden shift of balance in the palanquin that caused him to lose him balance and lean to the left side of the palanquin, making him fall out and land on his head with a pained groan.
There were gasps as to the events that suddenly happened. The warriors were frozen in shock, unable to move. There was a few moments of silence…other then the chief's groans until one apprentice warrior was brave enough to actually walk up to the chief and ask: "Chief, are you okay?"
"Does it look like I'm okay? Help me up!" exclaimed the fallen chief, his temper already topped.
The warrior trainee that had came to him pulled him up by dunking down, putting his shoulder under his armpit, and plainly stands up, with little problem at all.
Chief Tomasuto, enraged by the warrior's reaction time to his fall, yelled: "What gave you the nerve to not help me up sooner?"
The warrior, blinking at the chief in confusion and in fear of saying anything that will enrage him, closed him eyed and quickly stated: "My apologizes chief, but I was stunned to see you fall over."
"Bach!" The chief grunted as he wrenched his way out of the warrior's support and turned towards the concerned warriors. "And why didn't you lazy warriors failed to even try to help me?" The chief boomed.
The sudden voice directed towards them snapped them out of their frozen state, as they were looking at one another, ashamed. Not only by their lacking usefulness, but ashamed that a apprentice actually did what the entire army of elite soldiers could not.
The chief let out a sigh as he looked at the ashamed warrior faces before turning his head towards the palanquin as he looked towards the slaves that are manning the make-shift vehicle. These echidnas, like most of this country, are still at war with the rest of the country. Their goal is, like everyone else, to rule the country. Now normally when a kingdom captures a another kingdom or land, they take no prisoners. No exceptions. But this kingdom, whenever possible, take as much prisoners as they can get. These are a people of war and money, not having much care for there other services.
When they actually capture a prisoner of war, they put him/her through the process, only in this kingdom, known as Slavorization. The process is made swift and easy to mark the captured as a slave. They take the tail of the unlucky, captured victim and cuts it off completely, leaving not even a stub. Then they bathe the war slave in dung, or animal waste to create that special shade of brown they want. This step is done until the look, smell and color they wanted. The Slavorized animal is thrown into a cell until they found a suitable job for it. What a life...
The prisoners that were manning the chief's palanquin is a cat, a wolf, a monkey, and a limp, groaning fox, all of them Slavorized, there emotions brutally beaten out of them. They were considerably weak, due to their mal-nutrition and heavy labor, but the fox had gave out, it's body's energy and will, gone.
"What is the meaning of this? Letting your master fall off his palanquin!" The Chief boomed, his eyes squinted onto the pained fox.
"I…have…not the will…to go on…" The serious, but raspy voiced fox replied, as he is laying flat, like a pancake.
Tomasuta's anger, which has now reached new levels, shouted: "If you don't get off the ground in five seconds, you existence will be crushed under this kingdom!"
As the chief waited his allowed time, he closed his eyes and tilted his head toward the sky as he counted in his head. The fox tried his best to get up, pushing his arms against the ground, but to no avail.
"Five!" The chief shouted, looking upon the brown, seemingly dead fox. The chief, driven by anger, roared: "Bach! You annoying pest! Guards!" The elite warriors quickly looked in loyalty at the chief. "Make sure this….slave gets what he deserves for disobeying me. And make it…painful, very painful!" The chief orders, emphasizing the "slave" part.
"No…No, no, no! Please, give me another chance!" The fox raspingly replied, as he was picked up by two guards by the arm and dragged away.
"Noooooo!" His voice echoed as he was now out of sight.
Tomasuto turned quickly towards the rest of his warriors and boomed "Attention, quickly! With all the commotion going on, he could be very well hidden by now! Go out there and find. That. Traitor! I don't care if you barge into houses, just do it! Do it! DO IT! "The chief said, the volume of his voice rising to ear-scaring levels."
The elite troops, scrambled by the chief's overwhelming voice, quickly regained their senses and dispersed to find the traitor.
"Ugh…" The wounded echidna groaned, his head throbbing from that sudden bright light., wondering what had happened. He peered his eyes open a little bit, to see concerned chao surrounding him. The chao looked relieved and cheered happily by dancing around him.
"Chao? Chao don't live in this part of the country." He grumbled, slowly pushing his arms against the ground , which lifted himself into the sitting position. He felt knew he was somewhere completely different from the last place he was in, looking around at his surroundings, which was mainly a grassy plain with a few pillars placed in a flat, stoney ring. In the middle of the plains lies a cake-style, wide, cone-style stone altar in the middle of it with a staircase leading to the top. The top contains seven pillars perfectly proportioned around what looks like a giant, green chaos emerald. On top of those pillars lies...the seven chaos emeralds.
-Wait a sec... I know this place! It's from my grandpa's stuff! From way back...
(Flashback)
There was a small wooden cabin out in the middle of the country, back when that area was still in peace. A young echidna was seen gleefully playing with a wooden top, a toy that was highly popular back than. He was wearing a white shirt with a red zigzag pattern in the middle of it. His bottoms were red shorts with an orange zigzag pattern on the entirety of it. His clothing were all purely, and slightly expensively sown just for him. He was barefooted most of the time and he had two braids on each side of his head, with the exception of the front. The child loves to play, but not as much as he loved nature. He had a selfless and joyful personality that seemed like it can never be dampened by any rainy day.
"Hey champ! Time to come in! It's getting pretty late." An old, yet spirit-filled voice called.
"Alright grandpa!" The kid said as he ran inside. He shut the door and walked into his grandpa's treasure room to find him. Inside lies many old relics including maps, books, fossils, gems, and much more either on shelves, hung on walls, on a piece of furniture, or just all scrambled up on his desk. "Grandpa? Where are you?"
"Down here!" A voice came from a piled of paper and books. The child turned to the pile and quickly lifted it off his back and set it down next to the desk. The boy, with concern in his voice, asked "You okay gramps? You're not as strong as you used to be."
This made the old man laugh in delight. "Of course i'm not. But I'm still strong enough to survive a bunch of falling books!"
The grandson couldn't help, but laugh with his grandpa. "Well I'm going to see if dinner is ready. Good da-" The boy said, but was interrupted by a interesting looking sketch on the floor. He turned it a few times to try to figure out what it is, but it was of no use. After a brief amount flips and turns, the joyous child finally gave up and asked "Hey grandpa. What is this picture?" while flipping the sketch to his elder's views.
"Haha!" 'Gramps' laughed. "I haven't seen this old thing in such a long time. I thought it was lost forever." He pulled a chair from his desk next to his grandson and sat on it. "It's a sketch of the Altar of the Emeralds."
"Altar of the emeralds? What's that?"
"It's a place where seven mystical gems lay atop seven identical pillars on a stone altar. It's lush, green grass compliments the giant, green gem on top of the altar. They say the seven gems each grant the user great power."
There was a gleam in the grandson's cheerful face as he said: "So cool! I wish I had awesome power like that!"
The old man couldn't help, but chuckle at the innocent child's dream. "Well they say it's in a far-off land. Think you could actually make it there?"
"Course I can! As long as I don't give up, I'll be there in no time! Right gramps?"
The elder cracked a smile and gave a positive thumbs up as shouted "Yup! Just believe and you can truly see!"
They both went into a fit of laughter until..."Father, it's time for dinner! Did you bring him in yet?"
"Yea, I got him right here!" He shouted" We'll be there faster than you can say lickety split on a popsicle stick!"
"Alright then." The voice replied.
The old man stood up and placed his chair back into his desk. "Come on now champ! Your mother's got dinner set and we don't wan't to be the only ones with cold food."
"Right! Let's go then!" The boy exclaimed as he ran towards the kitchen. The last thing he heard from his grandpa as he was walking towards the kitchen was: "That boy..."
(Flashback End)
"It's the Altar of the Emeralds, from his story!" He suddenly piped up, scaring the chao around him and causing them to ran away frantically. "But why am I here? How did I get here? Wh-..." he questioned, but was interrupted by what he saw in front of him. He thought he was seeing things, because if he isn't, then he is in deep, deeep trouble.
Yes, Another cliffhanger, but this one was a more wicked more. Just totally radical! XD I think I had a few hourly writers block, but then as I progressed, it became natural! I feel like I left something out…but, in the third chapter, I'll be clear as daylight! Then next chapter, even I can't wait for, but that doesn't mean I rush. -3- Anyways, cya later! *burns up to a crisp in broad daylight*
