Knuckles search for the Master Emerald Shards continued as he headed into the heart of the Mystic Ruins where a dense jungle was. Knuckles made his way through the jungle as he kept an eye out for any shards lying around. As he continued he made his way into a clearing and found himself face to face with an old pyramid. Knuckles looked at the pyramid as recognition was starting to spark.
Could this be the pyramid I saw in that strange dream? Knuckles thought to himself, but wasn't it bigger?
Knuckles walked up to the stone steps in front. on each side of the steps was a circular sphere attached to the wall. Knuckles walked up the steps to a ledge. Knuckles noticed a strange stone snake head right at the top that was attached to the wall. What could it mean?
Knuckles walked along the ledge as it circulated to the back of the pyramid. In the back Knuckles noticed what could of been a back opening but it was closed.
Something caught his attention as he brought his gaze to another ledge above. There he noticed a slight green shine. Knuckles scaled the pyramid being careful not to damage it. Once he made it to the top he saw that the shine came from a Master Emerald shard. Knuckles picked it up as he put it into his bag and as he did so he noticed two more pieces down towards the base of the pyramid. So Knuckles hoped down and walked to one and put it into his bag. He then did the same to the other one. But just has he placed the shard in his bag he looked up to see a shining light right in front of him.
"What?" Knuckles said as he once again blacked out.
Knuckles opened his eyes but once again he couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was the Master Emerald shrine but it looked different. It looked whole.
The Master Emerald Shrine Knuckles had known all his life had been broken, destroyed in parts. But this one was complete.
The second thing that Knuckles saw were seven pillars that surrounded the Shrine. Knuckles had seen parts of those pillars but that wasn't the thing that brought them to his attention. For positioned above each one were the seven Chaos Emeralds.
Knuckles stood there taking all of this in as he attempted to process all this information as well as figure out why he was seeing this. Suddenly, someone walked past him and headed up to the top of the shrine to where the Master Emerald was. It was the same girl he saw last time that was talking with her father.
Knuckles was far from curious as he made his way up to the top of the shrine. As he did he also couldn't help notice the pools of water that were in the shrine.
"Please you must take everyone away from here," Knuckles heard Tikal say.
Knuckles looked around as to who Tikal could be talking to but he didn't see anyone. He did however notice a few small ripples in the water. Could she be talking to it?
"My Father will come, please you must," Tikal said then once again Knuckles notices the sound of ripples in the water.
"Perhaps if I take the Emeralds to a safer place," Tikal said.
This time Knuckles didn't hear the ripples but the sound of a growl. Strangely, the growl was ringing a bell in Knuckles' head but what could it be?
"Ok, I won't bother them," Tikal said, "Don't worry, I will protect this place and the chao."
Tikal then bowed her head then started walking off.
"I must do something," Tikal said, "Quickly."
As Knuckles watched Tikal leave the surroundings began to grow dim till they faded compelely and Knuckles found himself once again standing by the old pyramid.
"What do these strange dreams mean?" Knuckles asked no one in particular, "Do they have something to do with the Master Emerald getting shattered?"
Knuckles pondered on this a bit longer then he looked into his bag. He had collected allot of shards and it was quiet possible that he had all of them.
"Time to put these shards back where they belong," Knuckles said as he then made his way back to Angel Island.
Back in Station Square a small crowed had formed on the beach. Each of them was looking at a figure who had only recently fallen from the sky. Their were a few rumors as to who the unconscious Mobian was but most of them were thinking the same thing as they noticed the Mobian's blue fur.
The crowd talked amongst themselves as they were both in small shock and wonderment. After all this was indeed the Blue Blur. The crowd watched as the wondered what they should do? Then the Blue Blur began to stir and some of the crowd breathed a sigh of relief.
Now conscious on the sandy beach, Sonic couldn't help but feel sore. It wasn't natural to fall out of a plane and not feel that way.
As Sonic laid there trying to gather the strength to open his eyes he couldn't help but notice the sounds of the crowd around him.
Slowly, Sonic began to open his eyes. None of the crowd seemed to come to assistance. Even though he wasn't to keen on being around others, especially being the center of attention, he couldn't help feeling a little angry about none of them offering help.
The Hero must get up on his own, Sonic thought to himself. He would of let his attitude toward the crowd on his face but it was all ready being filled with the sore expression as he started to rise. It took him longer then normal but he was now standing up right.
The crowd only stared, to mesmerized by the legend that proceeded Sonic. Struck by a thought Sonic looked around and even though the crowd blocked his view some, he couldn't make out any sign of Tails or the Tornado.
Sonic began to ponder on what had happened but the constant stair of the Mobains began to unnerve him. So Sonic began to walk away and the crowd let him through. As he did Sonic could still see the eyes stair at him even as he had passed through and stared heading into the city.
Sonic sighed, then took off at blinding speed to keep them from trying to follow him.
The crowd was startled at that and they began to talk amongst themselves in awe of the Blue Blur.
In the streets of Station Square a lone Mobian girl was walking holding a bag full of groceries. The Mobian was of course, Amy Rose. The bag she was holding was from Cream's Mom, Vanilla.
Amy was thinking of her encounter with her Hero, The Blue Blur. She was still wondering why he and the Sega Guardian he was with left them.
Must of been for an important mission, Amy thought.
As Amy was thinking on it she didn't realize a bird flying towards her. The bird was blue and had a gold circular pendant around his neck. The bird had a fearful look in it's eyes and didn't really notice where it was going. Then...
SLAM!
The bird hit into Amy and her bag fell out of her hands.
"Hey!" Amy said agitated as she got back up and looked at what hit her. Her expression softened as she saw the bird laying on the ground. She went over too it and picked it up. The bird chirped fear growing in it's eyes.
"Don't worry birdie," Amy said to it soothingly, "I won't hurt you."
The bird slowly calmed down as it looked into Amy's eyes. This wasn't the thing that was after it.
"There," Amy said still soothing.
Suddenly, not far from where she stood, a robot of a cylinder shape dropped down. It had to arms but no legs at it seemed to hover. It was of course, Zero.
The bird chirped fearfully, as it recognized it.
"Is that thing trying to hurt you?" Amy asked. The bird responded with another fearful chirp.
Amy looked at the robot.
"You big bully, " Amy said.
Zero floated calmly as he addressed the situation. He then came to a conclusion as he advanced on Amy.
Amy was slightly shocked as Zero started towards her. She didn't think it'd try anything. Amy slowly backed up.
"D-don't come any closer," Amy said but continued to back up. The robot reply as it continued to head for her.
Realizing that She wouldn't be able to talk him down she turned and ran. As she didn't she could hear Zero also picking up in speed.
She ran through the streets. Trying to evade the Robot. Other Mobians were getting out of the way as Zero continued in pursuit.
Amy ran and ran then she saw something up ahead. It was the entrance to Twinkle Park but more importantly she saw a blur furred Mobian walking by it.
"Blue Blur!" Amy yelled after him.
Startled by the call Sonic turned towards her. He could she that she was slightly scared and she seemed to be carrying a small bird. Sonic really didn't want anything to do with her but before he said anything she was already close to him.
"Blue Blur, quick, there's an evil robot after me cause he wants this birdie," Amy said to Sonic.
Sonic looked back the way She came but didn't see any robots coming from it.
"What Robot?" Sonic asked.
"That robot..." Amy turned and saw that Zero was no longer there, "But I..."
Sonic looked to the girl annoyance flashing across his face. But as he did he noticed an small glow coming from the pocket in her dress.
"What do you have in your pocket?" Sonic asked her.
"My..." Amy began but was cut short as Zero suddenly came up from a side street. She pointed towards him, "There it's the robot."
Sonic saw but he really didn't care. More than likely the robot belonged to Robotnik and it was after what Sonic believed to be a Chaos Emerald, that Amy had. So he took a step forward. He looked at the robot. It looked poorly made.
"AHHH!"
Sonic turned towards Amy at the sound of her scream. He was expecting something than what he saw. For Amy was looking at a sign with a happy smile.
"Look it says 'free kids day'," Amy said, "Can we go please, Blue Blur?"
"Listen..." Sonic said but before he could say anything else, Amy was already heading into Twinkle Park's entrance.
Sonic let out an irritated sigh as he went after her.