Well, you readers said that you wanted me to continue ASAP. So, here is the next chapter.

I headed towards the door as the sun's final rays disappeared behind the mountains. My friend, Tails and I had plans to go to the arcade that night. I was going to beat him at that pinball game again.

Just as I stepped outside, I heard a familiar voice call out, "Sonic!"

I turned around to see that pink hedgehog, Amy, running towards me. She was always following me and wanting to hang out with me. Having her around all the time was very annoying for me. It's not that I don't like her. I just need my space. When she caught up to me, she stared at me with her mouth agape and her emerald green eyes filled with wonder.

"Hey, Sonic," she said to me. "Where are you going?"

Oh no, I thought feeling a bead of sweat dropping down from my head. Is she going to ask me if she can come along after I tell her?

"Oh, I'm just going somewhere for a while with Tails," I told her.

"Can I come?"

Crap! I thought. How did I know she was going to say that? Probably because she always asks that question.

Before I could give her an answer, a voice not too far away called out, "Sonic, come on!"

I already knew who it belonged to before I turned my head to their direction. It was my friend, Tails. He called out to me again.

"Sonic, let's go!"

I turned my attention back to Amy.

"Look, Amy," I said to her, "This is kind of more of a guy thing. It was supposed to be just me and Tails."

She gave me a disappointed look and said, "Sure, Sonic. I understand."

Her tone sounded kind of hurt by my words. I looked at her for a while before Tails called out my name again.

"Well," I finally said to Amy, "I'll see ya."

I turned away from her and ran to join Tails.

"I'm going to beat you on that pinball game," he said to me.

"I don't think so Tails," I told him. "I'm an expert at that game."

"Yeah, I'm not surprised. You're usually the ball."

We both laughed about that. Then, the two of us sped downtown towards the arcade, blissfully unaware of the events that were going to take place that evening. I had no idea about what would happen that very night and how it would affect me. All I do know is that it would change my life forever.

(Knuckles)

I was in what looked like some sort of battlefield. There were echidnas running all over, shouting battle cries. At first, I thought I was in a city that my people had taken over. But, the echidnas didn't have any war paint on them and they had swords instead of spears for weapons. The area was rocky like it was near mountains and the vegetation in it looked more temperate than tropical.

As I fought like my only purpose in the world was just to kill, I heard the dying cry of one of the warriors nearby. Even though I didn't recognize the voice, I ran over to the spot where the young echidna that made the sound had fallen. I put my mitten-covered hand on his face, but there was no movement. I could feel tears filling my eyes as I began to cry while speaking the name of the fallen warrior. But I sounded more like Typhoon when I spoke. How did I know the warrior's name? I had never seen him before. And why did my voice sound more like Typhoon's?

I continued to cry like a child while holding the echidna's body in my arms. But instead of my arms being red, they were dark gray just like Typhoon's were. What was going on? Was I in Typhoon's body? Was the dead echidna that I was holding and crying over someone
he knew?

Suddenly, I felt something sharp go through my chest. I cried out in pain as I let go of the body in my arms and held myself in the hurt area. But it didn't really sound like my voice when I cried out. I knew then that I was going to die. The weakness in my body caused me to lie down on the ground, waiting to join the other echidna in death. As I did, I saw a silhouetted figure in the distance. It appeared to be wearing a hooded cloak and was beginning to walk towards me. I began to close my eyes as the figure kept moving closer to me with every step.

"Knuckles! Knuckles!"

I opened my eyes while feeling some kind of wobbling movement. Typhoon was slightly shaking my shoulder with his hand, trying to awaken me from the strange sleep I had. I was hoping that what he did to me was just a horrible dream. I yawned before I asked him why he woke me up.

"The sun went down," he told me. "We can go outside now."

When Typhoon said that, I remembered that I had to see Sonic right away. I sat up and stretched my arms before standing up on my legs and walking out to the surface of the island. The sky was dark violet with bright stars and a full moon. There wasn't a single cloud in sight. Typhoon and I walked to the edge of the island, leaped off of it, and started to glide through the moonlit sky. How was he able to glide? No echidna could do that without having a connection to the Master Emerald and I was pretty sure that he didn't even know about it.

Not long after take-off, I started to feel kind of dizzy. I put my hand on my head like I had a headache. I had never felt that way while gliding before. Then, I remembered that Typhoon had drunk some of my blood. I wondered how much of it did he have. Did he drink most of it? Was that why I was feeling woozy?

"Knuckles," Typhoon said to me. "Are you okay? You seem weak."

Weak? I thought. I'm anything but weak!

He was right though because I suddenly lost control of my body. It was like it had just shut down for no reason. Without being able to glide, I started to plummet to the ground far below. Typhoon called out to me as I continued to fall, feeling the wind rush through my spines. I thought that I would fall to my death. As I was falling, my body started to feel unusually cold. It was like a blast of icy air coming up from the land. Never in my life have I felt so cold falling from the sky like that. Then, the wind stopped and I felt something grasping my body. I opened my eyes and saw Typhoon holding me around my waist as he glided us both down to the surface.

As soon as our feet fully touched the ground, I tried to move away in order to go look for Sonic. But Typhoon wouldn't let me. He was gripping me as if I was a child that wanted to wander off. I tried as hard as I could to get free of his grasp, but he held me tightly. He didn't want me to leave, but I had to. I had to see Sonic.

"Typhoon," I said to the dark gray echidna while trying to break free of his grip, "Let me go!"

"No! You're too weak!"

I'll show you weak! I thought.

I took my left hand and punched him with full force in the jaw. Typhoon released his grip on me and used his hands to hold the part of his mouth where I hit him. As soon as he did, I dashed into the nearby woods, stumbling every few steps because of my weakened body. After about a half a mile, I had to rest for a little while. I panted heavily as I sat underneath a tree, waiting for my strength to return. Not too far away, I could hear Typhoon calling for me to come back.

Why does he even care? I thought.

A few seconds had passed before I realized that I was thirsty. I wished that there was a lake nearby for me to drink from. Heck, I was probably so thirsty that I thought I could have drunk the whole thing! Just then, I heard the sound of someone walking close by. At first, I thought it was Typhoon. But when I saw the figure, I realized that it was somebody else. Amy Rose ; the pink hedgehog that was always chasing after Sonic.

"Oh, why does he always do this?" she said with a little annoyance in her voice. She must've been talking about Sonic. Maybe she knew where he was. I started to stand up and walk over to her.

"Amy!"

"Huh? Who's there?"

I guess she didn't recognize me until I stepped into the moonlight a few inches from her.

"Oh, Knuckles. It's you. I thought you were a stranger."

I didn't want to rush her, but doing that was crucial at the moment. "Amy, do you know where Sonic is? I have to see him right away."

"Why? Why do you..."

She stopped talking all of a sudden. Then, she started trembling like a little girl who just came across a stranger. Why was she acting so afraid? Did she see Typhoon walking by?

Suddenly, a strange feeling came over me. I started moving closer to Amy until I was right in front of her. Now she looked petrified.

"Kn-Knuckles? W-why are y-you loo-looking at m-me l-like th-that?" Her voice was shaky like it would've been in the middle of
an earthquake.

I grabbed her by the shoulders and sank my teeth into her throat. Then, I drank the blood from it. I was so thirsty that I couldn't stop drinking it. Amy let out an ear-shattering scream before she fell limp to the ground. When she did, I looked at her in shock. She was breathing really hard. There was still the taste of her blood in my mouth as I continued to look at her. I couldn't believe what I had just done! What was wrong with me? What was I turning into?

Typhoon, what have you done to me? I couldn't help screaming the question in my head.

I ran off further into the woods. My strength had miraculously returned to me after sucking the blood from Amy. I couldn't handle what had happened! I just couldn't! The trees and shrubs became blurry as I sped through the woods, unable to even look at myself.

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