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It was nearly 8 P.M. when we reached the house that Tails and I lived in. All of us gathered in the living room and then we sat down. Amy and I sat on the sofa while everybody else seated themselves on the floor. I was on the right side of the couch while Amy was on the left. I would've sat on the floor, but Amy wanted me to be next to her.

The eight of us had gathered in a circle around the table in the middle of the room, like it was a campfire. Tails was seated next to me on the floor. I don't think he felt very comfortable sitting next to any of the vampires. Shadow was sitting next to him with Rouge by his side. The echidna Knuckles had called "Typhoon" was between her and and the red echidna while Tikal was seated with Knuckles on her right and Amy on her left.

"Shadow, " I whispered to the jet black hedgehog. "What about Rouge? Aren't you worried about her biting you?"

"No," he replied. "I gave her one of the blood packets after I came across her."

"Okay, Typhoon," I said to the dark gray echidna. "How did you get the way you are?"

He breathed out a heavy sigh. Then, the echidna began to tell his story.

"The whole thing had happened 975 years ago. I was 19 years old. I lived with my mom, my step-dad, and my younger half-brother, Lance. My real dad had died when I was just a year old. After I turned two, my mom re-married and later had Lance. I had spent the next sixteen years taking care of my family and looking after my half-brother.

"After I turned 19, war had broken out across the land and Lance and I were chosen to fight for our people. For three months, we fought and we were always victorious. Then, one night during our most gruesome battle ever, Lance had been killed. When I heard him and saw him fall, I ran over to his side and was praying that he was going to be okay. But when I felt him and noticed that he wasn't breathing, I knew he was gone forever.

"As I held him while crying my eyes out, I felt something hit me in the chest. The pain was very great and I knew that I wouldn't have been able to survive the wound. As I let myself lay on the ground next to my brother, I saw a dark, hooded figure in the distance. The way he appeared before me almost looked like he had materialized from the flames of the battlefield. He began to walk dangerously slow towards me. I sensed there was something sinister about him, but I couldn't stay awake as he kept moving closer to me. I eventually succumbed to the weakness of my body and collapsed to the ground.

"When I opened my eyes, I couldn't believe that I was still alive! I wondered how that was possible. As I did, I surveyed my surroundings and realized that I wasn't in the burning battlefield anymore. I was in some kind of stone temple that looked like it had been around for centuries. There was each a black, goblet-shaped lantern the size of a boulder in four sections of the circular room. The way they were positioned made it look like they formed a ring
around me.

"I made an attempt to stand up. After I did, I saw that the room was lit with torches placed on the walls. Painted on the walls were deities of some long gone civilization. I don't remember exactly what they looked like because it was too long ago. When I looked down, I realized that I was laying on a stone altar that was as black as the huge lanterns around the room. The altar I was standing on was in the middle of some strange red markings on the floor. It didn't take me long to figure out that the markings were for some kind of ritual.

"The dark figure I saw earlier walked up to me and removed the hood from his head so I could see his face. He was an echidna just like me and judging by his form, he looked like he might have been close to my age. I was wondering what he was doing. I turned around and tried to stand up on the floor, but my body would not do what I wanted it to.

"The strange echidna turned me back around, placed his mitten-covered hand on my forehead, and gently pushed me back down onto the altar. 'Not yet,' he told me. 'You're not well enough.' Then, he walked over to one of the walls and used a lit torch he took from it to light all the goblet-shaped lanterns around the room. Within seconds, the jet black vessels had huge flames in them that made the room more visible.

"The echidna put the torch back on the wall and then he walked over to a nearby pedestal with a black book on it. He removed the object from the pedestal and began to walk over towards me again. From the look of it, it seemed to be some kind of spell book that he was holding. He stopped before he could go pass the crimson markings on the floor and began to thumb through the pages until he found the section he was looking for.

"I could hear the echidna start to chant something in some now dead language. I don't remember all of it. The only parts of the chant that I could translate were 'let day become night, let darkness consume the light.' Whatever he was summoning was something very sinister.

"Suddenly, the flames began to turn black like the lanterns they were in and I saw the smoke from them rise up to the ceiling. The smoke looked like it was beginning to form into something. I was so afraid that I began to close my eyes. As soon as I did, I felt a terrible pain all over my body that made me cry and want to hurl. A few seconds later, the pain was gone and the temple was even darker than it was when I first opened my eyes in it. The flames in the lanterns and torches were gone like a gust of wind had blown them out like candles.

"The hooded echidna lit the torches again and then walked back over to me. He said that he was a great and powerful sorcerer called Eclipse. He also told me that he knew my dad. When I asked him what he did to me, he said that he had cast a spell on me. The reason why was because he was trying to prevent me from suffering a terrible fate. I was now able to live forever, but I needed to drink blood in order for me to stay alive. Also, I was told to stay out of the sunlight because it was the only thing that could destroy me.

"Eclipse told me that since he saved me, he was now my master. I had spent many nights drinking the blood of others. Every one of those nights, I would try to kill myself by standing in the light at dawn, but Eclipse always found me and took me to a room. It was shaped just like the room in the temple where he had cast that spell on me, but it was more the size of a shed. He would lock me up in there and I would be all alone in that dark room until the sun
went down.

"I would spend the whole day sitting on the cold stone floor being upset about my family and being Eclipse's slave. As I sat in the room with my eyes closed, I could've sworn that I heard somebody laughing. The laughter sounded cruel like whoever was making it was enjoying my misery. When I opened my eyes, I didn't see anybody. There was no one there, but I knew I heard somebody laughing.

"Nine-hundred and thirty-five years had passed before I was wandering the streets of an area called Kaleidoscope City. There I met a girl called Summer. When I first came across her, she was cornered in an alley by a bunch of thugs. They were attempting to flirt with her. I grabbed the one that I thought was the leader and killed him. The other thugs ran off and left me and Summer alone in the alley. Summer ran away and I followed her. At first, she was afraid of me, but we eventually developed feelings for each other and she told me how she ended up in the streets.

"Summer was 15 and she had lived with her parents until about a month before. She ran away to Kaleidoscope City because she felt like her parents didn't treat her as an individual and her opinions didn't really matter to them. Ever since the night that I met her, I didn't try to kill myself anymore. But all that changed when my master re-entered the picture."

Typhoon had stopped talking and refused to say another word after that.

"Typhoon," I spoke up after a moment of the gray echidna's silence. "You still haven't told us what happened to Summer."

"Or how you ended up in that stasis tube on Angel Island," Knuckles added.

Finally after a minute had passed, the charcoal gray echidna stood up and looked at the door. The rest of us looked in the same direction, but we didn't hear or see anything.

"Typhoon, what's going on?" Knuckles asked the dark gray echidna.

Instead of answering the red echidna, Typhoon grabbed him by his right arm and ran towards the door. I was starting to think the guy was nuts!

"Typhoon, let me go!" Knuckles told the other echidna. He was grabbing his hand trying to get free of the gray echidna's grip.

Typhoon had refused to do so. He turned the knob of the door, opened it, and dashed out taking Knuckles with him. All of us left in the room ran out the door after them. By the time we got outside, they we're already high in the sky.

"What is wrong with that echidna?" I said.

"He's hiding something," Shadow said. "He wouldn't tell us what had happened to that girl or how he came across Knuckles."

"Maybe we should follow him," Rouge suggested.

We all agreed and chased after the two echidnas. What was wrong with Typhoon? Why did he act so weird? And why did he grab Knuckles? I had the feeling we were going to get those answers very soon.

(Knuckles)

I kept trying to break free of Typhoon's hold on me. What was his problem? He looked at the door, grabbed me, and ran out. Why was he always grabbing me? My patience had run thin. I was going to get him to let me go one way or another.

Pointing my fists down, I dove towards the ground. Typhoon cried out in surprise as I pulled him down to the surface. I started to spin around, letting my spiked fists drill into the grass-covered ground and allowing me to go underneath it. Typhoon refused to let go of me as he yelled while I dragged him around the surface. After spotting a tree nearby, I started to head towards it. I sent Typhoon slamming into the wooded plant and he cried out in pain before finally releasing his grip on my right arm.

I continued digging through the dirt until I let myself resurface a few feet from the tree I had sent Typhoon into. I stood up on the ground and then walked over to the groaning, dark gray echidna as he lay on the ground on his belly. He was rubbing his head, trying to ease the pain from it.

"Typhoon," I said to him while crossing my arms across my chest. "Why did you grab me? What is going on here?"

"Knuckles," he said to me. "We have to go back to the island now."

"Why? The sun's not going to come up for several hours. I have had enough of this mysterious, always freaking out, grabbing, and yanking me echidna routine of yours! Why are you always doing that?"

The charcoal gray echidna stood up on the ground and turned towards me.

"You're just like my half-brother, Lance."

"What do you mean?" I asked him feeling confused.

"You remind me so much of him. Lance was just as stubborn and feisty and independent as you. And he was probably about your age the night when
he died."

"So, you're doing all this to me just because you miss your brother?"

"No," Typhoon said to me. "I know you're not helpless, Knuckles. You've proven that to me whenever you attacked me and left me alone. But, you are unaware of what has happened to you. So, I stayed with you to make sure that you were okay."

"What do you care if I'm okay or not?"

"Because I feel terrible about what I did to you. All of the victims that I drank the blood of were evil, but you are the first one I bit that didn't deserve it. You were being friendly to me and I drank some of your blood and turned you into what I am."

I couldn't believe what the gray echidna had just told me! He was doing all those things because he felt guilty about turning me into a vampire? And I reminded him of his brother? The one who died in battle that night?

As soon as I thought about the moment when Lance died, I remembered that dream I had two nights ago. It matched that certain part of Typhoon's story! So, did the other two I had! The one about Summer with those thugs and the one after that. Those dreams I had were some of Typhoon's memories! But, how could I have had them? Did he somehow transfer them to my brain when he bit me? If that was true, how could he have done it? It wasn't possible!

When I was going to ask him about that, he suddenly turned away from me and started to look in the direction behind the tree.

"Typhoon, what's wrong with you?" I asked him.

"Knuckles, get out of here."

"What?" I said puzzled by what he just said to me.

"Get out of here! Now!" He turned back towards me after he said that.

"Why? What is your problem?" I started to walk over towards him to see why he was acting that way.

"I said get out of here!"

After he said that, he took his left hand and shot some of his strange energy at me. I cried out as the bright green blast had sent me hurtling away from the dark gray echidna that attacked me with it. I landed on my back about a half mile away from where I was before.

The blast didn't hurt me that much, so I made an attempt to sit up. Now I was furious! As soon as I got my hands on Typhoon, he was going to wish he had stayed in that stasis tube!

Just as I was about to stand up, I saw Typhoon stepping back like he was trying to stay away from something. Then, he started running off into a direction away from the one he was looking in earlier. As I watched him dash off through the woods, I saw a hooded figure in the same spot Typhoon was in before he ran off. I was shocked when I saw the figure. It was the same one I saw last night and the one from that first dream I had!

Before the figure ran after the gray echidna, I heard him shout, "You won't escape from me this time Typhoon!"

End of Chapter Eleven. And I want to thank silverfire113 for what you said in your last review. Your words were very encouraging for me.