Chapter 2 Chaos in the Sands and sky!
Maiev was walking across the unforgivable hot desert in till she stop and drank some water. "…feels like I'm being cook alive…" said Maiev as she wipe away her sweat from her face. Suddenly she saw a tree in the distant. "…finally some shade". Maiev sat under the shade and felt cool. "…much better". a half hour later and Maiev got up and look up the tree and saw some fruit. "thank god! Some food!". Maiev climb the tree and got the fruits and ate it while still on the tree. Suddenly Maiev saw a pyramid not to far away. "…maybe there some people there?". Maiev jump down and walk her way to the pyramid. When she finally arrive she saw no one there, just ruins. "…telling by the ruins, no one been here for years…". Maiev enter one of the ruins and saw a old stone painting. The painting shows a fat man with a green emerald in its hand, fighting against a yellow hedgehog. "…that green emerald…". suddenly the ground started to shake. Maiev ran out of the ruins and watch it collapse. "that was close". just then the earthquake return and something rose from the sand. First it was a rock, then the rock had arms and legs. "a rock monster?" said Maiev as she took out her staff. Then a small rock landed on top of the rock body and eyes appears on it. Maiev notice something on the rock monster head. Something shiny and maybe grey or white. The monster swing its arm at Maiev but it miss as she did a back flip. Maiev ran up to the monster and slam her staff into monster leg and crack it. Maiev pulled back as the monster tried to smash her. Maiev started attack the crack spot with her staff but she was having a hard time as the monster kept recovering its wounds. "this isn't working! I need to find a better way to do more damage to it!". then Maiev had a idea. She search in her bag and found some seeds and threw it into the crack. "…hope this works!". suddenly the rock monster stop moving and scream in pain as a tree branch pop out of its mouth. Soon the monster body was destroy as the tree grew larger in size and then vanish. Maiev walk up to the monster and kick a rock. "…dead…huh?". Maiev notices the shiny thing from before in the sand. As she pick it up, she realize it was a emerald. "…a sol emerald?…no…its shape differently…wait what did Sonic said before?…oh right he said that his world has it own set of emeralds called chaos". unaware to Maiev, behind her the sand was rising and forming into a spear. The spear went flying at her but she block it with her staff. "good try! Show your self!". soon the sand in front of Maiev rise and form into a brown female echidna. "…you have great reflex!". "who are you?". "my name is Gaia. Gaia the echidna. Now who are you?". "my name is Maiev. Maiev the wolf!". suddenly Gaia laugh for a few seconds and spoke. "I'm so sorry. I'll shouldn't ask your name. I'll never remember my victims names…". just then the sand rose around Maiev. "…now die!". the sand form a prison and spikes form on the walls and crush Maiev. Gaia rose her hand and the sand brought the grey chaos emerald to her. "…one down and six to go". just then Maiev staff came shooting out of the sand and stab Gaia in the head. Soon the sand prison fell apart to reveal Maiev still alive as she summon a barrier around herself. "I might not look like it but I can hold my own!". suddenly Gaia smile and pull out Maiev staff from her forehead and threw it to Maiev. "…this might be fun!". Gaia rose her hands and wave of sand rose from the ground and came crashing down on Maiev. Maiev slam her staff into the ground and a flat rock carried her above the wave of sand. "nice trick but can you top this!". Gaia started to spin and soon a tornado of sand shoot into the air. Maiev could see Gaia in the center. Soon rain of arrows made of sand pop out of the tornado. Maiev was dodging each attack while trying to reach the top of the tornado. As she finally reach the top, she dive in and swing her staff at Gaia. Gaia head spin and heard a cracking noise. "got ya!" yelled Maiev. Just then Gaia fix her head and her right arm form into a blade of sand and cut Maiev. Maiev fell to the ground and roll out of the way as Gaia slam her blade arm into the ground. Maiev threw paper bombs at Gaia and blew her up. Only half of Gaia body was left but again her body reform. "every time she recover her wounds…wait!". "I see you finally realize it now. As long there sand in the area, I will never die!". "…there no way to win then…I can't even run for it. I use too much of my energy…" thought Maiev. Just then a spike tail rose from the sand stab Maiev in the shoulder. Suddenly everything became burry for Maiev. "…poison!". "yeah. This poison won't kill you right away. You will suffer till you die. Farewell wolf girl". Gaia slowly melted into sand. "wait! Why do you want the chaos emeralds?". "…to fulfill our master wish…". Gaia was gone but Maiev could still hear her voice as it echo though Maiev mind. "…to be god of all dimensions". Maiev crawl her way though the desert and finally found a small cave. She lay near a pool of water and place some green dust in the water which made it glow. Maiev drank it and her vision slowly return but she still felt sick. "…this poison…its very advance…I don't think my cure will stop it…". Maiev rose her hand and place it on her shoulder. her hand started to glow white. Soon her wound started to heal. "…at least I can still heal my wounds…". finally Maiev wounds was fully heal. "…I wonder what the others are doing?".
Meanwhile Zell was still moving though the ruins in till he found himself near a edge of a desert. "…a desert on a island? This place is weird?". just then Zell spotted a cave near him. "…a cave. Well its better than going through a desert". Zell enter the cave and few miles down, he could feel heat coming down from the cave. Suddenly the ground under him collapse but he was able to threw a grappling hook into the cave wall. "…that was close…" said Zell as he saw lava in the bottom of the hole. As Zell got back up from the hole, he could see a red light farther down the cave. As Zell finally made it to the end of the cave, he saw that the red light was a red emerald. "…is this the chaos emerald that Sonic talk about?". "Sonic? You know him?". suddenly a echidna in black armor appear in front of Zell. "…so you finally reveal your self to me". the black armor echidna rose her arm and a blade shot out of her wrist and pointed at Zell. "Answer my question!". "…yeah I know him. He's Blaze boyfriend". "who's this Blaze?". "…she the queen of my world. The ruler of Solar". the armor figure lower her blade and took off her gear as the figure press a button on her neck. Zell became shock to see the deep voice guy to be a girl. "…your armor can change your voice…". "yeah. The name is Shade. Who are you?". "…the name is Zell". Shade walk around Zell and check him out. "your train in the stealth…like me right?". "…yeah". "so that's explains how quick you sense me back at Mushroom hill…". suddenly Shade grab Zell and flip him over and stab him in the heart. "…nice trick". just then puff of smoke cover Zell body and reveal a rock in his place. "hey show your self for real" shouted Shade as she put away her blade. Zell step forward from the shadows and smile. "…how did you know?". Shade walk over to a rock and sat on it. "back at the ruins. that's when you use your shadow clone. After that, you was the one who was spying". Zell sat across Shade and toss the emerald into the air. "…I see. What about the other spy?". Shade smile. "…you notice too. Well he's here now". suddenly Zell and Shade was stab by a lance made of lava. A teal wolf appear out of the lance made of lava. "too bad both of you are too slow". the wolf grab the emerald but was surprise to see it turn into a normal rock. Zell and Shade bodies turn into rocks. Then ninja stars was toss at the wolf but he block it with the lava but unknown to him Shade was right behind him and stab him with her blade. "…you're the one who's slow!". the wolf smile and melt back into lava. Shade jump into the air as lava cover the the ground. Pillar of lava shot out at Shade but she didn't had time to dodge it. "got ya girl!". suddenly Zell appear next to Shade and grab her arm and toss her out of the way of the pillar of lava. Zell body was consume by the lava. The wolf laugh but soon stop as Zell body turn to rocks again. "…again!". Suddenly a huge throwing star was toss over to Shade. As she caught it, she smile. "hey loser! Catch!". Shade threw the star but the wolf dodge it. "you have to do better than that!". "o really…" said Shade as she smile. Suddenly the star form into Zell and he threw paper bombs at the wolf. "…what about this?" smile Zell as he finish Shade sentence. Soon the lava disappear. "nice move Zell". Zell got up from the ground and smile. "thanks but its not over…". at that moment the wolf appear in front of them. "…impressing! I misjudge you two…my name is Burn. Burn the wolf". suddenly the cave started to shake. Soon river of lava was behind Burn. "…farewell". the lava was release and Zell and Shade ran for it. "…there no way we can out run it!" shouted Zell. Just then Shade threw a knife at a wall and a tunnel appear on the wall. "this way Zell!". Zell follow Shade into the tunnel and to his surprise, he was force into ball mode and travel the pipe like tunnel in till him and shade pop out in a other cave. "…that was close" spoke Zell has he check his burn cloak. Back at the first cave, Burn was cursing under his breath as Zell escape with the red chaos emerald. "…Blade is going to kill me!". All of a sudden sand form into Gaia. "hey Burn, did you get the emerald?". "…oh Gaia…well no…". Gaia laugh for a few seconds and calm down. "Blade is going to be mad…well nice knowing you!". Gaia became sand again and vanish between some cracks in the wall as Burn watch. "…I need to find that Zell person". meanwhile Zell and Shade was walking down the cave in till they spotted someone. It was Maiev. Zell quickly ran up to her and he could feel a fever on her body. "Maiev! who did this to you?". "…a weird women…she has power over the sand…she…poison me…". Shade walk up to her and took out a scanner and could see Maiev body is badly poison. "we need to heal her". "…its no good…this…poison is too strong to cure…". Shade help Zell to put Maiev on his back. "there is a cure. We need to bring her to the master emerald". "…master emerald…that does explain how this island is floating in the sky". As Shade and Zell ran near the exit of the cave, Shade press a button on her belt and a hovercraft appear outside. As Zell put Maiev into the craft, she whisper into his ear. "…we need to find Sonic…someone after the chaos emeralds…they got one…if they find them all…every world is doom…". suddenly Maiev pass out. Zell hop into the craft with Shade and took off to the master emerald shrine. Zell took out the red emerald and stare at it. "…who are these people?".
End of chapter 2