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Thank you Mike for editing this chapter.
Chapter nineteen: Three way conflict.
Okay… recap. The three of us ((Tikal, Dart and I)) entered the forest to find the emerald and got confronted by Chaos and these strange people in cloaks which are kinda cool… I wonder if I can get one, you know, Sonic the Hedgehog grand hero with kickass cloak…! Eh, kinda would look retarded after all I am a very small Hedgehog.
Anyway, back to main point.
"Tikal, Dart, take a step back…" I say watching, waiting for them to attack.
"What!?" Dart yelled out hitting my head making me fall to the ground, totally ruining my cool, "We have a better chance fighting together!"
"Oh come on, just get Tikal out of here and I'll hold them off…" I said getting back up and rubbing my head.
"NO!" he yelled hitting me back down, this time I think I'll just stay down…
"We're fighting together, so shut up and get up!" Dart yelled pulling me up.
"Fiiiinnnee!" I yelled pulling away and taking a step away.
This must have been an interesting scene for them, not sure if they should attack or wait for us to kill each other.
"Enough talk!" Chaos yelled the creatures tentacles flying out at me, I kicked Dart out of the way and bolted to the side, just missing me.
I clicked the device on my hand as the soft glow covered over me, turning me into the small yet fast, Sonic the Hedgehog.
The tentacles hit trees ripping them from the ground and tossing them to the side, clearly after me as a dodged and ran.
Which this forest only seemed to make things more difficult for I stubbed my toe three times, hit branches twenty four times, and slammed into a tree five times, I was being beat up more by mother nature then the actual enemy!
"Oh I see it on the news now, Sonic the Hedgehog faster then anything in the world can't dodge a damn tree… it's sickening, I know." I said to myself as I could hear it gaining on me fast, who knows how long I would last at this rate.
Finally I come to a clearing, ruins everywhere, but with no time to enjoy the view I prepare for Chaos to come, and so he did but not where I expected.
Right behind me he came swinging his long tentacles at me, I flip and kick it back making him lose balance letting me speed up and attempt to slam my fist into his overly-big-nose. It failed for a barrier of slime covered him, curse Chaos… if it wasn't for him I would have surely won, I take some steps back getting some distance between us.
I couldn't shake it out of my head and it was bothering me, Chaos was once just like me… a mirror image of me to be exact, and he turned away from his duty, the duty he swore to uphold.
Suddenly Chaos struck, fast…. Extremely fast actually knocking me to my feet then raised me high in the air, swinging me around slamming me into trees so hard that they broke, my ribs broke with them.
I was in more pain I could imagine, it hurt so bad that my Sonic form gave out transforming me back to my human self.
"Chaos!" I yelled as the tentacles lashed out slamming into my head, "Stop this! Remember your duties, to the emeralds! To Tikal!"
Chaos's tentacles stopped just inches from my head, the egghead who was being controlled by him didn't like this.
"Chaos! What are you doing, why are you stopping!"
Suddenly Chaos's voice spoke into my head, "Tikal betrayed me! She sealed me, she doesn't even love me anymore!"
I raised an eyebrow despite the horrible pain, "Wait you and Tikal dated? Man I had no idea she liked someone that looked like us. That's truly surprising-"
I was cut off for he slammed me into a tree making my vision blure, "Gha! Sorry, didn't mean for it to sound like that!"
"Don't be sorry, for I'm about to kill you…" He raised his tentacles at me once more.
"No you won't…" I answered with sudden confidence, "Because I'm going to send you right back to where you belong, you monster."
It looked at me as blankly as usual, although if it had a face I'm sure it would have shown anger.
"Die!" The tentacle swung up to my head but it hit something hard, a emerald.
"Sorry, I'm not losing again…" The blue light engulfed me destroying the tentacle that held me in mid air, letting me drop to the floor.
Landing perfectly on the ground I took notice of me, I was still human but I felt such power that I felt like a god, like before when I was cornered by those mercenaries.
"Time for round two…" I smile to the shocked Chaos/Dr Robotnik.
"Now that your leader is gone, give us the emerald," the strange man in the cloak spoke holding his hand out to Dart who held the emerald protectively.
"First things first, pal. Sonic isn't our leader, also why the hell would we give you this after coming all this way?" Dart asked with a sarcastic grin.
"I'm not going to stand around here challenging an animal and a girl with word games!" He said referencing how Dart had already transformed and Tikal had not, "My loyal servants, take the emerald from their cold, bloody hands!"
"Alright!" Dart yelled smiling as the emerald in his hand started to glow, "Tikal, stand back I'll handle these freaks!"
"No need, Dart. I'll fight their leader." Tikal said waving her hand, a blue aura surrounded her transforming her into her animal form.
"Fine, two animals make no difference…." The cloaked man said as his two allies ran up, Dart jumped forward to hold them back from Tikal.
"You're underestimating one of the seven…" Her eyes started to glow dark blue, "That's your first mistake."
Suddenly a gale of wind surrounded Tikal and the dark cloaked man, keeping Dart and the other two out of the battle. The gale was much like Sonic's Chaos Gale except much larger, this is due to the fact he draws that power out of Tikal's emerald.
"One of the seven guardians… this should be interesting," he said simple not fazed by Tikal's power.
She didn't speak, she knew this thing was a threat. A powerful threat. But without hesitation she rushed forward at her enemy.
Man I'm on a roll! I thought to myself while catching one of Chaos's tentacles and jumping onto it. Running on it perfectly till I reached him, then with one thrust of my foot I slammed my foot into his nose causing a crunch sound. Quickly flipping off him and landing on a tree branch, my smile not leaving for a moment.
"How is this possible, last time we fought you could barely land a hit on me!" He said rubbing his nose.
"Why should I know? But I better wrap this up while I can," I said then to normal eyes I vanish from the area I stood then appear right in front of Chaos, slamming my fist into his chest at least three or four times before kicking him so hard it sent him into a tree.
And at the same moment I suddenly realize I'm in no pain anymore, did I heal or is this power masking my broken ribs? Shaking all that out of my head and prepare to strike again.
'He's using the power of his handler… As long as Tikal and Sonic are near each other they'll thrive off each others powers.' Chaos voice spoke into our heads which did spark some interest in what he meant but I didn't let it bother me.
"So what are you saying, Chaos?" Albert said why watching me carefully.
'I'm saying at the moment there is no way we can win this battle, now if I was fully formed that would be another story… but still, Albert we must retreat.'
I was confused with a few things, first I noticed Chaos's intelligence was growing beyond the 'stop the Chaos' thing, second I was confused about what he meant about 'fully formed.'
Despite all this I smile, "Yeah, you hear him. Run, run away."
He narrowed his eyes at me, this was the first time I was standing out in the open… in human form…. I suddenly realize my mistake.
"Wait a moment… you're the Suai boy, aren't you!" I froze at his words, I really just messed up. I let my winning get to my head, "Yes… you are… how interesting, I heard about your brother. I feel sorry, sorry that I couldn't be the one to kill him."
"Bastard!" I spat stumping my foot onto the ground letting my power surge.
"But luckily for me you have more family, a father… and a mother who will be having another baby soon… maybe I'll just wait and when it comes time I'll-"
I cut off his sentence quickly, "RHAAAA!"
I jump forward at him only for a tentacle to rise and slam me into the ground, three more slamming into me holding me where I laid.
"See, Chaos. My intelligence rules over all sorts of power," he smiled as the tentacle pulled the purple emerald from my hand, at least tried but I held it tightly. Only to get my arm slammed so hard the bone snapped making me let it go.
"AHHHHHH!" I yelled but the tentacle slammed my head into the dirt.
"Enough, I'd rather have it a slow, noiseless death." He smiled as I felt the tentacle press me harder to the ground feeling the end rolling towards me.
"Do you hear that?" Asked the dark cloaked man to the bloody Tikal.
"Sonic…" she muttered glancing over in the direction.
"Ah… the sweet sound of humans in pain… too bad you won't be able to help him," he said with a dark evil chuckle which made Tikal cringe before rushing forward again, the man held up his hand and a dark-like barrier blocked her attack letting him smack her away with such force that blood spat from her mouth.
Tikal hit the ground, waving her hand a small hole opened in the blue gale they had been fighting in, "Dart!"
Dart glanced over just before he slammed his fist into one of the man's soldiers, "Tikal? What is it?"
"Save Sonic!" She yelled before closing the hole and looking back at that thing.
"You care a lot for that boy, why is it?" it asked as Tikal wiped her mouth.
"Because, the world needs him…" she answered staring weakly.
"The world needs him, why? Is he our savior?" He asked in a sarcastic voice.
"Yes, he is our savior…"
"Wrong, he's just a backup!" he said stepping closer to her, "If he was the savior his power would be beyond your own. He would be able to use every emerald to their fullest like the seven guardians can. He can only manage to use one of the emerald's power!"
She glanced down, "He may be just a replacement but I believe he'll do just as good. I believe in Sonic…"
Despite her confusion on just how he knew about Sonic she had already accepted this person to not be human. Therefore she wouldn't waste her time with questions.
"Enough of this. It seems I was too late, now if you excuse me I'd like you leave…" he said but Tikal didn't put down the Chaos Gale, "Don't be a fool, Tikal. I know you can not die, but you and I both know if you have to retreat to the emerald you can't look after your dear savior."
She hesitated for a moment before taking down the Chaos Gale letting him walk out.
"Goodbye, Tikal. We will meet again, that I am sure of." He said grabbing his two soldiers then vanishing from his spot.
Tikal looked around, the area was hardly covered in trees anymore, their fighting had reduced this area to dirt and destruction, quickly without another moment she rushed to where Sonic was.
"Goodbye, Suia…" he said before stabbing the tentacle shoved down at me… I waited for a the pain… and waited… but nothing came, in fact the pressure of the other tentacles left me.
I raised my head to look around, he was gone. Looking to my left he was only the floor with a uprooted tree right next to him.
"Well, there is our fearless leader. And look at that! I saved him…. Again." I turned my to see Dart, never in my life have I been more happy to see him again.
"Just shut up… you knucklehead…" I said with a slight smile before Dart stepped past me.
"Hang on, I'll take care of this guy…" he said crunching his knuckles before jumping at him.
"Yeah…." I said trying to get up but I just ended up collapsing, I knew we couldn't let Chaos leave for if he did my family would be in danger.
"Don't move, Sonic!" I turned my head to see Tikal running to me, getting down right next to me I quickly look away.
I failed… again, Tikal I'm weak. At least that's what I wanted to say but thinking it would have to do for now.
"Are you okay?" she asked taking my hand, taking the watch that held the blue emerald on it and placed the emerald on my other hand which she didn't have, "Keep that emerald in contact with you directly, it'll help heal you."
"Right…" I grumbled closing my eyes in a shame of sorts.
Why I laid down broken and bloody Dart was still engaged in fearless combat with Chaos, neither landing any hits on each other.
'Albert, we have what we want now let us go!'
Albert dodged one of Dart's moves then nodded to his ally, "Fine, it seems the day has set in our favor."
I glance over at him as he glances over at me before he says, "And you, Suai… I'll be seeing you very soon, and when I do there will be blood lust in your eyes."
With that three tentacles hit the ground with such power that it sent Albert right into the air away from us.
"Dammit…" Dart growled clenching his fist.
I didn't say anything, what was I supposed to say? Sorry I screwed up our mission? Sorry I let the bad guys take one more step to world domination?
No… because of this Albert has more power then ever before and people will die because of it… all because I screwed up.
New York, about four minutes later.
A flash of light shinned across my room and for a brief moment killing every bit of darkness in the room, till the light faded and the shadows took over once more.
There standing now was Tikal and Dart who was keeping me from falling down.
"Dart, put Sonic on his bed," Tikal said walking to my door and locking it keeping any unwanted guests from walking in on the three of us.
"Right," Dart answered helping me to my bed and setting me down, sharp pain running up my side so I made a small whine.
Laying there I suddenly remembered about Miles, "Tikal, we lost contact with Miles. I need to go see if he's okay."
Tikal put out her hand to stop me, "Dart will go see. You need to rest, okay?"
I was about to protest but with all the pain I gave in setting my head back down again, "Fine…"
Tikal made a glance at Dart who nodded and went out my window to go check on Miles.
She sat beside me and I glanced away, the guilt was killing me. She must have caught onto this for what she said.
"Don't blame yourself, it wasn't your fault," she assured.
"Really?" I said looking back, "Why is it whatever I do I SCREW up!? Sora wouldn't, Michael wouldn't…"
"Sonic…" Tikal started taking a deep breath trying to collect her words, "You're hardly a screw up, you've done many good things. Saved many people, do you know how many people would have died in Japan if you didn't stop those people, our what about the people you save every day here in this city?"
"But when it really comes time for me to be a hero I screw it up…" I said simple closing my eyes.
Tikal sighed realizing that I was wallowing in self-pity and stood up, "Just get some sleep, you'll feel better in the morning. Then we can sort out this mess."
"Right…" I said as she stepped out of my window.
"I'll be close by if you need any help, so don't worry." Tikal said before taking a step out of the window.
Pitch black… that was how you describe the night, the only source of night was from the far buildings and cars on the road, and in that night was a man who was once a respected genius but now is just another criminal on the streets. And he target was to make a boy named Sonic Suai live miserable.
He was currently eying a small house that sat on the edge of the road, it was dark except a light glowing from one of the windows on the top floor, the Doctor Albert Robotnik smiled at this.
"Sonic… if you think your family is the only person in danger you're very wrong…" Albert said sitting up taking one last glance at the house before moving towards it, "So very wrong."
That's the end of that chapter, finally. Boy not to long ago I got a sudden inspiration to write this again and ((hopefully)) finish this. *Kicks self for delaying the end of this fic*
Anyway I composed some notes to help sort out any confusion there is, read on.
Emerald current location:
Blue: With Sonic
Green: With Sonic.
Red: With Miles.
Purple: With Chaos/Albert.
Silver: With G.U.N.
Light Blue: With Dart.
Yellow: With Miles.
What is the savior?
Is one person that is supposed to serve directly under the Master Emerald and nothing else there is only two in existence and the seven followers often find the wrong boy/girl. The saviors wait for the moment when the dark creature known as Dark Gaia appears and they must stop it from destroying the world. Another word of the savior is called Light Gaia. The real savior ONLY are able to use all seven emeralds to fight, otherwise they'll end up just like Chaos.
What is Chaos?
Chaos is a result of a false savior trying to use the seven emeralds and for a brief moment they have unlimited dark power before their soul breaks. They are often sealed away because of their one-minded ideal of 'no chaos'. They say if it collects all of it's soul it'll take the form of what it once was, but still having that one-minded thought.
The seven guardians:
Well… it's the seven emeralds, really. They each control one emerald and if they are defeated they must charge their energy using their emerald. Due to this they don't age unless they throw away their responsibility and give it to another person. Their one and main jobs are to protect the Master Emerald and to find the savior.