Hunter's Night
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic; he and related characters belong to Sega. Predator(s) belongs to their proper owner(s) (Unknown to me, if you know, please let me know.)
Not changing rating yet but; a little thick on blood and gore.
Reminder: I'm gone till 24th, I hope I can submit another chap when I come back; all my other readers please recommend ideas for other stories; any help is appreciated
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Chapter Two — Triple threat
Forest Trail;
She ran her fastest. Her once bright and giddy blue-green eyes now filled with terror and panic. She ran to the one person that could possibly help her; she believed in him, she trusted him. He lived in station square…or spent his time there. He was her only thought right now; he always helped her in her times of need.
The long, large, black shirt flapped as she ran through the forest barefoot. Her sleeping shorts, jersey material, torn at the side, half way down. She looked back, moving her purple hair out of her eyes. She couldn't see anything, how could she hope to see something that had no color. She focused on her track; she ran to her body's limit, she couldn't go any faster. Her heart beat pounding against her chest; trying to break out.
She saw the light bridge; the lights seemed to give her hope. Maybe it was scared of the light.
She saw three people on the bridge; why out at 1:00am, she didn't care right now.
"Help!" Mina shouted. Her voice was on the verge of breaking.
One of the three was hedgehog, a purple one. He had black bandana over his face, a black shirt and a black hat with Atlanta's 'A' on it. His pants were dark blue.
His two friends where human; one had a white shirt on, a plain blue hat, jean pants and blue and white shoes. He seemed to be white. The other, a black kid had on a red shirt and red and black shoes. His pants were black. He had sunglasses and red hat with LA on it in black.
"What the hell are you running from?" The hedgehog asked. He looked strangely at the staggering girl running like a manic from something.
"It's gonna kill me!" Mina cried, running near them and stopping.
"What?" The white kid asked, on alert now.
"It killed my friends and now it wants me!" She let out a few tears pleading with them for help.
"What's after you?" The hedgehog asked trying to get a clear answer.
"I don't know! I couldn't see it but it's chasing me!" Mina cried, "Help me!"
"Damn," The black kid asked, "Girl, calm down and say it!"
(Purr/snarl: R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r)
"Oh my god!" Mina cried as its terrifying purr sounded.
"Shit," The three reached under their shirts by their waist/hips and held a gun now. "W-W-What the hell was that?" the white kid stuttered.
Under the streetlight in front of them, it jumped there. Its feet thumping as it cracked the pavement of the road upon landing. Its shape could be see, the blurry and distorted view through his body gave away it's location in good light.
"What the hell?"
The black kid pushed Mina on to run, "Run!" The hedgehog fired twice, missing.
"C'mon!" The black kid fired and missed. They all started running when it walked towards them.
It sprinted suddenly catching the hedgehog by his tail. Jerking him back he slammed him back onto the ground viciously, the creature swung his right hand out, a small invisible steel cord flew out. It automatically wrapped itself around the black kid that ran slower then the others. The creature snorted and yanked him back, sending back through the air.
The purple hedgehog groaned as he recovered from his body slam. He crawled on the pavement as he tried to breathe. A kick to stomach spun him around left him breathless and his ribs broken. The black kid was quickly kicked down as he tried to get up and run off, the blow of the kick left them both injured heavily.
The hedgehog groaned as he looked up, the cloaked figure stood above him. Its left arm was held up a little bit; it gripped its hand. The single point extended into a long and smooth toothed with sharp tips on one side blade. It seemed to be at least 2.5 feet. The hedgehog back away in fear as he saw the invisible shape extend and make that sheathing sound.
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He could see the hedgehog's fear. His cheeks red and his throat and face yellow. The open mouth that made no sound spoke his fear. Reaching forward he gripped the young hedgehog's clothing and picked him up. His mandibles tapping the inside of the mask gently. A frizzy line ran across the flied of vision; he saw the outline of his insides; his body light purple and his bones faded green and white.
Two broken ribs and a crack on the center of his chest.
Without hesitation he rammed the blade through the hanging hedgehog. The purple colored hedgehog grunted as he tried to grip the blade. He frowned and gritted his teeth, his body tensed quickly. And just like that; relaxed as the hunter watched his internal organs stop movement and die. He jerked the body once and yanked the blade back making the body drop and bleeding its own puddle.
He stared at the body, watching the temperature drop at in very specific and accurate numbers. He snapped his arm to side and flicked most of the blood off of the blade.
He looked ahead and saw the black kid trying to run off. He held his arm, it was broken. The kid stumbled as he looked back, the hunter walked slowly.
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The kid fell on his back, before he knew it; the killer was right in front of him. His other hand clenched, the dual blade snapped out. The purr made him scream;
"Ahh!—" it was cut short as the blade hit his face, tearing it.
"What the hell was that—" The scream cut him off.
Mina gasped in terror as she looked around; it was happening all over again.
"What is that thing?" He demanded.
"I don't know!" Mina cried.
"Where the hell are people when you need them?" The kid asked looking around; not a car or person in sight.
They were on the highway. They ran till they heard the scream, less than a minute into their running.
"Shit!" He spun around when he heard the thumps.
It walked without hassle, very calm and easy-like. The kid still had his gun, pressing a button he aimed with a blue laser. It went through and spilt into several lines as it touched the hunter's hidden body. It was closer than he wanted;
"Run!" He shouted looking at Mina for a split second.
And in the short time it drew its dual blade out. Slinging it upwards to the right it slashed him across the chest and shoulder, blood flew to the side and the ground as more spilled out from the wound. He gasped for breath as he dropped the gun.
"Ahh," He screamed feeling every bit of the intense pain. The hunter caught him by the neck before he could fall forward.
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They say you should never look back; they were right.
The thing held him in the air. His blood sprayed all over the small concrete wall on to the side. The paved floor stained with deep blood as the hunter studied the dying face.
One look back and she saw enough to make her vomit. Her running kept her from doing so. Holding his throat tightly to keep movement minimum; the hunter spiked his dual blade through the kid's body, ripping through the organs and tearing the flesh of the back. The body slumped on the blade; the hunter snapped his blade and the flung the body to the ground. A pool of blood quickly grew around the corpse as the hunter flicked the blood off of his blade.
Mina cried as she ran, it was her fault they died.
The hunter remained behind this time. He looked to side; the shade of foot prints lined her path. He walked over to the body of the kid; he crouched down and gripped the head.
Elsewhere in the City;
Two screams, something was up. Something bad.
He hopped down from the lower rooftop he was on. He wasn't the peace keeper but these screams sounded painful. He could hear the pain they had, like if he was next to them when it happened.
He hopped down into a dark alley. It had trash scattered around and was narrow. He walked down the alley towards the side walk on the other end of the dead end. The gun was loaded and cocked, it was a habit he had.
He frowned as he heard footsteps. They were weak and faint, he put his back to the brick wall of one the buildings. He moved quietly as he tried to figure this out.
'What the hell is going on? This type of stuff never happens, two screams in the middle of night? And here in this city? Wait…'
He heard a girl's voice, the sound was a whimper.
'Crying? Maybe she can tell what's up.'
He grabbed her arm the instant she ran into his view. He didn't recognize her by sound, when he saw pale face he backed away slightly.
"Mina?" He asked, surprised that she was out at this time of night.
Hearing his voice she instantly embraced him. Crying in his chest she hugged him tightly, stuttering over her words;
"T-Thank god it's you! It's trying to k-kill me; it already got S-Sari! Help me Shadow," She cried.
The info smacked him and flew past him, "What?" he couldn't understand her broken voice.
He backed away, "Don't leave me! It's after me!"
"What's after you?" He asked raising his voice. He frowned at her.
"I don't know!" She screamed letting the water works turn on full. "I-It killed Sari and now it's after me! Three guys just died because I led it to them!" She fell to her knees. Her tears flowed down her cheeks as she finally snapped; her fear and panic finally taking over fully.
He slow went down on one knee and used his hand gently to make her look at him. His frown faded and his look softened; she looked terrified. "Slow down, what happened; who killed Sari?" He asked concern in his voice as she spoke about death.
"I don't know!" She cried, "I woke up when I heard a sound and I went into her room, it was there, and she was on the floor in her own blood!" She whimpered, the horrifying scene replaying in her mind. "It had like this blade it used to kill her and the others, it tore my shorts trying to catching me. It was invisible and had made a growl sound when I looked at it."
The vague details were only made a big impact when he noticed her eyes. He could tell it was an ugly scene. She shook and her eyes watered as she spoke little about it. He stood up and looked around and walked into the light of the sidewalk;
She sprang to her feet quickly, "Don't leave me." She whimpered again, clinging to him for help.
"…" He hesitantly put his free arm on her back and tried to comfort her as she cried on his shoulder, "…I-I won't…I promise." That came out unwillingly; he didn't know why he said that.
He stared at them. Focusing on the metal object that got no identification from his interface on Earth's objects. He growled a little, the gun seemed power enough to rip his armor. It wasn't standard, he knew that. The bullet was larger than normal, that hedgehog wasn't like others; his internal systems were much more complex and the skeletal frame had metallic properties.
He hung the bloody skull and spine on the armor on his back, tucking it in-between dreads. He stood up and through his mask zoomed in and got better look at the gun in the hedgehog's hand. His bones cracked as he made a fist and opened his hand. His eyes glared and focused on the mongoose crying in his chest, he huffed and turned around; he wasn't here for this. His cloaked body made its way to the side; he hopped quietly over the short concrete wall.
It was only a four foot drop to the grass below, it led into the area of two huge office buildings. They were next to each other; creating an alley between them, he walked there. He looked around; it was going to be hard to find it in this huge and complex metal jungle. He extended both his blades, stopping them at 1 foot. He punched wall of the nearby building on the right with the nearly unbreakable metal with his blade. He snorted as he punched higher with the single blade, another strike with the dual blade, only this time, higher than the single's. With time he caught decent speed and was making his way up the tall building with his body swaying to side as he made the next punch.
He couldn't stand to see her cry, or any girl for that matter. He sighed as she wept in his arms, she was scared out of her mind, "Mina, stop; it's going to be okay." He hated being sympathetic but it was the only way to shut her up. "We have to get out here c'mon." He broke embrace and led her out of the alley.
He looked around closely studying the area, with the description she gave of the thing he might be able to know where it is.
The road was clear, nothing but an empty trash bag drifting in the wind's blow.
'What now? I don't have damn clue as what to do…I should probably take her somewhere…but where? It's like what? One in the morning? Who's gonna answer—ah screw it that faker is gonna help me with this.'
"We're gonna find Sonic, c'mon he always stays with his friend." He looked around again; he gritted his teeth; that fact that you couldn't see this thing clearly really bugged him.
Mina nodded nervously; she always knew he did things for reason, always a good reason.
He took her arm and start running, he couldn't waste any time.
Only a few seconds into running did Shadow trip over something; causing them both to trip and tumbled forward. Grunting Shadow got up and looked at what he tripped over; it was big. He couldn't see its features but he could tell by the blur and weird area its cloaking distorted that it was not friendly. A blade wielding thing that was merciless, so it was invisible; nothing he couldn't handle.
Mina started panicking as it slowly stood up. It had to be at least seven feet; its bulk figure expanded and receded as it snorted. It must have been mad from them tripping over it. Mina backed away and began to hyperventilate.
Shadow clicked the side of the gun activating the green aim laser and fired at the shoulder. It was the first place that distorted the straight line and obeying a pulse he fired twice.
The first bullet hit the armored shoulder. The impact only budged the shoulder back slightly; the second one missed. A static-like cloaking warp line appeared on one side and ran across his body, for a second Shadow caught a glimpse of the body.
The dark colored armor and pale with tint of yellow flesh exposed the abdomen, the mask with slash going down on the left side of the long eyepiece the stretched from one eye area to the other. The design on the mouth piece of the mask was plain, no curves or ridges.
It purred as Shadow saw it look at the shoulder.
Out of shock he froze, he could move; what he had just seen left him amazed. It growled as it looked at the 5.6 foot hedgehog holding the gun with the jaw hanging. It walked closer to him, closing the 4 foot gap with only a few steps. Its boned cracked as it clenched its hand.
Shadow felt a powerful arm smack him to the side. He grunted as he got up, he felt the metal of the arm; it had made a nick on his cheek. It grabbed him by his chest fur, which hurt almost a much as getting hit in the nuts, and growled at it leveled its face with his. Okay…maybe not so easy to handle.
Gripping the gun tightly he aimed with looking at where he thought the leg would be. He fired twice and green glowing blood spurted up. It slammed him down with a roaring cry. The glowing blood oozed out of the wound as it gripped it. The blood stained gave its location, the body invisible but the stain could easily be seen. Shadow ran to Mina took her in his arms and sprinted before the thing could do anything else. The red streaked hedgehog heard a blood thirsty roar as he blasted through the city.
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He snorted as he saw it. The hedgehog did some damage, it purred as it noticed the wound. The bleeding would make it so much easier to track down. Normally it could hide and outfight the others, but with the bleeding wound it would have to stop; hide and sear it, all he had to do was wait now.
Hopefully this couldn't get anymore difficult than it already was. Hunting down a former Elite was one of the harder tasks ever given to anyone.
It snarled once as it saw it run down the street. He followed from the rooftops; it ran into the forest after hopping the walls of the highway. He went to the edge of the roof top and rammed his blade into the side and slid down. He kicked off when he got closer to street, he ran across the street and leapt over the wall and after his game.
The thing couldn't be stopped; six bullets didn't even make it flinch.
The sleek unseen body had excellent armor; it was close to 6.9 feet tall. The colorless killer had slain three officers and left their torn bodies anywhere.
One lay with his torso ripped and bleeding on the bench of the park. Another float in the water, his blood quickly fading the blue water to deep red, the clothing of the right arm had been ripped off and a huge gash spilt down the middle. Another pinned to a tree by a long staff, the body hung limp and his blood slowly running down the bark of the tree. His weapon left at the thing's feet, broken into pieces like the others.
The last officer grunt as it picked him up by his throat. It revealed itself, letting the human know; he was going to die.
The mask had one long battle slash across his mask, crossing in between the two eyes; it was painted yellow in order for it to be recognized. The masks designs had a style that seemed tribal. The ridges and curves created a menacing look for the mask that retained an ancient style. It snorted as the thing tilted its head, staring strangely at the pale human the gasped for in air in his hand.
The officer flinched as the killer gripped its hand and activated its blade. It had two, one on each arm of course, both dual. It let its grip go and immediately slashed the human across his chest, ripping the chest and spraying his blood into the air. The officered screamed finding out he wasn't dead yet. He looked at the bloody ground below him, eyes widen as he looked at the cut. He turned around in pain, on his back he looked at the ruthless creature; it extended its blade to the full 3 feet. It swung at his face which such force his body spun around and moved at least 3 feet from where it was.
He let the blade's blood drip, growling lowly he approached the disfigured body.
Shadow ran on and off the sidewalks. His shoe's hover flame scorching the concrete as he ran at full speed with the shoe's maximum aid.
Mina who had been panicking couldn't handle the G-forces he was used to at this high speed and was out.
He held her like if he was holding a baby; her head on his shoulder and his arm on her back and his other under her thighs, he didn't want to hold her this close, and certainly not where his hands where…it brought unwanted thoughts, well not unwanted, they were unnecessary thoughts;
'That faker better be home…' He frowned at the thought of him.
Mina's body was limp; the arm around his neck fell as he made sliding turn. His grip on her tightened all the places his hands were. He blushed lightly as he realized what he had groped by accident.
'Good thing she's out,' He thought, embarrassed with himself, he moved his hand towards under her knee and lessened his grip, 'Where the hell is that house?' He groaned as he searched for the house.
Tails' Home;
The young fox ground as he opened his eyes. That stupid sound; (Ding)—Tails you have a guest. Why the hell did he ever install an automated doorbell? He turned over and looked at the red numbers of his clock; 1:37 am
Groaning again put his legs out the side of his blanket and off of the bed. Slowly he sat up and looked around, he grabbed the arm of his brown teddy bear; it was a habit to grab it upon waking up.
He cursed when the feminine voice spoke again. He rubbed his red eyes, standing up he sighed and walked out of his room. The stupid bell woke Sonic this time, as Tails passed his door, his friend yawned;
"It's two in the morning; I swear to god I'm going evil if it's a girl scout." He groaned. His quills had a net over them to keep them relatively neat during his constant rolling and drooling. He followed his short friend down he steps;
"Alright damn it! We're coming, just stop with the bell!" Tails shouted finally getting fed up with the voice.
He scratched his head yawned as he opened the door; his eyes went wide and he dropped his bear when he saw Shadow hold a passed-out Mina in his arms; his arms under her knees and his other hand on his her back. Her head hung back as she breathing gently in his arms.
Sonic woke up at the sight; he opened his mouth to speak, "W—"
"Don't ask." Shadow mumbled, looking to the side, "Just let me bring her in." He turned his body and hers and brought her inside.
Sonic and Tails only continued to stare wide eyed at Shadow holding her bridal-style as he walked over to couch.
"What the hell did you do to her?" Sonic shouted softly.
Shadow glared at him, "I didn't do a thing to her," He barked, "I helped her for your fucking information!" He said loudly.
"What happened?" Tails groaned as his need of sleep came back.
"Something's after her," Shadow dropped his gun on the coffee table in front of the couch. He took a few steps towards her face and crouched down. Gently he turned her head and looked at the scratch on her cheek, "I found her running in the streets. She was running for her life." He paused.
"From what?" Sonic asked now awake and concerned.
Shadow turned her head and examined her left side of her face, "I don't what it is. It's not anything native to this planet that much I know." He looked down her body and looked for more injuries that he couldn't pay attention to earlier due to that thing's 'interruption'.
"Where is it?" Sonic closed the door and turned on another light, it lit the whole living room.
"I don't know," He blinked as his eyes came across her leg, "I shot it in the leg and ran off before it could do anything else; she passed out while I ran at full speed here." He said pointing out why the mongoose was knocked out. He fiddled with the torn area of her shorts, she had a long but not deep cut, it had blood. He wiped it with his glove and noticed it wasn't bleeding, it had stopped. Moving the fabric up of the shorts slightly to check for more injuries, he noticed something that made him blush heavily and he looked away, fighting the red tint on his cheeks.
"Any idea why?" Sonic asked looking through the window blinds, not knowing that it couldn't be seen.
"No," He shrugged as he looked over her body, "It killed Sari though…" He said softly.
"What?" Sonic raised his voice not believing it, "Sari?"
"Yeah," Shadow stood up and faced them, "I have an idea of why it might be after her or any of us."
"What?"
"I can tell this things is smart," He looked down and pull out his green Chaos Emerald, "It probably knew I had this, these things are legendary; it'll probably be after Knuckles for the Master Emerald." He paused, "I think this thing knew how to get to me, but it's just a theory." He walked to the side, heading for the door.
"What about the other emeralds?" Tails asked approaching him,
"Who ever has them, we've got to get it from them before that thing finds it. The thing probably went after her because she had the blue one."
"Yeah," Sonic said hesitantly.
"Its got one now, six left." Shadow frowned, "Who has the others?"
"Uhh…" Sonic searched for the locations and the caretakers in his mind, "Amy has one, Rouge stole one from the museum, I think. Umm…Tails has one powering the whole house…Knux has one I'm sure of it, I don't know where the last one is."
"I'm going for them," Shadow leaned down to get his gun. His eyes ran across Mina resting on the couch, he stared at her face.
"Watch her," He mumbled picking up his gun. "Call everyone; I'll be there in few minutes tell them and hang up; I'm going to the echidna's first." He walked to the door.
He paused as he put his hand on the door knob;
—I won't…I promise—
He didn't turn his head as he spoke "If she wakes up; tell her I'll be back." He walked out, not looking back.
"Sonic," Tails asked hesitantly, "Do you think this is gonna work?"
"I don't know bud…" Sonic sighed and looked at the door, "I'm having trouble understanding this whole thing…"
"You think he's telling the truth or you think he's doing it just to get all the emeralds?"
"Shadow? Na, he'd never hurt Mina in order to do that," Sonic crossed his arms and took a deep breath, "If he wanted the emerald he'd get them from us by force, but I don't he'd ever go as far as to get Mina hurt, he'd probably just steal it quietly…besides he's the one who decided to give each emerald a caretaker."
"That's true…" Tails said quietly. "Can I go back to sleep?"
"No way dude…" Sonic yawned, "If anyone's going to sleep it's me, that couch is mine anyway I bought it remember?" He pointed at the deep blue two person sofa in the corner, "Besides, you gotta watch her." He walked over to his couch.
"Man…this ain't fair…" Tails grumbled as he rubbed his eyes.
Angel Island;
Why the huge floating island was touching the earth's ocean it didn't care right now. That bounty hunter was on his trail and closing in. The only way to lose was to lose it in uncharted land; thankfully the bullet wound has healed rather quickly, no more fresh bleeding. He felt for his aid kit on his side, the moderate sized oval shape was still clinging. It ran its fastest into the forest.
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It snarled its purr when it lost track of his bounty. He growled lowly when it jumped the gap between the two lands. He followed, jumping the gap between lands. The map in his mask was useless right now; it walked deeper into the island. His mandibles tapping the inside of the mask, recording the route he took. His radar flickered, bidding him to pay attention in the northwest direction; huge energy signal was setting it off. It followed the energy, hoping it could find it before he was killed.
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A good spot. Very dark, lots of trees, almost no light and very secluded. It planned its escape; this painful process would make him give the location away. The oval shaped object sat on the floor before him. He had his good leg on its knee and his bad legs gently on foot.
Pressing the top of the oval shape kit led to the quick, snappy opening. The sides extended revealing multiple thin racks with small tools. The bottom had a large oval cup and three flat but sophisticated tools inside. He took the tools out and left the oval cup inside; one of the tools was like a gun with no handle, but a skinny barrel with a thick body; he grabbed it and gripped it. A small white flame burst out; he set the center of the oval on fire, it was controlled inside.
He took a syringe lying on the second to the top of the total three extended racks. He squeezed the sides and squirted the liquid inside the needle into the flame, giving it purple tint at the edges. As the flame burned he took a small rectangle piece of dry-wall material; it was his native flame charcoal, the material was like dry-wall but it was from his home planet. He grabbed it, it was small; he crushed it in one hand and dropped it in the fire. Quickly it became soft and mushy; he used a flat alloy tool and gathered some of the melted material.
He looked at his wound, his eyes softened as he prepared for the pain. He furrowed his brows as he neared the alloy to sear the bullet wound with the material.
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It was a mix of the sound of the t-rex roar off of that dinosaur movie he saw once and a jaguar's roar at the end. It scared the shit out of him; he was spooked when he noticed a bush rustle in front of him. He stood up, both fists up; boxer style.
The invisible figure made thumps as it walked out of the big bushes at the base of the trees in front of him and the shrine. He could see the figure outline well, it was looking at him; its eyes glowed bright white for a second. It slowly walked to the base step of the shrine; He growled when it invaded his holy place. Knuckles felt his fur stand when he saw the huge figure; the moon's dim light did not help with its already menacing appearance.
The thing purred, it didn't flinch Knuckles. He hopped down to the step above the base step, making them almost leveled at height.
"You got five seconds to leave," He barked, his right fist on call to punch at any second.
The thing tilted its head down slightly, it growled at him. It was looking at him as if to say 'And what are you going do about it?' Still cloaked it swung at him with his left arm;
Knuckles heard the metal armor move as it lifted it arm. On pulse he caught it; he went wide eyed as he felt the strength of the creature. He held the bulk arm firmly; he pushed it away gritting his teeth.
Beneath the mask it was surprised at the strength of this 5.5 echidna, he caught the punch was amazing speed.
It let out a questioning and confused growl. It suddenly roared and tried to reverse the grip and grab Knuckles.
Acting with quick speed he slipped from the oncoming grasp and punched it where he thought the stomach was. It grunted once with a snarl; it snapped its single blade out to the full 3 feet and roared. The blood stained blade swung at him missing as Knuckles ducked. Picked him by his arm and threw him the large emerald, it stunned him for a few moments; it pulled back on something on its right arm. Two jagged arrows about 9 inches of a foot fired at him. One slashed his arm on the side and the lodged into his arm.
He grunted as his eyesight went fuzzy when he felt that burning pain. He looked at it, growling he pulled it out the exiting end; it slipped out easily, but very painfully. He felt it go numb, years of harsh living let him get used to pain, so this only stunned his arm. He got up and let his arm hang, the thing walked up the steps. With his good arm he punched the chest area with his knuckle barbs, the cloth covering the barbs did nothing to stop them from denting greatly into its armor. Knuckles felt that he had hit metal and growled when he saw it.
The cloaking was affected by the hit. The thing's dark colored body was revealed. He roared; angered with him damaging the cloaking mechanism; he swung with all his force at the echidna. Knuckles, in shock of staring at the freighting thing was hit brutally. He was knocked off of the shrine and hit the ground; he groaned as he looked up; Shadow aimed at the thing with his gun. He fired twice; the thing held his hand up and caught one. The other one reflected off the armor, he stared wide eyed at the thing;
'What the hell?' He was confused as to how they was barely affected from the hit.
It purred as it stared at things on the floor. At Shadow's feet where the three emeralds he had gathered; his green one, the white one and the yellow one he got on the island. He fired twice again before putting a hand on Knuckles' shoulder. Knuckles grunted as he took the emeralds and hugged them; they were his originally…well except for the green one.
Shadow used Chaos control with out word and took Knuckles with him.
"No wait!" Knuckles shouted as the black hedgehog took him through the motionless surroundings at full speed. He had harshly grabbed him and dragged him through the ruins and into the city; thankfully he was being dragged through the air and not on the ground.
"The Master Emerald!" the echidna shouted as his duty was left to the Bounty Hunter.
The warp hole opened in front of Sonic house, he let the echidna go at the steps of the front porch.
"The Master Emerald!" Knuckles growled, "Take me back—ahh, son of a bitch!" He gripped the arm with the large wound. His gloves quickly took the red color as he bled more.
"You were gonna die! It's either that emerald or your life; even a stupid echidna like you should have at least some common sense!" Shadow barked, pulling the gun slide back, letting out an empty shell.
"Why are we here?" He asked pulling the two emeralds he had dropped.
"That thing is after emeralds, we need to figure this whole thing out before it hunts each of us down, now get his ass inside!" Shadow said at first to Knuckles, but barked his order at Sonic who was now watching them.
"We have to get him medical help!" Sonic said noticing the arrow wound. Shadow turned around to find the next emerald. "We gotta take him to hospital."
"No!" Shadow said turning around quickly, "You do that; it'll only cause questions; then that'll lead into a panic! He'll live; doesn't he have anything in that lab of his?" Shadow pointed at Tails who was now standing next to Sonic.
"No way man, this is way outta of our league, we need help!" Sonic tried to reason.
"Listen faker," Shadow growled, "If it's after the emeralds, its gonna hunt down every one of us; Rouge, Amy, you, him, Mina and him. The only way we're gonna stop it is if we stick together, that thing might be able to take us on one or two at a time; I sure as hell know it can't take us all on at once."
Sonic gasped upon hearing his vague plan, "So you're saying risk all our lives at once to take it down? Are you fucking crazy?"
"It's either that or have it do what it wishes with all seven emeralds and the Master one too!" He paused, waiting for an answer, "Do you think being a hero is just battling Eggman and fighting his stupid mindless robots? As long as that thing is looking for these emeralds, it's gonna hunt us, either we kill it first or let it kill all of us and take the emeralds!" He growled in his throat.
Sonic gulped. He stared at his friend on the floor and then his little buddy at his side. Both waiting on his answer.
Hoped you liked it.
Next chap might be the one bumped up to M, just to let you know.