Zero Sagas

Chapter 14: Memories on Angel Island

(A/N), I own Zero, Sapphire, Nightmare, and Lifeform 0. I also own the idea of Zero Sagas. I DON'T own Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Knuckles ect. They belong to their respectful owners.

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Haze, Julia, Michelle and Sapphire ran through the forest with every step they grew closer to Angel Island. Sonic still was confused about what Sapphire had said.

'The warrior incarnate?' Sonic thought for a moment, 'Nah, I'm just Sonic' He put it out of his mind after a second thought.

They ran through the forest until they reached the edge of the forest. Everyone stopped as they were also at the end of a cliff, in the distance Angel Island could be seen.

"There it is, Angel Island." Knuckles said.

"Great, I have just one question," Sonic began, "How do we cross this water?" The others looked around for a second before Tails broke the silence.

"I thought this would come up," Tails said, "That's why I called for my plane as we traveled through the forest." After Tails finished his sentence a large jet plane flew overhead and landed near them. "Great timing."

They all boarded the jet; Tails then pressed a couple of buttons, closing the hatches. "We should be there in about thirty minutes." Tails said. The jet then took off and headed towards Angel Island.

"Zero…" Sapphire whispered to herself remembering what Lifeform 0 had told her "Give it up. Zero the Hedgehog is dead!" 'No' she thought pressing her head against the window, 'It can't be true, he can't be dead…'

"She must really love that Zero guy," Michelle whispered to Julia. Haze must have overheard due to the fact that she turned to them.

"Yeah, she's been all depressed ever since he disappeared from the town." Haze explained to them in a whisper.

"He seems like a bad guy, choking her like that, then throwing her!" Julia thought aloud.

"No, that wasn't Zero, that was Lifeform 0, you see when he was possessed by Lifeform 0 Zero's spirit must have been blocked away by Lifeform 0's power. I believe that Zero is still alive, and if we can manage to beat back Lifeform 0 then Zero might return, this time Lifeform 0 being the one to be blocked."

"Oh" Julia whispered back.

They returned to their sitting positions after their little discussion. Haze looked out the window and saw Angel Island very close, 'Wow that didn't feel as long as Tails said it would' She thought. The Jet reached an empty area at the edge of the island where it landed, as soon as Tails turned off the engine Knuckles was off running.

"Knuckles wait!" Sonic yelled, climbing out of the jet.

"I can't! I have to protect the Master Emerald!"

"You can't do it on your own, if you go off now you'll just be defeated by him." Sapphire said.

Knuckles thought for a second then stopped. "Then hurry! We don't have much time!"

Sonic knew Knuckles was right, the more time they took, the less time they would have of stopping Eggman and Lifeform 0. As everyone was finally out, Sonic ran to Knuckles. "All right! Let's go!"

Sonic and co ran off into the forest, it seemed like a couple of seconds before they reached a pile of ruins that seemed like it use to be a gate of some kind. Sonic looked around and saw no one around. He then issued that the coast was clear; Sonic stepped through the gateway when suddenly his vision began to swim.

"What's going on???" Sonic felt as though he awoke inside a different world. He turned and saw the rubble he had stepped through was now a large wooden gate. Sonic looked around and saw people staring at him, "What's going on?" The people stopped staring and began to move normally. Sonic saw many hedgehogs and echidnas moving around, he ran through the town's square, "Knuckles? Tails? Sapphire? Where'd you guys go???" As he ran through the square calling out their names a guard turned to him.

"You looking for someone stranger?" The guard suspiciously asked.

"Have you seen a guy about my height, he's red, long quills that hang down his head? Or a little yellow guy with two tails?" Sonic moved his quills trying to make a visual image for the guard.

"Um… no I've never seen anyone like that before." The guard replied.

"How about a girl, looks like me, with light blue quills, wearing…" Sonic tried to remember what Sapphire was wearing, "Girls clothes."

"Oh! You mean Princess Sapphire?" The guard's eyes lit up.

"Yeah! Princess Sapphire!" Sonic then stopped, "Wait… Princess?"

"Yes, Princess Sapphire passed through hear a couple of minutes ago, normally I can't let strangers meet with royalty but since you seem to know her I guess I could make an exception." The guard motioned to a gate close-by and it was opened.

"Thanks." Sonic said.

He quickly ran through the opened gate, he turned the corner and saw a light blue hedgehog wearing a long white dress enter a large building.

"Wait Sapphire!" Sonic called out as the guards closed the door she went through. He sped to the guards in a second, startling them. "Let me see Sapphire!"

The guards gave him a weird look. "I don't know who you are or how you got in here but the princess cannot be disturbed right now."

Suddenly the sound of battle horns sounded in the distance.

"Oh no!" The guards turned and opened the door, "Princess Sapphire! The Dark Army is attacking!"

The guards ran into the building, leaving the door open to Sonic. "Dark Army? I got to find Sapphire and find out what's going on!"

Sonic snuck into the building, he dodged out of sight of the guards rushing out of the building. He then sped through the hallways until he reached a metal door, he looked around, and seeing that the coast was clear he put his ear to the door.

"… How are we going to stop the Dark Army?" A voice that Sonic didn't recognize asked.

" It's impossible! I heard that the creature managed to destroy an entire fleet at the Sacred Pass!" A panicked voice said, "He's invincible!

"Calm down… There has to be a way to stop him." A more calm voice reassured them.

A moment of silence passed before the calm voice started talking again. "He uses the emeralds for evil right? So if we take the emeralds and use them for good, we may be able to stop him!"

"How are we going to get the emeralds?" The second voice asked.

"Hm… your right, we would have to infiltrate Angel Island and get them, I know! We could-

Suddenly Sonic heard the sound of glass smashing.

"Oh no! Not these creatures again! Let's get them!" The voice yelled.

Sonic heard the sound of weapons being drawn and quick footsteps. The swords banged together a couple of times before he heard a scream, a yell, and another smash of glass. Sonic grabbed the door handle and threw it open, readying for whatever could be behind the door, yet he was blinded by a white light. Suddenly he awoke standing at the other side of the rubble gateway, back on Angel Island.

"Sonic! Let's go!" Knuckles yelled grabbing Sonic's arm and leading through.

"What happened?" Sonic asked, confused.

"You just stopped in your tracks, and starred off into space." Tails explained.

"Oh…" Sonic still didn't understand what happened.

They ran deeper into the forest led by Knuckles, as he knew where the shrine stood. They ran for what seemed like ten minutes before they saw the shrine enter sight. They ran into the clearing.

"Zero!" Sapphire yelled.

Zero, Eggman, and Chaos stood on the shrine, Zero stood over Rouge, pointing his finger at her. Shadow was crouched, as if injured, and Eggman held four Chaos Emeralds, Chaos held the rest. Eggman turned to them.

"Well, It seems we have a bunch of unwanted guests." Eggman said, "But your too late! We have what we need and your finished!"

To be continued…

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