(A/N: hey readers! I hope I am satisfying your fanfiction hunger, but please tell me if you see any inconsistencies in my writing, because it is really hard for me to proofread my writing, it would be greatly appreciated!)

Chapter 14: Secrets Revealed

The boy had dark brown hair, and really pretty grey eyes. He stood a little over three inches taller than me, and the chao beside him was a dark chao. It had three spikes coming out of the back of its head, with a dark spiky dot floating above; it had red highlights on its spikes, hands and feet. He wore a green jacket with a white shirt underneath and dark wash jeans.

"Who are yo-" I began, but he covered my mouth with his hands.

"Keep your voice down" he said in a hushed yet commanding tone.

"Fine!" I whispered harshly as I ripped his hands off of my face "but what are you doing here, and who are you?" the boy Gale was silent for a moment, then he said

"That is not of your concern, all you need to know is that I am not an enemy, but I do need one of the chaos emeralds in there." He gestured to HQ.

"Good idea, she can go get it." the dark chao exclaimed in a deep voice, at least for a chao.

"What do you need the emerald for?"

"Just get it ok?" Gale said, exasperated. I sighed, why did I always fall into these kinds of messes?

"Ok, just stay here." I said as I headed back to the front entrance. I wondered whether the group had entrusted the emeralds to Chris or Swift, but I doubted it, so I decided to look in the science room first. I went through the front door, into the hall and down the steps to the infirmary, and when I was sure no one was there, I snuck across the room to the science room lab. When I entered, I saw our blue emerald and Shadow's green emerald. I tiptoed to the center of the room and tilted the glass up slightly and grabbed the green emerald, the closest one. I slipped it into my pocket and headed back up the stairs. I made it back to the front garden, but then Chris and Swift came up to greet me.

"Hey Terry, how are you feeling?" Chris asked.

"Fine, I am just headed out for a walk." I said, I really hoped they didn't see me starting to sweat.

"Chris, we should give Terry and Lina a tour of Green Hill, they don't know everything about it yet." Swift suggested.

"No, no, that's ok Swift, maybe next time, right now all I need is some air." I said quickly, I crouched down to pet his head, and then got up and left. After I calmly left the front garden and got through the entrance, I ran as fast as I could behind HQ and back to Gale. When I made it back there, Gale was waiting there with the chao. Said chao flew over to me, holding his hand out

"Hand it over." it ordered.

"No…" I paused; I didn't know the chao's name, "whatever your name is,"

"Crimson," the chao responded,

"Fine, Crimson, I need you to promise me you will not walk off with that emerald; we need it more than you."

"OK, OK, just handed it over" Crimson said. With a sigh I took the emerald out of my pocket and handed it to Crimson, who in turn flew over to Gale and hand the emerald to him. "OK, we're off, bye, Terry." Crimson said as he started moving off toward the forest, Gale didn't move.

"Crimson, come here." Gale said.

"Why, we have the emerald, why are you insisting we stay?"

"Because, we made a promise, so we'll do what we need to with the emerald and return it." Gale replied, Crimson sighed and returned to his original position. Gale rolled up one of his sleeves and revealed…a black chaos morpher. I had no idea how he got it, but it was there, on his wrist. Before I could say anything, Gale had pressed the silver button.

"Chaos Soul: Terios!" Gale yelled as a blackish-yellow flame surrounded him, and a blackish- red flame surrounded Crimson. It got really bright, as bright as Chris and Swift's light. I had to shield my eyes to keep the light from hurting them. Then, when it faded, I saw…

…

"Shadow!" I gasped, alarmed. In place of Gale and Crimson was Shadow the Hedgehog. The Neo-Mobian didn't respond to my outburst, just dusted himself off and said

"I think I will return this now." He chaos controlled away and came back a second later, and continued talking. "I need you help with this, to get the emerald when I can't" he stated.

"why should I help you hide this, why do you need to hide it?" I asked accusingly, there was a pause, and then he responded

"let's just say you are repaying me for saving you last night." He sounded like he was annoyed he had to give an answer. I looked at him for a while, trying to find the answer to why he didn't want anyone to know, but to no avail. I nodded, and with a sigh I walked back to the entrance to HQ.