Chapter 9: The Return to China
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Tikal had given Knuckles some free time and he decided to visit Sonic. But when he arrived at the forest he noticed there was a singed path.
"I guess Sarah went on a morning run." He joked, he could already see Sonic's house nearby. But his smirk faded away when he saw that the front door was in the floor, split in a half.
"Oh no..." He rushed into the house and found Tails unconscious near the pool, he had a big bump in his forehead. He went over him to wake him up.
"Tails! Tails!" He shook him, Tails started to slowly open his eyes.
"Wha... What happened?" He looked at his surroundings and then remembered what happened yesterday.
"Oh no! Sonic!"
"What happened Tails?" Tails noticed Knuckles wanted an explanation. He had to take in mind that Knuckles didn't knew, nor had to know that Sonic and Sarah where the same person.
"Two girls broke in the house and did something to Sarah" Tails started explaining. "They drew some kind of markings that gave them control over her and then they tried to escape, i tried to chase them, but one of them gave me a kick and knocked me unconscious."
"Sonic must have gone behind them." Knuckles said to comfort Tails. "And it seems that Sarah was in a hurry." He said pointing at the singed trail that Sarah had left behind her.
"Great! We can now chase them and help Sonic!" Tails said. "And something tells me its going to be a long trip..." Sonic had told Tails about what happened with him and Syra.
"How long?"
"Dunno, how many hours do you think we need to reach China?"
"Uuh... I can't go." Knuckles said dissapointed.
"Why not?" Tails asked confused.
"Because I have to take care of the master emerald. Tikal only gave me a few hours of free time, and I can't get to far from the Master Emerald, you know that. And with Eggman always wanting to get a hold of it." Knuckles said, remembering that Eggman had been trying to steal the Master Emerald for 2 weeks already, but if there was any problem, Tikal could tell him and since Sonic's house wasn't to far from Angel Island, he could get there in no time.
"Fine, I'll help him by myself..." Tails said, going to the garage.
"What are you going to do?" Knuckles asked.
"Going on the Tornado? Duh!" Tails didn't wanted to lose more time so he went to the Tornado. Good thing he had bought gas for it yesterday. After a few minutes he was already in the sky, following the singed trail that Sonic/Sarah left behind.
"I hope she's okay..." He said.
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Sarah, Syra and Rae had finally arrived at China. They would have lasted a lot more weren't for Sarah's unreal speed.
"Finally at home." Syra said
"Well I can't see much..." Sarah said, she only saw the old arena surrounded by trees where she and Syra had fought some weeks ago.
"That's the idea." Rae said. She pressed a wooden button that was in a tree, opening a secret entrance under the arena.
"This way." Rae led Sarah and Syra to the underground. There where torches lighting the way, and after they entered, the entrance behind them closed.
They kept walking for a few minutes until they saw a big metal door. Rae knocked in.
"Who dares to enter the city of the mighty clan of Light!" A very deep voice said from the other side of the door.
"Its me, Rae! Me and Syra have brought the red hedgehog Sarah." She said. Suddenly, the door slowly started to open, revealing a gigantic cave with a town that had a big temple on the center. The cave had a giant hole in the wall, giving those who lived there light, and when the sun rays touched the temple, it shone a bright gold glow.
"Wow, so this is my new home?" Sarah asked excitedly.
"Yes, but first we have to go with the leader." Syra said following Rae, that was already going into the temple.
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They walked into the temple, where the Light Clan's leader would be, waiting for them. The inside of the temple was built with some kind of stone that glowed a white glow whenever it got lightened by sun rays. The temple had 2 floors, the first one, where usually the strongest warriors would live in, and the second one, where the leader of the clan, Virtual, and Rae lived in.
The trio of girls went to the second floor. After entering Virtual's room, they saw him in his bed, doing some kind of meditation. He had dark gray fur, white muzzle, unusually large ears and a white swirl shape that resembled a portal on his chest, like the one Sarah had on her forehead and also on her chest. He also had three cat tails, each tipped with white, and the inside of his ears where also white. His eyes were purely white, edged with black like Silver, and he had Tails' style bangs. He was wearing white gloves, black boots that had a white cross shape on each one, black cuffs lined with white around his wrists and ankles and a black cross necklace.
"Virtual!" Rae hugged her big brother. Rae and Virtual weren't actually brothers of blood, they were brothers at heart, kinda like Tails & Sonic. Before Virtual got to be the leader of the Light Clan, he was a priest, one day his town got attacked by Dr. Eggman and he and the townsfolk decided to face him, although Sonic could't help them because he was handling another matters at that point, they managed to get in his base and destroy it. Before that, though, he found Rae in suspended animation, so he freed her and they were very close since then, but not as a crush or anything as Virtual had "other" interests...
"Rae!" He hugged her back. "It seems you have finally caught the hedgehog" He said looking at Sarah. He still didn't knew about Sarah's little secret.
"Yeah, she was the one who brought us here so fast, and she was VERY VERY FAST!" Rae said cheered.
"Oh, come on! It was nothing." Sarah blushed.
"Yeah, leaving fire trails behind is nothing." Syra pointed out.
"Is that true?" Virtual asked.
"Well, yeah..." Sarah was just about to continue until a maid had entered the room.
"Sir, here is some hot coffee" But before she could handle the coffee to Virtual, she accidentaly triped, and guess who was the one who received a splash of hot coffee in the face?
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Night had already fallen, Tails was almost arriving at Europe, by tomorrow morning he should have reached China.
"I guess I can relax for a while..." Tails turned on the autopilot and pressed a button that made the pilot seat lay down. He then pulled some bed sheets from underneath the seat.
"Good thing I brought these." He told himself. He covered himself with the sheets and stared up in the sky, looking at the moon and the stars shining.
"Sonic..." He sighed "I hope you are okay..."
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Sonic hid behind some rocks that were in a corner of the cave.
"We have to find that hedgehog and bring him to the leader!" One of the guards, a black gorilla, said.
"He has the same curse that Syra, we only have to drench him in water and he will come willingly." A green chameleon said. All of the guards then kept running in search for Sonic.
"How can I escape from here?" He thought "Better question, how did I got here in the first place!?"
"Hey! I found him!" A yellow winged cat with a red dress with a black stripe on the middle and red boots with black heels shouted, pointing at Sonic.
"Not good!" He said running away. He leaped into the roof of a house and kept leaping from roof to roof. He was good until he felt someone hitting him on the back, making him fall to the rock floor. He was an echidna that would look like knuckles if he hadn't white fur, red strands in his dreadlocks and red eyes, not to mention his red gloves.
"Gotcha' hedgehog!' He said. Sonic kicked him away.
"That's what you think..." He continued leaping from roof to roof.
Meanwhile, Virtual was looking at this rather annoyed.
"All these years thinking that he was going to freed us from the Dark Clan, and he ends up getting cursed..." He thought. "As long as he is a male he will not fall under their control, but I have to order the guards to chase him so they don't suspect..."
"Great job Virtual..." He heard a sinister voice behind him. "You have proven to be a good ally after all, by bringing us Sonic the hedgehog here."
"Yeah..." He said trying to fake his happiness.
"I guess its time to enlighten you..." The voice said.
"Wait, wha..." Before he could ask something, his mouth got covered by a black and sharp claw. He felt something creeping into him, some kind of negative energy, and nobody would hear his muffled cries of agony.
"Come back here hedgehog!" Rae, Syra, and the other guards that Sonic had avoided were all chasing him.
"And I thought turning into a female was going to be the only thing I would have to worry about!" He thought while trying to outrun his pursuers.
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It seems that Sonic had regained his manhood! But for how long? Will Tails arrive in time? And what does this "Dark Clan" has to do with all of this? Discover it in the next chapter! WARNING: There is going to be something special waiting for you on the next chapter... HUEHUEHUE. :)