CHAPTER 3

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The small floating orb flew around the group and teleported with them, much to Mephiles' annoyance.

"Why. Just why." he groaned as the robot flew around some more, shouting, "SPAAACE!"

"This is your eternal punishment." Shadow said instantly.

"We can melt the bucket of bolts later. Right now we need to find out what happened around here." GhostKing pushed open the huge stone doors of the Author Council and walked in. There was a small group gathered around like there always was. But once the others entered he Council, silence fell like a large whale from space.

That was a horrible analogy.

"It's...It's..." someone stuttered. "IT'S THEM!"

GhostKing had no idea what happened, but they were suddenly flocked by Authors that were asking a million questions at once.

"Where were you?! Nate sent out groups looking for you everywhere!"

Sonic did a double take on the girl that had exclaimed this sentence. "...Rae? Raeweis?!"

The girl nodded. "Yep! It's been a while!"

"Remember me? I'm Bluemist45!" another girl piped up.

"And I'm Johnny RocketBooster!" another kid shouted.

"Oh yeah! I remember you! I also have very short patience for all of you!" Shadow growled.

"We missed you too, Grumpy," Rae glared.

"Where's Mr. K? Is he here?" Silver asked.

"Mr. K? Yeah! He works here," Johnny said.

"Really? I didn't know he was an Author!" Sonic said.

"He isn't. He's the janitor." Bluemist said.

"...Oh."

"What's going on?" someone shouted.

The many Authors flocking the group backed off to allow one of the head Council members through. "Nate? Nate the Werehog?!" GhostKing beamed. "Man, nothing changed here!"

"Actually, a lot happened," Johnny said. "Well...Chaos are nearly extinct. We have some of the last ones in existence, and we're trying to raise them."

"In fact, why don't you go and check on them? You can get familiar with the garden and such," Nate grinned. "And try to get them to mate. We need baby Chao like, right now."

"Oh ok..." Sonic muttered. "But we have to find Mr. K."

"I'll bring him to the garden." Nate said.

They were lead to a large room that had a rainbow stairway going up and down, a beautiful structure at the top and bottom of these staircases. There was another structure in front of them, this one made of stone. "Just go right on through there. And make the Chaos happy. It's easy enough." Nate said, leaving.

"Alrighty then." Silver said. They walked into a beautiful garden.

"AAAHHAAAA BEAUTY! IT BURNS!" Mephiles shouted, melting away.

"Well, he's no help." GhostKing muttered. A cute blue and yellow Chao hopped up to her and clung to her leg.

"Awww. So cute." Sonic snickered.

Three flying Chao tackled him to the ground. Two others saw this and laughed so hard they fell over.

"Well, Nate did say to make them happy..." GhostKing facepalmed.

"Um...how do we mate them?" Sonic asked.

"I dunno...I don't want to." Silver squeaked.

"Oh, I know." Shadow pointed to a heart shaped fruit thingy. "The obvious helps."

"Sure does. Ok, everyone, make them fat." GhostKing chucked fruit at the Chaos.

FIVE MINUTES OF SHOVING FRUIT DOWN CHAOS' THROATS LATER...

"This one grew flowers around it in a total of three seconds." Silver said awkwardly, pointing to a small white Chao that was sitting in a ring of flowers that was not there three seconds ago. The little bobby thing on top of its head had changed to a heart.

"Uh...quick question..." Sonic said awkwardly. "Which ones are boys and which are girls? I don't want to try to mate two together only to disappoint them..."

"Shut up, Sonic," Shadow slapped him.

"Look! That one grew flowers too!" Silver cheered, pointing to another blue Chao. GhostKing picked up the blue Chao and sat it in front of the other one. They both looked at each other for a few seconds before standing and hugging. Hearts and flowers appeared out of nowhere and they kissed and made out.

"...Eeeeeewwwww..." Silver grimaced as they both kept doing this for a bit longer. With a loud and comical POP, a white and yellow polka dotted egg appeared out of nowhere in-between the two Chao.

"Well, one's a girl and one's a boy. That's about all we know." Sonic shrugged.

"I'VE BEEN SCARRED FOR LIFE!" Silver screamed, turning and running into the cliff. He got back up and ran out, crying and screaming the entire way.

"Alrighty then." GhostKing blinked, picking up the Chao egg. "I wonder what this one will look like,"

The top half of the egg flew off, hitting her in the face and knocking her glasses off. Sitting in the other half of the eggshell was a dark purple Chao with the creepiest, unnerving grin ever on a newborn. It made a cute baby noise, but it was still creepy.

"Look, it's Mephiles in Chao form!" Shadow laughed.

"Speaking of him, where did he go? And Silver too?" GhostKing asked.

"Somewhere not here, that's all I know." Sonic shrugged.

"Well, we've got to find them."

That was about when a few people walked through the garden's entrance. One was Nate, of course, and another was a kid that they had seen around the Council a few times, Gnat1. He was the guy that called them in the fourth Time and Space.

Another was a Mobian lion OC that was usually associated with Gnat, Thunder. There was another guy that looked about 14, and GhostKing had never seen him before. The last Author was female with wavy long brown hair and pale skin. She wore a black shirt with a Pikachu on it and jeans cut to the middle of her thighs. She was tall too, about 6' 3, and barefoot.

"Hey...you're lovrofpokemon!" GhostKing said to Pikachu girl.

"Harro, GhostKing! Haven't seen you in a while!" Pokemon said.

"Who're you? I've never seen you before." Sonic said to the 14-year oldish kid.

"I'm TheEighthLight. I'm kinda new." he said awkwardly.

"Man, we all thought you were dead!" Gnat said.

"I did too. Have you seen Mephiles?" Sonic asked.

"Nope...but he might be down in the Dark Garden." Thunder said.

"Hey, wait," Shadow caught sight of the last person that walked in with the group of Authors. "Mr. K!"

Sarah's dad gave an awkward wave. "Haven't seen you or Sarah for a year...made me think you were never coming back. Where is she, by the way?"

"Sarah's not here." GhostKing sighed. "We don't know where she is or where she could have gone."

Mr. K stared down at his shoes. "Then we have to find her."

"Brilliant idea! Let's start right away!" Sonic cheered.

"All right. Come on, everyone, we need to find Mephiles and Silver first. Mr. K, are you coming with us to find Sarah?" GhostKing asked.

"Of course! She is my daughter!" Mr. K said.

"Alrighty then! Next stop, Dark Garden, and then wherever Sarah might be!" Sonic said happily, heading for the door. The Authors that had lead Mr. K to the Chao Garden stayed behind to shove fruit at the new baby Chao so it could get fat and cuddly.

Everyone else headed down to Chao Hell...er...the Dark Garden. They found Mephiles there staring at a small purple Chao with dragon wings, apparently having a debate over who was scarier.

"Rawr!" the Chao said cutely.

Mephiles just glared. The Chao glared back and took a deep breath before exhaling a flamethrower's worth of flames in his direction.

"HOLY CRAP!" Mephiles dodged the fire.

"Rawr!" the Chao said again before flying off.

"These are some scary little dangerous animals." Silver said from a small island in a pool of blood, watching as two of the Chaos fought over a piece of fruit, one biting onto the other's head and not letting go.

"Yeah...Let's go find Sarah now..." Shadow walked quickly to the door, avoiding any Chao within a five meter diameter.

"Good idea." Sonic agreed.

"We're off to find Sarah!" Silver sang. "La la la la la la!"

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Sorry for no updating this past week or anything...there's been a load of crap happening around me and the world... especially what happened in Connecticut. I still can't believe people would do things like this.

I'm not afraid the world's going to end...I'm afraid nothing is ever going to change.

Hasta la Vista, Reader.

Lordoftheghostking28