Chapter Five: The altar
"Blaze? Blaze."
"Meoww..." The cat rolled over, still half asleep.
"Blaaaze." Sonic continued to prod her head with his finger, she refused to wake up until he flicked her.
"Ow! What was that for!?" She sat up and rubbed her head, then glaring at the hedgehog.
"Did you know you meow in your sleep?" He grinned.
"What!? That's ridiculous." She sat up and put her jacket on before climbing quickly down the tree, "What time is it?"
Sonic shrugged, "Well it's light outside."
Blaze had a faint grin on her face, "I can see that, Sonic."
"Ha ha..." Sonic jumped down and punched her arm playfully, "So, I hear 'Chao In Space III' is coming out in cinemas today, wanna go see it?"
"Shouldn't we be looking for the Chaos Emerald?"
"There's no rush is there? I s'pose it'd be best to wait until one turns up."
"But, without the royal family my civilisation could collapse!"
Sonic laughed, putting his arm around her, "I'm sure any nation would do fine without a royal family." (A/N: A subtle hint there...*cough* England *cough*)
"And 'Chao In Space' is for eight year olds isn't it? Just a load of corny adventures and childish humour."
"Erm..." Sonic scratched the back of his neck, and began to walk with her, "Yeah... pretty crap really."
"Mm hmm..." Blaze saw right through him, she did nothing but smirk at him though, making him feel, indeed, quite awkward. Sonic's face then lit up.
"I know! I can take you to see all my friends!" Before Blaze could respond, he had already picked her up.
Dispite her efforts to get out of Sonic's grip as he ran, the two came to what looked to an altar, it was so tall that she couldn't make out anything else. "Er, you get off here."
"Ah," Blaze noticed that she was clinging to the hedgehog like a baby koala, she climbed off sheepishly, "So, who am I meeting?"
"I think you'll get along well, you're both gaurdians, both hard headed and stubborn, both-"
"Let's just go..." She was already half way up the steps, dragging Sonic by his quils, which was rather painful.
"Yo, Knux!" Sonic grinned as he finally got to the top of the altar.
The red echidna, who had previously had his eyes shut, opened one, cocked his head back and grinned, "Ah, I was wondering when you'd show up, where've you been?"
"Eh, the usual." Sonic shrugged casually, and motioned to the slightly shy feline next to him, "This is Blaze, by the way, my girlfriend." he grinned.
Knuckles opened his other eye and nodded towards Blaze, who replied by nodding back.
"So..." Sonic rocked back and forth on his heels, "I expected to have more to talk about..."
"That all you're here for?" Knuckles stood up, "Usually you want something when you come to me."
"Well..."
-One long explanation later-
"So we need a chaos emerald to get Blaze back to her dimension." Sonic panted slightly, he was used to running fast, not talking fast. Knuckles nodded understandingly, "I have one."
"What!? Really!?" Blaze spoke up, Sonic and Knuckles turned to her, remembering she was there.
Knuckles sighed, "I'll get it for you." he retreated into a small cave inside of the altar for a few minutes, and came out with one of the glistening gems, the dark blue one.
"Ah." Sonic snatched it away, "How'd you find it so quickly?"
Knuckles stated that the Master Emerald made it easy to find emeralds within a short range, then started to talk about the different energys of the emeralds, and while Sonic tuned it out, Blaze seemed to listen interestedly.
"Well, anyways...-WHA-!" Sonic yelped and dived backwards as a white blur swooped past him with incredible speed, swiping the Chaos Emerald from his hand. If Blaze hadn't grabbed him, he would have probably broken his neck, but since that didn't happen, he quickly recovered, his eyes darting around to find his assailant. As he backed away, a figure came into view stood atop the altar, it's head was a light blue colour and three spikes rose vetically across the back of his head, then sharply fell down. Its eyes looked a lot like Chaos 0's but a dark blue and its entire body was covered by a clean, white cloak. This thing was unlike any animal Sonic had seen before, it looked...ominous.
"Stop your search for the emeralds, Sonic the Hedgehog. You know not the places you tread." It's voice was suprisingly calm and serine, Sonic did not think of it as any less than a threat though.
"What would you do to stop me?" Sonic grinned cockily, he needed some action.
"I would prefer for it not to come to that. Leave. Now."
"Make me!"
The thing too a step back, it looked angry and yet, confused. It was hard to tell as it had no pupils. However, it jumped down so that it stood on the Master Emerald, this is where Knuckles came in.
"Get off the Master Emerald thief!" the echidna dived over the master emerald with his fist preceeding him, but tripped and rolled over down the side of the altar as the 'person' casually jumped behind the Master Emerald and out of harms way, his body still concealed beneath his cloak.
"You wish to harm me?" It raised a non existent eyebow, "I have what I need." He opened his cloak, revealing the dark blue chaos emerald and a green one, its body looked normal, just a light blue colour. It wore white gloves and white shoes with blue cuffs.
"He has two of them!" Sonic shouted as he ran into a spin dash, aiming at the things head, it ducked, and watched Sonic tumble down the altar as Knuckles had, it turned back to face Blaze, and stepped backwards as she was stood right infront of him.
Blaze watched it stare at her, strangely unaggressively, it blinked twice, then seemed to notice Knuckles coming back for it, and in a flash of light, it was gone.
"Well that was wierd." Knuckles rubbed his head after he clambered up to the top.
"You're telling me." Sonic was also rubbing his head, being helped up by Blaze.
"What made you attack it?" Blaze punched them both on the arm, "It showed no signs of aggression what so ever!"
"It took my Chaos Emerald!"
"It tried to take my Master Emerald!" Sonic and Knuckles protested respectively.
"So no emeralds." Blaze looked down dissapointedly with her hand on her arm.
"Hey we'll find one!" Sonic stuck his thumb up and dragged her down the steps, "C'mon, you need to meet more people. Later Knuckles!"
"Erm, later.." Knuckles confusedly watched the couple as Sonic dragged Blaze to the bottom by her hand, then they seemed to be arguing, and it looked like Blaze threatened to set him on fire. Wierd.
Take a look on my profile for a picture of the thing that 'attacked' Sonic, I think it's not bad, but don't hesitate to tell me your opinions about him. Ooh, and I have a new oneshot: 'Duties' that I'm making into a full story thanks to the brilliant reviews on it, I'll get to it once I've finished 'A Hero's Life', the penultimate chapter of which will be posted tommorow.