Ch.5: Shadow vs Knuckles
Some birthday party this was turning out to be for Rouge. Sure, she may have gotten a great gift. But now two of her most agressive best friends were at war with each other.
Fairly enough, Knuckles and Shadow could be considered an equal match. They both possessed enhanced speed, strentgh, and the ability to control chaos. The Ultimate Lifeform vs the Guardian of the Master Emerald. It was sure to be a good match.
Shadow made the first, and laucnhed a powerful super spin right towards Knuckles. Making use of his own agility, Knuckles avoided the super spin by jumping into the branches of a nearby tree.
Undeteered by the evasive manvuer, Shadow redirected his attack towards the tree and cut it to the ground. During the tree's fall, Knuckles glided out, put on the shovel claws and dove into the ground. Leaving everyone guessing to where he was hiding.
Vibrations suddenly shuddered under Shadow's feet. Before the hedgehog could get out of the way in time, Knuckles came out of the ground and hooked his chin with a flaming uppercut.
The force of the blow caused Shadow to sagger back about five feet, while Knuckles landed gentley on the ground. Something wet poured out of the corner of Shadow's lip. Moving one his white gloves to the wet spot, Shadow gasped in surprise when he saw that it had been tainted by tiny dots of red.
His red eyes locked on Knuckles, who was still in fighting position, fist aflame. The echidna had managed to draw first blood. Shadow grinned, he was going to be a worthy foe to face indeed.
Throwing away all his special chaos and speed moves, Shadow locked in for close combat with Knuckles. Punch after punch, kick after kick, it was scary to see how they matched the other's moves.
Finally, Shadow managed to find a mistake in Knuckles pattern and knocked the echidna into a nearby. The force of the impact left Knuckles stunned, and he found himself unable to move.
Everyone grew worried as Shadow approached the injured Knuckles, determined to finish the battle. Knuckles was in no more condition to get up and fight, so just glared as Shadow approached.
Dusk had seen enough from the sidelines, and with anger boiling in his veins, sped himself between Shadow and Knuckles. His green eyes glared at Shadow as he growled...
"Don't touch my echidna,"
Holding up one hand, Dusk blasted Shadow into a nearby tree using a unseen force. Before Shadow had time enough to recover for a counterstrike, Dusk pulled out the purple chaos emerald he had found in Sandopolis and held it over his head.
The chaos emerald glowed with a bright purple light, a soon encased both Dusk and Knuckles in a swirling cloud of chaos energy. The cloud pulsated about two or three times before exploding with light, blinding all who were looking at it.
When the light vanished, and the moment had passed, everyone looked to where Dusk and Knuckles had been, and saw nothing. Dusk and Knuckles were gone.