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Chapter 5: Screwed

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"There's no way to get out of here!"

Tails was running around rather frantically, trying to find a way to get out of the dimension they were stuck in.

"Calm yourself, Tails," Sonic stated. "We'll find a way."

The dragon swooped down on them again, causing Sonic to get frustrated.

"Why won't that creep just leave us alone for once?!"

"It's trying to threaten us, Sonic," Shadow replied.

Sonic then noticed that the dragon was going through the pillars without taking any damage.

"How is THAT possible?!" Sonic said with disbelief.

Tails was noticing this, too. "It's like it's a ghost or something!"

"Doesn't look like one," Shadow said.

"Okay, then. Since you're the SMART one in the group, tell us what this is!" Tails was getting frustrated, too.

Shadow only smirked. "It's not a ghost because it's not translucent."

"Ghosts don't HAVE to be translucent!"

"They usually are, though!"

"But it has to be if it's flying through obsidian pillars like that!"

"I still don't think it's a ghost."

The dragon swooped down on them again, which enraged Sonic.

"THIS BEAST IS GOING TO STOP, NOW!" He shouted.

He sped after the dragon, and rolled into a spin dash, then jumped and tried to aim a homing attack against the dragon. This only hurt the dragon somewhat. Sonic, outraged, kept hitting him over and over again with a homing attack. Eventually, the dragon shook Sonic off, causing the blue hedgehog to have to brace for an unexpected landing.

"If we only had those Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles said, frustrated.

"We have one." Shadow said, taking it out.

"Better than nothing." Sonic said, grabbing it from Shadow's hand. He started to do a spin dash, rolling up one of the pillars that the dragon was near. He shot straight up off the edge of it, right into the dragon's belly. The large dark purple creature cried out a little bit from pain, but recovered quickly without a scratch. Sonic was forced to land again.

"This has gone on long enough," Shadow said. He took the emerald and skated along, trying to keep up with the dragon. He got to where he was under the dragon, and prepared himself to use the Chaos Emerald.

"CHAOS SPEAR!" He shouted. He shot blinding spears of Chaos energy at the dragon's belly, which caused the dragon to cry out a little more. The spears barely gave the dragon a cut or scratch or anything. Frustrated, Shadow started taking off his inhibitor rings.

"Shadow! Save those!" Sonic said.

"I think we've already established this, Sonic."

"Then why are you taking them off?"

"I'm enraged by this beast."

"You know that it drains your energy!"

"I don't think it matters at this point."

"But we don't have the Chaos Emeralds!"

Shadow blinked and looked down. "You're right, Sonic."

"Because we don't have them," Sonic said. "We're pretty much -"

"Screwed." Shadow finished the thought with a knot in the entire gang's stomachs.

Sorry for the hiatus. I have a good excuse, however! The story's about to take an interesting twist, so watch out for that!

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