A/N- Ayy here's the second chapter of Silver Unleashed. If you guys are confused about anything that's happening just let me know and I'll explain it. Yaa so enjoyyy.
Chapter 2: The Temple
Silver woke up to a splitting headache and the sun shining in his face. He groaned slightly as he brought a hand up to his eyes, blocking out the sun's extremely vibrant rays.
'What happened to me?' Silver thought as he gazed at the back of his hand. His eyes then fell upon the bracelet around his wrist, and he sat up straight.
'That's right, this stupid thing dug into my wrist and caused me to black out.' Silver thought, bringing his right hand up and taking off his glove. He then grabbed the bracelet and tried pulling it loose, but for some reason it wouldn't budge. Slightly agitated he tried pulling harder but the bracelet was cemented to his wrist.
"What the?" Silver muttered as he continued to tug at it. "Why won't this thing come off!?"
Feeling a pang of worry, he tried using his telekinesis to remove the bracelet but it only made his wrist start to ache. He shook his wrist in pain and just glared at the bracelet for a few minutes in defeat.
"I'll ask the professor to see if he can figure out how to take this thing off." Silver grumbled as he picked himself up into a standing position. "I better recollect the books and head back to East Crisis City."
He turned to start picking up the scattered books when he was met with the mouth of a cave.
'I don't remember any cave being in Crisis City…?' Silver thought in surprise. 'Well it could have been here the whole time but was too close to the lava to notice.'
Silver glanced down to where he was standing, which used to be flowing lava from Iblis but had long since hardened. The flow in which it used to travel headed straight into the mouth of the cave and disappeared into the darkness. Silver felt his curiosity start to pull him towards the cave, but he stopped himself.
"I'll come back here later once I've dropped the books off at the library." Silver said, interrupting his curiosity. He turned away from the cave and gathered up all the books he dropped before taking off into the sky and heading back towards East Crisis City.
The flight back wasn't much of a long one, and he touched down by the library about 20 minutes after leaving West Crisis City that morning. He walked up to the doors of the library and turned the knob using his telekinesis, pushing the door open, and entering into the library. There weren't many people inside the library other than the professor and some of the construction team that was assigned to this building.
"Professor? Where are you?" Silver called as he shut the door behind him with his foot. "I brought a lot of books back today!"
The professor, hearing the words 'a lot of books', peaked his head out from the upper level of the library.
"How many is a lot?" He asked before he actually saw how many were floating around Silver's head as well as the pile he was struggling to carry in his hands. "Good god son where did you find that gold mine of knowledge!?"
The professor hurried down to the lower level of the library and ran up to Silver with excitement. He snatched one of the books that was floating in the air and read the title.
"The study of Astronomy?" The professor read out loud, a smile curling at the ends of his lips. "Are all the books you gathered on science? We've been lacking greatly in that field!"
"Yes, most of them are books on scientific research. Although there was this-"
"Scientific research, oh brilliant! I'll put these on the shelves right away." The professor stated, cutting Silver off. He started grabbing books out of the air and scurrying off around the library to place the books on their respective shelves. Silver sighed slightly and decided to hold onto Pickle's journal until the professor was done running around the library. While he waited, Silver tried to remove the bracelet once more but sadly had no success. He sighed in defeat and waited for the professor.
Minutes later the professor came back over to Silver.
"Are there any books left?" The professor asked, stopping in front of Silver.
"No, you got them all. But there is this journal I wanted to talk to you about." Silver said, standing up and holding the journal out to the professor. He took the journal and opened it up, seeing the messy and scattered writing.
"Oh my. This is quite messy. Did you find this in the same place as the other books?" The professor asked, flipping through the pages.
"Yeah, it was hidden behind some of the books along with this." Silver held out his left hand and pointed to the bracelet on his wrist.
"Hmm, could I see the bracelet?" the professor asked.
"If you can get it off. I've tried to take this thing off but it's glued to my wrist." Silver replied, taking off his glove and trying to pull at it again. The professor closed the journal and stopped Silver from pulling at the bracelet. He took Silver's wrist and looked at the bracelet.
"Curious…this looks like a normal bracelet. I'm confused as to why it won't come off." The professor muttered. Silver shrugged.
"Maybe there are some clues in the journal that could explain this bracelet." Silver suggested, putting his glove back on. The professor opened the journal back up and nodded slowly.
"Possibly but it will take me awhile to make sense of these scattered notes. I suggest you go back home and rest while I figure this out." The professor said.
"I have something I want to do back in West Crisis City. I'll rest later." Silver replied, thinking back to the cave he woke up next to earlier.
"Very well. I'll get straight to work then. Good luck with whatever you're planning to do…" The professor said, turning away from Silver and heading to his study. Silver watched the professor disappear into his study before he left the library. With the curiosity of exploring the cave clear in his mind, he took off to head back to West Crisis City, not bothering to stop for any sort of breakfast.
Silver crossed the obvious border into West Crisis City, and began his search for where he had found the cave earlier that day. However, due to his hastiness in leaving to get to the library, he forgot to mark exactly where it was. Grumbling slightly at his stupidity, he began to look for the college where he found the books and would backtrack from there.
It took him long enough to find the college and even longer to find the exact path he took to get back to East Crisis City the previous night. The time spent looking for the cave took the whole morning and a great amount of the afternoon. At this point Silver was willing to call it a day and head back to East Crisis City to rest. He had been out since the previous morning. He began to head back to East Crisis City, feeling a little disappointed that he wasn't able to find the cave.
As he made his way back he watched the ground, when he noticed that there was a slightly distinct side flow of lava that went under some toppled buildings.
'Could that be the cave?' Silver thought, lowering himself towards the ground. He touched down on the hardened lava to find the small side flow led right into the cave he had been searching for all day. Relieved and slightly annoyed, he took no time and walked into the cave's entrance. Using his powers, he lit his way, albeit very poorly, and continued through the winding cave.
"Jeez, I thought this was a cave, not a tunnel." Silver muttered, making another turn. Realization hit him when he thought back to the hardened flow of lava.
"Of course it's a tunnel…" He whispered, slapping his forehead gently. "Should have thought of that before deciding to come in here."
A few more minutes passed of slowly walking through the dark, and Silver was getting even more annoyed. He was about to turn around when a faint green glow of light shimmered at the end of the tunnel. Silver moved a little quicker, wanting to know where his journey through this tunnel had taken him. Once he turned another sharp corner of the tunnel, the tunnel's exit was in sight. However, it did not look like the outside world, but looked more like…a cave.
"Are you kidding me?" Silver exclaimed, as he got closer to the end. "A cave at the end of all…this…?"
Silver walked into what he thought was a cave but instead saw the inside of a wonderfully preserved temple. The hardened lava flow went off to the sides of the temple where extremely tall pillars stood holding giant green gems emitting the green light he saw. They stood in a row on each side, all leading up the end of the temple where a singular pedestal stood in the center of what looked to be a shrine. Silver's curiosity and awe got the better of him as he moved toward the pedestal. He walked right up in front of it, and looked down to see that there was nothing there, other than a small hole.
"I guess whatever went here was stolen a long time ago." Silver muttered. "Kinda a let down."
He took a step back and looked upwards to find himself looking a large sculpture up on the wall. He whistled slightly, looking over the whole thing.
'Some work…' He thought, as he lifted himself to be level with the design. It looked like some sort of energy spouting from the creature in the middle, and went outwards to the corners of the sculpture. Silver reached out his left hand to follow the streaks, when the bracelet upon his wrist started to glow. That in turn, caused the sculpture to glow, making Silver jump back in surprise. He immediately looked down at the bracelet to see it was still glowing a bright green.
"How did-" He was cut off by the bracelet becoming a cloudy dark purple, along with a familiar pain. It surged from his wrist throughout his whole body, causing him to falter. He grabbed his wrist and clenched his teeth in pain, praying that the pain would stop.
"W-why is this happening again!?" Silver exclaimed. "What is wrong with this bracelet-"
WHAM!
Silver was knocked to the ground by a small object ramming into his head. He landed hard on his back and rolled to his side, groaning in pain.
"What was…?" He mumbled, slowly getting up into a wobbly kneeling position. His eyes fell upon a small, pink, creature lying on the floor unconscious.
"Oh shoot…" Silver stumbled over to the creature, making the pain throughout his body worse. He tripped slightly and collapsed onto his hands and knees next to the creature. With his right hand, he started to poke the thing hoping that it might get up.
"H-hey, are you ok?" Silver asked, his words somewhat slurring together. The creature did not budge.
"Hey! W-wake up…" Silver grumbled, shaking the creature's shoulder. "C'mon little guy…"
"Mm, I'll take all those dumplings…" The creature muttered. Silver scrunched up his face at the odd sentence.
"Dumplings…? Why does this g-guy want dumplings…?" Silver questioned, as he shook the creature harder. "No time for food pal…you gotta wake up…"
"Dumplings…and…wha…?" The creature's eyes began to flutter open. Silver sighed in relief, knowing the creature was going to be ok. The creature was still for a moment before its eyes shot open and he shot into the air. Silver jumped in shock as the creature bolted past his face and into the air.
"Where am I? When am I?" The creature exclaimed, zipping around. He then whipped his head around to Silver who was watching. The creature flew down to Silver and stopped immediately in front of his face.
"Who are you? And when am I?" The creature demanded, flying closer to Silver's face causing him to tip back and fall on his head.
"Oof! Whoa, whoa! S-slow down!" Silver exclaimed, waving his hands causing shots of pain to shoot through his body. He cringed but tried to ignore it as he pushed himself up.
"I-I'm Silver the Hedgehog. And…did you ask when?" Silver asked, feeling a bit confused.
"Yes I did!" The creature replied loudly.
"Erm…2270…" Silver answered, putting his ears back slightly from the creature's loud voice.
"2270…" The creature repeated before his voice trialed off. His eyes widened and looked Silver dead in the eyes.
"This can't be right! It's too early for me to be back!" He exclaimed. Silver watched in complete confusion not knowing how to answer the creature.
"Someone must have given a huge amount of energy to…oh no…" The creature rambled on.
"Uh…are you…you all right?" Silver asked, feeling the pain beginning to weaken his train of thought. The creature looked at Silver and smiled.
"I'll be fine! I just have a lot to do but that doesn't matter right this moment!" The creature said, very loudly. Silver cringed at his loud voice but nodded.
"I see…" Silver muttered. "So uh…who are you?"
"Oh! I forgot to introduce myself. Sorry about that. My name's Chip, or Light Gaia, but I prefer Chip! So you can call me Chip!"