Ch.8: Flames of Fenris

The Blue Typhoon reappeared right beside Dark Oak's ship, leaving Sonic and the others shocked. Unfortunately, for Knuckles, the near proximinity of the Master Emerald only served to make his pain and suffering ten times worse.

As Knuckles continued to howl in pain, a rip was suddenly cut open through time and space. Sonic and his friends, plus the Metarex watched in awe as the gateway to Fenris's prison opened.

Soon, a gaint purple paw, as big as a staduim popped out of the vortex, soon followed by the body of the gaint forty foot wolf. His gleering yellow eyes, studied the two ships that layed out before him, and zeroed in on the one that was holding Knuckles prisoner.

"Finally" said Dark Oak, looking at Fenris " our victory shall finally be complete. Prepare the Guardian for the sacrifice,"

"What?" yelled Zelkova, shocked.

"Didn't you know?" said Green Bay Leaf, laughing evily.

"The only way to control Fenris completely is to offer a powerful sacrifice" said Black Narcisous " we orginally intended to use the seven chaos emeralds for this offer, but the Guardian is a much greater prize,"

Zelkova growled then turned to look at Knuckles. The machine had switched off and the echidna was no longer being bombarded with chaos energy, making portal behind Fenris close. However, the whole experince had left numerous scars and burns decorating Knuckles body. His eyes were closed and he was barely breathing.

Memories of all the days before this moment flowed into Zelkova's mind. How Knuckles had saved him, fought with him, talked to him, trusted him. They had become best friends.

"I will not let that friendship die," said Zelkova, charging towards the machine that held Knuckles bound.

Dark Oak and the other two Metarex leaders watched in horror as Zelkova broke the chains binding Knuckles, grabbed the echidna and took off into the hallway. Forces were released in pursuit after the pair. A growl sounded from above, signaling Fenris was growing impatient. And the wolf hated being impatient.

Opening his mouth, Fenris launched a powerful, yellow, energy stream striaght at Dark Oak's ship. The Metarex had no time to retreat as the beam blew up thier ship instantly.

"Whoa" said Sonic, witnessing the whole incident from the Blue Typhoon " what power!"

Amy, Chris, Tails, Cosmo, Cream and Cheese quivered in horror as the purple and silver wolf stood proud over the destruction his attack had just made. Seven glowing lights suddenly emerged from the debris and circled around Fenris.

"The Chaos Emeralds!" yelled Tails.

Releasing a howl, Fenris envoked the emeralds power and disappeared using Chaos Control. Things were silent for a moment before anyone decided to speak.

"The Metarex may be gone" said Chris " but if the legend about that beast is right, we have to put a stop to it first,"

"I bet the Master Emerald has enough power to stop it," said Amy.

"We can't use the Emerald" said Sonic " Knuckles was aboard the ship that Fenris destroyed. He's the only one who can use the Master Emerald's power to find Fenris. Without him, the universe is pretty much done for,"

Everyone hung thier head in silence, trying to think up a plan, when suddenly a knock sounded on the hull of thier ship. Amy went to one of the ship's doors to let whoever it was inside. As soon as the doors opened everyone's eyes went wide in shock.

Collasping through the doorway was an injured Zelkova, holding a burned and unconious Knuckles in his hands.