After her incident, Luna is finally ready to go and get Amy Rose.

However, some special visitors have something to tell her.

Luna stood on the beach sand, smiling her dark smile and chuckling softly. She knew that her prize was extraordinary. From what she saw, she got herself a powerful mind-bending princess with a strong sense of logic and much thought. "She was a hassle, but I have her now. She will soon be my slave, mine to command," she smiled. "Now, it's finally time to get Amy Rose." Just before she was about to go, she felt a strange presence.

She lowered her head and looked behind her. She felt a presence, a very mysterious presence that she must have felt somewhere before. Nothing was behind her. Just people on the boardwalk and a lot of clamoring going on, but besides that, nothing looked familiar. "Oh, well. Let's dive into the heart of this industrial wasteland known as Station Square," she said. Just then, the mysterious presence grew in strength. Now she definitely recognized exactly what that dark presence was. Somebody was haunting her. Somebody was trying to make her life miserable and abolish her chance of success. She quickly turned around with an expression of shock and fear locked on her face. She still saw nothing. I must be going crazy. I must be, she thought, because I'm feeling these things that I know, but can't see. What's going on? She rapidly twisted her head in many different directions, nervously looking for whatever caused that dark presence to befall her. Still nothing. None of the people could have had it. That was impossible. She looked below her feet, nothing; she looked above her, nothing. In fact, there was nothing around her. There was no sandy ground, no buildings or people, no blue sky, no nothing. The only thing that surrounded her was black. Nothing but black surrounding her. She was alone in this cold black. She looked around and noticed that there was no end to it. She walked to her left. It felt like she wasn't even moving. She turned around and walked to the left. Same thing. It seemed that this darkness had no limits. "What's going on? Whoever you are, I suggest you show yourself!" she yelled. She was yelling at nothing because she heard her echo bounce back at her. It smacked her clear across the face, leaving a bad scar telling her that this was an empty void with no way out. Just then, a voice spoke.

"Luna, do you know where you are at this moment in time?" the strange voice said.

"Well, what do you think?" Luna shot.

"I knew that you would say something like that. I will tell you where we are."

That perplexed Luna the instant the strange voice said that. "What the hell do you mean? We?"

"We are in the very place where all individuals pass on. All of those who see our faces will see something happen in their future, but none have seen our face. You, Luna the Badger, are a special one who will pass on."

Luna was so confused. "What do you mean? Special one? Future prophecies? What does all of this have to do with me?" she asked. The voice remained quiet. This angered her. "Hey! Did you hear me? What does this have to do with me?"

The voice spoke again. "You will discover that in due time."

Luna was so baffled by everything that surrounded her. She was in a black hole made entirely of nothingness, and she was being perplexed with riddles from a mysterious voice with a possibly even more disturbing figure. She didn't have a clue at what the thing looked like. She lost all rationality and train of thought at this point. She screamed at the top of her lungs, hoping to get a response from the voice. "Listen! What is your objective to doing this? You won't get anything from me! All I did was come down to Earth because I wanted to capture some people and use them to create a new army in my favor! Is that too much to ask? Well?"

The voice spoke again. This time, many other voices rung in, chanting a mysterious melody. "No. In fact," the voice said, speaking like a fortune-teller, "you should have thought about that before you made your move...Luna the Badger."

The person who spoke in that mysterious tone of voice revealed itself to Luna. Luna couldn't believe who she saw, or what she saw. It was tough to make it out at first, but it was soon made clear to her. It was a member of her past army, Yashima the Hybrid. She couldn't believe that she was talking to Yashima, a deceased member of an old army in the past that she wanted to forget, but her subconscious wouldn't let her. She was being haunted by her old army, but for what reason? It didn't make any sense to her. She tried to talk to Yashima again. "What is your problem? You shouldn't even be coming back. You were unloyal to...."

"For the last time, Luna, we were not unloyal to you. We were not deceptive, nor were we traitors to you. How can you justify that we did nothing for you when we did everything you asked of us?" she calmly said. "Don't make that same mistake twice with this new army. In fact, you shouldn't need a new army. You should have never killed us for your own insatiable lust for power. That is all that you wanted in the first place. All you wanted was more power and more control. You did not think about what you were to do – wait. Yes, you did. You made the right choice. That choice will lead you to your demise in only a short time."

Luna thought that this was all a big optical illusion, a mind game. She remembered Yashima's mind games and illusions that always baffled the eye. Maybe it was one of those, but it couldn't have been. It felt so real. "What do you mean by that?" she said. She stopped herself. "Wait! I want to show you something," she said. But, there was nothing to show. There was nothing; just vast emptiness. "Do you remember your home planet?"

"Planet Maquie?"

"Yes! Exactly!" Luna exclaimed. "Do you wish to go back there?"

The spirit of Yashima looked at her with strong distain. "Do you really with to appease me with false gifts of joy, comfort, and happiness just to move me or show the kindness that you claim to have shown but never really have? Do you?" she retorted. "You must really be desperate because there are two things wrong with that statement. First problem: You don't have the ability to bring the dead back to life. Second problem: I don't have a home planet anymore. You made me destroy it, remember?"

Luna tried to forget about this whole mess, but they kept messing with her. She couldn't get it out of her head, but she had to try. "Why in the world would you destroy your own planet?" she questioningly said. She spit out that lie just to get Yashima off of her back.

"Don't play dumb with me, Luna. I know. You should have most definitely remembered that I was the most loyal person in your army. I did everything that you ever said. I followed your every command without hesitation. I did not stop and ask questions as to whether I should act on this or not. I did everything you told me. That's when I knew that the "God" that you worshiped had no heart whatsoever. I remember the day that you told me to destroy my home planet and everybody on it and…" she paused, "I acted on your command. I remember this very clearly. I was not as dunce as you thought. I was your most loyal servant. When you destroyed us, you thought that you were safe from a longtime setup for failure and disappointment; however, you forgot one thing," she said. She began to slowly shake her head and chuckle. "It's karma. It's all karma. One day, it's going to come back and chew you up and spit you out."

Luna couldn't believe what she was hearing. Was this all a joke? What was Yashima talking about, and what was she getting at? She decided to question her. "Hey! What do you mean by all of this? You're not making any sense! How in the world do you know all of this?"

"Luna the Badger, you'll never understand. Your overinflated ego will get you killed, just like we. I propose to you a riddle. Solve it before it's too late."

"What?"

"One color, two items,
Stands out from all,
Shows victory,
Not to the enemy."

"That is your riddle. Solve it to see what happens in your future. If you don't, you were warned," Yashima said. She then slowly vanished from sight, along with the rest of the chanting silhouettes of Luna's army. "Your fate is timed by this riddle."

Luna tried to call for them to come back and possibly give her a hint as to what the answer might be, but they were already long gone and she was left in the darkness, holding a cube in her hand. "What the…what did she mean by that? Riddle?" She was left in the dark, felling cursed by something the she couldn't solve. Why did Yashima give her this cube that could only be solved by answering a question? What did she want from her? "Damn you, Yashima."

To be continued…

Chapter 10 is in progress.