Hey guys! Just wanted to present the next chapter to Family Matters. Um, all I can say is that this chapter has survived being erased like my other chapters before it has! It's a miracle, and a record! Anyways, I digress. Tell me what you guys think and I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does however own the OCs' mentioned in the other chapters and Spades the Cat.
Me: You're getting lazy again Disclaimer
Disclaimer: You'd be lazy too with all the names of the different characters.
Me: Whatever. Here's the next chapter.
Chapter Four: Prophecy
Darkness was their main weapon, and their most prized ally as the blazing afternoon sun vanished behind the horizon of a shadowed wasteland. The only sign that there had once been trees, bushes and even the most delicate flowers was the black ash that seemed to dull the dark green grass that was even getting burned itself. Why? Rogue was mad.
The clawed demon couldn't believe that he had been taken completely off guard! Even though he wasn't injured in the fight, Rogue still felt like he had been stabbed by Sinister's scythe. How could he have not seen that coming? Perhaps he did and didn't pay attention to it? Rogue didn't care anymore, he was just angry as hell that they managed to chase Cecelia and himself out of the house before they could kill Sinister.
That event at Fate's home led to Rogue, in his dark chameleon form, pacing on the ash covered ground and Cecelia watching him pace as though it was better than watching TV.
"Those brats won't be able to stop us next time," Cecelia told Rogue in a reassuring tone. Rogue however blocked out Cecelia's words.
"I failed. Sinister was to die on New Years, but she didn't! What was I thinking taking Cecelia over and expecting her to kill? Cecelia, even though she's a demon now, still has her old self's weak heart. We need a new ally."
Rogue stopped pacing and saw that Cecelia looked thoughtful.
"Rogue, mind telling me again what the prophecy this time is?"
"I already told you so many times before. Did you honestly forget again?"
Cecelia looked a bit ashamed and that was enough for Rogue to understand that she did forget. The dark chameleon just sighed as he took a seat and stared at Cecelia with his stone grey eyes.
"One last time and that's it."
Rogue put a hand on the ground and his eyes began to glow. He levitated off the ground and began chanting a small passage.
Fate is the eyes that sees all,
Along side her are those who controls death and life.
In the darkness there's a call,
A cry for help as the harvester's duties are put in the line of strife.
Watching as the project's granddaughter feels herself fall,
Then watch as the darkness grows tall,
While the light's life disappears.
After that passage was said, Rogue returned to normal and landed gracefully on the ground.
"And that's the passage."
"Project's?"
"Sinister is the decendent of Project Shadow. So of course that's how I was able to figure out that it was refering to Sinister," Rogue explained.
Cecelia smirked, "so if we kill Sinister, then we become the rulers of Hell?"
"Correct. And when Sinister and Charmy are killed then I'll have free reign over all of Mobius and Hell."
The armadillo then paused for a moment and asked, "how is Charmy involved?"
"Simple, his family is involved with my very presence."
"How so?"
Rogue seemed to have a reminiscing face on as he told Cecelia, "I was not always the prophet of Hell, but once upon a time I was a young warrior. I had gone astray from the rest of my gang so I took refugee with the king and queen of the Honey Comb Colony. As you can imagine that gave me a lot of time to know the place inside and outside. But I found one of my companions on my travels with Charmy. He then told me how they were going to attack, and to give the child back to the king and queen; they believed that there would be no way to save Charmy. But they found a way and because of that, Charmy must be eliminated."
"There's another reason too isn't there?"
"The bee ruined my chances last time. Before time was reset. And now revenge is in order."
Cecelia seemed to be understanding toward Rogue.
"And what about the others? Angel... what is that butterfly's role in this?"
"She's a wild card out of the deck. If say, someone like Fate dies or is unable to fulfill her duties, then Angel takes control. So if Sinister dies, Angel's ability to take control over the position is destroyed because the Angel of Life has influence on her, which explains why the Angel of Death hates her."
"So if we kill Sinister-"
"Then no one will be able to take over her position and the powers of Hell and Heaven will fall. Leaving us the only ones able to take control. Just you and me, the prophet of Hell and his wife."
Rogue laughed with Cecelia and the darkness seemed to bring out the evilness in their eyes; but among the branches of the trees that hadn't been burned down yet were a pair of red specked eyes. But before the duo could catch the aura that would belong to the red specked eyes, the figure was already gone.
--- Somewhere in Casinopolis ---
The dark sky seemed to cast an unwelcoming aura to me as Sonic, Tails and myself came closer to Casinopolis; the city where games of chance and risk take place, and where some people find themselves going into bankrupt because they've gambled more than they make at their jobs. Lights from clubs and local inns seemed to leave me wondering why there were even street lights since the clubs could brighten up the streets enough to see.
"So this is Casinopolis," I said absentmindedly.
"Yep."
I looked around and I couldn't help but to shrug, "I don't see why people wind up going here for vacations. It reeks of money being wasted."
"It's fun once you get used to how the games go."
"Whatever. We're not here to play card games and gamble though, we're here to take a short cut."
"I thought you didn't know where we were suppose to go," Tails remarked.
"I remember how to get halfway there, after that I'm pretty useless. Now come on! We're almost half way-"
"Hey! Theif!! CATCH HIM!!"
We turned and saw a young cat running toward us. Sonic and Tails jumped out of the way but the cat ran past me swiftly. As he did, I saw his hands concealed in metal gaunlets.
"GET HIM!!"
I then started to feel like I had seen those hands before. Then it hit me; my dream revealed those hands once before. Before anyone could say anything I ran as fast as I could and caught up with the cat.
"HEY! STOP!" I shouted as I grabbed the cat's hand.
Surprise filled the black eyes with red specks that belonged to the cat as he lost his balance and the duo both fell to the sidewalk. Guns were pointed at the cat and I.
"Freeze!"
"Huh?"
"You idiot!" the cat shouted angrily.
"Spades, you're under arrest with this... erm... what is your name?"
"Wait you're arresting me for helping you guys out?" I questioned with slight irritation.
"'fraid so. You interfered and we don't know if you're his partner or not."
"She's not! She came with us," Tails said quickly as he ran to my defense.
The officer didn't look like he believed Tails nor myself. Anger started to build up as I suddenly asked, "are you a bunch of morons?"
"Sinister!"
The officer's face lit up with rage as he slapped me across the face, earning a gasp and angered glare from Sonic and Tails. I growled and resisted the urge to take out my scythe and slice and dice that creep officer.
Handcuffs snapped around one of my wrists along with the cat, "you're both under arrest. You have the right to remain silent-"
"Too bad I also have the right to keep on talking! Freedom of speech, search it up," I retorted miserably before he shoved us into the car and drove off, leaving Sonic and Tails looking worried.
--- Jail ---
Silence lingered in the air as the officer was sleeping outside of where the actual jail cells were. I sat on the floor while Spades the cat claimed the bed that I swear was made of concrete. And unfortunate for us, we were still attached to each other by the handcuffs.
"This is all your fault," he told me as he glared at me with daggers dipped in poison. It was times like this that I wish I had Angel to reverse this whole thing from happening. The worse part is that none of it made sense. Why would I, a helpful bystander, be thrown in jail for catching this theif?
"Didn't you hear me?"
"Yes. Now if you would be so kind as to shut up."
Spades' black eyes scared me because of the red specks. His wardrobe was a strange hat that could've been a top hat like the guitarist Slash would've worn but it had playing cards attached to it and he wore a large black trench coat that had a spade painted in pure white paint. I felt insignificant at that moment but that didn't stop me from standing up and walking over to the wall, which resulted in Spades being dragged along.
"What are you doing?" he asked curiously as he watched me take out my scythe.
"I said shut up. That guard will hear us."
Spades was obedient as far as I could tell since he stayed quiet as he was forced to stand next to me. I then tapped my scythe against the wall and smiled as I found out something. I could teleport through it.
"I know how to get out of here."
"Good for you," Spades muttered sadly. I looked at him, why I felt so compelled to bring him along I wasn't sure, but maybe he could help me find where I had to go.
"Who said I was going to leave you behind?"
Spades looked up with wide eyes, "you're getting me out of here?"
"Sure, as long as you promise to help me out. Besides I feel like I-"
"If you get me out of here, I'll tell you about two people that were talking about you."
That caught me off guard.
"What?"
"Two people, a chameleon and an armadillo were talking about you earlier," Spades said with hopeful eyes.
Could I honestly trust those eyes? Were they lying? How did he know about Rogue and Cecelia? Was he an ally to them? Footsteps were heard heading toward our cell. There wasn't any time to wonder about something like that. I teleported the both of us out of that small cell before the guard could even come anywhere close to it.
When we got out, I realized we teleported to a small hill outside of the town. I grinned as I just achieved a personal record of teleporting.
Turning to Spades who was forced to follow me, no matter where I went, I looked at the handcuffs.
"Looks like we're stuck like this for a while."
"... Um..."
"Which means you tell me all that you saw and I'll try to get us separated. Got it?" I told him and he nodded before looking very uneasy.
"Quick question."
"Which is?"
Spades' cheeks turned pink and I felt scared to know what he was thinking.
"What happens if we have to go the bathroom and we haven't been separated?"
"We'll figure something out."
"..."
I stopped and squealed with disgust, "you have to go now don't you?!"
Spades nodded and I felt myself shiver with disgust again. I ran and he was forced to follow me, "then talk fast. Once you're done I'll separate us."
I could tell that Spades needed to go and fast, so the words spilled out of his mouth so quickly I barely caught any of the words. But there was only one part that caught my complete attention...
The prophecy of what would happen if I was killed. And that left me with one problem and unfortunately I feared that Spades had just been dragged into it.
Rogue and Cecelia were still after me. They would kill me too, and if I died then chances are bad things will follow. Anger raged inside me as though I was a wild animal in a cage, and Rogue and Cecelia were the hunters threatening to kill me if I didn't calm down.
Then I realized why I always felt so horrible in the past.
Because I've been trapped in that cage with people pointing their weapons at me for centuries. I was always blamed for everything, and now those demons had a reason to show anyone to get a new ally. Just in case no one understood, here's how I can say it in a language anyone could understand:
I. Am. So. Dead.
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Okay so that's the chapter this time! Um, yea... the last part about Spades needing to go was my cousin's idea. I promised her that an idea of her's would be used so that way she wouldn't erase my stories. And it worked, she hasn't tried to erase this chapter at all. Anyways, hope you guys enjoy it and feel free to tell me what you guys think.