SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES
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Chapter Thirty-Five: Venomous Hatred
It was a new day at the Sonic Heroes base. While others were at breakfast, Sonic was staring himself in the mirror of the bathroom (I had no idea they had one). Many would think he was putting gel in his quill, but to be honest, who wouldn't. But his eyes were focused on one thing: the two holes on his neck. Sonic tried to dab the holes with aloe, but the moment it touched, Sonic felt as if a white-hot wire had been pressed to his neck.
"OW! Ok, that didn't work." Sonic muttered.
"What are you up to this time?" Sonic looked over to see Shadow leaning against the door. "Run out of gel?"
"For the hundredth time, I don't use gel!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Could've fooled me." Shadow muttered, earning a glare from Sonic. "Seriously, What are you doing?"
"You remember the mark on my neck I told you about?" Sonic asked.
"The one you had since birth?" Shadow asked. Sonic nodded. "Yeah, why?"
"I've been trying to get rid of it for years." Sonic explained. "I tried medicine, but It only burned me. Not even Raine's medicine works. I tried covering it in bandages, but they somehow caught fire. I even tried painting my neck."
"Let me guess, it eroded seconds later." Shadow said.
"Worse. My fur turned green for a week." Sonic said. Shadow had to stifle a laugh.
"But I have to wonder how you got it." Shadow thought out loud. "That mark is not something you can be born with."
"I think..." But Sonic was cut off when the alarm sounded. Tails came running. "Yo, bro, what's up?"
"Eggman's attacking Emerald Town!" Tails exclaimed.
Upon hearing this, The hedgehogs dropped the conversation and sped off. Unknown to them. A slithery serpent crawled out of the air duct overhead, but remained hanging. The serpent's eyes remained intensley on the departing blue hedgehog's form.
"القنفذ يسير" The snake known as Nagini hissed, but no one heard. "اللورد النجا سيسعده"
The scene changes to the open waters of the Caribbean Sea. Lapping against the waters was a single sailboat with a certain man, or more specifically, a certain hedgehog. Gale the Hedgehog, The King of the Pirates, stood proudly atop the mast of the boat; his coat whipping in the wind. The setting sun glowed against his features. His trip from Prison Island had gone off perfectly except for one hitch: his ship was halfway sunk. But lucky enough, he reached an island port just as the ship fully sunk. He smiled brightly and took in a long, warming breath.
"Ah, nothing like the sweet smelling bouquet that is Tortuga." Gale said brightly.
Gale walked down a stone path and entered a loud, abundant town. Once you enter the town, you would know why. Everywhere you look you could find people on the streets or buildings either drinking, shooting, fighting, stealing, killing, and anything else you could think of. Gale walked through it like a normal day at the park; an axe barely missed his head without him knowing it. He circled around town until he met up with an old friend.
"Jack Sparrow!" Gale shouted happily.
"Gale, my furry little friend! How are you?!" Jack shouted loudly. He wobbled over to Gale, taking a swig of rum. "Off to fight more sea demons?"
"Not since Davy Jones." Gale chuckled. "Listen, I'm looking for Wrist. Have you seen him?"
"Yeah, I think he..." Jack was cut off when a random man run up to him and smashed a wine bottle over his head. He fell on his face before saying. "...He's in the bar."
"Uh, thanks." Gale said awkwardly. "I'll talk to ya later."
"I'll be here." Jack's muffled voice said.
Gale left the drunken Pirate Lord and made a beeline for the bar; avoiding death four times without knowing it. As he entered the bar, a bottle nearly smashed into his head. The inside was really not too different on then the outside except it was more crowded. He crossed the bar towards the counter when he found a red echidna sleeping on it.
"Man, I wonder if your son is this lazy." Gale said amused.
Everyone thought Knuckles was the last of the echidna's, but they were wrong. He looked the same age as Gale, had white lines on his legs, arms, and shoulders along with a deep scar on his left cheek. He wore a blue sash across his chest, red shoes similar to the ones Knuckles wore, and white gloves with three spikes protruding from his knuckles. The echidna snored loudly over the raging crowd, annoying Gale. Gale stole a bottle from a random person and dumped its contents on his face, causing him to sputter and fall over.
"Curse you for breathing, you slack jawed idiot!" The echidna roared as he stood up. His rage disappeared when he saw Gale and suddenly cheered. "Gale! You're alive!"
"Yes, I am, Wrist." Gale said proudly as he sat down. "They say no one has ever escaped Prison Island, but they don't know me. I also had the pleasure of meeting your son."
"Oh." Wrist said; slightly sad. "How is Knuckles these days."
"He's doing well, I should say." Gale smirked. "I heard in the news he was getting married to a lovely woman named Rouge."
"Lucky boy. I'm so proud of him." Wrist said. A tear traced itself down from his eyes before he wiped it away. "So what are you doing these days.
"Well, every since I escaped, I did some thinking." Gale said. "And I've decided to reform the old crew. That means I'm going to need my first mate back, Wrist."
"I don't think that's such a good idea, Gale." Wrist said solemnly. "It's because of pirating I was banished from Angel Island."
"It was your idea to pawn off the Master Emerald for rum in the first place." Gale said matter-of-factly.
"True, but it was pirating that caused you to miss thirteen years of your son's life." Wrist said. "Listen, as a friend, I feel that you should consider settling down. Go back to Aleena. She must miss you."
"I'm sure she does." Gale said; thinking longingly of the woman who became Sonic's mother. "But she's not one to settle down, despite being a queen. And neither am I."
"Gale, I..." Wrist was cut off.
"This is a challenge to ye all!" Some random pirate shouted. "Is anyone man enough to out do me in a drinking contest?!"
"I'll be right back." Gale said with a smirk. Gale got up from his seat and called. "Yo, fuzz face!"
"Oh no." Wrist groaned.
--One Hour Later--
Gale and Wrist walked out of the bar; Gale's face filled with victorious pride.
"How can you drink six kegs of rum and not pass out." Wrist said bewildered.
"Years of practice, my friend." Gale chuckled. He took two steps before he spoke up again. "Wrist?"
"Yes?" Wrist asked.
"Catch me." Gale said before passing out.
"I just knew this would happen." Wrist groaned with irritation.
Wrist grabbed Gale by his coat and flung him over his shoulder. Wrist carried the Pirate King across town, avoiding getting killed twenty-four times and breaking thirteen people's noses, until he reached a hotel in the more peaceful part of the island, which is not an easy accomplishment. He rented two rooms and entered one before flinging Gale on the bed.
"Gale...sometimes I worry about you." Wrist whispered; exiting the room.
For three hours, Gale wondered into blissful sleep; dream of a life he could have had with his love and son. But unknown to him, the door to his room cracked open slightly. Just then, three black cobras slithered through the crack and up Gale's bed. They lifted their heads up off the ground and bared their fangs to him. But before they could attack, Gale sudden stood on his hands and swung his feet around to stamp them to the wall, instantly killing them.
"That was close." Gale said; jumping back to his feet. "Where did they come from?" He then noticed a letter on the floor where the cobras once slithered. "What's this?"
Greetings Gale.
If you have survived by cobras, then I must applaud you.
But those were only mere servants. Meet me at the Sun Point. It's time we settled the score.
King of Serpents, Lord Naga
"Naga? He's still alive?!" Gale exclaimed in shock. "I don't know how he's alive, but he won't be for long." He clutched the letter and shook his fist in anger. He made his way to the door, but before he every touched it, he dropped to the floor holding his head. "AAH! Major hangover!"
After grabbing an ice pack and taking a few minutes to calm his throbbing head, he crawled past Wrist's door as to make sure he didn't hear before running off. A few minutes later, he reached Sun Point. Sun Point was actually just a gigantic sundial in the center of the island. The floor was twenty feet wide with numbers and runes etched into it. In the center was a large sharpened piece of obsidian.
"Naga! Show yourself!" Gale called out, but Naga didn't answer. "Did he get lost or something?"
"Not likely." A hissing voice said.
Gale looked down and jumped back just in time as Naga appeared out of the ground with his claw held out. Gale back flipped as Naga fully appeared from the ground.
"Not bad." Naga said "You were always quick on your feet."
"Where do you think Sonic got it from?" Gale joked. "So, slitherpuss. How ya doing?"
"Better since you tried to kill me last time." Naga hissed angrily.
"Yeah, that's been bugging me." Gale said seriously. "How are you still alive after what happened fifteen years ago?"
"It wasn't easy." Naga said. "But I managed thanks to the Butterflies."
"Fein and Mira?" Gale questioned shockingly. "What happened to them?"
"It's nothing to worry about now." Naga said pleasurably. "Especially since they're dead."
"Damn you!" Gale yelled.
Gale charged forward and jumped at the venom-green serpent. He swung his foot around and curled into a sideways spin dash. He hovered over the ground for a moment before shooting at Naga. He uncurled and swung his foot at him, but the evil snake blocked it with his forearm. Naga grasped Gale's ankle and raised him...twenty feet in the air. Naga had somehow extended his arm to an impossible length. He flung his arm downward, thrashing Gale face-forward into the ground. Gale groaned; his head still throbbing from the hangover, but weakly gazed over his shoulder to watch Naga retract his arm.
"Since when could you do that?" Gale asked; weakly standing up against the slab of obsidian.
"I guess I owe it to you." Naga hissed amusingly. "If you had no tried to kill me, I never would have discovered the gift Orochimaru granted me."
"Gift? What gift?" Gale asked.
"You see, I wasn't born, I was created." Naga explained. "You see, by infusing his DNA and a serpent, Orochimaru intended to create the ultimate life form like his partner, Dr. Gerald Robotnik."
"The scientist from Fifty years ago?" Gale asked.
"Yes." Naga hissed. "Orochimaru looked up to Gerald's genius and planned to follow in his footsteps. He created me, but it was still not enough. He gave up the project is search for a way of immortality. He left it to me, but before I continue, I must exact my revenge."
"Revenge? Against who?" Gale asked.
"You." Naga hissed angrily.
"Well, that make since I tried to kill you." Gale said.
"This has nothing to do with that." Naga stated.
"Huh?" Gale asked.
"Aleena." Naga hissed. "You stole Aleena from me."
"Ok, now you lost me." Gale scratched his head.
"Aleena and I grew up together, loved each other." Naga explained. "I even asked her to marry me and she accepted. Everything was going great. It was only a week before the wedding when you showed up and brought your trouble with you."
"Hey, it's not my fault zombies decided to attack the same day I showed up." Gale defended.
"That's not the worst of it." Naga said. "A day before the wedding, we were arrested for helping you. We were forced to look for you and your bloody compass."
"You won't find it on me now." Gale stated. "I passed it onto Sonic last time we met."
"You think I give a damn!" Naga outburst. "I thought it was finally over when Davy Jones killed you, but Aleena wanted to save you. Upon her request, we traveled to Mangia and trekked trough the tunnels to hell and saved you. Then, we were dragged off to Shipwreck Island, where you were made king."
"Not that I don't enjoy reminiscing, but I still don't get why you would want revenge." Gale said.
"I'm getting to that!" Naga hissed. "After the war was over, I thought I could finally marry Aleena. But she said her heart had changed. She chose to marry you instead. It is despicable. She is a princes. she should not be gallivanting around the sea with a filthy pirate when she has her duties."
"I guess that's why she chose me instead." Gale chuckled. "You know, Sonic looks like me, but he has his mother's personality. They both have a love for freedom."
"That's another thing." Naga hissed. "You did something I could never forgive. You had a child, a child that should have been mine! I would never forget that day. The country celebrated on day of the birth of their newborn prince."
"I remember that day." Gale said happily. "I had a son and got free rum."
"You remember what happened later that day?" Naga chuckled.
"You kidnapped him." Gale sneered.
"Yes. I kidnapped Sonic when he was only hours old." Naga laughed; Gale gritted his teeth with hatred. "I took him away to private laboratory and performed an experiment on him. An experiment I expected to kill him."
"You damn..." Gale was too angry to finish.
"But to my surprise, he didn't die." Naga said interestingly. "Instead, it granted him a gift. A gift even he doesn't know about. You would be surprised how much he and Shadow have in common."
"What gift?" Gale questioned.
"It was unexpected, so I planned to confront Orochimaru when you showed up." Naga hissed. "It took fifteen years, but I finally found him. Thanks to him, I now know what I must do."
"What do you mean?" Gale asked.
"Do you remember when I marked him?" Naga asked. Gale nodded. "That mark allows me to track all my experiments by tracing their blood. Once I find Sonic, I will take Sonic's gift as my own and use it to do what it was intended for."
"How?" Gale asked.
"When I returned to my father, he taught me of a way to claim Sonic as my own." Naga said maliciously. Gale's eyes filled with curiosity when Naga spoke again. "I will consume Sonic's soul and take his body for my own."
"You bastard!" Gale yelled furiously. "That will never happen!"
"Think of it this way." Naga hissed. "I will be completing his destiny."
"You do not decide his destiny!" Gale exclaimed.
"I decided it the day he was born!" Naga shouted. "And there is nothing you can do about it!"
Naga extended his arm over ten feet in an attempt to claw Gale, but the hedgehog jumped over twenty feet in the air. Naga was stunned at how Gale could have done such a feat. Taking advantage of Naga's shock, Gale curled into a spin dash aimed at the snake. When he was close, Gale uncurled and stretched his leg out to slam his heel at the top of Naga's head. A wave of pain surged down Naga's spine as he fell back and black out.
"Consider yourself lucky." Gale growled. "I won't kill you. But if you go anywhere near my son, I will."
The next day had come and Gale had never wanted to leave Tortuga more then he wanted now. After the conflict with Naga, Gale was intent on gathering his old crew again. Not for an adventure like planned, but to ensure protection for his son. Even if Wrist refused to join. Gale made his way to the docks to uh...commandeer a ship. He had already knocked out the crew and threw them overboard when...
"Gale!"
Gale looked over to see who called his name. Wrist jumped aboard with a pack slung over his shoulder.
"Where are you going?" Gale asked.
"With you, of course." Wrist said, noticing Gale's shocked expression. "I thought about it. You and I have been friends for years. I couldn't just let you go on your own."
"Thank you, old friend." Gale said pleasingly.
"What now?" Wrist asked.
"We gather the old crew." Gale said like it was the simplest answer in the world. "You know, Thorn Rose, Accel the Hawk, and Mech the Swallow. It will be nice to see them again."
"But no one has heard from Accel and Mech since they left the Babylon Rogues." Wrist stated. "And last I heard, Thorn and his wife were killed by Naga the Snake."
"They are neither missing nor dead." Gale said with a hint of amusement. "They're just...experts."
As so, Gale and Wrist set off on their new mission. Meanwhile, back at Sun Point, Naga was finally starting to come to. Naga sat when Kai appeared out of nowhere. Naga seemed to recoil at the sight of the boy.
"You failed!" Kai spat. "You filthy waste of skin!"
Kai gripped Naga's face a ripped it off. Inside was not a snake, but a human boy no older then thirteen. Apparently, the boy was only pretending to act as the real Naga. He crawled backwards up the obsidian slab in an attempt to get away from Kai.
"P-p-please." The boy begged. "Please don't tell Lord Naga."
"Too late." Naga's voice sounded. The boy looked around the area in fright, but Naga couldn't be found anywhere. "You have failed Lord Naga. You know the penalty for failure."
"Please, my lord!" The boy cried. "Please! Give me another chance!"
"I must admit, it was impressive that you manage to hold off Gale for so long." Naga's voice said. "I will not kill you, but I will present you with a great honor."
"H-h-honor?" The boy stuttered.
"A great one." Naga's voice sounded amused. When he spoke again, it came out in a hissing sound. "ابتلاع الصبي"
The boy was waiting apprehensively for his reward. Suddenly, a loud hissing sound came from behind. The boy looked back to see a pair of piercing yellow eyes. It was the last thing he saw before Nagini snapped her jaw down on the boy's head. Kai turned away to let Nagini enjoy her new meal; acting as if nothing had happened.
"What now my, my lord?" Kai asked.
"Nothing to do but wait." Naga's voice replied. "We will have our chance at Gale when I posses Sonic's body. For now, we have...other matters to deal with."
A father's love for his son is always strong. Will Gale find his crew again? Will Naga successfully take Sonic's body? And what unknown gift does Sonic have that Naga speaks of? Find out on the next Sonic Heroes.
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