Sonic grabbed my hand as he pulled me out of the tree Kay had slammed me into. We had fought another good half-hour , when Shadow and Shadria broke us up. I rubbed my head as sonic laughed at me, I smirked at him.
"Race ya back to camp!" I shouted as I ran ahead of him, I heard him chuckle then footsteps.
"You don't honestly think that you'll beat me, do you?" He laughed , I looked straight head.
"Nope! I know I can! See Ya!" I speed ahead grinning ear to ear, I saw a red shape in the distance. I slammed on the brake barely stopping in time from crashing into Amery. How the heck did he get ahead of me? Then I felt something crash into me, knocking us to the ground. I shoved Sonic of me as we both laughed.
"I won!" I gasped sitting up, I tugged some loose leaves from my hair.
"No, I did!-"
"Does it matter!" Shadria snapped as she walked over to us, I rolled my eyes.
"Yes, Don't you want to know who's faster between you and Shadow?" I asked as I helped Sonic up, She smirked as she crossed her arms.
"Humph! She knows I'm faster than her. Why bother even pondering the question?" A dark voice said behind me, making me jump a foot in the air. Shadria glared in my direction, eyebrow arched she stepped towards Shadow.
"Oh, is that so? If you haven't forgotten I'm the human Shadow, therefore I'm your equal." Smirking she walked back towards the stream, I shrugged to Sonic and we both went back to camp. Kay, Knuckles, Tails , Tammy, Amery and Amy had already began making dinner, I tried to hide the worry as Amy and Amery emptied the last bit of food from the pack. I stood up stretching , I made an excuse to go for a run. I ran for about fifteen minutes when I saw bright lights shinning in the distance, I cautiously walked towards the lights and noticed it was a city. Perfect. We could restock in supplies and start looking for the Crystal pieces, a breeze tousled my hair I crinkled my nose from the stench. I looked to the side to see the city dump, I winced again from the smell and decided to go back to camp before I puked. I nearly tripped over my feet excited with the news , except everybody looked…sad?
"What's with the long faces?" I asked sitting in between Sonic and Tammy.
"Soni… We've been talking. We need to keep looking for the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic said wringing his hands, I frowned . Sonic actually looked sad, there was something wrong very wrong.
"Yeah, I know. But Kay wants to get the Crystal Shards back first, then we'll help you finish looking for the Emeralds. What's wrong?" I asked , Shadria shot up glaring at me.
"How stupid can you be? He telling you that they're going to leave! " Shadria snarled then walked of into the forest, Shadow showed no interest in following her.
"What! But…but-"
"We need to get the emeralds before Eggman, he might get to them before us if we don't continue looking. You're the human Sonic Team right? That means you can look for the Crystal Shards on your own. You don't need us." Knuckles growled , Kay glared back at him.
"But you need us! How did you think you found the other Chaos Emeralds? Hmm! Tammy helped building the Emerald detector, Soni helped defeating the robots and I gave her back up! If it weren't for us you probably wouldn't even have one!"
"What! We were doing perfectly fine, until Sonic decided to asked you for help!" Kay and Knuckles began shouting at each other, their fists raised. Sonic and I both jumped in between stopping them from fighting, I turned Kay away from Knuckles, Sonic doing the same.
"Kay calm down. You know Knuckles is a hothead, don't let his temper get to you." I said lightly shaking her, she nodded her head. I heard Sonic muttering something to Knuckles him nodding his head also, our eyes met. This was it? We were going to split after all this? Kay and Knuckles walked off in opposite directions, I was in shock I expected Kay and Knuckles to back each other up not fight. Amery, Amy, Tammy and Tails were sitting next to each other watching the entire thing, I told them to go ahead and go to bed. I looked over to Sonic, unsure of what to say.
"So…you're really serious about this? I mean… You're going to leave?" I asked my voice slightly wavering, He walked over to me, we sat down on a log next to each other.
"Yeah, You know Eggman is going to try to get them before us. We have to…I just wish we didn't have to split."
"Mmm…Me too. I…I found a city not that far away …wanna see?" I stood back up and began walking, running had lost its appeal to me. We walked in silence at arms length, we looked over at the city.
" We should recoup and get more supplies while we're here. Tails and Tammy can probably build a communication device with the scraps in the dump, so we can keep in touch." He murmured, I nodded my head and turned around to start walking back. The entire camp was asleep when we came back, Sonic crawled into his sleeping bag. I did the same, but didn't fall asleep for hours. I heard Shadria get up in the dark, curiosity was eating at me so I followed her into the forest. She ran for a while then entered a clearing, I hid in one of the near by bushes as she walked up to a dark figure waiting it the center.
"Do you believe this is actually going to work?" Shadria asked, as she walked towards the dark figure.
" I don't think breaking them up will do me any good." I nearly revealed my self when I gasped seeing Shadow.
"Of course it'll work. When they're apart they'll be weaker and won't be able to rescue people in time, when all the government bases are decimated. Once they go their separate ways then I'll go my own way as will you, we'll meet up at the center of the forest. "
"And what about the plans to the bases? I'd like to gather some information from them."
"Of what?…. You hope to find something of your grandfather?"
"That is none of your concern." I stepped away from the bush and began running back to camp. I had to warn the others, but so many questions swirled in my head. Then I felt something hit the back of my head, I sank to my knees then a soft darkness overwhelmed me.
Hi !!Sorry I haven't updated!! Busy( cough, cough ....grounded.) Any way what do you think??? Sorry if it seemed rushed, thanks everybody for the great reviews!!! Please,please,review,review,review!!! ~God Bless!~
