Rise of the Chosen One

Chapter 4: The Shanato's, guardians of time

Wasteland on the left fork

Shento approached the crater where Shadow would hopefully be. When Shento reached it and looked down into it he saw a very bruised, battered, and pissed off hedgehog in it. "Where the hell did all of that power come from?" Shadow asked irritated that if Shento had that much power, he would use it all at once. "As I said before Shadow, I've always had it, what you said made me angry so I decided to show you just how powerful I really am." Shento replied calmly, in his mind all of this was Shadow's fault anyway.

"Damn you Shento…" Shadow said before passing out from the amount of damage that was inflicted to him. Shento sighed before jumping down to get Shadow. He picked him up and pulled out another Senzu Bean and fed it to him. Almost immediately Shadow woke up and sprang to his feet and jumped to the reach the edge of the crater. He landed at the top of it and began to walk back to the campsite as if nothing had happened, though he was in deep thought.

"If Shento is that strong, then who is to say his entire family isn't that strong as well? Damn it! If that's the case then there is seven people who are stronger then me, I'll just have to train and become stronger then them…" Shadow thought with anger as Shento followed him close behind.

Road to the Shrine: Right Fork

Sonic was panting heavily; he was exhausted from the days training and was ready to get to sleep. However, a certain mad scientist was about to rain on his parade. "Muahahaha! We meet again Sonic!" Said a certain egg shaped scientist. "Eggman!" Sonic yelled at the crazed madman. "Yes, it is I! Doctor Eggman! And this time I have come up with the perfect plan to destroy you and your pesky friends!" Eggman yelled as he pressed a big red button on his machine. Almost immediately a giant robot seemingly fell from the sky right in front of Sonic. "I call it my Egg-Annihilator!" Eggman yelled pleased with his creation.

"Do you ever shut up?" Sonic asked. "Shut up hedgehog! This is the day that you die!" Eggman yelled as he jumped into his robot and charged Sonic. "Oh yeah bring it on!" Sonic yelled preparing for battle.

Play Endless Possibilities by Jaret Reddick

Sonic jumped at the giant robot and avoided a swipe of its hand in midair. He then kicked it in the head and used it to spring backwards and couple of yards. The robot then turned its hand into a machine gun and started to shoot dozens of bullets at the blue hedgehog. Sonic smiled as he began to run circles around the robot to dodge all of the bullets. At the same time this was causing the robot to be lifted into the air. "What is this?" Eggman yelled as he was sucked into the vortex. "Time to finish this!" Sonic yelled as he prepared to Spin Dash the robot, though this time something was different. Energy was gathering around the hedgehog. "What is happening?" Eggman yelled watching Sonic with interest and fear. "Chaos…Dash!" Sonic yelled as he launched himself at the robot. With an almighty explosion on impact, Sonic had cleaved the robot into two halves as it exploded.

"You'll regret this hedgehog!" Eggman yelled as he flew through the air. "So long Egghead!" Sonic yelled as he watched Eggman soar through the sky. "Well that was fun while it lasted, time to get some sleep!" Sonic yelled as he walked toward his tent.

Road to the Shrine: Left Fork

Shadow walked over to his tent, unable to think anymore and decided to try and get some sleep, although he didn't even need to sleep, since he was designed to never sleep. He entered his tent and laid there awake for the rest of night.

The next day, Road to the Shrine: Right Fork

Sonic woke up as the sun was rising. "Well it's about time we get back on the road!" Sonic yelled with enthusiasm. This however woke up everyone else and they were cranky about the way that they were woken up. "Sonic!" Amy yelled as she pulled out her Piko Piko Hammer. "Umm…Yes Amy?" Sonic replied afraid of the hammer in her hands. "How many times am I going to have to tell you to not yell in the morning? Every time anyone sleeps at your house or you sleep at someone else's house you wake them up by being very loud and annoying!" Amy yelled as she continued to advance toward Sonic. "Hey Amy…Calm down, Tails! Help me!" Sonic yelled as he began to run away from Amy. "Sorry Sonic but I think you have this one coming." Tails said a little upset that he was woken up as well.

"Well I'm going to have to separate them." Larnet said as he shot a small blast of Chaos Energy toward Amy's hammer. It exploded on contact and destroyed Amy's hammer. Even though it didn't hurt Amy she was still pretty pissed off, "What did you do that for?" Amy yelled at Larnet. "We need to get moving. We're already behind schedule as it is; I don't like to be late." Larnet replied as he was packing up his camp. Amy decided it was best to go with what Larnet was doing and began to pack up her own camp as well. After everybody had packed up their things the group headed out back onto the road.

Road to the Shrine: Left Fork

Shadow was packing up his things when Eggman decided to attack them. As he was the only one up a 4 in the morning, packing up his camp the egg shaped scientist descended from the sky. "Doctor." Shadow said as he looked up at Eggman. "Hello Shadow, pleasant morning today isn't it?" Eggman asked as he made motions around him. "Cut to the chase Doctor, that isn't the reason you're here is it?" Shadow asked wanting to get this over with. All Eggman was doing was wasting his time. "Ah yes, alright then Shadow, the reason I'm here is quite simple. I've been working to get rid of all the pests that have been in my way of my plans recently and you happen to be on that list. So here I am." Eggman explained to Shadow as a giant flying fortress appeared above them. Hundreds of robots began to drop out of them and land all around Shadow. The noise caused by the robots woke up Rouge and Shento was already up and had been watching the whole scene.

"It seems we have some exterminating to do." Shento said as he approached Shadow and stood against the robots. "Someone just doesn't know when to give up do they?" Rouge asked Eggman as she descended by Shadow. "No time for games Rouge. It's time to clean house." Shadow said as he lowered into a fighting stance. "This is going to easy." Rouge said as she prepared for battle. "I wouldn't even call this a warm-up." Shento said as he waited for the battle to begin. "Egg-Bots, Attack!" Eggman yelled as his small army ran toward the three.

Shadow jumped in the air as 3 robots ran toward him. He used his homing attack to take out all three and launched some Chaos Spears toward a group of 6 and destroyed all of them. Shento sent blast after blast after the robots. Each one that hit a blast was instantly disintegrated. After they got to close he began to attack them with his fists. A group of 15 or so robots attacked him and he began to rip them all apart while he laughing like he was having the time of his life as robot limbs were flying from the group. Rouge was jumping from robot to robot kicking each one in the head and causing it to explode. After the 8th robot she regrouped with Shadow.

"Just like old times eh Shadow?" Rouge asked as she kicked another robot in the head. "If you say so." Shadow said as he blasted another 3 robots into oblivion. "How can they destroy my robots so easily?" Eggman asked himself. "Enough! E-119 Alpha, E-120 Echo and E-121 Charlie, Attack!" Three robots fell from the giant flying fortress. Alpha looked like Beta when he got his upgrades, only he was green. Echo looked exactly like Gamma but he was white and black. Charlie looked like Beta when he was normal with the double arm cannons only he was brown. The three robots each chose a target to attack, Alpha attacked Shadow, Echo attacked Shento and Charlie attacked Rouge.

"This ought to be interesting." Shadow said as he destroyed the remaining of the smaller robots. Alpha raised his arm and swiped at Shadow. Shadow backfliped and shot a few Chaos Spears at Alpha. Alpha deflected them to his side and shot some homing missiles at Shadow. Shadow ran around Alpha in a circle and jumped over him just as the missiles were going to hit him, causing them to blow up in Alpha's face. As the smoke cleared Alpha was floating there unfazed by the attack. "Hehehehe…Fine then." Shadow said as he approached the robot. Each of his inhibitor rings fell to the ground as he continued to walk toward the robot. "It's time for you to die!" Shadow yelled as he ran toward the robot.

Alpha floated up and charged a blast and shot it at Shadow. Shadow dodged the blast and continued to run toward Alpha. Alpha shot more charged blasts at Shadow only for him to dodge them. "This is tiresome…Chaos Control!" Shadow yelled as time slowed down. Shadow ran up right behind the robot as time resumed. "Chaos…Blast!" Shadow yelled at the top of his lungs as an explosion engulfed both him and Alpha. "Shadow!" Rouge yelled as she looked toward the blast. That cost her dearly as Charlie knocked her down and pointed a gun at her head. "Time to die." Charlie said in a robotic voice. "What do you think your doing?" Shadow said as he teleported behind Charlie. He stuck his hand through the robot. "DON'T EVER TOUCH HER!" Shadow yelled as he ripped the robot in half.

"Humph…Showoff." Shento said as he walked toward them, Echo in a burning heap of metal behind him. "Shadow?" Rouge asked as he looked at her. He offered her a hand, "You okay?" He asked as he pulled her up to her feet. "Ya, I'm fine…" Rouge replied as Shadow turned around. "Good, now then." Shadow said turning his attention to Eggman…or where Eggman used to be. It seems that he retreated when Shadow removed his inhibitor rings, knowing the outcome of the battle already, "Coward." Shadow said as he went to put his inhibitor rings back on.

"He sure has spilt personalities alright." Shento said as he looked toward the campsite. It was completely destroyed in the battle. The only things left were Shadow's equipment since he had packed up early and had his supplies behind a boulder at the time. "Figures this would happen. My luck is terrible." Shento said as he looked at the remains of the campsite. "Oh this is just great! Now where am I supposed to sleep?" Rouge yelled angry at Eggman for ruining her stuff. "Take my tent, I don't sleep anyway." Shadow said as he walked back toward the group. He walked over to where his equipment was and picked it up and began to walk down the path. "Well? Are you guys coming?" Shadow asked turning his head back toward Shento and Rouge. Shento got up and followed Shadow without another word and Rouge ran after him telling him to wait up.

Road to the Shrine: Right Fork

Sonic and his group were walking when they could see something ahead on the path… "We're here, that is the Shrine of Beginnings." Larnet said to Sonic as he walked beside him. "That's the Shrine? I was expecting it to be bigger." Sonic said looking at the Shrine. "Whatever the case, we should reach it within the hour at our current pace." Larnet said, but Sonic had other plans. "Tails? Grab onto Larnet's hand" Sonic asked and Tails grabbed Larnet's hand. "Hey! What are you planning Sonic?" Larnet asked slightly worried. "You'll see…" Sonic had a sly grin on his face as he grabbed Amy and Tails hands. "BLAST AWAY!" Sonic yelled as he ran top speed toward the Shrine. "YOURRRRR CRRRAAAAZZZZYYYYYY!" Larnet yelled as they approached the Shrine at high speeds.

Road to the Shrine: Left Fork

"Is that Sonic?" Shento asked as he saw the blue blur running toward the Shrine. "No! The fakers trying to beat me to the Shrine! Well that isn't going to happen!" Shadow yelled as he grabbed Rouge and Shento's hands. "Shadow? What are you DOOOOOIIIIINNNNGGGG?" The last part of Shento's sentence was like that because Shadow had begun to run toward the Shrine at high speeds, just like Sonic.

Shrine of Beginnings

"Who's that coming?" A girl of about age 19 asked. "It looks like Larnet and Shento's Chosen One's are about to arrive. We had better move." An older man said as he moved back. Almost as if one cue, Sonic and Shadow's groups both collided right next to the shrine and the members all went flying to different points of the shrine. "Watch where your going Sonic!" Shadow yelled at the blue hedgehog. "Hey don't blame me! You just didn't want me to win so you ran into me!" Sonic yelled at the Ultimate Life Form. "What did you say?" Shadow now had an anime vein bulging from his head.

"ENOUGH!" Both Larnet and Shento yelled at the hedgehogs, "Seriously, you guys act like children sometimes." Shento said not believing that they were both arguing over something as simple as a race. "Ahem." The older man said to get everyone's attention. "Grandfather!" Larnet yelled and ran up to give the old man a hug. "Alright Larnet that's enough." The old man said as Larnet got off of him. "It's been so long! How have you been?" Larnet asked as he dusted himself off. "I've been fine Larnet; I trust you have been okay as well?" He asked. "Grandpa Koza…" Shento said annoyed that they had gotten off track so easily. "What? Oh yes right, the newcomers." Koza replied remembering the Chosen One's in front of him. Koza was a old sea blue hedgehog whose quills dropped like Sonic's. He wore sky blue gloves and his shoes were sea and sky blue.

"Enough fooling around now, time to get back to business. Ahem, you are two of the seven Chosen One candidates that have a chance to be the real Chosen One, there can only be one to save the world after all." Koza explained to the hedgehogs. "So only one of the seven candidates is actually the Chosen One?" Shadow asked Koza. "Yes, follow me." Koza lead them into a chamber where the other five Chosen One's and their mentors waited. "Wow one things for sure…" Sonic started.

"This is going to be intense!"