This chapter will pretty much have each of our hedgehog heroes going through their respective temples, while we switch back and forth between them of course. Enjoy the chapter!

Rise of the Chosen One

Chapter 14: Temple Trials

Yellow Chaos Temple: Zaos's POV

I gasped as the walls around me seemed like they were moving. No amount of movies where stupid people take the treasure from a temple could prepare anyone for something like this. "What's going on?" I yelled as some of the rock from the ceiling struck me in the head. As I regained I regained my composure I looked in front of me to see a yellow cat in front of me, it was literary a cat made out of yellow Chaos Energy! "What the?" I started but the cat stopped me. "I am the deity of the Yellow Chaos Temple; I will be the one guiding you through your challenge." The cat spoke. I tried to get this through my head, a god just came down to a temple just so it could help me do a simple trial? Now I was a little nervous as to what this trial was. "Follow me." The deity spoke as it walked further into the temple.

Red Chaos Temple: Shadow's POV

We finally made it to the temple, only to figure out about a three hour waiting period before I could even enter the temple! This had to be one of the worst days of my life….

Blue Chaos Temple: Sonic's POV

…I don't wanna talk about it.

Yellow Chaos Temple: Zaos's POV

I advanced further into the temple when we both came to a stop. I looked ahead and saw three puzzles in front of me. "This temple will test your wisdom; if you pass then you will be rewarded…" The deity said as it slowly disappeared, "You have 6 hours…Begin!" And with that the cat completed disappeared without a trace! No Chaos Control or anything! I didn't spend too much time worrying about it as I had a task to complete. I turned my head toward the three puzzles. The first was some sort of rubic cubes type object with symbols on it, the second was a riddle, and the third was a giant maze. "Looks like this is going to take a while…" I said to myself as I started the cube.

3 hours later

I had just finished the stupid cube and went on to the riddle. The riddle says, what can help you fix your mistakes, but never changes your life? What the hell? I started to wonder if I would even come close to finishing these trials within the time limit.

Red Chaos Temple: Shadow's POV

I sighed with relief as the temple doors finally opened. I walked into the temple without a word as my friends cheered me on from behind. I slowly made my way into the temple, when the doors behind slammed shut. I jumped a little, I hadn't expected that. I slowly made my way into the middle of the room, the darkness not affect me in the slightest, and before the lights even turned on I pressed the button on the pedestal. The whole room began to shake and a bright light flashed in front of me, revealing an echidna made out of red Chaos Energy! I was startled as the being spoke, "I am the deity of the Red Chaos Temple, and I will lead to toward your challenge." And with that the echidna began to head into the temple. I slowly followed after him. When were in the middle of the hallway the echidna grabbed my head with lightning fast reflexes and spoke one sentence to me.

"Good luck hedgehog." After that I blacked out.

Abyss of Power

I slowly regained consciousness as I looked around me. I was in a blank void, everything around me was red! I slowly made it to my feet as I heard the booming voice, "FIGHT YOUR ENEMY." With those words, Eggman appeared in front of me in one of his giant machines. I growled as I looked at the doctor, although he seemed to have no emotion in his eyes! I pondered this as Eggman's machine swung at me, I jumped to avoid the attack and used my spin dash to ram into the mech, causing it to stumble backwards. I landed and charged an attack in my hands, "Chaos Lance!" I yelled as I hurled the projectile toward Eggman's machine. The crimson lance pierced Eggman's Robot and caused it to explode into hundreds of pieces. "Well…That was easy." I said as I turned to leave before the voice spoke again, "FIGHT YOUR RIVAL." I was shocked when I turned around to find myself face to face with Sonic the Hedgehog. "What-"I started before Sonic punched me in the face! I went flying and hit the ground hard, I started to think about what was happening. "I don't think anything here is real, this is just all a test to see if I'm strong enough, which means that isn't the real Sonic!" I though as I stood up and looked at the Sonic lookalike. I smirked, "Alright then double faker, let's see what you've got!" I yelled as I charged the fake Sonic.

Blue Chaos Temple: Sonic POV

I immediately regret the first thing I did when the temple doors opened. Before they had even finished opened I dash through the doors into the temple, which caused them to shut behind me before I even knew it! Now here I was wandering through the dark, trying to figure out where the hell I needed to go before a blue light lit up the room! I was standing in the middle of some sort of master chamber, with a pedestal in front of me. I don't know what came over me, but as soon as I saw the button on it something inside me yelled 'push it!', which I happily complied and pushed the button. As soon as I did the whole building started to shake. "Oh please tell me I'm not going to have to outrun some giant boulder." I mumbled before a bright light shined in front of me. When I opened my eyes I was standing face to face with wolf, which was made of nothing but blue Chaos Energy. I gasped more then than I ever had before as I continued to stare at the…thing, in front of me. "I am the deity of the Blue Chaos Temple. You will follow me to your challenge." And without another word or gesture the wolf began walking down the hallway next to him. I quickly snapped out of my trance and followed him.

About halfway down the hallway the wolf abruptly stopped, "Uh, what are we stopping for?" I asked, that is before the wolf turned around and karate chopped me in the neck! I don't know if he hit a nerve or something but I dropped like a rock after that shot. Before I passed out he spoke two words, "Don't die."

Abyss of Courage

I slowly woke up to find myself in an abyss of blue. It's not that I mind blue, in fact blue is my favorite color! But when you wake up in an unfamiliar place surrounded by nothing but blue, it's kind of creepy. I continued to think about this until I heard a voice, "MAKE YOUR CHOICE." The voice said before it the room changed. There was a giant timer above my head that started at 1 hour and was slowly counting down. I looked ahead and saw two paths. On the path to the left was millions of people about to be killed by one of Eggman's flying warships. I thought that was bad until I looked to the path on my right. Down that path were my friends…

And they were all about to be killed by Eggman himself.

My eyes widened as I looked down each path. I mentally smirked, "Is that it? I can easily save them both within one hour…wait a minute." I started to notice something. Both scenes on each path were paused in time. I put two and two together and realized what was happening. I had to choose either the lives of millions, or my friends. "NO! THAT'S NOT FAIR!" I yelled as I dropped to my knees. I know what was required, this test was to see if I could put the lives of millions of people above the lives of my friends…But that's not fair! "Why…Why are you making me do this?" I yelled hoping that the voice would answer me. I got a simple response, "BECAUSE ONE DAY, IT WILL HAPPEN." I couldn't believe what I had just heard…Yet it was true. One of these times Eggman would get me in a position to choose either my friends, or millions of innocent lives. I started to cry as I realized what I had to do. I slowly raised my head, my face stained with tears and rage molded my face as I looked down the right path. "I'll make sure you don't ever get the chance Eggman…" And with that I took off down the left path, destroying the battleship and saving the city. I made the mistake of looking back to see if I could still save my friends…Only to see their bloody corpses.

"NOOOOOO!" I yelled as I started to run toward them, but the entire room morphed back into the hallway, with me at the end and a shining blue light in front of me. My hand dropped as I realized that it wasn't real, but I would never get the image of my dead friends out of my head. I looked at the blue light and realized that this must be what I came here for. I slowly approached the light and brought my hand toward it. I enclosed my hand around it, and began to feel an overwhelming power seep into me. My eyes widened as I felt my power go through the roof, I screamed as my power rised higher and higher until there was a bright flash of light.

Yellow Chaos Temple: Zaos's POV

I had finally figured out that the answer to the riddle was an eraser. What kind of stupid riddle was that? I had two hours left to figure out this maze, there were a couple dozen cubes scattered around the air, and a bottomless abyss below them. I had to use the cubes to cross the abyss while choosing the correct path on the cubes and not stepping on the same cube twice. I tried to cross the cubes only to mess up and fall, I thought I would need to use Chaos Control…What I was not expecting was some mythical force to teleport me back to the start of the puzzle. This was going to be stupid…

Red Chaos Temple: Shadow's POV

I was still fighting the Sonic clone, we were evenly matched as we exchanged blows again. I jumped back and began to pant until I realized something. Sonic had only ever beaten my in combat when he had something to fight for! This time he had nothing! I chuckled to myself as the fake Sonic charged again, I looked into his eyes, "You're going straight to hell!" I yelled as I held my hands out in front of me. The clone had no time to react, "CHAOS CANNON!" The crimson red beam burst from my hands and completely enveloped the double faker. I started to pant a little, "Take that fool, I'm the coolest!" I turned to leave again, but once again the voice spoke up, "FIGHT YOURSELF." It said as I turned around. "What the hell does that even mean?" I yelled as something began to morph in front of me. I couldn't believe what was happening…

I had just formed in front of me…

Cliffhangers, love em or hate em I use them anyway. I will posting the next chapter soon, so until next time, see ya!