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Chapter 22: That Sinking Feeling

"Augh!" grunted Fang as Fiona rubbed the rubbing alcohol on his wounds carefully.

"Stop whining." Fiona mumbled as she proceeded to bandage Fang's wound, "You're lucky it wasn't too deep." she mumbled, "You think you can keep going?"

"Of course I can." nodded Fang as he pushed himself up, staggering slightly, but recovered his strength, "So, how far is the Emerald?" he asked her.

"Not much farther, actually. Just a little more." Fiona told him as the Hooligans advanced deeper into the labyrinth. As they advanced, the maze seemed to grow brighter, slowly, but surely as more sunlight seemed to breach through the cracks. Fiona saw these cracks and didn't like this. Those cracks weren't the result of debris and tear over time. Those were made. So either there's something more to these 'Water Monster' then she thought, or they weren't the first ones to come down here.

Soon enough, the mercenaries came across a large, stone door. The door seemed to have some odd blue markings on them and had characters in some language that was foreign to both Mobians. The door seemed untouched by neither time or any form of sentient life.

"OK, Fang. The Emerald is apparently behind this door." observed Fiona, "We just gotta open it." Fiona rubbed her hands before grabbing the large stone door and trying to pry it open. It was soon clear it wasn't budging as she soon turned to Fang, who had a confused look on his face, "Well?"

"Well what?"

"Help me open the door!" Fiona shouted as Fang just laughed, taking out his pistol as he pointed right for the door.

"Might wanna move." he warned as the Chaos Phantom began to glow black with Chaos Energy, Fiona quickly moving out of the way, "Chaos Shot!" the bullet soared through the air and collided with the door, blasting it away as the way was now clear.

"The Zone Cops are gonna kill us if we're caught..." mumbled Fiona.

"Good thing that ain't happening." chuckled Fang as they stepped into the stone room, looking around until he saw, sitting on a pedestal was the purple Chaos Emerald, "Looks like we've got this mission all wrapped up." Fang walked over to the lone Emerald, stopping and ducking as something seemed to fly over his head, as if it was a water...shaped like a fist, "The bloody hell?!"

Coming from the cracks on the wall and ground were more Water Creatures, these creatures seemed to take the shape of Humans as well as various Mobians: Cats, Wolves, Hedgehogs, and various others. It seemed almost endless as Fang whipped out his gun, Fiona doing the same.

"There's always a welcome wagon." mumbled Fiona.

"Then lets waste them!"

The fighting had gotten under way as Fang unloaded shell after shell at the water creatures, hitting a few with precise head shots that caused them to splash into water as a Human sized Water Creature rushed for him, holding what appeared to be a sword made of water as he leapt right for the Sniper. Fang narrowly avoided the strike as the water sword nipped at the fur on his muzzle, causing Fang to back up as he fired at the creature's spine, destroying it instantly. Another Water Creature, this one a large Wolf, ran right for him, jaws open as if to bite as Fang shoved his pistol in his mouth.

"Suck on it." he smirked as he pulled the trigger and the chaos-infused bullet was fired right in the monster's mouth and its head exploded, the rest of the creature melted to the liquid state it originated from.

Fiona was swiftly avoided strikes from Water Creatures that took the form of an Alligator and a Gorilla, the two Mobians throwing fist and tail in an attempt to get the Fox, who seemed to dance around them. The Alligator swung his tail as Fiona jumped, the swat hitting the Gorilla and taking it out as Fiona landed behind the remaining Water Creature, shooting it in the back of the neck as he fell over.

"These guys just don't let up..." mumbled Fiona as she noticed that more of these water creatures walked closer to them, surrounding them as if they were an endless army.

"Damn it all..." mumbled Fang as he took out another Water Creature, "They just keep popping out like fucking daisies!" shouted Fang as he and Fiona soon found themselves side to side as they had worked themselves into a corner.

"Any ideas, fearless leader?" asked Fiona worriedly as the creatures got closer.

"Yeah. Give me the gun." Fang ordered. Fiona curiously did as told as both barrels seemed to radiate with chaos energy, "Now get behind me!" Fang told her as Fiona got behind Fang.

"What are you doing?" Fiona asked.

"Just watch." Fang pointed the guns forward, "Chaos...Grapeshot!" Pulling the trigger of both guns, they suddenly released a large stream of bullets as if they were shotguns, these chaos infused bullets firing and hitting every last Water Creature in the room with one shot. Once the technique had ended, there was no signs of the Water Creatures except for pools of water and the entire room looked destroyed. Except for the lone pedestal with the Emerald on top.

"Wow...nice work, Weasel." noted Fiona as Fang panted.

"Yeah, yeah...just...grab the Emerald." Fang told her as he put the guns away. Fiona nodded as she ran over to the pedestal with the Emerald on it. She smirked as she went over and snatched the purple stone as she marveled at its beauty.

"Well, well, well." grinned Fiona, "Looks like we've got the-" she couldn't finish as the entire labyrinth began to shake violently, "Ah! W-what's going on?!" she cried as the entrance to the room was suddenly blocked by an even larger stone wall.

"What's going on?!" shouted Fang as he ran over to the wall, trying to kick it down, but was having no luck. He took out his gun and fired a Chaos Shot, but that didn't seem to even leave a dent in the wall.

"Well this is great..." mumbled Fiona.

POP!

"What...was..." they both turned around and, to their horror, saw water suddenly coming in from the roof. It wasn't just one source, but three. Water was slowly, but surely, flooding the room!