TeamChaosHunters: Yeah he's a bit upset… and yes Sonic does still have the shard on him, in this chapter it gets explained a bit more.
Shade29: Thank you very much and here it is!
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0.o I just did a complete 180 in my story… shoot. Well let's see where this one leads us (because I actually have no clue where this is going. Comforting, right? Nah I have a slight idea of the end, but very small.) CUE STORY
"What the hell were you thinking?!"
Sonic winced as he heard the yell from inside the room. A few minutes ago he and Knuckles had arrived at the palace when Queen Aleena, his supposed mother, was living. Immediately Knuckles had pushed him down into a chair and told him that, no matter what, he was not to say a word to anybody. He sighed and slumped down in the padded chair, maybe it was a bad idea to tell Knuckles that he had found out he was royalty, what if the other Sonic had already known and he had blown his cover?
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"Don't talk to the queen like that!" A squirrel wearing a padded vest and carrying a spear yelled as he advanced.
Knuckles growled and held his fists out in front of him, "She isn't my queen!"
"At ease." Queen Aleena said as she stood. The queen was a light purple hedgehog with dark purple hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a white and gold dress and a crown with a purple jewel in the center.
"What on Mobius were you thinking?" Knuckles asked more calmly as he lowered his fist and stepped up, "Having your daughter tell Sonic that he was your son? You know what could have happened! What would have happened if he had once called you mom!"
"He seemed to readily agree to being part of the family." Queen Aleena stated with a smirk.
Knuckles ran a hand across his face before glaring at the queen, "That's because of what he is and you know it. I'm about ready to tell my clan to stop supporting you in the war. You asked for him to come because you wanted help, and now thanks to you he's forgotten almost everything! I'm leaving and taking Sonic with me. If you want him you have to get past me and my clan."
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Sonic stood as Knuckles walked out of the room and followed him, still not speaking a word even as he tried to get a song out of his head.
A few minutes later when they were out of the castle grounds Knuckles chuckled, "You can talk now…"
After grinning and pumping his fist Sonic cleared his throat before starting to sing under his breath, "Rolling around at the speed of sound
Got places to go
Gotta follow my rainbow
Can't stick around
Have to keep moving on" He trailed off into a hum under his breath as the song continued.
Knuckles snorted before pointing towards the right, "We'll find a place to camp for the night in the Dark Forest, then we're going to find a chaos user that can remove that shard from your skin."
Sonic lifted an eyebrow as they walked deeper in, "I thought I was supposed to be wearing it."
Knuckles shook his head, "No, the queen and her family are sorcerers, mostly good ones and we believed the queen was a good one, however she tricked you and used magic on you. That shard changes your mind and inhibits some of your powers, most everything she told you was a lie."
"So Sonia and Manic lied to me?"
"More so Sonia then Manic. They really were triplets once, there was another, but he didn't make it past birth. Sonia knew what her mother was planning and went along with it, while Manic had practically fooled himself into believing it, he wanted his brother back so badly."
Sonic hmmed and nodded before an idea came to him, "I know a chaos user that might be able to help. He visited me after I got the shard on and healed me."
"That explains why it's effects have been so slow, he may have neutralized it. What's his name?"
"Shadow, have you heard of him?"
Sonic turned to see Knuckles staring at him before a hand was clapped on his shoulder again, "I need you to tell me what's happened."
A twig cracked and both turned to see what had caused the disturbance, "Perhaps I can be a bit of help with that."
'It's official, I'm dead.' Sonic decided as he saw a familiar white bat come into view.
"Rouge? What are you doing here?" Knuckles asked as he removed his hand from Sonic's shoulder and walked over to the bat giving her a quick hug, "What if you get caught?"
"By who?" She asked with a sad smile, "I was caught rescuing prisoners from the dungeon, I'm in exile. Now you were saying something about Shadow, I'm one of his friends so maybe I can assist."
"Great!" Sonic said with a grin, "Any clue on how to get a hold of him? Got a cell phone or something?"
"A what?"
Sonic groaned and placed his head into his hands. This might take awhile.
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"A joust?" Sonic asked as he wrapped his hands tighter around the warm tin in his hands. After attempting to explain what a cell phone was only for Knuckles to write it off as an effect of the shard the three of them had set up a fire and made some soup for dinner.
Rouge nodded, "Every year Black Doom hosts a jousting contest, no one knows what you look like so I believe it would be best to send you in. Even if you can't fight you can get Shadow away from everyone and ask him to help you."
Sonic studied the brown liquid in his hands before looking back up with a smirk, "All right then. Bring it on!"