inside him intensify.

Sonic and the Power of the Shade Stones

By: Cutegirlmayra (who is ecstatic to know she now has fans!)

Ch. 4

"What's going on with Sonic!?" cried a worried and terrified Amy rose, holding on to Tail's seat that was in front of her.

"I...I don't know, unless…" Tails gasped, "Were to late!" he steered the plane past another large blast of dark energy.

"Don't say that, Tails!" Amy was almost on the verge of tears.

"To late for what? What's going on!" A furious knuckles angrily shouted out.

'hmph, my prey is elusive.' The darker Sonic thought, as he still had his foot firmly down on Sonic's back.

Inside Sonic's mind, Sonic struggled to get up, but he was too weak from all the pain the ritual had caused him. 'If you hurt them.. I'll.. I'LL-'

"There's no significances in hurting them if you do nothing in retaliation. Besides, I thought I told you to silence all sounds?' the darker Sonic slammed his foot once again on our Sonic's back. He then looked up to see the plane moving in closer…

"We have to move that piece of hair off the pillar!" Tail cried out, "Other wise, Sonic will have to find more Light Stones than the Dark Stones that were placed in him! That's what the ancient map said that Rouge gave me."

"Wait, Rouge is in on this?! Why is no one telling me these things?!" Knuckles glared at the two of them as he got up, ready to push the shield window out so he could fight Sonic if needs be.

"Rouge was worried about Shadow, something about the Stones has made him decided to steal Sonic's hair for Eggman. She's worried he's after the Shade Stone's power." Tails replied, but then began to focus on how the different Sonic was simply watching him. His face was grinning as if he knew something Tails didn't know. "What are you grinning at..?" he thought out loud.

"Come On, Sonic! That can't be the best you can do!" Eggman shouted out, angry at what he had seen. He was first excited and impressed, laughing hysterically until he realized the beams of darkness weren't hitting there mark. "Soooonnic!" he cried out, "Are you even listening to me!?"

"Doctor Eggman, could it be Sonic is unable to register you as his master?" Docoe questioned, looking to Doctor Eggman.

"Ah, of course. Your right, Docoe! I'll have to somehow prove I'm the biggest and badest super villain around! Let's see, I know! I'll-" before Doctor Eggman could do anything, however, the sky began to form a sort of vortex around the plane. The dark energy beams were not completely lost either, they had circled the sky's and created with the ceasing storm a small but growing hurricane.

Tails looked up behind him, over Amy and Knuckles heads to see the descending swirl of wind with black electrical shock waves flowing through it. "Uh-oh…" Tails stepped on the gas and pulled out a lever. The X tornado then engaged in Full Flight mode and brought out extra wings and a booster jet engine. "Hold on! The vortex is making some kind of magnetic field to pull the plane in. If we get sucked in, all those lose lightening bolts will shred us apart!" Amy looked behind her and her eyes widen in horror.

"Tails, hurry! If you can get down to ground level, I can try and knock some sense into Sonic's head!" Knuckles replied, looking back and growling at the situation unfolding.

"Engine engaged!" Tails called out, as he slammed back the lever he had pulled out from beside him to the front. The plane blasted itself forward, but the magnetic energy was still pulling the plane toward it. "We have to make it!" Tails shouted out, and tried to maneuver the plane to dodge the trees that the different Sonic was pulling out of the ground and flinging at them.

"That's not fair!" Knuckles cried out, "Doesn't this Sonic know what it means for someone to be at a disadvantage?!". Knuckles held on to Amy's back seat and tried to hold on, still standing upright and waiting for Tails to get close enough to the ground so he could fight back.

"Sonic, please, stop yourself." Amy prayed, closing her eyes as the plane rocked itself with the force of the wind and power to escape. Sadly, they did not have enough force.

"AHH! The booster engine's loosing fuel! We're not gonna make it!" Tails called out, as the whole plane slowly moved into the storm's eye. A lose bolt of lightening scraped the side of the plane, causing smoke to emerge from the hit.

Down below, the Dark Sonic watched with a cruel grin as the plane became more and more out of sight and into the vortex.

'St-Stop… They don't deserve this!' Sonic spun around and grabbed his darker self's leg, twisting it to make him fall down. Sonic then scrambled to get on top but the other hedgehog elbowed him and punched him down once more.

Outside, Sonic began to hold his head and grind his teeth together, moving around violently. He held his stance and position though, he wavered his steps a lot. His eye's returned and flickered dark blue and then Sonic's regular emerald green. The socket's of his eyes stopped glowing for a moment, but then a burst of dark power made his eyes disappear again, and his dark blue fur return to color as the socket's glowed bright white with small wisps of energy waving around outside the sides of the eyes.

'That should be all the energy you've stored up. You are no threat anymore.' the other Sonic spoke, as Sonic breathed deeply and soon faded into a deep sleep.

Eggman let out a loud cheer and the other robots clapped, docoe and bocoe danced together singing, "He's on our side now! Sonic's on our side!". Bakkun watched the scene and giggled with a evil giddiness as he held his stomach and kicked his feet around in the air. While they rejoiced, the plane kept taking more hit's the more and more it became enswirled in the hurricane of dark energy.

Tails struggled to keep it together, but he couldn't think of a way out, Knuckles saw a bolt hit one of the wings and the whole plane began to spiral. "Tails!" Knuckles called out, but Tails had his head down.

"Sonic…"

Amy heard Tails begin to let out tears and she couldn't take it anymore, she summoned her hammer and slammed it against the roof of the plane. "Amy..?" Tails turned around to see Amy climb out, dodging a small bolt that had escaped from it's mother bolt that ended up hitting the side of the plane. She tried to hand on, and saw that the vortex was thinning on the sides. As the plane stopped swirling about, she took her hammer and slammed the plane, rotating her body around in mid air to have the plane dash with enough power to exit the hurricane by only a mere inch. She kept hitting it, and soon the plane had enough space to burst out completely, since the pull of the magnetic field was aimed downward, and not to the sides. Tails and knuckles were forced to retreat, due to the power of the engines now, even if slightly faded, made them dash so quickly that a small star-like light dinged in the distance. From it, you could hear, "AMY!"

Amy was still caught in the hurricane that begun to shrink, since it's target was now smaller, to a tornado. But, since Amy didn't really have any metal but her bracelet's on her, it ended up flinging her from itself, due to the force of the wind, somewhere on the island. "AAAHHH!" Amy screamed out as she landed on a few of the tree's large leafs and hit a few small branches, slowing her decent toward the ground. "Offph!" she hit the ground and skid a bit from the impact. She slowly moved her hands up from the dirt and lifted her head out of the filthy soil. "ugh," she spit some dirt out of her mouth."…Sonic.." she fainted there, letting her head fall to the ground. Beside the young girl, a part of sand brightened, and digging through the sand it seemed, made it's way into her body. The rain poured again as the tornado zigzagged back and forth and then dispersed.

'…That pink creature… I wonder if it lived..' the Dark Sonic thought, looking out toward where it fell.

"Bravo, Sonic. You almost had them there. I'll admit, I didn't see the chemistry of the vortex till it started forming, quite the genius your dark side makes huh?" Eggman said, about to pat Sonic's back. Sonic grabbed the hand before it touched him, slightly twisting it as Eggman let out a cry of agony. Dark aurora filled his hand as Sonic let the hand go. He glared at the man and blasted him away. "W-what are you doing, Sonic!? I'm your master now!" exclaimed Eggman. Sonic smiled, and shook his head, then dashed off, leaving dust in Eggman's face. Eggman spit out the dust and yelled out his frustration as he commanded his robots after him. However, the evil Sonic, without even looking behind him, slashed his hand through the air. Behind him, black lightening hit the robots and they exploded on sight.

'You are not nearly as evil as me, fool. I serve no one that pathetic!' The dark sonic looked over to his other, who slept face down with his head to the side, body spread out from where it was punched over too. 'pathetic creatures of this century. However, that pink creature did save it's brethren. Perhaps it can give me a real challenge.' he looked back at the wide screen that seemed to be Sonic's vision. With a serious look, he walked over to Sonic and placed his hand on his head. 'Who… is this creature? Part of your memories, I'll assume.'

Amy woke up to see she was laying in a boat, stashes of food was to the side of her, and the sail mass was flinging her on the face, making her sneeze. "W-where am I?" she slowly began to get up.

"Your still on Liema, where your friends abandoned you after you saved them."

She turned around quickly in shock, it was Shadow. "Shadow!" she cried out in joy, someone was here! She wasn't alone!

"Get your hands off of me." he shoved her off of himself. "Please." he added, making his way over to his boat.

"Is this.. Your boat?" Amy inquired, looking it over.

"Yes." Shadow responded, tightening some lose knots.

"How did you steer through the storm?" she began to walk out of the boat, and stepped onto the sand with a bit of uneasiness. This island frightened her, but she was glad Shadow had saved her.

"I was created to be the perfect weapon. How could a mere storm end me?" he stated, as if Amy had insulted him or something. he didn't look at her, but at least he was being kind enough to answer her questions.

"Uh.. Well thank you. I didn't mean to hurt your pride or anything." She replied, then felt her chest. Something was… burning gently and calmly in it. It was weird, but she shook it off. "So, when are we leaving?"

"Leaving?"

"Yes, leaving."

Shadow turned around, "I'm not leaving till I get what I came here for."

"what's that..?" Amy was scared of how intense his expression was to her.

"What seems to be the only power that can stand against mine, besides the emeralds." he grumbled and kicked the boat. "You can leave, once I obtain the power I wish to possess, I can leave this island at will." something was different about him, and Amy could tell. In her being, something made her want to get away from him now, but it was faint. It felt a little like the fire in her heart was telling her he wasn't good company.

"Al…Alright." she said, but before she could get on the small dingy Shadow back handed her in the stomach, making her fall to the sandy beach and off the boat. "W-What was that for!?" she exclaimed, picking herself up and holding her stomach.

"Did you mean to take my boat?" he looked at her with little to no indifference. "Make your own." he got off the boat and then shouted, "Chaos Control!" spears of power hit the dingy and it shattered to pieces.

"HEY! What's the big idea!?" Amy scrambled on the ground to get away from the debris of the boat. "Do you hate me that much!?"

"It's not you, I don't want Sonic thinking he has a means of leaving. It's just incase he thinks he can escape me." Shadow began to walk away, something glowed black on his hand but he shook it and it disappeared.

"Shadow..?" Amy saw the dark energy and looked fearfully at him, his back was to her and she realized she really was alone. Little did she know that would end before to long, as a dark entity she once knew as her Sonic, began to search the island for her. But for what cause? To kill her? Or.. Perhaps… something else?