Sonic and The Shade Stones

By: Cutegirlmayra1(My Favorite character is introduced in this chapter 8'D plz love him, he be so funneh~)

Ch. 8

Amy whimpered a little in the darkness, she got up slowly and then spread her hands out in front of her. "I never did like the dark…Voice? Voice are you there?"

'Fear not, Amy. Simply think light.'

"K…Light, glorious, bright, shining, HO NOW!" suddenly her hand started to blaze with a bright, white flame. It was soothing to the touch, and Amy smiled at it's warmth. She thought it to be like a little night light, as it slowly decreased in size and a beam shot out of it. She pointed it to the ground and it looked like a flash light. "Heh, heh. I guess I need to be careful about what I think huh? Like, I can't think of blasting the wall above me to get out or anything right..?"

'Amy! Stop! Don't think destruction!'

Amy started to flip out, "Uh..uh, okay. No big booms, no missile launches, and absolutely no bombs!" she started running through the tunnel, panicking. "I don't think it's mentally possible to stop thinking!"

"Mediation is a good start. Quite right you are, dear boy! Did I give you permission to speak? Oh, sorry. It's all good."

Amy stopped running, she moved her hand-like flash light around in the pitch black dark, seeing the strange voice was coming from the cave near her.

The voice gasped, "Oh dear! I think she spotted us! Nah, she couldn't have. But look! She's looking right into our cave! Great mercury! Run! Wait, I think she's friendly. Get a hold of yourself, Wizy!" she heard footsteps running down the cave, and quickly decided to followed them.

"W-wait! I am friendly! Who are you? Come back! Don't leave me alone!" she cried out, dashing after them, but tripping time and again on the little rocks on the ground. As she kept moving, she heard the voice keep talking to himself until she reached a large cave filled with strange, artificial light. She held her other hand over her eyes, trying to step forward and blinking fast to see what the heck it was, but she fell into yet another sliding panel as she screamed going down some sort of slide like formation in the rocks.

"Good golly! She's found our home! Splendid! Let's treat her to tea. Fool, we don't drink tea. Oh, quite right, my bad. S'all right you old hoot. whohoot!"

Amy was flung off the slide into what looked like a crowded study room. She crashed landed into a pile of desk with tons of books on it. They flutted up into the air and then fell all over her. She moaned and got up, one book opened on her face. She quickly moved it off to see a library of books, the whole room looked dusty but a fireplace was roasting what smelled like chicken over itself. "Where am I..?" Amy wondered, getting up.

"My, are you alright? Of course she's alright! Would she be able to get up if she wasn't!? Well, there's no need to shout now is there? Be polite and let's introduce our self. My name is Ol'Wizy the Burrowing Owl. Eh, whoot?" An old man with long and what looked to be ragged old clothes that resembled a wizard like outfit stood above her. He had a brown colors and a long mustache that hung down and curled up at the end. His glasses were small and drooped slightly as he bent down to see her. He adjusted his glasses and smiled, "You seem to be interested in this islands new visitor, Whowhoot? The one they're calling, eh, Dark Sonic?"

"You know about Sonic?" Amy asked, moving the book off her head and looking at him in surprise.

"Why yes, whohoot, the large, scary, and booming monster said his name frequently. Much to my sleeping schedules dismay." he offered her his hand, so she could get up.

"Oh… you must mean Doctor Eggman's robots. Yeah, those speakers can be pretty loud." she took his offered hand and got up, wobbling over all the books that had fallen and making her way over to a mat with strange symbols on it and sitting down. Ol'Wizy, himself, took a seat in a rocking chair and smiled.

"Now, eh woot, would you like some food?" he gestured to the chicken. Amy's mouth watered a little, thinking of food, but then thought it strange how a bird was planning to eat another one of it's species. She considered the birds of prey though, that also feasted on there own and shrugged the idea away. "Ah, the bird then?" he followed her eyes. "Very well then, but- very well then? Are you mad?! That's for me! Now, quiet you! I offered and there's plenty for the both of us. Fair enough." Amy blinked her eyes twice. "Oh… um.. It gets rather lonely down here. In order to not go insane these 2,053 years I tend to talk to myself. Eh whoot whoot. It helps… in a way." Amy just awkwardly giggled, though she could understand the voice thing. She too, had another voice. So, who was she to judge? 'he's just an ol'hoot.'she thought, humoring herself. However, the two thousand year thing was a little over her head…

'Now, now, Amy. He's offering you food and shelter.'

'Oh, I wasn't being rude! It's just… I find it funny how I'm relating my own situation with his…'

'O-oh…'

The old owl moved himself a little more upright and looked to her fondly. "Now, if you wish for food, I would very much like to trouble you with an old story. It could help you with your friend. If you listen to this ol'tale of sorts, then I'll be happy to split my food with you." he gestured to the food again. Amy nodded her head quickly, she wanted to taste meat again! And besides that, she felt safe under here, and not above where she knew Dark Sonic was searching diligently for her. She still had to find that last Light Stone.. And maybe this owl could help her find where it is!

Ol'Wizy cleared his throat, "Now then, long ago. There were five wizards, and to pure the world of evil intent was there main mission in life. They created out of eight ordinary stones, the Light Stones. This was before they were ever called the Shade Stones." he began, Amy listened as she crossed her legs and settled herself down. Though, she was silently hoping it wouldn't be too long of a story. "The stones were used to take a prisoner that had done horrible crimes, and create a saint out of him. By using the stones, they controlled the will of these people into doing righteous tasks. However, one of the wizard's thought he could have more than what he was given. Since, in that time, he had a wife and young daughter that he had to care for, but none of the wizards were paid for there acts of so called, 'Charity' as there king had it be known as." he glanced toward the fire place, watching the flames dance to and fro. Amy followed his gaze, then looked back to him. "One day, he wore a mask and stole four of the eight stones. Poisoning them with ill intent, because if a Stone were to think of one evil thought, it would turn polluted and corrupt. He was successfully able to implant wickedness in these pure stones, and founded the first Dark Stones, with his greed. You could call it his mid-life crisis…Eh woot." he looked back to Amy, who was slowly connecting the dots. "The evil wizard used these stones and had his fellow wizards, his…close friends…, fuse there souls with these stones by force. And, since the stones accepted him as there master, he was able to control the other mighty wizard's to do his bidding." he got up for a moment, stretched and walked toward the bird, getting it out. Amy watched, but she kind of wanted to run away, she was beginning to lose trust in him. "The wizard almost had the world in his hands… but his dearly loved daughter, Lenayah, took the four remaining Light Stones and one by one, freed the four wizards and sealed her own father away along with his magic. In this island, she accursed it for his imprisonment, along with the stones. Since not even her heart could purify the Dark Stones corruption. Here, he has remained, feeling the grief of past mistakes, and only wanting forgiveness from his family…and his friends…" Ol'Wizy handed her a plate with some of the chicken in it. "Now I grow old but never die, until the day that those infernal stones are destroyed! And I have faith in you, Amy is it? That with your pure intended heart, can free me and the Dark Stones from our long suffering." he sat back in his chair, then looked up. "Long story, but worth it, eh woot?"

"So… you're the masked wizard that corrupted the four other Stones?" she asked, again trying to summarize.

"That is sadly correct, and here is my eternal prison, upon this blasted island!" he ate the chicken, ripping into it. "But that's going to change right? Of course it will! She's going to make everything better again, women always do. True that. Whoot hoot!" he took another bite, Amy eating along side him.

"Well, I'm not sure if I can defeat him… I have to make him do a good deed in order to change him?" she looked up, finding that an almost impossible option.

"Well, only to pure the Stones. You can also find all the four Light Stones and infuse them into his soul. Your, Sonic, will be able to then fight much more efficiently with his evil counterpart. You must then lead him into the spell encrypted circle and chant the sacred words, Eh woot." he finished and went to get some more of the chicken. Amy followed him, but didn't take any. She wasn't in the mood to eat anymore,

"But.. Don't you have to weaken him first? To infuse the Light Stones in him I mean."

"But of course! You think I just asked nicely for this chicken to walk up to me and let me kill it? Ha! What a world that would be!" he walked over to his chair again but didn't sit. "Of course, if the Light Stones could fight, that'd be another story." Amy spit out a cup of water he had poured for her as he walked by.

"W-Wh-Wha-What?!"

"What?"

"WHAT!?"

"I do say, What?"

"You just said the Light Stones can't fight!" she pointed at him accusingly.

"Well, yes. As you kid says, Duh~ There pure and innocent. If you were to make them do violence they'd turn into Dark Stones." he sipped his cup, and had a long "Ahhhhh~" after it. "Water is the life of all things, but why it has no taste puzzles me."

Amy slowly fell down, feeling overwhelmed, "How do I weaken him if I can't FIGHT him!?"

"That's something you must figure out on your own, eh woot? You alright?" he looked over to her in confusion. Amy's whole body shook in anger, she slowly clinched her fist and then shot upright,

"NO I AM NOT ALRIGHT! I JUST FIGURED OUT I'M A SITTING DUCK WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS CAVE! WHY DIDN'T SHE TELL ME THIS!?" her outburst made Ol'Wizy fall back in his rocking chair, spilling his water.

"Like a hedgehog you mean…" added Ol'Wizy. "Oh dear me, wait. Do you mean you have the Light Stones?"

"Why else did you trust me!?"

"I was lonely…" he confessed. "But the Light Stones can combat in other ways, they are powerful. However, since Dark Stones are equal in power to Light Stones due to there ancestry, any fight would end in stale mate anyway. Without strategy that is." he sat up. "I best tell you the spell then, for by the odd chance that you really pull it off." he sat up again, and with a booming voice, said these words:

Thou soul of shaded intent,

Now shall I direct

Thy host out of imprisonment.

Thou soul of cursed misfortune,

You must fight for your redemption,

For your body, which is thines,

Lest forever shall thee be intertwined.

Wether it be evil or good,

You know you should

Fight for your right

Of life.

"I made that up myself! Whowoot!" he happily said after an amazing performance. "That should unlock the spell to the circle I created, where Sonic's two identities will fight till one falls. You, have to remain constantly holding up the barrier so that Dark Sonic can't escape. Eh, woot. He will try to tempt you otherwise, but do not waver." he said the last part gravely. "Now, you sure you don't want some more?" Amy got up held her head.

"How am I gonna remember that?! Not to mention, I don't have magic to perform a spell with! How'd Eggman do it anyway..?" she started picturing Eggman in a wizard's rope and hat, but then Ol'Wizy interrupted her thoughts.

"Have magic? My, dear sweet pink girl. Who does? No one can hold magic within them, magic can only be summoned through absolute faith. Magic is merely miracles that can be summoned through unwavering belief that it can happen. That is why I urge you not to weaver in your decision at the circled spell site, alright?" he patted her shoulder.

"No…" Amy was on the verge of tears. "This is to much for me!"

"No, Amy. Loving him is to much. Protecting him is to little." Amy looked at him with complete confusion, but he walked away, looking at his fire. "Please, Amy. You must free myself so that I can be with my family again. Tell my sweet Lenayah how sorry I am. You must do this. More so for your friend, but for me as well. The Dark Stones must be taken off this island, enclosed somewhere where no one may discover them. And send my soul at rest. When you do so, I'll turn to dust and be freed. Please, Amy. Please." he turned around and held her hands with his. "My last wish, is to destroy all those stones. But I know there power is to great. Perhaps hiding them is the only answer, either way, your both me and Sonic's only hope." Amy looked up at Ol'Wizy, and then down to the ground.

"…I…I can't… I just don't know how to fight something that I can't fight." she moved away, crying. She was about to collapse in tears, but a strange crumbling sound came from far away, but seemed to get boomingly louder. "W-..what is that?"

"He's found you, you must run. Run little Pink, Amy! Run! She won't get far. SHUT UP! She must hurry!" he pushed her along to a bookcase, moved a book, and the book case parted to a hidden stair well. "Go, child! Remember! Your our only hope!" he pushed her in and closed the door and then, from his pocket, through her a Light Stone. "Take it! Learn of it's true power and defeat him!"

Amy raced up the stairs, still overwhelmed, she tried to dry her tears. The only thing now was to figure out how to weaken Dark Sonic. However, she was completely clueless! The Light Stone flew into her body, but to be more clear Amy thrusted it in herself.

'Didn't you say you had a power to fight Sonic with!?' Amy screamed in her head.

'I do, my power matches his own. However, I cannot commit violence.' she lowered her head, ashamed.

'Even for a righteous cause!?' Amy still was focused on running up the stairs, the artificial light wasn't bright enough as she tripped a few times. 'Curse my clumsiness!'

'Amy… there's still a way... But you must find out how to use my power on your own.'

'WHY?! Just tell me or we'll both be dead!'

'I cannot, least I control your body against your will and use it. Then I shall become nothing more than what my brother is doing to your friend!'

'I allow it! I allow it! I allow it!' Amy keep chanting, trying anything to convince her.

Amy made her way out of the cave, and with her hammer smashed a boulder out of the way to see that she was back on the surface of the island. It was Smokey, and the whole place looked like a war field. She coughed as she saw craters in the earth, trees uprooted, boulders split in two. Chaos, he was looking for her under every stone and rubble. 'How can he care about my existence so much?'

Dark Sonic tossed the old owl to the side, "I'm surprised your not dead yet, my old master. Is this where you've been hiding?" he started to walk toward him.

"Your even stronger than I remember, Eh woot. But that must have been because my friends had only one of you, instead of hosting all the Dark Stones." he slowly got up.

"humph, there old bodies was nothing compared to this host. Now, where's my prey?" he picked the old owl up by his neck, chocking him slightly but leaving room for him to speak.

"W-what? The pink cutey? Eh, pink isn't really my color. Ah! Take that back she's adorable! Nah, maybe if she was hot pink I'd think so but…HOW RUDE! Apologize this instance! Make me, ya ol'hoot!" He spoke and struggled for air. Dark Sonic got sick of his split personality speaking and smashed his head to the ground. With his other hand he began to burn a book that slowly spread it's flame to the others, then the desk, till the whole place was on fire.

"Oxygen is a valuable thing, tell me where she's headed and I'll help you get some."

"Hehe, it's impossible to understand the female mind, ask me something more answerable will you? Eh, who hoot?"

"Then die, if she's out of the ground, then tracking her will be simpler." he threw the old man into the fires, and blasted a beam that shot straight out, making Amy turn around and gawk a moment at it before scrambling away. He shot out of the hole and looked around, sure enough, he saw Amy running along a shaded path. He smiled, "Oh, how we've missed you." he dashed toward her.

'Leave her alone! What do you need with her anyway!?' Sonic shouted, though he was cramped into some sort of caged barrier and couldn't even kick the walls very well.

'You might have no need of her, but I miss my little toy.'

'She's not a toy! And I'll fight you if you hurt her!'

'Good, you've been boring for the past few days. At least, when your able to get out I'll accept any challenge you address to me.' he smiled as he finally was able to grab Amy.

"Hey!" Amy shouted, feeling herself being grabbed and flown into the air. She kicked and tried everything to get out of this embrace. 'Other me!'

'Oh… Think light!'

"LIGHT!" Amy shoved her hand in his face, a blinding light made him scowl and drop her, covering his eyes. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!"

'Think fly!'

"FLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY!" she suddenly slowly came to a halt in mid-air. She opened her eyes and noticed she was staring not even an inch away from the ground. "Eeeeeeheheh!" she flapped her arms up and she slowly moved up. "I'm… I'm flying..?"

"My sisters!? They've already gathered in you!?" Dark Sonic let out a furious and roarful cry. "Then, I shall rip them out of you!" he dashed toward her.

"Uh-oh! Blast! Power blast! Power blast!" she held her arm out to him, but nothing happened. She quickly flew off away from his attack, but he only followed her. "Other me!"

'I cannot! I cannot!' she chanted over and over again, seeming scared she ducked her hands over her head.

Dark Sonic let a huge ball of black bolted electricity form above him. The clouds aided it's creation and he blasted it toward Amy. She gasped and picked her hands up, "DEFEND!" she screamed, her last hope.

The bolt blasted, a small shimmer of light still stood. Amy opened her eyes, a large clear bubble like substance was containing her inside. Dark Sonic growled as his bolt did nothing to the metallic pearl like color bubble that Amy was safely inside.

(YAY! Fun stuff! So uh, do you like Ol'Wizy? I sure hope ya do, please be his fan! "Eh, whowoot? Fans? Why do we need fans? It's cold as it is in this here cave. No you fool! She meant fans! Oh, well. Just put them in the corner over there and let them blow from that angle. Human fans! Oh! Why didn't you say so?! Just put them in the corner over there and let them blow from that angle." XD also, common old fact, Ol'Wizy is the name of my Gyarados on my pokemon ruby LOL! He has a lonely nature…)