The love of Darkness

Ep 9

PoV: Shadow

"Sonic, where's the emerald?" I looked back, we had only just entered the area where the were Eggmans scouts had detected chaos energy, but chaos emeralds radius was unstable and shifted at random. Sonic was the only one who could detect them. Though, as a hero he did it subconsciously, recently he's learned to detect them more accurately and almost on command after being in the energy's radius for an amout of time only he knew.

"I can't tell yet. It's too soon," Sonic replied, his eyes were still emerald green. When he knew where the emerald was, his eyes glowed a bright yellow. As much as I wanted to learn the technique... It was impossible for me to do so... my own fake had a stronger connection with the chaos emeralds than I did... "Mm..."

  Sonic started wondering, we had no other choice but to follow him.

"So, how are we going to find this chaos emerald without the use of another?" Decoe asked.

"Sonic is the only one tracker we need," Rouge answered, "He'll find it. He always does."

"He's built his connection with the chaos emeralds. Once his eyes change, he'll take us to it in seconds," I explained, "Though he hasn't been able to say exactly how it works. So I haven't been able to build my own connection."

"Perhaps he doesn't want you to learn?" That hunk of metal stated.

"The fuck did you just say?" I growled.

  I hated the idea, but it was a total possibility. I was going to figure it out no matter what. Sonic had stopped moving, I stood there waiting.

"What's happening?" Decoe whispered.

"Shut up and be patient," I snapped.

"Sonic, what's going on?" Rouge asked.

"I'm hungry," he said, eyes still green.

"Do we have food?" Decoe pestered me with another question.

"No," I snapped.

"Mm... this way," Sonic took off. It became a race to keep up with him. Going to fast would put me ahead and I'd loose him. Moving too slow and he'd be off on his own.

"Where's he going?" Rouge asked, she was flying, Decoe handing from her arms.

"The only way to know is to follow him," I kept up with Sonic. Following him until be stopped at a berry tree.

  Wild black berries grew around a large tree. Sonic began to eat a few, his eyes were finally glowing that yellow color. He was getting the symptoms of the environment around the emerald. His sudden hunger meaning it was near something edible.

"Shadow," Sonic walked up to me. His arms were scratched up and bleeding from the thorns of the bushes, and in his hands, he held the yellow emerald, "It was in the bushes."

"Good work," I ruffled his quills and we returned to the Eggmans layer and Sonic placed the Emerald in 3rd section of the safe.

"Excellent!" Eggman exclaimed as he locked away the emerald, "As long as that team of heroes doesn't discover that we have three emeralds we will be successful."

"Yes sir," we were dismissed and Sonic sat at the edge of the bed for the rest of our time off.

"Sonic, come to bed," I stated, it was late for him. It was now two am, he wasn't usually up this late.

"Shadow..." he turned to me, his eyes were still a bright yellow, "I don't feel tired..."

"The energy is still effecting you?" So long as the energy was effecting him he wouldn't be able to sleep or rest.

"I'm going to leave," Sonic got up an took off.

"Hey," I followed him, and lost him as he seemed to disappear around the corner. He knew chaos control, though he never used it as often as I did. So he most likely took off, "Sonic?"

  I found him asleep next to the emeralds. I should have know since that happened to him every time.

"What am I going to do with you?" I carried him back to bed, "Sleep. We have more territory to collect."

  Maybe I'll let you fight a bit more freely as a reward for to finding the emerald.

"Just do me a favor," I whispered to him, "Don't kill anyone."

"... no... ... promises..."

"That's an order."

"... ..." he fell back into a sleep.

"Sleeptalker. Get your rest."

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November 27th 2019