Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Ninjas of Mobius ❯ The Ninjas of Mobius ( Prologue )
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Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.04.2002 | Pages: 14 | Words: 9.0K | Visits: 839 | Status: Work In Progress
Up to chapter 16
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 07.04.2002 | Pages: 14 | Words: 9.0K | Visits: 839 | Status: Work In Progress
This story was written with the help of my best friend Kazianna Breetai,
many of the characters are copyright to me but Galena and Obsidian belong
to Kazianna Breetai. To reach Kazianna email me and I will send you her email address.
The Ninjas of Mobius
By Firehedgehog
Firehedgehog@hotmail.com
Prolog
"Ho noured master of all Ninjas we have located Sapphire, for many
years we have searched and now he is found," a red robed Ninja said and
bowed, the only thing you could tell about this ninja was that it had dark red
eyes. The ninjas voice was emotionless and you couldn'd tell what gender it
was, to the Ninjas when you put on your robe and cowl you became
genderless.
"Will you retrieve Sapphire soon Ruby, Sapphire is after all the next
master of all ninjas and we must continue to teach him a few last lessons,"
the master of all ninjas asked, the master Ruby couldn't see unless the
master let a person.
"Yes master, Sapphire as of now is waiting for Jade so he can escape
from the soft ones," Ruby said and bowed again, the master laughed silently
at the thought at finally getting back Sapphire the best Ninja alive back.
"Good, when Sapphire returns give him his robe back, tell him we
have all missed him," the master said, the master would refer to Sapphire as
a he till Sapphire returned to them and donned his Ninja robes again.
"As you wish master," Ruby said and then the red coloured Ninja
vanished from sight, the art of walking through shadows were there was no
shadows was a mystery to those who were not ninjas.
"Galena," the ninja master said and a second smaller ninja appeared,
its robes were a shiny silvery blue.
"Yes master," the new Ninja said.
"You are the one who located Sapphier, did you at any point observe
him using any of his Ninja skills in front of the soft ones?" the master asked.
"No master he used none in front of them, he only used his skill of
great speed he was born with," Galena said, to any observers it would look
like Galena was a child because of Galenas size but Galena wasn't.
"Good, continue what you were doing Galena," the master said and
Galena bowed, seconds later Galena seemed to fade out of sight.
soft ones= mobians who were not ninjas
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Chapter One
"Hello Sapphier, I see that you are ready to go," Jade said appearing
beside Sapphier, Sapphier smiled relieved that he could finally return to his
home.
"Have you left behind all possesions that you have gained while living
among the soft ones?" Jade asked, Jades green robes hid his its face so no
expression was seen on it.
"Yes I went through the trees so that I would not leave any
footprints," Sapphire said, Jade nodded and passed him a pair of Sapphier
coloured booys.
"What name did you use among the softones?" Jade asked him, the
green coloured ninja had asked him with emotionless. Sapphire let his go
emotionless, no longer could he act like the soft ones he had lived with.
"I was called Sonic," Sapphire said, his sapphire blue eyes became like
stone as Jade watched.
"Let us go then," Jade said, Sapphier nodded and then they vanished
into the great forest.
"Aunt Sally, have you seen Sonic anywhere?" Tails asked princess
Sally the leader of knothole village, Sally looked at the two tailed fox and
frowned when she realized that she didn't know where Sonic was.
"I don't know Tails honey, did you check his hut?" Sally answered,
when he nodded yes she frowned again for the last time she had seen or
heard Sonic had been yesterday night.
"Aunt Sally I even went inside thinking he might be asleep but he
wasn't there, but I saw his gloves and shoes by his bed," Tails said in a
scared voice, Sally bit her lip now worried for she knew that Sonic loved his
shoes and that he never took them off even when he went to sleep.
"Tails I want you to get everyone you can find, I think that something
has happened to Sonic and we have to find him," Sally said and as she
watched Tails now scared whitened in fear, he nodded and then ran out of
her hut.
"Sonic... whats happened to you and where are you, just please don't
be dead because I love you," Sally whisphered to herself, taking a deep
breath she stepped out of her hut.
Amethyst watched the soft ones look for Sonic, even though the ninjas
robe was purple and was in direct sight Amethyst was using a ninja skill to
keep anyone from seeing him.
*The master will be pleased* Amethyst thought to himself, he had
been sent there to make sure that any traces Sapphier might had left behind
would not lead the soft ones to them.
*I will stay a few more minutes and then leave* Amethyst thought, he
smiled to himself.
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Chapter Two
Sapphire bowed to his opponant, at the moment Sapphier was fighting
a fellow Ninja who was known as Galena. Galena was the same age as
Sapphier except Galena was blind, Galena had been blind for as long as
Sapphier could remember and as children they had grown up for awhile
togeather.
He smiled as Galena pulled out a Bo its first choice of a weapon,
nodding his head he pulled out his sword a Katana. They then began to fight,
he felt himself relax as they fought each other, this brought back good
memories.
Finally they moved onto there secondary weapons, he chose his
Shurikens and Galena chose the Shi. The battle was short and Sapphier was
the victor, during the battle if anyone was watching it would of looked like
two different coloured blurs were moving around the room almost to fast to
watch.
"I win Galena," Sapphier said as they bowed to each other, Galena and
himself were almost as good as each other but Galena still had a few tricks to
learn that he himself already knew.
"Yes you have Sapphier, it is very hot today so do you want to go
swimming?" Galena asked and Sapphier said yes, the one bad part about
swimming was that they had to take off there robes and people could
identify there faces.
Later in his room Sapphier took off his Ninja clothing, in the three
months since he had returned he had grown up to the height of five feet and
he hardly even looked like Sonic anymore.
For one thing his cheek bones had become more pronounced and also
he now brushed his spines down, he tied them into a simple ponytail.
Another thing was that when he wasn't in his Ninja garb he wore a grey t-
shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.
Before he left his room he grabbed a towel, swimming trunks and then
headed towards Galena's room, he knocked on the door and a second later it
opened. There stood a female silvery blue Echidna around the age sixteen,
she stood below average height and if she hadn't looked mature for her age
people would of thought her a child.
"Hi Gale, ready to go?" Sapphier asked, gale was his nickname for the
blind Echidna by using the first four letters in Galena's name.
"Ready to go Saph," she answered with a smile, Saph was his nickname
she had made up for him that was short for Sapphier. He noticed that she
was wearing a sleaveless white t-shirt, blue jeans, and toeless white sandles.
In her arms was her towel and her bathing suit, a bathing suit no child
would of been able to wear without certain things older people had.
He led the way to the small lake they were going to swim in, even
though Gale had developed a sixth and seventh sence over the years he still
had to lead her to certain areas only he knew of.
Soon both of them were splashing and diving under the lake water,
early in her life Gale had found out that while she was blind she was also an
excellent swimmer.
Half an hour later they returned to the place of Ninjas and put on
there Ninja garb once again, all emotions left them for emotions could be the
downfall of a Ninja in some situations.
Sapphier walked silently through the place of Ninjas, the master had
given him a task. the task was to gather a very special herb in the
mountains, the herb was very poisoness to the touch and could be used in
many things (not just a poison)>
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Chapter Three
Obsidian passed Sapphier supplies, Obsidian had known Sapphier since
they were very small children and thought Sapphier as a younger brother.
Underneath his shin black Ninja robes he was an eighteen year old black
wolf who was actually quite tall, his large golden eyes always showed all his
emotions.
"When will you be returning Sapphier?" Obsidian asked his golden
eyes bright with questions, Sapphier finished putting his supplies away and
answered.
"I will be returning in about two weeks or more Obsidian," Sapphier
said, Obsidian frowned not liking the idea of Sapphier going away. The last
time Sapphier had left here Sapphier had been five years old and he hadn't
returned till he was sixteen, he remembered the news when he was seven
that Sapphier had lost his memory and that the soft ones had him.
"Be careful Sapphier, I don't kow why but I have a feeling that
something bad is going to happen very soon," Obsidian said and sapphier
nodded, he also had this feeling.
"Sharpen all your blades, there is a feeling of a battle soon," Sapphier
said, he then vanished on the way to do his task.
Obsidian went to his room and went to his chest and opened it, inside
it was his many weapons with types of blades. He started taking them out
and he smiled, when Sapphier told you to do something a person usually did
it.
"Do you ever miss not being Kouvar anymore Obsidian, there wasn't
much before the Ninjas," Obsidian asked himself in a whisper, he sighed and
put on his wrist claw gloves.
Galena frowned as she felt Sapphier leave the place of Ninjas, a
strange feeling of death hung in the air that few sensed. But she knew that it
told her that something terrible would happen soon, also that it would
change her life in some way.
Her left hand touched her necklace around her neck, on it was a silver
heart and she knew that it was all that she had left of her life before she had
become Galena. Who she was once she didn't know, she actually didn't care.
"Sapphier my friend, walk carefully in the light and shadows," Galena
whisphered, this was a way a Ninja could wish a friend to go in safety.
It was getting dark out when Jade frowned, something was very
wrong and she could smell it. She slipped a tanto into her left hand and went
to see if she could find out what was wrong, Jade never had a chance to
scream as she died.
The SwatBots marched through the Place of Ninjas, there orders were
to kill all the Ninjas and to not let any escape alive.
"YOU ARE TO BE KILLED BY THE ORDERS OF DOCTOR ROBOTNIK THE
RULER OF MOBIUS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE," the SwatBots drowned all at once
in there robotic voices, the Ninjas spotted them and quickly escaped, but the
escape was not without some of the Ninjas getting hurt badly.
Over twenty Ninjas were killed by the SwatBots but the rest escaped,
of the five hundred SwatBots Robotnik had sent only ten of these returned.
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Chapter Four
Knuckles an Echidna and guardian of the Floating island grinded his
teeth in frustration, a week ago he had found a beautiful silver box in a cave.
But he had found that the metal had been melted in key places so he wasn't
able to open it, he was now in Knothole village waiting for Rotor to get it
open.
'Hello Knuckles," Knuckles turned around and smiled, it was Tails the
two tailed fox who was Sonics best friend. He then frowned when he noticed
that Sonic wasn't with Tails, he looked around wondering where the blue
hedgehog could be.
"Where's Sonic?" he asked and he wished then that he hadn't asked,
Tails face fell and his eyes filled with tears. Knuckles bit the inside of his left
cheek, with this reaction he knew that something very bad must of
happened to Sonic.
"Knuckles don't you know, Sonics been missing for three months now,"
Tails said in a voice that sounded like it was about to break, then Tails ran
away from Knuckles in tears.
"It's true Knuckles, Sonic vanished one night and we still haven't
found any clues," a voice said, Knuckles saw that it was Sally and he also
noticed that she needed sleep very badly.
"How did that happen?" he asked her, she sighed sadly and he knew
that she didn't know.
"Princess Sally, Princess Sally," a breathless voice suddenly called,
Sally and Knuckles looked up to see a middle aged cat running towards
towards them with something in its arms.
"I'll see you later Knuckles, I have to attend to something," Sally said
and he nodded, Sally and the cat ran into the medicle hut.
"Knuckles I've got it open!" he heard Rotor call from within Rotors hut,
quickly he entered and went to a table where the now open box was placed.
Carefully Knuckles reached in and pulled out a huge envelope, he could tell
that it had once been white but time had changed its edges to yellow and
brown.
Carefully with two fingers he opened the envelope, he wondered what
was so important in this envelope that it had been buried in a cave. His
fingers detected some papers inside and he carefully slid them out, he
realized that they were photos of some kind and he quickly studied them
and there were five of them.
The first one was of himself in a field o flowers waving at someone
beyond the person holding the camera, he also noticed that he looked to be
around four of five in the picture. The next picture was of himself and
another Echidna, they were placing flower wreaths on each ithers heads and
smiling. She had silvery blue fur and blue eyes, for some reason she seemed
to remind him of something but not what. The last three pictures were of
himself and the other Echidna in different places and always smiling, he
turned the pictures over and noticed the dates the pictures were taken and
he also saw her name.
"Who are you T'ana-Lii, why don't I remember you but I see you in
these pictures with me?" Knuckles asked the pictures, they of course couldn't
answer him. Finally he pulled the final objects out of the envelope, there was
another photo, a newspaper clipping, and also a beatiful painting of T'ana-Lii.
The photo was of her again at a birthday party and he knew that it
was hers, she was holding up a beautiful heart shaped silver locket and was
also hugging him. The newspaper article made him cry fo it said that T'ana-
Lii was presumed dead after a huge explosion and that no body had yet to
be found a month after.
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Chapter Five
"Okay, now we carefully pull back the cloth from around the childs
face," the doctor instructed Bunny and Bunny nodded. She did as she was
told, and as soon as they pulled the cloth off the child Bunny discovered the
child was an echidna.
Carefully they pulled the rest of the clothing off and she saw that the
child was female, then she let the doctor clean the wounds and put the
bandages on the child which she had yet to learn how to do correctly.
As Bunny was putting blankets over the child she noticed the necklace
around the childs neck and she admired the workmanship of the silver
heart, finally she was done putting the blankets on the child.
"Thank you Bunny for the help, I've been having an overload of
patients lately and you helping me today really helped," the doctor said with
a smile, Bunny smiled and left the hut for her home since she was so tired.
Sally looked at the child in the bed, a bandage was wrapped around
her head like a bandana. The girl she noticed was in very good shape other
then the obvious injuries, the doctor told her that the injuries were caused
by a swatbot.
"Saph... ," the girl suddenly said in her sleep, Sally quickly wrote down
the name the child had said, whatever she had just said could tell them
where she had come from or who her parents were.
"Sapphier... ," the girl said and sally blinked, the word Saph and
Sapphier sounded the same so they might be the same thing or person.
'I wonder who Saph or Sapphire are?" Sally said musing, this musing
was cut short when the door to the medicle hut opened. Sally looked up and
smiled, it was Knuckles and in his hands were some old photos.
Knuckles walked into the medicle hut in deep thought, he knew that
he should know this T'ana-lii but he didn't know and anyway she had been
dead for years.
"Hi sal, so what was that problem earlier?" he asked her with a smile,
Sally bit her lip and pointed at the bed beside her.
Knuckles turned to look at the bed and froze, his world fragmented
like a broken mirror. The floor seemed to fall away from him, he felt the
photos slide from his hands and land gently on the floor. He felt disbelief
course through him and his heart beat an unbelievable speed, he knew that
this couldn't T'ana-lii because she was dead. For one thing T'ana-lii would be
sixteen years old by now and not a child, and then he felt his heart freeze
once again.
Around her neck was a necklace and one that was very familiar, it
was the silver heart necklace that T'ana-lii had worn. sally of course had
noticed his reaction, Sally then blinked wondering what was going on here.
Slowly Knuckles with a shaky hand lifted up the heart locket and
opened it, inside ingraved was the name T'ana-lii and also a miniture picture
of T'ana-lii and himself putting flower wreaths on each others heads, it was
exactly like one of the pictures he had dropped on the floor.
Knuckles closed the locket in shock and studied the silvery blue
colored echidna, he knew that it couldn't be her but as he studied her he saw
that the body was very mature but while she was asleep she looked like a
child.
"It couldn't be you, could it?" he asked himself his mind numb in
shock.
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Chapter Six
Sapphier smiled to himself as he came to a bend in the trail that told
him that he would soon be at the place of Ninjas, it had taken him three
weeks for his task to be completed and he was finally done. He rounded the
bend and stopped dead, where the place of Ninjas had been was a smoking
ruin and rubble.
"What happened?" he asked himself as he wondered about the ruins,
he winced when he saw the fresh graves and he silently read the names on
there markers. He had known them all but he did not cry, that wasn't the
way of the ninjas.
"Sapphier!" a voice suddenly called, he spun around and found himself
in a bear hug. He sighed when he saw that it was Obsidian, the wolfs golden
eyes were tearful and joyfull that his friend had returned alive.
"Where is everyone?" Sapphier asked, he specially wanted to know
where Galena was since they were best friends.
"They are at the sacred place waiting for us, but Galena... well there is
something i have to tell you," Obsidian said and he told him about the
swatbot attack and also how Galena hurt had been found by the softones, it
was up to Sapphier to rescue her.
"I will be back once I have retrieved Galena," Sapphier said and
Obsidian nodded, Sapphier started running using his super speed. He once
again had to go to knothole village, sally had Galena.
How long Galena had been there she didn't know, every now and then
she would wake up in a confused muddle and she would call for sapphier
hoping that he would be there. What confused her more was that the
softones would call her T'ana-lii and ask her where she was from, she
couldn't tell them about the place of Ninjas and the wound to her head
quickly made her fall asleep again.
For some reason one of the voices was somehow familliar, the voice
seemed gentle yet held strength that few softones held. The voice tickled her
brain that told her that she should know that voice, but once again it was
from before the ninjas so she didn't remember.
Knuckles knew that he was falling in love with T'ana-Lii, since he had
first seen her three weeks ago and he had started to remember his childhood
with her that is until she supposibly died in a terrible accident.
He wondered why T'ana-Lii wasn't responding to her name and also
why she wasn't talking to anyone when she was awake, all she did was call
for that Sapphier person. He sighed and wondered if she remembered him
since he basicly looked the same as he had when they were kids, he just
wondered why she didn't look at anyone when she was totally awake.
"T'ana-Lii how I love thee, though make my heart beat like a drum,"
he then winced at the bad poetry he had just said, good thing T'ana-Lii was
asleep at the moment so she wouldn't of heard him.
"Good thing you didn't hear me say that, I'd die of embarrisment,"
Knuckles said blushing red, he sighed and left his seat beside T'ana-Lii's cot,
he had to get some sleep tonight.
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Chapter Seven
Sapphier slipped between the buildings in knothole village, he gritted
his teeth in frustration wishing that he was anywhere but here. For years
after he had recovered his memory he had lived among the soft ones and he
had hated it, now once again his true identity he had to come here to save
Galena.
He remembered the accident that had taken away everything he had
known too well and it still haunted his dreams, when he had been five years
old he had fallen down a cliff and a blow to the head had returned his
memory to him. But he had been stuck still with the softones for he hadn't
been able to remember the way home, finally in what seemed light years
later the ninjas had found him and he remembered how to get home.
Finally he came to the place he knew Galena would be, the medicle
hut. He listened at the door and smiled when he realized that only Galena
was inside, he eased open the door and silently slipped inside. He growled
softly when he saw that the softones had unmasked her, but he let it pass
seeing that they had treated her wounds.
"Gale... " he whisphered, her eyelids flickered and she woke up. He
frowned now remembering how far behind the softones medicle technology
was, but once Galena was home she would be better in a few minutes instead
of weeks.
"Saph, please get me out of here," she said in a very weak voice,
Sapphier carefully picked her up relieved that he could leave now.
Then the door slammed open, he spun around Galena in his arms to
see Knuckles. After a minute of staring at each other Sapphier sweatdropped,
carefully he used all his skills to vanish from sight with Gale and run for it.
Behind him he heard Knuckles yell and alarms flare, he decided to go
through the tree branchess in case someone actually saw him and he ran
even faster.
"Gale hold on, were going to someplace safe," Sapphier wisphered,
Galena didn't answer him since she was out of it.
Knuckles yawned as he entered the medicle hut, he had forgotten his
glass there and had decided to get it before he went to sleep. Then he saw
the blue clothed person and he froze, this unknown mobian was very tall
and was wearing the same kind of clothing that T'ana-lii had worn when
they had found her. He also noticed that the person was holding T'ana-lii,
and then before his startled eyes the stranger vanished from sight.
After three seconds of staring at the now empty spot he finally yelled
for help, minutes later Princess Sally and other freedom fighters ran to him.
"Someone took T'ana-lii Sally, please we have to save her," Knuckles
said his eyes haunted with grief, after remembering T'ana-lii after all these
years he didn't want to loose her again.
"We'll try Knuckles, don't give up hope," Sally said.
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Chapter Eight
Sapphier knew that Obsidian was relieved to see him but only the
wolves eyes showed any of his emotion, quickly they headed to the sacred
place set to get Galena medicle attention.
Finally they arrived at the sacred place and they both rushed Galena
to the medicle facility, then Sapphier went to his desinated room and fell
into a deep sleep.
He dreamed, dreamed of when he had first met Galena and he had
also given her the name of Galena.
A young blue hedgehog walked into the hospital room in the hospital
area of the place of ninjas, on a bed a silvery blue echidna girl his own age
lay, there were bandages wrapped around her face and other places on her
small body.
Earlier a ninja had brought her here after hearing her parents trying
to find a way to get rid of her after a terrible explosion had struck her blind,
the doctors here were unable to give her sight back but they were using all
there skills so that she would only have a few scars on her face when she
was fully healed.
The echidna stirred and finally awoke, Sapphier walked over and sat
in the chair beside the hospital bed.
"Hi, my name is Sapphier whats your name?" he asked her, she turned
her bandaged wrapped face and eyes towards him and the bottom part of
her face that he could see frowned.
"I... I... I... don't remember, I don't remember anything," she said, to
him her voice sounding small and frightened.
"How about I give you a new name, that is till you remember your
real one, and we can be best friends since were both the same age?"
Sapphier asked the echidna, the echidna smiled and daid okay in a timid
voice.
"Then I name you Galena after the gem, its fits you since your fur
colouring looks like the gems colouring," Sapphier said and then the two
children giggled, the echidna now named Galena smiled and fell back to
sleep.
Sapphier stayed there till a doctor told him that he had to leave,
Sapphier left now happy that he had made a new friend.
Sapphier woke up smiling, looking out his bedroom window he saw
that it was only midnight. He rolled over in his bed smiling happy that he
still had his best friend, he went back to sleep.
The master of all ninjas sighed as he looked at the night sky, he had
never told anyone that sapphier was his son but he loved him and he even
loved Galena like a daughter. He had never told Galena about her past and he
hoped that he would never have to, her past was so very sad.
Galenas parents had never told anyone that they had recovered her
after the explosion, that is since the softones technology would still leave her
blind and terribly scared. A ninja had heard there plans for getting rid of her
and had seen the raw potential in the child, letting nothing to go to chance
the ninja had taken her and now Galena lived happily.
He sighed again wishing life was simple, but it wasn't.
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Chapter Nine
Morning was not Galena's favorite time of day, she prefured waking
up at noontime when the most cheerful people weren't about. But she got up
anyway when the sun was about to rise into the sky and the birds began
there singing, today she was out of the medicle facility and already she was
planning to work the kinks out of her body.
She got into her ninja garb and then the only thing people could see of
her were her light blue eyes, she gathered her favourite weapons and went
into the training room where everyone could practice.
Already there were others here, she nodded to towards there general
direction. She started with general warmups till her body moved gracefully
and smoothly, then she used her weapons against a practice dummy she
senced with her sixth sence.
"Hi Gale," a male voice said, galena smiled as Sapphier walked into the
room. Like herself Sapphier was not a morning person but resigned himself
to get up before the sun rose, he had once told her that when he got up he
always wanted to kill the poor annoying birds who sung outside his windows
because he hated anything cheerful when he woke up.
"Hi Saph, whats up?" Galena asked him as she heard him lightly walk
up to her, his breathing was slow and she had to listen hard to hear it.
Around him she felt a feeling of excitement, she knew he was planning
something for today.
"How would you like to go on an adventure?" he asked her and she
felt a warm glow of happines from him, he wanted her to go.
"Of course I'll go Saph, who else would actually go on your crazy
adventures," she said in a fake nasty voice, they joked about these
adventures when ever they planned one.
"Well then Gale lets go, I just got the map to the great tomb. The
master said we an look for the great library ledgend says it holds, remember
togeather we can find anything," he said and they both laughed togeather,
then they both headed for adventure.
Knuckles slung his backpack onto his back, he was going searching for
T'ana-lii. He knew with a gut feeling that he would find her in the ruins of
the great tomb, the tomb was found near the ruins of the ancients. He
wondered how he knew this and he frowned, he would figure it out later
when he wasn't so worried about her.
"Knuckles be careful," sally said from the door of the hut, Knuckles
looked at her and smiled for her concern.
"Thanks sally I'll be careful, I'm just going to be searching for a few
days and then I have to return to the floating island," Knuckles said and she
sighed suddenly looking sad, he knew that once again she was thinking of
what could of happened to Sonic and wishing that she could go search for
him also.
"I know Knuckles but everytime a friend leaves Knothole even to hike
I now fear that they are going to dissapear, i just wish I knew what had
happened to Sonic so I wouldn't be scared like this," Sally said with a slight
frown, Knuckles took her hand and gave it a slight squeeze of comfort.
"Don't worry Sally I'll be back," he said with a smile, she smiled back.
"I count on it," Sally said, she then turned around and vanished from
his sight.
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Chapter Ten
The ruins of the great Tomb were a dreary place, Sapphier could see
that in many crumbled corners of the tomb birds nested. He looked at the
map of the ruins, with a couple more coridors the two of them would be at
the entrance to the ledgendary great library.
"How much farther Saph?" Galeena asked, Sapphier turned to look at
his friend in adventure. Galeena was a ninja like himself, she was a silvery
blue echidna with large blue eyes and her ninja garb was a silvery blue color
also. One of the things hard to tell about her was her age since she was
pretty short for her age and that she was an echidna under her garb, the
thing others never expected was that she was blind and had been for years.
"Probably a few minutes Gale," he answered, the two of them since
they were alone were letting there voices sound like there respected genders
but if anyone was with them you wouldn't be able to tell anything else about
them.
It was then that the two of them heard the sound of someone else,
quickly the two of them hid and waited to see who it was... or in Galeenas
case sence who it was.
'Damn' Sapphier thought when he saw who it was, it was someone he
had been friends with when he had been called Sonic. It was Knuckles the
guardian of the floatng island, Sapphier frowned wondering what the hell
Knuckles was doing here.
***
Knuckles sighed as he walked through the ruins, after hours of
searching he wondered why he had thought he would find T'ana-lii here of
all places.
"Why the hell did I think I would find her here, if only that blue
garbed person hadn't taken her," Knuckles muttered darkly to himself, he
sighed and then froze where he was standing. He didn't know why but he
felt as if he was being watched, once the older guardians had told him that
the guardians of the island could sometimes feel things that are invisible to
normal sight.
"Great now I'm being paranoid," Knuckles said rolling his eyes, then
with a sigh he began walking again.
***
When Knuckles began to walk the direction the two ninjas planned to
go Sapphier realized that he had to stop knuckles, acting quickly he silently
went behind Knuckles and knocked him out. Then he tied the red echidna
up, if Knuckles woke up he didn't want him to get free anytime soon.
"You didn't have to hit him that hard Sapphier," Galeena said and she
let herself be seen by normal sight and so did he, he gave her an evil glare
not that she could see it.
"Because red boy here has a hard head, and when he wakes up he'll
want to find us right away... this way we'll probably be long gone by the
time he comes to," Sapphier said, she nodded now in agreement and they
continued on there way.
"You know what Sapphier, I don't know why but that soft one echidna
seems familliar for someone... as if I met him long ago in that time I can't
remember," Galeena said, Sapphier frowned under his cowl but didn't say
anything.
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Chapter Eleven
Knuckles woke up with a huge headache, he tried to move but found
that he was tied up very tightly with a very strong rope. He grunted when a
stone from the ceiling dropped and hit his side, this wasn't how he had
expected to spend his time.
"This really isn't my day," he muttered in an annoyed voice, his hands
were behind his back and after a few minutes of moving his body in strange
positions he got then in front of himself.
"What now?" he asked himself as he managed to sit up, he licked his
dry lips and wished he could reach his backpack which held his water bottle.
He sweatdropped when a rat appeared and squeaked in an annoyed voice at
him, he guessed that he was in its favorite spot.
"I've got to find her, this might be my last chance," Knuckled said and
he sat up with a groan trying to ignor how sore his body was, he glared at
the rope wishing it wasn't there.
"T'ana-lii please be okay," he wispered and he hoped with all his heart
she was okay, in his minds eye he saw a very hazy memory of her return. He
sighed and closed his eyes, he had to gather all his energy to escape these
ropes.
'T'ana-lii' he thought as he opened his eyes once again, gritting his
teeth he pulled his wrists apart ignoring the pain the ropes caused.
{SNAP}
He smiled when he saw that the ropes had finally snapped, quickly he
rubbed his circalation back into his wrists. His tounge was sticking slightly
out of his mouth as he untied the rest of himself from the rope, it returned
inside his mouth once he was totally free.
'Whoever tied that rope is good, if I wasn't so strong I would still be
trapped' Knuckles thought with a frown, he knew that he would have to be
more careful now since he had already been knocked out once.
"Maby I will even find out what has happened to Sonic," Knuckles
wispered and he thought about the blue hedgehog who had been his friend,
he knew that if he found out what had happened to Sonic it would ease
many mobians hearts a little.
'Lets do it to it' Knuckles thought borrowing a motto from a friend he
missed, then he started in the direction he felt he had to go.
***
Sapphier froze as a strange feeling entered him, he didn't know why
but he had a feeling that he had to put on the full ninja look on again. He
sighed silently wishing that he had time to losing up more often, but the life
of a ninja was full of Danger and he could never give anything away.
"Saph, whats wrong?" Galeena asked and he knew she had felt his
mood change, she was very sensituive to these things.
"Gale feel the air, we have to be very careful now... or I have a feeling
our people might be revealed even more then ever before," he wispered to
her, she paused and he knew that she was feeling the world around her with
those extra sences she had.
"The soft one we tied up earlier has escaped Sapphier, if we meet up
with him again I suggest we abandon this adventure," she said and he
agreed, then as one they seemed to vanish into the shadows of the ruins.
***
Knuckles knew that he was getting closer to T'ana-lii, it was like a
buzzing in his heart. He squinted into the darkened halls of the ruins, he
knew that once this place had been a beautiful city thousands of years ago.
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Chapter Twelve
Sapphier sighed and groaned slightly, he was soaking wet and his
blind friend was laughing knowing that he was disgrunted at such a small
thing.
"It's not that funny," he grumbled and he glared at the ceiling, there
was a large crack that had just formed that the water had fallen from.
"It is, you just can't understand it at this moment," she said and he
knew that she was grinning, he sighed and realized that the water was
soaking through his ninja garb.
"Aww shut up Gale, and now I have to take these off to change into
my spare ninja garb," he said and gave a fake upset sniff, she gave a small
laugh that twinkled like crystals.
***
Knuckled walked carefully throught the ruins, once he knew that place
had been beautiful in his ancestors times... but now it was decaying rubble.
"The history is lost for this place, I wonder who lived here so long
ago," Knuckles said to himself, he sighed feeling slightly depressed in this
place.
It was then that he heard the sound of someone laughing, the laugh
was crystal like but he would reconize it anywhere. He also heard another
voice, he didn't reconize it because the person spoke to low.
'T'ana-lii is here, that must mean my quest is almost over... and maby
I can even find out what happened to Sonic' he thought excitement in his
heart, he licked his lips and quickly headed in the direction he had heard
T'ana-lii laugh and the other voice.
***
Sapphier gave a small sigh as he pulled as the soaking wet ties so that
he could pull of the hood that hid his face, thankfully he had an extra ninja
garb... in case this one got ruined or something else.
"Hurry up Saph, remember we only have a cartain amount of time for
this adventure," Galena pointed out, Sapphier rolled his eyes even though he
knew that this gesture was lost on the blind ninja.
"Patience my young friend," he said in his most annoying voicem she
groaned at his humour. With a grin he pulled off his hood, cold air rushed
across his blue fur.
"Sonic!" a voice called, startled Sapphier spun around after hearing the
name the soft ones had given him.
"Knuckles," he said in surprise.
***
Knuckles had just rounded the corner to see someone he had never
thought he would see again, the blue ninja that had taken T'ana-lii was no
other then the long missing Sonic. He felt his heart skip a beat when that
hood came totally off, his face paled and he did the only things he could
thing of.
"Sonic!" he called, startled the blue hedgehog (who had grown a lot
since they had last seen each other) turned, Sonic stared at him in shock.
"Knuckles," Sonic said in a surprised voice, finally his mind couldn't
take it any longer and he fainted and the last thing he felt was someone
catching him.
***
"Sorry Gale looks like vacation is over early," Sapphier said after he
had caught Knuckles, he looked at the red mobian and sighed.
"We will have to take him back to base with us," Galena said, Sapphier
agreed. After getting a good grip on Knuckles and Galena was hanging onto
his back he began to run, using his super speed they soon arived at the
sacred place.
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Chapter Thirteen
Sapphier sighed as he looked over the form of the sleeping echidna, he
was so surprised that Knuckles had found them. He knew Knuckles would
have alot of questions, and to tell the truth he didn't know how to answer
them.
'This is just a big mess, the elders are not happy and if he won't
promise to keep quiet... I really don't want to think about that alternate'
Sapphier thought with a deep sigh, he leaned back in his chair deep in
thought.
He had known the Guardian of the floating island for quiet a few
years, there first meeting had been quite interesting. Robotnik of course had
made Knuckles think Sonic and Tails were evil, after a few adventures
Knuckles had seen the truth.
While he waited for Knuckles to wake up he had chosen to wear his
soft ones clothing, he had worn them for years and he knew Knuckles would
relax more if he wore them.
"..." a voice said, Sapphiers eyes snapped open as the occupent on the
bed began to come to.
"Welcome back to the world of the living Knuckles," Sapphier said
letting amusement show in his voice, Knuckles eyes snapped open and he
rolled over to face the hedgehog.
"Sonic..." Knmuckled said once again in shock, Sapphier sighed and
quickly slapped the echidna who was about to faint.
"Idiot," Sapphier muttered, he was now starting to wonder if he should
of worn his ninja garb.
***
Knuckles stared at the blue hedgehog in shock, one of his white gloved
hands was held against his cheek where Sonic had struck him. Since there
was more light... where ever he was, he could see that the hedgehog had
finally grown.
His blue spines were longer and he was taller also, there was a
calmness around him that hadn't been there before. He looked into the
hedgehogs eyes and had to blink, Sonics blue eyes were turning a soft
emerald green at there edges.
It wasn't noticable yet but after awhile it would be visible, he knew it
was an effect of Sonic using the choas emeralds over the years. He had heard
of this happening from ancient texts about the choas emeralds, it was very
rare... most times Choas emeralds killed those that tried to use them.
"Sonic, where am I and where have you been all this time," he
demanded angerly, he knew that everyone was worried about Sonic and
missed him very much.
"I can't tell you that yet Knuckles, theres a story I have to tell you
first," Sonic said with a sigh, Knuckles frowned and knew that this story
must be important and made himself comfortable.
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Chapter Fourteen
Sapphier took a deep breath as he finished telling Knuckles his life
story, he had told it like a story so that the soft one might understand.
Looking into the echidnas eyes he saw a light of understanding, yet he
also saw a bit of sadness in them.
"You can't go back to knothole can you?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier
shook his head no knowing that he had changed too much to go back to being
Sonic again.
"I missed you when you vanished Sonic.... um what did you say your
real name was again?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier allowed himself one of his
rare laughs and answered.
"My name is Sapphier, its my birth name by the way," he answered
his eyes twinkling, during the story Knuckles had interrupted once to tell
him about the effect of the choas emeralds on his eyes.
"Soooo," Knuckles breathed out slowly, it was obviously a question that
he didn't quite know how to ask.
"Yes?" he asked with with a slight smirk, Knuckles looked slightly
nervous but asked his question.
"Whats it like being a ninja, I heard about them in stories and I bet
half of that isn't true?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier looked at the red mobian in
front of him and wondered if he would be able to give him a tour of the
sacred place.
"It is very different then you think Knuckles, before I go ask
permission to give you a tour of the area will you please tell me why you so
interested in Galeena who you called T'ana-lii?" Sapphier asked, Knuckles
sighed and looked at Sapphier with sad purple eyes.
"I guess I can tell you, you need to know these things before you go
don't you?" Knuckled asked with yet another sigh, Sapphier nodded Knuckles
looked at the ceiling.
"It all started in my childhood, and no I am not going to tell you my
whole life story," Knuckles said seeing Sapphiers face, Sapphier grinned and
made himself more comfy for Knuckles story.
***
Now it is said that Ninjas were not curious creatures like there soft
ones cousins of mobius, that was entirely wrong. This fact was proven wrong
by the crowd listening outside the door, at least ten ninjas were trying here
the conversations inside.
"Quiet, if you'll all be quiet I'll be able to hear and tell you whats going
on," a voice said in a whisper to the others, this ninja was in a red ninjas
garb and still quite young not yet learned all there lessons.
'Oh oh' the red garbed one thought with a large sweatdrop, it had just
heard the sound of the door breaking from the press of ninjas outside.
"Ahhh," everyone yelled as the door gave way and they fell to the
floor inside, they were met with the amused eyes of Knuckles and Sapphier
laughing with amusement.
"Were in trouble, aren't we?" the red garbed one asked with a nervous
laugh, Sapphier only nodded as he continued to laugh.
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Chapter Fifteen
"And this is the training area for children below five, that is tha age
many things of great importance is taught," Sapphier told Knuckles, it was
two days later and he had finally gotten permission to give the soft one a
tour.
After Knuckles first day Sapphier had once again began to wear his
ninja garb, this annoyed Knuckles to no end because he found it quite hard
to tell the ninjas apart.
He was starting to wish the ninjas wore name tags, there robes while
they had many shades of colors were almost impossible to tell apart.
Yesterday he had met with Galeena, he also found out why she had
reacted so strangely to knothole. She was blind, and she had been blind since
she had been very young.
To his sadness she remembered none of her past, so he had told her
what he remembered but she asked him not to call her the name she had
those years ago.
It burdened his heart to see her yet not as he remembered, but he
knew that time could do that to anyone. It was even more possible with full
blown amnesia, after that initial conversations she had told him some very
humourous stories about Sapphiers childhood.
Knuckles found that he had fallen deeply in love with her, but he
knew his feelings would never be returned. How could they when they were
so different, she was a ninja and would never leave then when they had
raised her after saving her life.
But he had learned much about them from her, it had been quite a
shock when Sapphier once Sonic had come in his ninja garb emotionless and
seemingly gengerless.
He also had the paranoid feeling Sapphier loved to frighten him, he
didn't know how many times Sapphier had appeared out of the shadows
making his heart skip a beat.
"And heres our last stop, the cafeteria," Sapphier said in a monotone
voice, it was just in time as Knuckles stomach growled in hunger.
'This is so embarrising' he thought and he was served a wonderful
soup, he idly wonedered if he could get the recipe.
As he ate he also wondered if he could visit here after, there was
something soo mysterious about these ninjas. And there was also something
else he considered and it made his heart ache, he would be able to see
Galeena again.
"Knuckles, when you are done eating it is time to meet the master of
the ninjas," Sapphier said, Knuckles paled slightly and swallowed deeply.
From what he had heard so far from his stay was that the master of
the ninjas was the most dangerous and cunning of the lot.
"Great," he said in barely a whisper, he only hoped it wouldn't be his
death sentence.
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Chapter Sixteen
Sapphier was glad that his ninja garb hid his face, that way Knuckles
wouldn't see his lips twitching into a smile. He had watched the meeting
between the two from the shadows, he doubted Knuckles had ever been that
scared in his life.
He himself knew that the master was having a great time, the master
was geeting old and couldn't travel as well as the younger generation so
this was a treat to meet someone.
'Of couse I doubt Knuckles thought it was a treat' Sapphier thought
with amusement, at the moment the two were heading to a room he had left
out of the tour.
The room held a knife that had the creat of the ninjas on it, the
mobian ninjas gave them to anyone who was welcome in there bases and
would give protection to.
Unknown to knuckles he had just been giving the greatest of honours,
in ancient times many great hearted and good souls had been granted this
knife... Knuckles was the only person since Robotnik came to recieve one.
Finally it was the time to give knuckles the knife and he did so,
Knuckles took the knfe and looked at its design in awe.
"Its beautiful," Knuckles said with wide eyes, Sapphier allowed himself
to nod... not that the echidna noticed.
"It is Knuckles and remember you must remain quiet of what you
have seen, but you do have a reason to visit another other then me here," he
said, his blue eyes danced as he remembered how Knuckles had looked at
Galeena.
Galeena had also looked at Knuckles that way, she had only admitted
to Sapphier that she had fallen in love with the guardian of the floating
island.
"And that is?" Knuckles asked clearly confused, Sapphier pulled the
face part of his garb down and grinned broadly at the confused soft one.
"Because you love Galeena, and I know her heart belongs to you," he
whispered, before the surprised and confused mobian could do anything
Sapphier cheerfully pulled his face garb into place.
Then before Knuckles could reply he gave Knuckles a map to get back
to knothole and find the way here again, then he led him outside and after
waving closed the door.
'Sometimes I love being me' he thought happily, Sapphier then forced
himself back into being the perfect ninja again.
<><><TBC><><>
I combined the first four parts of the story to give one big story, I am still working on the next four chapters. Hopefully you Sonic fans of mediaminer will enjoy this story, the chapters above are the work of over a year... I posted them elsewhere on the net but at the email of a sonic fan to post it here. I would love reviews and even fanart... pleas send me fanart.
Ja Ne
many of the characters are copyright to me but Galena and Obsidian belong
to Kazianna Breetai. To reach Kazianna email me and I will send you her email address.
The Ninjas of Mobius
By Firehedgehog
Firehedgehog@hotmail.com
Prolog
"Ho noured master of all Ninjas we have located Sapphire, for many
years we have searched and now he is found," a red robed Ninja said and
bowed, the only thing you could tell about this ninja was that it had dark red
eyes. The ninjas voice was emotionless and you couldn'd tell what gender it
was, to the Ninjas when you put on your robe and cowl you became
genderless.
"Will you retrieve Sapphire soon Ruby, Sapphire is after all the next
master of all ninjas and we must continue to teach him a few last lessons,"
the master of all ninjas asked, the master Ruby couldn't see unless the
master let a person.
"Yes master, Sapphire as of now is waiting for Jade so he can escape
from the soft ones," Ruby said and bowed again, the master laughed silently
at the thought at finally getting back Sapphire the best Ninja alive back.
"Good, when Sapphire returns give him his robe back, tell him we
have all missed him," the master said, the master would refer to Sapphire as
a he till Sapphire returned to them and donned his Ninja robes again.
"As you wish master," Ruby said and then the red coloured Ninja
vanished from sight, the art of walking through shadows were there was no
shadows was a mystery to those who were not ninjas.
"Galena," the ninja master said and a second smaller ninja appeared,
its robes were a shiny silvery blue.
"Yes master," the new Ninja said.
"You are the one who located Sapphier, did you at any point observe
him using any of his Ninja skills in front of the soft ones?" the master asked.
"No master he used none in front of them, he only used his skill of
great speed he was born with," Galena said, to any observers it would look
like Galena was a child because of Galenas size but Galena wasn't.
"Good, continue what you were doing Galena," the master said and
Galena bowed, seconds later Galena seemed to fade out of sight.
soft ones= mobians who were not ninjas
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Chapter One
"Hello Sapphier, I see that you are ready to go," Jade said appearing
beside Sapphier, Sapphier smiled relieved that he could finally return to his
home.
"Have you left behind all possesions that you have gained while living
among the soft ones?" Jade asked, Jades green robes hid his its face so no
expression was seen on it.
"Yes I went through the trees so that I would not leave any
footprints," Sapphire said, Jade nodded and passed him a pair of Sapphier
coloured booys.
"What name did you use among the softones?" Jade asked him, the
green coloured ninja had asked him with emotionless. Sapphire let his go
emotionless, no longer could he act like the soft ones he had lived with.
"I was called Sonic," Sapphire said, his sapphire blue eyes became like
stone as Jade watched.
"Let us go then," Jade said, Sapphier nodded and then they vanished
into the great forest.
"Aunt Sally, have you seen Sonic anywhere?" Tails asked princess
Sally the leader of knothole village, Sally looked at the two tailed fox and
frowned when she realized that she didn't know where Sonic was.
"I don't know Tails honey, did you check his hut?" Sally answered,
when he nodded yes she frowned again for the last time she had seen or
heard Sonic had been yesterday night.
"Aunt Sally I even went inside thinking he might be asleep but he
wasn't there, but I saw his gloves and shoes by his bed," Tails said in a
scared voice, Sally bit her lip now worried for she knew that Sonic loved his
shoes and that he never took them off even when he went to sleep.
"Tails I want you to get everyone you can find, I think that something
has happened to Sonic and we have to find him," Sally said and as she
watched Tails now scared whitened in fear, he nodded and then ran out of
her hut.
"Sonic... whats happened to you and where are you, just please don't
be dead because I love you," Sally whisphered to herself, taking a deep
breath she stepped out of her hut.
Amethyst watched the soft ones look for Sonic, even though the ninjas
robe was purple and was in direct sight Amethyst was using a ninja skill to
keep anyone from seeing him.
*The master will be pleased* Amethyst thought to himself, he had
been sent there to make sure that any traces Sapphier might had left behind
would not lead the soft ones to them.
*I will stay a few more minutes and then leave* Amethyst thought, he
smiled to himself.
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Chapter Two
Sapphire bowed to his opponant, at the moment Sapphier was fighting
a fellow Ninja who was known as Galena. Galena was the same age as
Sapphier except Galena was blind, Galena had been blind for as long as
Sapphier could remember and as children they had grown up for awhile
togeather.
He smiled as Galena pulled out a Bo its first choice of a weapon,
nodding his head he pulled out his sword a Katana. They then began to fight,
he felt himself relax as they fought each other, this brought back good
memories.
Finally they moved onto there secondary weapons, he chose his
Shurikens and Galena chose the Shi. The battle was short and Sapphier was
the victor, during the battle if anyone was watching it would of looked like
two different coloured blurs were moving around the room almost to fast to
watch.
"I win Galena," Sapphier said as they bowed to each other, Galena and
himself were almost as good as each other but Galena still had a few tricks to
learn that he himself already knew.
"Yes you have Sapphier, it is very hot today so do you want to go
swimming?" Galena asked and Sapphier said yes, the one bad part about
swimming was that they had to take off there robes and people could
identify there faces.
Later in his room Sapphier took off his Ninja clothing, in the three
months since he had returned he had grown up to the height of five feet and
he hardly even looked like Sonic anymore.
For one thing his cheek bones had become more pronounced and also
he now brushed his spines down, he tied them into a simple ponytail.
Another thing was that when he wasn't in his Ninja garb he wore a grey t-
shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.
Before he left his room he grabbed a towel, swimming trunks and then
headed towards Galena's room, he knocked on the door and a second later it
opened. There stood a female silvery blue Echidna around the age sixteen,
she stood below average height and if she hadn't looked mature for her age
people would of thought her a child.
"Hi Gale, ready to go?" Sapphier asked, gale was his nickname for the
blind Echidna by using the first four letters in Galena's name.
"Ready to go Saph," she answered with a smile, Saph was his nickname
she had made up for him that was short for Sapphier. He noticed that she
was wearing a sleaveless white t-shirt, blue jeans, and toeless white sandles.
In her arms was her towel and her bathing suit, a bathing suit no child
would of been able to wear without certain things older people had.
He led the way to the small lake they were going to swim in, even
though Gale had developed a sixth and seventh sence over the years he still
had to lead her to certain areas only he knew of.
Soon both of them were splashing and diving under the lake water,
early in her life Gale had found out that while she was blind she was also an
excellent swimmer.
Half an hour later they returned to the place of Ninjas and put on
there Ninja garb once again, all emotions left them for emotions could be the
downfall of a Ninja in some situations.
Sapphier walked silently through the place of Ninjas, the master had
given him a task. the task was to gather a very special herb in the
mountains, the herb was very poisoness to the touch and could be used in
many things (not just a poison)>
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Chapter Three
Obsidian passed Sapphier supplies, Obsidian had known Sapphier since
they were very small children and thought Sapphier as a younger brother.
Underneath his shin black Ninja robes he was an eighteen year old black
wolf who was actually quite tall, his large golden eyes always showed all his
emotions.
"When will you be returning Sapphier?" Obsidian asked his golden
eyes bright with questions, Sapphier finished putting his supplies away and
answered.
"I will be returning in about two weeks or more Obsidian," Sapphier
said, Obsidian frowned not liking the idea of Sapphier going away. The last
time Sapphier had left here Sapphier had been five years old and he hadn't
returned till he was sixteen, he remembered the news when he was seven
that Sapphier had lost his memory and that the soft ones had him.
"Be careful Sapphier, I don't kow why but I have a feeling that
something bad is going to happen very soon," Obsidian said and sapphier
nodded, he also had this feeling.
"Sharpen all your blades, there is a feeling of a battle soon," Sapphier
said, he then vanished on the way to do his task.
Obsidian went to his room and went to his chest and opened it, inside
it was his many weapons with types of blades. He started taking them out
and he smiled, when Sapphier told you to do something a person usually did
it.
"Do you ever miss not being Kouvar anymore Obsidian, there wasn't
much before the Ninjas," Obsidian asked himself in a whisper, he sighed and
put on his wrist claw gloves.
Galena frowned as she felt Sapphier leave the place of Ninjas, a
strange feeling of death hung in the air that few sensed. But she knew that it
told her that something terrible would happen soon, also that it would
change her life in some way.
Her left hand touched her necklace around her neck, on it was a silver
heart and she knew that it was all that she had left of her life before she had
become Galena. Who she was once she didn't know, she actually didn't care.
"Sapphier my friend, walk carefully in the light and shadows," Galena
whisphered, this was a way a Ninja could wish a friend to go in safety.
It was getting dark out when Jade frowned, something was very
wrong and she could smell it. She slipped a tanto into her left hand and went
to see if she could find out what was wrong, Jade never had a chance to
scream as she died.
The SwatBots marched through the Place of Ninjas, there orders were
to kill all the Ninjas and to not let any escape alive.
"YOU ARE TO BE KILLED BY THE ORDERS OF DOCTOR ROBOTNIK THE
RULER OF MOBIUS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE," the SwatBots drowned all at once
in there robotic voices, the Ninjas spotted them and quickly escaped, but the
escape was not without some of the Ninjas getting hurt badly.
Over twenty Ninjas were killed by the SwatBots but the rest escaped,
of the five hundred SwatBots Robotnik had sent only ten of these returned.
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Chapter Four
Knuckles an Echidna and guardian of the Floating island grinded his
teeth in frustration, a week ago he had found a beautiful silver box in a cave.
But he had found that the metal had been melted in key places so he wasn't
able to open it, he was now in Knothole village waiting for Rotor to get it
open.
'Hello Knuckles," Knuckles turned around and smiled, it was Tails the
two tailed fox who was Sonics best friend. He then frowned when he noticed
that Sonic wasn't with Tails, he looked around wondering where the blue
hedgehog could be.
"Where's Sonic?" he asked and he wished then that he hadn't asked,
Tails face fell and his eyes filled with tears. Knuckles bit the inside of his left
cheek, with this reaction he knew that something very bad must of
happened to Sonic.
"Knuckles don't you know, Sonics been missing for three months now,"
Tails said in a voice that sounded like it was about to break, then Tails ran
away from Knuckles in tears.
"It's true Knuckles, Sonic vanished one night and we still haven't
found any clues," a voice said, Knuckles saw that it was Sally and he also
noticed that she needed sleep very badly.
"How did that happen?" he asked her, she sighed sadly and he knew
that she didn't know.
"Princess Sally, Princess Sally," a breathless voice suddenly called,
Sally and Knuckles looked up to see a middle aged cat running towards
towards them with something in its arms.
"I'll see you later Knuckles, I have to attend to something," Sally said
and he nodded, Sally and the cat ran into the medicle hut.
"Knuckles I've got it open!" he heard Rotor call from within Rotors hut,
quickly he entered and went to a table where the now open box was placed.
Carefully Knuckles reached in and pulled out a huge envelope, he could tell
that it had once been white but time had changed its edges to yellow and
brown.
Carefully with two fingers he opened the envelope, he wondered what
was so important in this envelope that it had been buried in a cave. His
fingers detected some papers inside and he carefully slid them out, he
realized that they were photos of some kind and he quickly studied them
and there were five of them.
The first one was of himself in a field o flowers waving at someone
beyond the person holding the camera, he also noticed that he looked to be
around four of five in the picture. The next picture was of himself and
another Echidna, they were placing flower wreaths on each ithers heads and
smiling. She had silvery blue fur and blue eyes, for some reason she seemed
to remind him of something but not what. The last three pictures were of
himself and the other Echidna in different places and always smiling, he
turned the pictures over and noticed the dates the pictures were taken and
he also saw her name.
"Who are you T'ana-Lii, why don't I remember you but I see you in
these pictures with me?" Knuckles asked the pictures, they of course couldn't
answer him. Finally he pulled the final objects out of the envelope, there was
another photo, a newspaper clipping, and also a beatiful painting of T'ana-Lii.
The photo was of her again at a birthday party and he knew that it
was hers, she was holding up a beautiful heart shaped silver locket and was
also hugging him. The newspaper article made him cry fo it said that T'ana-
Lii was presumed dead after a huge explosion and that no body had yet to
be found a month after.
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Chapter Five
"Okay, now we carefully pull back the cloth from around the childs
face," the doctor instructed Bunny and Bunny nodded. She did as she was
told, and as soon as they pulled the cloth off the child Bunny discovered the
child was an echidna.
Carefully they pulled the rest of the clothing off and she saw that the
child was female, then she let the doctor clean the wounds and put the
bandages on the child which she had yet to learn how to do correctly.
As Bunny was putting blankets over the child she noticed the necklace
around the childs neck and she admired the workmanship of the silver
heart, finally she was done putting the blankets on the child.
"Thank you Bunny for the help, I've been having an overload of
patients lately and you helping me today really helped," the doctor said with
a smile, Bunny smiled and left the hut for her home since she was so tired.
Sally looked at the child in the bed, a bandage was wrapped around
her head like a bandana. The girl she noticed was in very good shape other
then the obvious injuries, the doctor told her that the injuries were caused
by a swatbot.
"Saph... ," the girl suddenly said in her sleep, Sally quickly wrote down
the name the child had said, whatever she had just said could tell them
where she had come from or who her parents were.
"Sapphier... ," the girl said and sally blinked, the word Saph and
Sapphier sounded the same so they might be the same thing or person.
'I wonder who Saph or Sapphire are?" Sally said musing, this musing
was cut short when the door to the medicle hut opened. Sally looked up and
smiled, it was Knuckles and in his hands were some old photos.
Knuckles walked into the medicle hut in deep thought, he knew that
he should know this T'ana-lii but he didn't know and anyway she had been
dead for years.
"Hi sal, so what was that problem earlier?" he asked her with a smile,
Sally bit her lip and pointed at the bed beside her.
Knuckles turned to look at the bed and froze, his world fragmented
like a broken mirror. The floor seemed to fall away from him, he felt the
photos slide from his hands and land gently on the floor. He felt disbelief
course through him and his heart beat an unbelievable speed, he knew that
this couldn't T'ana-lii because she was dead. For one thing T'ana-lii would be
sixteen years old by now and not a child, and then he felt his heart freeze
once again.
Around her neck was a necklace and one that was very familiar, it
was the silver heart necklace that T'ana-lii had worn. sally of course had
noticed his reaction, Sally then blinked wondering what was going on here.
Slowly Knuckles with a shaky hand lifted up the heart locket and
opened it, inside ingraved was the name T'ana-lii and also a miniture picture
of T'ana-lii and himself putting flower wreaths on each others heads, it was
exactly like one of the pictures he had dropped on the floor.
Knuckles closed the locket in shock and studied the silvery blue
colored echidna, he knew that it couldn't be her but as he studied her he saw
that the body was very mature but while she was asleep she looked like a
child.
"It couldn't be you, could it?" he asked himself his mind numb in
shock.
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Chapter Six
Sapphier smiled to himself as he came to a bend in the trail that told
him that he would soon be at the place of Ninjas, it had taken him three
weeks for his task to be completed and he was finally done. He rounded the
bend and stopped dead, where the place of Ninjas had been was a smoking
ruin and rubble.
"What happened?" he asked himself as he wondered about the ruins,
he winced when he saw the fresh graves and he silently read the names on
there markers. He had known them all but he did not cry, that wasn't the
way of the ninjas.
"Sapphier!" a voice suddenly called, he spun around and found himself
in a bear hug. He sighed when he saw that it was Obsidian, the wolfs golden
eyes were tearful and joyfull that his friend had returned alive.
"Where is everyone?" Sapphier asked, he specially wanted to know
where Galena was since they were best friends.
"They are at the sacred place waiting for us, but Galena... well there is
something i have to tell you," Obsidian said and he told him about the
swatbot attack and also how Galena hurt had been found by the softones, it
was up to Sapphier to rescue her.
"I will be back once I have retrieved Galena," Sapphier said and
Obsidian nodded, Sapphier started running using his super speed. He once
again had to go to knothole village, sally had Galena.
How long Galena had been there she didn't know, every now and then
she would wake up in a confused muddle and she would call for sapphier
hoping that he would be there. What confused her more was that the
softones would call her T'ana-lii and ask her where she was from, she
couldn't tell them about the place of Ninjas and the wound to her head
quickly made her fall asleep again.
For some reason one of the voices was somehow familliar, the voice
seemed gentle yet held strength that few softones held. The voice tickled her
brain that told her that she should know that voice, but once again it was
from before the ninjas so she didn't remember.
Knuckles knew that he was falling in love with T'ana-Lii, since he had
first seen her three weeks ago and he had started to remember his childhood
with her that is until she supposibly died in a terrible accident.
He wondered why T'ana-Lii wasn't responding to her name and also
why she wasn't talking to anyone when she was awake, all she did was call
for that Sapphier person. He sighed and wondered if she remembered him
since he basicly looked the same as he had when they were kids, he just
wondered why she didn't look at anyone when she was totally awake.
"T'ana-Lii how I love thee, though make my heart beat like a drum,"
he then winced at the bad poetry he had just said, good thing T'ana-Lii was
asleep at the moment so she wouldn't of heard him.
"Good thing you didn't hear me say that, I'd die of embarrisment,"
Knuckles said blushing red, he sighed and left his seat beside T'ana-Lii's cot,
he had to get some sleep tonight.
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Chapter Seven
Sapphier slipped between the buildings in knothole village, he gritted
his teeth in frustration wishing that he was anywhere but here. For years
after he had recovered his memory he had lived among the soft ones and he
had hated it, now once again his true identity he had to come here to save
Galena.
He remembered the accident that had taken away everything he had
known too well and it still haunted his dreams, when he had been five years
old he had fallen down a cliff and a blow to the head had returned his
memory to him. But he had been stuck still with the softones for he hadn't
been able to remember the way home, finally in what seemed light years
later the ninjas had found him and he remembered how to get home.
Finally he came to the place he knew Galena would be, the medicle
hut. He listened at the door and smiled when he realized that only Galena
was inside, he eased open the door and silently slipped inside. He growled
softly when he saw that the softones had unmasked her, but he let it pass
seeing that they had treated her wounds.
"Gale... " he whisphered, her eyelids flickered and she woke up. He
frowned now remembering how far behind the softones medicle technology
was, but once Galena was home she would be better in a few minutes instead
of weeks.
"Saph, please get me out of here," she said in a very weak voice,
Sapphier carefully picked her up relieved that he could leave now.
Then the door slammed open, he spun around Galena in his arms to
see Knuckles. After a minute of staring at each other Sapphier sweatdropped,
carefully he used all his skills to vanish from sight with Gale and run for it.
Behind him he heard Knuckles yell and alarms flare, he decided to go
through the tree branchess in case someone actually saw him and he ran
even faster.
"Gale hold on, were going to someplace safe," Sapphier wisphered,
Galena didn't answer him since she was out of it.
Knuckles yawned as he entered the medicle hut, he had forgotten his
glass there and had decided to get it before he went to sleep. Then he saw
the blue clothed person and he froze, this unknown mobian was very tall
and was wearing the same kind of clothing that T'ana-lii had worn when
they had found her. He also noticed that the person was holding T'ana-lii,
and then before his startled eyes the stranger vanished from sight.
After three seconds of staring at the now empty spot he finally yelled
for help, minutes later Princess Sally and other freedom fighters ran to him.
"Someone took T'ana-lii Sally, please we have to save her," Knuckles
said his eyes haunted with grief, after remembering T'ana-lii after all these
years he didn't want to loose her again.
"We'll try Knuckles, don't give up hope," Sally said.
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Chapter Eight
Sapphier knew that Obsidian was relieved to see him but only the
wolves eyes showed any of his emotion, quickly they headed to the sacred
place set to get Galena medicle attention.
Finally they arrived at the sacred place and they both rushed Galena
to the medicle facility, then Sapphier went to his desinated room and fell
into a deep sleep.
He dreamed, dreamed of when he had first met Galena and he had
also given her the name of Galena.
A young blue hedgehog walked into the hospital room in the hospital
area of the place of ninjas, on a bed a silvery blue echidna girl his own age
lay, there were bandages wrapped around her face and other places on her
small body.
Earlier a ninja had brought her here after hearing her parents trying
to find a way to get rid of her after a terrible explosion had struck her blind,
the doctors here were unable to give her sight back but they were using all
there skills so that she would only have a few scars on her face when she
was fully healed.
The echidna stirred and finally awoke, Sapphier walked over and sat
in the chair beside the hospital bed.
"Hi, my name is Sapphier whats your name?" he asked her, she turned
her bandaged wrapped face and eyes towards him and the bottom part of
her face that he could see frowned.
"I... I... I... don't remember, I don't remember anything," she said, to
him her voice sounding small and frightened.
"How about I give you a new name, that is till you remember your
real one, and we can be best friends since were both the same age?"
Sapphier asked the echidna, the echidna smiled and daid okay in a timid
voice.
"Then I name you Galena after the gem, its fits you since your fur
colouring looks like the gems colouring," Sapphier said and then the two
children giggled, the echidna now named Galena smiled and fell back to
sleep.
Sapphier stayed there till a doctor told him that he had to leave,
Sapphier left now happy that he had made a new friend.
Sapphier woke up smiling, looking out his bedroom window he saw
that it was only midnight. He rolled over in his bed smiling happy that he
still had his best friend, he went back to sleep.
The master of all ninjas sighed as he looked at the night sky, he had
never told anyone that sapphier was his son but he loved him and he even
loved Galena like a daughter. He had never told Galena about her past and he
hoped that he would never have to, her past was so very sad.
Galenas parents had never told anyone that they had recovered her
after the explosion, that is since the softones technology would still leave her
blind and terribly scared. A ninja had heard there plans for getting rid of her
and had seen the raw potential in the child, letting nothing to go to chance
the ninja had taken her and now Galena lived happily.
He sighed again wishing life was simple, but it wasn't.
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Chapter Nine
Morning was not Galena's favorite time of day, she prefured waking
up at noontime when the most cheerful people weren't about. But she got up
anyway when the sun was about to rise into the sky and the birds began
there singing, today she was out of the medicle facility and already she was
planning to work the kinks out of her body.
She got into her ninja garb and then the only thing people could see of
her were her light blue eyes, she gathered her favourite weapons and went
into the training room where everyone could practice.
Already there were others here, she nodded to towards there general
direction. She started with general warmups till her body moved gracefully
and smoothly, then she used her weapons against a practice dummy she
senced with her sixth sence.
"Hi Gale," a male voice said, galena smiled as Sapphier walked into the
room. Like herself Sapphier was not a morning person but resigned himself
to get up before the sun rose, he had once told her that when he got up he
always wanted to kill the poor annoying birds who sung outside his windows
because he hated anything cheerful when he woke up.
"Hi Saph, whats up?" Galena asked him as she heard him lightly walk
up to her, his breathing was slow and she had to listen hard to hear it.
Around him she felt a feeling of excitement, she knew he was planning
something for today.
"How would you like to go on an adventure?" he asked her and she
felt a warm glow of happines from him, he wanted her to go.
"Of course I'll go Saph, who else would actually go on your crazy
adventures," she said in a fake nasty voice, they joked about these
adventures when ever they planned one.
"Well then Gale lets go, I just got the map to the great tomb. The
master said we an look for the great library ledgend says it holds, remember
togeather we can find anything," he said and they both laughed togeather,
then they both headed for adventure.
Knuckles slung his backpack onto his back, he was going searching for
T'ana-lii. He knew with a gut feeling that he would find her in the ruins of
the great tomb, the tomb was found near the ruins of the ancients. He
wondered how he knew this and he frowned, he would figure it out later
when he wasn't so worried about her.
"Knuckles be careful," sally said from the door of the hut, Knuckles
looked at her and smiled for her concern.
"Thanks sally I'll be careful, I'm just going to be searching for a few
days and then I have to return to the floating island," Knuckles said and she
sighed suddenly looking sad, he knew that once again she was thinking of
what could of happened to Sonic and wishing that she could go search for
him also.
"I know Knuckles but everytime a friend leaves Knothole even to hike
I now fear that they are going to dissapear, i just wish I knew what had
happened to Sonic so I wouldn't be scared like this," Sally said with a slight
frown, Knuckles took her hand and gave it a slight squeeze of comfort.
"Don't worry Sally I'll be back," he said with a smile, she smiled back.
"I count on it," Sally said, she then turned around and vanished from
his sight.
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Chapter Ten
The ruins of the great Tomb were a dreary place, Sapphier could see
that in many crumbled corners of the tomb birds nested. He looked at the
map of the ruins, with a couple more coridors the two of them would be at
the entrance to the ledgendary great library.
"How much farther Saph?" Galeena asked, Sapphier turned to look at
his friend in adventure. Galeena was a ninja like himself, she was a silvery
blue echidna with large blue eyes and her ninja garb was a silvery blue color
also. One of the things hard to tell about her was her age since she was
pretty short for her age and that she was an echidna under her garb, the
thing others never expected was that she was blind and had been for years.
"Probably a few minutes Gale," he answered, the two of them since
they were alone were letting there voices sound like there respected genders
but if anyone was with them you wouldn't be able to tell anything else about
them.
It was then that the two of them heard the sound of someone else,
quickly the two of them hid and waited to see who it was... or in Galeenas
case sence who it was.
'Damn' Sapphier thought when he saw who it was, it was someone he
had been friends with when he had been called Sonic. It was Knuckles the
guardian of the floatng island, Sapphier frowned wondering what the hell
Knuckles was doing here.
***
Knuckles sighed as he walked through the ruins, after hours of
searching he wondered why he had thought he would find T'ana-lii here of
all places.
"Why the hell did I think I would find her here, if only that blue
garbed person hadn't taken her," Knuckles muttered darkly to himself, he
sighed and then froze where he was standing. He didn't know why but he
felt as if he was being watched, once the older guardians had told him that
the guardians of the island could sometimes feel things that are invisible to
normal sight.
"Great now I'm being paranoid," Knuckles said rolling his eyes, then
with a sigh he began walking again.
***
When Knuckles began to walk the direction the two ninjas planned to
go Sapphier realized that he had to stop knuckles, acting quickly he silently
went behind Knuckles and knocked him out. Then he tied the red echidna
up, if Knuckles woke up he didn't want him to get free anytime soon.
"You didn't have to hit him that hard Sapphier," Galeena said and she
let herself be seen by normal sight and so did he, he gave her an evil glare
not that she could see it.
"Because red boy here has a hard head, and when he wakes up he'll
want to find us right away... this way we'll probably be long gone by the
time he comes to," Sapphier said, she nodded now in agreement and they
continued on there way.
"You know what Sapphier, I don't know why but that soft one echidna
seems familliar for someone... as if I met him long ago in that time I can't
remember," Galeena said, Sapphier frowned under his cowl but didn't say
anything.
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Chapter Eleven
Knuckles woke up with a huge headache, he tried to move but found
that he was tied up very tightly with a very strong rope. He grunted when a
stone from the ceiling dropped and hit his side, this wasn't how he had
expected to spend his time.
"This really isn't my day," he muttered in an annoyed voice, his hands
were behind his back and after a few minutes of moving his body in strange
positions he got then in front of himself.
"What now?" he asked himself as he managed to sit up, he licked his
dry lips and wished he could reach his backpack which held his water bottle.
He sweatdropped when a rat appeared and squeaked in an annoyed voice at
him, he guessed that he was in its favorite spot.
"I've got to find her, this might be my last chance," Knuckled said and
he sat up with a groan trying to ignor how sore his body was, he glared at
the rope wishing it wasn't there.
"T'ana-lii please be okay," he wispered and he hoped with all his heart
she was okay, in his minds eye he saw a very hazy memory of her return. He
sighed and closed his eyes, he had to gather all his energy to escape these
ropes.
'T'ana-lii' he thought as he opened his eyes once again, gritting his
teeth he pulled his wrists apart ignoring the pain the ropes caused.
{SNAP}
He smiled when he saw that the ropes had finally snapped, quickly he
rubbed his circalation back into his wrists. His tounge was sticking slightly
out of his mouth as he untied the rest of himself from the rope, it returned
inside his mouth once he was totally free.
'Whoever tied that rope is good, if I wasn't so strong I would still be
trapped' Knuckles thought with a frown, he knew that he would have to be
more careful now since he had already been knocked out once.
"Maby I will even find out what has happened to Sonic," Knuckles
wispered and he thought about the blue hedgehog who had been his friend,
he knew that if he found out what had happened to Sonic it would ease
many mobians hearts a little.
'Lets do it to it' Knuckles thought borrowing a motto from a friend he
missed, then he started in the direction he felt he had to go.
***
Sapphier froze as a strange feeling entered him, he didn't know why
but he had a feeling that he had to put on the full ninja look on again. He
sighed silently wishing that he had time to losing up more often, but the life
of a ninja was full of Danger and he could never give anything away.
"Saph, whats wrong?" Galeena asked and he knew she had felt his
mood change, she was very sensituive to these things.
"Gale feel the air, we have to be very careful now... or I have a feeling
our people might be revealed even more then ever before," he wispered to
her, she paused and he knew that she was feeling the world around her with
those extra sences she had.
"The soft one we tied up earlier has escaped Sapphier, if we meet up
with him again I suggest we abandon this adventure," she said and he
agreed, then as one they seemed to vanish into the shadows of the ruins.
***
Knuckles knew that he was getting closer to T'ana-lii, it was like a
buzzing in his heart. He squinted into the darkened halls of the ruins, he
knew that once this place had been a beautiful city thousands of years ago.
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Chapter Twelve
Sapphier sighed and groaned slightly, he was soaking wet and his
blind friend was laughing knowing that he was disgrunted at such a small
thing.
"It's not that funny," he grumbled and he glared at the ceiling, there
was a large crack that had just formed that the water had fallen from.
"It is, you just can't understand it at this moment," she said and he
knew that she was grinning, he sighed and realized that the water was
soaking through his ninja garb.
"Aww shut up Gale, and now I have to take these off to change into
my spare ninja garb," he said and gave a fake upset sniff, she gave a small
laugh that twinkled like crystals.
***
Knuckled walked carefully throught the ruins, once he knew that place
had been beautiful in his ancestors times... but now it was decaying rubble.
"The history is lost for this place, I wonder who lived here so long
ago," Knuckles said to himself, he sighed feeling slightly depressed in this
place.
It was then that he heard the sound of someone laughing, the laugh
was crystal like but he would reconize it anywhere. He also heard another
voice, he didn't reconize it because the person spoke to low.
'T'ana-lii is here, that must mean my quest is almost over... and maby
I can even find out what happened to Sonic' he thought excitement in his
heart, he licked his lips and quickly headed in the direction he had heard
T'ana-lii laugh and the other voice.
***
Sapphier gave a small sigh as he pulled as the soaking wet ties so that
he could pull of the hood that hid his face, thankfully he had an extra ninja
garb... in case this one got ruined or something else.
"Hurry up Saph, remember we only have a cartain amount of time for
this adventure," Galena pointed out, Sapphier rolled his eyes even though he
knew that this gesture was lost on the blind ninja.
"Patience my young friend," he said in his most annoying voicem she
groaned at his humour. With a grin he pulled off his hood, cold air rushed
across his blue fur.
"Sonic!" a voice called, startled Sapphier spun around after hearing the
name the soft ones had given him.
"Knuckles," he said in surprise.
***
Knuckles had just rounded the corner to see someone he had never
thought he would see again, the blue ninja that had taken T'ana-lii was no
other then the long missing Sonic. He felt his heart skip a beat when that
hood came totally off, his face paled and he did the only things he could
thing of.
"Sonic!" he called, startled the blue hedgehog (who had grown a lot
since they had last seen each other) turned, Sonic stared at him in shock.
"Knuckles," Sonic said in a surprised voice, finally his mind couldn't
take it any longer and he fainted and the last thing he felt was someone
catching him.
***
"Sorry Gale looks like vacation is over early," Sapphier said after he
had caught Knuckles, he looked at the red mobian and sighed.
"We will have to take him back to base with us," Galena said, Sapphier
agreed. After getting a good grip on Knuckles and Galena was hanging onto
his back he began to run, using his super speed they soon arived at the
sacred place.
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Chapter Thirteen
Sapphier sighed as he looked over the form of the sleeping echidna, he
was so surprised that Knuckles had found them. He knew Knuckles would
have alot of questions, and to tell the truth he didn't know how to answer
them.
'This is just a big mess, the elders are not happy and if he won't
promise to keep quiet... I really don't want to think about that alternate'
Sapphier thought with a deep sigh, he leaned back in his chair deep in
thought.
He had known the Guardian of the floating island for quiet a few
years, there first meeting had been quite interesting. Robotnik of course had
made Knuckles think Sonic and Tails were evil, after a few adventures
Knuckles had seen the truth.
While he waited for Knuckles to wake up he had chosen to wear his
soft ones clothing, he had worn them for years and he knew Knuckles would
relax more if he wore them.
"..." a voice said, Sapphiers eyes snapped open as the occupent on the
bed began to come to.
"Welcome back to the world of the living Knuckles," Sapphier said
letting amusement show in his voice, Knuckles eyes snapped open and he
rolled over to face the hedgehog.
"Sonic..." Knmuckled said once again in shock, Sapphier sighed and
quickly slapped the echidna who was about to faint.
"Idiot," Sapphier muttered, he was now starting to wonder if he should
of worn his ninja garb.
***
Knuckles stared at the blue hedgehog in shock, one of his white gloved
hands was held against his cheek where Sonic had struck him. Since there
was more light... where ever he was, he could see that the hedgehog had
finally grown.
His blue spines were longer and he was taller also, there was a
calmness around him that hadn't been there before. He looked into the
hedgehogs eyes and had to blink, Sonics blue eyes were turning a soft
emerald green at there edges.
It wasn't noticable yet but after awhile it would be visible, he knew it
was an effect of Sonic using the choas emeralds over the years. He had heard
of this happening from ancient texts about the choas emeralds, it was very
rare... most times Choas emeralds killed those that tried to use them.
"Sonic, where am I and where have you been all this time," he
demanded angerly, he knew that everyone was worried about Sonic and
missed him very much.
"I can't tell you that yet Knuckles, theres a story I have to tell you
first," Sonic said with a sigh, Knuckles frowned and knew that this story
must be important and made himself comfortable.
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Chapter Fourteen
Sapphier took a deep breath as he finished telling Knuckles his life
story, he had told it like a story so that the soft one might understand.
Looking into the echidnas eyes he saw a light of understanding, yet he
also saw a bit of sadness in them.
"You can't go back to knothole can you?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier
shook his head no knowing that he had changed too much to go back to being
Sonic again.
"I missed you when you vanished Sonic.... um what did you say your
real name was again?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier allowed himself one of his
rare laughs and answered.
"My name is Sapphier, its my birth name by the way," he answered
his eyes twinkling, during the story Knuckles had interrupted once to tell
him about the effect of the choas emeralds on his eyes.
"Soooo," Knuckles breathed out slowly, it was obviously a question that
he didn't quite know how to ask.
"Yes?" he asked with with a slight smirk, Knuckles looked slightly
nervous but asked his question.
"Whats it like being a ninja, I heard about them in stories and I bet
half of that isn't true?" Knuckles asked, Sapphier looked at the red mobian in
front of him and wondered if he would be able to give him a tour of the
sacred place.
"It is very different then you think Knuckles, before I go ask
permission to give you a tour of the area will you please tell me why you so
interested in Galeena who you called T'ana-lii?" Sapphier asked, Knuckles
sighed and looked at Sapphier with sad purple eyes.
"I guess I can tell you, you need to know these things before you go
don't you?" Knuckled asked with yet another sigh, Sapphier nodded Knuckles
looked at the ceiling.
"It all started in my childhood, and no I am not going to tell you my
whole life story," Knuckles said seeing Sapphiers face, Sapphier grinned and
made himself more comfy for Knuckles story.
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Now it is said that Ninjas were not curious creatures like there soft
ones cousins of mobius, that was entirely wrong. This fact was proven wrong
by the crowd listening outside the door, at least ten ninjas were trying here
the conversations inside.
"Quiet, if you'll all be quiet I'll be able to hear and tell you whats going
on," a voice said in a whisper to the others, this ninja was in a red ninjas
garb and still quite young not yet learned all there lessons.
'Oh oh' the red garbed one thought with a large sweatdrop, it had just
heard the sound of the door breaking from the press of ninjas outside.
"Ahhh," everyone yelled as the door gave way and they fell to the
floor inside, they were met with the amused eyes of Knuckles and Sapphier
laughing with amusement.
"Were in trouble, aren't we?" the red garbed one asked with a nervous
laugh, Sapphier only nodded as he continued to laugh.
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Chapter Fifteen
"And this is the training area for children below five, that is tha age
many things of great importance is taught," Sapphier told Knuckles, it was
two days later and he had finally gotten permission to give the soft one a
tour.
After Knuckles first day Sapphier had once again began to wear his
ninja garb, this annoyed Knuckles to no end because he found it quite hard
to tell the ninjas apart.
He was starting to wish the ninjas wore name tags, there robes while
they had many shades of colors were almost impossible to tell apart.
Yesterday he had met with Galeena, he also found out why she had
reacted so strangely to knothole. She was blind, and she had been blind since
she had been very young.
To his sadness she remembered none of her past, so he had told her
what he remembered but she asked him not to call her the name she had
those years ago.
It burdened his heart to see her yet not as he remembered, but he
knew that time could do that to anyone. It was even more possible with full
blown amnesia, after that initial conversations she had told him some very
humourous stories about Sapphiers childhood.
Knuckles found that he had fallen deeply in love with her, but he
knew his feelings would never be returned. How could they when they were
so different, she was a ninja and would never leave then when they had
raised her after saving her life.
But he had learned much about them from her, it had been quite a
shock when Sapphier once Sonic had come in his ninja garb emotionless and
seemingly gengerless.
He also had the paranoid feeling Sapphier loved to frighten him, he
didn't know how many times Sapphier had appeared out of the shadows
making his heart skip a beat.
"And heres our last stop, the cafeteria," Sapphier said in a monotone
voice, it was just in time as Knuckles stomach growled in hunger.
'This is so embarrising' he thought and he was served a wonderful
soup, he idly wonedered if he could get the recipe.
As he ate he also wondered if he could visit here after, there was
something soo mysterious about these ninjas. And there was also something
else he considered and it made his heart ache, he would be able to see
Galeena again.
"Knuckles, when you are done eating it is time to meet the master of
the ninjas," Sapphier said, Knuckles paled slightly and swallowed deeply.
From what he had heard so far from his stay was that the master of
the ninjas was the most dangerous and cunning of the lot.
"Great," he said in barely a whisper, he only hoped it wouldn't be his
death sentence.
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Chapter Sixteen
Sapphier was glad that his ninja garb hid his face, that way Knuckles
wouldn't see his lips twitching into a smile. He had watched the meeting
between the two from the shadows, he doubted Knuckles had ever been that
scared in his life.
He himself knew that the master was having a great time, the master
was geeting old and couldn't travel as well as the younger generation so
this was a treat to meet someone.
'Of couse I doubt Knuckles thought it was a treat' Sapphier thought
with amusement, at the moment the two were heading to a room he had left
out of the tour.
The room held a knife that had the creat of the ninjas on it, the
mobian ninjas gave them to anyone who was welcome in there bases and
would give protection to.
Unknown to knuckles he had just been giving the greatest of honours,
in ancient times many great hearted and good souls had been granted this
knife... Knuckles was the only person since Robotnik came to recieve one.
Finally it was the time to give knuckles the knife and he did so,
Knuckles took the knfe and looked at its design in awe.
"Its beautiful," Knuckles said with wide eyes, Sapphier allowed himself
to nod... not that the echidna noticed.
"It is Knuckles and remember you must remain quiet of what you
have seen, but you do have a reason to visit another other then me here," he
said, his blue eyes danced as he remembered how Knuckles had looked at
Galeena.
Galeena had also looked at Knuckles that way, she had only admitted
to Sapphier that she had fallen in love with the guardian of the floating
island.
"And that is?" Knuckles asked clearly confused, Sapphier pulled the
face part of his garb down and grinned broadly at the confused soft one.
"Because you love Galeena, and I know her heart belongs to you," he
whispered, before the surprised and confused mobian could do anything
Sapphier cheerfully pulled his face garb into place.
Then before Knuckles could reply he gave Knuckles a map to get back
to knothole and find the way here again, then he led him outside and after
waving closed the door.
'Sometimes I love being me' he thought happily, Sapphier then forced
himself back into being the perfect ninja again.
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I combined the first four parts of the story to give one big story, I am still working on the next four chapters. Hopefully you Sonic fans of mediaminer will enjoy this story, the chapters above are the work of over a year... I posted them elsewhere on the net but at the email of a sonic fan to post it here. I would love reviews and even fanart... pleas send me fanart.
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