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Sonic Adventure 3 - Chapter 13

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30 minutes later
Tails' lab, Shikokou

The heroes headed back, and rested the unconscious Yuki in bed.

"It's been a long time since I've last heard of you, Knuckles. How's it been guarding the Master Emerald?"
"Yeah, about that."
"Ooh boy. What happened to it this time, Knucklehead?"
Knuckles burst with anger. "Sonic! I broke it so it couldn't be stolen!"
"You said that the last time."
"I'm gonna punch you in the face soon."
"Go ahead, I dare ya." Sonic was just enjoying taunting Knucklehead.
Knuckles smashed Sonic in the face, giving him a gigantic swollen lump covering his right eye. "Y'know, you deserved it."
"Something tells me this always happens between the two of you." Kaori assumed.
"Jup. Get used to it." Tails confirmed. "Hey, how's Yuki going?"
The name 'Yuki' filled Kaori with rage and frustration. "Don't even talk about that creepy, selfish demon pervert! I hate him! Hate him hate him hate him!"
Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were surprised by Kaori's insults on Yuki.
"Wait… back there you were worried about him!"
"Do you always moodswing every half an hour?" Knuckles asked.
"Seems like it." Sonic replied.
Kaori's response: Give Sonic a taste of the Kaori Scratch.

KAORI SCRATCH COUNT: 4

Yuki was recuperating in the bedroom Yuki and Kaori slept in, still unconscious from having used up so much energy for his Fireball Cannon. Kaori walked in to check on him, making sure he wouldn't wake up and catch her.
Despite what she said about Yuki a few seconds ago, Kaori was concerned about Yuki. She silently watched over his resting body with the bright sunshine shining on him through the window in an otherwise dark room.
(Back there, Yuki protected me… if I'm ever hurt or suffering, he goes into this rage. Then again, it is because he loses control over his body, so I shouldn't be too freaked out. Still…) She sat beside Yuki on the edge of his bed. (Even if he wants to always be a pain… I wonder if he actually does care about me deep down? There has to be some reason behind all this.)
Then, she thought back to how rude, nasty and uncooperative Yuki usually is. There's no way someone like that could be kind deep down. (Well no matter what he thinks about me, he certainly doesn't wanna show it!) Kaori suddenly begun speaking (or rather shouting) out loud without even knowing it. "Of course, he does hate me! I can't believe I thought he was alright a guy for a moment there, I still hate him too!"

She looked up to see Tails at the door. It seemed her yelling caught his attention. "Are you okay, Kaori-chan?" He asked softly.
Kaori had an embarrassed, somewhat eerie grin on her face. "Oh, never mind me. I just had a little outburst there."
Tails sat beside Kaori on the bed with a sigh. "Don't you feel sorry for Yuki at all?" Kaori shifted her head to Tails, who was staring straight as he spoke. "Now it's all starting to come together. In his reincarnation, he was all alone in the world. Nobody wanted to be his friend, and nobody would accept him into their family. It would be pretty bad, living in a world where you're not welcome. Believe it or not, that actually happened to me a long time ago, before I met Sonic… so I have some idea of how he'd feel. That's why he's like this: All his life he's been alone and hated. He could be happy if he had just one friend…"
Kaori pondered for a moment. "Hey Tails?"
Tails looked straight at Kaori with a smile. "Uh huh?"
"You're so kind and friendly. You always try to find the good in others. Don't you have any frustration, jealousy or disgust towards anyone? Don't you have a grudge against one person in your life?"
"I don't understand why you should carry those emotions with you for your life. For the short amount of time we have in this world, we have to just let go of the past and be happy. At least that's what I believe."

"Well I sure as heck don't!" Kaori and Tails heard behind them. They turned their heads to see that Yuki had woken up.
"Y-Yuki! You're up already? How long have you been awake!?" Kaori asked in shock.
"When the fox was talking about me."
"How can you recover from something like that in under an hour?"
"Boy, you're always full of questions huh?"
"Yuki is very strong. I'm not surprised he's managed a full recovery so soon."
"Aren't you glad I'm okay? I could use some sympathy here!"
"You wouldn't do it for any of us, so why even bother?"
"I'm sick and tired of how tough and sassy you act! I was actually satisfied when that mutt hit you."
"Uh… please don't start…" Tails pleaded, scared.
"Hey, uh, Y'have any more of those beans?"
"I do, but you're not getting any with that attitude!"
"I kinda need one to get better."
"If I don't, you won't be able to get out of bed. Then I can enjoy a week without you."
"Do ya wanna beat these demons or not?"
"I don't reckon I can survive it with you around."
Tails found Kaori's sack of Senzu Beans and fed one to Yuki. "Here you go."
Kaori felt a little upset that Yuki had fully recovered within an hour. So much for her time away from him.

"Hiya! Can I join the party?" Sonic boomed as loud as he could as he barged into the room.
"What a wonderful party this is." Yuki remarked sarcastically.
"I can see Sonic hasn't changed at all." Knuckles stated as he entered last.
"Hey, can I have a bit of privacy here? It's annoying having everyone surround me."
"I wonder why you would need privacy." Kaori teased, hinting at Yuki's pervertion.
"I didn't mean that kind of privacy!"
"Sure, whatever you say."
Yuki buried his head into the pillow, trying to block himself from the world. After a few seconds, he shoved Kaori and Tails aside and sat up on the bed.
"Why do you even bother?"
"Bother with…?"
"Saving the world from the bad guys."
"Cos they always ruin my time off!" Sonic replied.
"Why not just let them destroy everything. I think it's all a waste of time."
"And let them get away with wrecking my holiday? I don't think so?"
"Well this isn't about holidays!" Yuki hunched over with his arms crossed. "In the past 8 days, I've seen violence, drugs, abuse, murder, environments destroyed, pollution in the water, world hate… everything bad I could possibly imagine. What do you see in the world, Sonic?"
Sonic replied by rolling his eyes instead of giving a direct answer.
"The world is an awful place. I can't believe just how bad it is. Once the world is saved, all you've done is preventing man destroying the world." He got up and walked up to the door. "Here's what I've learnt: give up. It's the best option. If you give up, you never have to risk anything. The world keeps on turning and eventually we'll get what we deserve and die. So let's all just give up. What do you say?"
"Umm… that came out of nowhere…"
"Yuki, are you okay?"
Yuki had headed out.
"Don't mind him, he's just a drama queen."

January 15, 2015

"I don't like this outfit." Yuki argued.
"No, you look good. It's modern-day outfit." Tails complimented.
"Nah, I still think it's a bit... y'know."
"You look like an anime hero! It's a good outfit."

Over the last 3 days, Yuki and Kaori had dressed up into modern Kyukai outfits more appropriate for everything they have to do. Yuki's hairstyle was one quill pointing upward and three quills hanging down on either side of his face. He wore a light gray T-shirt with the Sega Dreamcast logo, charcoal-coloured denim shorts with a black belt, a bronze charm necklace, Black gloves with an orange V shape on each of them, and futuristic black-and-red grinding shoes that are the new 2015 model of the Soap shoes Sonic once wore. (See Sonic Adventure 2.) He retained the white headband with the 'honour' kanji symbol.

"Yuki, now that you have the Soap shoes, I'm going to teach you how to grind on rails."
"But I don't want to know how to grind."
"Well too bad, you're wearing grinding shoes, now you have to!"
Yuki turned to Kaori with a grin, for the first time ever. "You sure look nice Kaori! I could just squeeze those—"
Inevitably, Kaori scratched Yuki giving him 3 scratch marks to go with his new look.

KAORI SCRATCH COUNT: 5

"No way, pervert!"
Kaori had long hair with pink tips at the end and on her bangs, and her outfit was a light blue tank top with a Chao icon graphic on it, a medium-length black skirt, black fingerless gloves, 2 ring bracelets on her left wrist and 1 on her right, red dangling earrings and charcoal black boots with belts on them. Her makeup was pink lipstick, eye shadow and even nail polish on her claws.
"You do look pretty though, Kaori."
"Aww, thankies Tails."
Yuki saw Knuckles observing. "Hey Echidna, you planning on leaving any time soon?"
"I thought he could tag along."
"Nobody told me this!"
"That's because we figured you'd wanna boot me out." Knuckles answered.
"Why are you all so afraid of me?"
"We're not afraid, we just don't like you." Sonic chuckled.
"Whatever, let's just end the conversation here."

Meanwhile, in Takashima…

Shadow and Esmerelda went back to Takashima with Hakai. The two of them stood in front of the water.
"That didn't accomplish much; we didn't get any more emeralds. Mierda." Esmerelda remarked.
Shadow pulled out a Chaos Emerald. This was the green emerald, the one they previously didn't have. "Look. I managed to steal this from Faker."
"Impresionante! Nice work Sombra." Sombra was what Esmerelda usually called Shadow, which is his name in Spanish.
"That's 3 Chaos Emeralds we now have versus the 2 that they have."
"So, what do we do with the emeralds once we have them all?"

They could hear Hakai summoning a giant demon with a Chaos Emerald. "I guess he's gotten out another demon to take down Faker." He remembered that Hakai had told him about the origin of the Chaos Emeralds. "He claims that the Chaos Emeralds originated from his family. That's why I'm interested in hearing what he has to say."
"We won't be working with him all this time, will we?"
"Nah." Shadow assured Esmerelda.

January 18, 2015
Tails' Lab, Shikokou

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" The hen crowed over Shikokou, A HUGE BUSY CITY, and Yuki struggled to open his eyes. Once he managed to, he flipped around from lying on his stomach with his arms in front of him (his favourite sleeping position), and then he remembered, January 18 was his birthday. (Right, today I'll be sixteen, in hedgehog years at least.) Sadly, birthdays weren't very important to him. It's not like he had friends to throw him a party, so he just treated them like any other day. (Well, this'll be my twelfth day in the future. It's not going all that well.) He sat up and watched Kaori sleep. She can't lie on her stomach, because she has boobs. (I'll probably spend my birthday going up against demon power tanks.)

Yuki, Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Kaori got up and Yuki announced the special event.
"It's my sixteenth birthday today."
"Oh, now you've turned sweet sixteen?" Sonic teased with amusment.
Yuki began to freak out. "That's not funny, Blue Butt!"
Sonic laughed hysterically. "Do you want an ice cream party for your birthday? And everyone expect you has to pay for the ice cream!"
Kaori started chuckling along with Sonic. "Stop laughing!" Yuki ordered.
"I can just imagine you stuffing your face with ice cream and not letting anyone else have some." Sonic described.
"Where's the birthday cake?" Yuki asked.


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Once Daylight Struck

Tails searched the Chaos Radar for new Chaos Emeralds. Then, he came across one emerald in Takashima. "Lucky, I found another emerald. Although no doubt it'll be guarded by someone." He searched for the level of power around Takashima (one of the Miles Electric's other abilities), and what he found gave him a big shock. "What? Hold on a second… this is some crazy power! I'm picking up a presence twice as strong as the last demon! Looks like things will get hairy!"
Thankfully, now that Knuckles had joined the party there were 4 heroes to take down demons. Tails lured in Sonic. "Hey, Sonic! There's a demon in Takashima even stronger than the last one!" Before you could say "Prrroomotion", Sonic came bolting in.
"C'mon! What're we waitin' for, let's get a move on!"
Yuki, Kaori and Knuckles followed Sonic. "Do I have to come?"
"Without you, we'd be stuffed. Sorry Yuki, but you have to come with us."
"Yuki's a glory hog! I can't let 'im steal my fame! I'll show you I can take these guys on myself!"
"Famous last words, huh?" Yuki taunted Sonic.
"Uh-! Y-ya see? This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about, he thinks he's too good for me!"
"I'll come along." Knuckles volunteered. "Tails, you're going too right?"
"Actually, I have to stay here so I can provide backup; it's more strategic than going out in the front lines. It's just the four of you."
"Let's not hold the suspense. Whaddya say we go and start the party?" Sonic boomed eager to head out. He tagged Yuki and Knuckles and they were ready to leave. "Kao-Tan, let's go!"

Kaori stood still with a sick glare aimed at Yuki.
"What? Don't you give me that look!"
"I'm not going with him."
"Oooh boy…"
"Um, Kaori-chan, why don't you want to go?" Tails asked kindly hoping he could prevent an outburst.
"I hate him."
"That's good, cos I hate you too."
"He's the brother of Hakai, the guy we're up against for one, and for two he's horrid, he's always a pain in the bum. I'd be more detailed, but there's an 8 year old child here."
"Maybe the reason I'm like this is because you're such a bi—"
Yuki was conveniently cut off by a Kaori Scratch, although not so much for the victim.

KAROI SCRATCH COUNT: 6

"THATHURTLIKECRAZYYOUDON'TUNDERSTANDHOWPAINFULITISWHE NYOUDOTHATI'VEHADENOUGHI'LLKILLYOU!"
"Well you got what you deserved!" Kaori remarked.
Yuki punched Kaori in the face at full power. He wanted her to painfully bleed. She was left with a huge bloody mark on her cheek.
"There. That's my revenge."
Kaori began sobbing. Not just in pain, but also because of how awful Yuki is. "I can't believe I actually thought you could be different… I don't care what your life was like, that's no excuse!"
"Do you really think I care? Does it look like I care to you?"
"There's no way anyone can be so heartless, you monster!"
"I've made up my mind. I hate you the most. I can take Blue Butt and his idiotic friends, I can even take the demon who's my brother compared to you. But just the thought of you makes me wanna throw up! You're the WORST person I know!"
Kaori sat down in the corner to cry her eyes out. Tails went and comforted her. "Kaori, I won't make you go. You can just stay here and help me out."
Kaori wiped the tears from her eyes and tried to calm down. "Okay Tails." She simply replied.
Yuki had opened up the door and was about to walk out. "Blue Butt. Crap Red. Let's go." Yuki, Sonic and Knuckles left for Takashima.

Once they arrived at Takashima

Sonic ran through the forest and leapt through platforms. After running up a big loop, he fought a bunch of brown-masked demons and used the spring behind them to reach higher ground. There were airborne white-masked demons and bat-masked demons, the latter of which fired darts from their wings. They were all placed one above the other, so Sonic had to use a chain of homing attacks on them from lowest to highest and defeat them all.
Afterward, he found a grinding rail which he took and led him to a small platform containing his first upgrade, the Light Shoes. These shoes had light blue on the soles which were used for flying across a trail of rings. He used this new ability on the rings on the side of the platform to reach the next section.

He encountered three new demons with light blue fish masks, using water abilities. He spin dashed into them and then boosted across a body of water. He proceeded to a lane of cherry blossom trees. Then, he was given the option of either using homing attacks on airborne demons and reaching higher ground, or running past them and boosting across some more water. He chose to reach higher ground to see where it would take him. He reached the sky by using a homing attack chain on five demons and landed on the platform. There were moving platforms he could use to reach the suspended ground in front of him, but he used the light speed dash on the trail of rings.
He fought three dragon demons and three ice monkey demons, then grinded on one of the three rails. Midway he leapt off to use a homing attack chain on some bat demons leading to a shortcut.

Sonic ran through another lane of cherry blossoms blowing through the wind. He boosted into the brown-masked demons in his way, until he came across a dash panel that shot him up to one last platform with dragon and ice monkey demons, which he easily took care of.

As the two hedgehogs and one echidna continued running through Takashima, Sonic looked at the device on his wrist, searching for the demon. "If ya hadn't scared Kao-Tan away, she'd be able to find the emerald for us."
"I can sense emeralds myself, you know." Knuckles reminded.
"You can?"
"How else do I find the Master Emerald pieces?"
"I always assumed you just ran around hoping you'd run into them."
"Well now you know."
"Where is the Chaos Emerald then?" Yuki asked Knuckles.
"Around 30 minutes back there."
"… If it was back where we just went, why not tell us when we were there?"
"Why didn't you just ask me before?"
They all stopped. "Great job, Knucklehead. All right then, let's head back." Sonic teased.

30 minutes later…

They found themselves outside a big, dark cave. One thing's for sure, it looked sketchy. The chances were high that the demon was inside here.
"I hope this time you don't tell us it was back where we just went."
"Don't worry, it's in here."
"Right, we'll just go in, beat up the demon, get the emerald and make a break for it. Can't be too hard." Sonic summarised as he fearlessly entered the cave.

A good 5 minutes later…

Yuki, Sonic and Knuckles were torn to shreds by an army of merciless demons.

THE END
Don't worry, it's not actually the end. In fact, this is just the first quarter of the story we're at. If you're currently reading this, just let me tell you there's plenty more! :icontrollfaceplz:
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