Chapter 30: Stairs Galore!
Tails sighed, "These stairs will go on forever..." JetStream peered over the edge looking either down.
"Forget it, keep going..." Tails continued to walk forward, although something felt different.
'There's something with, JetStream.' JetStream sighed as well.
"They'll have to end sometime..." he knew it was going to end anyway, with his Aura seeing the outlines of all the objects JetStream's eyes can catch, therefore it wasn't all that far away. The stairs continued to curl in there DNA-like form, Sonic though was impatient, he looked back between JetStream and the front him.
"Alright, I'm just going to jump down." Tails stopped and turned to him.
"What!?"
JetStream gained a small grin.
"Sorry, I can't wait any longer." he proceeded to jump.
"Sonic!" he was expecting to fall quite a ways. But to his surprise, he landed on ground in just the first ten seconds.
"What?" Sonic looked at the feet, as if he was hallucinating, Tails just sighed in relief. And JetStream's grin broke into laughter. Sonic and Tails stared at him like he was a mad pony.
"Sorry, I just... the thing is I already knew where the bottom was, or is..." he responded after his eyes opened again. Tails was only unsure.
"Why didn't you tell us?" he asked. JetStream finally hit the bottom ground, he looked back toward Tails.
"I wanted to see what would happen." they still didn't give any reaction. JetStream shrugged, "Anyway, it looks like there's a door there..." Sonic walked toward the door.
"I guess this is our only way to... continue?" the door suddenly somehow slid to the other side of the room, JetStream and Tails stared at each other.
"You got to be kidding." they muttered in unison." Sonic decided to run to wherever the door would end up, but before he got to it, the door moved again. Sonic dashed toward the door as it did, but it still was smart enough to dodge. Sonic huffed.
"Well this is getting irritating..." JetStream examined the door, only because it could somehow move on its own, when he suddenly realized something.
"Sonic, look... above the door." Sonic did, he saw another small purple crystal placed above the gem-like door, Sonic and Tails looked awfully toned some way.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" JetStream inhaled.
"If it's to get the Chaos Emerald, then yes." they both decided to stand back.
"We're ready, JetStream." Tails stated. He nodded looking at the crystal.
'Same as last time, same as last time...' Once again he focused on what he heard in the flashback, happening a lot faster than what he previously did, JetStream again focused on shooting it at the crystal, his Aura went black, and a tiny purple and green color started showing on the inside of it. JetStream's eyes went green and his iris, and pupils went red, and the purpled entity on the corner of his eyes seemed, stronger, and more vivid then it did before, 'Come on... shoot it!' his Aura shot instantly, while JetStream jerked as it shot, and he slowly started to shiver. His own Aura ended up flowing into the crystal above the door, turning it pitch black. Then it spread to the entire door, opening it.
"Wait... It's just.... a..... wall......" JetStream suddenly became very still, although his Aura vanished from its black state, his eyes stayed exactly the same. He got another head-ache right after, "... It's happening again...." his voice was audibly monotone, his vision suddenly went white.
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The flashback brought him to the same pony escaping was using the door to get through, "If I remember right... it was..." the pony's horn started to glow, "... Hope and Mercy..."
('What is it this time?')
It shot and hit the crystal, JetStream looked rather eager to figure out what might happened. As soon as hit the crystal, it reflects a rainbow of colors, after seconds passed, the pony opened the door, "So it worked! ... oh, great... more stairs..."
('...')
The vision faded and JetStream regained his vision.
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His eyes turned back to normal as the door shut itself. Tails rushed over, "You okay, JetStream?" he slowly nodded, "What did you see?"
"It, was another flashback, we need to open the door with Hope and Mercy, instead of Fear and Anger." Sonic snickered.
"Well, that wont be too hard, huh?" JetStream nodded.
"Yeah." he admitted. He started focusing, his Aura began to gain a yellow, and almost a gold color. He shot it instantly the second he started focusing. It hit the crystal and all sorts of colors bounced off.
"That's cool." Seconds after, the door opened.
"So it works!" JetStream jumped, and started walking through the door, he looked left as Sonic and Tails looked at him curiously, JetStream lowered his head and sighed, "There's more stairs, I forgot about that..." Sonic and Tails walked through.
"There's no time!" Tails exclaimed. Sonic and JetStream sighed as they awaited their seemingly endless journey.
~~~Chapter End~~~