Chapter 6
Hikari
(Group POV)
"Tirek! Let us go!" Twilight demanded.
"Or what? You have no magic in this world. Not even your magic of friendship can save you now." Tirek laughed.
The sun began to rise and Sonic and Lilac turned back to normal.
"Curses, the Nightmare energy is gone. For now. I think I'll hang onto you for now." Tirek said as Lilac was suddenly pulled out of the energy cage and put into a new one.
"LILAC!" Dark yelled.
"You are of no use to me now." Tirek said pulling Dark out and throwing him far away.
"ARRRRRHHHHH!" Dark yelled as he flew through the air.
"Dark!" Sunset and Ace shouted.
"Let's see. You eleven are useless to me." Tirek said.
Sunset, Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow, Tails, Knuckles, Silver, and Amy were each plucked from the cage and flung the same direction as Dark.
"NO!" Sonic shouted as the others were flung away.
"Now for you three." Tirek grinned.
Sonic, Shadow, and Ace were lifted in front of Tirek by an unknown force.
Tirek opened his mouth and sucked in.
"AGH!" The three of them shouted in pain and agony.
"Yes! YES!" Tirek yelled as he grew in power and size.
Sonic, Shadow, and Ace were drained of their powers.
"I am done with you three now." Tirek said as he whacked the three hedgehogs away.
(Heroes' POV)
Everyone of the heroes had sustained minor injuries, but big enough to knock them all unconscious.
Unaware to them, the seven Chaos Emeralds and seven Dark Emeralds appeared and begun spinning in one big circle.
Four Chaos and four Dark Emeralds broke from the circle. Then they paired with one from the other set, grouping into twos. The pairs then flew off in different directions.
However, the heroes weren't waking up, breathing was slowing down, and their faces were getting pale.
Suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes.
A young 14 year old pure white wolf with dark blue eyes, walked out of the bushes. She wore a white jacket with a yellow shirt underneath, white pants and no shoes. She was also wearing a crystal pendant around her neck, "Oh my, what happened to you all?" She could sense Dark Gaia energy within the group, "Dark Gaia."
She walked up to Rainbow first and placed her hand on Rainbow's chest. It began to glow brightly.
Color returned to Rainbow's face, and she gasped and coughed as she woke up, "SONIC!" Then she saw him unconscious and ran over to him, "No no. Please don't be gone."
"Are you ok?" The wolf asked Rainbow.
Rainbow finally noticed the wolf and pulled out three shurikens, "Who are you!?"
"Whoa. Easy there. My name is Hikari the Wolf. And I just saved your life." Hikari growled slightly, "Now please put your weapons away."
"How do I know I can trust you?" Rainbow responded.
Hikari walked over to Twilight and placed a hand on her chest, causing it to glow.
Color returned to Twilight's face and she woke, "*GASP* *Cough* What happened?"
"I don't know. Last thing I remember was hitting the ground hard, and then nothing." Rainbow said, still holding her shurikens, "This wolf, Hikari, saved us it seems, but I still don't know if I trust her."
"Isn't saving yours and your friend's life not enough to gain your trust?" Hikari asked. She walked around and started reviving the others as well.
However, she stopped at Dark, who was half buried into the ground, and looked at him.
"What's wrong, Hikari? Aren't you going to revive Dark?" Twilight asked.
"I sense an aura closely related to Dark Gaia within this one. Is he evil?" Hikari asked.
"No. He's our friend." Twilight said, "Dark wouldn't hurt you."
"Ok." Hikari placed her hand on Dark's chest, but when she revived him, his eyes flashed open.
"RAHHHH!" Dark yelled in anger, as he thrashed around in the ground, "LILAC!"
"I thought you said he wouldn't hurt anyone." Hikari said backing away.
"Dark!" Sunset said running over to him.
Dark stopped upon hearing Sunset, and calmed down, "What happened?"
"Tirek attacked us and knocked us all unconscious." Sunset said, kneeling down beside Dark.
Everyone then heard Sonic, Shadow and Ace all began to yell in pain, as the color began to drain from their faces at an even faster rate.
"Sonic!" Rainbow shouted, holding the blue hedgehog in her arms. "No no don't die! Hikari, help them!"
Hikari nodded before rushing to the blue hedgehog. A she kneeled down, she found herself feeling a great deal of Dark Gaia evil power inside of him. "This one has a large amount of Dark Gaia's energy inside of him!" She said, looking at Rainbow Dash. "What happen to him?"
"I don't know exactly, but from what I can remember, Sonic saved Twilight from some kind of beam that shot out of Tirek's horns." Rainbow said putting her shurikens away.
"Uhg. God, that Dark Gaia energy is so annoying." Sonic said shaking his head, then he jumped up, "But I'm ok now." He went to run over to Tails, but ended up only doing a normal run, "What the?"
Rainbow dashed over to him, "Tirek stole your super speed."
Sonic's eyes widened, "NO! I'M SLOW! AHHHHHH!"
"No no NO!" Everyone heard Shadow and Ace growl, "He stole our Chaos powers too."
"And my shadow powers." Ace said.
"Hmm. And the only way to regain those powers are to defeat Tirek, but he's too powerful now." Twilight said.
Amy's bag suddenly jerked, "What the?" She opened it and the map flew out and into the air.
"Huh? A map?" Hikari asked.
"Plus a prophecy." Twilight added.
The map opened and the blue dot in the northeastern corner of Mobius shined brightly.
"I think we need to go there first." Sonic said.
The map folded up and flew back into Amy's bag.
"What's at that location?" Hikari asked.
"We don't know." Shadow said, "Hopefully something we can use to kick Tirek's sorry ass." He said pounding his fists.
"Well let's get moving." Sonic said.
So the heroes and their new friend, Hikari, went out to the location on the map.