Knuckles and other characters are trademarks of SEGA, DIC or Archie
Comics. Death Phantom, Kasumi, Vintage, Malice ,and Soul Assassins belong
to me. Based upon the Sonic Adventure song "Unknown to M.E." Done in
an Archie genre.
Characters:(not in order of appearance)
Knuckles
Vintage
Julie-Su
Zagat(Death Phantom)
Malice
Soul Assassins
Mighty
Espio
Vector
Ray
Remington
Locke
Lara-Le
Sabre
Deo Volantes
Archimedes
Kasumi
Love and Lies Part 4: Soultouch
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"Bravo! Bravo! Didn't know you had it in you,
to do her in like that. My, my , my what is the world coming to?",
mocked a voice in the shadows. “Oh by the way my name is Zagat!" Out of the
shadows came Zagat with a smirk on his face. "Who would of thought that
you would be the one to kill her." Knuckles craddled Julie-Su's
lifeless body and gritted his teeth thinking only of anger towards Zagat. He
stood in front of Knuckles only looking at him and the fair Julie-Su.
"Tsk. Tsk. Why did you have to follow us. She was very happy here with
me.It took me awhile to have her stop loving you.God! Was she ever hung
up on such a loser like you!" Knuckles gentlely laid Julie-Su on to
the gound. He kissed her forehead and then whispered,"I'll defeat him
,and then..then we can be together for enternity. I...I promise you my
love."With that said Knuckles slowly got up and walked towards Zagat
"WHY!? Why her? You could have had anyone else, she's gone now because of
you!"Zagat looked at Julie-Su "I never truly needed her, only the power
she held within herself.The power of a pure heart!But can't you imagine
the darkness in love with the light!?". Zagat levitated from the ground
and started to throw balls of intense fire at Knuckles. Zagat vanished
in a puff of dark smoke, and appeared behind the red echinda. Zagat
held a reper in his hand made of pure energy. He then raised it and in a
short but fast motion he dug the sharp blade into the side of the red
echidna. Knuckles collapsed to ground letting out a large yelp.The pain
so intense that he couldn't move. The feeling his body felt was as if
it was on fire. With great pain Knuckles tilted his head to look at
Julie-Su lifeless body laying in front of him. In his mind, Knuckles could
hear something that Julie-Su told him not to long ago. "Don't give up
Knuckles, you know giving up is for those who have no faith in
themselves. You never gave up on me and I'll never give on you!"
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"Any news Locke?",asked Wyn as he dampen the cloth on
Lara-Le's head as she laid in a deep sleep on the couch. Locke looked down
to the ground and sighed "No". Espio looked out of the window in
Lara-Le's apartment. Like the others, he was worried about the two young
echidnas, but he knew that they would be safe and sound. Still Espio had a
lot on his mind. He began to remember that first time he met Knuckles
and Julie-Su. He knew from the start they were made for each other.
Though the others at first didn't have a clue like he did, somehow he just
knew. Mighty saw Espio looking out the window,"You ok?". "Fine just
thinking about the first time we met them,has it been two years already?"
"Yeah it has. Can't believe that those two are lovers. Who' da thunk
it" Vector overheard them "Well not me I can assure you two. Still can't
see what Rad Red sees in her." "M..Maybe h..he sees someone who better
understands him better than any of us could imagine", said an almost
calm Ray who slowly walked towards them. Mighty looked at him and nodded.
Locke glanced over the four Chaotix standing at
the window. He never knew his son to have friends like them. Locke ,like
his son's friends hoped that all was well with Knuckles and Julie-Su.
He then glanced towards his ex-wife who lay still after worrying
herself out. Locke still loved her but he regrets never being the echidna
that she always wanted him to be. He sat down slowly and then closed his
eyes to go into a deep trance thinking about a happier time when no
evil came to the island.
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"Behold boy! Meet my one and only love! The Armagendon
Chaos Emerald!".
Zagat began to laugh maniacally as he walked towards the emerald that
stood next to his throne. "Created by the negative energy,pain, and
suffering of those who couldn't get what they truly wanted.....Domination!
Now it is time to say goodbye to this world, boy!"Zagat placed his hand
on the blacken emerald. He then closed his eyes as he began to absorb
the power of the emerald. A blanket of darken energy wrapped itself
around Zagat. With the help of the evil energy, Zagat grew taller with
devil type wings appearing on the black echidna's back. His teeth became
sharp fangs and claws extended until they were sharp and long. His
eyes turned pitch black.He looked like a deamon, a monster out of
legend.He was no longer an echidna, nor did he looked like he was a living
creature with morality."No one can defeat me the all powerful and mighty
DEATH PHANTOM! I bring death and chaos to all that I touch. The
universe will be destroyed and a new one shall be created in my own image.
Those whom oppose shall feel my wrath. And you will be the first to taste
my awesome power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Zagat smiled
while thinking of how to do away with the young echidna. He then
mustered up enough energy to form it into a black ball of energy. "Nightmare
WAVE EXPOLSION !!!!!!!!!!" , shouted Zagat as he aimed and fired his
attack at Knuckles,but somehow missed when the young echidna rolled over.
Knuckles still felt the pain and great sadness
for not protecting his lady love."It'll be okay Julie-Su. This nightmare
will be over soon".Knuckles thought to himself. With new strength
Knuckles had gathered from the power of his heart, his love for Julie-Su ,
and from the powers that he was given from the chaos emerald before he
hatched. The red echidna rose slowly and began to glow."I will not
allow this Death Phantom or whatever you call yorself. I will pay you back
for all the pain and suffering you have caused. Because forgiveness for
one like you could never be an option", with that said the glowing
echidna was transformed into warrior that protected the innocent, the weak,
and love. He turned into sometihng that looked like his Hyper-Knuckles
form, but this time, he wore a kimono made of pure chaos emerald energy
that would shield him from harm and in his hands he held the legendary
Genesis sword which would make his strike pure and true, filling his
enemey with the power of pure goodness and love.
"Bwahahahahahaha! Do you think that little butter-knife can
defeat me. Surely you can do better than that!", taunted Death Phantom.
Knuckles gritted his teeth and charged at the Death Phantom. With one
swipe of the sword, Knuckles left a mark across the evil creature's
face. "How can this be! How can you be ever so powerful!? If thats the case
then all I have to do is adsorb you!" Death Phantom created a vaccum
that attracted everything in the room, including Julie-Su's lifeless
body. Knuckles gasp at what the Death Phantom was trying to do. The young
echidna did his best at trying to grab a hold of Julie-Su. With all
the effort that the echidna placed in trying to get ahold of Julie-Su he
was just to far to get a hold of her."NOOOOOO!", Knuckles yelled with
tears now streaming from his face. Before one of his tears could hit the
ground, a great ball of energy appeared and formed into a being. It was
Kasumi, holding Julie-Su in her arms. "Don't worry young one, I'll take
her back to your world and then everything will be alright.", smiled
Kasumi as she and Julie-Su vanished.
" SEE HOW THEY LEAVE YOU,BOY! NO ONE LOVES YOU, NO ONE
EVER LOVED YOU! LOOK HOW YOUR MOTHER LEFT YOU, AND THEN YOUR FATHER! IS
THAT ANY WAY TO TREAT THE ONE YOU CARE ABOUT THE MOST," mocked Death
Phantom as smirked and hissed at Knuckles. Knuckles, looked at him
straight into what appeared to be his eyes, "YOU DON'T KNOW TRUE LOVE OR
FRIENDSHIP. YOU HAD TO USE MAGIC TO MAKE SOMEONE LOVE. THAT'S NOT HOW YOU
MAKE FRIENDS, FRIENDSHIP IS MADE THROUGH TRUST AND LOVE. SOMETHING YOU
KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!" ,yelled Knuckles as he jumped up full of anger
begining to close his eyes thinking of those who could not defeat evil
and wanted a peacful future. The Genesis sword glowed brightly, as if
it was a shooting star blazing through the heavens and through the
darkness.Knuckles slowly opened his eyes to find that the sword had setttled
into Death Phantom's chest. The sword grew brightly inside the
darkness, shinning brightly like a blaze of fire. " NO! NO!!!!!!!!!! THIS CAN'T
BE POSSIBLE! NO IS CAN DEFEAT THE DEATH PHANTOM! NO ONE!",screamed
Death Phantom as he was pulled apart and exploded into a substance that
felt and looked like white snow. Knuckles, put his hand out trying to
catch one of the falling flakes, while still holding the sword. Still
glowing brighter the sword let out a bright flash and all that was left was
darkness.
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Knuckles, awoke in his cave and was startled. He looked at his
clock "4:59 a.m. Jeeeez, I must have been sleeping." Knuckles, began to
yawn and began drifting off to sleep when he noticed the calender. The
same day had started over again." Did I defeat him? I know I did, I'm
sure of it.",questioned a worried Knuckles. A bright sparking light
started to appear in front Knuckles of again."Kasumi?",asked a worried
Knuckles. " Don't worry my child, Death Phantom is defeated. The power of
the sword granted you start this day over again. But only you will
remeber what happened. Only you and me", with that the light sooned vanished
as if it was never there. Knuckles got out of bed, splashed some cold
water on his face, and rushed out his cave with his back pack in tow.
With a second chance given to him, he raced across the forest into
Echidnaopolis not stopping till he got to Julie-Su's apartment building. He
waited outside for a while, until she came. It was about 6 o'clock
exactly when Julie-Su stepped out of her apartment startled to see Knuckles
outside of her building with a bouqet of red roses and baby's breath.
She accepted the flowers, and smelled the fragrence that they gave off.
" I thought you weren't coming?", questioned a surprised Julie-Su.
Knuckles smiled and kissed Julie-Su passionately. Julie- Su blushed when
Knuckles did this. " I couldn't bare leaving your side,even for a second.
I love you Julie-Su. You're the only one for me. Now and forever, and
the rest time.",said a rather romantic Knuckles as he and Julie-Su
walked out of the city and into the woods stopping on a hill watching the
sunrise. "Knuckles? I had this weird dream that you came to save me."
Knuckles, looked at her queerly and then began to smile,"Julie-Su, I
would save you, but you don't like me saving your tuckus." Julie-Su,
playfully hit the young guardian." I do want to be save, but by you and
only you", purred Julie-Su as she pulled Knuckles into a deep and
passionate kiss.
THE END
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Yup, it took a long time to finish this with testing, the stay with my
Japanese exchange student, and hell of a lot of things. Many of you
have e-mailed asking if you could draw pictures of each character as they
appeared in my story. You sure can, but if have to email me first
asking.
I love to hear from all of you about this and all 4 of my stories.