A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 6

Some Galahs Go On An Inky Mission: Chapter 7

Third Person POV

"We'd better find the baby boy again or I'll destroy everything on this floor." Audra muttered.

"I believe there is something special in all of us."

"What the hell?"

"Who are you?" Audra asked.

"Especially you two."

"Fffuuuck yooou." Alinta cursed. "Hi, Joey Drew."

"That's Joey?" Audra asked. "I thought he'd be in a business suit, not look tasty for me to eat."

"Audra, don't you dare." Alinta growled.

"Come on up! Let's take a little walk. There's something I want to show you." Joey said.

"Oh shit. Oh shit!" Alinta muttered darkly as she climbed up the ladder. Audra had used her air magic to get up there.

Once everyone was gathered, Audra asked, "So, meat loaf, what did you want to show us?"

"There you go! Follow me." Joey said.

"Oookaaay, that's weird." Audra acknowledged.

"But mind your step."

"Oh, because the building is old and there's goddamn forsaken hellspawn ink creatures everywhere?" Alinta asked. "Sure, we'll watch our step."

Cue the Slicer jumpscare.

"Aaaa!" They yelped. Well, except for Joey. He was busy walking away.

"That little piece of shit!" Alinta growled.

"This old place is full of surprises." Joey said. "I should know. I've worked here for a long time."

"And you created these monsters that you call art." Alinta growled.

"But what is this place?" Audra asked.

"An ink-filled hell made for those unlucky enough to be caught in it." Alinta barked.

"It's a cycle." Joey replied. "An ink-stained nightmare forever stuck on repeat."

"That's one damned way to say it." Alinta muttered.

"With just a pencil and a dream..." Joey continued. "...And a little help from the Gent Corporation, it came into being."

"And because of your STUPIDITY, we have Lost Ones and Searchers who didn't want to be that way." Alinta argued. "Fuck you and your stupid company!"

"Alinta Helias Revanche, watch your mouth!" Audra scolded, slapping Alinta on the back of her head, making her yelp.

"From what I gather, it exists in parallel to the outside world." Joey theorized.

One of Alinta's veins popped. "Whatthefuckdidyoujustsay???"

"But completely removed from the march of time." Joey said.

"Hold on." Audra hissed. "Backtrack to that comment, food. Did you just say that it's parallel to the outside world?"

"That means it'll leak, fucker." Alinta growled. She had the urge to bite his face off. "You little son of a bitch, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"

"And like a record, played over and over again." At this point, they have reached a door that said, "There is ALWAYS HOPE." Joey says, "It's begun to crumble, wear down."

Alinta's eyebrows twitched as she angrily retorts, "But it's still leaking into the real world, Joey."

"Can I eat him? Please?" Audra begged.

"This studio is a monument to choosing the wrong road."

"Coorrrection, it's a monument of YOUR mistakes, Mr. Sunshine." Alinta said.

"Now whether it was built for revenge or regret, I don't know."

"It's both, dumbass." Alinta remarked.

"Alinta, what did I just say?" Audra hissed, jabbing Alinta with her elbow.

"That's my riddle to solve."

"UuuuuuggghhAAAAA-" Alinta screamed.

"Come over here for a sec." Joey beckoned.

"Why?" Audra asked as Alinta started to tear at the walls in her frustration. No answer from Joey. "Fine. Come along, wolfy." Audra said, dragging a somewhat feral Alinta near a too-calm Joey. "Now, why did you want us to come here?" Audra asked again.

Joey turned around and explained, "The truth is-"

"No, no. EXPLAIN." Audra interrupted.

"Someone out there is messing with what's in here."

"Well, obviously! Otherwise I wouldn't be on this mission." Audra responded.

"Bad things have begun to emerge from the puddles."

"But you made these creatures, right?" Audra prompted.

"Wicked creatures that never came from my pen."

"Oooooh. Well, um, dang it." Audra said.

"The worst ones call themselves Keepers. Dangerous, deadly folks."

"So... That means we need to find Kaiso. Quickly." Audra noted. "Got it."

"They've taken over the old Gent Workshop, just beyond the sewers." Joey says informatively. Audra gulped. Alinta was currently destroying the room they were in. "Trying to bring what they call order to this world."

"Riiight. As if the cycle really needed it." Audra said. She glared at Alinta sternly. "So what can we do to help?"

"Freezing the cycle in place! Changing the script!"

"Sir meathead, we get it. Just tell us how to help get it back in motion." Audra said seriously.

"Whatever answers you're looking for, you'll find them there."

"Joey freaking Drew, answer my gosh-darn questions!" Audra roared. Her patience was waning. Joey didn't answer. "Not again!" Audra forcibly pulled the feral Alinta near Joey and growled sharply, "Why can't you just fix it?"

"Look, above all, never forget."

"Joey-"

"You're here for a reason. There's always a reason."

"Yeah, and it's to fix the cycle!" Audra hissed.

"Even if you can't understand it."

"...Where in the world is Kaiso when we need her?" Audra wondered. "Why couldn't you just fix this world?"

"Because I'm not the man. I'm just...the memory." Joey pulled his arms into a mummy-like cross and floated through the door. The door opened, revealing a grave for Joey Drew.

Audra and the finally-calm Alinta stared at it, open-mouthed and shocked, confused even. Alinta spoke first. "I-I thought he'd appear to someone else instead."

"I can't eat him." Audra said in disappointment. "He's already dead."

The Blizzard: Chapter 9

[Author's Note: We found the animatronics, and spoiler alert! These animatronics are not Sylvia's. They're part of a nightmare. Chapter 10 will be the last chapter of the book (I think), so stay tuned!]

(P.S: It's also an extremely short chapter. Bear with me, please.)

Demetria opened up the basement, annoyed by the scritch-scratching sounds coming from the room. She's been up all night!

An animatronic flew after Demetria, just barely missing her nice dress. "Oh, fluuuff." Demetria hissed. "If this is one of Aunt Sylvia's, I'm giving her a piece of my mind!" An icicle flew out to cover the animatronic in a deadly array of spiked icicles on the floor. A hand touched Demetria's shoulder. "HOLY -"

CRACK!

The animatronic behind the woman cracked straight down the middle of its head, where Demetria had karate-chopped it. She didn't waste any time in running out of the house and locking, encasing the mansion in ice in a panic. She ran towards the forest, the icy trail behind her frosting everything in reach.

A blizzard has begun.

A Dangerous Encounter - Chapter 1: A Spark to Light the End (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1396427902-a-dangerous-encounter-chapter-1-a-spark-to-light?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=AmarisMochizuki4&wp_originator=NcbmTP5olmg%2BSNhQdHB8z%2B0g19rlYQOB%2Bs2uRu9yMrsXH5zyT%2Frne2N3DPnqOUccONEL6Px9Pz0cqnxkFEw4BPBEivQuafollsTI1i%2BR%2FJlbAeOM%2BUHcV50%2BwGol5NYu Scylla was already living a weird life, so what changed? The day was perfectly normal, until the smell of smoke and blood came. Then the explosions started. The apocalypse has begun - will Scylla survive this? Or will she perish?

A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 9

Aite gasped, pulling Ajal closer. Adam's expression went blank in shock. Ajal's expression was filled with an unreadable amount of anger.

Scylla's ears flattened in fear of what will come in the future. Scylla looked at the glass walls of the watch post and whispered, "Where's Diana and Sophia?"

Ajal pointed below the watchpost. Scylla sighed in defeat, walking towards the trapdoor and pulling it open. Climbing down the semi-dark ladder, Scylla was greeted by Sophia.

"So, guess who came to this dimension." Sophia said cheerfully.

Thinking that this was another joke, Scylla replied darkly, "The Sons of Heephis."

"WHAT??!!!!!" Sophia gasped in shock, covering her mouth. As Scylla walked towards the first room, Scylla ground out angrily, "Yeah, apparently the Sons of Heephis came back for their first mission."

Sophia shook her head fearfully, saying in a subdued voice, "I don't like where this is going."

Diana ran out of one of the rooms in this basement, asking, "What's happening? I heard Sophia shout-" Diana looked at Scylla's serious face, and physically cringed at her expression.

Scylla said darkly, "The Sons of Heephis are back."

Diana sucked in a breath, muttering, "I presume we're going to go upstairs talk about this."

Scylla nodded.

Five minutes later, Diana, Scylla, and Sophia had climbed upstairs to see Adam, Ajal, and Aite looking at them fearfully. The pack sat down in a circle. Aite, Adam, Sophia, Ajal, and Diana finally started speaking their minds.

"Why are they here?"

"What are their intentions?"

"Have they changed?"

"Are they even themselves?"

"Shouldn't we be keeping an eye on them?"

"What should we do?"

"ENOUGH!!!!!" Scylla shouted. Everyone went silent. Scylla took a deep breath, and said calmly, "As much as I don't like this as much as you do, I have made my decision long before this had ever been brought up." The pack looked at each other fearfully. Scylla closed her eyes, and said in a dark growl, "We're leaving this territory at dusk."

A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 16

Scylla couldn't remember the last time she was a mermaid. Probably at least four years ago, when she was still practicing her underwater spells. No matter, because she saw the broken shards of the Chaos Emeralds.

Scylla almost choked from swallowing the oxygen-lacking water too quickly. "God..." She managed to whisper, grabbing the colorful shards. "How am I going to fix this?" Her vision swirled as her tears began to rim her eyes. Scylla wiped away the tears and began to sort the shards into seven black bags.

She took a deep breath in after she was done, mentally preparing herself for the rest of the destroyed island.

Swimming around the island, Scylla noted the main drowning sites for the plants and animals, picking up some of the wet Soulless ashes carefully. She took note of the destroyed temple that had once served to protect both the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald.

Now, it was time to take a look at the Master Emerald.

Scylla cautiously entered the temple, bracing herself for the worst.

What she saw was not what she had in mind.

The Master Emerald was practically nonexistent, as if it had disappeared into thin air. All that was left of it was the powdery dust that was suspended in the water.

Scylla stood there, staring at the scene in shock and disbelief. There's no way Zielo would do this...right?

From the looks of it, he would.

Scylla growled, twitching before swimming off. THIS is the reason why the apocalypse needed to stop, effective immediately. Being a vessel for Chaos energy – as in all of it - won't be good. It's already shown its effects. It'll only be a matter of time before Scylla dies of this and the energy finds another, more potentially dangerous place to inhabit. SHE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN.

If it did, not only would she fail as a leader, but she'd also fail at her mission at keeping that dangerous family heirloom safe. She looked at the ring in her hand. Such a simple object, capable of causing destruction by creating a hive mind with the people affected by the assimilation...

Wait, wasn't that what Zielo was already doing? Creating his own hive mind to attack innocent people and cause destruction?

What if Scylla used his strategy against him? Destroying his hideouts would be simple, and there would be more recruits – if not members – of the Dark Gaia pack.

Scylla looked at the ring and stopped swimming. There was an answer – it was on her finger the entire time.

And she was ready to use it.

Some Galahs Go On an Inky Mission: Chapter 4

Third Person POV

"A voice, a soul. The ink speaks to me." The Ink Demon growled.

"Oh yeah? What does it tell you?" Alinta replied sarcastically.

"It whispers your secrets."

Alinta's eye twitched while Audra squeaked in fear and hid behind Alinta. Alinta pretended that she didn't notice, while deep down she liked being relied on to protect her little crush. Alinta muttered in response to the thing the Ink Demon said, "Well, crap. Didn't expect that to happen so soon." They kept walking. Alinta and Audra go through a vent.

While they were in the vent, the Ink Demon asked, "Who are you?"

"Don't answer that question." Alinta hissed, covering Audra's mouth. "It's a trap. If it knows your name, it'll try to kill us faster." Audra nodded, and they kept moving.

"Tell me your sweet name, that I may devour it."

"Heavens, no. I'd rather keep my soul, thank you." The two teens got out of the vent, entering a room with another hall downstairs. As Alinta and Audra quickly entered the hall, the lights flickered. "Oh, that's nice. That's not creepy at all." Alinta said sarcastically. They went down the hallway and Audra attempted to pull the switch as Alinta leaned against the door. Suddenly, the Ink Demon showed up. Alinta and Audra start to panic as they tried to do their current task. "Audra, hurry up and open the goddamn door!" Alinta shouted.

"I'm trying!" Audra replied in earnest. She pulled down the switch and ran towards the door. Alinta got in first; Audra second. They slammed the door on the Ink Demon's hand, and watched nervously as it slithered away. Audra looks at Alinta and asked, "Is that..."

"Yes, it is the Ink Demon." Alinta whispers. "Come on, let's go get those pictures."

Eventually (after searching around and hiding), Audra and Alinta found all the pictures and quickly returned to the room. As soon as they finished putting the canvases, however, the Lost One attacked. Audra and Alinta quickly took it down and ran into the hall. Alinta picked up a note, read it, and set it down. "Well, that explains it." They moved on.

Soon, they reached a room with a few projectors. Audra turned one on, and it showed a few pictures of Bendy with a flower. Audra said, "Aww, it's Bendy!! He's so adorable! But it makes me wish that Bendy was still around."

"Oh, he's still around." Alinta muttered under her breath.

"Huh?"

"Nothing."

"Suspicious..." Audra looked at the projectors in the glass window, then at the pictures being projected. She got an idea. "Alinta, be the lookout. I'm going to try something."

Alinta said, "Okay."

Audra ran into the room and looked at the screens. "Okay, so... what's the context of this?" She looked around and saw the audio device from the whole...thing. She shuddered and cautiously walked towards it.

Five seconds later...

Audra's finally unlocked the code. It was 2-3-5. She entered the code as she shouts, "Alinta!! I've finally unlocked the door!"

Alinta walked over, stretching her arms as she said, "Good. Let's move as quickly so we can avoid the Ink Demon."

They walked through the door and the hall, and entered a room. They read the scrawling. "'She was the fourth'? Of what????" Audra asked.

"My guess is the Butcher Gang." Alinta said. She played the tape. After it was done playing, she said, "Welp, I'm right."

"Uhhh, the Ghost Girl is gone." Audra says nervously.

"I'm sorry, WHAT?"

"Yeah, um, I opened the crate and saw the terror the ghost is, and when I looked away for a second, she was gone."

"...Audra."

"Yeah?"

"You're paying me 100 bucks for this after the mission."

"Dang it!"

The two went through two doors when Carly had happened to swing a dagger at them, forcing them to dodge. "Goddamn son of a bitch!" Alinta cursed.

"Watch your language!" Audra scolded. They opened another door and walked towards the next room.

"Too many rooms to keep track of." Alinta muttered. Audra and Alinta went through a big pipe and entered a hallway. What they found in the room ahead were broken chains.

"Who could have possibly been through here?" Audra asked.

"Kaiso..." Alinta whispered. "We're on her tail."

Audra ended up helping Alinta across the chasm. They went into the next room and went through an empty pipe that led down to the previous floor. "Dang it!" Audra growled.

"Don't worry, I have the portal balls." Alinta said, pulling out a few multicolored balls.

"Nah, let's keep moving." Audra said.

Five minutes later...

The two girls went through Animation Alley and entered a room that said, "They Crawl", and the Ink Demon gurgled, "The deep abyss remembers you."

"What are you doing?" Audra whispers.

"Shush, this'll be useful later. Trust me." Alinta hissed.

The Ink Demon continued, "Alinta and Audra."

"Shhhhiiit. He knows our names now." Alinta cursed as Audra extended her claws.

"Children of the darkness."

"I am, she's not." Alinta said. "Where's Kaiso in this bullshit?"

"I found a code for the door!" Audra yelped, already decoding the combination lock for the door.

Alinta upgraded her wrench as she said, "Great, let's go!" They entered the next room. As Alinta charged the Gent Pipe, she said, "Damn those secure spaces."

As they unlocked the door and walked through the hall, Audra got ahead of Alinta. Five seconds later, she said, "Searchers! Searchers!"

"Wha-How!!!????" Alinta asked. "Run!!"

Alinta and Audra ran for their lives, dodging the Searchers until they reached an open room. The Searchers left them alone, but a Lost One appeared out of the ink. Audra cut it down with a single claw, cutting the Lost One's neck. "We're in the same room!" Audra whined.

However, Alinta had left Audra alone. Alinta was in Animation Alley, killing off the many Lost Ones in the room and in the hall before that.

26 minutes later...

Audra and Alinta entered a hallway that said, "The Keepers See Everything."

"Ha! No, they didn't, otherwise, they'd be on our tail right now." Alinta said. The two girls went down the hall when suddenly:

"Your journey will end as you are consumed into my dark kingdom."

"Is that a threat?" Alinta growled, flames burning off of her back in response to the sentence.

"Here, you will find meaning to your pain!"

"Shut up! You don't know what we've been through!" Audra hissed.

And then the way to the elevators closed. "Motherfu-"

"Don't finish that sentence. We'll go another way into the elevators." Audra promised. Alinta and Audra then entered a lobby called Artist' Rest. It was full of Lost Ones.

"Dangnabbit!" Alinta cursed.

The Slicer jumpscare returned again. "Noooope, we're not doing that again." Audra said, lifting both herself and Alinta into the air with air magic. Audra then got an idea. "Alinta, as soon as I send you down to the switch all the way over there, I'll guard you while you flip the switch and run to a hiding spot. You understand?"

"Okay, let's do this." Alinta agreed.

Audra flew the two over to the other side of the lobby, and dropped Alinta off at the control panel. Audra had then started to create a tornado to suck up all of the Lost Ones, effectively destroying them. Alinta flipped the switch and ran as Audra followed after her with a teleportation device. As soon as they reached a closed off room with a small window. Audra shoved Alinta in with a whisper, "The Ink Demon's back!"

"Shit!" Alinta hissed. "Grab my hand!" Audra grabbed Alinta's hand and got dragged in the room just as the Ink Demon had almost grabbed Audra's leg. But...

Mango's Adventures in Angst-Land: Chapter 4

(Author's Note: Falling in line with a comic book makes me want to make the plot move faster, but I caaaaaaaaaan't! So, for now, enjoy this short chapter.)

Mango was pacing when Kiui walked in the room and crossed her arms. "Alright, what's wrong?" Kiui asked.

Mango looked at Kiui at said, "It's Scylla. We haven't heard from her, and she hasn't come back yet. We're supposed to be discussing voodoo products today!"

Kiui sighed. "Imma go check that camera chip I installed."

Mango paused, looking at Kiui with an annoyed expression. "Kiiuii," Mango hissed. "Those chips were supposed to be for those Mercats -"

"- Which went missing a year ago, I KNOW. But let's just assume that they're happy and healthy and move on. I may have an idea of where she is."

Mango perked up. "What? Really? Where -"

"Buuuut, you won't like it." Kiui said. Mango sighed.

"Explain, scientist."

"Well, you said that Scylla disappeared into a portal five days ago, right?" Kiui asked. Mango nodded. Kiui continued, "Weeeeeeeeeell, I may or may not have tracked the portal to another, more digital universe."

Mango blinked. "WHAT?!" She shouts. "Why didn't you tell me this?!"

"Oh, you wanted the information sooner? I had to convince Demetria to give me her monitor," Kiui smirks. "Or face the inevitable hacking I will do to her computer."

"...Remind me to never let you manipulate people's technology again." Mango said.

"You know that's never gonna happen, Fruit Punch." Kiui teased. Mango throws a goldfish at her sister in response, smacking Kiui in the head. Kiui blinked. "HEEEEEEEY-"

A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 14

A feeling of someone being drained drew Scylla's attention towards the wasteland southwest of where she was standing. A chill went down her spine as she realized what's happening at that moment. Sonic must've been stealing some of his brothers' energies to fight.

Scylla shook her head as she started to run towards the area, ignoring the Soulless approaching from behind her, and taking the other Soulless' souls as she ran.

By the time she got to the general area, Scylla had already captured about a hundred of the Soulless. Her new ability – if that's what it was - helped her in more ways than one. But Scylla stopped – not because of the Soulless, but because Shadow cut off Sonic from Silver and Shadow's minds.

Scylla softly whimpered, accepting the fact that she may have to temporarily sever Sonic's connection with Shadow and Silver.

Pulling herself together, Scylla grabbed a small handful of Soulless ashes and sprinkled them in a small circle on the sand, before merely lighting a pure-white fire in her hand. She stopped to look at the flame once, as a reminder that this is for the best, and then lowered the spark to the ashes. The darkest of violet flames was then lit.

Scylla sucked in a breath, tears stinging her eyes as she focuses on the next, more painful step.

Scylla got down on her knees, her head bowing towards the fire, and her hands shaking as she raised them near the sparking flames. The flames she hated the most.

Scylla shakily recited the ritual, pain slightly moving through her chest as she cut off a fixable part of the Sons of Heephis' connections.

When she finished, however, the pain felt like it was going to eat her alive. It spread quickly, not giving Scylla the chance to breathe before she howled in pain. Her balance threatened to tip her over. Nausea clawed in her brain. It was suffocating. Scylla's vessel screamed for air, for water, for the pain to stop, and a number of other things Scylla couldn't comprehend.

She stopped screaming when she passed out, and the last thing she saw was black fire erupting all around her. She blacked out.

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When Scylla woke up, her body felt like it was being infested with black worms. In short, less gruesome words, she was sore.

The first thing she noticed was the white glass around her, similar to the custom-made glass she made during the first month of living her new life.

The bodies around that glass though, was burnt, the victims' mouths open with silent, yet clear screams of agony and pain.

The Soulless.

Scylla picked up a glass shard and looked at her reflection.

Her eyes were blood-moon red, her hair was a natural obsidian black color, and her copper skin shone like moonlight.

Moonlight?

A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 8

"Scylla. Scylla! SCYLLA!! Wake up!" A female voice said. Someone shook Scylla awake.

Scylla groaned, opening her eyes to the bright sun and a familiar woman.

"Aite? Did I have another nightmare?" Scylla mumbled, her head a little fuzzy from the nightmare.

Latest development of the Dark Gaia pack over the past few months was that the Dark Gaia pieces became werewolves. That means that the Dark Gaia pieces' human forms had characteristics relative to their former master.

Aite nodded, her violet eyes as dark as the night. "You started screaming in your sleep. Again."

Scylla sighed, sitting up and leaning against the sandy wall of the dune. Scylla noticed a man with violet hair and navy blue eyes walking up to Aite and Scylla. Scylla stood up and asked, "Any signs of the Soulless, Adam?"

Adam shook his head. "No, Alpha Scylla. It seems they left. But..."

Scylla growled. "But what?"

Adam shook his head. "Diana, Sophia, and Ajal wanted to tell you and Aite about it."

Aite and Scylla looked at each other with surprised expressions. Aite telepathically asked Scylla, "Could it be...Them?"

Scylla shook her head, telepathically replying with, "No, it can't be. They're with the demigods." Scylla transmitted the last word with a growl. "They should be as stuck-up as them now."

Adam cleared his throat, clearly eavesdropping on the telepathic conversation Scylla and Aite were having. Adam asked, "So, are we going to the other pack members now, or -"

"Of course we are. Let's see how they fared." Scylla intercepted.

Scylla grabbed her bow and quiver of arrows, slinging them onto her back. Then, Scylla, Adam, and Aite started to walk the ten-kilometer distance towards the makeshift watch post.

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About an hour later, Scylla, Aite, and Adam entered the watch post, which was made of beige-colored glass. As they entered, they saw Ajal looking at them expectantly. His blue-violet eyes are impossible to miss.

"Where is Diana and Sophia, Ajal?" Scylla asked impatiently.

"Can I say something before I answer?" Ajal asked meekly.

"Alpha Scylla, Ajal has our news. I suggest we listen to him first." Adam said.

Scylla sighed. Looking at Ajal, Scylla said formally, "Forgive me. I haven't been in the best mood lately, and I just woke up an hour beforehand."

Ajal nods in understanding, saying in a more serious tone, "I understand. But three Mobians have arrived in the desert just about 190 miles from here."

Aite asked, "Were they demigods? We've been seeing them several times on our daily hunts."

Scylla cringed at the thought of more demigods entering the desert. Ajal said seriously, "Not this time. They felt more like gods than demigods."

Scylla froze like a deer in headlights. That description...It feels so familiar, yet it didn't seem real. Scylla blocked her telepathic connection with her pack for a moment and listened for Sonic, Silver, and Shadow's thoughts. Once she heard them, Scylla gasped and shut it down immediately. Reopening her telepathic connection with her pack, Scylla's black eyes were wide.

Scylla looked at Adam, Aite, and Ajal worriedly. Aite asked Scylla, "What happened?"

Scylla took a deep breath, her trembling hand subconsciously curling into a fist as she said seriously, "The Sons of Heephis are back."

A Dangerous Encounter: Chapter 3

Scylla raised an eyebrow as she folded her navy blue raven wings against her wolf body, wondering what the grey hedgehog was going on about.

The grey hedgehog continued. "My brothers fell into the deep ominous pit of sin, and betrayed me in response. They became imperfect, so I took the liberty of eliminating them."

Scylla scoffed, muttering in a growl, "Like YOU were even born perfect anyway."

The grey hedgehog said, "But Heephis, unfortunately, sent prerequisites before his death. Those prerequisites being you three."

Scylla barked a laugh, thinking, "Well, he chose great entertainers!"

The grey hedgehog continued, "Since you have originated from the deepest parts of Heephis' soul, you partake our appearances."

That led Scylla to be confused. "What does that merciless bastard mean?" Scylla wondered.

The grey hedgehog carried on. "As for me, what once was three had become one."

Scylla made a red-eyed face, growling, "Of course that dust-maker absorbed his brother's souls. As if that wasn't bad enough." Scylla rolled her eyes.

The grey hedgehog said, "I am the only god of existence. I no longer hold responsibility for the Control of everything. I have taken Heephis' and Celios' power, and became the only divine being."

Scylla was about to pop an artery out of anger at this so-called "divine being," but forced herself to calm down.

The grey hedgehog then said proudly, "I am everything. I am nothing. I am perfect. I am Zielo."

Scylla had to put her paws over her mouth to keep from laughing and breaking her illusion. Her wings slowly opened once the urge to laugh went away. It didn't take her very long to lose that laughter, though.

A sharp sound of shattered emeralds and a blast of a broken, erased energy had Scylla tensed. All Chaos energy was destroyed in this multiverse. Well, except for Scylla's Chaos powers.

Scylla felt herself become the vessel for Chaos energy, leading her to panic. "W-wha? H-h-how? Why?" Scylla yipped. She looked at Zielo, and saw the shattered bits of the seven Chaos Emeralds. Scylla understood what happened now, and it made her remember that all energy has to go somewhere.

Which led to one last question. Why did the Chaos energy choose Scylla to be the vessel?

Zielo forced the younger hedgehogs to the edge of a cliff. Zielo had mentioned something about Sonic, Silver, and the black hedgehog playing some kind of game with "god."

Scylla followed the hedgehogs quietly, not trusting Zielo with the young Mobians. Transforming into a raven, Scylla flew above the gods and saw the remains of Tin-Can. Scylla wanted to ruin Zielo right then and there, but stopped when she saw the look on Sonic's face and what he saw; a female hedgehog with the same strange, violet marking as the other people from earlier.

Zielo's laughter was heard from out of nowhere, as he said through the female Mobian, "She is the perfect slave because she used to be yours."

Sonic, Silver, and the black hedgehog were thrown off the cliff.

Cawing out, "NO!" Scylla dove down, refusing to let more innocent people die.