Chapter 10: The Guardian Senses

by Cerulean Leader

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Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog. :)

NOTE: Read the A/Ns at the bottom.

"Maybe I should try to find my way out of here and then wait for them to get back to the X-Tornado…" Tails said as he paused for a moment. He was still holding the scanner which had held onto through the rocks falling down to the entrance of the tunnel so it wouldn't get damaged at all. He glanced down at the screen, where a green dot was pulsing with a ripple of circles around it. The green dot was supposed to represent the scanner itself in a particular location, along with a birds-eye view map of the place where it currently was.

"Or maybe I should just try and find the Sol Emerald and wait for them to find it. Blaze has the ability to sense the power of the Sol Emeralds because she is the guardian of them, right? If that's true, then that means I should be able to meet up with them in no time!" he exclaimed, continuing his trek through the deep cave.

The sensors were beeping slightly louder now as the honey-coloured fox stared down at the screen as he walked in the direction of the source of power. He moved his eyes forward a bit so they could inspect his surroundings, and he stopped walking when he noticed he had walked into a dead-end.

Looking up to glance at the wall, he sighed and looked down at his shoes. "Maybe I should have come up a plan." He said miserably.

"I can sense it. It's really close!" Blaze cheered uncharacteristically, setting Sonic down on a rock. He followed her form with his eyes as she pressed a hand to the wall. They were currently at the end of a tunnel and no matter how many times Sonic protested that it was just a dead end, the cat insisted that it was indeed down this way.

"C'mon, Blaze, there might be another tunnel where it will be. It's clearly a solid wall, and it's not going to be around. Let's go and find another way in." he sighed, causing the cat to glare at him. She rolled her eyes and pressed her ear to the cold stone, sliding her hand along the wall.

"This is it, I'm sure of it." she whispered quietly. She took a few paces back, and ignited two fireballs in her hand. "Watch closely, hedgehog. This is how it's done." With that, she began to change forward quickly, the flames in her palms growing so that they covered her whole body. Sonic sat up straighter in anticipation, watching Blaze carefully.

She let out a battle cry, and jumped in the air, leaning back slightly as she raised her right leg at the same time so that the bottom of her shoe collided with the thick stone, immediately causing it to collapse onto the ground. It had also left a large hole where an eerie glow of yellow could be seen. Could it really be?

She rushed forward, picking up the source of glow in her hands and lifted it above her head in triumph. "Finally, a Sol Emerald." She whispered, bringing her hands closer to her with the jewel along with them. "That means I'm one step closer to going home." With that said, she turned to face Sonic whose face had deepened into a frown.

When he heard her say that she was close to going home, he couldn't help but feel annoyed and betrayed, slightly. It wasn't like he hadn't liked her at all during their past encounters; there had been times when he had noticed and acknowledged his feelings, though he refused to admit them out loud because he thought it was just a phase, but ever since she had been brought to his dimension and timeline once more, well, let's just say that those feelings had rekindled and deepened.

"Are you alright?"

"Just fine." He snapped. Honestly, the blue hedgehog just couldn't help answering back like that. How else was he supposed to react? He should have known better than too think that she would only want the Sol Emeralds and stop at that. He had forgotten the other reasons why she wanted them back in her possession. He stood up on his good leg and began to hobble away.

Blaze stood there in confusion while she stared blankly at him, before slowly walking to catch up and help him walk since he was still struggling.

Silver still didn't understand what had happened. It had been days since Blaze had been sucked into the portal thing, and no one still had any clue how to re-access it or where she was. He was still standing in the Sol Emerald chamber, a gloved hand stroking his chin as he analysed all the information which had resulted so far, trying to find something they were missing. "Where could she be?"

He sighed in frustration and let his hands hang by his side while his eyes slowly began to close. Since being brought up in a similar way to Blaze, though his had allowed him a lot more freedom, he had learnt to have great control, though they pretty much had a mind of their own when he felt extreme emotion, like now, because he was worrying so much over his best frend and (practically) sister. His eye-lids opened, glowing an aqua blue as a shield and two swords that were hanging on the ancient bricks began to do the same. Silver lifted his arms up into the air before stepping forward and swinging his arms strongly towards the wall where Blaze had disappeared through.

The wall almost disappeared like fabric, seeming to rip by contact. But for days all the best scientists around the kingdom and architects had tried their best to figure out to get through. They had all thoroughly examined the wall, pressing their ears and hands against it to find a week point, and all it took to open it was Silver to aim a couple of weapons at the wall? Maybe it was because they had been touched by Blaze's ancestors in the past.

The familiar complicated swirls of purple, orange and yellow filled his vision, but no strong gusts of wind were there like they had been when they sucked his feline friend through the vortex.

"Captain Wentworth!"

"Tails, can you hear me?"

The kitsune jumped in surprise, before pulling out a walkie-talkie from who-knows-where. "Uh, please?" he asked hesitantly into the speaker of the small, blue and red machine. He heard a bit of static on the other side of the line. "Stop moving around, we're already too low below the surface, and if you keep moving, the connection between the walkie-talkies will cut off so we won't be able to communicate."

"Sorry, Tails. I'm just putting Sonic down on a rock so I can talk to you properly."

"Sonic's okay? Great!" the honey-coloured fox said excitedly.

"Yeah he's fine. He was crushed under some rocks during the rock slide so he's unable to use one of his legs and is incapable of moving on his own, but other than that, he's okay. He was lacking a bit of oxygen earlier, but now he's able to breathe properly." the feline answered quickly. He could hear an annoyed grunt in the background, obviously Sonic scoffing.

"I'm not incapable of moving by myself! I can move just fine!"

"A bit snappy there Sonic? Don't worry, once we get out of here, you'll be patched up and you'll be running in no time!"

"Where are you anyway?"his best friend asked. His voice was now less distant, meaning Blaze had given him the walkie-talkie so he could speak to talks properly instead of yelling across the cavern like he had been earlier when he had retaliated Blaze's comment about his injuries.

"Uh, I have no idea actually."

"We might be able to find you now that we've found the Sol Emerald."came Blaze's voice once more. "Since I'm the guardian of them, my powers are connected to them, like how Sonic is to the Chaos Emerald and Knuckles to the Master Emerald. My flames get stronger when the Sol Emeralds are in my possession, but since I only have one with me at the moment, they have only been heightened slightly, but it should be enough to find you."

"Great!"

It had been a few hours since the three had finally made it back to the surface, which they had done by using Blaze's newly adapted skill of levitation(1), where the X-Tornado was and flown back to the Thorndyke mansion where Ella was currently wrapping a bandage around Sonic's right knee. She had been extremely worried about them, giving Tails and Sonic a bone-crushing hug when they had returned while Blaze leaned back against the wall with her arms folded and eyes shut, going over the mission in her head.

"So, uh, Blaze?" Chris began when he walked up to her. He had a hand placed behind his head - a nervous habit which he had picked up from Sonic and his grandfather. She opened her eyes and merely glanced at him with an emotionless stare. Her gaze scared him slightly and sent shivers down his spine. "I hear that you're from another dimension."

She wasn't surprised at his conversation starter. He was obviously curious. "Not another dimension, entirely. My dimension has many traits this one has. I'm still from Mobius - the place where Sonic and the others are from. But I'm also from another time-frame, so technically, I'm roughly 200 years behind my time even though this one is happening at the same time."

"Whoa," was his reaction. "What about the symbol on your cloak?" he said, pointing to the circular print of gold and red, a fancy 's' in the middle surrounded by small blames which matched the bottom of the cloak, even though the flames there were of orange, red and yellow, along with the Sol Emeralds stitched into the fabric so they were around the symbol. "What does that mean?"

She shifted comfortably. "I'm ruler of the kingdom of Soleanna. I'm the lone survivor of the royal family when they were killed in a massacre when I was just a baby. I'm a princess... or queen, if you will. I'm also the guardian of the Sol Emeralds, like I keep mentioning."

"Awesome! I'm looking forward to helping you find the rest of the them, your Highness."

"Blaze is fine."

"Alright!"

Since being brought up in a similar way to Blaze, though his had allowed him a lot more freedom

A/N: Hello, everyone. I know you're all pretty much annoyed at me for taking ages to update this story, but that's because I've been running out of ideas for it. I was sort of basing it on both the Sonic games that focus on Blaze, as well as making each chapter a little similar to a Sonic X episode, but I felt like I was dragging out the whole 'underground-emerald' thing, so I decided to end it with this chapter so I could go on to the next stage and began with the next emerald.

I need to count how many I've mentioned first...

(1) Okay, apparently, Blaze has the ability to levitate. I thought this was only when she was in Burning Blaze mode, but according to the Sonic wikia, it's just one of her general abilities so I added that in. Remember, it's been a few years since Sonic Rush/Adventure, so I made it that she's devoloped this skill over time. She's also gotten faster, and is more advanced in her hand-to-hand combat and her kyrokinisis. :)

Word Count: 1,809

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