The Chaos Chronicles/ Chapter Forty-Five

Thorn, Kyle, Rose, Honey, Quartz, and Cocoa prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice as Nox comes into the world.
==Included Characters==
Thorn the Fox
Kyle the Squirrel
Rose the Hedgehog
Honey the Cat
Quartz the Dog
Cocoa the Dog
Nails the Bat
Noon the Echidna
Midnight the Echidna
Lana the Cat
Nightshade the Fox
Daisy the Dog
Luke the Dog
Jason the Squirrel
Cale the Cat
Melissa the Cat
Duke the Hedgehog
Alexandria the Hedgehog
Curatrix
Bellator
Medice
Sapiens
Commander Tower
Eclipse the Shade
Nox the Darkness
==Chapter Forty-Five: Winter Solstice==
Rose woke up in a grassy field. An orange hedgehog looked on at her.
"Who are you?"
"I am Medice, your ancestor." Medice said.
"Am I dead?" Rose asked.
"No, you are simply falling into a black fog of darkness." Medice said.
"What happened?" Rose asked.
"You were infected with darkness." Medice said. "When Eclipse betrayed you, the darkness dissipated."
"There's not much time left. You, Honey, Kyle, and Thorn, must stop Nox before the sun rises."
"We will!" Rose promised.
Rose woke up in the jungle of the Mystic Ruins. Everything was pitch black, but she could still see well.
"Hello Rose." a black and red robot said. "Need any assistance?"
"Omega!" Rose exclaimed. She hugged her old guardian robot.
"Come, I shall lead you to your parents." Omega said.
He brought Rose to the temple.
Kyle, Honey, Quartz, and Cocoa opened their eyes and gasped.
"We're alive?" Cocoa asked.
"It's like Thorn said..." Quartz began.
"We already have darkness in our hearts." Honey finished.
"We can still stop Nox!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Guys!" Rose called.
They turned around, and saw Rose.
Kyle raised up his fist and Honey, Quartz, and Cocoa unsheathed their claws.
"Guys, it's me." Rose said. "I promise."
"She is not infected with the darkness." Omega said. "I have scanned her."
"You can scan for darkness?" Kyle asked.
"Yes. We are all standing in it." Omega said.
"Omega, I hate to ask, but can you hover us up to Angel Island?" Rose asked.
"I believe so. I have received numerous enhancements since we last saw each other." Omega told them.
They all grabbed ahold, and Omega blasted off.
Thorn looked on as a black figure surged out of the ground.
"Nox!" Eclipse exclaimed, bowing.
Nox's maniacal laughter surged through the sky.
"He is not whole! Do not allow them to stay when the sun rises!" a voice hissed in Thorn's ears.
"Curatrix?" Thorn muttered.
An explosion rocked the island.
"Hey guys!"
Rose, Kyle, Honey, Cocoa, and Quartz ran to Thorn.
Omega ran to Midnight. Bubbles jumped out of a hatch in Omega's "stomach".
Bubbles freed Midnight.
"Guys, thanks so much." Thorn said. "But we have to stop him before-"
"Before the sun rises, we know." Kyle said.
"Here's the plan." Kyle said. "Rose, Cocoa, Omega, Midnight and me will deal with Eclipse. Thorn, do you think you, Honey and Quartz can hold off Nox?"
"We can try." Thorn said.
Nox laughed.
"You know Eclipse, I really didn't like being double-crossed." Rose said. "Especially since I was such a good general."
Eclipse laughed at her. She shot a beam of black energy at her. Rose flipped out of the way.
"My name is E-123 Omega. I am the ultimate robot. All who get in my path will be crushed!" Omega cried. "Target acquired: Eclipse!"
He shot missiles at Eclipse.
"Adtono eam!" Midnight yelled.
A blast of lavender energy shot at Eclipse.
Cocoa got in close and clawed her into the water.
Kyle punched the water with his electric gloves.
Eclipse was caught in an electric current.
Rose kicked her unconscious.
"That's for making me attack my friends." Rose told her.
"Adtono eam!" Thorn cried. She shot a blast of blue energy at Nox. The blast passed right through him.
"No..." Honey said.
"Guys, he's not whole yet! He's just a spirit!" Quartz realized.
The three went back to the others.
"What can we do?" Kyle asked.
"Sceptrum' lucem 'accitis!" four voices muttered in all of their ears.
"Sceptrum lucem accitus!" they all cried,forming a circle.
A scepter appeared in front of them.
It was the Scepter of Light, now known as the Scepter of Darkness, created to bind dark beings such as Mephiles and Nox.
"We have to do it." Thorn said. "The four of us."
Kyle, Rose, and Honey stepped next to her.
"Fools!" Nox cried. "If you wish to destroy me, then the two canines die as well!"
"We're all bonded." Kyle realized.
"Sacrifices and anchors." Honey said.
"Are you sure about this?" Rose asked.
"We have to." Thorn said.
"Then we're with you." Quartz and Cocoa said.
The six stepped in front of the altar and all grabbed the Scepter.
"Conversus in tenebris lumen!" they chanted.
The scepter began to glow golden as darkness rose upon Angel Island. It engulfed the entire island untill only the altar was left.
"Conversus in tenebris lumen!"
"Conversus in tenebris lumen!"
Golden light erupted from the scepter directly into Nox. He cried in agony as the light brought him down into the scepter. His body became whole the second before he was absorbed into the scepter.
"Noooooo!" he cried.
The golden light reverberated across the world. Eclipse disintegrated in a shower of red light. The light knocked the six of them out.
The six woke up in a grassy field.
"Hello." Curatrix said.
Curatrix, Bellator, Medice, and Sapiens surrounded the group.
"The seal has been restored, the darkness has been lifted. We can rest in piece." Curatrix said. "Take the Scepter. Hide it, keep it safe."
A golden light flowed out of Thorn's, Kyle's, Rose's and Honey's eyes and into Curatrix, Sapiens, Medice, and Bellator.
"The darkness is gone from this world. Everything is now as it was and as it should be."
"Thank you." a female echidna said, appearing in front of them.
"You saved me."
"Nightshade!" everyone said.
Nightshade smiled at them.
Curatrix, Sapiens, Medice, Bellator, and Nightshade rose into the air and disappeared in a shower of white light.
Thorn, Kyle, Rose, Honey, Cocoa, and Quartz awakened in the echidna temple. They were surrounded by Noon, Nails, Midnight, Cale, Melissa, Jason, Duke, Alexandria, Omega, Bubbles, Lana, Daisy, Luke and Commander Tower.
Everyone sighed in relief.
"You've been out for three days." Noon said.
"It's Christmas Eve." Nails said.
They all had a dinner to celebrate the defeat of the darkness.
Later, Thorn, Kyle, Rose, Honey, Cocoa, Quartz, Nails, Noon, Daisy, and Luke were sitting under the stars. They were all drinking hot chocolate.
"To the best friends I could ask for." Thorn said. They all raised their glasses and drank.
In the years that followed, Thorn, Kyle, Rose, Honey, Cocoa, and Quartz kept their friendship strong. They took the scepter and buried it next to a grave they made for Nightshade. Thorn kept the Chaos Chronicles with her, and wrote in it the story of how they defeated a Jinn, a Hellhound, a Nogitsune, and a great darkness; of how they befriended a reclusive echidna; a sympathetic bat; and a loving kitsune. Every year on the Winter Solstice, they visited Nightshade's grave and the scepter's burial to pay respect and make sure no one uncovered the scepter.
This year, after everyone had gone, there was someone else at the grave. A shadow of a hedgehog was there. It placed a belladonna plant on Nightshade's grave.
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