The Chaos Chronicles/ Chapter Thirty-Six

Thorn is transported to the time of the ancients. Honey discovers the origins of the Reaper. Mr. Yako collects blood samples of Omega Squad.
==Included Characters==
Thorn the Fox
Honey the Cat
Kyle the Squirrel
Rose the Hedgehog
Cocoa the Dog
Quartz the Dog
Nightshade the Fox
Curatrix the Fox
Bellator the Cat
Medice the Hedgehog
Sapiens the Squirrel
Mr. Yako
Messor the Reaper
==Chapter Thirty-Six: Bloodline==
Four figures met in a circle in a thick fog
"Is it time?" the hedgehog asked.
"No, the girl is not ready!" the cat exclaimed.
"We must show her the past if we are to prepare her for the coming darkness." the squirrel said.
"Yes." the fox said. "Now is the time."
Omega Squad was in the mess hall, taking part in a blood drive.
"Yes, yes you all must give a pint of your blood." Mr. Yako said.
Kyle, Rose, Quartz, Cocoa, and Zoe gave blood.
Thorn was next.
"Now, this won't hurt a bit." Mr. Yako told her.
She bit her lips, expecting pain. The pain was there and gone in about fifteen seconds.
"That wasn't so bad, now was it?" Mr. Yako asked.
"No." Thorn replied.
Honey gave her blood last.
"Ah, thank you for the pint of O- negative." Mr. Yako said.
Thorn was in her quarters.
She knocked over a book, and found an ancient tome. Her eyes lit up in shock.
"Noon..." Thorn muttered.
Honey walked into the bathroom and began to wash her face. A flash of purple light surrounded her.
Thorn picked up the piece of the Chaos Chronicles and began to read it.
The words on the pages glowed scarlet and shined throughout the room.
Thorn closed her eyes, unable to keep them open through the light.
She found herself in an ancient pyramid-like structure. It was an ancient echidna capitol- Nocturne.
"This is where the Nocturnus Clan lived four thousand years ago!" she exclaimed.
There was a glass window next to her. She saw a fox that looked almost exactly like her; however she had black fur and teal eyes, and wore a leather dress and was carrying a platter of food.
"Curatrix!" a male echidna barked. "Get that food to the Imperator now!"
"Y-yes sir!" Curatrix said.
Thorn decided to follow Curatrix.
She went through the hallway, and noticed numerous echidnas picking on a girl.
"Hey, leave her alone!" Curatrix said to them.
"What are you doing here, slave?" a boy asked.
"Your quarters are down there!" a girl told her.
"I'm on official business serving the Imperator and I require this young lady to help me." she said.
The other children backed off.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah..." the girl said. "They always do that."
"Why?" Curatrix asked.
"Because I can do things they can't." the girl said. "I can learn Words of Power."
"Words of Power...magic!" Thorn thought.
"Well, you're alright now." Curatrix told her.
"Will you show me where the Imperator is?" she asked the girl. "I'm kind of lost."
"Sure." the girl said. "My name's Solani. What's yours?"
"I'm Curatrix." Curatrix told her.
"Solani..." the girl said. "I would much rather be called Nightshade, after the plant."
Thorn's eyes widened as she began to notice the similarites between the young echidna and the sorceress she knew. They had the same violet eyes and small smirk.
Nightshade brought Thorn to Imperator Ix's throne room.
"Ah, hello Curatrix." Ix said. "Thank you for this delicious lunch."
"I have a mission for you." he told her.
"I would like you to go scout the Knuckles Clan territory. We are on the verge of conquering them." Ix said.
"Shouldn't a more experienced scout go there rather than...a slave?" Curatrix asked.
"I cannot expend any of my echidna brethren." Ix said.
"So I mean nothing to you?" Curatrix asked.
"If you wish, take the schoolgirl that accompanied you along." Ix said, sighing.
"But-" Curatrix began.
"Come on, Curatrix." Nightshade said. "Let us not keep the mighty Imperator Ix waiting."
Nightshade led Curatrix outside the pyramid and through the city of Nocturne. It was very advanced for the ancient echidna culture, having glass and water wheels.
The two exited the main gates and went into the Arcane Forest.
"Curatrix, Ix doesn't care about anyone else than his echidna clan and power. He conquered your clan, remember?"
"Yeah..." Curatrix said. "I...I don't think I've ever really been out in this forest. What's it called?"
"It's the Arcane Forest." Nightshade said. "It housed your Volpes Clan foxes before the Nocturnus Clan conquered you. There's also the Ilex Clan squirrels, who joined the Knuckles Clan. And the Catalus cat clan. So far, they're neutral in our war."
"Well...where are we going now?" Curatrix asked.
"We need to go through the forest." Nightshade said.
"But it'll get dark soon." Curatrix said.
"We'll be fine. I can speak my words of power that I read about." Nightshade said.
The two walked through the forest. It was very foggy and full of overgrowth.
As the two girls set up camp, wasps surrounded them as they slept.
"Inspiratione!" Nightshade exclaimed. A pink blast shot at the wasps.
"Inspiratione!"Curatrix copied and Thorn yelled. When she thrust her hand out, nothing happened.
"Inspiratione!" Nightshade repelled the rest of the wasps.
"What do you think you're doing?" Nightshade asked her.
"Not just anyone can use words of power." she told her.
"Oh..." Thorn muttered. "Why can't I use magic here? Unless...I'm not really here..."
Suddenly, a green gas surrounded the two girls.
They coughed and fell to the ground.
When Curatrix opened her eyes, she was surrounded by darkness.
"Wha...what happened?" she asked.
She was bound in a cave. A purple portal was in front of her.
Figures in black surrounded Curatrix and Nightshade.
"Who are you guys?" Nightshade asked.
"We are the Trux." a male hedgehog said. He was crystalline and had piercing, reptillian green eyes.
"Mephiles..." Thorn muttered.
"My echidna followers, we must sacrifice one of your own in order to break the final catalyst in order to unleash him!" Mephiles cried.
The echidnas bowed, and grabbed Nightshade.
"Curatrix! Curatrix, help me!" Nightshade called.
An arrow pierced an echidna. A cat in a black cloak ran into the cave.
The cat unbound Thorn and punched the nearest echidnas unconscious.
"Curatrix!" Nightshade called.
Mephiles through her into the dark portal.
"I'm sorry..." Curatrix muttered.
She saw a scroll on the ground near a piece of Nightshade's robe. Curatrix grabbed it and ran out with the cat.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Bellator." the cat told her.
Bellator led Curatrix to a series of huts on the other side of the Arcane Forest.
"What is this place?" she asked.
"This is where the Catalus Clan lives." Bellator said.
"Who were those guys?"
"They were the Trux, a cult who worship the god Mephiles, the shadowy half of Solaris." Bellator said.
"They said something about one last sacrifice..." Curatrix said.
"No...they are about to awaken him..." Bellator said.
"Awaken who?" Curatrix asked.
"The ultimate darkness." Bellator replied.
A hedgehog and a squirrel met the two girls outside the largest hut.
"It's time." Bellator said.
"I am Medice." the hedgehog said.
"And I am Sapiens." The squirrel told her.
"There was a prophecy issued many moons ago that four would rise up and face the darkness." Sapiens said.
"We believe that you are apart of the prophecy." Medice said.
"Why me?" Curatrix asked.
"The scroll you carry." Sapiens told her.
"That is how we can defeat the darkness." Bellator said.
Months passed, and Curatrix began to harness her dormant abilities, speaking words of power, that became unlocked when reading the scroll.
"Are you ready?" Sapiens asked one morning.
"Yes." she told him.
The four traveled to the dark cave where the portal was located.
"Where does the portal lead to?" Curatrix asked.
"I do not know." Sapiens replied.
"But it cannot be a good place." Medice said.
"We all know what we have to do?" Bellator asked.
"If I am correct, Medice shall distract them while you grab the Scepter." Sapiens said. "And I will instruct Curatrix on how to bind Mephiles."
A figure stepped through the portal.
It was Solani - Nightshade.
"How may I serve you?" she asked, bowing before Mephiles.
Thorn saw her eyes were now a deeper shade of violet, much like how they are now.
"Go to the Knuckles Island near where the Knuckles Clan resides. I want you to awaken the god who sleeps inside the Emerald."
"As you wish." she said.
Her hands glowed black, and she teleported away.
Medice came out of the shadows.
"Hello. I heard there was a celebration in here." Medice said.
The echidnas snarled.
"Get her! We can use her as a sacrifice!" Mephiles ordered.
Bellator ran behind the echidnas and saw a golden scepter on the ground near the portal. Just being near the portal began to corrupt the Scepter of Light, turning it into Darkness.
Bellator ran back to the others, but was stopped in her tracks by Mephiles.
Suddenly, the echidnas began to be pulled out of the cave.
"What's going on?" Curatrix asked.
"I don't know, but we cannot help them now." Sapiens said. "The darkness is about to awaken."
"Bellator!" Medice cried.
Curatrix, Sapiens, and Medice ran to Mephiles and Bellator.
"So the Event finally occurred..." Mephiles muttered.
"It's over Mephiles! The Scepter of Light will trap you and stop the darkness!" Bellator cried.
"You fools. Can you not see that the Scepter is already turning to Darkness?" Mephiles asked.
"I feared this could happen." Sapiens said. He took out a black emerald.
"This emerald will take you through time!" he cried, throwing it at Mephiles.
Mephiles shifted into his smoke-like form, but the black emerald latched on to him.
He cried in agony and disappeared in a purple light.
The cave began to tremor.
A black fog- or was it smoke?- billowed out from the portal. A maniacal laughter echoed around the cave.
"Now, we must all use the Scepter of Light together!" Bellator instructed.
"Say the Word of Power," Medice said, "And we shall follow."
The four grabbed the Scepter.
"Conversus in tenebris lumen!" Curatrix cried.
The three repeated, and their eyes glowed golden as the black fog surrounded them. Thorn was enveloped in the black fog.
Honey found herself in a black room.
"Hello, Honey." a cat said.
"Who are you?" Honey asked.
"I am Messor." she said. "The first Reaper."
"The first Reaper?"
"By now, you're probably wondering what exactly a Reaper is." Messor said.
"A Reaper is someone who leads the dead to the Netherworld. You go into a fugue state and end up where someone is about to die. When you find the person, you are overflowing with sorrow and the Reaper inside of you finds the soul of the deceased. When you are finished leading the deceased to the Netherworld, your soul becomes whole again and you have no recollection of what occurred." Messor explained.
"Every generation, a Reaper from the bloodline of each one in five families is chosen."
"And I was chosen." Honey said. "How?"
"I do not know. All I know is that I was the first of millions." Messor said.
"Why come to me now?" Honey asked.
"I am here to warn you of the coming darkness." Messor said. "You must use your abilities as a Reaper."
"I will..." Honey said.
Thorn was in a gray fog.
Four figures surrounded her.
"Hello, Thorn." Curatrix said, stepping out of the mist.
"Curatrix?" Thorn asked.
Bellator, Medice, and Sapiens stepped out of the mist.
"You have seen that a great darkness once tried to come to this world." Curatrix said.
"Every five hundred years, on the Winter Solstice, a great evil shall atempt to enter this world." Sapiens said.
"The Winter Solstice...that's in a month." Thorn realized.
"You must find the Scepter of Light." Medice instructed.
"Wait...the charm..." Thorn said.
"And," Bellator said, "my charm. I gave two pieces to Medice and Sapiens. And the final piece is safe. The pieces were passed through their bloodline for nearly five thousand years."
"Oh my God..." Thorn muttered.
"Kyle, Honey, and Rose are your descendants!" Thorn exclaimed.
"There are two other charms required to unleash the darkness." Sapiens said.
"We do not know where they are." Medice said.
"Thorn, before the Winter Solstice, I feel something terrible will happen to you. To all of you" Curatrix said. "It will occur sometime soon."
"Then we have to stop it before it does." she said.
"Beware the darkness!" Curatrix instructed.
"The darkness that is coming," she called, "and the darkness in your hearts!"
Thorn woke up in her quarters.
"Thorn!" Honey exclaimed, running out of the bathroom.
"There's a darkness coming." they said at the same time.
"I know how to stop it." Thorn said.
Mr. Yako walked into an empty lab in Metropolis.
He put seven pints of blood into a machine and began to type on a computer...
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