“I don't know.”Tikal shook her head. “I don't know.”she
repeated again, with a blank look on her face.
Knuckles gave her a warm hug as an encouragement. Tikal smiled at
him, saying, “Thanks, Knuckles.”
“Then what happened?”Sonic urged her to continue.
"Yeah,”Tails also spoke, “we saw you at Angel Island with all
the chao. The Master Emerald is still there. What happened after
wards?”
Tikal's head downed. As she continued to explain what happened...
(Flashback One continued )
Tikal,along with the chao, went back to Emerald Shrine after some time. The
fire was put out mysteriously. The fire was burning like a angry
monster before, but all, just disappeared.
The ruins was almost the same just before Tikal left, which means
something must have happened.
Tikal looked around the remains of the Shrine. However, she didn't care
what happened, she didn't care about her father anymore ; she was
tired and exhausted of talking to a person that will never listen to
her.
“I never thought he would do this to me. I thought, he still treats me
as a daughter.”said Tikal to a chao standing beside her.
“Chao! Chao!”the chao made the usual squeaky sound and gave her a little
nudge.
“At least I still have all of you.”Tikal petted the chao.
“Chao...”The chao enjoyed the pet.
Then,Tikal noticed something. The 7 Chaos Emeralds were gone, but the
Master Emerald is still there.
“Wonder why he did that? Didn't he want to take all of the Emeralds, want to
gain full power?”Tikal asked herself.
Tikal walked up the stairs of the shrine. It was clean. Too clean. There
was no rubble around the Master Emerald, not even a speck of dust, as
if... Something big had sucked everything away.
“What has happened here after I left? Oh no.”Tikal asked the Master
Emerald, although it would not reply anything.
( Flashback One end )
“This is weird.”said Tails once Tikal paused. “How could there
be no rubble? Weird.”he said the word 'weird' again.
Everyone remained silent for some moments, each thinking what really
happened at the Shrine.