Hidden Palace

Knuckles and Tikal made their way down to the Hidden Palace Zone and Tikal marveled at it all. "I had no idea this was down here," she admitted to her neighbor. "I have to admit, it's pretty impressive."

Knuckles nodded and looked around for something out of of the ordinary "I got use to it," Tikal started to help look around too and Knuckles noticed her pausing a bit. Knuckles made his way to her and asked "What's up?"

Tikal pointed at an old ruin asking "Isn't that Sonic facing off against some...monstrosity?" confused as all get out by what it meant.

Knuckles explained, "Yeah, somehow the spirits predicted it all" as he paused lifting something up, then putting it back down "It's so weird, I wonder what other ruins are down here."

Tikal said "We'll, we'll never know by just standing here." as the two of them kept looking at Knuckles paused Tikal stopping again.

"What's wrong now?" Knuckles said super curious then blinked at Tikal staring at spring with red on her cheeks. Tikal whispered "So that's still here," as Knuckles was trying to understand what she was talking about, approaching her "What's still here? This spring, I mean this it's a nice spring, "

Tikal stated "Actually this is all starting to come back to me" Tikal admitted "This spring was a communal bath back in the day," as Knuckles got red imagining Tikal bathing, the water oozing down her body wrapping around it like a snake, as Tikal continued and only made it worse by saying "I used to be such a little slut before I met Chaos." clearly ashamed of herself, "I stopped going to the bath when he trusted me enough to show himself. I swore I would become more responsible, but before than...man...if this spring could talk..."

Knuckles cleared his throat as he was bright red, he didn't really need to know about all that. Tikal looked at him as she grew red "Knuckles, ummm, you're a..."

Knuckles hid his shame from Tikal as Tikal grew redder. "Sorry, you didn't need to see that."

Tikal embarrassingly said "It's fine, I'm just..." Knuckles her a little desire in her voice "I didn't expect you to be so....hung..." the tension in the room was palpable, as Knuckles and Tikal looked at each other, Knuckles still covering himself up as the two started to eye each other up and down. Lust was overriding his reasoning, as Knuckles wanted to pull down her top and skirt and just ravage her, and the way Tikal was looking at him, she would be more than willing to let him. That isn't why he brought her here though, she was the spirit of the master emerald and he it's guardian. He can not let his desires over ride him, then again...it's not like those secrets are going anywhere.