Silver Rings
Chapter 1
It was dark. The depressing silence was only broken by rapid footsteps. Dashing through the endless corridor, a blue hedgehog was running away. He didn't know why, he didn't know from what, but he just felt that he had to go away, as far as possible. The only light he had has coming from a big, round, silver ring which he was holding in his hands. He had no idea what it was, but it felt like it was very important.
What was even more disturbing was that he didn't even looked much like himself. Shure, he still had his cobalt blue fur, but he was much smaller, a child, about three years old, and his eyes were not colored in their usual emerald green color, but in a dark sapphire blue. And he wasn't wearing his every day shoes and gloves, but, according to as much as he could see in the weak light of the silver ring, he was wearing a pair golden boots and satin gloves. In fact, he could feel that on his back, there was a cape fluttering, probably ragged. And something hanging hard on his head, but he couldn't realize what it was.
Most badly, he felt scared.
Very scared.
Then, he heard a voice "Where are you running, coward?". The little hedgehog felt shivers on his spine. "I fought that I will receive a more worthy opponent."
The voice was cold, but somehow amused. It felt so antic and ageless. So dark and cold. So... evil. The child didn't stoped. He was now terrified. The voice continued. "Are you really the chosen one? I didn't expect the Chaos Emeralds to make such a choice." The voice chuckled. "But they won't get away with it. And neither will YOU!"
The little blue hedgehog tried to yell, to ask what's going on, but he was speechless. Suddenly, the floor opened under his feet, and he fell into nothingness.
With a scream, Sonic woke up, trembling from the tips of his fingers to the top of his quills." That damn dream again!", he thought nervous. It was the seventh time Sonic had that same dream in two weeks. "They're starting to get from annoying to scary..." . Sonic shook his head and tried to calm his breath. Something was somehow familiar about that dream, something from his far past that he couldn't remember. It meant something, but he could not figure out what. And there is no way he would tell Tails or Amy about this. He didn't wanted to scare them. At least he hoped none of them heard him screaming.
It was still dark outside. Sonic rose from his bed and walked over his room to a small sideboard in the left corner. He opened the lowest drawer and out of it, he pulled a big, round, 30 carats silver ring, which was emanating light.
That morning, Amy made waffles and forest berries smoothies. Tails came down the stairs, stretching and yawning. He sat on one of the white chairs next to the round table just as Amy finished making breakfast.
"Good morning, Tails! the pink hedgehog said cheerfully. How was your night?"
"Great! Tails said smiling. I finally managed to get some rest after working on the Tornado".
"Oh, Tails. Your working yourself too hard!" Amy said with a trace of simphaty in her voice.
"It's no big big deal... Tails said. And besides, it's what I do best!"
Just then, a very tired Sonic showed up at the top of the stairs. Tails and Amy were shocked by the pallor that was surrounding their friend. Sonic walked down with no mood for anything and sat at the white table. Amy glared at him worried. She made herself courage and asked :
"Sonic? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine" Sonic said mechanical.
"You don't seem okay, Sonic! Tails rejected the answer with a categoric face. What's wrong?"
"I had... uhh... insomnia." Sonic was able to excuse himself.
Amy shoot Tails with a questioning look. Tails looked back at her and raised his shoulders, showing that he doesn't know what's going on.
Even though the answer has right between Sonic's quills, it was still a nice day in Green Hill. The sun was shining on the bright blue sky, birds were singing, children were playing... it seemed all so peaceful. But the morning's peace was broken by sudden gun fire. It was a huge robot, just about a 12 feet, destroying from a distance the little town.
Snapping out of his half asleep state, Sonic jumped of the chair and yelled "Meet you there!!! ", while dashing through the open door, before any of his friends could do anything.
The wind in his face revived him a bit, but he was still a little worried about the silver ring in his quills. Sonic didn't wanted to lose it. "I should have let it that drawer." He fought, while running his way to the robot. "What is Eggman up to this time?"
He dodged the lasers and bullets and ran on the robot' leg, to his head. It was one of their weak spots. Sonic was just about to hit it, when a red laser beam came out of the only eye in the middle of his head. Sonic stomped and barely avoided the attack. On the ground, he was able to see the Tornado approaching, with Tails and Amy in it. The pink girl had her hammer ready for attack. The red plane responded to Tails ' command and shoot a wave of lasers at the robot' right arm. The lasers did damage to the main cannon, and it blew up. Spoting the access path on the right leg, Sonic boosted up for take two. In the meantime, Amy climbed up on the Tornado 's wing and yelled at Tails to cover the noise "Lower us to the head!". Once the plane was at the level of the head, the pink hedgehog smashed it with one hit. The robot did not noticed them, he was busy with Sonic. Once the head was destroyed, the blue blur rolled through the body of the robot and broke it in half with a big explosion.
Sonic made it up all right. He was just about to tell his friends that they won, when a sudden and unexpected wave of energy hit all of them. Sadly, including the red plane. The Tornado started to mel function, and went down with Tails screaming "May Day!!!".
Sonic was on his way to the falling plane, but an energy shock coming from his quills stopped him in place. He felt himself pulled by an invisible force from behind. The blue hedgehog turned his head slightly to his back, to see a portal of circling energy pulling him inside. He knew he had to run away from it, to save Tails and Amy from the falling Tornado, but he simply was in trance . Against his will, he walked over to the portal and the blue hedgehog introduced his hand into it. The next second, Sonic... was gone.
Tails was in his workshop. The two tailed fox was stunned by what happened that morning. Both him and Amy survived the plane crash with no serious injuries, but the Tornado had suffered severe damage. He had to fix it again. But the sudden disappearance of Sonic was worrying the kitsune. Where could he be?
Tails rose from his work table, where he tried to locate Sonic multiple times that afternoon. The two tailed fox walked into the house, where he found Amy, sitting on a couch with her hands together. As soon as she saw Tails, she asked :
"Any luck?"
"No, the kitsune replied. But i will continue my search tomorrow."
"Do you think we should call Knuckles? Amy said nervous. Or the Chaotix? Maybe Knuckles can use the Master Emerald and..."
"Don't worry. Tails said more to himself. Sonic is fine, that's for sure."
"I hope so." Amy sighted and looked out the window.
[END]
Author: Mallory Blues
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