Revenge Of The Wolf
By Dragonblooded and The Chuckinator
Chapter 1: The Temple
Sonic sighed. He'd been walking through the forest, exploring. There wasn't much to do at home, and he was bored. He kicked at a stone in his path, sending it skittering down the trail. It bounced once or twice before rolling softly and vanishing. Intrigued, Sonic chased the rock, discovering that the trail abruptly ended at a cliff. He peered down into the abyss and was surprised to see more than darkness below.
"What's that?" He asked himself. Gripping the edge of the cliff tightly, he leaned downward, straining his eyes to see. It looked like... "A temple?" he mused aloud. His question echoed around him.
Sonic's curiosity got the better of him. He scaled down the cliff, eventually jumping down on the ground in front of it. The blue hedgehog walked inside and looked around. The temple was dusky. A gaping hole in the roof let in one thick glowing beam of sun, lighting upon dust motes throughout the air. Sonic coughed and swatted at them, agitating the air. The sunlight quickly reflected off his bracelet and shone on a dilapidated statue in the corner. Ancient writing was on the walls. Sonic looked confused when he found that he could somehow read it.
Even though it was legible, that didn't mean it made much sense. The text kept referring to how some warrior would rise again, a warrior 'of four gray feet' who 'calls to his glowing queen in the sky'. It seemed like a story about some sort of zombie apocalypse. Sonic shuddered and turned to observe the tall looming statue. Sonic sighed. He ignored the warning and walked further into the temple. Something odd was awakening inside him: flashes of memories from a previous life. Sonic had never been one to believe in reincarnation, but the blurbs of memories invaded his mind that weren't his, yet were, caused him serious doubt.
Sonic screamed in pain as he opened his eyes, which were now yellow slits. He ran to the center of the temple and placed a hand on a pedestal that sent energy into his body while taking his spirit out at the same time. The spirit then flew around the temple until it landed inside the pedestal, and glowed brightly. After a few moments the glow died away, leaving only complete quiet.
Sonic's eyes slowly cracked open. "Nnngh." he moaned, the world spinning fuzzily. Slowly it straightened itself out. He looked around at the dusky temple. The silence had become blanketing, and eerie. Sonic shook the feeling and glanced down. Below him lay...him. Sonic's eyes quickly widened as it became obvious that his body was laying in front of him. He looked around. What happened?
Sonic was startled by a deep voice somewhere. "Welcome, hedgehog, to my humble abode."
The spirit looked around and saw another appear in front of him. "Who are you?" Sonic asked.
The mist-shrouded form chuckled ominously. "You know very well who I am." it said in a deep thundering voice, "Sonic."
The hedgehog spirit looked confused, and shook his head. "I don't remember you. Can you tell me who you are?" He looked down at the ground at his solid body, then at the one he currently had: a transparent, ghost-like body. "Am I dead?"
"You are very much alive, Sonic." the spirit replied, "At the moment."
"What do you mean?"
The spirit chuckled and waved lazily. "Do not take it to heart, young hedgehog. I merely mean that at some point you will not be alive. I am not implying that point is soon." The spirit smiled a little curve that cut through the fog shrouding his face. "You will have to excuse me, Sonic. I have not spoken to a living being in many years. I can be a little...cold-blooded at times."
"If I am alive, why am I a ghost?" Sonic asked. "And who are you?"
"You are not a ghost, naive little hedgehog." the spirit replied darkly, adding a creepy smile. "Yet."
"If I'm alive, why do you keep insinuating I'm dead?! Tell me who you are! Tell me why I'm here!"
The spirit sighed. "Very well. My name is Remus, and I am the brother of Romulus, the first king of Rome. My brother murdered me, and I ended up here." The fog concealing him melted away, and Sonic gasped when he saw a blue hedgehog that looked just like him. "I am a werewolf, young one."
Sonic blinked once, twice, three times and still saw himself watching him with a slightly cocked head. One thing Remus had said stuck out to Sonic. "If you are a werewolf, then shouldn't you be a wolf and not a hedgehog?"
Remus smiled a dark half-smile. He closed his eyes and transformed into a wolf. Sonic looked at Remus in shock as the wolf opened his golden-yellow slitted eyes. "Now werewolf works just fine, does it not?" Remus asked, showing off his long pointed teeth in a yawn. "You, young hedgehog, are about as entertaining as Romulus was. Let us get to the point, shall we?"
"Which is?" Sonic prompted.
"You are my reincarnation. It is time to awaken your true form."