ZairaDrayan: Quick note to the people reading. I have been getting into a sort of slump. In other words, I've been losing a lot of my inspiration. There are many movies that I want to do a Sonic version of. If you want me to make a list, I'll make one so you know what'll be coming eventually. So yeah, Hercules. It's the first thing that peaked my interest. Why Shadow? How about Knuckles?! Well, not just anybody can be Philoctetes! And why not Sonic? I guess that I could have…, but that would mean that I'd have to make Tails Pegasus and either Silver or Shadow as Sonic's father… Uh… It might have worked out… Also, when he was being terrorized by a herd of girls, I just shook my head and said, "Shadow, you are too popular…" Besides, he's the only one who really questions his existence like Hercules does, so that's my logic. Anyways, I don't own Hercules or Sonic. They belong to Disney and SEGA! Enjoy!
Character list
Shadow/Hercules
Silver/Pegasus (Has the brain of a bird XD)
Knuckles/Philoctetes
Zaira/Meg (Don't ask. If you do, I'll just say that I don't know what you're talking about).
Hades/Dr. Eggman (Either Eggman or Black Doom. I would make him Black Doom, but they don't quite have the same personalities).
Pain and Panic/Orbot and Cubot
Zeus/Sonic (Personality will be severely changed because I was out of ideas. I know the thunderbolt hurling is Shadow's power, but let's just say he gets that from his father… I just made it weird didn't I…?)
Hera/Amy (Saw that one coming)
Other gods/Other Sonic characters who I see worthy
Five godesses of art and proclaimers of heroes/ Blaze, Rouge, Sonia, Cream, and Tikal
Alcmene/ Cosmo (Don't hate me for this!)
Amphitryon/Tails (I didn't have any ideas…)
ZairaDrayan: Okay… The characters may be a little weird, but that's what the universe gave me. If you don't care, thank you. If you do care, good luck with finding another story about this. Okay! Chapter 1!
Chapter 1
The story first starts in a room full of artwork showing all of the great people of Greece who will forever be remembered for their deeds. Although, in the middle of a large clearing is a vase with the picture of one person in particular. A voice appears out of nowhere.
"Long ago, in the faraway land of ancient Greece, there was a golden age of powerful gods and extraordinary heroes. And the greatest and strongest of all these heroes was the mighty Shadow the Hedgehog. But what is the measure of a true hero? Ah, that is what our story is-" said a random space voice.
"Would you listen to him? He's makin' the story sound like sound Greek tragedy!" Sonia exclaimed. She was with Blaze, Cream, Rouge, and Tikal. They all nodded in agreement.
"Listen up, dude, we'll be taking it from here!" Rouge said holding up her hand to the narrator.
"Yeah, we'll be taking it from here, darling!" Tikal said.
"You go, girls."
"We are the Muses. Goddesses of the arts and proclaimers of the heroes," Tikal explained. She pointed around the room. Cream hopped up onto the vase (They were all a really small size).
"Heroes like Shadow!" she said.
"Yeah! Bow your head low! All hail Shadow! King of the forever remembered heroes!" Rouge said gazing into his eyes.
All of them begin to hum to themselves.
"Our story actually begins long before Shadow ever existed! Many eons ago…," Tikal said.
All five of them begin to sing.
Back when the world was new,
The planet Earth was down on its luck.
And everywhere gigantic brutes
called Titans ran amok!
It was a nasty place!
There was a mess wherever you stepped.
Where Chaos reigned and earthquakes
and volcanoes never slept!
And then came Sonic-
He used his spin attack-
He zapped!
Locked those suckers in a vault!
They're trapped!
And on his own stopped Chaos in its tracks.
And that's the gospel truth!
The guy was too type A to just relax.
And that's the world's first dish.
He tamed the globe while still in his youth.
Though, honey, it may seem imposs'ble-
That's the gospel truth!
On mount Olympus life was neat
and smooth as sweet vermouth.
Though, honey, it may seem imposs'ble-
That's the gospel truth!
They all gathered around a plate with a picture of Mt. Olympus on it. Slowly the mountain picture is replaced with the real thing. Up in the clouds the gods and goddesses were celebrating the birth of a new god. Well, a hedgehog to be precise. A young black hedgehog with tiny red stripes was curled up in a defensive ball due to the noise from all of the other gods. He slowly unrolled and looked around. When Amy (his mother) approached, he rolled back into a tiny ball and made his spikes more noticeable. Amy shook her head at the little hedgehog.
"Shadow, I'd think that even you would recognize me!" she said waving her finger at him like Sonic would do.
"Hey, the finger wag is my gig! So, that's Shadow! Dark color, red racing stripes, pointy eyes, you know, not rounded like mine, and crimson colored eyes! Wonder who he gets that from?" Sonic said looking at him. Shadow uncurled really fast and sat up straight.
"Not bad reflexes too! Just like me!" Sonic said.
"Excuse me! Coming through! Hyperactive bee flying on through! Pardon me!" yelled a bee flying towards Amy.
"Why Charmy, what brings you here in such a hurry?" asked Amy.
"It's just that I had to present you with these flowers! I mean, we haven't had an occasion like this in thousands of years!" Charmy exclaimed presenting Amy with a bunch of glowing flowers.
"They're lovely Charmy!" Amy exclaimed taking them off of his hands and taking a deep breath of their enchanting aroma. She sighs as she exhales.
"Yeah! You know, I haven't seen so much love in one room since Black Narcissus discovered himself!" Charmy said pointing to the metarex leader looking at himself in a mirror.
Shadow saw Sonic spin into a spin attack and rocket over to the other end of the room to talk to Black Narcissus. He got into the same position Sonic was in and concentrated on how to do it. He first started off in a little clumsy spin attack. Then he spun into the perfect one. The spin launched him forward and almost off of Mount Olympus.
"Shadow!" Amy yelled in alarm.
"I've got him!" yelled Mighty the Armadillo. He pulled out a large sword and used it as a bat to send him soaring in another direction. He knocked over Sonic who had no idea that Shadow was even trying to copy him. They landed face-to-face on the ground. Sonic giggled sheepishly.
"Well…, I guess he got my quick thinking too…," Sonic said.
"He is your son," Amy told him.
"Right!" Sonic stood up. "On behalf of our son, I'd like to thank you for all of these wonderful gifts!" Sonic motions his hand towards the large pile of gold that was six times taller than Sonic. "I'm pretty sure that Shadow is grateful!"
Shadow looked at it and wondered what in the world he would do with a bunch of gold. Why would a god need gold when they can make anything from thin air?
Sonic handed Shadow back to Amy. She put him into a little cloud bed and he curled up back into a ball of spikes. Amy looked at Sonic.
"What about our gift?" she asked. Sonic looked thoughtful for a moment.
"Hm… It needs to have a little bit of psychic power… Silver fur… Golden eyes… And…," Sonic looked and around and began to grab completely random materials from all over the place. He shoved them all together.
"Ah yes! Has to be a hedgehog of course! And voila!" Sonic said as the materials came together to form a little silverish-white hedgehog. He had spiky hair like Shadow and Sonic only it was a different fur design. He had golden eyes and was holding himself up in the air using his psychokinesis. He blinked a few times and looked at Sonic.
"His name is Silver, and he's all yours Shadow!" Sonic said handing Silver to Shadow. Shadow curled up into a smaller and tighter ball. Silver looked curiously at Shadow with wide eyes. Shadow slowly opened his eyes and looked at the hedgehog through his fur.
"Shadow?" asked Silver looking at him. It was the only word Silver could say. Shadow sat up and met Silver's gaze.
The two of them looked at each other and inspected each other. After sitting there for a little while, Silver grinned and bonks his forehead against Shadow's. Shadow looked a little dizzy for a moment and recovers. He smiles at the little Silver grins back. Silver hugged him and Shadow didn't exactly object.
"Aww…," everyone said.
Sonic gives himself a little victory grin as if had saved the world again and puts a golden medal around Shadow's neck. It had the symbol of the gods on it. Shadow grabbed it and looked at it in awe at how shiny it was.
"Well…, how sentimental!" Dr. Eggman exclaims from the entrance of the room. Sonic looked over and forced a smile on his face, but he wasn't at all happy to see him.
"Hi Egghead. Long time, no see…," Sonic says.
"You know, I haven't been this choked up since I got a hunk of moussaka caught in my throat! Huh?" asked Eggman looking around. Nobody said anything. Eggman looked a little disappointed.
"Is this an audience or a mosaic?" asked Eggman. Sonic raced up to him.
"So, you finally made it. How are things in the droopy, disgusting Underworld?" asked Sonic. Eggman shrugged.
"I'd say that they're going fine. Little dark, little gloomy, and lots of dead people! Ah yes, the little Shadow the Hedgehog! Isn't he a cutie," Eggman said getting a closer look.
Amy got out a hammer just in case and Silver growled at Eggman defensively. Shadow, once again, tried to hide in a ball.
"I don't suppose you would mind if I- OW!"
Eggman tried to get a fur sample from Shadow, but the little black hedgehog grabbed his finger and squeezed it as hard as he could. Shadow had remarkable strong as well. Eggman blew on his finger and tried to ease the pain. Finally, due to being a god, his finger had recovered.
"Well…, He's the strong little tyke…," Eggman said glaring at Shadow. Silver narrowed his eyes at Eggman.
"Oh, come on! You should lighten up! I'd let you join the celebration if you decided to behave yourself!" Sonic said.
"I'd love to, but I've got a full time gig down in the Underworld… But really I'd love to. I just have a job that was charitably bestowed on me," glares at Sonic. "So, see you later I guess!"
Eggman left and everyone was silent for a moment. Sonic broke the silence.
"Well, he's gotta slow down. He might just work himself to death! HA! Work himself to death!" Sonic chirped. All the other gods laughed at Sonic's joke. Sonic himself also laughed.
"Oh my gosh, I kill myself!" Sonic giggled. Eggman was listening to him.
"If only, you big, blue rat!" Eggman hissed at Sonic. All of them didn't even notice Eggman. He began to go back to the underworld.
"If there was one god that got worked up, it was Eggman!" Tikal said.
"'Cause he had an evil plan…," Rouge explained.
He ran the Underworld…
But thought the dead were dull and uncouth.
He was as mean as ruthless-
And that's the gospel truth.
He had a plan to shake things up-
And that's the gospel truth!
"ORBOT!" yelled Eggman. The circular robot hovered down the stairs as fast as he could.
"Coming, your most lugubriousness!" Orbot called. He tripped halfway down the rocky stairs and fell down at Eggman's feet.
"CUBOT!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I can handle it!" Cubot shouted hovering down the stairs, but also trips and falls on top of Orbot.
"Watch where you're going!" Orbot snapped.
"Don't blame me! You were the one flat on your face on the ground!" Cubot shot back. The two robots scrambled to their feet.
"Orbot and Cubot reporting for duty!" Orbot said with a salute.
"Right. Tell me when the three Fates arrive," Eggman told them.
"Um… You mean the weird and creepy chao thing that has three heads, but only one eye?" asked Cubot.
"YES!" Eggman bellowed.
"Oh…, Well…, They're already here…," Orbot stuttered.
"WHAT?! The Fates are here and you didn't tell me?!" demanded Eggman.
"Oh…, We are a bag of rusted bolts! Rusted bolts!" cried the two robots bowing before Eggman.
"Okay, remind me to maim you after my meeting."
Eggman walks upstairs to see the Fates sitting in the middle of the room. They were three chao merged into one. It had three heads and were all female dark chao. They were just much bigger and only the head in the middle had an eye. It would have been a little weird, but Eggman is surrounded by dead people all the time, so it doesn't exactly bother him that they're scarier than most.
The chao were holding up a long thread and were giggling to themselves. They loved doing this.
"You'd better hold that mortal's thread of life good and tight because it's not going to be a thread of life for much longer!" chirped the right head. It's opposite (the left head) nodded and chomped down on the thread harder.
The leader head had a pair of scissors in its mouth and cut the thread swiftly and without questions. A loud shriek rang through the air. The dark chaos giggled.
"Incoming!" yelled the left head.
A spirit that was once a human being came soaring into the room and out into a tunnel. The sign above the tunnel went from "Over 5000000000 served" to "Over 5000000001 served". Eggman walked into the room.
"Ladies, I'm sorry I was-"
"Late," they all said at once. Eggman sighed.
"We knew you would be!" chirped the right head.
"We do know everything after all. Past," points at the left head. "Present," points at the middle head. "And future!" points at the right head.
"I was at this party and lost track of time and-"
"We know!"
"I know you know! So, here's the deal. Sonic, Mr. High and Mighty, Mr. "Hey, you, get off my cloud," now he has—"
"A bouncing baby rat! WE KNOW!" the three heads yelled.
"I KNOW YOU KNOW! I know. I got it. I got the concept, so let me just ask: Is this hog gonna mess up my hostile takeover big, or what? What do you think?" asked Eggman as he put a little playing piece that looked like young Shadow on a chessboard.
"Um…," the left head thought, but the middle head growled at it.
"Don't you say anything! You know we're not supposed to reveal the future!" the middle head snapped.
"Oh wait, I'm sorry. Time out. Can I? Can I ask you a question, by the way? Are you, (to the left head), did you cut your hair of something? You look fabulous! You look like a fate worse than death!" Eggman exclaimed. She giggled when he told her that. The middle and right head growled at her, but she didn't care.
The right head got so mad that it knocked the eye from the middle head to the hand of Cubot.
"EW! GROSS!" yelled the cube shaped robot.
"Oh my gosh, it's blinking!" cried Orbot. Cubot kicked it back into Eggman's hand.
"Ladies, my fate is in your lovely hands," said Eggman presenting the eye back to the middle head. The left head was still feeling flattered by his charm. The middle head sniffed.
"Oh, all right, but only this once!"
The eye rose into the air and begun to project pictures of the future all across the walls of the room.
"In 18 years precisely,
the planets will align ever so nicely.
"Oy! All in verse! I guess I should've seen that coming I guess…," Eggman said.
The time to act will be at hand.
Unleash the Titans, your monstrous band
Then the once-proud Sonic will finally fall,
And you, Eggman, will rule all!
As the three heads made the proclamation, Eggman was beaming from ear to ear with joy.
"YES! Eggman rules!"
A word of caution to this tale…
"Come again?"
Should Shadow the Hedgehog fight, you will fail…
The Fates then disappeared and same with the eye. They left Eggman standing in the room with Orbot and Cubot. He was bubbling with rage.
"WHAAAAAT?!" he yelled.
The doctor inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly. He looked over at Orbot and Cubot.
"Alright you two bags of bolts, I have a little riddle for you. How do you kill a god?" asked Eggman walking over to a door on the other side of the room. Orbot and Cubot followed.
"Um… I don't know… uh…," Cubot started.
"You can't! They're immortal!" Orbot answered.
"Yes… So, if we are to succeed, we have to make the little rat mortal…," he replied.
He opened the door and saw a little potion with death skulls floating in the bottle. A mortal potion.
And so, that very night, all of the gods on Mount Olympus were asleep. Shadow was snuggled up in a cloud. Silver was sleeping in the air due to being able to use his psychokinesis to hover.
Orbot and Cubot snuck into the room undetected. They had shapeshifted into robots with wings. They fluttered into the room and snagged Shadow before the little hedgehog even knew what was happening. Although, they broke a nearby lamp when leaving. Silver opened an eye wondering what all the noise was about. When he discovered what was happening, he fell to the ground. He got stuck in a bucket lying on the floor. Sonic and Amy both woke up and looked at each other.
"What in the wide world of Mobius is going on?!" demanded Sonic.
"You know, I think I know what's going on…," Amy said slowly. She and Sonic hopped to their feet in alarm.
"Shadow!" yelled Amy.
"Taco Tuesday!" cried Sonic.
"What?"
"Oh, uh, you could be right too I suppose…," Sonic said sheepishly.
The two hedgehogs raced into the room and saw that Shadow was gone. Only then did Silver get himself unstuck from the bucket. The little white hedgehog looked around in bewilderment and squealed.
Shadow was caught in the clutches of the two robots. He didn't exactly like being woken up and swiped, but the wild wind smacking him in the face drowned out his cries of protest.
"We're done for!" cried Cubot.
"Quit your yelling and we'll be fine!" Orbot snapped back.
The two robots crashed onto the ground and got out the vial. Orbot shoved the bottle into the black hedgehog's mouth. Due to not knowing what it was, he took it. His bright red stripes slowly began to lose their brightness.
"Look at that! He's changing! Should we kill him?! Should we kill him now?!" demanded Cubot.
"No. He has to drink the whole thing! Every last drop!" Orbot snapped.
"Huh? Is someone there?" asked a voice.
"AH! Hide!" cried Cubot. The two robots disappeared and accidentally shattered the bottle on the ground. The very last drop of the potion fell onto the ground. Shadow wasn't glowing anymore, but he did still have his speed and strength.
A two-tailed fox and a plant-like girl walked out into the clearing with Shadow curled up in a ball. The girl picked it up.
"What do you suppose this is?" asked the girl. She saw the medal and read it out loud.
"Shadow?" she read.
Shadow looked up at them when she said his name. The girl hopped backward in surprise at the spiky ball actually being a hedgehog.
"It's a hedgehog! Tails, do you think that maybe the gods sent him to us?" she asked.
"On the other side of the medal is the sign of the gods, so I think you're right. What do you think Cosmo? Should we take him home?" asked Tails.
"I don't see why we shouldn't! We can't just abandon him out here! Anything can happen!" Cosmo told him.
As they were saying this, Orbot and Cubot transformed themselves into two robotic snakes to kill Shadow. They slithered up the hedgehog that was now on the ground. Shadow looked back at them and smirked at them. The two snakes suddenly looked horrified. Shadow grabbed them and squeezed them as hard as he could, shook them rather violently for a second and tied them in a big knot. To wrap up his little torture, he tossed the two snakes off into the sunset. Orbot and Cubot screamed in terror and surprise as they soared through the sky. Shadow waved good-bye to them. Tails and Cosmo stared in amazement.
"Well, we aren't leaving him here I guess…," Tails remarked.
"Oh…, Eggman is going to kill us when he finds out!" Orbot cried.
"You mean if he finds out!" Cubot chirped.
"If… If is good!" Orbot said with a nod.
"It was tragic. Sonic led all the gods on a frantic search," Sonia said.
"But by the time they found him, it was too late."
Young Shad was mortal now,
But since he did not drink the last drop
He still retained his godlike strength-
So thank his lucky star!
Sonic and Amy wept
Because their son could never come home.
They'd have to watch their precious hedgehog
Grow up from afar.
Though Eggman' horrid plan
Was hatched before Shad cut his first tooth,
The boy grew stronger every day
And that's the gospel truth!
ZairaDrayan: And that's the end of Chapter 1! Not too bad I guess. Next Chapter, Shadow goes soul searching! YAY! Also he can talk! Yay! So can Silver! Boo… I'm kidding. Not too horrible for a story with weird characters in weird places. Hope you enjoyed chapter 1 and be sure to stay alert for chapter 2. No, I didn't completely drop Shadow of the Opera Bloopers or Sonic Wings of Fire. I'm still working on those, so don't assume that I'm dead yet or losing so much inspiration that I'm randomly dropping stories. That's my only note on my other stories. Again, if you want progress reports, tell me. I'll be working on a lot of stuff, so don't be surprised if it takes me a week to upload again.