The Wielders Of Chaos part 1

"Prologue,"

Sonic leaped into the air to avoid a spike shooting up from the ground. Then he began dashing down a long corridor quickly moving from left to right and his torso accordingly to avoid each spike that sprung up at him. Sonic felt like this really wasn't his day. He had left the Smash Mansion to return to his world in order to do a little heroing, no big deal. When he gets there however, he finds the entire planet being ravaged by monsters, and his friends nowhere to be found. He's been fighting his way through armies for weeks, and still he barley has a grasp on what's going on. However, he was finally able to get to the mastermind in charge of operations.

Sonic leaped into the air to land against a thick brick wall then kicked off just as a gust of purple energy was flung at him, narrowly missing.

This mastermind is probably unlike anything Sonic has every faced. Even Eggman seems to gone ghost as well. Sonic took a sharp turn down another corridor on his left and quickly dashed through it. He arrived in another random hallway similar to the last. Black brick walls, lack of light, low visibility, oh yeah and can't forget about the monsters on his tail. Sonic looked back to see two growling beast right on his heels. The monsters were unlike anything Sonic has ever seen. They looked to be made of pure energy, dark energy, that has taken a physical form. They travel feral style on all fours, purple highlights along it's body with the rest being black, a tail, and spikes from every which direction stuck out of it, and the most notable was the glowing purple sockets that were supposedly eyes.

Sonic turned his attention forward to see two more of these beast appear in front of him from thin air. Sonic skid to a halt than he stared at the two towering beasts in front of him, and glanced at the ones behind him. The beast also had notable size, about three times Sonic's height and that's just on all fours. On it's hind legs it was gigantic enough to make Sonic crane his neck back. Sonic balled up his fist to show he was not scared nor was he backing down.

"Silly…" came a deep dark voice. Sonic jerked his head quickly to the direction from which the voice originated. His eyes stared deep and hard into the darkness above him. He saw a figure take shape. At first disfigured then taking the form of a hedgehog, a very twisted looking hedgehog. It's quills had horns sticking out of it, it has crystallized hands and feet, dark black fur with purple highlights on the quills and edge of its eyes, and blood red eyeballs with an eerie green retinas. The most shocking trait about this creature is his lack of a mouth. All in all, this guy looked terrifying. "You actually believe you can stop me?"

"Well, I made it this far, and your pets still haven't mane me. You might wanna try obedient school," Sonic responded snidely.

The being chuckled, "I don't know if its bravery or lack of intellect that makes you speak, but either way it is commendable. You know when I first started out conquering this world I thought for sure I would have to deal with you a lot sooner. Lucky for me, you weren't around making this easier, but I admit less pleasurable,"

"Awe, I stood you up on our first date?"

"That's it hedgehog, make as many jokes as you can, to your hearts content. I won't hinder you,"

"What?" Sonic asked shocked. "But its no fun if its not hindered. The best kind is hindered,"

"I do it out of respect for you. You will not live to tell anymore of those immature, unnecessary, juvenile, crude, and all around annoying jokes of yours,"

"Ah, I knew you didn't like em," Sonic said smirking.

"It matters not. I shall cover this world in the darkness to which you banished me to,"

"We've met!" Sonic said shocked. "Wow, didn't think I could forget a plastic surgery accident like you,"

"It's not only you who has forgotten, but all the world. My power was feared, but now I am imperfect. However, with the power of the Chaos Emeralds I will obtain my perfection! I will take back the world, which so rightfully belongs to me, and rid it of pest such as you. Ones called 'heroes'. The worlds do not need beings like you. The good-natured can always bring about great evil. There will come a point in time when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object,"

"Is that a physics question?"

"It's a lesson on life Sonic. Put aside these silly ideas you call 'heroism' and lay down your fist. Without the Chaos Emeralds you are no threat to my plans. You only remain a thorn in my side. Surrender and you may be spared, unless you really miss your friends that much,"

"Oh, I'll lay down my fist alright!" Sonic said leaping at the being in darkness and pulling his fist back to deliver a powerful punch.

The figure huffed then with a twitch of his eyes sent a powerful gust of purple energy right at Sonic. Sonic was hit directly then slammed into the ground with great force. The beast took this time as a chance to pounce. All four beasts jumped on Sonic then began to claw away at him, but Sonic wasn't going down like that. Sonic began to spin rapidly in his spin from. Then he began moving in a circle knocking the beast away then immediately smashed them to pieces. Sonic staggered to his feet trying to ignoring the pain of the gashes. Sonic looked up to see the figure merge with the walls. Sonic gasped for a moment, so he was unprepared for when the figure reappeared right below him. The figure wrapped it's hand around Sonic's throat. It then turn to throw Sonic right through the two inch thick wall and the come out the other side, which sent Sonic rolling.

"In the dirt, where you belong. You are in over your head, and you will not win,"

"For…someone without a mouth…you sure like to talk a lot," Sonic moaned.

The figure slammed it's hand down on the ground to send a row of spikes in Sonic's direction. Luckily Sonic rolled to the side just in time. Sonic dashed forward toward the figure. The figure began floating backwards making Sonic follow. Sonic shot forward with a sonic spin, but the figure merge into the wall behind it. Which in turn made Sonic smash right through the wall to the outside. Luckily, Sonic stopped himself in time that he didn't go flying out the hole. He looked down below to see a sea of monsters all moving and jumping around. The entire ground was covered in monsters. Sonic was struck dumb for a moment.

"Do you feel it…" Sonic gulped as his eyes went to the side only to see a part of the beings face. "That overwhelming feeling in the pit of your stomach, that grows and thrashes inside of you. A feeling that's building to proportions that you can't even stand. Your legs begin to shake, and your arms fall to your sides useless. You do know this feeling right…it's fear…"

Sonic leaped to the side of the hole gaining distance from the figure. "Oh, that's good, I thought it was just something I ate,"

"Cover up your fear with jokes, it matters not. In the end though you will accept it,"

"I don't have to if I don't want to. My friends may be…gone…but I'm still here," Sonic said tightening his fist. "As long as I got a good pair of legs underneath me, I will fight!"

"Pitiful creature," The figure shook its head. Then it pointed a hand out and a saber like point of energy shot out his hand.

Sonic was ready. Sonic flipped forward slamming his feet on the end point of the spear slamming the end into the ground. The figure was surprised. Sonic shot forward while on the spear than curled up to smash right into the figure's head. The figure began to merge into the ground as it fell. Sonic however was quick. He reached down into the floor to grab the creature's arm. Sonic then dived down into the darkness with the creature. It seemed as if Sonic and the creature were fighting within the walls because eventually the figure went flying out of a wall and into another, Sonic following behind him. Eventually the creature hit the floor without merging into as Sonic landed behind it.

"I'm not so easy to scare, especially when I have folks counting on me,"

The figure growled as it waved its arm. A spike sprang from the wall on Sonic's right aimed for his head. Sonic leaned back the spike narrowly missing. Sonic then swung himself onto the spike just as another sprang up from where he was standing originally. Sonic reached into his quills to pull out a bright navy blue stone. He raised it into the air to allow it to glow. It's glow rivaled that of the sun as the light dispelled all the darkness in the area. The figure cried out as it vanished in a puff of smoke. Sonic held the emerald close to him allowing himself to warm up in the light.

"Look at me…getting console from a rock…" at this point this Chaos Emerald was the only light in Sonic's life. Sonic shook his head. "I can't get angsty yet, I need to find the emeralds then defeat this darkness. Then later I'll get all angsty,"

Sonic allowed the emerald to lead him through the corridors of this shadow castle. The light of the emerald dispelled any darkness that approached Sonic. The emerald only got brighter as Sonic neared the other emeralds. Sonic then finally arrived to a giant oak door. Sonic held the emerald up to it and the dark seal on the door vanished, so Sonic simply kicked it open. He leaped in expecting a horde of monsters, but only found the single figure their. It seemed to be catching its breathe. Upon noticing his entrance the figure shot into the air then began floating with a strange aura surrounding his appendages.

"Prepare to die!," it said.

Sonic stood his ground for one final assault. The figure launched what seemed to be demonic versions of Chaos Spears. The demonic part about them was the energy was black, depressing, and it seemed to howl with agony as it moved through the air. Having gained lots of experience with dodging attacks like these Sonic quickly performed a somersault to avoid the attacks. The Figure quickly about faced to wave his hand to launch another barrage of Black Chaos Spears. Sonic dashed from one end of the room to the other avoiding spear after spear. After noticing a wide spread attack like that wouldn't work on Sonic, the figure decided to be more precise with his shots, so he opted to shooting on out at a time from each hand.

This forced Sonic to be more precise with his movements. Sonic performed a front flip, then a corkscrew flip, leaped to the side leaving a blue trail behind him, then dashed on the side of the black walls. Upon running alongside the wall Sonic noticed something above him. Seeing as the darkness was so thick and existed in every part of the planet now, to see this light was inviting. Sonic noticed that the emerald went crazy which could only mean one thing.

"The Chaos Emeralds!" Sonic yelled. Sonic noticed that the Chaos Emeralds were placed on a chandelier with seven sockets as if they were mere light bulbs. "Wow, I gotta say that's creative, tacky, but creative,"

The figure was outraged as it shot into the air to confront the blue hedgehog. Sonic was running around in a spiral in order to give himself so evasiveness, and reach the top quickly. The figure raised both it's hands to unleash two separate beams from each hand respectively. It hit to top portion of Sonic's path. Sonic however would not allow that to stop him. Sonic used his quick reflexes and acrobatic prows to jump from one piece of rubble to another to gain his prize.

"This is checkmate!" Sonic yelled leaping toward the emeralds with his hand outstretched. He felt the power it was so close. The emeralds were all right there begging him to take them.

"Chaos…Control…"

However, things didn't work out. Sonic was so focused on gaining the emeralds he lost his focus. That split second cost him dearly. Sonic felt breathing to be a labor all of a sudden. Sonic's strength suddenly leaving him, and the emeralds power fading away. This is definitely not what being Super Sonic feels like. However, on oddity is that he's floating in midair. He looks below him to see the creature with an energy saber embedded in Sonic's chest.

"I picked up that handy technique a while ago. One of my many new powers," Sonic clenched his teeth as he started to feel his blood leaving his body, and reached out to the emeralds again. The figure oblige Sonic's actions by slamming him on top of the chandelier, but not without taking his emerald away from him. "There is that better? You can die peacefully, knowing you did in fact find all the Chaos Emeralds,"

Sonic couldn't believe this. He risked everything, which really wasn't much since he already lost pretty much everything, but he still failed. Sonic's always been the winner, so this feeling of losing was brand new to Sonic. He always did the right thing, and he felt the universe would always give him his just deserts. Well he supposed he may as well stop believing in karma. However, Sonic was used to, at the least, being a minor annoyance. The figure needs the emeralds to become godlike, and the emeralds surround him right now. He had two choices. Either try to absorb their power to become a weak Super Sonic, or use his last bit of energy to tick off the guy.

Of course Sonic went with the latter.

"Well…thanks…but…I can't go…without leaving…a bad after taste…" Sonic moaned out smirking. He closed his eyes and then the emeralds began to react to him.

"Oh please, in your condition your super form would be putting you at an even more disadvantage. Granted it may extend your life for a few measly minutes,"

"Nothing like…that…just a little…magic…" Sonic smirked as he started to lose himself to the growing darkness. "Chaos…"

It was this time the figure knew what was happening and moved to stop Sonic. "CONTROL!"

The light was so powerful it blinded the creature and filled it with agony. However, it was only moments until the darkness settled back in and the figure regained itself. It then noticed the lack of seven gems on it's chandelier.

"RRRRAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!" it screamed. "His one last act of defiance! That idiot has scattered the emeralds all over again, and who knows where they went! The last bit of power surprised me, so it's a possibility that they've scattered all over the world maybe further then that!" Then it was this time that the hostile nature of the creature melted away for a more devilish sneer. Even though it lacked a mouth it still pulled it off quite well. Then it burst into hysterical laughter. "Good show Sonic the hedgehog, good show. I already have the planet blanketed in my darkness, and my monsters cover every inch of this planet. The emeralds with be back with me soon enough. All you've done in your final hour was delay the inevitable,"

The figure sat down on it's giant throne toward the back of the room. "While I wait I shall gather my strength for my resurrection form. I shall become, The Mephiles The Dark, once more. And then reclaim my godhood, so my darkness can spread even further…"

At this Mephiles closed his eyes as more of his darkness began to flow around him to form a cocoon of pure darkness.

"Sonic…hey Sonic wake up!" called a voice.

"Maybe he's dead," someone suggested.

"What sense does that make you knucklehead, we're all dead!" another voice snapped.

"Ya never know he could be…deader," the other voice responded.

"Sonic, please wake up…" a voice pleaded.

Sonic's eyes snapped open to a bright blue sky above him and the sun shining brightly. Sonic was so used to being in the dark that the sunlight was a little too much for him. Sonic put a hand over his eyes to block it. Sonic also noticed some very familiar figures.

"Oh, Sonic!" cried a girl voice and Sonic felt arms just latch onto him. Instincts told him who it was.

"A-Amy!" Sonic exclaimed slipping out of her grasp. "Whoa, okay what's going on?"

"Sonic its alright," Sonic looked to see his old buddy Tails.

"Tails…that you?" Sonic questioned in shock stepping closer toward the fox. Tails grabbed Sonic's hand with two of his. "I'm really glad to see you again, but I was kinda hoping I wouldn't ever see you like this,"

"What's going on here?" Sonic asked.

"Isn't it obvious?" asked a voice. Sonic looked to see the likes of Rouge, Shadow, and Knuckles. Rouge was the one who spoke. "You're dead, we all are,"

Sonic looked around. He saw everyone here Cream and Cheese, Miss Vanilla Rabbit, the Chaotix, and some of his other friends. Sonic looked around to see that they were at a place that resembled the shrine of the Master Emerald, but somehow it was different. It was as if someone took the ruins of the shrine, slapped some shiny coat the shrine, added fresh water, and basically having everything brand new. The shrine never looked like this, but somehow Sonic felt he experienced this before.

"Where are we exactly?" Sonic asked.

"Apparently, we've all been exposed to a lot of Chaos energy at one point or another. Since we all have dealt with the emeralds at one point or another. I at first thought this was heaven, but you noticed the lack of a crowd here," Tails began explaining. "But, I believe it's a brand new enigma all together. This place is somehow connected with all of us,"

"I believe that theory is valid. I sense an abundant amount of Chaos energy here," Shadow said.

"So, your saying, this place is made of pure what-cha-ma-call it energy?"

"Yeah, that's what we think," Tails said.

"Well who runs this place?"

"We don't know, but a voice does sometimes speak to us," Knuckles said.

"It's a voice everyone can hear…right?"

"Shut up!"

"This meeting can now commence since our final member has arrived…" came a mystical voice. Hearing it gave a soft tone of great power, and mystic energy. However, it struck Sonic as familiar.

"Yo, mystery voice, have we met somewhere?" Sonic asked.

"Everyone stand before the Master Emerald, and all shall be explained," Everyone gave each other looks. Then voluntarily everyone went toward the shrine. They walked up the steps and to the giant green emerald. The emerald let out a quick flash of light that blinded everyone.

"See, this is why I don't care for all this hocus pocus talk, I'm gonna eventually go blind when this is done," Sonic said waving his hands in front his eyes to test his vision.

"However, this "hocus pocus" may just be what is needed to save everyone," everyone returned their attention to the new speaker. A small collection of gasp came to follow.

"It's you!" Knuckles exclaimed.

"Somebody wanna fill me in?" Rouge asked.

"My name is Tikal," the girl said. She looked roughly around their age, but knew that she was far older then what she gave herself credit for. She wore a tribal gown, with soft blue eyes, knee high boots, her fur was a weak red, and a tiara around her head. "It is nice to see you all again, and nice to meet your acquaintance for some of you,"

"Wow, she's an echidna like Mr. Knuckles," Cream said.

Tikal smiled warmly. "Yes I am. Knuckles and I are from the same tribe,"

"So Knukie what other woman do you have hidden?" Rouge asked teasingly.

"I could ask you a similar question," Knuckles retorted.

"That's enough, you said you would give us an explanation. Now start talking," Shadow demanded.

If Tikal felt alarmed or worried with Shadow's tone she really didn't show it. "Yes, of course Shadow," Tikal waved her hands over the Master Emerald to give it a view of Earth. However, the picture was different. It lacked the clearness, the blueness, all that was seen was darkness. Everyone gasped. "As you all know, Mephiles the Dark has been resurrected. You all had a long grueling battle before with him when he was a godlike being known as Solaris. When Solaris was defeated both parts separated. Iblis was destroyed, but Mephiles survived in a pocket dimension. Growing stronger, and stronger. Until the day of reckoning,"

"We didn't stand a chance…" Tails muttered.

"Maybe if a certain blue hedgehog wasn't on his vacation in another dimension he would've realized what was going on sooner to help," Knuckles said glaring at Sonic.

"Hey, I did all I could, and do you think living there was a vacation? Ha, I had to risk my life there too!" Sonic retorted.

"Who cares about that, this your fault!"

"My fault?"

"If you were there we wouldn't be in this position right now,"

"You were short one guy Knuckles, one stinken guy. Before I left who assured me that things would be under control while I was away?" Knuckles growled. "Yeah, that's what I thought,"

"Guys…" Tails muttered weakly.

"You have a second chance," Tikal spoke up. At this every turned toward her in a stupor. "Because of Sonic's last desperate action he's placed us in a position to where we can try again,"

"Like an extra life?" Big the cat asked.

"Exactly,"

"Cool, and all we had to do to get it was die," Charmy said rolling his eyes.

"How will this plan of yours work?" Espio asked curiously.

"There are seven opportunities," Tikal said making everyone look at her curiously. "You see the Chaos Emeralds are what are needed. Those of you with the strongest chaos energy shall be pulled into a chaos emerald. That is where your spirit will dwell,"

"So…what about bodies?" Vector asked.

"Can't save the world without a good pair of legs," Sonic said.

"That…is where the part luck comes in," Tikal said sweating a bit.

"Luck?" Amy asked.

"You see, you wont be able to do anything once inside the emerald. You've bonded with it which means there nothing that can be done once inside,"

"Then what's the point of this caper?" Shadow asked.

"The Chaos Emeralds will work differently with your spirits inside. Whoever holds your specific emerald will obtain all your powers, skills, and weaponry,"

"Okay….still waiting for the good part," Rouge said.

"I can sense that there are those on the planet willing to fight to be rid of this darkness that has spread. My hope is that your respective emerald will fall into the right hands. Your powers will be endowed to a new breed of heroes willing to fight a good fight,"

"How will we know if this person is the right person?" Tails asked.

"By your energies being able to become synched to allow pure harmony between both spirits,"

"Word," Sonic said with a peace sign.

"Now please select the six who wish to participate,"

"Six?" everyone asked.

"I shall be accompanying you. I can tell you all with need guidance when you meet your Carriers,"

"Carriers?" Cream asked.

"Or Chaos Wilders if you prefer,"

"Well we already have a rock solid team ready!" Sonic stated while pumping his fist in the air. "We got Tails, I guess Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Shadow, and of course me!"

"Hey we wanna help too!" Charmy exclaimed.

"Yes, we would like to assist," Cream spoke up as well.

"I don't think that would be best Cream," said Miss Vanilla.

Tikal scratched her chin. "Ah, I know. We don't have seven options, we have eight," Everyone looked at her confused. "The Master Emerald of course. I will bond my spirit with that one. I may be able to squeeze you three in one," Tikal said referring to the Chaotix. Tikal looked down to Cream. "And I have special place for you, and you'll be very helpful," Cream smiled.

"Alright, let's do it to it!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Alright, is everyone ready?" Tikal asked.

"Do you even need to ask we're more then ready for a round two with that creep?" Amy exclaimed.

"Good," Tikal said smiling. Suddenly green energy sprung around her hands as she focused. "The servers are, the seven Chaos..."she began. Suddenly each one of them began glowing a respective color of one of the Chaos Emeralds. "Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart…" The seven Chaos Emeralds appeared on the pillars behind the shrine the Master Emeralds sat. It began drawing in the spirits of each of them "The Controller is the one who unifies the Chaos…" The Master Emerald behind her began to glow brightly also drawing her in. "Allow us the power to purge the darkness, and bring forth light!"

Another flash of blinding light exploded that was completely and utterly overpowering for the eyes. The light was so bright that it took a few minutes before everyones sight returned.

"Wow, their gone…" Cream muttered.

"Lets hope they end up in capable hands…" said Miss Vanilla.

(One year later)

A bright navy blue emerald lies on the ground motionless. It looked like an ordinary gem, but obviously it wasn't. A hand reached down to pick it up. The hand belonged to a mere child of rough 14 years.

"Wonder what this is?" he said.

A/N: Yes, I finally got the first part out to give everyone a taste. So yeah this is my thought. Now I'm offering parts. That's right you can have your very own chance to be apart of this. Details are on my profile, and please PM me the specific details I asked for on my profile. Please feel free to get back to me. Hope to fight along side you!