Prologue 1: The Awakened

Disclaimer: Oky doky, let's get to it. I only own three people fully in this prologue and it's my OC Karen. Orangecarrot owns Olivia, TailsnManic owns well, TailsnManic. Chaos-Bound-Jenna owns Jenna, The Rose Sisters owns Tammy, darkness wasted owns Darkness (whom I will call Darky for a while). Sam, Jesse, Jessica and Chris are owned by me and orangecarrot. Shayden and Loni are owned by me.

Let's see… what did I forget…

KAREN: Sega owns the original Sonic gang who won't be featured in this chapter.

-MY ROOM-

I jumped onto the chair and spun around. I typed in my username and password and logged into the chat room hosted on Clover Hue Elementry's website.

Karen1011 logged in.

CCCATTER (Chris the Cat): Hey K!

SAMAN (Sam the Fox): See! You now owe me 5 bucks!

KAREN1011: Why do I get the feeling you guys were talking about me?

orangecarrot logged in.

The Rose Sisters logged in.

TailsnManic logged in.

Chaos-Bound-Jenna logged in.

JJewell logged in.

CCCATTER: Ah! So you have come to join us from the real world?

orangecarrot: sure… let's go w/ that.

JJewell (Jessica the Rabbit): I LOVE CHEESE!

Chaos-Bound-Jenna: *GASP* Chilly wouldn't like that!

The Rose Sisters: I can't believe this!

TailsnManic: That J's replacing Chilly?

The Rose Sisters: No…. Cheddar just got better than Mozzarella!

KAREN1011: And on a cheerful note. The weather was warm today.

SAMAN: And even cheer fuller, wat skl r u gys going 2?

TailsnManic: Starfield high. Why'd you suddenly start talking in text?

The Rose Sisters: SWEET! Me too!

CCCATTER: Ah… the cheese must be working in this.

orangecarrot: Why?

CCCATTER: because I'm going there!

JJewell: Me too!

KAREN1011: I guess we'll all be together. I'm going there too! And so's Olive!

orangecarrot: I was going to say that! But yes. I am attending there too.

SAMAN: I'm going to Clover Star.

KAREN1011: Woe is you.

SAMAN: wait, then I'm coming to SFH the next week!

orangecarrot: darnit!

SAMAN: Oh, THAT'S nice Olive

orangecarrot: =P

The Rose Sisters: Hey! You guys heard from Jesse?

Snow Wolfe logged in.

TailsnManic: Speak of the Wolf…

Snow Wolfe: What did I miss?

SAMAN: You're late, that's what.

The Rose Sisters: What high school are you going to?

Snow Wolfe: Clover Star for a week, Then Starfield.

TailsnManic: Sam, you won't be alone!

Snow Wolfe: What?

KAREN1011: GTG. Talk to you guys at in a week, or two for Sam and Jesse. Laters!

Karen1011 signed out.

-CHANGE OF LOCATION-

I walked into the huge house; this is where we were going to stay for the next 6 years… then after that we'd go to college. The thought was stiffening, or at least to me.

I looked around at my friends who were staying with me; Olive, Jess, Loni, and Darky. We all had to come a week before school started. It was a necessity. Something about getting used to where you'd be staying, and who you'd have to stay with.

"Okay dearies. I'll come by a couple a times a week to check on ya', okay?" Miss Mills, our landlord, said "Ya'll get comfortable, all right? And stay out a trouble!" I grinned slightly; Miss M. had known us since 4th grade, mostly for getting into trouble.

"Don't worry…" Olivia began.

"Have we ever done anything wrong?" Jessica chimed.

"We'll be perfect little angels!" we chirped together, smiling as big as we possibly could.

Miss M. had a doubtful look on her face, "Remember, if you need anything-"

"WE KNOW,CALL YOU!" Miss M. nodded and went to her car. She waved as she drove away, looking back all the way to the gates (as if we'd do anything in five minutes, did she really have that little faith in us?).

After unpacking us all gathered outside, it was a cool day and everything looked beautiful with the sunlight hitting it at the perfect angle, "Sooo…" Thanks for ruining the moment, Olive.

"We have 2.1 acres to discover..."

"And you know what that means…"

"NOT IT!" all my friends headed off to the woods behind us, leaving me standing alone in a large, sandy cloud of dust.

I coughed, and tried to rub the sand out of my eyes, "NOT COOL!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, and then headed off into the forest to find. The whole point of the game was to not get caught, sort of like hide-n-seek except looking around.

A few minutes later I came to a small clearing with a clear, little river flowing through. "Guys, come see this!" I heard the beautiful tweeting of flickies, "Fine then, your loss!" I walked closer to the water, wishing for my grey Polaroid camera, "So peaceful… I love - OH SWEET FUDGE!"

Over by the riverbed there was something- or someone- in the water. "Dude, are you okay?" I ran over to the body quickly, hoping it wasn't already a corpse. "Hey guy, are you okay?" The person was unconscious. It seemed to be a raven colored hedgehog with silverish-white streaks on his quills. Loni would think he was cute if she'd seen him.

My stomach was turning as I stuttered for help, "G-g-guys I need your help!" there was no movement. "I mean it guys! There's someone here and he needs help, quick!" still no movement. I found myself actually cussing silently under my breath, "Oh my- If you come out now I'll bake that special pastry!" Everyone came rushing out of the woods. Figures.

"Karen you'd better have a good excuse for- What happened?" asked Darky, trying not to sound as if I'd done something wrong. It calmed me down a little, knowing she didn't think it was my fault.

"I have no Idea! I was just walking around and then, well, you know."

"Y'know, he's kinda cute." of course that was Loni. She wasn't boy-crazy, but she did tend to classify things into groups. Handsome or pretty. Vintage or old. Cute or not cute.

"Well he's not gonna be when he's six feet under, is he?" Jess had an unfortunate mood problem; she often would get angry at the slightest things, which made her hard to relate to at times.

"Enough fighting!" yelled Olive, then she blushed slightly, probably to cover up her outburst," I mean, we need to get him some help."

I placed his head on my lap and checked for a pulse, "Come on guys! I-"the hedgehog moved slightly.

"Shh… I think he's waking up." Wow Jess! Thanks for pointing out the obvious. No - I shook my head- that was a mean thought.

The hedgehogs' eyes fluttered open. They were a vibrant orange with a tinge of red. It matched perfectly with his obsidian fur. He was like looking at a nice color palette, and I smiled.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked Olive in a motherly tone, who was trying to hide her oncoming blush… again.

"Yeah, I guess…" he muttered uncertainly. Actually, he sounded kind of kiddy-ish, like a kid who fell off a swing by accident or something of the like.

"What's your name?" she softly continued in her sometimes motherly voice - the tool.

"Shayden," he hesitated as though he was unsure, "I think…"

"You think. Meaning you're not sure?" it was times like this when I saw Darky so calm under pressure that I remembered why and how she kept us together; of course, normally we'd be laughing - this time she was serious.

"I guess…" getting along with a guy who isn't sure of anything would be a fun task… don't you think?

"Oh man. Listen, do you have any family nearby?" Jess was asking this; of course, she was always about the fam.

"I can't remember…"

And I couldn't remember why exactly I yelled out, "WELL AIN'T THAT JUST DANDY!"… Oh, I remember now, I had given up all hope for patience. Olive and Darky shot rebuking glances at me.

"Kari honestly," I frowned tightly at Darky's words, hating that she always had a point, "he just woke up. Chaos knows what could have happened to him!" and a good point at that.

"Fine." I pouted and Crumpet – my Angel Chaos- giggled, playing with my exposed lip skin.

"I think we should get him some help." Loni suggested, trying to stop us from 'fighting' ('confrontating' as she called it).

As we walked away, Shayden hobbling between us, I could have sworn I heard an Oh no little girls. You're the ones in need of help…from the bushes. But that was my imagination, I think.

-END-

Okay guys. There is the prologue which was good, by my standards.

karen1011 out.