Prologue - Sealing Away Mephiles
A thousand years ago, a dark force that called itself Mephiles terrorized the planet Mobius with his power. Hundreds died trying to stop the menace, and none succeeded. Mephiles couldn't be killed. He almost destroyed Mobius, but was sealed away by a band of four Mobians whose identity is unknown.
A thousand years ago...
A cloud of dark energy passed through another Mobian who wished to stop him. The figure collapsed, with no life left in him. The darkness formed into a feature less figure; no spines, no facial features, just a black Mobian form. The form chuckled. "Another one? So pitiful. They try so hard, they'd be perfect as an army. It's a shame I have to kill them. At this rate, I'll accomplish my goal of taking this boring planet and doing what I want with it. I know no one will stop me."
"None of us are named nothing, demon! You may not be able to die, but we'll seal you away!" The band of cloaked Mobians faced the evil known as Mephiles. One Mobian was a hedgehog, another a fox, one an echidna and the last was unknown. Mephiles showed a hint of anger on his blank face. "I would love to see you try. It would be a pleasure to kill you. Stand still while I make it quick." Mephiles shot a beam of energy at the hedgehog, but the beam was reflected back at Mephiles by the fox, who had a mirror like device in his hands.
"ARRGH! You made this more interesting, but at the price of a painful death." Mephiles got ready to shoot another beam but was slashed at by the unidentifiable figure with a sword. Already weakened, the sword did damage to Mephiles. The figure drew back and the fox used another device, similar to a gun to paralyze Mephiles temporarily. All four let loose on him, and pulled back to see a cut up Mephiles bleeding dark energy.
"It appears I had a challenge and I lost. I know you will succeed, so I will curse all of you. Hedgehog, your ancestors will always have a nemesis. Echidna, your whole kind will die. Fox-" Before he could finish, all four of them sealed the darkness away in a palm sized jewel. The jewel turned black and before Mephiles was sealed away completely, he said "Well done. I'll meet your ancestors when I'm released..."
The voice faded. The four knew they had to keep him sealed, so they decided to build a temple around the black emerald. They started building and finished years later. They sealed their spirits away in the temple and they would be released a few years before Mephiles awakens, to seal him away again. Their spirits were held in statues facing the pedestal with the emerald. But in the present, only three statues stand, the fourth one has collapsed and the spirit could have died like its body. That was in the future though and didn't matter to the band of four. Keeping Mephiles sealed away was important. They would awaken when he did, centuries later.