Chapter 1- Setting The Path to Light
"New hope shifts into faint dreams, and faint dreams shift into new hope...And in the end, those hopes and dreams come together to form an unbreakable power..." There is a young boy filled with potential light, one who can help save everyone. His name is Miles Prower, a fox with a strange advantage of two tails. Many refer to him as "Tails", given his mutation.
Tails opened his eyes to see a blanket of black above him. He was recumbent, so without any sign of emotion, he rose himself up to see the platform he was on. It looked as if it were a glowing circle, with a flawless painting of himself along with many other smaller familiar and unfamiliar faces. Tails looked around, and then walked to the center of the circle.
"Here you will make a very important decision." an echoe of a voice called out to Tails. He looked up above in reaction to the voice.
"Is this...my heart?" Tails asked the voice. "Yes, this is your true element, what makes you who you are." Tails closed his eyes. "What decison am I supposed to make?" he asked the voice again. Suddenly the platform broke into pieces as if it were glass, and Tails fell down onto another platform. Now there was a painting of a human boy, of which Tails did not recognize. Behind him, a pedestal erupted from the platform, and an orb of darkness formed over it. "The road you choose..." the voice spoke to Tails again. In front of Tails, another pedestal rose, with an orb of light. The voice continued, "...will affect your journey permanently. Power sleeps within you. If you give it form, it will give you strength. Choose well." Tails was left alone to choose the orb he seeked.
A slight smile formed over his face, and Tails walked over to the orb of light. "I know the way." he said as he held his hand to the light. The orb then transformed into a keylike weapon, and Tails grabbed it by the handle. "This will help you to protect what matters to you" the voice said to Tails. Now the platform evaporated, and absolutely nothing surrounded him. Suddenly dark creatures formed from the nothingness, and slowly crept up to Tails. Instinctively, Tails got into a stance to attack. "Defeat these Heartless, and you may proceed." the voice said. A long, spiral stairway was now visible. Tails started up the stairway, striking down Heartless as he ran.
As he reached the final platform, the stairway dissapeared, and Tails walked slowly towards the center of the circle. His shadow seperated from his body and quickly moved to the edge of the circle. "The path to light will not be a predictable one." the voice said as the shadow changed into a giant creature of darkness. Tails ran back to the opposite edge of the circle, almost falling off only to realize that the stairway was gone. "But don't be afraid." the voice spoke again. Tails fell to the floor in fear and stared at the Heartless that had formed.
The heartless pounded its fist into the platform, and smaller weaker ones appeared from a puddle of darkness. Without a choice, Tails struck down the small Heartless, and then began attacking the giant creature. Suddenly, its fist slammed right onto Tails, and sent him flying across the platform. "But don't be afraid" the words crossed Tails mind again. With courage, Tails jumped into the air two times and smashed his keyblade onto the fist each time he landed, and then leaped one final time high in the air and crashed into the fist with the third strike. The heartless then grabbed Tails and held him down to the platform. Darkness slowly crawled on him, and Tails struggle to escape. It was no use, and eventually Tails closed his eyes, and he sunk into the darkness.