The Dark Prince And The Light Rose

A/N: The castle in this story is based on the castle in (Zelda) twlight princess in Midna's world.

Disclaimer: I Don't Own STH

Chapter 1

In a far away land where hardly anyone stayed, stood a large castle baring over a tiny villiage, now this village was shrouded in darkness constently as many monsters roamed the land and the very few people who stayed in the village were too afraid to leave their homes most of the time. But at times they had too, now the inside of the castle was mostly dark, you could just barely see the red carpet that lined the floor with lantarns lit on the walls.

In the throne room, an old worn out hedgehog sat on one of the throne chairs, he was wearing a kingly red robe and had a golden crown on his head, the hedgehog himself was red and white, his eyes were all misty as if he was going blind, he had a long grey beard down to his chest. Standing next to the king was a rather tall hedgehog he looked rather evil.

He wore a long sorcercers robe, coloured in red and silver, he had a staff to which he was currently holding as his left hand circling the red misty orb at the top, this hedgehog was black and had green eyes, he grinned mencenly unit the doors of the room snapped him out of his day dream, he watched as another hedgehog a young male hedgehog walked down the red carpet in front of them.

He glanced at the king and bent down to his level on one of his knees, "sire, your son has arrived." he whispered.

The king coughed in his gruffy voice, "oh, g-good." He attemped to get up but he was really shaky.

The young hedgehog smiled at his father, "father, I've returned home and returned with the emerald that you wanted."

"Good, work my son, I knew you could do it, now hand it over to Zaris, he can hold onto it and keep it safe from evil dooers, if we can use the power of this emerald it could finally rid the land of these's monsters and the darkness that is currently plaguing our kingdom," the young hedgehog frowned at the sorcerer he had a feeling that the kings right hand man was up to something. Something dark and right now mysterious.

"Father, if it's all the same to you I'd rather keep a hold of it myself, um to prove myself if you will so that you can see that I would be able to take over kingdom after you, I promise to take good care of it," The prince said while bowing his head and his eyes closed he smirked when he heard Zaris growl.

Now Zaris was not liking idea, he growled silently, he'd always known that the prince was onto him, 'blast that brat, I wanted that gem, it's very thing I need so I may take over this kingdom and spread my beautiful darkness hahahaa, I must get rid of that boy but not before I take the gem from him, then the king will be like putty in my hands, he'll do anything I say,' Zaris thought while he had glaring contest with the prince.

The king shakily but managed to stand up, "son, that's a wonderful idea and very fitting yes I do believe that you should keep a hold of it, until at least we can figure out how to use the power, I'll shall leave that job up to you Zaris since you are a wizard and what not."

The prince grinned at Zaris who less than pleased, but Zaris had turned to the king, "y-yes your highness as you wish, now if you'll both excuse me I best be starting my research, right away," Zaris bid farewell and made his way out the throne room his robe waftting in the air as he went out the door.

The king had sat back down, "take care of that gem my son, we don't know what power it posses it could be something we can't control."

The prince smiled, "I will father, now I have to go and practise my sword fighting." The prince also left the room, unknown to him that Zaris was watching him in the darkness just behind the door.

The wizard was now in his study room, that was filled with books, cauldrens, jars of potions with many different indgredients weird smells filled the room, Zaris was currently standing over a black cauldren, mixing different potions inside with a wooden spoon, he stirred and stirred until he was interupted by a voice from over in the other side of the room, "so Zaris, any news on that emerald?"

Zaris growled, but continued to stir the cauldren, "y-yes, the prince is currently looking after it."

"What, but I thought you were meant to get it once he brought it home so you could study it?"

"Yes I was, but that little brat turned the tables on me, I think he's onto us, so I think I might have a job for you after all," replied Zaris with a devious grin on his face.

"I'm interested, tell me."

"I want that emerald and I want the prince dead, do whatever it takes to get rid of him but not before getting that emerald off him, then nothing will stand in my way, heheheee, king will be like putty in my hands and do anything I say," Zaris began mixing more and more potions into the caulddron, it showed a picture of a pink hedgehog, he grinned, "one more thing before you leave, once you have got rid of the prince I want you to bring me this lovely pink hedgehog," he grinned as he watched a pink hedgehog through the purple ripples of the potion, "you might say she's the key to this hole thing, but I warn you do not fail me!" Zaris warned as he looked over his shoulders.

The figure of the voice slipped out the door and started his search, it wasn't long beforehe found the prince praticing his sword fighting in the court yards of the castle, he was behind a pillar of stone, the prince sudden stopped when the sound of footsteps caught his attention, at first he didn't take much notice, so he just shrugged it off, he continued waving the sword about until he felt something in his quills.

"Huh..Wha?" He stopped and brought the emerald from out his quills it was glowing rapidly, "what's it's doing?"The prince questioned as he inspected it the glow from it was coming through his fingers, suddenly a hand gripped his wrist, the prince gasped in surprise.

"Heee, a little kid like you should not be playing with such things that are not known." In front of him was a dark blue hedgehog, he had green eyes like Sonic, the prince frowned.

"I'm not a kid and who the heck are you?" He spat.

The dark blue hedgehog smirked, "your executioner," he gripped harder on the wrist.