Chaos and Disorder
Oh no not ANOTHER fic in progress. Sorry folks, I can't help it ;;;;. Anyway, this fic is based on my ideas on how the new Next-Gen Sonic game might go. I've gathered as much information and facts I could possibly muster at this stage in development on the game and have sewed it all together to form my own idea. This is not necessarily how the game will go it is just my theory composed into a story.
Before I get started I would like to thank X-Shadow.Sin-X for his constant help in collecting game facts as well as helping me with a few plot decisions and starting points as well as wording certain passages. You're awesome Erik!
Now that all that's been said shall we get started?
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing except the story……and maybe a few secondary characters but otherwise everything else is copyrighted to SEGA/ Sonic Team.
"Attention people of Soleanna!" boomed the voice of a tall man in radiant white and gold robes. Everyone one in the water town stopped their daily bustle to turn their attention to their King. The citizens indoors likewise either stepped out or leaned their heads out the windows to listen and see.
"Tonight is the night of Worship. Worship to our glorious Sun, Ashiah. As you all well know Spring has come back to us after long months of darkness. For this ceremony my beloved daughter, Elise, will honorably initiate the blessing as all our past Princesses must do. I expect everyone to be there and enjoy the festivities. The festival will begin shortly and the ceremony soon after, you may return to your tasks until then." With that he turned from the assembled crowd and began to walk back to the palace with his guards. The Soleannaders likewise returned to their daily business.
The King and his guards quickly arrived at the Soleanna Palace where they were greeted by the Queen and Princess.
"Did you announce it, dear?" asked the petite woman who looked no older than forty-nine. She was dressed in the royal robes of white and gold but her crown was slightly smaller than the King's.
"Yes, Serena. Has everything been prepared for the ceremony?"
Serena nodded with a warm smile.
"Wonderful," the King turned his brilliant blue eyes to his young daughter. "Elise."
The Princess was attired in a long white dress that stopped a little above her knees. The top half of the dress above her breasts was slightly transparent. Around the chest area of the dress were two golden sashes outlined in black sewed into the fabric of the dress. Around her neck was a gold multi-beaded necklace with a gold holder in the front of it; inside this holder was a medium-small hexagonal shaped emerald. On her hands were long white gloves that extended a little above her elbow. The end of her dress was dipped in gold. An inch and a half above the gold color was a trim of gold, diamond-shaped plates sewed into the dress. She wore no tiara as most royalty would but to show she was the Princess her neck length, chestnut-brown hair was adorned with down feathers on the sides of her head. Her hair itself was neatly combed back and held together by a simple hairpin.
Elise straightened. "Yes, father?"
"We have two hours until the festival begins and an hour after before the ceremony starts. Until then you are free to travel the city as you like but you MUST take a guard with you." He commanded.
Elise struggled to keep her disappointed expression a smile. "As you wish, father."
The King turned to two of the guards that were behind him.
"Hamin, Yeko, watch over my daughter while I go rest up. Don't want to be tired for the ceremony, do we?"
The two guards nodded their heads in acceptance to their task.
"Very well, I'm off to refresh myself then."
With that the King sauntered gracefully off down the hall with the rest of the guards following him.
Elise turned to her mother. "I'm going to go explore the town now. I'll be back in time for the ceremony. I promise."
Serena nodded and watched Elise walk through the palace door to the pathway that led to the bridge into Soleanna. Serena turned to the guards.
"Make sure she stays out of trouble."
"Will do your ladyship, the Princess is safe with us." Yeko replied before they both bowed respectfully and went after Elise.
Meanwhile at the gates to Soleanna a familiar tall, blue hedgehog stopped just inside the gate. His emerald eyes wandered to survey his surroundings. In front of him was a gigantic pool of water that stretched from his end of the city to a temple-like building on an island on the other end. The temple itself was constructed with a huge bowl on the top of it and from the looks of it rectangle shaped. Two flat structures came out of the sides of a suspended platform in front of the temple. The structures soared up to tangle around the temple and branch out into smaller, ribbon-like branches that fed into the back of the large bowl. The round platform in front of the temple was made of polished stone and lined with a metal rail. At the end of the platform away from the temple were three polished stone steps. At the base of these steps was a smaller flat platform that fed into a railed bridge that ended with a platform on the water.
To either side of him and circling around both shores were buildings and homes of various sizes. Some of the roofs, particularly the Temple's, were triangular and very curved, like they were from feudal Japan. To his far left he could see a huge palace on an island out in the water. The island was connected to a small strip of land by a huge, wooden bridge. The other small strip of land connected to both shores by two smaller, railed bridges. The houses and town were strewn with various festival decorations. In some areas of the town merchants were lining their carts and wares up.
Sonic whistled slightly to himself in amazement. Big town, but even he had to admit it had an allure to it. From what he judged a festival of some sort was going to start, which was good; he needed a little break from adventure.
Elise wandered through the streets of the town, greeting people who greeted her. She had been wandering around the town for about an hour, looking at things people were setting out and just enjoying her free time before her need at the ceremony. The Princess stopped her formal walk when she saw a strange figure at the far end of the pathway. Curious she continued her walk over to the figure. Upon closer inspection she saw it was a blue hedgehog. The only one she saw in the whole city. It didn't look dangerous so when it noticed her she decided to make conversation.
"Hi there," she smiled softly. "My name's Elise. What's your name?"
The hedgehog looked up at her. He was no more than two inches smaller in height to her.
"Sonic. Sonic The Hedgehog." He responded straightening his back with pride for his name.
"Sonic? I think I've heard about you. Aren't you the same Sonic that has saved Earth countless times before?"
"The one and only, I just do what I can to keep peace." He replied proudly.
"Wow," Elise stated in awe. "It must be scary at times, isn't it?" She asked.
Sonic shrugged. "Not really. I'm fearless when it comes to protecting people."
Elise nodded in understanding.
"We're having a festival and ceremony to celebrate the rebirth of our Sun God, Ashiah. Will you stay and watch the ceremony? I'm going to be the one that asks for the blessing."
Sonic gave a trademark smile.
"Sure I'll stay. I need a little break from adventuring anyway."
Elise returned his smile.
"The festival starts in thirty minutes and the ceremony an hour after that. I look forward to seeing you."
Sonic nodded.
"Princess! Where are you?" Shouted the combined voices of Yeko and Hamin. The two guards were off in the distance searching the crowds for their charge that they had lost sight of.
Elise turned back to Sonic.
"I should probably be going. Very nice to meet you, Sonic Hedgehog." With that said she smiled once more at him then quickly ran off in the direction of the two guards.
'Guess I can just chill for now until the festival starts.' Sonic thought and continued to explore the huge city.
The Future
Fear, pain, sadness. Those were the emotions that held strongly to the air in the small underground community. The feelings were so thick you could almost smell and hear them. These feelings were always there, ever since it happened. Everyone, humans and furries, had fled to the only place they could be safe—underground. It was here that the generations after had known as home.
Pools of lava sprouted gigantic tornados of fire that stood erect for up to five days at a time. It was these tornados that spat bullets of fire and lava high into the air only to fall down as rain on the city ruin. The sky was blanketed with clouds of churning smoke and ash. The sun was rarely seen, sometimes for no more than five seconds.
Such was the condition of the world as it had been for the past one-hundred years.
"Silver! Silver!" rang a cry from one of the various halls in the underground community.
The silver head of a hedgehog quickly poked out of one of the many doors alongside the hallway.
"What?" the silver hedgehog asked with a slight hint of annoyance at being disturbed.
A gray fox with a furry black muzzle and underbelly made his way to the door, panting and out of breath.
"The-The elders want…to see you…now." He stated gloved hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath.
"Elon, it's five-thirty AM. What's so important it can't wait until a reasonable hour?" questioned the hedgehog.
The fox stood straight, his breath fully regained.
"Iblis has awakened again. I don't know what it's all about but from what everyone's been talking about it's related to Iblis."
Silver's amber eyes widened.
"Are…Are you sure?" He asked not really believing his ears.
Elon nodded.
"That's what the elders said. You should probably come as quickly as possible, they sounded urgent."
Silver nodded in understanding.
"Tell them I'll be right there, ok?"
The fox nodded and quickly ran back the way he came to deliver the message.
Silver ducked back into his room to put on his gloves and boots. He couldn't believe what he had been told. Iblis, of all things, awake again after three whole weeks?
'What's he going to demand this time?' Silver thought as he slipped on his boots and gloves.
He looked himself over in a mirror he had hanging on the wall next to his bed.
True to his name his fur was silver in color. His quills were parted into two big quills that hanged down behind him. On top of his head was a pair of trademark hedgehog ears. On his forehead were five quills that resembled an open palm. Tracing the outline of his eyes was a boldness of black. His eyes themselves were amber in color. On his chest was a clump of soft, white fur that curled around his neck at the top. On his back were two quills like all male hedgehogs usually have. His gloves were white with a gold sleeve that had a light green stripe engraved all the way around it. The back of the hands of the gloves had a light green circle on them. His boots reached a little below his knees. The top of the boots were gold with a similar light green stripe that his gloves had. Just below the gold cuff in the middle of both shoes was a red oval that had the tendency to glow every once in a while. His whole boot was black except for the tip which was dipped in green; a white stripe ran down the center of the boot stopping where black turned to green. The bottom part of the boot was outlined in white.
Deciding he looked fine he ran out the door and down a long, rocky corridor until he reached a four-way fork. Turning left upon reaching the fork he continued to run down the next corridor until he found himself at the opening to a huge living space. It was composed of three separate floors, a steady ramp of earth leading up and down to each floor. On all three floors were open doors leading into more corridors that housed more rooms. It was too early for many of the residents to be up so the space was almost empty, save a few animals and humans that were already up and about. Silver ran down the two ramps that were separating him and the bottom floor until his feet touched the hard earth of the bottom floor. As fast as he could run he bolted toward an entrance similar to the ones along the upper walls.
He slowed his run to a walk to catch his breath and steadily walked down the short hall into a slightly large, circular room. Against the far back of the room in a semi-circle sat five elderly animals, their backs resting against the smooth, rock walls of the cave. The middle one, an orange male echidna, leaned forward a bit upon Silver's entrance.
"Silver," he acknowledged in a raspy voice.
The silver hedgehog stopped a few feet in front of them.
"You called me, Thyer Orar?" he asked.
Orar nodded.
"Yes, it appears that Iblis is awake yet again. Early for that matter." He coughed for a minute before regaining normal breathing.
"Why is he awake so soon? It's only been three weeks! We don't have anything to offer him, not for another two weeks at least."
"I know, Silver, that is why we called you here at such an early hour."
Silver's ears perked up to show he was listening.
"As you know, you are the second of us born with The Power. I know you are still only training your powers but a crisis has arisen that requires your help."
"I'll do whatever I can to help, what's the problem?" Silver's interest was piqued.
"Not too long ago Mahre, your tutor, offered to go up and see what Iblis wanted. He's been gone for almost an hour and we're getting a little worried. That's why we called you here so early, we need you to go up and see if he's alright. With both of your powers you should be able to protect each other from harm." Orar coughed again.
"Thyer Orar, are you alright?" asked another elder, a sky blue rabbit.
"Yes, it's just a little throat trouble. I'm fine." He insisted. He turned his attention back to Silver.
"Please, Silver. Mahre is the only one here who has mastered The Power. We can't risk losing him."
Silver nodded.
"I'll go. Everything will be alright."
With that said he bowed politely to the elders and then quickly made his leave.
"Thyer Orar, are you sure it was wise to send him out there?" asked another elder.
"Yes, what if they both wind up dead, who will be able to save us then?" asked the rabbit.
"I have faith in him and Mahre. As long as they're together I know they'll be fine." Orar responded.
Silver made his way up the entrance tunnel. It was the only tunnel that led to the upper world. Well, besides the rarely used escape tunnel that was in case of big emergencies.
He walked for about five minutes up a slope in the earth until finally he was at an enclosed entrance. He raised his hand up as if he were telling someone to stop. Keeping his hand up he stared as hard as he could at the blockade before him. As he concentrated his hand began to glow with an outlining of iridescent green light. Soon following his hand the blockade became green as well.
Slowly inching his hand to the right the blockade began to roll to the right outside of the entrance. Silver continued to move his hand until the blockade had been moved far enough to allow him to squeeze through.
Once outside he turned back around and used his mind to move the boulder back into its original position. Once the tunnel entrance was hidden again he turned to look at his surroundings.
He was in what he assumed was once a giant field, maybe even a valley. The ground he stood on though was barren and cracked, save for a few patches of grass here and there. In the distance on both sides of him he could see dead and dying trees, some nothing but charred, black bodies. Above him the sky was covered by a thick blanket of gray and black clouds, he couldn't even see if it was day or night. Before him were ruined towers and buildings of what he was told was once a great city.
He heard a monstrous roar emit from the ruined city. Iblis.
Silver quickly sprinted as fast as he could toward the ruins, praying silently to the Gods that Mahre was ok.
He ran for ten minutes until he finally arrived at the edge of the city. Edging the battered metal gate open slightly he slipped in and continued running toward the source of the roar.
Finally he arrived at a large oval pool. Only instead of water, it was filled with lava and raised slightly off the ground. Standing in the center of the pool was a large beast made purely of lava. It had sharp green eyes that seemed to break through into your very soul. Patches of hard, molten rock covered its head and four arms as a type of armor. Horns covered in molten rock sprouted from its head.
This was Iblis.
Silver had always been told what Iblis looked like, but he had never seen the monster with his own eyes, until now of course.
Scanning the area around him frantically he searched for his jade mentor.
He cupped his hands around his mouth,
"Mahre! Mahre, where are you?" he shouted hoping Iblis was too busy to notice him.
"Silver! Is that you? I'm over here, quickly!" Came the response.
The silver hedgehog quickly ran towards the source of the voice until he was really close to Iblis.
In front of Iblis, using a psychic shield as defense, was a male hedgehog who looked to be in his mid thirties. He was jade in color but because of the special armor he wore he looked like he was almost carved from the semi-precious stone. His six quills were styled back behind his head and they were long enough to reach his mid back. His shoes and gloves were almost identical to Silver's except his gloves were black where they would've been white and his shoes were all black save for a golden stripe that went straight down the front of the shoe. His eyes were a light blue color.
Iblis roared and shot a blast of flames towards Mahre but the shield he had up deflected the blow.
"What are you doing here?" He questioned once Iblis ceased to regain energy.
"Thyer Orar sent me to come help you!" Silver responded.
Mahre frowned.
"I don't need help, Iblis is just being stubborn this time." He insisted
Silver pointed to Iblis.
"It looks like he's not tired yet but you do. So I'm going to help, whether you like it or not."
Mahre's frown deepened a little.
"In normal circumstances I would've punished you for talking to me like that, but you're right. Fine, you can help, just don't get yourself killed."
Silver nodded.
Iblis growled slightly and glared intently at the two hedgehogs.
"I get the feeling he's not too happy right now…"
"He's only ever happy when he gets what he wants. We have to try to weaken him somehow, but I don't know of any weak spots." Mahre informed.
Silver examined the lava monster, trying to pinpoint a weak spot. He noticed how parts of the monster started to become a part of the molten rock armor that protected his body, and then he got an idea!
"We should try to destroy his armor." Silver stated.
"And how do you plan to do that?" Mahre asked raising an eyebrow.
Silver noticed two boulders nearby and used his mind to pick them up.
"Like this."
Moving his hand in a throwing motion he hurled the huge boulders at the lava monster who raised an arm to try to block them. The boulders struck the rock on its arm and a few pieces cracked and fell to the lava pit below.
Iblis roared a little in pain but was still ready to fight.
Shrieking the monster faced Silver and readied itself for a flame blast.
During his attack Silver hadn't noticed he had backed up to the edge of the raised ground, he couldn't move anywhere.
Iblis sent a blast of flames his way but before they reached him Mahre ran in front and quickly put up a barrier, successfully deflecting the flames.
"That attack hurt him but not much, maybe we should aim for his head." The jade hedgehog suggested.
Silver nodded.
"But he blocks the attacks, how can we possibly make anything hit his head if he deflects the boulders?"
"I'll distract him on one side. When he attacks me, throw another boulder at him from the other side but make sure you hit his head." Mahre ordered.
"Got it."
When Iblis stopped the blast of flames to recharge some energy the two hedgehogs wasted no time to go to their respective positions.
Mahre put his hands together as if he were compacting a snowball. A small ball of psychic energy began to form in the space between his hands. When it was strong enough he used the hand that was holding it and hurled it at Iblis.
The attack didn't do very much damage but it was enough to get Iblis' attention.
Roaring angrily the lava monster turned towards Mahre and slammed a fist down at the jade hedgehog.
Mahre quickly jumped out of the way.
"Now, Silver!"
Obeying, Silver quickly grabbed the nearest boulder and swung it at Iblis. The boulder hit the center of the head armor and as a result it cracked and a few pieces fell to the ground.
Where the molten rock pieces had been was now a glowing emerald.
Iblis roared and shrieked in great pain.
The ground began to shake almost causing both hedgehogs to lose balance. The ground beneath them then began to crack.
"Um, Mahre, is that supposed to happen?" Silver asked a little nervous.
Mahre did his best to hide his fear.
"No, he's out of control, we have to stop him!"
"How are we supposed to do that?" Silver asked watching the lava pool rise a little.
"Quick, go to his left, I'll take his right. Concentrate on stopping his flailing."
Silver nodded and returned to his post.
Both hedgehogs then concentrated and each grabbed two of his arms.
Iblis glared menacingly at both of them and tried to break free of their telekinetic grasp.
"What should we do now?" Silver questioned trying to keep his side of Iblis under his control.
"Force him down! If we can get him under control maybe he'll go back to sleep!"
With that order Silver and Mahre both began to move their hands down in an attempt to force the lava monster down as well. Iblis, however, kept resisting making both hedgehogs sweat from the strain.
"He's…too…strong!" Silver managed to shout loud enough for Mahre to hear.
Mahre was having just as much difficulty.
"Keep trying, don't lose focus no matter!"
Silver returned to his concentrating. He kept trying to force Iblis down as did Mahre until…
Iblis broke free of their psychic grasp, sending a blast of their own energy into a shock wave which threw both hedgehogs back into the ruins.
Silver felt himself collide with something hard and massive then he fell to the ground below. He could hear Iblis' shrieks and roars but that was all he heard until he knew no more.
And I'm gonna stop it there. Wow, I can not begin how long this chapter took me just to write. It's twelve freakin Word pages long, people! Just three pages short of my all time longest chapter record. But anyway, yes, this fic will be my version of what I THINK the story of Sonic Next-Gen will be like. This fic will be very long and I expect it to even still be going even after the game comes out. But if that happens (which it possibly might) I will still write on this fic regardless of if I get the game or not. I am not expecting to get an Xbox 360/PS3 anytime soon so I can play the game (360 will certainly be on my wish lists for birthday and Christmas). Over the time I will be writing this fic I will be fitting every possible and confirmed rumor I deem fit/reasonable into the story to fit as closely to what the game is expected or unexpected to be. As some people will have probably seen in this chapter I have already used the rumor of a fourth, jade colored hedgehog. And the other rumor that said hedgehog is the mentor of Silver.
I should probably just end this author note already; I will most likely try to limit author notes if I can but don't expect it. That's all I can really say, I hope anyone who took the time to read this chapter enjoyed it and please review, I like reviews. I will start on the next chapter as soon as I can, you can pretty much expect most of the chapters to be about as long as this chapter. Ok, shutting up now. Arigato and review, please!
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