Title: Möbius: Next Generation.
Summary: 25 years after the defeat of Robotnik, a darkness approaches Möbius with the threat of burning the planet to the ground. Now in his early forties, Sonic begrudgingly realizes that this isn't his fight, but his children's. His son and daughter take the reins of leading the next generation of Freedom Fighters against this dark force, but with his son a wild and uncontrollable force of wind and his daughter a sword toting force of Chaos, are Möbius' days numbered?
Prologue: Demigod.

Fire.

All Sonic could see is fire.

The burning orange tongues licked at his home, turning the splendor into ash.

Behind him, a tower crumbled and released a plume of black, noxious gas.

But, Sonic couldn't care less about the palace.

He didn't care about the valueless paintings, pottery, vases and other items turning to dust and feeding the flames.

The tapestry from generations gone by; disappearing in a matter of seconds.

Blackened carcasses littered the once sparkling palace.

The unfortunate souls who didn't make it to their families.

Was that the fate of Sonic's family?

Sonic's eyes searched the flaming ruins in panic.

He was in pain.

Pain that only a mate and a father could know.

Where was she?!

Where was his family?!

Gods, give him a sign!

Tears from the smoke mixed with the tears from his emotional wounds.

"AMY!" He shouted, his chest in knots. "AMY!"

Sonic was running around as if he were a headless fool. "AMY!"

"ROSE!" His little daughter with her sweet green eyes.

Dead.

"SPIRAX!" His young son with his joyous and infective laughter.

Dead.

"AMY!" His beloved mate with her gentle ways and loving heart.

Dead.

Pain ripped at his heart and salted the wounds.

No.

The salt came from his free-flowing tears.

"N-n-no." He fell to his knees and felt the flames sting him. "Damn it... Damn it, damn it, damn it, DAMN IT!" The father screamed in rage and suffering.

His family was gone.

"DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!" Sonic dug at the soil and burnt grass, ripping the last spears of green life from the black.

He heard a scream.

A feminine scream.

Normal Sonic would have rushed to the scene, given the abuser a cocky smirk and a beating.

But this Sonic stayed on his knees, his eyes barred against sight.

He didn't want to see the corpses of his beloved family.

No, he wanted to join them in the painless bliss of death.

"SONIC!"

His ears perked up, searching for the source of the sound.

Another, smaller voice yelled out his other name.

"DADDY!"

Rosealiene?

"DADDY!"

Spirax!

Sonic was on his feet in seconds, running after the only hope he had of saving his family again.

"ROSE!" He yelled, searching for them. "SPIRAX! AMY!"

"SONIC!"

Sonic went faster.

Her voice was the driving force behind his adrenaline.

"Well, well, well. That's quite far enough, isn't it your majesty?" A dark and smooth voice cooed.

What?

Sonic grunted as he hit an invisible wall full force.

Blood spurted from his nose and mouth, but he grit his teeth and ignored the pain.

He yelled over the roar of the fire. "What have you done to my family?!"

The voice chuckled. "Why don't you come and see for yourself, King Sonic?"

King?

How did this voice know who he was?

"The crown in your quills, King Sonic." Sonic's hands flew to the golden crescent sitting in his quills.

"If you want my kingdom, you can have it!" Sonic shouted to the sky. "Just give me my family back!"

"I told you, come find them, King Sonic."

Sonic obliged and ran directly forward.

And into another wall.

He shot back, bloodier than before, but ran to the left.

His nose was broken by another wall.

"Where are they?!" He roared. "TELL ME NOW!"

The voice ignored him.

Sonic slammed into the right wall and pounded his fist into the barrier that separated him from his loved ones.

"So barbaric, King Sonic." The voice teased. "Allowing yourself to become so attached to people. I will never understand you mobians. This is why you are so weak. This is why you must die... Starting with the female and your pups."

Sonic was going insane in the box he was in.

Every time he tried to escape, he slapped into a barrier and blood spurted from his broken muzzle.

His vision was becoming spotty from the loss of blood and his speed was weakening.

The hero was going to die soon.

And his never save his family.

Just like his little sister.

Emily.

Sweet, little Emily, who died because he couldn't reach her in time.

And now, his nightmare was repeating.

"AMY!" Sonic screamed in pure, burning agony.

The tears ran down his muzzle and mixed with his blood.

It stung the wounds and added insult to injury.

"ROSEALIENE! SPIRAX!"

His children.

His mate.

Dying because he was trapped like a rat in a cage.

"MOMMY!" Rosealiene screamed. "DON'T HURT MY MOMMY!"

Amy?

They were hurting his mate?

"Come, King Sonic, come and watch your family die." The voice laughed, freeing Sonic from his prison.

Blood and tears racing down his face, Sonic burst into the clearing.

The flames seemed to respect that place, raging on everything expect for this 4 yard wide circle.

The palace garden.

The willows bent over and formed a canopy, shielding a golden fountain from view of the sky.

Amy had gotten red morning glories planted around the base and the flowers had curled around the base and up around the rim.

Cobblestones paved the way around the fountain and led away from the aquatic structure.

And into the fire.

More flowers spanned in a semicircle behind the fountain in a patch of grass.

And inside the fountain, a golden hilted sword glinted in the sun from inside of the water.

It had been his grandfather's blade and so far, no one had been able to remove it from its final resting place.

But, Sonic was absorbed in what was chained to the fountain.

A royal blue hedgehog with six quills styled like his father's, messy bangs, emerald eyes, a black nose and peachy skin.

And tied next to him, was a pink hedgehog with swooped up pink quills, blue bangs, jade eyes, the same nose and peach skin.

Spirax and Rosealiene, his children.

But where was Amy?

"Spi! Rose!" Sonic shouted, lunging for them.

"Daddy!" Rosealiene cried, tears running down her muzzle and burns on her legs.

"Shh..." The father soothed. "It's okay... Where is mommy?"

Spirax was as crying, terrible burns on his arms, back and legs. "He has mommy! He said he was gonna hurt her! I-I found Rosy and I tried to run, but I couldn't run, daddy! I'm scared and I got burned and I just want MOMMY!"

"It's okay!" Sonic brushed the quills out of his face.

He pulled on the chains and tried to free the children.

Rosealiene screamed shrilly. "MOMMY!"

"What the hell? Why aren't they moving?" Sonic cursed softly.

"Because the bonds are linked to the blade your ancestor left behind." The voice smiled from behind him. "These same bonds hold your mate to my hand, King Sonic."

Sonic whipped around, facing the demon holding his mate hostage.

The being was seemingly made of smoke, a tall, wispy tornado of spinning ash with cyan eyes.

Amy whimpered, hanging from his hand by chains.

These chains were small and tight, biting into her body and drawing blood.

They were made, not for capture, but for pain.

"S-S-Soniikku..." She gasped, a chain against her throat.

"Amy!" Sonic yelled and dashed for her.

"Ah, ah, ah." The devil teased. "Not yet."

Sonic slammed against another barrier, forced away from his mate.

"S-Sonic!" She tried to scream.

The demon laughed at Amy's tears and suffering. "Oh, how cute. You, your mate and your pups are all in tears. How does that feel, your majesty?"

"SHUT UP, YOU FUCK!" Sonic yelled. "Let them GO!"

"Ah, but I am afraid that will never happen, except in death, King Sonic." The demon laughed cruelly. "Now, I think it would be a fitting death to Möbius when the royal family burns in hell."

Sonic felt the chains slink from the ground and wrap around his body, forcing him into the demon's hand.

"DADDY!" He heard Spirax and Rosealiene scream. "STOP PLEASE!"

The demon laughed again. "Oh, this feels wonderful. Having the Queen in one hand and the King in the other. Perfect, isn't it my King?"

Sonic spat a wad of blood and mucus at his captor, who easily dodged it.

"How crude." The demon tisked at the hedgehog King. "Now, now, is that the way you treat your elders?"

"Go to hell!" Amy hissed and winced as the chain tightened on her neck.

"Aw... Did I hurt you, Queen Amy? Forgive me, but where I come from, females don't use such foul language." He eyed the whimpering children. "Especially in front of their pups."

"S-Sonic, please don't worry about the promise. Just stop him, please!" She choked out.

The promise.

The promise that he would never become Dark again.

That's why he didn't turn before.

He was holding the rage inside.

"I-I can't Ame-es." Sonic was shaking. "I promised to you that I wouldn't!"

The demon jiggled the couple's bonds. "What are you talking about? Hmm? One such as YOU cannot kill me, King Sonic."

Promise or no promise, Sonic felt the monster inside raging.

'Kill him!' He growled. 'Kill him and protect your keep!'

"I can't..." Sonic whispered.

'Kill him!'

"Please don't make me. I don't want to hurt Amy or my children." He begged.

Amy screamed as the demon pulled her bonds tighter.

Blood rushed from the cuts in her flesh and dripped onto the stones.

She was in pain, but Amy held back anymore tears and clamped her mouth shut.

The children screamed for their mother, crying wildly.

'Kill him!'

"I can't."

Didn't they know that the demon fed off of their suffering?

Stop crying!

'KILL HIM BEFORE HE KILLS YOUR MATE!'

"I CAN'T!" Sonic bellowed in agony, tears running down his face. "I CAN'T RISK HURTING THEM!"

'DO IT!'

"PLEASE, SONIC, PLEASE!" Amy cried. "JUST STOP HIM!"

The demon laughed and tightened Amy's chains. "Such rage, such agony burns through you, Queen Amy. You hate me, and rightly so. But that is what makes you weak."

'Can't I do this without breaking my promise?' Sonic thought. 'If only I had the Chaos Emeralds, I wouldn't need to. But, Knuckles and Tikal have them. Damn it! I forced them to take the Emeralds! I told them we didn't need them anymore!'

He winced as the demon pulled his bonds tighter, drawing even more blood.

Alarms began going off in his head.

He was going to die from blood loss.

"I think," The demon chuckled. "That I will kill your mate, then your pups, in front of you, King Sonic. That will bring out the most... Enriched, agony from you."

Sonic's eyes went wide and the demon pulled on Spirax and Rosealiene's bonds.

They screamed as the chains crushed against their small bones.

"STOP!" Sonic yelled, struggling against his chains.

They tore into his flesh and more of his blood stained the stones crimson.

He had to reach his children, even at the price of his life.

"MOMMY!" Spirax yelled.

"DADDY! DON'T HURT MY MOMMY AND DADDY!" Rosealiene sobbed.

But, Sonic was already losing the fight.

His movements became less frequent and his vision was becoming blurry.

He couldn't even see his children anymore.

All he could see, was the demon.

Laughing at the family's suffering.

Then, his eyes closed for what could very well be the last time.

"DADDY!"

"SONIC!"

Through her tears, Rosealiene saw a golden light emanating from the fountain.

She gazed at the light and her brother did the same.

Why did she feel safe, protected by this ray of sunshine?

Was it her father?

The demon was distracted with Amy and her insults for killing her mate.

He didn't notice the ray becoming stronger and pure.

But, he did notice when it curved and sliced off his right arm.

The demon exclaimed in fury as the arm that held Sonic fell to the ground and vanished.

The bonds holding the family became smoke and freed them to awe at the gold light, that disappeared seconds later into the fountain.

"Damn you, old fool!" The demon shouted, holding the stump where his arm used to be. "Even in death, you defy me!" He turned to the hedgehog family. "Mark my words, Queen Amy and King Sonic. I will return! I will have Möbius and I will have what truly belongs to me again!"

Most of his right side was marred with gold veins, rushing for his heart.

If he even had one.

The veins seemed to worry the demon, who surged into the sky as a plume of smoke.

The fire that raged the castle suddenly extinguished itself, no longer having a master to feed it.

Amy ran to her mate, who was lying on the ground shaking. "Sonic! Sonic, please be okay..."

Spirax sped over to his father and mother. "Mommy? Why isn't daddy up?"

Amy put her arms around her son, ignoring the sting. "Shh... It's okay, Spirian. Daddy's just hurt is all. He-he'll be fine. Where is Rose?" She searched for her daughter.

She was pawing around in the fountain water, seemingly looking for the golden light that had saved them.

"Rosealiene? What are you doing?" Amy asked, gently trying to roll Sonic into his back.

"I saw the light come from this sword, Mommy!" Rosealiene said. "I think I can almost pick it up!"

Amy wanted to tell her daughter that only Sonic's ancestor was able to lift that blade, but she also didn't want them to see Sonic in this state.

"Spirax, go help your sister." He tried to protest. "NOW!"

Running back to the fountain, Spirax leaned over the rim and dug his gloved mitt into the water. "I can't reach it!" He declared to his sister, who had given up on her attempts to reach the blade.

"Ngh..." Sonic moaned as he came to.

"Sonic!" Amy gave him a tight hug. "Don't you ever scare me like that again!"

Sonic tried to focus on the pink female wavering in front of his eyes. "A-Ames?" He whispered, his throat burning from the smoke. "Wha-Where are the kids? Where is that thing?!"

"Here Rose!" Spirax was saying. "Put your hands in with mine, maybe we can reach it like that!"

"I told them to reach that blade in the fountain." Amy whispered in his ear. "I don't want them to see you like this. And the 'thing' is gone. He left after some weird light came out of the fountain."

Her mate had stopped listening after "this."

Sonic frowned. "No one can reach it. It's impossible." He winced.

The pain from his wounds was coming at him full force and he moaned. "Damn... I overdid it, didn't I?"

Amy gave him a smile through her tears.

If he could make snappy remarks about his age, he was going to live. "You aren't 16 anymore Sonic. You should know that by now."

Sonic winked. "Wish I could be. It wouldn't hurt so much."

"That's because you had a thicker skull back then." Amy said, treating his wounds with the small amount of healing talent she had. "Even a missile couldn't crack it."

Sonic noticed Spirax and Rosealiene whispering to themselves, their backs turned to their parents.

"Hey!" He yelled. "What are you doing?"

They squeaked and turned guiltily around. "N-Nothing." Spirax lied unconvincingly.

"Right." Sonic scoffed hoarsely. "What did you do?"

The twins looked at each other.

"You promise you won't get mad?" Rosealiene said into her feet.

"We promise Rosy." Amy smiled gently. "Now, what happened?"

"Um... Well, it was Spi's idea! He said we could take it out together and it came out and it broke and and turned into two and—. WHAAAA! I didn't want to break it but it did!"

Sonic and Amy gasped at what the twins were holding in their hands.

Not only had the taken their ancestor's blade out of the fountain, but it had split into two identical swords.

#### {AN}

Hey! I'm starting another story!

Again!

This time, it's about the next generation of Freedom Fighters and their struggle against a dark force that can, CONTROL FIRE?!

How original, me.

Lol.

Anyhoodles, this is just a prologue to the real story, which takes place sometime after Shadow is dethroned.

But, in my story, Shadow escaped his prison with Rouge's help and hasn't been seen since.

Mystery!

This is about the only chapter where Sonic is involved so deeply, because he's old now and no fun.

XD, I can hear him cursing at me.

Yay! Amy has healing powers!

Wheeeeeee! (Spins around in my father's desk chair.)

Emily's dead. :( makes me unhappy, but adds to Sonic's agony at the beginning!

Btw, I own all fan children that appear in this story, but if you want to, I have spots for more.

Just put your fanchild's bio in your comment and I'll review them as I go along!

Rosealiene: Like this story?

Me: SILENCE!

Example Bio.

Name: Rosealiene Sega.

Age: 14

Parents: Sonic And Amy.

Power: Super Speed and half of the Chaos Blade.

Species: Hedgehog.

Best Friend: Caramel The Fox/Rabbit hybrid.

Worst Enemy: Anyone who pisses her off.

Relatives: Sonic and Amy, parents. Spirax Sega, twin brother. Arianna Sega, little sister. Scourge The Hedgehog and Rosy The Rascal, uncle and aunt. Toxin The Hedgehog, male cousin. Rosemary The Hedgehog, female cousin. Milo Sega, ancestor.

Outfit: Blue capris, pink and white sneakers, white gloves, a pink ribbon acting as her belt, blue jacket and blue goggles.

Misc. Anything else I should know?

Also, Spirax's real name is Spirian, which explains why Amy called him that.

SonAmy children spots are filled.

Try a different couple!

Bear.

ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ (Rwarer.)