Lost Souls: The Sorrow of Two Brothers
Chapter 1
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Rain was pouring down during a funeral. Two hedgehogs stood besides two graves looking down at them with sadness and pain in their eyes, it was their parents who have been buried. They both held two roses in their hands and slowly placed them on the graves. Their friends behind them left one by one. When everyone was gone, tears began to stream down their eyes as they started to clench their fists. "I never thought this day would happen, did you Flare?" one of the hedgehogs asked.
"No I didn't Aura" Flare replied and gritted his teeth "We'll make that bastard pay!" Flare started to engulf his right hand in flames, but it then dimmed as he started to remember the times they all trained together.
Flashbacks
Aura and Flare are seen in the back yard of their home, in their younger ages, training with their parents. The father blasting one of them with aura attacks while the mother attacks with fire and ice. The kids were avoiding and attacking back, but they became exhausted and sat down and their parents approached them with warm smiles. "You boys did good for your first day of training" their father said
"Thanks dad" Flare replied and stood back up and helped his little brother up as well. The happy family went back into their home and ate dinner.
As the years go by and the two brothers have been getting stronger. Aura becoming better at using his aura and Flare getting better with controlling fire and ice.
Today on Aura's fifteenth birthday and Flare's sixteenth birthday they were walking along a dirt road back to their home.
"Hey Flare" Aura said
"What?"
"I think its about time to show our parents the new powers we unlocked" Aura started to glow very brightly and his fur started to turn from dark red to cyan and purple streaks formed on his quills.
"Yeah, so lets pick up the pace" Flare said as he took off leaving Aura in the dust
"Hey!" Aura reverted back to normal and sped off to catch up to his older brother. When they arrived, Flare and Aura didn't hear anything inside and so they entered. As they entered, they saw a gaping hole in the wall that led to their backyard. Flare and Aura ran outside to see their mother on the ground while their father was protecting her. The two brothers noticed a man wearing a long black coat much like a reaper's coat and had a skull mask that covered his face. The weapon he was holding was a scythe.
"Leave them alone!" Flare shouted as he shot a fire ball at the reaper's back while Aura was firing multiple aura spheres at him. The reaper blocked the attack with his scythe and appeared behind them almost as if he teleported. The reaper slammed them with the back side of his scythe and sent them into a wall. Their dad fired an aura sphere to get the reaper's attention. That last attack drained his energy and collapsed onto the ground. The reaper then walked to his body as well as his wife's and slammed his scythe onto their bodies, finishing them off while Aura and Flare watched as their parents were killed right in front of their own eyes and heard the killer laughing like a mad man. Something started to float above their bodies, it looked like white orbs of light. He grabbed them and stuffed them inside his coat. The reaper walked up to Aura and Flare and puts his scythe away and leaned in front of them.
"If you want to take your parents' souls back then come and get them when you're ready and take this" He pulled out a red orb and gave it to Flare, the reaper started laughing and opened up a black portal and jumped through it
End of Flashback
After spending hours standing besides their dead parents' graves, Flare pulled out the red orb that the reaper gave him and the two began to make their way to Tails' workshop.
Tails workshop
Tails was working on a machine while Sonic was relaxing in a chair until Knuckles came bursting through the doors followed by a female fox with black fur, white arms and legs as well as her muzzle, big fox ears, a red long sleeved shirt, very short jeans, and red shoes with white laces and closed the door behind her. Apparently Knuckles was angry while the fox was smirking. "Come on Knuckles, why can't you admit that I'm stronger and, obviously, smarter than you" She said while Knuckles was about to throw a punch, but she quickly hit a pressure point on his shoulder which made him collapse. Sonic was trying to hold his laughter back, but he couldn't contain it and started sprawling on the floor with laughter.
"Knuckles, what happened?" Sonic asked as he stood back up, but still kept laughing.
"I challenged Knuckles to a fight and he laughed because he thought that he was stronger than me, but I quickly showed him how wrong he was" she replied
"Well at least you had your fun Taylor, but did you hear what happened to Aura and Flare?" he asked
"Yeah. They must be devastated" Taylor replied. Then they all heard knocking at the door. Tails walked over and opened it to see a light blue arctic fox with three tails and blue eyes, about the same size as Tails and a green hedgehog that looks like Shadow only he has yellow where there's red. He wore dark grey armor that covered his right arm and leg, he also wore a dark red cape over his shoulders.
"Gold, Glimpse. What brings you here?" Tails asked as the hedgehog and fox entered
"Just wanted to let you guys know that Aura and Flare are making their way here" Gold said while crossing his arms.
"Please don't tell me they're gonna go after that guy?" Tails asked with worried look on his face
"Yeah, and they're going to arrive... right now" Glimpse announced as Flare and Aura arrived right on cue.
"Tails, We're going to need your help" Flare said
"What do you need?" He asked
"We're going to need a portal, so we can make that bastard who killed our parents pay!"
"Lucky for you guys that's what I'm working on" Tails replied as Aura and Flare were surprised
"How long will it take for it to be ready?" Flare asked
"It would take about five hours for it to be ready"
"Then lets pick up the pace" Aura said and soon they all started to help Tails work on the portal.
Five Hours Later
The portal was up and running due to everyone working together, except for Knuckles who almost caused the machine to blow up, Tails started powering up the machine with a Chaos Emerald he found somewhere in the forest. "There we go" Tails said as Flare took out the small red orb from his quills and gave it to the twin tailed fox.
"Can you have your portal scan this, so it knows the origin from where it came?" Flare asked and Tails nodded. Tails then placed the red orb beneath a scanner that was connected to a computer. Once Tails started scanning the red object, up on the screen above the portal read the coordinates from where the red orb came from and the portal started opening, blinding the group with its light. "You ready Aura?" Flare asked
"You bet I am" He replied with fire in his eyes. They were about to enter when they were stopped by Sonic
"If you think we're not going to join, your sadly mistaken... We're all going with you guys" Sonic said with a smirk as Aura and Flare sighed in defeat
"Alright then lets go" Just before they would enter, Amy came bursting through the doors.
"Amy!" Sonic shouted as the pink hedgehog started running towards him.
"Where are you going Sonic?" she asked with her eyes sparkling somehow and Sonic sweat dropped
"We're going away for a while, so I'm gonna ask you one thing... Take care of this place for me"
"Please be careful Sonic" Amy said
"Don't worry about me" Sonic gave her a thumbs up and with that they all jumped into the portal as it grew brightly and then faded away.
*To Be Continued*
A/N: That's all for today, I hope you liked it. So Review, Follow, Favorite and I'll see you guys next time.