A Fading Friendship
Chapter One.
"Sonic! Sonic!" shouted the young two-tailed fox, Miles Prower, who was known to his friends as 'Tails'. Sonic came rushing over in an instant with his super speedy feet. "What is it Tails? Whats wrong?" "Sonic...I heard something in the bushes...over there!" cried Tails, pointing a shaking finger towards a bunch of bushes. "Hm... I'm sure it's nothing," laughed Sonic.
Sonic walked over to the patch of bushes and looked inside. "GAH!" shouted Sonic as two fierce looking hands grabbed him and pulled him in. "SONIC!" cried Tails, rushing inside after him.
As Sonic looked up at what grabbed him in, he realised that it was a tough looking red wolf, and he looked very angry. "SPARKZ, you JERK!" he yelled at Sonic. "Sparkz?" asked Sonic. "Are you sure you...uh...have the right hedgehog?" asked Tails. "Uh?" growled the wolf, taking a better look at Sonic. "Oh," he said, dropping Sonic to the forest floor, "...Yeah...". "HAW HAW, you can't catch me!" teased a voice coming from just behind a few trees away. The red wolf's ears went straight up at the voice. "SPAAAARKZ!" he screamed, and then bolted after the creature behind the tree. From what Sonic and Tails could see, they understood why the wolf had gotten the two confused. 'Sparkz' was just a little bit darker blue than Sonic was, and they were both hedgehogs. But Sparkz looked much rougher than Sonic did, with his spike bracelets and bandages. He also looked very fast...maybe even faster than Sonic!
"Sorry about that," came a voice from behind Sonic, "they're always like that." Sonic and Tails both spun around, to find a light purple mongoose with long, soft pink hair that went all the way to her knees. The mongoose smiled sweetly and said, "I'm Angel, and that's Asteroid and Sparkz." "I've never seen you guys around here before!" smiled Tails, "I'm Miles Prower, but everyone calls me Tails because of my two tails." "And I'm Sonic." guestered Sonic, placing his hand out to shake hers. Angel returned the handshake. "That Sparkz sure is fast..." Sonic said, in amazement. "Heehee," laughed Angel, "he sure is! Almost as fast as his girlfriend, Spook!" "Spook?" asked Sonic. "Yes! She's a teenage porcupine with jet black fur...you've...never seen her around?" Angel asked, astonished. "Well I --" Sonic was cut off because of a loud crash that came from about where Sparkz and Asteroid were. The three began running towards the two.
"Oh no! Are you guys OK!" cried Angel, running as fast as she could. Turns out that Sparkz hadn't been looking where he was going and had colided with a tree. "Sparkz...when will you ever learn?" said Asteroid sarcastically. "Now, Asteroid...be nice..." said Angel. Just then a huge gust of speed came blazing through right to Sparkz. "Sparkz! Are you alright?" asked the blaze of speed as soon as it settled down next to him. "Yeah, Spook," replied Sparkz, rubbing his head, "I'm alright...". "Spook?" asked Sonic. "Oh yeah! That's her, Sonic! Thats Spook!" smiled Angel. The black Porcupine immeadiatly turned around at the sound of her name. "Yeah...who wants to know...?" she asked dangerously, meeting her blood-red eyes with Sonic's harmless green ones. A chill was sent down Sonic's spine as the whole area went silent. "Well...I'd better be off," said Spook to Sparkz, "...later." She glanced Sonic one last mysterious look, and then was off.
"...I don't think she likes me..." said Sonic, startled. Angel just gave an unsure laugh and then guided Sonic and Tails outside the forest. "Don't worry about her, Sonic..." said Angel as they walked, "she's always like that."
End of Chapter One.