Gah! I almost forgot to put this here!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has anything to do with Sonic at all, except for fan characters.

Phew. I remembered. I wouldn't want the same thing that happened to A Clone Apart to happen to me. By way, A Clone Apart was a YouTube Star Wars fanfiction based in the game Battlefront 2, and it stopped because the writer got sued. I think.

Anyways, this is based off of a dream I had that I really liked. Sorry if the first chapter's short, and sorry if it's cliche at all. Please, tell me if there's anything at ALL I can improve, and I'll do my best. Or at least tell you if and why I can't.

This story's going to try to explain a few things in the Sonic game series, mainly, What happens after Sonic dies and other characters, like Shadow, don't? Who were Silver's parents? And, who the heck did that to Silver's hair?! (Although I think he kinda looks fuzzy and cute).

Please enjoy and review.

Update: Yay, my first review! Thank you for the advice, explodinghead. I'll make sure not to repeat myself so much. =D

It is 200 years in the future. The date is June 23, 2212. It seemed only fitting that the anniversary of the kingdom of Earth would fall on the old hero, Sonic the Hedgehog's birthday.

Since he had passed away just over a hundred years ago, the peoples of Earth decided that they would be safer if they united into one kingdom and elected their king. Dr. Eggman passed away a while before Sonic had, being much older than him, and, consequently, left his robots to run wild. They were weak alone; mere nuisances. Unfortunately, Metal Sonic returned from the underground he had been hiding and planning in, and began to lead the robots himself in place of Dr. Eggman around 2062. His attacks were so strong that the people- humans and animals alike- all agreed they needed someone to lead them who would not back down, and who would be unlikely to die any time soon. The obvious choice was Shadow the Hedgehog, and he was thus voted in.

Shadow had not wanted the job at first. It came with too many ceremonies, responsibilities, and trinkets. However, whenever he started to think that he should quit, he would remember his old friend Maria. Maria- the girl who had been his closest companion on space colony ARK; Maria, who, as the soldiers where shooting her down when they made that terrible mistake, begged Shadow to promise to protect the world; to give people a chance to be happy. If Shadow quit, he would be letting the world down- letting her down. So he chose to continue to be king.

On this particular June 23, Shadow stood staring out of the window in his chambers, waiting. He wore, in addition to his old gloves, shoes, and rings: a crown and a cape. He used to think the extra garments were useless, but most people thought them to be a symbol of his leadership and insisted he wear them. He eventually got used to it.

The door opened. In walked in Silver the Hedgehog. Silver was Shadow's royal temporal expert. This meant that he oversaw anything that had to do with the past, the future, and most importantly, time traveling. It was a big job, and Silver had gone on several missions to the past already. Although Silver was only fourteen years old, and somewhat naive, he was very skilled. Not to mention that he was born with a natural form of Chaos Energy- radiation that came off of the super powerful Chaos Emeralds- to manipulate objects, move them, and make them float. That had gotten him promotions in the castle quick.

"Are you ready for the judging, sir?" Silver asked. Shadow turned around. He nodded. He never spoke much. Shadow headed for the door, and Silver followed. As they walked down the splendid halls, coated in decorative carvings, pictures, and rare and antique furniture, Silver tried, as he always did, to make small talk.

"What number is this?" he asked. Shadow glanced at him.

"Four."

"Wow. You're fourth adviser already. It's weird to think that you've had advisers since before I was born." Shadow stopped and gave Silver a strange look. After a silent minute, Silver coughed awkwardly, and Shadow rolled his eyes and continued on. Silver sighed. He should have known by now, after living for several years in the castle already. Small talk never worked with Shadow.

Finally, they had gone down two grand staircases, five bejeweled hallways, and one golden elevator. They turned a corner and came into a large auditorium. There several administrators sat in front of a long table. Some were human, some were animals, and all of them were old and experienced. On the other side of the table sat a long row of appliers for the roll of new adviser. These were also diverse in being animal and human, but they were also of any age between fifteen and fifty. Shadow took his seat at the center of the table, and Silver sat down to his left.

"This is going to be so exciting!" Silver whispered. "I've never helped to judge for the adviser before!"

To Shadow's right, one of the slightly more elderly and much less enthusiastic mouse administrators leaned towards one of his rabbit friends and whispered, "Remind me why that naive little temporal expert is helping to judge for something this important."

"Sshh!" His friend snapped. "He may be young, but he is a hard worker, not to mention one of the King's favorites. Stop complaining- you're making King Shadow glare!" Sure enough, when the administrator looked up, he found Shadow glaring right in front of him. The mouse jumped. Shadow turned back to the front after a minute.

The multiple appliers were talking, whispering, yelling, and giggling among themselves. Shadow cleared his throat. They didn't notice. He tried again, a little louder. The group still didn't notice. Shadow grew irritated. He yelled, "Chaos Spear!" and a jagged bolt of Chaos Energy appeared in his hand. None of the administrators who were paying attention were surprised at this, since Shadow was connected to Chaos Energy in a similar way to what Silver was- the main difference being that he was made, not born, and that his abilities consisted of powerful attacks and not telekinesis.

He threw the bolt a few feet in front of the row of appliers. It exploded with a loud, electrical, zzzzt! All of the appliers jumped much like the mouse administrator had done minutes before. They stared at the black spot on the marble floor, and then at Shadow.

"Now," Shadow started, then stopped. To his right, Silver was chuckling a little from the scene. Shadow glared at him. Silver immediately quieted. This was yet another thing he should have been used to since he was living in the castle- Shadow's constant glares.

The ebony hedgehog spoke again. "Now... let's begin the judging."