I can not believe I'm actually writing a sequel. xD Well. I missed writing for Sonic! T-T Anyway, after I wrote this new story this plot just kinda attacked my brain and I just started writing.. And this came out.

I hope you like it! :D

Disclaimer: Anything you recognize is not mine.

Note: I'm looking for 2 OC's to feature in this story, look at the end note for more information

Second Chances

Personality Change – Chapter 1

Slow, steady breathing complied by light tapping of fingers against marble was the only sound that filled a grand, majestic hall. If you would have seen it for the very first time you would have thought it was a ball room, and would stand there mouths agape. There was marble everywhere, marble floor, walls and ceiling. It gave the room an almost cooling affect that was accompanied by plush, red velvet furniture adorning the large room. In the center was a particularly strange piece. A large throne, red and gold, sat on a platform of, what else, grey-blue marble. It was strange in the fact that the design held branches, leaves.. but they were moving, weaving themselves around the legs of the chairs, the arms...

There was a sigh as the quiet room was interrupted with clicking heels and a low, rhythmic humming. Stephan yawned loudly, slumping back into the throne. He thought it ironic; how he wanted so much to be the chosen ruler of his kingdom, but Diamond had been the older twin as so he'd always been jealous. Then she went a got herself insane, he ended up ruling and wishing nothing more than to be free again.

"Jeez. Envy really is a sin, huh?" He mumbled to himself dragging his palm down his face and yawning again. He wanted to go out at skateboard with his friends and he was stuck here! Looking pretty for his 'image'.

"Who yer talkin' to?" Katie raised her eyebrow, half chewing a mountain of pink bubble gum, the humming that followed her became quiet music when she took of her DJ earphones and places them around her neck. A rock beat could be heard.

"Myself." He said sarcastically as if it had been the most obvious thing in the world.

"Talking to yourself is the-"

"-The first sign of madness. Yes, yes I know you idiot."

Ignoring the idiot comment Katie stood in front of Stephan, looking directly up at the throne. "Talking of madness we really shouldn't have let her go by herself!"

"Hey, hey. Give the girl some credit. She was driven insane. And geez she snapped herself back and wanted to go apologize in person. Like her old, noble self." Stephan recited, bored.

Katie flashed an evil grin. "And you're stuck doin' borin' political parties and smilin' an' wavin' while Diamond flies ta Mobius"

Stephan scowled, disgusted. "Ew, Kate. Go spit that out, you're spraying gum juice at me when you're talking. How many did you stuff in there?"

"64 pieces" She exclaimed proudly jumping up in celebration.

".. A twig?" Tails said confused whilst staring at Knuckles who was in the middle of his front room, standing there with a two-finger peace sign. Knuckles shook his head.

Amy who was sat on the floor, with her back to the chair Shadow was sat on tilted her head. "I have no idea, give us another clue!" She said, Cream and Cheese cheered loudly in agreement.

Knuckles held up one finger, walked into a kitchen and came back with a glass of water. He set it down on a table and stood by it. He then proceeded to nonchalantly looked around then when he was the glass of water he threw his head back in a silent scream of horror and ran directly away from it.

The group (minus one) burst into laughter and said the exact same thing: "Sonic!"

"That's so not funny." Sonic pointed out, frowning. "I don't scream!"

"I didn't scream." Knuckles pointed out, with a smug smirk. Sonic glared then coolly leaned back and patted his stomach.

"I thinks I needs some foods." Tails laughed then picked up his house phone and scratched his head.

"Everyone okay with pizza?" He asked, smiling a little. Cream, Cheese, Knuckles, Rouge and Sonic all nodded dreaming up what toppings they would order.

"Ah, thanks." Shadow said, standing up from his seat and helping Amy up with one hand. "But we gotta go, reservations, you know?" Shadow smiled in thanks to Tails who nodded then heard the pizza place pick up.

"Aw, but where are you going Amy?" Cream said, a little taller but still very small and very cute. She looked up at Amy with her big eyes and Amy giggled a little and hugged the rabbit.

"Out with Shadow, don't worry, I'll come around tomorrow and we can have a sleep over, what do you think?"

Cheese 'chao'ed happily and Cream nodded. "Sounds like fun, do you think Miss. Rouge will come?" Amy shrugged then waved at Cream, went to open her mouth to say goodbye when Tails did the inevitable and said:

"So what does everyone want?"

The gaggle of their yelling friends were so loud Amy even doubted God would be able to break it up to get her 'Goodbye' in now. Both shaking their heads and grinning, Amy and Shadow quietly exited Tail's house.

It had been a year, one year exactly since the day that Amy and Shadow had confessed their love, one year since that terrible incident ended. One year that Shadow had been carrying around that small, insignificant, nagging feeling of dread. He hadn't said a word to anyone about his fears, that everything in him told him it'd been peaceful for too long, the emeralds lay safe, not even an attempted to be stolen. (The fact that Eggman tried from time to time was pretty much not even worth taking into account.)

However, none of that really mattered anymore because today was Amy and Shadow's first anniversary. Shadow, having never had had an anniversary before had (regrettably) asked Sonic for advice on what to do. .. The mountain of pink-dyed chilly dogs they had ordered was rotten when they arrived.

Plan A out.

He had then taken to asking Knuckles up on Angel Island, who looked at Shadow if he was insane then offered (still bewildered) an extreme-sports day. He had said, as if it was the most romantic thing in the world;

"You can sky dive off the island! Hm? What about landing? Oh. Er…"

Plan B out.

Shadow resorted to watching old, soppy romantics for ideas; instead he cringed at the thought of him doing any of those things. He couldn't imagine himself in a white tux, holding out a rose and confessing amidst their dearest and oldest friends his undying love for a rose prettier than the one he wielded…

Sonic would never let him hear the end of that.

Plan C out.

Shadow nearly gave up when Amy had said that a new restaurant had opened, served the best Chinese food around but was ridiculously expensive and going there would be like paying for a new car. He'd decided to treat her and had been saving up allot of money for the occasion.

So, here he was, leading a blindfolded Amy who was wearing a sunning strapless red dress through the restaurant doors. Amy sniffed slightly.

"Wow that smells good, did you cook something?" Shadow chuckled before gently untying the blindfold and hugging her from behind. Amy gasped, looked around at the extravagant décor, the classy diners, well-mannered staff and at the end of the room, by a window she noticed the table set for them. Candles and roses with really pricey special decorations graced the table on top its elegant blank tablecloth that looked like silk. Amy blinked, speechless and slightly bewildered. Eh? Shadow was a romantic?

Shadow laughed softly at her expression, kissed Amy's cheek then held out a hand to lead Amy to the table. "Happy anniversary,"

The night had been perfect, and the food had been so good Amy wanted to cry. Everything was so perfect, it was dark out now and she was content, holding onto Shadow's arm as he walked her home.

The night sky was perfect, and it felt like the stars were out just for them.

"Shadow... Amy…?" The voice was soft, but both stopped in their tracks. It was behind them and Amy suddenly felt herself choke up, and her stomach turn. Had she been imagining it? No, she hadn't even thought about that. Not daring to turn around Amy put a hand to her mouth in shock. All the terrible memories and feelings flooding back. She never wanted to see that person again.

Shadow had turned around without hesitation, before he had taken a large step back. He knew it. He had been having the feeling for such a long time, he knew it wasn't over. Tensing he growled in warning, pulling Amy behind him and standing, ready to fight.

"What do you want?" He spat, venom in his voice. She laughed. And Shadow could have not been more flabbergasted. He had been expected that evil, cackling laugh of evil satisfaction. But, the thing was, it was just a small giggle of innocence…

Diamond smiled softly, tilting her head then holding up both hands in mock defense. "Whoa, dude. Chillax would you?"

Shadow gawked at Diamond in complete shock. She was kidding, right? Amy had turned now, and was staring in disbelief. Diamond was normal again? No, she wouldn't believe it. It was a trick.

"It's not a trick my too-pink friend and would you not think so loudly. It's super annoying!" That was it, Shadow's floor hit the ground and he looked expectantly at Amy for answers.

"S'joke, right Rose?" Amy squeaked, and backed away from the situation.

"Don't be asking me! I don't know! She's like she was years ago again, it's confusing!" Amy said, sounding a little distraught. "Urg," Amy said, holding her stomach. Shadow jumped up and held Amy's shoulders as she looked extremely pale. "I feel sick."

"You ain't gonna chuck up Ames, don't worry. It was that seaweed you had! It was off! And you paid a bucket loa- Oh, oh, wow. Shadow man that's a lot of cash."

Whilst staring at Diamond as if she had just spouted green tentacles attached to canons and exclaimed that she would over take the word, they both decided the same thing simultaneously. They needed to contact everyone. Now.

Like when the day started, as the clock stated it was getting very late, all 7 of the persons there previously was now back in Tails' front room, plus one, whom they were staring at. Diamond let out a whimper of frustration.

"Could everyone stop thinking this over so much?! You're killin' my head here!"

Amy growled and stood up, hands on hips. "Then stop listening! Geez, you don't have to listen to our thoughts!"

"Actually..." Diamond said, coughing lightly. "I can't not listen. After the cure I've lost all control over my powers completely. I have a hard time making even leaves float now, and hear everything everyone thinks within a mile. I now suffer from a constant migraine which I see makes you all very happy!"

"Wait," Rouge said, crossing her legs over as she leaned back in the chair. "You've lost your powers?"

"The harmful ones? Yes. Geez I feel like I'm in court." Diamond scratched the back of her lilac quills, grinning. Upon hearing she wasn't dangerous, everyone relaxed instantly.

Sonic scratched his head similar to how Diamond just had. "What do you mean, cure?"

Diamond looked vague for a moment before taking a huge breath and projected into a speech.

"You see ages and ages ago I was normal and had loadsa friends over here where Amy and I lived. Buht then I was called back to where I came from 'cus my planet has been at war with these dudes we call the 'opposition' for like centuries. And APPAPENTLY I'm supposed to stop it. So, I roared like Sonic's indigestion-"

"Not funny."

"- then leapt into their territories but ended up being captured, and tortured into insanity. So then I'm all set free over here and go power hungry, ya see, 'cos they wanted me to get the emeralds from you lot. I cause you a big hubbub, my twin brother and Ikkle sister come and freeze me, take me back to Sirenia – my home planet – then they perform some pretty hectic magic with our planet's core and it sends my mind into a blank state then filters the good stuff back in. Sort of like defragging a computer, 'cept I lost most my abilities. Then I remember what I done and came to say sorry…"

All seven of the spectators blinked in perfect unison, their faces would have been hilarious if it wasn't all so damn weird. Sonic was the first to point this out. He let out a whimper, took a step forward and pointed a gloved finger at Diamond.

"Now, it may be my indigestion from the 30-something chilly dogs I had last night around 3am, but wasn't this hyperactive hedgehog here a murdering, thieving psychic lunatic not under a year ago?! I'm so confused!" Sonic threw his hands dramatically into the air with exasperation before he let out a loud whining sound, dragged his feet towards Knuckles, held out both arms and made grabbing motions towards the echidna, whimpering;

"Hold me."

I properly enjoyed that. xD I killed myself laughing at Sonic at the end. It was kind of the first thing that came to me, I wrote that bit before the whole chapter.

Anyway, yes. I need two fan characters to feature in this. One of them is going to be Diamond's friends from her home planet and the other is a friend of the gang's who ends up dragged into the whole thing that has to do with the plot.. If you got a character, email or private message it to me and I'll get back to you 8D

Thanks for reading!

- Emz