Chapter 1
"I can smell a strong and powerful spirit in this waste."
Lurking in the dark parts of the woods stood a creature that was impossible to make out from the dark shadows covering the beast.
"This one feels very delicious, even at this distance."
The next morning, the blue speedy hedgehog, Sonic, got up from his bed and decided to take a quick morning run as he shoot right out the door and went down to Station Square. As he continued his run he saw multiply cop vehicle blocking the roads and noticing the numbers of cars trying to pass through, he seems to think something happened a while ago. Curious, Sonic sprinted and stopped on front of one of the police officers.
"What happened here, officer?"
"Sorry no one is allo-… Oh it's you Sonic. I almost didn't notice you."
"I highly doubt that no one will recognize me."
"Sorry, anyway Sonic we do need your help on this…"
The police officer explained the partial information that they were able to gather from some people that were there.
"We believe that this was an explosion… that someone sabotages this place but then when the smoke finally cleared we found this."
The officer pointed to the destruction that was caused and it surprised Sonic when he saw that the damaged looked like a large craw slashed the building.
"How is that possible, didn't anybody see anything like a creature?"
"No, in fact, they didn't even see anything, not even a plane heading towards it. For now, we the police have to consider this as sabotage, though our forces think that you and your friends can solve this better than we can."
"I'll try to…"
Sonic ran towards his best friend's hideout and explain to Tails the occurrence that happened.
"Do you have a thought on this, buddy?"
"No I don't… not until I go there myself and observe the image. Unfortunately, since this morning, my plane hasn't been working as fine as it used to. "
"Don't worry, I'll take you there myself."
Sonic then put Tails on his back and without another words spoken, he quickly dashed to the location. Sonic took Tails inside the building where the craws were made. Tails went up to the opening and started to examine it.
"So did you find anything?'
"It's going to take a few minutes before I can even come up with a theory. Sometime Sonic, you can always be too impatient, hehheh."
Sonic turned to the door way and he quickly notice something coming fast. With a quick reaction and speed, he was able to avoid it, but cost Tails being grabbed instead. It was a long hand and pretty large craws as well.
"Tails hold on buddy!"
Sonic ran to aid his friend, but he turned and notices a creature was charging at them. He got hit as that creature went towards Tails, as he still holds him tightly.
"Sonic, what's going on?"
"Don't you see it in front of you?"
"No living being can see or hear me."
"What?"
"But yet you can, that must mean that you are the one I'm searching for."
The creature was all dark like a shadow but except the face which was a weird skull figure. It looked at Tails with its red bloody eyes.
"I can save you for dessert."
It tossed Tails away and sends him to the wall. Tails fall unconscious right after.
"You hurt my friend; I'm not going to stand here after the stunt that you pulled! I am going to make you pay for hurting him!"
"You'll taste delicious once I kill you."
Both charged at each other, not holding back, as Sonic sprinted with a quick speed to make his punch affective. Before Sonic could make his hit, the creature started to fade and melt to the floor and disappear.
"Where did it…?"
The creature appeared again behind Sonic, drove its craws to him and tosses Sonic to the wall. And then at an instinct, it separated into two and in a second was evaporating in front of his eyes.
"Huh, what in the world just happened?"
Sonic looked at the figure that stood behind the creature. It was someone where a black robe and a sword on its hand. Wearing on hood over its head made it impossible to see the person's face.
"How are you?"
"One of them is finally gone, but there's still another."
The person then jumped out of the window and Sonic tried to follow him, but he was gone. He turned to Tails and lifts him up.
"Come on buddy lets take you to the hospital."
Sonic sprinted off to the hospital in a heart beat and was notifying that his friend had to stay in the hospital for at least a week before they can let him out.
"Tails"
He started to picture back the scene that happened when Tails was injured and then the guy's picture came into mind.
"Who was that guy? Whoever he was, I better find him and get some answers."
Then a loud noise was made from a distance and notice a building was cover in smoke and dust. Worried, Sonic race to that location and when he got there he notices Amy was on the floor unconscious. He ran towards her in an attempt to wake her back up.
"Amy! Amy, wake up! Come on Amy, please get up! Amy!"
Then a loud explosion came and caused him to react by ducking down. He looks up and notices another of those shadow creatures with skull mask again, but this one was way larger.
"Oh no, not another one!"
Then he notices that one falling to the floor and on the collision of Sonic and his stalker friend, Amy. He grabbed her and rolled away and towards safety. The creature landed and caused a strong sonic wave that made the two hedgehogs fly off somewhere else. Sonic desperately tries to get up and fight it but without resting from the last fight makes Sonic easy picking for the shadow creature.
"Your spirit pressure… you're the one I came here for. And now that I found you, it's time for a feast!"
The creature started to use its legs at fast speed and diving right at Sonic.
"No, I'm too injured to stop it, but I can at least…"
Sonic grabbed Amy and rolled her out of the way. Knowing that it is the only thing he can do, Sonic brass himself for what's coming.
"Found you"
Then a shadowy figure came in between them as the mysterious person from before stood there with his sword pierced through the monstrous creature. Sonic stood there surprised that at all the times he came to rescue people, now he was at need with help and that guy was the one who gave it to him.
"You, I need to talk to you!"
"Hmm, you can see me?"
"Of course I can!"
"And you can hear me… interesting"
The creature started to melt to the floor like the other one before and knowing this, Sonic awaits for when it'll come again.
"Both of you taste delicious so I'll feast on you both!"
"Wait it's coming from the same direction."
The guy pushed Sonic out of the way as the thing dove and only had a chance to bite on to the guy. Sonic looked as the man was starting to bleed from the shoulder area, luckily not biting in an internal organ.
"Looks like my time as a Shinagami is at its end."
He turned to Sonic as he stands there.
"You, what's your name, weakling?"
"S-Sonic the H-Hedgehog"
"Well Sonic, I have a question to ask of you. Do you want to protect the people in this area?"
"Yes I want to, more than anything."
Sonic started to picture as he was not able to stop from Tails getting injured and wasn't there to help Amy. He was starting to drop tears from his eyes.
"I-I want to protect everyone, all my friends!"
"Stop your crying and listen."
Then guy tossed his sword to the side of Sonic.
"If you really want to protect everyone, then take that sword and strike yourself in the heart. There maybe a chance that you'll die, but if you don't… then you'll be strong enough to protect all of them."
Sonic slowly started to pick it up but was nervous to do it. If it doesn't work then he'll die, but then he thought that if he can't protect the people he care for then there was no reason for him to live.
"Do it now!"
So he took the sword into striking mode and thrust the sword into his heart.
"Ah!"
The monster took its teeth out of the guy.
"This time I'll go for the head!"
"Without the sword I can't do much now."
Then all of a sudden he started to feel strange as the clothing turned white. And then he saw that the creature aside from him was starting to evaporate.
"No way, I try to give you half, but you took all of it, Sonic."
He saw Sonic was standing where it was wearing a black robe and holding a larger sword then the guy had before.
"I never thought that you'll be a Shinagami yourself."
"I don't care what you call me, all I know is that there's nothing I can't do now... I want to protect everyone... and now I can."