Ha I am back with a new story already. Muhahaha. This one is odd, it doesn't take place in any specific Sonic continuity, so I might throw in something here and something there
from Sonic X, SatAm, AoStH. Anyways I have decided to begin a new story and I hope it interests you and that you will please review. I dont own Sonic or Sega or any characters.
He was panting, sweating and felt dead tired, an early morning jog with the heroic blue hedgehog always seemed to have this affect on him, granted he was running at about half the speed of sound, but still he always felt envious of the blue blurs seemingly limitless stamina. The young twin tailed and orange fox known as Tails had his hands on his knees and was attempting to recapture his breath when the blue blur, his hero and best friend was suddenly standing there before him, cocky grin on his face and a friendly bit of laughter in his voice. "Geez Tails, you're definitely getting faster, pretty soon I might have to cut down on the old chilidogs just to keep up." Tails chuckled and gave his self adopted brother a thumbs up finally having caught his breath and stood at full height, it was a dream of his to outrun his hero, a dream that he was confident he would one day achieve, given he could somehow steal his shoes first then get him to race. "You think I'll ever be able to break the sound barrier, cause that would be way past cool!" Sonic laughed at his younger brothers enthusiasm, he was an extremely fast runner, no whereas near Sonic speed of course, but then again he was positive that one of these day he would invent something that would let him outrun the hedgehog, it would be a proud day, but he still hoped it was a little ways off. The two brothers began their walk back to the mystic ruins where Tails home was located, they made jokes the entire way, usually involving Robotnik's enormous stomach, then suddenly Tails stopped walking about half way there and just stared off into the woods, Sonic stopped when he realized he was bereft of his little buddy and walked back to stand next to him. "What is it lil buddy?" Tails didn't answer he just stared into the woods for a few more seconds and then suddenly took off full force into them, Sonic quickly trailed him and started shouting, now worried for his friend. "Tails! What's gotten into you bro, snap out of it! Tails!"
Then he stopped, in a small clearing buried within the woods, where the sunlight shimmered through the thick canopy of trees he stooped down and picked something up, the Hedgehog was curious and ran around to his front and looked him directly in the eyes and Tails finally spoke. "That was way past weird, I just felt something telling me to come here and that it was important, sorry if I scared you Sonic but it was like I was on autopilot or something." Sonic put up his hands in a friendly manner and said don't sweat it, then he asked to see why he had dragged him out to the middle of the forest, he moved his hands and revealed a book. Sonic placed his head in his hands and started laughing. "You would have a sixth sense for books, geez it's like someone made you king of the nerds." He lightly punched Tails shoulder and Tails giggled back before walking out of the forest with Sonic in tow and book clutched to one side. They kicked up the dust of the road together as they marched in the direction of Tails home, Tails turned to Sonic mid stride and quickly turned away, Sonic noticed and quickly voiced his concern. "Something eatin ya little bro? You know you can tell me anything." Tails sighed as he asked Sonic a question he had asked himself countless times, a question that would on some nights keep him awake. "Sonic, would you be better off without me? I mean I usually just get captured and you have to save me, and all I really do is fly you places, I mean you could easily learn to fly yourself and then.." He was cut off as Sonic threw an arm around his brother's shoulder, and replied with a voice so serious it seemed strange to come from the hedgehog. "I would have been toast years ago if not for you little buddy, heck you're the best brother I could ever ask for and your inventions are so cool they probably make Eggman jealous, I mean think about it, if you were the bad guy and Eggman was my sidekick you probably would have conquered Mobius years ago" The fox brightened at the statement and then he looked at the Hedgehog that was his brother with the most amused look Sonic had ever seen on him when he spoke. "Careful Sonic, you don't want to give me any ideas do you, Emperor Tails does kind of have a nice ring to it don't you think."
He smirked and the hedgehog rolled his eyes, though thinking about it he was very happy the fox was on his side, they reached Tails house and he unlocked the front door and flicked a light switch which illuminated the room in a warm yellow glow. Sonic flopped down on the couch and then remembering something voiced his question just as the fox disappeared into the kitchen. "Oh, hey what was that book you found anyway?" Tails came out a second later and shrugged as he munched on a chocolate chip cookie, he usually bought them in bulk as cookies he owned tended to vanish rather quickly. He placed the book on his oaken coffee table and stared at its cover, bound in ocean blue leather, a large symbol dominated the front, a inverted equilateral triangle inside of a circle both emblazoned in gold with a number of minor runes running along the border. He turned the book to read its spine and read aloud. "Fundaments of Magic, by Zarek Vallmer" Sonic scoffed and laughed out loud, magic, it was a ridiculous idea, as ridiculous as, he thought a moment and when the only comparison that came to mind was his immense running speed he quickly shut his mouth, Chaos emeralds existed, so why should he question magic, still he was dubious of the thing. Tails had an excited look in his eye, he had felt an irresistible pull towards this book, could that pull have been magic calling out to him, he was unsure but was excited at the prospect of this book possibly containing answers about the Chaos emeralds, to say they bugged him would be an understatement, they confused the hell out of him and seemed to defy any law of physics he tried to apply to them.
He flipped to a random page and started reading. "All summoning circles should be of approximately 7 feet in diameter and lined with no fewer than 4 candles and no more than 13, draw the rune for the creature you desire to summon and focus your powers directly into the candles using them as tethers to allow your magical energies to fill the circle." He stopped a puzzled look on his face and Sonic recognized the look, it was the, I'm going to try this the second Sonic's not looking look, the hedgehog sighed and chuckled, "If you're going to start summoning ghosts and goblins, try not to burn the house down, you could really ruin all the chilidogs you keep in your freezer." Sonic grinned and Tails face palmed chuckling at his brother, he would look through the book later he decided, for now he was going to finish his repairs on the Tornado. He placed the book on top of his desk in his workshop and began gathering his tools and getting under his beloved biplane, tightening bolts, checking oil levels, he really loved doing it, it was relaxing for him and was something that very few other 9 year olds would be able to accomplish, then again most of what he did would be considered near impossible even by adult standards, and this thought made him proud. Several hours passed as he carefully checked his prized possession over, then made sure to clean it properly, when he was at last done he decided it was time for some light reading, and he had just the book in mind. Just holding it in his hands he could feel a small tingle run through his small frame, his fur seemed to almost stand on end, so he opened it up to the index page and began reading out sections aloud. "Identifying enchantments, nope, illusionary theory, maybe later, Magical aptitude test, that sounds perfect!" He flipped to the required page and began reading through the instructions, it stated that you should be completely relaxed and meditate for several minutes before attempting the test, Tails sighed, one of the worst habits he had picked up from his hero was his dislike of standing still, he always felt like he should be inventing or building something. So he sat cross legged on the cold floor of his workshop and wound his tails around his stomach in a comforting manner before shutting his eyes and imagining the most peaceful place he could think of, flying his plane at sunset, the air rushing past him ruffling his fur, Sonic standing on the wing that big goofy grin on. He remained there playing through the entire scene in his mind before he finally reopened his eyes and instantly jumped nearly to the ceiling; Sonic was looking right at him only a few inches away from his face.
"Sonic you almost gave me a heart attack! Don't do that, ok!" Sonic was waving his hands in front of him apologizing, it had been so odd seeing his brother utterly motionless that he had decided to go in for a closer look, he genuinely felt bad now about scaring his friend, Sonic offered Tails half the chilidog he had brought down with him, the fox's stomach rumbled and he licked his lips as he seized the delicious morsel and wolfed it down thereby accepting the apology. "So Tails, what were you doing?" "Meditating" "Oh, I see" Sonic nodded his head and prepared to leave when a thought came to his head, he turned to face Tails and the young fox recognized the look of evil in hedgehogs forest green eyes, he quickly spun his tails and attempted to lift off into the air, but before he could Sonic was already on top of and tickling the fox. "Sonic hahaa, pleasehaahaha, STOP!" The hedgehog pulled back and instantly regretted it as Tails seized full opportunity and began tickling his older brother in retribution, they both found themselves tickling the other and laughing with untamed ferocity, eventually they each stopped their assault and lay on the floor huffing and emitting the occasional chuckle, at last Sonic got up and as he was departing Tails heard him whisper over his shoulder. "Love you bro, don't ever wonder if your useful or not, cause you're the most important person in my life." Tails laid on the ground a little longer a giant grin plastered clear across his face as he finally stood up and went over to the book. In all honesty he didn't expect much from it, he expected a hoax, but it did seem rather to elaborate to be a hoax, so he read over and began the magical aptitude test. The goal was to create a small spark between his hands and breathing in and out, he carefully concentrated, he felt the energy course through him and with the smallest of tensing in his hands willed a spark to appear, and he gasped when a small blue and white spark jumped from one gloved hand to the other, he fell directly on his butt and stared at his hands in utter shock, he had done it. Unbeknownst to him in a dimension far off, a figure perked his head and smiled, he had felt it, the spark, it had been to long since anyone had demonstrated this spark, and he quickly stood up as he shouted out to his assistant. "Serra it seems we have a new student coming shortly" with that the figure began making preparations.
