Prologue

Alchemy, the science of understanding the structure of matter. breaking it down, then reconstructing it as something else. It can even make gold from lead, but alchemy is a science. It must follow the natural laws. "To create: something of equal value must be lost." This is the principle of Equivalent Exchange, but on that night we learned that the value of something's can't be measured on a simple scale. My brother and I knew the science of Equal Exchange, the gain required sacrifice, that something had to be taken from us. We thought there was nothing more that we could lose. We were wrong…

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It rained on and on over the small village of Knothole, and everything was peaceful, if you would call that peaceful. The green meadows seemed to droop over the drops of rain, which was strange. There was the smell of freshly cooked stew that went throughout the valley and lead to the top of the hill where two cottages stood. They were both identical, white, Spanish architecture, red shingles, chapel stile windows. The lights were brightly glowing through the one on the left, the one on the right however, was not a light to be seen.

The left house's door shot open to reveal a young female chipmunk of some sort wearing a blue jacket and boots to match. She had pure blue eyes, and brown hair in a causal style. She glanced around the drowned meadow before screaming.

"Sonic! Tails! Dinners ready!" She yelled into the rain. She leaned out the door to peak around the corners then came back up. Her face was puzzled now, her finger was up to her chin then mumbled to herself. "Where are those two, they always come for dinner?"

"Shut the door!" yelled the voice from inside. "If there not coming, they can eat later. Now eat yours before it gets cold!" She quickly spun around with her face lighting in a instant.

"Alright," She said cheerfully. "just have a bad feeling that's all." The door shut and all was silent, but everything is never as it seems. In the upper floor of the other house were two boys who were drawing something on the floor. There were large bottles of strange elements, water, salt and other things.

One boy was a blue hedgehog about the same age as the girl. He wore two red running shoes and had emerald green eyes you could stare at forever. The other boy was a yellow fox about two years younger than his brother. He wore red and white shoes and had two tails which was very odd. The room was filled with books, materials, sketches, chemicals and some strange robotized fox armor that there dad brought back from the war. A book lay beside the hedgehog it was opened to a certain page.

"You ready Tails?" Said the hedgehog looking at his little brother. Tails sat there in silence. "Come on, we're finally going to get her back." Tails' worried faced gave a little bit more confidence but he still really never understood alchemy. Tails finally gave the nod as Sonic finished drawing the circle. The circle was filled with strange shapes and lines that all connected to be one congruent circle.

"Okay then, here we go." said Sonic placing his hands on the circle quickly followed by Tails. The middle of the circle lit up into a bright golden portal, colorful patterns swirled around them as the process began. The two big smiles from the boy quickly vanished to see the changing of the colors. They went from soft yellow and greens to a dark purples and reds as there very life force was getting sucked out of them. It all finished in a bright flash. Outside the house stood a red figure in a blue coat writing something in a journal.

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March 7, 2136

These past couple of days have been very strange lately. It's like the gods have frowned upon this world and have seen the wrongs, the reason I say this is the rain has been poring for six days now and hasn't stopped yet. Maybe someone has done the worst possible thing that has ever been done. Two boys contacted me…

He stopped writing to see the bright flash coming from the house. He stopped and starred.

Inside the house lay the blue hedgehog lying on the wooden floor with blood covering it. His eyes were wide open in fear looking to see what was left of this mistake.

"Tails, Tails!?" he cried while painful tears dripped from his face. He scanned the smoke filled room and looked over beside him where his brother once was, now a unfilled socks and red and white sneakers. "No, come on Tails, stay with me!" He pleaded from the pool of blood which pored out of his left side and lower right side where his arm and leg used be. Damn it! This wasn't supposed to happen! He's gone…" Then he saw something moving around on the other side of the room. He started to smile. "Mom?" he said trying to relax. What he saw wasn't his mother. The beast with a malformed shape looked at him with strange breathing patterns and the purple eyes that pierced his soul as he screamed into the darkness.

"That was Sonic!" Said the girl looking up from her dishes. The old lady on the couch was about to answer when there was a knock at the door. The girl ran over to the to the door and opened it as her mouth dropped of the site of the tall metal creature starring down at her caring a boy. The girl dropped the dish onto the hard wood floor, letting it smash it tiny pieces.

"Oh my god…"

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