Chapter One: New Beginning's

My name is Harukaze Kristen, or Doremi the Hedgehog in some cases.

I'm a teenage hero who lives both on Earth and planet Mobius. Back when I was still a kid, I was sent to Mobius for the first time in a while. That's when I met my two older brothers, Miles Power or as everyone calls him Tails and my oldest brother Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog.

Ever since then, I have been on tons of amazing adventures with Sonic and the rest of my friends, also learning the basics on being a hero. When I was officially out of training, I was twelve. Ever since then I've been put on more challenges. But with Sonic's help, I always had a hand for help.

However, while on Earth. Something's were brewing up on Mobius. What we didn't know was that a new enemy was forming an alliance with our main villain, Dr. Eggman or as I call him Dr. McNoise Hair. This new villain is recognized as Iza: Lord of Darkness. With Sonic and I, along with the rest of us on Earth, we had no time to waste and head for Mobius prepared for battle.

When we arrived, we were met faced to face with Iza. It was a scary encounter, I was able to sensed the darkness that drove that man inside. But we weren't gonna let him win so easily, so this was the beginning of the war between the negative darkness and our forces. This would turn out to be a giant war in Mobius.

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At this moment, I was struggling to stand my place, severely injured. As well as me, Sonic was also struggling to keep his strength. On the ground behind us laid our friends, passed and a badly injured as us. We were in what is coming to be our last battle, clearly to weak to win this battle.

I heard a chuckle from our foe, Iza who clearly had the upper advantage against us at this moment.

"It is clear here that you have lose. Why can't you accept that you stubborn hedgehogs ." He had addressed us with his dark and sinister voice, which now sent cold shots down my spine. But I can't let that effect me, Sonic isn't giving up and neither am I. We have to protect Mobius no matter what the cost is.

" We... We've told you- argh! Already, we're not giving up to to likes of you" Sonic said finishing with his trade mark smirk. "We... We won't lose, we'll keep fighting until you're finished " I said as I stood up straight. Sonic joined me.

Iza just chuckles at us " Very well then, then you two shall fail in your efforts to this land you call home." As he said that, the last charge of negative power came shooting from a crystal shard. I groaned in the inside, not this again.

"Sonic, we...we have to stop that crystal from absorbing more energy. It'll be too late if we don't" I said to Sonic, facing towards him. But what I saw next made me nervous, Sonic had a look of depression on his face." Sonic? Hey don't worry we'll both take him out and everything will go back to the way they were" I told him trying to cheer him up. Sonic looked at me with a sympathetic smile " Doremi, I don't think we can take it out without... " I immediately knew what he was talking about. That stupid story that Eggman told us must have him paranoid.

"Sonic, we're not going there. We're not sacrificing anything " I told him. Sonic was silent for a second but then smiled and walked towards me." Doremi?" "Yes?" " Can you...can you promise something?" I looked at him confused, why now of all times?!" S-Sure" " Promise me that you will never change, and that you will continue on my job saving the day even when I'm not there. Always be yourself OK?" I was kinda surprised to hear this , but I grinned at him " Of course! I am aiming to be like you Sonic. Daisuki dayō."

Sonic laughed and then hugged me, I returned it still wondering why he is doing this. " So, can we get back to our job?" He smile then falter, he didn't look at me when he backed away from the hug. I looked at him with a worry expression, why did he look so sad.

"Sorry Doremi, and..."

I saw him walked away from me and started heading to the beam. I started panicking, what's was he planning?! " Sonic? Aiko?!" I called him. He continue to move towards the beam, he looked at the crystal then looked down. The beam must of made a hole in the ground from what he looking at.

He wasn't thinking of doing what I think he gonna do?!

Sonic then pulled out his chaos emerald and look back to me and grinned " Doremi, sorry and..." I looked at him with wide eyes

"Sayonara" He said as he turned back around at the beam and jump into it, holding the emerald in front of him. I look in horror when he did that. I screamed as loud as I could.

"AIKO!"

The minute I screamed his name, a light illuminated in the beam and shot out from the crystal. Catching everything in it's radius, having me to shield my eyes for a second but I then noticed something different about this beam of light. Something...warm.

What was going on?!

I looked over to Iza and was surprised when I saw him struggling to stay alive, was this his last moments. I took advantage and used my chaos emerald and he then fell to his knees, screaming in agony.

"ARGH! NO! I SHALL NOT FADE! I WILL REMAIN INTERNAL! I SHALL NOT LOSE TO SOME ARROGANT TEENAGER!"

I smirked " Well guess what Iza? You just been put in your place!"

Everything then faded into white after that. It had felt like hours but was mere minutes until the light faded away. I looked around and was amazed to was I witnessed. The ground, my surroundings were just like it was before this whole war started. The life of the plants, the planet itself was restored.

Amazing.

I then heard the others start to steer, I was about to turn around we I remember Sonic and started looking frantically for him." Sonic?! Sonic! Where are you?!" I yelled out. Nothing. I then spotted where the crystal was before and gasp. I immediately froze in place for what laid in front in me.

"Doremi? Your okay., where's Sonic?" I heard a voice behind me, I then felt a tear fall down my cheek. I didn't turn around and just continue to look at the crystal. With my weak voice, I spoke up the one thing that I had in my mind " A-Aiko?!"

What laid in front of me was a large Dark purple crystallized shard, with inside remained a lifeless blue hedgehog. He was wrapped around in dark vines that was grasping around him. His upper body being the only clear part able to see. I could sense a deep sense of negative chaos energy and darkness sustaining it.

"Aiko...Tails, Sonic is..." I then broke down a started crying in front of everyone. I then felt weak and fell down on my knees, but then feeling hands catch and hold me as I continued crying even more. I already knew who's embrace I was in already so I then nuzzled my face into my older brother's chest.

"Doremi...what happened?" I heard Amy ask me, I then looked up at her still sobbing "I...I-I don't k-know. A-Aiko just s-said...*gasp*" wait, what Sonic said earlier. Could this be what he meant? He sacrificed himself...?

"H-He said s-sorry Doremi and s-sayon-nara to m-me...! H-He- A-Aiko sacrificed himself to stop a-all t-this?!" I then understood everything and took in all in. I then started to break down even more. What now! Sonic is gone! Wait...wait a minute

'Promise me that you will never change, and that you will continue on my job saving the day even when I'm not there. Always be yourself ok?'

I..I promised Sonic, I-I have to keep that promise. No matter what, but how are we going to break him out of the shard?! I started to panic, even though Eggman would only be the main focus again now, how are we gonna beat him without Sonic by our side?

"Doremi.." I stopped crying and looked up, as while did Tails. Did I just hear Kiri's voice? Well wouldn't hurt to ask right? "Kiri?" I asked out loud, still a little hiccup in my voice.

"Yes, it's me. Along with Sari" I heard her say, Sari? " Sari?! Are you okay?" Tails asked him, beating me to it " I'm fine, just a little drained. But I'll regain strength later." Sari said with a reassuring voice "It's Sonic I'm..." I then looked towards the crystal shard that contained him." Is... Is he..?" I had to ask them " Goodness no! He's not, he's just in a deep coma like state." Kiri explained, I sighed to myself " Coma like state, you mean like a deep slumber?" I asked." Sort of Doremi, it's almost like that but more like a trap like state, and by trap I mean his mind. He won't be able to wake up by himself. Not like this" Sari explained to me.

"I...is there a way to wake him up?" I heard steps coming towards me and look to see Shadow and Silver walked beside me. " Can we bring him out of this state his is in?" Silver asks as he looks towards Sonic.

" There is one way...but it's difficult"

I lifted my head with hope when I heard that, there was a way to bring Sonic back! "What is it Kiri, Sari?" I asked them eagerly, I heard silence for a while but then they spoke up again. "The crystal-diamond like substance contains a deep trance of darkness mixed with negative chaos, it would be able to break so easily. The only way to decrease the amount of energy is to gather what we call chaos cards."

I blinked a few times " Chaos Cards?" Shadow and Silver said at the same time as I did. " Yes, they're special cards that my maker created in case something like this situation would happen. They're Rare Cards, Special Cards, and Normal Cards. What you need to look for are the Special Cards. The normal cards can or be duplicated from the Special Cards, so you can have two of one." Sari explained

" The Rare Cards are those that can be use by it's choose ones. Which are us, and the rest of them emeralds. It's like transformation cards, they gave advantages for each Rare card you find. But to use them you will need these" Kiri explained as a light sparked in front of me and appeared as to everyone else. Then what appeared to be a touch pod descend from the light and landed in my hands, along with four cards.

"These are Chaos Pod, along with an original set if Rare Cards. Each is a different category. Doremi, your is my category. Lovely. Tails, yours is the yellow emerald category Pop. Amy, your is the cyan emerald category Feminine. Knuckles, your is following the purple emerald Cool. Same for you and the red emerald Shadow. And Silver, yours is going with the silver emerald Ethnic." Kir. Explained to all of us.

"But that still leaves the last emerald, Sari. There's is another person that is able to use the cards power, you find your first card, you find the person. There will be a certain amount that you will have to collect. It goes on random so you will never know what Exact number you will need for each stage. There are 10 stages in total, do you think you can collect the cards?" Kiri asked us.

We were all silent, and I'm pretty sure all eyes were on me. If this was Sonic only way of freedom, then laid it on me. I grinned at look at the others " Guys, lets do this. We can collect them all in no time. You with me?" they all smiled at me and nodded. " Yeah!" "Alright then" I turned to Sonic " Don't worry Aiko, we'll get you outta there in no time."

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That was about a year ago, now I'm sixteen and still haven't found any sign of a card anywhere. Man, what a bust! I've practically check every corner of this planet, where in the world is those cards?!

I was running on a dirt road at the way to the city and while I was running, I sense a strong strung of chaos energy. It's almost sensed like... Chaos control." Where's that energy coming from?" I asked myself.

I was then surprised to actually see a portal open right below my feet, I looked down and screamed as I feel through the portal. I then saw another portal open and I was sent shot through it. What shocked me next was what was on the other side of the portal. When I came out, I was face to face with what I didn't expect to see.

A human...