Hi! Thought I might put an authors note here. This is flash back number one, so not the actual main story but still an important part.
Mid summer of 2000, somewhere similar to earth in the universe. Possibly parallel to ours, a place where magic is accepted and lands are extensive. A place where global warming isn't an issue and life is full of equal ups and downs. Now, this world isn't perfect, it still has its potholes. Injustice and crimes still take place, and sometimes never get their just deserved but that's life.
In this year of 2000, in a large suburban back garden full of flowers. A large slab-stone path lines the side of the lawn, at the end of the path is a metal arch, a tree winding through the bars giving it a natural form so a tree archway. Through the arch was a smaller part of the garden like a shrove. Flowers lined each side with a stoned square in the middle to stand.
In the middle of the garden a small girl of three danced around a small plant pot. Her waist length brown hair bouncing as she bounced, her eyes a bright as the sky is blue and the biggest smile you could imagine.
'Yay! Yay! My plant has grown! It's a cute, pretty little flower! Orange, red and yellow little flower!' She continued to dance round it, not noticing that it moved slightly of its own accord.
'Millie! I'm just going to talk to auntie on the front ok. So don't leave the garden.' The girls grandmother called from the kitchen that on looked the beautiful garden.
'I won't granma!' She waved back and continued to dance around the pot. Her grandmother smiled and walked through the house to the front, leaving Millie alone in the garden. The plant moved of its own accord again.
'Ooooh! It's a magic plant! It can move! How cool! Maybe its a fairy plant and I will meet a fairy like tinker bell!' Millie kneeled in front of the pot and looked at it intently. The head of the flower turned to face her, then a pair of evil eyes and a sneering mouth opened in the centre.
'Aaahh! It's a monster help!' Millie stumbled back but bumped into something, the garden bench prevented her from moving further back. Her eyes wide with fear she screamed for help again but got no reply.
'Hehe! Your help won't come! They can't hear you! And thank you for being my next meal!' The plant grew dramatically, thorny vines grew at frightening speeds, winding and weaving together forming arms, head and torso. Millie tried to run but her attempts failed and she was tangled up in the monsters vines, she cried in pain.
'Ouch! That hurts you meanie! Let me go!' Millie would not let herself cry but tears still found their way down her cheeks. The thorns dug into her soft skin, creating many small cuts along her bare legs and arms. "Oh no! I'm gonna be eaten by a plant! My mummy will be sad, so will the kitties and grandma."
The monster pulled the girl closer and closer to its gaping mouth, dripping sap like saliva on a hungry dog. However, before she was even three quarters the way a strange whooping sound came from the centre of the tree arch, it was distorted and pulsating like some sort of portal. Then the air under the arch began to visibly move and turn strange tones of green, it span like a galaxy revealing a central white spot.
A creature hopped out of this apparition, azure blue fur, tan arms, stomach and muzzle, bright emerald green eyes, red running sneakers with a white stripe and golden buckle on the outside.
'A hedgehog!? What's a mangy hedgehog gonna do, to save this girl?' The monsters raspy voice growing more high pitched.
'Hey! I had a shower this morning so I ain't mangy thank you! Now let that girl go or I'll have to force you!' The blue hedgehog said confidently at the monster.
'What makes you think I'll just do that!'
'Because if you don't,' he readied his stance to run,
'I'll do this!' And he ran circles round the plant faster than you could see, the sheer force of the air moving started to unravel the monsters vines holding it all together. It began to fall apart, the girl fell crying onto the floor as she then scrambled under the bench to hide.
'NOOOOOOOOOOooooooo!' The monster screamed, it fell apart and returned to it's plant form. The azure hedgehog turned looking for the girl and found her curled up under the bench.
'Hey, it's alright now. The nasty plant's gone, you're safe now.' He reached a hand out to the girl, she looked at him. Her arms and legs covered in scratches and her body was shaking. The hedgehog saw and picked her up gently.
'Ow mister, I hurt all over! Be careful!'
'You speak rather well for a kid.' He laughed placing her on the grass.
'My mummy says it's a talent but I don't really care. And you need to introduce yourself! It's very rude not to. My name's Millie.' The girl looked very proud of herself, but she looked up at the hedgehog with a grumpy face.
'Sorry, my name's Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog.' He announced himself. Millie smiled up at him as soon as she heard his name.
'You mean the game character Sonic!' She was very excited, almost bouncing if it weren't for the scratches.
'Game character? I'm alive not some digital thing. See, I'm talking and moving by myself aren't it?'
'I can see that but here you're in loads of vid-videoo... Video games! That's it! Thats how you say it!'
'Haha! You're funny, now come on let's get rid of those scratches.' Sonic gestured to Millie holding a red gem in his hand. Millie looked at it in awe, it seemed to glow without the need for a light behind it or a candle. He held it close to her arms, the gem glowed brighter and Millie could feel its warmth. The scratches however disappeared, they tingled a little but nothing else. Then the ones on her legs began to fade too, as if they were never there.
'Thank you mist-I mean Sonic. Hehe! And this is for you!' Millie stood on her tiptoes and gave Sonic a kiss on the forehead. He looked up at her with a smile and she smiled back. Sonic looked back at the arch then muttered something which Millie couldn't make out.
'Can you stay for a bit?' Millie asked with large innocent eyes.
'Well...' Sonic thought, considering it for a moment.
'Yeah! Why not.' He then replied with a large smile.
'Yay!' The girl cheered and for the rest of the afternoon, Sonic and Millie played with her plastic dinosaurs. The hedgehog looked back at the arch again to see the portal open. Waving goodbye to Millie he shouted,
'I hope to see you again!' Then, the portal closed.
'Who've you been playing with then? You sounded like you've had lots of fun!'
'I was playing with my new friend Sonic the hedgehog!'
'Aaw! You do have some lovely imaginary friends.' Her grandmother replied. Millie looked back puzzled then thought, "grandma must not be able to see him. So his is magic."