This story begins with a 15 year old hedgehog named Emerald and his dragon Zephyir. Actually he is 15 billion years old. Ever since before the earth was created, his father and 6 others including him protected the galaxy from unidentified creatures. They were once known as the time stones. There were only 6 of them at that time. The seventh and final one of his kind was born 17,000 years after the extinction of their first home called Little Planet. On the last month of every year Little Planet would be over Never Lake. Little Planet was able to ignore the passage of time and space. On the day the legendary Sonic Hedgehog and his admirer Amy headed there, the cruel and evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik made the Little Planet his secret lair. Sonic's arch enemy was his robotic copy, Metal Sonic, who later kidnapped Amy who was used as bait. Sonic made his way through the mechanical fortress and saved her. The only sacrfice was the death of the stones' home. The next place they lived at and still do is the Hidden Palace. Hidden Palace is hidden deep in the volcano on the Floating Island. After the Death Egg hit the island it headed toward the waters. The original story from the echidnas was this: In an ancient time, the mystery island was part of the continent. A people with an extraordinary culture inhabited it. That civilization had built a peaceful and happy society using the energy of something they called "The Mighty Stone". But at a certain point, a faction of dark-minded elders tried to steal the energy of the stone, and by accident made that energy explode. The civilization was wiped out in a second, erased from history. Time passed, and a god came from the sky to the newly created mystery island . The sky god restored part of the civilization to the island, and threw the Mighty Stone into the open sky. The people who were left found what was called the mighty stone's children. Though they found 7. Robotnik tricked the last echidna to give him the stone and it's children. The stones were harmed during the great battles of the hedgehog and scientist. Every 3 thousand years the stones had to recharge. Years after they were able to recharge. The stones then grew out of their shells and started colonising the world.