Harbinger of a new enemy by CrazyNutSquirrel
Summary: Let's just say this, (you'd better listen) this is the sequel to Dark Roses, but, it's mainly focused on Mystery, Dark, and Stealth.
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Chapter 1: Fateful announcement
"CHAOTIC FATE!" Yelled a slightly deep, but light at the same time, and gentle, masculine, voice. Five seconds later, four brutish looking boys around the age of thirteen stumbled out of the alley, terrified. Two figures came out behind them a minute later. One was a light blue hedgehog with dark blue hair, he was carrying a trembling green wolf. He set the wolf down and crouched in front of him, he pressed a small patch into his hand, "My Uncle Tails made this, it's like a walkie talkie patch that you can attach to your throat, call me if those bullies attack you again." The wolf nodded, "Okay Mystery, thanks!" And with that he ran away, patch clutched tightly in his hand. Mystery smiled, he'd given about a dozen kids these patches already at the start of their school year, he had a sort of "school" program/schedule at home were he would learn, mostly from the internet or a robot named Emerl that his Aunt (she wasn't really an aunt, she was a teenager now for heavens sake!) Cream brought over or leant to them. Her chao had evolved like Chaos had, but with wings, and constantly had an eye on her. And he had given dozens of patches to other helpless children in the past, almost all the older students in the school (St. Lora's) owed him for saving them, a handful of the others had seen him as a very nice person who helped the children who needed it.
Shaking his head slightly and smiling, he turned around and came face to face with two black hedgehog's with pink highlights, his siblings, Dark and Stealth. They looked like teenagers (having done the same thing their Aunt Amy had done to look older, use the sword of Acorns!) but had the minds of nine and eight year olds. But because of Uncle Tails' relentless training, lectures, and talks, they had the knowledge of teenagers. They grinned, "Given another kid a 'talkie patch?" Asked Dark, Mystery smiled and high fived his brother, "You bet."
Stealth grinned and shook her head slightly, "Well, we'd better hurry on home, it is getting around dinner time." The two boys agreed and they all skated back home (they had inherited their father's chaos abilities (some) and had air skates like his, but personalized, Mystery's were in blue and white, Dark's were in black and gold, and Stealth's were in grey and red). Mystery drew the spare key out of his pocket, Stealth's eyes widened, "Did you swipe that from Mother's jewelry box?" She asked incredulously, "Oh ho yes, she shouldn't have taught us to steal now should she?" He asked as he unlocked the door. They went in to the kitchen to find their youngest sibling Maze (she had been born a year after Stealth and had used the sword of Acorns as well to look like a teenager) in the kitchen helping their mother (Rouge) finish the last things for dinner. Maze looked up, "GET OUT! YOU'LL RUIN THE SURPRISE!" They stumbled out as Maze had made quick movements to the rather heavy iron pan hanging on the wall above the counter. "Jesus, it was only us Maze!" Shouted Dark as they headed towards the living room. Before Maze could yell Rouge did, "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT SAYING THE "J" WORD IN THIS HOUSE BOY?!" Hollered their se(censored) alluring mother. To pass the time until dinner, they shook their father awake (he was sleeping on the sofa) and challenged him to a game on their racing game for the PS2. Shadow accepted, and the next twenty minutes were spent duking it out in a virtual world. "DINNER!" Yelled Rouge and Maze. They entered the dining room, all four blinked and took a step back, the table was covered in food, a BBQ'd chicken, spaghetti and meatballs (with tomato sauce), and tons of other things, but the main thing was a huge cake, it had been iced with swirls or black, red, pink, white, and blue, all interlocking to create different colors everywhere. Shadow looked at it as he sat down, "Rouge..." "I didn't do it, thank Maze, she's the one, I couldn't have made that." Maze beamed at her mother's compliment. Even though she wasn't in the kitchen too much, she sucked up recipes like a whirlpool. She was light blue, like Mystery, but with white highlights, and dark blue ringlets of fur on her arms. "We ready to tuck in?" Asked Rouge sarcastically. "YES!" Everyone exclaimed, after they finished the dinner, they went on to dessert, as soon as everyone had tried some cake they closed their eyes in ecstasy, "Maze what did you DO?" Asked Shadow, she blushed, "Well... hey I can't tell you! Culinary secret!" She said smirking and tapping the side of her nose.
After they all finished (the last slice of cake had to be divided into six because everyone liked it so much) Rouge stood, "Now, I have a small announcement." Everyone lazily turned their heads in Rouge's direction. "You four, are going to public school." Said Rouge pointing to the children. "WHAT?!" They yelled, jumping up. "Mom, we've been perfectly fine home-schooling, why change now?" "Because I decided you need more friends." Mystery and Dark turned on their father, "Why didn't you stop her?" They hissed, "I've already told you that your mother can make me do almost anything she wants, she wanted to send you to a boarding school..." "WHAT?!" The children cried, outraged, "...But I told her that you would hate that so she said public school, meaning St. Lora's, and she wouldn't budge from there, so sorry kids, I tried." He said, leaning back and putting his hands behind his head, interlacing them to support it. Now the children turned on their mother, "Your first day is tomorrow, Monday. Which will give you a one week of 'the start of school', I was going to have your first day for last friday but if I had you wouldn't have had a full week to get used to it." They glared ice daggers at her. "Now, clean up then bed." She ordered, "Wha...?" They started to complain, that wasn't the usual routine! "This is so you can have some rest for tomorrow, I know for fact you guys stayed up last night until one o' clock." They grinned guiltily at each other. "Now, hurry up!" She said, stalking out of the room, on the way she grabbed Shadow so she dragged him out too. The children looked at each other, disgruntled, then Maze sighed, "Chaos retract." The plates flew into a neat pile on the table, she picked them up, "Come, on, Mom isn't going to change her mind and you know how stubborn she can be."