Hey guys, this is my very first fan fiction! It was created when I was a lot younger so it is a little cheese at times. But I really love this story and I hope you guys enjoy it as well. There are five characters that I came up with, with my friends, in this story as well. Please leave reviews and constructive criticism is welcome! :)
Sonic dashed into Tails' workshop, slowing down he looked around for the yellow fox.
"Tails?" he called out.
"Sonic! You're here!" Tails' head popped out from beneath the X-Tornado. Grabbing a cloth, he climbed out from under the plane and walked over to stand in
front of the blue hedgehog.
"And not too late?" Sonic asked smiling his signature smile.
"Nope, not at all," Tails grinned.
"So where is this thing you wanted to show me?"
"Um, hold on I know it's around here somewhere…" Tails put the cloth down and went behind the X-Tornado. "Come on!" he yelled behind his shoulder.
Sonic hesitated, and then followed the fox when something caught his eye. He tried to make out what the thing was. He stared hard at it. Then realized what it
was.
He followed the path of the weapon with his eyes. It was going straight for Tails. Click.
"Tails! Look out!"
The fox turned with a puzzled expression. Sonic made a lunge for the fox, pushing him out of the way before the dagger could hit him. Tails got flung across the
room and landed on the ground. Springing up, he saw his best friend hit the floor, blood splattering.
"Sonic!" Tails ran to the hedgehog's side, rolled him onto his back, and saw the little dark stain on his chest. He grabbed his friend's wrist and looked at his
ring. It was black.
"No!" He whirled around trying to see who did this through his blurry eyes. All he saw was a single black feather float to the ground. "No!" Tails wailed.
Chapter One
Tails stared at the still figure of Sonic in disbelief. Sonic dead… why? How? Who would do this? Tails thought as more tears ran down his face. He took a deep
breath and decided to do something. That something he didn't quite know yet.
Tails stuck Sonic in a sack, with much difficulty, before dragging the hedgehog to his house. He knew that if Amy saw that Sonic was dead she would have a fit,
and if Eggman knew—He decided not to think about that. He finally reached his house. Entering he stuck Sonic on the sofa, and sat down next to him.
Spotting a book on his mantle he grabbed it and flipped through the pages. Soon he found what he was looking for. It was a picture of a golden ring turning
black. His gaze slowly made its way down to the inscription below the picture.
He read it aloud. "A ring that turns black is death, but a ring that is golden is life. To turn back death for life, you must find the ancient ring of life." Tails paused then
continued. "If one has a blacken ring, they must go forth and find the ring of life and combine the dead ring with the living one. Once one is done, they must put it on
to live. Warning! This ring does not bring immortality."
He looked up from the book and stared at Sonic. "There's hope for you yet. I am going to find that ring!
Lizzy, a three tailed, yellowish orange fox, sat uncomfortably on a tree limb. She rested her head on the base of the tree, looking up into the now rising sun.
She halfway closed her eyes enjoying the warm breeze that stirred up the branches. Snap. Both ears shot up and twisted to hear what just made that noise.
"Hey, Lizzy!" A familiar voice said through the branches, "Wha'cha doing?"
Lizzy relaxed. She sat up and jumped out of the tree. "Not much. Say, where have you been these past couple days?" She asked poking the black and gray
hedgehog in the stomach.
"Hey! Cut that out!" Coal said shoving her hand away, "I was out exploring."
"Oh, really?" Lizzy said suspicion in her voice.
"Yeah, really! Coal said giving Lizzy another shove.
She stumbled back laughing. "Say, Coal, Have you seen Icefire around lately?
Coal just shook her head. "No.
Lizzy snorted. Reaching for her bag she pulled out her L-emerald. Coal looked at Lizzy, her gaze then lowered to the yellow L-emerald. "Don't worry, we'll find
him soon… like I will find my L-emerald soon."
"Yours is in the bag." Lizzy said ignoring Coals concern.
"You know what I mean." She shot back.
"We should go find Icefire." Lizzy said changing the subject.
"Okay." Coal grabbed her L-emerald from the brown shoulder bag before Lizzy took it, and stuck it behind her spines.
"So you want me to help you save Sonic?" Shadow asked.
"Yes—uh—I would like your help to find this." Tails held up the book with the golden ring that was turning black. Shadow took it and read the inscription.
"A ring that can resurrect?"
"Yeah," Tails shifted uncomfortably.
"What do I get out of this?" Shadow handed back the book.
"A Chaos Emerald?" Tails suggested.
"You would give me a Chaos Emerald to help you resurrect Sonic?" Shadow asked raising one eyebrow.
"That's what I was hoping for," he looked down at the book.
"I'll tell you what; I'll help you resurrect that blue hedgehog if you give me two Chaos Emeralds."
"Two?" Tails asked looking up at the black hedgehog.
"Two or no help."
"Okay, two Chaos Emeralds. So you'll help me?"
The dark hedgehog nodded, "It's a deal."
Lizzy and Coal trudged through the woods looking for the white hedgehog with red and blue designs.
Coal stumbled over a root. Getting irritated she grabbed the nearest thing that she could find. It was a small branch. She broke the branch in half and threw
both halves as hard as she could. One got stuck in a bush the other hit Lizzy in the side of her head.
"You know you shouldn't throw things at people when you get angry." Lizzy said annoyed.
"Well sorry!" Coal retorted still irritated by the root. Lizzy tried to laugh but it only came out a hiccup. There was a moment of silence until Coal burst out, "For
crying out loud, where is that hedgehog?!"
"You guys looking for me?" A happy voice asked.
Both fox and hedgehog whirled around. Coal glared at Icefire, Lizzy just tugged her bangs in frustration.
"Duh, yeah!" Coal shouted.
The silver hedgehog ducked her head and apologized.
"Never mind," Lizzy said, "You're here and now we can go and find our L-Emeralds."
"But, Lizzy," Icefire started, "we already have our L-Emeralds."
"Yes, these ones." Lizzy held out the yellow gem. Icefire still looked confused so she continued. "You know Eggwonna, right?"
"Yeah," Icefire replied not getting where this was going.
"Well, you know that big, fat, 'genius' she found? His name—uh—Eggman."
Icefire nodded.
"Well, she gave him her L-Emerald."
"You mean that she gave him her gem?" Icefire's eyes widened.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because, Eggman is now Eggwonna's L-Emerald."
"Oh, I see! So you mean that the L-Emerald isn't this gem but is someone?" Icefire asked.
"Yes exactly!" Lizzy said, "That's why when we give them the L-emeralds, and if they take it, they acknowledge the way we are. Eggman accepted the way
Eggwonna was, so he is now her L-Emerald. Make sense?"
Icefire nodded her head. "Yeah, I guess. So we give them the L-Emerald and if they take it they accept us?"
Lizzy nodded. Icefire beamed. "Cool! Let's go!" With that she started running farther into the woods Coal and Lizzy looked at one another, smiling they ran
after her.
Tails walked uneasily next to Shadow. Even though Shadow did in fact save Sonic once and he wasn't totally evil, he still gave Tails the creeps. He knew if they
got in a fight, he would lose. He learned that the hard way.
Shadow sighed. "This is stupid. We'll never find that ring unless we know were to look."
Tails shifted realizing that Shadow was right. "Well, we could go and ask people if they know where this—" Before the fox could finish a bright light came from
nowhere. Both shielded their eyes, trying not to look directly at the light, but still trying to see what was happening.
"What the—?" Shadow muttered.
Something or someone fell out of the light landing squarely on top of Tails. "Oof! Hey, get off of me you big lug!" Tails said squirming out from underneath the
silver animal.
"Sorry!" The hedgehog apologized.
Tails got out from underneath him and the hedgehog helped Tails up, "Where am I? And who are you?"
Shadow looked quizzically at the hedgehog, "Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog."
"I'm Silver… the Hedgehog," Silver said glancing at Shadow, "and what just happened?"
"That's what we would like to know." Shadow growled.
"Well, I was minding my own business when someone sent me through a time portal."
"A time portal?" Tails asked astonished. "So you're saying you're from the future?"
