Hello there, dear reader of this story! First off, as usual, I have to put the disclaimer, which I must say, it's kind of silly how we have to put disclaimers here. I mean, I thought this site was called "FANFICTION", right?
I do not own any of the characters used in this story. Not even OCs, I don't use OCs. All characters in this story belong to, and are copyright SEGA. I do own this story, but I do not own any of the characters used. ...Does that even make sense? Whatever. Moving on...
With that out of the way, I would like to note this is the only authors notes in the whole story, besides maybe, just maybe the ending, which is why it's so long.
Next up, I would like to thank user MazzyBooks for helping me and giving me tips and advice for making stories long, as I plan to make this story over 100 thousand words long, as insane as that sounds. This 100 years to live story was my best idea to make a story over 100 thousand words and reach my goal. Anyways, go check MazzyBooks' stuff out, the story I read was "The Loss You Gained", which I must say, is amazing. It's a great read, and I highly recommend it!
Anyways, getting back on that 100 thousand word goal of mine, I chose this idea for a story because it meant I only had to get in 1 thousand words per chapter, which even with this poetry story gimmick, is still insane, as 1 thousand words for poetry is a lot, and few poetry stories of Sonic the Hedgehog on this site rarely ever get over that 1 thousand amount. Not sure exactly how many though. Hold on, give me a moment. I'll do some math and find out...
Just did some math with a calculator, only 8.16176470588% (gotta love math, of course...) of Sonic the Hedgehog poetry stories ever get over 1 thousand! Why do I want over 100 thousand words though? Because its never been done before, and poetry is the only genre in Sonic the Hedgehog that doesn't have a story over 100 thousand words! Even western has a story over 100 thousand words, which if you ask me, that's pretty insane! I want to be the first, as it may give me some popularity (lol I'm so greedy aren't I). However, it's going to be hard, as the longest poetry is a ongoing one that is currently over 70 thousand words. I actually PMed the author of that over 70 thousand word story just before I made this, my story; He said he was a really slow writer, so I shouldn't worry too much about not getting the 100 thousand word goal before him.
Oh, and this is a predecessor to my story "Trail of the Unknown". Don't bother to go on my profile and try to find it and then read it, I actually already deleted it. I think it went something like this:
Shadow steals a Chaos Emerald, Sonic then is accused of doing it, as the hedgehogs looked rather similar, and then Shadow using Chaos Control to teleport Sonic to a different planet, and without Sonic protecting anything of the old planet, he just conquers it, then when everyone is wiped out, he Chaos Controls to the world Sonic had gone to. Sonic asked at some point how much time in their world it took to do something compared to Sonic's world. He was answered with "a few seconds in your world is a few years here" or something like that, he's mistaken for being Evil Sonic/Scourge, then the next day gets thrown into a possession chamber after they notice he isn't really evil, then I would come up with some stuff, but I cancelled it after that, because I just couldn't do it! This is what it'll be now, I guess. Just, really really altered and in no way like the old story, lol
Also, DANG! This author's notes thing already filled up half my 1 thousand words per chapter goal! I know it's really long since it's the only one in the whole story besides maybe the end, but WOW. That's really insane.
Lastly (reading this back, I realize this wasn't really the last thing, but I'm too lazy to go fix it. Yeah, I'm too lazy to remove a word and replace it with something lol), I would also like to note I will never say things like "don't forget to like favorite review and follow me and this story and remember to check tomorrow for the newest chapter" or something like that, not even right here, unless you count my example I just did. The reason being is that I don't like it when authors do this, and I feel like if you want to favorite review and follow, then do it. You don't need my reminders. If you feel I deserve it, do it. I feel like we need more reviewers like Lord Kelvin, the kind of people who are honest when reviewing and don't say stuff like "oh your story is really great I rate 10/10 remember to continue more and blah blah blah blah blah". Here's a quote from Lord Kelvins bio too, that I really, really agree with: "The amount of encouragement most reviewers can give is simply poisonous. It makes the writer feel on top of the world, to a point he or she stops dreaming about improvement". Also, I just naturally don't like it when people lecture you to do the same stuff over and over. I mean, if they were going to do it, they would've already done it! There's no need to kill my skin cells and waste your time reading and/or typing out all that stuff! The exception is that I like it when people say ONCE at the end of the story something like "Thanks for reading my fanfic" or "I hope you enjoyed this story :)". In fact, I may even do that, not quite sure yet, but we'll see when the time comes.
May add more stuff to this later if I feel like it. For now, that's all I have to say, which I must admit, this was a really long note... If you read all this, I congratulate you, you must have some really good patience to read all this. This authors note thing is literally like 900 words total, which I must say, is very insane.
And look at that, because I'm a big fat cheater, this is already at 1 thousand words just from the authors notes. This whole note is big enough to make it a chapter! I've been planning out some of this story, and now, I'm ready! This story will probably have a lot of dumb adventures, and maybe once every few years, a huge adventure. I've even planned out one huge event, which'll happen pretty early in Sonic's life.
I'll probably be focusing a lot on this story for a few months.
P.S: The tool I am using to make these rhymes is called Rhymezone, it's a pretty awesome tool, I recommend it to those of you who plan to or are also writing poetry like I am. On Rhymezone you can find rhymes/near rhymes, synonyms, descriptive words, antonyms, definitions, rhyme examples, related words, similar sounding words, homophones, spellcheck, consonant patterns, words that contain your word (WORDCEPTION) and some more pretty cool stuff. Of course, I mainly focus on the rhyme thing, but Rhymezone is still a great tool, even if you aren't writing poetry like I am. The only one of those fan fiction has is spell check, but to be fair, a lot of sites have spellcheck.
Jeez this took a while to write, even if it's the only one in the whole story, besides maybe the ending, like I said. I'm glad this is the only one, even if it was a great way to get a lot of words to start off with, haha. Getting words will be pretty hard in the story, because it takes like 5 minutes to make 10 words, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.
And because I'm a bigger and fatter big fat mega cheater, I am now at 2 thousand words with this story. Only 2 percent of the way there, but that's still really good for a mere ONE chapter.
EDIT: I would like to note I may be changing my opinion about not using author notes. Don't worry though, there will only be like one every ten or twenty or fifty or maybe even only one year that will last. Usually I'll be answering questions to guests who don't have accounts, since you can't PM them to chat about it. The only place I plan to use a actual author note that will stay is in the last year, and I feel like it will be deserved. I'll give a song or something for a mood settler or something you can just listen to while reading, as I plan the make the final battle very climatic. It will be as if Sonic's whole life had been leading up to it, his final adventure that took years to complete, when Eggmans final and strongest attack came, as everything about the world just slowly gets destroyed and turned into Dr. Eggmans form of art, eventually leading up to the epic final showdown between Dr. Eggman and Sonic the Hedgehog, which I plan to make as EPIC as I can, and that includes the music. Will probably be thousands of words long, making it as in detail as I can, even with Poetry.
With all that out of the way, FINALLY, lets get right into the story!
They grow older each and every day,
That's what they all say.
He'll grow stronger,
But no longer,
We must let him go.
He'll be nowhere near slow,
He'll learn fast,
But as times come and become the past,
The journey will be over, he'll have reached the line
When the clock strikes one hundred years, it will be his time.
It was a grumpy day outside,
And all the animals in Green Hill Zone cried.
And although the animals were mean to each other with scorn,
Little did they know, that day, a legend was to be born.
Born in a field currently filled with anger and hate,
That anger, later in his life would change the heroes fate.
From a normal boy growing up in a family of love,
His safe position would later be shoved.
First came his self, then his sister and brother.
Sonic, Sonia and Manic.
The world was safe when they were born; There was no need to panic.
Although Sonic was a emotional crybaby,
Maybe,
Just maybe,
He would grow up to be strong and serious.
Within a few months after birth, Sonic's parents died.
The poor children cried.
They moved in with their uncle Chuck.
And in that family, they were stuck.
They had no parents or aunts or uncles, they had all died out.
Without a doubt,
They were all alone.
The family played together,
Sometimes they even teased each other,
But in all their dreams,
Behind the scenes,
They had fun as a family.
Then one day,
There was no more time to play.
The fun had all gone away.
Dr. Eggman had come to be the cities downplay.
He had chosen to disobey
All the city, and he planned to get away.
Chuck started to work on inventions down by his base at the bay.
He built inventions to counter Dr. Eggman,
But Dr. Eggman already had set up his plan.
In the span
Of a month, Dr. Eggman had attacked Green Hill.
Dr. Eggman done it all to feel thrill,
While all the family could do was stay still.
None of them had the skill
To deal with the doctor.
The family's other son and daughter,
Did not bother to mess with Dr. Eggman.
Sonic however,
Had figured it was either now or never.
He adventured through
Green Hill,
Where even with his thrill,
He had to hold back his emotions, as Green Hill Robotnik had garbled.
Marble,
Where he rarely ever went,
But to follow his mission was why he was sent.
He went through the ruins,
When at the end, after fighting Robotnik, he did his doing,
And there, he once again save the flickies that were guarded and barred.
Spring Yard,
A strange city he had only seen once,
Presumed to be a kind of "monster gang" place,
So he had to keep his pace.
Labyrinth,
Where he had to go through his worst fear: water,
And the water didn't even have fish and otters,
The only fish were evil fish.
They began to attack and swish.
And then at the end of it all,
Star Light,
A rather relaxing place, not much for a fight,
and Scrap Brain.
Where through the nights and the rain,
The time, and the pain,
He had finally gotten to battle him one last time in Final Zone.
He had become more well known,
But even still, he had lost the battle right at the end
And Dr. Eggman attacked over and over again.
Meanwhile, Sonic lay in a coma.