Curse of the Beast

By Fangs of Lightning and The Chuckinator

Chapter 1: The Plane Crash

"An hour ago, one of our planes went down the forest," the soldier said. "We had a lot of important objects on that plane, and need your help recovering all of them."

Sonic frowned as he watched the news report on the TV. "Tails, are you seeing this?" He asked as he turned up the volume.

"Yeah. Are you going to help them?" Tails asked.

The hedgehog nodded. "Of course I am. How do you think this happened?"

"A malfunction in the plane, maybe? Or someone could have caused it directly."

"That makes sense. Anyway, I'll be back soon. If you need me, call me on my cell."

Tails smiled as Sonic left and continued to watch the news report. Sonic ran to the location they had mentioned and went up to the nearest soldier.

"Is there any way I can help?" He asked.

A soldier looked at him and smiled. "Of course there is, Sonic. How good are you at searching for things?"

"I'm okay with it. What do you want me to look for?"

"Anything from the wreck, to be honest. We want to clean this out of the forest as soon as possible. There are also a few boxes we can't find. They're probably away from the wreck somewhere."

Sonic nodded and walked off. He looked around for anything, keeping his eyes peeled. There were lots of things around from the wreck. Running away from the rest of them, Sonic looked for anything farther away than the central mess. He looked around, wondering what could have caused this. Sonic sighed and sat on a rock, thinking about it.

"What could have caused this?" He asked himself.

They were in the middle of the forest; he doubted someone could have shot it down. Sonic scanned the forest and saw something: claw marks on some of the equipment. He frowned in confusion, wondering how those got there. He followed them and soon saw a medallion lying on the ground. Bending down, he saw some form of writing on the outer circle of the medallion. He couldn't read it, but figured it was one of the things they had lost.

"What's this?" He asked, and put the amulet around his neck.

It glowed brightly and Sonic fell to the ground as he saw a vision. There were people screaming, and some other loud noises. A roar could be heard and he saw what happened to cause the plane to crash. Some sort of animal was inside the plane. Sonic's eyes widened and he ran back to the soldiers.

"I found something!" he said, showing them the medallion.

"What's that?" One of the soldiers got a closer look at it.

Sonic shrugged. "Some sort of medallion. Anyway, when I put it on, a vision came to me. I think it was some sort of animal that attacked from inside the plane."

The soldier nodded. "I had heard there were things possessing magic onboard the plane. Could you tell what kind of animal it was?"

"No, I couldn't get a look at it. Did you hear anything out of the ordinary while you were on there, like roars or any animal noises?"

"I did, actually."

Sonic looked at him and nodded. "That may be what caused the crash. I did see some claw marks over where I found the medallion."

The soldier sighed and shook his head. "I should have checked to see what it was."

The hedgehog smiled. "I'm glad I could help," he said, and ran back to his house. Tails looked up as he saw Sonic walk inside.

"How did it go?" Tails asked.

"It was good. I found something that might help." He took off the medallion and gave it to Tails. "Found it near the crash."

"A medallion?" Tails looked at it.

"Yeah. There are strange markings on it also, When I put it on, I had a vision of the crash. Some sort of animal on the plane caused it to go down."

"A vision?" Tails looked over the medallion.

Sonic nodded, and Tails gave it back to Sonic, who put it around his neck. The fox frowned, wondering if that was magical.

"What if wearing it has some kind of magic affect on you?"

"I don't think it will, Tails. I don't believe in magic," Sonic said.

"Not believing doesn't make it not happen."

"I'll be careful."

Tails nodded and Sonic walked into his room. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was the full moon. The medallion glowed as an aura surrounded it, and the full moon's image appeared on the center.