This is a story about Sage the Hedgehog, Shadow's long lost brother, and his quest to recover his memory, and everything else.
Disclaimer:
I do not own the original Sonic characters, they belong to Sega, I am using their work as my own, fan based work.
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Prologue
This story takes place exactly 4 months after the events in Shadow the Hedgehog.
A long time ago, aboard Space Colony Arc, Professor Gerald Robotinik designed the Ultimate Life Form named Shadow the Hedgehog. Exactly three weeks after the creation of Shadow, Gerald worked on a new project in secret, a Shadow twin. He spent months on this new project, trying to make it close to Shadow, yet still be unique. He had the same physique and body shape, yet his colors and personality where different. He released his new creation in the Ark, to meet his brother and Gerald's granddaughter: Maria. But his new creation, Sage, started to become unstable after a few weeks, so he put him back in his test tube. The day after Sage was put back in his tube; the GUN soldiers came and raided the Arc. Fortunately, Sage was in a secret room, so they never found him.
About Fifty years later, Shadow the Hedgehog had a showdown with Black Doom. Eggman, curious as he is, searched the Arc, even better than he did the time before with the Biolizard. After hours of searching, he found Sage. He didn't want the others to know of him, so he launched him into space. That's when Sage awakened. The test tube burst out in space, but Sage was too weak, so he plummeted to Earth. He crashed landed right in front of a small house out in the middle of the forest, owned by a hedgehog, which looked almost like Sage. She was black, with green highlights, and wore a green, black and red plaid skirt, and a lime green T-shirt. She walked outside to see what had happened. She saw the hedgehog lying there, so she took him in. And she waited for him to wake up, for the next four months…
Chapter 1
After four months of unconsciousness, Sage was awake, and better than ever. Yet, he didn't remember anything. The only thing he remembered was only being awake for three weeks, then being put back into a tube, then he wakes up to a strange face that looks like him. She called herself Lily, and Sage didn't know whether she was a friend or enemy. She said that she's been looking after him for a really long time. Sage considered her an ally, for now.
Sage was standing in front of Emerald River, which was right behind Lily's house in Emerald Forest, which was right next to Emerald City. Sage thought the river was a beautiful site. Sage looked down the river to notice that the river flows into a lake, named Emerald Lake. The water was sparkling. Sage just closed his eyes, trying to remember things about his past. He reopened his eyes, looked to left, and saw Lily standing there.
"What do you want?" Sage asked impolitely. Sage wasn't one to be real friendly with strangers, so being impolite was normal.
"I never caught your name. I told you mine, you said thank you and that you didn't remember anything, then you just walked outside."
"My name is Sage." Upon saying that he walked off. Then he stopped. He turned around to face Lily and said, "Mind if I stay here? I have nowhere else to go." She nodded, and then she ran past him and grabbed his arm, pulling him to the house. She pulled him inside, and ran around the seemingly endless turns of the house, and finally arrived in the same room Sage was in.
"This is your room. Make yourself at home!" Lily said, with plenty of vigor. Sage walked in, said thank you, and walked back outside. Lily walked outside as well, but instead of going back to the river like Sage did, she walked deeper in the woods. "Maybe Sage wants some apples. I'll go get him some." As Lily walked through the forest, a mysterious figure tripped her. "What's the big idea?" She shouted. Then she realized who it was. "I'm sorry sir. Is there something you wanted?"
"Yes, I want your next payment on the house." The strange figure replied, with a dark, deep voice. Lily just stared into his beady eyes. "I take it you don't have my payment?" Lily just shook her head. "Ok then. You know what happens to people who don't pay me when it's time to pay. Cobra, you know what to do." A bigger version of the figure walked closer to Lily, she was dumbfounded, unable to move. Cobra pulled a tree from the ground with ease, and then held it up high, Lily closed her eyes. He started to swing to downward, when all of a sudden, this blinding light came out of nowhere, and Cobra, as well as the tree, went flying backwards. Lily open opened her eyes to see Sage standing in front of her, holding a Chaos Emerald. "Who are you?" The figure had a staggering sound coming from his voice.
"My name is Sage the Hedgehog, I don't know much about me, but I do know I don't want to see you here ever again, you got that!" Sage spoke with such sternness. Lily just stared up at Sage, a sparkle in her eye.
"But, Sage, she owes me mone…"
"She owes you nothing! Now scat!" He cut him off, and the mysterious figure ran, yelling some random gibberish. Cobra struggled to get up, but he finally did, and followed the strange man. "Now, Lily, let's go back to the house, and just talk." She nodded and they both headed back.
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"So, Sage, how did you get that Chaos Emerald?" Lily asked, as they both headed back into the house. "I've only seen one other person have one, and perform the Chaos Control, and that was this dreamy hedgehog named Shadow." She stared off into space, and looked like an empty shell.
"Shadow, who's Shadow. And what is a Chaos Emerald, and Chaos Control. I just found this gem flowing along the stream, so I picked it up. I heard a voice that sounded like yours, and I thought you were in trouble, so I focused my energy, and I just ended up in front of you."
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHO SHADOW IS!? He's just the dreamiest hedgehog ever. I even modeled my look after him. Wait a minute; you look like Shadow, so how don't you know him?"
"I don't know, remember, I forgot my past, I don't remember a thing."
"Ok, now I'll try to answer your other questions as best as I can… Chaos Emeralds are gem like things of a power source… haha, looks like I forgot what Shadow told me! But I remember Chaos Control, it allows you to bend time and space, and teleport almost anywhere, but you need a Chaos Emerald, like that one!" She pointed at the Chaos Emerald Sage was holding. Sage just looked clueless. Lily sighed and changed the subject, "That guy you scared off's name was Fred, not a scary name, I know, but he always wears a cloak, so no one sees his scary face. I did, it freaked me out. HE's a hedgehog, like us, but really evil. And the guy you hit, the one with the tree, his name is Cobra. He's just a bigger version of Fred. I owed Fred my last payment on the house I didn't have, that's why he was here."
Sage stared at Lily. "Fred? And his accomplice's name is Cobra. I can take 'em on. But I need to learn about my past first. Lily, do you mind accompanying me to Emerald City? I think there may be something I know there." Sage asked. Lily nodded her head, and they headed out the door.