THE FOX AND THE DRAGON
This is a fanfic of tails the fox. It's a complete restart on tails life. He is just a character who is in the story with no other sonic related things intertwining with him. But is more than just a side kick. He is one of the main protagonists of this great tale and has an equally important role. Tails looks exactly like he does in Sonic Unleashed but has his voice from AOSTH, he has blue shoes and is half as smart, which means at time he wont be on par with an evil genius bent on world domination when it comes to brains, in this fanfic he is 8 and will mostly behave and think like an 8 year old….sometimes. He does NOT have the tornado or any of his technology skills…..yet. And don't expect any chaos emeralds in this story either. I do not own copyrights to tails or any other sonic topic in this fanfic. He is a character that belongs to and is made by Sega and Sonic Team. Please R&R
Chapter 1: summary of the world setting
It is the year 3100. Mostly half of the planet earth is now but a baron desert wasteland. All of earth's water has been mysteriously transformed into sand! Each day water levels would drop and more sand would fill in its place! The government spent 40 years trying to figure out what is causing this strange occurrence, when in reality all they could do was stand by and watch their planet's water deplete. There was planet wide panic. The government was collapsing under the stress put on it; it slowly fell day by day.
There is no explanation as to why all the water has converted to sand. Some say it was by the wrath of god, more say that it was a new kind of warfare tactic invented and used by foreign countries. That being the more believable story governments from all over started to point fingers at one another and eventually it led to world war 3. All the countries continued to fight one another until it was almost impossible to continue. Innocent people were forced into a draft at young ages and died shortly after, cites were bombed, lives were lost, neither side let up.
All warring countries were running out of resolve to fight and finally realized that warring over it would not fix anything. What was left of the government pulled together and managed to create a cease fire among one another because all the dictators realized that soon enough that there would be nothing left. One of the most devastated places that remained after the war was Hawaii. Hawaii had been completely bombed off the map because it was undergoing a hostile takeover from the Russians in their attempt to invade America. They were going to conquer it and build war factories there to quicken their attacks. America was willing to go to the extremes to stop Russia by any means necessary. To keep the Russians from overthrowing America they nuked Hawaii until nothing was left but scorched earth.
By the year 2600 everything was finally settled down. No country dared to try and start a war. To be honest they were sick of fighting wars and now the gap created by the desert between the countries was too big, it would be pointless to travel such a distance just to fight a exhausting battle. Mankind has shockingly been able to survive the absence of water crisis by producing artificial water to supplement the loss of their water. Large factions of forests were burned worldwide during the war and now a small percentage remains. Oxygen production stations are now fueling the planets oxygen needs.
The deserts that now occupy the once full but now vastly decimated oceans are referred to as the outlands. The outlands intertwine with some of the crushed cities and are apart of them. Most old cities that stood before and after world war 3 are now slowly falling due to the extreme desert weather conditions. Every now and then a severe sandstorm will stir up and do as much damage as a hurricane. Some of these sandstorms will tear though old cities and make them uninhabitable and will force the citizens to evacuate to a newer living area. Which is not easy to find considering earths new harsh desert environment.
The many cities left planed ahead before the desert storm floods in and bury them all. They began the construction of Very large fortress like around the cities that act as a gate in and out of them. A scientific breakthrough has been made while the rings were being constructed, originally the cities were going to have domes built around them but now thanks to the new technology the rings will emit a highly powerful plasma like shield barrier over the city that is strong enough to protect the whole city from any storm. Also the outland temperature will be kept controlled inside the domes. These appropriately named "city sectors safety rings" lets the cities within them survive and prosper. When the domes require it to rain a sprinkler system rises with the barrier and spreads rain throughout the dome. Life within the domes is very fair and productive. The outlands sector is used as a death penalty now. The outlands are lawless, its survival of the fittest out in the worldwide desert.
With these conditions made aware to humanity they had to cope with it and continue to build fortress rings around any cities and structures that were necessary to save and preserve. Laws were reinforced within the city sectors; most city sectors have a very just system and keep all the thugs out of the city, they are left to die in the desert. Criminals of all kinds who managed to survive found their way to Hawaii somehow and took refuge in the ashes and slowly made it their home. Hawaii was rebuilt into a war zone like ghetto where criminals walk freely and hostility is a way of life. The outlaws rebuilt Hawaii and had installed its very own city sector safety ring. It is now a country that is populated with nothing but criminals that inhabit a rundown flimsy city that was built from scrap and is now called Hell Island.
The inhabitants of Hell Island are now called terror hunters. The terror hunters have established a democracy and have their own army to attack whatever they. Smaller groups of the terror hunters inhabit large sea vessels that have been trapped on the sand since there is now no water to go on. From submarines all the way to oil tankers and even aircraft carriers. Most docks of certain harbors are used as terror hunter rally points. The terror hunters are split into 3 divisions, the sand eaters, (highly skilled foot soldiers ranging from snipers to assaulters) the sky burners, (thick armored flying machines made for air strikes and bombing rounds) and the terror mechs. (All out enormous war machines that look like animals and are piloted by humans that hunts in teams. They are basically Zoids that is if you know what they are.) Terror hunters always hunt to kill. They attack anything or anyone without a reason or are told to do so by their unquestioned leader, who is said to have a heat colder than any frozen tundra, and the mind of a demon.
Technology has evolved since then (somewhat). Most transportation methods are now modified for desert travel. (Think halo UNSC vehicles like falcons, warthogs, and mongooses, when they are mentioned) the only modern transportation still intact is trains. Humanity hasn't changed much in previous years at all. With life resuming back to normal inside the city sectors humanity started to look for more ways to improve living. But no progress was made, until humans started to see themselves as inferior and obsolete, the human body wasn't made to handle such harsh conditions like the outlands. So they continued to look for a way to improve their life's eventually one option stuck out that was unparallel to the rest. People have decided to start splicing DNA and make hybrid evolutions of all kinds of animal human crosses. When the project first started off it was a complete loss since the first few hundred test subjects DNA was scrambled and thus killing them.
It took countless tries to perfect it but it finally worked. The first human/ animal hybrid was created with zero anomalies. A humanoid wolf was created with a fully functional anatomy and brain. It proceeded to live a great life. In addition to the transformation the subject gained the following beneficial abilities. Increased stamina, slightly higher physical capabilities, longer lifespan, stronger bone mass, and overall increased senses. Most of the benefits depended on the animal DNA being spliced with the human.
As time went on people were getting bored with regular animal splices and wanted it to go one step further. The public wanted to be spliced with animals that do not exist and wanted additions to their transformations like an extra appendage or different body parts. A notable majority of people wanted more than two arms or four legs. Eventually the scientists went back do DNA coding to create something never before possible. Again many among many people died being lab rats but the casualties this time around were way higher, lots died And never gained a proper burial seeing as how some melted or were unable to be handled. Many pain staking days later the first mythical beast was created; unicorn with four wings and a lizard tail was created and so on.
Eventually the scientists had succeeded in creating a new DNA variant; Dragon DNA and it practically flew off the shelves. Since dragon DNA was so popular it was being seen as a threat. The government then ordered to dispose of any dragon DNA that was traceable and be removed from the market. Eventually splicing DNA was a major priority to 85% of the earth's populace, and almost everyone was a walking hybrid. Some have inherited the animal like DNA through their birth (considering that one or both the parents are hybrids). Passing it on like a dominate gene would any other human. As time went on a rare side effect developed in the hybrids sooner or later they will suffer a major case of amnesia. Causing them to remember little to absolutely nothing of their past.
This brings us to this fox that has two tails. He is among the lot who has lost their memories. Tails finds himself all alone in an outlander sector which was once formerly known as Seattle; a towering city which is soon to be engulfed in sand. Now it has no fortress ring to protect it, but it was lucky enough not to suffer a single sandstorm. It was forced to evacuate when for some odd reason the sky burners commenced a bombing round on the city leveling some of the buildings and even more left in flames. Tails is now slowly giving up hope to carry on since everything around him is almost completely decimated and Seattle is far from a city sector. But as his life is about to end he strikes a partnership with the most unlikely of traveling creatures, a big crimson and black anthropomorphic dragon who also happens to have a spot for tails on his menu. Or does he?
This dragon has spent much, much, much more time surviving the outlands than any other creature and has many dark secrets that constantly haunt him and become more than just a scar . This dragon has a very active life. He even goes to the city sectors to live it up. He is a loner, and a traveler. This creature has a unique ability that no other has; to alter the shape of his body into a humanoid form, but only for a few hours. Note: this is the only thing that some terror hunters of any class are scared of. He is that intimidating. So we have a dragon and a fox. How long will this extremely odd pair last? Only one way to find out, and so, it begins.