** This is for a game I'm developing! Please review - I love criticism! XD Well, SORRY if its corny. =w=
If you want to see pics of the characters, go to my deviantArt. (.com/gallery/33580257)
Sorry for the short chapter, but this is basically the intro - there aren't any play breaks. **
Knuckles the Echidna, sleeping at his post, guarding the Master Emerald, would think that anyone invading would be big, armored, and obvious, like perhaps one of Dr. Eggman's drones. Not so in the least. Enemies come in many shapes and forms.
Lurking by is a malicious creature who no one would suspect as an enemy. With a dark heart and deviously attractive looks, a being's drive for a 'happy ending' will make their motives completely hidden.
What are they called? Don't laugh at their name – it only encourages them. They are called Cattians. Strange name, it is. They, however, find it appropriate to their species, so we aren't allowed to argue.
There is a rustling in the shrubs nearby, warning anyone nearby that, if they care about their life, they should run, fast. Roused from his sleep by the noise, Knuckles frantically searches for the source of the sound. An Orange Cattian, known for their orange color and wings, and usually referred to as a C- Ora hovers overtop the Master Emerald.
Lowering his long, tentacle-like arms over the Emerald, trying to do so without gathering Knuckles' attention, he accidentally bumps Knuckles' back, touching only by the tips of two strands of fur. Once C- Ora gets within view of even the corner of Knuckles' eye, he is up in a flash, flying, sending fur everywhere, and signaling three others, a C- Red, a C- Yel, and a C- Pur.
Knuckles, still trying to get a grasp on what is happening, locates the nearest enemy, being the C- Red, and attacks. The C- Red dodges with astonishing speed, and creates a wall of fire, keeping Knuckles from accessing the Master Emerald, or anything around it. The C- Ora grabs the Master Emerald and quickly flies away. The other three, glowing with Chaos Energy, warp away in a blinding flash of light.
"What… just happened…?" Knuckles asks himself, staring blankly into the fire.
In a different part of the forest, Sonic notices the fire and goes to investigate. He had originally gone with Tails, but they had gotten separated earlier by diverging paths.
"Where am I going?" Sonic asks himself, looking for a map that he doesn't have. He picks something up while looking for his imaginary map, and finds he is holding a stick. Looking down, he sees a Greyhound with white paws and a white muzzle staring at him expectantly. Something about her gaze makes Sonic know she is trouble. The dog whimpers and nudges Sonic's hand.
"No, I can't play with you," Sonic says, dropping the stick and moving on. The dog starts to notice where Sonic is going and barks in warning. She runs in front of him and jumps on his chest to try and stop him. Sonic pushes her down and says, "I said, 'No'."
The dog cautiously walks alongside Sonic as they approach a strange temple. It has two statues of dragons resembling wolves somewhat. There is a sign in the front that says something in ancient characters. Sonic walks in, though the farther in he gets the more frantic and anxious the dog's barks get.
"What do you want, dog?" Sonic asks the strange dog. The dog whimpers and runs at sonic speed back to the entrance. Sonic, shocked, turns to the dog. "Wow, you're my kind of Greyhound…" he says. Suddenly, he hears footsteps from deep inside the ruin. "Man, this day keeps getting weirder and weirder… almost a regular adventure," Sonic says.
Venturing deeper into the temple, Sonic listens for the distant footsteps. The dog suddenly runs in, barking maniacally, and bashes Sonic to the ground, directly onto a trap. The dog runs into an indentation in the wall out of fear as the room closes up, becoming inescapable. "What did you do!" Sonic yells to the dog.
A dragon statue in the head of the room glows black, as it releases white smoke from its mouth. The smoke wraps around Sonic's body in a stiff bind, Sonic struggling to escape. The dog in the corner hides her eyes from the nightmare, but uncovers them immediately and heads out to try and help.
Sonic's body begins to change form, but the dog bravely rams him out of the way, mid-transformation. As if realizing that a dog was in the trap, all the smoke vanishes and the walls return to normal with no harm to the dog. Sonic, hardly breathing from the ordeal, sees the dog running over to him, and thinks he hears her talking to him.
"Hey! Are you okay? Hey! Get up! Answer me! Hey!" the dog says in an airy, childish tone.
"Ooh," Tails says, "Where'd Sonic go?" he looks down at the Yellow Lab following him. "And who are you?" the dog shows a paw in response, then tries to tug-of-war with Tails' glove. "Hey! No!" When Tails makes the dog let go, he notices that the dog has thumbs on his front paws. "Do you know the way back?" Tails asks the dog. With a quick nod, the dog leads the way.
At Tails' Workshop, Amy and Knuckles are waiting for Sonic and Tails to come back. Tails opens the door and walks in, and the dog tries to follow.
"No, you have to stay outside," Tails says to the dog.
"Oh, Tails," Amy says, "Have a heart! Come here puppy! Come on! Don't be shy!" The dog happily bounds in, tail wagging vigorously. Amy fusses over him, giving him treats and trying to teach him to sit. The dog seems very smart, and does every trick Amy asks of him. "You know, maybe we should keep him!" Amy suggests. The dog backs away fearfully after Amy's suggestion, much to her confusion. "What's wrong?"
"Maybe he already has an owner, Amy," Knuckles says.
"Knuckles! I didn't even notice you were here!" Tails says. "Why aren't you on Angel Island, though?"
"Ugh… The Emerald was stolen."
"Again?"
"It wasn't an ordinary attack… I'll tell you, but DON'T think I'm going crazy! At first there was rustling in the bushes. I was trying to see what it was without leaving my post, but then I felt something on my back, turned around, and then… it looked like a cat with wings…"
"You're serious?"
"Let me finish! He flew down, and called to three others – a red one, a yellow one, and a purple one. I went for the red one, but I missed, and he blocked my way back with a wall of fire."
"That's a believable story, Knuckles, now tell us what really happened," Amy says mockingly.
"That IS what really happened!"
"I believe you, Knuckles," Tails says.
"Thanks, Tails."
As Sonic wakes up, e starts looking for his friends who he had left the day before.
"H-huh?" he says. "Amy? Tails? Knuckles? Where are you guys…?"
Sonic suddenly recalls what had happened. He finds himself in a strange looking house. There is no floor, just dirt, and the walls look as though they were just painted rocks made to look like a wall.
While still pondering where he is, the dog – the same Greyhound who saved him the day before – jumps out in front of him and yells, "Hi!"
"Ah!" Sonic yelps in surprise.
"Well, did I scare you? Did I? Did I? Did I?"
"Yes..." Sonic says with clenched teeth. He's so annoyed that he doesn't even acknowledge the fact that a dog is speaking to him.
"Hee, hee!" the dog giggles, "I'm Nova!"
"Mucho gusto," Sonic says.
"Oh, you speak Spanish?"
"No, I only know that."
"How about 'hi', hmm? Or 'yes'?"
"Just get out of my fur, okay?"
