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Chapter 1 : Kyro's Arrival

Tails was walking along town watching the townspeople, knowing what will happen to them.

("I will eventually destroy your little town! You tell your little friends about this and I'll make things worse for you!")

Those sentences made by Eggman when he last captured Tails made him shudder. He wondered if he should talk to Sonic about this when he comes back from his search for the last chaos emerald.

No………The town will be destroyed by the time Sonic comes back. Shadow on the other hand……….

He pondered this thought for a little while until he suddenly felt light-headed.

I need to sit down….

Tails spotted a set of seats next to the park, he sat down and started pondering more on whether or not to tell Shadow about his kidnapping and Eggman's plans to destroy the town.

Wait a second…I heard him talking about something else while I was being beaten…Grr……What did he say?

Tails left the current thought because there were more pressing matters at hand.

Yes, I should tell Shadow, he'll understand. Maybe on the way I'll be able to piece out what Eggman said after I was beaten.

Tails stood up after he made his decision to tell Shadow of Eggman's intentions. He started walking along the sidewalk but there was one problem Tails overlooked.

Where could he be found though? Who knows where he'd be.

Tails thought about that problem and declared "Maybe I should leave a note at his house, however, I'll have to place the note inside his house. Everyone could see it and then panic, I can't let that happen. But he's barely ever in his house though…..How will I get him in there?" He thought about this new problem when all of a sudden…

BANG!

Tails looked in surprise at the direction in which the loud sound was heard, and started running in that direction. He kept on running even though he was exhausted. He was curious as to what that sound was. He kept running until he was met by a surprise. It was a broken escape pod. "That's odd, things like this don't normally happen…." When all of a sudden the pod opened and a blue fox appeared stumbling out of the pod, he was bloodied up from the sudden impact of the pod with the ground, he had diamond light blue eyes. He was wearing a dark red jacket and dark red and black shoes, he also had two blood-stained black daggers with dark red handles and his gloves of course were white. His pants were black and short. He had 11 bangs hanging over his head. He also had two twin appendages, like Tails but he hadn't noticed yet.

He was having trouble standing up. Tails rushed over to the cobalt fox and helped him up. "Are you alright?!" Tails asked, his voice filled with concern for the injured kitsune.

"Ugh……….ugh…" the fox suddenly started coughing up blood. Tails was even more concerned for him now. The injured fox put his hand on his forehead to fight back his throbbing pain.

"Are you ok?! Can you hear me?!" Tails asked now starting to panic.

"Guh……………nngh……" The fox couldn't make up a sentence due to his unbearable pain. They stood there for a few minutes when the fox's pain subsided and took his hand away from his forehead.

"Are you alright now?" Tails calmly asked.

"……..Y-Yeah………..I'm……I'm fine…….." The fox replied.

"Are you sure you're ok? Your cuts……they're very deep…" Tails started getting concerned again.

"N-Nothing I………..Nothing I….can't….cover……" The fox replied looking over his wounds.

"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Tails asked. The cobalt fox held his hand out.

"Cure!" The fox yelled out. Tails was about to say something but a white light cut him off. This ball shaped light started spiraling around the injured fox. Then all of a sudden, his wounds started closing.

"Whoa! How'd you do that?!" Tails stared in surprise.

"I….I have an ancient power, that allows me to use something called White Magic. Do you know what White Magic is?" The fox replied.

"Yeah, I read about ancient magic. It comes in five different categories. White Magic involves the powers of healing and holy attacks. Black Magic involves the elemental spells. Time Magic involves spells that can alter the movement of time to a target. Green Magic involves status inducing magic spells. And Arcane Magic involves the dark arts and some status inducing spells." Tails replied to the question.

"Very good, what I did was a basic healing spell, it closes my wounds and replenishes my blood supply, so I can survive every battle." The fox said.

"So, what's your name?" Tails asked.

"Me? My name's Kyro, what about you?" Kyro replied.

"My name is Miles Prower, but you can just call me Tails." Tails requested.

"Alright…Tails." Kyro immediately acknowledged the young fox's request.

"Nice daggers." Tails complimented referring to the pair of sheathed daggers on Kyro's back and lower back.

"Thanks. They both have special powers, they were family heirlooms for many generations, I feel honored to wield the blades of my ancestors." Kyro responded. All of a sudden Kyro felt a slightly higher amount of heat on his back.

"I know Faran, I can feel it too…" Kyro said with his right hand clutching the handle of the dagger sheathed on his back. He cautiously started looking around, his left hand went for the blade sheathed on his belt. He started pacing.

"Is something wrong Kyro?" Tails asked in confusion.

Why is Kyro acting like this?

"There's evil afoot. Faran can feel it, and so can I…" Kyro replied still pacing, his hands had a firm grip on his daggers.

"Who's Faran?" Tails asked.

"Faran is the name of the dagger on my back. It can sense evil powers allowing me to be more alert against my enemies, it can also sense hostility in creatures." Kyro replied.

"But there's usually no one evil around these parts…….Unless……." Tails cut himself off when a black hedgehog suddenly emerged out of the shadows of the forest. Kyro readied himself for battle when Tails interrupted. "No! Kyro don't attack!" Tails pleaded.

"But Faran tells me he's showing a lot of hostility and evil powers!" Kyro responded.

"He was created to be like that, weren't you Shadow?" Tails asked the black hedgehog.

"Well…….I guess you could put it that way….if you want." Shadow replied with a quiet tone.

"Created?" Kyro asked letting go of his daggers and getting out of his battle stance.

"I was created as 'The Ultimate Life Form' by Professor Gerald on Space Colony Ark and then G.U.N discovered us…….and poor Maria…" Shadow explained and came to a sudden pause.

"She must've meant a lot to you…" Kyro responded.

"She did………I…" Shadow tried to finish the sentence before Tails interrupted.

"Let's trail away from that subject for a little while…." Tails cut in. Both Shadow and Kyro nodded.

"So what brings you here Tails? You're not usually out of the town by yourself, and who is this?" Shadow turned to Tails.

"Shoot! I almost forgot! Shadow, something terrible is about to happen in the city!" Tails replied.

"Why are you telling me this? I couldn't care less about that town." Shadow said coldly.

"But Shadow! You're the only one who can stop Eggman right now!" Tails pleaded.

"Hmph! I'm not getting involved." Shadow responded.

"But many innocent lives could be lost! And…And you don't care?!" Tails argued.

"Why don't you?!" Shadow snapped. "You're always relying on other people to save the world but you don't take matters into your own hands!"

"But…….I'm not strong enough…..That's why! I want to! But I'll just fail! Okay?! Is that a good enough reason for you?!" Tails shouted.

"You're showing a lot of hostility Tails, you need to settle down…" Kyro requested. "I can help you, if you need it."

"….You……You will?" Tails asked calmly. "But you probably don't know who Eggman is or where his base is."

"He's going to hurt innocent people, that's a good enough motive to stop him, if you can tell me where his base is, I'll stop him for you." Kyro calmly replied. "But I'll need you to come with me."

"A……….Alright…." Tails responded. He then turned to Shadow. "I'm sorry I snapped at you……I just got a bit angry…."

"You want to prove yourself, I can feel it." Kyro cut in.

"……Yes….I do, how did you know?" Tails asked.

"I can read the thoughts and emotions flowing through one person if I focus hard enough." Kyro replied. "That's how I felt your hostility and anger earlier. You're sick of being the sidekick, you want to save the world yourself. But you feel like you're too weak to try."

"Wow, you really can read my thoughts! I've never known anyone who could do that!" Tails said in amazement.

"By the way, I do know who Eggman is. I was his prisoner on the so-called Death Egg. What a terrible name!" Kyro added. Tails nodded in agreement and smiled at Kyro, Kyro smiled back. "I just hope she made it out okay…" Kyro said looking at the morning sky.

"Who are you talking about?" Tails asked politely.

"My friend, she was a prisoner too. I hope she made it out okay…" Kyro replied.

"What's her name?" Tails asked curiously.

"Her name is L…" Kyro paused.

No I can't tell them her real name…….I promised her….

"Kyro? Is everything alright?" Tails asked concerned.

"Yes, everything's fine. Her name is Ivory…" Kyro replied quietly. "She has pink fur with blue streaks in her hair, Ivory thinks part of my spirit is bonded with hers when she added the streaks so in a way, I'm always with her."

"That's very nice." Tails politely responded.

"Yeah, I have strands of her pink hair tied to Faran, she thought if our souls were combined, we'd be able to fight on." Kyro explained.

"That's an encouraging thought, maybe me and Sonic should do that, so we wouldn't have to feel alone when we are away from each other." Tails suggested.

"It's a way we feel safe and strong when someone we care about is away from us. We both have blue and pink necklaces too. She wears a no sleeve jacket, short skirt and she has a gun blade and a pistol with the ability to shoot bullets of fire that she can create." Kyro added. Shadow's attention turned to the sound of rattling bushes. "You sense something is amiss Shadow, don't be alarmed, it's just a normal squirrel." Kyro assured Shadow. Shadow turned back to the rattling bushes and out came a normal squirrel just like Kyro inquired, Shadow couldn't believe it. How did he know? Kyro turned to the squirrel and took his bag off and reached in to find some nuts and gave it to the squirrel. "Here you go little fella." Kyro said with a smile on his face. The squirrel contently ate the nuts and scurried off up a tree and caused Kyro to smile even more. "Mother Nature is good at her hard work isn't she Tails? We should thank her." Kyro turned to Tails.

"Yes she is, we should be really thankful for her work." Tails humbly agreed. His gentleness towards that little squirrel caused Tails to smile.

"When you actually focus your sights on nature, it's absolutely fantastic! Don't you agree Tails?" Kyro asked the young kit.

"Yeah, I always look out of the window in the morning to feel the cool breeze brush against my fur and look at the beautiful morning." Tails replied.

"That's why I want to fight Eggman, so the world will still be beautiful and not destroyed by petty machines!" Kyro said.

"Let's go then! Goodbye Shadow!" Tails waved at Shadow and grabbed Kyro's arm dragging him off back to the town.

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Ivory awoke after being knocked unconscious by the sudden impact of the pod and the ground and looked up to find where she was. She saw Eggman's logo stuck to a metal wall. "This is definitely his base, I hope Kyro made it out okay…" She said holding onto her blue necklace.

("This is our only chance of escaping! We must hurry, I'll try to look for you, but don't worry! We will be back together, I promise Lily!")

Lily shuddered at her real name, after her parents died when Eggman attacked her hometown, she threw away her real name and henceforth she named herself 'Ivory' she never wanted to remember her parents after that dreadful day, she only gave Kyro permission to use her real name. Kyro is pretty much her only family left. "I should pay the doctor a visit…" Lily said coldly running to find the entrance. She met a couple of robots along the way, she drew her sword. The robots came rushing at her, Lily did a side flip to dodge the metallic hostiles and rushed towards her enemies. She slashed at one of them, cutting off the robot's head as the aftermath the other robot stopped quickly and Lily easily cut off the other robots head in the middle of it's hesitation. "Hmph! Easy!" Lily boasted running off to find the entrance of Eggman's base. She eventually found a massive door with Eggman's logo. "Hmmm, no entering that way is a deathtrap, usually I'd do it anyway but if it's his main base, it wouldn't exactly be a winning option for me…" Lily pondered on this thought when suddenly she felt a strong rush of wind flow past her causing her to draw her sword. "Who's there?! Show yourself you coward?!" Lily shouted.

"Jeez, you don't need to shout." A voice complained, then suddenly Lily felt another rush of wind then a blue hedgehog stood right in front of her. She put her sword back in it's scabbard.

"Are you……Sonic the Hedgehog?" Lily calmly asked.

"The one and only! What brings you here to ol Egghead's base?" Sonic asked.

"I'm going to punish him for keeping us in that god forsaken place!" Lily angrily replied.

"He's much too dangerous for you to handle…" Sonic joked.

"Why? Because I'm a girl, well I'm going to have to show you what happen when you underestimate me." Lily cracked a smile drawing out her sword.

"Now isn't that a little unfair?" Sonic joked.

"Hmph! Would you rather me go easy on you?" Lily laughed.

"You're really asking for it aren't ya?" Sonic said getting annoyed.

"It's a simple question, do you want me to go easy on you or not?" Lily asked calmly.

"Fine! Take your best shot!" Sonic laughed. "This is going to be super easy!" Sonic rushed at Lily at his average speed, Lily front flipped out of his way and turned towards the speedy hedgehog. Sonic rushed again, she easily dodged the dash.

"Gosh, you're so predictable! At this rate you'll wear yourself out and you'll be open for attack." Lily laughed. Sonic started up a spin-dash and went at Lily in full force, she just stood there and suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks. Lily saw this as an opportunity and slashed at Sonic and Sonic trying to dodge as fast as he can, but Lily saw where he was going and slashed in that opposite direction and cut Sonic's arm.

"Ouch! Gah…..You're better than I thought but now it's my turn!" Sonic complimented and threw some punches at her, she dodged them at lightning quick speeds and slashed him once again cutting the left side of his stomach. "Ack! You have super quick reflexes!" Sonic complimented as he clutched his fresh wound.

"It's because I actually focus, no matter how easy I think the target is. Your cockiness loosened your fighting ability. Seriously Sonic, I thought you'd be better than that!" Lily smirked.

"Your weapon put you at a advantage!" Sonic complained.

"Please, I would've beaten you anyway!" Lily boasted.

"Alright then! Let's test that theory then!" Sonic exclaimed getting back into his fighting stance.

"Hmph! Fine!" Lily agreed to the challenge putting her sword back in it's sheathe. Sonic rushed at Lily and she easily dodged it.

Just like last time huh? This is going to be easier than I thought but I musn't lose focus!

Sonic stared at Lily and just stood there. For a few minutes in fact. Sonic getting impatient, rushed back at Lily with a fist readied for contact. Lily did a dodge roll and grabbed Sonic's arm and stood up, pulled him to her back and flipped him causing him to land hard on the ground.

"What? Did you expect an attack from me during those past few minutes. I would've if I didn't know what you were like." Lily laughed and pulled Sonic up and swung him around. Letting go of her grip on Sonic's hand and sent him flying towards a tree. The impact caused him to shout in pain as his back met with the tree. Lily then rushed over to Sonic. "Are you ok?" Lily asked.

"I'm fine!" Sonic replied coldly.

"Now you see? Your cockiness got the best of you again…However you've done better than most people who've gone against me. They weren't even fast enough to do make the first attack!" Lily laughed. "Now if you'd excuse me, I've got to pay a visit to Dr. Eggman."

"I'll come with you, Shadow told me that he was going to destroy my home town and I can't let that happen!" Sonic said.

"…….Alright." Lily agreed and ran off with Sonic to the entrance of the doctor's base. Sonic tried kicking it open once they arrived.

"Damn! This thing is really strong!" Sonic panted.

"Let me try." Lily suggested. Sonic nodded stepping back, Lily stepped towards the door and too started to kick the door open. It too was no use.

"Let's go around another way…This is hopeless and pointless!" Sonic responded to their failing of prying the door open.

"No, let's both do it at the same time. With both our strengths combined, we should be able to get it open." Lily suggested. Sonic nodded in agreement and stepped up to the door. "3…….2…….1……Now!" Lily shouted as they both kicked the door at full force causing a large dint in the door. Lily finished the job by getting out her sword and slashing at the door. "Good! We're in!" Lily sighed in relief wiping off a few sweat beads. The pair rushed into the base and Lily looked around. "It's quiet……." Lily drew her sword and scanned the lobby.

"A bit…..too quiet……." Sonic agreed. Lily was still pacing the room. Until she noticed something peculiar.

"Wait a minute…." Lily said as she looked through the odd corridor and as she thought, a large number of robots were heading through it. Lily rushed back into the middle of the lobby. "It's as I thought! He expected us to enter after our little duel! Then planned an ambush as soon as we entered the lobby!"

"That was awfully nice of Egghead." Sonic said sarcastically. The robots immediately circled the pair of anthromorphs and Lily got into her fighting stance while Sonic did the same. "We're heavily outnumbered! We'll never make it!"

"Well if we're going to die anyway, we might as well go down fighting!" Lily assured as she went and started cutting down a few of the robots. Sonic sighed and then started doing the same.

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Tails and Kyro arrived outside of the base not noticing the small hole in the door. "If Eggman hasn't changed his location then he should be here." Tails said pointing at the large building. Kyro felt a warm calm feeling on his back.

"You are sure she is here Faran?" Kyro asked the dagger sheathed on his back and clutching it.

"Who?" Tails asked in curiosity.

"Ivory…..Faran says she is here, and….someone else…" Kyro replied.

Could it be Sonic? Well what are you waiting for Tails?! Go in there and find him!

Tails rushed to the door of the base after pondering this new thought. "Tails, wait!" Kyro shouted and ran after him.

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That's the end of Chapter 1! Hope you liked it! Review fairl and no flaming would be dearly appreciated. Chapter 2 is on it's way soon!

^_^ - TheCursed54