A Hero's Sacrifice
Chapter One
The brilliant moonlight shinned upon the tall grass that surrounded a small tree; a small sprinkle of rain had started to pour but the light of the moon made the drops appear to glow and seem almost magical. In the distance, this sight was being memorized into a memory as a young hedgehog stood by a large tree. Bright cyan eyes and cyan streaks were all that were seen in the darkness of the night.
"Wow… amazing…" was all that came from the small hedgehog. The leaves of the trees and the grass blades were being caressed by the silent wind that made the scent of the peacefulness come to her and that made a smile grow on her face. She giggled happily as the sprinkle of rain began to fall onto her gently, almost like a comforting touch; to her it felt great, even like a blessing as she spun around in the tall grass.
As she giggled and spun around, the moonlight was beginning to be concealed by the approaching storm clouds. The rain poured harder and that's when she froze and looked up at the sky with slight fear.
"Please don't let it thunder… don't let it thunder! PLEASE!" her thoughts screamed as lightning began to flash across her line of view. She whimpered slightly and she even began to shiver at the thought of thunder as she kept her eyes on the sky. Her thought's screams were ignored and a loud clash of thunder made her jump almost 10 feet in the air."Leave me alone! Go away!" she shrieked as her eyes were wide and she backed away slightly. Another quick flash of lightning left her running before another roar of thunder pierced her ears. She was a black and cyan blur that could've put the fierce blowing wind to shame if she had the intention to; the only thing that kept her going was the thunder and her being in the rain.
"I want to go home! I want to go home!" she began crying out as thunder began to shake the ground below her every 2 minutes. She shrieked each time the ground shook and she cried every time she tripped. She kept running from the thunder until she crashed into a sign and she fell to the ground. Whimpering, the hedgehog read it out loud.
"Cemetery? What's a-"
A clash of thunder left her to scream as she stumbled to her feet and quickly dashed toward some black iron gates. She kicked the gate and it flung open as though a force from the inside opened it just for her. She scurried inside and she ran past all the headstones and toward the safety of a tree. The hedgehog shook the raindrops from her spikes and she looked around to see what this so called cemetery was.
All she saw were headstones that were too weathered to read, eroded to make out a name, or were pure white with a black X painted in the middle of it; eventually however she would understand what those X's meant. Limp tall grass tickled her legs as she wrapped her arms around her legs that were pressed against her chest. She buried her face into them and her silver tears soaked through her dress and fell down her face like waterfalls.
"I want to go home, I want to go home… I need to go home," she whimpered as she kept crying miserably. "Why can't someone help me for once rather than leave me out here on my own? WHY!" she shrieked the last part as thunder slammed against the tree she was under and she heard a loud crack.
She backed away from the tree slightly and saw that it was falling toward her; her eyes widened and she was frozen like a deer in headlights. She screamed out for help as she held her head and closed her eyes, waiting for the pain that was sure to kill her instantly. Nothing came for a long moment; no sounds of bones breaking under a heavy tree, no tree slamming against the ground, nothing but the heavy rain falling to the ground and the soft wind. Taking a risk, the hedgehog opened her eyes and she felt like her heart stopped completely.
In front of her was a hedgehog; it was dark colored with gray streaks, and dark green eyes. It wasn't the hedgehog himself that frightened her but it was the fact that the tree that was destined to crush her and kill her… was blasted away from her and now laid in splinter sized pieces next to her.
"Are you alright?" he asked calmly, almost as though the tree never existed.
"Y-yeah…"
"I'm… sorry if I scared you."
"Who are you?"
"I… I am Dark the hedgehog. But most people call me Mephiles," he replied quietly, almost cautiously as though to see if the last name rang a bell. It didn't.
"Thank you Mephiles, I'm Chaos the hedgehog."
"Chaos? What a strange name for such a young girl."
Chaos grinned and she got up from the wet ground, she looked at the splinters and she questioned, "you did that right?"
Mephiles nodded slowly and he looked at her with a curious glance.
"Tell me Chaos… where am I?"
"A cemetery."
"And why were you running?"
Chaos frowned and replied in a whisper, "I was scared. Thunder scares me so it was only natural for me to freak out."
Mephiles seemed to smile slightly at that and he held out his hand, "take my hand. I would like to show you something. Take it as a gift of friendship."
"Friendship? But I only met you."
"True, but to me anyone I just meet is already a friend. Will you accept it?" he questioned, his voice rang with horror that she might refuse.
Chaos looked at his hand and she smiled gently. Her own-gloved hand took his and her innocent cyan eyes looked at him, "what's the gift?"
Mephiles smiled widely, he laughed loudly and this made a shiver run down Chaos' back. She tried to pull away from him, but his grip already held tightly to her hand.
"Simple… there is no gift. But instead you are my servant. Thank you for your body Chaos the hedgehog," he replied insanely as he used chaos control. The duo then vanished from the cemetery without a trace.