The Deception of Dawn

Where: The Great Forest

Who: Why Sonic and Tails of course!

When: No specific time stamp.

Chapter 1: A Sea of Green

"What another great day, Tails old buddy. We gave a nice beating to old Egg head, and in record time I might add. Heh, his plan was sooooo unique; did he really think I would be lured in with an amusement park? And what was up with those old goonies he threw in the mix. Well, good thing I can easily outsmart him."

"Sonic," Tails said in a whiney voice "don't bring this up again, you fell for the old chili dog rouge in the first place. Frankly I'm surprised that by now he hasn't…."

But Tails didn't get to finish his though. For at that moment the ground began to shake, a tremble that made the entire forest vibrate with vigor. The trees shook violently; there movements fierce and horrid like a hurricane. The ground had started to splinter into parts. Earth was being shaken up, the world was collapsing, and… Just like that it stopped. No stopped isn't quite the right word, ore of a halting suddenly after running into a wall at mach 5. And then that silence, the cold eerie silence in where not a single sound is heard.

"Weird…..you feel that shake?"

"No, Sonic, I think you just got hit a little too hard by old Crabmeat." Tails commented sarcastically.

"I thought we promised not to bring it up. He took me by surprise, okay." Sonic shot a stern glance at Tails. "And in any case, what's up with you little bro, you seem awfully short tempered."

"It's just that, well….oh never mind. I'm sorry Sonic. We'll… we'll be fine once we get back to New Mobotropolis." Tails muttered.

"Whatever you say…"

Sonic and Tails wondered along for hours, unsuccessful in finding a way out of the forest.

"Tails, Tails, poor broken tails Tails. Wish you hadn't hurt them during our fight with Eggman, you could just fly us out of here."

All of a sudden, something caught Sonic's eye.

"Tails, wait…"

As Sonic put his hand back to stop Tails, he felt his hand brush against something cold and smooth.

"Whoa, Tails, since when do you start wearing necklaces?"

Sonic starred at the thin golden necklace that, attached, had a small little rock. It glistened in the midafternoon sun. The stone was a nice sky blue with a golden letter, a capital N. Now normally, this would make Sonic suspicious, but his mind was preoccupied at the moment by something else.

"Oh this, I…well, you s-ee-e I wa-as…." Tails stuttered.

"Wait, I don't get it…" Sonic asked, perplexed.

"What?"

"Why aren't we back, I'm sure this is the right way. Look we have even passed the same tree several times."

"Sonic, how can you be sure? You run so past you blast past everything, how can you notice one specific tree?"

"Well aside from the fact that this is the only tree that is bent out of shape, while from the looks of the other trees you couldn't even tell there was an earthquake, my gut just says there's something about that tree."

"Sonic, I'm not sure what you're getting at. It's just a dying tree. Let's keep going."

But Sonic didn't care, he didn't think about what he was getting into, all he knew was that something was afoot. As both Tails and Sonic crept towards the tree, a hushed creaking noise came from its dying roots. But don't be mistaken by a description of this tree because of its hunch, the tree was still very tall. In fact it was about 20 feet tall if it wasn't hunched over in just that sickly position.

As Sonic looked around the tree, he noticed something peculiar. A fiery red letter was burned onto the back. It burned the letter S. He leaned forward, and just as he was about to put his hand on it to feel, a flash of light in front of him shined right in front of his eyes.

Temporarily blinded, Sonic began to tumble backwards, tripping over one of the various branches and fell to the ground. As he opened his eyes he saw stepping from the shadows none other than…

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Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic, Tails or any other Sega Character. All characters are property of Sega or Archie Comics.