Sonic: Saving Crystals (Part 1)
"What is that?" Miles asked Sonic.
"I'd like to know the same thing!" Sonic replied. He had found a strange stone that didn't look, nor give the feeling like a Chaos Emerald, or anything similar. It looked like a miniature building.
"Maybe I should analyse it." Miles said. He placed it in a glass tube underneath a machine, booted the machine up and lowered the glass over it. A few seconds into analysis, the machine started to malfunction.
"WARNING! WARNING! ANALYSIS INCOMPLETE. SYSTEM MALFUNCTION!"
Sparks and smoke were flying all over the place as the machine went haywire. There was a blinding flash, which paralysed Sonic and Tails until it faded. Now, instead of the stone, there was an utterly broken machine and a tiger that looked as though it was made of crystal, but at the same time, petrified, due to its greyscale body. Every step it made sounded like ice shattering slightly. It dropped to the ground.
"Please," it whispered. "Help me, please..."
Sonic went to assure the tiger was alright.
"Woah, are you okay?" he asked. The tiger shook its head, and stood up.
"I got seperated from my friends..."
Miles stared in amazement at the tiger. It looked oddly familiar to him.
"My name is Tourmaline the Tiger. Me and my friends try to keep ailments and such in balance. But a man with an orange moustache turned us into stone and seperated us all over the world."
"Eggman..." Sonic grumbled. "I knew that it was too quiet around here to be true!"
Tourmaline looked up at Sonic. Sonic then realised it was a girl! He started to blush a teeny bit, but then he was thinking how Amy would react.
"So, um," he stuttered. "Who are your friends?"
"My friends are Agate, which could reproduce beings, Rose Quartz, who can remove anger from someone, Topaz who made sure everyone had good health and help people sleep, Amethyst, who brought peace to the world, and two more."
Sonic was sitting on the floor, head in hands. He appeared to be asleep. Miles nudged him and he woke up.
"There's Emerald, who's shards helped create the Chaos Emeralds and fight off sadness. And last is Jasper, who cured people of snakebites. I need your help, erm..."
"-Sonic."
"I need your help, er, Sonic. Please help us!"
"Uh, yeah, crystal animals that control feelings. Yeah, right!" Sonic said sarcastically.
"I mean it! The only way to bring my friends back is that we try to harness the energy that petrified them and backfire it, but, if used successfully, the user gets petrified in return."
"And how do you know this?" Sonic asked, Miles nodding behind him.
"...This isn't the first time we've been seperated."
"WHAT?!" Sonic and Miles gasped.
"Yes. Last time, a hedgehog named Zero helped us out. He was your ancestor, Sonic, and his attitude was like yours."
"But he died at home," Sonic objected. "So, if you get turned into stone when you save your friends, how could he have been at home and died?"
"...That's what I wanted you to think at first. You see, before you came around, Zero was the hero. When he released us, the dark energy overcame him, and now he's become an evil soul who tries to stop anyone that comes along his souless hull of a statue, popping in and out of places, leaving a ball of shadows in its place. Can't you please help me?"
"Okay, okay, Tails, let's-"
"SONIC!"
I hope you liked this, and I have already wrote the next two chapters, which I will upload soon. Thanks for reading!
~cadpig1099