The Love Of Ice and Fire

Conscious

Tale 1

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Neblix The Wolf and the Ice Spirit belong to me.

All others belong to Sega.

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(Flashback

Little 6 year old Neblix ran down the dark path in the cold ice cave. He needed to find civilization, somewhere he could survive. He needed someone to take care of him. He couldn't see anything, just the clear, cold floor and the dark glacier walls. He stepped through an arch opening, and a powerful wave swept over him. Feeling nauseous, he stopped. It felt like he just crossed through time to another place. Another dimension. He looked around, his furry black face covered with dry tears. The lighting changed and found he was in a large room. It had mosaics on every single space on the walls. They told stories of brave warriors who died in battle, legends of previous kings, but there was one mosaic that caught his eye.

It was very large, 20 by 20 square feet to be exact. He couldn't count that, of course, but he remembered that his father once showed him this mosaic, but in a different place. In a similar place, almost like... a throne room. Wherever he was, he was in some sort of castle that was home to royal people. But judging by the walls in the hallway, it hadn't been occupied for a long time.

The mosaic had a picture of a black wolf and a purple...

"What's that?" He whispered in his cute little boy voice. He wondered what it was. It didn't look like a wolf or anything else he'd ever seen, so he was guessing it was some other type of person. He had a faint memory of a similar figure, but red, looking at him with eyes filled with hatred. The memory scared him, so he shooed it away and looked at the mosaic again.

They were standing together and two cute castle drawings, one red and one blue,were under them. A line was next to this, so he assumed it was another panel telling a similar story, but with the same people and the same time period. It had a large red fireball pummeling down onto the same red castle that was shown before. A red figure had his hands up under the fireball and a...

"GREEN wolf?" Neblix thought. The thought gave him a chill. Is it possible to be a green wolf? He continued to interpret the picture. The green wolf had his hands held toward the fireball as if to stop it with his bare hands. The purple figure he saw before was lying to the side, as well as a white, a red, a yellow, a creamy color, a blue, and a pink figure. What were all those figures doing there? Had the green wolf killed them? Or did the red thing kill them? Or were they even dead at all?

"Hello, young one." came a familiar voice behind him.

Eager to have finally met someone, he turned around, only to see a powerful light.

"Huh?" Neblix said softly.

"Yes, I spoke to you. When someone says hello, you say hello back." instructed the voice.

"Uh... hi!" Neblix responded. "Who are you?"

"Call me the Ice Spirit. I am here to guide you."

"Guide me? You mean tell me where to go and what to do?" asked six year old Neblix. He had no idea how he knew so much, he just did.

"Yes, little one. Take my power. Use it to help you." A smaller ball of blue light came down to him and shot straight into his heart. He yelped.

Another Neblix The Wolf popped out of the floor. This one had darker streaks on his hair and his eyes were red. He, no, IT, smiled evilly. It wore a gray jacket and black pants, and was wearing gray shoes.

It walked toward him.

The real Neblix reacted and backed away.

"Let the energy flow into you. Destroy your inner evil!"

The other Neblix (we'll call him Dark Neblix) jumped onto him and began to punch him repeatedly.

"Get away!" Neblix screamed.

Dark Neblix did not stop, but laughed evilly.

"I SAID..." He began to glow green. "GET AWAAAAAY!!" He screamed at the top of his lungs and out of the floor and walls broke large shards of ice. A powerful wave came out of Neblix and Dark Neblix screamed and vaporized in the green wave. He then floated in midair and green lines began to cover Neblix. They had a strange pattern, almost like tribal markings he had seen in books his mother used to read to him. He suddenly stopped glowing and fell to the floor, gasping for breath.

(Station Square, 5:24 A.M.

"AAAAAH!!" Neblix screamed as he sat up. He looked around. He was back in the city. He looked at himself. He was seventeen again.

'What was that all about? Was that... me?' Neblix pondered that thought until he realized he wasn't alone.

There was quite a crowd, from businessmen to children to drunken boxers. Wait. DRUNKEN BOXERS?!

That was alarming. Two drunken boxers walked up to Neblix as he got up and said, "Fo... watto!" they both kicked him in the face. Without hesitation, Neblix grabbed both legs and held them in the air. He looked behind them and saw the ocean. He must have landed in front of the train station. The drunken boxers were puzzled, so they tried to pull away, but without succeeding. With a grin on his face, Neblix threw their legs into the air, spun around and kicked both of them with the heel of his shoe. He shot heavy blocks of ice out of them while doing so, so the drunken boxers went flying into the ocean.

"Outta my way, coming through!" shouted a familiar high pitched voice. Amy Rose pushed her way through the awestruck crowd and reached Neblix in his state of drunken victory. Er... victory.

"Yo Neblix, did you do that?" Sonic was also with her and pointed to the two drunken figures in the distance, still hurling in the air.

"Yup. Got a problem?" Neblix said sarcastically.

The crowd looked at Sonic. Of course they expected the hero of the city to say he had a problem. Sonic gulped and cleared his throat.

"As long as you don't do it again!" Sonic shouted. And then he dashed over and whispered in Neblix's ear. "But seriously, feel free to do it again! That was awesome!"

Neblix laughed.

"Are you okay, Neblix?"Amy asked. She looked a lot older. 3 years to be exact. She had longer hair and it was a darker shade of pink. She was wearing a red sweatshirt with pink jeans.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Amy." Neblix grinned at her, and slid over to Sonic who was standing on a platform watching the drunken boxers finally fall in the water. "When did she start wearing jeans?"

"I dunno. She just wore it one day and then she loved it, so she wore it every other day. 2 years ago, maybe." Sonic replied, laughing at the boxers who were struggling to swim.

Now that Neblix though of it, Sonic looked a lot older too. His spikes were thicker and he had black streaks on them. They were pointed upward at the end. He was also more of a navy blue than his normal blue. Sonic was wearing a black leather jacket and some black jeans, similar to Neblix's.

All of the sudden, Neblix felt dizzy and weak. "Oooh my god... what is this?" Neblix stepped forward and backward, struggling to keep his balance. He started dripping water from all over. He felt like his body had no structure anymore... like he had no bones. He fell to the ground gasping for breath.

"Oh my god, what's the matter with him?" Amy screamed.

"Neblix! NEBLIX!" Sonic knelt down. "What's happening?"

"Sonic! I have no time left. That spell froze my bones and they just..." he gasped again. "melted. I have to use that freezing spell. I'm sorry, but I have no choice..."

Sonic looked at Amy, who began to frown. But she nodded. He then looked at Neblix and nodded. Neblix began to float in midair and Sonic backed away. His eyes glowed as with the rest of his body. In an instant, he was encased in a cold block of ice.