Chapter 2

Bella, Edward, and Alice were hunting in the Forks forest. They had finished, and they had decided to walk the rest of the way to the Cullen house. Suddenly, the heard a strange noise, and some rustling, and then voices.

Alice looked at Edward, and saw his face scrunched up, and Alice couldn't help but giggle.

"What are you doing?" whispered Bella.

"I'm trying to read the owners of those voices' minds." Edward replied. "But, I can't. Maybe they're all shields?"

"Maybe. Let's check these guys out." Alice said. Edward and Bella nodded.

They stepped into the clearing, and what they saw was something they were all pretty sure didn't exist.

Lying on the ground, was a big spiky blue creature, and leaning over him was a pink creature with a red dress on, an orange-yellow furry creature with not one, but two tails, and a black and red spiky creature. A little ways away was a red creature with spiky knuckles. And they all were wearing socks, shoes, and gloves.

The blue creature turned his head to look at them first, and it's look was extremely shocked. Alice looked at herself, and realized they were all (Edward, Bella, and herself) standing in the sunlight, which meant they were sparkling.

"Uh, little creatures," said Bella, sounding frantic. "um, we always sparkle, and um, oh, what's the use? They probably can't even understand what I'm saying."

The creature with two tails stood up and walked towards Edward, Bella, and Alice, and bowed as a way of greeting.

"Hello, I'm Miles Tails Prower, but everyone just calls me Tails. That's Sonic, Amy, Shadow, and Knuckles." Tails pointed to the blue creature, the pink creature, the red and black creature, and then the red creature. "I am curious – why are you sparkling? Humans in our world don't sparkle."

Alice gaped. These animals could talk? More importantly, they seemed intelligent.

"We need to tell Carlisle about this." said Edward. He turned to Tails. "Uh, hi Tails. Um, I'm Edward, this is Bella, and this is Alice. Could you please come with us?" Tails turned to his, Alice assumed, friends.

"Should we trust them?" Tails was asking in a whisper. The creatures obviously didn't know Edward, Bella, and Alice could hear them.

"I don't know." said Sonic. "This could be a trap. And hey, since when do humans sparkle? Whatever they are, they are not human."

"I think we should go with them." said Shadow.

All of the creatures stared at Shadow.

"What?" said Knuckles harshly.

Amy was silent, but then said, "I think Shadow's right."

After a minute of arguing, they finally decided to go with Edward, Bella, and Alice.

Amy came up to them. "We have decided to go with you." she said in her cheerful voice.

Edward glanced at Bella and Alice, and said, "Come with us."

As they led the strange creatures back to their house, Alice was thinking. What are these creatures?