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The Seven Chaos Demons

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Shadow the Hedgehog wandered down the familiar corridors of Rouge's Mansion. It was the first time he had returned to this mansion since his freezing 45 years ago. He knew Rouge was Joz's Granddaughter. In the age of The 3 Shadows, Shadow and Joz the bat worked alongside Miles Prower to save the world from Professor Gerald's Evil. This was Joz's Mansion, the base of The 3 Shadows; Rouge must've inherited it.

While the noble Shadowbot did a good job of taking his place it was the real Shadow's turn to take over. He wondered what place he had in this New World. Sonic the Hedgehog was the hero of this age, Professor Gerald was dead, and all he had was Maria's Wish.

"Please Shadow, for all the people who live on that Planet. Give them a chance to be happy, let them live for their Dreams. Shadow I know you can do this. That's the reason you were brought into this world. Sayanora, Shadow the Hedgehog", said Maria Robotnik.

Shadow repeated the events of the ARK incident 50 years ago in his head. Running down the corridors or ARK. Seeing his only friend Maria shot in the chest by the Murderous GUN. It made his blood boil in Anger just saying the Military's real name. All of what they did was to save their precious image. They were the centre of Shadow's Rage but no matter how much he wanted to he couldn't attack them. He promised her that he would do all he could to help people, no matter who they were.

His memories then switched to that faithful day on ARK where he met the prototype Ultimate lifeform. The Biolizard was Professor Gerald's first creation for Project Shadow. It was loyal, powerful and deadly. It did however have one main weakness. The need for a Life-support machine. Even in Death Gerald's influence on it was apparent as the Heroes led by Sonic aimed to stop ARK crashing in Earth. It was the Chaos Emeralds that had sent ARK crashing out of orbit and back towards Earth. Thanks to the Master Emerald they stopped ARK but then the Biolizard morphed with ARK and pulled it towards Earth.

Shadow and Sonic then used the Emeralds, Shadow using Negative feelings and Sonic using positive ones. They became super, a level of power within them that could be unlocked with the Chaos Emeralds. They finished off the Biolizard and warped ARK back into it's original position. Shadow had by then used far too much energy. He knew then that he wasn't going to make it.

Sonic must've known something strange was going on when Shadow warped Sonic back onto ARK. That left him with only a small bit of Chaos Energy. Shadow couldn't move and fell out of orbit. He felt like he had done all he could to fulfil Maria's wish and he was happy to die at that point.

A Purple aura appeared around Shadow as he fell back to Earth. He was sure that he heard Maria speak to him at that point.

"Shadow please don't die", said Maria

"Maria, did you see? Did you see me do all I could to fulfil your wish", said Shadow.

"You were great Shadow but now's not the time for you to die", said Maria.

"What do you mean? I'm not needed in this world", said Shadow.

"Why do you feel you need a purpose to live? Please Shadow… just…. Live", said Maria.

From this moment on his memory was rather fuzzy. With his last ounce of strength he tried one last Chaos Control. In a purple flash the brave warrior disappeared from Space. Sonic and his friends thought Shadow was dead, Shadow himself thought he was dead.

Then Shadow woke up and looked around. It was too bright to see much of what was going on. He couldn't move more than opening his eyes and searching the nearby area. He was on his back in some sort of lab. The last thing he remembered was seeing A familiar face smiling back at him.

It was Eggman, Professor Gerald's Grandson. He was just as insane as Gerald but wanted to rule rather than destroy. At that moment though Eggman was a friend. Eggman had awakened him from his slumber and had aided him in fulfilling Maria's wish. Of course that was when he couldn't remember the most important part. That was when he thought she wanted Revenge.

"Sleep now Shadow. You were Sonic's greatest Enemy. You matched him for speed and strength and there is little to separate you two. Sonic won't know what hit him when I sent out an Army of Robotic clones of you Shadow", said Eggman.

That was Shadow's last memory, as at that moment he had no more energy to stay awake. If it wasn't for Rouge the bat and E-123 Omega he would still be trapped in that machine, the one that copied his personality in robot versions of him. All of the Personality but none of the Memories. Not one knew of Maria's Wish.

He then remembered Shadowbot. Why was that one separated from the others? Rouge had brought him up to speed but neither him nor his two new teammates knew the answer to that question. Perhaps simply he malfunctioned; he was too much like Shadow and that's why he was a liability to Eggman. Shadow knew deep down inside that he was a hero not a villian. Maria said that he had been made specifically to save the world from disasters. Disasters usually started by Eggman.

Another disaster came in the form of Apocolypse. Eggman had revived an old weapon created by Gerald. He believed it was Miles that first faced Apocolypse, He had his hands busy with something else. He just can't remember exactly what that was.

But all of that didn't matter. Sonic and Shadow led a team of six against Apocolypse and destroyed it. Everything was back to normal for everyone except him. At least he had the Green Chaos Emerald. That Emerald was important to him. He had used it most of the time for his chaos manipulation. No matter what happened it always seemed to come to him. He laughed when he entered the Capitol City Bank and found the Green Emerald was the one he came to steal. It must've been fate that the Emerald found itself back in Shadow's hands.

Shadow came to his old room. When he lived there he had slept in this room. 50 years ago his only real home besides the mansion was ARK and he couldn't go back there. He opened the door and screamed in horror. His room had been coverted into a cave.

Rouge the bat came running to Shadow. She jumped out of her skin when he heard Shadow scream. Oh great I forgot about what Grandpa did to his old room. Rouge reached Shadow's old room and entered it to see Shadow looking around the room in anger.

"Yikes! I suppose you want to know what happened to your room Shadow", said Rouge.

"Please go on. I'd like to hear an explanation to why my room has been converted into this!" said Shadow Angrily.

"Oh come on Shadow. You were frozen yet Grandpa still lived on. He and Sapphire had children, who in turn led to me", said Rouge. Shadow sighed and then laughed.

"What a fool I've been. You're right it's not as if the world stopped when I was frozen", said Shadow. He smiled and looked around the room again, this time peacefully.

"What ya thinking about Shadow?" asked Rouge.

"A new life, a new room", said Shadow.

"Hey you didn't even ask if it was ok to live here", said Rouge, "Freeloader"

Shadow laughed, "You definitely have your grandfather in you".

"Well I suppose it's ok. Providing you don't go overboard", said Rouge, "Have fun"

Rouge then noticed the crack that had just appeared on the Green Chaos Emerald. Green mist poured out of it strangely heading towards the nearest window. Shadow soon noticed this as well.

"Erm, are they meant to do that?" asked Rouge looking at Shadow with a hint of concern.

"Of course not. Something Big is about to happen. I can feel it. And for some reason I think I have something to do with this", said Shadow, "Like I should know what's happening for some reason".

"Perhaps it has something to do with The 3 Shadows. Why don't I get the annemuir and we can ask Joz if he knows anything", said Rouge. Shadow nodded and the two headed towards the chamber where many of the artifacts gathered by The 3 Shadows lay.

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Meanwhile deep within the jungle of mystic ruins, Big the cat wandered down towards the big lake in the centre of the jungle. He cares little about the world; he cares little about anything. There are only two things that will get Big moving, fishing and when he has to save his best friend froggy. He recently spent some time at Amy's Beach hut in Beautiful Beach but found the fishes weren't biting as much as they did here.

Something was wrong though. The lush green trees that filled the Jungle started going brown. The futher towards the lake he went the worst the trees looked. Then the ground started going black with large cracks. The sky went dark purple and there was a foul stench that Big couldn't identify. He arrived at the lake to find it full of disgusting purple gunk. It would be a miracle it there was any fish in that lake now.

"What happened to the lake?" asked Big outloud. He explored the nearby area and after a while heard something splashing in the lake. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. The lake looked polluted to hell but there was something swimming in it. He looked over the lake to see a green fin poking out from under the surface of the purple gunk. Something indeed was swimming in the lake.

Big ignored it for now and found what could be the reason all this was happening. He spotted a glass emerald that was cracked. Give it a glow and seal the crack and it could've been one of those Chaos Emeralds his new friends would often talk about. His new friends being the 11 other fighters who fought Eggman for Freedom. Led by, it seemed Sonic the hedgehog, a blue hedgehog who could run at the speed of sound. Big admired Sonic's spirit. Sonic always did what he felt was right and didn't let anyone or anything stand in his way.

He picked up the cracked empty Emerald. The glass edges seemed fragile but were in fact rather tough. There were hints of purple colour on the surface of the glass. He considered what was going on and quite cleverly (for once), thought that what he held in his hands was the remainder of the Magenta Chaos Emerald. As if it's power had seeped through the cracks and caused all this madness.

He turned around a found himself confronted by a monster. It's was huge, mainly made of green scales and had dark black orbs for eyes. It looked half fish, half something else. It stank of the awful stench that he smelt earlier. Then to his horror (for some reason Big thought it couldn't speak) it began to talk.

"You must be Big the Cat", said the monster.

"What?…Who?….Who are you?" asked Big.

"I am one of the Seven Chaos Demons. I lived inside the Chaos Emeralds until very recently. I am the Half fish of Disease and Famine", said the monster.

"Did you do this?" asked Big, trying to be brave even though it was obvious by his shaking that he was terrified.

"Yes. I think it's an improvement, don't you?" asked the Half fish monster.

"You poisoned the jungle? Wait how did you get out of the Emerald?" asked Big

"Yes I did poison the jungle and I escaped the emerald through the crack", said the Half fish monster.

Big froze for a second, his only movements being his breathing and his muscles shaking in fear. Then suddenly Big sprinted away. I have to tell Sonic about this. The Half fish laughed as Big ran off as fast as he could. The Half fish was happy. It always loved scaring people. It knew its huge size was intimidating for most but it didn't want to waste its energy on something so weak. Big wasn't the big fish, he and the other demons all wanted a piece of Sonic and maybe Shadow.

You see they knew everything about Sonic and his friends since they were born from Sonic's (And Shadow's) use of the Chaos Emeralds. Sonic was seen as a world-renowned hero, but if it wasn't for the Chaos Emeralds, Earth would've been destroyed by now. The world exists in a balance and they were there to put things right.

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In Tails' Worshop, well outside of the Mystic Ruins jungle, Miles "Tails" Prower was taking a well-earned rest. He loved inventing and he loved improving his prize plane, the Tornado 2, whenever he could. He sat on his sofa, put on some TV, and took a sip of the drink he just made. It was the news and they were reporting on something strange.

What you are seeing is a sattelite feed of the Earth. As you can see it has been covered in coloured mists. Seven colours appear visible from this mass of cloud covering the Earth, Green, Red, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan and Grey. Some people are already theorising that the Chaos Emeralds are causing this strange event.

The news reporter suddenly paused and mumbled something into a small microphone on her jacket. She then continued the report.

I have just received an update from our sources. It seems that some have claimed to see different mythical beasts under each coloured cloud. Under the red clouds some have reported seeing a massive red coloured dragon. Under the Magenta or purple cloud some have reported seeing a fish like green monster. Similar cases are being reported for the other colour clouds as well…

It was at this point Tails switched off the TV. He preferred to be called Tails rather than Miles, as that was his adopted nickname. He obvious got it from having two tails rather than just one. That Second tail allowed him to fly through the air like a helicopter, which has come in handy in the fight against Eggman. Recently he found that he had a grandfather who also had two tails. His grandfather who he had been named after disappeared shortly after the big fight with Apocolypse. Tails meant to find his grandpa Miles but now was not the time. He had to find Sonic, tell him of these strange demons that have appeared.

Something told him that it was partly their fault, and that only their dynamic partnership can get through the inevitable disaster. Sonic the Hedgehog was usually found running through the mountains, showing off his incredible speed skills. That was of course whenever he wasn't busy fighting Eggman. Tails headed off towards the Mountains in the Tornado 2, slightly worried about what was going on.