The Wielders of Chaos part 2

"A Series of Misfortunate Events,"

Darkness…that's what filled the sky nowadays, the darkness of despair and fear, and darkness of evil. At the moment the greenery of the land has become grey, dull, and lifeless. The trees barred and once lushes field completely devoid of any greenery. A once calm soothing wind has now become a cold harsh blow. Bodies of water turning black instead of a crystal clear blue. It was always difficult to tell if it was day, or night with the lack of a sun. Some people have actually taken their own lives to escape the seemingly eternal despair. Hope, was a word that was looked down on, and it died a long time ago. Everyone's hope rested on their hero, and he failed them. The hero that's brought the planet from the brink numerous times, has finally lost. Because of the fall of such a titan it was no surprise the bleak situation only began to get bleaker when multiple power hungry tyrants decided to rear their heads. The hero always put these tyrants in check, but with his fall they claimed the world belonged to them. However, the silver lining in this situation is the common enemy that exists. This enemy kept them all at bay, which in turn caused these tyrants to set their sights on the common enemy.

This enemy was the one who brought this darkness upon the world, and who killed the heroes who protected it. This enemy was able to spread his darkness across the planet meaning there was nothing that was beyond his sight, nothing beyond his reach, and no where anyone could run. In truth the tyrants had created safe havens for the oppressed and powerless. This brought a sort of comfort to them, but the question always lingered on everyone's lips.

Why hasn't he simply destroyed this planet?

It was always a constant fear, along with his monsters that roam the land restlessly. As if…searching for something. They beast rarely attacked the innocent, oddly enough, and the enemy did not tamper with their lives that much. They still worked, they still lived, they still went to school, and they still did things they would regularly do. However, it was often when the enemy had completely decimated a town or two out of simple boredom, or just flexing his all powerful muscles. This was a common occurrence, as was the belittling of the hopers. Apparently, in this time of age, hoping is a bad thing. To be hopeful and look on the brighter side of things was looked down upon. To remember how things were only a mere year ago was considered daydreaming. This was the life the people expected to live until the enemy tired of them and simply got rid of the planet.

However, hope is a light that can never truly fade. Sometimes you can find it in the most odd places…

A boy sits on a rock on a hill looking over the bleak horizon. He stares deeply at the forest trails, and the giant savannah that lies beyond that. He sighed, "I remember when this place used to be the most beautiful spot in Soleana Forest," he said.

He was one of those people. Who dared to dream, dared to wish that things would return to normal. He was mocked endlessly by his peers, and looked down upon by most adults. Some kids even went as far as beating him up just for trying to imagine what the sun feels like. He doesn't understand why they feel this way, or why they think they have to live like this. However, he supposed it had something to do with the fall of the world renowned hero. The enemy was smart to suck out the hope of the people by basically parading around the body all over the planet, so every single being could see their hero.

His hero.

He did indeed look up to the hero. He had to admit it was pretty insane of him to charge headfirst into danger singly handedly. However, the boy knew better, because in some way the hero did save everyone. He was sure the planet would be gone by now, but a rumor went around that the hero had severely injured the enemy. The rumor states that it'll take the enemy about 500 years to recover from.

The boy sighed at that last part. Obviously, the rumor wasn't exact but it was obvious that the hero did do something that is delaying the inevitable. He just wished that someone would do something before things really get worse. As time past the darkness gets thicker, and the beasts more savage. The boy brought his knees to his chest as he continued to stare out at the decimated that lies before him.

"Hey overlander!" called a sharp voice.

The boy sighed knowing who this was. "My name is Miles, Eddy, I thought you knew that by now," the boy responded. Not turning his head.

"Well your still an overlander. Just because most of the overlander cities are gone doesn't mean can just lie around here," said another high snippy voice that let on that this person was way to energetic.

"Soleana is a overlander city Peck," Miles responded. "To be technical you're the one that doesn't belong, honestly,"

"Still got that sharp tongue," said a deep voice. This one Miles knew the most because of the dark gloom and doom personality he carried. He was the leader of the band of rejects that take it upon themselves to terrorize overlanders.

Overlanders are just another word for humans that some of the anthroporphisms use. Overlanders used to run the entire planet, but through some freak happening these animals began to acquire human characteristics. Some of these characteristics also included giving them incredible abilities. What is regularly called super powers. These animals coexisted with them, and despite the discomfort of the human race they learned to adjust to them since one of them just so happen to be the hero of the planet. The hero didn't care who or what you were, if you were in trouble you could count on him to save the day, point blank. In a way this hero symbolized that these two greatly different races could coexist and get along with each other. However, when his death came around lines were crossed and fingers were pointed. The delicate balance between these two different enigmas began to try and find a scapegoat in each other. Sad really how things could fall apart. However it wasn't so bad that they discriminated against each other though, so Miles supposed that was the only up side.

"Yeah, Black, you know me," Miles said finally turning to face the group. Miles himself was dressed with black pants, a blue shirt, black short sleeved button up shirt, and his shoes were modeled after his hero just black with a white strip. Miles is fourteen years old black male with black hair that's a low cut. "You guys still wanna mess with me?"

"I don't get why you have all these hopes and dreams in your head. I mean, you should be the last one whose hopeful," said Eddy. Eddy is a big brown bear, with a golden sleeveless shirt on with dull golden eyes.

"Yeah, you are like 'I hope to see the sun one day' and you look all depressed sitting on a rock," Peck threw in jarring as usual. Peck is a roadrunner, white gloves, a cyan sleeveless shirt, dark blue feathers, and cyan eyes.

"Plus you wear a lot of dark colors. Doesn't exactly say hopeful," said Black. Black is a hedgehog, just like his hero. His quills are pointed up thanks to some gel he uses, black fur, grey eyes, white gloves with black wristbands, black shoes, and finally a sleeveless black jacket for him.

"Thanks for your concern guys, but I think I'll be fine," Miles said as he slid off his rock then began to walk back toward the city.

Peck zipped in front of him. "Nu uh, you can't go back until we get to the bottom of this,"

"Bottom of what?" Miles inquired. Miles deep down was a little afraid. Three against one, and these guys were no joke. Miles was confident in his fighting ability to be able to take these guys. He does know simple self defense, but it'll hardly do any good against them.

"What makes you tick!" Eddy barked shoving Miles roughly making Miles almost fall over. "Your parents are dead from trying to fight the enemy, and you live in some crummy apartment all by yourself. No one is there for you, all you got is yourself,"

"So?"

"So," Black interjected. "We're curious, do you know something we don't? Or are you just to slow to come to grips with what's going on,"

"My parents may be gone, but that doesn't mean I have to be a shell of a person," Miles said sternly.

"You wear more black then I do, and it's my name,"

"I'm in morning for this meadow,"

"You just think your better then everybody else don't you," Eddy said shoving Miles again, dangerously close to the steep hill. Miles glanced down it cautiously as he gained his footing.

"That's stupid, why would I feel I'm better then you guys. You're the town's ruffians, and the village idiots. I'm jealous that you guys hold such prestigious titles," Miles tended not to know his place, or when to not speak. His parents often told him it would get him in some pretty sticky situations. This is probably what they meant.

"Village idiots!" Eddy barked. "You got some nerve-,"

Eddy stepped forward, but Black quickly halted him by putting his hand up. "You only say mean things cause you don't know how have a friend do you? We may be village idiots, but my counting is pretty good, and I say we outnumber you in more ways then one," Black smirked. "So go ahead and shout out all that bravado that you admired your 'hero' so much for. At the end of the day if you disappeared no one would give damn,"

Miles looked visibly hurt by those words, and he wished he could do something. However, he knew his chances of walking away from this one unscathed were slim. Miles glanced back down the hill again then sighed. "Alright, do your worst,"

"Gladly," Eddy said smiling as he pushed Miles right over the edge of the hill. Miles took a harsh tumble down the steep hill. It was once covered in grass, but with the barren of the land the ground lost it's softness making the tumble quite painful. Miles began to pick up speed as he fell making it near impossible to gain any control of himself as he tumbled. Miles knew though that he had to keep his body in tight as he rolled that way when he reached the end of his ride that nothing will be broken. After it seemed like ages to Miles he finally hit the bottom and began to tumble out the bend of the hill.

Miles quickly looked back up to see his pursers were not done with him just yet. Miles cursed as he rose to his feet and began to dash in a random direction as fast as he could. He knew Peck being the faster of the three would probably catch him in not time, so he relied on weaving through the trees. He made sure not to run in a straight path. Speed meant nothing if you couldn't control it properly. Miles often swerved in numerous directions especially when he began to hear footfalls get closer. Miles honestly thought he could at least take Peck down. One on one would still probably get him killed, but he'd at least have a fighting chance.

Miles quickly ducked out behind a giant tree. He noticed that he was nearing the old Soleana Castle, and if this chase continued they eventually wonder into Kingdom Valley, which was strictly off limits due to monsters. Kingdom Valley was the best way to leave Soleana, so of course monsters would be crawling all over that area. Miles really didn't want to see just how vicious those things were in person. Miles stuck his head out to see if he could find a trace of any of his pursers.

"Surprise!" yelled Peck who came from behind to punch Miles in the back of the head. Momentum and force put together was strong enough to throw Miles to the ground. Obvious he didn't move far enough.

"Hold him for me Peck!" called Eddy. With Eddy's brute strength he was liable to leave with broken bones.

Miles quickly tried to get to his feet to run, but Peck was quick and grabbed both Miles's arms. Miles was pulled to his feet, but was unable to resist the roadrunners tight grip. Eddy stepped forward cracking his knuckles with Black standing behind him looking smug. Miles struggled more against Peck but was unable to be free.

"Eddy hurry up, he's starting to get annoying," Peck said.

Eddy obliged by sending his big paw into Miles's stomach making Miles cough, than proceeded to give him a good hook punch in the face. Eddy was basically punching him like he was a mere punching bag, and Miles was beginning to lose all feeling. "You said do my worst," Miles stared dazedly back at him.

"Come on Eddy hurry up we don't got all day," Black said tapping his foot.

"Alright Black chill one more. Peck try and get his head up," Eddy said. Peck obliged and brought Miles's head to look at Eddy. "Bet you wish you weren't so smug now," Eddy said smirking.

Eddy pulled back his fist to deliver the final blow. Miles cringed at the fogy image before him.

"Better move kid," came a voice. Miles was surprised by the voice, but his vision instantly got clear his alertness snapped back into him. Miles snapped his head to the side, and lucky enough Eddy's final punch missed him narrowly and instead found it's way into Peck's beak. Peck instantly let go of Miles, and Eddy was pretty flustered at what just happened so Miles's escape went unhindered. Black quickly caught their attention saying he was getting away again.

Miles thought he was lucky, but something like that would definitely not happen again. Miles ran onward knowing that he was nearing Kingdom Valley and hoped the idiots wouldn't chase him knowing of it's dangers. Unfortunately, the footfalls behind him told him that the Village idiots were definitely earning their name quite well. Why he was tortured by them he could never truly figure out, and why he was looked down upon he never knew either. His parents were G.U.N agents, and did their job well and with pride. They died in action on their last mission to confront the enemy, or at least Miles just never saw them again. Family ties were weak, almost nonexistent. He's sure he has uncles and aunts, it's only Gaia knows where they are. Why did they feel they had to pick on him?

Miles didn't get the answer he was looking for when he tripped and fell on something. Miles was panicked as he turned to see how close his pursers are. He noticed they were closing in, but he could get up and run off again. However, the object he tripped on caught his eye. Miles stared at it completely enthralled in it's beauty. He was unsure of what it was, but he knew it was pretty. Miles reached for it and picked it up. He held it in his hands looking the object over. Miles recognized it as an emerald. However, it was unlike any emerald he had ever seen. First it was navy blue not green, second it was glowing, and third he was positive the thing was pulsating. It filled him with some sort of energy, energy that helped him jump to his feet. He felt safer all of a sudden. He looked to his pursers, and suddenly he did something he thought he would never do.

He stood his ground.

His pursers quickly came up to him. "Damn Soleana and it's huge ass fields," Black cursed.

"At least he finally stopped and decided to take his beating before we ended up in Kingdom Valley," Eddy said.

"Hey guys, hey guys, lookie what the overlander has there!" cried Peck. Both animals looked at Miles's hand to see a navy blue emerald. Black's greedy eyes were surprised then he smirked.

"Okay, I see what this is. A deal, you give us the emerald, and we don't beat you up, right?" Black asked. "I say deal, just hand it over,"

"…" Miles was silent. Miles stared into the emerald for a moment, and suddenly the emerald let out a powerful blinding navy blue light. It blinded the three brutes for a moment, but when their vision returned they noticed Miles was still there in the same position.

"Okay, weird, lets just beat the emerald off him Black," Peck suggested.

"Well we would anyway, so might as well," Black said shrugging. The three began their approach until they noticed Miles look at them. They were surprised to see Miles's eyes. They were not brown as they usually are, but green.

"Actually guys…" Miles started his voice much chipper. "I think I'll keep this emerald, and give you guys the beating,"

The three were shocked still, then they burst into fits of hysterical laughter. They laughed even harder to see he was serious.

"O-Oh, gosh, Peck…j-just hold him so I can hit the stupid out of him," Eddy said getting over his fits.

Peck was quick to push aside his chuckles and shoot behind around to come at Miles from behind. Miles rolled his eyes as he stepped to the side while sticking out his leg to trip the roadrunner. The roadrunner went flying toward the other group members who moved to avoid him. They turned to him surprised. Black motioned for Eddy to just take him, and Eddy did just that. Eddy went hard with fast jabs with both hands. However, no matter how hard or fast he swung Miles was quick to move out of the way. Miles tilted his body to and fro to avoid each fist to fly past him.

"You say I'm stupid, seems to me someone can't hit a moving target~," Miles sang slightly. Outraged, Eddy threw a hay-maker that in all honesty was poorly executed. His stance was all wrong, and arch didn't exactly fit the term hay-maker. Nevertheless, Miles leaned back underneath the fist going so far back that his head almost touched the ground. "Whoa, that was a pretty nasty punch there. I'd stick to hitting things that can't move if I were you,"

Eddy lost his balance from that poorly executed haymaker. Miles took this chance to ram his elbow into the bear's gut. Miles then quickly turned around to swing his leg into the roadrunner that was trying to sneak up on him. Peck was sent rolling across the ground not believing the strength that kick held. Eddy was quick to come back trying to wrap his arms around Miles, who quickly performed a handstand on the bears head. Miles then brought his knee into the center of the bears face giving a nice headache to the bear.

"Get this kid away from me," Eddy said swinging at Miles who was approaching him, but all his swings were useless being that Miles was too fast.

"Right here big guy," Miles taunted exposing his right cheek. Eddy swung his fist as hard as he could in a hook punch. Miles was quick to crouch down to avoid. Inadvertently, again Peck tried to grab Miles from behind and ended up getting on nasty headache. Peck was out cold after that. "Alright everyone nap time!" Miles exclaimed as he gave the bear a strong upper cut. This upper cut was strong enough to launch the bear off his feet and onto his back dazed. "Hey, why'd everyone fall asleep on me?"

"Not everyone," said a voice. Miles turned to narrowly avoid a stick that narrowly missed his face. He was able to duck just in time. "You freak!"

Black swung the stick downward, but Miles jumped back. Miles quickly moved faster then even Peck as broke the stick by stepping on it, and giving Black a good hay-maker in the jaw. Black was also down for the count considering that wasn't a love tap. Miles sighed.

"Wow, it's been a while since I've done this," Miles said looking at his hands. He reached in his pocket to pull out the navy blue emerald.

"W-What…just happened…did I…but…I couldn't-,"

"You're welcome kid, these guys were jerks. A little beat down was good for them," Miles said, but his voice changed into something very different.

"W-wait…who is this! What's going on! Why can I not control my body!"

"Okay, let's not freak out okay. I can explain, but first we'd better get outta here," 'Miles' suddenly heard a growl from behind him. He turned to see dark beasts all gathering around him. "Uh oh, these things again,"

"Those are the Dark Feral!"

"Well I can't let them take this emerald. Kid, I'm gonna need to borrow your body for a little while. Sorry for being pushy, but I saw you were in trouble and wanted to help. It was pretty obvious why those guys didn't like you ya know,"

"I-it was?"

"Yeah, they were jealous. Jealous how someone who lost so much could possibly have hope in these bleak times," 'Miles'took a fighting stance as the beast began to approach. "No worries though, since now that I got a good pair of legs, it's time to save the day," he said charging forward. In one motion the entity made Miles's body curl up. As he curled the emerald let out a glow and suddenly blue energy quills shot out his back and head. Miles curled up then smashed through the armies worth of monsters tearing them apart in mere moments. The blue spin ball smashed through every single one of them taking care of the so called unstoppable monsters with ease. Milesscreeched to a halt smirking, but then he nearly collapsed. "Uh oh, this isn't my body, and I forgot it's limits are different. Better get him somewhere safe," He soon realized that more of the creatures were coming toward him. He turned to the three animals laying on the ground. He frowned, but stirred the leader, Black. "Alright Black, you should've learned your lesson. Take you bozos and get outta here, now!"

He stood up away from Black who was still quite dazed, and took off toward the monsters to confront them. The real Miles could only see everything, but his body was beyond his control. Miles charged at the first creature head on. He used his hands to smash the beast's face into the dirt then push off of it to slam his sneakers into another ones head. He leaped forward to vault over a vicious pounce from another one the monsters. Miles looked in a direction then another to gain an idea of how many there were. Five surrounded him, and more were quickly coming. He smirked then shot out in a burst of speed. His legs were moving in a blur and the world began passing at an incredible pace. Seeing the world go by so fast put a bigger smirk on Miles's face.

"Uh…excuse me, but…what, or who are you?" the real Miles spoke.

A smile. "Just call me Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!"

The person introduced himself as he began pounding away at the ranks of monsters. Sonic, controlling Mile's body jumped up to slam his knee on another Dark Feral's head. At the same time he grabbed the front legs of the beast and pulling. This made the creature shot out a cry of immense pain. In order to wane the pain of their comrade the others moved in quickly. Sonic jumped off the creature performing a big air back flip. The creatures lunged at him in midair. Sonic slammed his left forearm on the creatures head as he gave a bone breaking kick into the neck of the other creature. Sonic touched down on the ground then shot forward again. The Chaos Emerald began glowing brightly putting around a navy blue barrier around Miles's body. In a flash Sonic did away with all the monsters in flash, a simple blow of the wind.

Sonic whipped the body around to gain traction enough to change direction. The Dark Ferals obviously realized that they were facing an opponent beyond them. They quickly gathered around each other. Then this dark aura began to pulsate around their bodies. Then their bodies began losing their shapes and began to form one entity. Sonic raised an eyebrow at the show. The creature grew three times in size towering over the boy/hedgehog.

The creature was about as big as a normal size house, purple streaks covered it's body as it did for the smaller Dark Feral, only it form was much spikier and fiercer. The black claws were much bigger on its paws, purple eye lids, and if it opened its mouth there be nothing but purple energy flowing inside. The creature after all was simply made of pure dark energy simply brought to life. All it took to defeat one was to smash it apart.

"Interesting," Sonic said looking the beast over. "Looks like my newest adventure is gonna be packed with monsters!"

"If you don't mind, I'd like my body, ya know all connected," Miles said.

"Sure, you got it kid,"

The beast lunged for him, but Sonic performed a dodge roll to the side to land on the side of the beast. The beast turned it's tail sharply to smack him, but Sonic performed a skyward somersault to avoid it. Sonic then landed on the head of the creature then grabbed onto two of it's horns with each hand respectively. Sonic felt the body he was in was strange, not regular like most humans. Sonic knew immediatelythat the kid had some sort of special ability about him, but Sonic felt he would worry about it later. The beast began to charge and thrash around all over the place. Sonic found his grip loosening, but quickly held strong. The beast began charging in random directions, so Sonic quickly tried to gain some form of control. Sonic jerked the horns around sharply to get the best to follow the direction he wanted it to go. To make the jerking stop the beast obliged finally charging in Sonic's preferred direction.

Right toward a solid rock wall.

Sonic smirked as he placed his feet over the beast's eyes. "No peeking, this is gonna be a surprise," The beast kept going, until eventually Sonic deemed they were close enough. "Surprise!" Sonic said leaping off the beast and watching as it charged full speed face first into the side of a cliff. The beast was dazed from such a heavy attack. "Ouch, that's gonna be one ugly headache,"

The beast was stumbling around a bit as it moved. Sonic saw his chance as he charged toward as fast as he could at such a short distance. He didn't want to over do it since this body was definitelynot used to going at such speeds. Sonic leaped forward also grabbing one of horns on the side of the beast's face. Combining his weight, strength, and momentum Sonic was able to force the creatures face into the rock wall again. This was enough to make the creature collapse on it's side. Sonic kicked off the wall when he touched it and was currently airborne above the creature. Sonic saw it defenseless, deemed the fight over. The Chaos Emerald began glowing again, and then blue energy quills shot out his head and back. Sonic began his sonic spin attack as he dive bombed the creature. Sonic smashed into the creatures stomach, but the force was so great it severed the creature in two halves. The impact was like a giant shock-wave, or like a meteorite hitting the ground.

Sonic was actually a little put off by the display of power. "Wow, I have to admit...I've never done something like that before,"

"WHAT"S GOING ON!" Miles's voice rang out for an explanation.

Sonic turned his head to see that three bullies were peaking their heads out from behind a tree, but upon noticing his gaze ran outta there like death was on their tail. Sonic smirked. "How about we continue this conversation at your place," Sonic suggested.

A/N: Hey everyone. So yeah, I added a huge part to this since I felt it was seriously lacking in effect. The hero's appereance is supposed to show off a great display of skill and give off the air of being unstoppable. I felt that wasn't exactly achieved by him beating up a few guys. So yeah that the flow of the story so far. I'm still accepting people who want to join in as well. Please,please, please, review...please...