I'm new to this so I'm sorry if this seems soooooo short
Chapter One (Fifteen Years Later)
Sky woke up to a bright day. The sun was blazing through the window of her room lighting it in a warm glow.
'Good morning Madam,' a voice said to her right.
'Good morning Sheila,' Sky replied smiling at the cat that had just walked into the room.
'You're father wants to see you downstairs as soon as possible,' Sheila replied and left the room again leaving Sky to get dressed.
Sky sighed and rolled out of her bed. Stretching she yawned and trudged into the bathroom to get changed.
Within ten minutes she was walking down the hall to her father's study. Aaron the Hedgehog looked up from his desk at Sky as she entered.
'Good morning honey, sleep well?' he asked.
'Yup, what's up dad?' Sky asked taking a seat on the window seat to her father's right.
'Well, as you know the festival is coming up and we have some visitors from the mainland coming to stay with us. Your brother Alex is meeting them as we speak,' Aaron replied, turning to her and taking off his reading glasses.
'But that's not why you called me here right?' Sky asked studying his face.
'Clever aren't you,' Aaron chuckled, 'No that's not why I called you here, your mother wanted me to give you this when you were old enough,' he replied and held out a necklace.
Sky took it from him and studied it. The choker necklace had a deep blue velvet chain with an emblem on it of a wave on a gold inset. Putting it on her neck she looked over at her father for approval and he nodded.
'It suits you, now on to more pressing matters, I think your brother needs a little help, he's down at the dock, why don't you go down and see if you can calm him down a little bit. He's been on edge all morning fretting about this meeting,' Aaron said turning back to his letters.
'Yea, sure, can I just ask you one thing dad?' Sky asked as she stood up and headed towards the door.
'Sure thing, what is it?' Aaron asked looking up at her.
'Who's coming to the island?' Sky asked.
Sonic the Hedgehog shivered as he watched the sea pass under the boat as he made his way to Maritime Island along with his friends. They had been invited to attend the festival that was occurring there, but Sonic had doubts about going the minute he realized he had to cross water to get to the Island.
'Why couldn't this Island be like Angel Island? I mean why does this involve me crossing water, I don't like water,' Sonic said looking up as Tails walked towards him.
Tails laughed at his friend and older brother. The hedgehog looked sick to the core as he gazed out over the open ocean.
'Hey, if you don't stop looking out over the ocean you will be sick,' Tails said smiling.
'It's harder than it looks you know, we're surrounded by water,' Sonic replied.
'Come on, we're nearly there anyway,' Tails said walking past him to the bough of the boat.
Sonic sighed and followed him. Coming up alongside the twin tailed fox he looked out to see an Island appearing in the distance.
'Told you we're nearly there,' Tails said smiling.
'I never doubted you Tails, but the sooner I get onto dry land the better,' Sonic replied and walked back to his original position.
Tails watched him leave just as Silver walked towards him.
'How's he holding up?' Silver asked looking towards the azure blue hedgehog who was hanging over the railing.
'Better than I thought he would,' Tails replied.
'I heard that,' Sonic wheezed looking up and over at them.
Silver and Tails laughed.
Sky sighed as she made her way through the streets of Coronette town, down to the docks. The whole town was busy getting ready for their annual Festival of the Elements. Sky of course was taking part this year. She was a Hydrokinetic and could create and control water. A few people waved at her as she walked past the shops and she smiled back.
Turning down another street she spotted her brother at the docks watching as a boat approached.
'Hey Alex,' Sky said as she walked closer to him.
'Hey Sky,' Alex replied. Sky smiled to see him shaking.
'You ok?' Sky asked.
'No, the Sonic Heroes are arriving in about six minutes and I'm freaking out,' Alex replied rubbing the back of his head and closing his eyes.
'Take it easy bro, it ain't gonna be that hard,' Sky replied laughing at her brother.
Alex took a deep breath and turned towards the boat again that was rapidly approaching.
'Aw crumbs, not again,' Sky muttered and began walking off the pier.
'Sky, where are you going?' Alex asked.
'To stop Merla again,' Sky replied rolling her eyes and she walked out and onto the water. She made her way to a swirling whirlpool that was beginning to get larger as the boat approached.
'Merla, you couldn't let this just slide for one day could you, I asked you not to last night,' Sky growled in annoyance as she stopped at the rim of the whirlpool and looked into it.
A dark blue dragon rose up out of it and looked down at her with a smirk on her face, 'Nope I couldn't,' she replied beaming. With Merla out of the water the whirlpool disappeared.
Doing a flip in mid air she headed straight for the boat.
'Oh no ya don't,' Sky muttered and took off running after her.
'I'm sorry but there will be a bit of a delay on docking,' the captain said over the intercom of the boat.
Sonic moaned and looked towards the Island. His eyes widened as he watched a dragon fast approaching. Sonic made his way over to Tails and Silver who were also standing looking slightly taken aback.
'Merla! Get your ass back here now!' a yell reached them and they looked out over the water to see a white and blue tinged furred hedgehog chasing after the dragon. The dragon back flipped and headed back towards the hedgehog sending a jet of flame at her.
The hedgehog skidded to a stop on top of the water and dodged to the left.
'Emm...should we help her?' Silver asked Sonic.
Sonic didn't take any notice of what he said because his eyes were fixed on the hedgehog and the dragon.
The dragon twisted and headed back towards the boat. The hedgehog watched and seemed to glow then smirk.
'Oh Merla,' the hedgehog called the smirk still on her face.
The dragon turned to face her and was thrown to the right by a rush of water aimed directly at her. The dragon landed with a splash creating waves that battered the boat. Sonic clung to the railings as the boat rolled about on the water and closed his eyes.
'Emm...sorry about that,' a voice said apologetically.
Sonic opened his eyes to see the white hedgehog speaking to the captain who had come down to talk to her.
'Merla loves to mess about, mostly with new boats,' she added rubbing the back of her head.
'It is ok, we are fine and that is all I really care about,' the captain replied.
'That's good to hear, but I'll escort you in to shore, I don't want her popping up again,' the hedgehog replied and leaped over the railing and onto the water below. The boat passed her and Sonic looked down at her and raised an eyebrow. She was standing on the water, not in it and it confused him a bit. The hedgehog locked eye contact with him and smiled winking at him then ran off towards the shore.
'You guys seen that right?' Sonic asked looking over at Silver and Tails.
'Yup,' Silver replied nodding.
Sky stood beside Alex and shrugged when he glared at her, 'What? It's not like I had much choice.'
'Well if Merla wasn't about you would have a choice,' Alex growled back as the boat began pulling up at the dock.
A growl echoed behind him as Merla rose out of the water. She walked along the pier towards the two hedgehogs.
'I heard that Alex,' she growled at the cream hedgehog.
'Good,' Alex growled back and turned away facing the boat.
'Come on Merla, let's go and leave my brother to the meet and greet,' Sky said smirking walking towards the dragon and climbing on.
'Fine by me,' Merla replied and spread her wings taking off.
Alex fell to the ground after the brief gust of wind and rolled his eyes mumbling something Sky would rather not have heard.
Shaking her head she just fell into the rhythm of Merla's beating wings and heart beat.
Sonic ran off the boat and stood on the pier smiling glad to be back on solid ground.
'Hi, you must be Sonic,' a cream coloured hedgehog said walking towards him.
'Yea that's me, and these are my friends, Tails and Silver,' Sonic said pointing to the white hedgehog and two tailed fox walking down the gang plank.
'Nice to meet you, I'm Alex, I was sent here to show you around and to your accommodation,' Alex said smiling.
'Can I ask you something? That dragon and hedgehog that where out at sea there, who are they?' Tails asked.
'That was my sister Sky and her friend Merla,' Alex replied, 'Merla is still young and has yet to learn manners from the elders of her race here on the Island,' he added turning and looking at the cliff on the left. Merla was looking down at them along with Sky and let out a roar in annoyance when she heard Alex's last comment.
'Oh,' Tails replied.
'But anyhow, let us begin, I'll show you where you's are staying first then show you the island, how about that?' Alex asked.
'That sounds like a good idea,' Silver said nodding and they began to walk forwards. Sonic took one last look up at the dragon and hedgehog on the cliff and followed the trio.
Sky raised an eyebrow as she watched the three heroes and her brother walk off the pier.
'What are you think about Sky?' Merla asked.
'It's nothing I guess,' Sky replied sighing and walking off the cliff and towards her home.
'Nothing, or something that you don't want to talk about,' Merla said following her.
'A bit of both,' Sky said sighing.
'Ok, well I gotta go, I have a lesson in five minutes, I'll see you later at the festival,' Merla said spreading her wings again and flying off towards the other side of the island.
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