Hello everyone and welcome to another story by me, the fabulous Thunderstream! XD What amazing news! ^^ I had this idea a LOOONG while ago, like a year ago, and I have finally decided to make it a reality! :P The excitement of writing a new story is just amazing! :D So yeah, I hope you all enjoy the first chapter of this new story: "Mood Swings?" ! ;D DISCLAIMER: I did get this idea from one episode of the show "Teen Titans Go!: Colors of Raven", and of course, Sonic, Shadow, all the other characters, the setting, and everything else relating to Sonic belong to SEGA, not me.


Mood Swings?
Chapter 1: Beginning Catastrophe

Two supersonic blurs go by as they zoom through a dense forest, a blue and yellow streak following behind the blurs. They speed through side-by-side in the adrenaline-filled combat of a race. The sound of rapid footsteps that come every millisecond and roaring of blazing skates are the only sounds you hear as they go by. These two break-neck racers are the famous blue hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, and his dark rival, Shadow the Hedgehog. No one knows the destination these two are heading to, but can easily tell that they are both very determined to get there.

A strange energy bounces off the trees in the forest the two hedgehogs were in, this kind of energy weird to a normal Mobian. Truthfully, Sonic and Shadow were used to this energy by now. What they were actually doing was racing to a pearly white Chaos Emerald, which was the source of the strange and powerful energy. Sonic's best buddy, and technically adopted little brother, Tails, had helped the blue hedgehog track down the shining superjewel while Shadow had relied on finding it by following the energy waves that it sent out. The more stronger the energy gets, the closer the black hedgehog is to the Chaos Emerald. The two supersonic hedgehogs had met up accidentally at the entrance of the forest, both after the same target.

Since they both can't keep the Chaos Emerald because they can't stand each other and have different purposes for the Emerald, Sonic suggested that they should race to the Emerald. Whoever gets to the emerald first gets to keep it for whatever reasons they need it for. Unfortunately for the blue speedster, Shadow wasn't going to lose so easily with the prize being the Chaos Emerald.

Both hedgehogs continued to zoom at top speeds through the forest, dodging obstacles and ducking under branches along the way. Sweat rolls down their foreheads and they begin to grow anxious. Their eyes light up when they both catch sight of the pearly white Chaos Emerald that sat on a small tree stump. Pushing their legs to the maximum, both the break-neck rivals race toward their target with rapidly beating hearts.

"So Shads, ready to lose to me once again?" Sonic taunts as he flashes a smirk at his dark counterpart.

"Don't waste your breath, hedgehog. I haven't and never will lose to a faker like you, Faker," Shadow growls, giving said hedgehog a solid, dark glare. The blue hero's smirk only grows wider at that, something that The Ultimate Lifeform hated with a burning passion.

"I think it's about time we change that!" Sonic shouts as he speeds up a foot ahead of his rival. They were soon head-to-head again as Shadow caught up to him.

The black hedgehog then suddenly bumps Sonic roughly away from him, causing the blue hedgehog to collide into an oak tree. Now his time to smirk, Shadow pushes all his Chaos Energy into his hover skates, only three yards away from the awaiting Chaos Emerald. Sonic gets back up from the grassy forest ground and races towards Shadow again with masked worry in his emerald green eyes. There is no way he could make it now, but he still had to try.

"I guess I gotta call you Shadow the Cheater now!" The Blue Blur shouts at his black counterpart in front of him. He hears a barely audible grunt uttered from the antihero, but it was clear enough for his sensitive ears. Curling into a ball on the forest ground, he spindashed right back up to Shadow's side. Shadow notices that his blue rival had caught up and realizes that they were both only a few feet away from the pearly white Chaos Emerald awaiting them.

Both the supersonic hedgehogs get the same idea as they both leap off the ground in the direction of the superjewel in sync. They both grab hold of it with one hand.

"Chaos Control!"

Sonic and Shadow yell simultaneously, but yet nothing happens. They both keep a hand on the superjewel, staring at it in confusion. It then begins to shine a bright white light, making the two hedgehogs turn their heads away to avoid blinding their eyes. The light soon dims so they could open their eyes again, Shadow blinking his eyes repeatedly to fix his vision while Sonic looks up above him. The blue hero's eyes widen in awe. Above him were the other six Chaos Emeralds, levitating in the air just above the two rivals. Startled by their unusual behavior, Sonic lets go of the still shining white Chaos Emerald, practically giving it to his dark rival.

The Ultimate Lifeform soon regains his vision and sees that Sonic had let go of the Chaos Emerald, smirking in triumph and not even realizing the other six superjewels above him.

"Looks like I win again, Faker," The black hedgehog now taunts his blue counterpart as he holds the shining white jewel in his hand victoriously. Sonic isn't even paying attention to Shadow as he gazes at the other six superjewels floating above the antihero.

"Uhh, Shadow..." The blue hedgehog stammers, pointing up towards the sky while looking at The Ultimate Lifeform with emerald green eyes of shock. Shadow didn't even need to look up to notice that the six Chaos Emeralds were descending and surrounding around him in a circle, the white Chaos Emerald in his hand powerfully yanking itself out of his grip to join the other emeralds. The Chaos Emeralds begin to slowly spin around him, gaining faster and faster as each second goes by. The two supersonic hedgehogs just watch, unsure of what to do. Shadow looks up at Sonic, looking quite calm despite the confusing and possibly dangerous situation he is in.

"Sonic," He catches his blue doppelganger's attention from watching the spinning emeralds, Sonic locking emerald green eyes with the black hedgehog's crimson red ones. "Yea, Shads?"

"I just want you to know that if something happens..." The Ultimate Lifeform hesitates, turning his head away and closing his eyes as he lets out a sigh.

"C'mon, Shadow! You can tell me anything!" Sonic shouts over the emeralds. Shadow stays like that for a long moment, but he finally turns his head back to the blue hero and opens his eyes again, now having a small smirk.

"You'll always be my favorite faker and idiot."

The Chaos Emeralds veer from their circular rotation and phase into Shadow, unleashing a bright white light and blinding the whole area. The Blue Blur flinches from the light, Sonic closing his eyes and running into the light in hopes of tackling Shadow out of it, but he is hit by a unknown source of strong energy, like a energy wave. He is literally thrown back from the energy wave and flies right into a tree. Hitting his head directly, everything goes black for the blue hedgehog, falling unconscious.

~End of Chapter 1~


I hope the first chapter wasn't too bad! ^^' Never really been good at them. XD But anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of this fabulous story-to-come! :3