Hey what's up everyone and welcome back to A Dark Hero chapter 2. In the last chapter, James was found and takin in by Sky the Cat and her family. But that was all peaceful stuff. Now, let the nightmare begin.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Sonic the Hedgehog game and comic series things. I don't own any of the Metroid® Prime Trilogy things, those are Retro Studios' and Nintendo's. I own most of the characters in this fanfiction. The idea of talking animals and the planet Mobius belong to SEGA. The idea of two worlds in one world, types of energy, and beams I got from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and belongs to Retro Studios (Sorry for the spoiler).

Chapter 2

Dark nightmare

"Lightning? Where are you?" I said looking for Lightning. We were playing hide and go seek. Shade and Flare already went home and we had dinner already. I walked up the stairs quietly and looked in Lightning's room, then my room, then the bathroom, but she wasn't in any of the rooms. "Hmm… Aha!" I said as I ran down stairs and walked slowly and quietly walked into the laundry room. I opened the dryer and found Lightning in it.

"Aw man. How did you know?" She asked as she got out.

"You dad told me you'd hide there a lot." I said.

"Lightning and James! Bed time!" Sky yelled.

"AW!" Me and Lightning whined, "Do we really have to?"

"Yes. You guys start school in a week. I want your minds to get used to going to bed earlier than usually. Besides, we have to go school shopping tomorrow for you two." Sky said.

"Ok fine mom." Lightning said, and then she went upstairs to her room, "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Lightning." I said, "Goodnight Sky." And then I went up into my room for bed.

Dream/Nightmare

I was standing in a ruined city and saw fire burning all over the place. "What happened here?" Then I noticed my voice was deeper. I looked at myself in a puddle of water and saw that I was older and taller. I also saw that I was wearing some kind of gauntlet that was pulsing with dark blue energy. Then I heard an explosion. I started running and noticed that I was running extremely fast. "Whoa." I stopped and saw two figures fighting in midair. One was using fire based energy and the other was using dark based energy. One of the figures was a dark blue hedgehog with a dark blue aura and he had no pupils or irises in his eyes. The other figure was a pink cat who had a red robe and a fiery aura around her. The cat fired a huge beam of fire energy at the hedgehog who did nothing. I thought the hedgehog would have burnt to smithereens. The beam covered and consumed the hedgehog, but when the beam disappeared, the hedgehog was unscathed.

"You call that power?" The hedgehog said, "I'll show you power." Then he shot a beam of dark energy at the cat and she was covered by the beam and knocked out of the sky. The cat crashed into the ground and created a crater in the ground. She then changed color and a purple emerald fell out of the gauntlet she was wearing. When she finished changing I was horrified at who I saw. It was Lightning.

"Lightning!" I tried to pick her up but couldn't.

Then the hedgehog floated down in front of her. "You are week. I can't believe how much that faker liked you before I came into the picture."

Lightning got up a little, "P-please. L-let him go. I'm begging you."

The hedgehog smiled, "Never" and with that he shot her with a dark beam and made her slams into a building and it crumbled down.

"NO!" I screamed, "LIGHTNING!" I turned towards to the dark hedgehog and charged at him to attack him. But for some reason my fist went right through him.

"Fool" He turned towards me, "This isn't a reality. This is a nightmare. But it's my home. Do you know who I am?"

"I don't care!" I yelled at him.

"I'm you." He said laughing.

"What? No I wouldn't do any of that to Lightning!" I yelled back.

"I know that. But I'm your dark side. And also, you're in my home. So get out." He said and then he shot me with a beam with blue energy at me.

Back to reality

"AHHHH!" I screamed. I looked at myself and saw I was my five year old self again. "Just a nightmare… Or was it real?" I lay back down and go back to sleep. And without me knowing, a dark creature laughs in my soul.

Alright then. Who was that hedgehog really? Was he really James' dark side? What does Lightning have to do with this. Find out in the next chapter. If I get 10 read and reviews I'll post the next chapter. Thank you, Darksteele0224 signing off.