Chapter 3: The Games Begin

"Our story begins in the beautiful kingdom of Enchantcia, where everybody is celebrating the 16th birthday of the High Elf Princess, Princess Little Feather." Sonic began. "You five know each other, and also happen to be good friends of the Princess. You are all gathered around, congratulating your friend of coming of age, as you know she has been looking for a suitor. Now, this where you guys choose what you want your characters to do or say, but you gotta be specific."

"Oh what a wonderful party this is, Little Feather." Amy giggled, immediately going into character.

"Yes, and congratulations on finally coming of age." Tails added.

"I'm sure you are quite excited to see what kind of men are willing to take your hand, Princess." Rouge smirked.

Sonic giggled under his breath and made himself get into character.

"Why yes, Rouge, I actually am quite excited." Sonic said in a girly voice, making his friends snicker. "Though I'm quite curious of what daddy has in store as well."

"What do you mean?" Tails asked.

"Oh, well, daddy has told me that I shouldn't get too excited over the suitors, because apparently I'll be getting a surprise visit from someone who has wanted me for a very long time."

"I wonder who that could be." Shadow frowned.

Sonic smiles before suddenly pulling out a figurine of a dragon, slamming it onto the map.

"Suddenly, a level 17 Adult Red Dragon flies into range!" The Hedgehog exclaimed. "The people are terrified, but not as terrified as Little Feather as the Dragon wraps his claws around her and attempts to take her away!"

"Not on my watch!" Shadow hissed. "Before that Dragon has a chance to escape I'm gonna fire one of my arrows right at his eye and see if I can get his attention before it's too late."

"Ah-Ah-Ah, not so fast Shads." Sonic waggled his finger at him. "Firing an arrow at his eye is a Called Shot, love. You'll have to roll a natural 20 in order for it to work."

"And if I don't?" Shadow raised an eyeridge, already having the d20 die in his hand.

"Then you don't hit and the Dragon gets away unscathed."

"...I'm still going for it." He growled determinedly.

And so, with a quick flick of his wrist, Shadow rolled the die onto the table. It rolled around a few times before finally stopping, proposing it's number to everybody.

"I don't believe it!" Sonic gasped as he stared at the die.

"See, what did I tell ya'?" Shadow smirked as he proudly sat back. "Natural 20 on the first try."

The group's astonishment would be outlived shortly however, as a bright sparkling white light started to surround them.

"What's happening?!" Tails gasped as he stared at his hand, which was now glowing as bright as the light around them.

"I don't know!" Sonic shouted in equal surprise.

"Sonic, what have you gotten us into now?!" Knuckles growled.

Suddenly, the white light flashed brighter, covering the whole entire group until they could no longer be seen. By the time the light finally died down, Sonic and his friends… were gone.

…

People of all sorts of races ran around, screaming in terror of the monster that had entered their beloved kingdom, who now had his filthy claws wrapped around their beloved Princess. Little Feather withered and screamed in terror, begging her friends to help her.

"TAILS, AMY, ROUGE, KNUCKLES, SHADOW! HELP ME!" She screamed.

At that same moment, a flash of bright white light surrounded the courtyard where the party was being held. When the light died down, there were Sonic and his friends, only, something was different about them.

They have turned into their DnD characters!

"What?!" Tails gasped as he felt his new whiskers and cat ears. "How is this possible?!"

"Sonic, what happened to us?!" Shadow hissed at the blue hedgehog, the tail of his new snake body rattling nervously.

"I-I don't know, Shads!" Sonic frowned as he felt his new long elf ears, then had a thought. "Although, this does remind of the time I was sucked into Camelot through that book."

"You mean that was real?!" Amy squealed in disbelief, her new silver Aasimar eyes shining behind the bangs of her new silver Aasimar hair.

"Of course that was real! Why would I lie about that?!"

"Uh, guys." Rouge suddenly interrupted, her snake tail rattling nervously. "I think we have bigger problems amongst us."

And as everybody turned to look at what she was pointing at, they all gasped. The Dragon hovered above them, smirking devilishly as he held onto the Elf Princess. To their surprise, both of his eyes were still intact.

"But I thought Shadow rolled a natural 20 to fire an arrow at his eye already." Knuckles boomed in confusion, his new giant height shadowing over his friends.

"He did," Sonic nodded, then turned to the black and red Serpentblood. "Shadow, quick! Use your arrow!"

Shadow nodded and quickly pulled out his longbow and arrow. Taking careful aim, Shadow shot the arrow at the dragon's eye. And then, to the surprise of the newcomers, a hologram image of a d20 popped up right next to Shadow. Unsure of what else to do, Shadow raised his hand over the die and swiped down, surprising them again as the the die started to roll, landing on his original Nat' 20. As quickly as it came, the d20 disappeared, replaced by 2 d8 dice.

"Your longbow has a d8 die of damage, plus 1." Sonic explained to the confused Serpentblood. "But because you rolled a Nat' 20, your damage die is doubled."

"Well then, let's see how much damage I do." Shadow nodded before swiping his hand over the dice. The 2 d8 dice rolled and rolled before both finally stopped on 8 and 1, with the plus 1 adding 10 damage. "10 damage, straight to the eye!"

They all turned to watch Shadow's arrow fly right into the dragon's right eye, dealing a critical hit of 10 damage. The Dragon roared in pain and anger, swinging his head around to dislodge the arrow before angrily taking flight. He roared once more before lashing his tail out at Shadow, dealing a critical hit points of 28, which slashed right through Shadow's scale mail armor class of 15, dealing a damage point of 18, which immediately sent the hedgehog Serpentblood into unconsciousness in effect of being robbed of all his Health Points.

"SHADOW!" The gang all cried when they saw their friend collapse to the ground, his eyes closed and blood seeping from where the Dragon had hit him with his tail.

The Dragon roared in laughter before finally flying away, taking a screaming Little Feather with him.