Well, here's chapter 3! Chaos emeralds and everything! Oh! And I totally found a theme song for this story XD If you've heard of the song 'Shot Heard Round the World' by Boys Like Girls, thats the song. I think it really fits! :D Also, if you ever want to find HUMAN references of these characters, you can go to my DeviantArt page. I so far have Sonika, Ace Rider, Serina (Shadow), and Cosmo up. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 3

Sonika's POV

I ran and ran and ran. Man, did I ever mention I love running? I ran through the hills and past the Mountains. I loved Greenhill, and Mobius. I don't know why, but I do.

Racing through, I was searching for chaos emeralds. They were around here somewhere. I had to get all of them before Robotmis. She would use their power for evil, when I'd use them to go Super Sonika and protected Mobius even better than I do now. Not too much to ask, right? Apparently, asking that of Robotmis, she'll say its useless and then go off on her plans of world domination.

I continued to run, smiling as the wind rushed past my ears and making a faint whistling sound. Gosh the sound was beautiful. I skidded to a stop just on the hill in front of the ocean. Yeah, I wasn't going anywhere near the water. 1, I didn't like swimming, and 2, I didn't even know how to swim. If I fell in... lets just say it wouldn't be pretty.

I raced down the shore line. I know I said I love running and all... but sometimes it gets lonely. I'm the only one on our planet that runs like this, no one else, just me. I mean, I'm grateful that Trixie can fly as fast as I can run, and Kelsey is almost as fast as me when I'm not even trying... but other than that, I have no one to race or run around with.

The thought of Trixie made me realize something. She could help me find the emeralds! Where did that sly fox go? I thought she was with me. I stopped and looked around, my hands on my hips and I was tapping my foot.

"Sonika! Sonika!" I heard a voice call. I looked over my shoulder and saw two small foxes run up to me. One looking just like Trixie, but with red fur. The other was completely covered in purple fur, wearing a white shirt, black pants, and sneakers.

"Sup, kids?" I ask, kneeling down to their height. "Our chao found something!" The red fox said, "It's really shiny!" I raised an eyebrow. Maybe it was a chaos emerald. The purple fox then added, "And he's stuck! Our chao is wedged in two rocks and can't escape!"

I scooped up both of the kids and ran off at super speed towards the direction they came in. They held on tightly to me as I ran, maybe in fear that I would drop them. Pssh, like that would ever happen.

"Right over there!" The purple one said, pointing over at two large rocks by an old mountain. I sped over and put the two down. Tapping my foot, I looked over the rock, then saw the small chao right in between them.

"Ah, give me a minute, kids." I said, walking over to the rock and slipping through the crack. It was tight, but I could fit. The small chao was holding something silver... or was it green? I wasn't quite sure. I slipped closer and closer to the chao.

When I was next to it, I pushed against the rock across from me. I managed to move it just enough for the chao to fall onto the ground. I picked it up and slipped back through, handing it to the small foxes.

"Oh thank you!" The red one said, hugging my legs. "Anytime, kid." I said, looking at the object the chao was holding. It was the green chaos emerald! I blinked, staring at the emerald. It wasn't safe in the hands of children.

"Here!" The purple fox said, handing me the gem, "Take this as a thank you!" I smiled and ruffled the little foxes' hair, "Thanks, kid." The two ran off with there chao, laughing and smiling. I hope they were going home, I mean it was getting really late. I ran at supersonic speed back home, yawning as I did.

I dropped the emerald onto my wooden end table and plopped down onto my bed, my hands behind my head. My eyes became heavy and my camera roll of dreams began to play. I wondered what it would be tonight as I fell into my light slumber. Heros never sleep heavily.

I was standing alone in a large room, only a mirror in front of me. Blinking, I looked over the mirror, thinking it was normal, right? I was totally wrong. The reflection of me was acting strange, as if it was me in an alternate world. What was this creature?

Suddenly, it jumped out of the mirror. Stumbling back, it was standing right in front of me, except it acted as my shadow. This... copy of me, I guess you could say, was now looking like a spirit type thing. It was a transparent black color, like shadowy looking. "Follow me~" It called and I chased after it. Every time I'd get close enough to touch it, it would move away. I never thought I would catch it.

I reached an area of the room with a large vortex on the floor, colors of purple spinning in a clockwise position. I was confused at first, then I looked over to see my copy floating above the shadow. It was laughing and smirking devilishly.

I felt something grab the back of my shirt, and looking over my shoulder, it was more copies of me. They hauled me into the air and the more I struggled, the more they held their grip. Finally, they threw me into the vortex and I screamed.

I shot up and panted, looking around my darkened room. There weren't any mirrors in my room, thank goodness, and no vortex sucking me in. So... So that was all a dream.

I shook my head, "Pull yourself together, Sonika. It was just a nightmare..." I said to myself, "It means nothing... you just had a bad dream..." I lied back down and turned towards my window, staring out of it. I eventually fell back asleep, but that dream stuck in the back of my mind. What did it mean?

When I woke up in the morning, I speeded out of my house, gem in hand. I ran to Trixies workshop where she was working on a plane. "Trixie!" I called out, racing in and skidding to a stop. She looked up at me and saw the chaos emerald. Her eyes widened and she stood up, "You got an emerald?"