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Mood Swings?
Chapter 2: Meeting the Emotions
Sonic began to stir from his uneasy slumber, fluttering his eyes open and letting out a soft groan. His head was throbbing tremendously as he doesn't even bother to sit up. He felt like people were watching him, his vision clearing up and taking a quick look around. The blue hedgehog could see seven shady figures surrounding him, Sonic beginning to feel anxious. He really hoped these people weren't hostile, or maybe he was just imagining things from the blow to his head. The figures all had the same form as his dark rival, Shadow. Heh, I guess I must have hit my head really hard; I'm seeing in sevens...
"Guys, I think he's waking up!" With that said, Sonic's hopes immediately drop dead like hearing the phrase "no running". All seven of the figures all take a step closer to him, their true appearances becoming clear. All of them look like Shadow in size, body structure, and even had his angled eyes, chest fur, and upturned spines. The only difference is the color of their stripes and eye color. The colors are pink, dark blue, dark gray, green, light blue, purple, and yellow, both their stripes and eye colors being the same. There is no red-striped Shadow, the Shadow he knew and, well.. tolerated. Sonic is in complete shock, wondering what had happened to the real Shadow.
The pink one smiles and crouches down next to Sonic, the blue hero shying away from the weird copy of his rival.
"We're glad you're awake! We thought you would be out for days by the look of that bump on your head!" The pink-striped Shadow speaks cheerfully as he smiles, giving Sonic the real creeps up his spine. He reaches up and feels the bump on his head only to retract his hand and wince at the aching pain.
"Whatever, it would be better if he had stayed knocked out. We all know I'm the best anyway, especially better than him," The yellow one speaks loudly, raising his head up proudly while crossing his arms. Sonic rolls his eyes, that one seeming more like the Shadow he knew.
The dark gray Shadow growls at the yellow one. "Just shut the fuck up, you ignorant prick. You're the worst out of us all," he snarls while crossing his arms over his fluffy chest also.
"At least I have a higher tolerance level," The yellow counters, both him and dark gray glaring at each other.
"Anger, Pride, stop your childish bickering! Our friend needs help here!" The pink Shadow shouts as he helps Sonic up. Dark gray and yellow just let out a scoff at each other and go back to focusing on the blue hero.
"What if he's just out to hurt us..?" The green Shadow shyly speaks now, looking frightened as the blue hedgehog looks over at him.
"Yea, what Fear said. You better not dare try to trick us, or I'll break every single bone in your body all in one sitting if you try," The dark gray one, Sonic guessing as Anger, sneers at him.
"There's no need for that, hehheh. So wait, you are all like.. emotions..?" The Blue Blur watches them as all seven Shadows glance around at each other, soon giving him a nod in response.
"It doesn't really matter if he's out to hurt us.. All I feel is pain anyway..." The dark blue-striped one shrugs and sighs, Sonic having some pity.
"I just plain don't give a single shit," The light blue one next to the dark blue one says disinterestedly as he leans against the trunk of the tree Sonic had been launched at before.
The purple-striped Shadow just smirks, walking up to Sonic's side and taking hold of his hand. "I don't mind getting hurt as long as it's by you, heh." The blue hedgehog next to him blushes a deep red with wide emerald green eyes, not expecting that to ever come out of his rival's mouth or to do that action to him, even if it isn't the actual Shadow he knew.
"Calm down, Passion! The poor guy just woke up, heh!" The pink one chuckles, the purple one just rolling his eyes and going back to staring at Sonic seductively while still holding his hand. The Fastest Thing Alive slips his hand out of the latter hedgehog's with a nervous grin and chuckle, quite uncomfortable with the purple-striped Shadow as he hides his hands behind him and the pink hint on his cheeks lessens.
"Anyways, might as well introduce all of us to you!" The pink-striped Shadow gestures to each colored Shadow as he introduces himself and them. "I'm Happiness, dark gray is Anger, yellow is Pride, or as I call Sass, hehheh. Continuing on, green is Fear, dark blue is Sadness, light blue is Laziness, and I'm pretty sure you're already familiar with Passion, heh. We're all of your friend's key emotions!" Happiness giggles, Anger scoffs, Pride rolling his eyes, Fear begins to shiver, Sadness just sighs sadly, Laziness asleep as he leans against the tree, and Passion wraps his arms around Sonic's waist and hugs him, Sonic doing his best to ignore it.
"Hi, it's nice to meet y'all, or one, or... It's a pleasure! If you don't already know, I'm Sonic!" The cobalt blue speedster gives them all a friendly smile.
Anger just walks up and punches him across the face. "Yeah, I hate you!"
The dark gray-striped hedgehog growls, the latter hedgehog clenching his teeth and rubbing his cheek. "Point taken! Geez, I already have one bruise; you don't have to give me any more!"
"You have to admit, he does have ooone nice body," Passion says as he examines the blue hero he's hugging up and down.
"Bitch please, mine is far more better than his. I have the glorious chest fur, while he has that pitiful little peach underbelly," Pride butts in, gesturing at Sonic's abdomen with a scowl.
"Much better than mine though..." says Sadness with a big frown.
"We all practically look the same, dumbass," Anger growls deeply and hardly holding back an eye roll.
"Guys, guys! Chill for a sonic second! First of all, what happened to the Chaos Emeralds?"
All of the Shadows share a glance (other than Laziness who is still asleep leaning against the tree) when the blue hedgehog in front of them asks them that before stepping out of the way, behind them being the seven Chaos Emeralds. They were in a circular formation on the ground, now black out of Chaos energy like how they were in "Sonic Unleashed". Sonic walks past the copies of his rival (after getting out of Passion's grip, who isn't very happy with the blue hedgehog disconnecting from his hug, yet that's Happiness's job) and approaches the superjewels cautiously in mild shock. Although this has happened before to him, it was still a disturbing and sad sight, rethinking all the fond memories and events he could think up using these powerful gems. Picking up one and dusting the dirt off of it with a concerned frown, he could just barely tell that this one was supposed to be the dark blue one, having to squint his eyes so much to tell.
"Not again," he strains mainly to himself, picking up the other six Chaos Emeralds and storing them in his cobalt blue head spines in case they find a way to recover the superjewels again.
"Wh-What now?" Fear speaks up shakily and Sonic looks up.
"Let's visit my buddy, Tails. Hopefully he can come up with something." Hopeful, but nowhere near unsure, Sonic smiles. The moment gets crushed as another thought crosses his mind.
"But that means we're gonna have to walk through the city to get there.." The Blue Blur hides the uncertainty that tried to sound in his tone, barely managing.
Happiness's pink eyes light up. "Adventure! Oh, what fun! Isn't this exciting?" The pink-striped Shadow squeals a bit too over-excitedly to Sonic's taste and causing his head to throb again, glancing around at the other copies.
The others just shrug, Pride taking a step forward. "Lead on, blue annoyance."
All the Shadows form a small group behind Sonic, Laziness having been woken up from Happiness's excited yelling. The blue hero begins to lead them out of the dense forest in a steady walk. He can't help but feel a sinking feeling in his stomach, not excited for the trip to his and Tails' house.
Let's just hope this won't be as bad as I think it'll be...
~End of Chapter 2~
Hope it wasn't so bad! ^^' All reviews are really appreciated! :D
