Hey what's up people. Darksteele0224 here with another chapter to A Dark Hero. Starting in this chapter and on the setting takes place ten years later when the characters are fifteen years old and are in high school, Mobius High. By the way, Dark Samus will make an appearance every now and then.

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). I don't own Dark Samus, she belongs to Retro Studios.

Note: I forgot to mention this in the first two chapters, but NO, James is not part of Lightning's family, he's a friend only, he's just staying at her home until he can go live on his own. And remember, the rest of the story is from no ones' POV.

Chapter 3

Dark awakens

James, Lightning, Shade, and Flare were walking back to go to Lightning's house after school was over.

"I think I'll join the track and soccer team." James said. He had grown taller than both of the girls. Now he wears red and white sneakers with gold buckles and a pair of white gloves. Also he's extremely fast. He's currently trying to discover what he's supposed to study. He already tried phazon, plasma, nova, power, ice, and electricity. Tomorrow, he's going to try out dark, light, and annihilator energy. If he can't manage to find my skill, then he will be taken out of the school. Each time he came close to one of the power emeralds, they exploded and he was sent out of the classroom. So far he's broken at least ten emeralds.

"I'm thinking of joining the basketball and baseball team." Shade said. Shade has grown the tallest of us all. He now wears two pairs of rings around his wrists and he uses a pair of black, red, and white hover shoes. He also still wears his usual ego-centric attitude, but he's not as crabby around me anymore. He is currently studying phazon energy. "Studying phazon energy is great so far. The best part is that I'm the only one taking the course. I got my phazon emerald." He pulls out his red phazon emerald.

"I want to join the track and soccer team also." Lightning said. She has grown taller than Flare. She wears her gray-violet robe, brilliant rose shoes, white fluffy ankle and wrist cuffs, amber necklace and white tights. Her hair is put up in a four feather ponytail. She is currently studying pyrokinetic energy. "So far, I love studying pyrokinetic energy. My teacher thinks that I will be a successful plasma warrior when I join the light warriors. I've even got my plasma emerald." She pulls out her purple plasma emerald.

"I'm going to join the softball and volleyball team." Flare said. She has grown taller but is still the shortest of us all. She still wears her red scarf, a true-purple jacket with yellow trim, white tights, white shoes with yellow clips on the tops, and white wrist cuffs with flame designs. She is currently studying nova energy. "Nova energy is an amazing energy to study. It's extremely hard for most people to get, but I picked up on the subject easily. My teacher says he wants to do some afterschool lessons with me next week. I got my nova emerald today also." She pulls out her blue nova emerald.

"I've got to find my skill tomorrow, or I'm going to be kicked out the school." James said, "And if that happens, then I'll never be one of the light warriors. I need to…"

All of a sudden a strange unknown creature smashed down in front of the four friends. It looked like a dark creature with unknown armor and an arm cannon. It looked up and pointed it's arm cannon at Lightning and charged it.

"Hey! Stop pointing that at her!" James yelled.

The creature then shot the cannon towards Lightning. James jumps in front of the shot and is sent into a building as he got hit. "AHHHHHH!"

The creature waited to see if James would rise back up.

"James? Are you ok?" Lightning asked sounding worried.

"Nehehehehe Nahahahahahaha! Finally! I'm free!" said a dark and evil voice. When the smoke cleared, a hedgehog with dark blue quills was standing where James was before. He had no irises or pupils, just pure white eyes. He also had a dark blue aura around him.

The unknown creature then turns around and then flies off saying nothing.

"J-James?" Flare asked sounding scared.

"Not even close." The dark hedgehog said, "My name is Dark Steele. And I am your worst nightmare!" He shot a beam of dark energy towards Flare.

"No!" Shade yelled and blocked the attack with an energy shield using his phazon energy.

"Hmph." The dark hedgehog said as he sent three more beams at Shade.

Shade's eyes widen as the beams come towards him and Flare. "Crap." He pushes Flare away and is hit my all three beams and causes a huge explosion.

"SHADE!" Flare screamed.

Shade was lying on the ground unconscious but still alive.

"Flare. Take Shade to the hospital. I'll take care of Dark." Lightning said as she place her plasma emerald in the gauntlet on her right hand. Almost instantly she was covered in armor, then a rapier appeared in her right hand. "Release James now." And she charges at Dark.

"Typical." Dark said and then dodges the sword and then roundhouse kicks Lightning in the back. "You really think I will release him? NEVER!" He charges a small dark ball of energy and then throws it towards Lightning.

Lightning dodges it, "Ha! You missed."

"Did I really?" Dark said smiling.

"Huh?" Lightning said and looks behind her and sees the ball explode into a medium sized black hole and it starts sucking her in and pulls her armor off. "AH!" The black hole closes and Lightning collapses out of exhaustion.

"I win." Dark said as a dark sword appears in his right hand. He walks over to Lightning and raises his sword above his head, "Good bye." But just as he is about slice down a sharp pain in his head causes him to back away. "Argh! WHAT IS GOING ON!" He yelled as he held his head. Then he looks at his right arm and sees that his fur is turning from dark blue to cobalt blue. He then realizes what is happening. "NOOOOO!" Dark then falls to his knees screaming in pain. Once his quills turned back to normal, James collapsed exhausted. The last thing James saw before he lost conscious was Lightning running over to him screaming his name.

Ok people. That is chapter three. What is James going to do about Dark? Will anyone be safe around James? And who is the unknown creature? Find out more later. Thanks. 10 or more read and reviews and I'll post the next chapter. Peace everybody, Darksteele0224 signing off.