Guys, I've got A GOOD NEWS!!!!! I can get the notebook computer to England because of my grade impressed my dad! Hope you guys will support me as ever!

And to tell the truth, I had never read about this origin story instead of Disney-version (Mickey, Donald and Goofy, the Three Musketeers)! So, don't FLAMES on me!!! But I'm starting to read right now...

Well, you'll have to at least wait three weeks. *whimpering* So my friends won't be hearing from me for three weeks and it's so saddddd for me, do you understand? And do you know what the saddest part is? The saddest part is that my best friend who is one of them I know since primary school, is going to move to Australia to continue her school-year. Man, WHYYYYYY???? TELL ME WHY???????

So, enjoy and REVIEW!!!! (crying out loud)

Disclaimer: I don't own SEGA and Sonic and the story!


Sonic, Shadow, Silver

The Three Musketeers

By Arecus. Conberma

Chapter 3: A Dark Plot and Conversation


While the horsemen were searching for Sonic, Shadow, Silver and their new encounter, D'Artagnan, as he introduced himself as the Musketeer of the Guard. They had been sent into another place of France.

During their walk, they had a conversation. Sonic started, "Why would you do it? We could have beaten them up in a second." He said in confident.

"You must be understood. We don't have much time left to take care with those fools." D'Artagnan explained, tried to believe of what he was talking to. 'Talking to three hedgehogs!? I must be insane! How could they be the descendants of the three legendary musketeers?' he hesitantly thought.

Suddenly, Silver shook him awake. "Hey, excuse me, but where are we anyway?" he asked.

D'Artagnan clear his throat, "We're in the land of Paris, soon we'll approach one of the city, Ca'dina." He responded.

"You said that you summoned us? Why?" Shadow asked as the three hedgehogs stared at D'Artagnan, waiting for his answer.

"This kingdom…" he began, "was once very peaceful under the protection of the three legendary musketeers, I was with them, side to side. But then one day, that evil witch had returned!" he exclaimed as he angrily hit the tree that next to him by his fist.

The three hedgehogs watched him in eye-widened surprisingly. "Who returned?" Sonic then asked.

D'Artagnan sadly looked at Sonic as he continued, "Milady de Winter, a marked criminal, also one of my friend's ex-wife. She is a wicked witch." He explained. "She had returned and brought darkness to this Kingdom, not only possessed the Prince and let the people suffer. But also…killed them." D'Artagnan barely continued anymore as he tried to fight back his tears when he conjured the battle with his best friends.

Needless to say, Sonic had already knew who 'them' he was talking about. Milady had killed the three legendary musketeers. "So…what are their names?" Silver curiously asked.

D'Artagnan looked back at Silver and replied, "They are Athos, Aramis and Porthos."

"Wait a minute. I think I've heard those names before. Let me think…" Sonic announced as he started to remember.

"Athos, Aramis and Porthos were the three legendary royal musketeers." Shadow finished for him. "I told you to read some more books."

"Hey, I was going to say that!" Sonic growled.

"Alright, enough already!!" Silver said between them.

"The little one is right--"

Silver then cut D'Artagnan's talk, "Hey, one more thing. We have names. I'm Silver the Hedgehog." He introduced.

"Shadow, Shadow the hedgehog." Shadow introduced, folding his arms.

"And I'm Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog." Sonic smiled with a wink.

The musketeer then chuckled a bit, "And I am D'Artagnan, the Musketeer of the Guard of the Royal Family of France." He introduced as he gave them a light grin.

"Okay, so we have to defeat Milady and then everything will go back to normal, right?" Sonic suggested.

"I'm afraid it won't be easy as it looks. You see, when I said she returned, I meant, she's back…from the death. She was once beheaded." D'Artagnan fearfully added.

The three hedgehogs were gasped in horrid. "What!!? But how can this be possible?" Shadow exclaimed.

"Maybe, but somehow she did. And as I speak, she cannot be wounded."

"But how are we going to fight her back?" Silver then asked.

"When Milady killed…them, their souls were sealed into their own swords before they had gone to heaven or hell. Only bringing them back can defeat the witch. And the only way to find them, are you." He explained.

"WHAT!!? Why us?" the three asked in unison.

"Because you are the descendants of Athos, Aramis and Porthos. You can summon them and release their souls."

"We are?"

"That's right, I mean, you three are brothers, right?" D'Artagnan asked a question that he shall be regret.

"Me? Them? Not a chance!!!" Sonic stated.

"With this blue hedgehog, after the next life!" Shadow exclaimed.

"I would rather kill myself to be their brother!" Silver cried, turned his back behind them.

D'Artagnan was sweat-dropped when he saw the huge reaction from the hedgehogs, he thought that he might have asked a wrong question. "I think I might have asked a wrong question…" he sheepishly asked.

"Ya think!?" the three asked sarcastically in unison.

The musketeer chuckled lightly as he couldn't help but remember when he first met with his three musketeers friends, they were as same as Sonic them, always arguing and non-stop fighting. But at the end, they had become hardly separated partners. "Very well then, we'll have a camp here and tomorrow we'll go to Ca'dina to look for Marian." He announced.

"Who?" Shadow curiously asked when he heard the new name.

"Marian the kind-hearted Witch. She may be a witch but a wretch, no one will tell the guard about her true identity because of her kindness and generosity. Because witch is forbidden as whoever is it, shall be executed by be burnt. She's also the one who tell me and guide me about my friends' souls were sealed into their swords." D'Artagnan explained while he made a fire.

"Interesting." Silver added.

"And I'd bet this will be even more interesting than before." Sonic said with a smirked and laid back his back and slept.

"Really, how--" before Silver could ask a question, Sonic had already fallen into sleep and could hear snoring from his sleep. Silver sighed, "Well, good-night."

Shadow humped as he didn't need to sleep because he's an Ultimate Life Form. D'Artagnan sat on a log and watched over the guard. "You don't need to sleep?" Shadow asked.

"A Musketeer must stand on his guard." D'Artagnan replied with a smirk. "What about you? You aren't like them."

"I am unlike them, I'm the Ultimate Life Form. They're only allies, nothing else." Shadow said, without looked back at the man.

"Really?" D'Artagnan chuckled lightly, "Because I think you three can be a great team, like brothers."

"I told you, we're not--" Shadow growled, but interrupted by D'Artagnan's murmuring.

"I was alike you guys."

"Huh?" Shadow was confused.

"When I was young, I went to Paris to fulfill my dream. I went straight to the hangout of the Musketeers, but no longer having the letter of introduction from my father. The same day, I was challenged to a duel by three musketeers."

"Athos, Porthos and Aramis?" Shadow guessed and D'Artagnan nodded.

He continued, "We met and I began to fight Athos as he was my first challenger. But then we were interrupted by Cardinal Richelieu's guards, who threaten to arrest us because duels are forbidden by royal decree. We unite to defeat the Cardinal's guards and then we became friends eventually through the fight working together. We became alike…brothers." D'Artagnan told the story.

"Became friends through a fight in one day, that maybe too easy." Shadow asked with a doubt.

D'Artagnan laughed, "Who knows if this is God's plan?" he lowered his head to the ground, "And who knows if this is God's play?" he whispered the last sentence.

Shadow merely heard it, "What did you say?" he asked.

"Uh…nothing. Keep standing your guard on!" D'Artagnan snapped.

The black hedgehog stared at the man suspiciously, but then he glanced at the blue hedgehog and the young silver hedgehog, who were sleeping sound peacefully. The ebony couldn't help but thinking one thing that D'Artagnan mentioned before. 'Brothers? Could this be possible?' he grinned by the thought as he leaned himself on a log.

'We maybe alike. Our appearance are alike, even Amy can't tell the differences…' with that thought, he closed his eyelids and fell into long sleep.


To be continued…