Finally! It's done! This chapter is over 2,200 words; I think this is the longest chapter I've made so far!
Now here's the next chapter! There is an OC appearance here and he'll be in this story from now on. Sora and his friends might come very late in this story so sorry everyone, but no Sora for a while...
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Chapter 3 - Reunion
All Sonic felt was pain... he saw only black and every part of his body ached. He had claw-shaped wounds mostly on the sides of his body and they were stinging, due to the expose of air. Suddenly, he felt something slimy on the right side of his head; he slowly and slightly opened his eyes and saw a golden furred blood hound with pure black eyes, long, droopy ears and has a green collar that is loose.
Sonic looked at the dog confusingly, "Tails? Is that you?" The dog didn't reply back, it just looked at him waiting for him to wake up; since the dog didn't reply, Sonic thought that he was just hallucinating and was just dreaming. He said before closing his eyes "What a dream..." Sonic's head drifted down and was about to go to sleep, until he felt a hard press on his chest; he woke with a jolt and realised that the dog just pounced on him to keep him awake. "Ah! This isn't a dream!" After the dog pounced on Sonic, one of its ears went up and dashed out of the alley; Sonic shouted out "Hey wait!"
He stood up quickly, but hissed at the pain on one of the sides of his chest; 'Man, those creatures took a heavy hit on me... it must have been the time before I got that strange sword... I wonder if I can get it out again...' Sonic lifted his right hand up and thought about what the strange sword looked like; in a flash of white, the strange sword appeared to him once more. He looked at the sword and thought 'I need some answers...'.
A sign starts to light up, with the yellow and blue lights flashing in synch; then the words 'Traverse Town' was lit up brightly.
(Playing "Traverse Town" from Kingdom Hearts I)
By imagining the strange sword away, the sword disappeared in a flash of white and Sonic looked around from where he was standing; he was in a small alleyway of some kind, 'Where am I?', he looked at the end that wasn't boarded up and saw some lights. He slowly made his way out, looking at awe on what he saw; it was a small area that looked like a part of some sort of town. There were two, bended street lamps in the middle of the area; there was a couple of tables and chairs on the far right hand side, while on the other side, there was huge gate that was locked from the inside. Sonic then took a step back and looked at the building he was standing next to; it had a yellow glowing sign that said 'Jewellery".
Sonic was amazed at this city, even thought it was just a part of it; he had never seen a town like this in Mobius and he knew that he wasn't on Mobius anymore. Sonic looked up at the night sky and thought 'I guess I'm not on Mobius, I wonder... is it up there somewhere?' Sonic didn't know if he was hallucinating again, but he could have sworn that one of the stars just went out; he looked at the blinked out star and thought, 'What...What happened to that star? It's gone! There's something defiantly wrong here...' Sonic looked around the area a bit more and had a walk around the Jewellery shop; he went behind the building and saw someone lying down.
Sonic gasped at who was lying down as he ran up close to it; the person lying down has a plain black shirt on with a red leather jacket on top of it. The person has black jeans and has slate black gloves on with a red jewel on the rubber rim; the person also has shoes that were similar to Sonic's but has a different pattern on them. On the person's wrists and ankles, there were golden rings attached to them, loosely. The person has a small, quill shaped yellow mark on the left cheek, just below the left eye and has blue arrow marks next to both of the eyes; the person has spiky, slate hair with cobalt, blue highlights on two of the spikes.
Sonic grabs the person's right shoulder and starts to shake the person gently, trying to wake him up; he called out "Roxas! Roxas! Speak to me!" (This is my OC, not the Roxas you know from Kingdom Hearts 2) Roxas groaned, but he opened his eyes slightly, "Not now Sonic..." After he said that, he opened his eyes wide and hugged Sonic tightly. "Sonic! You're alive! I thought I lost you! I was looking for you as soon as those dark clouds appeared; I couldn't find you and I was sucked up by that big sphere... Then, all I saw was black... but... here you are!"
Sonic smiled and added, "It's good to see you as well Roxas, I've got lots of things to tell you". Roxas let go of his tight hug and noticed some blood on his clothes; he looked at the deep gashes on Sonic with surprise. "What happened to you?" Roxas put his right hand on Sonic's chest and examined the marks while Sonic was explaining "These dark creatures kept attacking me with their claws; I was trying to break free, but they couldn't budge a bit" Sonic noticed Roxas hand on his chest, "What are you doing?".
Roxas ignored his question and his right hand glowed light green; after a few seconds, the marks that were on Sonic's chest disappeared and the skin sunk back into Sonic's chest. Sonic looked at his chest with amazement and asked Roxas, "How did you do that?" Roxas smiled at him and answered, "I found out about this ability very recently when I returned home from New Domino City; after when I helped you out, I noticed that I had a deep cut on the side of my chest, probably from that duel against Akiza or from one of the Eggbots. I covered the cut with one of my hands, trying to stop the blood from flowing out; but after a few seconds, I suddenly felt a lot better and after I released my hand, the cut mark disappeared. So to make it short, I think I have some sort of healing power; probably has something to do with chaos energy".
Sonic looked at Roxas, amazed that he had that sort of power; Roxas stood up and looked around his surroundings, Sonic asked "Do you know where we are? All I know is that it's not Mobius". Roxas nodded and answered while pointing to the Jewellery shop, "Yeah it's defiantly not Mobius, I need to look around on what's on the other side of this building". He ran around the shop and had a look around the area Sonic was looking at a while ago; he looked at the area with shock, "No...no it can't be..." Sonic looked at Roxas worryingly and asked "Roxas? What's wrong?" Roxas had his mouth open but no words came out, but he then finally said "But... I thought this place was just a story! But...in a way, this makes sense..."
Sonic looked at Roxas confused, "What makes sense?" Roxas took a deep breath, "It's going to be long to explain, let's sit down first and I'll tell you everything you want to know". Sonic obeyed Roxas and sat down on one of the steps; Roxas did the same thing and started to explain what's going on.
"Okay, I'll start with where we are... we're at a little town called Traverse Town; this is where survivors of a world's destruction end up". Sonic eyes widened when Roxas said 'world's destruction' "Wait... does that mean that Mobius is gone?" Roxas put his hand up and answered "I'll get to that bit later, you need to know who your enemy is first". Sonic nodded and told Roxas to continue. "The creatures you fought were called Heartless, they're the manifestations of darkness within people's hearts; they roam around the world in search of hearts and they come in two types, the black ones you saw were Purebloods, where they don't release hearts, while the Emblem Heartless do".
Sonic nodded and asked "How do you know this?" Roxas looked down a bit and and explained, "Well, half of what I know was from stories, that my maids read to me when I was a kid and the other half came from this game called Kingdom Hearts. Those small shadow creatures were called Shadows, they're the most common form of pureblood Heartless; as for Mobius... it's not destroyed... it's safe". Sonic looked at Roxas confused, "Each world has a keyhole, which acts as a heart of the world; if the heartless reach the keyhole... the world is forever gone. But luckily, Mobius is okay because I sealed the keyhole..."
Roxas put his right hand up and a bright flash of white appeared; after a few seconds, a strange looking sword appeared onto his hand. It looked like the Sword of Chaos he used back home, except that the guard covered the whole handle and not just the top of it; what was also included was that one of the rings on the end of his blade, stretched out to make some sort of teeth for a key and on the bottom of the guard was a keychain that had a blue chaos emerald as decoration. "...with this".
Sonic looked at the flash of white and thought of his weapon; he asked "That looks familiar..." Sonic hold out his right hand and whatever happened to Roxas, happened to Sonic, except the sword appearance was very different in comparison. In his right hand, he was holding a strange sword-like weapon; most of the guard and blade looked a bit like the sword, Caliburn that he used in Camelot, except where the handle is, it has a ring-shaped guard surrounding the handle. On the bottom of the sword-like weapon, it has a silver keychain, that has a small green chaos emerald attached as decoration; for the blade, the tip of the sword has been replaced by spin dash blade.
Roxas looked at Sonic's sword and answered "Looks like we both have the same type of sword... this sword is called a Keyblade; it's a special sword that is given to those people who have strong hearts; it can lock and unlock any lock, whether it be a treasure chest, a locked room or a locked gate and it acts as a sword, a wand and a key. There's one problem with it though, since the wielder of the Keyblade has a strong heart, the Heartless will always come to the wielder, no matter where they are. So the reason how Mobius is safe is because I sealed the keyhole using my Keyblade".
Sonic breathed a sign of relief and summed up everything Roxas had said so far. "So let me sum up everything you've told me, we both have these special swords that can lock and unlock any lock; we're in a town called Traverse Town, Mobius is safe from destruction and our enemies are called Heartless which are always coming for us. Is that right so far?" Roxas smiled and continued on "Yeah, that sums up most of it; there is a couple of things you must know though". Sonic looked at Roxas just listening to what else he had to say. "Even if we want to go back to Mobius, there are other worlds in danger to the Heartless".
Roxas looked at the night sky and included "When you see a star going out of the sky, it means that world has disappeared or the heart of that world is gone". Sonic thought, 'So that star blinking earlier means that, that world is gone!' Both Sonic and Roxas looked at each other and continued "Mobius will be okay for now, but first, we need to find the others and get a ship that can travel to different worlds".
Sonic stood up and said confidently, "Alright! Let's find ourselves a ship!" Sonic started running towards the doors of the Second District of Traverse Town; Roxas called out, "Wait up Sonic! You don't even know where you're going!" Roxas started to use his super speed to catch up with Sonic, who was now opening the doors; Sonic and Roxas walked into the Second District and Roxas looked at the area confused. "This area should have Heartless around, so where are they?" Sonic just shrugged at Roxas and he looked around the place to find someone; he then found something black at the corner of the area.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Sonic pointed at the black corner and Roxas answered, "Might be some Shadows, but why are they gathered in one spot?" Roxas ran towards the corner and shouted, "Only one way to find out!" Sonic soon followed and Roxas used his Keyblade to slash away the first Shadow; the Shadows sank down to the ground to follow Roxas, but Sonic who was now joining Roxas used their Keyblades to destroy the Shadows.
As Roxas was slicing the last Shadow in half, Sonic gasped at what the Shadows were covering; it was golden furred fox that had white gloves, red and white shoes and had two tails instead of one. It was Tails. "Tails! Can you hear me pal?" Tails didn't answer or move; Sonic put two fingers on Tails' neck... he felt a pulse; Sonic breathed a sign of relief, "He's just unconscious, let's get him to the place where we met". Roxas nodded and replied, "The First District, that's a good idea; there's no Heartless there, he'll be safe". Roxas picked up Tails and let him into his arms; he rushed towards the gates they just went to.
As Roxas reached the Jewellery Shop, he placed Tails carefully where the shop that contained a safe was and said to Sonic "I'll go look around the town to search for the others and for a ship, you stay here with Tails; if he wakes up tell him everything I told you, otherwise, he'll be confused on what's going on". Sonic nodded and Roxas speed dashed his way towards the Second District while Sonic kneel down next to his best friend.
Five minutes went by and still no luck, Sonic was really desperate to see his best friend again and to see if Roxas had any news; he was about to lose hope, until a voice spoke up "S-Sonic? Is-is that you?" Sonic turned around sharply and gave a huge smile; Tails was awake. He dashed towards his best friend and gave him a big hug; Sonic said cheerfully with a few tears in his eyes, "I thought I lost you pal! It's good to see you again!" Tails replied with small tears in his eyes "It's great to see you too Sonic! I thought I was done for!"
Sonic let go of his massive hug and Tails asked while looking around, "Where are we?" That's when Sonic explained all of what's happening to Tails; about the Heartless, about Mobius and the Keyblades. Sonic included "...so Roxas is going to find us a ship, so that we can go to different worlds and save other places". Tails nodded and he and Sonic waited for Roxas to return.
Ten minutes later, Roxas arrived back and said to Sonic and Tails, "Bad news guys, I couldn't find anyone else we know and no one here has a ship that we can use". Sonic looked disappointed and asked with concern, "Is there any other way to enter a different world?" Roxas nodded and answered, "There might be one way, but it's very risky..." Roxas summoned his Keyblade out and included "...I know some guys who may have a ship, but the problem is that they're from a different world; I could Chaos Control to that world, but I only have enough energy for one trip, so if I'm not careful, we could be somewhere that we don't know".
Sonic nodded and said "Well, if that's the only way, then I say, do it". Roxas nodded and added, "Alright let's do it, you two hold onto me". Tails and Sonic grabbed onto Roxas' legs tight and Roxas said out loud, "Chaos Control!" In a flash of white, they disappeared...
I hoped you liked that! Have a guess on where they're going next and please revies me!