Uh, hi. There are a few thing I need to tell y'all. First, I just drew awesome Manic and Super Sonic pictures on paper! Too bad you'll never see them. Second, I will be in India for 2 months. Wonderful, polluted India with almost no computers. So, I won't be able to update. Sorry...please understand.


Fauna found herself looking at Tails worriedly. She had reason to be worried about him. Ever since he had come back inside, he had looked to be several things. Bewildered, haunted, a little angry, and... scared. Why is he scared? She wondered. Maybe he saw something outside? She decided to find out why.

"Tails, did you see anything daunting outside?" she asked him. Tails looked at her. "Daunting…that's a good word, and no, I'm fine." Knowing when to keep going and when to stop doing something, Fauna decided to leave it at that. She had just walked a little ways when Cream ran up to her, excited pleading in her eyes. Fauna had a pretty good idea what was coming. "Miss Fauna, can you tell us your story now? Please?" Fauna sighed. "Do I have a choice? And who's 'us'?"

Cream pointed. Fauna looked in the direction the rabbit was pointing and felt shock flash through her when she saw Shadow, Knuckles, Sonic, Amy, Rouge, Tails, Silver, and Blaze. "Uhh... forget I asked.

When Cream and Cheese had finally convinced Fauna to come to her room to tell about her life leading up to the present, she started. Fauna took a deep breath before beginning. "I…I've lived around here my whole life. There weren't too many people around here. In fact the only people I knew well were my parents, a cat named Lily, and her parents. Lily and I were really good friends… and she was the one who helped me find this," she said, motioning to the gem on her neck. Shadow immediately interrupted. "Sorry to interrupt you and all that, but what is that thing? Is it a Chaos Emerald? Or is it something else?"

Fauna scowled in annoyance. "I'll get to that. Continuing from where I was, we were playing near a tiny stream that got formed by the rain, when Lily found something shiny. My father, a Freedom Fighter, had told us both about the Chaos Emeralds, so they were something of a legend to us. I suggested that the shiny thing was a Chaos Emerald, and Lily, being slightly older than me and knowing about this kind of stuff, agreed. We were just deciding to give it to my father when…" Fauna's voice cracked a little. "When he arrived."

"Who's 'he'?" Tails asked. No longer on her guard, Fauna didn't show any sign of annoyance. "I presume you've met him before," she said, held-back tears in her eyes. "He… is Mephiles the Dark."

At first, they were all confused, looking around the room. Sonic and Blaze looked surprised and annoyed, Shadow looked angry, and Silver looked terrified. He had good reason to be. And then...a flash of memories went through everyone else's head, and they looked at each other in shock.

"I-I thought he was dead!" Shadow hissed.

Fauna shook her head. "What told you that? You destroyed Solaris as a whole, but Iblis and Mephiles as individuals survived. I still remember it, even though it was years ago...The sky turning black, a glowing creature in the sky, Solaris, and three people, all glowing golden, fighting him and winning. And now I know who those three people were." Fauna looked at Sonic, Shadow, and Silver. They nodded, confirming her guess.

"Speaking of surviving as individuals, we all know that Mephiles is alive and hiding somewhere, but where did Iblis go?"Knuckles pondered aloud, looking right at Fauna. Blaze gulped.

"What?" Tails looked at her. "Do you know where he is?"

Blaze nodded, failing, for the first time in her life, to hide her fear. " Iblis...lies in slumber right before you."

Everyone just stared at Blaze, Silver exempt, seeing as he already knew about this. " You're saying...he lies within you?" Sonic looked like he'd been told he was a crook. Everyone just kept looking at her in shock. "No...way..." Fauna looked horrified. Raising her voice, she added, " You know what would happen if Mephiles captured you, right?"

Amy did not like the dark turn the conversation was taking. " Uh, Fauna, what happened after Mephiles came?" she asked, changing the subject.

"He'd come for the Chaos Emerald. My father had taught me a few things, and since I had a Chaos Emerald in my hands at that moment, I used it. But he was too powerful. Our parents came out and try to stop him…" her voice choked up again. "He…killed them all! He didn't even make their death fast! He made it slow and painful…and tied me to a tree, made me watch! And he saved Lily for last! You probably have no idea… I had to watch them all die and I couldn't do anything!" she cried. She had stood up, her voice had risen to a pained yell, and her cheeks glistened with tears. Everyone was staring at her with a mix of shock and sympathy.

"Calm down, Fauna," Amy soothed. "That must have been awful. If Sonic died I'd feel just as awful... Oh, Sonic," she trailed off, looking dreamy. Sonic sweatdropped while scooting away from Amy and closer to Tails and Silver.

Fauna had sat down again, looking more subdued. "'Mephiles' took the Chaos Emerald and shattered it. He spared me, saying I might be useful in the future, and then left. When he left, I took the larger shard and tied it around my neck. I promised myself that I would avenge their death, since I couldn't help them then..."

"That was the worst day of my life. After that, I lived a pretty solitary life. You know, staking a little bit of land for yourself, making sure you can eat and drink, keeping out intruders, that stuff. But I couldn't stop thinking about Mephiles and the way he murdered everyone I knew. So I tried out some stuff with Chaos Energy on certain things using the shard so that I wouldn't meet the same fate."

Silver cut in with a question. "Anything else?"

Fauna nodded. "Quite a bit, actually. I think you know quite a few of the people I met. The Chaotix aren't too far from here actually. It was a stupid decision that Vector made, putting their HQ right in the middle of a swamp!" She snorted. "They'd fall apart without Espio to put some sense in them once in a while."

Sonic chuckled. "So true."

Fauna continued the story. "Sonic, I'm pretty sure you'll like what I have to say now. Got any siblings?" The question made Sonic about 10 times more alert-it was Fauna's turn to chuckle. "Thought you'd do that. Manic and Sonia were around and told me to say hi to you in case you dropped by. You did just that-and literally. You dropped from the sky."

Everyone but Shadow and Sonic himself laughed at the shocked expression on the cobalt hedgehog's face. "T-they were here? Way past cool!"

Once the initial amusement passed, everyone (except Knuckles, of course) stared at Sonic. Tails, again, broke the silence. "You have...siblings?"

Sonic looked uncomfortable. "Uhh.. why not?"

Shadow snorted. " If they are half as annoying as Sonic, I don't want to meet them."

"Hey!"

"They aren't bad at all...nothing like Sonic, actually..." Knuckles said nervously.

Fauna went on with the story. "This might sound kind of weird, seeing as there is not too much water here, but I've met Marine the Ring-Tailed Raccoon. She came here to get spare parts for a ship and she got lost. She's really nice, actually. She and Cream both," she added, looking at the blushing rabbit girl with a smile. "You are, too," Tails pointed out. Fauna glanced at him. "I hope you don't mean it in that way...," she said teasingly. Tails blushed. Knuckles fell on the floor laughing. Amy, Blaze, and Rouge laughed. Silver and Sonic smiled. Even Shadow had a ghost of a smirk on his muzzle.

Blaze looked at Fauna with some confusion. " I wonder how she got here. She hails from the same dimension as me."

Fauna shrugged. "Oh well. I forgot to mention that, though. She did say something like that."

Silver's ear twitched. "I think I heard something," he said. Something like the wind, but yet not quite..."I'm gonna check it out," he told Blaze. He walked out of the room and through the Blue Typhoon's hallways to where the noise was coming from-the storage room. When he zoned in on the reedy sound, he could hear it under some boxes. They looked rather heavy, so lifting them wasn't an option. He concentrated on the boxes and tried to move them up with his will, trying to use his psychokinetic powers… only to find they didn't work. WHAT THE!? Silver could feel the panic but he pushed it down. Instinctively, he looked at his gloves and gasped. The usually teal-blue markings…were now red. On both sides. Overcome by panic, Silver was not on his guard. Meaning he panicked all over again when something grabbed his chest fur and tossed him into the boxes hard, knocking him out cold.

Shadow stood up slowly, deep in thought. No wonder the fox was so scared when she saw me. She must have thought I was Mephiles. And maybe I should check on Silver. As soon as the idea was in his head, a frightened yell came from the storage room and a loud thud could be heard. I have a bad feeling this has to do with Silver…

Shadow skated towards the storage room, half-heartedly noticing that Fauna and Blaze were trying to keep pace with him. As they approached the room, Shadow could see the pale hedgehog lying unconscious next to some toppled boxes. When he got closer, three things became painfully obvious. First, the way his chest fur was pointed. Almost as if someone had grabbed him by it. Second, the bite in his leg. And third, the red markings on his gloves that replaced the blue ones.


I know, I know. "Why are you picking on Silver!?" Well, he'll be fine in the end. And he's not the only one who'll suffer. (insert evil laugh here.) Also, there might not be MS Word here, but I'm jumping at the chance to update my chapters. I mean, I JUST noticed how much I've been leaving out. And I was on the Sonic Wiki reading about Marine and then I was like, "OMG! I FORGOT THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION PART!" I hope you like the updated chapters. Guests can also review, just to let you know…..Bye!