Shadow Saves Them All
Part 2: Chapter 11
Silver the Hedgehog was not always a happy psychokinetic hedgehog. Once… he was lost and alone, desperate and needing someone to care for him.
Iblis… he hated that creature for a personal reason.
It was a lovely day in Soleanna. A large white male hedgehog and a teal blue female hedgehog were walking down the sidewalk. They both licked their ice cream, holding hands with their child who was walking in between them. He was a small white hedgehog with an… interesting hairstyle, he had on white and blue gloves and little yellow and blue boots.
They walked among the thousands of people in the city simply enjoying the summer day. The family stopped at a crosswalk and waited for the light to change before crossing. The beautiful sun glistened down on the city. Some kids were skateboarding on the sidewalks, while other couples sat by the fountains and talked or simply cuddled. The city was calm and peaceful…
No one saw it coming. The flames of Iblis had spread in a matter of minutes. They had decimated the entire city so fast that the white hedgehog only had a second to jump in front of his son in order to save him. The little hedgehog screamed and cried out in fear as his father was incinerated by the fires. His mother had been crushed by falling rubble and was not likely to have survived. The little hedgehog watched the scene, the memory was burned into his mind. The flames took shape of a face, a monsters face and opened its mouth wide, as if to swallow the hedgehog in flames. That's when it happened, out of nowhere the Caneblade slammed into the fire beast and dispersed the flames. A man jumped out from hiding and grabbed the Caneblade and the hedgehog and ran.
The flames reassembled and chased after him in a roaring fury. The man was fast, but the flames of Iblis caught up to him easily. The man ran onto the side of a building and jumped off it sideways to dodge a fireball. He landed on a highway and kept on running. Soleanna was destroyed. The sky was orange and grey with clouds and flames and the buildings looked blown out and abandoned. A large flaming tornado formed from the Iblis flames behind him, making it a challenge to outrun. The man jumped and turned around in the air, running backwards. Cars, debris and fireballs all flew from the tornado. The man countered all of them using his Caneblade and kept on running until he was tripped by a pipe. He began to roll and the hedgehog child started to cry. He thought fast and got to his feet, he stood firm as the tornado engulfed him and the child. It swarmed around him and the child, burning his skin and cutting and tearing his clothing. He stood still holding the child close to him to prevent it from being hurt. He tensed his entire body and focused the energy he collected from the tornado and finally he opened his eyes, they were glowing golden yellow.
"GGGGRRRREEEEAAAAATTTTTT BLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTTT!" he shouted in fury. A golden wave of energy was unleashed from his body which pushed away the flames and dispersed the tornado. He relaxed his body again as the imminent danger was destroyed… for the moment anyway. He looked around, as tired as he was and saw in the far off distance, a group of children huddled near a few adults. He ran towards them with what little energy he had left and collapsed when he got there. The people helped the man to his feet and were shocked when they saw a child with him, it was asleep.
"What happened to you young man?" a lady asked him. He didn't respond, he was too busy catching his breath. He handed her the child and leaned on a wall while regaining his strength. After he caught his breath he told the woman to tell the child that a creature named; 'Iblis' did all of this. He handed the woman a locket that was in the shape of an 'S' and told her to give it to him when he woke up. The man ran away quickly before she could retaliate and clicked something on his belt, he was teleported away to somewhere else. The woman opened the locket and saw a picture of a white male hedgehog and a teal blue female hedgehog cuddling their baby boy... On the inside of the locket there was something engraved; "To our child, Silver,"
"Mission Complete,"