As the day slowly passed by, a Mongoose girl made her way through a village. The name of the village was Knothole, and the name of the girl was Mina. Mina had beautiful, long and wavy purple hair that looked like a river that flowed down her body. Her emerald green eyes looked like jewels and her vibrant yellow fur contrasted her eyes and hair beautifully. She wore, what she normally did. Tail boots that reached her knees and gloves the same color that reached her elbows. The gloves were big and had a black decoration that moved around her backhand and palm and on the backhand part of the decoration that was on the glove that had three small holes. The three holes had been engraved into black decoration and they were the color of majority of the glove, the holes were placed in the position of a triangle, a dot at each angle. The gloves that were tail pretty much fit well with her green eyes. The black on the gloves matched the black headband she wore and the black of her shirt, which had sleeves three fingers wide and it showed her stomach. Lastly she had brown shorts that were most likely the same material normal indigo jeans were. They were rolled up to her thigh and had a black belt that went through the loops of the shorts. Overall, the pants complemented her yellow fur fairly well and though she looked very pretty and cute, she didn't feel too happy.
She was running as fast as she could to a certain hut, even though her hope was to make it to school her first day in the new semester. She had several new classes and new teachers and the last thing she needed was to ruin her reputation in their eyes by being late to classes. Mina was frantic, and she wasn't paying attention to how fast she was running until it was too late. Mina tried to stop, but in the end she simply tripped. She prepared her body to rub against the ground when she noticed something; or rather someone had caught her. The individual was a male. He was a blue hedgehog with green eyes just like hers. He wore pretty much nothing save white gloves and sneakers that were red and white with a buckle that played as a replacement for shoe strings perhaps. His socks were white and were big and fluffy, reaching his ankles. However he wasn't concerned about his appearance, rather the safety of the mongoose he held.
"Mina! Are you okay?!" He asked as he tried helping her regain her balance.
In turn the mongoose looked at him and nodded while trying to catch her breath. Now assured she was okay he frowned.
"Mina what were you thinking running at that speed? You know you can't control it yet and your only going to get yourself hurt! Your not finished with your training so you'll have to be patient."
Mina blushed. She really cared about him. He was suave, sweet, caring, and though it was obvious that rude-boy attitude of his could be seen as his hard to reach exterior, she was beginning to see what was inside and loved it more and more everyday. He was perfect in her eyes, the guy who could do anything, the guy she'd dream about having. Mina was so caught up in thinking about him; she had forgotten to say anything in her defense. Quickly Mina snapped out of her thoughts and tried to say something.
"I- I was trying to meet you at your house so we could go to school together, you said you wouldn't mind since you said you could go with me there before your training with the other freedom fighters." Mina said.
Sonic looked at her shocked. She was wearing her backpack, had a packed lunch and everything. He scratched his head and didn't say anything for a few moments.
"Mina, I did say I'd walk you to school, but not today because it's the weekend. There is no school today…"
Mina was extremely embarrassed. How could she be so forgetful? Now she looked like a complete idiot in front of Sonic. She wanted to bury her head in her hands and cry, but instead she said nothing. She was completely silent and bit her lip, looking at the ground unable to face him. Sonic understood that Mina wasn't comfortable at the moment so he put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.
"Look Mina-girl everyone makes mistakes sometimes, we all forget about stuff. Don't take it to heart because you messed up once okay?" Sonic coaxed.
Mina's ears twitched, she was shaking.
'He's touching me!' Mina thought. She felt like her heart was melting in her body. She no longer felt bad, rather like she could jump over the moon millions of times. Mina responded to Sonic by nodding, still looking down at the ground, but she managed to crack a smile and in unison the two of them found themselves laughing at Mina's mistake. Mina no longer felt as bad about the incident as she had a few moments ago. So why not laugh about it?
The two of them would laugh for a couple more minutes and eventually Mina stopped laughing and caught her breath and Sonic a few moments after.
"Well… I'd love to laugh some more, but I have to go to the palace…I was going to go meet Sal so we'd have a picnic." Sonic said.
" Oh… okay." Mina said trying to hide the disappointment in her voice.
"I'll see ya later Mina-girl!" The hedgehog yelled as he ran away. He ran at incredible speed, he was much faster than her, much faster than anyone really. After all he is the fastest living being in the world.
Mina's head hang low. She really wanted to be around him a lot more. Every time she did though it just never worked out. She tried becoming a Freedom Fighter like him. They fight against an evil dictator who rules majority of the world and by helping she thought she'd be with him, but she realized that wasn't right. The Freedom Fighters' hearts were in that sort of battle. To be a good Freedom Fighter her heart would have to be in that fight a lot too, and it was with Sonic more. She and Sonic didn't seem to be getting any time together. She loved him a lot but she didn't really think he cared about her the same way she did with him. She couldn't approach him as someone she loved because… well she wasn't wanted that way as far as she was concerned. His eyes were already on a girl named Sally, princess of the Acorn royal family.
Him and Sally spent more time together than ever, leaving Mina out. She loved Sonic but he hadn't actually fallen for her yet, if he would at all. Still she had faith that maybe one day things could work out. She'd do anything for him. She even took the bullet for Sally one time when a band of weasels kidnapped her so that Sonic would be happy in case Sally was the girl he wanted. She'd go great lengths to see him smile, but until he could fall for her too, she couldn't see herself happy with life completely. However for now, just making him smile was enough.
However she loved Sonic and it hurt that he wanted someone else at the moment. Though she refused to bug him about it. That could make him upset or unhappy. She couldn't bear that, but what could she do? Who could she tell her burdens to? Mina dragged her feet staring blankly at huts and villages. Small children were playing with a green ball. Two beaver children were playing jump rope, a bear was carrying his groceries into his hut…nobody. None of these villagers seemed like they'd have the time to deal with listening to her problems. So Mina kept walking deciding she'd simply go home, until she found a small hut.
"Miranda's counseling service grand opening… First two days of counseling free." Mina read aloud. Mina continued to stare at it for a few moments.
'Perhaps this is the sort of thing I should look into.' Mina thought and then stopped moving. She would eventually decide it would be the best thing to go into the hut anyway. The mongoose girl slowly approached the door and knocked softly on it. No one answered. So she knocked harder, again no one answered.
"Hello?" Mina shouted knocking on the door so hard she was afraid the door would fly off.
"Just a minute…" said a soft feminine voice.
Hustling could be heard behind the door of the hut and eventually a black cat opened the door. Her ears were pressed in a horizontal direction even though normal cats had ears the pointed up vertically. Her golden eyes looked at Mina and her long black hair was so long it dragged to the floor. Her bushy tail moved side to side almost impulsively and she wore a golden dress with golden bracelets, two on her right wrist and one on the other.
"Can I help you?" She asked.
"Well I read the grand opening thing and I was wondering if-"
"Of course! I'm miss Miranda. Sorry for not coming to the door earlier but I'm putting books and stuff in here now as I tidy up my office. Running your own business isn't always easy you know."
Mina never ran her own business to understand completely but she simply nodded.
"Come on in!" the black cat offered.
Mina walked into hut and the cat let gave a grin that showed one or two of her teeth.
"Now…what seems to be the problem?" The cat said inviting Mina to sit on a chair, Mina accepted the offer and sat down before trying to speak.
"Well…Miss Miranda- - I love this guy who doesn't care about me at this moment the way I do for him. I feel somewhat neglected and alone, and I don't really feel close with any other people besides this guy and my mother…but the love between my mother and I is different between the type I have for this guy. I've been respecting his want not to love me right now. As he already has eyes for the princess Sally…"
The head of the cat perked up.
"Princess Sally as in… Princess Sally Acorn?" The cat quickly questioned.
"Yes Princess Sally…"
The cat crossed her legs.
"So if you don't mind me asking…who is this guy?"
Mina hung her head low before burying her head into her hands.
"Oh c'mon I probably won't even know who this guy is nor have I probably ever heard of him…he's just a name to me."
Mina looked at the cat.
"Miss Miranda…so by any chance you wouldn't know who Sonic the hedgehog is?" The mongoose whispered.
Miss Miranda nearly jumped out of her seat.
"You know Sonic the hedgehog? That's incredible!" The cat exclaimed.
"Uh…yeah, I suppose it is until you fall in love with him…because then your heart gets broken."
"Because he wants princess Sally." Ms. Miranda added.
"That's pretty much the idea." Mina sighed.
"I can't stand this, I feel a bit betrayed, upset, lonely, angry and more." Mina growled.
The cat purred a little bit.
"Well why don't you take something I was going to give randomly to any of my patients. You want the power to change the world to make it a happier place? I can help with that… of course by doing this it may cost you your life."
"Miss…Miranda?" Mina said puzzled.
The black cat went to fetch something off to get a box on the kitchen's table. When she handed it to the Mongoose her eyes widened. The box was extremely beautiful. It was incrusted with gems of all colors. Pinks, blues, purples, oranges, reds; varieties of colors decorated the box to almost make the box look like sunset turning into night.
"Its beautiful…" Mina's voice trailed off.
"Its also yours now." The cat mentioned.
"You see… I get this feeling that you're someone who could put this box to good use and to help it fulfill the purpose it was given many years ago. My family has been holding the box but none of us have felt it was right for any of us to uphold the responsibility we would face if we…"
"If you what?" Mina chimed in once she realized the cat wasn't speaking.
"You will find out soon enough. Of course if you don't want to change your world…or at least do what needs to be done to change it…do not…and I repeat…do not open this box whatsoever and return it to me. Think carefully about this young lady … would you risk your life to see all the world's troubles go away?"
"I… I don't know. I feel a little young to die. Not to mention you've never told me exactly what's in it." Mina stammered.
The cat tried to smile and stroked the mongoose's hair.
"Child its something that sounds scary at first but if you have the heart deep down to do this then… it should not be a problem. Tell you what… Look at your own life. Think about whether or not the evils in your own life are bad enough to make you risk your own life to rid yourself of them. Go home and think about it."
Mina exhaled in response.
"Okay…"
The cat handed Mina the beautiful box and patted her on the back.
Mina gave her a weak smile in an attempt to cover the fear. What exactly lied in this box? She had to know. Miranda didn't tell her, so she might as well find out herself when she got home. The walk seemed a little too short for Mina. She was full of anticipation and couldn't help but grow a desire to know what the box held. Her finders ran against the jewels on the box and a few villagers every now and then looked at it.
When the mongoose girl arrived home an older mongoose looked at her arrive and brushed one of her long bangs from her face. Her hair was just as long as her daughter's except it was strait, not wavy and had two large quantities of hair split to make the bangs. She wore a green robe and slowly went back to preparing some food.
"Hey Mina…I'm making salad tonight, is that okay? The mongoose asked quickly while pulling out lettuce and tomatoes from her refrigerator.
"Sure mom!" The Mongoose said hardly seeming to care much about what her mother was saying; rather she just wanted to be alone in her room. Eventually Mina made it into her room and shut the door. Her room had been redecorated to have white walls and a lavender rug. The bed was fluffy and her sheets and blanket were also as lavender as the rug, the pillow on the other hand was white. There was a wooden desk somewhere beside Mina's bed a black trashcan beside it. Mina quickly sat on her bed and stared at the box, getting ready to open it when she remembered, were the problems in her life so great that she would risk her life to get rid of them? Well for one thing, Sonic played a big part in her life. She loved him more than anything else but that may have been prevented or perhaps it could have developed if evils in the world didn't stand in the way as much. The aftermath of this heartbreak consisted of negative emotions Sonic would never know she had because she didn't want to be a burden on him; rather she wanted to make him happy regardless of whom he loved now.
She owed a lot to Sonic. He was the best friend she ever had, he was supporting, he inspired her to get into a singing career, he inspired her look into her opportunities in life and perhaps see the good inside of herself she didn't care to see until she met him. He had done so much; yet she couldn't possibly love him back in return. Perhaps if the evils in the world weren't as bad, things could be fair. Things could be right like they were supposed to be. She finally after moments of thought she decided that she would definitely open the box.
Slowly the girl opened the box trying to look if it had something inside. When she opened it, there was no magical amulet, not pretty gemstone, or magic wand like she thought. As the matter of fact there was nothing in the box at all. Mina stuck her hand in it to see if it might be something she couldn't see she even turned the box upside-down so that perhaps something would fall out, but nothing.
"Well…that was interesting. I'll just return this thing tomorrow."
Mina placed the box on her bed before flopping into her bed herself and got ready to go to take a nap. Of course this was becoming rather difficult. Something was tugging at her to keep awake, and not to fall asleep… literally. Mina shrugged it off at first as it was a rather gentle tug, but as the tugs became more forceful Mina turned around to see the culprit, expecting her mother probably trying to wake her for dinner, however she would become filled with shock when she saw that her mother wasn't the one tugging at her, rather three figures.
The first was white, its green eyes looking at her. Its hands were a translucent blue color as was the blue on the tip of his back. Sparkles emitted themselves from the creature's body as it did from the other three. On the top of his head rested a ball of light, and it was so bright that it made Mina turn her head to see something else which would be the second small creature. The second was black. His eyes were gold and on his hands spikes appeared on his knuckles. Black horns came from his head and parts of his body had a translucent color that varied from red to yellow. A blue flame rested on top of his head and on his chest was a crescent there was purple engraved into his body. He looked small but frightening but he didn't seem like he would attack her. However the third creature made her heart want to melt. Mina looked into this creature's blue eyes. Her body was white just as the first but had bangs that looked very much like her mother's but frilly at the ends. On the tips of her hands and bangs was a pink translucent color; a yellow halo on top of her head was white and translucent as well. However the other two creatures eventually had their eyes on her as her hand was stuck in her mouth and her eyes peered innocently at Mina.
"Get that hand out of your mouth Angel-cakes!" The black creature snapped.
In response the creature slowly took her hand out of her mouth and felt her eyes begin to water and her throat tighten.
"Demon apologize this instant! You're going to make her cry!" The blue and white creature whispered harshly to the black one. However the black creature refused to say anything, and eventually just as he was warned the pink and white creature began to cry.
Everyone in the room covered their ears as her loud shrieks and wails filled the room. Mina flinched as she heard the creature's cries. She had to make it quiet now! Mina quickly picked up the pink and white creature and put it in her arms. This creature had the mentalities or a child, if not a baby. The mongoose concluded that perhaps she would have to calm it down like one, which wouldn't be hard as she dealt with children plenty of times. She cradled the small creature in her arms and sang to it. The melody of the mongoose's voice managed to calm it down along with the cradling of its body. Eventually the creature stopped her crying and the other two on her bed were dozing off trying but apparently failing an attempt not to go to sleep by the soothing melody. The blue and white creature quickly lost all his will to stay awake and thud was heard a few moments later as one of them fell from the bed to the ground.
"Excuse me for a minute…" The black creature laughed with hints of embarrassment in his voice as Mina stopped singing.
He then flew to the fallen creature and started slapping him with his hand. Eventually after about ten to twenty smacks to the face the creature woke up from his sleep.
"What is wrong with you two? We have job to do!" The black creature shouted.
In response to this the now fully awakened creature had rubbed himself in the areas he was hit.
"Yeah well…this wouldn't have started if you'd have apologized like I told you to!" The other one hissed.
"Boys stop that! We've got a job to introduce. For this girl's best interest I think she should know what it is right away." The creature in Mina's arms interrupted causing the other two to end their argument and fly onto Mina's bed.
"Well now that I have your attention seems to be on me…can I ask you three something?" The mongoose said quickly.
"Sure." The three retorted in unison.
"Who are you?" Mina asked.
"Who are we?" The pink and white creature asked ready to answer.
"Of course us we're the only one's in the room dum—" The black creature cut himself off understanding what could be the consequence if he upset the other one again.
"We are… chao." The blue and white one cut in trying to create a fairly decent conversation.
"Uh… what's a chao?" Mina pondered aloud.
"A chao is a creature made many years ago. We were the product of the gene bombs produced by the Xorda just as you and your descendants are. Three thousand years ago the aliens this world encountered came to destroy it with the gene bombs that mutated most of the living creatures here. During that time history would reborn itself for the most part. This is when our kind had formed and we would grow to become a peace loving type. We stored plenty of the chaos the world had been holding inside so that this world could recover from the attack and become unified in the end. The power of our generation's chaos was so great the chaos emeralds were where it would be stored. However the emeralds have limitless power because of the fact that the emeralds can turn thoughts in to power whether they be negative or positive and as long as wicked thoughts can promote chaos in the world… bad chaos exists and those emeralds will be used to vessel its power in the form of energy…"
"Well then why don't you stop the evil?" Mina asked.
The black one hung his head.
"We tried that. We sealed away all the evils in the world…into the box you just opened. Of course there's nothing in it now, but there used to be. We trusted a girl named Pandora to hold the box for safekeeping. Instead of guarding it like she and her descendants were intended to for eternity, she opened it and set the evils free. It took so many of our kind to trap them, only for her to open up that box and have our efforts seem in vain. Our peace loving kind wanted peace but evils such as fear and deceit would always promote war… we sealed away everything that would promote bad things…for nothing. The black chao mumbled.
The pink hedgehog cleared her throat, as the black one's faded.
"That's where you come in. You see we had decided that after she opened the box we'd try again, only however if we gained some assistance. We felt that whoever would help us would have a strong enough will to help us remove evils. As chaos is power enriched by the heart. The hearts of the world are filled with evil, which will promote bad chaos to occur. Only when we have removed such evils from the world will we have accomplished what our kind feels they were born to have done, spread peace. Our kind has disappeared with the appointed guardian of our kind along with a close friend of our kind. However as the strongest of our kind, we have decided we hold power to make a difference alone... and without their help, so we've remained in the box for eons and even though their spirits leave we have concluded we shall stay."
The black chao moved towards Mina.
"I am Demon. I represent the Dark Chaos in the world… therefore I am known as Dark Chaos."
The pink and white chao in Mina's arms looked up.
"I am Angel. I represent the good left in the world despite the chaos that's in it and chaos made under good circumstances… so I'm pretty much also called Hero Chaos.
The blue and white chao looked up at Mina and flew over top of her head.
"I am Star. I represent the intensity of the war between good and evil. I represent either side or none, as chaos can be a result of either good or evil intentions in the beginning. All three of us were given power by our protector Chaos to bear each side of him in case he died or left, so that we would protect our people. He thought, as did the world that our kind were dead. However even though we don't know what fate the other chao had befallen we lied here in this box ever since he was sealed away which was sometime after the evils returned to the world, as we concluded to find a way to stop the evil that forced him to be sealed."
"I'm not getting it…what does this have to do with me?" Mina mumbled shyly.
"The hero chaos chao heard her question and prepared to answer.
"You have indicated by opening the box you share our desire to rid the world of evil. We shall guide you to that day where evil is done away with, however evil doesn't want to be sealed. It enjoys being free in the hearts of everyone and it will try to do anything to make sure things stay that way. That also includes the fact it will try to kill you. As you by opening the box have proclaimed to the evils of the world that you will be willing to do away with them. They can come in the form of their own creations and entities or people you know; perhaps they may try to consume you themselves. They'll do this to get close to you... so that they can kill you. You must seal them away before they kill you as we're now stepping on the battlefield of the war waged against good and evil."
Mina blinked.
"So I have to fight…evil? Well… don't I get some cool wand, or bracelet or jewel?"
All three chao shook their heads in unison.
"That won't be necessary. All the power that lies within stopping chaos lies within those who were born to have it. You don't need to have an abstract force fight this battle for you… you can do this yourself. Just don't get cocky, evil is out to kill you after all." Demon said.
"Well I guess this is weird. Now I know how it is to be Sonic fighting evil…" Mina sighed.
"Sonic? What's a Sonic?" Angel asked Mina.
"Oh he's a cool blue hedgehog I'm in love with right now and is defender of the world… we've got a lot in common and we're really good friends."
Star rubbed his chin with his hand.
"Looks like you two will have something in common…Well everything is alright with this Sonic correct?"
Mina in response shook her head.
"No not everything's perfect. For one thing he likes the princess of the village and it seems I may not ever have a chance to get to his heart as much as her. Still … I can't help but love him anyway."
"It looks to me that you're going to have to find a way to solve the evils that exist in your life too." Star sighed.
"As will we all…"
Mina breathed and slumped into her bed. What in the world did she get herself into? Fighting evil? Isn't this a job for Sonic or the Freedom Fighters? She's pretty much an average girl other than her babysitting, singing and speed talents, what could she do? What did she have that could stop the evils, no intense super powers, and no magic trinkets and now evil would come to haunt her. What the heck was she going to do to get out of this predicament? She should've thought more into Ms. Miranda's words and to return the box, now its set in stone, either fight or die.
~End of chapter one.
R&R
She was running as fast as she could to a certain hut, even though her hope was to make it to school her first day in the new semester. She had several new classes and new teachers and the last thing she needed was to ruin her reputation in their eyes by being late to classes. Mina was frantic, and she wasn't paying attention to how fast she was running until it was too late. Mina tried to stop, but in the end she simply tripped. She prepared her body to rub against the ground when she noticed something; or rather someone had caught her. The individual was a male. He was a blue hedgehog with green eyes just like hers. He wore pretty much nothing save white gloves and sneakers that were red and white with a buckle that played as a replacement for shoe strings perhaps. His socks were white and were big and fluffy, reaching his ankles. However he wasn't concerned about his appearance, rather the safety of the mongoose he held.
"Mina! Are you okay?!" He asked as he tried helping her regain her balance.
In turn the mongoose looked at him and nodded while trying to catch her breath. Now assured she was okay he frowned.
"Mina what were you thinking running at that speed? You know you can't control it yet and your only going to get yourself hurt! Your not finished with your training so you'll have to be patient."
Mina blushed. She really cared about him. He was suave, sweet, caring, and though it was obvious that rude-boy attitude of his could be seen as his hard to reach exterior, she was beginning to see what was inside and loved it more and more everyday. He was perfect in her eyes, the guy who could do anything, the guy she'd dream about having. Mina was so caught up in thinking about him; she had forgotten to say anything in her defense. Quickly Mina snapped out of her thoughts and tried to say something.
"I- I was trying to meet you at your house so we could go to school together, you said you wouldn't mind since you said you could go with me there before your training with the other freedom fighters." Mina said.
Sonic looked at her shocked. She was wearing her backpack, had a packed lunch and everything. He scratched his head and didn't say anything for a few moments.
"Mina, I did say I'd walk you to school, but not today because it's the weekend. There is no school today…"
Mina was extremely embarrassed. How could she be so forgetful? Now she looked like a complete idiot in front of Sonic. She wanted to bury her head in her hands and cry, but instead she said nothing. She was completely silent and bit her lip, looking at the ground unable to face him. Sonic understood that Mina wasn't comfortable at the moment so he put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her.
"Look Mina-girl everyone makes mistakes sometimes, we all forget about stuff. Don't take it to heart because you messed up once okay?" Sonic coaxed.
Mina's ears twitched, she was shaking.
'He's touching me!' Mina thought. She felt like her heart was melting in her body. She no longer felt bad, rather like she could jump over the moon millions of times. Mina responded to Sonic by nodding, still looking down at the ground, but she managed to crack a smile and in unison the two of them found themselves laughing at Mina's mistake. Mina no longer felt as bad about the incident as she had a few moments ago. So why not laugh about it?
The two of them would laugh for a couple more minutes and eventually Mina stopped laughing and caught her breath and Sonic a few moments after.
"Well… I'd love to laugh some more, but I have to go to the palace…I was going to go meet Sal so we'd have a picnic." Sonic said.
" Oh… okay." Mina said trying to hide the disappointment in her voice.
"I'll see ya later Mina-girl!" The hedgehog yelled as he ran away. He ran at incredible speed, he was much faster than her, much faster than anyone really. After all he is the fastest living being in the world.
Mina's head hang low. She really wanted to be around him a lot more. Every time she did though it just never worked out. She tried becoming a Freedom Fighter like him. They fight against an evil dictator who rules majority of the world and by helping she thought she'd be with him, but she realized that wasn't right. The Freedom Fighters' hearts were in that sort of battle. To be a good Freedom Fighter her heart would have to be in that fight a lot too, and it was with Sonic more. She and Sonic didn't seem to be getting any time together. She loved him a lot but she didn't really think he cared about her the same way she did with him. She couldn't approach him as someone she loved because… well she wasn't wanted that way as far as she was concerned. His eyes were already on a girl named Sally, princess of the Acorn royal family.
Him and Sally spent more time together than ever, leaving Mina out. She loved Sonic but he hadn't actually fallen for her yet, if he would at all. Still she had faith that maybe one day things could work out. She'd do anything for him. She even took the bullet for Sally one time when a band of weasels kidnapped her so that Sonic would be happy in case Sally was the girl he wanted. She'd go great lengths to see him smile, but until he could fall for her too, she couldn't see herself happy with life completely. However for now, just making him smile was enough.
However she loved Sonic and it hurt that he wanted someone else at the moment. Though she refused to bug him about it. That could make him upset or unhappy. She couldn't bear that, but what could she do? Who could she tell her burdens to? Mina dragged her feet staring blankly at huts and villages. Small children were playing with a green ball. Two beaver children were playing jump rope, a bear was carrying his groceries into his hut…nobody. None of these villagers seemed like they'd have the time to deal with listening to her problems. So Mina kept walking deciding she'd simply go home, until she found a small hut.
"Miranda's counseling service grand opening… First two days of counseling free." Mina read aloud. Mina continued to stare at it for a few moments.
'Perhaps this is the sort of thing I should look into.' Mina thought and then stopped moving. She would eventually decide it would be the best thing to go into the hut anyway. The mongoose girl slowly approached the door and knocked softly on it. No one answered. So she knocked harder, again no one answered.
"Hello?" Mina shouted knocking on the door so hard she was afraid the door would fly off.
"Just a minute…" said a soft feminine voice.
Hustling could be heard behind the door of the hut and eventually a black cat opened the door. Her ears were pressed in a horizontal direction even though normal cats had ears the pointed up vertically. Her golden eyes looked at Mina and her long black hair was so long it dragged to the floor. Her bushy tail moved side to side almost impulsively and she wore a golden dress with golden bracelets, two on her right wrist and one on the other.
"Can I help you?" She asked.
"Well I read the grand opening thing and I was wondering if-"
"Of course! I'm miss Miranda. Sorry for not coming to the door earlier but I'm putting books and stuff in here now as I tidy up my office. Running your own business isn't always easy you know."
Mina never ran her own business to understand completely but she simply nodded.
"Come on in!" the black cat offered.
Mina walked into hut and the cat let gave a grin that showed one or two of her teeth.
"Now…what seems to be the problem?" The cat said inviting Mina to sit on a chair, Mina accepted the offer and sat down before trying to speak.
"Well…Miss Miranda- - I love this guy who doesn't care about me at this moment the way I do for him. I feel somewhat neglected and alone, and I don't really feel close with any other people besides this guy and my mother…but the love between my mother and I is different between the type I have for this guy. I've been respecting his want not to love me right now. As he already has eyes for the princess Sally…"
The head of the cat perked up.
"Princess Sally as in… Princess Sally Acorn?" The cat quickly questioned.
"Yes Princess Sally…"
The cat crossed her legs.
"So if you don't mind me asking…who is this guy?"
Mina hung her head low before burying her head into her hands.
"Oh c'mon I probably won't even know who this guy is nor have I probably ever heard of him…he's just a name to me."
Mina looked at the cat.
"Miss Miranda…so by any chance you wouldn't know who Sonic the hedgehog is?" The mongoose whispered.
Miss Miranda nearly jumped out of her seat.
"You know Sonic the hedgehog? That's incredible!" The cat exclaimed.
"Uh…yeah, I suppose it is until you fall in love with him…because then your heart gets broken."
"Because he wants princess Sally." Ms. Miranda added.
"That's pretty much the idea." Mina sighed.
"I can't stand this, I feel a bit betrayed, upset, lonely, angry and more." Mina growled.
The cat purred a little bit.
"Well why don't you take something I was going to give randomly to any of my patients. You want the power to change the world to make it a happier place? I can help with that… of course by doing this it may cost you your life."
"Miss…Miranda?" Mina said puzzled.
The black cat went to fetch something off to get a box on the kitchen's table. When she handed it to the Mongoose her eyes widened. The box was extremely beautiful. It was incrusted with gems of all colors. Pinks, blues, purples, oranges, reds; varieties of colors decorated the box to almost make the box look like sunset turning into night.
"Its beautiful…" Mina's voice trailed off.
"Its also yours now." The cat mentioned.
"You see… I get this feeling that you're someone who could put this box to good use and to help it fulfill the purpose it was given many years ago. My family has been holding the box but none of us have felt it was right for any of us to uphold the responsibility we would face if we…"
"If you what?" Mina chimed in once she realized the cat wasn't speaking.
"You will find out soon enough. Of course if you don't want to change your world…or at least do what needs to be done to change it…do not…and I repeat…do not open this box whatsoever and return it to me. Think carefully about this young lady … would you risk your life to see all the world's troubles go away?"
"I… I don't know. I feel a little young to die. Not to mention you've never told me exactly what's in it." Mina stammered.
The cat tried to smile and stroked the mongoose's hair.
"Child its something that sounds scary at first but if you have the heart deep down to do this then… it should not be a problem. Tell you what… Look at your own life. Think about whether or not the evils in your own life are bad enough to make you risk your own life to rid yourself of them. Go home and think about it."
Mina exhaled in response.
"Okay…"
The cat handed Mina the beautiful box and patted her on the back.
Mina gave her a weak smile in an attempt to cover the fear. What exactly lied in this box? She had to know. Miranda didn't tell her, so she might as well find out herself when she got home. The walk seemed a little too short for Mina. She was full of anticipation and couldn't help but grow a desire to know what the box held. Her finders ran against the jewels on the box and a few villagers every now and then looked at it.
When the mongoose girl arrived home an older mongoose looked at her arrive and brushed one of her long bangs from her face. Her hair was just as long as her daughter's except it was strait, not wavy and had two large quantities of hair split to make the bangs. She wore a green robe and slowly went back to preparing some food.
"Hey Mina…I'm making salad tonight, is that okay? The mongoose asked quickly while pulling out lettuce and tomatoes from her refrigerator.
"Sure mom!" The Mongoose said hardly seeming to care much about what her mother was saying; rather she just wanted to be alone in her room. Eventually Mina made it into her room and shut the door. Her room had been redecorated to have white walls and a lavender rug. The bed was fluffy and her sheets and blanket were also as lavender as the rug, the pillow on the other hand was white. There was a wooden desk somewhere beside Mina's bed a black trashcan beside it. Mina quickly sat on her bed and stared at the box, getting ready to open it when she remembered, were the problems in her life so great that she would risk her life to get rid of them? Well for one thing, Sonic played a big part in her life. She loved him more than anything else but that may have been prevented or perhaps it could have developed if evils in the world didn't stand in the way as much. The aftermath of this heartbreak consisted of negative emotions Sonic would never know she had because she didn't want to be a burden on him; rather she wanted to make him happy regardless of whom he loved now.
She owed a lot to Sonic. He was the best friend she ever had, he was supporting, he inspired her to get into a singing career, he inspired her look into her opportunities in life and perhaps see the good inside of herself she didn't care to see until she met him. He had done so much; yet she couldn't possibly love him back in return. Perhaps if the evils in the world weren't as bad, things could be fair. Things could be right like they were supposed to be. She finally after moments of thought she decided that she would definitely open the box.
Slowly the girl opened the box trying to look if it had something inside. When she opened it, there was no magical amulet, not pretty gemstone, or magic wand like she thought. As the matter of fact there was nothing in the box at all. Mina stuck her hand in it to see if it might be something she couldn't see she even turned the box upside-down so that perhaps something would fall out, but nothing.
"Well…that was interesting. I'll just return this thing tomorrow."
Mina placed the box on her bed before flopping into her bed herself and got ready to go to take a nap. Of course this was becoming rather difficult. Something was tugging at her to keep awake, and not to fall asleep… literally. Mina shrugged it off at first as it was a rather gentle tug, but as the tugs became more forceful Mina turned around to see the culprit, expecting her mother probably trying to wake her for dinner, however she would become filled with shock when she saw that her mother wasn't the one tugging at her, rather three figures.
The first was white, its green eyes looking at her. Its hands were a translucent blue color as was the blue on the tip of his back. Sparkles emitted themselves from the creature's body as it did from the other three. On the top of his head rested a ball of light, and it was so bright that it made Mina turn her head to see something else which would be the second small creature. The second was black. His eyes were gold and on his hands spikes appeared on his knuckles. Black horns came from his head and parts of his body had a translucent color that varied from red to yellow. A blue flame rested on top of his head and on his chest was a crescent there was purple engraved into his body. He looked small but frightening but he didn't seem like he would attack her. However the third creature made her heart want to melt. Mina looked into this creature's blue eyes. Her body was white just as the first but had bangs that looked very much like her mother's but frilly at the ends. On the tips of her hands and bangs was a pink translucent color; a yellow halo on top of her head was white and translucent as well. However the other two creatures eventually had their eyes on her as her hand was stuck in her mouth and her eyes peered innocently at Mina.
"Get that hand out of your mouth Angel-cakes!" The black creature snapped.
In response the creature slowly took her hand out of her mouth and felt her eyes begin to water and her throat tighten.
"Demon apologize this instant! You're going to make her cry!" The blue and white creature whispered harshly to the black one. However the black creature refused to say anything, and eventually just as he was warned the pink and white creature began to cry.
Everyone in the room covered their ears as her loud shrieks and wails filled the room. Mina flinched as she heard the creature's cries. She had to make it quiet now! Mina quickly picked up the pink and white creature and put it in her arms. This creature had the mentalities or a child, if not a baby. The mongoose concluded that perhaps she would have to calm it down like one, which wouldn't be hard as she dealt with children plenty of times. She cradled the small creature in her arms and sang to it. The melody of the mongoose's voice managed to calm it down along with the cradling of its body. Eventually the creature stopped her crying and the other two on her bed were dozing off trying but apparently failing an attempt not to go to sleep by the soothing melody. The blue and white creature quickly lost all his will to stay awake and thud was heard a few moments later as one of them fell from the bed to the ground.
"Excuse me for a minute…" The black creature laughed with hints of embarrassment in his voice as Mina stopped singing.
He then flew to the fallen creature and started slapping him with his hand. Eventually after about ten to twenty smacks to the face the creature woke up from his sleep.
"What is wrong with you two? We have job to do!" The black creature shouted.
In response to this the now fully awakened creature had rubbed himself in the areas he was hit.
"Yeah well…this wouldn't have started if you'd have apologized like I told you to!" The other one hissed.
"Boys stop that! We've got a job to introduce. For this girl's best interest I think she should know what it is right away." The creature in Mina's arms interrupted causing the other two to end their argument and fly onto Mina's bed.
"Well now that I have your attention seems to be on me…can I ask you three something?" The mongoose said quickly.
"Sure." The three retorted in unison.
"Who are you?" Mina asked.
"Who are we?" The pink and white creature asked ready to answer.
"Of course us we're the only one's in the room dum—" The black creature cut himself off understanding what could be the consequence if he upset the other one again.
"We are… chao." The blue and white one cut in trying to create a fairly decent conversation.
"Uh… what's a chao?" Mina pondered aloud.
"A chao is a creature made many years ago. We were the product of the gene bombs produced by the Xorda just as you and your descendants are. Three thousand years ago the aliens this world encountered came to destroy it with the gene bombs that mutated most of the living creatures here. During that time history would reborn itself for the most part. This is when our kind had formed and we would grow to become a peace loving type. We stored plenty of the chaos the world had been holding inside so that this world could recover from the attack and become unified in the end. The power of our generation's chaos was so great the chaos emeralds were where it would be stored. However the emeralds have limitless power because of the fact that the emeralds can turn thoughts in to power whether they be negative or positive and as long as wicked thoughts can promote chaos in the world… bad chaos exists and those emeralds will be used to vessel its power in the form of energy…"
"Well then why don't you stop the evil?" Mina asked.
The black one hung his head.
"We tried that. We sealed away all the evils in the world…into the box you just opened. Of course there's nothing in it now, but there used to be. We trusted a girl named Pandora to hold the box for safekeeping. Instead of guarding it like she and her descendants were intended to for eternity, she opened it and set the evils free. It took so many of our kind to trap them, only for her to open up that box and have our efforts seem in vain. Our peace loving kind wanted peace but evils such as fear and deceit would always promote war… we sealed away everything that would promote bad things…for nothing. The black chao mumbled.
The pink hedgehog cleared her throat, as the black one's faded.
"That's where you come in. You see we had decided that after she opened the box we'd try again, only however if we gained some assistance. We felt that whoever would help us would have a strong enough will to help us remove evils. As chaos is power enriched by the heart. The hearts of the world are filled with evil, which will promote bad chaos to occur. Only when we have removed such evils from the world will we have accomplished what our kind feels they were born to have done, spread peace. Our kind has disappeared with the appointed guardian of our kind along with a close friend of our kind. However as the strongest of our kind, we have decided we hold power to make a difference alone... and without their help, so we've remained in the box for eons and even though their spirits leave we have concluded we shall stay."
The black chao moved towards Mina.
"I am Demon. I represent the Dark Chaos in the world… therefore I am known as Dark Chaos."
The pink and white chao in Mina's arms looked up.
"I am Angel. I represent the good left in the world despite the chaos that's in it and chaos made under good circumstances… so I'm pretty much also called Hero Chaos.
The blue and white chao looked up at Mina and flew over top of her head.
"I am Star. I represent the intensity of the war between good and evil. I represent either side or none, as chaos can be a result of either good or evil intentions in the beginning. All three of us were given power by our protector Chaos to bear each side of him in case he died or left, so that we would protect our people. He thought, as did the world that our kind were dead. However even though we don't know what fate the other chao had befallen we lied here in this box ever since he was sealed away which was sometime after the evils returned to the world, as we concluded to find a way to stop the evil that forced him to be sealed."
"I'm not getting it…what does this have to do with me?" Mina mumbled shyly.
"The hero chaos chao heard her question and prepared to answer.
"You have indicated by opening the box you share our desire to rid the world of evil. We shall guide you to that day where evil is done away with, however evil doesn't want to be sealed. It enjoys being free in the hearts of everyone and it will try to do anything to make sure things stay that way. That also includes the fact it will try to kill you. As you by opening the box have proclaimed to the evils of the world that you will be willing to do away with them. They can come in the form of their own creations and entities or people you know; perhaps they may try to consume you themselves. They'll do this to get close to you... so that they can kill you. You must seal them away before they kill you as we're now stepping on the battlefield of the war waged against good and evil."
Mina blinked.
"So I have to fight…evil? Well… don't I get some cool wand, or bracelet or jewel?"
All three chao shook their heads in unison.
"That won't be necessary. All the power that lies within stopping chaos lies within those who were born to have it. You don't need to have an abstract force fight this battle for you… you can do this yourself. Just don't get cocky, evil is out to kill you after all." Demon said.
"Well I guess this is weird. Now I know how it is to be Sonic fighting evil…" Mina sighed.
"Sonic? What's a Sonic?" Angel asked Mina.
"Oh he's a cool blue hedgehog I'm in love with right now and is defender of the world… we've got a lot in common and we're really good friends."
Star rubbed his chin with his hand.
"Looks like you two will have something in common…Well everything is alright with this Sonic correct?"
Mina in response shook her head.
"No not everything's perfect. For one thing he likes the princess of the village and it seems I may not ever have a chance to get to his heart as much as her. Still … I can't help but love him anyway."
"It looks to me that you're going to have to find a way to solve the evils that exist in your life too." Star sighed.
"As will we all…"
Mina breathed and slumped into her bed. What in the world did she get herself into? Fighting evil? Isn't this a job for Sonic or the Freedom Fighters? She's pretty much an average girl other than her babysitting, singing and speed talents, what could she do? What did she have that could stop the evils, no intense super powers, and no magic trinkets and now evil would come to haunt her. What the heck was she going to do to get out of this predicament? She should've thought more into Ms. Miranda's words and to return the box, now its set in stone, either fight or die.
~End of chapter one.
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