Chapter 2
Chao World

Amy seemed to be running faster than she normally would have. We were chasing after her, grabbing as many rings as we could. Once or twice, we saw a power-up box. I noticed a box that contained Super Shoes. I ran to the right a little bit, jumped into the box, and I was able to run alot faster. I caught up to Sonic.

"Hey Sonic," I said as I slowed down a little, "Doesn't it seem weird for you to be chasing Amy instead of her chasing you?"

"Actually, you're right." said Sonic, "It is weird."

"Wait, if you can use Chaos Control, then why are we chasing Amy?" I said as my Super Shoes wore out.

"Oh yeah. Chaos Control!" said Sonic. We disappeared is a flash of green light. A few seconds later we appeared in chao world.

"Main Lobby: Chao Kintergarden, Chao Garden, Hero Garden, and Dark Garden." I said in a flat voice. I walked down the stairs to the dark garden, and Sonic went into the Chao Garden. I looked around to find my two favorite chao, Sonic and Shadow. I spotted Sonic first, since he stands out. My sonic chao was yellow, and against all the grey and black, it really stands out. Now my shadow chao, Shadow, was harder to find, since he was a black chao. I spotted him swimming in the lake. I whistled, and waited. He turned around, saw me, swam as fast as he could toward the shore, and started running toward me.

"Dan!" he shouted as he ran toward me. He jumped onto my chest. Since he was running so quickly, and I was so light, his momentum sent both of us flying.

"Shadow, can you please try not to do that?" I said, picking him up.

"Sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength." said Shadow.

"That's okay," I said, petting shadow. "A few days ago, I picked up something special for you. It's a chao fruit!" I put the chao fruit down. Shadow ran over to it, and ate it.

"Thank you!" said Shadow. I then heard my watch beeping.

"Time for you to go to school!" I said, picking up Shadow.

"Yay!" said Shadow, "I can't wait to see Emerald!"

"I know him," I said, "He lives in the neutral garden with most of my other chao." I walked toward the exit, my Sonic chao following me. A few minutes later, we arrived at the chao kindergarden.

"Hello," said the teacher, "Today we will be learning how to sing!" All the chao made their cute little noises as they hopped up and down. that made me remember the time when he Shadow raced against the Chaos Chao.

*******flashback*******

"Okay, Cha-cha, are you ready?" I said, givng him a fruit to give him some energy.

"As ready as I'll ever be." said Cha-cha, "All my stats have been raised to their maximum."

"Okay then, you're ready to race the legendary Chaos Chao." I said, "I'm trying to raise you into a Chaos Chao, in hopes that you will never die."

"You mean I'll be immortal?" said Cha-cha.

"Yep!" I said. "For you to become a Chaos Chao, you have to reincarnate twice. Then I have to give you one of each animal. Next I have to give you either a Hero Fruit, a Dark Fruit, or leave you the way you are, depending on what kind of Chaos Chao I want you to be."

"You mean there's more than one type of Chaos Chao?" said Cha-cha.

"Yes." I said. "There's the Angel Chao, the regular Chaos Chao, and the Devil Chao." Then I heard the fanfare, anmouncing the entrance of the Chaos Chao. It was an Angel Chao. He had a glowing halo above his head.

"Hello." said the Angel Chao. "I'm Crystal. What's your name?"

"I'm Cha-cha!" said Cha-cha. "This is my owner, Daniel!"

"Okay. We'll see how Daniel has raised you." said Crystal, and they went to the starting line. Cha-cha was in number 1, and Crystal was in number 5.

"Welcome to the finals of the Chao Race!" said Omochao. "Very few chao make it this far. Our champion is the Angel Chao, Crystal!" Door number 5 opened up, revealing Crystal. "Our challenger today is the hero chao, Cha-cha!" Door number 1 opened up, revealing Cha-cha. "This race is the ultimate chao race. The winner of this race will recieve a prize, bragging rights, and a rare Onyx chao egg. The chao will be tested in many different ways. First up is luck. We've put several Jack-in-the-boxes in front of the starting line. When you open it, if nothing pops out, you may continue. Next we have the strength test. They will have to climb a cliff in order to get to the trees at the top. Then its the tree shaking. Each chao has to shake a tree and eat a whole nut before continuing. Next we have the intellegence test. When each chao reaches the brightly colored room, a picture of an Item will be displayed. each chao will have to pick up the item that was shown and place it on the pedestal. Then the chao will have to swim across Crab Lake. Finally the chao will have to run as fast as they can to the finish. Understand?" The chao nodded. "Good. On your mark, get set, GO!" The chao ran to the jack-in-the-box. They reached it at about the same time, but Cha-cha opened it first. Nothing came out. Cha-cha continued. Crystal opened his jack-in-the-box, and nothing came out, so he continued. By the time Crystal was done, Cha-cha was already at the cliff. He didn't even have to start swimming. He flew right to the cliff, and started half-way up. He climbed the cliff really fast. Crystal got to the cliffs as Cha-cha was shaking the trees. Crystal got to the trees just as Cha-cha finished his nut. They then went to the brightly colored room. There was a picture of a Sonic Doll. Cha-cha picked up a sonic doll,, and he walked away as Crystal got to the room. Cha-cha got to the lake, swam across it as fast as he could, and crossed the finish line.

"Good job Cha-cha! I knew you could do it!" I shouted as I ran to where Cha-cha was. "You're going to have a little brother or sister!"

"I am?" said Cha-cha, but I was jerked out of my daydreaming when I felt Sonic shaking me awake.

"Daniel." said Sonic, "Are you awake?" I stood up, yawning.

"I'm awake." I said. I noticed that Sonic had a chao egg. "Sonic, what's that for?"

"Oh this?" said Sonic, holding up the Chao egg. "This is going to be my chao's little brother or sister!"

"What are you going to name it?" I asked. Sonic was thinking.

"I'm not really sure yet." said Sonic. I noticed that the egg's color was pink. It reminded me of Amy Rose.

"Sonic," I asked, "When are you going to stop running away from Amy? It seems like since you've saved her from Dr. Robotnik at Forever Lake, she's had a huge crush on you." Sonic blushed, then shook his head.

"I know," said Sonic, "But I have to tell you something." Sonic looked around to make sure Amy wasn't around. "I kind of like Amy also." I nearly fell over in shock.

"You do?" I said, starting to laugh. "I never thought I'd see the day you'd admit that?" I was about to stand up again when Amy pounced Sonic.

"You like me! You really like me!" Amy said, hugging him tightly. I sighed, walked over to Sonic and Amy, and tried to pry them apart. Eventually, I managed to get them apart.

"Amy, if you could squeeze him any tighter, his head would pop off." I said, chuckling at my own joke. "Besides, we have better stuff to do, right?"

"Yep!" said Sonic. We walked out of the kindergarden. "So, what do you want to do?"

"I don't know." I said, "What do you want to do?"

"I don't know." said Sonic, "What do you want to do?

"I don't know. Now can we please stop this?" I said, looking slightly annoyed. A few minutes later we got to Sonic's house. I walked to my room, took off my shoes and gloves, and flopped onto the bed. I looked at the clock, and realized that it was also a raido. I pressed the yellow button on top, and music started playing.

'Sonic the Hedgehog
He can't catch what he can't see
Sonic the hedgehog
He's gonna make Mobius free!'

"That's by Katty Karlile!" I said. I took a CD out of the drawer, and put it in the CD player. Sonic's theme started playing as I drifted off to sleep.