Gray after grays passed in the corners of Violet's eyes. Not much changed as far a scenary goes, just metal tiled floors, designed to make virtually no noise, metal like walls, with a window every so often. Violet's worrys started to simmer down as she ran further and further. Knowing she couldn't get away, and was trapped on the arc, she sat in a small corner to rest. Events of the previous day, giving birth, had over taken her. She took Visie out of her bag, now a carrier, and kisses her on the forehead. She was perfect, and Violet didn't care about who Visie's father was, or what species he was. The new mother then took out a small purple gem that seemed to glow in the light. She held it in her hands and looked deep inside, thinking how she betrayed her family, her tribe.

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"Daddy, I don't want a new robe. My green one is just fine!" cried a young girl.

"Well, you are now 5, so it is time you learned more about the traditions. For today, you must wear this white one." A dark, almost black hedgehog emerged from the small hut. Holding his hand, was the young Violet. She took her hand away from her father and gasped as she looked out onto the hills. They gleamed with an almost lavendar glow as the wind blew flower peddles against the spring air.

"You are no longer a baby in the eyes of Violet Hills, you can now join everyone as a fellow guardian, without the Mighty Diamond, we would've been destroyed as the rest of the Dnalsi tribes, and now is your time to recieve your own diamond."

"What ever you suggest, father." Violet mumbled as she clung to her father's diamond. Suddenly, the diamond seemed to be caught in the air and drifted away, she held on with all her might as the petals of flowering trees joined her in flight. As she looked out toward a glowing purple light, Violet looked down at the sea below her, slowly turning from blue to a deep violet as she neared the light. Around her, were many other hedgehogs her age, most which she knew from around the village. They all laughed and giggled as their fathers' diamonds all took them in the same direction.

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"To your diamond, you're to be true..." Violet whispered as a tear fell to the ground, looking to the ceiling, "To Dnalsi, you'll always return. Here you'll always be, in the heart of your parents and thee," Her crying became more distinct as she closed her eyes, "You'll always be protected, never to be rejected, by the hearts and souls in which you were born. To you, there'll never be scorn, Dnalsi Forever, Violet Hills in eternity, your gem concealed, in your arms." Violet looked into Visie's sleeping eyes as she grasped the diamond in her hand. "To Dnalsi I will return."

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"Where is she?!?" A voice screamed from down the hall, "Where is she, she's gone, she's gone! The child, out of sight! Metica! Where has your bitch gone? Get her here now or she will be dead!" Sir Wolf screamed into the face of Metica.

Shaking, crying inside, Metica looked for an answer...

"I...I..." He looked up to meet the fury of his boss. "I don't know sir." Metica stood as strait as her could, feet planted to keep himself from running after her.

"Do you want me to send the guards after her? Do you want me to insert her DNA in the LC's? Do you want her to be punished with the price of her life?!"

"No sir... I don't know where she is, I was... sir, I don't know where she has gone." Metica stood sternly, trying not to anger him any more. He still loved Violet, despite how much he had hurt her, he dearly wanted to run after her, telling her to hide, to help her, or to bring her back. The last thing he wanted was to kill his darling with the LC's..Laser Cameras. Deadly cameras, armed with small, hardly visable, but lethal. Once the DNA was entered, death was assured, either by the cameras, or the insane escape into outer space, death by suffocation trying to escape. Metica looked to the floor, praying inside that Sir Wolf would not say those deadly words...

"Men," Metica heard his nightmare come true as Sir Wolf spoke, "set the cameras to DNA of Violet Hedgehog, samples are in the beside tube." Metica did not know what to do as men rushed, grabbing his dear Violet's blood sample next to the hospital bed from the day before. He just stood, living through his nightmare he had only drept a minute ago. His ears became sensitive to every noise as he heard the LC's confirm the samples. They were set.

"Metica!" Sir Wolf's deep bark arroused Metica from his mind drift. "Grab you pistol, lets go."

Metica felt controlled as he follow the tall canine through the halls he'd lived in for the past 15 years. He knew that in time, his wife would be dead, and his child under command of his boss.

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Violet grasped onto her diamond as she chanted a few tribal words. The diamond began to glow and Visie giggled at the site. She clapped her hands as the jewel floated back and forth before her eyes, her mother watching her priceless joy. Violet put Visie on her lap as she folded down her shirt to let Visie serve her hunger.

Visie burped in delight as Violet's ears perked to an unusual sound, a high pitched beep. Her eyes focused, and she saw the camera, like the ones always hidden in the shadows, pointed right towards her.

"Oh No..." she gasped at the unknown camera movement. The camera the leaked out a cold robotic voice.

"VI-O-LET. THE. HEDGE-HOG." Violet screamed at the sound of her name, so distinct, they were after her. She sheided Visie, holding her close into her chest, still trying to fix her shirt. The last thing she wanted was for her to get hurt.

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"Sir!" Metica stalled, "Sir! Movement that way! Should I check it out to make sure there is no witnesses?" Metica did not want to see his lover die, and didn't even want to hear the shot.

"Metica- you bastard - you are going to be the only witness, others are at work at this hour. To afriad to see your whore die? Well toughen up! Lets go!" And with that, Metica felt his heart collapse.

Metica was blind now, he could see but didn't seem to understand, he could move, but was numb, he was running with Sir Wolf, he didn't want to, but he did. Suddenly, he heard a scream, looking to his right he heard another, then to his left, a cackle. The noises....the noises, he looked to Sir. An evil smile spread across his face, how he wanted to punch him, shoot him right then and there. But the spikes and chains Sir Wolf reminded Metica what he would be up against, how the wolf, atleast a foot taller, would rip through him like nothing. He just looked ahead, listening to what drowned out everythng- Violet's decreasing breath.