Chapter 1: Shadow's Collision

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or any of his friends, I believe Sonic Team and SEGA own them. I do, however, own Melody, and I would appreciate it if anyone wishing to use her in their story or whatever would ask me first.

Author's note: Ok, I edited a whole bunch of chapters since this was last up. I've written a few more, but I won't have time to put them in today. And because I wasn't thinking, I deleted the original story that was posted here. As a result, the reviews were deleted. But now, thanx to my dad (LUV YA LOTS!), Eternal Melody is back up! If you want your review back up there, then you're going to have to retype it. Sorry about that.

Now back to the story business. Unfortunately, FanFiction doesn't like it when I put in astriks. If/when the feature will be enabled, I will go back and change all the chapters. Until then, however, I'm just going to have to type in the number of stars throughout the story. 1 star means warp to a different character in a different place, 2 stars mean warp to a different time (this includes something like a few hours later and flashbacks and stuff like that), and 3 stars mean all of the above. This rule doesn't apply when changing between different chapters. Why did I decide to do this? Because I absolutely hate it when people warp to a different character, place or time without putting some sort of indication of it, and it gets very confusing when your trying to read it. I'm simply trying to stop some of the confusion.

There are also times when a character is thinking as opposed to talking. If someone is talking, it's going to be the classic phrase in " ". If someone is thinking, however, I'm going to italicise the phrase and put it in ' '.

Also, I just wanted to make some things clear about the story line itself. In the show Sonic X, Sonic and his friends are transported to the human world (with Station Square) through Chaos Control. When I started to write the story, I didn't spoil myslef by watching the Japanese episodes of the show. However, it has come to my attention that there are some things in my story that conflict future episodes of the show. I decided that my story should take place in the Sonic X world, but the storyline of SA2 will follow the game, with the TV characters added in. (Copyright by whoever made them). If your confused as to whom they are, then I suggest that you go to and learn their place in the storyline. This will mean that in chapter 7, some characters will be out of place. I don't care, and if you don't like it, then e-mail me. Do not post it in a review, please, as I would like only reviews and not flames in the review section of my fic. I apologise if I sound a bit harsh, but I just don't want any flames, spam, or just stupid things to happen here. You can understand that, right?

And no, this does not tie into Sonic Heroes, as I started writing this before I knew SH was coming out. I have however thought of an alternate ending that could lead into SH, and I will post that when the time comes, as well as the original ending.

Finally, this story takes place right after the "ARK incident" as I like to call it. And I mean right after . . . like a few minutes after Shadow starts falling to the Earth.

(takes a big gulp from glass of water) Now that big speech is out of the way, please enjoy reading my story :)

Melody was napping peacefully when a fish splashed water on her face, waking her up. She looked around her, not the least bit surprised that she had drifted to the middle of the lake. The sun had painted the clouds and sky around it marvellous arrays of pinks, oranges and purples that always appeared at sunset. It looked very beautiful, especially among the tips of the small trees of the forest which her cabin was in. Melody felt a slight jolt from her little boat; it had drifted into the little island in the middle of the lake. She often went there in the day to set camp so that she could stay up all night with the telescope and gaze at the stars. For a second, she wondered what she was doing in the boat her father had made two years back in the first place. It came back to her rather quickly though. She was taking a break from looking at her computer screen.

Melody was a wizard with computers, among other things. She had gotten to watch TV channels on her computer a while ago, and found it useful for many things. She had recorded the ARK being saved by a powerful glowing force, but she wanted to know exactly what that glowing force was. She had zoomed in to see two figures emit a strong light. She had noticed that just before the ARK had vanished, one of them just seemed to disappear. She decided to give both her eyes and her head a break by grabbing her boat and heading out to her favourite spot for a bit. She was about to settle down to take another nap when she saw something bright in the sky. That's odd, she thought. I wonder what that could be. Then her necklace started to glow. She took it off and looked at it, like she had often done when she went soul searching.

The item in her hand was silver and looked like a compass with additional diagonal arrows. In the centre of it was a piece of crystal in the shape of a heart. Melody had seen her most treasured item glow before, reacting to the battle bracelet (more on that in another chapter). But it seemed unusual that her necklace was reacting to what might only be a bit of space junk, let alone something thousands of miles away. Then she realised that the falling object was coming relatively close to where she was! She quickly moved her boat onto shore, so that the resulting waves of whatever was coming at her wouldn't hit her boat, and watched the object splash down into the water. Melody felt her necklace tug in the direction of what was now rapidly sinking into the depths of the lake. It tugged her so hard that she nearly fell in! "Whoa!" Melody knew what her pendant was trying to tell her. Okay, okay. Calm down. I'll go check it out. She held her necklace above her head as it grew brighter and brighter. Then she concentrated. All right, do your stuff!

(1 star)

The force of being slammed into the lake had brought Shadow back to reality for a minute. He strained to keep his eyes open and focus on whatever he could. He couldn't move, but the black hedgehog knew that he was no longer super charged. Shadow knew that he was in water for a while, but for some reason he didn't seem to have any trouble at all holding his breath. As he slowly sank he savoured the cool water around his body, healing him of the burns that he had suffered while plummeting down into the Earth's atmosphere. As he stared up wondering how long stay in his dazed state, he saw a dark shadow coming towards him. Shadow figured that it was a water creature of some kind, noticing the skill and speed it had making its way toward him. Just as he determined that the creature was an otter, his breath ran short, and the blue water surrounding him turned into sheer dark fear. He was drowning!

Author's Note: Don't worry; this is one of the shortest chapters that I have in my story. Trust me. It'll get a lot longer ;) Reviews are much appreciated!