Well I just broke a promise I made to myself. 'I will not work on more than two stories at a time.' (sigh) This is my third. Oh well. Those dumb plot bunnies have been gnawing on my brain and taking over my mind. They wouldn't let me think for myself until I started this story, so all blame goes on those plot bunnies. Hope you enjoy this story.

Oh yeah. I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog. But I wish I did...

Destiny's Call: History of Heroes part 1

Chapter 1: Strange Disappearance

A father and his daughter walking through the park is a normal, everyday sight. Or at least, it should be. But not in the case of one father and his young daughter. The young girl was being met with fear, anger, and even some open aggression.

The world these two lived on consisted of anthros. There were anthros of all types; cats, dogs, birds, dragons, and many more besides. This world was full of the strange and unusual, but the girl was considered unusual even by their standards. She was a halfbreed.

Kim was a cross between a cat and a dragon. She had orange fur, a row of purple scales that ran down each leg, blue scaled ears, a purple tail with a row of red spikes, sided by two rows of smaller red spikes, and purple pinioned wings with blue inner membrane. The right side of her hair grew out brown, and the left side grew out purple. Kim was padding along quietly behind her father, a raccoon anthro, trying to ignore the hostile stares directed her way. This normal, everyday sight could never be normal for these two.

They came in time to a small clearing where a group of children were playing ball. Kim's father spotted a friend of his and walked over to talk to him while Kim walked over to an anthro that she recognized in the ball playing group, a young rabbit named Sally.

"Hi," Kim greeted. Sally looked over and smiled.

"Hi," she said back. Just then Sally's mother looked over and spotted them.

"Sally!" she snapped. "What did I tell you?" Sally's grin faded.

"Oh yeah," she said dully. "Mommy says I'm not allowed to play with you anymore." The rest of the ball players grouped around the two of them.

"We don't want you here anyway freak."

"Yea, go home halfbreed."

"Go play by yourself, where no one can see you."
"You should go curl up and die."
Kim turned a tearful face back to Sally. The young bunny looked sad and uncomfortable, but with her mom glaring at her and the other kids taunting she wasn't going to offer any comforting words.

Kim turned and walked away, fighting back tears. It was like this just about anywhere she went. It seemed to be her destiny to be hated and feared all her life. But fate had another plan in mind for her.

She was walking away across the clearing, the children's taunts ringing in her ears, when it started. It began as just a tiny white spec of light, but the light grew bigger. Kim walked right up to it without noticing. As soon as she reached it there was a mini explosion, and Kim was suddenly ringed by multicolored whirling lights, which were spinning to fast to pick out individual colors. Caught in the middle of this mayhem, Kim was too scarred to move. Slowly a small black dot form in the center of the spinning lights. It grew quickly, expanding outward until it was as big as Kim.

Kim could hear voices shouting. Not the voices of the anthros in the clearing though, other voices. Blurry shapes began to take form as her world faded. Panicked, Kim tried to flee, but the colored lights suddenly imploded, just as quickly as they had exploded outward a minute before. Kim was sucked into the blackness along with the lights, which disappeared into a single spec of white light, which slowly faded from the views of the stunned spectators in the clearing.

Kim was sucked along in blackness as cold as space. She couldn't see, couldn't feel, and when she opened her mouth and screamed she couldn't even hear the sound of her own voice. She was finally deposited on a grassy field much like the one she had just left, in front of another group of stunned onlookers, while a small white spec of light faded in the air above her. Ringed on the ground around her in a perfect circle were seven gems. They ranged in color; red, green, dark blue, light blue, violet, yellow, and silver. The onlookers resembled anthros but leaned more animal-like in appearance. They stared at Kim in complete shock until one of them finally broke the silence.

"What happened?" asked a young, female chipmunk.

A blue hedgehog slowly shook his head, eyes wide as he stared at the crumpled form on the ground. "I have no idea."

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