Epilogue

When I finally awoke from my slumber, I almost felt like I had been in a coma for a few weeks. As I looked around to see where I was, I soon found myself looking at the furniture of my own bedroom. The television set, the bed with the red and black blankets, the mirror over my clothes drawer, every single piece of furniture in the room that was mine. That was when I came to one final conclusion.

"I'm home," I thought to myself as I got off of the bed and noticed I was in still in the clothes that I usually wore: a white T-shirt with dark blue pants. "What was that all about? Was everything that I experienced just a dream? Me, fighting with Shadow's possessed form, the entire Sailor Scout group being surprised by finding out that Ixis was using their former kingdom on the moon for his plans for universal domination, Ixis' true form appearing before Sonic and the others, and the final battle with the freak's ultimate ugly form. I guess that everything that I experienced was just only a dream after all."

Just as I was putting on my shoes, I walked out of the room and climbed down the carpeted stairs into the living room. The living room was like I expected it to look like: a room filled with beautiful and inviting furniture. It's walls were filled with picture frames with photos of me and my entire family in group shots and individual pictures.

"I guess that everyone's gone for the day," I said to no one in particular as I looked at the clock and saw that it was 10:06 a.m. in the morning, looking at the calendar below it. "And I'm still on summer vacation since I saw that it's June 5th. Maybe what I just experienced was just a dream after all. I wish that it wasn't though."

As if responding to my words, I suddenly turned to the brown coffee table in the middle of the room and saw a little envelope placed in the middle. When I picked the letter off of the table, I was shocked by what it said:

It's about time that you got up, Miguel! Please read this note when

you get the chance.

Sonic the Hedgehog.

When I read that small note on the envelope, I quickly and carefully opened it so I wouldn't risk tearing the letter inside. As soon as I got the envelope opened, I unfolded the paper inside and began to read.

"Hey Miguel, so you're finally awake. Well that's good, 'cause we were starting to worry that you weren't going to come out of that coma of yours. I guess that you were all worn out from using your own physical energy in order to transform into your Chaos Form. That was indeed the first time that you transformed using the power of the Chaos Emeralds. But what was strange though is how you didn't come in contact with them while Ixis absorbed them.

Well anyway, just after you took your unexpected nap, both Shadow and myself used the power of the seven Chaos Emeralds that you got back from Ixis to use the Chaos Control to warp everyone from the moon's ancient ruin back to the planet. When all of us were trying to get you to wake up from your coma, we saw the Chaos Emeralds begin flying in circles around us, blinding our eyes with their light. The next thing we knew, the five of us were back your world at your home where everything first started.

The strange thing is that we're back at the exact time that the five of us left your world from our very first encounter with Ixis who was in Shadow's body at the time. However, we didn't worry much about it since our past selves were suppose to leave at some ruins of an old building near your house. While trying to figure out what has just happened, your phone rang and someone by the name of Maricela put a message on the answering machine saying that she was going to come to your house at 1:00 p. m.

When we heard that she was coming, the four of us took that as our cue to split with the seven Chaos Emeralds back to our own world. We knew that you would wake up eventually since you were drained of some of your energy.

Now you know. Anyway, I hope that all of us get together again sometime. The five of us together make a pretty strong team. No evil force would dare mess with us now that we've got five members that can transform with the power of the Chaos Emeralds. Hope to see you again soon.

Your fast and true blue friend,

Sonic the Hedgehog.

P.S.

Oh, by the way, if you are still doubtful that you are still dreaming about what

you've just experienced, look inside of your pocket. I think that you'll be

surprised."

After reading those last words, I dug into both of my pockets and felt something within one of them. When I pulled it in front of me, I saw that it was a green shard which was a part of a green gem stone. That was when I suddenly started to realize that what I was holding was a green Chaos Emerald shard in my fingers.

"So I guess that it wasn't a dream after all," I said to myself as I continued to stare at the gem shard with awe and amazement.

Before I could examine it further, I heard the phone ring and put the green stone back into my pocket. When I picked up the phone, I spoke in its receiver, "Uh, hello? Who is it?"

"Miguel, where have you been?!" I heard the voice of my older sister Maricela saying to me while using a rather tough sounding tone in her voice. "I've been trying to call you for that pass half hour and I can't seem to travel to...!"

"Whoa! Easy, Mary!" I said to my older sister while trying to calm her down through the receiver. "There's no need for you to start getting postal on me! I'm here and that's all that matters. Now what is it that you want?"

After hearing what my sister wanted, I soon said my goodbye, hung up the phone, and started to get myself ready for the errand I was given. Ready to get the item that my sister asked me to get for her, I stopped when I heard a sudden hissing sound. The sound that I heard wasn't like that of any animal that I knew. In fact, it almost sounded like that of a inhuman man-made creature created in a laboratory. The sound then faded as soon as I tried to scan the area in order to find where the sound came from. I began to calm down when I realized that it was probably my imagination playing tricks on me.

With that thought out of my mind, I was about to turn the knob of the front door when I suddenly stopped. I looked around to see if the curtains of the living room were closed completely and I then started to pull something from behind my back. What I drew out was the Star Sword all shining with its silver light and glory.

"There's some things about this sword that I don't understand," I thought to myself as I continued to look at it with my eyes. "Like why was it given to me to begin with?

More importantly, who or what was that mysterious voice that spoke to me in my mind before I had my final battle with Ixis giving me the ability to summon a spell that could destroy an entire planet? What did that being mean when it said that I have a future with a young woman that's outside of my world? And what did Ixis mean when I released a creature that had a power beyond that of any God or Dark Lord? Could it be that creature that I just heard a few moments ago?

Maybe I'm just a bit edgy because of Maricela's usual yelling rituals. I'd better get out before I get into even more trouble. Oh well, I probably won't know the full story to this, but perhaps it's better this way. For this world and all other worlds are at peace once more."

With that, I placed the huge mystic weapon back in its resting place and started to pull on the knob of the front door. I know that for now that this world of mine is peaceful, but I knew that soon I would have to fight again. I as knew that I could turn to my friends whenever I was in a tight pinch. I also needed to keep in mind that the people on this planet were now going to depend on me in order to save them from any outer worldly threat that would disturb their peace. However, right now, the only thing that I needed to worry about were the thousands of scoldings that I would get from my older sister if I didn't get her errands done quickly.

The End.

Year written: 1998

Year Completed: 2004

This story took me about six years to finish and it was well worth the wait. I would like to dedicate it to the following people that help make this story possible and helped to complete it at last:

Mr. Michael Kessler of James Monroe High School (My old English teacher) who got me to start writing stories to begin with.

Larissa, my Spanish tutor in college that helped me to edit this story.

Sarah Sally Lee, a good friend of mine for I hope would become more than a friend someday.

Jazmin Vargas (also known as Ryoko). A good pen pal that always gives me an honest opinion on my stories.

I would also like to thank the following people for the ideas that I needed in order to complete this story in their nicknames in as I mention them below:

Davner

Anime Master Zero

Mittens No Hikari

Earth Star

Elf

Thank you all for reading and I hope that you all read the ones to come!!