Tails was sitting in his workshop in Station Square studying the Chaos Emerald he and Sonic had found in the Mystic Ruins, it was the green one, and Tails had always wondered why the green one was always the first Emerald to be unearthed after a scatter of the emeralds. He had analysed it and found it had slightly less power than all the others had, this would explain why it never went as far as the others, he was now checking it visually, a flaw would explain why it was less powered. As he checked he discovered something, on one side, just under one corner, a sliver of the gem was missing, gashed out by something incredibly sharp.
Mist made his way through the jungle, following a strange urge, something pulling him towards something else, he looked around and something caught his eye, the necklace he wore, the gem in it was glowing. After hours of hacking through branches and undergrowth Mist finally stepped out of the jungle in some kind of plateau, he could see a sign a way off, going over to it he read it, it proclaimed that this was the Mystic Ruins, a platform was a little way off, climbing to the top of it the urge pulled him to the machine on the top of it. Stepping inside the machine Mist was startled when the doors closed, trapping him onboard the now moving machine, with beings he didn't know, they resembled Overlanders, but he couldn't be sure, he didn't even know how long he had been trapped inside that pod. Had he been trapped? He didn't remember any liquid coming into the pod. He didn't remember much actually. He was receiving a few stares, Mist stared back fiercely stopping the stares.
Mist got off the contraption when it stopped at a place a voice called Station Square and concentrated, feeling himself being drawn out of the station and down to the boulevard, he followed the urge, letting it bring him to the door of a workshop of some kind, the crystal around his neck glowing bright green. He knocked on the door
Tails got up from studying the now faintly glowing emerald and went to open the door, in the frame stood a familiar shape silhouetted by the setting sun
"Oh, Hi Knuckles, come in" Tails said, waving his friend in
Mist looked surprised but walked in nonetheless, following the little, two tailed fox, was that his name? Knuckles? He was sure he had heard that name before somewhere. Walking into the workshop itself he saw a green gem on the tabletop…and his crystal went haywire, it glowed and strained towards the gemstone on the table. Mist felt himself shift into his mist form, static sparking around his body, the fox looking at him wide eyed, the gem standing up, floating and rotating until a side faced Mist that had a chunk missing
"What's up with th…AAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!" Mist screamed, clutching his, now solid, head, pain dancing around inside it…
~~~Flashback~~~~
Mist idolised his father, Kronar, blade master and personal bodyguard to the Guardian. His father had trained with blades for a good proportion of his life, and was an expert in all forms of blades; he was the first line of defence for the Master Emerald, normally fighting alongside the guardian. It was a sunny day on the floating Angel Island, it was peaceful, the peace only being broken by a faint whistling noise as Kronar taught Mist the art of throwing blades, they were using disks, having progressed from knifes, and Mist was getting a hang of it, hitting the target every time.
"OK, son, I guess that's enough training for today, why don't you find your friend?" Kronar told Mist, they were walking towards the shrine by now, Mist's friend was the son of the Guardian, nicknamed Knuckles for his enlarged knuckles that had developed into spikes, only Kronar, Mist and the Guardian had knuckle spikes besides Knuckles, and Kronar's and Mist's were More like blades than spikes.
"Knuckles, Knuckles? Where are you?" Mist shouted, he heard a swish as Knuckles glided in to land beside Mist
"Hi, what's up?" Knuckles said
"I finished training and dad said…" Mist began, but never finished his statement as a strange creature materialized behind Knuckles, it had an oval head, with triangular eyes, no nose and a gash for a mouth and normal arms and legs, down to the knee and elbow, where they split into two arms and two legs. Mist pulled knuckles behind him, falling into his role as bodyguard, drawing throwing knifes he told Knuckles to stay behind him as he took a fighting stance, the creature ignored them, intent on something else and carried on towards the shrine.
"It's heading for the shrine" Knuckles said, and then simultaneously they yelled "DAD!!" and sped off towards the Emerald shrine.
They got there seconds before the creature did, yelling about a monster before the monster in question tore out of the undergrowth, sprang to the seven pillars topped by the lesser emeralds and grabbed the green one. Kronar sprang into action, the jade green Echidna drawing throwing disks and throwing them as he bounded towards the creature, one blade hit the creature in it's legs, the other razor sharp blade slicing a shortcut through the chaos emerald and into the creature's chest just as Kronar slammed his knuckle-blades into the creature's head.
Taking the shard of the chaos emerald, Kronar had it worked into a necklace and gave it to Mist.
~~~End Flashback~~~
Mist came to with tears in his eyes to see a blue hedgehog standing above him; Mist was still feeling the static electricity sparking around him
"Can you please move the Chaos Emerald away?" he asked the fox
"Tell us who you are first," said the hedgehog
"I do not know my name, but I call myself Mist" Mist replied, the fox taking the Emerald away