Chapter 1

On the east coast of furling there was a small farm town called Draville. the town itself was a good size but the towns people knew one another like family, only they lived in different houses. the town sat right by the great, and beautiful, sunset sea. in the day it was like any other shore, but at sunset it could take your breath away, it was a golden yellow with a bit of purple and orange in it. at night the sea shone a pale blue, as the moon reflected off of it. To the west was a road that lead to Rukijune the main town in furling. To the south was the town bay, the sunsets were not as beautiful as to the east, but they where a wonderful sight to see nonetheless. To the north and north-west was the great forest of Rhankin, the northern north-west part of the forest started up a small mountion. directly north of Darville, right behind the forest was a GUN military base. The people of Darville suspected them of holding nucular weapons, but GUN denihed it. all of the towns people talked, and loved the lives they lived, until someone moved into the abandoned masion to the north-west of the town, it was almost hidden in the trees, and you would only ever see it if you knew it was there. The person, or more precice, hedgehog, that lived there was wanted by GUN, the towns people wanted to turn him in, but they wanted to limit there contact with GUN. So in turn for staying safely in the masion, the hedgehog had to refrain from coming into town on festivels, and times when GUN was on high alert, to minimise his chances of being caught. If GUN ever got a hold of him, the town would be in trouble because they let him live 'among' them. The hedgehog didn't seem to mind. Some citizens suspected he had already been caught by GUN, but others made up stupid stories about him being a "vampire-hedgehog" or some other strange being. The masion was thought to be haunted, whoever went in came out and had bad luck, if they ever came out.

Shadow slumped down on the couch and turned on the TV. he had been here for a week, and he had done a bit cleaning around humongous house. the living room was on the top floor, on the right hand side of the hallway. a door to the right of the TV lead out onto the porch, but it didn't have much of a view, just trees. across the hall from the living room was his bed room, the down the hall one door was the bath room. across from the bathroom was a spareroom. The hall turned to the left a bit of the way down, but shadow had put up boards, because he had no use for any more of the house. The entrence hall of the house had a long hallway, which was also boarded and to the right was the kichten, to the left where the stairs to get upstairs. Shadow flicked through the channels but seeing nothing on turned it off, throwing the remote on the couch, he started to get up and walk to his room when he heard a noise in the direction on the forest.

"strange, its like a scream..." he heard it again. Shadow walked out onto the porch and into the dark forest. His eyes peirced into the still silence, looking for the sorce of the noise, he ran back inside and grabed a big gun and threw it over his shoulder, in a sack with a strap that came over his shoulder, so he could carry it but still have two hands for fighting. he put a belt around his jeans, with a knife and more ammo for the gun. He run out onto the porch and jumped over the rail and towards the scream.

A dark purple hedgehog ran through the forest, She was wearing a white tank-top and jeans. She ran from the GUN militray forces, she was just walking minding her own bisuness, when they came after her. She had heard one yell "we've found Shadow!" into his walkie-talkie. Shadow? who was Shadow, well that man responsible for the mix up. he must be purple too or something. couldn't they tell that she was a girl, and not a guy? obivously not. She ran towards the mountian in hopes she would lose them, but they where gaining on her. She triped and fell on the cold ground, in a clearing. She got up just in time to see the GUN militray forces ready there guns. The little purple hedgehog closed her eyes, but although she heard shots she felt no pain. she opened her eyes, only to see all of the GUN soilders died. she looked behind the bodies to see a black hedgehog with a big machine gun. he looked from the bodies up to her. He looked her right in the eyes and everything went black.

Shadow watched the purple hedgehog faint. Hearing the helicopers in the distence, Shadow walked over and picked up the little hedgehog, and ran back towards his haunted house.