Emerald 1
It was a normal day, with normal things happening. All in all, everything was normal...until now…
Just outside of Westopolis…
"Shadow the Hedgehog…why does that name haunt me?" said a black hedgehog with streaks of red on his quills. (Shadow) "It's the only thing I can remember, and that gruesome image…" he said shuddering.
Flashback to three months ago…
"Let's beat this creep with the super power of teamwork!" exclaimed a blue hedgehog. (Sonic)
Present time…
"My god that was the cheesiest thing I've ever heard…speaking of cheese, I'm hungry." So Shadow began to dash off towards Westopolis to get a pizza, but before he could get anywhere, a floating eye with black tentacles, followed closely by a young fox boy who was no more then 5"4 stopped him.
"Shadow!" said the boy, who at closer inspection looked to be 14 or perhaps 15, "Let's go on that adventure to find the Chaos Emeralds you said we would have!"
"Don't listen to that idiot! Bring the emeralds to me!" the eye yelled out.
"Who the hell are you two? And how do you know I'm Shadow?" Shadow asked.
"Just bring them to me dammit! I'll be in pretty much every level to keep watch on you." The eye said as he flew off.
"Bastard…" the boy swore, "Anyway…Shadow, it's me! Kazuki! Don't you remember me?"
"I don't remember anything, and I'm hungry dammit!" Shadow said with a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Fine…let's go get some food…" said Kazuki reluctantly as they dashed off towards Westopolis.
Meanwhile…
"Good, good…it's all going according to plan…" said a mysterious person, mysteriously… "Use plan M!" they ordered.
"Yes sir." another mystery person (male from the sound of it) as they sent someone to a strange device. "Preparation complete sir." They said.
"Good…" the mystery man said as he pushed a button, there was a bright flash of light, then nothing…
Back in Westopolis…
"Okay…you got your pizza…now can we go get the Chaos Emeralds?" Kazuki said, sounding very impatient.
Shadow, just now paying attention responded, "Wha-? Oh sure whatever." He didn't seem to care about anything until he looked up to see that the sky was red… "WTF?" he yelled out as black creatures started falling from the sky.
Kazuki—having just noticed—responded quickly "Oh crap… Shadow! We need to get the Chaos Emeralds!" and at that moment several of those creatures had surrounded them, "And fast!" he said as they dashed off.
"What's their problem?" one of the black creatures said.
"How should I know?" another responded. "Anyone want some pizza?"
And all the others responded, "Sure!"
Back to our heroes(?)…
"So," Shadow said as they ran along, "how long do you think it'll take us to find the first emerald?" Shadow asked.
Kazuki took a moment to think, and responded, "Oh, about 30 seconds."
"Damn that's fast." Shadow said, thinking that meant everything was going to be easy.
"Well it would be faster, but we're about to be interrupted." Kazuki mentioned, clearly not liking the thought of stopping.
"Why?" Shadow asked, only to figure out why immediately afterwards.
"Hey, Shadow! We-" Sonic started, only to be interrupted.
"Who the hell are you, and why did you have to stop us when we're seconds away from the emerald?" demanded Shadow.
"Shadow? It's me! Sonic!" stated Sonic, "Can't you see my name on the bottom of the screen?" Sonic asked.
"Now that you mention it, yes. But you still didn't answer my other question." said Shadow.
"I stopped you so I could tell you this: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico!" Sonic answered.
"…I hate you." Shadow said after a long pause, then he and Kazuki dashed off.
"Wait! I was just joking!" Sonic yelled out trying to stop them, but to no avail, "Damn…"
About five feet away…
"Shadow look! It's the first emerald!" Kazuki said excitedly.
"Yeah," Shadow replied, "but it looks like we gotta take out that creature to get to it…" Shadow said, with a hint of disappointment in his voice.
"No problem." Kazuki assured him, "I'll take it out in one blow!" he said as he cut the creature in two with his sword.
"Holy crap…" Shadow said, mouth agape, "That was insane…" he said as he ran towards the emerald.
"Yeah, I know…" Kazuki said, felling really cocky right then.
"Well we got the emerald, so let's use that conveniently placed spring to continue." Shadow said, pointing out the obvious.
"Sounds like a plan to me!" Kazuki replied as they jumped onto the spring.
"Holy crap…" Shadow said after they landed, "It's…
Continued next chapter…
---------------Here come the author's notes!----------------------------
A/N: Oh…suspense…I think I'm going to like leaving you all in suspense…anyway, my first story! YAY! Don't expect a given date on when I'll be finished with a chapter, I do these when I'm bored, just thought I'd let you all know that. Now review please.