Hey there! Airman Gamerctm here! Author of the popular fiction Dark Cloud 2: Talismans of Time, Whose Line is it Anyway: Anime Craze, and Espio's Little Sister. The following fic is sorta a continuition of the Espio's Little Sister fic that I had yet to finish. So to fully understand the story behind "Espirit" and "Phantom" and "Seers" please read the fic when ya get the chance. Anyway, onto the legal sh...stuff.
First of all, the obvious, Sonic and all related characters are property of SEGA and not mine.
The concept of Seers, Phantom, and Espirit belong to my good friend, Tachan, who asked me to make a fic using these characters.
Ryu the Fox, and Kuroso belong to me as there are "Original Characters." Anyone is more than welcome to use 'em... but please ask first!
Also note... production of the fic will be slow until I get my broken laptop fixed, which should be in a week or so. Thanks a lot! ENJOY THE FIC!
Long ago, in a beautiful land, there lived two tribes who lived in harmony. One tribe was a tribe of warriors, who called themselves the Knuckles Tribe, who were also responsible for protecting a huge, most precious emerald known as the Master Emerald. The other tribe was a tribe of magical summoners known as Seers, who could release many different animals from various jewels and gems. But the most powerful beasts dwelled in 7 mysterious emeralds... the Chaos Emeralds.
Many years past, and the once beautiful land began to change. The once peaceful defenders of the giant emerald became war-hungry and seeked to control the land. While the wise Seers became greedy and demanded that the other Tribe give them the giant emerald, or war would occur.
But among all this, and still growing up, was 2 young royal seers who were the Queen of the Seers children. One was named Ailya, a young echidna girl who could use the purple Chaos Emerald to summon Tritoch, a very powerful Chaos Beast. The other was a grey fox named Ryu, the Queen's adopted son who was depressed over the events, and feared the approach of war..
The Queen used the son's emotions to create a burning hated towards the Knuckles Tribe, and make him use his rare power to aid her in her conquest of the Master Emerald. But the son refused, after witnessing the birth of the Knuckles Tribe Elder's daughter, Tikal's son, who was also the son of Seer, Phantom, he realized that peace could exist between the tribes.
But the Queen became furious over her son's refusal and the birth of Phantom's child and launched a major attack against the other Tribe using every Seer, young and old, to fight. Ryu watched the fight in horror from the shrine of the Master Emerald as both tribes were on the brink of wiping each other out. But no concern was greater in him than the well-being of his sister. He rushed back to his tribe, but saw that it was left in burning ruins. Grabbing a sword he found nearby, he began killing any and all Knuckles Tribesmen that were unlucky to be in his path.
When he was finished, he saw that his sister and mother were both gone. Crying in misery and hatred towards the Knuckles Tribe, Phantom appeared with dreadful news. Tikal had been killed... and her baby gone. Be he still told Ryu, "Do not hate the anyone, whether the Knuckles Tribe or your own. If you can't live with them, then do them do harm, for theirs is already a hard life." Ryu, not saying anything, walked into a ruined building and sat there. "I will stay here..." He said. "I will properly bury every body slained here, and remain here for the rest of my life. Althought they all died needlessly, they still deserve someone to guard their home and memories."
To this day, the young fox Ryu, thanks to his immortality, had stayed in that same area for the past 1500 years. But now... he must leave the ruins and stop the person responible for the deaths of both tribes. His mother, Queen Morgana of the Seers, has returned... to control the entire planet...
Sonic the Hedgehog:
The Chaos War
Chapter 1:
The Seer's Guardian
The sun was burning down in the deserted ruins where the Tribe of Seers once dwelled. But inside a cool cave, sitting comfortably in the shade was a lone grey fox. He sat against the inner wall just staring outside at the sands. At his side was a sword that had just been polished recently.
"Such a hot day..." The fox thought to himself. "If only there was a lake around... I could enjoy a short swim..." He looked over at the bowl he left outside. It was filled with soup he had made himself from any animals he could find and hunt. It would be the first thing he had eaten for nearly 2 weeks. He took it and blew on it. "It's ready..." He slowly drank it straight out of the bowl, enjoying the taste. When it was empty he cast the bowl aside and stared outside again. In his mind, memories of the tradegy were playing again in his head.
FLASHBACK: Ryu stood over the dead body of a Knuckles Tribesmen, his hands and sword covered in his blood. He growled and saw another one approaching him. With lightning fast slashes, the Tribesmen's body split into several pieces and layed on the ground in a bloody heap. On Ryu's face, a sick, satified smiled crossed his lips.
Ryu had changed... he didn't kill, nor fight. He felt guilty for the lives he'd taken and wished he had been killed that day. Several times, he thought about taking his own life... but if he did, who would guard the ruins, and the remains of those who had died that day? Ryu didn't move at all, and just wondered how he could end the pain his memories had brought to him.
"He's there..." Unknown to him, several figures were watching him from afar. "Master Dalton... I can see him..."
One large, brown, shaggy looking Vampire Bat that wore only blue torn pants looked ahead. "So..." He said in a low creepy voice. "Little Prince Ryu had grown up. But instead of fighting for us, he's watching that mess of rocks? What a damn coward."
"Do we take him with us?" One figure asked.
"Yeah... just make sure he doesn't hurt you guys too much. He killed you once before..."
Ryu stood up and walked outside. The hot sun made him sweat in mere seconds. It was at that moment the figures charged for him...
"..." Ryu didn't say a word... but slowly turned back for his weapon. "So... you're back, then." He said in a low whisper. Suddenly, the figures leapt for him, ready to attack.
"Yah!" Ryu slashed his sword into the spear of one of the attackers and knocked him down. The second attacker, armed with a bow and arrow, fired at him. With an impressive flip, and grabbing a stone while at it, he dodged the arrow and threw the stone at the shooter's weapon, snapping the bow in two.
"Nice job, Ryu..." The voice made Ryu turn towards the speaker, whose sight and voice filled him with disgust. It was the leader, Dalton. "Still training after all these years?"
"Dalton..." Ryu ingored the other two and aimed his sword at the bat. "This is a sacred place, you are not welcome."
Dalton grinned and laughed. "Look at you, little prince. All of a sudden, you're a protector of this piece of crap land?"
Ryu's wasn't amused. "This is my chance to end your pathetic life."
"You? You couldn't even finish them off." He pointed at the two other attackers.
Ryu looked at them and his eyes were filled with shock. "What?" The others were two Knuckles Tribesmen, two that Ryu had killed 1500 years ago. Ryu couldn't believe his eyes.
"Morgana brought them back to life just for you... now you get to killed them all over again!"
"Morgana!" Ryu snapped at Dalton. Thus leaving him open for an attack. The spear wielding tribesmen charged at Ryu while the bow carrying one armed himself again and fired. Ryu had to move quick and rolled out of the way. The spear missed him, but the arrow hit him in the shoulder. "Argh!"
Ryu leapt back to his feet and looked at the spear wielder. He charged again, but Ryu grabbed the end of the spear and swung him against the outer cave wall. Ryu saw another arrow flying towards him and sliced it in half with his sword. Ryu pulled the arrow out of his shoulder and glared at the tribesmen that had tried to hit him.
"Raitosen!" Ryu ran at the bowman and vanished. He reappear right infront of the confused victim and stabbed his sword into his stomach. The Tribemen's gasped and died instantly. "..." Ryu pulled his sword out of him and let the body fall to the ground. The spearman, having regained his senses rushed for Ryu at an even faster speed. "Juuhazan!" Ryu lifted the sword over his head and struck it down as the tribemen got close. The blow shattered the spear he was using and cut a large slash in his chest. The attacker fell to the ground bleeding, and died in seconds.
"Ack!" Dalton was in an anime wild take. "He killed them so easily!" Dalton went back to normal and smiled. "Like the way I taught you." Ryu shot a death glare at Dalton and slowly walked towards him. "Easy there, champ... don't you wanna hear what I got to say?" Ryu stepped infront of him and stood there, glaring into his eyes. Dalton grinned. "Your mother has something big planned for us... And if you help us, like a GOOD little boy, then she will forget about your treason and even let you control a few countries... Doesn't that...sound good?"
Ryu just looked at him. "She's going to take control of the planet? And needs me to help?"
"That's...right!" Dalton held out his hand. "What do ya say... partner?" Ryu looked at Dalton's extended hand. Dalton grinned an anime grin, but then opened his eyes and looked at his arm. "Ahhhh!" His hand had been chopped off, leaving a bleeding stump of an arm. "Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! I can't believe you..."
"Morgana can fixed it for you..." Ryu said holding his blood covered sword. "Tell her I'm not interested... and that if she, you, or anyone who supports her shows themself here, I will fight to kill!"
"You're gonna regret that, Ryu!" Dalton spread his bat wings and flew as fast as he could away from the ruins.
Ryu looked at Dalton and made sure he was out of sight. He then dropped his sword and sighed sadly. "I... I killed them..." He looked at the two tribesmen with deep regret. He got down on the ground and started digging a hole with his hands. "They died needlessly... but still deserve a proper buriel..." Ryu would spend the rest of the day digging a proper hole for him to bury the bodies of the men he killed today.
Meanwhile... in a more peaceful part of the world...
A pink hedgehog in a red dress walked down the sidewalks of Station Square, humming happily to herself. Amy was carrying a large brown paper bag filled with groceries. She smiled and crossed the street, heading home to her apartment.
"Such a beautiful day today!" She said cheerfully. "It couldn't be better unless I run into..." She looked ahead and saw him... her eyes filled with excitement. She dropped the bag and ran towards him. "SONIC!"
"ORO!" He was helpless. Amy tackled him and squeezed him as tight as she could.
"Oh Sonic! I missed you so..." Amy soon looked at the person and saw that it wasn't Sonic. She also said that the person was out cold. "Eeek!" She leapt off him and begged forgiveness. "Sorry, sorry,sorry,sorry,sorry!"
The 5'9" man came back to life, with the side of his head dripping blood. The man she thought was Sonic was just wearing a handmade Sonic Costume. "Oh... no problem!" The man smiled, not noticing he was bleeding.
Amy looked and pointed. "Uh... you're uh... bleeding, mister..."
"Oro?" The man wiped his forehead and saw the blood on his hand. "Oh, one moment. "After cleaning up the blood, the man stuck an X-shaped band-aid on his head and called it fixed. "OK!" He cheered with a thumbs up.
"O...k?" Amy said while stratching her head. "Uh... I'm really sorry, but I thought you were..."
"Sonic? Of course, miss. I'm cosplaying as him to celebrate the new toys we just released today!"
"New toys?"
"Yatta!" He stood in front of a small toy store that had various Sonic plushies in the window. "Sonic the Hedgehog toys!"
Amy stood there... with eyes glowing bright. "Sonic... plushies..." Amy imagined herself hugging a Sonic plushie with a huge cute smile on her face. She grabbed the man and shook him with excitement. "How much? I'll take them all!"
"O...roooo...?" The man got dizzy and had a silly smile on his face. When Amy saw this, she quickly let go, but gasped when the man fell and hit the ground again.
"Oh no!" She said in shock. The man's head started bleeding again. "AHHHHHH!"
...Several minutes, band-aids, and apologies later...
The man, with another band-aid on his head, and Amy were inside the toy store. Amy was staring lovingly at the Sonic plushies.
"Yatta... You sure are excited, miss. Why not take a plushie? For free!"
"Reeeeeeally!" Amy said smiling big and grabbing a plushie from the window. "Sooooooooo cute..." She hugged it as tight as she can. But she hugged it too tight and the plushie's body was crushed, busted open, and cotton sticking out of it. "Oh..." She said sadly."
"Oro?" The man smiled and scratched his head. "Go ahead and take another one then."
"Thank you, thank you!" Amy grabbed another and hugged it tight again. Again... it busted apart like the last one. "Oh..."
"Oro? Well, help yourself to another!"
"Yay!" Amy grabbed another one, hugged it, broke it. "Oh..."
"Oro? Feel free to another one then!"
"Thanks a bunch!" Amy grabbed another one, hugged it, and... (million bucks and a cookie if you can guess what happens...) broke yet another one. (Good guess...) "Oh..."
"Oro?" The man sweatdropped. "Maybe I should show you were the Sonic action figures are. They don't break as easy."
Amy smiled and laughed sheepishly. "Thanks but I think I'll stick to the real deal... The toys are nice, but it's not like hugging the REAL Sonic."
"Well, if you ever change your mind, just look for me, Kuroso!" The man said happily.
"Thanks Mr. Kuroso. My name's Amy Rose, nice to meetcha!"
Kuroso gave her a warm smile, but slowly dropped it. "Oro..."
"Huh? Mr. Kuroso?"
Kuroso quickly smiled again. "Oh! It's nothing... But Miss Rose... I got a very special Sonic toy I'd like you to look at."
"Sure!" Amy nodded happily.
"It's in that room over there." Kuroso pointed to a open room at the back of the shop. Amy walked over and stepped into the room.
She couldn't see a thing in the dark room. "Is there a light in here, mister?" Suddenly, the door was slammed shut and locked from the outside. "What!" Amy quickly pounded on the door as hard as she could. "What is this! What do you think you're doing? LET ME OUT NOW!"
"Sorry Miss Rose..." Kuroso said through the door with a serious tone in his voice. "But for the sake of both our lives, you must be quiet..."
"What...?" Amy said nervously. Suddenly the bell over the shop door rung. Someone was coming in. "Mister..."
"Shush..." Kuroso said gritting his teeth. He then put on a his fake smiley look and walked over to the people who had entered. "Hello! Welcome to my toy store!"
Amy saw a small keyhole under the door knob. She peeked through it and could see what was going on outside. Kuroso was talking with 3 scary looking people. 2 were Seer Echindas with gems around their next. The third was a light tan echinda in Knuckles Tribe clothes. He had around his neck a green diamond. He looked at the store owner with fierce eyes.
"Kuroso..." The Echinda said in an angry tone. "I trust you had met the bat, Dalton, am I right?"
"I did..." Kuroso nodded. "But I already told him, I have no idea where the Chaos Emerald is. I'm just a shop keeper. There's nothing but toys here."
"Kuroso..." The Echinda looked even more angry. "Don't lie to me... I know it's in here. So just tell me... or else..."
"Mr. Echinda, I swear to you, we have nothing like that. How about a nice Sonic Plushie instead? Or an action figure? Yeah... you'd like that better." Kuroso turned around to grab a Sonic Action Figure from the counter. While he had his back turned, one of the Seers pulled out a steel rod and smahed Kuroso in the back of the head. "AHHHHH!" Kuroso was struck hard and fell to the ground.
Amy's eyes widened in shock from what she saw. "Oh... my..." She said in a shivering voice.
"Search this place!" The tan echinda ordered. The other two becan tearing the place apart, throwing and breaking toys all around.
Kuroso was laying on the ground, bleeding and hurt bad. But he still managed to speak. "I... swear to God... I... don't have...the emerald... Please... don't destroy my store..."
"Shut up!" The echinda ordered. He then noticed the room in the back. The room Amy was locked in. "Check in there!" The two seers followed his orders.
Kuroso tried to get back up. "No... don't look there... please... it's not there... Its..." The echinda stepped on Kuroso's head, putting pressure on it. "Ahhhh..."
"Then where is it then? Huh? Answer me!"
"I... I..." Kuroso reached gathered all his strenght and threw the echinda off him. "I WON'T SURRENDER IT!" With one hard punch he knocked the echinda down and made him fall to the floor.
"Ow!" The echinda looked at him with anger burning in his eyes. "You... do have it..."
Kuroso quickly ripped off the Sonic costume he had on and showed what he had underneath. Kuroso was brown haired, brown eyed, wore a black short sleeve shirt, camoflauge pants, and black, well-polished combat boots. In his hand, was a small autogun that he used to protect himself.
He quickly spun around and shot at the seers trying to get into the room. He stunned them with hard, rubber bullets and knocked them out cold. "I said to stay outta there!" He shouted.
Amy shook her head in surprise. "He's...a..."
"A Honor Guard, huh..." The echinda said impressed. The man known as Kuroso was a SSAF (Station Square Air Force) Honor Guard, one of the top of his military.
"You want the emerald so badly? You can have it if you can pry it from my cold, dead hands!" Kuroso quickly reloaded his gun and fired more shots at the echinda. But he rolled out of the way and clutched his green diamond.
"Have it your way then..." The echinda grabbed the diamond that hung around his next. "I summon you... Blazedancer!" From the diamond, a large fire ball fell out of it and landed on the floor. It formed into a small red fire imp that was jumping up and down as if it was dancing. The monster ran straight to Kuroso, burning the floor behind we ran on. "Burn this place to the ground! The emerald could survive this fire, but you can't!" The echinda pointed at Kuroso.
"Damn you!" Kuroso quickly got out of the way of the Blazedancer armed for it. Althought he hit it dead on with his bullets every time he fired, it was useless against the fire monster. Rather than go for the airman, the monster grabbed hold of the toys in a bin and set them on fire just from his touch. "Oh, crud!"
The monster grinned and danced all around, spreading flames from his feet to the walls and floor. In less than a minute, the entire shop had caught on fire and burning.
"In a few minutes, this place will be never but ash, along with yourself." The echinda said. "I can end this if you give me the Chaos Emerald." Kuroso looked all around his burning shop. "It's your choice... life... or death..."
"I sooner choose death." Kuroso aimed his gun at the echinda and fired. But his target was gone just as he fired. "Dammit!" He turned and saw the imp had vanished too, but the flames remained. Kuroso looked around and saw there were still no flames in front of the exit. Just as he was about to rush for it, he remembered the pink hedgehog in the backroom. "Miss Rose..."
Inside the room, Amy was coughing from the black smoke and pounding on the door. "HELP! SOMEONE GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
"HANG ON MISS ROSE!" Kuroso rushed for the door, but a pillar of fire blocked his path. "NO!" He rushed through the fire, covering his face and making it to the door, slightly burned. "MISS ROSE!"
"Mister Kuroso..." Amy said weakly... she had breathed in too much smoke to remain concoius for too much longer. "Let... me...out..."
Kuroso grabbed the key from his pocket and stuck it into the keyhole. But as he turned it, the key snapped and broke into two before he could unlock the door. "Damn! MISS ROSE! STEP AWAY FROM THE DOOR!"
Wearily, Amy stepped as far back from the door as she could. Kuroso used great force and kicked the door, snapping it off it's hinges and making it fall to the floor. He grabbed Amy by the arm and pulled her out of the room. "Mister...Kuroso..." She said while coughing. "I can't..."
"Just hold on Miss Rose..." He said while guideing her through the burning building. "Don't breath in anymore smoke." He looked ahead and saw the once unburning exit had caught on fire as he was rescuing Amy. "No... freakin'...way..." He said in annoyance. He looked around and saw the large store window. "We're outta here..."
Kuroso wrapped his arm around Amy and carried her towards the window. "YAAAAAAAAAAHH!" He jumped and covered his face with his arm. He smashed through the glass and made it out of the building, still alive. He rolled on the ground while holding Amy safely in his arms. He got up and released Amy, who had to sit down to clear her head from the smoke.
"We did it..." Kuroso said while panting. More importantly, he was able to keep the emerald safe from the hands of the echinda. He turned to look at Amy, but was greeted with a arrow piercing his chest and knocking him down. "ARRRRRRRRRRGH!" The arrow had just missed his heart, like the shooter was intenting to do.
"Mister Kuroso..." Amy said wearily, but she instantly collapsed and went unconcouis.
"Next time..." The echinda approached him slowly. "I won't be so nice." He walked over to the fallen airman and reached into his pocket. When he pulled out his hand, he had in it a shining, green jewel, a Chaos Emerald. "Now this emerald belongs to Queen Morgana..."
"Ahhh...ah...ahhh..." Kuroso tried to pull out the arrow, but was in far too much pain to do so. "You... how do you feel... knowing that...knowing that..."
The echinda didn't bother to stick around and listen. Instead he started to walk away and left the airman and hedgehog laying on the ground, injured.
"Knowing that..." Kuroso heard the sirens of firetrucks, and ambulances approaching his store. "You will bring the planet... to destruction..." Kuroso looked to the sky and slowly closed his eyes...
As all this was happening back in the city, our favorite blue hedgehog hero, Sonic, was running at full speed through a long and hot desert after hearing that his arch nemesis, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, had been seen somewhere around the area. For what? He didn't know yet.
Sonic had to wipe the sweat from his brow. "This is one rough spot! Eggman might have a base somewhere 'round here. Or worst... might have found a Chaos Emerald!." Sonic speed increased a little. "Whatever it is, at least I know where he is!" After a while of running, he could see a area surrounded by some strange ruins. "Huh? I'll bet that's where I'll find 'im!" Sonic headed straight ahead towards the ruins.
Sonic slowed down to a steady pace when he entered the area. He looked around at the fallen stones and destroyed statues and building. He couldn't, however, see any reason that Eggman would build a base here. "An Emerald must be somewhere around here..." He looked ahead and could see a large cave. He rushed towards it and entered without caution. He looked around and saw nothing that made it any different than other caves.
"Man!" Sonic snapped his fingers. "Nothing! Not even a stupid eggbot! Not even a bolt!" Sonic shook his head. "This musta been just a wild goose chase..."
"Who are you?" Sonic heard someone say in a stern tone. He spun around and saw at the mouth of the cave a lone grey fox, clutching a sword in his hand. It was Ryu, and he had an look of caution and irritation in his eyes.
Sonic faced and smiled, to show he came in peace. "Sorry, pal. Didn't know someone lived here. Huh?" He noticed something shining in his other hand. It was light blue and glowed a bright light. "That's a Chaos Emerald!"
Ryu looked at the emerald, and glared back at Sonic, even more irritated. "What do you know about this emerald?"
Sonic walked over to him. "I know a lot about 'em. 7 Emeralds, incredible power, not to mention the Chaos Beasts..." At that moment, Ryu swung his sword down at Sonic. Sonic, moved at lightspeed away from the blade and watched as Ryu struck the ground. The blade dented the rock ground hard and made small sparks and pebbles fly up. "Whoa! What's your problem, pal!" Sonic shouted at him.
Ryu looked at Sonic. "Damn it... he's fast..." "Now I see why you're here. You're working for Morgana... trying to steal my emerald."
"What!" Sonic shook his head. "I never heard of anyone named 'Morgana!' I swear!"
"Silence." Ryu swung his sword at Sonic again, but this time, he moved at lightspeed and reappeared behind Ryu. "Damn you..." Ryu spun around and gritted his teeth, showing his sharp canine teeth.
"I'm telling ya the truth. Don't you know who I am? I'm Son..."
"You won't live long enough for anyone to care who you are..." Ryu said in a threatening tone.
At that point, Sonic got angry. "So you think you can beat me? Fine then... Let's see who's stronger!" "I'll settle this later... I need that emerald... and keep it outta Eggman's hands."
"The way things are going..." Ryu thought to himself. "I can't show any mercy... I must kill to survive..." Ryu gripped his sword tight and glared Sonic in the eye, ready to fight.
END OF CHAPTER 1
Time for a cliffie! Will Sonic get the emerald? Will Kuroso and Amy make it out the hospital safely? And when the hell is Rouge and Knuckles making their appearance! Find out the answers to these and other burning questions on the next exciting chapter!
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