Episode 4A: Enchanta Part 1
One day on Seaside Island, there's a terrible rain storm. The rain is falling rapidly from the sky, lighting flashes and thunder rumbling. In Sonic's hut, Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Tails, Sticks, and Maria are really bored. Sonic is laying down on his hammock, Knuckles and Sticks laying down on the couch. Tails and Amy are playing chess with frowns on their faces. Finally, Maria is watching TV. Surprisingly, Shadow is here as well.
Sonic sighs, "This is so boring. Why did it have to rain today of all things?"
"You can't predict mother nature nowadays. If it's rain, then it's rain," Amy says.
Then Amy moves her piece and says, "Your move."
Tails then moves his piece.
Sticks groans, "This is so boring! I was hoping to go out and talk to the rocks at the canyon."
"Talk to rocks?" Maria asks.
"You don't wanna know," Amy says.
"Hey. Maybe we can go out and play some golf," Knuckles suggests.
However, everyone says,"No!"
"That's the point of the thunder storm, you are unable to go outside, especially with anything made of metal," Shadow sternly says.
"Come on guys, I'm sure we can find something to do than do nothing," Maria says with a smile.
Then has an idea, "How about we play a board game?"
"Board games are so boring," Sonic says.
Tails stands up, "I'm sure there are a few board games in the closet."
"Anything than playing chess all day," Amy says.
Tails then heads to the closet to look for the board game.
Maria turns to Shadow, "I'm glad we get to hang out together, right Shadow?"
"Whatever," Shadow firmly says.
"Remind me again why you invited Shadow to come?" Sonic asks.
"Because he's my friend," Maria says.
Sonic mutters, "And probably Shadow's only friend."
In the closet, Tails continues to look through the closet for a board game. He then notices a dusty old box. He picks it up and blows the dust off the top. The top of the box has a few pictures of sorcerers, barbarians, knights, a king and queen, princess, an evil wizard and a princess.
Tails reads, "Enchanta."
Then says, "This seems like an interesting game, and it said you can play up to eight players."
Tails walks out of the closet and takes the board game to the living room.
"Hey guys, take a look at this game I found," Tails says. Then place the board game on the table. Everyone gets up from their laziness and looks at the board game.
"Enchanta? What kind of game is that?" Sonic says.
"It seems to look like a medieval game," Tails says.
"It has a princess, sorcerers, kings, and knights. Can we play?" Maria happily says.
"Still, it's strange. I don't remember getting this game before," Sonic says.
"Never did I," Amy replies.
"For all we know, this box could contain a bomb or aliens," Sticks says.
"Um, aliens?" Maria says, sounding concerned.
"There's no aliens. Even I know that. Let's open the box and start playing," Knuckles says.
Tails then opens the lid to the board game and see the board game. Amy then takes the board game out and unfolds it. The game shows multiple paths. Many of them have intersections, obstacles, and people painted on the game. Shadow then takes out eight game pieces and place them on the board: There's two knights, two sorcerers, a barbarian, a goblin, and a princess.
"Wow There are so many pieces. Which do you want to play?" Maria asks.
"I call being the knight," Sonic says.
"I like to be the sorcerer," Tails says.
"Me too," Amy says.
"I like to be the princess," Maria says.
Sticks takes out the barbarian, "I get the barbarian."
Shadow then takes the other knight, "I guess I'll be the other knight."
"Looks like Knuckles the goblin," Sonic says.
Maria says, "Now that we all got our players, let's read the rules."
Tails takes out the instructions. However, "There aren't any instructions here."
"No instructions?" Sonic says.
Tails looks at the paper and reads, "The only thing it says: Time goes round and round. All who play become abound. Travel into the game of it's time, and watch the magic chime."
Suddenly, the board game begins to glow a bright white light. Everyone covers their eyes due to the blindness of the light. Soon, the game pieces begin to glow as well, and circle around the group making a large twister. The game pieces spins faster and the light blows so bright that it covers the entire room. Soon, the light flashes as the twister flows into the game. Soon, Sonic and all his friends have disappeared.
Time has gone by, and Maria is fast asleep on the ground. Soon, she begins to open her blue eyes. She slowly turns her head with a dizzy expression on her face. Maria soon sits up as she holds her head.
"What happened?" Maria asks herself, holding her head.
Maria looks to see a blue and white color dress and wears the white gloves and blue wristbands. She notices her shoes change to blue flats, and wears a silver tiara on her head.
"A dress?" Maria says, confused.
"What happened?" Tails' voice speaks up.
"My head hurts," Amy says.
Maria turns her head to see she's not alone in this world. She sees Sonic, Shadow, and the others are beginning to wake up from their sleep. However, she begins to notice that she isn't the only one wearing a strange and yet, familiar looking outfit.
Sonic and Shadow wearing armor. Shadow is wearing a dark gray helmet with super armor, even his shoes are made of metal, and has a sword. Sonic is wearing silver armor like Shadow, and has a sword.
Amy is wearing a light blue headband with a light blue dress, white gloves with yellow rings. She is also wearing a light blue shirt with a long blue skirt, and blue flats. Tails is wearing a brown robe with a hood and holds a staff.
Sticks is wearing an outfit similar to her, but some of it has armor and carries a staff. There are able ankle legging and the same on her arms.
Knuckles however is simply wearing a brown outfit that has a sleeve on one side.
Everyone is finally awakened from their sudden sleep.
"I feel like I was hit into a brick wall or something," Sonic says.
Maria asks, "Are you all okay?"
"I think so," Amy says,
"My head feels dizzy," knuckles says.
"Yeah. I told you that thing is an alien object," Sticks says.
Amy then looks down to notice her outfit, "Huh? What are we wearing?"
Excluding Maria who already notices her outfit, everyone else begins to notice them as well. They don't remember having the outfits on before, and they look strangely familiar.
"Why am I wearing a suit of armor?" Sonic asks.
"And why am I wearing a robe?" Tails asks.
"Did the aliens give us strange outfits and are going to experiment on us?" Sticks asks.
"There's no such thing as aliens," Amy says, rolling her eyes.
Mara turns to Shadow to see he is beginning to wake up as well.
"Are you okay, Shadow?" Maria asks.
"I'm… I'm fine," Shadow answers as he stands on his feet.
Sonic looks around and asks, "Where are we, and why are we in these costumes?"
"Wow! You look very pretty Maria. You shine like a star," Sticks says.
"Um, thank you Sticks," Maria says, blushing.
"You look like a real princess. I wish I had an outfit like it," Amy says.
"But you have a cute outfit too," Maria happily says
Amy looks at her dress and says, "I guess I do."
"Why are we wearing these strange clothes?" Sticks asks.
Shadow and Maria look around to notice they are in a large clearing. It has a few trees with large flower beds, and a lake. Curious, Maria walks to the flowerbed and picks some flowers.
"These look very pretty," Maria says.
Maria then sits on her knees and begins to pick flowers. Shadow walks over to Maria as she picks different colored flowers.
"Maria, what are you doing?" Shadow ask.
Maria turns around as she stands up with a bouquet of flowers, "I'm going to make a flower crown. Aren't these flowers pretty?"
Shadow can't help but blush a little and says, "I… I guess, but we should be uh, focusing on trying to figure out where we are."
"You're right. Still, these flowers are beautiful and they smell very nice," Maria says with a smile.
Shadow simply watches Maria, and puts a small smile on his face. Suddenly, he frowns to notice something approaching from behind Maria.
"Are you okay, Shadow?" Maria asks, knowing the expression.
Shadow then runs to Maria and pushes her, "Get down!"
Shadow falls on to Maria as something breaths fire at the grass. Shadow and Maria look to see the grass and the flower field is on fire. Sonic and the others quickly turn to see a giant green lizard with large wings flying in the sky.
"What in the world is that?" Tails asks.
"Is that… a dragon?!" Sonic asks, shocked.
Maria nervously says, "Shadow."
Shadow places his hands on Maria's shoulder and has her lean close to him. Maria can't help but blush that her cheeks turn red. Up in the sky, the dragon begins to turn around and flies down to where Sonic and the others are.
Sonic holds out his sword, "Well, it's about time we get to have some fun."
"Be careful Sonic, that dragon is really big and breathes fire," Tails says.
"It's coming this way! Run for your lives!" Sticks screams, and begins to run around screaming in circles.
Sonic says, "Looks like we have to handle this ourselves."
Sonic uses his speed to run across the field and jumps in the air. With that, Sonic uses his sword to clash at it's scales. However, the scales on the dragon isn't scratch,
Amy then holds out her hand, "I'll handle this one.
Amy expects her hammer to appear. Instead, she gains a magic wand.
"What?! What happened to my hammer?!" Amy exclaims, looking at the wand.
"Well, it's a good thing I got this club with me," Knuckles says, holding his weapon.
However, he ends up getting hit by the dragon's large tail, and lands on Sticks.
Sticks screams, "Ow! Knuckles, get off of me!"
Tails looks at the staff and says, "Alright. Let's see what this can do."
Tails then points the staff at the dragon as it's coming back for another attack. Suddenly, a strange blue serge of magic begins to flow to the top of the staff before Tails. Magi has fire at the dragon's chest. The dragon soon screams in agony.
"Hey. Magic seems to work on it," Sonic says.
Amy waves her wand, "Let me try it."
She then fires the magic at the dragon's tail. The dragon continues to fly down and it's heading towards Shadow and Maria. Shadow has Maria close behind him and doesn't want her to get hurt by the beast.
He turns to Maria, "Maria, stay here. I'll take care of this."
"Please be careful, Shadow," Maria says, worried.
Shadow nods his head and skates off. Shadow uses his rocket shoes to fly in the air and uses his sword against it. However, it doesn't work.
Shadow then shouts, "Chaos Spear!"
Shadow uses his sword to swift from left to right to create multiple spears of Chaos Energy. They strike the dragon, causing it to scream in agony. Suddenly, the dragon gains his flight ability and swoops down to grab Maria, and flies off with her.
As she is being carried away, Maria screams, "Help me!"
Shadow quickly turns his head to see the dragon carrying her away, and the others notice as well.
Sonic screams, "Maria!"
Shadow then begins to chase after her from the ground. Sonic, and the others follow after the lizard carrying off their friend.
"What does that dragon want with Maria?" Tails asks.
"Maybe eat her or trap her in a tower," Knuckles says.
Amy scoldly says, "Knuckles."
"What?" Knuckles asks, dumbfounded.
"Who cares why! We gotta rescue Maria!" Sonic says.
In the air, Maria continues to be in the clutches of the dragon as it flies toward a dark and spooky castle with dark walls, vines that are covered in thorns on the wall and the towers. There is also a large moat that is full of creepy water. Shadow and the others stop to see the dragon flying to the castle. Shadow is looking very serious and is not pleased to allow Maria to be taken on his watch.
"Don't worry Maria, I promise to save you… no matter what," Shadow says.
In the castle, the dragon flies through a large window and lands on the ground. Once on the ground, the dragon gently places Maria on the ground. Maria becomes frightened and begins to shake as she stares at the dragon.
Maria asks frightened, "P-please… please let me go."
"Sorry, but you are not going anywhere. And you along with your friends are not leaving this world," The dragon says.
Suddenly the dragon begins to be swirled around in dark green smoke. Soon enough, the smoke clears to reveal a green hedgehog. He has blue eyes and his quills are similar to Sonic's. He wears black and green armor from head to toe and has flames at the front and the mask.
The hedgehog smirks showing his sharp white teeth and says, "And you and your friends are here to stay?"
Maria begins to shake in fear to see the strange green hedgehog wearing the armor in front of her. What's more, he doesn't plan on letting her or the others leave.
Maria gulps and asks, "Who… who are you?"
"I am Surge the King of Enchanta. Well have been since I overthrew the last ruler," Surge says with an evil grin.
He places his hand under Maria's chin and lifts her head up so she has to face him.
He asks, "So what's your name little princess?"
"M-Maria," Maria nervously says.
"Maria, eh. Cute name. So you and your friends have entered the game and you all are going to stay here," Surge says.
"Why can't we leave?" Maria asks.
"Simple. I need a few powerful subjects and you and your friends have found the portal into my world. I have plenty of subjects, but none dare to challenge me. So I send the board games that are actually portals and any unexpected people enter my realm and none come out," Surge says with an evil grin.
Maria suddenly feels a strange chill down her spine.
Then she dares to ask, "But why did you kidnap me?"
"It's quite simple. I need to have someone rule me. It's good that you're cute," Surge says.
Maria asks, "What?"
"I gotta need a queen to rule with me so you're going to be here and be a queen, and I'll trample anyone who dares to come in my way," Surge says. Then laughs with a loud bellow and manically.
Maria is more scared than ever about the fact she's going to be forced into marriage, and soon she is on the verge of crying.
Maria mutters, "Shadow."
Meanwhile, Shadow is running ahead of the group to rescue Maria from the dragon. Sonic, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, and Sticks are not far behind.
"Shadow is serious about rescuing Maria," Tails says.
"Yeah. She is his girlfriend after all," Knuckles says.
"You might not want to tell Shadow that. He hates to admit that he likes her," Sticks says.
"Keep this up, and he's going to know what came out of your mouths," Sonic says.
Shadow continues to speed to the castle and is head on in Maria's rescue.