A.N. I am not entirely happy with this chapter but it is the only way I can think of that I actually like to move the story on. This chapter is slightly longer by the 1st one by 638 words. Not that you care how much longer it is but oh well.

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Chapter 2 - Being Born in a New World

Over the next few weeks, I had even weirder dreams. They were all the same dreams they just changed slightly every time. At first, when I was running through the forest, I saw blue blurs and black and red blurs running alongside me. Then it got weirder. After a while, they weren't blurs, they became shapes. Then it became even clearer. In the forest I was running with Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow the Hedgehog! After a while, I could hear their voices. They gave me advice on what to do. The dream ended the same as I first had it; just Sonic and Shadow were there to share my shock of what I was.

But then one night, I had a very peculiar dream. A completely new dream. One I had never had before, but something that I might have experienced.

There were so many happy smiling faces around me. All the faces were different colours. Pink, blue, black, red, yellow, purple, green, orange. They were all grinning right at me. I heard a very quiet, but very cute giggle burst through my lips. Everyone that stood around me went 'awwww'. But the people that stood around me weren't ordinary people. They all had spikes or quills as I should say. I started flapping my arms around and started to kick my legs. I couldn't help myself. I was too excited. I flash of colour caught my eye. I looked at where I saw the colour and realized it was my arm. I looked at my tummy and saw that that was purple too and so were my legs. Somebody reached down towards me and the next thing I knew, I was being lifted up into the air. Somebody that was blue put my head so I could look over their shoulder and held my tightly. I looked over their shoulder and saw someone staring at me. They were in the exact same position as me. It took me a second to realize, that that someone was me! I was a baby!

Suddenly the dream changed.

I was in the hospital sitting on a bright white chair. I felt my arms were crossed and something heavy was laying on them. I looked down to see and black and red hedgehog grin straight at me. My little baby brother. I couldn't believe it. I was 4 years old and I was holding one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen in my arms. A newborn baby. He looked just like our dad. I looked like neither of my parents. My mum was a blue that seemed to let off light no matter where she was. My dad always jokes that if we ever go into a dark cave, we can use my mum as light to guide the way. I was purple. My dad was black and red.

To all my other friends, my family was rather strange. All the families that live on this strange, strange planet had 2-3 kids and were usually the exact colour that their parents were or a mixture of both colours. But that was not the strangest thing to all my friends. The bond that I had with my mum, dad and now my brother was really strong. A really strong bond like ours is really rare and normally means that our family is special. Because of this strong bond we had stories going around the planet about us 24/7. The stories were usually stories about our future. There are too many different stories to even think about. Not many of them are pleasant. Since I was born, there has been only one other family with a bond like ours but they disappeared a while ago and no one has seen or heard from them since.

My parents were stuck on a name for my baby brother. They decided that they would let me decide on a name for him. In that instant that they told me I could decide on a name I saw something in my head. I have officially gone crazy.

I saw my brother following my dad everywhere. He looked just like he was my dad's shadow. I then saw my brother doing things exactly how my dad had done them. From saving a blue hedgehog from drowning (after pushing him in) to fighting off a monster thing in outer space with the hedgehog that he had pushed in the water.. He was exactly like my dads shadow, well almost exactly.

I was suddenly brought back to the present. I was still looking down at my brother and he seemed to be surrounded by a fuzzy colour. I was able to decipher that the colour was a mixture of pink and yellow. He had now opened his eyes and was looking at me for the first time. His eyes were red.

"I know what to call him." I said as I looked up at my parents. "Shadow!"

"That's perfect!" My mum exclaimed after a few seconds of thought. Her voice was honey sweet.

"How did you come up with that?" My dad asked me. "And what happened to you just now? We were waiting for an answer from you when you just sort of blanked out but your eyes were still wide open. You may have been in the present but your eyes seemed far away."

"I don't know what happened. It was sort of like I had a vision or something. I saw Shadow following you everywhere, Dad. And then I saw him do heroic stuff like saving someone from drowning and then saving a whole planet."

"That sounds like the kind of stuff that your Dad has done apart from saving a whole planet. I mean, he saved me from drowning, that's how we met." My mum gazed lovingly at my Dad who returned the look.

"I know, I've heard the story before. That's why I suggested the name Shadow. 'Cause that is what he was like. He was like Dad's shadow.

"Wow! Aura, I know what happened!" My dad almost screamed at me. All I did was look at him with a confused expression on my face. "When you look at your mum, your brother and I, what can you see?"

"When I look at you and mum, you're surrounded by this yellowish mist. And when I look at Shadow, he's surrounded by a mixture of pink and yellow mist." I looked at my mum and she seemed quite worried, probably thinking I had gone crazy just like I do.

"Aura, don't you see, you can see people's auras!" My mum and I just stared at him. We were both confused out of our minds. "The eyes are the window to the soul. You can see Shadow's aura and by the sounds of it, you can see the future too, but on rare occasions. By the way you explained it; Shadow's aura is just like mine. Has this happened to you before?"

"Yes, but I thought I was just day dreaming-" My dad interrupted before I could speak another word.

"That confirms it then. Aura, you can see people's aura! Wow, that's ironic, you can sense people's auras and your name is Aura. No wonder stories are being spread around the planet about us. It's likely that you can see the future but only with a very selected few. You will probably be able to sort of sense what people have done in the past but may not be completely accurate. You can only see people who are important to the future or who you are extremely close to. That's how you see people's aura, you can sense their past AND you can see this mist thing around people. You will eventually learn what colours mean what. It's very hard to explain." My dad said this in such a rush that I almost didn't know what he was saying.

"How do you know about this? You act like you have this power too or you've encountered it..." My mum said to my dad. She said it in such a way that it sounded like she was accusing him of something.

"My dad called it the legend of our family. His great, great, great, great, great, great grandma or something had the same power, or so we're told. But a lot of strange things happened with her so most of my family didn't want to believe the stories were true. She ended up disappearing and nobody knows where she went or if she is somehow still alive today. All of her visions of the future she never told anyone. She'd only tell people certain parts of her visions that she thought were important. One of her visions was about a girl who would have the same powers that she has. She said that she hoped that that girl would follow in her footsteps. I think that that girl is you, Aura, and for your sake, I hope you don't follow in her footsteps. My dad told me about the things she's done and things that she's seen and I hope you don't end up like her." When my dad stopped, he seemed deep in thought. Then he suddenly burst back into life "Anyway! We're not supposed to be talking about depressing stuff of the past we should be celebrating! A new member of The Hedgehog family has been born today! I say we throw a party for little Shadow here!"

My eyes flashed open. What a weird dream! I looked at my clock. Arrggghhh! It's 6 o'clock in the morning! I LOVE having dreams but dreams that wake me up before the sun is even up I'm not to keen on. I rolled onto my side and closed my eyes. And before I knew it I was in the deepest sleep I've had in a long time.

A.N. Please review. I like knowing what you guys think. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, I know it's not my best, in fact it could be my worst in my opinion.

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