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Faermage-KH Junkie: maybe he is maybe he's not, plus he is named Dart because not everything is from the game.

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Before I start the chapter I would like to thanks some people: Michael for beta reading this chapter, and NUTCASE 1733 for helping on one part.

Ok now onto chapter three

Chapter 3: A hero's path

The blinding light that obscured my vision faded, but not my confusion because when the light faded I realized I wasn't in the courtroom. I slowly got up from the ground and looked around, there where ruins all around me looked to be really old, and there were people with dark tanned skin, jet black hair, their pants that looked like they were made of brown leather, and some had feathers from hawks on little bandanas they wore. The men wore no shirts while the women wore a brown leather shirt, a long skirt that went to their ankles that was also made with brown leather. They must have been Indian, oh yeah they're seemed to be missing the fact that a stranger is in their town; they walked by me as if I was only a next door neighbor. I got up noticing that I was still transformed, making it weirder that they weren't freaking out that a walking blue hedgehog suddenly appeared in there village… thing.

I was standing there, trying to process what was happening, when I heard a voice call out to me, "You must be Sonic, right?"

I turned around to see a girl; she was wearing something totally different than the other girls, a white T-shirt (well, it looked kinda like a T-shirt anyway), a skirt, though I couldn't tell what it was made of (it looked like a bunch of different fabrics). Brown sandals, and a couple of little items like rocks that had writing carved into it, the items were all tied to the front of her long black hair.

"How do you know my name?" I asked.

She bent down and picked up the blue emerald, "When you touched the emerald all your memories became infused with it, with it I know you better than you know yourself."

I smiled and scoffed, "I find that hard to believe, after all emeralds don't read your memories."

She closed her eyes and for a second I though I saw the emerald glow as she spoke, "When you were five your parents and your older brother went to the movie theater, when a man came out and shot your father in the arm, and then did the same to your mother. He grabbed you and ran, your brother ran after you tackled the man. Then two other people came out and grabbed your brother, you tried to stop them, but they just pushed you away, and then they threw him into to a van and drove off."

I tried to fight away tears, but instead it just came out in my voice, "Any- anyone would know that, all they would have to do is look it up."

"It's been ten years since then, they say there is little hope for his survival, but in your heart you still think he's out there."

"Yeah… so why am I here?" I asked, trying to get of the subject.

"The emerald brought you here, because of your soul," she answered, sitting down on a large rock.

"My soul?" I asked, my confusion growing with every minute.

She nodded, "Even though you have this anger built up inside you, you been given these powers to help the humans."

"Hold on, you speak as if you're an alien or something," I paused, taking one step back.

She smiled warmly at me and sighed, "We have powers just like you…"

She put down the emerald and stood up, she closed her eyes, and she started to glow red. I could see the outline of her body in the light, it not only got smaller, but when the light stopped, she had a large nose that was in the same shape of that Dart guy. In fact she looked a lot like him, except she had light red fur, and she was wearing clothes (how did she do? I need to learn that trick, then again my fur acts as my clothes).

"Who are you?" I asked in amazement.

She looked at me and smiled, "My name is Tikal."

"So how did this happen to us?" I asked, hoping to get some answers at last.

She motioned for me to follow her, "When the people of our village are born, the gods bless us with… very special powers. Although the powers don't awaken until we reach the age of fifthteen, how long ago did you turn fifthteen?"

"About two weeks ago," I answered, but there was something that was bothering me, "But I've never been here… where ever here is."

"That's the thing, you were never here not as a baby, never," She replied, while walking out of her village.

"Where are you going?" I asked, hesitant on following.

"I'm going to take you to the temple, you coming?" She asked, walking out of the village.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to follow her, though if I was to ever find out what I am, I had to follow her.

We walked a bit through a very thick forest (that I would guess the village was located in the middle of the forest,) then we stepped out of the forest to see something to make me gasp; a large chunk of land that was right over a pound with animals. While the land was being supported by five large stone pillars, on top of the land was a temple with stairs leading up to throne, which I couldn't tell what was in it till we walked up.

"This is the temple where we worship our gods," she said, as we crossed a wooden bridge that was leading to the chunk of floating land.

I didn't say anything, I was more nervous of what I was going to see; could it be a council of large talking animal gods? Though I guess I would find out because we just crossed a couple of the villagers (that most of been guards.)

"Sonic, I would like you to meet… the Master Emerald."

A large emerald the was glowing with all sorts of colors, blue, red, green, yellow, silver, purple, azure (sky blue, light blue, whatever you like to call it.)

"So your god is a giant emerald?" I asked, as I stared into the emerald.

"Long ago, there was a great war that engulfed the world," she replied, "A war that involved all the countries..."

I gasped, there was only two things in history that matched that description, "Wait, do you mean one of the World Wars?"

"The first one made our god mad, the second made it so mad that it decided to go in slumber. Our god had seven disciples, its seven followers took the form of an emerald, granting those with a virtuous soul the power to try to change the world. Legend states that until an everlasting peace is formed, the Master will remain in a slumber," She pointed to the big emerald, "That is our god, and his followers grant us the power."

"So the followers are those little emeralds?" I asked.

She nodded, "It's up to you to use your powers for the good of man kind, help us."

I wanted to say that it's going to take a lot more than just me to atone for everyone sins, but for some reason this girl filled me with a positive energy. It was a strange feeling, but I knew I would feel guilty if I denied her, so I nodded.

Her face brightened with happiness, "Thank you, you will go back now, but I will call for you again, and then I will train you."

"Wait, how do I know when you call me?" I asked.

She grabbed my hand and then put the blue emerald in my hand, "This will call you when the time comes, but don't lose it because whoever picks it up will get all of your memories. Until then, goodbye Sonic Suai."

The blinding light emitted from the emerald, and soon everything went white.

The light was gone, but it was still very dark. I sat up and took a minute to get used to the darkness, only to realize that I was in my room, in my bed, I was human and my clothes were on!

Was it all a dream? Though that thought did not last long, for when I turned to see on my dresser was that blue emerald.

"Ok, this is weird," I said to myself as I sat up.

I heard talking coming from the downstairs living room, I walked down the stairs, took a step around the corner, and entered my living room. The living room was fairly simple; it had a red carpet, two chairs, one leather couch, a wide screen TV (that my Dad got twenty percent off, he works at a electronic store,) a Wii that I got for my fifteenth birthday, and a couple pictures that hung on the tan wall. Oh yeah, my Mom was setting on a couch with a man in a tuxedo, (he looked like he was taking notes,) though it was his badge that scared me, it had a large G emblem on it just like those men did that attacked me.

"That's all I need Mrs. Suai, thank you and have a good day," the man got up and walked past me to the door.

"Good morning Sonic," my Mom said, as she got up and walked to the kitchen, "What do you want to eat?"

I paused for a minute for the sudden concept of breakfast distracted me, but I still forced myself to ask, "Um am I mistaken, but isn't it Friday? Don't I have school?"

"I know, but with all that happened yesterday I thought you might use a day off."

Then a thought came into my head, "Hey Mom, how did I get home yesterday?"

A confused look crossed her face, "Why you father came and picked you up."

It must have been Tikal, I thought before answering,"Right, I just forgot, you know with all that's been happening."

She turned to the cook top, "How about waffles?"

I nodded and sat down at the kitchen table, I promised I would try to help the world, does that mean I'll have to be a super hero? Anyway, I guess Sonic the Hedgehog make his debut today.

My Mom wouldn't let me out of the house until it was around four o'clock, so most the time I spent in the living room playing my Wii. Finally she let me leave and I told her I was heading to a friend's house, and I knew who I needed to see.

I walked awhile till I reached my friend's neighborhood, which wasn't full of big houses, mostly ranch houses (one story,) and a couple two story houses. Anyway, I walked up to his house which was a one story as well, I stepped on the porch and knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal young a boy at least eight years old, light blond hair, brown eyes, he was wearing a white lap coat, blue jeans, and a pair of overly large glasses. There was oil smudges on his face, which meant he has been working on another experiment or something.

"Hey Miles, listen I need your help," I said, as I walked past him and into the house.

He seemed to have been in a daze until I stepped inside, realizing I was there he frowned, "Sonic, you can't be here this is my sanctuary of Zen and peace."

Then a very loud voice yelled from one of the rooms further back, "Miles, who is at the door!?"

I ignored the loud yell and sighed, "Come on I need your help."

The loud voice screamed again at Miles, who was looking a bit overwhelmed as he yelled back, "Shut up grandma!"

Miles sighed in exasperation and turned back to me, "What could it possible be?"

"I think I'm going insane!" I yelled holding my hands to my head.

"Like how?" He asked, closing the front door.

"Yesterday I ran to the court house, but then I wake up in my bed," I explained, leaning against the wall, I decided to not tell him of how I fought a red animal who looks like Knuckles.

"Maybe you hit your head and fell unconscious?" Miles asked bluntly.

"I doubt that, my Mom said that Dad came and picked me up," I countered.

He stood there thinking, finally he made a decision, "I can run a few tests, and maybe we can find out what's wrong."

I sighed, "Thank you."

We walked down the hall and into the garage that had a door leading into a small room, inside the room was a pretty large TV that was hooked up to a computer, there was also a lot of experiments going on due to the machines lying around.

"Sit right there, and put that on…" He instructed, I walked over to a chair, sat down on it, and put on something that looked like a pan.

Miles was about to turn on his computer when he stopped and said to me, "Please remove all metal things such as, cell phones, and rings… oh and are you allergic to cats?"

I blinked and answered slowly, "No."

"Ok good," he turned and hit a button, after that I felt a small spark, then an image of my brain shown up on the TV.

"Hmmmm… Hmmmm…" he frowned as he studied the image of my brain.

"Do you see anything?" I asked, a little worried that something was wrong with me.

"Fortunately, I see nothing," He sighed in relief, " There could be something in blood that's causing this though. I could take a blood sample, but it would take a least a day to check it all out."

I got up from the chair and walked to the door, "Thanks, I'll be back tomorrow."

Miles waved goodbye and I walked outside. But as I opened the door to leave I heard the TV from the living room, it sounded like a news report which was odd because the news doesn't show until 10 at night. Because of this, I decided to listen in a bit:

We got reports that an armored car is being robbed while moving at top speed, and if this keeps going it will put a lot of lives at stake.

This is a perfect! I go there, beat up robbers, stop the car, and then boom! Make it out fast.

I exited the house and looked for an area to hide, that garden shed looked like a perfect place. I ran to the garden shed, got undressed, and focused, Time to change… and please don't tell me it was all a dream! I waited for awhile, but I didn't feel anything and I sighed, Was it a dream after all?

I stood up, took a step forward, and tripped on something. I gritted my teeth as I hit the pavement, I looked at my feet and I saw something unexpected; red sneakers and blue legs instead of blue jeans. I saw the pile of clothes behind me and realized it got so easy to transform that I hardly felt it.

"Ohhhhhhh… Well, I was freakin out for no reason," I laughed as I ran out of the garden shed.

But first I stopped outside the window of Miles' living room to see where it was, Ok, I think that's Soho so I have a bit to run to. I started to run, dodging people and cars, though it started to get harder when the cars were bunching up, (that must have meant I'm getting closer). I decided if I kept running I would run out of luck and hit a car, so I jumped on the top of the cars, jumping one by one. Everyone got out of their cars to see a blue hedgehog jumping to where the speeding car was last seen, I stopped running to see the worse thing I have ever seen: there was at least a dozen of cars piled on each other, and for a second I thought I heard screaming from one of the cars.

I looked to see a toddler maybe five years old; he was in a burning car that crushed into a building. I ran up the wall then jumped through one of the building windows, I ran down the stairs then into the lobby to where it was crushed. There in the driver's seat was the kid, who knows how long he'll last till the smoke gets to him. I ran over, threw open the car door, picked up the kid, but as I was running away with the kid in my arms the car exploded behind me, sending us through the other window. I slammed through the window, keeping the kid close to me so he would not fall out of my arms; I twisted my body so we wouldn't land on our heads. I landed on the ground smoothly and looked back at the burning building, still wondering how I survived. I looked in front of me to see a cheering crowd, though I really didn't have time to waste, I took the kid to the ambulance, and then sped through the crowd and after the car.

It's time to see who did this, I was now closing in on the armored car, when I noticed that the door has been ripped of its hinges. I jumped into the car to see someone I thought I would never see for a long time.

"Dart…"

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