Zero Sagas
Chapter 3: The Legend's Past
(A/N) I own Zero, Sapphire, Nightmare, and Lifeform 0. I also own the idea of Zero Sagas. I DON'T own Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Knuckles ect. They belong to their respectful owners.
Sapphire had seen the whole battle between Sonic and Metal Sonic from a local rooftop.
"What would Eggman want with that blue hedgehog?" She asked herself. Sapphire remembered reading the ancient tablets that existed in her village.
A Long time ago...
A young hedgehog girl strolled through her village. The village was relatively large with hedgehogs, and echidnas around, at the gates of the village stood a massive jungle that seemed to go on forever in every direction. As she walked a black echidna approached her. This echidna was about the same age as she was. He wore golden bracelets around his arms, his hair drooped down to his shoulder blades, and the echidna wore a brown leather belt that was a little big for him. His belt had small pockets, which contained daggers with golden hilts. His shoes were dark blue with golden buttons attached to them, and his gloves were white with silver stripes ringing around them.
"The Village Leader wishes to speak with you ma'am" The echidna said as he bowed slightly.
"Thank you Nightmare tell him I will be there shortly." She responded.
"Yes ma'am" The echidna bowed again then turned and walked off.
"What could my father want?" She asked herself.
Full of curiosity she went to the head of the town to see what her father would want with her. As she walked she went through the town square, she pushed her way through and approached a big building with guards surrounding it. As She approached the door and the guards let her in with a nod, inside was a huge room with a barely anyone around. She then approached a deep blue hedgehog that was near the front of the group. When the deep blue hedgehog saw her he immediately greeted her.
"Hello Sapphire" he greeted.
"Daddy, why did you summon me?" Sapphire asked in curiosity
"I would like to show you something in the back room." Sapphire's dad said.
He then brought Sapphire to the back of the building and pulled a switch that was fastened on the wall. The wall then made a half turn revealing a big stair case leading down.
"Come, I wish to show you something" said Sapphire's dad.
He took Sapphire's hand and led her down the staircase. After what seemed a while they reached a long room. The room was room was long and thin, thin enough to have three people standing shoulder to shoulder. 'It lookes like a museum hall' Sapphire thought to herself, since there were giant stone tablets attached to the walls with pictures of many hedgehogs and echidnas painted on them. As Sapphire looked around she saw mostly every tablet in the room were colored. She walked slowly among the path looking at each tablet individually. The closer she got the more the number of uncolored tablets increased. Near the end of the hall she saw an image of an uncolored hedgehog fighting a
giant sea monster in the middle of an unusual looking town. The sea monster had a giant face, two long tentacles, but the body was hidden in the water that flooded the town. 7 crystals surrounded the hedgehog that fought the sea monster.
"Wow, beautiful!" Sapphire said as she examined the tablets.
"Yes" Sapphire's dad said as he approached Sapphire "These tablets show major events that will ever happen from now till the distant future, the colored ones are the events that have already happened, the uncolored are the ones that will happen."
Sapphire examined a tablet near the end of the row, on this one showed a colorless hedgehog fighting a hedgehog, the hedgehog had in his hands a large staff, some other hedgehogs were surrounding him. The hedgehog he was battling was what was recognized as the creature that was trying to destroy the world. Yet there was destruction and ruin around them.
"This tablet is the one that fills us with hope against the battle of destiny" Sapphire's dad said as he pointed to another tablet.
Sapphire then approached the tablet and examined it. "Oh!" she gasped.
The picture placed upon this tablet was a picture of a hedgehog sealed inside a gem. There was a hedgehog standing in front of the crystal with a flourishing cape, a necklace, and a golden rod in hand.
Suddenly there was a giant explosion outside, following by screams of fear. Suddenly Nightmare ran down the steps
"The creature is attacking!" Nightmare shouted to Sapphire's dad. "We must escape!"
"Now must be the time where we defeat the evil creature!" Sapphire's dad thought aloud. "Nightmare! You take Sapphire and run! I'll go get the troops!"
"Dad! I can take care of myself!" Sapphire shouted back
"Just do what I say!" Sapphire's dad answered back. He took one last look at the tablet, bowed his head, and ran to the entrance. He then ran back up the stairs and out of the building.
Sapphire turned, suddenly she noticed a tablet began to take color. "Look Nightmare! The tablet is becoming colored!"
They approached the tablet. "Wait... this is the tablet showing the warriors going against the creature, oh no! They won't survive!" She noticed upon closer inspection there were tons of bodies laying about. Suddenly the ground began to shake as though an earthquake had began.
"We must go! It's getting too dangerous here!" Nightmare grabbed her arm
"I must follow them! I have to warn my dad!" Sapphire pulled back
"I can't let you do that! If what you say is true then we all have no chance of surviving! We must escape!" Nightmare grabbed Sapphire and pulled her up the steps
Once they reached the surface Sapphire gasped all around there was nothing but destruction. They saw in the middle of the town a goldish silverish figure in the sky shooting random blasts killing dozens of warriors upon impact, Nightmare led Sapphire to the middle of the town. Nightmare led Sapphire through the shadows careful not to get hurt from the melee. The figure then landed on the ground and began to hack random warriors to bits, taking no damage from other peoples attacks.
Sapphire and Nightmare then headed to the heart of the town. Once they arrived there they saw the figure of Sapphire's dad injured, above him stood the golden hedgehog
"Da-!" Sapphire tried to shout, yet Nightmare put his hand over her mouth, "Quiet!".
They saw the figure point his finger at Sapphires dad, suddenly a gold beam shot through Sapphire's dad's heart.
"No!" Sapphire shouted. She managed to break free of Nightmare's grip and run from him as her dad fell to the ground in a puddle of blood.
"Sapphire! No!" Nightmare drew two long blades and dashed at the creature to distract him from Sapphire. The hedgehog kicked Nightmare lazily, yet he was sent flying
a long distance and landed in the town's rubble.
"You beast!" Sapphire yelled at the hedgehog.
As if it did not hear her, the hedgehog flew towards the area where Nightmare had landed. Sapphire realized she wasn't in any danger... yet. She ran up to her dad's body and leaned over it.
"Dad!" Sapphire shouted. "Please answer me!"
"Sapphire..." Her dad struggled to say as he lifted his head from the puddle. "It was good to be with you... unfortunately I am now going to have to leave."
"No... Please dad, you'll be alright, don't say that..." Sapphire pleaded as tears began to form in her eyes.
"I'm sorry... Please, make me one promise." Her dad asked.
"Anything dad..." Sapphire answered back.
"Promise me... that the creature... won't get this…" Her dad said as he gave her a golden pendant "This, or you. Promise me you will stay away from his reach..."
"I promise..." Sapphire said as she choked down her tears.
"Thank you... Now I can rest in peace... Thank you for being there... my... daughter..." he then fell limp.
As Sapphire stood over her dad she began to cry. She couldn't help but feel sadness for her dad and rage for the creature. She vowed that one day she will have revenge on the creature for taking her dad's life.
Then she saw something that made her heart leap, an explosion where Nightmare had landed.
"No!" She screamed in sorrow as she saw the explosion.
Then she realized she had to leave this area in case the creature came back. Before she left she placed up two boards of wood, one for the grave of her father, and one for her guardian, Nightmare.
"I will avenge my dad and Nightmare... someday..." Sapphire vowed to the stars.
"No wonder Eggman wants the blue hedgehog! He is the reincarnation of the legendary hero!" Sapphire said to herself as she recalled her past. "I must stop Eggman before the creature returns!"
To Be Continued…
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