The first thing the green tiger female saw under her closed eyelids was red, the next an image of a struggling blue hedgehog, and finally the sweet gushing noise of his blood hitting the ground. She saw herself, no, Kurai, standing over the dead body laughing maniacally, black claws dripping with the poor hedgehog's red life source.

"Such a pretty color," her darker self-purred as she licked her bloody claws. "You are luck this time, Shizen. You are lucky."

~ooo~

A strangled yell made everyone in the house jump. They quickly made their way to the room Kasai and Shizen occupied and opened the door. The sight that greeted them was...interesting. Shizen was wide away, purple eyes wide and terrified. The markings around her eyes weren't black anymore, they were silver. Her tail was fluffy instead of spiky, and she remained clawless.

Kasai was standing away from her, hands up defensively. "Shizen, paulo soror, et cessabit . Anima atque animus, parvus. Sed me, Kasai magnus frater tuus. Mitescere ... "

Kasai mutters some more in a language, one unknown to all of them but Knuckles and Chris. He leans over to Sonic and whispers: "They are speaking Latin."

"What's that?" Sonic whispers back.

"It's a language."

Sonic nods and keeps watching.

Shizen stared at him, eyes slightly shaking. She blinked slowly, shaking her head slightly. "Kurai Kurai ... veni ... "

Kasai shook his head slowly. "Kurai veni: et non interfecerant quemquam sed." He opens his arms and steps towards her, speaking English he says, "Come here." Shizen nodded her head slowly and stepped towards him. Kasai walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her, murmuring in her ear as he slowly stroked her head.

"Uh, Kasai?" Tails utters with a hint of worry in his voice.

The phoenix turned his head their way, smiling slightly. He looked down and muttered something to Shizen, the green female nodding a couple times before Kasai looks at them again. "Do you have a guestroom area?"

"Uuh," Amy started. "I don't know about a guest room, but will the living room be okay?" Kasai nodded and followed them to the area. Shizen sat on the couch beside her brother, avoiding everyone's gaze.

After a moment of tense silence the female started babbling in the language Kasai was speaking to her in earlier. Tails flailed his hands around. "What's she saying?! She's freaking out!"

"Shizen!" Kasai snapped. The tiger froze, turning panicked eyes towards him. "Calm down. It's Ok. Speak English."

She blinked and her face flushed a bright red as she stared down at her lap. "S-sorry." She looked up at them. Her mouth opened to speak, but her eyes caught Sonic's green ones. Guilt coursed through her like a strong current, and she hastily averted her eyes.

It made Sonic raise an eyebrow. "Huh? Is there something on my face?"

"N-no. I..."

"Whoa slow down there. Take a deep breath." He walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder, tilting his head when she flinched. "Hey..."

"I'm sorry!" She shouted as her eyes closed. "I sorry I didn't mean to hurt you I swear! It's just that Kurai came out and-"

"Whoa!" Sonic yelped and stepped back. "No big deal! I'm not hurt and my throat is fine. Look!" He waved his hands around. "I'm perfectly fine! No harm done!"

Shizen looked up at him, eyes resting on his neck. It was dark blue there, a sign of bruising. She sniffled and looked away. "Liar..."

"What?! I'm not lying I'm serious!"

"Sonic, even I can see through you. If you keep talking like that you're gonna lose your voice." Amy scolds. Cream nods her head in agreement.

Sonic gave a nervous chuckle. "Uh, OK."

"Now," Amy turned her green eyes to Shizen's. "What happened with all the Kurai junk? How can we tell which is which?"

"Kurai is more feral than I am, more, bloodthirsty. Also my eyes will turn silver and my marks will darken." She closed her eyes. "I really am sorry about everything..."

"Oh just stop apologizing! We get it already." Knuckles growled, crossing his arms over his chest. "What we want now is answers. Who are you guys? You came crashing in on a very important battle."

"I am Kasai Linxton and this is my little sister Shizen Linxton, prince and princess of planet Amnok."

Sonic whistled. "Prince and princess huh?" Amy elbowed him in the ribs and shushed him, making the hedgehog grunt in annoyance.

"So that means the other guy was a prince too right?"

"Other guy? You mean Mizu? Where is he?!" Shizen asked frantically, eyes darting around the room.

Cream put her hand to her mouth. "Shadow took him."

"Shadow? Who is Shadow?!" Shizen growled, eyes narrowing. It made the others tense, and when Shizen realized she closed her eyes and took in a breath. "I just need to find my brother."
"Shadow is a hedgehog, like Sonic, only he has black fur. This Mizu, uh, can he sing?" Knuckles asked uncomfortably. Red and purple eyes fixed him a hard stare.

"Yea," Kasai rumbled. Knuckles shifted slightly.

"Yea, because he was singing earlier..."

"And he has an amazing voice! Even at a distance I felt calm!" Amy gushed, fluttering her eyes in a dreamy manner. Shizen took a proper look at the female and sneered. She was pink. Shizen hated the color pink.

"That's what it's supposed to do. Mizu can make anyone feel what he wants by just humming a tune or talking." Shizen told her blankly.

Tails frowned. "Can he? Like, if he wanted someone to be angry he can just talk?"

Shizen nods and then throws her attention back at Knuckles as the echidna cleared his voice. "So what are you doing here?"

"We, we came to seek help," Shizen whispered, playing with her fingers. "Our planet has been attacked and our people have been forced to move. We didn't want to search the galaxy for another planet again, because it's what we've been doing for ten generations now. The monsters attacked us and they won't stop until we're dead."

"So that thing you were fighting," Sonic spoke, ignoring Amy's glare.

Kasai nodded. "It was one of those monsters, one of their elites."

"They are called Graha Hatyārō, or Planet Killers in your language," Shizen continued. "They are an evil race that goes around destroying planets, and we have been fighting them off for the longest. We don't know why they chase after us."

Amy studies the two as they talk. Shizen didn't seem like the frightened girl she was when she woke up, she was now all serious as she related her news and reason for appearance. Kasai sat beside her more like an advisor, only speaking to remind Shizen of the things she had forgotten. 'Like a royal and their advisor,' she mused with a twitch of her ear. She wondered briefly if Shizen was royalty betrothed to someone, or Kasai. 'Well, I don't see anything, and other than Shizen's diamond necklace they are without any type of jewelry. Serious, what kind of girl is she?'

"Wait wait wait, Chosen Ones?"

Amy's eyes glowered as she tossed Sonic another glare.

Kasai was the one to talk this time. "Yes. We are looking for three people, the Chosen Ones, to beat the Graha Hatyārō once and for all. You see, we are the Elements, Shizen, Mizu and I. The Chosen Ones are the ones who wield us. We are, to put it bluntly, able to control elements."

"Seriously?!" Tails asked excitedly. "I wanna see!"

"Tails settle down!" Knuckles scolded. "These guys are obviously playing with us. Nobody can control elements."

Shizen raised a challenging eyebrow at him. "Wanna bet?"

"Yea. I call you out on bluff."

Both siblings gave each other a look, then Kasai stood. "Follow us outside please." He said monotonously, eyes blank. The followed the two outside and some distance from the house. As soon as they stopped Knuckles crossed his arms.

"Well?"

Shizen narrowed her eyes at him and crouched, digging her fingers into the ground as she did. A playful gleam reflected across her eyes before the ground rumbled. "Whoa!" Everyone shouted and Knuckles gave a shocked yelp as something wrapped around one of his ankles and dragged him into the sky. They all watched shocked as Knuckles dangled a hundred feet in the air by his angle, swinging to and fro precariously on a thick green vine.

"Get me down!" He shouted and struggled. Kasai blinked and raised his finger. A small fireball shot from his finger and hit the echidna close to his ankle, snapping the vine and making him scream as he fell. Another vine rose and wrapped around his middle, lowering him carefully to the ground. Shizen smirked at them with an I-told-you-so look. Kasai simply lowered his finger.

"Whoa." Sonic gasped.

"We've traveled over space fighting Graha Hatyārō looking for our Chosen Ones. Fate has separated us from our brother, which means he has found his Chosen One. Two of you are our Chosen Ones." All stared at them in wonder. Shizen and Kasai looked the group over seriously.

"So which one of you is it?"

"Uh...we don't know..." Cream mumbled. "How do you find out who is the Chosen one?"

Shizen frowned and shook her head. "Kasai?"

Kasai stared at his sister and then the group of friends. His left had suddenly ignited in flames. "We need something that can story energy." He told them. "Something round of the sort, like a crystal."

"Well I don't know about crystals, but we have emeralds." Five pairs of eyes shot Sonic heated glares. The hedgehog blinked in surprise. "What?"

"We are not giving them the Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles almost roared. Sonic raised his hands in defense.

"Hey, it was just a suggestion 'kay? They need something like a crystal."

"Well those are gems, gems that I am supposed to protect! Gems that are with the Master Emerald!"

"Emeralds will do just fine," Kasai said as though the argument was not going on. "How many do you have?"

"Eight." Sonic answered again.

"Do you want your neck to be sore again Sonic?" Knuckles hissed. Sonic shrugged his shoulders and grinned goofily.

"That's if you can catch me."

"Can we not do this guys?" Chris said in exasperation. Tails and Cream nodded their heads in agreement. "We want to see who the Chosen are!"

Knuckles crossed his arms and glared at them all. "No way, uh uh. I am not giving you the Chaos Emeralds."

"But Knuckles!" Tails whined. The echidna shook his head furiously.

"Oh come on Knuckles stop being a sour puss!" Amy said finally. She did want to see who the Chosen was after all.

"No!" The red one roared with narrowed eyes. "We don't know them and I do not trust anyone else with the Emeralds. We've had Meterex and Eggman come after them and I'm not taking any more chances! I am the Guardian of the Chaos Emeralds and I am going to act like it!"

"Knuckles," Kasai whispered. "We need the Emeralds. We have to find out who is our Chosen so that we can return back home and free our people from the Graha Hatyārō. If we do not then they will either be forced to move to another planet or die. If that happens then it will be a disgrace not only as Elements, but to our royal name. Please let us borrow your Emeralds. I promise we will do nothing inconspicuous to them on my mother's name."

All eyes were on the echidna after Kasai's plea, making him very uncomfortable. He didn't want to lend the Emeralds to them, because they were strangers who just dropped out of the sky, quite literally. But it wouldn't really be lending would it? It depending on how long they were going to use them.

"What are you going to do with them and how long will it take?"

Shizen's eyes lit up. "Will you let us use them?"

"Depending on what you are doing. How are you going to use them to find your Chosen?"

"Well," Kasai started, "we will slip some of our natural power into all of the Chaos Cmeralds. Then, each of you will place a drop of blood on them. We then have to lie down in our element with the emeralds surrounding us in a circle and we will sleep for two days. When we awaken the emerald with our Chosen's blood on it will be glowing brightly. Who's ever emerald it belongs to is our Chosen."

Knuckles frowned. Blood was involved? Was blood involved in everything? "Well, I guess it's alright then..."

"Oh thank you!" Shizen cried out and tackled him, planting a juicy kiss on his cheek. He blushed a deep red. "We must start right away!"

Kasai smiled thankfully and fixed his sister a small glare. "Childish."

"Eh, whatevs. Let get to it already!"

Knuckles muttered something under his breath and shook his head. "I will let you use them, but that is after we get the ship fixed."

"What?!"

"Yea, the emeralds are way back across half of the world hidden in whatever safe place Knuckles put them. It's at least a week's journey. In order to make that trip though we need a power source for our ship." Tails told them sadly. "We don't have that."

"No not really a power source, but a power panel, solar actually. We can't find one anywhere." Chris's added. "No telling where one is!"

Kasai groaned softly and closed his eyes. Shizen just lashed her tail in irritation. "The longer this draws out the more of our planet the Graha Hatyārō destroy!"

She turned and stalked away from them, grinding her fangs together. Kasai watched her with a frown on his beak. "It's true. What is this solar panel? Maybe we can help you find one."

"It's a large flat thing with mirrors in it that reflects sunlight, but actually draws it in and turns the sun energy into fuel for the ship." Chris said. "It's really large and uh...flat."

"Ooooh, you mean those things that in your mini computers?"

"Calculators, Sonic." Chris corrected. Amy and Cream just sighed. They didn't even try to stop him from talking anymore.

"Hmm, so it is glass?"

"No, not really. It's actually made of mi-"

"Spare us the speech! Let us find it already!" Shizen snarled. She looked angry and panicked. Kasai made his way over to her and cooed softly, placing his hands on her shoulders and rubbing them slowly.

"Remember what mother told us, rushing things makes one skip over important facts and screws up the plan. You have to be patient, Shizen."

"But our home...we promise father..."

"Ssh," Kasai hissed softly, now running a hand through her hair. The tiger leaned her head on his shoulder with closed eyes, taking deep breaths. Her tail twitched and momentarily bristled, but didn't completely lose its fluffy form. Kasai's green eyes glanced over at them. "We will help find these solar panels," he told them, his tail feathers flicking as he gazed off in thought. "I will need a sample piece of it though, if you have one."

"I can get it out of one of my old calculators." Chris offered excitedly. Kasai nodded to him and buried his face into Shizen's hair.

"Leave us alone please?"

The group of heroes obliged and went inside. Cream closed the door with doubtful look. "Should we believe them?" She asked quietly.

Sonic rolled his eyes and grinned. "They just proved to us that they can control the elements! What's not to believe?"

"That they won't do anything to the emerald that's something," Knuckles grouches.

"Oh hush," Amy sighed with a dismissive flap of her hand. "They won't do a thing; they just want to protect their planet. Chill out."

"Yea, chill out." Sonic repeated. Right after that he shrieked on pain. "AMY?!"

"How many times have I told you not to talk huh?! Get in your room now!" Being true to his name, Sonic dashed to his room with an angry Amy following behind, a bowl of soup in her hands. The others simply shook their heads.

Translations

The language I used is Latin, and I'm not fluent in it so I just used my translator. When you see this... "~"...it means a break, from Latin to English. I'll bold it for ya. if you speak Latin fluently and I messed up, please inform me. Tankeuz. ^_^

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Shizen, paulo soror, et cessabit . Anima atque animus, parvus. Sed me, Kasai magnus frater tuus. Mitescere ... "~" Shizen, little sister, calm down. Calm down and breath, Little One. It's me, Kasai your big brother. Calm down...

Kurai Kurai ... veni ... "~" Kurai...Kurai came...

Kurai veni: et non interfecerant quemquam "~" Kurai did come, but she didn't kill anyone.

Graha Hatyārō "~" Planet Killers (This is japanese)