Disclaimer: I don't own anything as you all have heard so many times from others.
Chao mating season had finished and now the hatching season had come.
Slowly, the different egg's hatched. Some were the rare two tones Chao bred specially between two different colored exotic Chao; others had strange grins made from the egg being near a mineral abundance for a long period of time.
However, two eggs seemed to refuse to hatch.
A few days after the hatching season ended and the adult Chao were still confused; they lightly prodded the egg, not knowing whose it was, or when it was laid.
The first Chao to struggle inside the egg was the one on the left, the Chao holding the spirit and will of Sonic.
Sonic struggled in confusion, kicking at the thin casing that sealed him from the rest of the world. Loud slurping and cracking noises as the shell finally split, allowing the first breath of air to come to the Chao's mouth. He blinked and with all of his strength rammed the side of the egg, finally breaking it and tumbling out onto the fresh green grass.
The second Chao was more graceful, with two well timed kicks large soft spots split from the base upwards, than the Chao simply smashed forward and collapsed onto the grass.
The two Chao simply panted from the small effort that was used from breaking the egg.
The Chao's in the distance knew not to interfere, this was a crucial part of a Chao's life, finding and easily adapting to gain the skills needed for life.
However Sonic and Shadow spirits weren't totally defenseless. Shadow and Sonic blinked coughing, looking up at the sky in wonder, then looking around with weakness in there joints. Slowly, Shadow spirit got to his wobbly feet, his knees buckled but he remained upright.
Sonic looked over, he himself trying to get to his feet but falling over quickly. Shadow snickered silently and Sonic spirit glared again.
"Hey! Stop laughing!" Sonic spirit choked out, the Chao species already knew how to speak at birth, handy when living in large groups. Shadow spirit simply widened his eyes in a show of amusement and bitterness.
"I was merely responding to your act of foolishness." Shadow's tone was almost monotone and it caused Sonic spirit to growl in annoyance.
"I'd like to see you try." He barked back, dropping his pudgy little jaw when Shadow spirit rose to his feet in a strange grace. Sonic spirit rushed clumsily to his feet, trying to complete something before his newfound rival.
"Once again, a pure act of foolishness." Shadow grunted turning and walking away from the now annoyed Sonic spirit.
"Hey! Don't walk away from me!" He shouted, stumbling after as Shadow spirit walked quickly.
"You are not worth my patience." Now Sonic spirit didn't have time to try and figure out what 'patience' meant, but he did know that Shadow spirit was walking away.
And he didn't like that at all. Sonic struggled again but clumsily fell over, he growled glaring at his rival before turning away to stare at two Chao walking towards him.
The one on the left had large floppy ear like things and was a greenish color, it was much taller and looked down at Sonic's spirit. The other Chao on the right had long blue wings and hollow eyes. Its skin was a ghostly white and a few tendrils of blue sprouted back from its head. A little halo floated over its head.
"Hi there little guy." The green Chao exclaimed obviously happy, the other one just blinked.
"Um…..hello?" Sonic Chao was obviously confused but continued trying to stand on his little feet before falling due to the weakness in them. How had that other Chao made it look so easy?
"Lean back a little and lock your legs." The ghostly one advised, its voice seemed to sing like a harp, it made Sonic Chao's head spin.
Finally after another try Sonic's spirit could remain upright. He looked around, for once caring to see his amazing surroundings.
The grass was thick and lush, a little pond with a built in waterslide made from a waterfall rushed into it. On the left of that a large grassy area was being used for a playground including balls and little instruments.
"Whoa…" The green Chao giggled, its ear things flopping all over. Sonic Chao noticed other Chao similar to it playing in the water.
"Yup, this is the eastern Garden, Amazing huh? My names Aqua and this is Peak." Aqua was way too happy, her little mood reader above her head was spinning in her glee.
"Um….hi." Sonic Chao said to Peak who simply nodded. Aqua beamed and grabbed Sonic Chao tossing him into the air, Peak nimbly shot forward on his large blue wings and grabbed him effortlessly before landing once again.
"You must be hungry if you just hatched, ahh I remember when I just hatched, I-"Sonic Chao started to zone out the speech of the bubbly Aqua and was focused on the large orange fruit tree he was approaching.
He easily stumbled but darted towards the orange fruit, sinking his little teeth in with no worries. Aqua giggled as she saw Sonic Chao finish but eagerly grab for another.
"Aqua!" Sonic Chao looked up at an almost completely white but still slightly blue Chao. It had a long horn on its head and it seemed to gallop as it ran, picking up fast speed.
Sonic Chao then decided that he liked speed….a lot.
"Hi Mystic! How 'ya doing?" Aqua squealed like a kid, jumping up and down like an overjoyed first grader. Peak blinked hollowly before turning and flapping his wings, obviously board.
Sonic spirit watched in awe as Peak flashed away, wings flying so quickly in seconds he was gone.
"Ah, that darn flying hero Chao, always the one to get away." Mystic giggled, shifting her weight and looking around. Sonic Chao blinked hero Chao?
"Hero Chao?" He echoed his thoughts and Mystic seemed to nicker with excitement.
"Ah! A hatchling! I wonder if you'll be adopted!" she flicked her horn and looked down at Sonic spirit.
"A Chao has three evolutionary stages. A Chao will turn to these stages depending on the personality. A Chao who is pure in heart will turn to what we call hero Chao, while a Chao with a strong ambition will turn to what we call a dark Chao. Some Chao stay the same if they have neither though."
Sonic spirit nodded in his Chao body, still not completely sure.
"Good! Chao can also master four talents she have, the talent of power, speed, swimming, or flying. The better you get in a talent the more your body changes to suit your ability." Aqua finished, Sonic Chao now understood, Aqua was a swimming Chao.
"Also something else, is that we can absorb some traits that animals have, I absorbed a little of a unicorn." Mystic giggled, tossing her weight like a bucking horse again.
"Hey, we never caught your name, what's ya' name?" Aqua questioned, blinking a few times. Sonic Chao blinked before taking a step back.
"Ummm…"
"Ah, maybe if he gets adopted his raiser will name him!" Mystic squealed, Sonic blinked and backed away once again.
Sonic Chao spun and darted away with his small but quick speed, he just wanted to be away from the two crazy girls.
Sonic darted out, not even noticing as his feet came more rhythmic and he increased quickly, he was darting through the play area, avoiding the Chao playing with the ball and finally stopped just by a large rock near the border of the garden.
"Finally." Sonic panted leaning back. A little applaud from above and Sonic looked upwards. A Chao was sitting on the rock, looking eerily similar to Sonic, but the back of his head has a thinning point leading backwards like the top of his head was windblown.
"Nice little dash there little guy. Even more impressive that it came from a hatchling."
The Chao slid down and blinked at Sonic Chao, this one was much taller and leaner.
"I'm Zinc, the fastest Chao in this garden. Neutral running. Sadly since you and your eggmate were the last to hatch, I think the OmoChao are going to send you up for adoption."
Zinc was calm as Sonic's eyes widened.
"A-Adoption?"
"Ah, relax little Bolt, adoption is a nice thing. I have a raiser; he's gone on a business trip so I stay in this garden."
"…Bolt?" Sonic Chao tilted his head with curiosity, was this his name?
Zinc shrugged, leaning back against the rock.
"Gotta' call you something. Go on, the OmoChao are calling for the newborns." With that Zinc spun, dashing away with quick speed Sonic Chao wished he could match.
Zinc had been right saying that the OmoChao, a strange robot similar to Aqua or Mystic's form, were calling the newborns.
Slowly, around a dozen Chao walked over, most crawled but Sonic Chao did indeed spot his rival. He wore no emotion on his face, but seemed to have a scowl already on his face, maybe he was born with it?
"Come along newborns." Large neon pink Chao advised, herding the newborns in. Sonic hesitantly walked forward, he didn't want to be in a room, and he wanted to be in the open valley, to see the sun in the sky, not cold metal tiles.
Indeed things Sonic Chao had never seen were staring at him; he shuffled his feet and looked around once again. The Chao around him had already started to change slightly, just a little lightning or darkening, showing the small signs of evolution. Of course, the main change would form when they cocooned, but a small color difference was seen.
Only the other rival Chao had no color difference.
A tall tan creature started talking with the neon pink Chao on its shoulder. Sonic Chao simply blinked as more of the tall tan creatures stared at him and the others.
"These are humans, people that raise us." The neon pink Chao explained, nodding towards the 'humans' and other animals.
"Those are mobians, other raisers." So the rabbit and fox creature were animals.
Sonic Chao gasped as he saw a strong healthy Chao in the rabbit's arms. It was thick with muscle and its wings thick with a strong skeleton. The Chao was normal and not changed in any way besides the fact it was probably healthier and stronger than even some power Chao.
"Hi!" It grinned, blinking with joy towards the Chao waiting.
Sonic Chao was the only one that waved back. The rabbit and fox smiled and another human came closer. A young one, with orange brown hair looked down; a female was in a chair like thing next to him. She had long golden hair and bright blue eyes like Mystic's.
"You're small for a newborn, did you just hatch?" The Chao from before said, somehow standing before Sonic Chao now.
Sonic Chao grinned and held out his hand in a pose like natural, it felt as if he had done it a million times.
His tiny Chao thumb was out pointing up as he had on a funny grin.
"Yupp! Just hatched earlier, same as Mr. Sunshine in the corner. What's your name?" Sonic Chao asked tilting his head slightly. The Chao grinned and wiggled the bow on his neck.
"My names Cheese, my raiser is Cream the rabbit, and she came with Tails the fox as well as Mr. Chris and Mrs. Helen over there." Cheese pointed to the humans, Sonic Chao blinked and Cream, as Sonic Chao remembered, walked over and picked up Sonic Chao.
"You find a friend Cheese?" she asked her little Chao which grinned.
"Yup! He's a newborn, can we adopt him?" Cheese begged, looking up with huge innocent eyes. Cream giggled and nodded much to Sonic Chao glee.
"Cream, Helen picked out her Chao. Great idea for a birthday present." Tails the fox walked over, picking up Sonic Chao.
Sonic Chao looked over at the laughing girl, Helen, and stiffened quickly. In her hands she held Shadow spirit who was strangely enough leaning into her hand as she pet him.
"What are you going to name him?" Chris asked looking down at the Chao, Helen looking at the Chao a moment before smiling.
"I'm going to name him….Sable." She was smug with her choice, Sonic Chao just blinked.
"What are you going to name your new Chao, Cream?"
"I'm going to name him….Swift."
Shadow Chao, or Sable, started to laugh at the irony of Sonic Chao or newly named, Swift's, name.
"You should have seen him trying to stand up!" He laughed; Helen gasped and looked down at Sable with surprise.
"I can understand you?" she asked, Sable shrugged and Cream giggled.
"You can understand your first Chaos words, but I don't think I'll be able to hear Swift…"
Swift, or Sonic's spirit, blinked but then shrugged in Tail's arms.
"Come on, have a good birthday Helen!" Tails called out before the group departed for their homes.
I think Helen is a good match for Shadow/Sable. I'm going to refer to Shadow as Sable for now on.
By the way, i want to smile at all who visited yet arn't from America, i mean, AWESOME! A visiter from austria, Australia, a few from Canada, i love you people :D