Chapter 12

Prophecy

Sonic woke up as he felt the suns' rays of light flash on his eyelids. He opened his eyes and sat up from the stone floor. He stretched his arms out as a yawn escaped his mouth.

"It's good to see you're awake" Lupe spoke.

Sonic turned his head to see Lupe sitting on a pillow on the floor. Sonic stood onto his feet and stretched his legs out. He did a few warm up moves ready for a morning run. Sonic soon felt the cold stone floor with his feet from all the jumping and stretching and looked down at his feet. Sonic saw his feet were bear with no red sneakers with a white stripe and no gold buckle. His white gloves weren't on his hands either, which made Sonic quite sad. Sonics' ears drooped downwards and he sighed.

Uncle Chuck made those sneakers for my speed. Now he'll need to make a new pair, Sonic thought, sadly.

"Looks like my sneaks won't be appearing back on my feet either" Sonic sighed.

"Sonic, would you like something to eat?" Lupe asked.

"No, thanks" Sonic said. "I think I can wait, until..."

Sonic was cut off by a loud grumbling noise coming from his stomach. Lupe smiled at Sonic and Sonic just smiled nervously back. The grumbling noise sounded a second time as Sonic clutched his stomach. Sonic groaned as the hunger pain was unbearable.

It feels like I haven't eaten in days, Sonic thought.

"Sonic, are you feeling okay?" Lupe asked.

"Y…Yeah. It's nothing serious" Sonic answered.

Sonics' eye started twitching a little as he answered. Maria and Marcos walked into the room and saw that Sonic was in pain. They ran over to Sonic as he fell onto his knees.

"Sonic, are you okay?" Maria asked.

Sonic closed his eyes tight as the pain worsened.

It feels like I'm changing, but I already have, Sonic thought.

Marcos put his hand on Sonics' shoulder. Sonics' eyes opened a little as he turned to look at the two wolves. They gasped when they saw Sonics eyes. Sonics' usual green emerald iris' were now a blood red. Marcos removed his hand from Sonics' shoulder as Maria covered her mouth with her hands in fright. Sonic turned his head away from them and stared at the floor in fear.

What's happening to me? Naugus hardly explained anything to me, Sonic thought.

His anger boiled at the thought of what Naugus and Drago had told him. He slammed his fist onto the stone floor. Hard.

They wanted me to lose control of my anger. Why? Sonic thought.

Sonics' eyes were wide open as he continued staring at the floor. His pupils were flashing from oval-shaped to slits over and over in a repeated time. Showing Sonic was trying to control his werewolf sides' hunger, but the hunger pain was strong. Lupe came over to Sonic, holding a cup of water and a plate of chilidogs. Lupe put the plate down under Sonics' nose as it started twitching.

"You look quite stressed," she said. "So, I made you these."

Sonic nodded his head and moved one of his hands over to the plate. Sonics' hand shook a little as it progressed to the food. Sonic picked up one chilidog and moved it towards his mouth. He opened his mouth and took a bite out of it. Sonic chewed it and then swallowed. Sonics' expression turned to disgust as the chilidog entered his stomach.

"Don't you like the chilidogs, Sonic?" Maria asked.

"No. But I don't understand why," Sonic said.

"Maybe, take the sausage out and just eat that" Lobo suggested.

Lobo was leaning against the doorframe and Sonic looked over at him with a confused expression on his face.

"Why?" Sonic asked.

"Maybe, that's why you don't like them" Lobo said.

"But, I've always loved chilidogs with the bread and chilli sauce" Sonic told them.

"Just try it" Lobo said.

Sonic sighed and took the sausage out of the bun he was holding and opened his mouth again. Shoving the whole thing in and then chewing the sausage then swallowed. His eyes widened in shock as it tasted better without the bun. Lobo nodded at this as Sonic gobbled the rest down, but removed the bun before eating.

"It's the prophecy," Lobo said.

Sonics' ear twitched when heard the word "prophecy."

"What prophecy? Why is everyone talking about a prophecy that I don't know about!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Who else has spoken about the prophecy, Sonic?" Lupe asked.

"Li Yuen and Li Moon said something about it" Sonic told them.

"Follow me, please, Sonic" Lupe said.

Sonic nodded his head and stood up from his knees. Sonic followed Lupe and Lobo out of the house, through the city and into the forest. Sonic looked around the forest, seeing if there were any signs why they taking him here. They soon came to a cave and Sonic was still wondering what they were doing.

Why are we going into a cave? Sonic thought.

Sonic followed Lupe and Lobo into the dark cave. It was lit up with torches with fire on them. Though the cave was lit poorly, but Sonic could see through the dark clearly. Lupe and Lobo stopped before a dead end as Sonic caught up to them and stood beside Lobo as Lupe walked over to the wall. Sonics' confusion rose higher as Lupe blew on the wall, revealing some writing engraved in the wall. Sonic looked around the cave and saw pictures all over the walls. Sonic looked back at Lupe as he opened his mouth to ask.

"Why are we here?" he asked.

"You wanted to know about the prophecy, then this is the place to come" Lupe explained.

Sonic nodded his head slowly.

"But, why are there pictures on the walls?" Sonic asked.

"You'll find out," Lupe said.

"I hate it when people say that" Sonic cried.

Sonic folded his arms and pricked his ears up to listen to Lupe. Lupe blew on the wall one last time before reading.

"On a certain day of a certain year, all of time and space will fall apart, because of a spatial distortion" Lupe read.

"A spatial distortion?" Sonic exclaimed.

"This spatial distortion will be created on a night of a full moon when a certain hedgehog is attacked" Lupe explained.

Sonics' eyes widened at that.

Hedgehog? I'm a hedgehog and I was attacked on a full moon, Sonic thought.

"The beast that attacked the hedgehog passed its' curse onto him. This hedgehog will have to fight for both his life and the space-time continuum if he is to save the world and the ones he cares about. If not. His fate will be well and truly sealed" Lupe read the last part.

"What did it mean by "his fate is sealed"?" Sonic asked.

Lupe pointed to the picture on the wall to the right of Sonic. Sonic looked in that direction as he walked over to the wall. Sonic squinted, trying to get a better view. Soon, Sonic started shaking as he saw the image in front of him very clearly.

"That prophecy that Li Yuen and Li Moon have told them about what the hedgehog will undergo each time he gets angry, but we don't have that one" Lobo explained.

Sonic didn't listen to Lobo. He was too busy staring at the horrifying image in front of him. The image showed a werewolf in front of a flaming castle and Mobians were running away from it. Sonic saw his mother and father in the background hugging each other and he saw that his mother was crying. He saw Tails, Sally and Knuckles in the background as well, but they were badly beaten up. What scared Sonic most of all was how the eyes of the werewolf looked very much like his, only the pupils were slits. Sonic took another look at the werewolfs' figure and stumbled backwards. The face greatly resembled Sonics as the Werehog, but his body had changed a little.

"T…That…c…can't be…me! Can it?" Sonic stammered.

Sonic looked away from the picture and stared at the ground.

"I'm sorry, Sonic. Maybe you weren't ready to find out about this" Lupe said.

"How about we walk you back home?" Lobo asked.

"No thanks. I want to walk home by myself" Sonic answered.

"Walk!" Lupe and Lobo exclaimed.

"Sonic? You never walk!" Lupe exclaimed. "You always run!"

"I guess this is the first time I'm not gonna run" Sonic said.

Lupe and Lobo watched Sonic walk past them and towards the cave exit. Lupe had one thing on her mind as she watched the hedgehog walk away.

I hope he will be able to fight off the instincts.

Whew! I thought I wouldn't be able to get it up, but I did. As you have just read, Sonic has found out a part of the prophecy. But do you think he will really believe it? Let's find out next chap. Hope you've enjoyed so far. Reviewing will get the chaps up faster. SXS OUT.