Quotation marks around italics means it was said telepathically.

Chapter 17: Creatures of Myth

Did you get them? Shadow asked.

Tails set them down. I grabbed all of them, he told her.

She looked at them and nodded. These are the transformation serums, she told Tails. I said immortality serums, not these!

They will make us immortal! We'll just have to become something else to do it.

Shadow's eyes widened and she nodded. Alright. Let's do it.

Tails nodded, and Shadow looked through the serums. She would become a hydra like her mate. Tails decided on a griffin, Blaze on a genie, and Knuckles on a unicorn.

Shadow looked at Shadic. Will he be all right if I gave him one?

Tails hesitated. Sure. What will he become?

I was hoping a hydra, like us. But I don't want him to be stuck as a baby.

He'll grow eventually.

Shadow nodded and looked at Silver. What will you turn into?

Silver whimpered, looking at the serums. He couldn't decide what he wanted. Maybe a werewolf.

All right, Shadow said. What about you, Rouge?

Rouge shrugged and looked at the serums. She saw that Tails had grabbed a few robot ones also and smirked. Give me the E-123 Omega one.

Shadow blinked in surprise. A robot?

Sure, Rouge said.

All right. Everyone ready?

They nodded. Everyone drank the serums, and began to transform. Silver didn't change much, mostly turning back into his normal form. The muscles all over his body grew in size as the front paws changed to hands with claws sticking from the fingertips. Silver watched as the others continued their transformations. Blaze reverted to her original form before anything else changed. The bottom half of her body changed, becoming a wispy tail reaching the ground. Heavy bracelets formed around her wrists as a shirt formed to cover her chest, revealing most of her lower torso and cleavage. A lamp appeared next to her and she vanished into it. Theirs were two of the least painful.

For Rouge, it wasn't as bad as she had been thinking it might be. Her body forced itself onto her hind legs and changed into a larger, thicker form. The head at the top of the large body was small, barely noticeable except for the two red optics glowing in place of her eyes. Her shoulders altered, growing larger and into a more square shape. The sign of omega painted itself on the front of these as the arms pulled themselves down. Five fingers formed on the hands and she looked at them as the rest of her transformation happened. For the other two, it wasn't quite as easy to withstand.

Tails closed his eyes tightly when he felt his head altering its entire shape. A long hooked beak took the place of his muzzle, causing tears to come to his eyes. The ears on top of his head flattened and became feathers. The transformation moved down his torso, feathers taking the place of his fur. Tails looked down at himself as pain shot through his chest. All of his ribs had broken, growing longer as they reformed. This caused his chest to stick out, appearing larger by the amount of feathers on his chest. His shoulders didn't change much, though the arms connected to them did. At the elbows, the arms thinned out into the legs someone would expect to find on a predatory bird. Each toe changed to match his legs, a fourth coming out from the back of the foot. Each of these were tipped with a sharp talon, which dug into the dirt. His spine was forced to change, tail thinning out while the fur shortened. At the tip remained a few tufts of fur. The fur on the lower half of his body shortened as it changed to a lion's body.

Meanwhile, Knuckles was having troubles feeling the changes taking place over his body. His legs grew much longer, thinning as they did so. Knuckles looked down at the ground, groaning in pain as the changes continued. His chest expanded like Tails', stomach pulling itself in and creating a small curve. His head changed, face growing longer and angling down. His eyes moved more onto the sides of his face as he shook his head. The ears atop his head changed shape and flicked. His neck connected to his jaw, angling down to his shoulders. A long mane fell to the side of his neck, fur changing into the hairs after growing out. His paws altered into hooves as his tail split into hundreds of strands of hair. Knuckles squeezed his eyes shut as pain burst through his forehead. A bump formed until finally, a horn pierced through his skin. Blood trickled down his face as the horn extended to its full length. Knuckles slowly opened his eyes, a few tears also moving his down his cheeks at the pain in his forehead. The creatures looked around at each other.

The mythical creatures looked at each other before testing out their new forms. They walked around and saw that Shadow and Shadic had become hydras as well. Blaze was a genie, trapped inside her lamp. Silver walked over to Blaze's lamp and sighed. He missed her already, and picked Blaze's lamp up, rubbing it. Blaze came out and smiled.

"Hello Silver," she said.

"Blaze," he said, smiling. "So, you're a genie now."

The genie nodded. "And you're my master."

Silver's eyes widened. "R...really?"

Blaze smiled. "You're the one who rubbed my lamp. Take as long as you want with your wishes."

Silver chuckled and nodded. "All right."

"What now?" Knuckles asked.

The mythical creatures looked at each other. "We could stay here, or find another place to live," Shadow said as she smiled.

"Where would you suggest?" Tails asked.

Shadow shrugged. "Maybe in the mountains or the forest."

"Why don't we go look?"

They nodded and ran off. They went to check out the mountains first. Once they got there, they looked around.

"What do you think?" Shadow asked.

"It's open, at least," Knuckles said.

The others nodded in agreement.

Sonic explored the area, making sure he had a grasp on where he was as Shadow explained to him. A few minutes later, the hydras settled down in a cave in the mountains. The other mythical creatures did as well. Silver was in his normal form, and looked a E-123 Omega.

"Where will you go?" He asked. "A robot can't stay here."

E-123 Omega nodded as it thought about where to go. "I'm sure I can find somewhere to be," Omega said. "Maybe G.U.N. could use the help."

Silver smiled, and watched E123 Omega fly off. He sighed and looked at the other creatures. They closed their eyes and were soon back in their wolf forms.

How long do you think it'll take before people know we're here? Tails asked. Can you imagine what would happen when they find us?

These mountains are isolated from society, unlike the forest we used to live in, the female wolf Alpha said. They won't find us at all.

Tails hesitated a moment before nodding. Is there a place we can go with no humans? He asked.

Probably for a few years, Knuckles said.

When that happens, we'll just have to go somewhere else, Shadow said.

The wolves nodded, and settled down in their new home.

This has actually been done for a while now. Sorry for taking so long to upload the rest of it.