Chapter 1

Sonic the hedgehog walked through town, almost dark now with his friend and ally, Tails the 2-tailed kitsune.

"Hey, Sonic, don't you think we should head back to Angel island now?" Tails questioned the hedgehog, "because I don't see the emerald any where."

Sonic ignored Tails, watching the chaos navigator, "we're getting close."

Tails rolled his eyes, "you said that 5mins ago!"

Sonic pound the bottom of the navigator on his hand, "maybe it's broken. Damn thing."

"Or maybe you just can't read!" Tails shouted and snatched it, "umm where'd it go?"

"What do you mean?"

Tails showed it to Sonic and surely enough the little red point that was to represent the chaos emerald was gone, "it's gone!"

"Gone? How? It's not like it grew feet and walked away! It's a fuckin' rock!"

"Well it got away somehow!"

"This thing can go more then a 50ft range. Maybe some kid picked it up?"

Tails shook his head, "then we would still see it. The emerald was only 15ft away so if a kid picked it up then he would be able to run 35ft in 25secs. Not the case."

Sonic looked back down at the navigator in his hands, "well," he started, "it picked up something."

There was a few minutes of silence between the two and Sonic sighed, then, he gasped and there was the sound of beeping.

"Where?!" Tails shouted.

"10ft north!"

Tails flew in the air and Sonic ran ahead, his eyes set on the navigator. Tails flew quickly to catch up with him looking around for anything that was shining and beautiful colored.

Sonic's eyes widen in shock as the beeping suddenly stopped, 'unbelievable!'

"What is it, Sonic?!" Tails shouted stopping with him.

"the emerald…it's gone!"

"But that's impossible!"

"well, say that to the walking gem! It's gone and I have no idea where it went!" Sonic was sick of playing tag with a rock. For one it was rather annoying and for the last 3hours it's been non-stop rock hunting in and out of the city.

Tails fell to his butt in exhaustion and he growled slightly, "if we ever find this moving rock, I'm done and I'm going home to sleep!"

"You don't know how much I agree with you on that one little bud," Sonic said, "it's back!"

"What is?"

"The emerald," he answered.

"great where now this time?!" Sonic didn't answer and Tails looked at him in frustration and annoyance, "where?!" he shouted again.

"3Ft," he finally answered.

"What?! Then it would be right in front of us!" the frustrated fox shouted and began to circle, "I can't see it!"

"Maybe there is no emerald," Sonic explained, "this thing can pick up anything with chaos energy. Maybe there's other things with that type of energy."

"I don't think that's possible. I've studied facts about chaos. Only the chaos emeralds that have power. If there were any other items that contained chaos energy wouldn't Eggman be after them as well? There are the Sol emeralds, but Blaze took them back with her."

While Sonic listened to Tails he kept his eyes on the navigator, studying it closely. After a few moments of silence, Sonic gasped, "Tails!"

"Hmm?" he responded and faced him.

"The chaos emerald is above us!"

When Sonic said that they both looked up with fear.

A figure jumped into the air and Sonic gasped, that wasn't no emerald!

Sonic quickly turned around so he was following the figure closely, but the mysterious figure jumped behind him and grabbed him. Sonic screamed when a dagger was placed hear his throat, "WHAO calm down!" he shouted, but the dagger was placed closer to his throat.

"Please don't hurt him!" Tails shouted and he looked at the navigator, "wait a minute the chaos energy is coming from an emerald and," he looked at the mysterious figure, "it's coming from him?"

"Yes, please don't hurt me!" Sonic begged.

The dagger was removed from his neck with hesitation and sonic sighed with relief that he was alive. He turned to face the figure and he gasped.

It was a hedgehog about 18yrs old. He was all black with red streaks. He wore a black shirt and black baggy pant. He glared at then harshly and Sonic flinched.

"Who are you?" he asked slowly.

"I should be asking you the same thing!" he spoke, his voice also harsh.

"Listen, I'm Sonic. This is Tails," he introduced, "now who are you?!"

The hedgehog hesitated to answer, "I'm…Shadow…"