Ok, here's the first chappie to my new fanfic, "A Lost Soul II". If you've read part one, then you pretty much know what's going on. But if you haven't, go onto my page, click onto my stories and read it! Anyway, here's the beginning of this first chappie. I'll display some ages soon…

Chapter 1: A New Villain in Town

It was a quiet night at a park near Emerald Town. However, the silence was disrupted when a couple of figures were dashing through a large forest. Both of them were black hedgehogs, however, one of them had gray streaks and green eyes while the other had red streaks and eyes. One of them was a hero, the other was a criminal. They weren't racing each other because of their new found rivalry; it was because one of them stole a Chaos Emerald.

"What's wrong, hedgehog? Can't keep up?" the thief taunted.

All the hero did was doing his best to keep up with him. He charged up one of his powers and launched it at his enemy. Before he knew it, he missed. He growled angrily as he charged up his powers again.

A few minutes after the "run and chase" action, they reached to a large pond area. The villain used his gray and white air shoes to float over to the pond and hover above it. As for the hero, he only stood further from the pond as he concentrated on how he was going to get the emerald back. Plus, he wanted to know who the new villain was and where he came from.

"Give me the emerald", the hedgehog with red eyes demanded.

"Oh, please", the other hedgehog scoffed sarcastically as he played with the light blue emerald. "Besides, I can have whatever I want."

"Who are you?" the dark hero demanded once more.

"Oh, don't worry. This won't be the last time that we'll see each other", the evil doer answered evilly. "You know, we're almost alike. We may look the same…but our destinies are different."

"I have no idea what you're talking about", the hero clenched his fists and some lighting gathered around them. "But that's not going to stop me!" he charged at his new rival.

"Hmph", the evil hedgehog puts the emerald away and prepares to battle.

For a short time, they have been launching some powerful attacks at each other and dodging each others attacks. The hero had no clue of what his enemy was capable of doing with the emerald, but he could tell it was for the power of evil. The black and gray hedgehog created a purple fire ball and threw it at his component. Lucky for the hero, he jumped out of the way and threw a lighting ball at him. Over and over again, they threw each others attacks, no matter how much force they put into them.

"I'm getting tired of this", the evil creature thought to himself with annoyance. He clenched his fists and some dark aura circled around him.

"Huh?" the hero stopped and glared at his opponent curiously yet furiously.

Powerfully, the mysterious crook released some strong winds from his palms. In fact, the winds were so strong; they even had the hero flying backwards until he reached to shore. He landed on his back as he coughed out a little bit of blood. Slowly, he sat up and growled. His enemy pulled out the same emerald and held it up in the air.

"Ta-Ta for now", he smirked and then vanished.

Once he was gone, everything was quiet all around the area. The hero got up to his feet as he panted. For once, he was defeated by a strange foe. Still, his powers were somehow different than the evil doer's. Who was he? Where did he come from? What does he want? For now, evil faded in the night. But what will happen on the next day?

"Who was that guy?" the dark hero thought as the wind blew his quills to the side slowly. Instead of questioning himself, he decided to leave the place.

Ok, this chappie was short. But if I get more reviews, I'll make the chappies even longer. Anyway, R&R, thanks.