Well, this story is a big deal for me, due to all the work I had been doing to what you can call prepare to write the story.

Over the past month or so, each day different ideas popped into my head, and I continually wrote them down, almost like having a little notepad of sorts. Soon there was many ideas there, and I sorted them out into chapters.

Now I have a very detailed plot of the story, and am finally going to get the chance to write the story.

This is very significant for the sole reason that I had never put so much into one story before, not even the one I have that got 100+ reviews.

So please, give it a read, see if you like it, and let me know what you think about it, or review if you want it straight, I'm trying not to sound very desperate with it. And even recommending this to people who might like it is a great help.

Tails is turned 12 in this, as well as Marine. Everybody else is 2 years older.

So here goes, my first chapter of what I want to call my best work yet.

Reminiscence of the Antiquity, and the Posterity

"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses"

Caleb Carr

(Blaze's pov)

Everybody has heard from either a friend of a family member, that there are times where life can just flat out be completely unfair towards you. That while that mystical and superhuman being we all know as God who is suppose to be the all renounced perfect person that is impossible to accomplish in being when your living on earth.

I wish I was him right now.

Or at least wish to see him, not that religious way where the priest and everyone say that no matter what God is here in our minds and we all possess that ability to speak to him, to really see the person, eye to eye, face to face.

Why you might ask? Well I'd like to ask him one simple question that even a simple toddler could comprehend and answer, and it wasn't more than one single word.

Why?

Why has he caused not just myself, but everyone that inhabits my beloved world so much endless and unbearable pain and hardship. My home… our home was being overtaken by the catastrophe that I never thought, and the one I prayed would never happen for me, for anybody in that matter, to witness.

Why oh why god, why so much adversity?

What I have witnessed from simple everyday activities from watching the six o'clock news broadcast from my dinner table trying my best not to have tears rise up from the crevasses of my eyes, to just taking short mind-calming strolls through my favorite garden that once bared the likes of lengthy sunflowers, their school bus yellows pointing to that warmly star that sat gently in the sky, to the mighty heights of the evergreen trees, their ever so tiny needles drifting about as a light and smooth breeze came and gone, made me become more saddened and dreadful than ever before.

I was saddened by the monster the world became, it's wide and disastrous storms destroying items and valuables people treasured, to the raging wildfires that simply torched once bountiful forests, leaving black, smoldering ashes as the memory of their rage.

But I was oh so dreadful for what more could still come.

How you might ask did this all happen?

During a perfectly normal day in my life, I was snuggled up with my favorite blue silky blanket over my chilly body, I was down with a bad case of the rhino virus, or what most people referred to as a cold. I just like everybody in the world hated being sick, it kept me from doing anything as well as draining my once energetic springy form of any stamina, making simple easy tasks like walking, into difficult tasks that required full energy consumption, which explains my being on the couch.

At least I wasn't alone.

I had my best buddy Silver staying to give me some appreciated company, I didn't feel like sitting in an inhabited room all day long. Silver was the kind of gentle, patient soul that could become friends with just about everybody he would meet, no matter the personality. Okay, so he could be a little clumsy and a bit dull and annoying at times I observed as he spilled half of the brand spanking new carton of orange juice all over himself, the citrus rich liquid dripping from his shirt and puddling on my waxed wood floor.

Oh Silver I giggled, as I watched him run with a panicked fashion and face to go along with it, over to where a roll of paper towels stood and quickly snatched the entire roll of them, being watchful of the corner of his eye to make sure I didn't notice. I pretended that he didn't do anything, and just continued to watch the watch the news that was being broadcasted.

As I viewed the program, an new screen popped up from the blue stating a breaking news segment, and big and bold white print on the bar underneath reading astronomers discovery might lead to end of world due to meteor. Puzzled yet extremely interested, I turned up the volume a tad, and watched the sharply dressed news anchorman deliver the story.

"Well this story has just been received by our news station a little over 10 minutes ago is this is going for everybody in the world so please stop and give us your attention," he addressed.

"Silver, come over here, I think this news story is important," I called to find a white hedgehog that had light orange tainted fur all over his chest and abdomen, while he held an overflowing mess of soaked paper towels in his hand that were dripping all over my once spotless Chinese crafted rug I received as a Christmas present last year.

"Silver!! Throw that out! You're getting sticky orange juice all over my rug!!" He stuttered and spoke to what sounded like an okay and quickly went to dispose of the yucky blob of orange paper towels before I burst into flames due to his stupidity and clumsiness that he expressed. He came back, hesitatingly taking a seat on my pearly white leather couch and was going to lift his legs up and drape them over the arm of it, only he saw my dirty look, and thought better of doing it.

"According to astronomer Dr. Duke Patterson, we have been informed that a meteor going by the name of Ilushia is nearing our world's surface as we speak, and there have been many reports that this mass of rock is nearly the diameter of a neighboring planet Venus. The impact would be catastrophic, and utter chaos would be inflicted upon the whole planet. We are warned to stay away from the ocean, where they have discovered that it's chances of landing in it are 84 percent. Government officials are escorting people inland to brace for the impact.

And according to almost all of the entire group of astronomers the ratio in which this might happen.

Is two to one.

We will inform you onto any coming information, but until then here is Dr. Patterson to explain this all."

I switched off the television, and looked at my friend who seemed just has completely shocked as I was right now. So the news that always brought me up to date on all that was happening around me, basically said right to the world that the end was near. I really felt terrible for the guy just now, there I no person I know that could flat out say the world is going to end like that.

For the week following that dreadful newscast, I had planned to do as much as we could before that superfluous day arrived, to enjoy and cherish the last peaceful days we had to ourselves. We did all sorts of things, I tried going skiing for the first time in my life, only that ended up horribly wrong as Silver collided with me and both of us ended up rolling down the hill in a huge snow ball. I threw up all the contents of my lunch as a result of spinning in a monster snowball.

And then came that day, the day practically the whole world didn't want to happen, not even the suicide bombers wanted, despite the fact that they would end up blowing themselves up into millions of pieces.

And I swear when it hit… I had never heard or experienced a more scary sight. The ground literary shook so much that I would mistake it for a trampoline. It burst once sturdy and new pipes, sending water and gas everywhere, and the gas lit some houses and buildings on fire, turning them into burning infernos that didn't have enough firemen to put them out.

And the peoples reactions were horrific. I never heard so many blood piercing screams in my entire life, it scared me to death.

My home had been destroyed, the earthquake's magnitude was just too overwhelming for it to remain standing, and the entire structure just collapsed. Knowing and predicting this would turn out this way, I had packed a single suitcase containing valuables that I wanted to carry along with me. Silver, applauding me of my great idea, did the same thing, only he had brought two instead of my one. Guess he had more stuff then.

But somewhere inside my head I remembered something, it was a ritual for the sol emeralds, I remember it could be used to summon a portal to another world. Now that it was in my head, I mentioned this crazy idea to Silver, but when I did his eyes turned into big almost excited circles. He asked me where I had gotten this from, I told him about a ritual and spell book that was centuries old, it was located on the shrine of the sol emeralds, which was right behind my home.

And so this is where we were heading to as I am telling you this, Silver and I, heading to the emeralds' shrine to escape certain death using a ritual that only had been performed once in history to date.

You see a meteor may not seem at all that bad right? But this certain one, it was so great in mass and size, that the impact had been massive enough where are world was cracking, literary into pieces. Lava was rising at the same time from all these cracks, and flowing around the entire globe, covering thousands of miles, and claiming millions of innocent lives to it's ungrateful heat. Meaning that this is our only shot of survival, and I had no intention of dying yet.

"It's coming up ahead!" I shouted to my determined friend, and sure enough, in front of our very eyes, was the ancient now ruins of the altar. The emerald themselves were scattered along the ruins, but somebody must have gather them up, for they all were neatly in a pile, and to our even more surprised selves, the book was next to them.

We both placed our treasures down onto the soft grass, and he picked up the ancient fragile book, it's cover cracked and some pages torn at the edges, and handed it to me. I opened it quickly but cautiously making sure that it wouldn't break, and swiftly flipped through the many dust pages that were contained. Then I found it and stopped, it read teleportation to other worlds as the heading in fancy written script. I rapidly read the words, just enough to I would have a good understanding on what to do, and placed the book down.

"Okay, so the ritual says to place the 7 to form a sort of pentagon shape." I told him sternly, and he went and retrieved all 7 colorful emeralds, then placed the to form the shape I had commanded. The pentagon of emeralds had three sides of two to from an incomplete square, and on the last side was one emerald in the center, but raised up so if you connected them with a line, would indeed form that shape.

"What else do you have to do?" The curious white hedgehog asked me.

"Well, according to the book, we have to read these couple of sentences and then choose a specific world to have it make a connection to."

"Wait, what world are we exactly going to teleport to?"

I stood there blankly after he had mentioned that. That point never had even popped into my mind at all, and it was pretty important we don't go to a world that we can survive in. Both of us stood there in the breeze, huge puffy clouds of water vapor were mixing around with the gray and dark smoke of the fires to form gigantic light gray clouds in the sky. It blocked out quite a lot of sunlight, as we were thinking the brightness to me seemed to almost be half of what it usually is.

"Hey wait, remember that guy, oh what was his name? He was blue and could run really fast…"

"You mean Sonic the hedgehog?" He answered right away, Silver's memory of things was always superior to my own, and I was always forgetting a lot of stuff.

"Yeah!!! That's it! We can teleport there, at least we sort of know the world, and also a few people at the same time."

Silver smiled and seemed so relieved at the same time, anybody could tell that even if they didn't know squat about him. But I was closer, I could see right through him, and from his expressions, I realized he didn't want to leave, and neither did I. We had lived our whole lives here, so many memories were spent around this world and now we had to leave it all behind. Our treasures and ourselves were all that you can't leave behind.

"I know you, and me as well, are leaving so many memories and good times here, but Silver, we're doing this so that we can be able to make new ones in another place. We will both perish if we remain here, so try and be strong."

He nodded, still not happy at the fact that we had to leave, but comforted by what I had shortly explained to him.

"Okay now let me read the ritual. According to the book I have to put both of my hands in the air as well, so Silver you'll have to do me a favor and hold up the book so I can read it okay?"

He nodded understandingly, and took the book from my sweaty and nervous hands, I wasn't sure if I would do it right, but I didn't really have a choice onto whether or not I could. Our lives happened to be hanging on a loose thread, this happening to be the small sliver that was keeping the string unbroken.

And so under those enormous overshadowing clouds, I raised both of my hands into the fresh late autumn air and began.

"Oh great servers of our 7 powerful sol emeralds, grant us the wish of using your keepsakes for the act of teleportation. May you bring the strength upon them to open a path that leads to my friend Sonic's world. And may you perform this today under the heavens!"

And with my last spoken word, the air around us began to swirl, and the trees blew around greater and greater. Lightning crackled in the sky, I stood there hopeful, praying that it would work, Silver was on his hand and knees, desperate as was I. And before our watchful eyes, we saw a great hole that grew, eventually to the size of double my height, both in width and diameter. We watched as inside the portal were swirling vortexes of beautiful colors, it was amazing to see.

I strode over to our belongings, I grabbed my overly large sized jet black suitcase that I also like the rug, had received as a Christmas present, while Silver took his two rolling blue bags, smart of him because I sort of was having a hard time with mine.

"I'm going to check the book to see if we did everything correctly, okay?" He asked me, it seemed as if he was very uncertain of something.

He picked up the ancient book off the ground, and read the pages that were addressing that specific topic. I watched as he carefully read every word on each page, he was totally opposite to me in that one way, he was a perfectionist, I was nowhere close to that.

Then suddenly the book dropped to the ground with a slight thud, the pages flipping around in the wind. Silver on the other hand was standing there, a blankly shocked look plastered on his once calm face. I was confused to this reaction, but I knew that no matter how much I wished for it to be good, it wasn't going to be at all was it?

"I have some really bad news to inform you on," he whimpered, his voice turned so coarse and soft that I was really worried now of what that was.

"What is it?" I asked, trying to seem warming and comforting towards him.

He sighed deeply, and put his hand over his face, and took a very deep breath of the woody filled air around us.

"It only allows one of us to go through…"

I shuddered, sadness and now a newer feeling of hopelessness taking over my mind. I could feel my crevasses of my eyes begin to accumulate tears, and soon those warm salty drops began to slip down my face, falling onto the forest's grass below. I couldn't choose one, not now, I can't leave my best friend to perish only because I wanted to save my own life. Not only was I beginning to cry, but as I took my head up to face him, I could easily notice the tears that too were staining his face.

"I can't leave you to die… I won't be able to live with myself," I told him through my wave of emotions, I just couldn't let go of him, we had know each other for so long.

"Neither can I… your like the sister I never had in my life, and there is no way I'd let you die… I promise," He cried, his crying became greater than before. He opened his arms and I embraced him with the best embrace I could give. We held onto each other tight, neither one of us daring to let go, if we weren't able to be with one another, then we would both die together.

He rested his head on my shoulder, his white bangs blowing in all sort of directions, while I lay my head on his shoulder, my tears dropping now on his shoulder and soaking his shirt as I stayed there with him, my eyes closed.

But then I felt a great push, and soon I felt myself floating almost in midair. I shockingly looked up to see my greatest and best friend, standing in a circle his face full of sobs and his hands holding onto my bag, which he also threw into the portal.

"As I said… I made a promise Blaze… and I'm keeping it.

I love you… I'll never forget you!!"

I couldn't believe that he just saved my life, and in return ending his. I had my eyes fixed on his face, the last time I would ever view him, the last time I would ever see my friend. And somehow, some crazy way, he was smiling at me, through all that sadness and hopelessness he was feeling, and still he was smiling at me.

I tried as best to smile at him… but I just couldn't.

And I watched as the circle he was standing in, closed up… for good.

Sayonara Silver the Hedgehog.

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Well… this has been my best work so far.

I hope you enjoyed it so far, and hope that you'll leave your regards, or do something like alerting or favoring this. Updates for this story might take a bit longer than my other stories, just for the fact that it took me so long to write the story.

It has much more description than my other stuff, and I'm pretty happy about that So thanks for reading and I will see you all next chapter.