Sorrow on wheels

The beast of forgotten past

Fire pierced the black night sky as screams of terror filled the smoky air, people bolted as they tried to escape the unknown threat that was inches upon them. Huge claws tore the ground apart and vile red blood oozed from the beast that roared angrily at its fleeing prey.

The smell of blood was so rich it was sickly as it trailed down the nose of the choking hero that was approaching the chaos, his blue spikes slightly ruffled from awakening from another dreamless sleep, his emerald eyes shone against the flickering embers and a new determination was born as he saw the fear that had swept across Soleanna.

Smirking and sliding his finger across the bridge of his nose as he always did when he was getting cocky he started to run towards the foul beast. It was almost like a giant monstrous wolf as it towered over the debris of the crushed houses, its eyes a green that could rival that of the hedgehogs itself.

The smoke filled air was difficult to breathe and the hedgehog could not help but cough as he choked, the blood scented air so strong that it almost blinded him from his strong sense of smell, it was unbearable.

Dodging the ruins as he ran the hedgehog circled the beast and, for the first time, sonic narrowed his eyes at the beast as it was able to keep its eyes on him even when he was running at top speed.

This beast...is not normal, sonic thought as he continued to run in different directions in an attempt to lose it or just confuse it.

His attempts failed and with an all mighty the roar the beast lashed out at him with a huge clawed hand. Sonics eyes widened and he quickly leapt backwards to try and avoid it. The claw scraped his chest leaving a giant gash and blood.

Sonic screamed as he fell back and clutched his chest, this thing was quick, unnaturally quick. He started to feel frustrated and he gritted his teeth as he stood up, there was something wrong with this.

The creature started letting off a strange scream that pierced straight through Sonics mind, he clutched his ears and squeezed his eyes shut, it was agonising. When he slowly opened his eyes all he could see was a blur of the screaming people running past him as a strange dizziness swept through out his whole being.

He felt a hard hit to the head and the last thing he saw was the floor as he smashed into it before everything went black.