Hello everyone. Here's Chapter 1 of Intertwining Swords which I adopted from K. Fang-Sama, I decided to rewrite chapter 1 as I plan on doing things a little differently and it's better if the first chapter fits the rest of the short. I found that out the hard way with my DragonBallZ story CECE (Chance Encounters Change Everything) which I adopted from Darkly Dreaming.
I posted the first chapter she had written and gone from there. It was only once I was about seven or eight chapters in did I realise the first chapter didn't fit the rest of the story. So I had to go back and rewrite it. This chapter is based quite heavily off of what K. Fang-Sama wrote though I have changed a few things, so they flow better with what I want to do.
As you may already know what happens next if you have read the opening two chapters K. Fang-Sama wrote and have any ideas they are more than welcome. I hope you all enjoy this chapter. I will get the next chapter up very soon.
EDIT 03/10/17: Hopefully this will clear up some confusion about the timeline. The Black Knight took place in 2009. Sonic stayed with the knights for ten years before returning to the future where only a day had passed. This story takes place ten years after Sonic comes back. In the context of the story, it's 2019. Sonic is 20 years older than his friends and grew up quite a bit in the ten years he was with the knights.
Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad's mistrust of Merlina will be explained in Chapter 4 which I will try and get up either today or tomorrow. The relationship Sonic has with Lancelot is just that of a very close friend and advisor. Similar to the relationship he has with Shadow. Sonic knows he will never be able to beat Shadow because Shadow's been alive for far longer and had more experience.
Sonic 'fights' with him to help improve his skills as Shadow is the only one who can genuinely challenge Sonic anymore. I hope this has cleared a few things up.
19/09/18: Hello everyone, I'm going through this story plus my Moana to go through and edit each of the chapter in case I want to add something and to help me get back into the account. Particularly in the case of my Moana story. I have added a few new things to the chapters
Date: 04/09/17 – 01/10/17
Time: 8:36 am – 12:28 am
Shadow, Knuckles, Blaze met Rogue, Tails, Amy and Silver at Sonic's house to try and figure out why the three of them were having strange dreams about fighting shadowy Monsters in front of an old castle. Sonic had been more than a little alarmed when Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze told him they had been having strange dreams about fighting in front of the castle.
"Why are they dreaming about Lance, Gawain and Percival. Something must have happened. I hope they're okay," Sonic thought after Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze had explained their dreams. Shadow and Knuckles could tell Sonic was worried, his chaos energy kept fluctuating even though he was doing his best to control it.
"Sonic is something the matter? Who are the knights?" Knuckles asked, having realized Sonic knew more then he was telling them if he reaction to their dreams and his fluctuating chaos energy at the mention of them fighting in front of a medieval castle was anything to go by.
Sonic stopped packing and turned to look at Knuckles, gulping a little, he had no idea how he was going to explain this without sounding insane. They hadn't believed him when he had told them the first time, what would make this time any different. He knew he had to convince them what he was telling them was true.
"You didn't believe me the last time I told you and you're likely not going to believe me this time," Sonic muttered, but Shadow still heard him. He had no idea what the blue blur was talking about even though he knew he should. Something about the Knights in his dreams seemed familiar though he had no idea why.
Sonic had clearly told them something and they hadn't believed him, whatever it was, it had something and everything to do with their current situation.
"The three Knights you saw in your dreams were Lancelot, Gawain and Percival. They're three of the five Knight of the Round Table, from what you've told me, they were attacked before they could get inside Camelot's walls on their way back from a mission," Sonic answered, walking over to his bookshelf and pulled a very much loved and battered copy of 'King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table' from its place on the shelf.
Knuckles stared at Sonic, he had disappeared for an idea day 10 years ago, when he came back he was different even though he had only been gone for a day. Sonic was more responsible and would often ask Shadow for his opinion of things. When he was tired and stressed he would sometimes call Shadow, Lancelot.
Whatever had happened while Sonic was away, he had changed a great deal and Knuckles got the distinct feeling Sonic actually knew Lancelot and respected him a great deal as Sonic was more than willing to listen to what Shadow suggested when they were trying to stop Eggman from taking over the world. Again.
Something, he hadn't done before he disappeared.
Sonic carefully flipped through the book, stopping at the painting of the Knights and King Arthur, turning the book to face them and pointed to Lancelot, Gawain and Percival. It had been painted in such a way to make Lancelot, Gawain and Percival's eyes glow, giving the impression they were being watched.
Sonic tried to explain to Amy where he had been for that day, she hadn't believed him, making him tell Shadow, Silver, Blaze, Knuckles, Jet and Tails his 'story'. They had likely forgotten as it was a good ten years ago. Time seemed to be passing much faster now he was back, he had no idea why but he suspected Iblis had something to do with it.
Sonic knew the book was the written record of his first adventure in Camelot and not the actual world even though Merlina had used to the book to bring to Camelot. He missed his Knight's great deal. Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze stared at the painting after Sonic set the book on the coffee table. The three Knights, Sonic was pointing were the ones from their dreams.
Blaze opened her mouth to say something but paused when she noticed the figure Lancelot, Gawain, Percival and two other Knights were standing around. The figure, who Blaze assumed was King Arthur had dark fur, deadly quills and forest green eyes that seemed to be glowing. When she looked closer she realized King Arthur was wearing, what at first looked like a gauntlet.
It took Percival a few minutes to realize it was actually an interconnected gold plate held together with silver chains and a bracelet effectively covering the back of his hand. He was holding a sword, a confident, self-assured smile on his face as he knew exactly what he was capable of and what effect he had on people.
"Don't be stupid. There's no way they could be real. You're delusional," Amy snapped, not noticing the book was glowing or Sonic's posture changing as he glared at her, had Amy been looking at the painting or had been paying any real attention to Sonic she would have realised he looked a little older and very much like King Arthur, but she wasn't so she didn't know just how her 'boyfriend' had changed.
Sonic glared at Amy, her attitude was really starting to get on his nerves.
"They're quite real. Angel Isle wouldn't exist if it wasn't Gawain. This book is merely the written record of one of their many adventures. Perhaps seeing Camelot for yourself will change your mind," Sonic answered, his voice getting a little deeper as the book glowed brighter.
His smile was a little too wide to be completely comfortable as they were pulled into the book much to Rogue's shock. She blinked, trying to comprehend what she had just seen before shaking her head, something like this would only happen to Sonic. Rogue blinked up the book, she had always wanted to read it but had never gotten the time.
"Where are we Sonic?" Silver asked looking around, they were standing on a dirt road leading up to the medieval castle he had seen in his dreams, they were far enough away from the guards hadn't noticed them yet, but Silver knew it wasn't going to last long as Sonic started to walk towards the castle. He stopped and turned around at Silver's question with a raised eyebrow.
Silver watched in muted shock as he seemly changed, the Sonic he knew had disappeared. The hedgehog standing in front of them was slightly tall than Sonic, had dark blue fur, deadly quills and a confident, self-assured smile on his face. The same one King Arthur had in the painting Sonic had shown them.
Silver blinked as he realised Sonic didn't just look like King Arthur but was King Arthur, he had no idea why it had taken him so long to put the pieces together, he had changed after he had reappeared after he had disappeared on his 'date' with Amy. He had been here before, it was why called Shadow, Lancelot when he was stressed and tired.
Silver couldn't help but wonder how long Sonic had been here for.
"Welcome to Camelot,"
There done. It took about three drafts to get this chapter to where it is at the moment. I have left out the parts of the original chapter which wouldn't fit with where I'm going to take this story. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and will have the second one up soon. For those of you who have read my Moana Story Her Ore Boat, His Hook the Heart of Te Fiti I know I haven't updated in a while. I don't know what to write next.
I may go back over the chapters and edit them to fix any mistakes. For my readers of CECE, I've got half of chapter 12 done I just need to find the other half which I have written down somewhere.