In the far horizon the bright circle in the sky rises and shines down on the city of Shamar revealing its beauty. A yawn is heard as skin peach arms extend to stretch from what he would explain; the best sleep in ages. “Man, it feels good to be just my old self again now I can get a good night sleep.” Blue eyelids opened showing emerald green eyes that sparkle in the sunlight along with his sapphire blue fur and quills. The hedgehog got up and put on his trademark red sneakers and looked in the room only to find the others were asleep. A smile appeared on the hedgehog’s peach muzzle as he quietly tip toed outside without waking anyone up.

Once outside the azure hedgehog inhaled the fresh air and felt his stomach rumbling, “Heheh, looks like it’s time for some good old food.” In less than a blink of an eye, a blue blur dashed across the sand and made its way towards the nearest store in town. “One chilidog please, hot and spicy.” The woman working there gave a nod with a slight chuckle and straight away a fresh steaming chilidog was in her hands. A sparkle could be seen from the hedgehog’s eyes as he reached for a certain amount of rings and handed it to the woman.

“Oh no, you don’t have to pay, after all you DID save us all.” The woman shoved the rings back to the hedgehog as he looked in surprise.

“But… are you sure cause it’s fine and all so-“

“Oh no I insist Sonic; you can have it go on.” The lady grabbed Sonic’s wrist and put the chilidog in his palm and returned a warm smile.

“Ok if you insist, thanks!” And with that gone; without a trace except the wind that blows by avenging the blur beforehand as the woman waved to the ‘wind’.   

Sapphire blue orbs revealed themselves as yellow eyelids opened and a hand covering them preventing the sunlight to come through. “Argh, five more minutes sun,” A yellow fox rolled over facing the wall but the sun was still so annoying, “Oh fine I’m getting up already.” With a yawn the golden furred fox sat up and stretched his arms. As he opened his eyes again he found a tall human and a pink hedgehog staring at him, awkwardly. “What? Can I not talk to myself?”

“Well it IS the first sign of craziness you know,” answered the high-pitched rosy pink hedgehog putting a cheeky smile on her muzzle.

“Yeah, yeah whatever Amy,” The young fox got up and stretched his two tails while having a drowsy look on his face.

“I hate to interrupt you two but aren’t we forgetting someone?” The professor asked slightly concerned.

The other two started turning their heads looking for the missing someone until Amy spoke, “Where’s Sonic?”

Hill by hill, land by land, a blue blur rammed across the sand leaving a trail of dust behind it. The wind blew in his face with the sense of freedom blowing by, Sonic was zooming through the land with no stop as a sound of thunder and a wave of energy exploded behind the hedgehog as he just released a sonic boom now going faster than the speed of sound.

A grin grew upon the hedgehog’s muzzle now feeling the fast paced wind fly by him. As Sonic was running he saw a spark at the corner of his eyes and began to skid across the ground breaking his speed. With a halt Sonic walked back to where he saw that sparkle in the sunlight and started searching for whatever he saw.

“I swear I saw something here, now where- hold on what’s that?” Without hesitation Sonic walked over to the object making it clearer now. The hedgehog picked up the object closer to his face for a better view and found out what it was. “A purple gem? What in Chaos’s name is this doing here in the middle of nowhere? But hold on, there is a powerful energy coming from this gem and it’s not a Chaos Emerald… maybe I can get Tails to have a look at it.” Sonic gripped the gem and sped off to find his best friend Tails.

“Sonic? Sonic?! SONIC?!” Amy was looking frantically looking for the blue hero worrying if something bad happened to him so she called for him, asked the town’s folk if they’ve seen him and always get the same answer; a blue blur passed by. She sat down on one of the steps at the entrance to Professor Pickle’s lab and sighed. “Oh… he could just be taking a morning run but still… anything could happen to him, especially if he’s alone but he can take care of himself but then again what if…” The pink hedgehog grasped her head with her hands and sighed again. 

Suddenly gust of wind went pass her as she was unbalanced and about to fall down the stairs. But as she was about to fall something had caught her as she opened her eyelids to look up into two emerald orbs.

“Amy are you alright?” She gasped and flung her arms over her saviour’s neck and hugged tight.

“Sonic! I was looking all over for you! I was worried!”

“Amy… can’t... breathe…” Amy looked at him and quickly let go as he fell over and landed on his bottom. She blushed a little and helped him up, “Hehe, sorry.”

“It’s alright and by the way have you seen Tails?” A frown appeared on the girl’s face but turned into a smirk.

“If I tell you will you marry me?” A cheeky tone was added in her voice as she saw Sonic stepping backwards with his hands in front of him for what seemed like a protection force field or something.

“Ah… nah I’ll pass I’ll find Tails myself.”

“Aww, I thought you would fall for it but I’ll tell you anyway, he’s at the Tornado examining some stuff again.”

“Ok, thanks Amy!” And with that he was gone leaving Amy to wave at nothingness.

With a zoom and a turn the blue blur was dashing towards the open area where the Tornado laid. Once at the location Sonic saw his two-tailed friend working on an area on the plane’s wings as he turned around with a big smile on his face.

“Hey, Sonic!” Tails waved to his best friend as he was walking over.

“Hey Tails, can you do me a quick favour?”

“Sure thing Sonic, what is it?” Just then Sonic brought out a purple gem and held it up.

“Do you know what this is? It’s got some crazy power in it but it’s not a Chaos Emerald.” Tails took the gem and started examining it with deep thought.

“Hm… I don’t know what it is and I don’t think Professor Pickle will too and besides, he’s already on his way to Spagonia anyway. But, I’ve got some equipment back at my workshop in the Mystic Ruins that could possibly examine some data about this gem.”

Sonic nodded in response, “Alright Tails, leave it to you now let’s get moving!” Tails nodded and started getting the Tornado prepared.

“Can I come too?!” Running towards them was Amy who looked like she was almost out of breath.

“I guess so, Sonic?” The blue hedgehog just shrugged in response with his eyes half open.

All three of them were just about to jump in the Tornado until suddenly the Chaos Emeralds started glowing and surrounding Sonic as his eyes widen in shock and worry.

“Sonic what’s wrong with the Chaos Emeralds?!” Tails called out and started walking closer towards his best friend but stopped when the Chaos Emeralds started spinning faster and faster and creating a bright white light as the female hedgehog and young fox shielded their eyes. The light faded and the two looked in horror for they could not find their friend anywhere.

“Sonic? Sonic?! SONIC?!”