This is my first published StH fanfic, so I want to make a few notes on how I'm going about with this.
If you see a 'number' as a hyperlink, it means an author's note. I'm making them links to notes at the bottom of this page. In these, I describe 'Th-Varian blue', among other things. Please DO NOT try to use these hyperlinks until the whole document is fully loaded. This is your only warning.
So, on with the story!
KRAKOW!
The sound of an energy blast echoed through the forest, startling birds and small unevolved creatures into wakefulness. It also woke up Sonic T. Hedgehog, who was at the time daydreaming by a small lake in the middle of the Great Forest. He jumped up, startled, then calmed down.
"Must be another of ‘buttnik’s //// projects," he thought to himself. He looked around, hoping to spot another Freedom Fighter, then remembered that he wasn’t in Knothole. Besides, they were out in the field testing the new rocket launcher. He didn’t want to help, so he had made a bet with Sally that he actually could stay off his feet for the whole morning, and it seemed he was going to lose. He stretched and then raced out to see what nasty surprise Robotnik had in store for him.
KRAKOW!
Suddenly a tree nearby glowed a brilliant white before bursting into flame. Sonic jumped, and then yelped at the loud cracking sound of a tree falling on top of him. Fortunately, he was able to dodge out of the way of flaming death, and then smother the flames with multiple sonic spins.
A loud crashing sound alerted him to the arrival of a huge tank with a double turret. White energy crackled along the lengths of the guns. It looked silver and very ugly.
Fortunately our hero was not one to crack under pressure. Sonic groaned again and shook his head. Robotnik always came at the worst times.
A metallic voice came out of a speaker. "Do you like my tank hedgehog? You won’t get to admire it for long!" Sonic identified the voice as Robotnik’s seconds before both turrets swiveled toward him, and then he had to start running.
He dodged the first two blasts with ease and groaned again. He mumbled something incomprehensible and sawed off one of the turrets, with the result that the other one shot faster. Then he started to growl.
*Hey,* he thought, stopping for an instant and very nearly getting nailed by a blast, *I’m not growling…*
Suddenly a huge hand with clawed fingers bigger around than Sonic crashed down on top of the tank. The blue scales on the hand looked much nicer than the metal of the tank did. Sonic yelped like Antoine and backed up a few paces.
The claw lifted and Robotnik rolled out of the pile of scrap that used to be a tank. He groaned and held his head. The only reason that Sonic didn’t finish him off right there was that he wanted to know about the foot before he did anything.
A blue scaly face with two blue eyes and considerably more than two teeth swung around to look at Robotnik. Robotnik shuddered in terror. The eyes blinked.
"And what have we here?" asked the huge dragon in a not unpleasant female voice. "I know! It’s a bouncy ball!" Grinning in draconic amusement, she picked up the oversized blubbering mass of Robotnik and threw him at the ground.
Splut. "Arghhh!"
"Hmm, either there not making bouncy balls they way they used to or this isn’t a bouncy ball. Maybe it’s gum!" And she picked up Robotnik again and shoved him in her mouth. Immediately she spat him out.
"PTUI! And I thought mud gum was outlawed. This tastes like lard!" And she heaved Robotnik across the trees toward Robotropolis.
Sonic stared at the dragon. She was about fifty feet tall, and was covered in metallic blue scales. Her front feet were modified hands, and she had fins sticking out of the side of her head, purple with blue-green webbing. Her eyes were ‘Th-varian blue’1, without irises, and she was wearing a grin, showing sharply pointed teeth.
"Hello?" He asked timidly. Then, realizing that drawing attention to himself might not be a good thing, he tried to hide beneath the root of a tree. He did not want to get stepped on, no matter how cool this extra large dragon was.
"Why, hello, young, blue, and bashful. I didn’t notice you. My name is Aris, the Galactic Dragon. You're Sonic, I presume?"
"Uh, yeah." Aris didn’t seem so bad, thought Sonic, pulling himself up. Just...big.
"Well I was just...going. Yeah." Said Sonic, trying to back up. "I’ve got to get back..."
"Well then I’ll take you. Hop on!" Aris extended one of her claws.
"That, that’s okay. I’ll be going now." And Sonic picked up his feet...
"Oh, is it my size that’s bothering you? I can take care of that!" And Aris started to shrink.
Sonic rubbed his eyes and groaned, trying to make sense of what had happened in the space of a few seconds. It didn’t work, so he opened his eyes with the decision to let Sally think it through. He nearly jumped out of his skin, though, when he found a much smaller version of Aris, about twice his size.2 She had wings, too, the same color as the fins on the sides of her head.
"Like I said, hop on." Aris kneeled so the shocked Sonic could board.
Without hesitation, Sonic pointed the way to the testing field where Sally would be. Aris moved with amazing grace, seeming to soar through the trees in the right direction. Sonic relaxed as the dragon ran on.
Author's notes:
1. Th-varian blue eye color is defined as the 'whites' of the eyes are colored blue, irises are invisible, and the pupils are slitted like a cat's.<