Sonic woke up still feeling tired. Lately Sonic hasn't been able to sleep well at all. He tilted his head and a small brown furry thing crashed to the ground. Suddenly two eyes appeared and then a face. Two ears flopped open and the furry ball got up and shook it's head.

"Wuh...? Oh! Good morning Sonic!" The creature greeted with a drowsy smile.

"Morning, Chip... but as far as I'm concerned, its far from good." Sonic responded, running his hand over his quills where Chip had decided to fall sleep, matting them down. "I nearly never fell asleep..."

Sonic looked around. All seems familiar: trees, sky plastered with clouds, big gaping trench in the ground, and Chip. Big gaping trench in the ground? Oh yeah! Eggman. Dark Guia. Werehog. Chip's identity. Saving the world. Right. Sonic stood up and brushed himself off. Chip estatically scanned the map for a place to find breakfast.

"Ohhhh! Look here, Sonic! There's some sort of orchard west of here!" Chip announced.

"How far west, Chip?" Sonic asked, knowing their current location is quite litterally the middle of nowhere. For what reason they decided to make camp last night near one of the Guia abysess Sonic didn't remember.

"Only six hundred and fourty miles," Chip answered with a tone of naive optimism.

Sonic stared at him for a moment. Sonic was just about to say something when suddenly, a large dark blue creature with glowing scarlet stripes up and down it's body pounced him and started clawing into his back. Gasping in pain, Sonic tried to turn himself around to fight whatever grabbed him but wound up doing nothing but rolling over like a dog. Chip watched in horror as the creature continued it's melee onslaught on Sonic. Chip eventually snapped out of the trance when the scuffle began to approach him, drawing him into the brawl.

Chip started banging on the monster with his tiny fists but he might as well be giving it a backrub.

Sonic grunted as he tried to overpower the creature. "Chip... since when... ow! do these... things come out... during the day?" Sonic struggled to scream with his flesh being kneaded by the creature's claws.

Chip, simply struugling not to get crushed replied in a similar painful manner. "So-Sonic! Try... try to roll to... to that rock, maybe it will stun him if we ram him... into it"

Sonic shifted hisself to where he could roll over and press his back into the rock. After a moment of awkward inchworm-like movements and about a quart of Sonic's blood escaping from his wounds, the scuffle ended with a shreik. Sonic jammed his back into the rock, shoving the monster into a sharp place. The buggar let out a holler and was immediately silenced by a blow from Sonic's fist. It fell to the ground, lifeless, then dissolved into a red aurora.

Sonic fell to his knees and collapsed. His last sight being Chip, bruised and beaten, with a terrified look on his face. "Soni...iiiiiiiicccc iccc icc icc" Chip's voice echoed in Sonic's ears as he began to lose consiousness. Suddenly, blackness.

He woke to see himself on a quiet beach on a sunny day. He looked out onto the water and thought he saw something moving. Something was moving. In fact, it was leaving a arc of water spray behind it. "Watch this Sonic!" said a voice from somewhere. "Sonic! Look! Sonic!" the voice repeated. Sonic was looking, but wasn't sure why the voice kept telling him to watch. He blinked. Instantly, the water turned into a sea of flames. "Sonic! SONNIIIIIIC!" A voice cried out. "Heeeeeelp!" the voice sounded like it was coming from behind him, though he could clearly see someone in distress out in the flaming ocean. Blink. Sonic was now in a laboratory filled with murderous looking robots and someone he knew was trapped inside a cage made of lasers. Sonic tried to open the cage but wound up getting teleported back to where he started each time he touched the beams. His attention soon moved to whom was inside the cage. He has seen her somewhere but where... he knew her from a long time ago... Blink. He was now underwater. Some sort of hose was in his mouth and he felt like he was supposed to be looking for something. Did I lose something? Sonic thought. He looked up to the surface of the water to find a human boy with crazy hair yelling to him to get out of the water. Sonic looked down, the hose was gone. Sonic panicked and started splashing about erraticly. Blink. Darkness.

Sonic felt something warm on his lips. Then he felt something that resembled raindrops fall on his cheeks. He heard crying. He opened his eyes to find a brown furry chihuahua laying over him, weeping and hugging him. "Sonic! *sob* We only known each other for such a short time... *sniffle* I've only known myself for a few days! *sob* Come back, Sonic! Don't leave me now..."

Sonic raised up, once again bringing the ball of fur plummeting to the ground. Chip's sorrowfully dialated eyes turned into surprised eyes. He then tackled Sonic in a tight hug that knocked the wind out of Sonic. "SONIC! You're alive! I thought this was it!" Chip cried, then continued with a barrage of tears as he continued to cling to Sonic's torso.

"W-what happened?" Sonic asked in a half-groggy voice while he rubbed his eyes.

Chip and Sonic traveled toward Mazuri at an unusually slow pace for Sonic. Sonic was still weak and aching from the episode that morning, which Chip filled him in on. About 10 minutes into the trip they heard something growl.

"What was that?!" Chip asked, frightened.

"My stomach..." Sonic answered, clutching his abdomen.

Chip was flying alongside Sonic. "Oh yeah, we never had breakfast... or lunch... or dinner..." Chip suddenly appeared exausted and fell to the ground. "Soooo... hungry..."

"Maybe we can find something along the way." Sonic paused for a moment. "Wait, are you still carrying that chocolate?!"

Chip jumped up, realizing he had. He pulled a pair of chocolate bars out of... nowhere... and gave one to Sonic.

"It's not exactly breakfast, lunch or dinner, but it's better than nothing!" Sonic commented as he took his first bite.

About another 8 miles and Sonic collapsed again. "Ohhh... I need to rest a moment..." he claimed, wiping the sweat from his pale, clammy face. Soon, however, Sonic fell asleep; Chip soon followed.

When Sonic awoke he felt funny. His muscles were tingling and his fur and quills were itching. He looked up and saw he had slept through noon, and it was now nighttime. He glanced around for Chip when his eyes came to the attention of the full moon. Immediately, he began to scream; his fur grew longer, he felt an enourmous pain in his bones as they grew longer, thicker. Spikes began to erupt from his shoes and his gums pained as his teeth turned razor sharp. He bent over on the ground to support himself, and in a matter of seconds, Sonic had become a Werehog yet again.

"Argggghh... That always hurts!" Sonic exclaimed in his new, deeper, growlish voice.

He looked over, suddenly able to see in the dark. He saw a patch of tall grass trembling, and went over and sparated the blades to find Chip shaking in a cowering postion. "Is-is is it over?" The terrified chihuahua quiverishly asked.

The two continued, except this time at Sonic's preferred speed. They made it 2 miles before they heard an even more monstrous growl. Sonic curled over clutching his abdomen. Sonic and Chip had gone two days having eaten nothing more than a lone chocolate bar. WereSonic's profile appeared arorexic and every movement was affected by sudden tremmors. "I... gotta find something to... eat..." he wheezed.

Chip began to feel nervous. He began to notice how sharp Sonic's teeth were, and how long his claws were. Chip began to think of what would be good to eat out in the lonely wilderness when his own belly began to erupt. Chip began searching around for something when he met a deer grazing quietly in the darkness. Chip figured a deer might know where food was, even though all they ate was grass, so he tried talking to it. The deer just stood and stared at the fairy-esque creature. Chip figured he wouldn't accomplish much talking to the wildlife so he stopped asking the deer questions. The deer continued grazing casually. Chip was then startled by a loud cry as something big and furry pounced the grazing deer, knocking it over on it's side as the furry beast mawed at it's neck. Chip soon got light headed as he realized that the furry beast attacking the deer was none other than Sonic The Werehog.

The two continued on their journey. Chip, though, kept a decent distance between him and Sonic.

Day came. Sonic's additional features subsided, and so did the subconsience tension between Sonic and Chip. They finally arrived at Mazuri, Tails had instructed them that their next location of business would be in the Halaskan Mountains. Chip finally got something for himself to eat, while when offered, Sonic didn't seem hungry for some reason. "Sonic! You told me that you went days without anything decent to eat, come on! Eat!" Tails prompted, holding Sonic's food toward Sonic. Chip seemed puzzled. Does he not remember that poor animal he devoured last night? Chip thought, but wasn't about to bring the topic up. "I don't understand it either, but I just feel like I can't eat single bite." was Sonic's response at the time.

The rest of the day the two spent traveling. Sonic seemed his old self again, nothing different about him. Sonic's stomach eventually began to rumble once they reached the Arctic District. Sonic paused at the gate, and felt a disturbance. Sonic then farted and things seem to go back to normal untill night came along. "Hey Chip, look at this thing" Sonic inquired Chip, as he came across a strange looking statue. The statue was of a human, though it appeared to have feral animal features, such as claws, a snout, and a tail. It was in a spooky pose: it's arms elongated and it's fingers sprawled out and a grasping posture.

"Kinda reminds me of you, Sonic" Chip heard himself say. Sonic glanced at him, offended.

"Oh um... I mean... you know... that night time business?" Chip explained doing his werehog gesture with the fangs. Sonic turned his gaze toward the ground. Chip wanted to take it back, he knew Sonic was the same hedgehog on the inside even when he became a monster. Or was he?

When night did come, and Sonic had completed his transformation again, he and Chip huddled into the mouth of a cave for camp; to check the map and plot their approach. Almost as Deja Vu, a dark blue monster with scarlet lines down it's back attacked Sonic. Only this time, Sonic had the upper hand. Sonic stretched his arms to grab the creature off his back and proceeded by pulverizing it, untill it melted into Dark Guia energy. Soon, more and more surrounded them. Chip clutched Sonic's torso and held on tight as Sonic 'unleashed' his fury one by one on the monsters. Left. Right. Sonic reached for a monster that resembled a balloon crossbred with a bird (hideous little thing) and it carried them to the rooftops. Sonic destroyed the bird thing afterward and the duo finally caught a break.

Sonic's stomach growled again, making Chip anxious again. Sonic's breathing suddenly changed from casual, like normal, and changed into a combinaton of snorting through his nostrils and exhaling from his needle-filled mouth. Sonic's pupils were faded too, he looked as if he was straining his eyes to see something in the distance. His stomach growled again, and with Chip's current location, each rumble sounded like a lion roar. Sonic began to sniff something. Chip wasn't sure what he was smelling, all Chip knew was that Sonic's nose was attracting him to something. Something nearby. Sonic's mouth began to salivate and his tongue started to hand out of his mouth. Chip immediately knew what was going on. Sonic was hungry... a famished kind of hunger. Chip risked a question.

"Sonic... are you... alright?" Chip asked, braced for what might happen next.

Sonic shook his head, his facial expression returned to "normal" and turned his head.

"Huh? Oh, Chip! Yeah... just smell something..." Sonic began relapsing into his trance-like gaze. "...something... delicious..."

Chip began worry about the last thing he thought he'd have to worry about: being eaten. Almost as a queue of reassurance, Chip soon smelled the same smell. It smelled of fresh chili and broiling hotdogs. Sonic's belly growled so loud that it rattled Chip, whom was still gripped onto Sonic like a baby lemur it's mother.