Forever: Chapter One

"Silver! Get up and eat your breakfast!"

Silver the Hedgehog, eight years old, woke up from a weird dream. He couldn't pinpoint much about the dream and its meaning but it kept him occupied to say the least, while he was sleeping. The young boy yawned before getting out of bed, using his psychokinetic powers to easily makeup his bed and place his boots on within seconds.

"Hmm...might be a new record." Silver joked.

"SILVER!" called the voice again, now getting louder.

"Coming, Grandpa!" Silver replied before levitating downstairs and towards the table to eat. Silver has greeted by Shadow the hedgehog himself, who had an unimpressed scowl on his face.

"What did I tell you about levitating in the house?" Asked Shadow, Silver's strict maternal grandfather.

"Sorry, Grandpa." Silver replied before scarfing his cereal down.

Shadow paused, planning on correcting the boy but then gave a small smile. The ultimate life form's appearance had not changed due to being immortal. However going through the process of being a husband, then father, and now grandfather...matured him emotionally.

Shadow was the only one of Team Sonic alive as he watched everyone he loved died...to Maria, then his wife Rouge, his children...which made Silver the only one in his family to be alive. With that, he promised everything on his power to care for the young hedgehog while training him to defend himself through any situation.

If it meant moving out of the city and raising Silver in an old, abandoned GUN base within nature civilization...so be it. After the death of Silver's parents, he believed it was best...a city was no place to raise a child.

"All done!" Cheered Silver. "Grandpa, I wanna go play!"

"Did you not forget our training today, Silver?" Asked Shadow. "Absolutely not."

"But Grandpa, you said I've improved with my powers! You said I'm not as clumsy with it; that should be good enough?" Silver begged and begged, finally making the ebony hedgehog give in. "Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaassssseeee?"

"Fine...you can go play, but be back after an hour for training!" Shadow sternly instructed. "Not a minute late."

"Alright! You're the best, grandpa!" Silver cheered before leaving, but not without a quick hug for his dear grandpa. Shadow chuckled slightly as he watched the boy run out and play. It was one of the smaller things that made him smile.

Silver headed further into the fields while leisurely chasing a small, yellow butterfly. While it didn't seem like it, the young boy knew his way around the area. After living there for years, the Silver hedgehog studied nearly everything about his surroundings.

"Hey! Give that back!" Yelled a young voice. Silver's ears twitched after pausing to the sound of the voice. The voice itself sounded like it belonged to a young girl.

"Just try to take it!" Said another voice, which sounded like an older male's, probably in his teens.

"What was that…" Silver wondered, peeking from a top of a hill. There he saw what it looked like a young lavender cat in a purple dress being bullied by a tall, green iguana wearing sunglasses.

"Give back my bear! It's mine!" Yelled the cat, trying to reach for her stuffed teddy bear. Silver realized what was going on and started to feel sympathy for the girl...and anger for the bully.

The iguana held it high and chuckled, taunting the cat. "And what are you gonna do about it? Use your fire powers? Freaks like you deserve nothing!" The iguana replied.

The cat paused, wanting to tear up. "S-Stop it! I didn't ask for these flames!" She cried before the iguana pushed her into the ground, laughing as he saw the girl suffer.

"HEY, LEAVE HER ALONE!" Silver called to the iguana.

Both cat and iguana turned around and saw the silver colored hedgehog. The young, cat girl found herself staring at him while the iguana laughed.

"Beat it, shorty! I'm trying to put this freak in her place!" Said the iguana. Suddenly the bully was being lifted into the air unexpectedly. "H-Hey! What the-"

Silver used is psychokinetic powers and laughed, while lifting the iguana high into the air. "I told you to leave her alone. Guess this "freak" will have to teach you not to pick on girls!" He exclaimed, lifting the iguana higher into the air and above the moving river.

"Put me down!" The iguana demanded.

Silver shrugged. "If you say so." He replied before dropping the large iguana into the moving river before the currents pulled the bully quickly away until he was no longer in sight.

"Well that was fun." Said the young hedgehog. "I'm sure he'll never pick on you again!"

Silver scratched the back of his head nervously before facing the cat, getting a good look at her. She looked about Silver's age, had lavender fur, golden colored eyes, a pale white nuzzle and wore her hair in a small ponytail.

"Hey..? You okay?" He asked, extending a hand to help her.

The cat shyly and slowly took the hedgehog's hand before being pulled up. He looked trustworthy and he saved her from that jerk. "T-Thank you.." She stuttered.

Silver gave a smile. "You're welcome. Hey I've never seen you around here before. My name is Silver, what's yours?" He asked confidentially.

"Nice to meet you, Silver….and... my name is Blaze…" the girl replied.

To be continued…