The Origin of Sonic – Chapter 1: From Legend to Hero
By Adam Blazer

A long time ago, in a period that vanished from all knowledge, there was an island on the Eastern seas called Ericius. It was a home to all the hedgehogs on Earth. The hedgehogs of Ericius lived their lives in constant fear, for the crows kept invading and stealing their food. The hedgehogs were peaceful, and had no wish to fight, and thus showed no resistance to the crows.

The hedgehogs of Ericius sought out their god, Creo to help them in their constant plight. For years and years, the hedgehogs’ prayers were unanswered, until one day, a young hedgehog, whose name has not been recorded, found a mysterious silver egg with a sapphire silhouette of what looked like a hedgehog face on the shores or Ericius. He brought it to the hedgehog chief, Ducis to figure out what it was. Ducis saw the egg as a sign from Creo that a means for salvation will soon arrive.

To make sure the crows did not find it, the hedgehogs built an underground temple to place the egg in. Night after night, the hedgehogs started to worship the egg. In time, the egg started to give the hedgehogs hope and confidence in their strength, and they began to train themselves in combat. They started to fight back, and the crows were driven away from the island. The crow king was amazed at how strong the hedgehogs have gotten, and grew suspicious that there was more to the hedgehogs than meets the eye.

Using their wicked powers of deception, the crow king Dark Raven disguised himself as a 
hedgehog and sailed off to Ericius, in hopes to discover the hedgehog’s power source, whatever it may be. When the crow king was taken to the underground temple to worship the egg, he revealed his true identity and summoned a hundred thousand monsters to destroy the temple and take the egg.

Needless to say, this left the hedgehogs in great turmoil, at least for a time.

A few decades later, the crows began their invasion of Morning Land, or Oriens as the hedgehogs called it. Oriens was home to all the chickens on Earth. The crows’ experience with the hedgehogs inspired them to be even crueler to the chickens of Oriens than the hedgehogs. The chicken’s god, Menie-Funie, summoned a hero to fight the crows; a human named Billy Hatcher. The boy did surprisingly well. After he had defeated the crows in Forest Village, he had come across the silver egg the crows have stolen.

Billy asked a chick about it, and the chick answered, “What I’ve heard from the crows is that if you collect enough golden coins, you can use the egg of the ‘blue hedgehog’.”

Billy tried to grab the egg, but his hand just passed though it. It was like thin air. The chick suggested to Billy that he collect some mysterious golden coins that littered the land of Oriens.

Billy decided to follow what the chick said, and grabbed some golden coins from Pirate Island. A few days later, Billy would be led to a volcanic region known as Dino Mountain to free a chicken elder known as Ura-Ura. During his search, the noble hero has found the mysterious silver egg yet again, only this time; the mystical energies of the coins Billy collected had turned the egg solid. So, Billy decided to feed it a large portion of fruit he had found from nearby crates, and then hatch it.

Little did Billy know that when that egg hatched, he had changed the world forever. A blue hedgehog was born from the egg. However, it was not a baby hedgehog, but a full-grown one.

Billy did not know what to make of this, but when a crow attacked him, the blue hedgehog charged into it at full speed, and destroyed it. Together, Billy and the hedgehog defeated the crows and brought peace back to the land of Oriens, not to mention had saved the island of Ericius from its desperate state of fear.

After the crows were defeated, the mysterious blue hedgehog decided to stay in Oriens and live with Billy Hatcher and his friends. Billy and the hedgehog became best friends and lived in a perfect paradise. They ran in the open fields, looked after the small chicks, and watched the sunset every afternoon. For a time, it was good, but unfortunately, nothing lasts forever.

One fine morning, Billy got a letter from Ducis. They found out about this hedgehog, and who he is. Rumors were growing in Ericius. The hedgehogs believed that the blue hedgehog was a god. He could even have been Creo. The hedgehogs of Ericius wanted him to go back to his homeland, and bring them the hope they once savored. At first, the hedgehog refused to go back. He liked his lifestyle, and did not wish to change it.

Months passed by. Billy and the hedgehog continued to live carefree lives, until another note from Ducis came to Billy. The note said that the Ericius was going to war with Oriens over the hedgehog. Billy immediately took the note to the Chicken Elders. The elders decided to send the hedgehogs a peace offering of three eggs containing legendary, powerful animals. However, Ducis would not be bargained with. The hedgehogs used the very animals the Chicken Elders gave them to level Forest Village.

When Billy and his other human friends tried to stop the hedgehogs, they were mercilessly slaughtered. The blue hedgehog, enraged by the killing of his friends, unleashed powers so great the entire army was annihilated. When Ducis received word about what had happened, he thought he had enraged Creo. In shame, Ducis took his own life.

The remaining hedgehogs fled Ericius to a land inhabited by human tribes. The blue hedgehog had once again saved Oriens, but at a heavy price.

Word of the hedgehog’s deeds spread throughout the world. Everyone had a different opinion about the nameless hedgehog. Some called him a hero; others feared he was a demon, but the great echidna tribes of Occasus saw him as a god. Many an echidnian tale has been made about the blue deity.

However, the most famous tale of all would be the prophecy made by echidnian cheiftess Shana’Khal, who foretold that one day Occasus would be threatened by a deadly monster, and the hedgehog would come to deliver the echidnas from this terrible evil. Fearing the echidnas might come the take the hedgehog away like the hedgehogs did, the Chicken Elders of Oriens decided to send the hedgehog to the future, where he might do some good for Oriens.

When the Chicken Elders informed the hedgehog of this plan, he kindly accepted, not wanting another war. After the plan was carried out, the echidnas started to lose hope. Without the hedgehog, there was no one to protect them from the monster that would attack Occasus. When Shana’Khal died, the role of chief was passed down to her son, Phacamac. Phacamac was determined to find some other way to defend Occasus, and one day, he found it.

Tikal, Phacamac’s daughter, was exploring the fields, searching for wild flowers, when she came across a shrine with seven emeralds circling one giant emerald. Her grandmother told her of this place when she was a little girl. She told Tikal it was a fairy tale, but yet Tikal was gazing at it with her own two eyes. Suddenly, a creature made of water stepped toward her. Tikal screamed in shock, but when the creature learned that she meant no harm to the Chao living there, it kindly let her stay.

When Tikal came home and told her father the story, Phacamac’s heart was filled with joy, for he had found the salvation of his tribe, and at the time, Tikal was too. However, when Tikal saw her father gathering troops to invade the shrine, she pleaded Phacamac to stop. Phacamac ignored her and called her foolish.

Heartbroken by her father insulting her, Tikal decided to stop him by warning the water creature of what was happening, but the water creature couldn’t do anything about it. He was bound to the emeralds, and could not leave them. When the echidna army arrived to claim the emeralds, Tikal and the Chao blocked them. Tikal pleaded her father not to follow the path of greed, but Phacamac simply said, “I don’t listen to the words of a child!”

“Ready men? CHARGE!!!!!!!”

The echidnian soldiers trampled Tikal and the Chao. The water creature, enraged by this violent act, absorbed the seven emeralds to become a monster. To that day, the water creature was given the name of Chaos, for ‘chaos’ was exactly what this water demon brought upon his foes. Chaos wiped out Phacamac’s men, drowning them within his enormous body and hurling them to their peril with his seemingly infinite amount of tentacles issuing from it.

Chaos the echidnian chief was lifted into the air. He was defeated. Before his final breath, he saw the legendary blue hedgehog watching. Phacamac thought he was saved, but when he saw the hedgehog look at him with disgust, and run over to help Tikal, Phacamac knew he had doomed his people, and he carried that remorseful realization to his grave.

Since the fall of the echidnas, many other tribes considered the blue hedgehog to be an omen. Men in Europe wore scarlet red to evade ‘the blue death’. Egyptian slaves secretly put the hedgehog’s face on the pyramid walls to damn a pharaoh’s soul. Even in some countries, wearing blue would be a crime punishable by death.

As time passed by, the hedgehog’s reputation became worse and worse. Eventually, all the legends were forgotten. The lands of Ericius, Oriens and Occasus became lost forever from history. Old customs were cast away. Chickens became mere tools of production. Greed consumed honor. Technology took place of rituals. Prophecies were no longer made.

Heroes no longer existed.

The world became so horrible and twisted that a scientist named Dr. Ivo Robotnik kidnapped animals and turned them into mindless robot slaves working toward his goal of world domination, which was an all to easy task, as nearly everyone lacked the courage to oppose him.

However, there was a glimmer of hope. In the luscious pastures of Green Hill Zone, a portal opened, and from it stepped the blue hedgehog, no longer a legend, but soon to become a hero.