The Lost Child

PROLOGUE

Queen Aleena held her daughter, Sonia, close. The pink hedgehog in her arms gave no protest, as she was out in the cold air. When Aleena pulled Sonia away, she quickly wrapped the baby in a blanket. Very determined not to cry, Aleena placed her child in the basket, knocked on the door, quickly checked that the piano medallion was around Sonia's neck, then left her child on the doorstep.

The door opened just as Queen Aleena was out of sight. Lady Windimere glanced around, finally spotting the basket on her step. The aristocrat picked Sonia up and saw the medallion around her neck, reflecting the light that came from inside her house. Lady Windimere looked about her again. Seeing no one else about, she took the baby hedgehog inside.

Queen Aleena wiped a tear from her cheek as she watched Sonia be taken inside. She quietly snuck back to the abandoned warehouse where her other children where. Aleena picked up another basket, this time with a green hedgehog in it, and left once again.

Once more, Aleena held her son, Manic, close to her before wrapping him in a blanket and taking a final glance to make sure she remembered to place on his drum set-shaped medallion. She knocked on the door and took off. But before the door opened, a thief, thinking there was something valuable in the basket, ran over and took it. He then left for the sewers. The door was finally answered, and the aristocrat looked about to see no one and nothing. She turned away and muttered something about "kids and their practical jokes". Meanwhile, the thief who had stolen Manic, gave the basket to his master, Farrel. Farrel, who loved kids, took the child close and vowed to raise him as an expert thief. Perhaps with time, this young hedgehog would be even better than him.

Queen Aleena, not knowing that Manic would not be raised by the person intended, picked up a third basket with a cool blue hedgehog in it. Sonic, her first-born son, looked up at his mother in curiosity. She smiled at him and left for the woods. She came across a small house right next to a river. Glancing about for anyone and seeing none, Aleena crept up to the door and went through the same thing of hugging her child and making sure his guitar medallion was around his neck. She knocked on the door and ran for the trees. The door opened and a man stood there, looking around for who had knocked. He looked down and saw Sonic looking back up at him. Sonic then took off into the house at a speed many would not think possible for anyone, leaving behind a blue streak. Little did Sonic know that in a few years time, he would be forced out of his home live with his Uncle Chuck to avoid capture by SWATbots.

Before Queen Aleena went into hiding herself, she stopped by the warehouse and picked up a final basket. This one held her eldest child, a silver hedgehog with black quills and paws whom she called Sofía. Many did not know about her, for when Sofía was just born, she barely survived a high fever. For that reason, many thought she'd died, but Sofía, being a strong child, had pulled through. As Aleena's mind dug up memories, Sofía struggled to get out of her mother's arms. Smiling softly, Aleena cuddled the small child before wrapping her in a white blanket. She then fingered the flute shaped medallion and jerked back slightly as the pendant sparked with energy. Queen Aleena then placed Sofía in the basket and left her on the steps of a large house.

As she stood in the trees, watching her child being taken in, Aleena pulled the cloak she was wearing tighter around her body and whispered, "We will be together, my children. And all will be right again."

I do not own any peeps of the Sonic Underground aside from Sofía Hedgehog. She is mine. The others belong to big companies I probably know about.

Chapter 1