Sonic planted another foot high into the dry earth and pushed toilsomely. He lifted his head and looked forward at the man's firm ass draped in a clothen robe.

"Are we almost there?" said Sonic in between huffs and puffs.

"Nearly… half… way…" said the man, sturgling to breathe. He tried to push himself forward with his staff, but his strength finally gave way, and he slumped down to the rocky soil.

"Mo-kun! Stay with me!" said Sonic, grabbing at the man's robe collar.

Mo breathed heavily with his eyes closed. "Go on without me. You have to make it to the top." Sonic gripped his hand tightly, feeling his rough, dusty handskin.

"I… I will! I'll do it for you! For all of the people who came so far!" said Sonic. Sonic released his hand and left Mo on the mountain ridge. He looked upwards at the remaining climb, and then did it.

Sonic arrived at the top of the mountain. He looked down at the desert far below him, and at the people at the bottom, who looked like "ants." Sonic then lifted his eyes to the clouds and called out, "I have come to you!" The clouds were brown and gray and dark. They flashed with and rumbled with lightning and began to swirl about. The clouds rumbled louder and louder and then turned into the hollering of voice.

"DISCIPLE OF MINE," called out the voice. "SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!"

Sonic genuflected. "O Lord! I heard your calling, and here I am!"

"MY CHILD," rumbled God's voice. "OBEY MY VOICE, AND KEEP MY COVENANT, AND YE SHALL ENDURE LIFE ETERNAL." Sonic bowed his head. "RAISE THY HEAD, AND THY LEG, AND THY HAND, AND HEED MY WORD, FOR IT IS MINE."

Sonic stood and looked towards the sky. "I will do your bidding, Lord God."

The clouds swirled and rumbled and flashed, and a bolt of lightning struck the earthen ground in front of Sonic, and a great blaze emerged from the soil, and when it departed the world, two stone tablets were in its place. Sonic bent down and picked up the tablets, for he knew it is what God intended him to do, and borne them unto himself, and walked back down the mountain.

Sonic looked out upon the people and read to them God's word. "This is His covenenat. Ten things God wants you to do." The people murmured and stirred. "You will not believe number seven."

Sonic read the tablets.

"Ten. Thou shalt not covet."

"Nine. Thou shalt not commit false witness against thy beighbor."

"Eight. Thou shalt not steal."

"Seven. Thou shalt not commit adulty."

"Seven. Thou shalt not kill."

Sonic heard his name called out, somewhere, far away.

"Five. Honor thy mom and dad."

Sonic felt a thumping in his temples.

"Four. Remember the day of the Sabbath, and keep it holy."

Sonic exhaled deeply.

"Three. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."

Sonic gritted his teeth.

"Two. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."

Sonic closed his eyes.

"One."