Project R : The soldiers of chaos

Prologue : The seven chaos

Translated by: Chili

"The servers are the seven Chaos Emeralds. Chaos is power, enriched by the heart. The controller is the one who unifies the Chaos."

These were the words that my grandmother once told me when I was a little girl. In that moment, I didn't understand their meaning, but when I got closer to the Altar of Emerald for the first time, everything made sense.

The seven Chaos Emeralds... seven mystic gems that hold inside of themselves an incontrollable power. Nobody knows where they came from or how long they have been on our world, but it is said that whoever manages to control them will become the most powerful being on the entire planet.

My name is Tikal, daughter of the chieftain Pachacamac and the last priestess of the Knuckles clan.

For generations, my people have coexisted with the Chaos Emeralds and we learned how to benefit ourselves from their mystical power without disturbing their altar, thanks to a big gem that had the capacity to control the other seven: the Master Emerald. But the power of chaos was too tempting, and my father began seeing them as a chance to expand the Knuckles clan's empire.

I knew that disturbing the altar would bring us disastrous consequences, and I warned my father about desisting, but despite my pleadings, he and his warriors attacked the altar.

All this violence ended up summoning the Wrath of Chaos, the God protecting the altar, who used the Chaos Emeralds to punish my people, sinking them in an ocean of destruction. But that was not enough to calm its rage...

Chaos was out of control, and I was the only one able to stop him. I recurred to the power of the Master Emerald and managed to take back the seven Chaos Emeralds, but the hate and sadness had already polluted his heart, and I had no other choice but to sacrifice my physical form in order to lock him up inside the big gem. Since that moment, Chaos and I have been trapped in a long and deep sleep while the outside world changed.

Many centuries later, Chaos and I were released out of our prison by an evil scientist called Dr. Eggman, who pretended to use the power of Chaos as a weapon to conquer the world. Fortunately, a group of heroes was there to stop it, from which a young hedgehog who was blessed by the gift of speed stood out. His name was Sonic.

Sonic and his allies fought against Chaos, while I guided them with visions of the past. My plan was to lock up Chaos inside the Master Emerald again, but Sonic did something that, until that moment, I thought was a mere legend.

With the help of his friends and the power of the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic became a warrior of golden light and used his positive energy to purify the heart of Chaos, freeing it from the rage that tormented it for so long.

And just like that, thanks to a new generation of heroes, Chaos and I were able to come back to our rest inside the Master Emerald, waiting for the day that the world may need us again.

In the meantime, On a distant land, an echidna woman was watching over the horizon from the top of a large triangular building. Her clothes resemble those of a scientist, with big glasses covering her eyes and a digital tablet with information about the Chaos Emeralds in her hands.

In that moment, none of our heroes could have foreseen what was about to happen. An ancient evil had been released on our world, and the seven Chaos Emeralds would be in the center of the typhoon again.

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