"Chapter 23: A new adventure."

Sonic: Hero of Mobius.

Twilight Sparkle: Princess of Friendship.

Sally Acorn: Princess of Mobius.

Shadow: The ultimate life form.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders. Aspirants to heroines.

The Neitherlands. Castle of King Vorak. Centuries ago.

A young Tirek was in his room reading a sorcery book that he stole from Sendak, his brother Scorpan was with him playing to the swordman with a branch.

Tirek: "COULD YOU STOP MAKING SO MUCH NOISE. I AM READING!"

Scorpan: "SURRENDER VILLAIN!"

Scorpan hit Tirek with the branch, the centaur was about to hang him when a gargoyle guard entered to the room.

Guard: "My princes, your parents solicits your presence."

In the hall room was king Vorak of the Neitherlands, an old centaur with white beard, golden armour and scarlet robe. With him was his wife, queen Hydon, a female gargoyle with white dress, and a ram of blue fur.

King Vorak: "Boys, let me introduce you to your new teacher, Grogar the Magnificent"

The ram go with Tirek and shook his hand.

Grogar: "Nice to me too, I got the feeling of we have fun together."

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The Neitherlands. Present day.

Shadow escaped form the black arms and now was In the middle of a wasteland along a little deer, a breezie and a unicorn.

Shadow: Are you okay?

The deer: "Yes, thank you"

Shadow: "What they wanted those aliens from you?"

Breezie: "They wanted study our DAN o whatever it is, and create duplicates from us. By the way, I am Seabreeze."

Deer: "I am prince Bramble, son of king Aspen from the Deer Kingdom of Ticket. My father will reward you for your bravery"

Shadow: "And you…" Pointed the unicorn who was on the floor.

Unicorn: "My name is Radiant Hope, you shouldn't have to rescue me."

Shadow: "But I did it and now we most figure the way to exit form this desert."

Shadow helped Raidant to woke up and with his new team, walked to the immensity of the desert.

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Ponyville.

Twilight Sparkle were on the way to Royal Sisters Castle accompanied by Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Spike, Sonic, Sally, Tails and Amy for something that she need for the quest of the two last emeralds, in the way, the was talking about their experiences.

Sally: "So you unlocked that box and you turned in super ponies"

Rainbow Dash: Yeah, that what was happened"

Pinkie Pie: "And were a killer robot who almost destroy your family and friends with laser blades and all kind of weapons gaining the hate of everyone that you met?

Sally: "…"

Applejack: "Pinkie, Its better don't touch that theme anymore."

Before Twilight wanted to make a stop in what was the Golden Oak Library, Twilight home until was destroyed by Tirek. Sonic and Twilight entered to the remains, the princess took a burned book and began to cry, Sonic comfort her stroking her mane.

Sonic: "I know how you feel, Eggman did it the same to Knothole Village, the town where I grew up, was awful but believe me, the things could be worst. Besides you still have your friends."

The alicorn answered with a smile and continued their way, without realizing it, from the wreckages born a little sprout. The mobians who came arrive to Ponyville were going through the town, Vector took Pipsqueack to his home whose mother thanks him with devotion, Spitfire and Daring Do still patrolling the area, Big still fishing in the lagoon, Vinyl, Octavia, Derpy and Trixie with the help of Billy Hatcher, Honey, Mina, Rotor and the Doctor where repairing the damage caused by Tirek and the changelings prior to the wave; Maud was collecting rocks and Diamond Tiara ran to her home, to the arms of her lovely father who cried for the emotion. In the Castle was Knuckles and Blaze, in a balcony watching the town.

Knuckles: "How is your castle?"

Blaze: "Big and luxurious like this, but form me, was nothing more than a prison. I spend all my life behind walls and I never knew what was live."

Knuckles: "We are two."

Shining Armor and Cadance returned to the Crystal Empire, Nicole was reading a book she watching Rouge, the bat made the same, sometimes looking the jewels hanged on the branches above the thrones room, and Rarity and Fluttershy were with Antoine, Bunnie and Cosmo drinking tea in the main room.

Antoine: "Those cucumber sandwiches "c'est tres magnifique."

Bunnie: "Tell me sugar-cube, when you where in coma, what did you overhear?

Antoine: "Things, but now that you mention it, I heard you telling me don't loo anybody, make things right and forgive something that you will be do. Exactly, what you were going to do?"

If she told him Antoine about her entry to the Dark Egg Legion, fear that Antoine could be angry with her, so she decided to keep it in secret.

Bunnie: "To the forest, to reflect"

Fluttershy: "If you have a crisis, the forest is a great place to reflect."

Antoine: "And exactly, what the others going to get"

Rarity: "A book"

Bunnie: "A book?"

Rarity: "A book who help her to find that emerald"

Fluttershy: "And you Cosmo, where you come from, all the planet can talk in your world. Cosmo?"

Cosmo wasn't listen Fluttershy, she was thinking in that vision of her exploiting in the space.

Cosmo: "I don't understand, I'm here, I should be die?"

Nicole laughed by something that she read on the book, Rouge approached the opportunity and tried to take one of the gems above the six thrones, when she took a red jewel, was pulled to the star on the floor of the room, then the thrones started to shine and a crystal circle table appeared in the middle of the thrones. The else heard the commotion and went to look what happened.

Rouge: "Wasn't my fault"

Everyone looked the table and Knuckles knows what must to do.

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Royal Sisters Castle.

In the castle, Twilight and Sonic were in the library searching the book. While they looking it, Sonic continued asking Twilight about his adventure, specially about that creature Mephiles.

Twilight: "As you described him, that creature could be a mobian version of King Sombra,"

Sonic: "The tyrant that ruled the Crystal Empire before Celestia and Luna defeated him?"

Twilight: "Yes, the same powers and the same intention, maybe exists a relation between them."

Sonic: "Maybe they are brothers."

The idea that Sombra have a brother makes Twilight shudder. Meanwhile Spike was in the secret room reading a comic of the Power Ponies, Rainbow and Pinkie were giving to Sally, Amy and Tails a tour to the castle.

Pinkie Pie: "And behind that wall, is the toboggan where princess Celestia and Luna sliding down all the day." The pink pony notice a sad look on the eyes of the mobian princess. "Are you sad?"

Sally: "I TRIED TO DESTROY EVERYTHING THAT I LOVED. OF COURSE THAT I AM SAD! ALL MY LIFE AS DEDICATED TO PROTECT MY PEOPLE AND I ALMOST RUIN EVERYTHING. I 'M NOT DESERVE TO BE A PRINCESS! "

Rainbow Dash close to hear and held her shoulder. "As Daring Do said: "That's ancient history"

Amy: "Rainbow's right darling. Better think in all the good things that you did and left the past behind to think in the future."

Sally was silent for a moment, thought when she helped the substitute Freedom Fight and Geoffrey to disassemble a factory of robot duplicates, when she and Sonic helped Lupe and her Wolf Pack, and when she fixed the differences between her brother and Tails dad. "You're right, I have to think in the future. Now Pinkie, tell more about that toboggan."

Tails didn't listen the conversation, he was occupied drawing something in his notebook.

Applejack: "What are you drawing Tails." She looked a machine in form of half-sphere with wings. "What's that stuff?"

Tails: "When you know who turned into a you know what, me, Amy and Sonic we were going around the world helping the inhabitants of Mobius to fight against Eggman; so I think in build a new HQ that could fly and take us to the action place."

The earth pony started at the design with interest. In the library Sonic was reviewing a bookstore when he viewed the title of the boo that Twilight was looking for, "Beyond sight spell" by Clover the wise.

Sonic: "I found it" Gives to book to Twilight.

Twilight: "You did it Sonic! This is the spell that I need to locate that emerald."

Twilight focused, her eyes turned white and had a vision, a vision of a indigo nebula, after a planet and in the planet, a stone compound; inside the compound, was the white emerald.

Sonic: "Have you see something?"

Twilight: "I saw the emerald, is in another location, seems to be another planet, that's I all know."

A bing came from sonic communicator. "Yeah?"

Knuckles: "Sonic, could you back to the castle, something weird has happening."

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Everfree Forest.

Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Cream and Cheese were walking through the forest looking her friend Scootaloo.

Applebloom: "YAHOO, SCOOTALOO WHERE ARE YOU?"

Cream: "That forest causing me creep"

Cheese: "Chao chao."

Sweetie Belle: "Don't be afraid Cream, we know this forest as the palm of our hooves." Sweetie looked something on her hoof. "That's new."

The a roar came form the shrubs, was a Ursa Minor looking something to eat.

Cream: "WHAT'S THAT!"

Applebloom: "One word: RUUUN!"

The two crusaders, the rabbit and the chao ran from that thing. In another place of the forest, Scootaloo with Espio and Charmy found the home of Zecora, but was anybody there.

Scootaloo: "This is the home of our friend Zecora, but its empty."

Charmy: "Maybe she out to eat."

Then they heard the screams of the children coming form the trees. The bear cornered the fillies, the rabbit and the chao against a rock.

Applebloom: "IF I ONLY HAVE A REPELENT FOR BEARS!"

So Scootaloo appeared held of Charmy, Scootaloo gave to the bear a kick in the cheek and Espio scared him with a smoke bomb, the monster ran out and the tree filles finally could re-encountering again, hugged as three good friends.

Scootaloo: "OH GUYS I M!SSED YOU, ALTHOUGH I DON'T REMBEMBER YOU."

Applebloom: "We too."

Charmy was blowing the noise for the emotion despite the indifference of Espio. Scootaloo noticed the paper hat Charmy used and saw words written on it.

Scootaloo: "From you where you got that?"

Charmy: "This paper? Was stuck next behind that tree."

Charmy gave the paper to the crusaders and Applebloom read had it written.

"If you read this stuff, means that I was taken off. I used a warp ring to escape, but that guys hunt me with rape. The ring will lead you to the "ties of Friendship". Find them or the worlds will fall as a sunken ship."

Zecora.

P.S.: The ring is under my pillow.

Applebloom: "Zecora is in trouble"

The filliies and the mobians going at Zecora's. The pegasi noticed Cream and wants to know who is she?

Scootaloo: "Who is the new?"

Cream: "I am Cream and this Cheese. Say hello Cheese."

Cheese: "Chao chao."

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The Neithelands.

Walked for many hours until they were beaten by the thirsty.

Bramble: "My kingdom for a glass o water."

Even Shadow can't make one step more, pray of the tiredness, he and his partners felt down to the sand. In a blinking he noticed a bottle in front of him, he took it ready to drink the content when a voice said him "DON'T DRINK THAT!" He dropped the bottle by the scare and to crash against the floor, a door appeared from the nothing, Shadow and his friends crossed the door and found themselves in nothing less that in Station Square. The first thing that they watched was a water cooler on the sidewalk. The group ran to the water cooler and drank all that they can drink.

Shadow: "We are fortunately, look for the GUN HQ, they can help us."

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The Chaos Zone

The Genesis Wave sent Snively to an unknown location, where he met to the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad conformed by Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts. Snively revealed them that Robotnik, the original, still alive; so they were determined go to the chaos zone in his search. The bald guy could built a portal to take them the mentioned zone, when they crossed the portal, found a strange upholstered like a chess board, stars hanging form ropes, slipped clocks, pillars buried in the ground and clouds of sugar cottons dropping chocolate rain.

Scratch: "So, this is the Chaos Zone"

Grounder: "And how will we found doctor Robotnik."

Snively pulled out a radar device with two antennas.

Snively: "This is a DNA detector, I adjust it to Robotnik DNA, If he's here, we will find him."

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Ponyville.

Back to the castle, the Freedom Fighters and the Mane Six were discussing about that table. When Twilight touched it, an holographic map of all Equestria appeared on the table, leaving everyone annoying, especially Tails who reviewed the table from below.

Tails: "That's must be a some kind of hologram."

Twilight: "It's not an hologram, is a magic map from Equestria, call me crazy, but I think that the castle want help us."

Tails: "C'mon Twily, it's a castle, the castles don't think!"

Rainbow Dash: Don't underestimate the power of the magic."

Twilight touché the table again an the map changed, instead of show an image of Equestria, show an image of a system of five planets, one was the planet what Twilight saw in her vision, and a "X" marked the place where the emerald was hidden.

Twilight: "That's the planet, and the "X" point the place."

Sonic: "And how we get there."

Sally: "We could use one of the emeralds to open a portal to that planet."

Applejack: "Its better leave emeralds next to the tree. Will be safe."

Spike: "If we only have a mirror."

Tails: "If I only have my lab."

Rouge: "Maybe I can help." She pulled out a ring form her cleavage."

Knuckles: "A warp ring!"

Blaze: "Where you got that!"

Rouge: "From Hydia's bedroom just before her and her brood caught me"

Twilight: "IS EXACTLY THAT WHAT WE NEEDED US!"

Rouge: "Unfortunately is uncharged."

Pinkie: "If we put it in the Harmony Tree, could be charging up"

Twilight: "Good idea Pinkie" The princess flew to the harmony tree to charge the ring.

Sonic: "She is always in a hurry?"

Princess Sally closed to Rarity for asking her something. "Pinkie told me that you're modist "

Rarity: "Of course, what you need from me?"

Sally: "I need you to make me a new wardrobe."

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Heart of World.

In his throne room, Grogar was punishing Mephiles by his failure in retrieve the emerald and let free Shadow, red rings coming from theirs eyes like sound waves making hurt the demon hedgehog.

Mephiles: "PLEASE STOP!"

Grogar: "FOOL, EACH FAILURE PUT US FARTER FROM OUR OBJETIVE!"

Mephiles: "I KNOW WHERE IS THE NEXT EMERALD!"

Grogar: "SPEAK!"

Mephiles: "IN THE TWILIGHT CAGE!"

The pain don't left him speak. "IN THE TWILIGHT CAGE."

Grogar stop torturing Mephiles. "Reunite the band, don't fail me this time or you'll pay heavily for."

Mephiles: "YYYes master."

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Station Square.

In the city Shadow with his new friends were walking through the city, Seabreeze smell something that called his attention, a girl who was eating an ice-cream; the breezie flew to her, landed on her ice-cream and gave it a tasty.

Seabreezie: "Mmm, vanilla"

Girl: "UGH, A FLY!"

The girl Seabreezie with a hand. The breezie flying off, fortunately Shadow caught him with his hand.

Shadow: "The city could be a dangerous place for a breezie, be careful."

The black hedgehog notice the sad look on Radiant face and thought that would be prudent in speak with her.

Shadow: "I thought that you would be happy to escaping from that hell"

Radiant Hope: "The only hell from I want to escape is the past. Tell me, have you ever in love with the wrong person?"

Shadow stayed annoyed with that question. "I never in love with someone, so I cant answered you"

Radiant: "You know? You remind me too much to him, maybe is better that you left me alone, I have enough of guys who think they're heroes."

Shadow gets angry. "A hero, excuse me my lady but I…"

Suddenly the sky turned in red and an army of aliens landed on the city.

Bramble: "THEY FOUND US!"

Shadow: "BEHIND ME!"

A big back arm landed front Shadow, he face him and knick him down with two punches.

Shadow: "Piece of cake."

But an horde of black arms landed around the city, too much for the ultimate life form.

Bramble: "Piece of cake?"

?: "Pssst. Over here"

A boy with sunglasses, green earphones, a yellow t-shirt, green shorts and two skates called them form an alley.

?: "I am Beat, follow me if you want to live."

Shadow and the others, under the circumstances, considered appropriate follow him.

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Nightopia.

Princess Luna was in a courtyard what contains series of gates, each gate represent the dream of someone. Luna used her dream magic to look those doors and search the ponies and mobians who awoke the "Friendship tie", for this, she was using an spell for search energy pulses; with her was guy dressed as harlequin.

Luna: "Thanks for help me in this mission Nights."

Nights: "Is a pleasure, its my duty to protect this kingdom, despite I was created to destroy it, besides, any friend of Tikal is a friend of mine. "

Luna "Yes, we looked how do you get along with her. How you two met?"

Nights: "Tikal help me to free me from the control of Wizeman, I owe her a lot." The nightmeren changed of conversation. "How you will know when you find the dreams of whoa are you looking for?"

Luna: "The dreams are like the pages of a diary, the blood of the soul. if somepony have something special, the dreams will tell me."

Nights: "Talking about that, I watched you when you were looking the dreams of those children: Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. I don't want to intrude, but those fillies have something special?"

Before Luna could answer, Celestia and Tikal arrived to the courtyard with a flash that illuminated the place.

Celestia: "You found something?"

Luna: "Not yet. We know that Twilight, Sonic, his friend Tails, Shadow and that girl Blaze are some of the chosen, but we don't know where are the other three."

Tikal: "We must find them before the necromancer."

So, princess Luna felt an energy from her horn to a one of the gates.

Luna: "I thought that I finally found someone."

Luna went to a gate with a spoon engraved on it, to open it, she saw a grey filly with silver mane, glasses and a spoon in form of heart as cutie mark, she was inside in a cottage accompanied by two human teens. Outside, the city began to being invaded by an army of black aliens.

Nights: "BLACK ARMS!"

Luna: "That's could be a problem."

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Station Square.

In a cottage in the middle of a dead alley, the same that Luna watched in the door, was Silver Spoon was playing twister with her new friends, a blond girl with a short cream dress, striped green sweater, gloves and boots, and a latin boy with blue toiler suit and a dark blue bonnet. Then arrived Beat with Shadow, Radiant, Bramble and Seabreeze.

Beat: "Hi guys! I brought news friends for our little's resistance."

Shadow and the equestrians introduced themselves, the other members ias the gang ntroduces as Gum and Corn. When they met Silver Spoon, noticed that they aren't the only ones.

Radiant Hope: "How you got here? You escaped from those aliens too?"

Silver Spoon: "Aliens? No? A black cloud brought me here and my friends took care of me since then."

Beat: "Let the talk for another time, we have a major problem." Beat got out his cell phone and turn on the screen for show them the situation. "The city is being invaded by beings from outer space.

Gum: "We'll say no more, we must to protect the people of the city."

Radiant: "And what you know about being a hero?"

Corn: "The police called us criminals, the poor benefactors but we call us adventurers."

Bramble: "Fascinating, I never be a part of a gang"

Shadow: "At least you know something about that aliens?"

Beat: "I hacked the info from GUN archives. Those aliens call themselves black arms, they want to create their own civilization on this planet, for this, they need to eradicate all the all life on the earth"

Radiant: "That wraps that up."

Shadow: "You might lend me your phone?"

Beat lend his phone to Shadow for consult the files downloaded from GUN computer. He looked the info of those aliens, how Doctor Gerald was the first one in make contact with him, reason for why he was judged as traitor against the human race, but that caught his eyes was the file of a little known, though skilled hedgehog burglar.

This happened before Shadow join to GUN, it was night, he infiltrated in the Mobius Museum of Art, used his speed and a visor to elude the alarm sensors and took from exhibitor a crystal ring with a strange inscription, however activated the alarm to take off the ring. The guards arrived aiming his arms to the hedgehog, Shadow was faster and escaped before the guards could shot him. After his thunderer exit, Shadow arrived to a terrace, thee was a green hedgehog with spiky hair, red vest and red tennis with white soles.

?: "Have you got it?"

Shadow: First tell if you have it and what do you want to this tablet.

The green hedgehog pulled out a CD. "In that disc is the information about your past. Respect to the table, is a secret."

Shadow: "I ignore the modus operandi of you the smugglers, but I have rules, WHY DO YOU WANT IT!"

?: "… All right. The ring is a relic from an ancient civilization named "The Ancient Ones", created by the same power that prevent that Mobius torn into pieces. Why? For change. Something more?"

Shadow: "…"

Manic: "NOW, THE RING!"

Shadow was thinking for a minute. "TAKE IT!" He threw the ring to the sky and broke it with a chaos spear.

?: "FOOL!"

The green hedgehog went crazy over Shadow, but the black hedgehog threw him downwards with his legs. Shadow took the pieces of the ring and buried them scattered in many places of the park.

Shadow: "His name is Manic, but according to this file, he died when he was 12 years, so, who was that guy?"

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Everfree Forest.

In Zecora house, Espio used his tail to open the door, Applebloom held up the pillow and found the ring that the letter mentioned.

Scootaloo: "And how activate it"

Applbloo was agitating the ring until flipped from her hooves, to bounce on the floor, the ring expanded to open a portal.

Sweetie Belle: "Well, that's the mode"

The crusaders entered to the portal, followed by Cream and Cheese.

Charmy: "I don't know if we must follow them."

Espio: "We escaped form a circus, from the lair of a crazy entertainment queen and from a mechanic bear. I say: WHAT A HELL"

And the Chaotix follow them to the portal too. The warp ring closed leaving the ring lied on the floor.

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Twllight Castle.

Twilight put the ring that was given by Rouge next to the tree seems to be recharged successfully.

Twilight: "It works!"

After took the ring and went back to the castle to prepare to the journey. In the castle Sonic was talking with Rainbow about that dream that she had in the Tartarus.

Sonic: "Is true that your mother left you?"

Rainbow was throwing an apple from the window, was a hard question, but Rainbow wasn't afraid to answer. "Yeah, That's true! She abandoned us, me and my dad when I was just a baby, only left me not that said: "Sorry, but I have more important things to do that care fragile babies. (Images of Rainbow training) I grew up training hard, getting stronger hoping that one day, she come back. When I became a Wonderlot, I hope that she will be there, see the awesome as who I am and feel proud of me… snif snif" A tear dropped on Rainbow cheek and cleaned immediately. "Sorry". Sonic closed to her with a smile.

Rainbow: "I know I, I know it. SMILE."

Both embraced, after saw Twilight returned to castle with ring.

Rainbow: C'mon, Twilight is back!

Both went to the map room, without even knowing, Daring Do was aside the window hearing the conversation between Rainbow and Sonic and rolled her eyes down in sign of sadness. In the map room everyone reunited with Twilight.

Twilight: "Well everybody its to see prove this baby."

The alicorn put the ring on the floor and a portal appeared in front of everyone.

Sally: "There's only know who of us will be go"

Twilight: "Me and my friends of course"

Sonic: "And me and my Freedom Fighters team, EVERYONE" Sally smiled.

Knuckles: "Don't forget me, without me, you are lost."

?: "Me too"

Was Daring offering herself to join to the mission.

Daring Do: "I have a lot of experience recovering treasures, you need me"

Rainbow was exited to know that her heroine will go. Rouge couldn't leave the opportunity to appropriate an emerald.

Rouge: "I want in."

Blaze: "Me too"

Spike: "What about me?"

Twilight: "I would prefer that you stay here keeping the tree,, just case"

The dragon was some disappointed, but he couldn't contradict a Twilight order. With the team selected, everyone proceeded to went through the portal, to the unknown.

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The Wolf Nation.

All the wolves leaded by Lupe (the good one) were fighting against a big centaur with horns, dark blue fur and red skin, the wolves are too many but the creature used his magic to absorb all the life force of Lupe and her Wolf Pack. After Tirek went to the Ancient Onyx shrine, Lupe's husband Lobo was keeping the sacred relic, the wolf king threw herself to the invader with his spear, the centaur held him from his neck and absorb his energy leaving him as a withered mummy. Tirek took the gem and absorb his power, however wasn't that he expected and crushed the stone like it was of glass.

Tirek: "THAT'S NOT TOO!" I think it's time to bring help"

Another chapter, now introducing Beat Gang from Jet Set Radio and Nights.I hope to finish that story a soon as possible. Also check my other story: "Truths of Hearts" and leave me your reviews please.