𝙄'𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜...

      It even hurts to remember. The first time I was one was when I once again tried to stop Eggman and prevent him from freeing Dark Gaia. Every night I turned into a terrible and scary werehog hedgehog. I could barely even control myself, and from always cheerful, I gradually became angry, rude and grumpy. One night I became a werehog again and didn’t even suspect it myself.

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      I once sat on a log and watched the sun slowly set at sunset. It was a beautiful view. I love watching sunrises and sunsets sometimes. The sun set and night came. I got up from the log and went to my home, without rushing anywhere. While I was walking home, the full moon began to shine in the sky. This scared me a little. I heard that werewolves appear when the moon is full, and I also suddenly remembered that I myself once became a werehog at night, even when there was no full moon. This really scared and upset me. What if the same thing happens to me again and I lose control of myself? What if the personality of the beast inside me sooner or later takes over my mind? Trying not to think about it, I moved on. Suddenly I heard the sounds of fighting. Someone was fighting with someone, and someone was shouting: — HIT!!! HIT!!! — CATCH THE KICK!!! — GET IT, ANIMAL!!! I listened to the voices and immediately realized that they belonged to Tails, Knuckles and Amy. They were fighting somewhere in the forest. I ran towards the sounds and shouted to them: — HOLD ON, FRIENDS, I’M RUNNING TO HELP!!! When I came running, I couldn’t believe my eyes. My friends fought against a real werehog. It was a huge wolf. He seemed to be anthropomorphic, like the rest of us, but he behaved like a real animal and did not even speak, but only growled. It was a real beast. He pushed Tails with one punch and wanted to hit him. Knuckles stood in front of him and held his fists with his hands, and Amy ran up and hit him in the chest with her hammer and thereby threw him away. The beast quickly came to its senses and ran towards her, growling. She didn’t have time to figure out how to dodge, but I managed to run in time and pushed Amy aside, thereby saving her life. The beast itself was able to hit me and scratch me in the back. He growled at me, and I, trying to pretend to roar, just shouted back at him. We run at each other. He tried to hit me first, but I managed to run at supersonic speed and hit the werehog so hard from the run that he turned around and fell for a while. Tails immediately ran and injected him with something from a pistol that looked like a tranquilizer. Blue liquid from the flask installed in it leaked into the beast itself and it began to twitch in convulsions. The beast immediately began to shrink in size and become a normal anthropomorphic wolf. When he woke up, he clearly had a headache, since he grabbed it. Having come to his senses, he looked around and asked us: — What happened here? How did I get here? — Everything is fine! — his brother reassured him. — My vaccine cured you from the curse. You won't attack any more. — Thank you for coming and helping us. — Knuckles thanked me. I turned to shake his hand, and Amy at that moment looked at my back and noticed scratches on it. — Oh no! — What? — I turned to her questioningly. — He scratched you. Now you too are cursed. — What are you speaking about? I didn’t understand then. — Sorry, it's my fault. — explained that wolf. — I was conducting research on some dark energy from space that absorbed me. Because of her, every night I turn into this monster and cannot control myself. — This is not your fault! — Tails reassured him. — This energy was from another planet, where you had already been and where Sonic also became a werewolf. — “Dark Gaia!” — I immediately understood in my thoughts. — Tails, can you prepare another antidote like this for Sonic? — asked Amy. — Actually, I made several of these flasks. I just took one for him. I didn’t think that he would have time to infect someone. — What should I do now? — I asked everyone. — Just don't worry, Sonic. We are quickly rushing for the vaccine and right after you. — Knuckles answers and ran with Tails. He ran away and said: — And you’d better stay away from everyone for now, just in case, if you suddenly start to transform. — In the meantime, I’ll take this unfortunate man home. — Amy says, taking the jackal’s friends and walking with him. I was left completely alone in the forest and even tried to touch my wound on my back. It was painful and stinging. Now this is where my fear of becoming a werehog again only intensified. It even felt like my hands were starting to tremble. It's like they're the first to mutate. I immediately grabbed my head and began to say to myself in my thoughts: — "I don't want! Don't want! No need! I don't want to turn into him again! I do not have! Please!" Under this fear, I did not notice how I lost consciousness and fell on the grass.

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      When I woke up, I felt that I was hungry and began to smell things. There was a smell of meat all around, far from here. I had the feeling that I wanted human flesh. Following the scent, I met Princess Alice in the forest. She saw me and screamed in horror. For some reason, without controlling myself, I attacked her and literally bit off her head. Her head turned out to be very tasty, especially with blood. I didn't understand why I started acting like a cannibal? Have I really turned into a werehog after all? I noticed a puddle nearby and looked through it at my reflection. I was horrified. I really did become a werehog and now I repent for killing Alice. — SONIC, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??? — I turned around at the shout and noticed Amy. She looked at me menacingly, but I could not control myself and without shame I attacked her. I tried to fight with myself, but the personality of the beast inside me turned out to be stronger and forced me to kill and hurt my friends, which I myself would never do. It was terrible. I couldn’t even look at what I was flogging. I tore all her clothes, revealing them, and began to torment and gnaw at her, and she screamed heart-rendingly in pain and begged me to wake up, so that I could come to my senses and overcome the werehog in myself. I seriously tried to do this, but it was no use. I completely lost control of myself. When I gnawed the whole poor thing to the bones, I immediately ran following the smell to the village and began to sow Chaos there, attack our inhabitants and eat them. Even Shadow, Knuckles and Sticks couldn't stop me. The werehog inside me put them all on the ground, beat them to death and betrayed them. I can't look at this anymore! Ask! Someone help me! I tore the whole village to pieces. Even Tails never found a vaccine for me in time and I also ate him, leaving only his two tails lying on the ground. Then, stretching out my arms as if on vines, I flew to Eggman's base. Even he couldn't stop or even kill me so I wouldn't hurt anyone else. The beast in me destroyed all the badniks and then crawled menacingly towards the doctor, and he could no longer resist and try to escape, because he had no weapons or cars. He just stood pressed against the wall and was afraid of me. For the first time in my life, I even felt sorry for killing him, but there was no other choice. When I grabbed him by the throat, he began to beg for mercy: — Don't, Sonic! No! I'm sorry! No! No! NO-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!

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      Suddenly, I woke up in my old body in the same forest in the same place. Tails stood nearby and injected his vaccine into my neck. — That's all! — he told me. I stood up and was shocked. Seeing not only him alive, but also Knuckles. — “So it was a dream?” — We only had to run away for five minutes to get a new vaccine and return to you, and you decided to just lie down here and fall asleep. — Knuckles made fun of me. Yes. I just dreamed it, and I myself have not yet had time to transform into reality. Well, glory to Chaos! — You don't have to worry. I personally tested my vaccine on myself when this beast also bit me. I almost lost control over myself, but I didn’t give up and did it after experiencing it myself. — the fox explained to me. For the first time in my life, I was glad that the horror I saw was just a dream. Now I will hope, and even do everything possible, so that I never allow this to happen in real life. And most importantly, thanks to vaccination from my brother, whom I always trust, I will no longer have the fear that I could become a werewolf again. I feel like this story is more along the lines of "I'm Sonic, but I can't stop becoming a werehog." I don’t even know what lesson can be figured out from this story? Maybe you yourself know? If so, let me know! Take care of yourself and fight the beast inside you, otherwise it will break out? Or always trust your friends who will always help you? Or don’t believe in all the nonsense from dreams and nightmares, because it’s not real? Or fight your nightmare and take your sleep into your own hands? Everything is so confusing! I don't know myself.