A/N: I've been wanting to write a Sonic fic for ages, now. What triggered me to do it now?
It's simple really…
On a peaceful evening, much like this one, I realized something, suddenly, when I asked myself: 'Just what is stopping me from actually typing my story and posting it so people can laugh at me, flame and shoot me?'. So 'myself' answered me with the air of wisdom 'Nothing but thy incurable laziness, you happy fool.'
Sometimes, I hate these pushy voices inside my head, don't you?
DISCLAIMER: If I owned Sonic, the world wouldn't be as it is now. BELIEVE ME!
Sonic Stars by StarSparklez
Chapter One: Cling, cling! What's there?
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Just another beautiful day in the peaceful Station Square. The sun shone brightly on this glorious spring day and flowers bloomed everywhere. Today, even the smallest, most insignificant peaces of soil stood out and proudly showed their crops, the best leaves of green, blossoms with petals of colors that shamed the finest rainbows.
Children came out to play as elders watched them affectionately, couples walked hand in hand and even loners found opportunity in this lovely day to appreciate nature's beauty. The sea was particularly inspiring too, reflecting a perfectly cloudless sky in its clear fluidity, in so, adding to its vastness, seemingly removing the frontiers between earth and heaven.
Yes, the horizon was a most amazing blue today. Blue…
Amy Rose sighed.
Yes, blue. Much like a certain hedgehog on her mind. Of course, that was the case most of the time and not just today. No, what made today different was the way the small pangs in her chest were a little more painful. Why? Well, probably because it was a most romantic day and Sonic The Hedgehog was not there to enjoy it with her. In short, she missed him today more then usual.
She hadn't even gotten the chance to ask him to join her this time; he'd ran off somewhere to play heroes again before she could try.
Tails was on the verge of finishing a major invention of his, so Amy knew better then to ask him to hang around; but even he was putting the final touch to his machine in the garden, outside.
Cream, needless to say, was having the time of her life, with her mother Vanilla and their chaos, trying out every possible mix of ice cream flavors they could buy. Big was most likely out fishing with Froggy, and Knuckles and his Angel Island were far out of reach.
Hence, Amy Rose found herself sitting by the beach, staring at the horizon, alone, thinking,
I really, hardly will ever understand how anyone can be on their own, all the time and still live fine that way.
Thoughts of a few people she knew then followed: Knuckles, away on his flying island with no companions other then chaos and the master emerald; Rouge, probably also alone with nothing but jewels but a lot happier about it…
"And Shadow," she reminded herself out loud, "Shadow's like that too."
"I hope that by that, you are not judging me against that faker." Spoke a profound voice behind her, surprising her.
She turned around and faced a black hedgehog with fiery amber eyes.
"Shadow!" she exclaimed.
He kept his dark expression, arms crossed.
"So?"
"Huh?" Amy was confused.
"What were you thinking when you spoke my name?"
"Oh!", she understood, "Just, that you were a loner, kind of like Knuckles."
"That red echidna? Humph. I'm The Ultimate Lifeform, nothing like him." Shadow almost sounded offended.
"He's a guardian," said Amy simply, as if that explained it.
Shadow regarded her for an instant, mutely, curiously.
The short silence got Amy a little uncomfortable, so,
"So, what brings you around here?" she asked.
"I'm running 'around here'. Sitting around at Rouge's in such a favorable weather would have been foolish."
"Oh yeah," she replied quietly. Shadow was unwittingly reminding her why she felt upset.
"So where's that faker?" he asked after an instant.
"Sonic?" Amy jumped, "He's—he… Kinda, went for a run too. Somewhere."
She mumbled that last part and looked away for a while before something dawned on her,
"Wait. Why are you looking for him?"
Shadow looked taken aback "I would never bother to find that faker. Unless, perhaps, that is to break his neck. It's Bat Girl who needs him."
"Huh? What? Rouge? But why?"
"Huh? What? Rouge? But why?"
Tails nodded to the three first, then shrugged to the last one. Odd movements to realize in raw as it made him feel wobbly. He explained,
"She called me this morning. I'm still not certain how she got the number yet. She seemed sincere enough though, she asked quite nicely that I tell you, she needs you to come see her at her place."
Sonic nodded once,
"Did she say it was urgent?"
Tails shook his head,
"No, and she didn't sound anxious or anything either. She just said that 'sometime today would be nice' the second time she called."
"Some weird kind of invitation this is. I don't know if we can trust her but I'll go anyway. You stay here and just finish what you're working on."
"But Sonic—" Tails started protesting but was cut off,
"No Tails! You stay here," he said a little more firmly then he'd intended.
Tails' expression showed perfectly his hurt at the surprising, unusual bite in his 'big brother' 's voice. However it wasn't long before Sonic apologized,
"Sorry Bro', that didn't come out quite right. Just got a lot on my mind lately."
The two-tailed fox nodded understandingly. "It's okay," he reassured.
Then, he remembered something.
"Amy was looking for you today."
Sonic's expression got odd at the mention of the pink hedgehog but he artfully put nonchalance in his voice as he stated calmly,
"Well, I'm not surprised she did. That girl never gives up."
"Much like someone I know," remarked Tails intelligently.
At that, Sonic had to chuckle.
"Yeah, got that right. Like many of us, in fact."
He turned to go.
"See ya later, Tails."
"Bye."
Although the two-tailed fox waved his hero goodbye smiling, he couldn't help but worry a little about the strange attitude the hedgehog had shown today.
Somewhere. Location unknown. 00:00 hours. (Gasp! Midnight!)
An evil laugh resonated throughout Eggman's newest secret laboratory.
"Hohohohoho! Mwahaaha haha! Hahohohaha!" (o.O;) (1)
Thunder rolled and a bizarre shadow rose on the wall.
"It's alive! Hahaha!"
And as if to prove Dr.Robotnic's words, in that precise instant, two red pupils glowed in the darkened room.
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To be continued…(2)
A/N:
1-Here the authoress watches impressively as the evil doctor accomplishes with perfect silliness and exaggeration the 'evil laugh'. She knows she would die and choke before she could attempt a similar one.
2-Sorry about the last scene, you guys. I just thought we needed a bit of comic relief before the end of this silly and first chapter. And what's there better then a mortal, immortal cliché when you can't think of anything original? ;)