I'm really sucky at previews so I'll do them here instead. Oh but this is a prewarning cause I couldn't fit it in before. There will be some yaoi from/in chapter three, if you don't like then read over. Please review if you read I'd like feed back so I can improve my writing. Thank you!
It was a warm summers morning when a blue hedgehog and red echidna were making their way across the campus to meet their friends for a new day of school.
'Yo, Sonic! You heard about the new girl starting today?', the echidna asked his friend who was jogging next to him.
'C'mon Knuckles, you know I don't pay attention to gossip!', Sonic replied with a laugh.
'Yeah I know but this is big, I mean. It's not every day someone new starts at this school. You have to be either half animal, half human or be like us',
knuckles explained.
'Yeah, yeah I know', the hedgehog replied before racing off with his friend.
The friends arrived at the assembly hall where they took their seats and waited for the new kid to arrive, the headmaster came in first to announce what was going on. 'As most of you may already know, we are taking in a new student today and I want you to give her a warm welcome. Any snide remarks and its detention', she said cheerfully but firmly. Then she opened the door and encouraged the new student in. She was a pale blue cat with crystal blue eyes and lilac, long hair that was somewhat messy on top. But it was somehow naturally in separate spikes as if it were organised, a bit like Sonic's quills. The headmaster then urged her to introduce herself.
'H-hello, my name is Millie. Millie the cat.' She stuttered as a few kind people smiled and payed attention.
'Go on, say the rest of your name', the headmaster urged again.
'Huh, do I have to?', Millie replied moaning. The headmaster gave her a look that said "you're not that scared are you". "I guess not" the cat thought back to herself. She then mustered up the courage to say what was left of her name.
'I'm also the first Phoenix princess of the Solaris realm', she then proudly announced, this caused a lot of whispering and gasps amongst the kids in the seats. Someone then shouted 'if your a Phoenix princess then why don't you have golden wings or something?!', a smug green bird boy asked above the collective sound of whispers and gasps.
'I do actually have firebirds wings I'm just not in the right form. But if you only want to see my wings to prove I'm not lying, I can show you', Millie replied with irritation at the boys remark.
'Go on then', the boy challenged as he lent forward to see what she could do.
With a nod Millie asked the headmaster if she could move back a moment as to not hit her with her wings, then she concentrated and in flash of crimson gold fire-like smoke a pair of folded wings appeared on her back. She then opened her wings to show as deep golden orange with golden feathers that lined the bottom just like an eagles. This sent shock and awe through the crowd as some of the gold feathers reflected the light above. To whom ever the golden rays hit, felt warmth and sudden happiness, this the lucky students enjoyed.
One of them happened to be Sonic, he too felt the warmth from the ray of golden light but something else as well, something he couldn't quite put his finger on. 'Wow, your lucky to have the princesses light shine on you. That's probably never going to happen again for a long while', Tails exclaimed. Amy, who was sat next to sonic, looked rather jealously at Sonic under the golden beam.
"Why Sonic huh, why him!?" She asked herself frustrated, "it's just dumb luck" a voice replied in her head.
'Huh!', Amy murmured, wondering where the voice came from, she looked down to see the blue cat smiling up at her with her wings that had now disappeared. Amy turned away in disgust which made Millie feel guilty for opening her wings. Just then the first bell rang to signal everyone to their first class, Millie picked up her bag and made her way hastily to her first lesson. As did everyone else including Amy who's first lesson was P.E. she loved this lesson especially if they were doing gymnastics.
Much to her dismay she found out that the new girl would be joining her class, look around to find her and saw her being swamped by the other girls in her class. For some reason Amy felt sorry for the new kid and managed to separated the other kids from her with not so much as a warning. 'T-thank you Amy', the girl stuttered.
'Hey, how'd you know my name?', Amy asked frustrated.
'I just guessed, you also look like an Amy', Millie replied simply.
'Ok then, guess the second part of my name', Amy challenged that cat.
'Rose', Millie simply replied again.
'Wow, how'd you know that?', asked a now annoyed Amy.
'The colour of your fur', Millie said calmly as she walked to the line for P.E. not only that but she was at the front as the line was alphabetical. This annoyed Amy further, making Millie feel uncomfortable because she was being glared at from the back of the line. You could probably guess who, her jealousy welling up inside her because the new girl was getting the most attention.
'Cool it, you'll blow a fuse', said a voice from behind. Trying to calm Amy down.
'Sorry Rouge, I just can't control myself sometimes', Amy apologised to her bat friend , whom was not in her class but was waiting for her teacher. Amy's name was then called out as she walked into the locker rooms to change for P.E.
As the class walked into the gym they saw an array of gymnastics equipment, all lined up as if in a course. This was obviously to see what everyone could do, which made everyone sigh in reluctance. The course started with a simple small square trampoline with mats after it, then a balance beam about two feet off the ground, followed by a spring board and horse; finally a set of irregular bars. This was most defiantly a test of what they had learned the past term.
'Alright class, lets start by timing how quickly we can get past this apparatus. I'll time so no one will miss out. Now, who wants to go first?', the teacher explained to the class. Everyone moved backward on hearing the question, apart from Millie. Everyone was surprised to see the new kid volunteer for such a difficult task, the fastest anyone ever got was a minute and ten seconds.
'Are you sure you want to go? I can get someone to show you what to do if you like?', the teacher asked hesitantly, mostly because she was surprised as well that the new student was volunteering for an A* corse, without any training before hand.
'Thats ok, I know how to use all of it, it's just like the jungle jim back home. Especially the irregular bars, they're my favourite!', Millie replied excitedly. She positioned herself at the start of the corse ready to start. A rather bewildered teacher readied the stopwatch and started the girl off.
Starting with the small trampoline the cat ran, jumped on and then off with a 360 spinning flip, a very advanced move for a new comer. Landing on the mats she then cartwheeled onto the beam and with one swift leap she summersaulted across the beam, landing the last one on the spring board. Using the springboards power she did a handstand onto the horse and walked along the horse, she reaching the end to then pushed off her hands to propel herself toward the irregular bars. When she grabbed on to them she swung and gained rhythm, leading to her swinging to the higher bar, stopping at the top and turning round. She followed the simple routine before landing perfectly on the mats bellow, finishing with a bow and winding down stretches.
'Goodness, that was forty nine seconds exactly!', exclaimed the teacher clearly even more than surprised now, as we're most of the students.
'How on earth did you learn that?! It would take most of us, with rock solid dedication, at least two years to perfect!', Blaze asked from the crowd.
'Really? Because I could do that when I was eight.' Millie answered whilst finishing her stretches, which were also graceful somewhat. After Millie the rest of the class went through the course, no one getting close to Millie's time, even Blaze and Amy didn't come close. First period ended and second period started swiftly after that, it was English and not only that but Sonic shared his English now with the new girl. She sat next to him to fill the empty space there.
The class opened their books to start writing about the novel they were looking at.
'Hey, my name's Sonic and I'd like to thank you for the golden light you shone on me this morning. It really does lift your spirit doesn't it!', Sonic said happily to Millie.
'Your welcome! The beams aren't just dumb luck like I told Amy. They choose who to shine on and I can't control that', the cat explained to Sonic who was listening closely.
'Hey princess, nice light show this morning. I even heard you beat Blaze's record at the gym corse. Careful, get too cocky and you have to answer to me', A green haired bird boy said behind Millie, making sure only Millie heard, only, Sonic caught word too. The teacher then left the room for a minute to fetch some more books.
'Hey, quit teasing Millie Julian. You know she doesn't like to be called that and she's not getting cocky. You asked to see her wings anyway so that ones your own doing.' Sonic said defensively of Millie.
'Oooo, helping your girlfriend Sonic. I thought you weren't that kind of person?' Julian teased.
'For one thing, Sonic's not my boyfriend and second of all why do you have to pick on people. Is it just because I'm new and different or do you do this on a daily basis', Millie snapped now frustrated that another person was either complaining or making fun of her.
'He he, just the thing I do. Why d'you like that sort of thing?' Julian shot back. Neither Millie nor Sonic dignified him with an answer, they simply turned back around and carried on with work. Julian then did something that would make one of the pair most uncomfortable. When Millie had turned to speak, Julian had hooked his foot around her chair leg. With one strong jerk of his leg the chair Millie was sitting on fell backwards taking her with it.
To sonic who turned to see what was happening, everything suddenly went in slow motion. As Millie fell her pleated skirt lifted to reveal a pair of pale blue and white striped panties. Upon seeing her panties Sonic blushed and caught Millie before she hit her head on the desk behind her, bringing the two even closer. This in turn made Millie blush. As fast as Millie had fell they both managed to get the selfs upright and back at their desk, both blushing Millie asked Sonic, 'did you see?'.
'Eerrm...' Sonic replied.
'Oh god, that means yes. Look, it never happened ok!' Millie said hastily, clearly embarrassed at the fact a boy had seen her pants.
'H-hey, so long as its between us it definitely never happened!' Sonic stuttered, also embarrassed.
'Then why are you blushing?'
'Oh, I didn't know I was' , Sonic lied through his teeth as to not worry Millie, finger under his nose. Much to their relief class was soon over and Sonic had promised before the mishap to introduce her to his friends. As they walked they noticed a large group of students all huddled around some sheets of paper on the wall.
'What are they looking at?' Asked Millie confused as to why there were so many students in one place.
'The sign up sheets for the singing and musician competitions. But there aren't normally this many people looking at it, hey what's everyone looking at?' Sonic shouted over the top of everyone, trying to get an answer.
'The new girls signed up for both competitions', someone shouted back.
'What! I didn't even know about them until know, someone else must've put my name down, can I change it?!' Millie exclaimed surprised and worried. A small mouse girl made her way through the crowd and explained to them that auditions are tomorrow so Millie could ask not to be in the competition then. With a sigh of relief the pair then made their way out to the courtyard, where Sonic introduced Millie to the rest of the group.
She was greeted with a high five from Tails, brofist from Knuckles, hugs from Cream and Cheese. But, no Amy. Where was she and why wasn't she here.
'You know where Amy is?' Sonic asked his friends. Before they could answer a pink hedgehog announced herself from the roof.
'You're not the only one who can balance on high places. Waah!', Amy screamed as she slipped and started to fall. Before Sonic could even lift a foot to run and catch Amy, Millie had already jumped to Amy's height and caught her. Using the edge of the roof as a liftoff point she jumped back to the courtyard and landed without making a sound. After putting Amy down she thanked Millie with much reluctance as Sonic's friends asked if Amy was ok and how Millie got to her faster than Sonic.
'Sorry, it's just habit. When a friends in trouble I can't help but help them.' Millie explained to the group.
'Huh, you consider me a friend even though I was mean to you before?' Amy asked confused.
'Of corse, why wouldn't I. You saved me from that mob of girls earlier, only a friend would do something like that.' The cat replied.
'Oh', Amy said looking down as she did, trying to hide the smile on her face. She made another friend without realising. This made her feel happy.
'Hey Sonic just told us that someone signed you up for those comps. Why don't you come to Amy's dorm tonight and maybe do a song and violin piece for us. You don't have to if you don't want, it's just a suggestion', Tails said to Millie.
'Really! You'd sit an listen to me?', Millie said rather exited.
'Sure, so long as you don't sound like your strangling a cat.' Knuckles added.
"I am a cat darn it! Honestly Knuckles."
'Great, see you then. What number is Amy's dorm?'
'Number 39', Amy replied as they went to their next lesson. The rest of the day went by rather quickly, Millie was extremely excited to be performing for friends. After changing into something more comfortable she made her way to dorm 39. Millie wore pale pink and white striped hand warmers that went to her elbow. A pair of poofy denim shorts with a diamond checked brace hanging down on one side, also wearing a pair of long stripy socks the same colour as the hand warmers and a pair of plain purple converse. Her top was a simple t-shirt with a miku hatsune leek across the front with a short sleeved denim jacket over the top.
Millie also went back to her dorm first to pick up her violin, she played rather well and Tails had also requested a piece of her choice. This she was very excited about because she loved to play the violin. Finally she had reached the dorm, knocked on the door and waited for an answer. Cream greeted her as she opened the door and let her in. Millie placed the instrument case down on the desk and turned to her friends.
'Any songs you want me to sing or would you rather me choose?', Millie asked her new friends.
'Well what kind of songs do you like singing, can you sing in Japanese or any other language?' Knuckles asked back.
'Funnily enough I know tons of Japanese songs, do you know what vocaloid is, if so I can sing almost any song by the vocaloids.'
'Awesome, why don't you sing one of those songs. If you can sing in Japanese you can sing any song. Shadow also knows some Japanese songs, don't you Shadow!' Sonic added as he turned to another hedgehog. One Millie hadn't seen before, he had black fur and some red on the top of his spines. His expression was plain but had some happy emotion in it.
'Yeah, I know some songs. I'm not singing one now if that's what your asking.' Shadow said grumpily, clearly not interested in singing himself.
'Don't worry dude, you won't have to sing', Knuckles reassured the grumpy hedgehog.
'Fine and don't call me dude. You know how much I hate that', shadow replied sternly.
'Alright calm down, why don't we let Millie sing instead of squabbling.' Rouge reasoned to the group.
'Sorry Millie, you can sing now', knuckles apologised.
'Thats ok, shall I sing crime and punishment by Hatsune Miku?' Millie offered, wanting the rest of the groups opinion.
'Sounds great!', Tails exclaimed, excited to hear Millie sing. She started singing and as she did, it sounded as if Miku were in the room instead. She had the pitch perfect and the words down to a 't'. This surprised everyone as the only person they heard sing Japanese correctly was Shadow, even on a bad day. Millie sounded great and Shadow appreciated this greatly. After finishing the song she bowed and started to get her violin out of its case.
'That was amazing Millie!' Cream and Tails said as she looked round to thank them.
'Hey Millie, do you know the song matryoshka?', Rouge asked.
'Yeh, why?'
'Well I had an idea that both you and Shadow could perform it. You both know the words and the song calls for a pair anyway. I think you two would look great in the outfits as well.' Rouge explained to everyone. Most thought it was a great idea, even Millie agreed though she didn't know the black hedgehog well.
Shadow took great pleasure in ignoring this suggestion until Millie came over and pulled him up from the bed. Her grip was strong so Shadow's efforts to get free we're futile. As soon as Millie had brought him to the front of the room like a stage; Rouge, Amy and Cream set to work doing the pair up. Leaving Sonic, knuckles and Tails to figure out what was happening.
When the three girls stepped back from their work both Millie and Shadow had matching matryoshka outfits on. Millie's being green and Shadows being red, Millie put on special contacts to make her eyes look two coloured just like in the AMV. Shadow was most displeased to find himself in front of his friends performing with someone he'd known for less than five had been drawn underneath Shadow's eyes like in the video, Millie had it across the nose. Shadow was still unwilling to sing with someone he barely knew, yet he sang for his friends. As soon as the music started Millie got right into the dance, she couldn't help but dance along especially because she knew the actual routine. Shadow also knew the dance so he went along with it.
Millie started by singing the first verse, 'kangae sugi no message, dare ni todoku kamo shirenai de, kitto watashi wa itsudemo sou, tsugi hagi kurutta matryoshka!' Shadow joined in soon after and started to enjoy the company of the girl.
It seamed that, when she was having fun, he was having fun too. Just like when Maria was with him and alive, memories of Maria were as clear as the words that came out of his mouth. He remembered her warm smile, her joyful laughter and her comfort whenever he felt like giving up. Maria was always there to support him whenever he needed it. But since the accident and her death he'd never been able to trust anyone else. Other than Rouge who felt like a sister to him, Millie was the only other person he felt he could trust and something else as well.
Everyone joined in on the song and had more fun messing around, soon it came to curfew and everyone started to make their way back to their own dorms. Amy and Cream stayed as it was their room, they waved the others off and said goodnight. It had started to rain and thunder could be heard over the fun, the cat tried as best she could to hide her fear of the thunder but did well enough that her friends didn't notice. As they left, Millie said Sonic's name under her breath just loud enough for just him to hear.
He slowed down and left Knuckles and Tails to go back to the room, not noticing that Sonic wasn't with them. As he walked to the cat he could see her flinch at every thunder clap though she tried to hide it. When she knew she'd got his attention she whispered 'could you, erm... Come back to my dorm with me? I want to talk to you about something.'
'Sure, what is it?' Sonic replied willing to help his friend.
'I'll tell you when we're there', Millie said back to him and proceeded to walk hastily back to her dorm. Sonic followed close behind, having no trouble keeping up with her. The two reached her door and went inside, as Sonic looked around Millie uttered something so quietly he couldn't make out what she said.
Instead of changing into pyjamas the normal, manual way she used a spell to change into what looked like an over large flannelette pyjama shirt. Millie used it as a nightgown because it covered most of her legs to about just below the knee. The sleeves were long and covered most of her hand, leaving only the tips of her now ungloved fingers and her feet were now bare. Showing soft looking pale blue fur, pink soft pads underneath. A common feature if you're mostly cat.
Millie then was kneeling on her bed waiting for Sonic to come over, as Sonic realised this he took of his shoes but left his socks on. There was something about bare feet on a cold floor that just didn't agree with him. After sitting on the edge of the bed a surprisingly loud thunder clap entered the ears of the pair. This made Millie jump and want to cower under the quilt, the only problem was Sonic was between her and it. Seeing Millie scared like that sparked something in him that he couldn't explain, acting on this new found feeling Sonic pulled himself onto the bed and put his arms around her.
Suddenly being in Sonic embrace made Millie forget the thunder altogether, she instead focused on the sent of the hedgehog. For some reason this made her feel more relaxed than she'd ever been, his fur felt softer than a cashmere cushion. Thinking about all this made a deep blush appear on her face, she now did not care whether Sonic saw or not, Millie just cared about the fact he was hugging her. Sonic wasn't sure why he did it or if it was necessary, all he knew was that it had stopped her shaking in fear. He also sort of enjoyed it, he to felt a deep blush appear on his face.
'Sonic, is it silly to be afraid of the thunder?'
'I don't think so, why d'you ask?' Sonic reassured the now purring cat, the purring felt nice against his chest so he didn't complain.
'Dunno but that was ... Really the only thing I wanted to talk to you about', she replied.
Sonic quietly laughed at this as he absent mindedly started stroking her hair. His hand starting between her ears and gliding gently down to the base of her back, the barrier of hair keeping them separated. "Oh!" Millie thought to herself surprised, but, not really worrying. A loud thunder clap then surprised them both as they just paying attention to each other. Jumping at the loud noise Sonic fell backward with his head landing on the pillow and arms at the side of his head. Millie landed on top only just managing to stop herself falling on him by putting her arms out. This accidentally meant that she had pinned Sonic's arms down. Her legs ended up between his as they lay back on the bead.
'Whoops', said Sonic as they looked into each others eyes for a brief moment. He then started to blink, this short opportunity didn't slip past the feline. Sonic felt her chest press lightly onto his, breathing in her smell he kept his eyes closed to enjoy it further. Then, Sonic felt soft lips upon his own; her smell only becoming more intense. Millie couldn't believe she'd done it but was glad she had. Sonic's scent then became more intense as she inhaled it, feeling her over sized ears flush red and become warm. They broke apart briefly only to sit themselves up on the bed and embrace each other once more.
This time Millie positioned her hands on his chest feeling his soft tan fur. His arms around her shoulders, pulling her close as she gazed into his emerald green eyes. Sonic leaned in for another kiss even though he was taller when kneeling on the bed. To compensate for this Millie pulled herself up on his shoulders, eyes closed as their lips met once again. This time it was longer and more enjoyable, only separating to catch their breath after panting for a brief while.
'Sonic', Millie said between breaths.
'Yeah'
'Sorry for falling on you', Millie apologised resting her head on Sonics rising and falling chest, finding this very soothing.
'Hey, no need to apologise. It didn't end to badly did it.' Sonic reasoned, quite happy to have her head where it was. He was able to breath in more of her sweet scent when her head was right under his nose.
'Hm, no. It didn't'
They were the last words spoken that night as they both slipped under the covers and spent the rest of the night in each others arms.