A Tale of Tails and Plants: Shades of Violet
A/N: Where is your sense of humor?! In nearly every TailsxCosmo story, there is always either tragedy, adventure, and fantasy mixed with romance, or often romance standing alone. Even I have done this; the couple sings for love stories to be written about them! Fellow Taismo writers likely share my feelings here.
So, here is a comedy/romance (and a little drama) to mix it up a bit, and it actually centers on their offspring and their school life for once as well as them. Here's a prologue introducing the protagonist (Tails' daughter), Tails, and Cosmo
Prologue: All begins with love
A year ago…
"Look, dad!" Tails' daughter, Violet shouted suddenly as Tails experimented with his newly invented telescope. Tails looked up where she was pointing, and it was a shooting star going through the sky. He had not seen one for fifteen years…
He quickly shifted the telescope to look toward the star, and allowed Violet a look. His daughter's fur was a golden yellow, like the sun. Her three tails moved in excitement, and Tails smiled at her eagerness as she looked at the star through the telescope. "I hope she doesn't get too excited and mess up all my work!" Tails thought worriedly. "Be carefully with it!" Tails said worriedly to her.
"I'm always careful!" She said back to him. "Not the last 235 times…" Tails thought to himself with a cringe, remembering every single one of them, the first starting almost as soon as she was born. But she still sounded so innocent at thirteen, he couldn't refuse.
In many ways, she was her mother's daughter, more than the fact that irremovable, pretty violet flowers grew in her hair and her smile. She had a natural affinity with nature, and would sit hours outside, sometimes talking to the trees, as if they responded back! (Perhaps they did, but he never dared ask.) Like her mother, gardening for her was as simple as brushing her teeth.
One feature that was completely different from either of them was her eyes. They looked like a star out in space, and Tails thought he saw a galaxy in them sometimes. She received two reactions from them, often simultaneous. Her eyes were the most beautiful, and frightening, part of her. They made her look even more alien than her mother.
Violet's mysterious eyes grew large as she noticed just how magnificent the telescope was. Not only was it easy to move, it was very powerful for a telescope that could be kept in a home, rivaling any common lab's telescope. She then shared with Tails the scene, and he saw just how close it brought them to the star: Tails felt almost as if he was hundreds of light-years closer.
"Make a wish!" Violet said eagerly to her father. Tails smiled at her eagerness.
"I already have everything I possibly want." Tails informed her. "Why don't you make a wish?"
"But what if it doesn't come true?" Violet inquired innocently. Tails laughed at her. She sounded so young at 13… and yet Tails knew she was not the little girl she once was.
"Your mother wished on another star fifteen years ago, and her wish came true." Tails informed her. It was not a lie, Tails would not have said it if it was so.
"Really?" She asked, surprised. "What was her wish?"
Tails remembered it well; it came to him like a clear dream. "She wished for a beautiful, grand wedding." Tails told her. He was there when he had made her wish, he had plan to propose to her that night, but he had somehow managed to drop the diamond ring somewhere, and he didn't find it until he had nearly swallowed it the next morning while eating his breakfast. He had believed he had somehow managed to drop it into his cereal…
Violet closed her eyes, and Tails saw her lips move, but could not make out the audible sound that came out of them.
"What did you wish?" Tails asked her.
"It won't come true if I tell you!" Violet said to him. He did not show his disappointment. Though, if she had wished for a unicorn, how could he make it come true? Then again, he was one of the greatest scientists of the age…
Violet eagerly looked at the star through the telescope again, but in her haste, she accidentally dropped it as she quickly grabbed it, and it dropped to the ground. The lens popped off and flew into the shadows.
"Not again!" Tails shouted out in surprise. Number 236 had come.
Tails was about to scold Violet, but she looked so guilty and ashamed he had not the heart say that to her, he could tell how sad she was simply from the familiar smelling aroma that came from the flowers. "After I find the lens." He said to her gently, which he'd find using a few quick formulas, "We can fix it at home, don't worry." Violet ears picked up, though her guilty look remained as they continued walking. None saw that they had been watched by a silent intruder. The watcher walked in the opposite direction, its curiosity satisfied for now.
A year later, Violet managed to stay at number 236, though after Tails fixed the lens a second time, Cosmo managed to make it fly off again. This time, it would not be found.
A/N: I thought I'd start simple, before getting into the real humor, drama and romance.
Please, Review! Give me some feedback, suggestions, anything that will help! The next chapter reveals all the other pairings and their children as they go to their first day of high school (at least most of them.) If you have a young character I could include, describe them to me in your review or in a PM. (I'd love to have a creation of yours, Sky, if you're reading this.)