I don't own anyone, apart from Sonic's "parents", Tiger, and Mrs Fox. Sonic, Knuckles, Ivo, Shadow, Amy, Rouge, Cream, Tails, and Cosmo are all Sega's.
Light and Kira belong to I'mSonicCrazy.
It was a beautiful, warm day. The sun was shining, and the sky was perfectly clear; not a cloud in sight.
In a small yellow house with a red roof and door, or, more precisely, in the living room of the house, a young hedgehog was drawing.
There were crayons scattered around everywhere.
The little hedgehog was drawing the sun on a blue piece of paper.
The hedgehog was royal blue in colour, with big emerald green eyes. His muzzle and chubby stomach were tan, as were his arms and the innards of his ears. He had six small spikes sloping from the back of his head, and two on his back. He wore bleach white gloves and socks, and he was very fuzzy all over.
"Sonic," called a female voice.
The hedgehog looked up, his large green eyes blinking.
"You've got mail!" the voice said brightly.
The voice was owned by the hedgehog's mother. She was a pink hedgehog, with beady blue eyes, a tan fluffy muzzle and stomach, and with her long spikes curved and curly rather than spiky. She had a rather large nose, and she had small claws on her bare feet. She wore a pink dress and a yellow apron around her waist, along with white gloves.
She walked into the room, envelope clutched in her hand.
"Really?" Sonic asked excitedly, wagging his stubby little tail. His voice was somewhat high-pitched and loud, with a slight accent to it. "For me?"
"It has your name on it," said another, deep voice.
It was owned by his father. He was dark blue in colour, with almost black spiky quills. He had a brown muzzle and stomach. He, like his wife, had a large nose, and short claws, as well as beady eyes. But his were green, not blue. He had fuzzy fur all over, and he also had a somewhat goofy look about him.
"Wow!" Sonic said, snatching the envelope from his mother and tearing it open.
There was a card inside, which was strange.
It wasn't Christmas, and it definitely wasn't his birthday…
He held it up.
"What does it say?"
"It says 'Guess who's invited to Mrs Fox's kindergarten class at Emerald School?'"
Sonic opened the card, to be greeted with…
"Me!" he exclaimed. "I'm invited! Can I go mom?"
"Yes Sonic," said his mother, chuckling. "It's time to go to school."
"Right now?"
"No, tomorrow," said his father. "After one more sleep."
Sonic beamed.
That evening, in his little bedroom, Sonic was rummaging through his drawers, throwing gloves, socks and shoes around everywhere.
"Nope, no good… nope, no good…" was what he kept on muttering.
His parents walked into the room.
"Sonic," his mother chuckled, barely dodging a flying green pair of socks. "What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to find something cool to wear for my first day of school!" he said.
"How about… something special?"
"Yeah!"
"How about… these?" she pulled a pair of mittens with blue straps around the wrist, white socks, and bright blue shoes from behind her back. "I made these for you."
"Wow!" Sonic said happily. "Brand new notebook, brand new pencils, brand new bag, and brand new clothes!" he looked at all of his new equipment on his bed.
He hugged his mother. "They're perfect! Thanks mom!"
His father chuckled, and ruffled Sonic's head fur. "And tomorrow is a brand new day," he said. "It's getting late. You'd better go to bed, you don't want to be sleeping through your first day of school."
Sonic laughed and dived under the covers, knocking everything off his bed.
His father shoved all of the spilt items aside.
"Night mom and dad!" Sonic chirped.
"Good night, Sonic," the parents said in unison, as they clicked off the light and left the room.
Sonic settled down and closed his eyes to sleep.
Two seconds later, he opened his eyes and bolted upright.
"Is it tomorrow yet?"
He could hear his father chuckle. "Sonic…"
Sonic laughed and lay back down.
He opened his eyes again, whispering into his pillow.
"I wonder what it's going to be like… I can't wait!"
And he finally settled to sleep… for real this time.
The next morning, Sonic was ready and dressed early, and he was staring out of the window, his tail wagging excitedly.
His parents walked into the room.
His father chuckled.
"Sonic, staring out of the window isn't going to make the bus come any faster."
There was a loud 'honk honk!' noise, and a large yellow bus parked outside the house.
"It's here! Its here! YAY!" Sonic waved his arms around, snatching up his orange backpack and scurrying towards the door.
He gave his parents a quick hug. "Bye mom, bye dad!"
"Bye Sonic," they said in unison.
Sonic ran out of the door, but skidded to a halt when he realised something.
He frowned, and turned back to his mother, who had followed him out.
"What's wrong, Sonic?"
"Mom, I won't know anyone."
"Of course you will," his mother smiled. "Amy's going."
For a split second, Sonic's ears perked up and he smiled, until he realised whose name had been said. His bright expression soon faded.
"Ugh! Amy!" he whined.
Amy was a hedgehog with a bit of a crush on him.
It didn't matter, he was going to school!
He blinked up at the huge yellow bus with its vast doors.
This was the moment…
The door slid open.
A red rabbit sat in the driver's seat.
He was a red-orange colour with dark blue striped on his head, back, arms, and legs. His inner ears, patches around his eyes, stomach, hands, and feet were all a sand colour, and his muzzle was white. He had a tuft of hair on his head and warm yellow eyes. He had large buck teeth. He was clutching the steering wheel, smiling down at Sonic.
"Hello Sonic!" he said. His voice was quite comical, as if he had come from a cartoon. "My name's Tiger! All aboard for Emerald School!"
Sonic beamed, scrambling onto the bus, where he was greeted by chatter from the other kids.
"Hi Tiger," he said, waving, as the doors shut behind him.
He looked at the other kids.
On one side, in the front seat was a human boy.
He had quite pale skin with large, rosy cheeks. He had a large unkempt mop of ginger hair on his head, with grey goggles sat neatly on top. He wore a shirt and tie, with a snazzy red jacket, black trousers and shoes. His big sapphire eyes were half closed and uninterested.
In the other front seats were two almost identical hedgehogs.
The first one was a pitch black colour, with a yellow muzzle and inner ears. He had six small spikes on his head, two sloped like Sonic's, and two stuck upwards on each side of his head. All were streaked with red, as were his arms and legs. He had red markings at the corners of his ruby eyes, and he had a white tuft of fur on his chest. He wore fingerless white gloves, and blue and white sneakers.
The other looked exactly the same. He had the same structure, and quill style. But he was white in colour with blue streaks instead of red. His eyes were still red, though. He also wore fingerless white gloves, and he had a black tuft of fur on his chest. He also wore green and white sneakers.
A few of the other kids nervously poked their heads around their seats to see the new kid on the bus.
"Hey Sonic!" called a loud shrill girls' voice.
Sonic's ears flattened. "Hi Amy…"
"Come and sit with me, Sonic!" she called excitedly.
Sonic sighed as he made his way to the back of the bus, towards the voice.
As he walked there, he passed the next rows of seats.
There sat a bat. She had a white face, but an orange muzzle, and inner ears, let alone the rest of her body. She had large bat-ears, and a curvy figure. She wore a baby blue dress with white frills on the collar and around her waist, pink gloves and socks, and boots.. Her purple wings were folded behind her. She had aqua eyes and a small black nose. She frowned at Sonic.
On the other side was a rabbit. She was cream coloured with an orange stripe on her head. The tips of her large, floppy ears were orange too, as were the patched around her large brown eyes. She wore a purple dress with puffy sleeves, and she had her legs splayed out. She also wore white gloves and pink shoes. She looked up at Sonic nervously as he passed.
On the next row was a plant-girl.
She had flesh colour skin on her face, hands, and legs, and had a green 'fringe' and quills that brushed her shoulders. She had soft, sky blue eyes. She wore long-sleeved orange shirt, with a blue skirt and red shoes. She had two yellow rings on her head, and from them came a baby bud, from each one. There was a large ruby orb on her shirt.
On the next row was a two-tailed fox.
He was a yellow-orange in colour, with a white muzzle, inner ears, and stomach. He had blue eyes and bangs. He had two busy tails, both yellow-orange with white tips. He wore white gloves with blue bracelets on his wrists, as well as white socks and blue anklets, and cream coloured shoes with two blue strips on each.
On the other side was a hedgehog.
She was a pale pink in colour with a pale tan muzzle, inner ears and arms. She had long bangs, and quills that passed her shoulders. She wore a red jacket on top of her yellow dress, she wore no gloves, but white socks, and pink shoes with the Japanese symbol for 'star' on it. She blinked her sky blue eyes at Sonic. Her ears twitched and her tail wagged.
Next to her was an echidna. He was smaller than all of the other kids, even the little rabbit. He was red coloured, with pale tan muzzle, and a white loop on his chest. He had long bangs and large amethyst eyes. His hands were huge, and covered with white boxing gloves, with spikes sticking out of them. He also wore blue socks and red shoes with golden buttons on the side.
He was trying to hide himself with a book.
"Hello!" the pink hedgehog said cheerily. She had a very slight Japanese accent.
"Hi!" Sonic said, his voice slightly rising in pitch.
He finally made it to Amy's seat.
She was bigger than the rest of the kids, even the human box, and podgier.
She was pink in colour, with a pink-tan muzzle, inner eats, stomach, and arms. She had bangs, and wore a magenta ribbon on top of her head. She also wore a magenta dress, and she had large jade green eyes. She whacked her tail against her seat happily.
Sonic reluctantly sat next to her and stared sadly out of the window.
After a while, Amy stood up on her seat, wagging her tail happily, almost crushing Sonic as she pressed her hands against the window.
"I see it! I see it! There's Emerald School!" she sang.
"Alright! Yahoo!" the two-tailed fox cried happily, waving his arms in the air.
Sonic frowned, until they passed a load of trees, and he saw a large pink building with a white bell tower, with a bell, and green doors, and a large playground.
He smiled.
Soon the bus stopped, and the youngsters clambered out, rushing towards the building, where they were greeted by a red fox.
She was a red-orange colour with a white muzzle and inner ears. Her ears were pointed, and she had fiery bangs. She had warm brown eyes. She wore a green jumper on top of her purple dress, and she also wore high-heeled red shoes. She wore no gloves, revealing her white hands.
"Hello everyone," said warmly, with her kind voice.
"Hello!" the kids chorused.
"We're going to have so much fun," said the fox.
After admiring the outside of the building, they all rushed in to admire the inside.
As Sonic walked through the classroom, he could hear the other kids complimenting the room, and greeting each other.
"Wow…" he said, fazed by this whole new world.
"Hello everyone, I'm Mrs Fox, your teacher," said the red fox.
Sonic scurried over to her and looked up.
"I think we'll get along much better if we play my special welcome song."
Everyone looked at her as she said this.
"Hurry scurry, children. Circle, triangle, square, find a shape to sit on." Mrs Fox said.
Everyone ran to find a shape.
Sonic frowned and looked around, only to find he was already standing on a yellow circle.
He didn't sit down, however, until everyone else had, and Mrs Fox had burst into song, playing on her large oak brown piano.
"Gather around, and sit right down
It doesn't matter who you're next to,"
The small rabbit and the two-tailed fox looked at each other, smiling.
"We're a lot the same, but with different names
And there's so many things that we're gonna do!"
The kids all began to look at each other.
"You might be feeling a little bit shy,
But we all feel that way sometimes!"
The echidna blushed slightly, and he tilted his head curiously.
"It's a new adventure
It's a brand new day!
Anything can happen
When we laugh and we play
Welcome to this brand new day!"
She began to play a solo, giving the kids a chance to introduce themselves.
"Sonic!" Sonic put his hand up a smiled.
"Shadow!" said the black and red hedgehog. He had a somewhat deep voice.
"Knuckles…" the echidna had a quiet voice, and he blushed, making the two girls next to him giggle.
"Kira!" the pink hedgehog waved.
"Ivo!" the human said with his somewhat husky voice.
"Rouge!" said the somewhat French-sounding bat.
"Light!" said the white and blue hedgehog. He sounded like the black hedgehog, but slightly higher.
"Amy!" Amy cried.
"Tails!" the two-tailed fox said, he had a high voice.
"Cream!" Cried the rabbit, she had a very high and playful voice.
"Um… Cosmo!" the plant girl beamed. She sounded very high-pitched and giggly.
"Anything can happen
Welcome to this brand new day!"
Mrs Fox put her arms around Sonic and Ivo, smiling.
"I'm sure you'll be the best of friends."
Sonic smiled, but Ivo glared.
Later on, the class was brimming with activity.
Everyone was playing, or drawing, or something.
Sonic scrambled onto a seat, in between Ivo and Kira.
"Those are nice crayons, Kira," he said, gesturing towards the crayons scattered on the desk.
"Thank you," she smiled warmly. "You can borrow them if you'd like."
"I've got some new crayons too!" Sonic pulled a box of crayons from his bag. "We can all share!" he laid the crayons on the desk.
Ivo was drawing a very accurate drawing of the school.
Mrs Fox looked over and smiled. "How very precise, well done Ivo!"
Ivo smiled smugly as she left.
Sonic looked over and grinned.
"I'm going to draw Emerald School too!" he said, beginning to draw.
Ivo glared at him, his dull blue eyes piercing into Sonic's side.
"You know, Sonic, nobody wears mittens on the first day of school."
Sonic looked at him, before his ears flattened.
For the rest of the day, Sonic moped.
Even when he got ready for bed, he was still hurt by Ivo's comment.
"Teeth brushed dear?" his mother asked, sitting on his bed with a book on her lap.
"Yeah…" he said dryly, crawling under the covers and hugging his pillow.
"Want a story?"
"No…"
"Sonic… is something bothering you?"
Sonic sighed, his once sparkling green eyes now dull and lifeless.
"Nobody wears mittens on the first day of school, mom…"
"Oh, don't worry honey. I've got something special for you tomorrow," she walked over to his drawers and took out a snazzy red jacket.
"Perfect!" Sonic bolted upright and smiled, his eyes shimmering once again. "Just like Ivo's!"
The next day, Sonic immediately rushed to a mirror in the cubby room and admire himself with his red jacket, white gloves, and plain red sneakers
He began to pose.
"Hello Sonic, you look nice. Want to play?" Kira said, walking over to him.
Sonic only listened to the first part of her sentence, ignoring her proposal to play.
"Thanks," he said. "Where's Ivo?"
Suddenly, Ivo run past, along with Shadow and Light.
"Hey, Ivo!" Sonic chased, and Kira followed too.
They all ran into the classroom.
"Ivo!" Sonic called.
Ivo, who was now wearing a loose green t-shirt with white rims and yellow dots on the pocket, navy blue shorts with white stripes on them, white socks and blue sneakers, sighed and shook his head.
"Sonic, no one wears party clothes on the second day of school."
Sonic let out a soft moan, his ears flattened.
Kira tilted her head and frowned.
Sonic dragged his bag off the bus and walked to his mother.
"Hi honey, how was school?" she asked.
Sonic sighed. "I'm never going back…" with that, he threw his bag against the fence.
"Why not?"
"No one wears party clothes on the second day of school."
"How about tomorrow you wear something in-between, just like everyone else?"
Sonic smiled.
The next day came quickly.
Everyone was on the playground, playing.
Cream hummed as she swung on the swings.
"Hey Sonic!" Amy called in a flirty way.
Sonic's eyelids drooped. "Amy…" he growled.
Amy burst into giggles, sitting in the sandbox.
Sonic shook his head, and turned around to see the small red echidna, clutching a purple ball, blinking up at him.
"Hi Knuckles!"
The echidna didn't reply; which was pretty natural for him, he had hardly spoken at all to anyone.
Kira walked over.
"Hi Kira, how do you like my lucky clothes?" Sonic asked, gesturing towards his white gloves, and socks, with red sneakers with white laces and a gold star on each side.
"I think I've seen it somewhere before…" she said, tilted her head towards Ivo, who was wearing the same thing!
Apart from, or course, he wore a loose white t-shirt and grey trousers, but male furries don't need that sort of clothing anyway.
"Wow!" Sonic scurried over to Ivo, who was bouncing a green and yellow ball with an orange star on it. "You're wearing the same clothes I am!"
"No," Ivo said bitterly. "You're wearing the same clothes I am!" and he strode off, leaving the ball rolling at a now miserable Sonic's feet.
"Head's up!"
Sonic turned around.
Shadow kicked a football, which was heading straight for Kira, who was oblivious to this, as she was busy playing with a ball.
"Kira, look out!" Sonic rushed to her rescue. "I got it! I got it!" he cried, holding his hands up.
"No!" said Ivo's voice, as he knocked Sonic aside. "I got it!" and he caught it.
"Great catch, Ivo!" said Shadow. "Throw it to me!"
"No!" Light argued. "Throw it to me!"
Ivo smirked and threw it, running off.
Kira helped Sonic up.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah…" Sonic said miserably.
"Ugh! That Ivo!" Kira growled in disgust. "He's such a show-off, and he thinks he knows everything!"
"Yeah!" Sonic said, realisation washing over him.
"Want to come over to my house after school?"
"Sure! Wanna play tag?"
"Ok! You're it!" she poked him and ran off, laughing.
Sonic chased her and laughed.
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
I hope you liked it.
Just a note that this is aimed at the younger audience, which explains the simplicity of it, but older people are allowed to read too (of course). P