Chapter One

"Game Convention"

"If you were able, would you go change the past? There's a furball with one last chance!" A girl sang. "It's not 'furball', it's 'faux paux'." The one next to her corrected. "No, it's furball!"

"Faux paux!"

"Furball!"

"Faux paux!!"

"Will you guys just stop it!?" A third girl yelled. "You two have been fighting about that song for the past week!"

"Okay, okay.." The second girl mumbled. "And I might know of our- hey!" The first girl ran to a stand, pulling her two friends with her. Yes, the three were at a 'video game convention'. And yes, they were obsessed. "Emeralds!" The first girl stared at the shining gems being sold at the stand. The cashier couldn't tell which was glittering more- the gems or the girl's eyes. "These three are the shiniest!" She handed one to each of her friends. "And look, they're in our favorite colors!"

"Ayla, do you even know what my favorite color is?" Ayla, the girl who had dragged her friends there in the first place, smiled. "Of course!" She said, handing Sapphire one of the 'Emeralds'. "Green!" Tizaria, the one who had been correcting Ayla when she was singing smiled and grabbed the sky blue gem from her. "I guess that leaves me with this one!" Ayla smiled, holding up the 'pinkish-purple' one she had found.

Now this scene wouldn't have been strange, no, not at all, if it hadn't been for what the girls were wearing.

Ayla, who was the most obsessed of them all, not only had every Sonic the Hedgehog game she could possibly get for her Playstation3, but also kept her 'four favorite games' kept safely in their cases, only to be let out when it was 'time to play' one of them. Sonic the Hedgehog, the new two-thousand-six game, and the 'Sly Cooper Trilogy', as she called it, were pretty much the only games that still stayed in their cases. And don't even get her started on making that fourth Sly game. She'll go into a fifteen-minute-long non-stop one-way conversation about 'that new story' she's been working on. Yea.

Tizzi wasn't as bad as Ayla was, but she was still 'bad enough' to fight about the lyrics to her favorite song, as shown earlier, and was always ready to put on her furry-suit and cosplay some of the characters. Especially at video game conventions. (Hint-Hint!)

And Sapphire.. Although a fan of the games, comic boooks, and Anime, Sapphire wasn't as crazy as her best friends were. Though she seems to have a secret obsession with a certain experiment.. (And I don't mean Stitch!)

Now, as for what they were wearing.. Ayla's favorite characters are Elise and Amy Rose. Not wanting to cut her hair and dye it orange or being able to find a wig forced her to dress up as the pink hedgehog for the convention.

Tizaria, having some wierd obsession with cats, was disguised as Blaze.

Now Sapphire.. Her favorite characters were the 'Team Dark' ones, everyone knew that, but she didn't exactly want anyone to know about her obsession with Shadow, so she was dressed as the next best thing- Rouge! (Complete with cardboard wings!)

Some time passed and, after having to follow Ayla around as she searched hopelessly for that fourth game, the girls were outside the building where the convention was being held, happily pulling their plastic emeralds from the brown paper bags. Ayla and Tizaria held up their 'Chaos Emeralds' in a a pose as close to the ones in the games they could get. "Chaos.." The two started. "Control!" They yelled, Sapphire joining in.

And...

Black-out!

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A/N: Tiz and Tizzi are short for Tizaria, and 'Ayla' is pronounced the same as 'Kayla'. Just, you know.. Without the 'K'. Please review! TW