A/N: Hello everyone! Welcome to my first Sonic story! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I will writing it. I'm new to this site and have been kind of lurking around the awesome stories here and I finally decided to write one myself. This particular story is set in the Sonic X anime universe, just so you know, so that means all the characters from there. Also, a quick note to add, I may or may not go OOC with a few characters in this story so bear with me. Without further ado, enjoy the first chapter of the story!

Chapter 1: Confusion

It was almost a day like any other, the sun high up in the sky, coating the land with a glisten and warmth, the grass green as ever and the sky almost as blue as Sonic's fur. The special thing about this day, as it has been sometimes, is the fact that they get to have a mini-vacation of relaxation, considering the fact that they had fought Eggman (and beat him, as usual) again the day before. So regarding that fact, everyone wasn't tensed up and was feeling peaceful as they knew for a fact that Eggman wouldn't cause any drama and they can all have their beauty sleep.

On the roof of the huge mansion, which was the residence of the Thorndykes, was a certain blue hedgehog, a speedy one. Yep, you guessed it, it's Sonic, and he's having the time of his life. The reason being as it was for everyone else, it was a rather rare day, in fact. Sonic had his hands behind his back and his eyes closed, taking in the sweet spring air that was lingering around, sending him into a state of bliss for a moment as he started to feel energetic again.

"Huh. I feel like going on a run," Sonic mused to himself while he opened his eyes and scanned his surroundings.

Not long after, he jumped down and sped out of the gate, whilst feeling the sheer exhilaration from running as he always did when going on runs. He loved to have the wind blow through his quills every time he went running and oh boy did it feel even better when he pushed himself to speed up, the wind going through his quills getting meaner and meaner by the second, but in a good way.

He always had specific routes set for himself for every run, sometimes he would take one route, the other day the other route. This time he took the route to go into the forest because Sonic loved nature with all his heart. Nothing on the planet, where Sonic was currently residing on, could pry him away from the nature he had begun to love so dearly.

After some time, he had finally found a group of flowers on a nice plain patch of grass. Flowers have always fascinated Sonic, ever since he was a kid, and it hasn't stopped fascinating him since.

He kneeled down to take a quick whiff of the flowers' smell. Sonic sighed in bliss as the lovely smell entered his tiny black nose. It made Sonic feel even more at peace.

Sonic had lost the count of time because of him going around places to possibly find new places in the forest he could later put on his mental list of places to go and relax. The sun was slowly beginning to set, so Sonic decided this was the perfect time to go back home.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Ella was preparing dinner for everyone. She thought a good idea would be to make some chicken soup, considering she hadn't prepared the soup for some time now and it would be nice to have something else once in a while also. She hoped that Sonic would come home just in time for dinner since he had been on a run for quite some time. Taking that fact into consideration, she was sure he will make it because he always did and plus he had been running for a long time today.

When Ella figured that the soup would be done soon, she heard the door open and she already knew who it was. She turned around and she saw what she expected.

"Hey, Sonic. Dinner will be ready in just a couple of minutes!" Ella greeted Sonic.

"Great!" Sonic responded with his signature thumbs up and then sped upstairs to go and greet his friends too. Once he arrived upstairs, he saw Chris, Amy, Chuck, Tails, and Cream along with Cheese.

He decided to greet them all. "Hey, guys!" and then everyone responded to him with a "Hey, Sonic!" in perfect unison. Everyone was relaxing in the bean bags neatly placed in the middle of the room and Sonic saw a free bean bag that he sat down on.

"Dinner's almost ready, Sonic. I bet you're hungry," Tails chimed in.

"Oh yeah, definitely. And I already know, I spoke with Ella downstairs," Sonic replied.

Tails' answer to Sonic was a warm smile and then everyone went back to what they had been doing. A few minutes later, the group of friends heard a high voice call to them from downstairs.

"Dinner's ready!"

Not soon after that, the group of friends all rushed downstairs to go and fill their stomach with some quality and tasty food made by Ella, Sonic obviously being the fastest of the whole group. So when everybody finally arrived at the kitchen, they saw Sonic sitting down at the table, blowing on his spoon which held the tasty chicken soup as the soup was still hot.

Just as Sonic put the spoon in his mouth, everyone also sat down at their table, in their respective chairs. Once everybody settled into their seats nicely, Sonic gave his approval of the food.

"Wow! This is really good, Ella!" Sonic spoke with his eyes wide. "Can't even remember the last time I ate this…" he then pondered to himself.

The group of friends saw this as a cue to dig into their own individual bowls, so they did and everyone was as surprised as Sonic was, Ella truly never disappoints with her marvelous food. They all mumbled positively sounding thoughts about the food and Ella was happy, to say the least.

Everyone at the dinner table finished their soup in a few minutes tops and even a few went to get a second round of the spectacular food. Sonic was one of them since he had been on a run for quite a few hours so he was very hungry and because of that, he was one of the last to also leave the dinner table.

Leaving the dinner table, he sighed in pleasure from the amazing food Ella surprised them with today. He was kind of full so he decided not to speed up the steps this time, but to take it easy. Once he arrived upstairs, he decided to chat with his friends and relax some more and let the food settle in before finally going to sleep for the night.

Sonic kept turning and turning around in his bed, out of pure annoyance at the fact that he couldn't get any sleep whatsoever for some reason. He had this really bad feeling at the pit of his stomach about the following day and his mind just wouldn't stop racing like a racecar.

He glanced over to the alarm clock that was on his bedside table. The clock read 12:06 AM.

"Ah, great, I'm never gonna fall asleep," Sonic mumbled to himself and sighed out of irritation.

It wasn't after an hour or more of turning in his bed that Sonic finally fell asleep after a long and painful battle with his constantly racing thoughts.

When Sonic finally woke up, he glanced to the alarm clock on his bedside table out of instinct as the first thing. It read 10:14 AM. Sonic's eyes widened at what the alarm clock had just shown him because he never wakes up this late, only on very rare occasions. And he guessed that this was one of them.

Sonic just shrugged and he got himself ready to go downstairs and see what everyone was doing, whilst Sonic had been sleeping like a sleepyhead. Once he arrived downstairs, he saw nobody sitting on the couch or anywhere at all, it was just empty. He thought nothing of it and just guessed that everyone was out, probably trying to find more Chaos Emeralds as it was traditional. He also remembered that he missed the morning news which was around 9 AM but he figured his friends would fill him in if it was something important as Eggman.

He decided to maybe go check the kitchen to see Ella cleaning up or something else that she usually does around the house. What he found instead of her, was Amy, though.

"Morning, Amy," Sonic greeted her like he does every morning while smiling. What happened next was something Sonic thought he'd never see come from Amy. Instead of a usual response and sheer happiness of seeing Sonic like she always showed, what he saw was a half disappointed and half angry glare staring right back at him in response. Sonic raised a brow at this gesture.

"Uhh…" Sonic's confusion was put into words. After about 5 seconds of being under Amy's gruesome glare, she decided to run off, away from him, instead of clinging onto him like every single time she sees Sonic or when he saves everybody from Eggman's horrible plans.

Sonic was frozen in place, he had no idea what just happened. This was definitely nothing like Amy at all. And that just managed to confuse him even further.

"What just happened?"

I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter of my first story! Until next time, stay tuned, and don't forget to review and share your thoughts with me.