Chapter 1

The massive house of Sidney and Angel

Tails looked up at the house that was supposedly the address for Angel and Sidney's location. He could've sworn he had the wrong house though when his sky-blue eyes scanned over the massive house. It must've been half a mansion long and just as high.

He wondered how long he had been standing there before he finally started walking towards the door. He looked around a bit before ringing the crystal doorbell on the right side of the door. They had a beautiful garden, full of flowers and brilliant green grass. But there was not one flower in the garden that resembled the ones that Tails had in his hands for Sidney. He smiled in success at this realization.

Then he noticed that neither of them had answered the door yet, and it had been a few minutes. He reached up and pressed it again, wondering where they could possibly be. While he was moving his arm back down to the blanketed stems of the flowers, he noticed that the door was oh so slightly cracked open.

He narrowed his eyebrows inward to study the strange sight, and moved his gloved hand gently up and down the crease, making sure that it was really opened and it wasn't his imagination. He found that his sight did not fail him here, as the door had barely swung slightly opened when he touched it.

He looked in the now enlarged crease to try and catch any movement from the inside. He turned his head to the right and readjusted to get a better view. The movement was futile though, for there was no movement anywhere inside. He started to push on the door a bit more, and took one step inside.

"Hello? Sidney? Angel? Are you guys here?"

No answer came to him but the awkward silence of the halls and rooms of the gigantic house. Now he began to worry.

He took the second step inside and looked around the room some more, but found not one sign of Sidney or Angel. He finally put his entire body on the inside of the house and looked around even more, but of course neither of them entered his field of vision. His tails started twitching in slight fear for her and Angel.

His ears perked in all directions, trying to get the slightest hint of her beautiful voice caressing his ears like it always did. Nothing, though, could comfort his constant worry and gentle care for them. Not one sound that he could hear from them.

"Sidney… where are you?" this question was, of course, futile. Sidney did not answer him.

Tails started looking around the front room with the most of caution. Never once did he even get that one small glimpse of them.

He then went downstairs to the basement, thinking that maybe they would be down there. He moved ever so slowly down the stairs, every step seeming to take minutes to accomplish.

He got to a door at the bottom of the stairs and reached out to the doorknob. He hesitated a bit and moved his ear to the door to get a better listen. There was no sound from the other side of the door, so Tails thought it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and open it.

He started moving the door open and looked through the negative space of the doorway. But just as he took a single step inside, a large bamboo stick swung down from above him. He took a step back into the stairway again and saw that the bamboo stick had missed and was now positioned diagonally away from the floor, indicating that someone out of sight was holding it.

"OH, See Angel? I can't even hit my own boyfriend…. I'll never be fast enough."

Sidney's voice comforted his ears now. He looked around the door to see the maroon beauty he had met merely a month earlier that he had fallen in love with.

He looked into the room to see Angel standing in the middle of a large dojo-like room. Angel was holding one of the bamboo sticks that Sidney was holding; only she had a larger one to fit her size.

"Sidney, don't be so down. You already got close to me. It took me twice as long to get close to my father." She said, desperate to get her sister cheered up. "You just need to know proper technique."

Tails went bug-eyed "What were you guys doing down here? What 'technique'?"

Angel sighed, preparing to speak "Sidney didn't want to feel absolutely helpless all the time. So, using the expenses we got for saving Mobius, we built a dojo in the basement."

"I see…" then he remembered the flowers in his hand. "Oh…" he lifted the bouquet up to Sidney, who, in turn, 'awed' the kind gesture.

"Thanks, Tails." She leaned over to him and kissed him on the cheek lightly, but it was enough to make him blush.

Angel thought for a second… Sidney told her that Tails could fly, so he could maneuver pretty well in this room.

"Hey, Tails dear?" Angel asked, getting the golden fox's attention "Could you be a good boy and fly around in here? I need to show Sidney something."

Sidney giggled a bit, causing Tails to turn around and look at her with a confused look. Sidney immediately stopped once he looked at her.

He turned back to Angel, who was smiling friendlily, waiting for Tails to take flight inside. Whatever Angel had planned, Tails couldn't think of any idea. But he soon agreed to it, being the nice guy he was.

He sighed while speaking "Alright… I don't see where you're going with this, though."

Angel smiled as the fox started to take flight, his tails twisting like a biplane's propeller blade.

She smirked a bit "Alright… now do some maneuvers that would be used by a plane during a firefight."

Tails gave her a cocked eyebrow, then a stern thinking face, but did as he was told. He did several barrel rolls, with some loop-de-loops and aerial summersaults.

During which, Angel had grabbed a bamboo spear from behind her with her tail and dashed towards a wall at an angle. Her speed carried her into the wall and allowed her a wall-running action.

She took aim quickly but carefully at the flying fox and launched the bamboo spear towards him.

Tails freaked at the thick spear being thrown at him. He locked his eyes closed, expecting some sort of impact. But then he felt his tails stop and looked back at them, worried at what happened to them. His actions were cut short though when he spun and grabbed onto the bamboo spear that was in between his tails and stuck deep into a single vertical beam behind him, stopping his propeller-like namesake from spinning.

He was grabbing onto the horizontal spear with all fours, like an upside-down sloth.

Sidney saw this as an opportunity to joke about his position. She walked up with her bamboo training blade in her hands and reached up and gently bopped him on the head repeatedly, chuckling cutely.

"Piñata! Heh heh."