Day Humans, Night Animals

By Tiffany and Cassandra Harders

I usually do stories on my own, but this time I had some help from my nine-year old sister Cassandra. We were talking about Sonic characters while drawing, and we came up with the idea of being humans by day, and Sonic characters by night by the means of a Chaos Emerald that Cassandra found in the backyard while playing with her friend Tara Watson, who joins us in the transformation at night. We are animals by night in our world, but in Sonic's world, we're animals all the time for a unknown reason.

Tiffany/Sea-blue two-tailed vixen.

Cassandra/Light pink flying rabbit (Flies by her ears)

Tara/Lilac bat

Both Cassandra and Tara are going to get Chao, for their "Chao Cannon".

Cassandra, Tara, and I were camping in the backyard. I wasn't going to camp out there with them in the first place, but both of them wanted me to, for a reason unknown to me. They begged with pouts and puppy-dog eyes of doom. Of course I fell for that (it looks cute) and agreed.

I was wearing my favorite blue T-shirt and shorts complete with white flip-flops, while Cassandra was wearing a navy-blue T-shirt with shorts and her flowered flip-flops. Tara was wearing a pink-shirt with a mini-skirt and sandals.

"Okay guys, I'm going to put up the tent, and you go get the snacks and the sleeping bags." I told Tara and Cassandra.

"Ok!" Both of them said, and took off running toward the house.

I put up the tent (with some difficulty, with the stupid ropes and all), and the two girls brought out everything from the house before I finished with the tent. I finished the tent and picked up a list and a pencil.

"Sleeping bags?" I asked.

"Got em'!" Cassandra said.

"Pillows?"

"Yep!" Tara said.

"Snacks!"

"Yes Tiffany." Cassandra said.

"CD player on the extension cord?"

"Uh huh!" Tara said.

"CDs?"

"Oops!" Tara said, and ran to the house.

After a few minutes' time, she soon came out running with her CD case.

"Got em' now?" I asked.

"Yep." Tara comfirmed.

"Brats?" I asked, which was not on the list.

It was directed at them.

Both stuck their tongues out and blew a raspberry at me and started giggling.

I rolled my eyes while smiling and checked off everything.

"I'm going to lie down for a bit, and then we'll start on reading Scary stories to tell in the Dark." I said, going into the tent.

"C'mon Tara! Let's play Rouge and Cream!" I heard Cassandra say.

I rolled my eyes again while I laid down.

Cassandra and Tara both are kinda obsessed about certain characters in the Sonic cartoons. Cassandra likes Cream because she's sweet and has a cute little Chao named Cheese. Tara likes Rouge because she's cool.

I myself liked several characters from the cartoon, especially Shadow, he is powerful and cool.

I was just lying there on my front when there was a big bright flash from outside. I sat up and looked out. Tara and Cassandra seemed okay, and there was no sign of what flashed so brightly. I was about to lie down again when Cassandra called me.

"TIFFANY! COME HERE!" Cassandra called.

I groaned and got up, crawling out.

"What is it?" I said, sounding a little more irritated than what I felt.

I've done that almost a hundred times in the past, but Cassandra learned to ignore that. She knew I wasn't mad or irritated half the time even though I sounded like it.

She came running up to me, holding two things in her hands while Tara held one thing.

"Look." She said in almost a whisper, and when I casually looked at what she and Tara had, I almost had a heart-attack on the spot.

There was a dark-pink Chao in Cassandra's right hand, and in the left was a blue Chaos Emerald. In Tara's hands, there was a dark purple Chao. Both of the real, breathing Chao looked at me with innocent blue eyes.

I was just standing there in shock with my jaw hanging almost all the way to my chest and I suddenly slumped backward onto my butt, knocking the air out of me for a moment.

"Wha….wha." I stammered, once I had gotten my breath back.

Cassandra came up with a concerned look on her face and put the dark pink Chao on my lap. The little thing just sat down where Cassandra put it and looked at me with a cute little smile on its face.

I closed my jaw and slowly put my hand up, touching it gently. It gave a cooing sound when I touched it, rubbing its head against my hand. It warmed my heart and I wasn't shocked anymore, I was hooked! I started petting it while Tara came up and put her Chao on my lap. I found myself with two cooing Chao on my lap, while Cassandra and Tara watched while giggling at the cooing that they made. I finally got up and gave the Chao back to the girls.

"Look at this, it came with them." Cassandra said, holding out the blue Chaos Emerald.

"A Chaos Emerald?" I said puzzled, touching it.

Tara also reached out and touched it with her finger, just being curious.The Emerald suddenly glowed brightly and shot out three beams of light at all of us. All of us were hit and thrown back several paces. As I fell with my eyes shut tightly, I felt the beam covering my entire body. I was pretty sure that I was going to meet my Maker. But just as soon as it came, it was gone. I opened my eyes slowly, to see if it was over.

"Tiffany?" Cassandra suddenly said, sounding like she couldn't believe something.

"What?" I asked, sitting up, and was in for yet another shock!

Instead of Cassandra and Tara, there was a light-pink rabbit, and a lilac bat! There was a moment of silence.

"Who are you?" I asked out loud.

"I'm Cassandra." The light-pink rabbit said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I'm Tara." The lilac bat said laughingly.

"Girls? What happened to you?" I asked, my eyes about as wide as dinner plates.

"What happened to us? What happened to you!" Cassandra shot back.

I looked down at myself and found instead of my body, there was a sea-blue fox body, WITH TWO TAILS!

"HOLY CRAP!" I shouted, jumping up, and ended up higher than I meant to.

The girls discovered their new bodies, and had a reaction completely different from mine. I landed with a THUD! on my feet just in time to hear this………..

"COOL!" Both of them said.

Cassandra was checking out her long ears while Tara was looking at the dark-purple wings on her back.

"Can I fly?" Cassandra suddenly asked me.

I just looked at her and shrugged, I could have cared less about that at the time. I was trying to figure out how and why the Emerald had changed us.

Cassandra started flapping her ears and lifted off the ground with ease. Tara watched her and then tried her new wings, and BOTH OF THEM STARTED TO FLY OFF!

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Both of them squealed, taking off, the Chao right behind them over the harvested corn field.

"HEY!" I yelled and took off running after them, unaware that my new tails started propelling behind me, giving me a speed boost.When I found out I was going fast enough for my feet to lift off the ground, it startled me for a moment. Then I propelled them faster and caught up with Cassandra and Tara.

I was directly under them when I remembered that two-tailed foxes could fly. I jumped up and propelled the tails over me, and caught both of them, scaring them in the process.

"Alright, HOLD IT!" I snarled.

"Awwwwwwwwwww!" Both of them said, obviously disappointed that I had gotten them before they could go far.

I flew back to the backyard, the Chao following me and giving me no trouble. I was upset and after I set them on the ground, I let them have a piece of my mind.

"ARE YOU TRYING TO GIVE ME A HEART-ATTACK! DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! WHAT IF YOU GUYS GOT LOST AND I COULDN'T FIND YOU!" I screamed at them.

They just stood there looking guilty, Cassandra looking at the ground sadly and shifting it with her foot, while Tara looked equally guilty, and was watching Cassandra. The Chao had landed and now stood by them, looking up at me with wide eyes. I was just standing there trying to catch my breath and trying to calm down.

I didn't mean to blow up in their faces like that, they were just excited about having the ability to fly. The point was, if something bad or harmful happened to them, I would never, ever forgive myself.

"I'm sorry, Tiffany." Cassandra said sadly, sounding close to tears.

"I am too." Tara said.

I had cooled down by this point, and I took a deep breath.

"It's okay, just don't take off without me." I said, letting out the last of my breath.

I picked up the Emerald where I had left it.

"Have you two decided what you're going to name these guys?" I asked, putting the Emerald in my pocket and gesturing toward the Chao.

"Dixie." Cassandra said, picking up the pink Chao.

"Rouge." Tara said while she picked up the purple Chao.

"YOU ALWAYS NAME STUFF ROUGE!" Both Cassandra and I yelled at Tara.

"What?" Tara asked grinning, like 'what's wrong with that?'

"Well, you guys got Chao, which means the Emerald is mine!" I told them teasingly.

"Okay." Both of them said, surprising me.

Normally, we would fight over something cool as a Chaos Emerald, (like video games, candy, ectra, ectra) so they agreeing with me is a rare thing.

"You mean, the Chaos Emerald belongs to me!" A voice said out of nowhere.

A glowing portal opened in front of us and started to suck in Cassandra and Tara. I grabbed the both of them by the arms and held on, the girls screaming and death-gripping my arms while I dug my heels into the ground, resisting the pull as much as possible. The chao holding on tightly to Tara and Cassandra's ankles. The suction from the glowing portal got stronger and all of us got sucked in.

I landed with a THUD! on my front, and the girls and Chao landed hard on my back!

"Ow." Was all I could say.

The girls and Chao sat on my aching back, obvisously stunned and looking around.

"You can get off me anytime YOU KNOW!" I growled.

Both girls scrambled to get off me and I sat up.

Then we heard a lot of loud cracks as I sat up.

"What was that?" Tara asked.

"My back." I replied, "Felt kinda good!"

Tara started giggling and Cassandra just grinned.

"Enough! You will hand over the Chaos Emerald!" The voice said again.

All of us looked up and saw a fat egg-shaped man in a large manual-controlled robot (Looks kind of like the Egg-Emperor).

I cocked my head to the side and looked at him.

"Is that a talking egg?" I wondered out loud.

"SILENCE!" The egg-shaped man yelled at me.

"Whatever you say, EGGY!" I yelled back, immediately in a lousy mood.

"Hmph! Enough of this, either hand over the Chaos Emerald OR…." Eggy said.

"Or what?" Cassandra asked, coming in front of me, and I pushed her back, despite her protest.

"Or it will be time for me, Dr. Robotnik , to send you to meet your maker !"

"Dr. Robotnik, huh? OH! You're Eggman!" I said, pointing at him.

"DR. ROBOTNIK! DR. ROBOTNIK, NOT EGGMAN!" Dr. Eggman yelled, banging both of his fists against the dashboard of his robot.

"EGGMAN! EGGMAN! EGGMAN!" Both Tara and Cassandra chanted, dancing around with their Chao.

"The children have spoken! You're Eggman." I said dramatically, crossing my arms in front of my chest.

"That's it! Time to meet your Maker!" Dr. Eggman snarled, revving up his machine.

"BRING IT ON FAT BOY!" All of us girls yelled at him.

"I'll show what real evil I am, you little brats!" Dr. Eggman said with an evil smile, his robot going backwards.

"We're brats," I said, and the girls joined me in saying, "And WE'RE PROUD OF IT!"

"TAKE THIS! TAKE THIS! TAKE THIS!" Dr. Eggman yelled, his robot shooting out wide laser-beams.

All of us just jumped or side-stepped out of the way and charged after him while gathering rings that were on the path. I pretended to yawn as I ran after him.

I'm not in great shape as a human, but as a blue two-tailed vixen, I am in totally great shape! So are the girls for that matter.

My fake yawn made Eggman mad and he fired missiles, laughing as he did so. I barely saw them in time, but both Cassandra and Tara pulled me backwards, out of the way of the missiles. I shook my head to clear it of the shock I had just received.

"That's it! Now you're going to get it BALDY!" I yelled at him.

"Yeah, BALDY! I bet you don't even have one hair on that fat head!" Cassandra yelled.

Tara started laughing like nuts, doubling over.

"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH !" Eggman roared, shooting not three, but SIX wide laser-beams at us! "NO ONE MAKES FUN OF ME!"

"BORING!" We girls yelled, dodging them all easily.

"DIXIE CANNON!" Cassandra suddenly shouted, and Dixie went flying like, well, a cannon!

A protective shield went around Dixie when she hit the robot head-on, which did some major damage to the robot's hit points.

"What was that?" Tara asked/shouted.

"How did you do that?" I asked/called as we continued to chase him.

"I just copied Cream." Cassandra called as Dixie came flying back.

"Then I'll just copy Tails!" I said with an evil grin directed at Eggman.

"And I'll copy Cheese Cannon too!" Tara yelled, jumping over a laser beam.

"You're mostly going to copy Rouge, aren't you!" I asked/yelled as I dodged another missile.

"Yep!" Tara replied happily, which made me roll my eyes.

"Alrighty then, BLUE SPEAR!" I yelled, focusing my energy on Eggman.

Several blue see-through spears appeared around Eggman and struck!

"WHOA! I'll make you pay for this!" Eggman snarled.

"Uh huh, sure you will!" I replied.

"ROUGE CANNON!" Tara yelled, and her Chao attacked Eggman's robot.

"WHOA!"

"TAIL ATTACK!" I yelled, spinning around and around like a ballet dancer and hit the robot hard!

"THUNDERSHOOT!" Cassandra yelled, throwing Tara, who curled up into a ball and her shield did some more major damage.

I was laughing at the appalled look on Dr. Eggman's face when I ran into something by accident. It didn't hurt, it just burst on impact and surprised me, and delighted the girls.

"Ready any time." Cassandra shouted to me.

"What's ready any time?" I asked/shouted.

"Team Blast!" Cassandra yelled back.

"YAY! Team blast!" Tara squealed.

"Oh fine!" I said, eyeing the sky and asking God with my mind to save me from the girls, "Are we ready!"

"Yeah!" Both yelled back at me.

"Oh no you don't!" Eggman screamed, firing more laser beams.

Too late.

All of us started glowing as we continued to chase the robot, and the glowing turned into Emerald-shaped shields that made us fly, mine larger than the girls'.

"EMERALD BLAST!" All of us shouted, attacking the robot with me in the lead.

"OH NO!" Eggman screamed in vain, "STOP!"

We circled and attacked the robot at all sides, crushing and smashing almost everything that was on it. Cassandra took out all of the missile launchers, Tara took care of the huge shield that was with the robot, and I took out anything I could reach.

We landed and watched as the huge robot fell apart in large pieces of scrap. Dr. Eggman flew out in his hovercraft and hovered above his ruined robot. He looked up at us with anger in his eyes.

"I can't believe this!" Dr. Eggman yelled angrily, banging his fists against the dashboard of his hovercraft, "I was defeated by three GIRLS!"

"We're not just girls." Cassandra said, holding Dixie.

"Yeah, we're not just GIRLS!" Tara said, also holding Rouge (the Chao, not the bat)

"We're the Emerald Team." We all said together, crossing our arms in front of our chests.

"THIS ISN'T THE END YOU BRATS!" Eggman roared as he took off.

We stood there watching him until he was out of sight.

"Didn't we explain to him already that we're proud to be brats?" I asked out loud, scratching my ear.

"Yeah we did." Cassandra replied, petting Dixie.

Tara didn't say anything, she was petting Rouge the Chao, who was happily cooing from the attention.

"Alright! Where are you Eggman!" We heard someone cockily shout.

"That sounds like someone we know." I groaned, crossing my arms in front of my chest.

Tara nodded in agreement while Cassandra groaned while mumbling "Here comes Sonic."

The famous blue hedgehog came running around a corner and stopped.

"Where are you, Eggy!" Sonic shouted tauntingly.

"You're too late!" Cassandra called to him.

"Huh?" Sonic turned towards us.

He stared at us for a good ten seconds before breaking into his usual grin and running over.

"Hello ladies!" Sonic said smiling, screeching to a halt in front of us, "Which way did Eggman go……..and WHOA! what happened to that Eggman robot!"

"WE happened to that robot." I said, checking my nails for dirt while Sonic gawked at the scrap heap that used to be a robot.

"And Eggman went that way!" Cassandra said pointed the way Eggman went with her free hand while the other held her Chao.

"You guys beat Eggman?" Sonic asked, his mouth wide open.

Tara went over and closed his jaw for him, making him look in surprise at her.

"Yep." Cassandra said.

"But how? And who are you?" Sonic asked, suspicion in his eyes.

"First, stop looking at us like we've done something wrong. Second, I'm Tiffany, this is my little sister Cassandra," I said, putting my hand on her head, and then put the other on Tara's head, "And this is our friend Tara."

"Chao, chao." The Chao said at me.

"OH! And this is Cassandra's Chao Dixie, and Tara's Chao Rouge."

"Rouge, after the bat girl?" Sonic asked.

"The same." I replied, "Tara's a huge fan of Rouge."

"Well, I know her!" Sonic said, showing his usual smile again, "I can arrange a meeting if you want!"

"REALLY!" Tara shrieked in delight.

"Yep! But first you have to tell me who REALLY beat Eggman!" Sonic grinned, like he KNEW it was a big joke.

"We did!" Cassandra said, mad at him.

"We're the ones who beat Eggman! Do you see anybody else!" I snarled at him.

"Well…..no, but still." Sonic said, his stubbornness coming through, "You're GIRLS!"

That struck a nerve.

I hit Sonic with my tails, catching him off guard. Tara did purple wave (like Rouge's black wave) making him gasp out for air, and then Cassandra really let him have it with an attack I've never seen before.

"PINK CHAO RAIN!"

Balls of pink energy appeared around Cassandra and turned into Chao that looked like Dixie. These flew at Sonic and made him FLY! He went screaming and landed somewhere on the other side of a Eggman building.

"How did you do that?" Tara asked in shock.

"I made it up a few minutes ago." Cassandra replied, acting like it was no big deal.

"Okay, so we can make up attacks." I said, then grabbed Cassandra with a mock mad look on my face and asked in a mad/silly voice while shaking her, "WHY!"

Cassandra started laughing hysterically and Tara was just giggling. Sonic then decided to come back almost out of thin air. I let go of Cassandra and gave him my sternest look.

"Okay, okay, I believe you." Sonic said, looking sheepish.

"Hey Sonic!" Another familiar voice called.

Cassandra gasped and I looked at her.

"It's Tails!" She said in an excited tone.

Almost everybody that we knew in the Sonic world came running around the same corner.

Tails

Knuckles

Amy Rose

Big the Cat Cream (to Cassandra' s delight) Rouge (to Tara's delight)

Shadow (to my delight)

Omega

Vector

Espio

Charmy

"Oh hi guys!" Sonic said turning around and smiling, "This is Tiffany, her little sister Cassandra and their friend Tara."

"Hi!" All of us girls called.

Charmy came zooming over.

"HI!" He said to Tara with hearts in his eyes, "I'm Charmy, and I LOVE YOU!"

"EEP!" Tara squeaked, and ran behind me, using one of my blue tails to hide.

I just stood there rolling my eyes.

"What! Is it my breath?" Charmy asked, now looking concerned.

"CHARMY! GET OVER HERE!" Vector yelled at the over-energetic bee.

"Well, he certainly doesn't waste any time with his feelings." I commented, watching Charmy fly back over to the Chaotix Team with a sad face.

"Is he gone?" Tara asked from where she was behind my tail.

"He just went back over to his team, so no." Cassandra said.

"Make him go away! Make him go away!" Tara begged.

"He's not going to hurt you, he's just friendly is all." I tried to reason with her.

"Or he has a crush on you." Cassandra said, and Tara squeaked again and gripped my tail which made me very uncomfortable.

"YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" I growled at Cassandra, making her laugh.

"Hey, I know!" Sonic suddenly said, "Hey Rouge, can you come over here for a minute?"

Rouge looked confused, but came over. I caught on what he was doing.

"Tara, look who it is!" I said to the tail where she was hiding.

Tara peeked over my tail and let go (to my relief) and raced over to Rouge.

"ROUGE!" Tara said and glomped Rouge.

"AH! Oh! Hello." Rouge said smiling, patting the top of Tara's head.

"Tara's one of your biggest fans." I told her.

"I didn't realize I had such a cute little fan." Rouge said, hugging Tara back, making Tara the happiest girl in a hundred miles.

"Tails also has a fan." I said with a mischievous grin on my face and Cassandra smacked my arm, blushing.

"Who?" Sonic asked.

"Cassandra." I said, earning another smack.

Cassandra's face was hot pink.

Tails smiled and came over, hugging Cassandra. She blushed even harder. Tails was blushing pretty hard too when he released her and took her hand.

"Are you a fan of mine?" Sonic asked with a grin, coming over to me.

"No." I replied.

"Huh? How come?" Sonic asked, looking confused/sad.

"It's not that I don't like you Sonic, I just like Shadow a little more." I said, hoping that Shadow didn't hear me.

He did. I know because he twitched one ear in my direction while his eyes were on Rouge and Tara. I blushed a deep blue.

"WHAT! Why do you like the Faker more than me!" Sonic asked/yelled.

I just stood there, not really sure what to say to make him feel better.

"I don't like Shadow more than you, Sonic!" Amy said, coming over and hugging him.

"Thanks Amy." Sonic said smiling at her and hugging back.

As Amy hugged Sonic, I saw a diamond ring on her wedding finger. I smiled, knowing that they were either engaged or married.

Cream was introducing herself to Cassandra, and they hugged in greeting, making me smile. The girls were being introduced and hugged by their favorite characters, it made me smile even more, especially when Tara glomped Knuckles, making his eyes wide. The smile disappeared when I found that MY favorite character was heading my way.

Shadow came over with his usual emotion-less look on his face and I blushed, looking away. Shadow stopped and looked at me with his arms crossed in front of his chest, but I wouldn't look him in the face because I was afraid that he would see the blush on my face.

"Shadow!" Cassandra called, waving to get his attention.

He looked at her.

"TIFFANY HAS A CRUSH ON YOU!" Cassandra blurted out.

"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" I roared, my blush going darker as I took off after Cassandra.

Cassandra was screaming and laughing at the same time as we ran, flew, and jumped all over the place. And I had just one thing in mind, severely hurt Cassandra for blurting out my top-secret. The whole gang just watched, with Tara holding onto Rouge's hand.

I soon gave up and sat down panting, Cassandra still in the air as she was laughing at me.

"YOU OVER-ENERGITIC TWIT!" I yelled at her.

"BIG BRAT!" Cassandra yelled back.

"TROUBLE MAKER!"

"FATSO!"

"DUMBO!"

"MORON!"

"PUTTS!"

"BIGGER TWIT!"

"TAILS GIRLFRIEND!" (This made Tails blush)

"OH YEAH!"

"YEAH!"

"SHADOW'S GIRLFRIEND!"

"THAT'S IT!"

And the chase began yet again, with the whole crew now sitting on the ground (except Shadow and Omega) and watching us, not daring to interfere.

After who knows how long, I finally caught Cassandra, but I was too tired to do anything else. We landed and bent forward, leaning on our knees while panting with our tongues hanging out of our mouths. And this is what we heard next...

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Sonic was laughing his head off while rolling on the ground, with everybody staring at him, except for Amy, who was giggling with Sonic.

"AHAHAHA! OH PLEASE TELL ME WE GOT THAT ON TAPE!" Sonic said/laughing at Tails.

"Ummmm...no." Tails replied.

"WHAT! How could you not get that on tape! That was priceless!" Sonic said, wiping tears from his eyes.

Everybody who could see the expressions on our faces when we strode up to Sonic, backed away slow. Tara hid behind Rouge, who covered her with her wings.

"Huh? What's wrong with you guys?" Sonic asked, then turned around.

I'm not sure what my face looked like, but the look on Cassandra's face was enough to scare anybody half to death.

Sonic took one look at our faces, and started to back away.

"Thought it was funny, huh?" I growled.

"We're going to hurt you." Cassandra said in a dangerous tone.

Sonic whipped around and yelled "HELP!"