A/N: This story is basically a linked story yet completely focuses its own plot. As per said in the blurb, Guinevere Gwendoleana (Gwendolyn/Gwendoline in different stories) is the wife of king Arthur and one of the important characters in Arthurian legends. But she was absent in the game 'Sonic And The Black Knight', so I decided to make a story including her.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the mentioned characters. I only own the story and the main protagonist, who is playing as Guinevere.
N/B: The story is completely on SATBK, so there will be no prime characters. For the readers of my other story 'A Princess's New Life', here Guinevere is the Arthurian Sierra Star (The main protagonist of the said story).
Warning: Humanoid x furry relationship, Sexual contents.
Characters in this story:
1. Guinevere Gwendoleana - Red Knight, Camelot's queen and current ruler, Beauty of Camelot, King Arthur's wife, Current wielder of the sacred knighting sword Calirent, Head of the 'Round Table'.
Guinevere is a human-hedgehog hybrid girl/humanhog (like Japanese catgirls except for hedgehog ears and tail instead of cat ears and tail). She has fair skin, crimson red hair with spiky layers, azure blue eyes and voluptuous body. She looks like a small human girl as she is short like hedgehogs, but has ears above head and a tail behind.
2. King Arthur (Arthurian Sonic) - Black Knight, King and former ruler of Camelot, Formerly head of the 'Round Table', Former wielder of the sacred knighting sword Excalibur and Calirent.
As per the game, Arthur is Sonic himself. In this story, Arthurian Sonic was evil and he got killed by Sonic prime.
3. Gwydre - Arthur and Guinevere's son, Prince of Camelot, Heir of Excalibur.
Gwydre is also a hybrid/humanhog and has blue eyes like his mother. But his hair is cobalt blue and spiky just like his hedgehog father's quills.
4. Sir Lancelot (Shadow the Hedgehog) - The chief knight of the 'Round Table', Closest knight to King Arthur,
5. Sir Galahad (Silver the Hedgehog) - A newbie member of the 'Knights of Round Table',
6. Nimue (Amy Rose) - Guinevere's best friend, Lady of the Lake, Guardian of Excalibur.
7. Sir Gawain (Knuckles the Echidna) - A member of the 'Knights of Round Table'.
8. Sir Percival (Blaze the Cat) - A member of the 'Knights of Round Table', Closest to Galahad.
9. Sir Lamorak (Jet the Hawk) - A member of the 'Knights of Round Table'.
10. Blacksmith (Miles Tails Prower) - A blacksmith expert in mechanisms of sacred swords.
Flashback: (Detailed version is in chapter 5 in 'A Princess's New Life')
Sonic the hedgehog suddenly gets summoned again to the Arthurian world, and everything repeats. But the new things he finds are, to know about Arthur's missing wife Guinevere Gwendoleana, who disappeared on their wedding day and was thought to be dead. Along with that, Caliburn informs him about rise of a rebel knight who is known as 'Red Knight' and is a threat for Arthur and his round table. When Sonic defeats Arthur and Merlina, Red Knight shows up and fights against Sonic using Arthur's sword Deathcalibur, while Sonic uses Caliburn/Excalibur. When Excalibur Sonic wins, it gets revealed that Red Knight is none other than Guinevere Gwendoleana, who is alive with her son Gwydre. Nimue and the five knights welcome Guinevere's comeback and request her to take over the throne of Camelot along with the round table. Sonic hands over the Excalibur to Guinevere before returning to his own world.
# Chapter 1 #
Place: Castle of Camelot
After encountering Sonic the Hedgehog, Guinevere Gwendoleana, her little son Gwydre, the sentient sword Caliburn, Nimue and the five knights of round table went to the castle of Camelot. But there they faced a numerous number of demonic knights who were minions of Arthur. Guinevere managed to fight them but she was pretty weak after the battle against Sonic. Meanwhile the five knights managed to defeat the demonic knights and Nimue kept Gwydre safe. Then Guinevere was about to get stabbed from behind, before someone got in the way and slashed the demonic minion.
"Thank you, sir Lancelot." She gratefully said when the battle was over.
"My pleasure, Lady Guinevere." The black hedgehog was actually pleased. He was more than happy to see his long time crush alive, who he searched for everywhere after she disappeared. Arthur was not the only one who loved Guinevere. But since Lancelot was a subordinate of Arthur, he never dared to approach his king's lover in that way. Yet, his love for her never went away. "I mean, Your Highness." He corrected himself as he remembered of her being the new ruler of Camelot.
"No...you don't have to call me like that, knight. My decision is still pending."
Everyone was surprised now. But the redhead human-hedgehog hybrid just motioned them all to follow her inside the castle. Guinevere gathered her best friend and the knights to talk to them.
"Even though I agreed to take Arthur's place to keep Camelot in order again, I actually cannot do that alone."
"You do not need to worry about that, Your Majesty." Lancelot said, "We shall always be on your side. And there will be people for setting up a new council."
"I know about that. But, initially I would like to have my most trusted people in my governing body." Guinevere looked each of them, "If it is not much disturbance for you, I want you all in the cabinet."
The knights were appalled at that, "We shall be glad to. You have put your faith on us, we shall not let you down." Gawain said.
Percival said. "We served our king, so we shall serve our queen as well."
"In that case, a coronation ceremony should be held tomorrow to let people know about the new ruler of Camelot." Lamorak proposed, which was gladly accepted by his fellow knights.
"Thank you." She smiled with gratitude. "Please, have some rest. I shall go to look around and arrange foods for you all."
"You are the one to talk, Gwen." Nimue narrowed her eyes, "You all just came back from a battle. So, it is my turn to do some chores."
"As expected from Misty Lady..." Guinevere sighed before her attention turned to her son as he called,
"Mother, look! It is you!"
Gwydre happily pointed on a picture hanging on the wall. The redhead beauty looked before gasping...as it was her own painted portrait, where she was facing other side holding a rose in her hand.
"Is it...from that time when I visited this castle for the first time?"
"Yes, milady. The painting was presented to king Arthur..." Gawain answered, "by Sir Lancelot-..."
The said knight wanted to run away right then. He stuttered, "The-the ki-king ordered me to because he wanted to present it to Lady Guinevere!"
"Right." Guinevere monotonously replied. "Maybe I would have been appalled if Arthur had presented me that instead of shedding blood on our wedding day." The red echidna, along with the black and the pink hedgehogs flinched to hear her words since the all three knew the couple closely. Among the other three, Percival and Lamorak were silent as they witnessed Arthur killing his own people and knew about Guinevere's disappearance just after their wedding ceremony. Being the last addition to the round table, Galahad was the only one who just heard about all the incidents regarding Guinevere Gwendoloeana as he came much later after those events took place. Yet, he could realize how difficult it was for the redhead female to see her dreams shattered just after marrying her beloved and to go through all this with her little son. Even the chatterbox sentient sword Caliburn did not find anything to say.
"Mother looks so pretty in the picture." Gwydre innocently remarked.
"The painting is very nicely done, Gwydre. Mother is not as beautiful as the picture." The said ruler of Camelot sadly said, her son just frowned to hear her reply. But he was persistent,
"Then please take off your armors and wear this dress. I am sure you will look pretty like this picture."
Guinevere leaned down on her son, "Can I do it tomorrow? I shall be crowned and people allover will come to see us. Why do we not get familiar with our new home today? Are you not excited to see your new room?"
"Yes mother. I certainly am!"
She kissed his forehead, "Good boy." Then she turned to the rest.
"Tomorrow I shall officially inform you about your royal duties after the coronation ceremony. If you have any objection with my decision, you may speak about that now."
"We do not have." Lancelot said, "If we face problems in our duties, we shall inform you immediately.
The ruler smiled, "Thank you all for your cooperation. And... I also have a request. I still want to act my role as Red Knight...and any other people must not know about this matter."
Now the other five were surprised, "Could you please let us know how did you become a knight and where have you been all this years, Your Highness?" Galahad finally spoke up to her, not being able to control his curiosity.
Guinevere started to stroll slowly, rubbing her hand armors. She still had her face plate on, so no one could identify what her expression was, or what she was thinking. There was a silence for a while, and the ivory furred hedgehog already started to regret for asking that.
"I was unaware what exactly was going on. But I knew that Arthur had changed after he received the sacred sword." The redhead beauty started to talk, "On our wedding night, I had been waiting for him eagerly. But few hours passed, he was not seen. Finally after midnight, I decided to find Arthur myself, but he was not there, instead I had to face his demonic minions. I thought I was about to die, before my hand found the sword 'Calirent'..."
"The sword of Calirent...?" Percival exclaimed, "It had gone missing-..."
"...because of me." Guinevere finished for her. "Arthur once offered Calirent to me as a present before he received Excalibur, he wanted me to protect the sword that he passed his youth with. I asked him to present me that on our wedding." The redhead beauty took a pause, "Well...by the game of fate, I ended up possessing Calirent on our wedding night, even though it was not the way that I expected. When the demonic soldiers were about to execute me, I was not aware what came over me. I do not remember anything other than swinging around Calirent. After escaping from there, I became really furious with Arthur and decided to defeat him for betraying me as well as Camelot's people. But in the end, I had to hide myself. Of course, one reason was my inability to combat."
"I understand that, but you did not have to stay away for this long from everyone you knew, Lady Guinevere!" Lancelot did not realize that he was flaring up while letting out his frustration, "Under the water and above the sky, were the only places where I did not seek for you!" He silenced himself by gasping when he got poked by elbow from side.
"Are you out of your mind, sir Lancelot?!" Lamorak whispered, "Do you realize what you have been speaking to Lady Guinevere?!"
"I apologize and thank you for your trouble and concern regarding me, knight." Guinevere did not seem to be bothered by it, "But my inability to battle was not the only reason, or else I would have returned sooner. I took shelter in a cave after running away, and considered about seeing Nimue. But then...I felt this knot in my stomach. I became sick all of a sudden and it was not long when I found out that...I was bearing Arthur's child."
Guinevere paused, slowly walking in front of her painted portrait. She felt silence like death as if there was no one else. She decided to carry on, "It would have turned out worse, if I had returned in this state. Besides, few days later...news about my death spread allover. This is why, I decided to leave this matter like this."
"You could have gone to me, Gwen!" Nimue frowned.
"You were the first person who I thought about seeking help." The redhead replied, "When I came out of the forest...I was caught by one person."
"Who...?"
"It was...Merlina."
It was another shock for Nimue and the five knights. Lancelot again failed to control his outburst, "That wizard was aware all this years?!"
"Yes, because both of us agreed that it would be safe for me...no, for my unborn child." Guinevere replied, "She did not bring me to her home because of her visitors, but always kept her eyes on me. She was there when Gwydre was born. She asked me to train him with Calirent so that he could stop Arthur when he would grow up. But, it might get very late by then, so I decided myself to learn knighting, followed by defeating Arthur. With assistance of Merlina, I succeeded to be expert in decent swordsmanship and achieved other abilities. Then I had made those surprise attacks on Arthur and his followers as an attempt to make them failure...which includes you knights too. So, I apologize once again for that."
The knights of round tables understood now how the king's bride and Camelot's most beautiful woman had turned in to a rebel knight, by who they had been ambushed numerous times. "Later I was disappointed at Merlina when she summoned another Arthur to do what I was supposed to do."
"Another Arthur?" Percival said, "Are you referring that blue hedgehog knight named Sonic?"
"Was it not obvious?" Guinevere chuckled for the first time, "He is Arthur...from another time, another world."
"See? I told you so." The usual smugness was returned into Caliburn the sword.
"But Merlina did the right thing, I suppose. Even though, I should have been the one to take Arthur's life, but I might not have been capable to do that." The redhead beauty let out a sigh, before she continued, "...And it had turned out right. I lost to him even after using the Deathcalibur."
"You lost to him, so did us. But you were the one to give him the hardest time to win over you." The green hawk pointed out.
"I agree with Sir Lamorak." Gawain said, "Once in a meeting of round table, the Red Knight had been declared as the biggest threat for the Black Knight, which is you."
"As a female knight, you have earned my utmost respect and admiration, Milady." Percival said.
"Did you not just say about him being Arthur from another time? So, I suppose our king Arthur was destined to lose to his own self." Galahad said thoughtfully.
"Right. You should notice the rational facts that Sir Galahad and Sir Percival just mentioned, Gwen." Nimue finally said, "From a graceful noblewoman, you had transformed yourself into a brave skillful knight, which is still now unimaginable. So, you should not let yourself down just because you lost one battle."
Guinevere seemed to cheer up a bit to hear them all, "I have gained my knighting skill in order to protect Gwydre and to defeat Arthur. And after listening you all, I do not wish to waste my combat efficiencies just because Arthur is gone. Besides, now I would like to pay occasional visits in order to observe the situation of Camelot myself, also to prevent any further threats. And rather than as a queen, that would be more appropriate to do as a knight.
So, my request is that...let me get accepted as a member of round table."
"But you already own it-..." Gawain could not finish as Guinevere said, "...that is as the queen. As a member of round table, my identity will be...Red Knight. So..." She turned to Lancelot, "The chief of the knights, do you accept my request to recruit Red Knight into the round table?"
"Your Highness, before I answer you that, may we know how exactly will you be managing both roles?"
It was not like that the dark hedgehog hated the idea of her being as a fellow knight. He did not say anything when others were complementing her knighthood, because he was admiring her undefeated willpower and abilities. Lancelot was impressed when Red Knight was putting a tough fight against Sonic. But if he had known before, that the unknown rebel knight would turn out as Guinevere Gwendoleana, he would have instantly stopped the battle that was risking her life. Besides, he never believed the rumor about his love being dead and finally was able to see her after many years. So, the fear of losing Guinevere again, held Lancelot back to agree with her wish to become a knight of round table.
"I shall fill my duties as queen. Along side, whenever there would be any law or decision regarding round table, I shall obey them like rest of you all." The redhead humanhog said, before turning opposite. "I shall rule over Camelot as a queen, as well as serve the people as Red Knight." She started to unhook her facial armor and the helmet, before completely taking them off her head. Her long crimson red hair with spiky layers, was shining in lights and flowing in breeze, "The matter is just...the civilians are going to see this face with crown, but not with sword..." Once again she turned around to face the six figures...pointing her face which had no cover this time.
Four of the knights and Nimue had seen her before, yet they admired the never-ending beauty of Guinevere Gwendoleana. She was standing right in front of her own painted portrait. The redhead beauty's once chubby look had now turned edgy by the period of times. Yet her porcelain skin without a single blemish or wrinkle was enough to keep her youthful even after all this years. Apart from her ears, tail and small height, her overall trait was of a human, still she could be desired by any kind of male being. The blinks from long dark lashes of her beautiful azure blue eyes easily made the furry male knights' hearts flutter.
Previously, whenever they met Guinevere in regular dresses, Gawain always found himself awestruck, and Lamorak had always failed to restrain his wild fantasies about her. So it was no exception this time, as they saw the Red Knight and the soon-to-be ruler's beautiful face once again after a very long time.
Lancelot awkwardly pulled down his metal face cover to hide his blush...as well as his longing look on Guinevere's pink lips. All he wanted was to press his own tan lips on hers aggressively, while telling her how much he loved her and how devastated he was for this long time because of her absence.
Galahad almost choked as he met the redhead beauty for the first time. The silver knight finally could see why the redhead female had been known as 'Beauty of Camelot'. He inwardly frowned upon his king Arthur, who was once kind-heartened before Excalibur corrupted his soul. Yet, it made no sense that he would end up hurting his beautiful beloved wife. It was really pathetic to see a sword winning over love. On the contrary, Galahad could not help but admired how Guinevere managed to survive all these years completely alone protecting her son, along with returning as the queen and a noble knight with proper dignity. However, the knights eagerly waited for the coronation ceremony next day as they could not wait to start their duty under their new ruler...
Their knight queen...
Hope you liked it. I apologize for the crappy traditional English as it is not my first language.