A Christmas to Remember
By: The Andromeda Roxanne
What happens when your father comes back after thirteen years? Would you be willing to accept him? Love him? Believe him?
This is a story about Roxanne Marie Tsurumi, a 15 year old Kansan, who is an "orphan," that is, until Sonic, Shadow, & Silver come to her home claiming that she is actually a hedgehog born on Mobius, & that her father is looking for her. Will she believe them? Or will her birth day tell all?
Okay guys! I just realized something last night:
"Poetry ought to go straight to he heart, because it has come from the heart." -Friedrich Schiller
That quote is exactly how I write: from the Heart…
Please note that this story is *partially* based off of the "Adventures" series. Not everything that's in those stories are in this story.
Also, I want to mention that I am a diehard Jayhawks fan & I was born in Kansas, & I'm also a Buckeyes fan too, so if you have a problem with the Jayhawks, Kansas, the Buckeyes, &/or Ohio, I suggest you shove all those nasty little comments for the reviews out of your mind now, otherwise it's gonna be like Ohio & Michigan picking fights during football season…believe me, you don't want to mess with us Ohio State Buckeyes. You've got a Jayhawker & a Buckeye for an authoress.
So, do you some milk & cookies before we begin?
Anyhow, enjoy the story! & if you Read, please Review!
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A Christmas To Remember
By: The Andromeda Rose
Chapter 1: Home Alone With Very Much Unexpected Guests
Dear Diary, 20 of December 2010
A cold, crisp, Winter morning, & my parents were supposed to be out of town on vacation in Northern Russia for about a week for their wedding anniversary & be home on the 23rd, but they're stuck there until the weather lets up a bit. The weather there gets really bad during this time of year, & usually doesn't let up until mid January.
I just wonder why they chose Russia anyway…
Anyways, I have been home alone since the 17th, & apparently, I'll be alone for most of Christmas. They said that they'll try to get home for my birthday, but said that they may not get here in time because of the weather. Yeah, I know, it sounds weird that my parents are gone for this long with me alone, but my neighbours come to check on me every few days to see how I'm doing & to talk for a very long time. A typical neighbour.
Well, there are rules that I have to follow: Keep my cell phone open at all times. Bedtime at 11:30, no later. No caffeine of any kind after nine. Don't leave the house after midnight, unless it's an emergency. & other various rules.
I live in Wichita, Kansas, & no, I'm not an Indian-I don't even know what I am. But I'm sure I was born in Wichita. I think…
By the way, my name's Roxanne, Roxanne Marie Tsurumi. But I live with a family called the Carters.
As for my looks, well, Diary, I know I've told you this before, but I've changed a bit. As always, I'm white-skinned like most of you. But, for some odd reason, my eyes are gold-I mean, my eyes are as gold as gold as it can get, & I have white-blonde coloured hair! & everything's natural! Nothing on me is fake. Not my eyes, nor my hair. It's odd, very odd. I'm not an albino, & I don't use contact lenses-I don't even have glasses. I guess I was just created like that.
Oh, I forgot to mention Diary, I'm 15, but on the 27th of December, I'll be 16. Ah, yes, Sweet Sixteen. My parents are sending me a present from Russia & they said it's coming today because of the weather! I'm eager to-oh, wait, someone's at the door!
Roxanne, a diehard fan of anything Jayhawks, was clad in a cobalt blue Kansas Jayhawks sweatshirt as she ran up to the door & opened it, a medium-sized man stood before her in uniform, "Hello? This is the Carter residence."
"It is?" he answered back, "Well, I have a package for a…" he glanced to the label, "A Miss Roxanne Tsurumi."
"This is she." she answered back to the young man.
"Well, then, here is your package. Please, sign here." he handed her a clipboard & pointed to a line with a "X" beside it.
She signed it, & waved goodbye to the man, "Bye!" & closed the door.
Back inside her home, she pulled her pocket knife out of her pocket & began cutting the tape tightly wrapped around the package, "I wonder…just what it could be!" she squealed excitedly as she opened the box. When she peered inside, she squealed with delight! In the box were three games: Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic '06, & the elderly original, Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis.
The first game she pulled out was Shadow the Hedgehog. She put it inside the Play Station 2 system & waited for it to load while she called her parents, "Mom?"
"Roxanne! Did you get your surprise?"
"Yeah, I did. Thank you Mom & Dad! Thank you very much! I'm getting ready to play Shadow the Hedgehog right now!"
"Really? I hope you enjoy it Roxanne. Happy Birthday."
"Thank you Mom."
"Roxanne, I'm sorry, it's really late here & Father wants to go back to sleep."
"Ah, it's okay Mama. I'll talk with you later! Goodbye, & goodnight!"
"Bye Roxanne! I love you."
"I love you too." she hung the phone up & put it back on its charger for later use & picked up the controller to play the game, but about two hours later, she fell asleep.
Back in Russia…
"I hope they get there tonight Frank."
"Don't worry Honey, they'll get there, & Roxanne will be reunited with her real father. It'll just take some time for her to get used to him that's all."
"& a mean shock to see your favourite game characters pop out of nowhere too! & to have one of them be your father! Are you sure she'll be alright?"
"Don't worry Valerie, you worry too much. Besides, you know Sonic, he's always ready for anything. I'm sure he & her father have got it planned out how they're going to introduce them to each other."
"I hope you're right Frank, we don't want them to become separated any longer than they should be."
"Trust me Val, they've got it all figured out..."
His wife gave him a doubting glare, then retired back to bed while shaking her head.
When Roxanne woke up, it was midnight. She stretched & glanced to the TV, the game was still running, & Shadow was getting beat up by a robot & doing nothing about it. She quickly destroyed the irritating robot before saving the game.
As she mumbled about what Shadow would have done to that robot as she turned on the radio to listen for the scores of the game she missed that day, put a load into the washing machine, then proceeded to fix herself some tea. She let the water come to a boil before dropping a teabag in the pot. As she watched the bag stain the water with brown, she wondered why the washing hadn't kicked on yet. She had just put a load in a moment ago before she went into the kitchen.
Attending to this, she walked back down into the basement. The cement floor was cold when stepped on it from the steps. Turning to the machine, Roxanne reset the knob to REGULAR & turned it back on. Nothing. She opened the lid to find the barrel half full of water & clothes, "Now why aren't you working?" she glanced behind the machine to look to see if the plug was still in its socket. Yep, it was there alright, & the washing machine stared up, "Well, now, that's better." she went back to the steps carrying a dry load from the dryer, & heard silence. She turned back around to find the machine off once more, "Are you going to give me problems today? Believe me Honey, I'm not in the mood for this." talking to machines was one thing, but when the machine turns off when you turn your back is another.
Climbing back on the machine, she plugged the socket in to find the machine sill didn't work, "Figures. You're too old to do anything now." she said as she climbed back down & opened the lid to pull the clothing out of the barrel to wash upstairs. Thankfully, this was a small load, so she didn't have to wash too much today.
She mumbled to herself about why washing machines, particularly this one, had to be so stubborn sometimes.
Now hauling two laundry baskets back upstairs, she could hear the water on a rolling boil. Removing the pot from the heat, she poured it into a coffee cup & left for the living room with her baskets & tea.
This night was going to be a long night. The weather station said that the snow storm from the Rockies were coming her way & that the power might…go out.
Sighing, Roxanne gave up on all hopes of finishing the laundry tonight, "How did Dad turn this thing on again?" she fidgeted with the fireplace's knobs until a large flame burst out of the silver metal pipe-like thing with holes, causing Roxanne to jump & fall backwards, "At least I'll have some sort of heat Tiger," she addressed her cat purring beside her legs, "Want to help me in getting my pillow & blanket?" in response, Tiger meowed, & the two proceeded to find the pillow & blanket in the dark house.
Stretching out on the floor, Roxanne wondered, just for a moment, what it would be like to run through Greenhill Zone & what it was like to be Sonic, Shadow, or Silver-t-to live in their lives for once. What was it like on ARK? To fight Iblis? To have the wind in your fur every day of your life? "What would it be like?"
Soon, the Kansan girl fell asleep with her cat beside her. Little did she know, that something was about to happen.
THUD! A loud noise outside startled Roxanne awake. THUD!
She sat straight up, "What was that?" she crept into the living room, & peered out the curtains. Nobody there. Maybe a few neighbourhood kids were playing pranks again?
No matter, she closed the curtains to return to her makeshift bed beside the fireplace. As she walked back towards the door, she saw her cat, run by her with his tail puffier than a raccoon's, Oh, boy, this had better be good cat. she thought, If not, I'm probably gonna skin you, you darn cat-no, I'll ignore you for the rest of the month.
She peeked around the corner into the family room. Nobody in there, "That darn cat. I told you so Tiger." she called out, even though she hadn't said anything to the cat. She crawled back under the blankets & prepared to go back to sleep.
"There she is! That's her-"
"Shh!"
Roxanne sat upright, eyes darting around the room in search of the voice, "Who's there? Come out where I can see you!" everything went silent, nobody moved, "Come on out! Now!" she demanded.
"Go!" said a baritone voice whispered harshly.
"Stop pushing!" whispered another that sounded deeper.
The intruders came out one by one. Roxanne could only see three silhouettes in the darkness. She slowly approached the closet until she could make out their figures. Somehow, they looked familiar.
"Hey," one of them stepped out of their group, "You're Roxanne, right?"
"Yeah…but who are you?"
The person stepped closer to Roxanne, revealing that, he was a blue hedgehog, "I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"S-Sonic?" she took a step back, "Oh, crud, this has got to be a dream!"
"It's not." the other figures stepped out of the darkness, & came closer into the fire's light. He smiled at the girl. A white hedgehog was talking now, "I'm Silver, &-" he glanced behind him to find that his friend was gone, "Well, he was here a minute ago."
"Looking for me?" a deep voice said from behind Roxanne. The Kansan spun around to find Shadow not five feet behind her.
"Sonic, Shadow, & Silver? Now this is definitely a dream." she slowly backed away from the three hedgehogs. The thing she mainly noticed about the hedgehogs, is that they looked older than sixteen, much older, "Okay now, I'm just gonna try to wake up now. I just want to wake up & get outta here!" she turned to run up the stairs to her bedroom, that is, until she ran into a furry thing.
"You aren't going anywhere. You're coming back with us." Shadow grabbed her arm & held it tightly, Geemany Christmas! Does he have a strong grip!
"No I'm not!" she kicked the ebony hedgehog in stomach, very, very hard.
"Why you little-" as he fell, though, he kicked her in the back of the knees, forcing her to fall too, "I'm gonna Chaos Blast you into outer space when I'm through with ya!" he was visibly becoming angry with the girl, while the girl was becoming much more than afraid-more like terrified. She knew just how angry he could really get if you get on his bad side.
When Silver thought he noticed Shadow preparing for an actual Chaos Move, he ran in between the hedgehog & human, "Shadow! You're scaring her!" he pushed Roxanne behind him to protect her from anything Shadow might do to her, "Our mission is to retrieve her! Not scare her!"
"Silver, I wasn't going to try to hurt her! I was trying to catch her!"
"Guys! I don't want to listen to you guys arguing all day long!" he glanced behind Silver, "Now we have to find her thanks to you guys arguing!"
"We aren't arguing!" they mimicked each other, "Hey! I was gonna-quit copycatting me!"
"Guys!" he shoved them both to the stairs, "Silver, do you want to find her or not?"
"I-yeah."
"Then, Shadow, you check the basement, & Silver &, I will check the upstairs & attic." at this, Shadow gave a curt nod & left for the basement, "Come on Silver," he wrapped his arm around his friend, "let's check upstairs."
The two searched the upstairs until they came to Roxanne's room, which, as they found, had the door to the attic, well-hidden, in the back of the closet. Strange place for an actual door & stairway leading to the attic, "Alright, she's not anywhere else, so she's got to be in the attic." Sonic opened the door & climbed the steps.
The attic was actually another room. By the looks of it, it belonged to Roxanne. It was a large, rectangular-shaped room with slanting walls with blue carpeting. The entire room was painted cobalt blue. On one side, a corner desk with a laptop decorated with pictures of Sonic, Shadow, Silver, & the others stood. Beside the desk was a large, wall, book shelf that had almost every kind of book you could think of…cooking, sewing, manners, herbs, gardening, makeup, organization, astronomy, books on several different languages, reading books…& the other side of that side, there were a few red & black bean bags, & two small, red armchairs with black pillows. But, on the other side of the room, there was a full-sized bed with red blankets & blue, red, black, & white accent pillows. There was also a dresser, vanity, & a hope chest. It also had a second closet which contained the rest of Roxanne's clothes.
The two searched around the desk. On the desk, there were drawings of the Sonic characters. Everyone you could think of was on there, though, Silver & Shadow were the most prominent characters, "I see you like to draw Roxanne," Sonic held up a picture of the Sonic Team: Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, & other characters from the Sonic X anime series, "& very well drawn are your pictures of us; I've never seen anything better."
Silver & Sonic returned to searching throughout the room, "Where is she?"
"Don't worry Silver, we'll find her."
"I hope."
Sonic walked to the other side of the room by the bed & peeked in the closet to find Roxanne huddled in the far corner, "Come on out Roxie," he began softly.
Silver turned around to find Sonic kneeling by the closet door, "You find her?" he asked quietly.
"Yeah. She's hiding in the closet." her put his hand out slowly, "Roxie, we won't hurt you. Come on out Sweetie."
The girl cautiously crawled out of the closet, when she did, she stuck to Sonic like glue when she saw Shadow come up the stairs, "I couldn't find her in the basement, maybe she-you found her! Great, at least she didn't run off."
"I know."
"Shadow," Roxanne began, "I'm sorry for kicking you in the stomach." she smiled, "Though your expression looked pretty funny."
"Hey!" he looked at the girl mischievously, "I forgive you Roxanne. Just don't let it happen again. Alright?"
"It won't."
"You know, you're right, it did look pretty funny!" Silver watched as Shadow's face grew slightly pink.
"Why are you guys here? Why do you need me so badly?" asked the white-haired girl.
"Well, uh…" he glanced to Silver, then to Roxanne, & back again, "should we tell her guys?"
"Well, to start it off, you're…really from Mobius."
"Mobius? Guys, I'm not from any planet besides this one!"
"Do you even know where you were born?"
"N-no, I don't. But that still doesn't prove that I'm a Mobian."
"Your parents adopted you, Roxanne. You don't even know who your real parents are."
"H-how did you know that?"
"Roxanne, trust us. We're telling you the truth. We did our research before we left & you're from Mobius." now, Shadow wouldn't lie-that's just not him. Something seemed familiar about them-not from a game, no. But something different.
"If you know so much about me, then who are my parents?"
"I'm sorry Roxanne, but we can't tell you that just yet."
"& why not?"
"B-because you wouldn't believe us." Silver cut in, "You just wouldn't."
"I have the right to know who my parents are ya know! Tell me, please?" though she was skeptical about this all, she was still curious to see if they were telling the truth.
"No, not until your birthday on the 27th Roxanne."
"Guys!"
"Roxanne Marie," Silver scolded the Kansan, "don't you start nagging us, it won't do you any good. Just be patient. I promise we'll tell you everything then."
Roxanne sighed, "Alright. On my birthday." she paused for a moment, "Wait, can you tell me one tiny thing?"
"That depends on what it is you're asking."
"If my parents are Mobian, are they human or animal?"
"Animal."
"What kind?"
"Both are hedgehogs."
"Then why am I a human?"
"On your birthday Roxanne, on your birthday."
"Okay. Say, where was I born?"
"Roxanne."
"Please?"
He sighed, giving up, "You were born in Soleanna."
"Soleanna? That's Crisis City 200 years before Iblis. Neat!" the Kansan clearly became excited when she learned that.
"Okay, no more questions until your birthday."
"Say, is the 27th of December really my birth date?"
"Roxie!"
"Okay, Okay! I'll shut up."
"Good." Sonic glanced to the clock, "Now we all need to be getting to bed. It's past one o'clock. Roxanne, do you have a place where we can sleep?"
"Sure, but you'll have to sleep up here with me. The neighbours should be coming over tomorrow to check to see how I'm doing, & they don't know about this area…yet." she pulled a pull-out bed out from under her own bed, "You guys can sleep here. I'm going to go change." she opened a door & walked in a bathroom.
When Roxanne came back out, she was wearing the same love-worn sweatshirt, but with a pair of blue sweats to go with it. This was only one of her two pajama "sets" she had, the other consisted of the same sweat but with a Jayhawks T-shirt instead.
"This is a neat room you've got here Roxie. Everywhere you look there's a new door to open."
"You bet! This house was modeled after the Victorian homes-I've found several secret passage ways in between the walls." she pushed a part on the wall & a small, 2x3 door opened, "You can get to any part of the house with this passage way."
"Is that how you got out of the family room so quickly?"
"Yeah."
"You're a stinker! You know that?" Sonic said as he pulled the covers off the bed & climbed in, "Come on, let's get to bed." each hedgehog climbed in the bed, not lying with their heads at the invisible "headboard," but lying sideways on the bed to fit them.
Roxanne watched as the three hedgehogs protested with each other on who should sleep on the edge of the bed, "Come here." she picked up a protesting Shadow & laid him beside her, "Now we all have our edge of the beds. Now go to sleep." she smiled as she watched the two hedgehogs below her & Shadow snuggle in the blankets, "Shadow, it's going to get cold tonight. Do you want a blanket?"
"No thank you Roxanne, I'll be fine."
"Okay, I warned you Shadow. Goodnight guys."
"Goodnight Roxanne."
"'night."
"Good night Roxanne, we'll see you in the morning."
Dear Diary, 21 of December 2010
Well, guess what! My favourite game characters in the whole wide world came to find me! "Why?" you ask, "Why would they want you for anything?" Well, that's where your question's answered Diary! You see, they're here on a "retrieval mission" as I heard Silver say earlier. Silver seems sooo sweet! He protected me from a very angry Shadow last night.
Anyway, they said that they're here to take me back to Mobius to meet my real parents. They know so much about me! Sonic said that he remembers watching me eat mealworms when I was young! Did I mention that they said I'm a hedgehog? How I "became" human is beyond me.
I admit, I'm skeptical of this all. Better yet, why wouldn't they be here? All in all, it's just not Sonic, nor Silver, or Shadow to lie like that if they are. It just isn't.
I know I'm very doubtful about this all, but by the looks of it, I'm probably going to believe them when I hear their story on my birthday. Plus, if all of this is true, I'll be able to meet my real parents!
Ah, well, only time will tell.
Roxanne
A/N: Okay! So, who do you think her father is? Hmm? I'm not telling you that it's-whoa there! You can't get it outta me just yet! You'll just have to read & find out for yourself. Though, I'll say that he is in some of the other books I've written. When you see his last name, you'll catch it. But ha-ha! Almost all of 'em have last names! So it could be any of them.
I'm putting up a poll & it'll have a list of the possible guys up there. PLEASE, take the poll *BEFORE* you read the next chapter…yes, it is revealed in the next chappie. So, uh, the poll first?
Catch ya later!
Disclaimer: None of the Sonic characters belong to me. I only own Roxanne, her parents, Frank & Valerie, & Mrs. Peters so far…I'm still trying to convince Yugi Naka & the rest of Sega to give Sonic & the others to me. But…I don't think it's working out too well. ^^º
They're being very stubborn-the little money-hogging rats. (I didn't intentionally make the last two words as they are-but it looks funny!)