Pikatwig: The first chapter of the new story with Kota and Yayoi.
KKD: Does the chapter title refer to Kid Icarus?
Pikatwig: No.
KKD: You sure? ...Nevermind. So, anything to make of note before beginning this new story?
Pikatwig: Hmm, nothing I can think of. Solo Sonic story, alrighty, cue the disclaimers.
KKD: Pikatwig owns Ian, Kota, and Yayoi, I own a couple characters appearing here as well, but the rest belong to SEGA, Archie, and their respective owners.
One day, we're in a young boy's room, but our focus is only one the bed that had images of Sonic the Hedgehog all over them. The boy in the bed was fast asleep until his alarm began buzzing. In response to this alarm, a golden yellow mobian cat in a maid's outfit walked in, her emerald eyes showing a sign of annoyance when it came to the boy in bed, as is also indicated by the frown on her ivory muzzle. She then walked up to the alarm and shut it off.
"Kota-sama, you've got to get up now. You're parents won't like you sleeping in again," the cat maid told the boy in bed.
"... I'm up, Luna," he muttered.
However, he was too quiet for Luna to hear, so she raised a hand, summoning a mini-tornado in it before thrusting her hand out, and making the sheets of the bed fly off along with the boy underneath, revealing him to be a magenta hedgefox wearing yellow pajamas.
"I'M UP!" he yelled.
"That's better," Luna smiled, letting Kota fall out of the tornado while she used the wind to make Kota's bed and start cleaning his room.
Meanwhile, in another room, that of a young girl, we see the typical pink sheeted floral pattern bed as a young brown hedgefox yawned and woke up, feeling like she would have a wonderful day. She then hopped out of bed, revealing her magenta pajamas, as she began making her bed. Then, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," she replied as a male hedgehog much older than her walked in.
This hedgehog could very easily be mistaken for the famous Sonic the Hedgehog if not for how his quills were spiked a bit like Shadow the Hedgehog, had red highlights, and a small bit of a white mane around his neck under his peach colored muzzle. The rest of his form was covered up by a typical butler's outfit as he looked at the young hedgefox with friendly emerald eyes and was holding a bundle of magenta clothes.
"Yayoi-sama, here are your clothes for the day," the hedgehog replied as the young hedgefox looked over and saw what clothes they were.
"Thank you Takeshi-kun, you always do so nice when you pick out my clothing, I'd be lost without you," Yayoi said with a smile.
"I have to be careful when choosing outfits for her majesty and yourself after all," Takeshi replied. "If you prefer, I'll leave so you can get dressed."
"Thank you Takeshi-kun," Yayoi said as she shooed him away and closed her door.
Later, Luna led Kota downstairs and into the dining room. Now, Kota was revealed to be wearing a pair of white pants, a blue jacket and an orange t-shirt, with black shoes and goggles similar to his dad's, but they have silver lenses, also Kota had silver highlights in his quills and had blue eyes. Another duo to join them in the kitchen were Takeshi and Yayoi, the latter now wearing a mostly magenta attire consisting of a magenta t-shirt, violet skirt, and yellow accents all over, and also she was barefoot, she also had green eyes.
"Good morning brother," Yayoi greeted Kota.
"Morning," Kota yawned.
"Was he stubborn in getting up again Luna-chan?" Takeshi asked Luna.
"Yes, he stayed in bed when I told him to get up, so I had to tornado him out again," Luna informed.
"Oh, you always make a morning laugh Kota-kun," Yayoi giggled.
"That wasn't funny," Kota groaned as he and Yayoi sat down for breakfast while Takeshi and Luna walked to the cooking stations to aid some of the many chefs.
"We've been waiting for you two," a voice replied as Yayoi and Kota looked to see their parents, their dad was a brown fur colored hedgefox who had blue eyes, was wearing goggles that had green lenses, was wearing green shoes, and had a small gold crown perched on his head, along with wearing a blue shirt and black jacket. Their mom, on the other hand, was a pure hedgehog with magenta quills, some pink fur over her head, green eyes, a peach muzzle a violet shirt with matching gloves that reached up to her arms, a golden yellow belt, a violet skirt, and red and violet leggings that were cut off at the ankles revealing her barefeet.
"Good morning otou-san, okaa-san," Yayoi said with a smile.
"Did you two have a good night's sleep?" their mother asked.
"Yes, until Luna used her wind powers to wake me up," Kota said slightly annoyed.
"...You stayed up late again, didn't you?" their dad frowned.
"... hey, I have no sense of time." Kota replied.
"It helps that I got the brains," Yayoi giggled. "If I were there, you wouldn't have had to worry about that."
Their dad perked up for a moment, but then turned to his wife. "Sonia-chan, we have such great kids, don't we?" he asked.
"We sure do, Ian-kun," Sonia smiled in response.
"Dad, what are you smiling about?" Kota asked.
"Oh, no reason," Ian shrugged.
"Anyway, I was going to ask if I could go out to the park for a bit," Kota said.
"Oh, can I go too?" Yayoi asked.
"...Well I suppose so," Sonia shrugged in response after looking at her husband and they had the same response to the questions to each other. "But be sure to bundle up okay?" Sonia asked.
"Hai," Yayoi smiled.
"Whatever," Kota shrugged as Takeshi and Luna walked back out with the breakfasts for the family.
"Breakfast is served, sir," Takeshi replied as he and Luna placed the respective meals before each person.
After an hour, Kota and Yayoi were ready to head for the park for a bit. With them were Takeshi, wearing something that would make him closer resemble Sonic more in terms of his body, if it weren't for the extra white chest hair similar to Shadow, and the rest of the visible white mane, and Luna, who was wearing a mostly blue outfit consisting of blue pants, a blue shirt with a cyan or skyblue coat, and due to a rule that had been made by the royalty, she was currently barefoot, but she was able to show off her blue painted toenails.
"Luna, you look… nice," Kota complimented.
"Thanks," Luna smiled.
"Just remember that she's my wife, Kota-sama. Understand," Takeshi reminded young Kota.
"I'm 8, you two are like what, 20? I'd just figured I'd give her a compliment so that she knows I appreciate her, yeesh," Kota replied.
"Relax Kota, married men tend to be defensive about their bride no matter how old the person is," Yayoi informed.
"At least your sister knows that fact," Takeshi sighed.
Later, the four arrived at a small park where Yayoi and Kota began to play around while Takeshi and Luna just sat down on a nearby bench to keep an eye on them.
"What I don't get is, why do we need people to watch out for us," Kota told his sister while he was hanging upside down from a monkeybar.
"You should know why. Our parents have an important role in the city, and if we're caught something bad could potentially happen to the city or something like that," Yayoi informed Kota as she waited her turn.
Kota gave a sigh as he jumped off, and people cheered for him as he took a bow.
Yayoi just shrugged and took her turn on the monkeybars. "So sis, I'm gonna go and hang with our… caretakers for a bit," Kota informed.
"Okay then," Yayoi nodded as Kota walked off and she was finishing her turn on the monkeybars.
"Hi," Kota said to the two.
"Hi Kota-sama," Luna smiled.
"You and Yayoi-sama having fun?" Takeshi asked.
"Yep, I wanted to play with you for a bit Luna, okay?" Kota asked.
"Takeshi?" Luna asked her husband.
"Well… he is only 8… okay dear. I'll wait here until you come back," Takeshi replied.
"Arigatou, Anata," Luna smiled as she got up to join Kota.
"Okay, I wanna play on the swings, but I kinda don't trust Yayoi, I don't want her to push me too high, and I'd figured you'd be soft with me, okay?" Kota told her.
"No problem," Luna smiled Kota hopped onto the swing, and Luna got behind him.
However, instead of actually pushing Kota, she used some of her power to control the wind slightly, letting Kota swing to a point he felt comfortable with; this was one of the times he felt Luna's control over the wind felt fun and useful.
"So, you jealous?" Yayoi asked Takeshi walking over to him.
"Me? Jealous? Jealous of whom?" Takeshi asked, a bit surprised Yayoi would ask him that.
"I know he's only eight, and sometimes he hates her, but I'm just asking if you're jealous that Kota and Luna are having so much fun?" Yayoi asked.
"...Oh… it's not that Yayoi-sama. It's just… I can't wait for the day when Luna-chan and I have our own kids," Takeshi answered.
"But, you'd still care about us, right?" Yayoi asked scared.
"Of course I do," Takeshi responded as Kota noticed a girl.
This girl Kota noticed was a female teal cat, barefoot like most girls in town, and her outfit consisted of black leggings, a red skirt, a yellow sweater, and she even had a pair of glasses over her orange eyes. Kota mostly noticed that this girl seemed to shy away from the others and tried to bury herself into a book she had with her. Kota got up and walked over to the girl.
"Um, hello. I'm Kota," Kota said.
"Emily," the girl replied, not even bothering to look up from her book.
"Um… hello?" Kota said, trying to get Emily's attention.
"Go away, I'm busy reading," she responded.
"Uh… do you want to play?" Kota asked, not getting any response at all from the young feline before Kota was ushered away by Luna.
"What's wrong? Don't you know it's rude to keep interrupting someone like that?" Luna asked.
"... it is? She was just so pretty," Kota said.
"Yes, it is rude, and… wait, did you just call her pretty?" Luna responded.
"Yep, really pretty." Kota added.
"...Oh… I think I know. ...You've got a crush on her, don't you?" Luna smiled.
Kota blushed and nodded.
"I thought so. But, why are you so straightforward. I can understand the crush, but you have to learn to wait until you know she's not busy with something," Luna informed.
"Hey fella, look what we got over here!" a young voice responded, getting Luna's and Kota's attention as they turned towards Emily's direction.
Surrounding her were a young male purple albatross, a green male armadillo, and leading them was a female vermillion echidna mostly wearing black.
"Hey, ain't dis da bookwoim we saw during school boss?" the albatross asked the echidna as Emily was looking terrified of the trio.
"Yeah! What do we say we dump her into the mud?" the armadillo suggested.
"Not a bad idea boys," the echidna smirked.
"Stay back… P-Please!" Emily panicked, as they shoved her into a mud, making her glasses fly off, and then the albatross stomped on it, Kota then walked over to them.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" he snapped.
"Oh… it's da prince!" the albatross said in shock.
"This could mean trouble boss… should we split?" the armadillo asked as the echidna growled slightly.
"Yea," the echidna said, as they ran off, and Kota looked at Emily, who was crying.
"You okay Emily?" Kota asked offering her his hand, and even though she had some mud on her face, Emily wiped the stuff away from her eyes and looked up at Kota.
"...I'm not sure," Emily admitted as Kota helped her back up.
"You'll be fine, so, you wanna play?" Kota asked.
"...Sure… as soon as I get this mud off my face," she answered, and just then, she felt the stuff lift off and saw the mud hover over towards Luna who focused her gaze on it before the mud dried up and became sand which she carefully lowered into the area where most of the kids were playing.
And so, Kota and Emily had some fun with each other playing on the swings, taking turns on the slide, and even Kota teaching her how to climb the monkey bars, even though she fell to the sand every time she tried.
"I have to leave now Kota," she told Kota later.
"Will I get to see you again Emily?" he asked.
"Yea, see ya later," Emily said as she left, Kota smiled and blushed as she left.
At that moment, Takeshi looked at his watch and noticed the time.
"We have to get going, too, minna," he informed Kota, Luna, and Yayoi.
"I can't believe my brother's in love, wait til Okaa-san and Otou-san find out,"
"NO!" Kota said.
Yayoi didn't listen as she just skipped off with Kota trying to follow her, and Takeshi and Luna weren't far behind.
Back with Ian and Sonia, they were just putting the final touches to a new document of sorts.
"OKAA-SAN! OTOU-SAN! I have something to tell you!" Yayoi said, as Kota ran up behind her and yelled "No she doesn't!" Kota then tackled his sister.
Sonia just sighed at this as the two were starting to fight with each other. Then, with Ian finishing the document and saving it, he slammed his hands on the table and yelled, "BOTH OF YOU STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER!"
And like that, the two siblings stopped fighting altogether.
"Now, what's all this about, and no fighting about it," Ian told them.
"Kota has a crush on a girl from our school," Yayoi said as Kota blushed.
"Really? Who?" Sonia asked, getting curious.
"My friend Emily," Yayoi confirmed.
"Your friend who's into books?" Sonia checked.
"Yep."
"How cute," Sonia smiled before Ian cleared his throat.
"Anyway, due to some adjustments being made to expand our royal home, you two will have to share a new room for a while," Ian informed, making the two hedgefoxes' jaws drop. "I already had some of the other maids and butlers transfer you stuff to the new room."
"WHAT!? There's no way I'm sharing a room with her/him!" both exclaimed.
"I'm afraid you two have no choice," Ian sighed.
"We both agreed on this figuring you two could learn something from each other," Sonia figured.
"... We'll help you two with this transition," Takeshi informed.
"We'll help you two have fun in the meantime," Luna added.
"Speaking of which, you two need to get back into your uniforms soon," Ian reminded.
"Of course, Ian-sama," Luna bowed.
"I'm just glad we were able to get this job," Takeshi replied.
"Well you two are friends of my brother, so I figured I'd do something to help you two as a favor to him," Sonia smiled.
Later, Takeshi and Luna, now back in their butler and maid uniforms, respectively, led the two young hedgefoxes to their new room. This mostly looked like the kids' respective rooms merged into one. One half, Kota's, had a blue sky theme with Megaman and Kid Icarus as part of the designs, along with all of Kota's games, toys, and more. Yayoi's side, meanwhile, have a pink sunset wallpaper with characters decorated on it from the Powerpuff Girls and Wreck-It Ralph franchises.
"Well, what do you two think?" Luna asked.
"I love it both" said in unison,
"That's good," Takeshi smiled as the two kids walked to their respective sides of the room, but felt it would feel off having to look at each other, especially with the thought of having to share a room to change clothes.
"Before you start complaining, there's one feature Sonia-sama informed me of," Luna replied walking over to a wall and pulling out an some sort of sliding door. "This is installed to provide you two with some privacy when changing. When you're set, just say aloud that you'll need to get dressed, and the wall will close by itself, and it'll reopen when you say you're ready."
"Neat," Kota said amazed.
"That's good," Yayoi nodded. "Hey Takeshi-kun, can you get me a cherry popsicle?"
"Well, you did just have lunch before we brought you here, so I don't see why not," Takeshi replied, walking over to a wall that kinda confused Yayoi.
Takeshi then knocked on the wall and a portion of it slid up to reveal some kind of freezer or vending machine. Takeshi inputted some sort of code, then pressed the option for a cherry popsicle before the machine dispensed the requested item.
"Here you are, Yayoi-sama," Takeshi replied, handing the frozen treat to her.
"Hey Kota-sama, may I please sit down on your bed with you?" Luna asked.
"Go right ahead," Kota said as Luna sat down next to Kota on his bed as he stared at her feet.
"You okay Kota?" Luna asked.
"Oh… uh… it's just…" Kota stuttered, but Luna got the idea.
"You want to massage my feet?" Luna asked, knowing how much his father liked doing that with his wife's feet.
"Yea, can I?" he asked.
"Sure," Luna nodded as she put her feet onto Kota's lap, he did it, slowly, but he was struggling to do a good job, but he tried nonetheless, he then stopped, and asked "Did I do good?"
"You did okay, but to be honest, I'm not one who's normally into having their feet massaged. But I needed a break," Luna answered.
"It's fine, you're no Auntie A," Kota replied.
At that moment, the doorbell was heard to have rung. So, Ian decided to answer it personally. The person at the door was a female magenta hedgehog, similar to Sonia but lacking the pink fur on top her head and was instead wearing a pink tanktop, a pink skirt, had a blue jacket, and was of course barefoot.
"Hi Ian. How's it going?" the hedgehog smiled.
"Akiza-chan, it's good to see you," Ian smiled.
"Same with me to you. How's my sister doing?"
"Aki-nee-chan!" Sonia's voice said in joy.
"Sonia-nee-chan!" Akiza smiled as she saw her sister rush in and they hugged each other with joy for a moment.
"So, how are my favorite niece and nephew, I wanna see them," Akiza smiled.
"We're just getting them settled into their new room now. Care to join us?" Sonia offered.
"Sure," Akiza nodded as Ian closed the door after Akiza walked in and Sonia escorted her to the kids' new room.
"Hiya," Akiza said with a smile.
"Auntie A!" Yayoi smiled rushing over to hug Akiza, while Kota did the same.
"How're you two doing today?" Akiza asked the two.
"Amazing," Yayoi said in joy.
"Okay, I guess," Kota answered.
"You sound a little bummed out, Kota-kun," Akiza noticed.
"Because someone blabbed out my new crush and now this!" Kota said annoyed.
"You got yourself a new crush? Who is it?" Akiza asked, more intrigued about Kota being interested in a girl than how they ended up with the shared room.
"A friend of Yayoi's named Emily," he answered.
"How cute," Akiza smiled hugging Kota a little tighter. "My favorite nephew's growing up so fast."
"... Autie A… Normally I love your hugs, but I'm not in the mood right now…" he said, before noticing her barefeet.
"Sorry Kota-kun. How about you massage my feet instead?" she replied.
"Okay…"
Akiza only giggled. "Like father like son."
And so, Akiza hopped onto Kota's bed and showed him her barefeet, yet despite the lack of him giving his aunt permission to sit on his bed, he didn't care and it didn't matter since she was family, so Kota just walked over and began to massage his aunt's feet, and she seemed to enjoy it much more than Luna did.
"Again, like father like son," Akiza said with a smile.
"And you always enjoyed having your feet massaged, Akiza-nee-chan," Sonia smiled as well.
"... and that's why you're my favorite family member that doesn't live with us," Kota said with a small smile.
"I'm glad of it," Akiza added as Kota stopped and sat down next to her. "You know if you need anything, you can always call me up or visit me."
"Thank you," Kota said as he gave her a hug.
"You're welcome," she replied back, giving him a returning hug.
Akiza then left and this left Kota and Yayoi with Takeshi and Luna.
"Well, I suppose we should get you two more comfortable," Luna figured.
"Do you two require anything Kota-sama? Yayoi-sama?" Takeshi asked.
"I'm ready to go and have dinner," Kota said, when they saw the clock, it was nearing dinnertime.
"I suppose I should head to the kitchen and help the chefs prepare dinner than," Takeshi figured leaving ahead of Luna and the kids.
"Alrighty, you two ready to eat?" Luna asked.
"More than ready," Yayoi smiled as she lead them into the dining room, where their parents were waiting.
"How do you like your new room?" Sonia asked the kids.
"Dunno," Yayoi said.
"..." Kota was silent.
"It's okay if you don't know what to say about it now. You'll be there for a while, so feel free to get used to it," Ian replied.
Kota then growled and walked away.
"Oi Kota! I-er… Kota!" Ian shouted going after his son, who walked outside and sat by a fountain in the yard. "Kota. What's wrong son?"
"I don't want to share a room with Yayoi!" he snapped.
"...Kota…" Ian gawked, surprised.
Suddenly, they heard some kind of howl, surprising the two males before turning to see the source of the howl. They turned to see some sort of feral looking wolf/echidna hybrid mobian.
"Who are you?" Ian demanded to know.
"Who am I? Heh-heh-heh… just call me Howlker," the creature smirked evilly.
Ian and Kota backed up, as Howlker roared and ran up to them. Kota then armed himself, and fired an arrow.
"You think you two can beat me just 'cause you think you're royalty?! Time to teach you two some respect!" Howlker smirked. Ian then ran up and Homing Attacked the beast, while Kota fired again.
Howlker managed to block Ian's attacks while swiftly dodging Kota's arrows.
"Is that all you got?" Howlker scoffed when a lighting attack hit him, Yayoi and Sonia then ran out. "What?!"
"C'mon, Kota! Let's teach this freak some manners!" Yayoi responded to her brother. Kota then ran up and smacked Howlker with his bow and then fired an arrow, which Yayoi supercharged with some electricity and it sent Howlker flying and he was destroyed like that.
"...Wow…" Sonia gawked.
Soon afterwards, both kids were cleaned up and in pajamas, ready for bed.
"Now you two get some sleep and get used to this. You'll be starting school tomorrow," Sonia informed.
"And Kota, I'll still want to talk to you about your behavior today tomorrow after school, okay?" Ian informed.
"... okay," Kota sighed.
"Good night," Sonia smiled after giving both her children a good night kiss as she and Ian left the room.
"Think they'll be safe?" Sonia asked Ian.
"After today, I'm not sure, Sonia-chan," Ian sighed.
"But, this is part of the reason we moved them into one room, so they could learn how to work as a team," Sonia added.
"Yea… I know, but… with how Kota is and how he reacted to the change, I don't know if he is willing to work this close with his sister," Ian sighed.
"Don't worry about it so much," Sonia insisted.
"...Right." Ian replied as Sonia pulled him into a kiss.
"Again, don't worry."
Ian just nodded as they left for their room.
Pikatwig: That was an interesting start huh?
KKD: Indeed.
Pikatwig: So, what'd you think of the force that attacked them?
KKD: I'm not sure, but whoever is responsible seems to mean business.
Pikatwig: Yep, this is sorta the idea of going to school, being normal kids, while at the same time trying to save the world sort of thing.
KKD: I see.
Pikatwig: Anything else you wanna say?
KKD: Nope… Catchphrase time.
Pikatwig: Just Live More.
KKD: Jaa ne!