It was hot today in the planet earth. The sun sending out massive huge heat waves the past few days, making it unbearable to even stand outside for a minute. Flickies couldn't fly around much, due to the heat making them too tired and hot to fly around. People going to out to buy ice cream and cold drinks to cool themselves down.
Young kids that didn't perform well in the school are forced to attend summer school and have to pay the consequences where their friends are enjoying summer doing fun things like going to the beach, going to parties, and staying up late at night. (Poor suckers.)
The summer time was also the best time to spend the time with your friends to do various activities together, especially if one of the friends has a very nice AC to keep you cool. Thermometers were reaching to the highest degree as each day in the summer got hotter and hotter, almost to the point where they might break and stop working.
In a house in the middle of a beautiful grassy field in the hot summer is a sixteen year old blue hedgehog named Sonic, a hero among woodland critters and people that he saves from the evil clutches of his arch enemy, Dr. Eggman, a evil scientist that wants rule over the world they live on.
The blue hero was currently in his house, sitting on his sofa and fanning himself with a magazine showcasing all sorts of chili dogs around the world. He wasn't alone in his house however, next him was his spunky manx cat girlfriend, Tiara Boobowski, who he has been in a relationship with for months now and still going strong.
Tiara felt like the massive heat took her energy to move any parts of her body, putting her in vegetable like state while she stare up at the ceiling blanking. Next to Tiara was Sonic's dear sister, Honey the Cat, who was playing "Streets of Rage" on Sonic's Sega Genesis with a sweaty forehead. Both Sonic and Tiara are wondering how Honey is able to wear her red dress under the hot weather and still be moving.
Behind the hedgehog and the two cats was Sonic's best friend/little brother, Tails, who was currently repairing a AC to keep them cool, but was having a hard times due to the heat making him lose focus and would let out a curse or two when he messes up.
They been like this for the past few days, doing nothing as they heat prevented them from having fun together. Sonic wanted to find a way to beat the heat, so he and his friends don't just stand around doing nothing all day. Sonic stood up straightly and looked behind his couch to see his little brother Tails, still working on the AC.
"Any luck, pal?" Sonic asked.
Tails sigh sadly and put his wrench away. "Nope, sorry Sonic. This stupid heat is making lose my focus." Tails wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"It's not fair!" Tiara shouted out, "Why must the heat ruin our fun. We could be out there running, playing, or something.".
Honey jolted her head up, thinking of an idea. "I know what we could do!" Honey said, excitedly.
"What?" Sonic said.
"We could go to the beach to have fun." Honey clapped her hands.
"But Honey, the beaches is filled with many annoying people who will ruin our fun. Plus the beaches I know such as Emerald Coast and Seaside Hill are jam pack right now." Sonic said.
The yellow cat frowned, "I guess you're right." She said, sitting back down.
"If only there was a beach where we could be alone without a large population of people around it, so we could have the space and fun to enjoy for ourselves." Tiara said, as she started fanning herself.
The blue hedgehog then looked back at his little brother who was still trying to fix the AC. As Sonic looked at his brother, a smile appeared on his face as he ran towards his little brother.
"Tails!" Sonic said, putting his hands on Tails' shoulders. Tiara and Honey both looked at each other for they were confused by Sonic's action.
"Y-Yeah?" Tails a bit surprise by Sonic's outburst.
"Do you still know where it is?" Sonic asked.
"Where what is?" Tails scratched his head.
"You know, the island." Sonic said, reminding the fox.
"Island? What is-" Tails stopped to realize to what Sonic finally meant as his eyes widen.
"Oh, that island!" Tails said, happily as Tiara and Honey looked more confused by what's going on between the two boys.
"What are you guys talking about?" Tiara asked.
"Tails here owns a island." Sonic said, putting a hand his friend's shoulder.
"Really?" Honey shocked.
"Yeah, I do." Tails said, proudly.
Sonic then gave teasing eyes to the young fox, "And what's was the name of that island that you gave it? It's in the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember it." Sonic teased.
"Oh come on Sonic. Don't make me say it." Tails said, blushing in embrassement.
"Tell us, I want to know." Honey grew curious.
"Yeah how ridiculous could it be." Tiara said, as Sonic was quietly snickering in the background.
Tails sigh sadly as everybody looked at him.
"The island is called…****." Tails quietly mutter out the name.
"Sorry, couldn't hear you pal? Say it again louder." Sonic said, snickering even more.
"It's called Tails Island! Okay you happy!" Tails shouted angrily. Everybody began to laugh as Tails's face began blushing like crazy.
"Give me a break you guys. I was only a little fox when I found that island." Tails yelled.
"Still, you could have come up with a better name for it." Sonic chuckled. The gang laughed about a minute until they finally calm down.
"You guys done?" Tails said, tapping his foot in angry manner.
"Yeah, we're just about done." Tiara said, wiping a tear from her eye.
"So Tails, how did you find this island in the first place?" Honey asked.
"I found it sometime after me and Sonic went our separate ways for a bit when we defeated Robotnik the first time together. I was out going for a solo joy ride on the Tornado. I was flying above the sea until I saw the island." Tails said, trying to remember how he found the island.
"When I found the island, I decided it will be nice to take a holiday there for a while and claim the island as my own since nobody lived there, except a few wild animals. I dubbed it; Tails Island." The fox finished his story.
"Woah, you found an island. That's so cool." Honey said.
"Well there's more to it. Let's just say, I had my own little "adventure" while on the island. I tell you guys about it some other time. It's an awesome tale." Tails said.
"Funny how I completely forgot about the island until Sonic reminded me. At the time, only me, Sonic, and Knuckles knew about the island for it was our fortress of solitude." Tails said.
"Yeah, I still remember all the fun times we had when try to build our sand castle down by the beach of the island. We even sometimes invite Knuckles to play." Sonic said, remembering his happy childhood memories with Tails and Knuckles.
"I still remember it like it was yesterday. Man I miss that place." Sonic sigh happily.
"Yeah, I also remember that you wanted us to build a sand castle that was the size of an actual castle." Tails laughed.
"And we were close too, until that stupid wave knocked it down." Sonic grumpily.
"Why did we stop going to my island?" Tails asked.
"I guess we just got older and moved on." Sonic answered, unsurely.
"Wow, you two seem have a lot memories of that island." Tiara seeing the two boys lost in their happy memories.
"Eeyup, it's where we spend most of our time as kids back then." Sonic said.
"It's good thing that island is hard to find on any map. Only me, Knuckles and Sonic know that it exist." Tails said, happily.
"Yeah, so it's very unlikely that anybody knows about it either." Sonic answered.
"I wonder if my old beach house is still intact with my old tech gadgets. They're probably covered in dust at this point." Tails thought.
"So how about it Tails? We go back to that island of your's." Sonic suggested.
"Yeah, let's head back there. I never realize how much I miss that place." Tails happily, "It's even going to be better since we have more friends to come with us this time."
"Yeah!" Tiara said, happily.
"Thanks Tails!" Honey smiled.
"Your welcome." Tails said back to them.
"Well then it's settles it. We head to Tails Island the first thing tomorrow morning, it's gives us time to prepare our stuff today." Sonic said.
"Who should we invite?" Tiara suggested.
"I'll go to Angel Island to invite Knuckles myself and tell him about tomorrow. I'm sure he'll be thrilled about it." Sonic said.
"What about Cream, I'm sure she'll love to come with us." Tiara said.
"Cream can't come, I heard that she and her mother Vanilla are visiting her grandparents for the summer." Sonic answered to the manx cat.
"We should invite Blaze over, so that me, Honey, and Blaze could hang out together. Tails do you think you can fire up the dimension transporter and invite her over. I'll come along with you." Tiara asked the young fox.
"Sure, Blaze could come along as well. I'll set up the dimension transporter right away." Tails nodded at the manx cat, walking together.
"Oh! Let's invite Mighty!" Honey shouted out happily and clapped her hands.
Everybody looked at Honey as she blushed in embarrassment, saying the armadillo's name, who she has a massive crush on.
"Why Mighty?" Sonic said, giving suspicious eyes to his cat sister on why she said the armadillo's name. Honey got nervous, not wanting her brother Sonic to know about her crush on Mighty.
"Oh you know so he and Ray could join us, they can't miss out on the fun as well. I'll go invite them myself." Honey said, saving herself.
"Well I heard Vector and the others are on a case for three only, leaving Mighty and Ray alone at the Chaotix headquarters. They can join us on the fun." Tails said.
"Sure, I could spend some time with those two. It's been a while after all." Sonic said, shrugging his shoulder.
"Yes!" Honey said, quietly to herself, knowing her crush, Mighty, was coming along for the trip. She wanted to spend time with Mighty on the island, while Sonic is busy with their friends.
"Enough chit chat, let's get our stuff ready for tomorrow and tell our friends about it. It's gonna be a blast I tell you." Sonic shouted happily.
"I can't wait to show you guys the places me and Sonic hang out together and the shack that I lived in." Tails said.
Sonic looked at his brother, "This is gonna be the best summer ever!" He said as he and Tails high five each other.
The next morning
The day of going to Tails Island came as the morning sun was barely visible as it was rising in the horizon. Before the trip, Sonic and his friends bought a large supply of food that could feed all of them. They brought enough sunscreen for all of them to use. Honey, Tiara, and Blaze went shopping for some swimsuits to wear on the beach while the guys bought themselves some swim trunks.
They also brought flip flops, binoculars, sunglasses, magazines, and first aid kits. A volleyball and a net to go with it, folded chairs, a radio, extra blankets, bottles of water and sodie pops, umbrellas, and extra clothes. They store all of their items in the trunk of the Tornado as they prepare themselves a fun and relaxing summer.
The gang were outside of Sonic's house where the Tornado was parked. They were waiting on Mighty and Ray to show while Sonic and Knuckles was shoving in the remaining items in the trunk. Tiara, Honey, and Blaze were talking to each other, talking about the fun things they could have on the island.
Tails was actually talking to his good friend, Marine the Raccoon, who Blaze brought along when she heard that Sonic and the rest were heading to Tails Island. Marine was really curious about Tails Island and wanted to see the island herself, especially since she lives on her own island in comparison. She was also fascinated to see Tails' plane and that she wanted to learn how to fly it.
"Okay Knuckles! One last shove should do it!" The blue hedgehog yelled.
"Got it!" Knuckles said, as he and Sonic slammed down the trunk, finally sealing up their things for their trip.
"I tell ya that's too much to handle, even for me." The echidna joked, dusting his gloves.
Sonic smiled and nodded at his echidna buddy, "I gotta say, I'm looking forward to seeing Tails island. I remember how peaceful it was like Angel Island." Knuckles said.
"Same here, me and Tails couldn't stop thinking about the island all day yesterday. I was too excited to sleep last night." Sonic said, as he then looked over the area.
"I wonder where's Mighty and Ray are at? They should be here by now?" Sonic wonder.
The echidna looked behind Sonic, "There they are!" Knuckles said, pointing behind the blue hedgehog.
Sonic looked behind to see find two his other childhood friends; Mighty and the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, walking towards him and Knuckles.
"Yo what's up you guys! We're finally here!" Ray waved hello. "Hey Sonic. Hey Knuckles." Mighty said, nodding his head and fist bump to the two of them.
"Glad you're here Mighty, so what made you guys want to come to Tails Island?" Sonic asked his two friends.
"Oh you know, it's a place I never been to yet and I like to explore it." Mighty answered to his hedgehog friend.
The armadillo then looked over Sonic's shoulder and saw Honey, who looked back at him with a small blush on her face and gave a flirtatious eye wink, making him blush as well.
Ray smirked, seeing his buddy, Mighty, blush at sight for Honey, "That's not the only reason why he wanted to come." Ray mocked as he nudged Mighty's shoulder, knowing the armadillo's love for the yellow cat.
"Ray quiet!" Mighty whisper to the gold squirrel, who couldn't help but snicker. "Mighty is something wrong with you? Your face is red?" Sonic said, looking at Mighty's face carefully.
"It must be the heat! It must be picking up! We should go now!" Mighty said, pretending to sweat.
"Okay, then. Everybody get ready! We're about to leave!" Sonic shouted. Everybody nodded at the blue hedgehog as they went to the Tornado.
"This is gonna be so much fun!" Honey shouted excitedly. Soon everybody found their seats and blast off into the morning sky
Luckily the seats of the Tornado were able to hold two people at a time. Tails had to share his pilot seat with Marine, who was happy to see the control of Tails' planes as he operates it. On the passenger seat sat Blaze and Honey together.
Blaze is afraid of heights, so she demanded that she sit in the passenger seat instead of standing on the wings of the plane. Honey sat next to Blaze to help comfort her by rubbing her back, knowing her fear of heights.
Sonic, Tiara, Knuckles, Mighty, and Ray were on the wings of the Tornado that was strong enough to hold them all during the ride to Tails Island. During the trip, Tails and Ray would stretch their body by flying around the blue sky after hours of sitting and standing on the Tornado when Tails puts the plane in auto pilot.
It took about an hour and half to reach Tails Island as they flew above the deep blue sea under the hot sun. They will kill some time by playing games with each other like Rock-Paper-Scissors and listen to music on the radio thanks to the Tornado's built in radio. The radio was playing such songs from the 50's doo wop and 80's rock music that Sonic and Tiara were loving so much that they would sing along to some of the music.
Eventually after flying crossing a large amount of water below them. With their eyes, they saw a large green filled island with beautiful trees, clear blue water, palm trees, rocky mountains, and a big beautiful sandy beach. Tails smiled as memories of him discovering the island for the first time was playing in his head like a movie.
Everybody except Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were shock to see how beautiful the island was with it's natural beautiful. The yellow fox then looked over at his raccoon friend next to him,
"Marine, would you kindly press that red button there." Tails asked, pointing the red button in front of him and Marine.
"Sure thing mate." Marine nodded at the fox and press the red button.
When the young raccoon press, the radio of the Tornado started playing the Jurassic Park theme song as Tails made the Tornado fly through a valley of mountains covered in grass, as the song making everything look epic. Tails then stood up from his seat and looked at his friends who looking at the beauty of Tails Island.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome all of you to Jura- er I mean...to Tails Island." Tails said, giving everybody a warm welcome as he sat back to his seat.
"We're not going to see any dinosaurs will we?" Mighty joked.
"What! Of course not. Don't be ridiculous." The fox laughed.
Tails steadily pilot the Tornado as he found a landing spot near a beautiful waterfall in the jungle part of the island and slowly descended the Tornado. Once the Tornado was parked, everybody jumped off the plane and looked at the beautiful waterfall meters away from.
"Woah." Honey said, amazed.
"This is beautiful. I never seen a waterfall like this before." Marine said, looking at the surroundings of the waterfall.
"Come on everyone! Grab your stuff from the trunk. We're heading to Tails' beach house which should be this way. Right Tails?" Sonic said, pointing the direction.
"Yes you are Sonic." Tails nodded his head.
Tails open the trunk to the Tornado and let everybody grabbed their things. The last thing Tails did was put a huge white sheet over the Tornado so it would get dirt or dust on it. The whole gang began walking through jungle with their items in hand. As they walked through the jungle, everybody was admiring the lovely plants and wild animals they saw roaming in the trees.
The one liking the jungle the most was Mighty, who was just loving everything he was seeing happening in front of him, loving the air, peace, and nature around him. Mighty wanted to stop walking for a bit and admire more of the jungle. Ray wanted to find and climb the highest tree that Tails Island had because his squirrel instinct was urging him to do so.
Tiara, Honey, Blaze, and Marine picked a few flowers to smell the fresh aurora scent. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were talking about some of the fun things they did together as kids on the island years ago. They soon came across the end of the pathway and were now on a sandy beach.
They looked at the beach to see some crabs, coral, palm trees, and seashells filling up the big emptiness of sandy shore. They also saw a great view of the beautiful grassy mountains on the far left of them. The only they was occurring was the sounds of the waves and seagulls flying in the sky on this bright and sunny day. Truly everybody was fascinated as looked over the area multiple times.
"Hey look! There's my beach house!" Tails shouted, pointing in the direction. Everybody looked at where Tails was pointing at and spotted a house near the shore of the beach.
"Sweet, it looks like the beach house is still in one piece." Sonic said, as and he everybody started heading over to Tails' shack.
Once the reach door of the old house, Tails was the first one to approach the door and open it without a lock of some sort. Tails enter in his old shack first and once inside, he flipped a switch next to the entrance door, lighting up the place. Nostalgia hit Tails hard when he saw his old inventions that were finished and not finished, covered in huge white sheets.
But that wasn't the only thing that happened that made Tails smiled. What made the situation more happier for Tails and go as far make him shed a happy tear come out his left eye. The house itself then started the play the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme when Tails hit the switch, making Tails feel back at home to his childhood as the song was playing in the background.
Welcome back
Your dreams were your tickets out
Welcome back
To the same old place that you laughed about
Well, the names have all changed
Since you hung around
But those dreams
Have remained and they turned around
Who'd have thought they'd lead you
Back here where we need you
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
"I can't believe it! It still works!" Tails shouted happily once the song stopped playing.
"Wow Tails, nice place." Marine said, admiring the place.
"Thanks, It's actually thanks to both Sonic and Knuckles that helped me build this place on the island. Right guys?" Tails said, looking at his two best friends.
"We build this house from the ground up." Knuckles said, as he and Sonic nodded at each other.
Tails then ran up to one of his old invention that's covered by a white sheet over it. Tails yanked off the white sheet.
The young fox smiled, "I remember this invention. This invention allows the user to shrink your body to the size of an ant, but I never finished it." Tails said, picking up the device in his hand.
"I actually have a lot of finished inventions that was meaning to get done when I was younger." Tails blushed at his laziness.
Tails eyes widen when saw something large in the house's garbage through the window that caused him to smile greatly.
"Wait!? Don't tell me it's the-" Tails cut himself off and ran towards the machine that's covered over in the white sheet.
"It's what, Tails?" Marine asked, seeing the fox run, Tails pulled off the white sheet and reveal a huge yellow submarine
"It's my yellow submarine!" Tails yelled happily. The fox then gave his yellow submarine a huge hug as everybody walked up to him and his submarine.
"Submarine? You mean build a submarine long ago?" Marine said, surprise.
"Eeyup, I built this submarine years ago when I was kid. How do you think I got the Deep Typhoon build so quickly. I used the same blueprints as my yellow submarine." Tail said, as he faced back his submarine.
"Oh baby! How I missed you!" Tails said, as hugged his submarine once more and gave it a big kiss.
"Why did you build a submarine? Was it to explore and study the sea or something?" Mighty asked.
"Oh no." Sonic facepalm himself, remembering why Tails build the submarine in the first place.
"Something like that, Mighty. The real reason why I build the submarine is …." Tails taking a deep breath.
"Oh no, here it comes." Sonic rolled his eyes at his brother.
"To find the Giant Squid!" Tails yelled proudly.
Everybody in the building looked at each other in confusion as they scratch their heads, thinking that the young fox is crazy as he went back to kiss his yellow submarine some more.
"Giant Squid?" Honey said, tilting her head.
"You build a submarine to find a Giant Squid?" Ray asked.
"Why?" Mighty asked.
The fox stopped kissing his submarine and answer to his friends, "Because it saved my life when I was a kid years ago." Tails said.
"A Giant Squid saved your life? How?" Marine asked.
Tails stopped looking at his submarine and glance back at everybody, while Sonic on the other hand knew the story that Tails was going to say to all of them and had big frown on him.
"It all started years back here in the island. Some time after my big adventure here. I was out on the sea doing some fishing." Tails said, beginning a flashback as everybody gather up around to hear his tale about the giant squid, except Sonic who heard the more times than he can count.
Years ago
"Oh boy! I hope I catch a big one today!" Said a young yellow fox.
The young kitsune was enjoying his time fishing, hoping to have something eat for lunch. Tails was on his own on his lonely island filled with nothing but beautiful nature. Tails was in the mood to eat some fishes and he knew the best spot of his island after exploring it from his big adventure.
The young fox sat quietly on his boat as he waited patiently for a bite to happen. Tails smiled beamly over at his small cooler next to him on the boat, containing the fishes he caught so far today. He caught some fishes that were small and big that filled his small red cooler.
Tails felt that luck was on his side today, seeing he caught more fishes than he usually does. During his time fishing, Tails would often think what his big brother, Sonic, is doing right now after they went their separate ways when they both defeated Robotnik for the first time. Knowing Sonic's love for action and adventure might put him in trouble. Tails was a bit worry that his big brother might be in danger right now and needs his help.
Tails quickly shook his head and laughed that thought away, also knowing that Sonic is one tough hedgehog to be killed off from the earth too easily by any evil foes he might come across with and was unbeatable. Tails turn back his attention to his fishing rod and began to hum a soft tone to help pass the time as he fish with his eyes closed.
Tails then felt his fishing rod twitch causing him to open his eyes quickly, put two of his hands on his fishing rod, and tried his best to pull in his bite. Tails's body was jolted up with excitement as struggled to pull in his bite. Tails moved his body left and right and used his feets to keep him still from falling off his boat.
"I almost got you! You stupid fish!" The fox shouted as he tried to reel in his fish.
With one last reel, Tail pulled his fishing rod high into the sky. Tails saw that he caught the biggest green bass fish that he ever laid his eyes on. Tails looked at the fish with a big proud smile as the fish was flopping it's body, trying to break free from Tails's fishing rod.
"Ha! Got you!" Tails mocked as he pulled the fish closer to him.
"You thought you can get away from, but not this time!" Tails said, looking at the bass fish with a mocking look. The fox laughed as he then put the bass fish in his small cooler along with the fishes.
"Looks like you'll be sleeping with the fishes." Tails said to the fish he caught and laughed at his joke.
"Thank goodness nobody heard me say that joke right now." Tails said to himself after putting his fish away.
Tails then fell on his feet as the boat then began to rattle violent caused by the waves. Tails quickly got up and saw the waves coming towards in high tide.
"Oh crud! I forgot that it's high tide this hour! I forgot to keep track of time!" Tails said, as he hang on tightly on the boat as the ocean waves were violently shaking.
"Oh no better fly off the boat before I fall and-" Tails was cut off by a heavy wave that flipped over the boat causing Tails to fall with it.
The yellow fox was now underwater of the ocean as he tried to swim properly to the surface to breathe. He was having a hard time due to heavy waves that was preventing him from reaching the surface. Tails used the power of his two tails help but even that didn't help him.
Tails was running out of breathe as bubbles were bursting out of his mouth and he was slowly closing eyes as he was passing out due to the lack of oxygen left in him. Tails lifted a hand in sign of desperation for air. The fox's hand gave out and tilted his head to left of the sea. As Tails was blacking out, the last thing he saw was a huge black figure coming towards him.
Moments Later
Tails was back in the surface of his island still passed out as his whole body was facing down on the sandy beach. Tails slowly waken up as he felt the ocean's water touch his lower body as the sun was setting behind him. Tails slowly open his eyes and found his vision to be a bit blurry when woken up.
"Ummm….where am I?" Tails said, still on the ground as he rubbed his head.
The young fox was surprised to find himself back on shore as tried to stand back up to his feet.
"How did I end up back here. The last thing I remember was that I was drowning in the ocean because of the strong currents." Tails said. The fox then heard a large splashing noise that caused him to turn around.
"No…..way." Tails said slowly on what he saw. Tails quickly rubbed away his blurry vision and caught a glimpse of a huge tentacle that was the size of a light house, going back into the ocean and waving goodbye to him.
"I'm been saved by the giant squid." Tails said, excitedly.
Tails quickly ran to ocean, "Wait! At least let me thank you!" Young Tails cried out.
But it was too late as any sign of the giant squid was gone. Tails fell to knees as small tears fell off of his eyes and glistened by sunset's light. Tails reached out his hand to the beautiful ocean in front of him and whisper out some words as he cried softly.
"I…..I love you." Tail cried softly as watch the ocean sparkle in beauty as the sun was setting.
End of flashback
"Okay okay maybe I may have gone overboard with the "I love you " part of the story, but that's only to put drama into things. You know how much people love drama." Tails confessed.
"Wow so a giant squid saved you." Marine said, fascinated by Tails's story.
"Eeyup, ever since the giant squid saved my life. I build this yellow submarine to find it so I can thank it in person the last few summers when I stay on my island. I even build a fish translator in the submarine to speak to the giant squid." Tails said, giving a pat to his submarine.
"Tails, just admit that you just fell asleep while fishing and just washed up on shore." Sonic not convinced by his brother's tale.
"I'm telling you Sonic. It's the truth! A giant squid did save my life." The fox yelled at the hedgehog.
"This time Sonic. This is the summer where I'll find the giant squid and thank it in person." Tails said, giving out determine look at his submarine.
"Nice mate, mind if I tag along and help? I want to see the giant squid as well." Marine asked.
"Sure thing Marine, you're more than welcome to join. I could use the help." Tails smiled at his raccoon friend.
"At least someone is excited to find the giant squid, unlike a certain blue hedgehog." Tails said, shooting mean glare at his big brother.
Sonic turned his head and looked away from his little brother and gave a "Hmph" sound.
"So Tails, where do we put our stuff at?" Honey asked.
"Also is there enough room for us to stay in?" Tiara add in.
"There sure is. There's a storage room near the kitchen where our stuff could be put at." Tails said. "Also there's plenty of room in the house for us, though you girls have to share a room together."
"We have to share a room?" Blaze tilted her head as each girl in the group looked at each other.
"Don't worry, the room you girls will staying at has enough space to hold all of you." Tails said.
"What about us?" Ray asked.
"The rest of you guys are also sharing a room together." Tails said.
"What about you?" Sonic said.
"Simple, I'm staying in my own room." Tails said, proudly.
"Now if you excuse me. I gotta check out my old room to see if have anything illegal that I might have left in there." Tails said, picking up his suitcase as he went up the stairs. Tails stopped walking up when he took one last glance of his submarine.
"I swear, this is the summer I'll find you. Giant squid." Tails spoke softly as he continued his way up the stairs to his room.
Everybody else went to the storage room to put their things away and took their swimsuits, umbrellas, and other beach items. As Sonic was done putting his things away, he saw that his friend Ray had some weird device in his hands that made him curious.
"Ray, was it that you have in your hands right there?" Sonic said, looking at Ray's hands.
"Oh this? This is my metal detector." Ray answered happily.
"Why do you have a metal detector?" Tiara asked, standing beside her boyfriend, Sonic.
"Because I'm hoping to find some treasure on the beach." Ray answered to Sonic and Tiara.
"Ray, I hate to tell ya this, but there's no treasure on this island. Me and Tails explore every part of this island." Sonic said.
"Well Sonic, you didn't look hard enough and because you don't have this awesome metal detector." Ray said, proudly.
Sonic and Tiara rolled their eyes at the flying squirrel and looked at Knuckles who had beach towel on his shoulder and a radio in one of his hands.
"Knuxs, what are you planning to do?" Sonic asked.
"I'm planning to have a nice relaxing day at the beach while listen to music. I really need this, guarding the Master Emerald takes a lot work to protect, especially from Rouge." Knuckles said.
"Speaking of the Master Emerald, aren't you worry that Rouge might steal it while you're away from Angel Island?" Tiara asked.
Knuckles shot a smirk and answered, "No need to worry about that. I locked the Master Emerald in a secret area of the island. Even Rouge manages to find the secret area, she'll need the three keys to enter it which I have with me right now." Knuckles said, pulling out some ancient keys.
"Wow, nice thinking Knuckles." Tiara said.
"Thanks." Knuckles nodded at the manx cat as he went back to grab more of his things. Sonic and Tiara then looked over at their Honey and Blaze to see them getting their things ready.
"What about you Honey, what are you planning to do here on the island?" Sonic asked his sister Honey.
"Oh you know, have fun with friends. Eat a lot of tasty food. Play in the water and…" Honey stopped talking when she took a quick glance at her crush, Mighty, who was gathering up his own things.
"And some alone time." Honey smiled and blushed at the armadillo.
"Honey, why is your face red? Are you having a fever?" Sonic said, worry about his sister.
"Oh...um...it must be the heat. I should really get going before the heat starts picking up." Honey quickly said, as she ran away from her brother to hide her blushing cheeks.
Both Sonic and Tiara shrugged their shoulders at Honey and walked towards Blaze.
"Hey Blaze what are you planning to do here on the island?" Sonic asked his lavender friend.
"Nothing much, I'm just gonna walk around the island to admire more of the nature since it looks like Marine is gonna spend most of her time with Tails to find that giant squid." Blaze said.
"Hey I'm also planning to walk around the island as well to see more of the nature." Mighty said, as he heard Blaze's plan.
"Nice, maybe we could go together. It would be nice to have a friend around." Blaze smiled at the armadillo.
"Sure, I'll tag along." Mighty accepting Blaze's offer.
"Mind if we could join as well. I can show you guys the best parts of the island when me and Tails were kids." Sonic said.
"Yeah." Both Mighty and Blaze said.
"Awesome there's nothing better than hiking with a group of friends." Tiara said, as she grabbed her boyfriend Sonic's hand.
"Mind if I join as well? I want to see more of the island too." Honey said, popping out of nowhere behind Sonic.
"Sure sis, the more the merrier." Sonic said. What Sonic didn't know that his sister, Honey, real reason to join was to hang out and get a bit closer to Mighty. Sonic clapped his hands together.
"Alright, let's start this Summer Lovin day already!" Sonic shouted happily as everybody nodded their heads and got ready to have the most fun summer of their lives.
End of chapter 1
