Don't Turn Away
By: Rainie
Chapter 1: Denial
Okay, not my first time at writing a fanfic, but DEFINITELY my first time writing a Sonic one, so please be nice! I don't know Julie - Su and Sally and the Chaotix, so I'm not going to put them in, for fear of mischaracterizing. Whoever likes Sailor Moon as much as they like Sonic, check out "Rebirth" in the SM section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disclaimer: I don't own any Sonic people (Though I wish I did) so you can't sue me for stealing em, capish? Cool. READ ON!
"Man, what am I doing?" the guardian of the Master Emerald scolded himself for getting distracted so easily. "I won't be able to protect this thing properly if she's on my mind."
Knuckles had laughed at and scolded himself for the past week for thinking about Rouge, a white bat who used to be a government spy. The echidna often wondered why he thought about her. True, she had tried to steal the Master Emerald, but that wasn't what he wondered about her. Was it her beauty? No, he didn't think she'd fit his type. Her personality, maybe? Well, the Rouge he knew certainly wouldn't want to be in a relationship with him.
"But," Knuckles said to himself one day, thinking that over. "I haven't really gotten to know her that much. Maybe I'm just judging too soon."
The thought of this put him in hysterics. Him? Get to know Rouge? Rouge, the white bat who teamed up with Eggman? The one who had tried to steal HIS emerald? No, he'd rather have some deadly disease.
"Or would I?" he pondered while sitting on the steps leading to the shrine of the Master Emerald. Then a blue blur rushed up to him, accompanied by some small orange one.
"Hiya Knucklehead!" Sonic, like the fun loving hedgehog he was, ruffled Knuckles' hair, while Miles Tails Prower, Sonic's sidekick and best friend, appeared right beside him, panting with his tongue hanging out.
"Hi. Knux." was all Tails could manage before he sunk to his knees. Knuckles stared at him.
"Hi to you too. What happened, did you guys race here or something?"
"Nope," Sonic said proudly. "We ditched Amy!"
"Again?" Knux asked, stifling a chuckle. "Where was she going to take you?"
"Something about Twinkle Park and getting tickets from her friend." The blue hedgehog replied. "Of course, I didn't go with her, because I know she would have wanted us to go into the Tunnel of Love." he added, disgusted. Knuckles smiled, though distantly. Sonic noticed this, and immediately sensed something. His red echidna friend was always on the alert. Apparently, Tails noticed it too.
"Hey Knux, what's the matter?" asked the two - tailed fox.
"Oh, nothing!" he replied quickly.
"Yeah right, come on, you can tell us." Sonic forwarded.
"Oh." Knuckles battled himself, wondering if he should tell them or not. Sonic would probably laugh his head off, but what about Tails? He was young, but understanding.
"I guess I can tell them, especially if Tails is here." He thought.
"Well, it's about." he struggled.
"About." Sonic pushed him on.
"Rouge." he finished shakily.
Sonic stared at him for a moment, then burst out laughing. Tails, however, was more understanding, as Knuckles had predicted.
"Rouge? But, why Knuckles? Didn't she steal your Emerald?"
"That's what I keep thinking! But then some other thought comes to my head, like, oh, I haven't gotten to know her much, or, oh, she won't steal the Emerald again, especially after she's been rescued by me, she should show some gratitude."
"Are you sure you're alright, then?" Tails continued. "It's not like you to think like that."
"Now that I think about it," Knuckles said thoughtfully. "maybe I'm just getting soft."
Sonic laughed harder. "YOU?! Getting SOFT!?" Tails groaned.
"Sonic, stop. This is serious!"
"Okay, okay!" The laughing hedgehog took several deep breaths.
"Did you have a good laugh?" Knux asked irritably, folding his arms over his chest.
"Sorry," Sonic apologized. "But, well, it's not like you, Knux, to get into a relationship."
"I know, I know!" he replied, obviously troubled by the same thing.
"Look, why don't we go to the Chao gardens or something? You know, to keep our minds off this for awhile." Tails interjected.
"Okay," Sonic and Knuckles agreed, and set off to Chao world.
Rouge the bat lay sprawled across a blanket on the beach, sun tanning while at the same time trying to get her mind off a certain red echidna.
"I DON'T like him!" she tried to convince herself.
'Ah, yes, you don't like him,' said a voice in her head.
"That's right, I don't"
'That's why you looked in his eyes after he pulled you up from the lava.'
"That was -"
'That's why you let him keep the Master Emerald.'
"I was only -"
'That's why you looked back after him after he was gone and you were leaving.'
"I -"
'That's why you had your mind on him the past week.'
"Alright! So I like him! So what? Good luck him liking me back."
'It could happen.'
"Sure."
'It could.'
"All this thinking is giving me a headache, I'm going to the Chao gardens, or, well, someplace." She said out loud.
Upon entering the Chao gardens, Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails whistled, Sonic's came up first, being the fastest. Tornado, a blue sonic chao, was very friendly, and was great friends with Storm and Hunter, Tails' and Knuckles' chao.
"Hi guys," Knuckles greeted. "anything new?"
"Yeah!" all 3 chao jumped up and down happily. "There's a new chao, just hatched yesterday! Its name is Diamond and it belongs to a. What are they called again Hunter?" chirped Storm.
"Bats, she's white, and she comes here all the time, because she has two chao to take care of now." Said Hunter.
A thought struck Knuckles. What if that bat was Rouge? He didn't want to see her now. Today was supposed to be a Rouge - free day.
"Cool! Are you friends?" asked Tails.
The chao looked at one another.
"Well, the other one that the bat owns, over there," Tornado pointed to a sky - blue chao. "she's nice, but Diamond, she's kinda mean, she bosses all the other chao around, her owner doesn't want her to, but she does it when she's not here."
"That's mean," Knuckles observed the white chao that was supposedly Diamond, demanding another white rabbit chao to bring her a coconut.
"And she bosses you guys around too?" Sonic asked incredulously.
"We don't let her, but she tries."
"Good." The blue hedgehog replied, smiling.
"I'm hungry Tails." Storm said, holding his stomach.
"Say no more." Tails replied. In a flash, he was back with a coconut for all three chao. Then Rouge appeared and whistled, and Diamond and the other sky - blue chao ran over. She looked up suddenly, and saw the three of them, particularly Knuckles, and looked away, listening to her chao as they told her what they had learned in the past week or so.
Knuckles too, had seen her and looked away. Sonic and Tails looked at each other.
"Go on, ask her out. That's what you want, isn't it?"
"No, it's not." Knuckles said firmly.
"Come on." Tails tried his luck at it.
"No." Knuckles left.
"Sheesh, what a stiff." Sonic said.
Rouge frowned to herself.
'I've gotta go after him.' She thought.
"..And that's what we learned, all this week!" finished Skye, the blue chao.
"Congratulations to you both!" She exclaimed, petting them both. She fed them, then said good-bye and went off in search of Knuckles.
"Hmmm," Rouge muttered to herself, searching the lobby. She waited just stood there for a few moments, wondering where he could have gone. Then it hit her. Could he have gone to Red Mountain? After all, wasn't that where you were supposed to go when you needed to go up to Angel Island? So she exited Chao world, and flew over to the mountains in hopes of catching Knuckles right before takeoff.
Well, that's all for now, Read an Review pplz, so I can post more chapters! Oh, and what are Yaoi and Hentai? Someone tell me so I know what to put if it ever comes up in this story!
Bye! Rainie
Okay, not my first time at writing a fanfic, but DEFINITELY my first time writing a Sonic one, so please be nice! I don't know Julie - Su and Sally and the Chaotix, so I'm not going to put them in, for fear of mischaracterizing. Whoever likes Sailor Moon as much as they like Sonic, check out "Rebirth" in the SM section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disclaimer: I don't own any Sonic people (Though I wish I did) so you can't sue me for stealing em, capish? Cool. READ ON!
"Man, what am I doing?" the guardian of the Master Emerald scolded himself for getting distracted so easily. "I won't be able to protect this thing properly if she's on my mind."
Knuckles had laughed at and scolded himself for the past week for thinking about Rouge, a white bat who used to be a government spy. The echidna often wondered why he thought about her. True, she had tried to steal the Master Emerald, but that wasn't what he wondered about her. Was it her beauty? No, he didn't think she'd fit his type. Her personality, maybe? Well, the Rouge he knew certainly wouldn't want to be in a relationship with him.
"But," Knuckles said to himself one day, thinking that over. "I haven't really gotten to know her that much. Maybe I'm just judging too soon."
The thought of this put him in hysterics. Him? Get to know Rouge? Rouge, the white bat who teamed up with Eggman? The one who had tried to steal HIS emerald? No, he'd rather have some deadly disease.
"Or would I?" he pondered while sitting on the steps leading to the shrine of the Master Emerald. Then a blue blur rushed up to him, accompanied by some small orange one.
"Hiya Knucklehead!" Sonic, like the fun loving hedgehog he was, ruffled Knuckles' hair, while Miles Tails Prower, Sonic's sidekick and best friend, appeared right beside him, panting with his tongue hanging out.
"Hi. Knux." was all Tails could manage before he sunk to his knees. Knuckles stared at him.
"Hi to you too. What happened, did you guys race here or something?"
"Nope," Sonic said proudly. "We ditched Amy!"
"Again?" Knux asked, stifling a chuckle. "Where was she going to take you?"
"Something about Twinkle Park and getting tickets from her friend." The blue hedgehog replied. "Of course, I didn't go with her, because I know she would have wanted us to go into the Tunnel of Love." he added, disgusted. Knuckles smiled, though distantly. Sonic noticed this, and immediately sensed something. His red echidna friend was always on the alert. Apparently, Tails noticed it too.
"Hey Knux, what's the matter?" asked the two - tailed fox.
"Oh, nothing!" he replied quickly.
"Yeah right, come on, you can tell us." Sonic forwarded.
"Oh." Knuckles battled himself, wondering if he should tell them or not. Sonic would probably laugh his head off, but what about Tails? He was young, but understanding.
"I guess I can tell them, especially if Tails is here." He thought.
"Well, it's about." he struggled.
"About." Sonic pushed him on.
"Rouge." he finished shakily.
Sonic stared at him for a moment, then burst out laughing. Tails, however, was more understanding, as Knuckles had predicted.
"Rouge? But, why Knuckles? Didn't she steal your Emerald?"
"That's what I keep thinking! But then some other thought comes to my head, like, oh, I haven't gotten to know her much, or, oh, she won't steal the Emerald again, especially after she's been rescued by me, she should show some gratitude."
"Are you sure you're alright, then?" Tails continued. "It's not like you to think like that."
"Now that I think about it," Knuckles said thoughtfully. "maybe I'm just getting soft."
Sonic laughed harder. "YOU?! Getting SOFT!?" Tails groaned.
"Sonic, stop. This is serious!"
"Okay, okay!" The laughing hedgehog took several deep breaths.
"Did you have a good laugh?" Knux asked irritably, folding his arms over his chest.
"Sorry," Sonic apologized. "But, well, it's not like you, Knux, to get into a relationship."
"I know, I know!" he replied, obviously troubled by the same thing.
"Look, why don't we go to the Chao gardens or something? You know, to keep our minds off this for awhile." Tails interjected.
"Okay," Sonic and Knuckles agreed, and set off to Chao world.
Rouge the bat lay sprawled across a blanket on the beach, sun tanning while at the same time trying to get her mind off a certain red echidna.
"I DON'T like him!" she tried to convince herself.
'Ah, yes, you don't like him,' said a voice in her head.
"That's right, I don't"
'That's why you looked in his eyes after he pulled you up from the lava.'
"That was -"
'That's why you let him keep the Master Emerald.'
"I was only -"
'That's why you looked back after him after he was gone and you were leaving.'
"I -"
'That's why you had your mind on him the past week.'
"Alright! So I like him! So what? Good luck him liking me back."
'It could happen.'
"Sure."
'It could.'
"All this thinking is giving me a headache, I'm going to the Chao gardens, or, well, someplace." She said out loud.
Upon entering the Chao gardens, Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails whistled, Sonic's came up first, being the fastest. Tornado, a blue sonic chao, was very friendly, and was great friends with Storm and Hunter, Tails' and Knuckles' chao.
"Hi guys," Knuckles greeted. "anything new?"
"Yeah!" all 3 chao jumped up and down happily. "There's a new chao, just hatched yesterday! Its name is Diamond and it belongs to a. What are they called again Hunter?" chirped Storm.
"Bats, she's white, and she comes here all the time, because she has two chao to take care of now." Said Hunter.
A thought struck Knuckles. What if that bat was Rouge? He didn't want to see her now. Today was supposed to be a Rouge - free day.
"Cool! Are you friends?" asked Tails.
The chao looked at one another.
"Well, the other one that the bat owns, over there," Tornado pointed to a sky - blue chao. "she's nice, but Diamond, she's kinda mean, she bosses all the other chao around, her owner doesn't want her to, but she does it when she's not here."
"That's mean," Knuckles observed the white chao that was supposedly Diamond, demanding another white rabbit chao to bring her a coconut.
"And she bosses you guys around too?" Sonic asked incredulously.
"We don't let her, but she tries."
"Good." The blue hedgehog replied, smiling.
"I'm hungry Tails." Storm said, holding his stomach.
"Say no more." Tails replied. In a flash, he was back with a coconut for all three chao. Then Rouge appeared and whistled, and Diamond and the other sky - blue chao ran over. She looked up suddenly, and saw the three of them, particularly Knuckles, and looked away, listening to her chao as they told her what they had learned in the past week or so.
Knuckles too, had seen her and looked away. Sonic and Tails looked at each other.
"Go on, ask her out. That's what you want, isn't it?"
"No, it's not." Knuckles said firmly.
"Come on." Tails tried his luck at it.
"No." Knuckles left.
"Sheesh, what a stiff." Sonic said.
Rouge frowned to herself.
'I've gotta go after him.' She thought.
"..And that's what we learned, all this week!" finished Skye, the blue chao.
"Congratulations to you both!" She exclaimed, petting them both. She fed them, then said good-bye and went off in search of Knuckles.
"Hmmm," Rouge muttered to herself, searching the lobby. She waited just stood there for a few moments, wondering where he could have gone. Then it hit her. Could he have gone to Red Mountain? After all, wasn't that where you were supposed to go when you needed to go up to Angel Island? So she exited Chao world, and flew over to the mountains in hopes of catching Knuckles right before takeoff.
Well, that's all for now, Read an Review pplz, so I can post more chapters! Oh, and what are Yaoi and Hentai? Someone tell me so I know what to put if it ever comes up in this story!
Bye! Rainie