Amy and the Three Hedgehogs

By Soar318

Once upon a time, in the Great Forest, in a somewhat small house, there lived three mismatched hedgehogs. There was an ebony hedgehog with crimson streaks, ruby red eyes, a tan muzzle, and a small tuff of white chest fur. His name is Shadow the Hedgehog, and he is the Ultimate Lifeform, immortal, deadly, and cold. There was also a sapphire blue hedgehog with peach arms, stomach, and muzzle, along with bright emerald green eyes. His name is Sonic the Hedgehog, fastest thing alive, hero of Mobius (and Earth), and the user of the Chaos Emeralds, bright, happy, and sometimes rather scatterbrained. Lastly, there was a whitish-gray hedgehog with five quills on his head and two behind his head, a ring of white fur circling his neck, and amber eyes. His name is Silver the Hedgehog, a time traveler, a psychic, determined, and rather naïve. The three were brothers, and cared greatly about each other, even if they didn't show it often.

On the day we're concerned about, Silver had just finished making with their morning porridge. (Don't ask me why they eat porridge for breakfast. They just do, and I'm the author!)

'I hate being the only one who can cook around here…' Silver mentally grumbled to himself as he set the table. 'Those two could at least move their butt quills to set the freakin' table, but noooooooo, they just have to go for their morning run, or else they'll die…'

At that moment, Sonic skidded into the kitchen, and taking one look at Silver, burst out laughing so hard he fell down to the ground and rolled right out the back door.

"What's so funny?" a dark voice came floating in from the backyard. Poking his head out the door, Silver watched as the blue speed demon, gasping for breath and wiping the tears away, was hauled upright by a pitch-black hedgehog with streaks of red. It was the oldest of the siblings, Shadow, and the one who usually kept his younger brothers in line.

"Apparently, me," Silver answered, and stepped out in full view in front of the dark hedgehog currently supporting Sonic.

At the sight of his younger brother wearing a frilly pink apron embroidered with flowers and butterflies, Shadow's eyes widened, and his whole from began to shake as he struggled fiercely not to let the giggles out. It was a losing battle, since after barely ten seconds, the usually cold hedgehog was outright howling with laughter on the ground with tears rolling down his fur.

Snap.

Silver whirled around as he heard the sound of a camera and saw his grinning blue brother look at the picture he had just taken.

"If ya don't behave, I just might send this to Blaze. Chaos knows she needs a good laugh nowadays," Sonic said, while stilling grinning devilishly.

Silver heaved a huge sigh, and, ripping off his apron, he used his psychic powers to levitate a still laughing Shadow and abruptly slammed him headfirst against the unforgiving kitchen floor.

"OW! What on Mobius was that for?" the now indignant Ultimate Lifeform glared at his younger brother, as he rubbed his spiky head, which already was sporting a rather large bump.

"Nothing. Now go eat your breakfast," was the reply, as the speaker and his smirking sibling sat down at the table. With a sigh, the bruised black hedgehog sat down as well.

Suddenly, Shadow – for the second time in the day so far – let loose another "OW!"

"What now, faker? Does poor little Shadzy need a band-aid 'cause his head's throbbing?" Sonic smirked, using an old nickname from the time when he and the black hedgehog had tried to kill each other.

The look that was sent his way was so poisonous; it would have sent a Taipan slithering away in shame.

We interrupt this very important story with a not-so-important and possibly unnecessary announcement…

A golden hedgehog with upturned quills and red eyes steps out from the curtain.

"Hello everyone! I'm Super Sonic, as you all know, and today we're gonna have a quick lesson about the Taipan! Today, as our teacher, we have…drum roll please…the long deceased, victim of the raiding of the Ark…Maria Robotnik!"

Out from the curtain steps a blond girl with blue eyes and wearing a blue dress. She clears her throat and begins her very boring – er, immensely interesting – lecture/lesson.

"The Taipan is an extremely poisonous snake, with venom strong enough to kill 12,000 guinea pigs. It can kill a human adult in around 45 minutes, and can also kill up to 250,000 mice in a single bite! It inhabits Australia, mainly in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is rather shy and cautious, and will only bite when it feels threatened. So don't worry, people in Australia! You probably won't die!"

"And that's all with the lovely Maria Robotnik! Now back to our regularly scheduled story, and I better go, since Super Shads is looking kinda jealous. Ah, well. Bye!"

Now back to our regularly scheduled story…

"Silver, how long did it the porridge have time to cool?" the black hedgehog asked, temporarily ignoring the snickering cobalt rodent.

"About the same time it took for Sonic to get back to the house, roll back out, you to start rolling around, and me to bash your head on the kitchen floor," Silver replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Because the goddamn porridge decided to burn my tongue," Shadow growled, looking rather annoyed.

But the annoyance receded slightly as the Ultimate Lifeform watched Sonic look down at his spoonful of the porridge more warily than a supposedly defused bomb that still had its red numbers counting down.

"I'm…going for a walk," Sonic abruptly dropped his spoon and stood up, bumping against the table. "I'm don't know about you two, but I'm gonna wait until my breakfast has cooled down."

"I guess a walk won't hurt," the psychic hedgehog muttered, as he too stood up and strolled over to the back door.

"Hmph." Was the only reply from the eldest of the mismatched siblings, but nevertheless, followed his younger brothers, taking care to grab a bottle of cold water as he headed out the door, much to the amusement of Sonic.

As the three spiky rodents walked leisurely along a path, surrounded by the tall trees of the Great Forest, Sonic piped up:

"Hey, we forgot to lock the doors. Should I run back?" he asked, glancing sideways at his two brothers.

"No, I don't think that'll be necessary. After all, who in their right mind would be doing in the Great Forest? Other than us, since we live here," Shadow replied easily, already soothed by the soft green light shining down through the leaves of the forest. The three lived relatively close to the edge of the forest, meaning that walking through the trees around midday was quite nice, as long as you know where you are going, which wasn't a problem with the three hedgehogs, considering that they knew the forest inside-out and upside-down, having lived here for quite some time.

"Fine, but you're gonna owe us each 30 rings each if some lunatic breaks into our house," Silver said, smirking slightly, while next to him, Sonic bobbed his head in agreement.

"Fine."

While the three hedgehogs continued their blissfully peaceful walk through the woods, a certain rose-colored hedgehog came skipping down the lane that went through the exact same woods and led to the three spiky rodents' home. Her dark emerald eyes sparkled happily as she trotted down the road.

'Here I come, Sonic the Hedgehog, you're absolute and never cheating lover, Amy Rose!' the pink hedgehog sang in her mind, eyes narrowing just so subtly. Amy had some strange suspicion that her (unwilling) boyfriend has been cheating on her, and was determined to find out if this was the case. Because Sonic had never invited the obsessed hedgehog to his home for obvious reasons, (other than the fact that he didn't want an angry Shadow or Silver flinging the pink hedgehog out of the second story window because she was complaining about how the blue hero never told anyone that the Ultimate Lifeform and the psychic were his brothers, and how the three had no taste in interior decorating, and how their house was in the middle of the forest, and how…) Amy had never seen the cobalt hero's house. Coming into the Great Forest was also a new thing for her, and so, instead of fixing themselves onto where the road curved around the bit of trees and disappeared, her eyes were darting through the undergrowth, hoping that nothing nasty would leap into her way and devour her, piece by piece…

"Don't think that way!" Amy quickly chided herself, as she came to the bend in the road.

"Oh! I never knew that someone else lives here," the surprised (yet clueless) Amy gazed up at the somewhat small two-story house nestled comfortably in a quite nice clearing. The light blue walls of the house were partially covered in ivy, and the creamy white roof was recently cleared of any leaves or branches. (Courtesy of Sonic and Silver, in a particularly wild game of tag.) The wooden picket fence around the yard was made of sanded wood, and although looked rather aged, was still serviceable in keeping out small animals. (A killer robot, not so much.) The grayish, stone steps were also recently swept, and the simple, woven mat before the white door didn't have much dirt on it. All in all, the house had a nice, cozy feeling to it.

Ignoring the "Keep out, unless you were invited note taped to the fence, Amy walked up to the front door and wondered whether or not to knock.

'I suppose coming in for a quick visit wouldn't hurt,' Amy thought, having absolutely no idea what so ever that this was Sonic's home, and raised her hand and knocked.

No answer.

Amy frowned slightly, and then reaching out, she turned the doorknob and was surprised and somewhat freaked that the door swung open almost soundlessly, as if inviting her inside, so that the terrifying ghosts would be able to devour her…

"Do NOT think that way!" the freaked rodent scolded herself again, and then, steeling her nerves, walked rather rudely inside the house, intending to give the occupants a good talk-to about good manners.

Of course, there was no one home, and before long, the nervous rose-colored hedgehog stepped into the empty kitchen.

Looking at the bowls of porridge set out on the table, Amy suddenly had an overwhelming urge to eat the enticing food, since for breakfast, she had eaten nothing but a slice of toast before setting out to find her obsession.

Mainly, Sonic.

As Amy gazed rather longingly at the food, her stomach and common sense began an all-out battle. Finally, her stomach won, and Amy quickly walked over to the table.

'A little bite won't hurt, I guess…' the hungry hedgehog thought, as she picked up the spoon engraved with a strange, tribal like swirl with jagged spikes protruding out of it on the handle. (Shadow's trademark sign.) Lifting the spoon after dipping it into the bowl of porridge next to it, she brought it to her lips, intending to sip the liquid…

"OW!"

The hedgehog quickly dropped the spoon as her hand immediately went to her burned lips, all the porridge in the spoon splattering over the floor, as the actual spoon itself fell with a cling.

"Too hot," the annoyed rodent muttered, quickly walking to the next bowl, and picking up the spoon she found there, not bothering to pick up the previous one. This one had a ring engraved into its handle. (Sonic's bowl of porridge, duh.) Dipping it into its bowl, Amy prayed that this one wouldn't burn her lips…

The pink hedgehog pulled her hand back with a hiss, once again annoyed, and rather disgusted at how cold the porridge was. True, it helped sooth her stinging lips, but what kind of person would leave a perfectly good bowl of porridge here and let it freeze?

"Too cold," the rosette hedgehog mumbled, dumping it into the offending porridge and moving around to the last of the three bowls. (Silver's – why do I bother telling you this?) The spoon she found had a circle with a line extending down the handle on it. (The glowing circles on Silver's hands.) This time, hoping that the porridge wouldn't be really bad, she hesitantly lifted it, and sipped it cautiously…

Then swallowed the entire contents of the spoon.

"Yum! Just right!" the now happy hedgehog grinned, and in around ten minutes, finished the entire contents of the bowl.

'Oh dear,' the now full female rodent worried, as she licked her lips, savoring the taste. 'I'd better make a new batch – on second thought, I'll make it later. First I have to find the person living here…'

Wandering away from the kitchen without so much as a second thought about the three bowls she had just sampled, Amy stepped into the living room, where around the unlit fireplace sat two cushioned chairs, one dark red, one white, each with a blanket neatly folded on it, with an ocean-blue sofa in between. Around the walls were tall bookshelves, and underneath a window was a large computer.

Deciding to (rudely) sample the chairs, Amy walked over to the dark red one (which reminded her creepily of dried blood) and plopped down on it, twisting around to get comfortable, while at the same time messing up the deep blue blanket, embroidered with twinkling stars. Yet no matter how she arranged herself, the rose-colored hedgehog couldn't get comfortable, the seat reminding her of a flat-topped rock.

"Too hard," the sakura hedgehog murmured, quickly getting up, ceasing her bottom's complaining. Stepping over to the blue couch, plumped with light green pillows, she looked it over, and then sunk down onto it. Which felt like she was slowly sinking down into a plump, feather-filled pillow-quicksand thingy.

Which completely freaked her out.

Immediately jumping off the couch and messing up the pillows, Amy purposefully strode over to the last, white seat, carefully avoiding looking at the creepy couch, mumbling, "Too soft". She critically looked at it, and, deciding to get it over with, suddenly dropped down onto the seat. Blinking, the rose-colored hedgehog squirmed around slightly, and then relaxed her full weight into the chair, sighing happily. "Just right," she whispered, snuggling into Silver's absolute favorite chair. She was so busy making herself comfortable; she never heard the faint creaking noise the chair was emitting, never taking the weight of something so suddenly.

But Amy did notice the abrupt meeting of the hard, wooden floor and her bottom, as the rather fragile chair broke and dumped her onto the floor.

Grumbling, the now extremely irritated rodent got up off the gold-colored blanket, and decided to venture upstairs, in hopes of finding the house's occupant.

Upstairs, after walking down a hallway to the last three doors, Amy reached out, and pushed open the one to her right, the sign hanging on the doorknob that read "Do Not Enter, Unless You Value Your Life" swinging wildly as the pink hedgehog pushed open the door.

Inside, Amy found a completely different atmosphere than the rest of the cozy house.

The room was completely painted a dark red, like the chair, while the ceiling was a deep, midnight blue, with golden constellations painted accurately on it. The floor was covered with a soft, apple red carpet. Along an entire wall was a bookshelf extending from floor to ceiling, like the kind you would find in a library. On the gleaming, wooded shelves were an array of books, small guns, and random knick-knacks. Under a window was a small desk containing a high-tech computer, a framed photograph, and more books and knick-knacks. Next to the desk was a single large black and crimson bed.

Suddenly, Amy was feeling really tired, since the night before, she had had no sleep, too excited about what she had planed tomorrow.

Walking over to the bed, the now yawning hedgehog plunked down onto the mattress. Not bothering to take off her chunky red and white boots, Amy brought her feet up and pulled the blanket over her slim figure. But no matter how much she twisted and turned, the dark bed seemed too high at the head for her.

Grunting with annoyance, the sakura hedgehog threw back the covers and made her way over to the door across the hall. Opening it, she found a sky blue room, with white trim. The window was large with cream-colored curtains, along with a cushioned window seat. On a shelf across the room from the window were all sorts of electronic devices – Game Boys, iPods, Wii remotes - you name it, it's probably there. It was also stacked with dozens and dozens of CDs. There was also a TV facing the deeper blue bed with indigo blankets. Attached to the TV was every type of console imaginable – Wii, X BOX, SEGA Genesis, etc.

'How did they manage to get electricity in the forest is beyond me,' Amy wondered, as she sauntered over to the sapphire blue bed. Laying down on it, the pink hedgehog felt that the overly soft pillow was far too unnecessary and felt too much like the sofa downstairs, and so, threw it down onto the floor. Sighing, the sakura hedgehog snuggled down into the soft bed, but couldn't get comfortable enough, since it felt like all the blood was slowly rushing to her head, meaning the bed was too high at the foot for her. (Technically, Tails had installed a special lever that can adjust the three hedgehogs' beds so they can be either high at the foot, or high at the head. But Amy doesn't know that.)

Picking herself up, Amy strolled right out the door without replacing the pillow, and stepped over to the last door at the end of the hallway. Pushing open the door, the sleepy hedgehog stepped into a cheery yellow room, with the window wide open, and the light blue curtains swaying gently in a breeze. Like the previous bedroom, it contained multiple electronic devices and consoles and a TV, but far less than the original one. The bed was a light green, with a white blanket.

Stepping over to the inviting-looking bed, Amy lay down onto it, surprised to find that it felt absolutely perfect. Snuggling into the blanket, the rose-colored hedgehog fell asleep to the flickies' song outside the window, unaware of exactly how much trouble she was going to be in…

"Alright, now that was one of the nicest walks I've ever took, believe me," Sliver said casually, as the three mismatched brothers wandered up the lane to their house. "But if someone broke in, that would really suck."

"And Shadow here would be broke too," his blue brother joked, glancing at the eldest of the three.

The siblings had walked out the back door, and made a large U-turn around, so they ended up walking to the front door.

"I'm just about 100% sure that our house is-" Shadow began, as they turned around the bend, and then his jaw was simply hanging around his feet.

The front gate and the front door were both ajar.

Which could only mean that someone had broke in.

With a shriek, the three siblings shot into the house at around mach 2, and skidded to a halt in the kitchen.

Seeing his spoon lying on the floor, with spots of porridge everywhere, Shadow shrieked, "Someone was at my porridge!"

Seeing his spoon in the bowl, when it supposed to be next to the said bowl, Sonic cried out, "Someone was eating my porridge!"

And poor Silver, when he looked down at his bowl and seeing that it was empty, bawled, "And someone ate all of my porridge!"

Walking over to his younger brother while Shadow shot off to the living room, Sonic slung an arm across Silver's shoulders, gently murmuring, "Dude, it's all right. When we find the thief, I'll personally hold him so you can chuck him straight out the window and into a bees' nest!" The thought of that made Silver smile through the tears pooling in his eyes.

Suddenly, an angry yell came from the living room, and sharing alarmed looks, the two youngest brothers hurried to the living room, where they found an angry Shadow staring at his favorite chair, which had his favorite blanket, personally made by his long-deceased friend Maria, messed up on it.

"Someone sat in my chair!" Shadow roared. "When I find that little twit I'm gonna-"

The rest of his sentence was drowned out by a shocked shout from Sonic, who had just seen his favorite white pillows on his favorite blue sofa all messed up, just like Shadow's blanket.

"Someone sat on my sofa!" Sonic shrieked, staring at his beloved couch. "I'm gonna rip the little idiot's head off…"

And then Silver saw his very favorite chair, personally made by all his friends for his birthday, all broken on the floor, and promptly burst into tears.

"S-someone sat in my chair, and they broke it!" Silver sobbed, sinking to his knees.

Blinking at the scene, while Sonic angrily grinded up the stairs on the railing (who wouldn't if they could? XD) Shadow stepped over to his crying little brother, and gently hugged him.

"Shh, it's all right. We'll all make you a new one for your next birthday, and Sonic will let you share the couch. If he won't, I'm going to make him," Shadow quietly whispered, showing a soft side that the night-colored hedgehog rarely showed, even to his brothers, and definitely not to others.

Nodding while quickly wiping his tears away, Silver got up and the two went upstairs to see if Sonic had found anything. Halfway up, they heard a furious yell, and ran the rest of the way to Sonic's room.

"Some jerk slept in my bed!" Sonic shrieked, whipping around to point at his discarded pillow on the floor, which had a clear boot mark on it. "And he even stepped on my pillow!"

Immediately turning and rushing into his room, Shadow positively seethed with rage when he saw his bed.

"Some moron slept in my bed too!" Shadow howled, his fists shaking with suppressed fury, as he glared at his messed up blanket.

Swallowing, Silver pushed into his bedroom door, and what he saw shocked him.

A pink hedgehog snuggled on his bed, sleeping.

"Somebody slept in my bed too!" Silver said, barely able to keep his voice down. "And she's RIGHT HERE!"

Dashing into the ivory hedgehog's bedroom, the two ex-rival's jaws simultaneously dropped as they stared at Amy. Recovering both his jaw and rage, Shadow stormed over to the sleeping hedgehog and jerked her out of Silver's bed by the neck of her dress, which caused Amy to wake up.

"What do you think you're doing in my house?" Shadow hissed, the cold, angry voice sending fear straight into Amy's heart as she stared at the dark hedgehog's rage-filled, demonic eyes.

"I-well-it's that-um-" the shocked pink hedgehog stuttered, barely able to believe her ears. She was in Shadow the Hedgehog's house!

With an angry roar, Shadow abruptly flung the pink hedgehog to the floor. But instead of her hitting the floor, Amy was encased in a glowing, teal colored aura. Blinking, the confused hedgehog was lifted upright, and when she saw her savior, Amy squealed, "Oh, thank you, Silver!"

But the mentioned hedgehog simply glared at her, and then tossed her straight out the conveniently open window. As Amy fell, screaming all the way, Sonic popped his spiky head out the window and hollered, "Get your nasty pink butt outta my business, you stalker!"

Smirking, the cobalt hedgehog pulled his head back in, and shut the window. Turning, he saw his equally grinning siblings watching him.

"Don't know why you're smiling, Shadow," Sonic said casually, while the addressed hedgehog simply looked confused.

"What do you mean?" Shadow asked staring at his two younger siblings, who had full-blown smirks on their faces.

"'Cause you owe us 30 rings each!" the two hedgehogs yelled gleefully, and burst into fits of laughter, as Shadow groaned and, as Sonic predicted, went broke.