„A competition, huh?"
Sonic laid sprawled on his bed, playin with a little red rubber ball.
"Yeah, they said the money will be taken for charity, so they asked us to do it…."
"Hhhhmmm…I dunno…I'm not quite interested in this…." He threw the little red ball in the air and caught in again.
"But…! Come on, Sonic it's for a good cause!"
"Name a reason why I should be interested in it.", Sonic said unaffected.
"So, uuuhm….", Tails stuttered,"...well, yeah…"
Sonic caught the ball calmly with his left hand. "Give up, Tails."
He yawned.
"You know how much I hate such events."
Tails looked down, stared on his feet. When he spoke, disappointment laid in his voice.
"But we all already agreed to it…Everyone will be there. Amy, Cream, Rouge, Knuckles, me…"
"What did ya say….!" The red ball fell on his head.
"We all agreed to it and-"
"You managed to get KNUCKLES agree to that?"
"Well, not yet but-" Tails paused. Just in that moment, a plan had risen in his mind.
"Well, and you ought to be his final enemy in this competition, but if you don't want to and rather want to have anyone think that you're coward who ran, then…",Tails said in a
passing voice.
"LIKE HELL I WILL!", sonic raged. "I'm gonna rip that moron's ass off!"
"That's what I wanted to hear..", tails whispered with a slight grin.
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"A competition?"
"Kind of a charity event, more or less…no big deal, just a few people…."
"Hmmm…I dunno…"
„Ooooowww, COME ON…..!"
"Why is it so important for me to be there, in first place?"
Tails sighed, on the edge of despair.
"Sonic just agreed because I told him that you would be there…"
Knuckles blushed slightly. "H-How do you mean that…?"
"He thought it would look like he were afraid of you and he were a coward, so he said he will show all who the boss is and stuff…"
"Ah…I understand." The look in Knuckles face changed. "If he's up to that…."
He looked straight into Tails eyes, an evil, mischievous grin on his face.
"…I`m gonna teach that cheeky little hedgehog a lesson!"
xxx
Late in the evening, Sonic laid restless in his bed. He tossed and turned around, he just couldn't lay comfortable. It was a hot night and he was sweating so he threw away his duvet.
"Damn, at this rate I'm wont get any sleep tonight…."He turned around and buried his head in his pillow, tried to fall asleep again. It didn't work." Ah, screw it.! I'm gonna take a shower."
In the bathroom he got undressed and stretched his muscles. "Damn, I'm all tensed up…"
He passed with his hand through his spikes and looked into the mirror.
"Huh? Have I gotten more tanned…?" He stepped closer to the mirror. The last past months he was a lot in the outside, even though doesn't like things like that, he was a rather lazy person. "I've changed my habits a lot recently…."
"Well, to be honest…."He looked aside with a guilty smile.
"….all I did was takin' a nap in the sun…." He grinned.
"Well, now I know I'm getting sunburnt easily!", he chuckled.
He behaved like it would just a joke to him, but in reality he was relieved that he finally tanned a bit. Because the reason for all this was…
"Knuckles is still more tanned than me…!"
*I wonder if he will notice…?*, he thought.*Does he like tanned skin?*
Sonic paused. "Wait a minute…", he said. "What the hell am I thinking? I totally don't care what he likes and what not…! And I'm not getting tanned to please him or something…!"
He breathed faster from getting into rage like that. But when he saw his red and enraged face, he started chuckling about himself.
He took a last look into the mirror, smiled and jumped under the shower.
"Oh, knux….", he said with a content sigh. He turned the shower on and let the hot water run over his face.
"I missed you."
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"May I have your attention for now, please? It wont take long."
All participants gathered around the mayor to hear his announcement.
Sonic and his friends sat in the middle of the tribune, the others spread around everywhere.
"Welcome you all! Thank you for participating this competition which will take place here in a few days…."
"Knuckles didn't appear today….", whispered Amy. "Does he even know about this Information-Day?"
"I told him!", answered Tails with quiet voice." I have no idea why he didn't come…"
"Maybe he just didn't feel like doin this? I'd understand if he did, I haven't the slightest desire to do this myself…", Rouge said uninterested, without any attempt to lower her voice.
Amy glared her, but she ignored it.
"I don't think that's the reason…", said Tails. "But why didn't he appear then…?"
"What makes ya think I didn't appear?", said a voice behind them.
"Knuckles!"
Behind them stood Knuckles, full life-size, his long red dreads fell over his broad shoulders.
His amethyst purple eyes glowed, his muzzle was as suntanned as ever, his grin showed his white teethes with his typical fangs. All in all, he was stunning to look at, handsome AND muscular.
It even made the girls blush. Through the years, he had become the most popular guy with the ladies. Even though everyone had been avoiding him for his whole life, because he
had been "that gloomy, strange echidna" which had lost his parents and was guarding the Master Emerald all the time.
But he never quite noticed that that had changed recently.
When he had one of his better days he was cool and up to fun, and he appeared to have a very charming, engaging personality which made both boys and girls wanna be around
him.
On his worse days, though, he was quiet, serious looking all the time, avoiding everyone, dark and gloomy looking; noone would dare to say something wrong to him those days….
The guys treated him with respect and admired him secretly and the girls…
Well of course they melt away because of him.
But Knuckles himself didn't know about that. He still think that they don't wanna have to do with him, so he's keeping his distance from everyone.
Secretly, he has always been jealous of Sonic because he was popular, subject of all admiration and on top of that…he was free.
Free to do whatever he likes, to go wherever he wants to…
He thought he hated Sonic because of this, but not long ago he had realized that his feelings for Sonic were completely different….
"Long time, no see, knux." Knuckles was broke in his thoughts.
"Hi, Sonic." His voice sounded dangerous. The atmosphere became heavy.
"I really look forward to our fight. What a great honour to have you as rival. Lucky I."
He spoke unambiguously sarcastic.
"Well I wish I could say the same of you, but…"Sonic laid it on the line, straight forward as ever."…you are no competition for me."
Amy caught her breath, tails looked scared, his eyes wandering from one to the other.
Now all eyes laid on Knuckles everyone was expecting him to hit Sonic, to get violent.
But he didn't do it. This site of him was over.
"Right…like a tiger is no competition for a rabbit, so am I no competition for you. That would be just unfair, don't ya think?"
Knuckles stood up.
"Well, see ya at the competition, bunny!" he grinned and leaped off.
Sonic just sat on his seat, unable to say a word, his mouth wide open.
Rouge ended his daze when she began to laugh out loud. "Bunny!", she laughed. "that one's good, I'm gonna call ya like that forever from now on!"
"Well, whatever!", he growled. His face was all red.
He stood up and ran away, without looking back.
xxx
Back at home, he ran up to his room, the shame and the anger overwhelmed him, and he realized that he was crying. Angrily he wiped the tears away, but they just didn't stop.
"Why, knuckles?", he sobbed and threw himself on the bed, buried his head in a pillow and cried out all of his pain. An hour later, when the tears stopped and he calmed down he threw the wet pillow away, ashamed from his own weakness.
He turned around stared at the ceiling, without seeing anything and started thinking the event over. He came to the conclusion that he kind of started it which made him even more angry.
And he realized that it wasn't the shame which bothered so much, but the fact that it was Knuckles who said that to him…
"Idiot…" he murmured." *But he really looked good then….*, Sonic thought.
And when he thought of the echidnas mature, sexy body, in his mind he thought of every little detail of it, imagined how it would feel to touch his muscles…he felt something himself.
Something very uncomfortable in his pants…
"Oh no..! You've gotta be kidding me! Not because I thought of him…?"
And again this picture of Knuckles flashed before his eyes, and he FELT the reaction…
"Aaaaaaww…!"Sonic groaned. "Damn….Fuck…!"
*I cant do it, while thinking of him…(caused by him, too, not to forget)….!*
He breathed harder.
"T-That… kinda…feels…like…like…admitting…it."
*That I lo-lov-….that I like him, duh!*
He moaned. It wasn't easy to hold it.
"I-I…can't...stand..."('pant')"...it...it any…longer"
His hand wandered down his body, low, lower…down to…
"Aaaaaahhh", the hedgehog moaned.
"K-Knuckles…y-you…ID-IOT….!
xxx
tbc