Disclaimer: I do not own the following: Sonic the hedgehog, Dragonball Z, Prince of Persia (the Dagger of time), Batman (the car looks like the Bat-Mobil), Pokémon (Lugia's ocarina); (I will add more when the time comes.)
Claimer: Bakuda, Dakuba, Dawn, Aura, Tara, Karnak, Adam, 'The Universal Gods', Creculo the hedge-fox and Twilight the hedge-fox I own. Bakuda was a 'spur-of-the-moment' name a friend and I created for an online game in 1999. I used the name for every game/story character ever since. If you spot anything that may be discreetly connected to another Anime/book/TV show, ECT, it is purely coincidence and not intentional.
I own Nhinx the Panther and all others on my profile.
I only own half of the character known as 'Zephkuda' (Tournament to Test the Gods); the other half belongs to 'The-Blue-Zephyr.'
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A small rabbit wearing an orange yellow dress skipped happily through large green gates to an area with buildings scattered everywhere. She held an orange backpack on her back with both hands as she made her way to her classroom in the school she was enrolled. She stopped skipping and made her way into the room.
A tall skinny raccoon smiled warmly at her; "Morning Cream." She greeted in a friendly manner. 'Cream' smiled back and nodded.
"Morning Mrs. Cindy." she said in a more echoing voice, as if she had said those two words every so often while at the school.
Mrs. Cindy nodded; "Take your seat please." She asked, Cream was running late for this morning and knew it.
Cream blushed; "Sorry Mrs. Cindy..." she murmured and quickly rushed to the empty seat where she usually sat. Her voice was still maturing, yet slowly. Meaning people that had their voices broken, sat away from her since she was considered unpopular.
Yet someone else was sitting next to her seat today, a small dark blue, almost black panther boy with a red single strap bag in between his feet stared ahead. He had deep green eyes and large ears for his age, his black/blue tail poking out the back of his seat. What was strange was that this boy wore clothing, Cream had only seen Shadow, Tails, Bakuda and girls wear clothing... Of course Bakuda, Tails and Shadow wore fighter's outfits so she didn't see them any less than anyone else. But this panther wore a green t-shirt and light blue shorts that didn't even cover his knees.
Cream looked at him as she stepped into her seat; "Hello. What's your name?" she asked politely. But all she got for an answer was a slight cringe and a glance from the feline. Cream blinked in confusion; "Must be shy. Oh well, He must be new." She thought and turned to the front.
Mrs. Cindy looked to all her students; "Well children, we have another student in our class today. Can everyone say 'Hi' to Nhinx?" she asked, pointing to the heavily blushing panther beside Cream.
The whole room echoed the same words; "Hi Nickz!" they said, many mispronouncing his name.
The teacher shook her head; "No. Not Nickz. Nhinx." She told her students. The class tried again with only slight improvement to his name.
Cream smiled warmly; "Is this why you didn't want to tell me your name?" she asked kindly in her high childish voice.
Nhinx nodded; "Uh huh... People tease me because of that." He said upset, his ears flicking up.
Cream blinked, she turned around and looked around to her classmates and tried to listen, only hearing a few mutters while the teacher started handing out the maths test for that day; "I... I can hear anything. Only mutters." She told him.
Nhinx sighed; "My large ears can pick up every word they say." He said sadly and slunk into his chair, they were teasing him on his ears and on his name. Why couldn't his father name him something different?
The teacher placed the test in front of him then walked to the others to put down their tests. When Mrs. Cindy was finished, she went to the front desk; "Okay, you have half an hour, make the most of it stud- Yes Nhinx?" she asked, since the panthers arm was up.
"I... I'm done mam." He said with a full blush on his cheeks; the teacher raised an eyebrow and walked forward to him. She lifted his paper and inspected it, sure enough, all questions were answered in full. But the worded question at the end was left blank. Most students think this to be the easiest question on the entire test but she paid no mind.
"Very good work Nhinx! You can go read a book now." She said pointing to the bookshelf filled with all sorts of children's books in all sizes and difficulty.
Nhinx shrank further in his seat and pouted his lips. Mrs. Cindy tilted her head; "What's wrong Nhinx?" she asked kindly.
Nhinx gulped; "Um... It's a secret Mrs. Cindy." He said embarrassed, to his confusion and horror, the teacher frowned and developed a stern voice.
"Now now Nhinx. There are no secrets in here. I want you to tell me what your little secret is. Did you take something that doesn't belong to you?" she asked.
Nhinx whimpered; "...No..." he said softly, begging her to allow him to keep his secret.
The teacher shook her head; "Then what is it?" she asked.
Cream sighed; she was once caught by this rule. She said that she was friends with Sonic the Hedgehog and everyone teased her because of the 'outrageous' statement. Another reason why she was unpopular, people thought she was a liar.
Nhinx sighed; "I'm..." he said then gulped again, waiting for a second round of being taunted; "I'm Dyslexic." He said softly, yet loud enough for most of the room to hear.
"Dyslexic? Whazzat?" a lioness asked.
"It means... THAT LAW-BOY CAN'T READ!" a jackal laughed out loud, falling off his chair in his own little fit, the other students followed suit and started laughing wholly at the small cub, who was beginning to tear up because of all the hilarity towards him.
Cream tilted her head; "Law-boy?" she asked herself and someone behind her tapped her on the shoulder, it was a hedgehog.
The hedgehog smirked; "Who knew, the son of the head of police? This is why we rely on Sonic, if this is the best we get with police work! He's a cry-baby too!" he laughed at the small panther, who was letting tears stream down his face.
The teacher tried to get everyone settled down, but to hardly any avail since she was not strict enough to her students that no one believed her threats of detention. They could wiggle out with a mere 'Sorry' and a slap on the wrist. Cream looked to the panther crying bedside her, the pain of humiliation for just being himself and the son of someone in high power hurt her as well.
Two thoughts went through her head at the time; "What would Mr. Sonic do? What would Miss. Amy do?" she asked herself; "Mr. Sonic would stop them, one way or another... Miss Amy would do the one thing she always does. I have to thank her for what she gave me!" she thought and pulled something out of her dress, it was a fairly large hammer with a light cream colour with light brown strips. Just like her fur... She raised it towards the Jackals head in front of her; he seemed to be leading the cruel joke.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Cream yelled and slammed the hammer down heavily onto the jackals head, knocking him unconscious and leaving both the teachers and the students stunned. Who would have guessed it? Small defenceless Cream the rabbit, wielding a massive hammer and defending what they thought to be the butt of all jokes?
The teacher snatched the hammer from the rabbits grip and taking her shoulder and Nhinx's shoulder; "You two, follow me." She said sternly.
Nhinx nodded and followed without complaint, hopping off his seat and grabbing his bag. Cream took her bag and left with the teacher as well but walked alongside the new student, who looked at her gratefully; "Thanks..." he muttered softly with a small smile.
Cream smiled back; "It's what a friend would do!" she said happily, one of her only friends used her hammer for everything.
The panther blinked in confusion, but hope in his eyes; "......Friend?" he asked.
Cream nodded twice, her ears flapping as she did so; "Yep!"
The panther, without warning, suddenly hugged her. Lucky they were out of the classroom or he would be teased again. Tear were rolling down his face again but with a different emotion. He looked up and wanted to scream to the heavens that he had got what he had always wanted his whole short life.
"I HAVE A FRIEND!"
I had the urge to do this one. Don't ask me why but I did. Will continue when I get another idea...
