AN: All the Sonic characters will look the same as their 'Sonic Boom' versions.
Chapter 1: King Of The Waves
It was a sunny day in Los Angeles, California. Even more so at the Malibu beachfront, where they were all having their annual surfing contest. People of all shapes and sizes were either partying on the beach or riding the waves. All except Sonic. He had just turned eighteen and they all wanted him to conquer his biggest fear, water.
"Come on Sonic, you're sixteen!" Amy exclaimed as Sonic sat back and relaxed in his deck chair.
"So?" He shrugged.
"So it's about time you master your fear, what's the worst that could happen?" Tail asked with a smile as he dragged the sapphire blue hedgehog off the deck chair.
"Let's see, I could drown, get swept out to sea, get attacked by a shark; just to name a few." He glared.
"Relax Sonic, there are life guards all around the beach and the ocean, if there was a problem one of them would come to help you." Knuckles smiled at his blue friend. Sonic thought about it for a moment before smiling and grabbing his blue and white surfboard...
Sonic took a deep breath to calm his nerves as he sat on his surfboard. He was floating in the middle of the ocean with the other surfers who had also entered the competition.
"Next up is Sonic!" The announcer called to everyone on the beach and ocean. They all cheered, but Sonic gulped. He knew that the next wave was the one he had to ride and he was dreading it. Suddenly his smart watch beeped, meaning that he was getting a call. He answered in and Tails' face popped up with Amy and Knuckles at either side of him.
"So what do you think Sonic, ready to have some fun and conquer your fear of water?" The fox kit grinned. Just then the next wave came rolling in and Sonic nearly fell off his surf board. It was huge! Sonic decided to shallow his fear and paddled out to the wave. Back the surface his friends watched him in shock.
"No way, are you crazy?! That wave will crush you into tiny blue pieces!" Knuckles exclaimed, but Sonic had already turned the watch off. His friends and the rest of the town could only watch from the beach It a matter of moments Sonic was riding the wave. He was a bit nervous at first but after a few moments he started to relax and forget about the water all around him; to him, surfboarding was kinda like skateboarding.
"I don't believe it!" The announcer shouted. "That hedgehog is totally taking this wave!"
"You're the King of the Waves!" Amy shouted as Sonic did a few, small flips.
"Go Sonic!" Tails cheered as Knuckles ran to the announcer's booth. When he returned the announcer started a song that had been requested by them to play for Sonic. It was their own little weird way of cheering for their friend.
He's ready, he's steady
He's up on his feet
Dancing on the water
To his own kind of beat.
He's in it; he's on it
He's rockin' the skills,
Tearin' up the current
Like the boy's got gills.
From out in the ocean Sonic heard the song and smiled. For the first time in his life he actually enjoyed being in the water.
Pop up
Leanin' side to side
Laid back, hang ten
Go for a ride
Catch that curl
Get into the tube
Do the mahi, mahi
Make your tail fin move!
Sonic smirked before doing a full 360 degree turn in the air. He could hear the crowds going wild on the beach and that only fed his ego.
He's the King of the Waves!
Check it out he's spinnin'
That board around.
King of the Waves!
No one's gonna
Take away his crown!
Surf's up, bow down.
He's the King of the Waves!
As he continued to preform cool twists and turns on the giant waves, some sparkling ocean water splashed onto Sonic's spines and body, which he promptly ignored. He also didn't notice that the tips of his ears, head spines and the two spines on his back turn a dark yet slightly faded black colour or the black streaks that formed on both sides of his hips, the sides of his face, up his legs and the ones that travelled down from his shoulder blades to his upper elbows.
"WHOA!" The announcer suddenly shouted into the mic. "Check out Sonic's body! It's changed colour!"
"What?" Sonic said out loud, and he looked at his arms and legs, shocked to see it the black streaks, not the azure blue he was used to seeing every day in the mirror.
"Black and blue?" The announcer was talking to himself but he had left his mic on. "What is going on here?"
Sonic started to panic and he quickly surfed into the tube to avoid anyone else staring at him. Once he was in the tube he properly looked himself over and was shocked to find the announcer's words true.
"What's going on?" He said aloud, something he often did when trying to solve a hard problem.
"Sonic's time is almost over." Sonic heard the announcer threw the wave. "But he has to get out of the tunnel first, and I want to get another look at that gnarly fur!"
Sonic's breath was caught in his throat. He couldn't explain what had happened. The end of the tunnel was coming quick. He could ride out of the tunnel, finish his surf and then try to explain what had happened, or he could-
"Whiteout!" He thought, dove into the back off the wave.
"OH!" The announcer shouted as Sonic's board flipped above the wave. "Looks like Sonic has also wiped out!"
Amy, Knuckles and Tails looked at each other. They knew Sonic had done that on purpose. Looking back out to the water where Sonic's board was, they waited and breathed a sigh of relief with everyone else as Sonic waved from behind his board.
"Don't worry everyone, he's okay everyone." The announcer confirmed for those who couldn't see. "Just a reminder that Sonic is in the finals tomorrow. Now the rest of you surfers, come on in!"
Suddenly Sonic realised that he was in deep water and he didn't know how to swim! Before he could do anything he found himself quickly sinking below the water. Just before his head went under he took a big gulp of air and he started flaring his arms around, trying to get back to the surface.
"Let's go." Tails said as he, Amy and Knuckles looked at each other again. The grabbed their boards and went out to where their friend's board was. They started to panic when the couldn't find him...
Under the cold, ocean water, Sonic had sunk down to near the pale sand. He stopped struggling and looked at his body again his hair again. What was he going to do? Suddenly he noticed the shadow of something swimming in the water, coming straight at him. Sonic let out a frightful yelp when he thought it was a shark coming to eat him!
However, his fear faded when the shadow got close enough for him to see that it was actually a cute, little purple dolphin. The sea creature circled him and chirped happily.
"Uh." He was speechless for a moment. Then he realised he was breathing out his air. His hand quickly flew to his mouth, not wanting to lose anymore precious oxygen. The dolphin looked confused before it swam over and pulled Sonic's hands away from his mouth. It was then that the blue hedgehog realised that he was breathing underwater.
All of a sudden he felt a pair of strong hand wrap around his shoulders and pull him up to the surface. As his head broke the surfaced, Sonic gasped in fresh air on instinct. He looked over his shoulder and saw it was Knuckle's who was holding him
"Sonic." Tails said, relieved to see his best friend. "You're okay."
"Whoa." Knuckle's eyes went wide when he got most of the salt water out of them. "Radical fur dude."
"Knuckles." Amy scolded as she leaned over and smacked him upside the head.
"Well it's true." Knuckles protested. "And weird. cool weird, but weird."
"It's okay guys." Sonic said, stopped his friend from smacking the red echidna again as he rested his arms on his surfboard that was floating next to them.
"You feel okay?" Tails asked, concerned. Sonic would usually protest when Tails or himself said something like that.
"Yeah." He said unconvincingly. "Some weird things just happened."
"Like your fur." Knuckles said as he climbed onto his own surf board.
"Yeah, but this was a bit weirder." Sonic said, and they all stared at him with full attention. "When I was underwater, I was breathing. And then a dolphin was swimming around me, like we were best buddies or something." He explained. The others looked at each other then back at Sonic.
"I just became insane, didn't I?"
"Maybe." Knuckle's answered with a shrugged.
"Mysterious coloured fur, breathing underwater, and a new pet dolphin friend!" Amy listed off as the grin on her face got bigger. "There is something deep and intense going on here."
"Yeah." Tails agreed with a concerned frown on his face. "Like a deep, intense concussion."
"I'm fine guys. It's just been a long day." He said as he pulled himself onto his board. "I'm going to head home."
"Okay." The fox said. Still unsure if his friend had badly hit his head, he called after him. "But if you get sudden blurred vision or a killer headache, have Uncle Chuck take you to the doctor!" He exclaimed. Sonic just rolled his eyes and continued to paddle to the shore...
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