Amy's pov

My name is Amy; I am a princess at the Rose Kingdom. I am happy to see the Kingdom happy and free, but being a princess can be a burden as they teach me how to eat, sleep, walk but there is no rule that says I can't have friends! Recently, my father, King William, summoned me to the throne room, he is a red hedgehog with green eyes, he is wearing light red gloves, he is wearing a King outfit with a robe that is red and he is wearing brown leather shoes.

"Now Amy, you're going to be queen soon, so you need to be married to a prince."My father said I need to marry a prince!? Why can't I marry someone I truly love?

"Father! I want to marry someone with true love! Not just because of royal status!"I yelled as he nodded.

"I'm sorry, but the law clearly states that only a prince can marry a princess. I wish I can change that but there's nothing I can do, you are excused."My father said as I walked out of the throne room.

At least my father can understand about that, but why did the law say that? Why can't I marry someone I love? Sigh…well, now I'm at my room, just laying down on bed thinking about what he said. I love my father as he can understand my feelings about this and how royal life is but he can't change the law, only the governor can, I don't blame my father. It's just that the governor can be so evil, he is nice to my father but not when he is alone with me and one time I saw him secretly angry at my father that he said something about revenge? I wish there's something I can do for the Rose Kingdom. I heard a knock, I opened the door and it was the leader of the maids, Janice. She is a red cat with blue eyes, a long red tail with white at the tip, wearing white gloves with red at each tip, wearing black slippers and wearing a maid outfit. She is with an orange bunny.

"Princess, we have a new maid, her name is Cream, and she'll be in charge of cleaning the bedrooms, is it okay if she can clean your bedroom now?"Janice asked me as I nodded.

"Sure! And how many times should I tell you? Just call me Amy."I told her as she nodded.

"Sorry Amy. I'll be going now; I still need to clean the dining room."Janice said as she walked back. Cream stepped up to my room, a little nervous.

"I'll help you."I said to her as she is surprised.

"Oh there is no need for that, princess."

"It's okay. Besides, I want to help, and call me Amy, okay?"I said to her as she nodded.

"Okay!"

"I'll scrub the floor, you wash the windows, is that okay?"I asked her as she took her cleaning items.

"Of course!"Cream said as we got the right items and started cleaning my room. I'm mopping the floor while Cream was washing the floor.

"So tell me Cream, are you from this Kingdom?"I asked her as she shook her head but we continued cleaning.

"Actually no, my mother and I are lone travelers trying to find a home. When we came to your kingdom, a man offered us a house to live in but we need to pay the loan for it to become officially ours so I went to the castle to get a job as a maid."She explained to me as I felt a little sorry for this poor girl.

"I'm so sorry…at least you have a place to stay and now, you have a friend to support you, and it's me."I said to her as she smiled.

"Thank you Amy, but this cleaning won't do it themselves!"She made a good and obvious point but she's right!

"Yeah, let's clean!"

Sonic's pov

I'm Sonic, I live at the Rose Kingdom with my friends, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow. All of us are orphans but we managed to buy a house near a meadow just after the entrance to the Rose Kingdom to live for ourselves. Right now, we're at the backyard to practice fighting.

"Come on let's practice! Sonic you can go first."Tails said as I got ready.

"Okay Sonic, try using a homing attack on these targets!" Knuckles yelled as he threw five rocks in the air.

First, I spun in the air in the form of a ball then I went to the rock on the left, I continued to the rest of the rocks and landed in front of Tails with my feet firmly on the ground without any signs of losing balance.

"Excellent! As always. Now, time for a sword fight!"Tails yelled as he threw my sword in the air and I caught it.

"This time you're against me!"Shadow yelled as the both of us got ready.

Shadow started the fight by slashing vertically but I parried it and slashed horizontally but he blocked it. We continued to fight and I was ahead as I'm swinging my sword at him while he is moving back. He thrust at me but I dodged it to the right then I twirled it and Shadow's sword got stuck to the ground.

"Nice going there."Shadow said to me as he got his sword out and lay it aside.

"Thanks! Hey Tails, it's your turn! Get your whip ready and try to hit the targets!"I told him as he got his whip and he is in fighting position.

I threw five pieces of wood bark in the air and I saw Tails threw his whip to the first one and it's destroyed leaving small wood pieces on the ground. He did the same with the rest of wood and the yard became messy! At least his training is a success.

"Well, we need someone to clean this mess but that was great! Come on Tails, let's go against each other!"I yelled as the both of us are in position.

He threw his whip at me but I dodged it to the right and started to run to him. I slashed horizontally but he dodged it and threw his whip at my wrist and pulled it to make me fall to the ground. He wins.

"Alright I won!"He yelled as he used his twin tails to fly, I on the other hand had to get up from that attack.

"Looks like it's my turn to train."Knuckles said as he got his dagger and is in fighting position.

He started attacking the five barrels set around here by Shadow before the training. As a thief, his attacks are very quick that all the barrels are destroyed quickly.

"Being a thief is great! Not just that, my attack is quick! But I can't go against someone or I would wound up killing that person."Knuckles made a good point about everything he said.

"Oh well, Shadow it's your turn, so get your bow and arrows ready!"I yelled as he got his bow and his arrows.

I threw one apple in the air and I saw Shadow aiming at the tree in the middle. At the time the apple was in front of the tree Shadow released the arrow, it hit the apple and it continued flying until it hit the tree. I walked to the tree and pulled out the arrow, the apple was hit exactly in the middle!

"Right smack in the middle, Shadow! You really are improving!"I said to him as I gave the arrow to him.

"Hey, that's what training is all about! Why not rest for a while? All of us had their turn, now we need to relax now."All of us agreed to Shadow's request and went back to our house.

Amy's pov

Whew! Cleaning can be fun if you have friends doing it with you! But suddenly, Cream and I heard a knock from the door, I opened the door to find out it was my sister Dawn, she is a violet hedgehog with longer quills than mine, she is wearing a dress similar to mine but it's longer and the color is silver, her bracelets are silver and her shoes are black with a white strip in the middle. Apparently, she looks like she's in a hurry.

"Come on Amy! Practice doesn't do it themselves, you know!"She yelled as I saw Cream confused.

"Cream, this is Dawn, my younger sister. Dawn, this is Cream, the new maid."I introduced them to each other as they got closer.

"Nice to meet you! I heard about you from Janice, she told me that the rest of the bedrooms are clean so you can rest now."Dawn said to her as she looks confused.

"Really? Then I got the rest of the day to spend but I don't know what to do."She said then I have an idea.

"You can come with us to watch our practice, the practice is about battling."I said to her as she shot up.

"Sure! I like to watch practices!"She said as we went out of my room.

We arrived at the training area of the garden; it consists of targets for swordplay, archery, whipping and quick stabbing.

"Hey! Don't forget about me!"I heard a familiar voice said and its Rouge! She's flying to us; she is also a maid here. Rouge landed next to us.

"Hey Cream! How's your first time cleaning?"Obviously, they met before since their both maids.

"Quite fine, Rouge. Are you here to practice with them?"She asked Rouge as she nodded.

"Yeah I am. I'm Amy's friend so she invited me to practice with her, and I take the quick stabbing targets since I'm training to become a thief since quick stabbing is their style of battle."Rouge explained to her as she nodded.

"While I take the archery since I like long range attacks."Dawn explained.

"And I take swordplay since I like to attack physically. If you can battle, what style do you do?"I explained and asked her as she walked to the whip area.

She got out a whip and whipped a target area and the target area fell back. We are surprised that a young bunny can use a whip.

"I secretly trained myself on how to use a whip. Now shall we practice?"

"Yeah, we should."Dawn said as we went to our respective targets and trained until night fall came.

Sonic's pov

"Its night guys, we have to get some rest, tomorrow we're going to walk in town."Tails said as we went to out rooms in the house.

I was on bed sleeping but a disturbing dream came upon me…

I am at town, looking around to see everyone happy but a man on a black horse came to town and everyone was running. One girl was running but the man took her and fled town but I chased him but everything went dark…

"Hey Sonic, you alright?"I heard a voice as I woke up to find out it was Tails. I felt like I was breathing heavily and I'm sweating from that nightmare.

"Whoa Sonic, you really have a nightmare huh?"Tails asked me as I nodded. What? I can't lie to my friends.

"That's okay; you don't have to tell me about it."

"Thanks Tails, why don't you get some sleep? You said we're walking around town tomorrow."I told him as he nodded.

"Yeah I was sleeping but you're heavily breathing and shouting woke me up."Sorry about that Tails.

"Sorry, it was really bad."I said to him.

"Okay now I'm going back to sleep, Good night."Tails said as he walked out of my room. I was on my bed and this time, I can sleep.