WARNING: There are going to be a LOT of fancharacters (FCs) in this story. I'm sure you'll know who's canon and who's fanon. :3
So now that Snow Doesn't Stop Eggman is complete, I can start a new story! I actually didn't know WHAT to write until I looked through my profile out of boredom. :3 I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own only the high multitude of fancharacters in this story! :D
Knuckles, a deep red echidna with a white crescent moon on its side shaped marking, was glaring at the Master Emerald. It was all its fault he was stuck on this forsaken island. It was all its fault he couldn't go and be like a normal person. Why couldn't the darn thing guard itself! Stupid rock. Sighing, Knuckles turned back to face the sky in front of him. He knew he'd never be able to leave this rock. He was the last of his race. Echidnas were pretty much extinct. Echidna hybrids would next. Then THOSE would die out and echidnas would be gone forever. There WAS Tikal, but she was just a spirit. And the last time he saw a living echidna, they were from a different dimension. Looks like the echidnas were through. He turned to glare at the rock behind him again. But this time it was moving. It was lifted up into the air by a pair of gloved hands with spikes on the outer knuckles... The weird part was t hat they were coming from underneath the emerald. His mind immediately jumped to Rouge. But these hands were too large to be the bat's. As the emerald was lifted higher and higher, more and more of the creature was revealed. Soon the creature stepped out of the emerald's mount. It was another echidna! Soon a line of them were coming up out of the mount. Knuckles realized he wasn't breathing and proceeded to take in a harsh breath. The first echidna looked like his father! The only differences were that he looked much older and was much much paler. In fact, every single echidna here was extremely pale.
"Wh-who are you?" Knuckles sputtered.
"I am Nayati! Leader of the so-called "defeated" echidnas! And who might you be?" His voice was very raspy and unused, yet still held an authoritative tone to it.
"Kn-Knuckles, the E-."
"Echidna," Nayati interrupted, a pleased look flashed on his face before it turned back to his proud one.
"Hey! I was t-"
"Don't talk like that to your leader! I might be your father, but don't expect me to be easier on you just because of that"
Knuckles was taken so far aback he would have fallen right off the island if he had actually moved as far back as he was taken aback.*
"Hold your stance, boy!" The echidna ordered.
Knuckles immediately stood very straight. A much softer looking echidna walked up to Nayati and spoke.
"Don't be so hard. You have just seen our son and are already lashing the whip,"
"Miyu, what have I tol-"
"You haven't seen him in fifteen years! You, we, everyone, should get to know him first!"
It seemed she got through to him, because he took a step backwards.
"Thank you. Knuckles! My baby! It's been so long!" Miyu smothered him in love.
"Um, who are YOU?"
"Oh, Knuckie!" Knuckles flinched at that nickname. As it was the name a certain bat gave him. "I'm your mother!"
Knuckles didn't have to struggle much to get out of her grip. Apparently she was very weak after fifteen years.
A lot of younger echidnas were running around checking everything out. They had never been on the surface. Only heard of it.
"W-where have you been all this time?" Knuckles questioned at an almost yell.
"We have been underground, hiding from any of the last of the evil spirits. We've had company from the rabbits of the mid surface. Ah, that reminds me. You are of age eighteen right?" His father answered.
"In two weeks,"
"Ah, that's plenty time!"
"What do you mean?"
"You mean you don't know? It's tradition that one must be married on his eighteenth birthday. And the reason that I was reminded of this, do you know of a young rabbit named Alia?"
Knuckles' face turned to one of disgust, "Of course I do. She pesters me more than batgirl does! Why do you ask?"
"Because I know that she likes you quite a lot. And it seems that you have no other woman in mind to be your bride, Alia has kindly offered to be yours!"
Knuckles stumbled backwards and fell of the shrine. He couldn't BELIEVE his father would do such a horrible thing to him! He climbed back up the stairs and his father spoke again.
"Do you have any objections?"
"Y-YES! Alia is THE MOST annoying girl on the planet!"
"Oh, and may I ask why?"
"SHE'S NEAR CONSTANTLY TACKLING ME WITH HUGS, SCREAMING NICKNAMES, CRUSHING ME WITH HUGS, SMOTHERING ME WITH KISSES! SHE'S BASICALLY AMY BUT WITH ME INSTEAD OF SONIC! AND MUCH MUCH MORE OBSESSED! WHENEVER SHE'S WITH ME SHE'S HANGING OFF ME!"
"Hm... I see. Alia sees it much different. She thinks that it's just your shy side,"
"I-I CAN'T marry HER!"
"Well then, I can arrange for some time to let you find a new bride. How does a week sound? We'll only need a week for preparations. So, if you find a woman to be your bride by this time in a week, then you won't have to marry Alia. But if you fail to find another woman, than you and Alia will be wed on your birthday!"
"I'll do it!"
"Great! Kiandra! I need an hourglass for 168 hours," Nayati ordered.
The woman named Kiandra waved her hands around and muttered a few words, and an hour glass was crafted out of thin air.
"This will stay next to the Master Emerald. If need be you can request for one of the villagers to watch the emerald for you. But only for a maximum time limit of a day. At the end of the week I will ask you if you have found a new bride. Not before. Not after. You have 168 hours starting NOW!" Nayati had placed the hourglass next to the emerald and flipped it upside down.
It was a fairly large hourglass. Just a foot taller than Knuckles and filled almost to the top with pale yellow sand. And the sand was already falling. Now all Knuckles had to do was find a woman to marry him in Alia's place. That would be difficult.
*if he had actually moved as far back as he was taken aback.: I meant for that to be confusing. XD
:D Thanks for reading! I hope to see you next chapter too! I don't really have much to say. :3