The Light Wanderer

By

LordHelen

The teenager gripped her quills, her eyes scanning the building in front of her. It was dark green with a yellow door so bright it hurt to look at it and a brass doorknob the size of a grape fruit.

"Dad, please…" she stared up at her father. He had commanding dark blue eyes and an exasperated look on his face.

"Sonic, I do not want to hear it! This is the best boarding school on Mobius! Only the very rich or, in your case, the very smart get in here. You can't keep going to home school while your mom and I are splitting up!" the dad glared at his daughter. She was just so shy…

"But dad…" she pleaded. Her lighter blue eyes found the building again and she sighed heavily.

"Just go in and meet your roommate!" her dad turned and walked away, leaving his daughter with her blue suitcases. The sound of her dad's purring engine faded into the distance. The teenager sighed and began to heave her suitcases into the building.

The inside was awful. The walls were a disgusting shade of green that looked like someone had barfed on them. The carpet was white with suspicious looking red stains in a far corner. An oak door led into some other room, presumably the bathroom. On the wall exactly opposite the door was a large white board above the beds. The beds, at least, looked good. They were of adequate size for teenagers and the blankets were pink. The pure white pillows looked inviting. At the foot of each bed was a large crate that looked like the storage for whatever items the owner brought. The closet was opposite the bright yellow door Sonic now stood in front of, open wide to reveal tan carpet and white walls with about a thousand hangers.

"Hey, there. Who are you?" Sonic gasped. She looked straight up and saw a white bat above her. The bat was wearing a purple top that was smooth and shiny, like it was made from a jewel.

"I…I am…I am Sonic Hedgehog." Sonic looked down at her gloved hands as she twiddled her thumbs nervously. Oh no, I'm not ready!

"Well, hi there Sonic. My name is Rouge. It is a pleasure to meet my roommate for the next however long high school is." Rouge landed with a soft thump in front of Sonic. "Are you scared?"

"What? Oh, no. Just…just a little shy." Sonic shook her head and looked up into the bat's emerald eyes. She seems friendly enough…

"Oh, no need to be shy, darling! I might be a vampire bat, but I don't bite!" Rouge laughed at her joke, smiling at the blue hedgehog.

"Oh, I'm not afraid of you." Sonic admitted.

"Then what?" Rouge asked.

"Oh, nothing. Just my imagination." Sonic answered. Rouge stared at the hedgehog, suspecting a secret. But right then, Sonic was saved by the bell. Well, doorbell.

"Rouge, its Cream and Cheese! Rouge, open up!" a voice, presumably Cream's, called. It was high pitched and annoying, the voice of a child. Rouge went and opened the door.

"Hey, Cream." Rouge greeted. Her eyes sparked with amusement.

"You really need to paint that door; it could blind a blind man." Cream said cheerily, dashing into the room. She looked like a brownish rabbit with long ears and chocolate eyes.

"Yeah, sure." Rouge rolled her eyes as a blue thing flew into the room.

"Who's that?" Cream asked, staring at Sonic. The blue thing trilled in agreement.

"My name is Sonic." Sonic held out her hand and the rabbit shook it.

"I'm Cream, Rouge's best friend!" Cream smiled. "That's Cheese, my best friend!" the rabbit motioned toward the blue creature, turning and searching the room.

"I'm sleeping up there." Rouge pointed up at the ceiling. Strung between two walls in a corner was a purple hammock, just right for the bat's size. "I might have to adjust it every growth spurt…"

"Cool, I thought you'd pick something like that!" Cream said. Cheese trilled something in a language Sonic had never heard.

"Um…Rouge, what did Cheese just…" Sonic began.

"No idea." Rouge held up her hands. Sonic stared at Cheese, wondering what he was. An alien? A monster?

"Rouge, why don't we go down and introduce…Sonic?" Cream asked. Sonic nodded. "Why don't we introduce Sonic to Blaze?"

Sonic was led through the halls of the marble school, straight into the green Biology building. Inside, right next to the door, was a gold door with red lettering at the top.

Club Gold

Cream pushed the door open, smiling real wide, like something was funny.

"Hey, Blaze!" Rouge led Sonic inside and Sonic gasped. Inside was a huge room. The carpet was dark red as well as the red and gold tapestry that covered the walls so you couldn't see the white underneath. In the center of the room was a large desk with about fifty seats. A lavender cat sat at one of these seats. In front of her was a stack of paperwork that she was stamping, a pencil holder filled with green pens, and a box of popcorn and green gummy bears.

"Hello, Cream." Blaze answered. She reached out for the popcorn with one hand, busy with paper.

"Where are we?" Sonic asked, staring at a crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling. It glowed though there were no light bulbs.

"This is where the news paper team works." Rouge answered. Sonic's jaw dropped, earning laughs.

"Really?"

"Yep. This is where Mobius Stories happen! See all those doors?" Rouge pointed. Sonic noticed about twenty doors hidden with the same tapestry as the walls. "Those are copying rooms, printing rooms, photo rooms…a lot of rooms for the everyday job of running the school paper. Blaze is the one who approves all the stories that go to Shadow. Shadow says if they get in the paper or not." Rouge walked up to Blaze.

"Hey, who's this?" Blaze asked, not even looking up. She made a slurping sound as she licked her gloved hand (paw?) and reached for more popcorn.

"This is Sonic." Cream answered. Cheese flew around the room, yelling in the trilling voice.

"I'm Blaze. Nice to meet you, Sonic." Blaze held out her hand, slurped it, and held it out.

"You too." Sonic shook the offered hand. She was still staring at one of the doors that blended in with the walls when it opened. Two hedgehogs and an echidna ran out of it. The red echidna and the silver hedgehog were being chased by the black and red hedgehog.

"Come here!" the black one yelled, throwing ink globs at them. His voice was harsh, yet laughter bubbled under it. But his eyes were hard, stone hard.

"Oh, maybe you should leave. Come back tomorrow and you can meet my boss." Blaze smiled at Sonic and turned around. "BOYS! THIS IS A PLACE OF BUISNESS, NOT A PLAYGROUND!" Rouge led Sonic out the door. Sonic stared over her shoulder as Blaze got hit on the nose by an ink glob. "SHADOW!"