-Winds of Heat 1: Crossing Hearts-
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I am not sure if some readers were completely understanding the first chapter, so I will explain some important aspects in the story, which should clarify a lot of things.
Since it has been about 3-4 years after Blaze left, Sonic and Blaze barely remember each other, same with tails but they had some flashbacks from now and then! Blaze is the princess of her people, not the queen, even though she is the only royal person left in her family. All the characters grew up a bit, including tails. Sonic would be 19, Blaze is 18, and Tails is 16. More details will be mention further on in the story.
Sorry I have been holding you up here, on with the story!
CHAPTER 2: The Start of a New
General POV
As the gang returns to Station Square, Sonic has been really bugged about something, which caught Tails' attention as they were approaching the city. "Whats wrong Sonic? I know we saved someone from a deep swim, but what would be the problem now?" asked Tails. "Its not a problem I have Tails, I'm just wondering who this girl is, she seems so... familiar" replied Sonic as he studied Blaze's appearance for a few minutes. "Alright, lets get back to your house and let her sleep off the hard landing she had!" Tails finally said with a hint of guilt.
But as soon as he finished his sentence, he started hearing her voice. At first it was a bit inaudible and sounded very blurry, then it started getting into a few sayings. "Nooo... must...sto..p...must pro..tect...the SOL EMERALDS!" she said flinging upward and finally awakening from her short slumber, scaring Sonic and Tails a little bit!
Because of her short, powerful, timid instincts, she flung up so fast that she accidentally fell off the Tornado and hurled towards the concrete ground below! "Not good!" Sonic said, jumping from the Tornado towards the falling cat. "I gotcha!" Sonic said before reaching towards Blaze. Blaze then all of a sudden lit her feet with a burning blaze of hot fire, making her decent much slower than what Sonic was going, even though he was pretty higher up than where Blaze was at!
As soon as soon as she reached the sidewalk below, everyone started staring at her, immediately judging her looks and powers, but keeping them to themselves. "AHHHHHHHH" was Sonic's final words as he got ready for the impact of whatever he was going to land on. But it never came! He looked up to see two golden eyes staring right at him, making him melt a little inside. "I gotcha!" She said with a smile on her face. Sonic looked away to hide the sudden embarrassment.
Blaze just stood there, frozen with him in her arms. She then turned his head towards hers and took a long look deep into his eyes. The flashbacks, the memories, everything made sense now! Blaze finally spoke. "I remember you now...!" she spoken softly to the blue hedgehog. "Y-your...your...S-sonic..?" She said stuttering a little while she spoke. 'Could that portal brought me here, for a reason?' she thought to herself. "The one and only!" Sonic said while sticking his thumb up as usual. "and what would your name be again? I have a lot of fans to keep track of; thanks for the save by the way!"
She blushed a little as he gave her a wink of his own gratitude towards her. "M-my name is..is.. B-Blaze! My name is B-Blaze the Cat. You surely remember me from the past... right?" Blaze said, trying to keep her emotions from showing.
Sonic thought long and hard about this, he was not use to remembering back in the past much. 'Think Sonic Think, you must have met her somewhere, the park? The beach? On the street? In another dimension... that's it!'. "Blaze! Its you!" Sonic said, giving her a huge hug, not caring that the people around him are watching.
Blaze was on the verge of tears, she finally got to see the one person that showed her friendship, kindness, forgiveness, love... all over again! Still standing on the sidewalk in-front of everyone, she asks Sonic, "Sonic... can I put you down now? My arms are getting a little sore from holding you up!" The two laughed at their own embarrassment when Sonic too realized that he was still in her arms. "Yeah, but I like it like this!" he said, relaxing himself in her arms, making Blaze a little mad. 'I could just drop him, but he looks so cute in my arms! But I'm getting tired from holding him up! I guess I will just set him down …' Blaze argued in her mind.
She finally set down Sonic, still in his relaxing position, which a few seconds later he was flat on the ground! She giggled at him, which made Sonic's ears perk up. "Hey Blaze, what do ya say we head on over to Tail's garage we can catch up on some things!" Sonic said with a pleading, yet excited tone. "Sure! I would love to!" Blaze said. This made Sonic very excited, maybe a little too excited. "Come on! I hope you can hang on tight!" was his last words as he grabbed Blaze's wrist, to her surprise, and zoomed to Tail's house at a very fast yet steady pace!
'This is going to be fun' Blaze thought to herself, hanging on to Sonic's wrist. As the two reach Tails' garage, Sonic winced in pain as he looked at his wrist. Apparently when Blaze was hanging on to his wrist, she dug her claws into him, making her cling onto him pretty good. "Oh... I'm sorry Sonic! I didn't want to slip off of you when you were dragging me though the entire city."
"No worries Blaze! Nothing a little band-aid can't fix, err, help, haha!" He said, chuckling to himself.
"Blaze, so that's who you are! I remember you now! You are from that other dimension that came here to collect your emeralds!". The sudden voice scared Blaze and Sonic. It was no one other than Tails, appearing from his garage door.
"I don't know about you guys, but I think we should head on inside and tell of our adventures and maybe after wards, go get chili dogs!" Sonic said. "Uh I don't know, its a little messy inside..." Tails said somewhat blocking the doorway. "That's ok, my place is almost always a little messy every now and then!" Blaze said. This kind of shocked Sonic, he would think Blaze would be a miss Perfectly-Clean-Princess or something. "Well what are you two doing? Lets go!" she said, pushing Tails aside and entering his house. "Wait up!" the two said finally, making their way into Tail's home, which is aside from his garage. 'This is going to be fun' Sonic thought to himself, 'Maybe the start of something new' he finally thought before meeting up with the rest inside.
