Chapter 2

"No, no and no!" Sonic muttered when Amy tried to get him into a suit at the mall.

"Aww, come one Sonic!" Amy pleaded, smiling.

Meanwhile, with Shadow, Blaze, Silver, Knuckles, Espio and Rouge…

"Ew! No!" Rouge spluttered with laughter as she tried to get Blaze to put on a ballroom dress.

"Can we just get out of here?" Shadow muttered, kicking his dark shoes.

Silver grinned evilly and nodded to Knuckles.

"No Rouge! Huh? What are you doing?" Blaze questioned Silver as he stopped her in her tracks.

Silver just smirked, shoving her towards Shadow, who was being held by Knuckles.

"Get off of me, you idiot!" Shadow yelled, arms crossed.

"Well, I leave you for two months, and you are already crazy!" A blue figure with waist-length hair that was red and a blue dress with a darker shade of blue coat, and blue and white shoes, sniggered as she stepped forward.

"Charlie!" Blaze squealed, running forward to her sister.

In turn, Charlie hugged Blaze, Silver and Rouge, before turning to Knuckles and Shadow.

"What are you doing, Knucklehead?" She asked, taking Knuckles off of the angry black hedgehog.

"Silver's idea, not mine…" Knuckles insisted, trying to get away from Shadow.

Charlie rolled her eyes and play-hugged Shadow.

"GET OFF!" Is the welcome Charlie got and was used to.

"Nice to see you too, Ultimate Life form, all of your fan girls are lucky they don't get to see you, you're not exactly happy most of the time," Charlie teased Shadow, and then turned to her purple sister. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, your invitation," Blaze remembered, handing a long letter to Charlie.

"Huh… cool," Charlie mumbled, reading the letter," So, who's this, I don't believe we've met?"

"He's Espio, Espio this is Charlie, my sister."

"Greetings," Espio muttered, his eyes half closed.

"Likewise… anyway, I have something for all of you!" Charlie grinned excitedly as she pulled out nine parcels out of a plastic bag.

"Oh, what is it?" Rouge smirked, opening the parcel to find a beautiful charm bracelet with amazing jewel charms.

Blaze had a similar bracelet, but she had flame charms, Knuckle had a 'wristband' with a green emerald charm, Shadow had black, shadowy charms and, like Charlie knew, Espio got a charm with three animals playing something as a band.

"Uh, it's meant to be Vector, Charmy and you," Charlie explained, nervously." Um, I have one for Silver too, but it's outside… so is Sonic's."

"I'll call Amy then." Rouge decided, taking out her phone.

Amy: Hello?

Rouge: Hey, Amy, it's Rouge. Got an outfit?

Amy: Yep! And I have a suit for Sonic too!

Rouge: Listen, Charlie's here and she has presents for all of us. Meet us out in the car park by the bus stop?

Amy: OK, I will just finish paying, bye!

Rouge: See you there!

"We all have outfits, anyway?" Rouge asked as she put away her white phone.

"Charlie doesn't have one!" Blaze gasped playfully.

"Don't worry, I come prepared!" Charlie winked at her sister and Rouge, and began to leave.

Outside…

"OhmySolaris…" Silver whispered as he saw what was in front of him.

"Heh, liiiike it?" Charlie grinned, eyes smiling as well.

"WOW!"

In front of the gang, there was a parade of people that lead to the castle.

"WOW, Charlie, you do come prepared!" Blaze said, swallowing, but her heart skipped a beat when she saw two coaches; one blue and one silver!

"All aboard!" Charlie giggled as she stepped on the blue one, helping the shaken Sonic up." Silver, on that one!"

"Um, Shadow… I figured you would take this the wrong way, but I don't want you to feel left out, so…" Charlie gave him a note.

Shadow just read it and his expression stayed the same, but his eyes lit up.

"Waaaave!" Charlie laughed as she waved to the fans.

As soon as everyone was on board, the roofs opened revealing a staircase to the top, and Charlie went up it.

In the Blue coach there was:

Sonic, Charlie, Shadow, Espio and Rouge.

In the Silver coach:

Silver, Blaze, Cream, Knuckles, Amy and Tails.

Everybody cheered at the princess, followed by Sonic, Rouge, Shadow and Espio. Charlie began to wave and smile, twirling around the top of the coach. There were fireworks in the sky as the day came to an end, and the coaches approached the lit up castle for the ball.