The Prince's Awakening: Tale 2

Chapter 2

Azula Catrei

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Azula Catrei and Neblix The Wolf belong to me.

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"I… I can't remember…" His hands were shaking and he was shivering. Who was he? Where was he? Who is this girl? Looking at himself, he found an interesting set of clothes. He was wearing thick blue robes with black leather pants underneath. His black leather boots seemed to match. How odd, he didn't remember ever dressing up for something. 'I can't walk around in this…' Stunned at the realization that he wasn't alone, he turned toward the feline and examined her features. She was a beautiful cat, probably the same age as him, which was also something he didn't remember. He shrugged his current condition away and focused on her a little more. Half of her face was covered by her sky blue hair and white streaks gently grazed the three bangs hanging down in front of her eyes. Her eyes seemed to be like deep blue sapphires and he found them very pleasant to look at. Further down she wore an icy blue jacket with blue highlights and what seemed like diamond buttons. It was fancy was all he could say. She wore white pants and her shoes were somewhat similar to his, but with, yet again, an icy blue. "Uuuggh…" He rubbed his head. "Do you know anything about me?" He glared at her, feeling very ill all of the sudden.

"Yes… your name… is Neblix The Wolf! You're thirteen, silly!" She smiled, her blue eyes glowing intensely with fascination. "You fell down and hurt your head, didn't you? Don't be upset, you'll remember everything …"

'Neblix…' It did seem to ring a bell in his head. This was a good start. "Why do you know that…? Who are you?"

She seemed to laugh evilly within herself, it was a long time since she had her own toy, someone to play with, someone to control and manipulate. Her mother and father didn't understand, they believed all life to be free, so she did what she thought was necessary to remove them as obstacles of her path. A poison dagger was good enough.

"It's me… Azula. Your girlfriend!" She was beaming at him and held his hand. "We have a lot of work to do if we want to get your memories back!"

"My… girl… friend?" Neblix felt very faint. If he was thirteen, what was he doing with a girl? Surely he had better things to do! Or did he? He wasn't very sure about that either. "A…tsula." He had trouble pronouncing the name the way she did, and that was as close as he could get. It wasn't very normal for someone to purr and hiss at the same time on the letter z, never mind the fact that he wasn't even a cat.

"You'll get it, don't worry." She smiled the happiest she could and bent down to hug him. Her small blue ears twitched and she heard someone approaching.

"STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!!!" A yellow figure jumped out of the bushes and leapt toward her. Neblix noticed he was wearing something similar to a Sherlock Holmes outfit, which was one of the bits of insignificant memories he DID have. What was strange was that the boy had two thick bushy tails. The weirdest thing was that he looked like he was 8.

Azula muttered something and simply sat in place. Right before he made contact with her, she grabbed him, spun around, and held him onto the ground.

"O-ow!!! LET ME GOOOO!!!!" Getting a closer look, Neblix pointed out that the boy looked like a fox. He stood up and stepped closer to Azula when spike slashed through his mind.

His heartbeat was as loud as a drill and everything seemed to waver in his vision. His emerald eyes unfocused and he froze in place. "…h…" It seemed as if all of his breath was sucked out of him. His entire area of vision flashed and all he could see was a blue aura. The aura vanished and he could see a faint image of a man who looked very much like him grab another red armored man and used the same move he witnessed moments ago.

He felt all of his breath rushing into his lungs and the image with the aura flashed away. He once more was back with reality.

"Uhm… are you okay, mister?" The boy inquired.

"Uh… yeah… I…" He was at a loss for words. 'What the hell just happened?!' He thought to himself. He shook it away and he saw something very different from what transpired moments ago. There was now a blue figure sitting beside Azula, who had already let go of the boy. He was, once again, the same age as him with long, thick spikes in his blue hair. He only wore a simple pair of jeans and a sweatshirt that matched the color of his long hair.

"You all right?" He smirked.

Neblix sat down next to Azula and simply shrugged the question away with, "Yeah, I guess so."

"Okay, then you won't mind if I introduce myself. I'm Sonic! Sonic The Hedgehog!" He got up and gave Neblix his trademark smirk and peace sign. His teeth seemed to shine and his presence felt so strong.

"And this is Miles per hour! But everyone calls him Tails, it seems." Azula giggled.

"Prower! PRO-WER! It's MILES PROWER, thank you!" Tails growled at her.

"Uh… I'm Neblix. Neblix The Wolf." He tried to grin, but it just didn't suit him.

"And I'm Azula, Azula Catrei." Sonic and Tails paused, baffled at her pronunciation.

"Neblix, eh? Put her there!" Sonic held out his hand enthusiastically.

Neblix was at loss for what to do. He heard a zoom and Azula was standing next to him in an instant.

"Grab his hand and slide it away!" She whispered in his ear.

Neblix understood and grabbed Sonic's hand and slid it back to himself. Sonic did the same.

"I'm sure we can be great friends!" He grinned and walked a few steps back.

"But there's still one thing… why did Tails attack me?" Azula questioned in the friendly atmosphere.