Hey guys, so I actually got my first review and to answer their question, you'll have to read to find out. Anyhow, I was stacked with school this week and I'm looking forward to starting the next chapter of my little project. Here we go.

Love In The Open

Chapter 2: A (Fight) Night to Remember

The blue blur looked at the ticket in his hand and tried to find his seat. Well, ok, trying was more like running around really fast trying to find his seat and accidentally bumping into fellow animals, but still, he was looking for his seat. He finally found a nearby arena manager, who happened to be a spotted leopard with flowing blonde hair, who was of average height and build in a custodian suit. "Excuse me mam." Sonic said to the guard. Normally Sonic wasn't the type for casualties, but this being the first time he was in this new world, he didn't want anyone to think he was a bad guy. The leopard looked at him with a kind look from her dashing hazel eyes. "Hi, so, could you tell me how to get to this seat?" Sonic asked, showing her his ticket. The leopard then grabbed Sonic by the hand and escorted him to his seat, which happened to be one of the best seats in the whole arena. Sonic thanked the leopard, who went back to her job. "Hmm, so this new world has a lot of nice people. I wonder who this 'Gazelle' is. And here I was supposed to be going on a vacation and rediscovering what my purpose is in being a hero. Oh well, I got one of them down. I'm really enjoying it here. I guess I'll have to wait a while for the purpose-finding part of the…" Sonic's thoughts were interrupted by a rabbit and a fox coming into the seats next to him, appearantly getting ready for the concert. "Maybe they know about this place." Sonic thought. "Excuse me, bunny?" Sonic said. The young rabbit looked at him, wondering what kind of a creature this is. "Don't be scared, I'm friendly. I just wanna know if you've seen this singer before."

"Oh, well I've heard a couple of her songs, but this is the first concert we've been to" the rabbit replied. "We?" Sonic asked. The bunny immediately realized that the blue hedgehog was not from around Zootopia. "Oh, I'm sorry, you probably don't know us. Officer Hopps, ZPD, this fox is my coworker/friend, Nick." Nick smiled at Sonic and offered him a firm handshake, which Sonic returned with a firm one of his own. "Nice to meet you buddy. Although I usually know everybody around here, I don't think I know you." Nick said with a smile. Although Judy seemed to have become friendly with the creature, Nick felt a little more suspicious about him than his long-eared companion did before. "Well, since you know everybody, who is this 'Gazelle?' Some kind of comedian?" Nick growled at Sonic's remark and was nearly about to make a move at him, until Officer Hopps stopped him by holding up her paw. "Whoa Nick, he's a stranger, he probably doesn't know who she is." the bunny cautioned her friend. "Gazelle is the greatest singer in all of Zootopia." "Zootopia?" Sonic responded. "Yes, you're in Zootopia. Mr.?..." "Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic said, flashing her a signature thumbs up. "And you are…" "Judy Hopps." Judy replied, sticking out her paw, which Sonic shook in response. "So, you said something about the ZPD, what does that stand…" Sonic had his question interrupted by the room going dark, then, all of the sudden, bright spotlights flooded the golden gazelle and four tigers, who appeared to Sonic to be her dancers.

"Good evening Zootopia" Gazelle greeted the audience, who immediately stood up and cheered.

"Come on everybody, put your paws up in the air."

"I messed up tonight, I lost another fight, I still messed up but I'll just start again." As Sonic moved his body to the beat, he was doing a mental critique of the pop singer. "Wow, she definetly has a great voice. I wonder what other songs she has out? I better ask Judy if…" Sonic stopped, then saw something strange. While the audience was focused on Gazelle, what they didn't see were four timberwolves sitting on top of the stage lights, all pointing machine guns towards Gazelle. Using the audience's selective attention to their advantage, these wolves were looking for a perfect shot, thinking no one could see them. Except someone did. Before Judy could say, "Wait, where are you going?" Sonic bolted up through the arena to try and stop the wolves.

While Gazelle was singing, Sonic tapped one of the wolves on the shoulder. While the wolf looked to see what it was, Sonic punched him in the chest, making him lose his balance and fall off the stage lights, but not before Sonic grabbed his gun and emptied it. This made the other wolves notice, but before they could react, Sonic used his lightning fast speed to make two of the wolves fall off the stage, and emptying both of their guns as before. As the final verse of the song came, one different wolf hopped onto the stage with a knife in his hand. Everyone in the audience was panicked to see a wolf in a ninja costume appear on the stage, but that didn't stop Gazelle from singing her last line.

"Try Everything." But before the wolf could make his move, Sonic leapt in front of the wolf and started to fight him. Gazelle looked in startled amazement at what was going on. "Everyone get out NOW!" Sonic screamed, as he stared down this new wolf. Everyone complied, but Gazelle's tiger backups wanted in on the fight as well. "Get Gazelle to a safe place" Sonic told them, "I'll take care of this guy myself." "Oh you will, will you?!" The wolf growled in a frightening tone. "Then who will take care of you?" "Hey, I'm a big boy, I can take care of myself. Unlike you on the other hand. Why are you wearing your sister's ballet dress anyway?" The wolf growled in rage at Sonic's taunt as he tried to go for his wrist, but Sonic's reflexes were too quick as he moved his wrist out of the way, slid under the wolf's legs, and pushed them from under him, causing the wolf to fall down. Then, Sonic did a spin dash on the wolf's back, expecting him to stay down. However, the wolf quickly got back up as if he wasn't hit at all. "You sure don't go down easy." Sonic said. His new foe simply snarled at him, then readied his knife. Sonic got into a confident posture to defend himself from the wolf. However, before he moved, Sonic heard a scream from right behind him. "Behind you." yelled Gazelle, who happened to be watching the fight the whole time. Sonic saw the wolf with the knife charging towards him, giving Sonic an idea. Just as the wolf attacking from the front flashed his knife, Sonic ducked, making that wolf accidentally stab the one attacking Sonic from behind. Sonic then kicked the wolf with the knife to escape from being pinned, then grabbed his knife paw, grab his other one with it, stood on his back, then grabbed both of the wolf's paws and forced them to the ground.

15 minutes later.

The ninja wolf, along with the rest of his crew, were escorted to a huge police truck to be arrested and headed off to jail. "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be used against you…" Sonic heard Judy say as she was escorting the wolf to the truck. Sonic then grinned at his accomplishment, proud about the job he had done. "Not bad there hero." Sonic turned, to find Gazelle, sitting next to him on the stage. "Oh, it was nothing, really." Sonic replied. "Nothing? You just saved my life, and the lives of hundreds of Zootopians. Without your quick thinking, we all would have been dead, at least I would have been. So thank you." Sonic simply nodded at Gazelle, indicating to her that the compliment was well recieved. Gazelle smiled, when more footsteps came. "Sonic the Hedgehog, is it?" a tall, muscular cape buffalo in a ZPD uniform walked towards Sonic, looking the hedgehog square in the face. "Yes, I am he, and you are…?" Sonic asked. "I'm William Bogo, Chief of the ZPD or Zootopia Police Department. Officer Hopps told me that she saw you at the concert tonight." "Yes, that's right" Sonic replied, "I saw those wolves get their guns ready and I couldn't just let anyone get hurt." "I was actually at the concert as well, in a different section of course. Let me be the first to congratulate you on a job well done. If you don't mind then, oh that's right, you don't have a place to stay. Well, I'll have to have something done to reward you for your heroism." Chief Bogo's statement was followed by a rebuttal from Sonic. "Hey, you don't need to give me a medal or anything. The only reason I did what I did was 'cause I didn't want to see anyone get hurt." Chief Bogo looked a little disappointed, so Sonic added, "But thank you just the same sir." with an officer salute. The chief smiled, saluted back, and walked to the truck. It was then Sonic realized that whoopsie, he had no place to stay, whoopsie number two, he had no Zootopian currency, and whoopsie number threesie, he still didn't have too much of an idea about what Zootopia even was. Realizing this, Sonic sat down in defeat. "You could stay with me if you like." Gazelle offered. Sonic looked at the Gazelle. "Nah, I'll be fine." Sonic lied. Obviously, Gazelle wasn't buying the excuse. "You heard what the Chief said. Is it true you don't have anywhere to stay?" Sonic just shook his head in defeat. "Sonic, you will not be any trouble to me. I'm more than happy to have you as my guest…and as my friend." Sonic pondered those last 3 words. Sonic had a few friends back on Mobius, and all of his friends were loyal, good-hearted, and downright amazing whether it was helping him battle Eggman, or just simply playing a soccer game together. But this was the first time that a complete stranger, outside of His World even, showed that much kindness to him, even to offer their house to him. "Alright, hey, thanks for inviting me. I promise I'll leave when I can earn some dough." Sonic said. "Sonic" Gazelle said, gazing into Sonic's eyes, "You are my friend. You can stay and leave whenever you feel like it. And if there's anything you need, I'll help make it happen. I promise." Gazelle and Sonic shook paws as both of them walked off towards Gazelle's limo. Something told Sonic that this would be a great adventure.

Alright guys, thank you so much for reading. First off, you're wondering "Why the long chapters?" I don't know how often I'll update or even what I'll get in a chapter in a week, so I might as well put in a great effort with all I can. I was originally going to put down why Sonic left Mobius to go to Zootopia on this chapter, but I realized that would be best saved for another chapter. Also, to answer any JuNick reviewers, I will have the pair in later chapters, but I can't say how often they'll pop up because this story is more about Sonic and Gazelle. Speaking of, I wanted this to be a K+ story, but I had to change the rating as you could see with the duel in the arena. It will stay a T rating though. Comment what scene in Zootopia this chapter took place in, and also, give me some ideas about what you want to see in later chapters. I'll see you all next chapter. LoveandEdify out.