Hahahahaha. Chapter 2 has come faster than you think!
Amy layed out the clothes she had decided to pack next to Rouge's, as it was apparent she along with Shadow, Sonic, Cream, Espio and Tails were coming. The others? No idea. But she accepted this as fate, and a chance to make new friends.
"What are you bringing?" Rouge asked with a flourish as she finally layed out her last revealing bikini onto Amy's pink satin duvet. Amy giggled and spun in a neat pirouette, landing on her mini-mountain of clothes. She hummed I thought and tapped her lip, eyes looking up into her head as if she could find the answers there
She began tapping each article off with one finger. "Eight pairs of socks, 12 pairs of underwear, boots, trainers, sandals, flippers, 3 bikinis…" Amy held each one up, one was pink with white spots, another was neon green with a matching see-through skirt tied around the bottoms and the last was a one-piece with a powder-pink heart on it. "…Five different colored tank tops, Jammies, a wooly sweater and track-pants, 2 pairs of khaki shorts, short-shorts, 3 hoop skirts and last but certainly not least that red bandanna I won at the carnival last year." Amy huffed, obviously because she hadn't breathed the whole way through and made a little snow angel in her clothes.
"Not taking your red dress?"
"Nope"
"why not?"
"Uuhhh, Rouge, it's an island."
Rouge rolled her eyes and looked at her own colossal of clothes. "Ugh, my note said pack light but I just couldn't bring my self to do it." She jumped onto Amy's bed and lay down next to her. "Not including toiletries I have packed a small elephant; eight socks, 12 pairs of underwear, high heels…" Amy laughed and Rouge glared back. "For the Elimination dumbass, jeez, haven't you seen the human show? Now where was I? Oh yes; sneakers, flip-flops, sandals, four bikinis…" Rouge gestured to the ones on top of the pile, four same-style bikinis. One a sparkly gold, one metallic silver, one white and the last was deep burgundy. "… Four assorted tank-tops, Pajamas, Tracksuit pants and matching sweater, one khaki skirt, 2 pairs of short-shorts, tight pants, tight shirts, accessories, a visor and last is my lace up purple combat boots." Rouge looked at her pile with pride.
"Not taking you're full piece body suit with hearts?"
"uuuhh, no, Amy. It's an island."
Amy smiled, but then realization seemed to strike her.
"Ohmygod, Tails was supposed to call with the download on Takihutu, but he still hasn't rung. I was so scared it would be horrible over there Tails offered to research it" Said Amy looking worried.
"Oh relaaax, Takihutu could just be one of those made-up names that the producers come up with to make the island sound scarier. It was probably named something like 'The bay of Haaaaarmoneeeeey!'" Rouge sang, drawing a little halo in the air above her head. Amy snorted.
"Y-yeah! Or Paddy-Cake lane!" Rouge and Amy exploded over the covers with laughter, both of them clutching their stomachs at the thought of staying at 'Paddy-Cake Lane' for their chilling 8 week holiday.
Brrringallingalingalinga… Amy's annoying phone chirped again and again with the annoying voice of Borat. Rouge stuffed her fists into her oversized ears and moaned.
"Turn the damned thing off!"
"I can't find it!"
"Look harder!"
"Oh Rouge, what a brilliant-flipping-idea. It's not like I wasn't looking hard enough in the first place!!"
"Shut it up!"
"Get your hands out of your ears and help, damnit!"
"Aaaargh! Why did you set that as your ring-tone?"
"I didn't!" Amy sobbed, pulling the clothes apart from the pile in a desperate attempt to find her phone. "Espio must have set it after I put salt in his coffee!" Amy whined.
"Why did you put salt in his coffee?!"
"It seemed like a pretty frickin funny thing to do at the time! Okay?!" Amy screamed, finally finding the phone and flipping it open butting the long device to her ear.
"I swear to god, if someone's not dying I'll come over there and kill you myself." Amy said, completely serious.
"Uuuh…" Came the static reply over the receiver, "Maybe this is a bad time…"
"Oh! Hi Tails! How are you?" Amy said and her voice mellowed out immediately from her serial-killer tone before.
"Dandy. Hey, listen, I found out a little about the game show. You know the basics and all, but I found out what the teams are and stuff."
"Oooh, cool, one sec." Amy gestured to Rouge to come closer and put the phone on loudspeaker. "Okay, go."
"Alright, so there are four teams; The Cobras, The Jaguars, the Hornets and The Piranhas. Cool huh? I also know the four colors but can't tell which team gets which. There's yellow, green, red and blue. Pretty basic, but there's one thing I couldn't reach…" Tails droned off.
"What?" Amy and Rouge asked at the same time.
"Uhhh, the other contestants…" Tails added sheepishly. "Their files are locked tight with format changing, sixty-digit binary codes. I couldn't even access who I already knew was coming. Ooh! Speaking of which. Rouge, Knuckles is coming; they left a note where the chaos emeralds used to be. Quite funny really, they took em' while he was snoozing. But they'll give them back if he goes on the show. So he is pretty determined, especially after learning what the prize is." Amy heard Tails chuckling over the other end.
"I better go, Sonic's pretty shitty about the whole 'Boat to the island' thing. See ya." A beeping sound signified that Tails had hung up before Amy could reply. She flipped her phone shut with a little 'snap!' and shifted her devilish green eyes onto Rouge.
"Heeey Rooouuge?" Amy sang, smiling evilly. "Why did Tails want to let you know Knuckles was coming?"
Rouge turned a bright shade of scarlet that surprisingly didn't mix well with her bleach white fur and dove back into her clothes.
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Cream's mum, despite the young rabbit's protests, had decided to pack for her daughter's trip.
"But Mum-"
"Ah ah ah! No buts missy, I let you go on this trip, I'll pack." Vanilla declared, holding her chin high as she squashed some floaties into Cream's Micky Mouse suitcase.
"But you packed a dress, Mum! I'm going to be on an island! Not the price is right!" Cream whined on her knees, pleading with her hands together.
"No attitude, Cream, my word is final." She turned to look at her pouting daughter and her face softened immensely, she pinched the skin on the bunny's muzzle. "Oh, my little baby's growing up!" She cooed. Creams face fell into neutral.
Yes, it had been a few years. Cream was 10 now and she had grown hazelnut hair like her mum, tied into two spiffy ponytails. Cream hadn't told anyone yet, but the main reason for agreeing to this trip was romance. Maybe she could get a boyfriend out of this new adventure. Even if she was still 'Mummy's widdle baby'
Vanilla looked satisfied and left the room in search of some housecleaning to do. Cream, being the sneaky devil she is, unpacked everything.
"Ugh, britches? No way mum, sorry." She said with a disgusted glare and tossed them over her bed. She continued with this until her suitcase was practically empty (Her mum packed a reasonable amount of underwear and socks. Most of the stuff her mum had packed was stuff she found in the memorabilia book.)
Cream skipped gleefully to her wardrobe and swung it open, scanning through the decent selection of clothes on her shelves. She pulled out some cool tank tops, jammies, warm clothes and an assortment of pants ranging from long to what her mum and every over-eccentric parent dubbed 'inappropriate' (Hot pants;_; yes, parents are that weird)
Flip-flops, some sneakers and a few accessories that she could smuggle along. Take that, Mum.
Cream, craving the attention of normal people, called Amy on her cell.
"Yo?"
"Ames? It's Cream!"
"Cream? You got a cell?" Rouge's surprised voice belled over the receiver. Cream laughed and kicked her legs back and forth on her beige duvet, her long, lace-up yellow go-go boots felt heavy.
"Yeah, I finally managed to convince my warden to let me buy one, how are you faring with the packing?"
"Ugh, the packing's fine, the trick is finding out how much weight that boat taking us can handle, sugar. I've managed to pack for the entire team." Cream snickered when she heard Amy's defiant; 'Speak for yourself!' in the background.
Cream remembered something. "Ooh, do you know who the other contestants are? I'm curious."
"Ahhhhh, no. Guess we'll have to wait, I hear they've split up the orientation days for the contestants. So we might be on different days." Cream nodded and then, remembering they couldn't see her, she gave a little 'Mmmhmm'
She smiled, "Exited?" She asked.
Rouge and Amy's voice pounded out from her flip-phone. "Yeeeaaah!!!"
"Me too guys, we're gonna have such an adventure!"
Boy was that the understatement of the year.
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This was just a fill-in chapter. Something to have a lil' fun with and show you basically what's going on with the girls. Isn't Tails great? I love making him that less childish.
Oh yeah, please review and send OCs, pleeeeeeaaaasse! I need them for the upcoming chapters, so solidify your spot by reviewing soon! Gawd, I sound like an infomercial.
I won't release the first orientation either until I have a sufficient amount. That wasn't a threat, just the truth, I can't.
Till next time!