Hey there everyone, JAF here! As I said in the last chapter, I'm posting Chapter One up right now, and here it is! The first chapter of the Crossing Through Space: Knights' Book sequel: Crossing Through Space: Flyer's Book!
So, lets get on with it shall we?
Summery: Knights has found her friends, Flyer and Knekelda, and has made new ones (maybe) in Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, and Shadow. Now she, along with her friends, must find the lost Angel Diamonds. She has one of the Diamonds, but where are the last six? Now, traveling in the Sky Fox, created by both Tails and Flyer, the two differing planetary beings (Mobian and Psymorian) must team up and search for the Diamonds before Eggman does. But where to begin?
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, SEGA does. I merely own my OCs and plot. Thank you for understanding.
Chapter One: Where to Start?
Two months.
It had been just two months since Knights, Flyer and Knekelda had crash-landed on Mobius. Two months since the EggmanLand and Angel Island incidents.
Two months, and the tree Psymorians were still in Tails' workshop. Of course, that was because Flyer was helping Tails build a flying vessel called the Sky Fox so that the mismatched gang of companions could travel Mobius to find the Angel Diamonds before Eggman.
And now, two months and three days after the incidents, the Sky Fox was finally done and ready to be revealed.
"Two months!"
Flyer sighed as she heard Knekelda's voice outside Tails' Workshop. Here we go again, she thought, knowing very well what was coming. The same thing that had been happening for the last two weeks.
"It'll take as long as it takes Knekelda, you know this!" Knights' voice snapped back. Flyer winced, recognizing the sound of growing impatience in Knights' voice.
"I'd better go stop them," Flyer sighed, setting down her screwdriver. Turning away from the small device she was working on, Flyer headed out of the workroom and outside the Workshop.
Once outside, it was easy to locate her two friends since Knekelda was yelling at Knights. Again.
Knights rubbed her eyes tiredly, trying to rub away the headache that she could feel coming on.
I get that Knekelda needs to vent, but why must she always seek me out to do it? the hedge-wolf wondered, trying to block out Knekelda's ranting.
"You'd think that two genius' would work faster," the red and black echidna muttered. Knights kept her eyes shut tight, the first warning of her impending temper.
Behind the two, Flyer watched silently. Her own headache gave her sympathy to her adoptive sister, and warned her of getting to close to the yelling.
Great, stuck between helping and saving myself. And now I'm going to go throw myself into harm's way. Story of my life, Flyer thought with a sigh, then thought of something. Funny, I just remembered once hearing Knights say the very same- no, the exact same thing during that mission back on Psymoria.
At the thought of the mission that nearly killed Knights (and herself (and Knekelda)), Flyer winced, hand reaching for one of her tails for comfort, a habit she'd had since she'd been small. Shaking herself free of the cobwebs of thought that clouded her mind, Flyer looked back up at the arguing duo, and voted to stay out of the fight.
Why? Because Knights was drumming her fingers against her leg, eyes still closed. And that meant she was about to let go of her temper.
Poor Knekelda, Flyer thought, feeling bad to the soon-to-be victim of Knights' wrath.
Yes, poor Knekelda.
"That is IT! I've had had ENOUGH!"
Sonic, Tails and Knuckles all stopped at Knights' enraged voice as it rose into the air. The three Mobians all looked at each other, wondering what was going on, just up the cliff.
They got their answer soon enough, in the form of Flyer, flying away from the Workshop as fast as her twin tails would allow.
"Hey Flyer!" Tails called up, his own tails spinning so he could fly up to the other kitsune. Neither Sonic nor Knuckles could hear the conversation taking place above their heads, but they could tell it wasn't good by the looks on their fox friends faces.
"Wonder what's going on," Knuckles wondered aloud, shading his eyes with a hand to see the agitated flying foxes better.
"Who knows? But it sounds like Knights has had enough of something," Sonic replied, copying his echidna friend.
"LOOK OUT!"
Knekelda sat gloomily on the steps of Tails' Workshop, nursing her sore… well, everything really. From the tips of her black tipped quills to the bottoms of her brown shoed feet, Knekelda felt as if she'd just been beaten up by a purple hedgehog-wolf. Funny, because that's just what happened.
"Personally, I think you deserved more then what you got," Knights grumbled, gently flexing her wrist, making sure it wasn't injured from Sonic's grab.
Yes folks, Sonic had to save Knekelda from Knights once again. Sad, isn't it?
"Okay, let me get this straight," Knuckles said from his spot next to Knekelda on the steps. "Knights attacked Knekelda because she was annoying her?"
"Well, not exactly. More like because she'd been annoying her for the last two weeks?" Flyer phrased the explanation as a question, not completely sure of the real reason herself.
"More like nonstop complaining," Knights muttered, flapping her hand and wincing when a small shock of pain came. "Dang Sonic, did 'ya have to grab my wrist so hard?" she complained to the blue hedgehog beside her.
"Wouldn't have had to if you'd just let go of Knekelda's arm when I told you to," Sonic told her. Knights' only response was a dark mutter under her breath that no one could hear.
Three hours later Shadow and Rouge arrived for the great unveiling of the mysterious ship called the Sky Fox that Tails and Flyer had been working on for two months.
Originally the Sky Fox had only suppose to take a single month at most to complete, but due to certain events that we don't have time to name, it took a little longer.
So the two interplanetary-types were eager to see the results of the two-month long labor of their fox-friends. (Except for Shadow who didn't seem to have emotions).
"Ready?" Flyer asked, her ears twitching madly with excitement.
"I'd say no, but you'd show it to us anyway," Knekelda muttered, still sore from Knights' beat-down.
"Good!" Flyer grinned, not seeming to have heard the grumpy echidna, and whipped around, practically skipping towards Tails (who was currently trying to untangle himself from the giant sheet covering the huge, though mysterious, Sky Fox). "They're ready!"
"So I heard. Can someone please get this sheet off me?" Tails called from underneath the white cloth. The older ones all rolled their eyes (minus Shadow who just kept glaring at them all) and watched as Flyer got herself entangled as well as she tried to help her friend.
"I got them," Knights sighed before dashing forward. In a blur of movement, the white sheet fell away from the Sky Fox and fell to the ground, releasing Tails and Flyer, but…
"Great Chaos! Who turned out the lights?" it trapped Knights underneath.
No one answered, as they were all too busy gawking at the revealed Sky Fox. The ship was easily as big as the Workshop (I should mention that they all are at the bottom of the cliff, so the ship is sitting in the ocean), and shaped to look like a classic pirate ship for some odd reason.
The group stared, open-mouthed, at the Sky Fox, when Knuckles asked the question:
"This thing is suppose to fly?"
There was no answer for the question either as Flyer and Tails were busy trying to find Knights in the giant sheet that used to hide the Sky Fox.
"Almost! There! You're free!" Tails said, falling backwards as Knights leaped free of the sheet's folds and in front of the still-staring others.
"Thank Chaos! And you two of course," Knights said, nodding to the two foxes. She glared at the others. "Some help you guys were, I could have suffocated! And- what are you all staring at?" she asked, realizing none of them were paying the least bit attention to her.
None replied, though Shadow took the moment for payback for physically moving his head back at the amusement park and grabbed Knights' muzzle before turning her head around so she could see the ship. The female hedgehog-wolf's mouth made an 'O' shape as she tilted her head back slightly to look the whole thing over.
"Oh, so that's what you were looking at," she said, half to herself.
"Yeah, so I repeat Knuckles' question: this thing is suppose to fly?" Knekelda asked, raising an eyebrow at the two kitsune. They both nodded eagerly. "How?"
"I'd say by those wing-like mechanisms trailing the sides of the ship," Knights said dryly, glancing at the others as if she couldn't believe they didn't know that. Sure enough, when the already stunned group looked back at the Sky Fox, there were three large wing-like machines on each side of the ship, looking much like the wings on a bird, feathers and all.
An embarrassed silence followed as the others all avoided looking at the looks the only three who had noticed stared at them balefully, as if they wanted to smack some sense into them.
"Well," Sonic said, forcing a grin on his face and clasping his hands together. "Why don't you show us around huh? Then we can start our search!"
"Yeah, but where? Where do we start?" Knekelda asked.
"I think the better question might be where to start," Knights said, her eyes suddenly darkening. "We're on a whole other planet if you recall. We don't know where everything is."
Shadow narrowed his eyes at Knights' statement. He knew very well Knights was lying, how, he wasn't sure, but a part of him whispered in his ear that the purple hedgehog knew more about Mobius then she let on.
Which was why he would have to keep an eye on her.
Dun-dun-da!
Hmm, so the Sky Fox is revealed… but what happens next? Knights has a point, where should they start? They don't know anything about Mobius… or do they?
Shadow seems to believe that Knights knows more about Mobius then she lets on… could she?
And what happened to make the Sky Fox late in being made? Will we ever know?
Well, I will, but you won't! For now at least. I'll put that up eventually, but I want to finish the series first (and I have no clue how to start it or how it will go to be truthful).
So! What will happen next in… Chapter Two: "I Hate Water."
Till we meet again my furry friends!- JAF logging out!
