The Prince and the Pauper – A Sonic and Silver the Hedgehog Story
Through the Hard Times
A week later, Sonic and Amy were told to meet their father in the throne room. They don't know what their father wanted to talk to them, but they figured it was important.
"Whatever it is, it must be important between the three of us." Sonic thought. They came into the throne room and they saw their father sitting on his throne, waiting for them.
"What is it that you wanted to see us with?" Amy asked. Their father stood up.
"I want to inform you both that last night there was a fire at the Emerald City Customer Service Office building that left three people injured." He said.
"Oh those poor people." Amy said. But Sonic was confused of why he was telling this to them.
"Why are you telling this to us?" Sonic asked.
"Well," King Leon continued. "I have to go down there and inspect the damage to see what can be done to remove the damage building for the public's safety. I was wondering would you guys want to come with me?" When he said this, Sonic's heart raced with excitement even though he was relaxed looking. But he couldn't hide his excitement and raised a fist in the air.
"Sure! I would love to come!" He responded. This made his father chuckle.
"I figured that would've been your answer my son, you're always telling me of visiting the city and the people there." He said as he turned to Amy.
"What about you my daughter?" He asked.
"No thank you, I think I would rather stay here and practice more on my piano." She replied.
"Wow, she doesn't want to visit the city?" Sonic questioned to himself, thinking it was weird for Amy to not come with them.
"That is fine Amy." Their father said. He turned to Sonic.
"We will leave tomorrow at eight, and we're gonna be at the site for about an hour and a half. And, I can't tell you to stay with me at all times because not only you're too old for that, but I know you will stay with me." Deep down, Sonic was bubbling with excitement, but he tried hard to keep his composer.
"You got that right father, I'll be ready in the morning." Sonic said. King Leon nodded.
"Very well, now my children, you are free to leave." They bowed and left the throne room.
"I don't know why you're excited to go to a site of a burned office building, nothing will be there besides burned rubble and there's not much to do." Amy said.
"I don't care, I'm just thrilled to do something outside of the castle. Tomorrow is going to be great!" He cried out as he sped to his room to prepare an outfit that he wanted to wear, he wanted to look special to the townspeople.
That night, Silver was lying on his bed looking up the roof while hearing his ma and pa talking down stairs. They didn't knew he was up, so this was a good chance to hear what his parents had to say. Last night, the office building that his pa worked in caught on fire. From what it sounded, it was arson. His pa have been in the living room all day and looked depressed and stressed out. This also worried his ma, knowing that her husband doesn't have a job now, and this made Silver wonder what he's going to do.
"I can't take this anymore. Of all the jobs around here, the one I was working in went in flames. I really, really have no idea what to do now." Silver heard his pa saying to his ma.
"Try not to worry dear, you will find a job, you just got to keep trying and looking. Maybe if you did, you'll fine a job better then working at that customer service building." Silver's ma said.
"Clara, I did tried looking before this all happened, there's really nothing around. I've been worrying all today on how are we going to get food in this house. We only got $40 left, and on top of that, next week I have to pay the school taxes, and I was suppose to get my paycheck on Monday." They were silent for about a minute. Silver shook his head in disbelief of all of this. He felt that they were getting hammered with problems left and right, and he was now starting to think of getting a job, but that means he would have to quit school.
"I think if I quitted school and got a job, maybe we won't be hurting with financial issues." He thought as he went on his side to ease his stomach from growling, it hurt him a little.
"To be honest with you Clara, I think we should let Silver quit school until our financial problems have been resolved." Silver slowly got up and went to his bedroom door to hear closely, this got even more interesting.
"No honey, there's no way we're making our son quit school. When he was born we both made a promise that he gets the best education then us and graduate!" She cried.
Both of Silver's parents never graduated from school, they both quit early to help get money in their homes when they were teens.
" And if he was to quit school, he would never go back because it'll be hard for him like it was to us. So don't you ever think again of having our son quit school because I will not allow it!" His ma said almost yelling.
"Ok then, then he won't quit school. But we really have to try another way to earn more money in here. I'm just afraid of us losing this home and then moving away, I don't want it to happen." His pa said. That made Silver think, will that ever happen? Will they lose this house because they soon won't be able to afford it? That thought made his nervous. He went to his bed again and rested on his side.
"I'm afraid of that happening to dear, but the main thing we have to do is to stick together and help each other out." Silver's ma said.
They talked for another twenty minutes and Silver's pa was going to try to find a new job tomorrow in the morning. His parents went to bed and Silver did too. Tomorrow will be Saturday, so even though he liked them because it's the start of a two day school break, he also liked them because he goes to Emerald City's park and stay there as long as he can to get away from his problems at home.
"I think I'm gonna be there from eight in the morning to seven in the evening." He thought, thinking that his perfect Saturday plan is all set.