A/N: Jake is owned by SSG Tanner X. Echidna. Lauren is owned by Silver Shields. Trinity is mine and SEGA owns the original gang. Maraku is pronounced (Mara-cu) You'll see in the story what I mean.
Jake POV
I freakin hate it here. I'm at this stupid orphanage with my older sister Lauren. She's almost nineteen and I'm almost seventeen. Oh joy. One more year until I go off on my own. I can stay as long as I want but the hell with this. I'm out of here. I'm planning to leave tonight. I can't stand it here. All you do is chores and god forbid "discipline" as they call it. Yeah sure it is. Sure, I can take the yelling and crap but chasing you around with pot, pans, and other items is torture not discipline. Hehe. I'm surprised the city doesn't know. Me and my sis were found after a fire long ago that killed our family. I was actually the middle child and so was Lauren. We had an older brother named Seth and a younger sister named Maraku. Maraku was killed instantly but Seth made it out with the rest of us. Our mom was missing so we figured she was gone just like Maraku. Seth was at least eighteen. He was now in charge. I hate being told what to do but I just lost my mom and little sister. We left the firefighters to do their job. I looked at the fire and was shaking like crazy. I had no idea what would happen to us. I was sacred. Seth of course acted as if he was tougher. Ha. Just because he's a hedgehog. Makes him no different than me and Lauren. My father was an orange hedgehog and my mother was a red vixen. Odd mix but I loved my family. My dad died awhile back. I was at least ten. Doesn't bother me much. All he really cared about was work. So any attention to me was either "Hey son." or "How was school?" If I got a pat on the head, I was lucky. Mom always said it was his way. Fuck that. I knew he favored Seth. I could sense it. But anyways. Seth brought us to this orphanage and told us to wait till he comes back. I watched him leave and Lauren did too. Last I saw him. He was walking over a distant hill. Never saw the orange male again. I said he ditched us but Lauren said he was sided tracked. She is a believer. Not like me. When something goes wrong, I cannot see an upside of it.
"Lights out!" The panda yelled out at us and she flipped the switch. I sat up in bed looking at my red fur. I had mom's fur color. I had a white muzzle. The tip of my ears and tail were white two. Same as my chest and stomach. Lauren looked brownish. She always has. No idea where she got brown from. Our dad was orange and our mom was red. What the hell happened? "Jake go to sleep already!" Lauren scolded me. "No. I'm not going to sleep. You can go on right ahead. But I'm not going to sleep." I crossed my arms and acted like the child I used to be. Lauren always told me to grow up. Hehe. If only she knew how mature I was.
"And why aren't you going to sleep?!" She yelled at me. Well she was actually whispering to loudly. I rolled my eyes and got out of the bed. It was a normal bed but I had roommates all around me. "Later Lauren. I'm out of this place I call hell." I walked up to the enormous door and twisted the knob. I opened the door and saw the guard sleeping. "Wow. I can be holding three guns, a bomb, and dynamite and I'd get away with it. I feel so safe with him guarding us." I smirked. I looked back at Lauren and she shuck her head. I chuckled and walked right out of the room. I looked around and then I looked up at the ceiling. I saw an open window. "Oh I am so out here." I twisted my three tails and started to hover above the ground. I was a few feet up till Laruen grabbed my ankles and pulled me down. My helicopter like tails were still spinning. I just sat there with my arms crossed and frowning. "What are you doing?" She said sounding scared. I rolled my eyes. She's not stupid but she has her moments. "I'm getting out of here. You coming or what?" I asked glaring at her. She couldn't fly like me. She only had one tail. I may be young but I was strong enough to carry her. How the fuck I got three tails is a medical mystery. I few people at school said I was a triplet and something was messed up. What ever happened to me isn't my problem. I got three tails and I can fly. What more can a guy ask for.
"Alright. I'm coming too." Finally. I grabbed her bridal style and moved my tails faster so I can carry us both. I reached the window. We landed on the windowsill and saw it was a very long way down. I picked her up again and landed on the ground. We looked around the dark streets. A few cars passed us and we saw a few hedgehogs and echidnas walking. I'm guessing they were headed home from work. "What now Jake?" She said it so sarcastically it made me growl. "Look all I wanted to do was get out of there. Now let's go before the panda makes her rounds." I took my sister's hand and walked down the streets. "Where are you planning on going Jake? At least there we had shelter and food." She could not leave me alone could she? "Look you can stay here then. I can take care of myself." I let go of her hand and I could tell she was smirking. "Oh really? Where are going to sleep? Who are you going to talk to? Who's gonna make sure you're safe?" She had to burst my happy moment of freedom didn't she. "Oh fine. Come on then! Let's go before she…." I was cut off by an awful scream. "They're gone! Wake up you idiot! Two are missing!" I grabbed Lauren and ran far. No idea where. But I ran. "Jake slow down!" Like hell I will. I'm not going back to prison.
A/N: What did you think? Took a while. So I hope it was good.