Alright, here's a Christmas Present to all! I hope you enjoy the rest of your break, this chapter, and the holidays!
2
Who Are You?
In a lush, green field, Amy and Cream were picking flowers. Floating above Cream's head was her trusty chao, Cheese.
"Miss Amy! Miss Amy! Last time I was here, I saw these really nice little pink flowers over there!" Cream said, pointing to her right.
"Okay, Cream, lead the way!" Amy said, grabbing the blanket she had been kneeling on and snatching up a small bouquet of daisies. Cream ran off, Cheese floating after her. Amy sighed before following them.
After a while of running, Cream suddenly stopped so abruptly that Cheese nearly crashed into her. "Miss Amy!" she exclaimed "Come quick! Someone's hurt!" Amy came running, half expecting to see something small, like a Flicky with a broken wing. Once she arrived, though, she was in the same state as Cream.
Immediately, Amy covered Cream's eyes. "Keep your eyes closed, okay?"
"But why, Miss Amy?" She pouted slightly, her ears drooping.
"Erm…there are some things you aren't supposed to see yet, okay?"
"Okay!" Cream bounced slightly, nodding, and when Amy moved her hand, Cream replaced it with her own.
During the meantime, Amy checked on the Mobian cat that Cream had found. She wasn't wearing any clothes, so Amy covered her with the blanket. She looked her over for injuries and checked the cat's pulse.
"Well, she's alive." Amy murmured. "We should take her inside so she stays that way."
"Do I have to walk around with my eyes closed, Miss Amy?" Cream asked.
"No, you can open your eyes now." The rabbit opened her eyes, jumped into the air, and used her ears to help her fly. She headed towards Amy's house, humming.
"C'mon, Cheese!" she called. The blue chao chirped and flew after her. Amy picked up the orange cat and held her in her arms, a bleached white hand dangling. Then she ran after Cream and Cheese.
"Is she going to wake up soon, Miss Amy?" Cream asked curiously, for the fifth time in a row. The Mobian cat was now laying in Amy's bed, covered by the pink comforter. Her nose had twitched slightly in the first few minutes, but there had been no movement since.
"I'm not sure, Cream," Amy murmured, getting up and walking towards the cat to check her pulse again. Once she got near, the cat's ears flicked away a bug and she took a gasp of air.
"…Brambleclaw?" she moaned, turning over ever-so-slightly.
"Who's that?" the cat's eyes snapped open, and she screamed.
"Ah! Who are you?!" she shouted, leaping out of her bed before falling on her tail "Ow, that hurt!" Amy had to run back and cover Cream's eyes.
"I know you must be in shock, but can you please get back in the bed?" the pink hedgehog asked politely.
"The what? This thing?" the orange cat gestured towards the bed with her tail.
"Yes. Here, I'll help you. Cream, keep your eyes closed!" Amy walked towards the cat and lifted the covers. "Just get under there, and put the covers on top of you." The cat crawled under the covers and put them on her so that it covered her head.
"Like this?" she asked.
"You can let your head show," the cat scooted back a little, so that her nothing except her head was showing. "Cream, you can open up, now!"
"Hi, there!" the rabbit said, opening her eyes and waving at the cat.
"Where am I?" the orange Mobian asked.
"…where were you before?" Amy asked.
"Well, I was on a patrol with my father, my sister, my old mate, and my foster son, when we found this green rock. Leafpool, my sister, wanted to get her other son, because he's the medicine cat and can interpret omens, when it started glowing and doing weird stuff like shoot light into the sky. Brambleclaw, my 'mate' went to protect me from it when everything went black…and then I woke up here."
"Can you draw what the rock looked like?" Amy asked, handing the cat a clipboard, a pencil, and a sheet of paper.
"…what?"
"You hold the pencil like this," Amy held the yellow pencil in her hands "And you make marks on the paper with this end of it."
"My paws aren't like yours."
"…yeah, they are."
"What?!" the cat held up her hands and looked at them in amazement and shock "What happened to me?"
"Wait, so you weren't like this before?"
"No…"
"Maybe Sonic will be able to figure out what happened!" Amy exclaimed "Let's go…but you have to put this on, first." The cat was handed a long white summer dress, with straps and black stitch-marks along the edges. "Hey, Cream, could you go outside and play some more while Squirrelflight gets dressed? I'll let you know when we're ready to go."
"Okay, Miss Amy!" Cream said, running out of the room with Cheese.
"So, what's your name?" Amy asked when Cream had closed the door.
"…it's Squirrelflight." The cat replied. "What am I supposed to do with this, exactly?"
"Put it on, like mine." The pink hedgehog gestured to her own dress. "Here; I'll help you." She helped the cat put on her dress, and some white flats.
"Thank you…uh…I don't know your name."
"I'm Amy Rose, but you can just call me Amy. Are you ready to go?"
"Go? Go where?"
"Cream and I were going to go to the mall, and you can buy some other clothes that you like, if you want to."
"Alright; I'll go." Squirrelflight stood up, a bit wobbly at first, but soon got used to standing and followed Amy to the garage, where she came face-to-face with a monster. "Ah! A monster!"
"Where?" Amy exclaimed as the orange cat darted back inside the house.
"It's right in front of you!"
"Oh, you mean my car?" Amy asked, poking her car, the Pink Cabriolet. Squirrelflight's eyes widened when she touched it.
"Don't touch it; you'll wake it up!" she hissed.
"Squirrelflight, there's nothing to be worried about! I can control it! Just hop in!"
"Do you want it to eat me?!"
"It's not gonna eat you!"
"…Alright, if you say so. Where's that rabbit?"
"You mean Cream? Hey, Cream!" Amy exclaimed, running out of the garage to call Cream. "Cream, come on! We're ready to go to the mall, now!"
"I'm coming!" Cream said as she flew into the garage and plopped into a car seat before putting her seat-belt on. Amy and Squirrelflight followed suit. When the pink hedgehog put her keys into the ignition and revved the engine, Squirrelflight yowled in shock.
"You can control it?!" she exclaimed.
"Yes. It's how some people get around quickly. People like Sonic can use their own two feet, but get cars for when they want to take a break. It won't hurt you; I promise."
"…you're sure it won't hurt me?"
"Miss Amy's a safe driver; she'll make sure nobody gets hurt." Cream said. Cheese chirped in agreement.
When Squirrelflight spoke again, there was a slight waver in her voice. "Alright. Let's go." Amy drove out of the garage, and headed for the mall.
"Bramble? Are you alright?" Sonic asked, turning around to check on the frightened tabby, who had spent the past few minutes gripping the car seat with his claws, his fur lifting and his eyes wide.
"Y-Y-Yeah! I'll get used to it…eventually…" he insisted. Brambleclaw decided to try not to focus on the fact that his 'new friends' had shoved him into a monster, or a car, as they called it. Instead, he would look out at the scenery passing by outside the open 'window'. Other monsters whizzed by, coming to a stop at a red light.
"Crap! This is the light that stays red for six minutes!" Sonic groaned. Brambleclaw just nodded before observing the cars that stopped by theirs. A pink monster drove into the lane beside them. Inside it was a pink hedgehog, a light brown rabbit, and an orange cat with a white hand. Immediately, Brambleclaw recognized her.
"Squirrelflight!" he called, waving his arms frantically. The orange cat's ear twitched before she turned around with a gasp.
"Brambleclaw?! Oh, thank StarClan that you're here! I thought I was the only one," She exclaimed. The other passengers in the two cars turned around.
"Hey, Sonic!" the pink hedgehog greeted.
"'Sup, Amy? You found a cat too, I see." Sonic asked casually.
"Yeah; by the sounds of it, it looks like there's about three more cats."
"Three more? I remember six more cats who saw that weird emerald do what it did." Brambleclaw stated.
"Six more?! Oh, Mobius! At this rate, Eggman could find maybe one of them, snatch it up, and make it join his side!"
"That'd be terrible, Mr. Sonic! I hope it doesn't happen!" the rabbit exclaimed.
"Is Eggman evil or something?" Squirrelflight asked.
"Evil beyond belief!" Knuckles stated.
"Pft! My father's evil beyond belief!" Brambleclaw scoffed "And my half-brother!"
"Is your dad and half-brother a megalomaniac out for world domination?" Tails asked.
"Not exactly. He was a murderer who killed many cats and wanted to control the whole forest, and all the clans in it. All in all, it killed him."
"Good riddance, too. I don't know what I'd do if I was born under Tigerstar's reign!" Squirrelflight muttered.
"And what about your brother?" Amy asked.
"I had to kill him, and it was a one-time thing! No more dead cats at my paws!" Brambleclaw stated.
"Wow; you guy's life must be pretty serious, if you can kill cats without getting the death penalty or something." Sonic said with a whistle.
"Well, Tigerstar was killed by another evil cat named Scourge, and I didn't get exiled only because I was saving Squirrelflight's father, who's also the Clan leader, by killing my brother. I'm his deputy."
"So Miss Squirrelflight is a princess? That's amazing!" Cream gasped in awe.
"I have a sister, too!" Squirrelflight added.
"I wonder where the others are…" Brambleclaw murmured.
"Maybe—" Cream began.
"And hopefully," Tails added.
"—some of our other friends will find them, Mister Brambleclaw!"
"Hey, I'm starting to wonder if you guys have any sort of powers." Sonic mused. "Maybe we could—"
"Time to go to the mall! Later!" Amy exclaimed, zooming away in her car. Sonic looked up and saw that the light had turned green without him noticing it.
"Aw, crap!" he hissed, slamming his foot on the gas pedal. The speed-obsessed hedgehog raced to follow Amy to the mall.
"Sonic, slow down!" Knuckles shouted. "Bramble's looking a bit dizzy! Cool it before he gets sick!"
"Too late!" Brambleclaw groaned, leaning out the window to throw up. The car behind them honked angrily at him, and he smiled shyly while jabbing his thumb towards Sonic, who must have been going over the speed limit, but was miraculously not caught by the cops.
Well, there's this chapter! Shout out to all the people who have read and reviewed this story! Hope you have a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!
I still don't own Sonic and Co., or Warriors. They belong to SEGA and Erin Hunter.
In the next chapter, Eggman's gonna get his hands on one of the Warrior cats! Who will it be?