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Disclaimer; Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own Team Chaotix, any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does however own her OCs: Ocean the armadillo, Flame the swallow, and Avril the bat.
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Chapter Four: 1 week later; Calling All Detectives- Part Two
"A week... it's already been a week? That went by quickly," thought Charmy as he laid on his bed. His suitcase was all packed thanks to the annoying help of Ocean, and he was ready for almost anything. But now his usual habit of doing things at the last minute was gone and he was bored out of his mind.
"Hey Charm! Are you ready?"
"Been ready," replied Charmy as he sat up on his bed. Ocean opened the door and lifted his suitcase. She then noticed Charmy's gaze went to the floor.
"Are you 'kay?"
Charmy looked up and he nodded quickly, "y-yeah! I was just thinking about things."
Ocean rolled her eyes, "'kay, if you say so. Flame's down stairs waitin' for us. Come on!"
The hyper bee followed Ocean down the hallway and down the stairs. As they were, they were talking about what a Detective Reunion must be like.
"I think it'll be awesome! We might wind up staying at a hotel with fantastic rooms, and we might even meet a few famous detectives."
Charmy sweatdropped at her description of the place. He shook his head, "no way! I bet there'll be more than just detectives. Like extreme gear racers, and even others."
"What makes you think about that?"
He shrugged, "beats me. I'm just saying that-"
Flame cleared her throat and the duo instantly turned their attention to the pyrokinetic swallow. She wore the same clothes as before and she just had a home made bag that didn't even look that full.
"Are we all ready?"
Charmy nodded and asked, "we are... are you?"
"Sure I am."
"But your bag doesn't even look full."
Flame rolled her eyes and gave a carefree smile, "hey you guys just worry about yourselves okay? I'm fine, I know what I'll need."
The duo detectives looked at each other before shrugging and turning their attention on the door.
"Detective Reunion here we come!" cheered Ocean and Flame happily. Charmy laughed and followed the duo as they began socializing about their fantasies about what the Reunion would be like.
Charmy however wasn't following the conversations at all; he had something else going through his mind. The afternoon sun shinned down on the trio as they stepped out of the forest and everyone grinned when they saw a town in sight.
"So where do we have to go exactly?"
"Hmm," said Ocean as she looked down at the poster she was carrying with her, "it says to meet in some place called Fallen Hill."
Charmy raised an eyebrow but said nothing as Flame remarked, "that's a weird name for a place that's hosting a reunion wouldn't you agree?"
Ocean nodded to Flame and the duo resumed leading the way to their destination. Charmy was thinking about where he heard that name before. Maybe it was from a conversation he had with a few people in Westopolis over two years ago, or perhaps it was from somewhere else? He shook that thought out of his head; he shouldn't be thinking about things like that. Not now anyways. All he wanted was for this thing to be over with.
"Charm."
"What?"
"You're distracted," stated Flame.
He shook his head and said, "I'm not."
"Then why did you nearly fly into that old lady back there?"
"I... did?"
The duo nodded and he sweatdropped, "that doesn't mean I was distracted."
"Yes it does. What's wrong?"
"You'll think it's weird... but I have a bad feeling about this place."
Ocean raised an eyebrow and Flame just giggled quietly. The bee stared at his partners and kept flying, "come on. The sooner we get there the better."
"That's the spirit Charm! Don't worry everything will be just fine."
Charmy sure hoped so. After that short discussion, everyone remained silent, only the wind made a sound around the trio and the sun got lower and lower in the sky. That's when Flame sighed angrily.
"Are we there yet?!"
"Take a easy Flame... we should be there in a matter of minutes."
"We better get there soon, I'm starting to get tired."
Charmy nodded in agreement. Ocean looked at him; it was abnormal for him to stay quiet like he was. The armadillo was about to ask him if everything was okay when a familiar voice filled the air.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Sonic?"
"In the flesh," replied the blue hedgehog as he was in front of the trio. "Long time no see Charmy."
"Great to see you again!"
"Who're your friends?"
"I'm Flame the swallow... and this is Ocean the armadillo," she said happily.
"Nice to meetcha. Anyways, you didn't answer my question, what are you doing here?"
"Detective Reunion."
"Ah, you're here for that too?"
Charmy was thinking and his eyes widened, "don't tell me that you turned into a detective too!"
Sonic laughed at that and he shook his head, "nope I didn't! I came here to race against Jet... apparently he's late though."
"Why race here?"
"This place is the largest place we found, besides, this place has a lot of obstacles in it," explained Sonic as he led the group toward the very large mansion. "And this is the place you'll be staying at."
"You're not staying?"
"Well I wasn't planning to, but if Jet and the rest of them don't get here soon then I might have to."
"This'll be interesting," mused Flame as she stepped inside the grand mansion.
The place was huge; the walls were a light cream color, the floors were tiled and there were very large windows that were probably bigger than Vector. Flame's eyes were huge as she whispered, "whoa."
"Double whoa."
"THIS PLACE IS AWESOME!!" shouted Charmy as he started hyperly flying around the large room. His old personality appeared as he flew around and laughed.
Sonic looked at the girls and they backed away from the hedgehog as though he had a contagious disease. They then chased after Charmy to calm him down from his sudden hyper spree.
"Charmy! Get back here!"
"Can't catch me!! Can't catch- OOF!"
The bee fell to the ground after crashing into someone. "oww."
"Charmy! Are you okay?" questioned Flame and she looked up at the small pink hedgehog with a red headband. "We're really sorry about this."
"Charmy?"
"Amy? AMY!" cheered Charmy as he hugged her, catching her off guard completely. The pink hedgehog awkwardly hugged the bee back and she grinned.
"Have you seen Sonic anywhere?"
Ocean and Flame were about to reply to that until Charmy intervened and replied quickly, "nope. Haven't seen him."
"Oh... that's too bad."
"Cheer up! I'm sure you'll find him."
"Yeah! You're right! I'll see you around later!" shouted Amy as she started running toward the large set of stairs.
"Why'd you tell her that you haven't seen Sonic? We just saw him a few seconds ago." asked Flame as she followed Charmy and Ocean.
"She's the self proclaimed girlfriend of Sonic. If I told her where Sonic was then I'm in for it big time."
"Wonder why she's here?"
"Don't know. Don't really care at the moment, can we please find our rooms?"
Ocean nodded as she walked to a table that was sitting in the middle of the room. Charmy and Flame followed her and Charmy exclaimed, "Tails?!"
The kitsune looked up from the papers in front of him and he grinned, "Charmy!"
"How has it been going?"
"Eh, a bit boring. But it's been good. Where did you go? I haven't seen you in two years!"
Charmy sweatdropped and he said, "um... I decided that I needed to travel a bit."
"Oh."
"Mind telling us what room we'll be staying in?" Flame piped in quietly. Tails looked at Ocean and Flame as though they weren't there just a few seconds ago. He then handed them a sheet of paper, and three card keys. "You'll be in room 312."
"Thanks! And nice seeing you again."
"You too. Come over by room 329 and just tell Sonic that you're looking for me and we'll hang out for a bit."
Charmy gave Tails a thumbs up and the trio walked up the stairs in search of their room. Ocean then whispered something to Flame and the swallow groaned.
"What is it?"
"What if we have to share a room with someone?"
Charmy had a look of thinking on and he shook his head and said, "I think that's wrong. Because if there are three of us, and a whole bunch of rooms, what is the point of putting another team with us?"
The duo nodded in agreement. They soon found the room after maybe thirty minutes of searching. Flame looked like she was ready for a nap, Ocean looked around amazed, and Charmy slid his card into the scanner. A loud beep noise startled them and the door opened automatically.
They were greeted by clean hard wood floors, open windows, and a few vases full of lilacs and other types of flowers. Flame instantly ran toward the queen sized bed and jumped on it. She sighed happily as she closed her eyes.
"Home sweet home! At least for now."
Ocean ran toward the open window and looked out it. Then she darted over to the flowers with Charmy, "they're pretty!"
"Agreed!"
A few minutes passed and Ocean was sitting on the end of the bed. Her blue eyes looked around the room again as though she believed this whole room was nothing but a figment of her imagination.
There suddenly was a loud beep and the door opened. Ocean's eyes widened when she saw the people standing in the door way and had walked in, a look of mere surprise written on their faces.
"Oh my..."
Charmy then flew in from the other room with two cans of mountain dew, "hey Ocean! I got the sodas... hey? What's up?" The armadillo didn't look away from the people. Charmy frowned and looked toward the people and he yelped in surprise, dropping the cans of soda in the process.
"... Hi Flame!"
The swallow opened her eyes and she cheered, "AVRIL! Oh my god! It's been so long!"
Ocean and Charmy were still speechless when they heard the duo in the door way say, "Charmy?"
"E-Espio... V-V-Vector?" Charmy whispered as he dropped to the ground; he had fainted.
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I was in a rush when I wrote this chapter. I'm sorry if it's a bit shorter than usual or something. Anyways I'll have the next chapter posted as soon as I can. Please tell me what you think.