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The morning sunlight crept into the room Sonic was sleeping in. He was still sleeping, rather peacefully, dreaming about eating tons and tons of chili dogs that were in a huge mountain and he was ontop. As he was chomping away on the two he had in both hands, Rapunzel's disembodied voice came out of nowhere.
"Sonic?" the voice said.
Sonic looked around for the voice, but could not find it's source. "Rapunzel?" he asked, confused by this.
The voice called out his name again. "Sonic?"
In the real world, Rapunzel was trying to wake up Sonic. She gently shook his shoulder. "Sonic, it's time to get up for breakfast."
Sonic shot straight up, his eyes still closed, causing Rapunzel to step back a little bit in surprise. "No! The earthquake has ruined my chili dog mountain!" Sonic opened his eyes, only instead of a rapidly approaching ground, he saw Rapunzel, Pascal, Eugene, Tails, Amy and Knuckles looking at him with confused faces.
"I uh...guess it was all just a dream," Sonic replied with a nervous laugh. He got out of bed and went over to the others. "When's breakfast? I'm starving."
Tails laughed. "No thanks to your dream."
"Yeah, I guess," Sonic said before his stomach growled loudly.
"Well, we got you up so that we all can go get breakfast," said Rapunzel.
The group walked to the dinning hall and proceeded to get some food and began eating breakfast.
After breakfast, the group started talking about what they were going to do that day.
"Well, tomorrow is the wedding rehearsal, which will begin in the afternoon. You don't have to wear any of your wedding clothes until the actual wedding," said Rapunzel.
Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles nodded their heads.
Eugene looked at everyone. "So what is everyone doing today?"
"I was hoping Amy and I could go look at the wedding items," said Rapunzel.
"Oh, I'd love to," replied Amy. "I bet everything is going to look amazing, especially your dress."
Rapunzel smiled. "You'll have to wait and see."
"Me and Tails were going to hang out with Pascal and Maximus and just walk around town and maybe go into the forest a little," Sonic said, causing Pascal to squeak happily.
Eugene looked at Knuckles. "Do you wanna come with me to this place I used to go to? It's a really nice place and I think you'd like it."
Knuckles shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "What the heck. I wouldn't mind going."
After that, the groups went their ways, saying goodbye to each other before they left.
Rapunzel led Amy back to her bedroom and went over to the closet as Amy sat on her bed, watching her rummage through the closet.
"Is that where you keep your wedding dress?" Amy asked.
"Yeah," replied Rapunzel, reaching into the back of the closet. "I keep it way in the back because Eugene kind of gets...kissy, if you know what I mean. He'll makeout with me in just about every part of the castle, except in my parents' room and the room they're in with us." Rapunzel then pulled out the wedding dress and laid it on the bed for Amy to see.
The pink hedgehog looked at the dress in amazement. "Wow, it's so lovely." She picked it up and went over to the mirror and held the dress against her. "If Sonic ever agrees to marry me, I wanna be wearing a dress just like this one at the wedding." She looked in the mirror and smiled at herself in the dress, imagining her wearing this at her and Sonic's wedding.
"You sure like Sonic, don't you?" asked Rapunzel with a chuckle.
Amy walked back to the bed and laid the dress down. "He's the most dreamiest guy I've ever met. He's amazing, charming, nice, great, spectacular, heroic, and charming," Amy said, getting a 'lovesick' look in her eyes.
Rapunzel chuckled. "I felt exactly the same way about Eugene when I fell in love with him," she said with a happy sigh. She than turned to Amy. "I am kind of nervous about getting married to him though, but I just hope it passes away."
"It's your wedding day, you're going to be nervous. Everyone has been and will be on their day. I know I probably will."
"I meant nervous as in, what if Eugene isn't the right one? I mean, I love him, but what if our love doesn't last? What if he stops loving me, but I still love him?" Rapunzel sighed sadly and sat down next to Amy.
Amy looked at her. "Rapunzel, I know Eugene loves you. Whenever he looks at you, he gets all happy and glad to be around you. You shouldn't be nervous about him not loving you. You'll know he's the right one when you get that fuzzy feeling in your heart whenever he's around."
"I do get a fuzzy feeling in my heart when he's around," Rapunzel said with a smile. "And I can tell that you're right. I try to not think about those thoughts, but I can't seem to hold them off."
"That's why you ignore those thoughts and think about all the positive things about you and him. That's what I do every time Sonic runs away from me."
Rapunzel smiled. "Thanks for the advice Amy." She then got up off the bed and put the dress back into the closet. "Come on and I'll show you the cake that'll be at the wedding."
Amy immediately got off the bed once the word 'cake' was said. "Ohhhh I can't wait to see the cake," she said as she followed Rapunzel out of the room.
Rapunzel led Amy to the castle's kitchen and showed Amy the wedding cake. It was big. Vanilla icing coated it while inside was chocolate. On top of the cake were two small figurines of Rapunzel and Eugene.
"It's so nice and I'm sure it'll taste good," Amy said, looking at the cake. "What's the flavor?"
"There are two flavors actually. The icing is vanilla while inside is chocolate."
Amy closed her eyes happily. "Yummy," she said, imagining what the cake would taste like when she ate it. She opened her eyes and looked back at Rapunzel. "I hope I'm not being rude by asking you this, but do you think you could give me a tour of the castle?"
"No, it's alright. I'd love to show you around my home," Rapunzel said and started to lead Amy around.
Sonic, with Pascal resting on his shoulders, and Tails walked over to where the Palace Guard horse stables were and found Maximus. "Hey buddy. Remember us?" asked Sonic.
Maximus neighed happily and nodded his head up and down happily.
Sonic chuckled and opened up the stable door. "I thought you would."
Pascal squeaked a hello to Maximus, and the horse neighed a hello back.
The four friends walked through the town square, stopping to look at the new town mural, which was of Rapunzel and Eugene with the King and Queen.
The group continued on their way through the town and went into the forest, telling fond memories of when they were together the first time.
"I remember when Eugene got whacked by Rapunzel's frying pan. I wanted to laugh so hard. but somehow I managed to keep it in," said Tails, laughing.
Sonic, Pascal and Maximus laughed along with Tails.
Sonic turned to Maximus. "So Max do you like your new job as the Captain of the Guards?"
Max nodded his head up and down.
The group continued through the forest until they heard a cry for help from a nearby child. They followed the sound until the came across a little boy up high in a tree.
"Don't worry, we'll get you down," Sonic said before he started to jump from branch to branch, reaching the tree limb the boy was on. "Hold onto me and I'll get you down."
The boy grabbed onto Sonic and held on tight as the hedgehog leaped out of the tree and landed on the ground safely, landing in a kneeling position. Sonic set the boy down and got back on his two feet.
The boy wasn't that old, around the ages of five or six years old. He wore average clothing that almost all boys in Corona would wear. He had black hair and green eyes. "Thanks Sonic. I was climbing this tree, but I got too high and I was scared to come down, thinking I'd fall out and hurt myself."
"Ok, just next time be more careful and don't go up to high. Lets get you back to town," Sonic replied.
Maximus let the boy ride on his back as they returned to the town and started searching for the boy's parents. Soon enough, after a little while and a little help from the boy, they found the parents.
"Thank you Sonic," said the father while the mother was hugging and holding her son close, much to his embarrassment.
"You're welcome," said Sonic. After that, the group walked around the town a little while before going back into the forest.
Eugene and Knuckles walked through the forest, which was a different way than what Sonic and his group took. Knuckles looked around at all the scenery and shrubs while they walked. "How much farther is this place?" the echidna asked, getting very bored.
"We should be reaching it soon," replied Eugene, looking all around.
After a while, they finally came across a weird-looking building with a sign nearby that said 'The Snuggly Duckling'. The building was leaned up forwards against a hillside with a large tree over it. The building was all wooden with a blue roof and brown sides. The window frames were a red color. A small part of the building was added ontop of the right corner of the roof.
Knuckles looked at the sign. "The Snuggly Duckling." He then looked at Eugene with a weird look when he read the name of the place. "What kind of place is this?"
"It's a bar."
"What kind of name is 'The Snuggly Duckling'? I mean, who names a bar that?"
Eugene sighed. "Lets just go in. Trust me on this Knuckles. It's a bar." The two went inside The Snuggly Duckling.
Despite the bar's name, inside was not very snuggly. It was dank and very dark, but you could still see. There were tons of thugs and ruffians inside, sitting at the tables, drinking away.
"Garson, fix us your finest drinks," Eugene said loudly, causing everyone in the bar to stop talking and look right at the them.
Knuckles looked at all the thugs that were looking at them as he and Eugene took seats at the counter.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't our old pal Flynn Rider," said a familiar voice that caused Eugene's face get pale.
Knuckles turned to look at who said that and saw two muscular men come from the crowd and go straight to Eugene.
Eugene turned around and had a nervous smile on his face. "Hey, if it isn't my old pals the Stabbington Brothers. I guess they decided to let you out and not hang you. That's good."
The brother with the beard grabbed Eugene's throat and growled at him. "Yeah, and now we're going to show you what happens to people that make us take the fall for a crime." The brother raised his right hand made it a fist and pulled it back.
"HEY! PUT HIM DOWN!" shouted Knuckles as he glared angrily at the bearded brother, which caused both brothers to turn and look at the red echidna.
"Who's that? Your bodyguard?" asked the brother with the beard to Eugene before he turned his attention back to Knuckles. "I guess we'll have to mess him up too."
The brother with the eye-patch started to advance on Knuckles, but the echidna gave the brother a fierce uppercut to the chin, sending the muscular man backwards.
The other brother threw Eugene aside and charged at Knuckles, but like his brother, he too was sent backwards, this time by Knuckles elbowing him in the gut.
Knuckles walked over to the two brothers and grabbed them by the backs of their necks and threw them out of the bar. As Knuckles ran outside, the pub thugs followed, wanting to see what would happen next. They watched as Knuckles grabbed the two brothers' heads and slammed them against each other, knocking them out.
The pub thugs started cheering as they followed Knuckles back into the bar. When he got over to where Eugene was, he saw Eugene sitting in his bar seat. Knuckles sat down next to him. "Who were those creeps?"
"They're the Stabbington Brothers. When I was a thief, they were my two partners. I sorta... betrayed them and they wanted revenge when I got them sent to jail," Eugene replied.
"Oh. Well, they won't be bothering you anymore now."
"Thanks Knuckles. I owe you."
"Nah, it was nothing."
One of the thugs, a fat, bald guy with a gray vest, a jaguar pelt on his shoulder with a hook on his right hand approached Knuckles. "That was amazing buddy. You knocked those two guys out like they were nothing. You can be a part of our gang...if you want to."
Knuckles looked over at Eugene, who nodded 'yes', then looked back at the thug. "Sure."
Eugene and Knuckles hung out with their new friends, and when the Stabbington Brothers came out of unconsciousness, they fled the area, not wanting to run into that red echidna again.
Once it started reaching evening time, everyone went back to the castle. Amy and Rapunzel told everyone about their tour of the castle. Sonic told everyone about his', Tails', Pascal's and Maximus' stroll through the forest and how he rescued the little boy in the tree. Knuckles told how he and Eugene went to The Snuggly Duckling and how he saved Eugene from the Stabbington Brothers, causing Rapunzel to hold Eugene in her arms with a worried look on her face. Tomorrow was the rehearsal, which soon would be followed by the wedding.
End of Chapter 4
A/N: Just like with Chapter 2, I had a basic jist of what I wanted to happen in this chapter, but I didn't know what to actually happen. I knew I wanted to add the Pub Thugs in one of these stories and since I was going to have Knuckles in this story, I thought "Hey, these guys would really get along with Knuckles" and BAM, that's how that idea was born. I also wanted to have the Stabbington Brothers return and I wanted Knuckles to get into a fight at the Snuggly Duckling. :) My mind is so cruel to those two brothers.