A/N: Hey everyone how are you doing? Hope it's good, now let's proceed with the next chapter, more characters will appear so be ready. Enjoy!
Disclaimers: Sonic the Hedgehog and all the characters from the series including the one and only blue hedgehog are owned by Sega.
Chapter 3
The princess meets her bodyguard
The wind made the leaves from the trees fall, every time her metallic heels came in contact with the grass it burned a bit and with the help of her rapier she moved any plant and/or tree in her way, eventually she arrived to where the message came from, from the cliff she saw a valley completely destroyed and that looked like the remains of a castle.
"I thought there were no castles left in this dimension" she muttered to no one in particular, but she put the thought and slid down the cliff and towards the valley. By now everyone must know who she is, if you don't then know she is Blaze the Cat, princess of Sol dimension and protector of the Sol Emeralds, right now she was wearing an armor (by the way, is like the one wore by her alter ego sir Percival) used a rapier as weapon and still had her hair in a pony tail.
*Sorry! This paragraph is a bit explicit so if you are below 16 don't read.
Once she arrived to the burned land the scenery broke her heart, all the trees were burned, there was no life at all in that place still she received a message coming from over there just a few hours, she kept looking around and a part of her stomach went to her throat when she saw something similar to burned bodies, tons of them all in a hole.
*Here ends the paragraph, now let's proceed.
And that's when she felt it, a terrible cold came over the area and the wind started blowing stronger, good thing the fire inside her was enough to remain warm, then the shade behind her started rising and fused with the wind and dust, Beelzebub appeared again. When Blaze turned to leave she met with the horrible sight of the shade who put a hand on her cheek.
"What is such a delicate flower like you doing in this desolated barren, eh Princess?" her eyes widened no one knew she came from another dimension let alone that she was a princess. Blaze reacted; she slapped Beelzebub's hand and then pointed her rapier, which was blazing with fire as well as her body, to his face.
"Who are you and who do you know who I am?"
"Forgive me Princess Blaze of the Sol dimension, I am Beelzebub the Shade, I plan to create a perfect world and for that I needed your Sol Emeralds and thus I needed you but after raiding this place and having found the Emeralds, I know they are useless so I will let you go, for now; the shade then began to leave but Blaze blocked his path with a wall of fire.
"You might want to let me go, but I don't plan to do the same with you, not after the atrocity you committed here Beelzebub" she told him defiantly.
"Very foolish Princess" then a part of Beelzebub left his body and it engulfed the flames, Blaze was surprised although she did her best to act normally, then from the shade emerged monsters with spikes and claws and well, everything that makes a monster a monster, and if that wasn't enough, they had somehow adapted to the power of flames and now were able to use it. Beelzebub stood in the front of his little army looking at Blaze.
"Goodbye Princess" and when the wind blew the shade was carried by it like mere dust, the cat had nothing to do but assume a battle stance, she activated her flames again and after jumping launched as a fire projectile, using her Fire Boost, towards the enemies, the attack should have destroyed them but surprisingly it didn't, they just restored and her flames did nothing to affect them, then she thought 'If they have fire on their bodies then I can control it' the cat set her sight on one of the monsters and made the flames burn it from the inside until nothing was left, Blaze smirked then looked at the other beasts and did the same with the rest of them, with the battle over the entire place was covered in fire so she extinguished it.
The princess watched the scenery again it hurt her to see the place brought to nothing and she couldn't help but feel guilty after all her flames made her a destroyer not a protector.
Her ears picked a noise but she couldn't see where it came until she looked below her, the black mass was all over the ground and it was trying to absorb her, Blaze tried kicking it but it wouldn't go away, she tried burning it but nothing; the cat was growing desperate other parts of the mass were transforming into monsters too, she started to run but she couldn't go far, the mud glued her to the ground and the monsters were surrounding her, there was no way out; she tried turning into a tornado but the mud was draining her of power, Blaze then realized there was no way out so she prepared to accept her fate when…
"Leave the Princess alone!" a white light descended from the sky and landed in front of Blaze she looked at it, it was a knight with an immense sword the knight used the sword to kill the beasts, then he inserted his weapon to the ground, all the mud in the area turned white and then disappeared, Blaze fell to the ground she was awestruck by what the knight did then it walked towards her and lend her a hand, she accepted it and stood.
"Thank you for that" Blaze made a bowed her head. She was ashamed because she was too weak.
"Don't worry about it Princess, that was my pleasure… and my job" she quickly looked up, she recognized the voice.
The knight removed the helmet and put in God knows where, her assumptions were right it was indeed Silver the Hedgehog, they met for the first time when they went to that place called Sweet Mountain or something, then met again in that party for Sonic, ever since he became her partner and sometimes they would act like friends but then returned to be partners.
"Silver, why are you here and what's with that armor?"
"Yeah hello to you too Blaze" the cat rolled her eyes and eyed him expecting an answer.
"Fine, you remember I told you how I always wanted to be a knight?" Blaze nodded.
"Well, after our last adventure I decided to do it and after months of training I finally became one and they gave me the armor and this baby" he said while drawing his sword, Blaze thought it was stupid that his sword was almost bigger and wider than him.
"And about the other question, it was the king who sent me here" Blaze was angry.
"Father? Why did he do that, it's not like I need help in my mission" she huffed.
"Blaze he's worried about you and thought someone like me, who is supposed to be your friend, would be a perfect bodyguard" he tried smiling.
"Bodyguard! And then he keeps telling how much he thinks I have grown up and how strong I am" Silver scowled.
"Well at least you have a father who worries about you! Now even if you don't want me here I must stick around" Blaze was even angrier for his last comment.
"Fine! But don't get in my way, now let's go I know only of one person who knows what is going here" Blaze turned and began walking.
"Is that it?" Silver retorted.
"That's our plan if you have a problem with it then sorry, after all I am the princess here"
"That's not what I meant… it's just that… C'mon we haven't seen each other in seven years, I thought you wanted to catch up and talk or something"
"Then you thought wrong Silver, we have a mission and that's the first priority if you want to talk then talk with the people we are going to see"
"And who are they?"
"We are going to Station Square that is where Tails and the Protectors live" the hedge-cat team walked towards the horizon without a word much to Silver's dismay.
Station Square
Protectors' Headquarters
Tails kept looking at Sonic and his new colors trying to understand anything.
"So what do you think?" Sonic asked.
"Well I will need to analyze it but so far I can tell it holds a symbiotic relationship with you, though I'm not sure if that's how it works or if it will eventually become a parasite. Please lend me some DNA to analyze" Sonic thought of it, a voice inside his head told him not to do it because it will do nothing good but after all it was Tails the one asking and if he couldn't trust his best friend then he had nothing, so he nodded and the fox grabbed a bit of hair with his tweezers and put it under a microscope.
"You will have to wait before I complete the analysis, is there anything else you'd like to talk about?" Tails asked. Sonic changed back.
"Yes, tell me buddy, what do you think we should do now I mean with Beelzebub and everything?"
"Well there is no data at all about him, but you said his plans are to open a portal and create the perfect world… however I do not know he will-" then the vulpine's eyes widened and searched something in his supercomputer a world map showed up with 7 red dots in different places of the world.
"Let me guess… the Chaos Emeralds" Sonic said while looking the map.
"Exactly, after all there is a high possibility that he will use a chaos control for opening an inter-dimensional portal" Tails explained.
"Then I suppose its Emerald Hunting Time again" Sonic grinned and Tails chuckled.
"Yeah, well since that has been cleared for now, get out and talk with the girls, after all it's been seven years Sonic and also Miss Vanilla will show you to your room" Tails smiled, Sonic nodded and left in the elevator.
When he came out Vanilla was right there in the "tea room" cleaning the floor.
"Miss Vanilla! I was looking for you" Sonic said.
"Oh Sonic yes, I suppose you want to know where your bedroom is" the rabbit looked at him.
"Well that and I was wondering if you had some time to talk and catch up" she was a bit surprised; she never expected would stop to talk.
"All right then, what do you want to know?"
"What is your roll in the team? I mean no offense, but I don't see you fighting" Sonic asked.
"No offense at all dear, in fact you are right, I don't do any fighting, my job is to help Cream, Amy and Tails in their fighting, make them food, make sure they eat well and give them advice or emotional help when they needed" Vanilla smiled proudly.
"I assume you are very proud about it" Sonic asked.
"Of course, everyone must help in what they can even with something like and believe me when I tell you, that this kids have a lot of emotional problems, actually…" she brought a finger to her muzzle while remembering "… in all these years I've been dealing with Amy and her problems, she seems very sad about something that happened with you and she tells me how she acts strong but she always deals with the fact that she still has-" Vanilla stopped before anything private left her mouth she straightened and cleared her throat "Sorry, looks like I got carried away in my thoughts" Sonic smiled, he wanted to keep asking but knew it would do nothing and besides he already knew more than enough.
"That was all, thanks for talking with me Miss Vanilla" Sonic said
"And thanks to you Sonic for taking time from you busy agenda. Now about your room. Cream dear come here!" Vanilla called her daughter who came in a few seconds with Cheese right behind her; Cream was dressed in a similar way as her mother but her blouse was orange like her old dress, also she had a skirt that reached right below her knees and the same shoes but this ones were bigger and were more boots than shoes, also she had grown brown hair and so far it reached a bit below her shoulders and since she had reached puberty she was developing some curves.
"Yes mother?"
"Could you please show Sonic to his room?" when Cream looked at him Sonic could she was nervous and a bit scared from him.
"Y-Yeah sure" she started walking and signaled Sonic to follow her, Cheese by the way flew towards Sonic and was playing with his now longer quills all the way to the room.
They went up the stairs to a large are with many doors each one was decorated in a different way which made it easy to identify who owned which bedroom, Cream led Sonic towards a door with nothing in it, he opened the door and saw the spacious room, inside was a TV, a queen size bed, a desk, nightstands, a door which Sonic assumed led to the bathroom, two doors for the closet and many windows even one above the bed.
"Man, this is big!" Sonic let out a whistle.
"Well if that is all, then make yourself comfortable and I'll be lea-"
"Now hold on right there" Sonic called the rabbit.
"Y-Y-Yes?"
"Would you mind explaining what is wrong, did I do something bad? Cream if there is any problem you can tell me" Cream sighed and began talking.
"All right, it's many things. Don't get me wrong Mr. Sonic I like having you here and it's amazing that you came back and Tails seems very happy for it but then, Amy is my best friend and she is mad at you therefore I thought I should be on her side but I don't feel that way and I'm confused and-" Sonic signaled the rabbit to stop before she hyperventilated. 'I really need to have a talk with Amy' he thought.
"Listen Cream, I understand perfectly your position but don't worry even if you were mad at me it doesn't matter because I know what I did was wrong but that is in the past now so let's move on; and about Amy don't worry I'll talk to her" Sonic reassured the rabbit.
"All right but don't be too hard with her" Cream sighed and put her usual smile again, she then asked if Sonic wanted something.
"Yes now that you mention it, I know Miss Vanilla is your mother and Amy is your BFF but tell me, what do you think of Tails?"
"He's my friend too and a very good one"
"Yes of course, but I mean, do you like being around him?"
"Well, I'm not sure, before I had a lot of fun playing with him but later he began acting weird around me, if I smiled or hugged him he would blush and sometimes he tries to be with me and just talk" Sonic's suspicions were confirmed, his little friend liked her.
"That's good to know Cream, a little advice try spending more time with him you'll see eventually it would make you both happy" Sonic smiled at her and she nodded, then she left. For a moment the hedgehog thought of unpacking but he had no time for that, there was one last thing he had to take care of and that was: Amy.
He went down the stairs and when he reached the living room (not the tea room from before) he saw one of the exits was to the courtyard which was a gorgeous garden he thought was made by Vanilla, in that garden among the flowers was Amy so he headed outside.
"Hey there, Amy"
"Sonic" she didn't turn.
"Tell me how have you been all these years"
"Fine. Without you around" the hedgehog rolled his eyes.
"Yeah right, now are you going to talk or are you going to keep ignoring in that stupid way? I mean you are not picking any freaking flowers!" his voice was higher than usual. She turned around stood up and glared at him.
"What the heck do you want me to say Sonic? Yes you are back but as always you have your stupid ego so high that you don't have the decency of at least saying sorry to any of us and… and… just…" she huffed furious before she left, he grabbed her right arm and her to him and hugged her for five seconds then grabbed her face.
"I'm sorry ok? There I said it, we can talk later if you want, for now get ready for the mission Tails and I will explain later" he let her go and left, she kept looking at him as he left the turned around and looked at the garden a pink blush appeared on her muzzle.
Sonic was already inside when Tails called him through some speakers in the house.
"Sonic, come down to the lab I have completed the analysis"
"Be right there. At least I will finally be able to know anything about this thing living in my body" and the hedgehog took the elevator towards the underground lab…
Name: Blaze the Cat
Age: 21
Description: over the last few years Blaze has been focusing on her fighting skills and leaving the life of a princess behind and has given her 100% to the task of protecting the Sol Emeralds and said task brought her to Earth's dimension again. After meeting Beelzebub and seeing the atrocities he committed she has decided to bring the shade to justice no matter what. She still isn't very friendly therefore having Silver assigned with her has only made more obstacles in her task, but maybe with this adventure she will finally develop a real friendship with the hedgehog, a friendship that might escalate to something more.
Name: Silver the Hedgehog
Age: 21
Description: since his future hasn't been affected in years Silver has decided to dedicate his time in becoming a knight to prove himself to everyone and especially his friend Blaze, thanks to his psychokinesis also called ESP the hedgehog has managed to escalate places faster than most aspirants and this caught the king's eye and because of his amazing powers and his past friendship with Blaze he has been chosen to be her personal bodyguard even if she doesn't want it. Silver is very happy for being assigned to be the bodyguard of his friend and he will do anything he can to convince her of trusting in others and relying on them. Silver also has hidden feelings for his friend which he hopes will one day be returned.
A/N: here you go all, I wanted to thank everyone for your support, your reviews, your favs, thank you all for everything because it is you who make me keep going. The least I can do for you is say thank you and wish you all a very happy Christmas and a prosperous new year 2012. This is my goodbye for now, and I will see you all next year in the next chapter. Bye!