WOO HOO! Sorry this one took awhile but I wanted to make it good. Anyways, enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Sonic or any other characters. SEGA does. I just own the lovely writing.
Maid Cafe: Chapter Four: Preparations
This was Shadow's 7th day working at the stupid cafe. So far, he hated it. He didn't even know why he listened. Everyday, Silver and Mephiles would come barging into his room at 4:00 PM while he was reading, force him to try on some random new outfit they've been working on all night (or at least that's what they say) and then the two would fall asleep without helping him get out of the outfit so they could do makeup and all that girly stuff. Slowly, it was becoming a tedious routine.
Stripping out of his newly acquired outfit, he stared at the dress. It was long, a perfect shade of white, and some parts of it glittered. The sleeves ended at the elbow and the fabric fell down to the floor while the hem of the skirt ended by the knees and the backside continued to the floor. He couldn't even understand how the other two even managed to get the dress to look so... perfect. It was like fresh snow that hadn't been destroyed yet. And hopefully, he wouldn't ruin their hard work by spilling coffee.
Today was "Fairy-tale Night" or so Rouge called it and all the employees would dress like a fairy-tale character of their choice. But to make sure there were no doubles, Rouge had each of them fill out a form. Early birds get the worm he guessed. Rouge had kept Snow White separate which Shadow had not known why until Silver barged in announcing he was going to be Snow White.
Shaking the other two hedgehogs awake, Shadow shuffled to the bathroom and sat down on the lid of the toilet, preparing for his incoming doom again. He couldn't wait until they had some sort of break for the "Mystery Maid". Apparently, it was to attract customers at first but it would be cut off for awhile and then brought back later as a special thing. Shadow didn't really care though. As long as he was spared the dresses and makeup, he would be good.
Mephiles slammed the door open and walked in, followed by Silver who looked like he could just crash on the floor.
"We're not putting much makeup on you today."
Shadow heaved out a sigh. Thank God he didn't have to have his face covered in that gunk today. He watched Silver pull out a mascara bottle. Closing his eyes, he felt the brush on his eyelashes that usually weren't that obvious. Once Silver finished, ruby eyes opened and watched Mephiles pull out a red headband and belt.
"Put the headband on. We'll put the belt on after you get dressed." He threw the headband to Shadow.
They spent the rest of the afternoon dressing Shadow up in his Snow White outfit and then rented a shiny black limo. And so, Shadow was whisked off to a fairytale cafe.
Sonic stood in the employees only room in a very uncomfortable outfit. His outfit consisted of a white dress shirt with gold buttons, red epaulets connected to a cape of the same color, tan pants that were stuffed into his boots at the bottom, and a belt holding a sword. A real, sharp, steel sword that Rouge 'found' somewhere.
Sonic pulled at his collar. He couldn't wait to get this thing off and go home. A week ago, he accidently kissed Shadow, ran home, and found out the next day that Amy had bought the outfit Shadow had worn at an auction, saying that it was for Halloween. People just wouldn't let him forget about the cafe. And now he was working there to pay Rouge back.
"Sonic! Make sure you stand behind the stage so you can come out!" Rouge commanded him, putting an emphasis on the word 'behind'.
So Sonic made his way through the busy cafe, waving to the few workers that he had made friends with while there.
Blaze was dressed as Belle due to the princess being the only one open when she finally decided to give in. Her yellow dress was a replica of the actual one but ended at the knees instead of the ground.
There were a few others, like Rapunzel, Cinderella, Thumbelina, and etc. but Sonic wasn't exactly paying attention to all their costumes. Slipping behind the red curtains on the stage, Sonic entered the storage room also known as backstage.
"Hello Sonic the Hedgehog."
Startled, Sonic turned around in the dark room and saw a blue striped hedgehog and a silver hedgehog in the dim light. Mephiles was dressed in a black prince suit while Silver was just in his normal attire of boots and gloves.
"Mephiles!? What are you doing here? And with Silver?"
A quiet 'shut up' came from Silver and he crossed his arms, leaning against a large crate. Mephiles sighed, or at least made the sound of sighing since he had no mouth, and pulled on Silver's wrist. The black hedgehog whispered something in the other's ear, causing Silver to smirk.
Mephiles backed away from the silver hedgehog smiling at his success. He turned back towards Sonic.
"I am here to take your place just in case something happens."
Sonic frowned. Like he was backing out after all this. No way was he going end up with Rouge trying to kill him again. Nope. Not happening.
"Well, you did this for nothing. I'm staying."
Mephiles chuckled. "Oh, I wasn't trying to get you to give up your spot. In fact, I have better things to be doing right now." He said secretly eyeing Silver, who rolled his eyes.
"Whatever." Sonic shrugged, not caring about the other two hedgehog's personal lives. "I need to get ready."
"Wait, we actually were supposed to give you the general guidelines." Silver grabbed his arm.
Sonic quirked his eyebrows, his expression asking 'what?'.
"One. Wait for Shadow to appear lying down on the table on the stage. Two." Silver raised two of his fingers. "Push out from behind the curtains. Shadow should be right in front of you pretending to sleep. Three. Kiss him however you need or want to." Sonic frowned.
"Kiss him?"
Mephiles nodded. "He also won't know what's happening so he will definitely be startled and 'wake up' like in the story."
"But do I really have to kiss him?"
Shaking his head no, Mephiles explained the kiss part in more detail. "You can fake kiss him if you know how to. The forehead should be effective too, though you have to put lots of emotion into that to pull it off."
Nodding, Sonic processed the few steps he had and tried to figure out what he was going to do. Kiss Shadow? On the cheek? Forehead? Lips? Fake it? He didn't know. If he was going to do it on the forehead, how was he going to make the crowd freak out? Deciding it would be easier to just go for the kiss, he breathed out heavily. Shadow was going to kill him no matter what anyways so might as well just do it.
Silver interrupted his musings. "So, what are you doing?"
"I'm going for it."
Shadow stepped out of the limo carefully, as not to damage his dress. Two maids automatically went behind him and picked up the back of his dress as it was dragging on the ground. The two front doors were pulled open and the cafe was deadly silent as he walked in. He hated being the center of attention but he guessed he was just going to have to deal with it wasn't he?
The crowd erupted in screams, mainly of girls, and people randomly flailing about trying to take pictures of him. He walked gracefully to the stage in the back and the lights dimmed shining on him and the cafe owner that had joined him on stage.
"Hello everyone and welcome to 'Fairy-tale Night' at the Sweet Baby Cafe!" Some more screaming. Shadow just hoped he wouldn't become deaf from this.
Rouge motioned for everyone to settle down, which happened eventually. "We will be putting on a short show, so please order now! We have everything ready, so your food should be out ASAP. Enjoy!"
The lights went out and the cafe was lit up by the maids carrying fake candles and people pulling out their phones. Shadow was pulled backstage by Rouge, not noticing a certain blue quill behind a crate.
"What?" He muttered out.
"That dress looks gorgeous on you hon, but with that aside, let me just tell you what to do." She pulled Shadow closer to her whispering everything into his ear.
"Okay, ready Shadow?"
Shadow breathed in and out slowly, nodding towards the bat. "You still owe me."
"Yeah yeah. I'll give you back your chaos emerald and get you another one, sound good?"
"Wow. That's low."
Rouge elbowed him and stepped out announcing that the show was about to start. Peeking out from behind the curtains, Shadow stepped out when he saw the lights turn off. He felt his way onto the table covered with a white cloth and flowers. Slowly setting himself down, he made sure his dress was straight out and closed his eyes.
Waiting for what was to come.
Even if he didn't know what it was.
OMG I FINISHED! I made this chapter longer than usual to build up suspense and whatever crap. Even though Silver tells you everything. SILVER HOW DARE YOU RUIN THE PLOT! *Cough* Anyways, hope ya'll liked it! I'm such a troll leaving you guys off like that. :P
There was definitely hints of Mephilver in this chapter. I think I kinda like Silver as the seme. Blaze made a one paragraph appearance. And no dialogue for her either. I'm so mean.