Lauren the Echidna Volume 3
Chapter 4
The Destiny Warrior
"Ok...OW!" Jamie's head was spinning as she fell from the tree branch on top of her head. Since she already had a hard head like me as an echidna, she just shook it off. I jumped down to her from the same tree, laughing a bit as I helped her up.
"Hey, at least you can take it this time. Not like your parents were any different than this trip."
"Yeah, well...ah, forget it. Where are we going again?" She said as she stood to her feet.
"I told you, we're heading for Ohio. I'm trying to gather as many people as possible to help me defeat Mephiles."
"Oh, wow...the steak guy?" She smirked and laughed a bit, my laugh following. For the ones who didn't know what we were saying, we had made a redub video of one of the recent Sonic games, Sonic the Hedgehog: Next Generation. With her being the voice of Mephiles, we both wanted his voice to be of course, stupid, so she came up with the 'steak' voice.
"Haha, not this time James...this time it's really serious. You've been reading my stories, haven't you?"
"Ahh...sadly, no..." She scratched the back of her head and closed her eyes.
"Gah...okay. I supposedly had this 'dream' about me and Knuckles ya know, getting together, marrying, and having a kid..." Her face changed from a chuckle to a confused look.
"Just hear me out...after so many years, somehow the whole thing got turned around by Mephiles. I believe he just sent me back in time and was trying to prevent this stuff from happening..."
"You just said it was a dream..."
"I know for a fact it wasn't a dream!" My eyes narrowed, "It felt too real for it to be one..."
"Hey. Until we figure this out, why don't we just go find that boyfriend of yours?"
"But...what's he gonna say to all this happening...and how I went with Knuckles instead of him?..." I asked, stepping back a bit. Jamie stepped up again and smirked,
"Well we won't know until we get goin'." She turned me around and began to push me in the direction of Ohio. Since we were still in West Virginia, we still had a ways to go. Another hour had passed after jumping through half of the trees of Ohio, coming into the small town of Fletcher. I looked to Jamie and we both stopped in the shadows, both deforming to our human selves. Jamie looks to me and blinks,
"So is this the house...?"
"Yeh, it should be...c'mon." I walked ahead toward a small house adorned with a light blue coloring all around the walls. A porch covered the front door, along with a bit of a hill behind the house. I blinked looking to the house, just as that one had described to me, then smiled. My feet left the ground as I walked toward the house, but was grabbed by the arm by Jamie.
"Hey...you sure this is a good idea?" She asked.
"Yeah...it's the only way we can defeat Mephiles once and for all...and I can get my life straightened out..." I continued to walk, letting my arm slip out of Jamie's grasp. She shrugged it off and followed me. I walked up to the front door and let a solid knock hit onto the wooden door, avoiding the glass windows on it. There was a pause, then we both heard a voice that shouted,
"IT'S OPEN!" I blinked hearing that familiar voice, smiling as I opened the door. We walked in and the first thing Jamie and I see is a small living room with a computer desk in the corner, next to a heater. Sitting in the computer's chair was a somewhat average sized boy, with an afro I might add, it being dark brown, covering down to his ears slightly. His outfit was no different than he always wore: A red t-shirt with black lining, along with a pair of dark blue pants, seeming to be jeans, slightly ripped at the legs. I peeked around the corner and smiled wide, a slight blush coming across my face. I stepped up and leaned against the doorway and spoke,
"Well...that's some welcome for a boy your age." I smiled as I had my arms crossed. The boy looked to me, his brown eyes widening to my presence. He rubbed his eyes, in a bit of disbelief that I was there, but stood up from his chair, taking off his headphones, the music able to be heard because of it being so loud, and smiled.
"Lauren? Is that really you?!"
"Heh...sure is, Trey." I smiled more. Trey's eyes lowered again, running up to me, both of us grasping in a tight hug, happy to finally be seeing each other in person.
"It's so good to see you, Trey..." I held him close, as my arms were wrapped about his neck. He hugged back tighter, holding my body close to his,
"It's good to see you too, Hon..." He finally let me go from a voice behind me, which happened to be Jamie.
"Alright no kissy kissy, smoochy smoochy time right now. Don't you have a job to do, Lauren?" She smirked.
"...Yeh, I do. Trey," I began, "we need you're help with something..."
"What would that be?"
"You remember reading my fan-fiction, Lauren the Echidna, right?"
"Yeah." He blinked.
"Well...I would show you first, but it seems that all of that...is being changed by Mephiles..." He was in shock at first, only tilting his head, not understanding what I meant.
"Basically, all of the things that happened was just a dream for me...I know it's confusing but I'll just show you...is your dad home?" Trey shook his head, still having his arms wrapped around my waist. I blinked and looked away slightly, being a bit more shy than I was online. He smiled and chuckled a bit, urging me to take him outside where there would be more room. I nodded and walked outside with them, Trey following close behind me as Jamie was on my other side, nodding to me. We finally came to his backyard where the hill was formed and we stopped, hiding behind the wall near it. Trey blinked as he saw me looking around for any other witnesses, then puts his hands in his pockets, after putting on his black jacket before coming outside.
"Alright...ready, James?" I asked. Jamie nodded and we both held out our hands, suddenly becoming the two echidnas of hot pink and dirty blonde yellow. I straightened my glasses on my face and Jamie fixed her sunglasses over her eyes, with a smirk. Trey's face went from shock to a sudden smirk.
"You're telling me this is real?" He chuckled. I smiled and nodded, now being shorter than him, I walked up and raised a hand up to him. Trey blinked,
"What are you doing?"
"Helping out, Hon." I smiled and made a bright purple aura surround his whole body.
His being had shrunk as well as we had before, but this time it was a hedgehog form instead of an echidna. His hands became white gloves like Sonic's, red fur with purple-tipped quills, and black bangs covering his eyes. His clothes were almost the same as he had on as a human: A long black trench coat covered a slick black sleeveless shirt, followed by a dark purple pair of pants, and black shoes to go along with them. Trey looked at himself and blinked, he had become his character self, now known as Ark the Destiny Warrior.
"Whoa..." He looked at his hands, "this is fucking awesome!" He clenched his fists in front of his face with a smirk, then looked to me, seeing a sudden frown on my face.
"Hon? Are you okay?"
"Yeh...fine. Just wondering about how this will effect everyone else I come to recruit..." I looked down and placed a hand between where my eyes were and grunted, feeling a headache coming along. Ark blinked and walked up to me,
"Hey...don't worry. As soon as we find Mephiles, I promise to be there by your side as long as I'm alive..." He smiled to me and placed a hand on my cheek.
A few moments passed and we all went back to our human states, then feeling another hug between mine and Trey's body. He smiled more, then looked to Jamie,
"Well, I guess you'll hafta deal with me during the whole trip. Heh heh." He chuckled.
"Oh goodie. Haha." She laughed along with me and Trey, seeing the sun suddenly setting over the horizon. Trey then looked back to me with his hands around my waist again, holding me close. I smiled and blushed, him being the same height as me, wrapping my arms around him as well.
"So...where are we off to next?" Trey asked, rocking me slightly in his arms.
"Heh...better be ready for anything in this next trip...we're headed for Phoenixville, Pennsylvania." I smirked.