Cream's pov
Whew, a lot happened yesterday! I don't even like the violence the governor is giving to Sonic and the others! Well, their staying here for a while and I'm happy to meet someone new. Since it's the afternoon, I finished cleaning the bedrooms for the day so I went outside to the way of the dorm but Janice stopped me.
I flinched a little and said "What is it Janice?"
"Cream, I know you're finished with your chores and all but the maid cleaning the library got sick so she can't clean…is it okay if you can clean the library for this afternoon? It's very big and all…"
"Yes I can do that, even if it's big…don't worry I know where it is, Rouge showed it to me."I said.
"Great! Now I have to go, the throne room still needs some sweeping."Janice said before she left to the castle. I walked back to the castle and walked through the right hallway. The area is small compared to the other areas through the other hallways; it's a small circular room with a black and white checkered floor and a spiral staircase. It looked tall so I went out of the area to make sure no one is watching, not one person is at the hallway so I flapped my ears and I started flying upwards. The reason why I can't show anyone that I can fly is because they might think that I'm some kind of a freak, you know a bunny that can fly is weird enough. I made it to the top to find a hallway that's exactly the same as the hallway to the throne room; I went into the first door on my right almost next to the stairs. I entered it to see lots of tall shelves filled with books even a second floor was made for the other books, I looked around to find three tables with four chairs each, and I looked around it to find Tails! I walked to him but I decided to leave him alone since he is reading a book then I took my mop and started cleaning the floor.
Tails' pov
Here I am reading a book, man I'm such a bookworm but I can't help it, I love reading books as much as I love to invent new contraptions. I was reading the book "Robin Hood" since I like the story, but then I heard footsteps through the shelves so I stopped reading the book and walked to the shelves, I looked at the first row to find Cream mopping the floor, It's obvious that she is a maid.
"Cream?"I said she then flinched and looked at my direction.
"Oh hi Tails. I'm just mopping here but aren't you reading a book? Sorry if I disturbed you."
"I was never disturbed, Cream. I was just too much into my book, that's all. I should be the one to say sorry."
"No no, the faults on to me, I'm a maid after all and no matter how the master or mistress says it's their fault, it's always the maids fault. Meaning it's my fault."Cream said before she started mopping but I feel so sad.
"No please…why not say it's both our fault so we can end this discussions about whose fault it is?"I suggested.
Cream started talking "Okay, then it's both our faults then! We should say sorry to each other and to ourselves."
"Very funny."Then we both started laughing about this whole thing about faults.
We started calming down quickly since we're in a library (you know the reason!) but I haven't laugh like this in a long time.
I started talking "You know Cream, I haven't have this much fun in a while."
"Really? Me too."
"Come on, let's sit down for a while…you know talk and all…"
"Sure but right after that I have to keep cleaning."After she said that we walked to the tables and sat next to each other.
"So tell me about yourself Tails."
"In Sonic's group, I'm the genius of the group, I always give tips and I'm the youngest. Sounds very odd when the youngest is the smartest but I lay that away, not only that we're orphans but we lived together like brothers so in order to survive I was the one who suggested that we should practice battling, I take the whip and can you keep a secret?"I said then she nodded.
"I can fly…"
"Show me."She said it like it's no surprise! I started spinning my tails and started flying.
"To tell you the truth Tails, I can fly too."She can fly too!? I saw her flap her ears then she started flying.
Cream then started talking "Can you also keep my secret in me flying?"
"Of course!"
Then the both of us descended back to the seats but Cream kind of stood up in a rushed way.
"I still need to clean the library!"I looked around to notice that the library is huge! How can she clean this by herself? It looks like I need to do something nice…
"I'll help you."
"You will? Great! Let's get to it!"
Knuckles'pov
This castle is great! Not only is it suitable for the royal family but also for everyone's needs! I ventured myself outside of the castle to find this beautiful garden and I saw a somewhat big dome. I entered it to find so many jewels on stands, they're all shining brightly…okay I may be a thief or a treasure hunter but I can control myself from taking them or Sonic would kill me! Not only that I saw Rouge looking at a red emerald, I walked to her then she turned around to see me.
"Hey Knuckles, just cleaning that's all."She doesn't even look like she's cleaning!
"Rouge, you're not cleaning! But why are you focused on looking at that emerald?"I asked.
"Oh this? I'm a part thief and part treasure hunter interested in jewels like this, but this is one of the emeralds that keep on flying away from the dome occasionally…"
"Really? And what other emeralds?"I asked her then she showed me at the middle of the dome 6 emeralds in a glass case each in one of these colors blue, purple, indigo, yellow, black and green, the red one is the last one.
"So you see I'm the maid cleaning here and this job of catching the flying emeralds."
"Flying emeralds?"I said before the emerald in her hand started floating! It flew out of the dome!
"That's what I mean; now I need to go catch it!"Rouge said as she flew out but let me stay here in the dome? I don't think so!
"Hey wait for me!"I yelled then I ran out of the dome as well. I was running beside Rouge then we saw the emerald flew to the garden. Whoever is there must be ready now.
Shadow's pov
I like this moment with Dawn, she shows many personality traits like me and shares her story with me. We are just walking while talking.
"Hey Shadow, what do you think about the garden so far?"She asked me.
"It's really beautiful with everything here the flowers, statues and fountains are really beautiful."I said. After that she dragged me to the middle of the garden to see a big fountain compared to the other fountains I've seen.
"What do you think of this?"Dawn asked me after dragging me here.
"I like it; you really like flowers, don't you?"
She then answered "Well, yeah I do…you don't mind?"
"I don't mind at all Dawn, I think someone who likes flowers really cares for others as well."
"That's true and…"
"Out of the way!"We heard a voice yelled we shot our heads to the south part of the garden to find an emerald flying…and emerald flying? It flew past us then we heard…
"Hey! Move out of the way!"I heard that knucklehead yell as he and Rouge ran past us, making the both move to the side but I saw Dawn trip and almost fell into the fountain but I caught her hand just in time. This feeling again…
"Thank you Shadow…"
"No problem."I said as I put her into balance.
"But what's up with them? I don't mind the flying emerald since that always happens here but for them to ruin this conversation and scenery? I don't think so!"She kind of yelled.
"I was thinking the same thing, let's follow and make sure that they are in trouble."I said. We walked towards where they ran to.
Tails'pov
Whew! The library is finally clean! We cleaned every inch of it and it didn't even take up one hour! So we sat down at the table and continued our discussion.
I finally thought of something to ask "Cream tell me more about yourself, you know you're life before becoming a maid."
"Well it's not what I really call life; my mother and I are travelers looking for a home. We stumbled upon this kingdom and a man offered a house to us, we can stay there but for it to become officially ours, I need to work as a maid to pay off the debt. That's why I'm here."Now I feel so guilty for her, I never knew that her life is also hard.
"I'm sorry…"
"It's okay, even though of all of the sad things for us, I managed to find friends and to tell you the truth, that's what I really wanted."She said.
"I also like having friends it makes you feel more in the group don't you think?"I asked.
"Yeah it does…"
But all of a sudden the door opened and a flying emerald entered here! Wait, a flying emerald? Then we saw Knuckles and Rouge enter.
"Guys, catch that emerald!"Knuckles yelled. Then I got my whip out and threw it at the emerald, and then I saw another whip I looked around to find Cream using a whip!
"Explain later let's just catch it!"She yelled as we pulled harder, but I felt like we pulled too hard then the emerald was thrown back to the door and the both of us fell on our stomach. Knuckles and Rouge ran out of the library but what is going on? Then we heard the door opened again but it was Shadow and Dawn, they looked pretty shocked to find us laying here.
"Are you guys are alright?"Dawn asked as I got up then I helped Cream get up as well.
"Yeah we are but what are they just doing?"Cream asked.
"Knuckles and Rouge they are trying to catch the flying emerald…I'll explain about that later, they ran past us and they ruined our conversation!"Dawn said.
"So we're following them to give them trouble, you want to come since they also ruined your conversation?"Shadow asked but the conversation is not the only thing they disturbed…
"Not only that, they also ruined the scenery!"Dawn yelled.
"We're going with you, they ruined the peace here."Cream said then we walked out of the library to follow them.
Sonic's pov
I like the castle; it's perfect for the royal family. Everything here is beautiful and graceful.
"Sonic, do you want to go to the roof balcony again? I think we should end this tour with the nice view."Amy suggested.
"Sure, I love the scenery there."I said. We walked back to the main room and we climbed the stairs for only one second since I was using my speed. We reached the balcony and walked forward to look at the view again.
"It's still beautiful. I don't think anything can ruin this."I said as I saw Amy agreed.
"Yeah and…"
"Catch it!"That sounds like the knucklehead's voice. It looks like he's trying to catch something then we saw a red emerald flying…an emerald flying? But instead of it flying all over the place, it hovered above me then it landed into my hands, but what is going on? Then we saw Knuckles and Rouge ran here and…
"Great job Sonic, you caught it!"Knuckles yelled but I didn't catch it, it just landed to me.
"But I didn't catch it…"
"It's just like the prophecy…"
"You two! You're so in trouble!"I heard Shadow's voice then Dawn, Cream, Tails and he arrived here looking a little mad.
"Scenery wreckers!"Both Dawn and Shadow yelled.
"Peace disturbers!"Both Cream and Tails yelled but I have no idea what is going on.
"You better start explaining yourselves or you're done for!"Shadow yelled.
"Well erm…we need to catch the flying and it kind of went out of hand here…"Rouge explained.
"Alright, we'll lay you off but the next time it does it, no shouting!"Dawn yelled as Knuckles and Rouge nodded.
"Do you mean this emerald?"I said as I held up the red emerald and everyone seems surprised.
"You caught it!?"Tails said.
"Not exactly, it came to me!"I said.
"it's just like the prophecy, the Chaos Emeralds will fly occasionally, trying to find the one who will save the kingdom from evil, but not alone he needs his friends to help him. I think Sonic is the one…"It's…shocking, me!? The one who will save the whole kingdom!?
"Sonic!?"Everyone yelled.
"That's how it goes, but in a later time you'll do that…"Later huh? I wonder if something is really going on. That reminds me! I need to tell everyone about what the king said.
"Not only that, I need to tell you guys something…"I then explained what the king told me.
"Really? The king asked you to do something that big?"Tails said.
"Yeah he did but I need to tell you guys for some support."
"Then we're all in! Everyone on this balcony will also spy on the governor!"Tails said. After that a sunset is happening right now, it's really beautiful but I'm tired.
"You know, it's getting late, let's go to sleep."Amy said then we walked downstairs.