Finally time to update this story I think, it's been so long. If anyone is still reading this story, from now on I'm going to try and make the chapters a bit longer
Knuckles
At the sound of a voice, I turned round and was surprised to see the other echidna from earlier standing in front of me, blushing.
"Hi, I'm Tikal. What's your name?" she asked politely.
I was a bit taken aback by her forwardness, it reminded me of Rouge, but I smiled at her and replied,
"Hey there, you can call me Knuckles, nice meeting you."
She giggled a bit and looked at the floor. "Knuckles, that's a nice name." If possible she seemed to get more embarrassed. It was kind of cute actually. Wait, what? No, I love Rouge. Rouge is the one for me! Though I suppose that doesn't mean I can't hang around with other girls, I mean Rouge doesn't know yet… Wait, I shouldn't be thinking like that! Argh!
"Do you come here often?" Tikal asked, looking at me with wide innocent blue eyes, almost the same colour as the ocean, I happened to notice.
"Um." I appeared to have lost the power of speech due to my excessive thinking. "Neyh, sometimes, y'know, um, yeah." I replied, mentally kicking myself for sounding like a retard. What was wrong with me today? "Do you walk?" I asked her.
She raised an eyebrow before laughing. "Of course I do! Does that mean, 'do you want to walk with me'?"
I mentally facepalmed before saying, "Something like that. You want to walk with me for a while?" I gestured to the beach in front of us, stretching out for a couple of miles at least.
Tikal twirled one of her beads around her finger before nodding and grabbing my hand. My automatic reaction was to pull away, but it actually felt nice, so I let her walk by my side and promised myself to keep an eye out for Rouge.
"So, are you here with anyone?" the echidna asked me casually after we had been walking for a while.
"Just a few friends. Amy Rose planned the whole outing as a chance for us to get away from our daily lives of saving the world and whatnot, there are quite a few of us here actually, though I'm not sure where they've all disappeared to." To be honest, I didn't really care where most of them had gone. They were probably all busy leaving me out and gossiping about me. No change there then.
"Amy Rose? As in Amy Rose the Hedgehog?" Tikal stopped dead and looked at me.
I nodded. "Pink hedgehog, goes out with Sonic, often seen with a giant hammer." I described, quite accurately in my opinion.
Tikal's jaw dropped. "She goes out with Sonic? Oh wow I didn't know that! That's great news!" She seemed ecstatic about it.
"Um, do you know Amy then?"
"Yeah, we're quite good friends, but we've not talked in ages! Ah, I'm really happy for her, I must remember to say hi before I leave."
"We can go and find them now if you like," I offered, although the last thing I wanted to do was to talk to my friends after my earlier outburst.
The smaller echidna smiled up at me before nodding in agreement and setting off back to the more crowded part of the beach. I followed her, not that I had a choice.
"Hey, Tikal, slow down! We're here for the rest of the day! I think Amy might be near the ice cream parlour, I reckon I saw her there a while ago."
"Ok, let's go!" Tikal replied enthusiastically, grabbing my hand again and setting off. I laughed and followed her, all thoughts of Rouge put out of my mind for now.
Sonic
I was running up and down the beach searching for the elusive Shadouge. So far, I hadn't got anywhere, but there was still only a small chance that they would encounter the echidna's further down the beach. Coming to a stop at one end of the beach, I paused and looked around: still no sign. I had been to the same place three times now, yep, there was that crab staring at me again, and still no luck. I was about to go back up towards the tourist end when my cell rang. Checking the call ID, I saw it was Amy.
"Hey Ames, what is it?"
"Sonic?" Amy's voice filled my ear. "Have you found them yet?"
Sighing, I said "No, annoyingly, they seem to have disappeared off the edge of the planet never to be seen again. I've been across this damned beach four times now and nothing. I have no idea where they could be."
I heard Amy let out a sigh. "Well Knuckles and his little echidna fangirl headed off together a while ago down the beach near the shops, but I've lost sight of them and I don't know what's going on."
I sat on a nearby rock and rubbed my eyes. This whole matchmaker thing seemed a lot more trouble than it was worth, maybe I should have just put the video of Shadow on the internet, it would have saved me more running than necessary.
"Well I'm stuck then, I'll carry on looking I sup-"
But I was cut off by a gasp at the other end of the cell.
"Tikal?" I could hear the shock in Amy's voice as she said the name, then: "Sonic, I gotta go, keep looking, ok?" Then the line went dead.
Well that was odd…
I began to set off back towards the ice cream parlour where I left Amy to check everything was alright.
Blaze
"So basically, you want us to keep Knuckles away from Shadow and Rouge otherwise all hell will break loose and there will be trouble?" Tails asked me and Silver.
"Basically, yes. Everything's happening so fast that Knuckles won't have had time to adjust, first from Rouge asking him out to him thinking he likes Rouge after rejecting her, and now to whatever the hell is going on at this moment." Silver explained. "He's so small-minded that he can only process one thing at a time." He added dryly.
"Hey, it's my job to do the burning around here!" I teased, as Tails let out a small laugh.
We were all gathered around a table in the ice cream parlour near the back where we had a pretty decent view of the beach and the square outside. Cream was happily eating a chocolate chip ice cream and Tails had opted for a fruit lolly. Surprisingly, Silver had chosen rum and raisin, and I didn't have one as I had a tendency to accidentally melt them. We had decided to remain in here as backup as we were pretty central if we were needed in the Great Matchmaking Plan.
"I get the feeling that you don't like Knuckles much, Silver," the kitsune asked shyly after Silver had finished laughing.
Silver just shrugged. "The feeling's mutual. I don't mind him but we're not exactly close. Besides, I don't know what he really sees in Rouge. She's got nothing on Blaze here." He put an arm around my shoulders and fed me a spoonful of his ice cream. I smiled. I was lucky to have Silver by my side, I really did like him.
"You two do make a really nice couple, if you don't mind me saying," Cream piped up shyly. She blushed a bit as both me and Silver turned to look at her.
"Haha, glad you think so," I said. "He drives me mad when he uses his telekinesis in a morning to get me out of bed but I love him." It was my turn to blush now, normally I was a lot more reserved about my private life.
Silver turned in his seat and gave me a massive hug before whispering, "That's the first time you've ever said that about me, and you're going to have to explain that later." My face heated up again. I had been telling the truth.
I was about to reply when I noticed that Tails was staring at the entrance to the shop. I followed the direction of his stare and found myself looking at two echidnas and Amy. I did a double take and realised one of them was indeed Knuckles. This couldn't be good.
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There we go, that wasn't too painful! Sorry if my writing style has changed a lot or the characters are OOC (I know they are!), it's a long time since I wrote this story. Thank you for reading!
