Sonic Rebirth
Author's Notes: Make sure you still understand the author's notes from Chapter 1 since they still apply for the whole fiction.
Obviously the chao garden looks similar to the ones in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 with the pools of water, the grassy areas, and the columns.
My other fan character, Zero Velocity shows up in this fiction as well. She's a genetic cross between Sonic and Knuckles and was originally a cat furry. She's purple with a white muzzle and arms and wears mostly just black. In Sonic Rebirth she has a black translucent cloak (I don't think I mention it in this chapter, but the next one I do) that she wears over a black tanktop that has straps buckles on it. She can run super fast like Sonic and is about as strong as Knuckles. She's an adventurer, who roams around mostly trying to figure out her purpose in life.
Chapter 7
I am Seraphim the Echidna. But just call me Seraphim. We just got done watching Circlet unwrap the gifts from her parents and ours. Everyone is sitting around eating cake right now. I'm not exactly fond of extremely sweet things, neither is my father, but I ate about half of my piece; the frosting was too sweet tasting to me. Pretty much the adults went back to sitting around and talking leaving us kids with nothing to do again. Circlet suggested showing everyone her father's chao, and since there was nothing better to I decided to tag along as well.Seraphim was impressed at the immense size of the place, the house was one of the largest she personally been in. None of the houses on Angel Island are very big, nor are they lavishly equipped with all the modern technology like the ones on the earth below.
It was starting to get dark now, and the sun just starting to dip below the horizon. Circlet's father's chao garden was in the opposite direction of the private runway, it was on the side of the house inside a rather large building that almost looked like a greenhouse without as much glass. The top was domed in glass as the walls only came up halfway up and glass covered the rest of the distance to the glass roof.
Seraphim found the garden absolutely beautiful, with most of the ground being covered in white polished concrete with large green patches where trees grew various different fruits and nuts for the chao to eat. On one side was a pool that looked like a decorative fountain to her, with a two tiered fountain in the middle with one side looking like a mini temple ceiling held up by four pillars. Everyone was speechless when they stepped inside.
"Sugoi, koko wa kirei desu [Wow, this place is beautiful]," Crimson gasped, looking around her in awe.
Circlet didn't know what to do at first, everyone she met were amazed the first time they saw her father's chao garden. Then just as if on cue, a small pale blue chao crawled over to her and sat down at her feet looking up with a smile on its face. The small chao cried, holding its arms up for her to pick it up.
"Ah, there you are," Circlet said sweetly, scooping it up into her arms, "This is my chao Cherry." She said, holding the chao out for everyone to see.
"It's still a baby one isn't it?" Skye asked, rubbing the chao on the head.
"Un, sou da [Yeah, that's right]," she replied, "Do you have a chao, Skye?"
"Hai. [Yeah.] Its name is Charm. My younger brother, Milo, likes to play with him."
While Skye, Crimson and Circlet talked to themselves, Seraphim wandered over towards the fountain. She kneeled down by the fountain's edge and watched the water ripple across the surface of the water, It's just as beautiful as the water fountains at the shrine.
"Cha-ow," a small voice said next to her.
Seraphim turned around to see a sparkling blue chao looking up at her; it had a blue orb floating above its head and had quills like a hedgehog. She immediately recognized it as a hero Sonic chao; ironically the type was named after the very person who owned this chao, Sonic the Hedgehog. A few seconds later she heard two other distinct chao call out to her, a purple chao and a pure white chao both looked up at her as well. She looked between them for a moment before kneeling back down with her back to the fountain.
"You know who I am, don't you?" she whispered to them.
They all slowly walked closer to her, Seraphim carefully reached her hand out to pet the Sonic chao that was standing about a foot directly ahead of her. The chao at first acted like it was going to back away, before it inched a little closer and let her lightly pat it's head.
"There, I'm not going to hurt you," she said softly.
The other chao all moved in closer, and she petted each one for a few seconds before she noticed Circlet, Skye and Crimson approaching.
"There are the rest of you," Circlet called out to the chao, before she stopped a couple of feet away from Seraphim, finally noticing her.
All three of the chao were sitting around Seraphim, with the Sonic chao sitting a few inches away from Seraphim's knees.
"Hey, they must really like you, Seraphim. Usually my dad's Sonic chao doesn't like strangers," Circlet said.
Crimson and Skye stopped alongside Circlet causing the three chao to start looking around at all the new faces; unsure if they should stay or leave. Seraphim looked up not quite sure how to explain this or if she should at all. She knew it was best not to mention anything of her duties of being the guardian of the Master Emerald to anyone unless it was absolutely necessary.
"There are many chao that live on Angel Island, and I watch over them," she simply replied standing up.
Seraphim looked past them to Dusk who was leaning against the wall behind a tree staring intently out the lowest part of the glass. After a few minutes he got up and walked outside, no one else seemed to notice. Crimson and Skye were too busy petting the chao and Circlet was telling them their names and about the races they've won. Normally chao races disturbed Seraphim, obviously the chao find them fun but she found it wrong to raise chao to win competitions, but she stared at the door on the other side for a moment longer before slipping away from the group.
She pushed open the door to find Dusk standing a few feet from the garden watching the adults talk outside. Seraphim looked over to them recognizing her father and Sonic they were talking to someone else who wasn't there earlier. The newcomer looked familiar to her, like she'd seen her before when she was younger. She had purple fur and strange looking dreadlocks with the back ones being much shorter than the front two, and she had pointed ears and a white muzzle. Seraphim couldn't make out her outfit but the half cloak over her was a semi translucent black.
Seraphim casually strolled up to Dusk stopping next to him; the two very briefly glanced at each other before staring back ahead.
"Do you know who that is?" Seraphim plainly asked, not looking towards him.
After a pause he finally replied, "I believe she's Zero Velocity."
"Zero Velocity," she repeated, "She's the adventurer everyone talks about, right?"
Just then the others exited the garden, talking amongst themselves. Seraphim glanced back at them briefly before looking back at the adults talking; it was a little hard to make out everyone clearly. The sun was already below the horizon and the faint golden light illuminated the edges of the objects, it was clear though that Sonic and her father were having a serious conversation. Not that her father, Knuckles, was overly exuberant like Sonic mostly was.
"Hey, Seraphim, Dusk, what are you doing out here alone?" Circlet asked before spotting Zero Velocity standing next to her father, "Zero Velocity! She actually made it!" she squealed racing off across the lawn.
Skye and Crimson looked at each other for a moment before following.
"Aren't you going to come?" Skye asked Seraphim and Dusk, stopping to look back before continuing.
Seraphim shrugged before walking over, she was faintly aware of Dusk following.
"Zero Velocity!" Circlet shouted as she ran, "Tsuini yoru ne! [You finally came!]"
Everyone abruptly stopped talking, and looked toward the eccentric purple hedgehog. Zero completely turned to face her, smiling slightly.
"Yo, Shikuretto! Dochira e? [Hey, Circlet! How's you?]" Zero Velocity called out, before Circlet wrapped her arms around her without slowing down. "O, oi, gochuui da na... [H, hey, watch it...]" she uttered having to take a few steps back to avoid being knocked over.
"What took you so long to come?" Circlet asked looking up but not letting go.
Zero Velocity quickly glanced over to Sonic before answering, "Well, I came from somewhere very far. I may be one of the fastest things alive, but going non-stop is pretty much impossible."
Circlet nodded slightly, "I guess you're right."
"Well, now, how about you let me go so I can finish talking with your father, okay? Then you can tell me about your party."
She slowly nodded before letting go and walking back to where everyone else was more or less standing together.
"You actually know the famous Zero Velocity?" Crimson gasped in awe.
"Un. [Yeah.] She occasionally stops by to talk with my father, and it's the coolest to watch them race. Zero Velocity is just as fast as him, too," she explained excitedly.
Seraphim didn't find this conversation the slightest bit interesting, she more interested in what was going on with Zero Velocity talking to Sonic and her father. All of them looked very solemn, with Sonic shaking his head once she finished. After a few more brief moments of them talking about something that she couldn't understand, Seraphim could only pick out a few words here and there. Sonic was saying something about "machines" and someone or something called "Metalla."
At this point Knuckles added, "If that is the case then it would be best for us to return to Angel Island."
Sonic and Zero Velocity nodded in agreement.
"Well then," Sonic said looking around for a moment, "I guess I should tell Amy to start seeing the guests off. So, excuse me," he finished zipping off into the house.
Knuckles turned to Seraphim, "Ikou, Seraphim. [We're going, Seraphim.]"
Nahkas the Echidna, Zero Velocity, Dream Circlet the Hedgehog, Seraphim the Echidna, Skye Prower, Milo Prower, Dusk the Hedgehog, and Crimson the Bat were created by me, KnucklesGirl, and cannot be used without my permission.
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