STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me, BlackPetals23. Flame and Sunny belong to Phantomask. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.

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Chapter Seven:

Rides, Games—FOOD!

"Wake up! Wake up!"

"AHHHHH!"

Scourge stared at Fiona, holding her hips. "What…are you doing?"

Fiona licked her lips. "They're having this amusement park thingy and Amy wants us to go!"

"What time is it?" Scourge rubbed his eyes.

Fiona grabbed his hands away from his eyes. "Ten in the morning, let's go, sleepy head!"

The fox ran off of him just as quickly as she had jumped on him, running out the door dressed and ready. Scourge sighed and put his hand on his forehead. "What am I getting myself into?"

He sat up and watched as Fiona raced back in (with some trouble because of the card in the door). "Let's go!"

She vanished again, leaving the card on the table. Scourge grinned and chuckled. "These mood swings are odd…"

~~~.~~~

Silver was gawking at everything while the gang walked through the amusement park on the grass.

There was a petting zoo, booths that had alcohol challenges and other booths that sold awesome things like sunglasses or funny signs. There were rides, there were games, there was—THERE WAS FOOD!

Oh, yeah, he was gonna stay until this place kicked him out.

It didn't matter what Blaze would tell him.

"C'mon, Silver!"

Except that.

The white hedgehog frowned as the cat pulled him along. "But…"

"We'll get food later, it's only ten-thirty," Blaze purred at her boyfriend in amusement.

They were now in the back with Scourge and Fiona while Rouge took the lead with Knuckles while Amy and Shadow were right behind them along with Sonic and Sarah. Sonia and Flame were holding hands, even though Sonic looked back at them every minute or so and bared his teeth at the male. Tails and Cream were in the middle basically, holding hands and looking around. Manic was walking with Sunny who kept talking with Alicia who was disregarding Espio.

Poor Espio…

He had his shoulders slumped for once, dragging his feet and totally out of character. Vector noticed and patted his back. "Cheer up, Espio; she'll notice you…eventually."

"Is it sad she's done more talking to you than me?"

"That's not true," Vector snorted with a laugh but Charmy buzzed above him.

"Nuh huh! It's definitely true!"

The green Mobian glared at Charmy, "Brat!"

Charmy snickered and zoomed off, flying above Sonic now. Vector shook his head. "Listen, Espio, if you want to spend time with her, you can."

"How?" Espio questioned him.

"She's your girlfriend now! You have a right to barge in and ask for attention when she hasn't given you any!"

Espio looked at Alicia and nodded, his eyebrows narrowed with a determined look on his face. "You're right."

"I am! Just waltz right up to her and demand for what you need most!" Vector gave him a shove.

Espio gulped and walked alongside Alicia. The she wolf was busy talking…still. Man, she was a little chatterbox. Espio kinda adored her because of it—she was so open and honest yet tried her hardest to be kind still.

He cleared his throat.

No prevail.

Alicia's eyes were glued on Sunny while the hedgehog talked about toothpaste or something. Espio cleared his throat louder.

Did she notice?

Nope.

But Knuckles—all the way in the front of the spaced out group—did. He turned and frowned. "You okay, Espio?"

The chameleon nodded his head, blushing nervously while he failed. Alicia still didn't even look at him. Even when Knuckles asked what was wrong!

Espio frowned and fell back into step with Vector. "I think I know what to do…"

Vector smiled warmly. "What is that?"

"TO NOT LISTEN TO YOU!" Espio hollered, walking away from his friend.

Vector was about to apologize when he noticed Charmy in the air, sticking his tongue out at him and made a goofy expression.

"BRAT!"

Espio stopped. "What. Did. You. Call. Me?"

"Not you, Charmy, I meant Espio!" Vector blabbed. "I mean, Espio, not Charmy! Wait that came out wrong too!"

Espio glared but turned his back on his onceso called friend.

~~~.~~~

As they walked under the horse tracks that were at the fairgrounds/rodeo arena there, they watched as other Mobians walked by.

Some had painted faces, some had stuffed animals from the games, some had on bracelets for the rides and some just had food (much to Silver's disliking when Blaze had to pull him away).

As they stepped out into the sun, Amy gasped. There were Mobians everywhere!

There were buildings on her left along with booths of advertisements and places to buy crystals or charm bracelets and puppets across from the buildings.

Let me try and set the scene for you.

As they stood smack dab in the center of this long and wide cement sidewalk basically, that were filled with Mobians walking back and forth, they saw on their left, the booths that were to the left of the sidewalk. Get that part? Good. Across from the booths on the right of the large sidewalk were buildings that held other things like paintings and quilts or cakes and flowers that were judged.

The booths started with a glow-in-the-dark shop that was painted black on the outside so the inside was all dark and showed what the glow-in-the-dark stuff would do. Then there was a kettle corn booth that was tall and had bags upon bags of kettle corn that were HUGE.

Some workers from there were outside the booth and giving free samples. Then there was a booth that was long like a trailer house and had all sorts of toys and pictures and blankets people could just buy. And then in the back there was a small building representing the ones on the right of the sidewalk, just this one was on the left. This was the quilt place.

Past some snow cone venders on the right and some newspaper people on the left, you'd still have the buildings to your right and you'd come across some of those "shops" on your left that were under canopies, basically. The first one had rocks mainly. Some were in bracelets and necklaces or you could just buy the full rock because it was one of those special types of rocks. (What are they called? Geos? Or something…)

Then after the long "shop" under a canopy that had trinkets and funny signs along with puppets and wooden roses, there was the food. Smoothie booths to corn on the cob booths. A regular hamburger booth to a seafood booth. Cotton candy booths to Chinese booths.

They were all lined so if you were at the canopy "shop" and staring at them straight forward, they'd go across the sidewalk instead of alongside it so they looked horizontal from your point of view. And if you kept walking forward, you'd hit a booth and then you'd have to turn left to see more booths alongside it and on the other side were more booths. It created two lines of booths, which meant two back to back until the two lines were filled.

Then, after the food, there was a sidewalk cutting into two just to have more food go along with it until it hit some more advertisement booths and one lottery booth where it smelled like smoke from the people in the back that drank beer and smoked while hoping they won a million dollars.

But if you didn't go down either of those two smaller sidewalks then you'd see more buildings. These had stuff like 4-H and more advertisements.

Now, back to the group of friends.

Amy turned her head right and saw what all of them wanted to see more than food right now…well, probably everyone except Silver.

The rides.

(I'm just taking the ones at the fair I go to because I don't know what other rides there are. Some of the rides, I don't know their names so bare with me, please, and others I just took from other amusement parks I've been to.)

At the beginning, there were booths to buy tickets or bracelets for the rides. The bracelets just let you ride it continuously without having to go back and buy more tickets. On the right was a shooting game and beside that there was a bottle game and then there was a basketball shooting game and so much more. On the left were the kiddie rides and games. There was a miniature rollercoaster and some ride to deal with cars going in a circle and getting about a foot off the ground.

"So…tickets or bracelets?" Cream asked.

Amy hugged onto Shadow and looked up at him. "How much money do you have?"

"Depends how much you spent," Shadow mumbled, reaching for his wallet.

Amy giggled. "I didn't spend any, Shadow. I promise."

"I know," Shadow held her waist while he opened his wallet skillfully with one hand. "How much are the bracelets?"

"Probably not anywhere near our budget," Rouge snorted. "This is East Mobius."

Sonic nodded in agreement. "She's right. We're probably gonna be stuck with-"

"We should get the bracelets. They're twenty-five dollars each," Sarah said, "Whereas the tickets are three for six."

"But if we get a limited amount of tickets, it might be cheaper," Shadow argued.

"Yes, but with the bracelets we could ride as many times as we want."

The ebony hedgehog was silent before he smacked his lips. "You wouldn't happen to have $500 then would you?"

"You're the one with the wallet out."

"I got this," Rouge stepped forward. "I have a card I need to use up anyway."

"No, Rouge, you might need it for your wedding!" Amy protested.

Rouge waved her off though. "Relax, hun. I'm not even in debt yet."

Manic and Flame chuckled but Scourge shook his head. "Just pay for eighteen. Fiona and I will play games."

"What?" the fox seemed startled.

Blaze nodded at her. "You're pregnant."

"S-So!?"

Rouge looked back at her. "I think it'd be for the best if you just played games."

Scourge nodded and held his girlfriend's hand. She sighed but let him lead her off into the crowd to keep her mind off of riding rides.

Rouge smiles at the rest of her friends. "Let me handle this," she said as she stepped up to the cashier.

He was young, red ferret with bright, blue eyes. He gazed down at her and cleared his throat nervously. "H-Hello…"

"Hi," Rouge seductively winked.

Knuckles stepped up with his fist ready but Sonic held him back with Manic's help. Amy giggled and sauntered over there with Sarah.

Shadow opened his mouth to speak but Cream clamped her hand over it. He raised an eyebrow at the rabbit but he got a glare that nearly scared him to death.

The ferret gulped while two more lovely girls walked towards his booth just to stop next to Rouge. Amy smiled brightly, only wearing shorts that went to her knees (showing her green flip-flops) and a bright green tank-top over her bra and white tank-top. "Hi! We need eighteen bracelets."

"E-Eighteen!?" The ferret said, surprised while he looked at each of the girls. "You do know one per person, right?"

"Yup," Sarah said, batting her eyes and moving her quills out of the way to show her breasts from the yellow shirt she wore with jeans that went to her knees and some dark grey and navy blue Nike shoes.

It didn't help that the ferret was looking down at them. He swallowed and nodded, sweating bullets by now. "Ummm…right…okay…Eighteen bracelets."

"For our friends," Amy pitched in while Rouge nodded happily.

The ferret looked over their heads and saw a sight to see. Knuckles was being held back by Flame now while Shadow was on the ground with Cream sitting on him and Tails was laughing his ass off at the scene of his girlfriend trying to defeat the Ultimate Life Form. Sonic was held back by his sister and brother, his fists drawn with Knuckles'.

"Could you get your…umm…friends to come over here so I can put the wristbands on?"

"Sure thing," Rouge said, moving her hips as she walked back to her fiancé and friends.

Amy leaned forward and put her hand through the small hole of the plastic glass that separated them and the ferret. He clamped the bright orange bracelet onto her right wrist rather slowly, brushing his fingertips against her skin.

The same happened with Sarah while the group walked over to the booth. The ferret happily put the wristbands on all the girls but was quick on putting them on the guys. Knuckles eyed him when the group was done getting their wristbands on. He bared his teeth and growled.

The ferret blinked. "Do you need something?"

"Knuckie, come on!" Rouge hollered.

Knuckles walked off, tail high and nose in the air. He stopped next to Shadow and Sonic, in between them. The ferret raised an eyebrow while they glared at him.

"Shadow!" Amy skipped along but called for her beloved.

Shadow left with his tail high and his nose in the air along with Sonic and Knuckles. The ferret blinked for a minute or two.

"Did I miss something?"