Chapter Seven
Moving On With Life
Ok so now lets see where we're going with things!!! I'm going to say this again! REVIEW!!!!
this chapter just wouldn't work for me so, i'm sorry that it is late! anyways, i'll try and update quickly but it's hard when your mum and dad limit computer time cos you spend more time talking to your friends then doing your homwork and when you get banned for not hanging up your blazer!! anyways so i tried really hard...hmm i think this chapter sucks!!!
now there are some billiant ideas going through my mind and from this chapter on things about Sideus will be explained more!! now just so you know marianne is the same age as blaze which means she is one year younger than sonic and two years older than amy got it? ok now lets go!!!
Song: When, owned completely by Shania Twain.
As the sun shone through the living room windows the group of girls curled up on a bunch of pillows stirred. The first to wake was Rikku, the golden vixen sat up and yawned. She looked to her left and punched the shoulder of a yellow cat gently. Marianne opened her eyes and sat up, her golden-blonde hair was a bunch of tangles and Rikku giggled.
"Oh leave me alone...your hair isn't any better," Marianne yawned eyeing Rikku fuzz-ball of hair. Rikku put a hand up and felt her hair.
"You know, about yesterday," Rikku said as Marianne handed her a comb and Rikku tugged it through her tangle. "I think I should have stamped on Sonic's foot and punched him as well as slapped him." Marianne rolled her eyes and grinned.
"I don't think using my claws was a good idea." Marianne held her hand up and flexed her dark claws with a bemused look.
"Oh he deserved it. I know that I should be loyal to Amy but time and time again I told her not to and what does she do...ask him out." Rikku finished combing the knots out of her hair and sighed. "And she didn't come to me when I stormed off." Marianne looked at Rikku sadly.
"Don't worry, she'll come around." The two friends smiled and set about waking up the other girls. Roxan went to the kitchen to make breakfast for them while they took it in turns to use the two bathrooms. While Rikku and Rouge were in the bathroom, Iris and Nicky were helping Roxan and Julie was on the phone to someone Rosililea, Blaze and Marianne sat on the lounge and started to talk.
"Now Ivy needs to come back and everything will be right again," Rosililea murmured. The three cats sighed and slouched down on the lounge slightly.
"Things don't feel right...hey Maz, why did Sideus run away yesterday?" Blaze said. She turned her head to looked at Marianne.
"Because of Cartancius," Marianne replied. "You see he can feel her power but doesn't understand why he can feel her in two places, you see he doesn't know about the morphing thing so he thinks that there are two fire goddesses so when he felt the two powers in the one place he became frightened because he needs to regain strength before he can face her." Rosililea looked at Marianne curiously.
"So if he is only afraid of two people then why was it just you sent to fight him and not Blaze as well?" Rosililea asked. Marianne shrugged and stared at the roof.
"It has something to do with the prophecy...mother didn't explain it very well."
"Hey do you guys remember when we tried to bribe Shadow into going on a date with Ivy so that she'd cheer up because we squashed her roses?" Blaze said. She smiled slightly at the memory.
"Yes and then we paid Shadow so he went but he left halfway through and spent the money that we gave him on a braclet for Ivy," Marianne continued.
"Then, she never got it because Rouge caught him up and Ivy thought that Shadow had ditched her and then she found out they we paid him...oh boy were we in trouble then," Rosililea said finished. The three of them grinned at each other and sighed.
"Those were the good old days," Marianne said sadly.
"Yeah, now everything has changed," Rosililea added. The three cats stopped grinning and sank further onto the lounge together, clinging to the hope that together they would be stronger. Niky bounced into the lounge room and beamed at them.
"Mum says that breakfast is ready!" she squeaked. The three cats on the lounge jumped up, realising just how hungry they were.
With Silver...
Silver rolled onto his side and pulled the quilt back up to his chin and sighed. Sonic did come home last night...at four in the morning. Silver was planning to give the blue hedgehog a piece of his mind. Marianne was like his sister and he wasn't going to let Sonic keep on upsetting her. The silver hedgehog rolled back onto his back as the phone started to ring. He jumped up, knowing that sonic wouldn't bother to answer it and walked into the hallway. He picked up the reciever and held it to his ear.
"Hello," he yawned.
"Oh Silver you sound tired," a female voice said.
"Good morning to you too Julie."
"Just wondering if you are coming to the pool and if Sonic came home?" Julie replied.
"Yeah I'm coming, yeah of course Sonic came home, at four in the morning, why?"
"I tried ringing Amy's apartment and she didn't pick up so I'm worried."
"She's probably sleeping...in fact I think the blue-boy is getting up now." Silver could hear a heap of giggling in the other end. "How was the sleep-over?"
"Oh wonderful, didn't get to sleep until midnight..." Julie started to tell Silver a few things but he wasn't listening, he could hear Sonic moving around in the kitchen.
"Uh, Julie, I'll talk to you later...I'm going to have a chat with my team mate."
"Ok bye Sil--" Silver put the phon down before listening to all of Julie's farewell. He walked into the kitched to see Sonic sitting on a chair smiling happily.
"Morning Silver buddy," he said cheerily. Silver simply glared at Sonic. "What's up?"
"What's up? Is that the only thing you can say to me? What do you think is up?" Silver replied. Sonic studdied him and shrugged.
"How am I suppose to know what you're think--OW!" Silver had made the toaster hover and threw it at Sonic. "What did I do?"
"Think about it! Which one of our friends is like a sister to me apart from Blaze?"
"Maz?"
"Exactly...now think long and hard if you have enough brain cells to do so!" The two hedgehogs glared at each other.
"It isn't my fault Silver!" Sonic spat. "She shouldn't have left!"
"If you had been where you were supposed to last night then you would have known why she had to leave!" Silver shouted in reply.
"What are you--oh the meeting, bugger I forgot!"
"Really?" Silver's eyes narrowed. "I thought that you had been attacked!"
"Will everyone stop being sarcastic to me?" Sonic stood up and walked up to Silver. Silver saw for the first time that Sonic truly cared about Marianne but he was too much of an idiot to admit it.
"Tell her that you love her," Silver told him.
"WHAT?!" Sonic jumped to his feet and glared hard at Silver. "How can you say that?"
Silver shrugged. "Because I know you like the back of my hand." The Silver hedgehog sighed and turned his head as there was a knock at the door.
"Come in!" he called. he door opened and closed and as the footsteps neared the kitchen Silver caught sight of the pink hair of Amy. "See you later." The phone began to ring as Amy arrived at the kitchen door. Silver jumped out of the way and walked to the phone. Blaze's name was flashing on the screen and he smiled.
"Hey kitty cat," he said as he picked up the reciever.
"Hi Silver," Blaze chirped. "Hey can you come and walk with me and Maz, all the girls are going home to change so come and walk with us."
"I don't know Blaze," Silver teased.
"Pwease..." Silver could tell that Blaze was pouting even though he couldn't see her.
"Oh I suppose!"
"Oh goody! I'll see you in ten minutes!"
"Hey wait a minute-"
"Don't argue or you won't get a goodmorning kiss!"
"Bye Blaze."
"Bye Silver, hugs and kisses!" He heard the phone click as Blaze hung up. Silver shook his head and put the phone down.
"Sonic, I'm going to walk to the pool with Blaze and Maz!" Silver shouted.
"Yeah, that's right mate!" Sonic called back. "I'll walk with Ames!" Silver walked into his room and pulled on a pair of boardshorts and some jeans over the top. He pulled out his favourite blue tank top and pulled it over his head before grabbing his bag and walking out of the house. He decided not to say goodbye to Sonic since he would be seeing him in half an hour. The Silver hedgehog walked calmly down the garden path and started to walk the short cut through the paddocks to Blaze and Marianne's house.
With Sonic and Amy...
"So when are we heading to the pool?" Amy asked. She and Sonic were lying on the lounge watching television. Sonic looked at her and sighed.
"I dunno know if I can Ames," Sonic sighed. "I don't feel too good."
"Oh you poor dear." Amy sat up and stood up. "I'll go and get a thermometre." Amy walked into the kitchen and Sonic sat up quickly. He was just about to lie to Amy, but it had to be done if he didn't want to see Marianne. Amy came back with the thermometre and put it in his mouth.
"Thanks Amy," Sonic said.
"I'm going to the bathroom, stay still." Amy walked off and Sonic took the thermometre out of his mouth and stuck it under the lamp beside the lounge. He left it there for half a minute before putting it in his mouth as Amy walked back into the room. She sat beside him and took the thermometre.
"Hmm, 42 degrees...that isn't good," Amy muttered. "Poor baby, I'd better get the lamp some antibiotics." Amy smirked sideways at sonic.
"How did you know?" he demanded.
"You used to do that all of the time when you wanted to spend time with Marianne and you were supposed to go for group shopping," Amy explained. "When she was supposedly calling the doctor, she'd call Blaze's cellphone and tell us that she'd have you out in less than an hour."
"She knew I was kidding?"
"She isn't dumb Sonic," Amy laughed. "She is very intelligent and plus she could always tell when you were lying."
"Yeah I know that." Sonic rubbed his cheek where the four red scars were. Amy tapped his ear playfully.
"Sonic, I know you want to spend quality time but I really want to go swimming. I bought a brand new swimsuit and you're coming with me whether you like it or not, so go and get changed."
"Yes mother!" Sonic jumped up and when Amy looked offended her bent down and kissed her gently. "It's a joke sweetheart, you're prettier than my mother." Sonic began to walk away and Amy tkneeled on the lounge and looked back.
"Did you know your mother?"
"I have pictures...I keep them private." Sonic walked into his room and Amy slumped onto the lounge. I bet he showed Marianne, she thought coldly, wait Marianne was like a sister to Sonic, don't get so jealous Amy. The pink hedgehog sat up straight and plastered a smile on her face as Sonic came back out. He gave her a strange look and Amy realised that her smile must look forced, she relaxed and Sonic smiled.
"Ready?" Amy asked. Sonic held out his hand and Amy bounced up and slipped hers into his. Sonic smiled at her as she snuggled close to him. He noticed how warm her fingers were and sighed contentedly, and then remembered how much more naturally Marianne's hand fitted into his. Sonic felt a pang in his chest but shook his head and knocked it away, he couldn't think about that, he hated her and she hated him and that was that!
Amy seemed to have noticed his odd behaviour and was studdying him as they walked out of the house and started down the street towards the pool. It was already starting to get hot and Sonic and Amy had to move apart so that they didn't overheat.
With Silver...
Silver arrived at Blaze and Marianne's house and we walked up the steps onto the verandah. He walked to the door and knocked three times. He heard a rush of feet and Blaze pulled the door open and beamed at him. She flung her arms around him and kissed him. She pulled back happily.
"You're in a good mood?" Silver said amusedly. "It's only been near to twelve hours."
"But I missed you," Blaze laughed. Silver hugged her back as Marianne came to the door and joined them on the verandah.
"Ready Blaze?" she asked teasingly. Blaze pulled away from Silver and grinned.
"Yes!" she beamed. Silver raised and eyebrow at Marianne who winked.
"She's just really happy," Marianne explained. Blaze slipped her hand into Silvers and he smiled.
"Let's start walking then," Silver laughed. The three friends began to walk down the path and headed towards the street in order to walk to quick way to the pool. They walked quickly and happily through the heat of the sun.
"So Maz, are you alright...about Sonic?" Silver asked. He winced as Marianne hissed slightly.
"How do you think I am?" she hissed.
"Sorry...I was just wondering."
"It's alright..." Marianne sighed. "I wish that...no..." The yellow cat averted her gaze and her cheeks turned pink.
"You still love him?"
"I don't know."
"Tell- OW!" Blaze had stamped on Silver's foot and the silver hedgehog was glaring at his girlfriend. Blaze glared back at him.
"Don't," she hissed. She glanced at Marianne who was studdying the ground sadly. She was muttering under her breath and Blaze felt a pang in her heart for her best friend. Silver watched the two girls and his eyes saddened. The three of them arrived at the gates to the pool and the two cats perked up at sound of laughter from inside. The walked through the gate and paid their entry fee. They spotted most of the group up at the trees, Marianne looked over her shoulder at the sound of two familiar voices. Rosililea and Jason were here and they were arguing. Silver let go of Blaze's hand and recued Jason from Rosililea.
"Rose, you should leave Jase alone," Blaze laughed.
"He keeps flirting with all of the girls," Rosililea snapped.
"But he's not your boyfriend he is perfectly liable to do that," Marianne pointed out. "Julie doesn't beat the hell out of Knuckles when he flirts with Rouge." Rosililea glared at Marianne and the three of them walked towards the trees where their friends were. Marianne's eyes grew dull and sad when she saw Sonic leaning against a tree massaging sun-cream into Amy's back. Blaze and Rosililea looked at her worriedly. The three girls sat down and pulled their shirts and pants off to reveal their new bikinis. Marianne had bought the pretty purple one that Sonic had seen her in and had pulled out a black sorong to tie around her waist.
Blaze was wearing a rose coloured tie up top with the same coloured short-shorts that had a black belt pattern at the waist. And Rose was wearing a black tie up bikini as her two team-mates had suspected the gothic cat to do.
Amy was wearing a red one peice suit with criss-cross straps. All of the boys were wearing the same style board shorts. Marianne looked up and spotted three people walking up towards them. Rikku and Julie each had one of Alex's arms and were pulling her towards the group.
"Amy," Rikku shouted. Amy looked up and waved to her team.
"Amy we have our final member," Julie said. Amy jumped up and walked over to them. She smiled at them and nodded her approval.
"You're using my sister in your team?" Blaze questioned.
"That's right!" Rikku beamed. The golden fox was wearing a red bikini with black trimming on the edges. Julie was wearing a purple one peice suit and Alex was wearing a pink one peice suit. Marianne beamed up at Team Fina, though secretly she hurt inside because she missed Ivy in her team. Ivy had made Team Taza complete.
Marianne was the leader and most of the wits, she had seriously quick thinking as well as the power and agility of her cat race. Her powerful sword and claws were perfect weapons when she was low on power for her magic.
Blaze was the second in command and she was most of the plan behind the team. Marianne had the quick thinking but Blaze was the plan maker when they had more time. Her flames and claws were just as powerful as Marianne and together the two cats were a dangerous duo.
Rosililea was most of the power, she may be a goth but she was very agile and quick when she wanted to be. Her huge sword was very powerful but Rose needed the other girls' help to keep her destructive side under control.
Ivy was the spirit of the team, she was one of the best doctors in the world so she was the one who kept the others going when they were tired. Ivy's control of the elements was awesome but becuase she was very easily angered the others were there to keep her under check and Ivy was also the only one who kept Marianne and Blaze's mischeivous side under control.
The four cats (Ivy hated it when Marianne would call them the Invincible Cats, because Ivy's a panther and hates 'cat') were invincible, especially when they were Imeon and Cartancius, these four cats could really kick butt and take names later. So it didn't seem right being Team Taza without Ivy.
Marianne could tell that Blaze and Rosililea were thinking the same thing as her but they all smiled at the fully formed Team Fina. Marianne knew that Ivy and Shadow leaving had effected the boys too. The four hedgehogs had called their team, Team Chaos and now that Shadow was gone their power had gone too.
Blaze was looking at the gate and saw the rest of their friends come in, everyone was here so it was time to have some fun. Amy, Rikku, Julie and Alex rushed down and jumped straight into the water. Sonic and Jason were talking and Silver had pulled Marianne and Blaze to their feet and was dragging them to the diving board. Roseililea had gone to sit with Roxan to help look after Nikki, really to try and kill Nikki to make her stop annoying people but also to talk to Roxan, they both missed Ivy.
Rouge was flirting with Knuckles and they were walking towards the canteen to get ice-cream. Tails had joined Team Fina in the pool so everyone was busy.
"Hey Sonic, rate Marianne from one to ten," Jason said. Sonic looked sideways at him and frowned.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because I want to know what you think of her."
"I'm not rating her," Sonic told him firmly. "That's not fair to Amy." Jason rolled his eyes and put on a voice to mimick Sonic.
"Hmm, I know, ten, no wait one hundred, god she's HOT!" Jason smirked at Sonic who glared at him. They watched at silver went of the diving board followed by Blaze who performed a perfect tuck dive. Sonic had to blink a few times when Marianne walked up to make sure that he wasn't seeing things. She looked to beautiful today, he had no idea why. Marianne diving into the water normall, Sonic wondered why, after all she was a gymnast and could probably do the most amazing jumps.
With Marianne in the water...
Marianne broke the surface of the water and looked over and saw Sonic staring at her, Marianne shook her head, no he was just looking in her direction. Marianne turned to look up at the speaker as an announcment blared.
"Hey folks we have a special treat for you today," the voice said. "We have Angel Mordesky here with us." Marianne cheered along with everyone else. Along with Mina, Angel was Marianne's favourite singer. Her voice sounded so wonderful.
"Hey guys," Angel's voice said. "I'm going to be singing a song inspired by my sister, it's called 'When'.
If elepants could fly I'd be a little more optimistic, but I don't see that happening any time soon, I don't mean to sound so pessimistic but I don't think that cow really jumped over the moon.
Marianne smiled, this was one of her favourite songs. She sung the lyrics under her breath and looked over at Blaze to see that she was doing the same.
When will I wake up? Why did we break up? When will we make up?
Suddenly the thought that this was how she was feeling at the moment hit her. Why was life so unfair?
When money grows on trees, people live in peace, everyone agrees. When happiness is free, love can guarantee, you'll come back to me...that's when.
Sonic watched all of the girls around him smiling to themselves as they thought of the many times that this song would have related to them. Sonic knew that it related to him now.
I'd love to wake up smiling, full of the joys of spring, and hear on CNN that Elvis lives again, and that John's back with the Beatles and they're goin out on tour, I'd be the first in line for tickets, got to see that show for sure.
Blaze sighed as she sung, she wished that Marianne wouldn't look sad everytime a break-up song came on. Blaze felt so deeply for her best friend that it broke her up inside badly.When will I wake up? Why did we break up? When will we make up?
When money grows on trees, people live in peace, everyone agrees. When happiness is free, love can guarantee, you'll come back to me...that's when.
As Amy and Rikku sung the lyrics with Julie and Alex, Amy wondered if Marianne was saddening at the sound of this song, and with a pang she wondered if Sonic was listening and thinking hard. Rikku looked at Amy and knew instantly what the pink hedgehog was thinking. Rikku touched her hand to Amy's shoulder in a comforting notion.
When will I wake up? Why did we break up? When will we make up?
When money grows on trees, people live in peace, everyone agrees. When happiness is free, love can guarantee, you'll come back to me...that's when.
As the song finished a cheer rose up and Marianne found Blaze treading water beside her.
"Are you alright Maz?" Blaze asked. Marianne shrugged one shoulder and a single tear slid down her cheek. Blaze knew that her best friend was still the strong and cocky cat but she either had learnt to show emotion or her heart was broken so badly that she couldn't help it. Blaze hoped it was the first suggestion, she hated the thought of Marianne's heart aching every second of the day.
"Want to get an ice-cream?" Marianne asked. Blaze nodded and the two of them swam to the ladder and climbed out of the pool. They started walking towards the canteen when they noticed a cream coloured wolf with brown hair talking to a blue cat. The two of them recognised the wolf as she turned around. She smiled and waved at the two amazed cats.
"I thought that it was only a recording," Blaze whispered.
"But she's really here," Marianne finished. The two of them beamed and continued towards the canteen.
"Hey excuse me," a voice said. They turned around to find Angel smiling at them, her almost black eyes sparkling. "Have you two seen a cream coloured cat?" Blaze and Marianne looked at each other.
"Uh no sorry," Blaze said.
"We'll help you look though," Marianne added. "Is she your sister?"
"Yeah, my younger sister Sky, I'm here with her and my twin brother Liam."
"You mean the blue cat?" Blaze asked. Her eyes were sparkling mischeivously.
"Blaze," Marianne said in a pained voice. "I'm not--" Blaze put a hand on Marianne's mouth.
"No a word." Angel was watching them curiously. Marianne pulled Blaze's hand away and looked at in exasperation.
"Blaze no, I'm not ready," Marianne whispered. Angel's eyes softened as she noticed Marianne's sad eyes.
"Have you just broken up with your boyfriend?" she asked.
"Yes...well teahcnically they haven't broken up," Blaze answered. "Sonic got a new girlfriend while Marianne here was away so that basically just said it was finished."
"Are the girl that went missing three years ago and there was a state wide search for?" Angel asked.
"That's me," Marianne replied.
"I'm so sorry I played that breaking up song Marianne," Angel said.
"No it's cool...Blaze and I will help you find Sky." The three girls began to walk towards the playground area of the pool. They saw a small cream cat swinging on the monkey bars.
"Sky!" Angel shouted. "Sky come down!" The tiny cat poked out her tongue and Angel sighed.
"I'll get her!" Marianne laughed. The yellow cat walked forward and jumped up onto the bars. "Come on Sky," Marianne chimed. Sky laughed as Marianne swung to the top and pounced towards Sky. She caught the little cat and stood up to find that her hair had dripped water of the bars and they were very slippery. Sky jumped out of Marianne's arms and swung off into Angel's outstreched arms.
Marianne smiled and caught site of the blue cat who was Angel's twin. Marianne's eyes widened. He was gorgeous, with perfect black hair, twinkling gold eyes and a dazzling smile. He looked up at her and smiled and waved. Marianne waved back and slipped on one of the bars. She toppled off the money bars and found herself caught by Liam.
"That was quite a fall," he laughed.
"That, was embarrassing," Marianne replied.
"Are you alright?"
"Fine...my hair made the bars wet." Liam put Marianne down and Blaze and Angel rushed over.
"Oh Marianne I'm so sorry," Angel said. She blinked worriedly.
"So you're name is Marianne?" Liam asked. Marianne nodded, she could feel her cheeks growing red as she smiled.
"Th-this is my b-best friend Blaze," Marianne pulled Blaze forward as she introduced her. Liam and Blaze shook hands, immediate friends. Marianne really liked Liam as she took him and Angel to introduce to the rest of her friends. Marianne felt awkward introducing Sonic as "my ex" but they took to each other friendly enought. Liam liked Sonic but Sonic glared when Liam turned his back to meet the other girls. Marianne smiled at Sonic who took her arm and pulled her close.
"I don't trust him," Sonic whispered. Marianne looked at him with an annoyed expression.
"Well I do and I think he might be a potential boyfriend," Marianne snarled. "Keep your opinions to yourself." Marianne pulled out of Sonic's grip and joined Angel and Blaze to chat as Sky and Nikki played together. Sonic bit his lip and could feel jealousy coming on, but he shook his head and cleared away the thoughts. She isn't yours anymore, he told himself firmly.