Chapter Nine: Arguments

Tails walked through the park with his tail(s) between his legs, Marine was skipping at his side, looking rather content, she noticed the dull expression on his face as she turned to him.

"C'mon Tails, what's up?"

The fox sighed, imagining his poor inventions on their own in his cold workshop. "I really ought to finish off that machine..."

Marine elbowed him playfully, "Na yer don't yer drongo. There's na rush, chill out."

Tails shrugged and forced a smile, after taking a look up, he decided that it wasn't a bad day, he might as well do something with Marine.

"Ow! Did you just punch me?" Tails whined, rubbing his arm and glaring at Marine, who was rocking back and forth on her heels.

"No-o. I tagged you." She grinned as Tails scratched his head, "You gonna tag me back?"

"Hm." Tails rubbed his chin, trying to conceal his grin, he then gave the raccoon the shock of her life as he lunged for her, hitting the ground as she jumped out of the way and ran off giggling.

Marine ran for a few seconds and turned around, Tails was out of sight, she grinned, "Sonic's got nuthin' on me." she muttered. After taking one more look around she decided to start running again but was stopped as she felt something grab her under the arms, she yelled and kicked her feet as they were lifted from the ground, then hearing a horrific laughter from above her.

"Gotcha." Tails grinned, only able to see the back of Marine's head as she was staring at the floor with eagle eyes.

"Put me down Tails!"

"If you insist." He laughed as he pretended to drop her, making her squeal. He then, however, showed her mercy and lowered her to the floor. He stopped laughing when he saw the furious expression on her face.

"If you ever do that again, I'll... I'll...!"

"What?"

"I'll dump you!" she yelled and stormed off, leaving Tails confused and somewhat annoyed.

"Over something this petty? Jesus..."

"WHAT!?" She shrieked like a banshee.

"Didn't catch that, a little louder, maybe?"

"You'd better shut up."

"Or?" Tails grinned and raised an eyebrow, girls were so easy to annoy.

"Fine! I'm breaking up with you!" She yelled and stormed off, leaving Tails a little disorientated, he gathered his senses, and went back to being annoyed. He began to walk in the opposite direction Marine was.

If he was honest, with that attitude, he didn't care that she had just dumped him.

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"'cause every night I will save your life, and every night I will be with you, and- Oh hey Blaze." Silver's singing was interrupted as he saw Blaze seem to come out from behind a tree. For some reason, Silver's voice made her jump out of her skin.

"Oh! Erm, hi, Silver, what's that song you were singing?" she looked pretty awkwardly at the grass, Silver saw straight through her.

"Why did you change the subject?"

She shuffled her feet, "I didn't-"

"You're hiding something."

She put her hands on her hips, "Hey, what makes you so-"

Silver grinned, making Blaze's angry expression disappear, he leaned against a tree as he rolled his eyes, "Come on Blaze, I've known you since we were bumps making our mothers throw up a lot. I know when you're lying, Blay Blay," He elbowed her softly, "remember when your parents used to call you that? Blay Blay?"

"Yeah!?" Blaze pushed him over with firey hands, the shock of which mortified him, "Well I've been orphaned since!" she began to walk away steaming - literally.

"Lemme guess." Silver's persistant little voice annoyed the cat further, "Your problem is about Sonic's size, dark and handsome."

This comment made her stop in her tracks, she turned around, making the grass beneath her feet begin to smoke slightly, the sweat on her forehead was almost evapourating, but Silver, being as cool as...never, foretold her next question and explained as he remained lay in the grass.

"One, I'm psychic, love. Two, he's stood in that tree over there." He pointed, but Blaze only turned around in time to see the leaves rustle, she sighed.

"It was once. And... well I love Sonic, but he's just..."

"Mm. I'm actually glad I'm not in a relationship." He stood up and began to walk away, Blaze quickly caught up.

"You're not going to help me?"

"Meh, I've never been great with the helping stuff, just one thing."

"What?"

"Let Sonic down gently." This statement made her hang her head, "He's done a lot for us, y'know?"

"Mm."

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Tails muttered unwritable words as he walked through the park, on the way back to his workshop, he should have just stayed there in the first place.

"Chao chao!" the hyper shriek coming from behind him shocked him to the point of yelling, he fell back on the grass as a the chao he recognised as Cheese dived on him, hugging his face, the red ribbon around its neck almost in his mouth.

"Tails!" another high pitched voice made him sit up, he tore the singing chao from his face and sat it on his knee, then looked for the source of the noise and found it in the form of Cream the Rabbit, who was kneeling infront of him with her head tilted, she was wearing an orange dress that went just past her knees with flowers near the bottom, (the dress, not her knees F.Y.I.) and she had a light blue neckerchief.

"Tails you're staring." She said simply, sweet as ever.

"Erm, eheh, sorry."

"It's ok." She smiled, "You want to stand up?"

"Er." Tails looked down and realised they were sat in the grass, apart from Cheese, who seemed to be happy having found a bed in the form of Tails' tail. "After you."


I'll put this simply because I don't want to ruin then next chapter, I've made poll, Tails/Marine or Tails/Cream. I'm torn between the two so help me out. It's also a blind poll so none of you will know which got more votes until the next chapter.

One more thing, I've been sick as a dog today, so I don't know how long it will last but if the next chapter is late, there's your reason. Thanks for reading and please review, I'd like to get about 2-3 per chapter.