Chapter 9: Moon Spell

Amy sighed in irritation as she watched her little sister tying up balloons around the house. It was their Dad's birthday and she wanted everything to be just right for him.

"Make sure you tie those tight, it has to be a double knot." She explained, but she quickly glared when she saw that they were black balloons. "We can't have those!"

"Sorry." Rosy sighed.

"It's a party Rosy, a happy and cheerful!" She ranted. Just then the front door opened and Knuckles and Tails walked in.

"I can't believe you organised this whole thing by yourself." Tails said as they walked into the kitchen.

"Have I told you about the sea food?"

"Only twenty five times." Knuckles shrugged when he saw the buffet on the kitchen counter.

"My Dad got it fresh, and it's his very best stuff." She smiled but frowned. "Where's Sonic, isn't he supposed to be bring his uncle's best chilli dogs?"

"Oh yeah, he's at work right now, but we'll meet him in the bar later."...


Sonic sighed happily as he listened to the families enjoying the rides and the sun while he worked the snack bar. Just as he was done serving another family some chilli dogs when his boss walked over.

"Hey there Sonic, some old lady came around the office earlier and told me to give this to you, said it was urgent." She said and handed him a note and a notebook before walking away. He looked at the note and recognised it as Emma Nets' handwriting.

-Hello Sonic, sorry to dash off like this but I'm going out of town for the next three days. I just wanted to give you a very important warning: Don't ever talk to sea perch, you can't trust those fish; now this is the most important one, you must not look at the moon's eye or it's reflection, the full moon is dangerous for young sea fae like yourself and when it's out get somewhere wet, like a bath or pool.

Sonic looked confused by the letter but just went back to work...


"This makes no sense." Sonic told his friends when they met up at the juice bar. He had just finished telling the about the note while Tails was reading the book, trying to find answers. Unfortunately it was in a language he had never seen before.

"Why does it say that you shouldn't talk to fish and the moon's dangerous?" Knuckles asked.

"Maybe she's had a bit too much sun; what do you think of these?" Amy grinned as she reached into her bag and pulled out a red shoes with multi-coloured gemstones on the front.

"Cool." Sonic shrugged...


That night everyone were gathering at Amy's house for her father's party. The whole house was covered with colourful confetti, glittery streamers and large balloons. While Amy was greeting people at the others were fidgeting in their outfits.

Sonic was wearing an open, light brown jacket in addition to his regular attire, with the exception of his brown neckerchief. He hated dressing up but his fear of Amy's rage was greater than his dislike for formal attire.

Tails wore a yellow and black-striped butterfly.

Knuckles was wearing a white jacket with a bolo tie.

Amy wore a soft purple tiered dress with light purple circles on it, a light purple waist band, white evening gloves, a small purse, and black medium-heeled shoes.

Sticks wore a black one-shoulder dress with white hemlines and black medium-heeled shoes.

Rosy was wearing a sparkly, green mini-dress with long white sleeves.

"This monkey suit is choking me." Sonic whispered to Tails as they went upstairs.

Amy had asked them to get some party poppers from her room. Tails rolled his eyes and started looking for the party poppers. Just then the full moon's bright rays poured in through her slightly opened blinds. Tails jumped when Sonic suddenly cried out in pain...


Amy looked around the room and smiled. Everyone seemed to be having a good time and she was very proud of her self. Suddenly Tails came running down the stairs with a panicked expression on his face.

"Uh, Amy, c-can you and Knuckles join me upstairs for a minuet, there's a bit of a problem." He shook nervously. The two friends quickly followed the fox to her room and were shocked by what they saw. Sonic lying on the ground in his sea fae form!

"How did this happen?!" Amy hissed.

"I-I don't know, one minuet we were looking for those party poppers, the next he's transformed!" Tail cried.

"Guys, I *gasp* can't breath!" The blue hedgehog wheezed up at them.

Amy quickly ran into the small bathroom that was joined to her bedroom while Knuckles carefully picked the gasping merhog up bridal style. He was almost as dry as a bone. He quickly ran into the bathroom and saw Amy had run a bubbly bath. They both carefully lowered him into the bathtub and he sighed in relief, able to breath again.

The thick bubbles were able to cover most of his tail but his webbed fin still hung over the other end. Just then Tails came in with the notebook Emma Nets had left the blue hedgehog.

"I think I get what Emma was trying to say." He said and started flipping through the pages. "This language is based on a root dialect, once I figured that out I was able to translate some of it."

"So what did it say?" Sonic asked as Amy pulled the shower curtain over, covering his fins.

"When the full moon rises it doesn't matter if you're wet or dry, you'll still transform, and when you've completely dried out you won't change back, instead you'll start to suffocate like a full-blood Sea Fae." He explained. "You should be able to change back once the sun rises in the morning."

"What about not looking at the moon?" She asked.

"Sorry, I haven't translated that far ahead yet." He sighed. "Which means you should stay in the bathtub until morning."

"Sorry for ruining your Dad'd party Ames." Sonic sighed. Suddenly they heard Amy's bedroom door open and they all froze. Thankfully the bathroom door was shut.

"Amy, are you in here?" Jane called.

"Uh yeah Mom, just had a bit of a makeup malfunction!" She called back quickly.

"OK, but here up, you're father's here." Jane said before they heard the door closing.

"You better get going to your Dad's party, don't worry, I'll be fine." Sonic reassured with a smile.

They smiled back before slowly leaving the room. Once they were gone however, Sonic looked up at the mirror on the wall opposite him and his eyes widened when he saw the full moon's bright reflection shining back at him. As he started at the reflection his usually emerald green eyes started to glow a moon blue colour...


The next morning Amy went to check on Sonic in the bathroom. He had to spend the night in there since they couldn't get him out passed all the party guess that also decided to stay the night, including Tails. When she went into the bathroom she found that Sonic was still fast asleep in the bathtub.

"Did you sleep?" A tired voice yawned. She quickly turned around and saw a very Tails in her room.

"No." She yawned. Suddenly the morning sun shined through the bathroom window. They heard Sonic wake up. He yawned and sat up.

"Hey there sleepy-head." Amy smiled as Sonic crawled out the bath and started to use his boiling powers to dry his tail faster. "You OK?"

"Oh I'm fine." He smiled as he stood up. "Everything's just fine."...


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