Cream, Cheese, and Clay

Galaxina, Cream, and Cheese were heading back to the Thyatira Resort after a day out on the town. However, Cream and Cheese were not happy with each other.

"Will you two calm down?" Galaxina asked.

"I still say that it was my turn to go on the ride." Cream stated.

"Chao chao." Cheese protested, his ball over top of his head spiked up.

"Come on, you two. Both of you are acting childish." The seedrian commented as they were starting to walk by an alleyway. She looked at the time. "Oh no, we're going to be late to make dinner." She looked around for another way to get back until she noticed the alleyway. "Come on." She grabbed the hand of Cream and Cheese. "This might be a good short cut."

They headed down the alley when she noticed a voice call her.

"Excuse me." It said. Then, the meterek stopped for a moment.

"What?" She asked.

"Excuse me, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a moment." The voice said.

"Who's there?" Cream asked. Cheese was getting a little nervous.

"Don't be frightened. I'm not going to hurt you." The voice said. Then, an echidna stepped out of the shadows to show them. "See I'm just a mobian."

"An echidna?" Galaxina said. "What's an echidna doing in the middle of Battle Bird country?"

"I'm just a drifter." The stranger said. "I just move from town to town."

"Just who are you anyway?" The seedrian questioned.

"I'm just a simple toymaker down on my luck." The echidna stated. "I need someone who can test out my toy, but everywhere I go no one wants to try it."

"What is it?" Cream wondered, asking the echidna. The echidna pulled out a big bucket.

"This." He said. "This is a bucket of magic clay. You can form it however you want."

"What's the difference this and playdough?" Galaxina asked. Then, he pulled out a pair of gloves.

"This pair of gloves go with this clay. They are needed in order for the clay to work and the gloves will only work with the clay." The stranger stated.

"How much would you want for it?" The seedrian asked.

"If you try it, I'll give it to you for free." He said.

"Thanks." Cream added. Then, the echidna gave the bucket to Cream and Galaxina. "Thank you, stranger."

"You're welcome." The two mobians have left the alleyway and returned to the place, they were staying at. While Galaxina was talking with the Babylon Rouges, Cream decided to go to her room. He and Cheese carry the bucket and the gloves there.

"Hmm, what do I do?" Cream said, putting on the gloves. "What am I to make with this clay?"

"Chao?" Cheese asked, a question mark forming above its head.

"I know. I'll try to make you." The little rabbit girl stated. So she molded the clay until it looked like a chao. "How is this?" Cheese just tilted his head. "Hmm." She put the clay figure down. "Maybe if I add something to it." He reached over to the clay bucket not realizing where her hand was.

"CHAO!" Cheese squealed.

"Cheese, what is it?" Cream asked. Then, she looked at the clay figure and saw it was moving on its own like if it was a living being.

"Ah." The figure stated.

"It's moving." Cream stated. "I can't believe it. It's actually moving." She turned to Cheese. "How did this happen?" Cheese just shrugged. She looked at the clay bucket again and dug some more clay out. The clay chao walked over to the bucket.

"Be careful." Cream said as she crafted another chao made of clay. She set it down and waited for it to move. But after a moment, it still remained motionless. "What am I not doing right?" She thought for a moment. "What if…" She, then, waved her hand over the clay figure. Then, it began to move. "It worked. It's moving. This is the best toy ever."


Things were looking good for a while. But as time went on, Cream was paying more and more attention to her clay figurines and paying less and less attention to her own real chao. As the little girl made the clay chao, she would modify the design each time. One looked like Sonic, another Tails, a third one Knuckles, a fourth Amy, and so on and so forth. In Cheese's mind, it felt that the only thing Cream cared about was her clay creations.

After being neglected for a while, Cheese had enough. He went to Galaxina and explained what was going on to the meterek. Then, the two went up to Cream's room to confront her.

"Cream, can I talk to you for a minute?" She asked. "What in the…?" She and Cheese noticed a brightly colored chao garden made entirely out of clay along with many chao, including the two she first made.

"Look Galaxina." Cream said. "I made a chao garden all by myself."

"That is very nice, Cream." Galaxina said. The little rabbit girl smiled.

"Thanks."

"But I was concerned that you might be ignoring Cheese." The meterek pointed out.

"Don't worry I'll give Cheese some attention." Cream stated.

"You have been ignoring him for the past few days." Galaxina replied. "I'm starting to get a little worried about you."

"But there is no need to worry." The rabbit girl answered.

"I can see you are enjoying the toy?" A voice stated. They turned around and saw the echidna stand in the doorway.

"Hey, it's the toymaker who gave us this toy." Cream said.

"How did you get in here?" Galaxina asked.

"Your door was unlocked and I wanted to let you know that it was the case for your safety." The echidna stated. Then, he walked over to the chao garden. "Did you make this, little one?" Hearing the toymaker's voice sent chills down the seedrian's spine.

"I did." Cream replied.

"What drew you to them?" The echidna asked.

"I don't know." The little girl said.

"You do not know why you were drawn to them?" He asked and he looked over the chao garden. "You have more abilities with this than you realize."

"I do?" Cream asked.

"Yes. Do you want me to demonstrate?" He asked.

"Sure." The little rabbit replied.

"Cream, I don't think that's a good idea." Galaxina pointed out.

"He's the one who made the toy." Cream stated. "If anyone knows the toy, it is him." The toymaker came over to the chao garden. He gazed upon the figures going about the garden.

"This is a very impressive work." He commented. "These chao are so lifelike, almost like the real thing." He paused. "But yet…" He noticed two of the chao arguing over some food and fighting over it. The echidna pointed to them. "These chao are acting greedy and selfish." The rabbit girl went up to them.

"Please, little chao. Don't fight each other." Cream said. "I can make more for you." But the chao seem to ignore what Cream was saying and continued to fight and yell at each other. A crowd had gathered around them.

"They have gotten annoying." The echidna replied, getting an angry snarl on his face.

"Little Chao, please stop." The rabbit girl stated. "Please, listen to me."

"They aren't going to listen." The toymaker said, raising his hand and lowering it into the garden. The chao ran away from the hand except the original two that were arguing. The hand was over top of them. "They refuse to listen at all." He removed his hand revealing they were crushed. The clay chao returned Cream, Galaxina, and Cheese saw the look of mourning and sorrow in their eyes. But the echidna still had a scowl on his face. "You only shown half of what you can do. Let me enlighten you on the other half. Stand back, I don't want you to get hurt."

He used his gloves to send a rampant storm and a great cataclysm across the chao garden that Cream had created. The entire garden had broken apart and massive destruction was seen in the clay-created world. The three had only watched as all of the chao absorbed back into the ground, becoming lifeless clay once again. The little rabbit girl was beginning to sob.

"Why did you do this?" She cried. "Why have you killed them all?"

"What's so special about them? They're only clay." The echidna stated, turning to the three of them. "You can easily make more when you need them. For with those gloves, you are able to grant life to figures made from clay. And you can just as easily take it away. Thus granting you the power of God in a miniature scale." He paused. "But alas, once you are aware of the knowledge of such power, the gloves no longer work." Galaxina looked at him in raw angry.

"You are the most heartless individual I have ever encountered." Galaxina stated, loudly to him. "How dare you torment a little girl like this!?" The echidna just laughed at the seedrian and gave off a twisted smile.

"If you knew who I was, you would be terrified at my presence." The echidna chortled, growling and taunting at Galaxina. "I am the ruler of the wicked, all evil is under my domain, and from the Shadow Realm I reign for I. am. Enerjak." He laughed seeing absolute terror enter Cream's face. "And as your punishment for neglecting your chao and tempering with forces no mobian is allowed to mess with, I drag you into hell." He tried to move towards the little rabbit, but Galaxina blocked her path.

"You will have to get through me first." Galaxina spouted.

"Oh, really?" Enerjak asked, mocking her. "I'm so scared of a little plant. What are you going to do to me, huh?"

"HIYA!" Galaxina shouted at the top of her lungs. She gave out a swift and powerful kick onto the demon king. They heard a loud crack as she struck his crotch.

"ARGH!" He roared in angry pain, two octaves higher and cock-eyed, holding on to the hard stricken area.

"CREAM! CHEESE! LET'S GO!" The female metereck said as the two mobians and chao dashed out the room leaving the devil of an echidna. He started to bounce on his heels, letting them go.

"When I'm done dealing with broken jewels," He stated. "I will come after you." He paused. "If they can travel as far away as they can. But no matter where they go, I can catch up to them at my own leisure and seize the little brat. There are other enchantments the gloves has, she can't take them off for those gloves will conceal from her mind the way to take them off. Not like she'll notice that she still has them on for they will become invisible by now and attach to her normal gloves. And I can track them through those accessories as well." He paused and looked out in the direction of the fleeing mobians. "So, enjoy your days on Mobius, little Cream, for they are numbered."


While on the Sky Patrol heading back to South Island, Galaxina had looked for Cream and she had noticed that she and Cheese were spending the entire trip back playing with her real chao friend. The happy seedrian had saw that the one she was babysitting had learned her lesson.

At that moment, Tails showed up behind her.

"Hey Galaxina." The fox said.

"Hey Tails." She answered.

"The mission is completed and we will be back in South Island in a little bit." He said. "By the way, did anything interesting happen on your vacation?"

"No… not really." Galaxina replied. "We can say we had a devil of a time."