I was out of ideas so I came up with the name "Connection"

But if you really read it with patience you'll understand why it's the only thing i came up with.

So, for the next 2 week or, maybe even three, I will be in Mexico thus no updates for a while. Have a FUN summer everyone (all late XD) and enjoy memories!

Chapter 10: Connection

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Emi opened the door and came out from the restroom. She had just gotten out from the shower, her quill damped and twisted into perfectly nice curls. She had her maid dress on and was tying a bow on the back of it. She turned off the lights from the bathroom and went over to her bed while still tying the bow behind her. She went in front the window and stared out from it.

She finished tying her bow and sighed loudly. She looked down at the small kingdom. It was so peaceful, just the kind of kingdom she liked. She looked down at her hands and frowned.

…

"Keep workin'!" A dark harsh voice demanded.

"But I'm tried, Sir."

"Keep Workin'!"

"AH!"

…

She shivered and winced. She couldn't stand the pain of it before. She rubbed both her arms to stop from preventing Goosebumps.

"Remembering it is painful as well." She told herself while rubbing her arms.

The door knocked and it opened to a beige small bunny. She hid behind the door and peeked inside. "Hello," She politely said.

Emi turned around and smiled when noticing it was a maid. "Oh, Hello. Cream, was it?" She asked.

The rabbit's smile widened with a nod and she entered even farther inside. "Yup that's my name. I just came to tell you that your foods still warm if you want it."

Emi gasped and powerwalked to the door. "Oh, right," She opened the door and the bunny stepped aside. She looked around the age of fourteen or fifth teen. She was only a kid and she was working as a maid with all girls who were 17 or older. It was impressive because she was a hard worker from what Emi had seen.

.:XxX:.

Sonic was fixing up something in his dressing room. It was mid-afternoon and he wanted to head down to talk to Tails who had come for another visit. He looked at his large mirror that fell to the floor. It was a three-sided mirror. Sonic could stare at himself on three different mirrors.

He stared at himself with a smirk. His crown that was on the top of his head stood out and the cape around him. He twisted and turned making sure he was go and ready to go. When he found that he was good, he turned and was going to head down to the door. He then stopped dead in tracks and flinched.

"Hey Sonic," A flirtatious voice said.

Sonic blinked nervous seeing a white mouse with a tight maid dress against the room's door.

"Uh…Cherry. W-what are you doing up here?" he asked nervously while looking around and stepping backwards.

"I just came to see how you're doing." She smoothly said. She walked slowly up to him and smirks.

"I'm fine. You don't have to worry about me." He said chuckling nervously.

"That's good," She giggled.

Sonic didn't know what he hated more, Cherry's little seductive get away or that new girl that just appeared. He did know one thing and that both of them drove him nuts. Cherry has been into one of those moods when she has a desire. Usually, Sonic was cocky around girls. He did flirt with them once in a while, but he never did anything else but bring some of their hopes up a little. Then Cherry came along and nothing was ever the same.

"Cherry, you know it is your brake time. Shouldn't you be down with the rest?" He asked her.

Her smirk widened switching to a grin. "Why would I be with them when I could be with you?" She flirted.

Sonic had quite enough.

"I-I'm-I'm going to go. Yea, I'll see you later Cherry." He shuttered nervously and sped away, and out the door leaving Cherry alone.

Cherry narrowed her eyebrows. She hit her hand on the palm of her other hand. "Damn, he escaped!" She harshly muttered.

.:XxX:.

Emi and Cream walked into the small maid room where the smell of freshly baked spaghetti that seemed to make mobians drool and fall to the ground out of hunger. Emi smiled at seeing the girls eating. The room was a baby blue and the floor was a bright tan marble. It was a very elegant room. A lot of vases made out of pure rich gold or silver. The chairs bright and colorful with the colors of tan, gold or yellow.

"Hello girls," Cream spoke as she walked in happily with Emi following behind. The girls turned around and soon smirks took over their looks.

"Lookie here, its little Miss Clumsy," A yellow mongoose teased.

Emi blushed and lowered her head down still keeping eye-contact with the girls.

"So, you've finally decided to show up. We were beginning to wonder if you were a spy-Gah!" A purple swallow said but was interrupted by an elbow making contact with her side rib. A white bat with dark shadowy wings and sky blue eyes was smiling down at the pink hedgehog.

"I'm glad you made it down to dinner." Greeted the bat.

"Thank you," Emi made her way to a chair near the table and sat down.

A pink echidna walked pass the table placing a plate in front of Emi. Another maid, a lavender cat, set forks on the side.

Cream placed down a place of sweet spaghetti. "Thank you," Emi polity said.

"So, Emi," spoke the Bat. She looked up to see her while she grabbed the fork. "We haven't really interdicted ourselves."

"Yea," the mongoose slyly said putting emphasis on it. She placed a hand on her hip and smirked. "We haven't even really hanged out."

Emi nervously put up a smile and placed the fork down. "I'm E-" She was instantly cut off by the mongoose by her loud voice rising, "We know who you are." She said annoyed, looking up at the celling and waving her hand around. Emi felt a bit offended by the attitude she posted but she ignored it.

"Hey, now let's not give sweet Emi a hard time." The bat defended. She then turned to her and smiled.

"I'm Rouge the bat." She said and turned to the yellow mongoose. "And that be Mina. Ignore her impatience-ness," She warned. Mina only crossed her arms and pouted.

"I'm Blaze," The lavender purple cat said, offering a smile.

"Julie-su," The happy pink echidna introduced herself.

"And I'm Wave, Very nice to meet you." The purple swallow kindly said.

"Nice to meet you all too," Emi chirped. Cream jumped in place. "I can feel were all going to be good friends." She squealed. In the doorway a white shadow was listing to their conversation. She hit just behind the door. She frowned to herself but then left.

.:XxX:.

Emi threw on her pajamas getting ready to sleep after a hard working day. She whirled her hands in her quills and bounced them out from her gown's neck. The all fell down smoothly on her shoulder.

She wore a light faded pink mini gown that only reached her thighs. It was the only thing that the girls found for her in the meanwhile. They had to get her new clothes for her to wear because Emi had a much hidden nature. She wasn't very showy with herself. Emi didn't mind as long as nobody saw her.

'Knock Knock'

Emi's eyes widened and she turned towards the door. "Why today?" She muttered to herself. She walked up to the door and moved her body to the side. She opened the door and poked her head through the opening.

The queen stood in front of her with a very soft smile. She looked into her eyes and Emi opened the door wider stepping out from the darkness. "Your majesty!" She said alarmed.

"Hello Emi," She sweetly said.

"Oh, is there anything I can help you with?" She asked politely while moving a strand of her quills behind her ear.

"Oh, no, no dearie, I'm fine thank you. I only came around to make sure you felt comfortable." She said.

Emi smiled. "I'm good alright. Don't worry about me I feel comfortable." She reassured. The queen nodded understanding her reply. She looked careful at Emi. She was only smiling back so innocently.

"Very well, good night Emi." She softly said as she turned and walked away.

"Good night to you too."

The next day wasn't as tough as it was the first few days. The girls were with Emi most of the time, so she wouldn't alone. They were out once again on the most wonderful morning water plants, cleaning statues and other maids were just flirting around with some guards. Emi watched in disgust. She was walking down the garden way to get to where the girls were. In her hand was a small bucket full of small seeds. They needed it to feed the fish in the small lake and Emi went to go get some.

She turned away from the flirty mobians and continued walking down the path.

Cream stood up from the ground with a few weeds and wiped her forehead. "That's done," She turned seeing Emi coming to her with the bucket. "You found them!" She cheered.

"Yea, they weren't too hard to find. You did say under the kitchen's sink." Emi happily said it.

Cream took the bucket and walked to the lake. Emi followed to where the girls were. They all were waiting for the food to be placed down so they could feed the fish. Cream placed the bucket down and sat on the grass.

"So, has Cherry giving you any trouble yet?' Wave asked.

Emi turned to her and shook her head. "No, She hasn't giving me any trouble at all." Emi told them.

"Really?" Rouge amused.

"Why do you ask?" Emi asked grabbing a hand full of small seeds in her hand.

"Well," Cream began with a soft worried tone. "Yesterday she was complaining about you a lot." She said.

Emi threw the seeds into the water and flinched turning to her. "Really?"

"She kept blabbing about how you wanting to get Sonic's undivided attention by falling off that latter yesterday." Mina added, watching a few fishes coming towards the end of the lake's sides to reach the food.

Emi's eyes widened, "N-no no no no! T-That's not it at all. I'm a clumsy hedgehog." She blurted out quickly but then noticed she had yelled that. She looked down embarrassed.

"On a latter?" asked Blaze.

"I thought I heard something familiar. It startled me" She protested softly, looking at her dress.

"Familiar?" Cream repeated with concern.

"Well the point is she's been getting really jealous and we wanted to make sure you weren't pushed around to hard." Mina explained.

"No, don't worry. It's been all good." Emi reassured them. The girls smiled at her sweetly when a loud voice interrupted them all.

"What are you all doing sitting around!"

Turning, they all find themselves in a serious situation with Cherry. She had her eyes narrowed and her hands on her hip.

"Nothing, we were just leaving." Rouge said firmly while getting up from the grass. Emi noted that she was clearly not afraid of the big boss.

"Good, cause your needed near the flowers." She ordered.

The maids groaned and got up lazily. They looked and each other and walked down the grass to get to a small pavement. Cherry eyed the girls walk away from her. She especially watched Emi who walked nervously away while staring at her back. She didn't like that something about her seemed very familiar. A little too familiar.

.:XxX:.

Water was sprayed all across the bush of roses. Sending the water down the rose's petals and down to the soil where the roots where. Emi came along finding Blaze watering the top of the roses. She gasped and walked over to her.

"Blaze," She began. Blaze turned and smiled at her.

Emi tapped the rose bush gently to dislodge the water drops and fall down to the soil, but some fell to the grass.

"Roses should not be watered from the top. They need to be watered by the soil." She said happily, correcting Blaze. Blaze looked interested in her way of speech.

Sonic was walking down the garden, admiring the sweet smell of flowers when he found Emi smelling a red rose. She was smiling sweetly at it and touching it. Blaze was chuckling softly at Emi who was saying something.

Sonic didn't smile. He kept his frowned and distance. The queen walked up from behind him.

"You still watching out for any abnormal abilities?" His mother asked teasingly. Sonic growled and turned to her.

"Stop it. I know what I'm doing." Sonic defended.

"Yes, spying on our good maid Emi is knowing exactly what you're doing." She skeptically said.

"I'm old enough to make my own decision. Don't go telling me what to do." He stubbornly said.

"Honey, as long as I'm alive I will tell you what to do and what not to do. It's your choice if you listen or not." She spoke wisely. Rouge flew down next to Emi and Blaze. She landed on the pavement and smiled at the two. Aleena walked in front of her son. "And I think it isn't right to spy, but you should go make friends with her.

Sonic narrowed his eyebrows and looked astonished. He didn't understand why his mother was telling him to make friends with her. Why her?

"They were all planted by the queen and Sonic. They love flowers a lot." Rouge stated looking at Emi.

"Really?" Emi paused to chuckle.

"What?" questioned Rouge.

"Nothing. It's nice to know they have a liking in roses." She explained while flashing a grin and turned to smell the rose in front of her again. She touched its petals lightly and took the scent in through her nose and closed her eyes.

"I can tell you do too," Rouge smirked.

Emi's eyes opened and she frowned. She backed away from the flower and touched the flowers petals.

"What's wrong?" Blaze asked.

"What did it have? A bug?" Rouge asked teasingly.

Emi shook her head and her eyes grew huge. She looked tensed. She was backing away from the plants and was suddenly shaking. Her mouth would open but nothing came out.

"Emi?" Cream asked coming to her side.

"Whoa, sweetheart. Are you okay?" Rouge asked walking towards her with a worried expression.

…

Sonic saw Emi begin to shake from a distance. She pointed at the flower and her face expression was as if she had seen a ghost. The maids around her were scared too.

"Something's wrong." He said very serious and concerned. He ran away from his mother's side and to where the girls were.

…

Emi smelled another rose then another one. She backed away. "It's the s-same thing!" She announced.

Blaze placed a hand on her shoulder. "What are you talking about?"

Sonic then appeared next to Emi and the girls gasped backing away.

"What's going on?" His voice asked firmly.

Emi turned to him and knew she had to say it. "Sonic, you have to get your soldiers up and guarding the kingdom." She ordered.

Sonic looked at her and frowned. "What?" He asked not believing his ears.

"T-the shadow landers are here! There here and-and-"Emi was screaming now. She looked dead serious and Sonic had never seen such reaction like this. It almost sounded…real.

"Emi Calm down," Cream tried whispering softly, but Emi turned to her angrily, "I won't calm down!" She angrily growled.

She turned back to Sonic who looked confused but annoyed. "You've got to trust me. They're going to try to break in and hurt us." She cried. Sonic narrowed his eyes and looked at the rest. His mother then walked up looking worried too. Then he turned to Emi. Her two green jade eyes held the expression of fear, worried and helplessness. He didn't know what to do. Should he trust her or not? Though, if the thing she had said ended up true. His people were in trouble and so was the castle.

He put on a serious face. He grabbed her arm and took her into his arms, bridal style. She squeaked in terror at the sudden move. Cream's, Rouge, and Blaze's eyes widened.

"I hope your right," he muttered to her while looking ahead of the road and dashed off.

.:XxX:.

Sonic rushed into the throne room and dropped Emi down on the floor.

"Oomph," She gasped.

He turned to the guards who stared at him surprisingly. He extended his arm out and pointed at the doors. "Guards block the front entrance. The rest of you keep on the lookout for any intruders." He ordered.

The guards looked at each other weirdly and then back at him.

"Go NOW!" He roared.

The guards stiffened and ran to places they were ordered to go to. Some took their swords out and bows, ready to fight.

Cherry, who happened to be in the room, flinched at what he had said. He turned to Emi who was standing up from the floor.

"If this is some kind of a joke for you, you're going to a whole lot of trouble for if this ends up being a false alarm. " He warned her. Emi nodded confidently and turned, looking around the room.

Cherry narrowed her eyes and ran down the door way to another hall.

Everything was quiet. No one spoke and everyone looked around suspiciously. Emi turned to her side finding Sonic staring at her. She flinched and quickly averted to the right so she wouldn't look at his eyes. She lifted her head up to see the ceiling.

Sonic was now angry. There was nothing around. All was normal. He crossed his arms and frowned.

"I don't see anythi-"

Emi pushed herself on him and out of the way. "Look out!" She exclaimed.

A dark back shady spear slashed itself up from the ceiling and down to where Sonic stood. Emi got off Sonic's stomach and slid to the side. She gasped as she saw a masked covered ninja jump in through the window, breaking it into shreds and jumping to the bottom. Sonic got up and clenched his teeth.

"There's an invader in the castle!" Sonic yelled.

More and more ninjas came in making Sonic shocked. There weren't just one.

They all jumped in to fight the guards and break their precious golden vases and pictures on the walls. One dropped in front of Emi. Emi gasped and slid backwards. Sonic saw the masked ninja evilly chuckle down at her and move his hand in one of his pockets to reach something.

"No stop!" She pleaded.

Sonic spin dashed the ninja away from Emi. It gave her a chance to get up from the floor and stand her ground ready to fight. The ninja got up the floor and teleported. Sonic's eyes went wide.

"Eyyyy!" Someone yelled

Sonic turned around seeing the ninja running off to the windows with golden vases and other valuables.

"No! They're getting away!" Sonic yelled.

"Take Cover!'

Sonic heard a small whistle noise becoming lower and lower and lower. Sonic sped to Emi and brought her down. There they saw a bright white light go off and everyone screamed. The room was bright white and anyone could barely see a thing. It was making them dizzy.

Sonic picked up his head. "The girl!" He said. He was about to get up when Emi grabbed on to his red cape.

"No, don't go. You can't see." She begged.

"They're in trouble. I've got to help 'em." He yanked his cape away and run off leaving Emi confused and by herself. A ninja reappeared behind her. It saw Emi struggle to get up but she couldn't. Emi felt something behind her and so she turned, finding the ninja there. She gasped and then it spoke, "The master wanted to thank you..." It took out a small dagger. "Traitor,"

Emi receive a sharp painful feeling just on the side of her stomach. Emi gasped and her air broke off. She saw the ninja teleport and gone. She fell to her knees and held her stomach tight. She dropped to the floor and slowly her eyes closed. The last thing she saw was a white blurry view of the castle's open throne room. She didn't see the hurt guards or any blood on the floor. It was shining white with sparkly floors and walls that shined like the bright sun.

Everything was like a heaven, and in the middle of the room, a little blue hedgehog running in circles from a pink little hedgehog who was reaching out trying to catch him.

Yea, it ended up looking pretty fudged up. I understand but you'll just have to continue reading to find out what happens next ;) And how 'bout that. A year on fanfiction. ^-^