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Sarah belongs to me, BlackPetals23. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.
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Chapter Ten:
Sleepwalking and Stealing
Blaze yawned and stretched before a hand hit her stomach. She jumped before looking over at Silver, buried into her side.
She sighed and petted his quills, "Morning."
"Hm," Silver breathed in her scent, "So much better than a hole."
Blaze giggled softly as Silver got up, leaning his top half over her's. He kissed under her chin before kissing her lips. "Good morning."
"What do you think we're going to do today?" Blaze questioned. "This has to be one of the best camping trips I've been on."
"You've been on other camping trips?" Silver tilted his head.
"Nope."
Silver laughed and leaned in to kiss his girlfriend.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Blaze leapt up, throwing Silver off to roll onto the floor. "Ow."
"What was that?" Blaze got up and grabbed her robe, tying the string around her to hold it there; she opened the door and looked across the hall.
Amy peered out of her room with Shadow while Rouge blinked back at her while Knuckles lay on the floor.
"What happened?" Blaze asked.
"Rouge pushed me," Knuckles muttered into the floor.
"Not you," Amy hissed at him.
Rouge walked over Knuckles and knocked on the closed door. Cream came out of her bedroom while Scourge followed her from his bedroom.
"What the hell was that?" he grumbled.
Tails walked alongside Fiona to gather around the closed door. Rouge knocked on it again. "Sarah, hon, you okay?"
Sarah, her quills a mess and a nightgown on, yanked open the door with a frightful expression. "Sonic's gone!"
"Have you thought to look downstairs?" Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Shadow. It's only eight in the morning. Sonic does not wake up until eighty-thirty. Always."
Shadow shrugged. "Maybe he was sleepwalking."
"Oh, God…" Sarah held her head.
"Or maybe not!" Shadow stood straight as she started to whimper.
Amy nodded consolingly, "Yeah. Maybe he only got to the couch again or he's outside right now."
~~~.~~~
The group plus Alicia looked outside, all gathered at the door and some outside. Scourge looked at the bare feet tracks.
Manic whistled. "Well…you weren't wrong when you said he might be outside."
Amy held her head this time. "Where could he have gone?"
"Anywhere he wants," Scourge stepped up. "Hell. He was probably walking all night."
"If we follow the tracks, we could find him," Silver suggested.
"Yes, but now it's just a matter of saying, 'who cares enough to do that?'" Shadow snorted.
Sarah pushed them aside, "Alright. Amy and I-"
"Whoa, whoa," Shadow stopped her, "Why Amy?"
"Well, why not?"
"Maybe I wanted to spend some time with her," Shadow folded his arms.
"We can just share her," Sarah shrugged.
Amy glared between the two. "Am I just a piece of meat?"
Manic chuckled. "I think so, because they're ignoring you."
Shadow and Sarah were engaged in a staring competition, as if they were in each other's minds, talking.
She's my girlfriend.
She's the only other one here who can actually tolerate Sonic right now.
She's my girlfriend.
She's my friend and Sonic's friend.
She's my girlfriend.
She should help find Sonic. She would help find Sonic.
She's still my girlfriend.
Sarah sighed. "We need a way to solve this."
"I have one."
They turned to Cream. Shadow's eyes narrowed at the female that would definitely go on Sarah's side.
"What?"
Cream swallowed at the ebony hedgehog.
~~~.~~~
"I hate that rabbit," Shadow whispered to himself.
Amy held onto his arm while looking around, "Sonic!?"
"SONIC!?" Sarah screamed while they walked on the road by the trees which surrounded the creek.
Shadow dragged his feet. "This is not the quality time I was thinking about."
"What were you thinking about?" Amy hummed while she skipped.
Shadow looked over at her and his raised his eyebrows, up and down a couple of times before Amy swatted his shoulder and stared off into the sky.
Whining like a child, Shadow stood there, not moving. Amy tried yanking him but he didn't budge.
"Shadow, come on! We'll spend time together, later!"
"Like what?" Shadow folded his arms but watched his girlfriend with keen interest.
Amy put her's on her hips and sighed heavily. "Something G rated."
Amy then turned around and started calling Sonic's name again with Sarah. Shadow followed with his arms slumped at his side, his shoulders slumped and his feet still dragging.
Green eyes looked around.
Where am I?
Sonic lifted himself up and looked at the brown ceiling. An angry raccoon stood over him.
Sonic went to reach for the couch arm but it wasn't a couch he was in. The raccoon had his pj's on while glaring daggers at Sonic.
Instead of an arm chair, a shoulder was what Sonic grabbed. A female raccoon opened her eyes on the other side of the bed, wearing a small nightgown. She jumped and looked at the blue blur with fright before batting her eyes and waving at him.
He waved slightly back before the male raccoon grabbed him by the collar of his tank-top.
"Get out," he hissed.
Sonic gulped before smiling and winking with a salute, "Right away!"
In a flash he was gone. Once he was outside, the hedgehog stopped to look around.
"Where the hell am I?"
Twisting around, he looked at the number of the cabin.
"...Shit…I walked this far?" Sonic scratched his head and started walking in the direction he thought he should, yawning.
Too early. I think I should sleep some more before running.
On the cabin door was the big, bold number '56'.
"Oh, come on. They'll find him before sunset," Tails reassured his girlfriend while the group sat outside.
Scourge had Fiona on his lap while poking the morning fire, "How can you be so sure?"
Tails glared while Cream chewed on her nails some more. Blaze hummed, "What else is there to do?"
"Nothing much," Silver snorted as he held his girlfriend, "I guess we'll have to wait until Sonic comes back."
"Nah," Scourge waved the hedgehog off, "We can do whatever we want. We don't need their say-so, do we?"
"Not really," Rouge slowly stated, "But…they do think about things to do."
"They never went on a camping trip before!" Scourge said, "Only Sarah but that's it! We can do whatever we want!"
Knuckles nodded and looked at his girlfriend, "Fish?"
Rouge sighed. "I guess."
"I never learned how to fish," Cream mused.
"Fly fishing?" Tails asked with a glint of hope in his eyes.
Knuckles shrugged, "Maybe in the calm spots. Alicia, how many spots did you guys see?"
Alicia was sitting beside Espio in her own chair she brought after going back to her cabin. "Um…there were some deep spots but I didn't see any fish."
"They might not be any there anyway," Espio reasoned. "They scared the fish and the cabins are closer near the beginning, plus kids go out in the creek all the time."
"Upriver then?" Knuckles looked at each camper. "Who knows, maybe we'll find Sonic before Sarah, Shadow and Amy."
"They went to the river crossing first," Cream reminded. "If we leave now, they'll be behind."
Knuckles nodded. "Tails and I will go find the fishing poles, you guys get ready."
"What about the bait and lures?" Blaze shrugged.
"I'm sure Mr. Barker has some," Silver said.
Scourge smirked. "But how do we get them?"
They glanced at each other before a notion formed slowly in all their noggins.
Shadow stopped when a four-wheeler went in front of him.
"We've knocked on every door, Sarah. He's not here."
"He must've gone the other way, up the creek," Amy suggested.
Sarah whined. "What if he's sleeping under a tree and some kids beat the crap out of him?"
Shadow stared blankly at her. "I'm pretty sure that's already happened."
"Come on!" Sarah marched like a soldier back up to their cabin which was only two miles…ish.
~~~.~~~
Sonic scratched his head again at the number '67'. He had run but he passed all the cabins until he ran into one, literally.
The small chipmunk stared at him. "Mister, are you lost?"
The chipmunk was just a kid; he had come out of the creek when Sonic ran into the side of the cabin, leaving his siblings behind to play with themselves.
"I think. How many cabins are there?"
"My Dad said something like a hundred," the chipmunk stood taller. "Which cabin number are you?"
"Thirteen."
"…Then, mister, you really are lost."
Painted in cameo, the girls looked at the boys who were normal. They were in the trees and bushes right in the back of Mr. Barker's office, having passed Shadow, Sarah and Amy.
"You remember the procedure?" Scourge asked.
They nodded, "Sir, yes, sir!"
"Do you remember where Tails said the bait was?" Knuckles called.
"Sir, yes, sir!"
"And do you remember our plan of not having to pay for the bait and lures!?" Silver yelled like a trainer.
"Sir, yes, sir!"
"Then march!" Knuckles said while Tails nodded.
The four girls marched while the guys watched from the bushes. Alicia and Blaze got on their hands and knees near the two windows while Cream and Rouge got on their backs to see inside.
Mr. Barker was at his desk, signing papers as usual while Tim typed something on a computer in the other corner of the room. Rouge gave the wave signal so Knuckles and Scourge went to the front of the cabin. The only place to hide in front of it though was just one single line of bushes that could hold at least three Mobians. Knuckles took out a slingshot and put a balloon in it.
"Ready," Scourge whispered. "Fire!"
Knuckles let it go and soon the cabin's brown door had blue paint on it.
"We'll have to thank Alicia," Scourge whispered as they ran back around to the guys waiting.
Mr. Barker and Tim both looked out of the cabin door. Tim tilted his head, "What do you suppose that was?"
Rouge crawled in through the window with Cream, who slammed the door shut and locked them outside. Alicia and Blaze ran back into the trees where the guys were already running for safety if Mr. Barker and Tim came around back.
Tim turned around and Mr. Barker held his head, yelling, "MY DOOR!"
Rouge snickered as she grabbed the worms out of the mini fridge in the wooden room while Cream grabbed the box under all the papers on the floor. She checked to make sure it was the one Tails said it was when he looked through the window with Silver while Knuckles and Scourge beautified the girls.
Lures. Perfect.
Cream was sure this had to be the most evil thing she'd ever done and she hoped it was the only time. She opened the window and made the sure the coast was clear. Rouge heard her drop the fishing box before going through the window herself. The ivory bat sent down the boxes of worms and climbed out herself.
She gathered the boxes that were safely on the ground and ran for the trees just as Mr. Barker and Tim started for the back. Cream stopped in the trees, "The window!"
"What about it?"
"It's still open!"
"Don't worry, we shut the fridge and the box was on the floor, they won't even notice what we took!"
"Hey! You! Stop, right there!" Tim yelled, trying to see the criminals.
"RUN!" Rouge hissed at her and ran for it.
Cream was right on her heels, dodging and jumping over trees. She never felt so much like a rebel in her life.
"Alright," Sonic followed the boy's directions, "I just keep going on this trail that weaves through the trees and I'll be good."
With a flash, he zoomed off, only, he didn't get anywhere. With a loud thump, something hard hit him.
"OW! FOR THE LOVING MOTHER OF GOD!"
Sonic was sure he wasn't breathing. His head hit something hard and his chest was on fire.
"FAKER, YOU IDIOT!"
It's just Shadow.
Sonic got himself up and stared at Shadow who was trying to breathe. Shadow glared at him. "We were looking all over for you!"
"We?"
"Amy, Sarah and me," Shadow answered.
"What about the others?"
"I guess they didn't care much about you."
Sonic gave him a blank stare. "That's not funny."
~~~.~~~
"Where are we going?" Amy skipped around Sarah. "Shadow left just a few seconds ago."
Sarah shrugged. "Somewhere. Who knows if he'll come back?"
"Hey! Tails!"
The girls' ear's twitched to the squeal. Amy smiled. "I'd know that squeal from anywhere!"
"You would?" Sarah tilted her head in confusion.
Amy raced down the hill and through the weeds to the creek where her best friend was. The rabbit turned and frowned as Amy came plunging through the water to tackle her.
"Hi, Amy. Did you find Sonic?"
"No," Amy said.
Sarah met up with her, "Where'd you get the fishing poles?"
Tails shrugged, "They were in the cabin."
"And the bait?"
"…."
Sarah and Tails stared at each other for three minutes flat. Tails cleared his throat. "….Uh, long story. We'll tell you later."
"Where are the others?"
"Down further near the cabin," Cream pointed. "They stopped at any fishing spots they thought were good."
"How much bait do you have?" Sarah looked in the cooler, bending down. "And where'd you get this cooler?"
"The cooler came with the poles," Tails let his line go a bit more loosely.
"And?"
"The bait?"
"Yes."
"You're never gonna let it go, will you?"
"Nope."
"Rouge stole it," Cream blurted.
"What? Why?" Sarah stood up. "She wasn't pressured, was she?"
Amy smacked her hands together. "I bet it was Scourge!"
"Cream stole the lures," Tails revealed.
"You purposely stole, Cream!?" Amy put her hands on her hips.
"Why on Mobius would I do that?" Cream snorted her laughter. "I'd never do that!"
"And now she's lying," Tails whispered.
Amy glared at him. "She's been hanging out with you too much!"
"Yeah right!"
"Yeah, I am right!"
Tails growled, "We were bored. We have nothing better to do but…prank Mr. Barker and Tim while you guys go and find Sonic."
"Now you guys pranked them?" Sarah put her hands on her hips.
"What else do you suggest we do?" Tails looked back at her as he turned around, a large tree going over the creek and into the hill on the other side, almost making a cave.
"There are plenty of things. Tonight I was hoping we could stargaze and eat outside."
Tails paused, "Alright, how about in the day time?"
"We have kites; you can go on the tubes again or talk to our neighbors. We have Frisbees and horseshoes and-"
"Right," Tails waved her off. "I'll make sure to see you when I run out of things to do."
~~~.~~~
"Did you catch anything yet?" Rouge asked, sitting on a boulder looking quite bored.
Knuckles was in the river. "No, Rouge. Not yet."
Rouge looked in her pocket and glanced at the paper she pulled out. "What about when we go home?"
"What about it?"
"We have an appointment, Knuckles."
"It's not an appointment. We're simply looking at cards," Knuckles snorted. "What's so amazing about that?"
Rouge muttered something before sitting straight. "Well, what about…you know…are we gonna say anything?"
"We have to. Here," Knuckles walked over to her. "Just think, we're heading home with them in that damn truck and we can just spring it on them! They'll be so excited—for both things," he reeled in the hook before casting it again.
Rouge nodded, putting the paper away. She looked up and giggled. The red echidna glared at the trees that surrounded them, at one tree in particular that held his hook and line.
~~~.~~~
Blaze popped the gum in her mouth. "I'm bored."
"That's because you aren't fishing."
"Yes, I am."
Blaze was like Rouge, sitting on a rock only with a fishing pole touching the water. Silver knew the hook was on his boots while he stood in the water but he didn't bother. "I'm sure you got something, just reel it in."
The cat did so, Silver moved closer to her and closer as she didn't notice her hook was his boot. He stopped in front of her and she giggled, reaching down and unhooking him. "Sorry."
He caught her in a lip lock. Blaze kissed back, putting her arms around his neck, dropping the pole. Silver wrapped an arm around her waist and then another. Blaze pulled away, "Silver!"
"What? I didn't pinch you this time, I promise!" he put up his empty hands.
"Your pole, you moron!" she pointed to the pole floating away.
~~~.~~~
Scourge sat on the bank, drinking his beer he brought along while Fiona stood in the water fishing.
"Why do you find this fun?" Scourge leaned back, closing his eyes.
"What else is there to do?" Fiona shrugged. "I don't have my nail polish and this is actually kind of fun."
"How so?"
"Just get in here and I'll show you."
He opened an eye and hummed. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Fiona's shoulders dropped a little while she turned her gaze over at him. "No. I'm thinking something completely different. Now get your lazy butt over here and bring your fishing pole."
~~~.~~~
"I don't get it."
"Charmy," Vector sighed as he layed in the water, becoming a fan of it since the day at the lake, "There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop and look at a woman and think, 'I need her.'."
"What then?" Charmy cast his pole while he sat on Vector's back as they floated down the river.
"It's what happened to Espio. Only he's love struck."
"What's the difference?"
"You're weak when you're love struck," Vector muttered.
"And how do you know these things?" Charmy inquired.
Vector coughed. "Uhh….I don't know what you mean…."
"Oh right, I'm not supposed to tell anyone that you went out with Vanilla."
"I did not!"
"You're right. Walking her home is the closest thing you can call a date, seeing as you two will never get together."
"CHARMY!"
"HAHA!" Charmy flew up before Vector could stand up and drown him.
~~~.~~~
Espio cleared his throat while Alicia kicked her feet over the bank. "So…are you enjoying your trip?"
"Yes!" Alicia exclaimed. "I'm glad I came; I almost didn't. "
"Why?"
"My roommate wanted me to stay so she could hook me up with this guy."
Espio swallowed rather harder than he meant to. "Um…so you're…like…single?"
Alicia looked at him and smiled. "Fine. Date. Tonight. Good?"
Espio's mouth almost dropped but choked out a yes.
It seemed like she just got in my brain and noticed my emotions! How do girls do it?
Shadow stretched and wrapped his arm around Amy on the blanket outside next to Sonic and Sarah.
Amy rolled her eyes. "That trick?"
"What trick?" Sonic asked, doing the same thing.
"That trick."
"You guys do need a new trick," Sarah said.
"There's always the firework one," Shadow suggested before Scourge sat down with red cups and cases of beer.
"Let's get this party started!" Scourge passed them a few drinks.
Tails shook his head. "I'm in high school."
"Same here," Charmy said, motioning to him and Cream.
"Relax," Fiona sat beside them. "I already told him so I just put some soda in these cups for you."
She passed them blue cups and Silver raised his eyebrows. "Someone's being nice."
Fiona gave him a look before lying down next to Scourge. Blaze shook her head. "I was dared to drink once and I'll never do it again."
"Oh well," Scourge said. "Hand me your drink then."
Blaze held it and sighed. "…."
He shrugged and let it go before Amy coughed. "Are you sure we should be drinking?"
Scourge waved her off. "We're good. Let's drink!" he howled into the night.