Changed the rating to M just to be on the safe side. O_O

Just a little racey. ^_~

-Chapter 10: Something New-

Between cards, darts and a jam session, the night was hopping with activity.

Chopper, Buck and Sonic headed up to the deck for a midnight barbecue, leaving Knuckles to speak with the weaving girls. Jami, the swallow tailed humming bird, Pami the Jaguar and Mili the thick tailed gecko all sat and shot the breeze with their new echidna acquaintance.

"And that's when he realized, he lit his own house on fire!" Knuckles finished a story and they laughed.

"I'll give you this Knuckles, you're way more chill than most echidna's I've met," Pami said. "From my knowledge you come from a race of very staunch warriors."

Jami nodded and let her cowl down, revealing a bright green patch on her chest. "Dey're very spiritual folks who embrace tradition in everything they do."

"You said you like cooking," Mili said, "They've got some interesting traditional dishes you should look up when you get to the library."

"How are they interesting?" Knuckles asked.

"Dey use a lot of insects," Jami clarified.

"No way!" Knuckles said with a laugh, "I never told anyone, but I got lost in the woods once and I had to eat something. I found termites and they were pretty good. I don't know why but something told me they'd be safe to eat."

"Instincts," Mili said and flicked her long lizard tail back and forth near Knuckle's nose.

"Hehe, you've got a pretty tail," he said at the appendage being waggled in front of him.

Jami and Pami rose with their finished baskets. "We should bring these to the deck house so the crew has them in da morning."

"Need any help?" Knuckles asked.

"Help stack them," Pami said.

Knuckles counted as he helped stack the baskets the girls had been making all day. "Twenty-two. You three work so fast; I didn't even get one done," he said and held up the half finished basket.

"I'll help you finish," Mili said and wiggled just the tip of her tail at Jami and Pami. Taking the hint, the other two left. "Got a question for you," she said as she got a little closer. "Do you know much about your own biology?"

"Nope. Because I don't know what biology means," he said with a proud, ignorant smile.

She snickered. "Biology is the study of life. Behavioral, physicality or anatomical; it's all biology. Would you like to know more?" she asked and wrapped her tail around the two of them.

"Sure." Knuckles may have been a meat-head, but he knew when he was being flirted with. He blushed. "Anatomical is internal body stuff, right?" He had heard the term anatomical before when Tails spoke about his own anomaly of dual tails.

"Yeah. Because I assume you have a few questions. Have you ever been with anyone? Closely?"

"N-no." He blushed deeper. Knuckles didn't know his own exact age, but he was somewhere in his mid to late twenties and still hadn't 'done it', or anything sexual with a woman before. "I-well..I look different than anything I've seen in books. So I'm not sure if I'm supposed to-uh-have..." He motioned to his junk.

"Four heads," she said knowingly.

"Yeah!" He said with a finger snap, "T-that's normal?"

"Completely," she said and put a hand on his leg. "I could teach you some things. As a one time lesson, you know, to prepare you for when you meet a lady echidna." She slid a finger up and down his chest.

"That wouldn't be a bad idea," he said and allowed the intrusion. He laid back and the muscular gecko got to work. It felt amazing. "That tongue of yours is something else," he said through a bit of heavy breathing.

Knuckles anatomy lesson was interrupted when his communicator beeped and Sonic's voice came over the intercom, 'Grub's up, bro,' he said.

"Give me like, five more minutes," he said and quickly shut off the line.

After 'arriving', Mili gave him a peck on the cheek, "How was that? Learn anything?"

"All kinds, thanks," he said with a smirk. He took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and got up to hear a low grumble. He held his stomach. "Heh, food now?"

She nodded, "Food now," and helped him to his feet.

They joined the others on the deck. Knuckles saw a sight he thought he would never see.

Leaning off the edge of the boat, "Fuck you, ocean!" Sonic yelled and flipped off the water while Buck held him from falling overboard.

Knuckles lost his mind laughing. "It looks like you've conquered your fear."

"Hell yeah!" Sonic said and flipped Knuckles off, "Oh, no, not that one," he said and put his middle finger down only to raise his thumb in it's place, "This is the one I meant." He reestablished his 'thumbs up', "Hell yeah!"

When the laughter subsided all that was left was friendly chatter, the smell of roasting meats and a cool ocean breeze. The fear demons were vanquished.

Rollin rollin rollin. ;D