Okay. Internet is kind of limited in China sooooo~ I'll try my best to work with the things I know. :3

AND BTW PERCY IS NOT DEAD WITH THIS STORY GEEZ.

Chapter 10: Museum Tour and Catching Colds

"Sonic. Sonic. Sonic."

The voice rang in said hedgehog's ear, each time getting louder. But he still refused to get up. His limbs were too heavy to lift…

"Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, blue," the other one repeated again, poking at Sonic every time he said the color.

The azure hedgehog curled up into a spike ball and jabbed the other guy's hands. "Shut up, Knuckles. I'm up. Geez."

Despite a rather painful stinging in his hands, Knuckles had a grin on. "Not so fun when you're the one being tortured in your sleep, now is it?" The red one referred to the time when he was forced to get out of bed with the blue one poking and prodding at him.

Sonic shook his head and rubbed his eyes to get the sleepiness out of them. He let out a long, low groan as he walked to the bathroom and splashed cold water in his face. What had happened yesterday night? He would never have such a hard time waking up. At least, in normal circumstances, no. So…what had happened?

"Mehh…" he groaned. Too hungry. Think about it later after breakfast.

After the two had both cleaned up and put on the new clothes they had bought yesterday, they headed out the door and went to knock on everyone's doors to see if they were up yet.

Shadow's room was always the first they checked mainly because it was right next to theirs. And, as they had expected, the dark hedgehog was already up and ready to go. The three then trotted to the room of Silver and Tails. After waiting a few minutes because the clothes were too difficult for Silver to put on along with a few 'it's no use, guys, it won't fit' and with Tails sweatdropping…Silver finally got a plain shirt and pants on, and the group grew up to five mobians.

Next was Room 410 where the pink, the purple, and the white furries were at. They stalled for another few minutes trying to pick out the clothes that fitted today's weather along with bickering about which top went with which dress. Finally done, the three girls joined the rest of the group. All eight mobians were here.

They headed down to the lobby and ate breakfast with the loud chatters of other people in the café. When they were almost done, Tails started discussing and explaining where they were going today.

"We're first going to visit this museum called the Historical Museum of Hokkaido. (A/N: I know, real simple). Then, we find a place nearby to eat lunch. After that, because today is going to be really hot, we're going up to the clouds to see the Sea of Clouds. When we finish, we're going to find another place to eat dinner. Lastly, we return to the hotel and do whatever we want to relax. I was thinking that maybe we could go to the indoor rotenburo before going to sleep. Sound good?" Tails finished and looked around the group of friends to see if anyone disagreed. The only sounds that didn't agree or disagree were the quiet chewing of toast and other contents of their breakfast. "Alright. Now let's finish our breakfast. We'll rest for half an hour and then get going. We're leaving at 10:00."

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"We line up right here, Silver," Blaze said, grabbing Silver's hand before he went over to the other line.

Said hedgehog laughed nervously, muttering, "Oh, I-I knew that…Just testing you, ya know?" The lavender cat rolled her eyes. Then Silver looked away and saw Sonic and Tails behind him, the blue hedgehog tapping his foot.

"Man, why do these lines take so long?" Sonic muttered, glancing at the grand clock on the wall above the Help Center.

Tails shrugged and went back on studying the brochure about the museum tour.

Sonic turned to Knuckles, who was staring at the clock and was as still as a rock. He didn't even seem like he was breathing. "Argh, not you, too!" Sonic said, waving a hand in front of his violet eyes, trying to get his attention.

"StopithedgehogI'mtryingtomeditatewithmyeyesopenno wgoawaysiiiigh," was the response the speedy hedgehog got.

Sonic gave a disgruntled growl of annoyance and stayed silent again.

Another twenty minutes passed before they were finally next in line, and Shadow was already speaking the foreign language with impressive speed and fluency. With an 'arigato gozaimasu,' the eight followed Shadow's lead with a map of the museum in hand, and heading over to the tour guides. One spoke Japanese, one spoke English, and one spoke French. (A/N: I dunno what languages to put here, sue me)

The English tour guide smiled at the crowd and yelled over the noise in the museum. "Okay, so this is the Historical Museum of Hokkaido. My name is Tom, and I'll be your tour guide today. Those of you who speak English, please come and follow me and we'll start the tour." With that, he held up a wooden sign with a piece of paper pasted on it with one word, "ENGLISH" written on it and started walking towards another entrance.

Once a crowd of people was in the new room, Tom lowered his sign and began speaking again. "This tour consists of three activities. The Main Exhibition, the Classified Exhibition, and the Living Experience will be preformed. First off, we are in the room where we perform the Main Exhibition. So, let's start with introducing to you the topic of what really is the Island of Hokkaido."

And he went on talking about the Ainu Culture, the Age of "Ezo", the Early Modern Era, the Progression of Colonization, about how Hokkaido from recession to World War II, about the Postwar Period, and ending it with the topic name of 'Tomorrow's Hokkaido.' Tom finished the Main Exhibition with the tight time limit of sixty minutes before moving on to the Classified Exhibition.

In the new room, there were fossils of animals, and the specimen of birds, animals, and plants. There were also prehistorical earthenware and stone tools, utensils for fishing and farming, and many more.

And as they cruised along with ninety minutes already passed of the tour, they went into the Living Experience Room, where the tourists get to touch and observe real, life-size tools the Japanese had used back then. Everyone huddled around Tom as he demonstrated how to weave using straws before everyone was handed a few strands and began to weave.

"Well, I suppose this is where the tour comes to a conclusion. I hope you have gained a lot more information about Hokkaido and its history and had fun during the two hours of this tour. Have a nice day!" Tom finished and walked over back to where the two other tour guides were at.

Sonic was caught with his eyes closed and making soft snoring noises by Tails, who'd nudged his bigger brother awake. "…You weren't sleeping through the whole thing…right, Sonic?"

Said speedster rubbed his eyes and yawned, "Narh…I was awake…" and then he muttered the last two words under his breath, "Kind of…"

Rouge came over and put a hand on Tails's shoulder before the two tailed fox could scold Sonic. "I can't believe I'm saying this but, I gotta agree with Blue Boy here. It was so boring I swear I was going to fall asleep. And I'm a bat who sleeps at night for Chaos sakes! I got enough sleep last night."

Tails pulled back and stayed quiet, looking away before muttering about how 'it was kind of boring but kind of not but I was confused at a lot of points hmm I wonder what the tour guide was thinking right then was he about to fall asleep too urgh why did I even make us go to this museum…'

As the eight mobians regrouped, Tails announced that they would go eat lunch and take a break. As the fox was about to flip through his notes on where they would be having lunch, Shadow muttered about the lounge and shopping place they had in the museum.

"The lounge is on the second floor, the shopping place is on the first floor, and there's a restaurant on the second floor as well," he said.

As Tails double checked, Shadow was questioned at how he knew the information, and he simply replied with 'I asked the person at the Help Center'. And then the gang walked towards the staircase to the second floor.

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With a piece of an egg roll in between his chopsticks, Sonic asked if he could go down to the shopping section and look at some souvenirs and just wander around for a little bit.

When nobody responded except with the slurping of noodles and the 'glug, glug' sound of swallowing tea, Sonic shrugged and stuffed the egg roll in his mouth before exiting the restaurant and heading down to the shopping section.

Down there, he saw scrolls and handmade models with exceptional details. Picking some up and studying it eye leveled, he quickly got through almost half of the souvenir section.

But just then, he heard a familiar label, said with the familiar sound of a certain someone… "Faker."

Sonic snapped his head back and saw his black and red hedgehog friend standing right next to him, and was so surprised he almost dropped the porcelain chibi model out of his hands.

"Oh h-hey! Didn't see you there," Sonic said, rubbing the back of his neck while setting down the figurine down back onto its shelf. "What are you doing here?"

"Same reason you did." Except also to grant that foxie his request to keep an eye out for you. And also to spend some time alone with you. And also to get away from Silver's weird stare and grin when Fox Boy asked for me to join you.

"Well, that's all cool. We can check out the rest of the store together, then." Sonic grinned as he picked up another model that he was fascinated by. "Aww, look at this Shadow~" he cooed as he lifted the figurine of two doves snuggling up next to each other with closed eyes and a thin outline of a heart holding the two figures together. "Ain't it cute?~"

Shadow tried not to put on a small smile and only replied, "Don't break it."

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By the time the eight of them were cleaned up and ready to head off to the Sea of Clouds, it was already 13:30.

After twenty minutes of traveling by foot, they had arrived at the place and were already getting tickets for the ride to get up to the elevated grounds.

Apparently, for this activity, you had to ride a telpher, which is kind of like a small room - less than 10 x 10 feet total - made out of plastic and metal, and it's attached to a long and thick line, where you'll be dangling in the air, going up the line, riding up to your destination.

…Which was rather scary if you're scared of heights because you can see the trees and the hills below you while you dangle almost dangerously above them, the only security was a line. So you're literally putting your life on the line.

But of course, the people wouldn't open it if it wasn't safe.

As soon as they reached the entrance at the top of the mountain, they were led by the staff there and into a room where you could borrow rain jackets for the visit. And after they were all dressed up and ready, they got to another entrance where it lead out to a wooden platform built on the mountain.

The view of mountains rich with evergreens and vegetation was almost not visible because of all the fog and the annoying millions of tiny raindrops attacking your face, but it was still pretty.

And cold.

Blaze growled as she tried to summon a small amount of fire. But after five attempts – five attempts! – and finally getting a small flicker of warm, welcoming, familiar light, it almost immediately got put out. And then she muttered about rain and coldness and how something should be erased from existence…And Silver was there only to pat her head and say, 'there, there…' and awkwardly comfort her from the evil raindrops.

Amy squealed as she shut her eyes and laughed wholeheartedly, feeling the raindrops fall into her mouth and onto her tongue as she clung onto Sonic's arm for warmth and also just because.

Rouge shivered as she shook her head and glared at the poufy whiteness at the corner of her eyes. Her luscious hair was being ruined and she couldn't do a thing about it. And she was freezing! Trying to find a way to deal with the time being up here, she slowly found her way to her GUN partner and stayed close for body warmth.

Tails laughed as he snapped pictures of Sonic and Amy with the background of the mountains as a reminder that they had been here. The faces they were making were so silly and ugly to the point it was actually kind of funny in that awkward way.

Knuckles snuck into a picture of Tails's at the last minute, spreading both his arms and sticking his tongue out while flaring his nostrils and crossing his eyes, yelling out, "Hah, this picture is ruined!"

So overall, they had a good time.

Derp I felt like ending it there. :3 Sorry for the slight delay, I've been depressed and busy and everything's just hitting me like a bunch o' blocks and I can't catch a break. I'm caught between games, family visits, playing my instrument, studying my Japanese, going to Chinese Lessons, going to Piano Lessons, drawing, writing, and just overall life. DAMN YOU LIFE WHY YOU TAKE UP EVERYTHING UGH.

For next chappie, prepare for steaming hot rooms with two main hawttie hedgehawgs in there…;3