Hello again everyone ! I'm too tired to do a long author's note so see you at the bottom.
On to the reviews :)
The Mystery the Hedgehog: LOL thanks for the compliment and I know these chapter are short but I find it hard for me to write long chapters for some reason . Maybe you could give me some tips. And I love that face too! :3 Thanks for the review!
FireWolfHeart: Don't worry they live :) and the wedding will finally be the next chapter! Aha thanks for the review!
Suki Takayoshi: Don't worry I made sure that Shadow didn't kill them. I needed Silver for this chapter. The little boy toy :) and I got that prank from Pauly D and Vinny from Jersey Shore. Thanks for the review!
FlightyMighty13: HI barely know what's going through their minds nowadays. *sigh* I'll seek help for them soon. Thanks for the review!
Here's chapter 10 of TLAL :)
"Ugh. Do I have to get fitted into a tuxedo?" Sonic asked as everyone stepped out of their vehicles.
Amy rolled her eyes at him. "Yes you have to Sonic. This is going to be one of the greatest days of Shadow and Crystal's lives. We're trying to help them out here so please cooperate." Amy responded.
Knuckles groaned. "Everyone knows that I hate wearing tuxedos. Nobody is happy when I put one on." he said. Shadow smirked.
"You really don't want to repeat what happened at Tails' wedding do you?" he asked. Knuckles was confused until the crimson streaked hedgehog pointed at their telekinesis friend. The red echidna sweatdropped.
"Trust me, you don't want to see me when I'm really angry." Silver said. Shadow and Sonic glanced at each other for a second then at Knuckles then back at Silver.
Crystal sighed. "Why do I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen?" she asked. Rouge shrugged.
"Maybe it's because whenever Red and Blue have that crazed look in their eyes, you know something bad is gonna happen." she answered.
Blaze shook her head. "No. Sonic always has that look in his eyes." she said.
"Well lets just get inside before they do something we'll all regret." Amy said. Everyone stepped inside and gasped. The cake warehouse that Rouge took them to was huge. They had nearly every single cake they could think of.
"Welcome to Wishful Tasting." the greeter introduced. "How may I be of service to you?" she asked.
Amy smiled sweetly at her. "My friends here," she said and pointed to Shadow and Crystal, "are getting married in less than 2 weeks from now." she said. The greeter nodded.
"Oh I see and they want to find the perfect wedding cake correct?" she asked. Amy nodded.
"Alright. I'll call Nina over to help you." she said and walked over to one of the tables. She started to a 5"5 lavender hedgehog. She was wearing her uniform and her hair was pinned to the side. When the greeter finished talking to her, she approached them and smiled.
"Hi. I'm Nina and I'll be helping you today." she said with a wide grin, staring intensely at Silver. Blaze glared at her.
"So who's the lucky couple?" she asked, secretly hoping that it wasn't Silver.
Crystal smiled. "We are Nina." she said and squeezed Shadow's hand lightly. He smirked.
Nina whistled. "You sure can pick them well Girlie. Excellent taste." she said with a giggle. Crystal laughed and thanked her.
"Please wait at that table over there and I'll come over with a few cakes." Nina said as she pointed to a large table in the middle of the room. While everyone was leaving, Nina held Silver back.
"Yes?" he asked. Nina smiled flirtatiously at him.
"Here. Call me sometime gorgeous." she said and handed him a piece of paper with her number on it. Blaze saw this and was furious.
Silver crumpled up the paper. His face was pale. "I'm married." he said sternly. Nina smirked.
"Well after you hang out with me for a day, you'll leave your wife in a heartbeat." she said with a wink. Crystal, being held back by Blaze, saw this and was upset with the short hedgehog. Crystal was about to confront her but Blaze pulled her back.
"You're just gonna let her flirt with your husband?" Crystal asked. Blaze smirked.
"Don't worry. I know what to do if it gets... out of hand." she said. Crystal sighed and watched on with her feline friend.
"Listen Nina. I know you're attracted to me but I love my wife and nothing is ever going to change that." Silver said and backed away from Nina.
She smiled sweetly. "Oh come on Sugar. It's not like your wife is here or anything." she said and stepped closer to him. Silver saw Crystal and mouthed "Help me!" to her. She nodded.
She walked over to them. "Hey Nina. When are the cakes going to arrive?" she asked. Nina rolled her eyes.
"Can't you see I'm busy here? Now go take your high-pitched whining and your ugly, anorexic self someplace else." she barked.
Crystal's smiled faded and she scowled at her. "Excuse me?" she asked. Nina groaned as she tried to grab Silver but he dodged it. She stood face to face with Crystal. They were exactly the same height.
"Did I stutter? Oh and you might want to keep your dreamy fiancé under lock because I'll jump at him when I get the chance." Nina said with a smirk. Crystal growled. By now, everyone was watching them.
"Come near my man and I'll rip that weave right off your ego sized head." she said. Nina scowled and slapped Crystal across the face.
Crystal gasped and growled. She jumped on Nina and started to punch her. Shadow rushed over and pulled Crystal off of her. When Shadow held Crystal back, Nina tackled her and starting to slam her head into the ground. Both of the girl were screaming at each other. Amy and Rouge pulled Nina off of Crystal and before Crystal could strike back, Shadow held her by the waist with most of his strength.
"You little anorexic whore! Look what you did you my hair!" Nina yelled.
"I'm the whore? At least I don't throw myself onto every guy that I've seen for more than 20 seconds!" Crystal spat back. She tried to break out of Shadow's grasp but he held onto her tightly.
Before Nina could reply, her tail was set on fire and she started screaming. Blaze stood there with a smirk on her face, clarifying that she was the cause of the burning tail. Nina ran and sat down in a fish tank and sighed with relief.
Blaze approached her. "All of this could've easily been avoided if you didn't try to flirt with MY husband." she said. Silver came and they wrapped their arms around each other.
"You're so cute when you're jealous." he said. Blaze laughed and kissed him.
Nina scoffed. "Whatever. At least he's still available." she said with a grin, referring to Shadow and winked at him. He rolled his eyes. Crystal wrapped her arm around his waist protectively.
"Come near him and you'll regret it." she said with a glare. Nina smirked.
"We'll see about that." she said. She got out of the fish tank and ran to Shadow. With his speed, Shadow dodged her and she ended up falling into one of the cakes. Everyone bursted out in laughter.
Nina screamed angrily. "Look at me. First my hair now my clothes. I'm a mess." she complained.
"You were a mess before you fell into the cake." Blaze said with a smirk. Crystal laughed.
"Nina! What have you done?" the manager cried when he saw everything.
"Ask them!" she exclaimed.
Blaze nodded. "Let's see. First she flirted with my Silver, got into a fight with Crystal, terrified the fish when she jumped into the tank and fell into a cake." she said.
"Oh, and she tried to flirt with my man but news flash sweetie, you're not getting him anytime soon." Crystal replied. Shadow chuckled deeply and gave her a kiss.
The manager was upset. "This is the fifth time you've done this Nina! I can't handle this anymore. You're fired!" he exclaimed. Nina's eyes widened. Before she could complain, he already left. Sonic began to sing when he saw Nina leaving.
"Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye." he saying. Knuckles laughed and joined in as well. Nina groaned loudly and stomped out of the warehouse.
"So who wants to eat cake until they explode?" Shadow asked with a grin. Everyone agreed and sat down and waited for the cakes to arrive. The manager brought out a few cakes for starters and the group began to eat happily.
Two hours later, everyone wasn't eating happily anymore. They were barely eating at all. Crystal forced herself to keep tasting the cakes. Sonic burped loudly and was hit in the arm by his wife.
"Oh my god Crystal. You need to stop eating before you burst." Amy said. Crystal groaned.
"Ugh I'm done. I can't eat anymore." she said. Shadow moaned.
"So which cake did you like the best?" he asked. She sighed happily.
"I liked the red velvet cake. How about you?" she asked with a smile.
"Same here love. Somebody call the manager." he said. Suddenly, the manager came out with a grin
"Have you selected a cake?" he asked. Shadow nodded.
"We'll take the red velvet cake." Crystal said with a friendly smile. The manager nodded. "If it's not any trouble, we'd like to pick it up the day of our wedding." she said.
"It's no trouble at all. When's the wedding?" the manager asked. Crystal's face was slightly red from embarrassment and asked Amy when the wedding was.
"It's on the fourth." Amy replied.
"I'll have it ready for you on that day." he said. Everyone thanked him and left the warehouse. They all walked to their cars.
"Oh man Blaze. I was dying when you put Nina's tail on fire. Hilarious!" he said and have her a thumbs up. She laughed.
"I'm just glad we won't be seeing her again. If she tries anything, I'd have Crystal as my partner anyways." Blaze said with a coy grin. Crystal nodded.
"That's right girlie. Nobody messes with us." Crystal replied, imitating Nina.
"How do you fight anyways Crystal?" Knuckles asked.
"I fight like a high school girl. I just jump on the girl and pull her hair or slam her head onto the floor or slap and punch her like what you saw in there." she answered. Sonic chuckled.
"I guess I'm gonna have to teach you how to fight now." he said.
Rouge playfully rolled her eyes. "And how do you expect to teach her how to fight? You don't even fight! All you do is outsmart your opponent and run. Besides I have a black belt in karate." she said.
Shadow smirked. "I can do that as well and I have natural fighting abilities so I'm better qualified at teaching Crystal how to fight." he said. Before an argument could brew up, Crystal got involved.
"I don't want to learn how to fight. There's really no point since I don't fight." she said. Everyone gave her the 'Oh really?' look. "Okay I rarely fight." she said.
"So you do expect a strong, handsome man to come to your rescue whenever you need help?" Rouge asked with a smirk.
Crystal grinned. "Well I already have one so yes." she said. Shadow smirked.
"Don't worry love. I'll always protect you." he said and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Look on the bright side Cee. At least you fought someone your own size." Silver said. Crystal laughed then stopped.
"Hey! I'm not short!" she said. She may have been the shortest, tied with Cream, amongst all of them but she wasn't short.
"Alright. We'll settle this later. Let's just get to the clothing store." Blaze said. Soon everyone was driving to the wedding shop that they found.
"Wow Crystal. You look amazing." Amy said with a smile.
"I think Shadow will want to jump straight to the honeymoon when he sees you." Blaze said. Crystal blushed.
She had on her wedding dress. It was tight on her bust, hips and stomach. It had thin silver lining over the top part engraved with small diamonds. Then the bottom part puffed out but had no tail with it. She loved it.
"What do you think?" Rouge asked. Crystal nodded.
"It's perfect. I love it." she said and sighed happily.
Amy took Crystal's purse and went to go pay for the dress while Crystal got changed. The dress was crushing her chest a bit.
"This is going to be the happiest day of my life." Crystal thought to herself and squealed with delight.
"I hate this thing!" Sonic exclaimed. Shadow was adjusting his tie. He had on a black suit with a red tie and a rose over his heart. He smirked in approval at the mirror.
"Won't the black suit blend in with your fur?" Knuckles asked.
Shadow looked at him like he was insane. "Does it look like its blending in?" he asked. "Besides, Amy said that a white suit will clash with everything apparently." he said.
Silver was finally dressed. It took him a while to get his quills out of the dress shirt.
"Well we're done. Let's get changed now." Knuckles said and was about to go back inside the changing room but was stopped by Silver.
"Shadow you better hope that this wedding is good. Crystal's parents are going to be there." he said.
Shadow's eyes widened. "They are? Why?" he asked with disbelief.
"Yeah that's very strange. I mean, no normal parent would go to their own daughter's wedding." Sonic replied sarcastically which earned him a glare from Shadow.
"How bad are her parents?" Knuckles asked.
Shadow shuttered. "They're not bad just really.. really.. old-fashion you could say." he said.
Flashback
"Don't worry. My parents are really understanding." Crystal said to Shadow. It was when they started to date that Crystal wanted to introduce him to her parents.
"I don't know." Shadow said unsurely.
They were at the front porch of Crystal's parents' house. She turned to face him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek.
"Please do this Shads. For me?" she pleaded. Shadow sighed and agreed. Crystal smiled.
"I love you Shadow." she said. Shadow put his hands on her hips.
"I love you too my precious jewel." he said and they shared a short but passionate kiss.
Crystal took her arms off of him and knocked on the door. A middle-aged red male hedgehog opened the door. He was wearing a suit and appeared to be very busy.
"Hi Daddy." Crystal said and hugged him. He immediately hugged her back.
"Hi sweetheart. Who's your friend?" he asked. Crystal sweatdropped.
"Um Daddy, this is my boyfriend Shadow the Hedgehog." she said. Her father examined Shadow carefully.
"Shadow huh? How many guns do you have on you?" he asked. Crystal hit his arm lightly.
"Dad!" she exclaimed. Shadow smirked.
"2." he said truthfully. Her father examined him once more.
"Oh Robert leave them." a female hedgehog said. She was a pink hedgehog and looked almost like Crystal. Crystal ran up and hugged her.
"Hi mom!" she said happily.
"Don't worry Julie." Robert said. Shadow sighed.
"Are we playing 21 questions or something?" he asked.
Robert eyed him. "I see you're a rude hedgehog." he said.
"How is asking a question being rude?" Shadow challenged.
"The way you asked it was." Robert said. Crystal walked over to them.
"Dad leave him alone." she said. She took Shadow's arm gently and dragged him to the living room.
"Shoes off." Julie called from the kitchen. Crystal took off her shoes but Shadow didn't.
"What's the matter?" Julie asked.
Shadow stuttered a bit. "I'm not really obligated to take off my shoes." he said. Julie thought for a moment and then disappeared into the kitchen. She reappeared again with 2 plastic bags.
She handed them to Shadow. "Here sweetheart. Just put them over your shoes." she said and went to the living room. Shadow sighed and put the bags over his shoes. Crystal sighed and whispered 'sorry.' into his ear then went to the living room.
Shadow was about to sit next to his girlfriend when Robert patted onto the empty seat next to him and insisted that Shadow sat with him.
"This is going to be a long day." he thought and sat down next to the older hedgehog and prepared himself for another game of 21 questions.
End of Flashback
Sonic, Silver and Knuckles were laughing.
"I suffered that before too. You should see Rouge's dad. Oh he's much worse than Crystal's." he said.
"Thank god I never went through that." Sonic said. Silver nodded.
"Well now I'll have to go through it again at the wedding. By the way Silver, you're the best man." he said. Silver smiled.
"Really? Thanks man." he said and hugged Shadow. Shadow actually hugged him back.
Sonic pouted. "Why is he the best man? I've been through way more stuff with you than him." he said.
"Yes but amongst the four of you, I actually like him the best. Tails is second." he said.
Knuckles scoffed. "Pfft. Whatever!" he said, feeling very offended.
Shadow rolled his eyes. "Okay let's get changed and get to the car. The girls are probably finished." he said. The rest nodded and went back into their changing rooms.
"I need to make this wedding perfect. Not for me or Crystal's parents but for the future Mrs. Shadow the Hedgehog." he thought with a smile.
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Aww I made a chapter full of romance, drama and humor. And its my longest chapter yet! I thought the last sentence was so sweet and actually went "aww!" when i wrote and reread it. Thumbs up! Anyway the next chapter is the one that you've all been waiting for... *drumroll* Shadow and Crystal's wedding! I'll try to make it as sweet and romance as possible. Oh by the way, I don't know all the vows that the groom and bride say at the wedding so I'll skip that part again.
So anyways I'm craving reviews right now... Just me ? :)