HA! You all thoguht it was a fluke, that I was going to get your hopes up and then just leave? MUHAHAHAHAHA! YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME THAT EASILY! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

I return, with yet another update! MUhohohohoho!

Enjoy!

Brunis and Daisy were confronted with a strange site as they left school; Richard the Cat, nonchalant as ever, with a single suited human behind him, his hired guard, standing ever so gracefully in the yard outside the front door.

"Hello my fair Queen." He said as politely as he could, "Hello mutt." He looked Brunis over with a grimace.

"Hello Richard." Daisy said shakily, holding Brunis's pawed hand tightly.

"I would just like to inform you that I, as an apology for my atrocious behavior to the most beloved woman I ever met, I am holding a pool party at my house on Friday, everyone, of course, is invited, the mutt included, and the whole school. Flyers will be out by tomorrow, and within a few days, well, I hope you bring your swim suit, it will be one fun party." With a simple nod, Richard and his human pet left, and they both hopped into a black sedan, and drove off hastily back to the mansion.

"That slime-ball… calling me a mutt…" Brunis growled.

"Don't worry honey, he can't do anything you haven't done to me already, right?" She patted his arm with a smile. "There's little he can do while your nearby anyways."

"So are we going?"

"Of course we are! I've been to his hosue before, and his pool is fascinating. I'm sure we can ruin his party anyways by being there. I doubt he wants you there, and he probably thinks, somehow, that I will feel guilty and not bring you with me, which that is obviously not the case." Daisy looked up at him.

"I guess you're right…" Brunis yawned. "Good heavens! I haven't slept in over 36 hours…"

"I'll let you sleep to dinner, and then we can just relax for the rest of the night. I'm sure you won't have a problem with me by you as you sleep?"

"I never have, I never will." Brunis declared, tail wagging slightly.

"Excited much?" Daisy smirked.

"Well, I am actually just doing that to stay awake, you know, the more I move, the more energy I have to use, the more awake I am." Brunis yawned again.

"Sarah! Stephen!" Brian called, jumping from a tree that he always climbed after school and running to the hedgehogs.

"Well, looks like it is time to go." Daisy said, holding Brunis's arm as they walked to the three kids.

"You wouldn't believe what Stephen can do Brian!" Sarah spoke with enthusiasm only a ten year old was capable of.

"What can he do?" Biran asked his hedgehog friend as if Stephen wasn't silently listening behind her.

"He can make his head shrink! And can move like a piece of string! IT'S SO COOL!"

"No I can't." Stephen said confidently.

"I watched you do it. I know you can." Sarah said in contradiction.

Daisy and Brunis, being the argument solver's they wanted to be, decided to end the heated conversation before it got worse.

"Hey, how would you guys feel about going to a pool party?"

"I'd love it!" Brian answered instantly.

"I guess…" Sarah said, not liking the water for swimming.

"What's a pool?" Stephen tilted his head to the side, looking cutely at Daisy.

"Well Stephen, a pool is a big body of water where you can swim in the water, splash people, and play around."

"Like a play ground?" Stephen asked hopefully.

"Yes, but with water."

"Cool…" Stephen said, dreaming of this magical term of 'pool'.

"Daisy, why do you ask?" Brian finally questioned.

"Oh that dumb Richard boy wants me to come to a pool party of his, and I am inviting everyone I possibly can to annoy him." Daisy snickered, and then glanced at Sarah. "Ready for the run home?" Daisy said with an evil smirk in her grin.

"You know it!" Sarah grinned, as she started jogging with Daisy, and in moments, they took off like blurs.

"Sarah! Sarah, wait! Sarah!" Stephen cried out, running after her, but, naturally not gaining on her.

"Stephen?" Brunis asked as he walked near the small grey hedgehog.

"Why'd she leave me?" Stephen fell to the ground, crying.

"She just ran home."

"But why did she leave me?"

"Because she wanted to race Daisy." Brunis answered calmly.

"But she left me…" Stephen fell a bit more into the ground, his skin seeming to melt like putty going into the ground, flattening his form ever so slightly.

Brunis was shocked, Sarah wasn't joking; Stephen could in fact do extraordinary things.

"Hey, want me to take you home?"

"No… I want Sarah with me… I feel… sad…" Stephen explained.

"I think you're lonely." Brian said.

"What's 'lonely'?" Stephen asked, not sobering up much.

"Well Stephen, it is when you are sad because someone left you. I felt lonely when I left Daisy, and then felt much better when I saw her again."

"Really?"

"Yes, and we should all go home soon…"

"Why? I want Sarah with me… I do feel lonely." Stephen admitted; he had grown attached to her.

"Hmm…" Brunis thought for a moment, and then looked up at the skies, it wasn't getting lighter. "Well Stephen, you're coming with me, we're going to see Sarah."

"What if she comes back while we're gone?"

"She won't be, she'll be gloating over her inevitable victory to my fiancée…" Brunis sighed as he helped Stephen up, and walked him and his soon-to-be brother-in-law over to his house.

The moment they got there, Sarah was sitting smugly on the doorstep, with an angry, ranting flower yelling at her.

"You little cheater! Stop using your super speed! It's not fair! You don't ever have to try!" Daisy growled, looking at the cool and collected Sarah, who was examining her nails as she spoke.

"You done?" Sarah responded with a cocky grin.

"You little!" Daisy pounced, and Brunis grabbed her waist midair.

"Now now Daisy, I thought you were only supposed to do that to me." He smirked, and Daisy tried to maintain an angry face.

"Sarah!" Stephen yelped and ran as fast as he could over to her. "Why did you leave me? I was scared and lonely." Using his new word.

"I'm sorry Stephen, I wanted to race Daisy. I beat her."

"Race?"

"When you play a little running game with someone to see who can get somewhere the fastest."

"We obviously you won that, you're too fast." Stephen said, sitting next to her on the porch.

"Yeah…" Sarah said, smirking.

"C'mon you guys, mom's got dinner on the table. Sarah and Stephen, you'd best go to Sonic and Amy's house." Daisy said as they all split up.

Sarah and Stephen walked the small distance to Tails' neighboring house, and stepped inside.

"Mom! Dad! I'm home!"

"Oh hi Sarah, hi Stephen." Amy said, smiling. The motherly chef already had dinner ready, and led everyone to the table for eating.

"No biting forks, right Stephen?" Sarah teased as Stephen took a bite of a his food.

"Ms. Riley…" Stephen smiled, and then Sarah got a bit angry for a moment, and then instantly relaxed; Amy saw this, but said nothing.

"Who's Ms. Riley?" Sonic asked, just before stuffing his face with a lot of food, hungry as an animal.

"The school nurse." Sarah explained.

"Oh… so, how was your day Stephen?"

"Fun! I learned to talk well!" He grinned widely after swallowing a bit of food.

"I can see that Stephen." Sonic admired, and then turned to his daughter, "what'd you do today? Did Stephen bother you at all?" He added in whisper.

"No, not at all. He's like a little brother. Most of the time he was fun to hang out with. And I kind of had to step up for him, as many people called him names…" Sarah trailed off, thinking.

The family ate in silence for a bit, and then Stephen, after being directed where to put his plate, left the house for a little bit.

A bit more silence in the family, and then Sarah broke it again.

"Dad, have you lost your flair?"

"My speed is my flair, Sarah, and I haven't lost it, why do you ask?" Sonic was taken aback by this question.

"Some kids were teasing me, telling me that I was the daughter of an unneeded hero, and that you were worthless anymore." Sarah looked sad.

"That's not true Sarah. I am still needed, just not in the same way. They don't need heroes that can do amazing things anymore, that much is true though… they need heroes that can do other things, like build space ships, and manage money, and lead countries."

"So we are worthless now? No one needs our running talents?" Sarah looked like she was about to cry.

"No Sarah. You're not worthless. But the fact that we run faster than anything else is something to be proud about, not shameful."

"Then why does Daisy complain about it, and why does it seem like we have so many problems? Are you sure we're not worthless?"

Sonic thought heavily, and then, just before responding, Sarah took off, out the door.

Sonic set his utensils down, and stood up, but Amy yelled at him.

"That's a race you don't want to rush to, Sonic." Amy said no more, but Sonic looked out the door, wanting to be with his daughter.

Sarah ran like crazy, away from her house. Turning and darting and swinging around the woods, she finally ended up running out of the forest, and onto a small plain, very far from her home.

There was Stephen, lying on his back, occasionally rolling around, but mostly staring at the stars.

"They're so pretty." He said dreamily. "Don't you think so?"

How'd he get here? It's like a couple miles away from home! He JUST left less than five minutes ago.

"Yeah, the stars a very pretty. I always like to connect them and make pictures." Sarah said rather gloomily.

Stephen began randomly humming as he looked into the skies, and Sarah laid down next to him, watching the stars.

"Hmm, hmm… hum… ho…" Stephen absently mumbled, almost melodically.

"What are you singing Stephen?" Sarah asked, only to get more humming and mumbled singing in response. (A/N: I'll give you a hint, he doesn't have any idea.)

She looked back up at the clouds after staring at Stephen for a moment, then looked at the skies, the stars were gone.

"Ko ko, lemdo… bok bon ding dum…" Stephen continued to sing, and the sky got a bit darker despite being night. He smiled at this.

"Stephen?" Sarah was beginning to get worried, "Let's go home…" She pulled at Stephen's arm, but he didn't budge.

"Lekum!" He shouted upwards, and then it was as if the sky responded. Rain started pouring down.

"Stephen?" Sarah was frightened now. Did he just summon the rain?

"Sarah! It's rain!" Stephen cheered, smiling and grinning, opening his mouth and letting the water in, laughing wildly.

"Yeah, Stephen, let's go home… I think it's this way…" Sarah looked back at the forest, but couldn't remember exactly where she came from. "Oh no…"

"Sarah?" Stephen finally caught her worry.

"Stephen, where's home?"

"Uh… I don't know…"

"You just wandered out of the house, and don't know where you went off to?" Sarah looked at him, dumbfounded.

"No. I just don't remember how I got here." Stephen said honestly.

"Stephen! We're lost! How are we going to get home?" Sarah started crying, and Stephen put on a sad face, but then, a bolt of lightning streaked through the skies.

Stephen was lost in thought, staring into the skies. Another bolt of lightning split the sky, and its reflection could vividly be seen in Stephen's eyes.

Robotically in trance, he looked down, grabbed Sarah, and hugged her tightly, burying her face into his chest.

Blinded for a moment, Sarah tried to pull away, wondering what had just happened, and then she felt something weird; Stephen's feet went down, and then he jumped, hard.

The weirdest thing was, he didn't touch the ground for a very long time.

Another crack of thunder and a flash of lightning that seemed deathly close hit Sarah, or at least, it felt like it.

After doing what felt to be a front flip in the air, his feet gentle touched the ground again, and let go of Sarah.

Wood was beneath her feet, they were home.

"Stephen, how did you-?" Sarah asked him.

Stephen was staring blankly into the wall, and then, after a bit of time, he twitched, as if just processing this information.

"Huh? Sarah! You got us home! Thank you!" He hugged her tightly, and smiled.

"I didn't do anything."

"Magic then!" He smiled and grinned widely.

Thunder cracked twice, and they opened the door.

"Mom! Dad!" Sarah ran to them, now frightened.

"Sarah…" They both sighed, worried sick. "Now go dry off and go to bed, before you get trapped in another storm." Amy added with a smile.

Sonic was gone for a brief moment, and then returned with two towels.

"Here you go Sarah. Stephen… wait, Stephen, you're not wet?" Stephen's skin was as dry as a bone in a desert.

"What's wet?" He asked innocently.

"When you've been in water, you come out and the water is still on you, that's wet Stephen." Sonic said dropping the towel, laying a hand on him.

His skin had no water on it at all.

"You were just in the middle of a tempest, and you have not a drop of water on you… how'd you do that?"

"Did what?"

Sonic was about to respond, but figured he wasn't going anywhere with it.

"Never mind Stephen…" Sonic said in defeat and he and Amy sat at the table talking quietly to each other about jobs and supporting Stephen too.

"I feel… weird…" Stephen said as Sarah dried off.

"How so Stephen-" Sarah's mouth fell down as Stephen started to shake.

Water poured off of his body, and as he shook, it all left him, spraying all over.

"There! I feel better now!" Stephen said as he grinned and walked around to find Sarah's bed, now dry again, as if he was never wet.

Sarah, Amy, and Sonic just stared, mouths agape, at the situation.

"That seriously did not just happen." Sonic said, blinking.

Sarah dried off again, and then started off to her room.

Stephen was waiting on her bed, smiling, looking around.

"This is a bed, and that is a door, and that is dresser!" Stephen's vocabulary was gaining in size, and Sarah had to give him credit there.

"Yes Stephen, it is." Sarah crawled into her bed, exhausted.

Thinking of all of the things she could say to Stephen, either yelling at him for making a mess of her home, or not telling her how he could do all of these amazing things, or commend him for taking her home, or try to interrogate him on his strange abilities, she only landed on a single, simple statement.

"Stephen, no more surprises tonight, ok?"

"Ok Sarah. No surprises." He agreed happily.

Then, with eye lids heavy, Sarah collapsed into a dreamy sleepy.

Is Stephen making any more sense to your guys? Or is he just annoying and baffling you more? (Note: It is not pronounced "Steven", it is pronouced "Steffan", kind of in tribute to my best friend Stephanie, nick-named Steff.)

Well, I don't have much to say... Other than maybe tomorrow I will have:

More coming soon...