Alright, I see quite a bunch of people are reading this. It's great :3 I might get to equal IsonicfanI one day. Anyway, I guess you also like IsonicfanI's original Sonic the Sparrowhog series, so you might as well like to see how it all started *cough* Blazefire trilogy *cough*. It's not humour, so no extremely funny parts, but I'll do my best with it. And for anyone wondering about IsonicfanI, he had to stop writing for a while (and by a while I mean a pretty long time) because of school, but he'll try to get back to Eternal Winter. And then of course, The Great Fairy Fist and the rest of his upcoming stories.

One more thing: there is a flashback in this chapter. Flashbacks are separated from the main story by horizontal lines.

Sonic kept searching through the Tinker's Nook storage area for the secret door described in the message on the blueprints. The rest of the Tinker fairies, Tinkerbell included, had been told to hide in the Tinker's Nook until the crisis would be solved.

Tink: "What's this Blazefire Sabre anyway?"

Shadow: "The first weapon we've ever made for Ella"

Tink looked on the blueprints. "A gunblade, huh?"

Shadow: "The Special Forces are experts when it comes to dual phase weapons. Sure, you need to use some magic to make all those moving parts sturdy enough for the whole thing to work as a weapon and give everything the right weight and balance, but once you do that, you get two weapons while carrying just one"

Tink: "And what happened to it?"

Shadow: "Nobody knows. It was lost after the Battle of Shimmervale along with Diana's staff"

Tink: "Still, I thought Sonic didn't like guns"

Shadow: "Guns with bullets. He's alright with blasters"

Tink: "And what makes it so special?"

Shadow: "We blessed it with the Power to Repel Evil. Plus, most gunblades use the gun function just as a distraction, or in the best case to get away from the enemy and shoot them during a sword fight. They're not very accurate. This kind of gunblade shoots for real. These are the types of gunblades we prefer at the Special Forces"

Tink: "Can't Sonic already do that? He has the gauntlet"

Shadow: "That's not the idea. You see, before the Battle of Shimmervale, Ella hid something special in a secret location which she wrote down on the original blueprints. Several fake copies of these blueprints with wrong information were made so that if anyone tried to steal them, they would be led to the wrong place"

Tink: "And whatever that thing is, it's here?"

Shadow: "It seems so"

Meanwhile, in the storage area:

After going through the secret door, Sonic pushed another box aside, revealing what looked like a small pyramid with strange designs on it. "That's it!"

Shadow: "Finally"

Sonic returned outside with the weird object.

Tink: "So what is that? Some kind of key to something important?"

Sonic: "Exactly. More specifically, the key to four certain swords which used to be Ella's weapons of choice before the Blazefire Sabre. They might be useful in the mission"

Tink's eyes widened. "No way! Those swords? I've heard about them, but I thought they were just legends"

Sonic: "Just legends as in what humans think of Aaron Stone or of fairies in general?"

Tink: "I guess you have a point"

Bobble and Clank walked up behind Tink.

Bobble: "I can assure you, Ms. Bell, that those swords are certainly real. After all, Clank and I built them"

Tink: "Really? That's awesome! You could've told me before, though"

Clank: "That's nothing. The Blazefire Sabre is even more awesome, so these three guys are automatically more awesome as well"

Bobble: "She did not need to know that"

Shadow: "Come on, everyone knows that"

Sonic: "Hey, can we stop at home as well? There's something in there that I should take"

Later, at their home:

Sonic opened one of the drawers in his room. "There it is!"

He looked inside it and picked up a black short sword. It had a very small guard, a single edge and the blade wasn't any longer than Sonic's forearm. Sonic pressed a button on the pommel, which turned it into a blaster pistol. "It's still working"

As Sonic was heading outside, he looked one more time at his room. The room that was originally Ella's room, but that they shared after his arrival in Pixie Hollow.

Ella was playing her guitar and singing along with Sonic.

I'm blindfolded on this carriage ride that they call life
Keep trying to make it through that next turn knuckles white and holding tight
So here I go
taking the curve
But I know that I'm never alone
I think of you
and how you never let me go

I feel connected (connected)
Protected (protected)
Its like you're sitting right with me all the time
You hear me (you hear me)
You're near me (you're near me)
And everything else is gonna be alright
Cause nothing can break this
Nothing can break this
Nothing can break this tie

Sonic: "I guess something did break this tie after all"

That's the chapter :3 (yay!) Sorry it's a a little too short, but as always, school is getting in the way :( (boo!) I've already published the sequel to this (it's not a direct sequel, so there will also be a couple of other fics taking place between the two to complete the storyline). Beware, though, it contains spoilers. I was originally planning to post it after finishing this story, but it's already taking longer than I was expecting. Plus, I've seen a couple of other fanfiction writers publishing a sequel before finishing the first story, so I guess there's nothing wrong with that.