Chapter 19: The Sausage Festival

E/N: Yosh.

This next scene was fun to write. Shadow's always trying to take someone down.

Everyone flocked to the kitchen for the gourmet food set up there. Knuckles and Sonic got the biggest platefuls. Rouge and Amy got small platefuls, trying to keep up their images.

Sonic was obviously impressed. "This stuff is great! Who made it?"

"I did," Shadow answered.

Sonic immediately vomited the food in his mouth back onto the plate.

Shadow chuckled. "Relax hedgehog. If I was trying to poison you, I would have given you cup of juice and told you to drink." He pulled out a cup of juice. "By the way, have a drink."

"Aw, forget it," Sonic said. He went to the refrigerator and pulled out a soda.

They all sat down a table that sat about ten people. Knuckles at like a pig, Rouge was trying to remove some of the fat from the pig, Amy ate little-by-little, Tails ate normally, Cream shared with Cheese and Macaroni had her own plate. Shadow sat down, but did not eat.

"Why aren't you eating?" Knuckles asked, looking up from his cleaned plate.

"Cause…" Shadow said vaguely.

"You poisoned it!" Sonic stood up and pointed accusingly. "I knew it!"

"Sit down, Sonic," Amy demanded.

"I'm just not hungry," Shadow said simply. "It's easier to eat something someone else cooked for you than to eat something you made yourself."

"Sit down, Sonic," Amy said more firmly, tugging on his shirt.

Sonic grumbled and sat down. "I'm watching you."

"Watch me all you want, hedgehog," Shadow said. He still had the cup. "Sure you don't want a drink?"

Sonic made a sour face at him.

After they finished eating, they started playing some games. "Okay, truth or dare?" Rouge asked Cream.

"Truth!" Cream said quickly, not trusting a dare from Rouge.

"Are you a virgin?" Rouge asked.

"…No," Cream said.

Rouge was obviously surprised. "Oh my God, Cream!" Cream looked down, embarrassed. "Don't worry-it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I think we've all lost our virginity here."

"No," Shadow corrected.

"No?" Knuckles said.

"You're a virgin?" Rouge asked, kind of surprised.

"Sure am," Shadow said without a hint of embarrassment.

"Wow, you're one of the hottest guys ever and you've never had sex before?" Rouge said, still surprised.

"Watch it," Knuckles warned, elbowing her.

"For one thing, I've never met the right girl for me and two, the girls today are sluts," Shadow explained. "Back in my day, girls had honor and chastity."

"You sound old…" Rouge said.

"You know I'm at least thirty years older than you, right?" Shadow said.

Rouge stared at him, as if not knowing this.

"Just get back to the game," Shadow said, crossing his arms.

"Okay, truth or dare?" Cream asked Amy.

"Truth," Amy said.

"You guys are boooooring," Rouge said, getting bored.

"Okay, dare then," Amy changed with a hint of danger.

"Alright, I dare you to-" There was a knock at the door. "Someone's here," Cream informed. "Who else was invited?"

"Just you guys," Sonic said.

"I'll get it," Rouge volunteered, smiling. She got up and opened the door. Three guys came in.

"Oh no…," Cream anticipated.

One of them went over to the stereo and popped a CD in. Techno music stared coming over the speakers. They stood next to each other and started unbuckling their belts.

"Dear God," Shadow said. He pulled out a Chaos Emerald. "Chaos Control!" He vanished in a red flash.

Soon afterwards they were in tight thongs and shaking it like there was no tomorrow. Amy was bright red. Cream hid herself in Tails' fur. "ROUGE!" Sonic yelled.

"What!?" she yelled back, as if not knowing what the source of his frustration was.

"I SAID NO STRIPPERS!!" Sonic yelled again, pushing them out of the door.

"You still have to pay us!" one of them complained.

"Get out!" Sonic gave them one final shove out of the door and shut it.

Knuckles gave Rouge a stern look. She laughed nervously.

"This is the last time I ask you to plan anything," Sonic said.

"I was just thinking of something fun," Rouge said innocently.

Shadow flashed back into the room. "Can't say I didn't warn you."

"It wasn't that bad," Amy and Cream said.

"Duh!" all four men said at the same time.

After they finished eating the cake, it was time to head home.

Amy hugged Rouge goodbye. "Thanks for the birthday."

"No problem," Rouge said. She left with Knuckles.

Amy held her arms out to Shadow. "Come on, Shadow."

Shadow groaned. "Do I have to?" he whined.

"Yes," Amy said, beckoning him forward.

He groaned again, closing his eyes and slowly wrapping his arms around Amy. After a about two seconds he vanished in another red flash.

Amy almost fell over when Cream jumped up and gave her a very affectionate hug. "Happy Birthday, Amy!" she squealed.

"Thanks," Amy said, almost suffocating from the hug.

After everyone was gone, Amy gave Sonic a hug. "And thank you, too."

"You're welcome," Sonic said. "That's one experience I'll never forget. No matter how hard I try."

"Yep," Amy said. They both cleaned up the living room and got rid of the decorations. After that was done, Amy went to her bedroom and played with Macaroni.

"You know, now she's old enough for the Chao Olympics," Sonic suggested.

"That's right," Amy remembered. "Do you want to go to the Chao Olympics, Macaroni? You might meet some new friends."

"Chao Chao!" Macaroni agreed. (E/N: That is not a good idea. You will see why in about six or seven chapters from now.)

"Okay then," Amy said. "Let's go to bed." Macaroni got up and walked to her own room herself.

Sonic laid down in the bed, relaxing. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"What?" Amy was getting some night clothes from her drawer.

"Us," Sonic clarified. "Isn't it?"

"…yeah," she said, going to the bathroom to shower.

Sonic took off his shirt and rested on the bed for a while until Amy came back. She was wearing a T-shirt and shorts. Her slightly damp spines were going down her back. He smiled as her walked towards the bed and got in. He looked at her up and down. She smiled back at him. Then he got on top of her.

"Sonic," Amy giggled. "Shower at least."

"Why? I'll just get dirty all over again," Sonic reasoned.

"Go!" She giggled, pushing him off of her.

"Alright," Sonic reluctantly goes to take a shower.

Amy laughed and fell back on her pillow. 'I have everything I want,' she thought before slipping into the wonderful world of dreams.

PARTY'SOVERPARTY'SOVERPARTY'SOVERPARTY'SOVERPARTY'SOVER

E/N: Shadow warned Sonic, didn't he? I bet Amy was disappointed, though.

Anyway, the party is over. Next, training for the Chao Olympics will begin. Does Macaroni have what it takes? That question…will not be answered in the next chapter. Sorry. You'll have to wait for that.