Act Five - Holding
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Chapter Thirty-Six - Forgetting
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Footsteps rang out as two young mammals ran through the house of the fox.
Tails skidded as he rounded the corner and turned his head back to check for Cream.
She ran after him with a hanger wrapped in a bag.
Tails jumped and closed the door before sprinting through the kitchen.
Cream saw the door close and doubled around to catch him as he came to the living room.
A moment of shock came to the kitsune as he saw his way blocked before he sprang to the nearest door and shut it behind him immediately.
He turned to run only to bash into a wall.
"I.Q. Over three-hundred and I lock myself in a closet..." Tails thought instantly before he heard knocking on the door.
"Tails, get out here or we're going to be late." Cream called while straightening out her dress.
"I'll come out when you stop trying to get that on me, I swear I look fine!" Tails called back while rubbing his sore nose.
Cream looked at the hanger and bag before looking at the door.
"Come out already!" Cream called back at him again.
She heard the clicking of the doorknob then silence.
"Tails..." She called again.
A few more clicks then nothing.
"Cream..." She finally heard faintly.
Before she could answer she heard another whisper.
"The door locks from outside..." Tails muttered.
An odd sensation began to come over Cream.
The bottom of her stomach began to swish around before jumping as high as it could.
Eventually as the jumping shook her body it pushed her lungs up before they recoiled back down.
The result was a ragged breathing that had a distinct sound.
"Ha.. ha... hahahahahahHAHAHAH!" Cream burst into laughter at the trouble of Tails.
"You are a genius and you lock yourself..." Cream cut herself off with more laughter.
Cream unlocked the door and felt Tails begin to push against it.
"Cream... can you let me out?" Tails asked as he felt the pressure on the other side of the door.
The door opened for just a second and Tails was pelted with the hanger and bag she had been carrying.
"Put it on and I let you out" Cream said smiling as she clicked the lock again.
"Fine... i'll stay in here and miss the wedding!" Tails called back.
"Then Blaze will burn the Tornado for missing her wedding" Cream answered.
Tails felt his heart stop beating for a minute.
After a bit of mumbling Cream smiled as she heard the zipper being pulled down.
"I hate wearing pants..." She giggled as Tails kept fuming.
Tails knocked on the door and Cream opened it gaining a smile.
"Perfect, now you match my dress" Cream said as Tails fidgeted.
"Look... let's just get to Angel Island..." Tails muttered as they headed outside to the Tornado.
The hangar was open already and they climbed inside with ease.
Tails glanced at the door to his workshop and then back to the yolk.
They taxied before lifting off but Cream noticed Tails kept glancing back at his workshop.
In the workshop a small robot laid sprawled on the floor.
It's arm fallen off and watering can spilled.
The water had evaporated in the month or so it had been there but the robot hadn't been able to move without a charge.
Without maintenance the robot had broken down one day and had nobody to fix it.
It still laid there, halfway between it's target and it's charging base.
Still in the window, soft rain occasionally taunting it, was Cosmo's plant, withered from lack of water.
"What's wrong?" Cream asked as Tails kept looking over his shoulder.
Tails shook his head.
"I'm not sure... I just feel like there is something that i'm forgetting..."
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Silver stood next to a shriveled otter as he mumbled to himself.
"You know... after so many of these... you start remembering everyone who's stood before you." He drawled on with a smile that lifted his aging face.
Silver did his best to listen to the priest reminiscing in hope that it would calm his nervous trembling.
"Just think, of all the weddings i've been too... i've gotten to do TWO royal weddings... of course I expected a cat groom but you youngsters always manage to surprise me..."
Silver blushed a little bit at the otter's continuing remarks.
"But you got a looker, in my day I nearly got tricked by this dame who took everything but my hat..." He grabbed his tall hat as if to make sure it was still there.
"Going to have a lot of fun continuing the royal blood line aren't you... Heh heh heh..."
Silver let the old man continue but found him just making the whole situation worse.
He began to glance around as the roar of guests whispering made him begin to shake again.
A soft humming came over the assembly after a minute.
They looked up and saw several guards, dressed in flowing robes circle above with banners of gold, purple, amber and teal.
The various birds all did complicated patterns making their banners trail after them in the air.
They all spiraled upward before racing together in a complicated maneuver.
Silver smiled as the banners were dropped, overlaying in the air in the kingdom's colors.
Silver felt the otter nudge him with a book, "Aren't you planning on doing something?" he asked with a odd smile.
"How did you..." Silver began before looking back up at the falling banners.
"I've been at enough of these things to know something is going to happen..." The priest laughed lightly.
Silver cast the otter another look before raising his hand.
His trademark aura enveloped the banners and they soon began to intertwine together.
Silver meshed them together into a multicolored banner of a four colored star, pointed at twelve angles, of piercing gold, purple, amber, and teal.
The crowd cheered as Silver lifted the kingdom's banner high in the air and set it against the castle.
A soft laugh made Silver look back at the awkward otter behind him.
"Always something..." he muttered with a smile.
The crowd hushed down as a figure appeared from under a gilded arch.
Blaze stepped forward with her dress sparkling with inlaid jewels of various hues.
Long tendrils of lace wrapped around her wrists before flowing backwards to attack to the train.
"I really wish I had my normal clothes right now..." Blaze thought to herself as she moved forward.
Another step brought a small ruffling of the puffed up shoulders that tradition had somehow kept over the years.
The fabric of the dress swayed lightly, the light, fine strands of fabric holding strong to the heavy gems.
The wind picked up and the small tiara had it's own train pulled backwards with it's eight strands all showing twice the four colors of the kingdom.
Blaze made the final steps up the stairs before pulling at a small clasp in the dress making the shoulder and train's drop down.
The much smaller dress now brought relief to Blaze who was glad to be one step closer to being in something comfortable.
Silver blinked as Blaze walked past him with a smile betraying her normally unemotional face.
She stood with her hands grasping at a circlet of silver.
Dangling from it were a few strands of lace and several gems in the colors of gold, purple, amber, and teal.
Silver turned back to the otter only to see him getting a rather amused look.
The otter motioned for Silver to look down and he saw that Blaze was only holding half the circlet now.
Silver gasped as he grabbed the other half and the ceremony began.
Blaze smiled at him and the otter tapped him on the shin so nobody would notice.
The otter laughed a little as Silver blushed at Blaze's figure.
"Best not to get into the ceremony and keep forgetting!"
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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!... oh uh... I meant Act Five is go... sorry...
I just brought into play something that most people will have forgotten about in the chaos of act's three and four.
Cosmo.
Things have changed since the last time Tails and her had any connection.
Hectic complications have stopped the young fox from being able to do much and now... what could it possibly lead too.
Anyway... next chapter should be the wedding!
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Till Next Time.
- One Psychopathic Maniacal Fox