Chapter 3: Sonic World

The first day in the Dark house was pretty much uneventful.

Sonic had made himself some dinner, cleaning up after himself like Shadow had asked, read his book for a few hours, and had gone to bed, taking Shadow's offer to sleep in his room while he was there.

There was no sign of Wilfred the stray cat or a delivery truck with Shadow's package.

However, the next day, that had changed.

Sonic was in the middle of eating breakfast, reading his book once more when he heard scratching and meowing coming from the backdoor.

At first, he was confused, until he remembered Shadow saying that Wilfred would often meow to let them know that he was around, waiting for his food.

"Alright, alright, I'm coming." Sonic chuckled as he quickly dogeared his page and got up, quickly making his way to the backdoor as the cat continued to meow.

When Sonic opened the backdoor and looked down at the cat, he couldn't believe his eyes. Shadow wasn't kidding when he said Wilfred was a little weird looking.

The cat was a fluffy grey and white Persian chinchilla. His green eyes were large and looked ready to pop out of his skull. The rim around his eyes were black as if he was wearing eyeliner, and he had a bit of an underbite, three of his bottom teeth sticking out over his top lip.

Sonic could only ask himself one question… HOW COULD SOMETHING SO UGLY LOOK SO CUTE AT THE SAME TIME?!!!

"Aww! Hello there Wilfred!" He gave a tiny squeal at the adorableness in front of him. "Are you hungry, buddy?"

The cat gave a small meow and Sonic's heart immediately melted at the sound. No wonder why Shadow and Rouge were trying to adopt this little ball of fluff.

Sonic quickly found Wilfred's bowl and ran back to the kitchen to fill it with cat food, completely forgetting about his own bowl of mini wheat cereal that was most likely soggy now. After filling the bowl with a single scoop like Shadow had instructed he ran back outside and sat the bowl down. He sat down and watched as the cat ate from the bowl slowly, taking his time instead of rushing to eat like any other stray.

"Shadow and Rouge sure have been keeping you well fed." Sonic chuckled, reaching out and gently petting the cat, earning a deep purr. "You seem so docile and domesticated. I wonder why you won't come inside."

For the rest of the day, Sonic spent playing with Wilfred. It was Sunday, so no package was coming in today. Sonic spent the whole day picking out different cat toys from the water seal tight box that was sitting next to the backdoor. As he was playing with Wilfred, he began to think.

'Shadow and Rouge have obviously been trying really hard to get him into the house.' He thought. 'It's obvious that they want to adopt him. They've already named him, they're feeding him, and they have toys for him to play with, but he just won't come inside.'

Suddenly, Sonic had an idea.

'I'm gonna get him inside for them. Surely I can do it. They'll be so excited when they come home and see that they're little kitty is finally inside. And I think I know just how to do it too. I'll need Tails' help, but this'll be easy.'

The next day after Sonic had his breakfast and had fed Wilfred outside, he called Tails.

"Hello?" The kitsune answered after the second ring.

"Hey Tails, it's Sonic."

"Sonic? What's up? Is everything alright?"

"Everything's fine Tails, the house is still clean and intact. I haven't done anything to burn it down yet."

"You shouldn't burn it down at all."

"It was a figure of speech." Sonic chuckled. "Anyways, I'm calling because I need your help with something."

"What is it?"

"Come over by the house, and bring your toolkit, I'll explain when you get here."

With that, Sonic hung up the phone and waited for his little buddy to get there.

"That's a cat?" Tails asked in awe as he watched his older hedgehog brother, who was currently on the ground, stroking Wilfred.

"Yeah, isn't he cute?" Sonic smiled cheekily. "Albeit he's a little ugly, but it's a cute ugly."

"I guess." Tails shrugged. "So, Shadow and Rouge have been trying to adopt him?"

"Yeah, they have, but he won't come into the house for some reason. I think it's because he's not used to being indoors."

"So what do you plan to do?"

"I'm thinking a cat door on the backdoor, collar operated only of course to keep all other animals out."

"That's why you told me to bring my toolkit. To help you build it."

"Yeah," Sonic nodded as he fully stood up. "Think you can do it, little buddy?"

"Just give me about 2 hours and I'll have both the door and the collar ready."

"Thanks Tails, I owe you."

"In the meantime, why don't you run a quick stop at the pet shop to get all the necessary needs of owning a cat."

"I can't Tails, I have to stay here in case Shadow's package arrives."

"Don't worry, I'll call you if it gets here before you do."

"... Fine, but I have to be the one to sign for it, so when they get here, stall them."

"No problem Sonic. See you later."

"Be back soon Tails."