I have finally found what I'm good at but I'm not too sure if everyone will like this ff. This is my first and PROBABLY the only ff that I'm going to write. Maybe I shouldn't have shown this to everyone.

Disclaimer: Sonic and co belong to SEGA and NOT me.

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'Come on, you can't forever stay in here!' cried Tails as he dragged out the stubborn Sonic.

'Let go of me! You can't just force me to go there,' shouted Sonic. He slapped off of Tails hands and tried running back into the house but Knuckles was there, blocking the entrance to prevent him from going back in.

'No, no way are we going to let you back in.'

'Get out of the way or I'll run over you,' warned Sonic.

'Make me,' hissed Knuckles.

Almost immediately, the door was knocked down and fell right on top of the surprised echidna. As Sonic was desperately running back into his room, he was suddenly ambushed. Rouge was up in the ceiling hanging upside down and had jumped right on top of him.

'This is for your own good. Couldn't you at least give us a chance to help?' asked Amy.

'Look, Amy. I know that all of you are concern about me but I know what I'm doing' said Sonic as he struggled to get free from Rouge's painful grab. No matter what he did, the grip was getting tighter at every minute. Finally, he gave up but still he wasn't giving any chances to go there.

'I just don't understand. Why do you have to lock yourself in the house?' asked Tails. Sonic gave him an ignore look and looked away, not wanting to answer anymore of anyone's questions.

'He is stubborn, isn't he?' said Knuckles.

'Shut up, Echidna!' shouted Sonic. Annoyed, Knuckles would have given him a piece of his mind if it hadn't for Tails.

'Let's go! I just couldn't bear to see you suffer like this' said Amy.

After a much hesitation argument, the others had no choice but to tie him up. In that way, he wouldn't have any chances to escape. Sonic, all tied up, was dragged to the Chao Garden, still crying out loud not wanting to go there and to shut him up, Knuckles had decided to cover up his mouth with a piece of clean cloth. Finally, that it was all settled. As they entered to the main lobby, they were warmly greeted by a six-year-old rabbit and her chao, who sought off work there.

(The expression for this ff will work better if you could turn on the Hero Chao Garden song from SA2.)

'Welcome to the Chao Garden. Is there anyway I could help you, sir?'

'Could you tell us where the neutral garden is?' asked Tails.

'Over there,' pointed out the female rabbit as politely as ever. 'Follow me. I'll take you there.'

Almost immediately, she took off to the direction where she pointed out and everyone followed.

As they all entered through the portal, a white with slightly blue colour flash of light surrounded them. It faded and revealed a totally different world. Unlike the busy Station Square where they live in, Chao World is more of the opposite. Small tiny trees grew. The place was comfortable to look at with its lush greenery that greatly welcomes anyone. There is a small pool there with a very small waterfall. Everyone was still standing there, admiring the sceneries around them. The garden will have its look change every time when they go visit it. The last time they were here, Tails could recall that there was a really large tree growing in the middle of the garden but it wasn't there anymore.

Thinking that it was safe, Knuckles immediately untied Sonic. Escape, was the first thing came through his mind but was held back by Knuckles' grip.

'This is pointless' yelled Sonic. 'How is it going to help me?'

'We thought that if we could just get you to come here, it might help to cheer you up,' said Rouge with concern

'By forcing me to come here? I'm going home!'

The rabbit, Cream took a step forward and whistled. Almost immediately, six other chaos popped out, ran and gathered around her. Some were jumping at her while others were pulling her dress down. Everyone was stunned and surprised. No one had ever owned that many chaos before.

'Are those your chaos?' asked Tails quite suddenly.

'Uh.What?' asked the six-year-old. The chao that had been trying to climb up onto her head suddenly slipped and fell down to the ground. A while later, it started to cry. Amy pitied it and went to pick it up and comforted it. Unexpectedly, she quickly ran towards the leaving Sonic and showed him the chao.

'Isn't it cute?' asked Amy.

Sonic stopped mid track. He looked at it and was speechless.

'His name is Mutt.' Came a voice behind him. Sonic turned around and saw Cream was approaching them.

'Could I please have him back?' asked Cream with a child-like voice.

'Here you go,' said Amy as she handed Mutt back to her. The rabbit took it and quickly ran off to join it back with the others. As she looked at it go, Amy wished that she had one too. She glanced back at the startled Sonic and smiled.

'Don't you think that it will nice if we could own one too?'

Sonic, all puzzled and confused at the same time, didn't know what to say. Amy quickly picked up two eggs and placed one on Sonic's hand.

'Pat it, Sonic. It is yours.'

'Mine? Why would I need a chao?'

'Come on. They are fun to be taken care off.'

'But I.'

The egg started to hatch and Sonic found himself face to face with a shadow chao. He blinked twice before he knew what it was.

Almost immediately, Sonic screamed and threw his chao down to the ground. He would have ran off but was all paralysed with fear. He just stood there and tried his best to avoid from seeing it again.

'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?' yelled Amy as she ran towards the crying chao. 'You would have got it killed.' She picked it up and tried comforting it.

'I change my mind. I don't want it, you could keep it if you want to,' said Sonic nervously as he looked at her cradling the baby like a mother would.

'I don't care if you want it or not. This is yours and you got to take care of it.'

'I can't. I rather have that pink chao of yours than the black one.'

It appeared that Amy wasn't listening. She smiled at the two chaos that she was holding. 'What are we going to call you?'

Amy looked back at Sonic and turned towards him.

'I'll name mine Miju, what are you going to call yours?'

'I don't care! Can't you just name it since you are holding it?'

'He is yours. Here, take it.'

Amy grabbed hold of Sonic's hands and placed the chao back on them. As she did that, his hands were trembling! Sonic felt sick. Of all chaos, why does it have to be a shadow chao? He looked at it with disgust and had an urge to throw it against the wall but wasn't willing to do so. There was a long stand-still before anyone did anything.

'Fine!' Spoke the pink hedgehog. 'I'll name it.' Amy took the chao away from him and held it in front of her. 'But that doesn't mean it is no longer yours.'

'Amy, can't you just at least pick another chao for me to take care of?'

Amy refused to listen. Instead, she said aloud. 'I'll name you Shadow!'

'What?!?' yelled the stunned Sonic. 'Please don't give him a name like that. What about calling it Blackie or Shady? Stinky is fine too'

'Too late! I have already named it.'

'Then it is yours. I will definitely don't want it.'

'Just what exactly are you afraid off? It is fine.'

Sonic wanted to throw up. He wasn't even sick! His face showed it all but unfortunately Amy didn't notice it.

'They are probably hungry,' said Amy as she picked up her chao. 'Let's go get them some fruits to eat.' The female hedgehog walked off but Sonic wasn't following. She looked back at him and was irritated. 'Aren't you coming?'

'I am not going there. ' 'The chao is yours! You are responsible to take care of it.'

'No!'

'Don't be such a stubborn hog! Come on.'

After much of urging and encouragement, Sonic agreed to go but still wasn't sure if he should. Amy decided that she should make the decision for him. She placed the chaos onto the ground and used both her hands to drag Sonic to the fruit trees.

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Knuckles sat down on a tree stump while looking at the two hedgehogs. He would have laughed seeing how nervous Sonic had gotten but instead smiled. Their decision for coming here must have worked. He turned away, as he respects others' privacy, and took another look around him. Nearby, he could see five chaos were swimming in the pool with their owner, Cream, sitting not too far away from them, playing with her other two chaos. Who is this kid anyway? Tails was at the other side of the pool, seen training his chao to fly. All of this watching had bored him and had an urge to go back home but as promise, he will have to stay there till the end of the day. He took a glance at his shrunken Master Emerald which was kept in his glove. He wasn't too sure if he should just leave it on the island and decided that it will be better if he take it with him. Just then, the sound of some footsteps alarmed him as Rouge the Bat approached him. There was a slight smile appeared on her face. The echidna wasn't too please to see her but kept it inside his breath. The smile on her face didn't wear off and it troubled him by just looking at her.

'What are you smiling at?' Knuckles finally asked which it sounded slightly annoyed.

'I...er...mind if I could have a place to seat on?' said Rouge nervously.

This puzzled Knuckles but that didn't bother him much. Without hesitation, he moved away. Rouge took a seat beside him and looked at the echidna. He wasn't paying much attention at her. The bat sighed. If only he could understand... She shook her head at the thought of this and decided that it will better if she just focused on the egg. There was silence between them and each was minding his/her own business.

Minutes passed and the egg that Rouge was holding had finally hatched. She smiled at her new chao. 'I'll name you Winter,' whispered Rouge. Knuckles noticed this and turned to look at her.

'You raise chao?' asked Knuckles unbelievably.

Rouge looked at him. There was puzzlement at his face. She gave him a slight smirked. 'Why not?'

Knuckles hesitated. There was a lot of Rouge which he didn't know of.

Winter the chao, which was a white-grey one, was struggling to get free. Rouge looked at it, blinked twice and then released it. The chao glanced at its surrounding. For the first time of its life, it gave an exciting yell and tried standing up. However, no sooner it did that, it fell back to the ground with a soft thud. Rouge made a soft laugh as she looked at her chao. It couldn't get up because it was still a baby.

'Look at it. Isn't it silly trying to get up,' said Rouge as she went to pick up her chao. This time, it didn't struggle but it relaxed on its mother's arm. It gave its one last coo before it went to sleep. Rouge carefully moved away its arms while still carrying it like a baby. Knuckles, who was all the time looking at her, nodded. He still couldn't believe that this is Rouge though. Suddenly, Rouge did something which the Knuckles thought she would never do; the bat gave the chao a kiss as it slept and said 'goodnight' even though it was still daytime! The very puzzled echidna just shrugged his shoulders as he saw this.

'Knuckles, mind if you could help me to find some berries. I would like to feed it when it wakes up,' said Rouge as she continued to cradle the sleeping chao.

Knuckles looked at it. Winter was seen sucking its thumb. He felt uncomfortable seeing this but nodded. He might as well help Rouge to find berries for it since he got nothing else to do and left the place instantly.

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Please review as I would like to know how many people are exactly reading this. I may continue on to the next chapter but that may only be 10% possible.