Ok, ok. I got around to writing chapter 3, too. It should prove to be
exciting for you! (I hope...) Anyhow, don't fret if you thought that the
other chapters were kind of boring. This one should be more exciting.
Please read, relax, enjoy, and REVIEW! Thanks.
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Chapter 3: Some Old Friends
In the last chapter, Laki found out that school was canceled, and spent a day in the world of shopping with Amy. Amy disliked her leather skirt, and made Laki change her look. She really didn't care too, and spending 8 hours with Amy is about all that one can stand, but in the end, Laki really adored her new look. When she was home, she decided to clean out her dad's, Knuckles's, closet. When she did, she found the most magnificent treasure in the world. Today, she is going to find out more about what it is, and where it came from...
~~Current time: August, 12 am~~ ~~Location: Knuckles's Apartment, Knuckles's Room~~
"Please, tell me, who are you?" Laki asks the voice that she keeps hearing.
{I have told you countless times... Now is not the time for you to know...} The voice responds.
"Well then, if you won't tell me who you are, tell me where your voice is coming from, PLEASE?" Laki demands.
{I cannot tell you that exactly, either...} The voice answers.
"Then I MUST be going insane. I've gone two days with hardly any sleep, with my dad being gone. I really should just go to bed and rest," Laki tells herself.
{You must rest, for you are required to do many great things, I will tell you more about why you are hearing me later...} the voice says.
Laki then shakes her head and hits it against a wall. She quickly grabs the heavenly, floating green jewel and seals it back into the box. She takes about 5 aspirin and then falls asleep on the couch in the living room. She dreams of things that she had always dreamed of, but a reoccurring dream came into her mind. It was a dream of vague events in her childhood; she can barely make them out.
~~Time Elapse: About 10 hours~~
It is only slightly before noon when Laki wakes up. She then slumps over to her kitchen and grabs a box of Cheerios. With the Cheerios in hand, she plops down on the couch and turns on the TV. She grabs a handful of cereal and stuffs it in her mouth periodically. About an hour passes. Then there is a knock on the door. She sits up slowly, and has to force herself to stand up. She is about to walk to the door when it opens on its own.
"Hey, girl! Boy, you look like you just woke up," Amy comments.
"Ugh... I'm drowsy, come back in a couple of hours..." Laki manages to say while chewing her cereal.
"Eww, girl, finish eating before you talk!" Amy scolds.
"(Amy notices the depressed look Laki's face.) You've been up all night, haven't you?" Amy says.
"Don't even talk to me about last night, I really had a terrible time..." Laki says, still chewing Cheerios.
"(Amy squints her eyes in disgust, then looks at her again.) What happened that was that was so terrible?" Amy asks confused.
"(Laki finally swallows her cereal) Well, I was cleaning out my dad's closet, and I found this big green gem. But I have had such a lack of sleep lately that I literally thought that it was floating. And to top it off, I kept hearing voices in my head. So took a bunch of aspirin and went to bed (yawn)," Laki explained, grabbing another handful of cereal.
"(Amy grabs the Cheerios box.) You have been eating too much of this stuff. Anyway, I'd like to see that gem sometime... but not now. Cause you'll never guess who's in Station Square today!" Amy says.
"(Laki's eyes open up a little more) Who is it?" Laki asks.
"First, you need to brush your hair, then I'll show you!" (Amy grabs a hairbrush out of her purse.) "Here,"
Laki brushes her hair slowly, and then is taken by Amy out of the apartment. Amy then takes the elevator down to the first floor and directs Laki into the lobby. And in the lobby, several familiar people are chatting. One of which, is a white bat.
"My my, is this the young daughter of Knuckles that I have heard so much about?" The bat asks.
"Yes, she is! (Amy pushes Laki out in front of her.) Rouge, I'd like you to met Laki," Amy says.
"It is a pleasure to meet you. Did you say your name was Laki? It is very pretty," Rouge compliments.
"Well, yes, AMY said that that was my name, which it is. Are you an old friend of Knuckles or something?" Laki questions.
"Oh, let's just say that we started as enemies, but went into a funny sort of friendship," (Rouge laughs)
"Enemies? Over what?" Laki asks.
"It isn't anything very important. But if you must know, Knuckles had this beautiful jewel known as the Master Emerald, which is something that I desired then, but I eventually got over it," Rouge explains.
"Oh, I see..." Laki responds.
Laki completely ignored the fact that Rouge wanted a very special jewel of Knuckles's. She immediately acquainted herself with the person sitting next to Rouge on the sofa, a VERY familiar blue hedgehog.
"SONIC!!! I can't believe that you came to see me!" (Amy jumps gleefully.)
"NO, I didn't come to see you, I heard that Rouge was coming, and I hadn't seen her for almost a year. Can't I see my OTHER friends without being disturbed by you?" Sonic criticizes.
"Oh, Sonic, I know that you don't mean that..." Amy corrects.
"Try me," Sonic dares.
"Cut it out, you two. Honestly, how long have you and Amy been friends?" Laki asks.
"So you are Laki! (Sonic looks at Laki.) I've heard Knuckles speak of you before. He never mentioned to tell me about the raw beauty that you possess," (Sonic whistles at Laki, then he gives her a really cheeky smile.)
"Uh, yeah, that'd be me, Knuckles's daughter," Laki says, feeling a bit violated.
"Knuckles's BEAUTIFUL daughter," Sonic corrects as he winks at Laki.
"Um, I don't think that you should be flirting with her," Rouge whispers to Sonic.
Laki then introduces herself to the rest of the gang. Tails is next. Then Cream and Cheese. Just when she thinks that she has talked to everyone, she gets another surprise. The revolving door in the entrance starts to turn, and a black creature emerges from it.
"Hey Shadow! Glad you could make it!" Amy says to Shadow.
"I wasn't expecting to see you here, too! Whatcha been up to?" Rouge asks Shadow.
"SHADS! HOW ARE YA'!?" (Sonic shouts, he then dashes over to Shadow and gives him a big hug.)
"Well, this was certainly unexpected!" Laki comments.
"Um, it's nice to see you too, Sonic," Shadow says as he tries to break free from Sonic's hug.
"Amy, it's nice to have the whole gang together again! Except that Big couldn't come, but it is ok," Cream comments.
"I concur," Tails adds.
"I'll talk to everyone once I get the chance, but first, who is the young lady that I'm supposed to meet?" Shadow looks around, and his eyes come to rest upon Laki.
"I'm guessing that it was me," Laki offers.
"I'm guessing that it was you, too. Your father, Knuckles, must be proud," Shadow compliments.
"Why so?" Laki asks.
"You have his eyes," Shadow replies.
"Aww, don't embarrass me," (Laki blushes.)
The gang then starts to chat amongst themselves. Sonic and Shadow both talk to Laki. Shadow, really enjoys her personality, while Sonic enjoys her. Laki begins to feel uncomfortable around Sonic, and says that she has to leave. Shadow immediately caught on, and summoned Amy over to distract him. The group then realizes that it is about lunch time, and tries to think of a place where they could eat. Laki has the perfect place in mind. Can you guess where?
~~Time Elapse: About 5 hours~~
After the gang is finished eating a great meal at the China Corner, they head back to the apartment building. However, Laki stays behind, to talk with her friends Roxy and Jimmy who both are working.
"Who were all those guys?" Roxy asks.
"Oh, they're all friends of my dad. You know who Amy is, don't you?" Laki asks.
"Yeah, she comes in every now and then," Jimmy says.
"Well, apparently, she set up a big sort of reunion with everyone so they could come and meet me, my dad's daughter," Laki says.
"Hey by the way, is your dad back yet?" Roxy questions.
"Yeah, DID he ever come home?" Jimmy adds.
A chill suddenly runs through Laki's spine. In the midst of everything that has been happening lately, she had forgotten about her dad. Feeling a little guilty, Laki bids her friends good-bye and says that she should go back to her apartment and wait for her dad. She slowly walks down the sidewalk, with her hands in her pockets. She sees her reflection in a window, and stops to look. But even now, she cannot overcome her sadness. Laki sways away from the mirror and takes a longer route to get back to her apartment.
~Time Elapse: 2 hours~
Laki is now just entering the apartment building. She still feels quite sad. She didn't even notice that Shadow was sitting on the couch. Laki paced past the couch and was just about to go in the elevator when...
"Hey, where are you going?" Shadow asks Laki, putting his hand on her shoulder.
"(Laki slowly turns around and forces herself to look at Shadow.) Nowhere really, just back to my apartment..." Laki replies.
"Everyone has been looking for you. You need to stay down here with me until they come back... (He thinks) Why were you going back to your apartment?" Shadow asks, noticing Laki's sad mood.
"To wait, for my dad. He hasn't been around for nearly 2 and a half days. And he is on vacation leave at work, so he wouldn't have anywhere else to be," Laki answers.
"You poor girl, how'd you like to talk to me about it?" Shadow offers.
"That... would actually be nice," Laki says.
Shadow then takes her hand and sits back down on the lobby couch with her. Laki tells him everything that has been happening, and how her dad just disappeared. She even tells him about her strange insanity from last night. Shadow tells her not to let it worry her, unless it happens again. Laki becomes so comfortable with Shadow that she asks him how long he is staying. Shadow says that he is thinking about moving into the apartment building, but is not entirely sure. Laki offers him a place to stay in her apartment, but Shadow declines. He says that everyone is staying at a hotel, while Rouge is staying with Amy, for she will be leaving tomorrow morning for the capitol. Laki insists that Shadow stay with her. Shadow, noticing her grief, finally accepts.
~~Time Elapse: 5 hours~~
Laki is now back in her apartment, along with Shadow, Rouge and Amy. They are watching some of Amy's old home movies. They are having a pretty good time, until Amy brings up a subject that Laki had brought up in the morning.
"Hey, what was that thing that you were trying to tell me about this morning?" Amy asked Laki.
"What thing?" Laki asks
"It was... something about a green gem or something that you found. You said that you found it while cleaning out Knuckles's closet," Amy answers.
"Green gem? If I didn't know any better, I'd call that..." Rouge cuts ff in mid-sentence, biting her nails.
"Call it what?" Shadow asks.
"TREASURE!!!" Rouge exclaims.
"Oh, you mean that jewel? I guess that we can go look at it, but I probably shouldn't be messing with it cause it was in my dad's closet," Laki says.
But Laki is already overpowered, for Rouge is pulling her off of the couch and pushing her towards Knuckles's room. Laki is reluctant to go inside his closet. But both Rouge and Amy now, implore her to go and get it. Laki goes into the closet and comes back out with the same giant box. Shadow, Rouge, and Amy are all shocked at how easily she carried such a huge package. Rouge immediately grabbed for the box, but Shadow put his hand in front of hers, to allow Laki the privilege of opening it.
"OPEN IT! OPEEEEEN IT!!!" Rouge screams.
"Call down, Rouge..." Shadow says.
"This is gonna be so sweet!" Amy says gleefully.
"Ok, here we go!" Laki says, as she gently lifts the lid on the box.
Just as Laki began to open the lid, the clock chimed 12 o' clock. Laki knew that she had to get out of the habit of late nights, but she had something more important to worry about now, and soon, more responsibility than she could have ever imagined.
____________________________________________________________________________ __ OOPS! I did it again, hahaha. A really long chapter. But anyway, I hoped you liked it! Please review, but do not flame!
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Chapter 3: Some Old Friends
In the last chapter, Laki found out that school was canceled, and spent a day in the world of shopping with Amy. Amy disliked her leather skirt, and made Laki change her look. She really didn't care too, and spending 8 hours with Amy is about all that one can stand, but in the end, Laki really adored her new look. When she was home, she decided to clean out her dad's, Knuckles's, closet. When she did, she found the most magnificent treasure in the world. Today, she is going to find out more about what it is, and where it came from...
~~Current time: August, 12 am~~ ~~Location: Knuckles's Apartment, Knuckles's Room~~
"Please, tell me, who are you?" Laki asks the voice that she keeps hearing.
{I have told you countless times... Now is not the time for you to know...} The voice responds.
"Well then, if you won't tell me who you are, tell me where your voice is coming from, PLEASE?" Laki demands.
{I cannot tell you that exactly, either...} The voice answers.
"Then I MUST be going insane. I've gone two days with hardly any sleep, with my dad being gone. I really should just go to bed and rest," Laki tells herself.
{You must rest, for you are required to do many great things, I will tell you more about why you are hearing me later...} the voice says.
Laki then shakes her head and hits it against a wall. She quickly grabs the heavenly, floating green jewel and seals it back into the box. She takes about 5 aspirin and then falls asleep on the couch in the living room. She dreams of things that she had always dreamed of, but a reoccurring dream came into her mind. It was a dream of vague events in her childhood; she can barely make them out.
~~Time Elapse: About 10 hours~~
It is only slightly before noon when Laki wakes up. She then slumps over to her kitchen and grabs a box of Cheerios. With the Cheerios in hand, she plops down on the couch and turns on the TV. She grabs a handful of cereal and stuffs it in her mouth periodically. About an hour passes. Then there is a knock on the door. She sits up slowly, and has to force herself to stand up. She is about to walk to the door when it opens on its own.
"Hey, girl! Boy, you look like you just woke up," Amy comments.
"Ugh... I'm drowsy, come back in a couple of hours..." Laki manages to say while chewing her cereal.
"Eww, girl, finish eating before you talk!" Amy scolds.
"(Amy notices the depressed look Laki's face.) You've been up all night, haven't you?" Amy says.
"Don't even talk to me about last night, I really had a terrible time..." Laki says, still chewing Cheerios.
"(Amy squints her eyes in disgust, then looks at her again.) What happened that was that was so terrible?" Amy asks confused.
"(Laki finally swallows her cereal) Well, I was cleaning out my dad's closet, and I found this big green gem. But I have had such a lack of sleep lately that I literally thought that it was floating. And to top it off, I kept hearing voices in my head. So took a bunch of aspirin and went to bed (yawn)," Laki explained, grabbing another handful of cereal.
"(Amy grabs the Cheerios box.) You have been eating too much of this stuff. Anyway, I'd like to see that gem sometime... but not now. Cause you'll never guess who's in Station Square today!" Amy says.
"(Laki's eyes open up a little more) Who is it?" Laki asks.
"First, you need to brush your hair, then I'll show you!" (Amy grabs a hairbrush out of her purse.) "Here,"
Laki brushes her hair slowly, and then is taken by Amy out of the apartment. Amy then takes the elevator down to the first floor and directs Laki into the lobby. And in the lobby, several familiar people are chatting. One of which, is a white bat.
"My my, is this the young daughter of Knuckles that I have heard so much about?" The bat asks.
"Yes, she is! (Amy pushes Laki out in front of her.) Rouge, I'd like you to met Laki," Amy says.
"It is a pleasure to meet you. Did you say your name was Laki? It is very pretty," Rouge compliments.
"Well, yes, AMY said that that was my name, which it is. Are you an old friend of Knuckles or something?" Laki questions.
"Oh, let's just say that we started as enemies, but went into a funny sort of friendship," (Rouge laughs)
"Enemies? Over what?" Laki asks.
"It isn't anything very important. But if you must know, Knuckles had this beautiful jewel known as the Master Emerald, which is something that I desired then, but I eventually got over it," Rouge explains.
"Oh, I see..." Laki responds.
Laki completely ignored the fact that Rouge wanted a very special jewel of Knuckles's. She immediately acquainted herself with the person sitting next to Rouge on the sofa, a VERY familiar blue hedgehog.
"SONIC!!! I can't believe that you came to see me!" (Amy jumps gleefully.)
"NO, I didn't come to see you, I heard that Rouge was coming, and I hadn't seen her for almost a year. Can't I see my OTHER friends without being disturbed by you?" Sonic criticizes.
"Oh, Sonic, I know that you don't mean that..." Amy corrects.
"Try me," Sonic dares.
"Cut it out, you two. Honestly, how long have you and Amy been friends?" Laki asks.
"So you are Laki! (Sonic looks at Laki.) I've heard Knuckles speak of you before. He never mentioned to tell me about the raw beauty that you possess," (Sonic whistles at Laki, then he gives her a really cheeky smile.)
"Uh, yeah, that'd be me, Knuckles's daughter," Laki says, feeling a bit violated.
"Knuckles's BEAUTIFUL daughter," Sonic corrects as he winks at Laki.
"Um, I don't think that you should be flirting with her," Rouge whispers to Sonic.
Laki then introduces herself to the rest of the gang. Tails is next. Then Cream and Cheese. Just when she thinks that she has talked to everyone, she gets another surprise. The revolving door in the entrance starts to turn, and a black creature emerges from it.
"Hey Shadow! Glad you could make it!" Amy says to Shadow.
"I wasn't expecting to see you here, too! Whatcha been up to?" Rouge asks Shadow.
"SHADS! HOW ARE YA'!?" (Sonic shouts, he then dashes over to Shadow and gives him a big hug.)
"Well, this was certainly unexpected!" Laki comments.
"Um, it's nice to see you too, Sonic," Shadow says as he tries to break free from Sonic's hug.
"Amy, it's nice to have the whole gang together again! Except that Big couldn't come, but it is ok," Cream comments.
"I concur," Tails adds.
"I'll talk to everyone once I get the chance, but first, who is the young lady that I'm supposed to meet?" Shadow looks around, and his eyes come to rest upon Laki.
"I'm guessing that it was me," Laki offers.
"I'm guessing that it was you, too. Your father, Knuckles, must be proud," Shadow compliments.
"Why so?" Laki asks.
"You have his eyes," Shadow replies.
"Aww, don't embarrass me," (Laki blushes.)
The gang then starts to chat amongst themselves. Sonic and Shadow both talk to Laki. Shadow, really enjoys her personality, while Sonic enjoys her. Laki begins to feel uncomfortable around Sonic, and says that she has to leave. Shadow immediately caught on, and summoned Amy over to distract him. The group then realizes that it is about lunch time, and tries to think of a place where they could eat. Laki has the perfect place in mind. Can you guess where?
~~Time Elapse: About 5 hours~~
After the gang is finished eating a great meal at the China Corner, they head back to the apartment building. However, Laki stays behind, to talk with her friends Roxy and Jimmy who both are working.
"Who were all those guys?" Roxy asks.
"Oh, they're all friends of my dad. You know who Amy is, don't you?" Laki asks.
"Yeah, she comes in every now and then," Jimmy says.
"Well, apparently, she set up a big sort of reunion with everyone so they could come and meet me, my dad's daughter," Laki says.
"Hey by the way, is your dad back yet?" Roxy questions.
"Yeah, DID he ever come home?" Jimmy adds.
A chill suddenly runs through Laki's spine. In the midst of everything that has been happening lately, she had forgotten about her dad. Feeling a little guilty, Laki bids her friends good-bye and says that she should go back to her apartment and wait for her dad. She slowly walks down the sidewalk, with her hands in her pockets. She sees her reflection in a window, and stops to look. But even now, she cannot overcome her sadness. Laki sways away from the mirror and takes a longer route to get back to her apartment.
~Time Elapse: 2 hours~
Laki is now just entering the apartment building. She still feels quite sad. She didn't even notice that Shadow was sitting on the couch. Laki paced past the couch and was just about to go in the elevator when...
"Hey, where are you going?" Shadow asks Laki, putting his hand on her shoulder.
"(Laki slowly turns around and forces herself to look at Shadow.) Nowhere really, just back to my apartment..." Laki replies.
"Everyone has been looking for you. You need to stay down here with me until they come back... (He thinks) Why were you going back to your apartment?" Shadow asks, noticing Laki's sad mood.
"To wait, for my dad. He hasn't been around for nearly 2 and a half days. And he is on vacation leave at work, so he wouldn't have anywhere else to be," Laki answers.
"You poor girl, how'd you like to talk to me about it?" Shadow offers.
"That... would actually be nice," Laki says.
Shadow then takes her hand and sits back down on the lobby couch with her. Laki tells him everything that has been happening, and how her dad just disappeared. She even tells him about her strange insanity from last night. Shadow tells her not to let it worry her, unless it happens again. Laki becomes so comfortable with Shadow that she asks him how long he is staying. Shadow says that he is thinking about moving into the apartment building, but is not entirely sure. Laki offers him a place to stay in her apartment, but Shadow declines. He says that everyone is staying at a hotel, while Rouge is staying with Amy, for she will be leaving tomorrow morning for the capitol. Laki insists that Shadow stay with her. Shadow, noticing her grief, finally accepts.
~~Time Elapse: 5 hours~~
Laki is now back in her apartment, along with Shadow, Rouge and Amy. They are watching some of Amy's old home movies. They are having a pretty good time, until Amy brings up a subject that Laki had brought up in the morning.
"Hey, what was that thing that you were trying to tell me about this morning?" Amy asked Laki.
"What thing?" Laki asks
"It was... something about a green gem or something that you found. You said that you found it while cleaning out Knuckles's closet," Amy answers.
"Green gem? If I didn't know any better, I'd call that..." Rouge cuts ff in mid-sentence, biting her nails.
"Call it what?" Shadow asks.
"TREASURE!!!" Rouge exclaims.
"Oh, you mean that jewel? I guess that we can go look at it, but I probably shouldn't be messing with it cause it was in my dad's closet," Laki says.
But Laki is already overpowered, for Rouge is pulling her off of the couch and pushing her towards Knuckles's room. Laki is reluctant to go inside his closet. But both Rouge and Amy now, implore her to go and get it. Laki goes into the closet and comes back out with the same giant box. Shadow, Rouge, and Amy are all shocked at how easily she carried such a huge package. Rouge immediately grabbed for the box, but Shadow put his hand in front of hers, to allow Laki the privilege of opening it.
"OPEN IT! OPEEEEEN IT!!!" Rouge screams.
"Call down, Rouge..." Shadow says.
"This is gonna be so sweet!" Amy says gleefully.
"Ok, here we go!" Laki says, as she gently lifts the lid on the box.
Just as Laki began to open the lid, the clock chimed 12 o' clock. Laki knew that she had to get out of the habit of late nights, but she had something more important to worry about now, and soon, more responsibility than she could have ever imagined.
____________________________________________________________________________ __ OOPS! I did it again, hahaha. A really long chapter. But anyway, I hoped you liked it! Please review, but do not flame!