"EXTRA, EXTRA, READ SOMETHING ABOUT IT! THE BIOTURTLE WAS DESTROYED TEN MINUTES AGO!" yelled the person working at the newsstand.
Claira ran up and grabbed a copy of the paper. "Yep, it's true! We're all safe now! Henr- I mean, the Bioturtle- has been defeated!"
Everyone jumped up and cheered.
"But Sonic is now missing..." she continued, as the crowd's cheer turned to sorrow, "...and so is Shiaza."
"Yay," a weak voice said from behind everyone. They turned around to see a burnt Sonic dragging himself towards the group.
"EXTRA, EXTRA, READ SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT IT! SONIC HAS RETURNED AS A CRISPY HEDGEHOG!"
"WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY?!" Tails yelled.
"SONNIKU! WHAT HAPPENED?!" Amy cried as she ran over to comfort her overcooked hero. "You feel hotter than usual, but you sure as hell don't look like it!"
"...It... it was..."
"What...?" Tails asked.
"...It was..."
"What?!" Amy asked, horrified.
"...the... author..."
MWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
"I was about to fall onto a nice, soft patch of grass..." Sonic explained. "And that bitch turned it into a volcano!"
whistles innocently
"Oh, Sonniku... I know what you need..." Amy said sympathetically.
"You do...?"
"A nice, big kiss from your girlfriend!" she said cheerfully as she pinned Sonic onto the ground and started kissing him, ignoring his flailing arms and muffled cries for help. Everyone sweatdropped.
"Now what?" Hyacinth asked.
"I don't know. Perhaps we should help the poor hedgehog?" Tikal suggested.
"Which one: Sonic or Amy?" Rouge asked sarcastically.
While Amy kissed Sonic and the others argued over what to do next, Claira's eyes wandered over into the chao section of the newspaper. It was the section where ownerless chao had their names and pictures printed in hopes that they could someday find an owner so that no one else had to keep watching over them.
"Wow..." Claira said to herself as she looked at the pictures. "They're all so cute! I'm going to go adopt one..."
Minutes later, at the Chao Adoption Center, Claira walked up to the counter. An older, female chao looked up at her.
"Yes...?"
"I'd like to adopt a chao, please."
"Certainly," the chao replied, as she grabbed a stack of papers from out of nowhere and handed them to Claira. "Fill out these pointless forms, please."
Claira took the pile of pointless forms and sat down in a chair not far from where she had been standing. She got out her special chao pen and started writing.
Eight hours later...
"Alright... I'm done..." Claira said as she handed the papers to the chao.
"Good, good, very good," the owner chao said as she destroyed the papers without even looking at them. "You have passed the test of patience. You have proven yourself ready for a chao."
Claira fell over. "YOU MEAN THAT ALL OF THAT WAS FOR A STUPID TEST?!"
"Now, now, calm down. Anger does not compute well with the chao. Follow me," the older chao said as she walked through a door leading to a small room. Claira followed. Inside the room were about twenty different chao, all without owners.
"You may now pick your chao and see if it wants you as your owner."
Claira looked around at all of the various types of chao. There was one chao, two chao, red chao, blue chao. There were small chao and large chao, young chao and old chao. Chao were everywhere! One chao, however, caught Claira's attention. It was a light blue hero chao with koala ears the color of hot pink. It also had fluffy, cloud-like wings, and a bright pink elephant's tail with more fluff on the end than usual. It reminded her of a chao she once knew.
"I want that one," Claira said, pointing to it.
"Sundae!" the older chao called out. The chao walked up to them. "This is Sundae. She's been here for quite a while now, and I think she'll get along with you just fine."
Claira kneeled down next to Sundae and held out her hand, smiling. The chao looked at her, blinked a few times, looked at her again, then ran into her arms.
"It's settled then!" the owner chao said. "Sundae is now your rightful chao!"
"Yay!" Claira exclaimed as she stood up with the chao still in her arms. "So, do you have any background information on Sundae?"
"As a matter of fact, I do. Wait right here," the older chao said as she left, then came back out with a few papers and handed them to her. "Here you are! Thank you for adopting a chao so I don't have to waste my time on it and I can retire sooner! Come again!"
Claira left the Chao Adoption Center with Sundae and sat down on a chair near the pool. She started looking through the papers and read some of the information:
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sundae the chao
hero/run type
fav. fruit: square
light blue/koala ears/elephant tail
ancestry traits: females- koala ears/males- elephant tails
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"Wait... so you, you mother, your grandmother, and your whole line of great-grandmothers have all had koala ears? And the same with elephant tails and your father, grandfather, and your whole line of great-grandfathers? Creepy... hey, so... you're a hero chao, a run type, a light blue, you have the pink koala ears, AND your favorite fruit is square?! You must be... Jellybean's descendent!" Claira blurted out. She ran to a nearby computer that popped out of nowhere and searched for Sundae's family egg. Sure enough, at the top of the egg, it showed that Jellybean had mated with a chao named Chocolate, and Sprinkles was hatched. And all the way at the bottom was Sundae's name.
"This is SO cool!" Claira exclaimed, as she handed Sundae a square fruit. "You're related to Jellybean!"
Back outside the newsstand...
"So, what happened to Shiaza?" Leilani asked. "She couldn't have just disappeared, you know. Oh, wait... never mind..."
"I think she got captured by the mole people! I KNEW they were real!"
"Knuckles! For the last time, there's no such thing as mole people!" Rouge said, rolling her eyes. "You watch WAY too much Scooby Doo."
"EEP! I'M MISSING SCOOBY UNIVERSE! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Knuckles yelled as he ran off to find a TV.
Hyacinth sighed. "So now what?"
"I don't know," Tails said. "The author can't think of anything else."
Nope! '
"Why not end it here?" Rouge said.
Okay!
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Amy yelled. "I LOVE THIS CHAPTER! I GET TO KISS MY SONNIKU ALL THE WAY THROUGH! DON'T END IT!"
Sorry!