A/N: Yah! Okay, next chapter, and I don't own any Sonic characters they belong to SEGA and Sonic Team. But first I want to thank all of my reviewers personally, I'm giving all of you a... light bulb...OO...never mind, on with the thanking!
Djmax (I will go into that topic later, that's a promise)
Entei200 (Yeah your right, it is more of a hexagon...)
ShadowandKnucklesgirlforever (Happy you like it so much!)
Thank you all of reading and reviewing, and on with chapter two!
Knuckles shifted his weight uncomfortably from side to side, the growing paranoia about the emerald swelling and choking his thoughts.
" I've gotta get back to the emerald." He declared.
" Hold on." Kirei stopped him again. " What about school?"
" You go to school?" Sonic raised his eyebrows. " With humans?"
"Why'd you tell 'em?!" The twins moaned together.
" How often do they go to this 'school'?" Knuckles pondered out loud. Everyone stared at him.
" You need to get out more..." Rouge muttered.
" Five days a week I believe..." Cream said softly. Her chao fluttered up from behind her.
" Chao chao!" It squeaked in agreement.
" What time do you go to school?" Sonic asked Kirei.
" Eh...around 7:00."
" Seven!? What happened to sleeping in?"
" Our thoughts exactly." The twins complained from across the room.
" School's too easy." Cyclone complained. Shocker and Spinner gaped at him.
" Will you do my homework?"
" When the sun blows up."
" Aww..."
"That can be arranged." Silver chimed in as she sat down.
" Where'd you come from?!" Spinner asked her.
" Your hollow head."
" How about you drop Kirei off here in the morning, and we can take them to school." Amy said thoughtfully.
"Sounds fine...Except..." Rouge looked at Knuckles. " Who will bring her down?"
"You." He answered flatly.
"Why me?!"
"I have an emerald to protect."
"'I have an emerald to protect.'" Rouge mocked him sarcastically, Shadow and Sonic snickered. Knuckles rolled his eyes as he waved good-bye abruptly, and Kirei followed him out. Rouge beckoned Shadow to come outside for a few. He nodded and followed, and as soon as the door was shut Rouge spoke,
"You have any idea what could've happened between you and Amy?" She indicated Silver. He rubbed his arm uncomfortably,
"No clue, really. I wasn't even expecting to fall in love...after Maria, I mean." Rouge felt a twinge of hurt, but ignored it. She always thought Shadow was the cool mysterious type, maybe someone she'd like to turn his or her friendship into something more. But somehow he seemed more like the brother she had never had and support she needed for her unsteady everything else.
" Yeah...I missed kicking ass with you and Omega you know." He snickered at that. Rouge smirked back. It's been a long time since Shadow had laughed...
" I don't know where Omega has gone off to..."
" You let me know when you find out about her...ask her or something."
" Hmph. Why's this so important to you?" He asked coldly. Rouge punched his shoulder playfully.
" I just care about you, that's all...your like the friend I've never had..." Shadow tried to keep his emotions from showing, but his eyes betrayed him.
" Thanks..." He looked over at Knuckles, who was glaring at cars as they passed. "Well, I better see it that Faker doesn't get a hold of the remote again. " That was Shadow's signal to leave. She nodded, and Shadow slipped back inside, watching Rouge as she jogged over to Knuckles, the sky already dimming and threatening nightfall.
"How are we going to get home?" Rouge inquired by Knuckles side.
"We glide up, how else?"
"From here?"
"No, we take the train to Mystic Ruins...and you think I'm stupid..." He scoffed. Rouge rolled her eyes and them looked at the ground for Knuckles shadow...
"The last train left 30 minutes ago." Rouge told him calmly. Knuckles spun around.
"What?"
"You heard me."
"What do you mean by the last train ride?"
"The trains to Mystic Ruins stop at seven. It's seven thirty, judging by shadow time."
"Damn it!" Knuckles cracked his knuckles, resisting the urge to punch something. A car flew past, the wind brushing them lightly.
"Haven't you ever heard of a subway?" Rouge cocked an eyebrow.
"...No..." Kirei burst out laughing at her father's pitiful naive ness. Rouge was starting to like this kid already...
"Then we can take the subway."
"Fine..." He grumbled, as Rouge spread her dark wings and dove up into the air. Knuckles and Kirei followed, "Not that I know what this subway is..." He added.
At the subway station
Knuckles looked around the station, the gleaming tile reflecting the luminescent lights clinging to the open ceiling. A dark tunnel quickly engulfed a track a few feet below him.
" So let me get this straight...you travel, in a train...underground?"
" Yes, for the one hundredth time, you moron." Rouge groaned from the bench Kirei and her were sitting at.
" You pay to do this?"
" Yeah."
" Jeez..." Knuckles shook his head, and Rouge couldn't tell what was more dominant, the disgust, or the wonder. Just then the train pulled up, Knuckles jumped so high he could've hit the ceiling, and they boarded on. It was so crowded that they had to stand close to one another...a little to close.
Rouge's back was against Knuckles chest, both were extremely uncomfortable.
" Don't get any ideas." She warned him, not daring to turn her head around.
" Don't flatter yourself." He retorted. The train suddenly did an unexpected lurch forward, causing Knuckles and Rouge to follow to suit, and the next thing Rouge knew she had flipped around and her back had hit the wooden floor, hard. Blinking her eyes open, they were unfocused at first, but then she felt something on top of her...
Knuckles was staring right back at her, equally shocked and embarrassed. A single second pasted when Rouge suddenly saw something more in those deep intense violet eyes...and he was so warm...
" Get off me!" Kirei moaned from underneath Rouge. Reality hit them both like a hammer to a nail. Knuckles flushed and stood up awkwardly, realizing just then why people were grabbing onto poles. Rouge glared at him and rolled off to the side and helped Kirei up.
" You two weigh a ton, jeez!" Kirei complained, brushing her legs off. Rouge and Knuckles couldn't think of any insults to fire at one other, so they just shut up and gazed out the dark windows, letting the vibrating floor grab most of their attention.
At the apartment
As soon as Shadow went back inside, everyone was getting beds ready and so forth. He stood there idly, felt like a stranger as everyone put blankets down. Amy noticed this as she was coming in from the kitchen.
" Everyone is just going to sleep in the living room for now. If you don't want to, my bed is free, I think this is just like a sleepover or something."
Shadow cringed, the pink bed, carpet...
" I think I'll pass..." A blanket was suddenly hurled at him out of nowhere. He held it and blinked at, then looked up to find Sonic was guilty.
" Better get a good spot, otherwise everyone else is gonna get 'em, and believe me..." He looked obviously over at Amy, her back turned, "You don't want that..." He snickered, and walked over to the twins, who were arguing over who got the couch.
" I was here FIRST!"
" No, I was!"
" You were here the same time!" Cyclone told them.
A pause...
" Butt out!" They yelled at the same time, and then resumed to stare each other down. Sonic jumped onto the couch lazily.
" It's mine now." He said simply.
" Oh, man..." Spinner turned to his brother.
" Look, see what you made happen?!"
" Your just as equality as guilty!"
" ARGGG...I don't want to see your disgusting face, ever again!"
" Fine, but all you have to do is look in the mirror!"
" At least I don't crack 'em!"
" Shut up! You two are giving me the worst headache!" Silver complained from her chair, her red eyes flashing for a moment. They gulped, and dashed away to carry their argument elsewhere. Tails dragged a blanket in one hand and a pillow in the other, settling down next to the couch.
" Thanks for letting me stay, Sonic..."
" Not a problem."
" Am I the only one who's freaked out about this?" He looked up at Sonic, he pool blue eyes glistening in fear Sonic had rarely seen. Unintentionally he frowned, Tails was already 14, much more grown up than the 8 year old he had taken under his wing. His voice was even a little different. Cream too, newly found curves were there, and instead of wearing that little girl dress, she wore a mini skirt reserved for her age.
" No, your not..." Sonic sighed. He was still a teenager, but that lust of youthfulness seemed farther away. He had never wanted to settle down, and he had never even considered it.
" I mean, I can build planes and weapons for the military, but I just don't get how to figure this one out. How am I supposed to take care of someone who's only a year younger than me, and calls me his father?"
" Point taken, Tails...don't worry, I'm sure we'll get this all settled in."
" I hope so." He concluded, turning away. "Ah!" He yelped in surprise, to find Shadow next to him. " Don't scare me like that, Shadow..."
" What, you look at him in the face? That's scary enough..." Sonic chuckled.
" Hello, Mr. Sonic, Mr. Tails, Mr. Shadow, and Mrs. Sakeru- " Silver's ear twitched, her real name being said was a rare thing. "I've decided to join you because Cyclone is fixing Amy's toaster-"
Suddenly two pieces of toast flew out of the kitchen doorway and hit the entry door with a thud.
" Sorry!" Came Cyclone's voice.
" Toast!" The twins reappeared again, being as fast if not faster than Sonic, they were hard to keep track off. They gingerly took a bite.
" Needs butter."
" Agreed." They rushed into the kitchen.
" And it's getting a bit violent..." She choose the ending rather carefully. Shocker and Spinner's voices roared,
" The toaster is POCESSED!" Four pieces of toast flew out of the doorway.
"Shut up I'm trying to concentrate!" Cyclone's voice was a bit muffled.
"DEMOLISH THE EVIl!"
" NO!"
Bang. An odd silence followed after.
"Your welcome here." Sonic pointed to an open space next to Shadow.
"Do you mind, Mr. Shadow?" She asked politely.
"No..." He said, looking up at the ceiling.
"That hurt!" Spinner's voice sounded. They all listened in the living room.
"I TOLD you it was POCESSED!" Shocker's scream rang through the walls.
"That was Cyclone, you idiot!"
"Shut up! Some of us want to watch some T.V before we crash." Silver held out her hand as the remote floated across the room and landed there, she looked satisfied and flipped on the T.V.
" How'd you do that?" Tails asked her. She shrugged,
" I've been able to move things like that since I was little. Don't really get how...I think it's because I'm able to tap into the emeralds power, even if they are a million miles away...otherwise, no idea."
" She's a bit creepy." Sonic shivered, but whispered it. Silver rolled her eyes.
" I heard that."
" Let's watch The Day After Tomorrow, its on HBO." That was Cyclone, walking in and settling on a chair directly across from Silver's. She shook her head.
" Nah, to scientific. What about..." She paused, looking at the movies.
" Thirteen Ghosts...?" Shadow made a face at the screen.
" Let's not." Tails, Cream, and Cyclone said together. They weren't huge fans of scary movies.
" Don't do the Cat and The Hat, I heard that sucked." Amy said, walking from inside the kitchen. She looked around warily, and pleaded,
" Can I be with you on the couch, Sonic?" The only way to describe the possible thing showing in Amy's eyes was hope. A sweat drop crossed paths with his temple.
" Uh...not enough room, sorry."
" Oh..." She grabbed a blanket from the pile they had made earlier and settled down on her stomach next to cream, which was also gazing up at the screen the same way. Shadow was on his back, losing interest, and Tails was moving around so he could see the screen.
" How about Chronicles of Riddick?" Sonic suggested, liking the action. Cyclone and Tails would've liked it to; there was some supposed sci- fi.
"Yeah!" The twins cheered, flinging themselves from the kitchen on to each arm of Silver's chair. She glared at them.
" You touch, you die. Got it?"
" Yezzir!" They saluted sarcastically.
" No...I want something with romance in it!" Amy suggested, and Cream nodded in agreement.
" Yuck..." Tails muttered.
" Ah, then Troy! Action, romance, and it takes place in the past, so there's some history, what about it?" Silver asked them all. They all nodded in response and agreements floated through the air.
" Nice pick." Cyclone added hopefully, but none to Silver's notice.
A/N: Sorry it was so short, (if you call 6 pages short) but I'm going over to my friends house to watch episodes 19-36 on Inuyasha (!) so I had to write quickly.
Djmax (I will go into that topic later, that's a promise)
Entei200 (Yeah your right, it is more of a hexagon...)
ShadowandKnucklesgirlforever (Happy you like it so much!)
Thank you all of reading and reviewing, and on with chapter two!
Knuckles shifted his weight uncomfortably from side to side, the growing paranoia about the emerald swelling and choking his thoughts.
" I've gotta get back to the emerald." He declared.
" Hold on." Kirei stopped him again. " What about school?"
" You go to school?" Sonic raised his eyebrows. " With humans?"
"Why'd you tell 'em?!" The twins moaned together.
" How often do they go to this 'school'?" Knuckles pondered out loud. Everyone stared at him.
" You need to get out more..." Rouge muttered.
" Five days a week I believe..." Cream said softly. Her chao fluttered up from behind her.
" Chao chao!" It squeaked in agreement.
" What time do you go to school?" Sonic asked Kirei.
" Eh...around 7:00."
" Seven!? What happened to sleeping in?"
" Our thoughts exactly." The twins complained from across the room.
" School's too easy." Cyclone complained. Shocker and Spinner gaped at him.
" Will you do my homework?"
" When the sun blows up."
" Aww..."
"That can be arranged." Silver chimed in as she sat down.
" Where'd you come from?!" Spinner asked her.
" Your hollow head."
" How about you drop Kirei off here in the morning, and we can take them to school." Amy said thoughtfully.
"Sounds fine...Except..." Rouge looked at Knuckles. " Who will bring her down?"
"You." He answered flatly.
"Why me?!"
"I have an emerald to protect."
"'I have an emerald to protect.'" Rouge mocked him sarcastically, Shadow and Sonic snickered. Knuckles rolled his eyes as he waved good-bye abruptly, and Kirei followed him out. Rouge beckoned Shadow to come outside for a few. He nodded and followed, and as soon as the door was shut Rouge spoke,
"You have any idea what could've happened between you and Amy?" She indicated Silver. He rubbed his arm uncomfortably,
"No clue, really. I wasn't even expecting to fall in love...after Maria, I mean." Rouge felt a twinge of hurt, but ignored it. She always thought Shadow was the cool mysterious type, maybe someone she'd like to turn his or her friendship into something more. But somehow he seemed more like the brother she had never had and support she needed for her unsteady everything else.
" Yeah...I missed kicking ass with you and Omega you know." He snickered at that. Rouge smirked back. It's been a long time since Shadow had laughed...
" I don't know where Omega has gone off to..."
" You let me know when you find out about her...ask her or something."
" Hmph. Why's this so important to you?" He asked coldly. Rouge punched his shoulder playfully.
" I just care about you, that's all...your like the friend I've never had..." Shadow tried to keep his emotions from showing, but his eyes betrayed him.
" Thanks..." He looked over at Knuckles, who was glaring at cars as they passed. "Well, I better see it that Faker doesn't get a hold of the remote again. " That was Shadow's signal to leave. She nodded, and Shadow slipped back inside, watching Rouge as she jogged over to Knuckles, the sky already dimming and threatening nightfall.
"How are we going to get home?" Rouge inquired by Knuckles side.
"We glide up, how else?"
"From here?"
"No, we take the train to Mystic Ruins...and you think I'm stupid..." He scoffed. Rouge rolled her eyes and them looked at the ground for Knuckles shadow...
"The last train left 30 minutes ago." Rouge told him calmly. Knuckles spun around.
"What?"
"You heard me."
"What do you mean by the last train ride?"
"The trains to Mystic Ruins stop at seven. It's seven thirty, judging by shadow time."
"Damn it!" Knuckles cracked his knuckles, resisting the urge to punch something. A car flew past, the wind brushing them lightly.
"Haven't you ever heard of a subway?" Rouge cocked an eyebrow.
"...No..." Kirei burst out laughing at her father's pitiful naive ness. Rouge was starting to like this kid already...
"Then we can take the subway."
"Fine..." He grumbled, as Rouge spread her dark wings and dove up into the air. Knuckles and Kirei followed, "Not that I know what this subway is..." He added.
At the subway station
Knuckles looked around the station, the gleaming tile reflecting the luminescent lights clinging to the open ceiling. A dark tunnel quickly engulfed a track a few feet below him.
" So let me get this straight...you travel, in a train...underground?"
" Yes, for the one hundredth time, you moron." Rouge groaned from the bench Kirei and her were sitting at.
" You pay to do this?"
" Yeah."
" Jeez..." Knuckles shook his head, and Rouge couldn't tell what was more dominant, the disgust, or the wonder. Just then the train pulled up, Knuckles jumped so high he could've hit the ceiling, and they boarded on. It was so crowded that they had to stand close to one another...a little to close.
Rouge's back was against Knuckles chest, both were extremely uncomfortable.
" Don't get any ideas." She warned him, not daring to turn her head around.
" Don't flatter yourself." He retorted. The train suddenly did an unexpected lurch forward, causing Knuckles and Rouge to follow to suit, and the next thing Rouge knew she had flipped around and her back had hit the wooden floor, hard. Blinking her eyes open, they were unfocused at first, but then she felt something on top of her...
Knuckles was staring right back at her, equally shocked and embarrassed. A single second pasted when Rouge suddenly saw something more in those deep intense violet eyes...and he was so warm...
" Get off me!" Kirei moaned from underneath Rouge. Reality hit them both like a hammer to a nail. Knuckles flushed and stood up awkwardly, realizing just then why people were grabbing onto poles. Rouge glared at him and rolled off to the side and helped Kirei up.
" You two weigh a ton, jeez!" Kirei complained, brushing her legs off. Rouge and Knuckles couldn't think of any insults to fire at one other, so they just shut up and gazed out the dark windows, letting the vibrating floor grab most of their attention.
At the apartment
As soon as Shadow went back inside, everyone was getting beds ready and so forth. He stood there idly, felt like a stranger as everyone put blankets down. Amy noticed this as she was coming in from the kitchen.
" Everyone is just going to sleep in the living room for now. If you don't want to, my bed is free, I think this is just like a sleepover or something."
Shadow cringed, the pink bed, carpet...
" I think I'll pass..." A blanket was suddenly hurled at him out of nowhere. He held it and blinked at, then looked up to find Sonic was guilty.
" Better get a good spot, otherwise everyone else is gonna get 'em, and believe me..." He looked obviously over at Amy, her back turned, "You don't want that..." He snickered, and walked over to the twins, who were arguing over who got the couch.
" I was here FIRST!"
" No, I was!"
" You were here the same time!" Cyclone told them.
A pause...
" Butt out!" They yelled at the same time, and then resumed to stare each other down. Sonic jumped onto the couch lazily.
" It's mine now." He said simply.
" Oh, man..." Spinner turned to his brother.
" Look, see what you made happen?!"
" Your just as equality as guilty!"
" ARGGG...I don't want to see your disgusting face, ever again!"
" Fine, but all you have to do is look in the mirror!"
" At least I don't crack 'em!"
" Shut up! You two are giving me the worst headache!" Silver complained from her chair, her red eyes flashing for a moment. They gulped, and dashed away to carry their argument elsewhere. Tails dragged a blanket in one hand and a pillow in the other, settling down next to the couch.
" Thanks for letting me stay, Sonic..."
" Not a problem."
" Am I the only one who's freaked out about this?" He looked up at Sonic, he pool blue eyes glistening in fear Sonic had rarely seen. Unintentionally he frowned, Tails was already 14, much more grown up than the 8 year old he had taken under his wing. His voice was even a little different. Cream too, newly found curves were there, and instead of wearing that little girl dress, she wore a mini skirt reserved for her age.
" No, your not..." Sonic sighed. He was still a teenager, but that lust of youthfulness seemed farther away. He had never wanted to settle down, and he had never even considered it.
" I mean, I can build planes and weapons for the military, but I just don't get how to figure this one out. How am I supposed to take care of someone who's only a year younger than me, and calls me his father?"
" Point taken, Tails...don't worry, I'm sure we'll get this all settled in."
" I hope so." He concluded, turning away. "Ah!" He yelped in surprise, to find Shadow next to him. " Don't scare me like that, Shadow..."
" What, you look at him in the face? That's scary enough..." Sonic chuckled.
" Hello, Mr. Sonic, Mr. Tails, Mr. Shadow, and Mrs. Sakeru- " Silver's ear twitched, her real name being said was a rare thing. "I've decided to join you because Cyclone is fixing Amy's toaster-"
Suddenly two pieces of toast flew out of the kitchen doorway and hit the entry door with a thud.
" Sorry!" Came Cyclone's voice.
" Toast!" The twins reappeared again, being as fast if not faster than Sonic, they were hard to keep track off. They gingerly took a bite.
" Needs butter."
" Agreed." They rushed into the kitchen.
" And it's getting a bit violent..." She choose the ending rather carefully. Shocker and Spinner's voices roared,
" The toaster is POCESSED!" Four pieces of toast flew out of the doorway.
"Shut up I'm trying to concentrate!" Cyclone's voice was a bit muffled.
"DEMOLISH THE EVIl!"
" NO!"
Bang. An odd silence followed after.
"Your welcome here." Sonic pointed to an open space next to Shadow.
"Do you mind, Mr. Shadow?" She asked politely.
"No..." He said, looking up at the ceiling.
"That hurt!" Spinner's voice sounded. They all listened in the living room.
"I TOLD you it was POCESSED!" Shocker's scream rang through the walls.
"That was Cyclone, you idiot!"
"Shut up! Some of us want to watch some T.V before we crash." Silver held out her hand as the remote floated across the room and landed there, she looked satisfied and flipped on the T.V.
" How'd you do that?" Tails asked her. She shrugged,
" I've been able to move things like that since I was little. Don't really get how...I think it's because I'm able to tap into the emeralds power, even if they are a million miles away...otherwise, no idea."
" She's a bit creepy." Sonic shivered, but whispered it. Silver rolled her eyes.
" I heard that."
" Let's watch The Day After Tomorrow, its on HBO." That was Cyclone, walking in and settling on a chair directly across from Silver's. She shook her head.
" Nah, to scientific. What about..." She paused, looking at the movies.
" Thirteen Ghosts...?" Shadow made a face at the screen.
" Let's not." Tails, Cream, and Cyclone said together. They weren't huge fans of scary movies.
" Don't do the Cat and The Hat, I heard that sucked." Amy said, walking from inside the kitchen. She looked around warily, and pleaded,
" Can I be with you on the couch, Sonic?" The only way to describe the possible thing showing in Amy's eyes was hope. A sweat drop crossed paths with his temple.
" Uh...not enough room, sorry."
" Oh..." She grabbed a blanket from the pile they had made earlier and settled down on her stomach next to cream, which was also gazing up at the screen the same way. Shadow was on his back, losing interest, and Tails was moving around so he could see the screen.
" How about Chronicles of Riddick?" Sonic suggested, liking the action. Cyclone and Tails would've liked it to; there was some supposed sci- fi.
"Yeah!" The twins cheered, flinging themselves from the kitchen on to each arm of Silver's chair. She glared at them.
" You touch, you die. Got it?"
" Yezzir!" They saluted sarcastically.
" No...I want something with romance in it!" Amy suggested, and Cream nodded in agreement.
" Yuck..." Tails muttered.
" Ah, then Troy! Action, romance, and it takes place in the past, so there's some history, what about it?" Silver asked them all. They all nodded in response and agreements floated through the air.
" Nice pick." Cyclone added hopefully, but none to Silver's notice.
A/N: Sorry it was so short, (if you call 6 pages short) but I'm going over to my friends house to watch episodes 19-36 on Inuyasha (!) so I had to write quickly.