Wow... 7 reviews for the first chapter...That's the most I've ever received for an actual story chapter...And they're all nice, too...You people are all too kind!!! Love ya!
To reviewer Nail Strafer: Chucky movie? As in Rugrats with the huge dinosaur thing? Uh...not exactly what I had in mind...
And reviewer Raiegki Leviathan: I was trying to be subtle, but looks like you know your Sonic CD.
2. The Jewel Hunter
As the red jewel shone like a lurid light, two eyes caught sight of it from the other side of the window. With hands and full face pressed against the glass of the Victorian window, Rouge smiled with starry eyes.
"Hm...What a pretty gem...Would make a fine addition to my little collection..." Finally the bat's eyes observed the surroundings of the scarlet jewel. The jewel was attached to a small gold ring which was sewn onto a doll. A familiar doll...
Rouge took her face from the glass but continued to stare at the doll, the lust for the jewel now gone from her eyes. "That doll...It looks like...Fox Boy..." Rouge stepped back from the window and looked up at the house. "I wonder who he belongs to?" She jumped on hearing muffled voices coming from inside the house. She saw a small chao emerging from the doorway at the end of the room and ducked into the bushes in front of the window.
"This should be enough, right, Cream?" Amy asked, counting the chocolate chip cookies on the china plate she held.
"More than enough," the rabbit answered while trying to hold a jug of milk and orange juice in each hand. "It's going to be a great tea party!"
Cream stopped walking when Cheese began to pester her. "What is it, Cheese?"
"Chao! Chao!" she exclaimed with enthusiasm.
"Oh! The ice cream! I almost forgot..."
Amy set the plate down on the coffee table in the middle of the room. "You two want ice cream?"
"Yes, please!" Cream cried, placing the jugs beside the plate.
Amy headed for the kitchen once more. "Alright..."
Rouge had picked up the whole conversation with her sensitive ears, all the while still under the cover of the bushes. She raised her head slightly and peered through the leaves to see the rabbit pick up the doll and sit down where she had left the doll.
"This must be that crazy girl's house..." Rouge giggled as she glanced around the room. "Wonder where her robot baby is? Or maybe Daddy took it back, ha ha..."
(A/N: See Sonic Battle for GBA.)
Rouge's eyes once again fell upon Cream, who was fondling the doll of her friend. She seemed to be talking softly to it, though Rouge couldn't make out what she was saying. "That rabbit with the chao again. So it's her doll...And she sure seems to love it a lot. Almost as much as I love jewelry..."
Just then her ears picked up a frustrated chao. She looked up to see it standing right on the pedestal of the window and crying out madly, scowling at her the whole time. Rouge heard the springs in the rabbit's armchair squeak as she got up, and with a rush of adrenaline, flew straight up as quickly as she could. She landed on the edge of the roof, and sat a moment to catch her breath and clean the twigs and leaves off of herself.
She spat out a leaf and glanced back down to the window. The rabbit was looking around and the chao still fussing about unhappily. Rouge breathed a sigh of relief as she drew a twig from her huge left ear. "Boy, the things I do for these jewels..."
"I don't get it...What are you trying to say, Cheese?" Cream questioned, eyeing her chao friend suspiciously.
Cheese seemed to keep pointing upward and flying in angry circles.
Cream looked outside again. "There's no one out there, and even if there was, they're gone now. It's okay, Cheese!" Cream snatched her out of the air and put her on her lap beside the doll.
Amy returned with a large bowl of ice cream. She watched Cream and Cheese playing with the doll, Cheese now much quieter. "What was that all about?"
Cream locked eyes with the hedgehog. "Nothing. Cheese thought she saw someone outside. That's it."
Amy rested the bowl on the pedestal and surveyed the outside. She scowled as she drew the curtains. "Hmph. No one spies on Amy Rose. Now, about that tea party...Let's go out to the garden. It's pretty with all the flowers this time of year!"
Cream picked up the jugs, Amy took the plate and bowl, while Cheese took the doll. They both followed Amy into the back garden as Rouge swung to hang upside down from the eaves. She glowered at the curtains. "Hey! You're blocking my view of that beautiful jewel!"
She folded her arms and remained pouty for a moment, watching an ant crawl across the window ledge. "That jewel seemed special...I must have it...It glowed like nothing I've ever seen before...Like...a red light bulb, only prettier...like the moon! Like..." Rouge gasped on thinking of her next simile. "Like a Chaos Emerald!"
She jumped down and landed right-side-up on both feet. "Come to think of it...it did seem to be the right size for one, as well!" She glanced back to the window nervously. "That rabbit girl doesn't know what she's getting herself into with that doll if it is a Chaos Emerald. And putting two and two together...a powerful Chaos Emerald and an innocent little doll of Fox Boy...it sounds like a scheme that mad doctor came up with!" With one powerful leap, Rouge took to the air and began to fly. "I'd better see if Sonic knows anything of this."
Heh...kinda weird. Took me only an hour to write...and right of the top of my head, too...But please, people, if you wanna know what happens next, review. I want your input as much as you want mine (Well, if it's a flamer, I'll accept that as well). So, together, let's make this fanfic better! Please be kind to your teachers and the environment. Thank-Q and have a nice day.