Tails' Tale

By Miles "Tails" Prower


My Ramblings

Hi Hi! My name is Alex. Anyway, this is my first fan fic. Ever. I'm not sure if you'll like it or not, or how good it is, so please review, good, bad, whatever. I need all the feedback I can get. Most characters are © Sega, but the occasional one is mine, i.e. Void. I've probably bored ya enough now, soooo… ON WITH THE ADVENTURE!!!


The Storm

Tails was getting restless. It had been raining all week, and he was bored of being stuck inside. There had been absolutely nothing to do at all. He had already made up his mind about what he wanted to do to take some of the stress away after the long hours of confinement. He was going to go for a run, or fly; he didn't really care as long as he got out of the house. He could hear the tapping of Sonic's favorite white-striped red sneakers from the other room. As he started walking towards the door, a voice called out to him.

"Hey T2! Where ya goin?" It was Sonic. Sonic and Tails had been best friends, and even practically brothers for the longest time. Sonic was a blue hedgehog gifted with the ability to run at the speed of sound.

Tails smiled at the mention of his old nickname. It had started when Sonic had found him back in his devastated hometown when he was just a little fox. Sonic had noticed Tails' double tails, and dubbed him "T2". Somehow, the name had stuck, through all those years.

"I just need to get out and about for awhile." Tails replied.

"Alright," came Sonic's voice "but don't be gone too long."

"Okay Sonic. I'll be back after a while."

"Later Tails."

When Tails stepped outside, he tried to figure out where he wanted to go. Absent-mindedly, he started walking. Tails had more than a little on his mind that day, and his thoughts had turned towards Amy Rose, a pink hedgehog who had a crush on Sonic. Tails had always liked Amy, but had always been too shy to say so, and also, she liked Sonic...

"It's been a full year, and I still haven't gotten around to telling her how I feel." thought Tails.

"Why can I never get up the courage? Still, once I get around to telling her, what if she says no?"

Tails, realizing where his feet were taking him, and deciding it was as good a direction as any, kept walking, once again lost in thought.

"Hmmm... It's been really quiet lately... almost too quiet. It seems like Robotnik should've made another attempt to find Knothole by now… I can't even remember the last time he tried…hmm…"

"Hey Tails!" came a bubbly singsong voice.

Startled, Tails looked up, almost walking straight into Amy.

"Amy! Hi!" Tails said surprised anyone else would be out in this weather. Amy seemed not to notice that he almost bumped into her, so he decided not to bring it up.

"So, umm, what've you been up to?" asked Tails.

"Not much," Amy replied "I needed to get out of my hut for a while, how about you?"

"Pretty much the same reason I'm out here." replied Tails.

"Yeah, I figured."

Tails sat down on a stump nearby, and started trying to get up the courage to tell Amy.

"I *am* going to say it this time." thought Tails.

"Tails? Is something wrong?" asked Amy.

"Wha? Oh, umm... nothing Amy." Tails replied in a tone he thought was less-than-convincing.

"Oh. You just looked, well... troubled for a minute there." Amy shrugged, figuring that if it was anything big, Tails would have told her.

"I still think he seemed occupied with something for a minute there, and I'm going to find out what it was." she thought.

"Hey Tails?"

"Yeah Amy?"

"You wanna come inside? I can't stand much more of this rain right now."

Tails shrugged.

"I guess so." He replied.

"Shoot!" Tails thought to himself. "Now I can't do it… I'll have to wait until next time. I just hope I'll be able to tell her."

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Princess Sally Acorn was not quite a chipmunk, and not quite a squirrel, but somewhere in between. She had lost her father and mother, King and Queen Acorn, and her brother Elias early in life. Robotnik had captured her father, and, as far as anyone knew, Queen Acorn and Elias had just disappeared. She was leader of the Freedom Fighters, and extremely close to Sonic.

Sally had been in the Knothole library, pouring over any information she could find on the other freedom Fighter groups since the night before.

"Princess? Don't you zink you should take just a leetle rest or somezing?" It was Antoine the fox, Sally's personal (and somewhat cowardly) bodyguard.

Sally yawned, and stood up from where she had been sitting behind a pile of books.

"Maybe you're right Antoine, maybe I should take a rest." Sally said.

Antoine sighed with relief. Sally had been, in his opinion, working herself way too hard in the past few days.

"Princess, did you find anyzing new in ze books?"

"Not really Antoine. Nothing certain anyway. See you later."  Sally yawned as she headed out the door.