Disclaimer: I don't own any own any of the characters except Spike and Blaze. Mist is owned

by Mist the Hedgechidna and Sega owns the rest.

Chapter 3: Grateful

"SPIKE!" yelled Mist. She ran over to him and caught him in a gigantic bearhug. "Mist...let...go.

..please!" said Spike, trying to breath. "No, im not letting you disappear again!" said Mist. "If..

you're...not.. going to...let go...at least...loosen your grip!!" said Spike almost passing out. "Oh,

sorry." said Mist and actually let him go. "Thank you, and who are you're friends?" asked Spike.

"This is Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy, and Shadow." She said pointing to everyone. They

all shook hands and Mist seemed to notice that Amy blushed when Spike shook her hand. "So Spike,

what happened to your sword? You had it then it disappeared." asked Sonic. "I control the element

of darkness, just as Mist controls ice." He said. "She can WHAT!" yelled Tails. Everyone looked at

her with a confused look except Spike. "What, I didn't tell you because no one asked." She said.

Almost everyone anime style dropped. Spike and Mist were the only ones standing. "Well, to thank

you for reuniting me with my friend Mist, all of you are invited to my house, and don't think this is a

normal house." said Spike. He took out what appeared to be a black Chaos Emerald. "Now tell me,

who here can use the Chaos Control?" asked Spike. "I can." said Sonic. "Same here." said Shadow.

"Good, do you two have Chaos Emeralds?" asked Spike. Sonic and Shadow shook there heads.

"That's fine, hold on." said Spike. He concentrated on the emerald and it started to glow. Then a

black case appeared. He opened the case and threw Sonic the blue emerald and Shadow the light green

emerald. "Spike, I have two questions." said Tails. "Fire away." said Spike. "One, where did you get

those two emeralds and two, how come you have a black emerald when there are seven and I know

that ive never seen a black emerald." finished Tails. "I found the two emeralds and there are actually

nine emeralds, not seven." said Spike. Everyone gave him a confused look. "Ill explain at my place,

and that's why you two need Chaos Emeralds. You need to take your friends to there houses and they

are to grab there bathing suits and anything else they think they will need." said Spike. "Spike, is it

alright if we bring our little one with us?" asked Rouge. "Of course, I never would have guessed you

had a kid." said Spike. With that Sonic took Tails, Amy, and they picked up Cream with her mothers

permission. At first, she was reluctant by the way Spike looked but she had her mind changed after

she saw the way he acted. Basically, he acted like a gentleman. Shadow took Rouge and Knuckles

and Spike took Mist. They met in front of Twinkle Park. "All right, I was going to tell you another

surprise, but it looks like you figured it out. Indeed, everyone figured that Spike was letting them stay

at his house. "Hope your house is big enough to fit us all." asked Rouge. "Excuse me Mr. Spike, but

why did you need us to bring our swimsuits?" asked Cream. "That's a secret and please, call me Spike."

"Yes sir." said Cream in a polite manner. "I see your mother raises you well and who is your little friend?"

asked Spike. "His name is Cheese, and he is my pet chao." answered Cream. "Well, looks like he may have a new friend. Ok, Sonic, Shadow are you ready?" asked Spike. They both nodded. "CHAOS CONTROL!" yelled the three and they were teleported in front of his "house" "This is your HOUSE!"

yelled everyone.

So, what do you think? R&R please. The next chapter is info and it will be posted with the real fourth

chapter.