CHAPTER 7
The next day passed, miserably. I seemed to be so stiff, and sore, and tired, that I couldn't move for most of the day.
"It's a good thing that we sit in class all day." I thought to myself.
It was embarrassing though. All day my friends, and family kept asking me if I was high on drugs because I looked so tired. So I was grateful when night came again.
I went to sleep once more. There was a dim light, and I realized I had forgotten to turn of my lamp. I opened my eyes slightly to see where I was putting my hand but instead of a lamp, I found a whole load of bark and feathers, large feathers, about the size of beds.
"Hummmm...Hummmmmmm..." someone was chanting.
I soon saw that it was the blue hedgehog again. His legs were crossed, and his hand positioned to his sides.
"Oh great! Here again!" I said to myself. Sonic turned around, pleased to see that I was awake.
"Hey!! Come over here!!! I need to show you something!" I was hesitant. He chuckled to himself.
"Don't worry, no cranes, I promise."
I crawled over to him, he had three things in his hand. A red Starburst, a Lego, and a small, metallic, nail. He explained to me.
"We're going to train you into tip-top shape. Right now you can probably squish this Starburst in one hand..."
He handed me the candy, and I smooshed it easily.
"...we're going to train you though, so that you can crush this Lego, and nail in one hand too.
" He handed me the Lego, I tried squishing it with all my might. It wouldn't budge. He smiled.
"Tails will be your flight coach. Knuckles will teach you of reflex, and strength, and I (of course the best one) will teach you of speed."
"If your so strong... them you crush it!!!"
I handed the Lego back to him. He looked at it before saying,
"Uh.. ...this is my last one! and... I don't want to have to buy any more"
" Riiiiight...but, how will these things help me? I'm not very strong, can't run the speed of sound, and certainly can't fly! I don't have wings or anything..."
"It is because you are a human. You won't become as high, fast, or powerful as us, but you can be multi-tasked, and have a smaller amount of all three, if you work at it hard enough."
"I didn't know humans could fly..."
"Oh...trust me. I've seen kids 3 times smaller then you fly, at least 100 feet up."
"Oh...Thanks. What about swimming? You can't forget that skill..."
"Well, uh..." Sonic looked toward me nervously."YES!!YES!! You will learn to fly, and run, and fight!!!" he walked off, avoiding further conversation of swimming.
The training started almost immediately, after a breakfast of mash. I almost threw up when I saw it, for that's exactly what it looked like, spew .throw-up, barf. We all sat in a small circle (on the count that we no longer had a table). Everyone bowed their heads. I thought to myself, "How nice that they pray before a meal, even if it looks this disgusting."
"Knuckles, will you do the honors?" asked Sonic.
Knuckles nodded. I bowed my head peacefully.
"RUB-A-DUB-DUB, THANKS FOR THE GRUB!!!"
"COMMENCE SHOVELING!!!!!!!" yelled Tails!
THEY WERE LIKE PIGS!!! Pounds, and pounds of the stuff went into their mouths and went down their throughts in great globs! Slurping, drooling, and belching, seemed like a past time for these meals. Sonic looked at me, confused at why I looked so pale.
"Hey (smack! smack) are you hungry or not?!?" He talked over me with his mouth full, so that his cheeks looked like a chipmunks, and so that he was spitting little droplets of the stuff all over my shirt.
"Uhhhhhhhh...(HURP!)"I felt extremely sick. I couldn't stand such nastiness at mealtimes. I ran to a bush on the side of the tree, and coughed, the stuff looking not a lot different from the food.
"What's her problem?" asked Knuckles (also through a full mouth). "She looks sick."
"Maybe, humans can't eat mash..." said Tails.
"But it says right here in this book, that humans love sugars, and oat products." said Sonic, as he took out a book titled "The care and keeping of your own human". I walked over pointing at the book.
"What's that?" Sonic hid it behind his back.
"Oh...Nothing..."
I snatched it and began to read:
CHAPTER 3:
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR NEW PET
When training your new found friend, always remember to reward them with candy, or green pieces of paper (humans love green, rectangular, pieces of paper, and find them as a sort of value). Here are some tricks you can try with your friend!
1. "The Slave"- Many people find it useful for humans to learn jobs of all kinds. You can make a human do taxes, your homework, or even become a personal assistant.
To accomplish this, simply yell at the homo sapien until frightened, bribery, or insist that they're in charge when really, you are!
2. Love- Many people find their humans lovable as they come, but in case love is absent from their life, give them a tight squeeze once and a while.
3. Fetch the paper- Humans will always fetch the paper, if they have found a pair of slippers, some coffee, and a donut (The bigger the slippers, the happier the pet!)
4.Sit- To teach a human to sit, buy a chair of any type. (A chair can range from a box, to a $5,000 sofa).
5.Toilet training-...
The book went on and on like this for 500 pages.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM?!?!?!? A DOG?!?!?!?"
"Hey! Hey! It was the only book in the public library! I just wanted to make sure I was feeding you right! After that comment yesterday and all..."
I looked at the book
"I didn't even know they wrote books like these...A human for a pet?!?!? Heh, that's silly!"
"Heh...heh...yea...uh...you bet..." said Sonic, as he snatched the book back.
After everyone else had left, I scarffed down my "mash"(with a bit of hesitation). It was very sweet, and I later learned this was because, it was made from dried oats, cold milk, and honey.
Sonic led me to the bottom of the tree for some training.
"Now, to run fast, you must have good reflexes. Let's see you run."
I began to run, I tried moving at a fast pace, the wind was blowing in the wind, and I was weaving in between the underbrush of the woods. Soon though, I ran out of breath, I stood there, panting. Sonic speed up to me tapping his foot, impatiently.
"That was pretty good...FOR A TURTLE!!!! You see? Watch me! You must keep your arms behind your back to keep balance."
Sonic put his arms behind his back, and clenched his fists. I did the same.
"NOW RUN!! Run like your life depends on it!!!"
I ran, and almost immediately tripped on a tree root, for I had lost my balance.
"NO! NO! This won't do! In order to accomplish this, you must have three things. Balance, flexibility, and speed. Each requires a different movement."
I got up again, and glared at him.
"You know...I'm still a little stiff...FROM WASHING THAT 250 FOOT CRANE YESTERDAY!!!!!"
Sonic sunk back into a very small, insignificant, ball at the yelling. He then straightened up.
"Your right. I'm being to hard on you for your first try. Let's just practice stances then."
In the first hour, I learned some interesting things about running. Using small quick steps was a lot faster, and more efficient, then using long strides. It helped you conserve your energy, and breath. I also learned that, (unbelievably) Sonic was teased, and made fun of as a small child. Who'd a' thought?
I took a long journey up the tree, leaving the crying Sonic alone (he was telling me to much info about his personal life). As I walked up, I got to get a good look at some of the other residents of the tree. All of the grass huts looked different from one another, in their own little way. Some were un proportional, some made with bricks, sticks. candy, bones, leaves, and many other things. Almost all of them were damaged from the incident the day before, and signs were on them that said things like:
"Gone to get supplies. Be back by lunch."
No body really noticed me as I made my long walk up the tree, (for they were working so much on their houses). Although, something interesting did happen to me on the way up.
I passed a small family of bright pink squirrels, with purple bellies, and bug-eyes. One of the smaller squirrels began to follow me with interest. Then, a small, fuzzy, white, Totoro with long ears saw us, and also began to follow as well. Soon I had this long line of animated animals following me. Which included, a cabbit (half cat-half rabbit), a small crowd of different colored birds, and a puppy. I got to the top of the tree about 30 minutes later. The crowd of animals covering the entire walkway behind me. Knuckles was there and, (like Sonic), tapping his foot.
"Well, one thing's for sure, you sure haven't learned to run yet!"
"I'm a bit stiff, O. K.?!?"
Knuckles looked behind me at the large group of animals in surprise, and disgust.
"Why are they here?!?" He asked pointing rudely.
"Hmmm?...OH! I guess they followed me!" I said, for I had not noticed how large the crowd had gotten.
"Mmmmm...RRRROOOOOAAAAAARRRR!!!" Knuckles let out a large roar, scaring the things away in a hurry.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?!? THEY WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING!!!"
"I don't want them to distract you while your learning." He said, closing his eyes and nodding. "NOW! I retrieved my punching bag from the bottom of the tree, in which it fell. it would normally go on a hook that was on the ceiling of the house. But, since we no longer HAVE A HOUSE!!!...A-him! I tied it onto this branch using a vine."
He pointed to a black punching bag, dangling from the tree. He signaled me to go to it. I did, as he followed. He stood behind it, and said,
"Now, hit it with everything you've got! I want to see how strong you are!"
I pulled my hand back, and aimed the biggest punch I could bear at the bag... except, it swerved to the right a bit and hit Knuckles "WAP!!!" right on the nose!
"OWWW!!! NY NOSE!! I NINK IT'S MBROKEN! MOU STUPID MUMAN! OW! OW! OW! OW!..."
The animals had hid in a tree branch above, and were laughing, hysterically.
"NAY! SHUT UP!" He yelled, and threw a stone at them. They scattered in all directions.
"Knuckles! Oh! I'm so sorry!"
Knuckles looked at me with hatred I began to back off.
"Hey wait! Don't leave! I want to show YOU just how powerful I am!" He smirked wickedly, and put his hand (with the two sharp points on his knuckle), into a fist.
"RRROOOAAARRR!!!"He let out another ear-piercing roar, before sending a punch in my direction.
Of course, this would make anyone terrorized (especially with those two points). So I did the impossible, went against the forces of gravity, and at the last minute, jumped about 5 feet, and flapped my arms wildly.
I was flying.
Knuckles looked back, surprised at this, but, too late! He fell, head first over the branch, and down a huge drop! I, (not knowing exactly what I was doing), flew at a curve. Amazing! I flew over the drop, and stopped flapping. I fell, down...down...I put my hands by my side, and fell, faster now. I caught up with knuckles, grabbed him with my legs, and began to flap again. We were coming closer, and closer to the Earth! But at the last minute, I began to fly again, and we landed, "PLOP!" gently upon the ground. I could hear cheering from the animals at the top. Knuckles quickly got up and glared at me again. He then ran back up the tree, without so much as a thank you.
I saw Tails nearby, he had seen what I had done, and was very impressed.
"WOW! THAT WAS GREAT! EVEN! CANT DO THAT! I MEAN...WOW!!! YOU KNOW... IF YOU KEEP THIS UP..."
This bragging speech went on for about an hour and a half, and it was soon night time again.
We all sat on the same branch as before. I had decided to put my cooking skills to the test, and borrowed some supplies from another neighbor close by. All three of the "trainers" wanted to see exactly what I was capable of. So, I cooked everything I knew how to cook. Anything from boiled eggs, to cereal, to sushi, to chili dogs, to god knows what. The hedgehog seemed to love the idea that he could have his favorite food, without going to the city.
"You know, you eating chili dogs is kinda cannibalistic, don't you think?"
Sonic stopped in mid bite when I said this He thought about it, shrugged, and continued to eat 12 of the things at once. Knuckles seemed to like the sushi, although, I couldn't really tell, because he was glaring at me as he ate. Sonic looked from me, to him, and back again. "Sooo...uh...what happened today?"
"YOUR STUPID PET PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE, AND TOOK ME FOR A 300 FOOT DROP!!!!!"
"PET?!?!?!? WHAT DO YA' MEAN PET?!?!?!?!"
"Uh...uhhhhhhh...Who wants some food?!?!!!!!" asked Sonic, wishing he hadn't said anything.
"SOOOOOO! AM YOUR PET AM I?????? FIXING FOOD... CLEANING CRANES... .DOING ALL YOUR DIRTY WORK!!!...AND AFTER SAVING BOTH OF YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!!"
"Both of them?!" Sonic turned to Knuckles. Knuckles looked away, not saying anything, and pretending like he couldn't hear.
Tails butted in. "YEA! IT WAS AMAZING!!!! EMILY FLEW!! AND THEN "ZOOOM!!" SHE STOPPED FLYING AND WENT DOWN LIKE A TORPEDO!! AND THEN... "WOOSH!!!" SHE SCOOPED HIM UP AND SAVED HIM! IT WAS AMAZEING!!!"
"Is that so?!?" said Sonic, as he turned toward Knuckles. But, Knuckles was asleep, and uncaring.
Sonic turned towered me again, but I was also falling asleep.
"I'll never become the pet to a hedgehog." I mumbled, before drifting off into a slumber...
How wrong I was.
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YEY! I finally got the next chapter up! (Sorry it took me so long people).
I'm also now taking anonymous reviews as well. (I just found out that the anonymous review stat on my account was on lock...whoops!)
Unfortunately, I didn't receive any questions for me to ask any of my dream characters... so in it's replacement for this chapter, I shall tell you how to make your very own mash right at home!
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Learn how to cook like Sonic, with his famous recipe of mash!
(He taught me how to do this in my sleep)
MASH!!!
Ingredients:
Honey
Milk (any type is good, but whole milk works best)
REGULAR oatmeal (The traditional kind with the scary guy on the box)
a spoon
a SMALL bowl: eating too much of this stuff will give you a colossal stomachache, and I don't want to get sued... he...he...
Instructions:
Fill the small bowl a bit less then half way with honey.
Poor in about 3/4ths of a cup of oatmeal
Poor in 1/3 of a cup of milk
stir until mixed well, a bit soggy, and some of the oatmeal is sticking in clumps
DO NOT HEAT
Eat and enjoy! If you did the recipe correctly, it should taste similar to honey crisp. If the recipe is too strong, try adding more oats. If too weak, try adding more honey.
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...and that's how you make mash!!! I don't have many more dream recipes... I do have a few, but lets see if I could get some questions in for my good friends. Eh? If you like this recipe, I'll try to find some more...
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NEXT CHAPTER: Remember that power that I receaved from Illum...
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I don't own: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Legos, Cabbits, Totoros, Starburst, or Honey Crisp