HELLO! NO, I DIDN'T DIE! You see it's actually a very funny story, why I haven't updated in a while. A holiday called Wintereenmas. If you know what that is, hopefully you will understand.
"Nobody reads Ctrl+Alt+Delete anymore, komodo. Besides, its not even winter right now!" Protested Shadow.
"It was." Komodo responded disdainfully.
"Five months ago!"
"Good point. That's it! My New-Years resolution is to be less lazy!" Komodo said. Shadow sighed and shrugged, eventually leaving.
And a message to fellow hedgehog-abusers: Remember, it's only a crime if you get caught!Also, the law doesn't say anything about starvation and brick throwing! Thank god for the loophole!
"Help me! She's crazy!" Begged Sonic, trying to escape from his hedgehog-confinement-chamber
"Uh- err, HE'S LYING! LIES!"
However I AM kind of depressed that no one sent me a get-well-review for this writer's block.
"I did!" Argued shadow, pointing to his card on the desk.
"You don't count. You're not real."
It had taken a long while to get Sonic to calm down and stop all of the confusion. Many were still whining over bruises, and Sephiroth was still crying about his hair, but otherwise no serious damage had been done, and overall most of the people present were content.
Sonic sat on the sofa with Amy, glaring at Sephiroth, who sat on the other couch to the left. Knuckles sat on a pillow on the floor, Komodo and Zoz had the chairs, (komodo was reading a book) and everyone else was either sitting next to Sonic and Amy or on the other couch.
"I don't get it!" Said Tails. "What's wrong with Sonic?"
"What's right with Sonic?" Asked komodo. For a second Amy paused from lavishing affection on Sonic to glare at komodo. Komodo shrugged in response and returned to her reading. Rouge snatched it out of her hand.
"Stop being inconsiderate! Something could be tragically wrong with Sonic and you're reading-..." Rouge paused to look at the cover. "...You're reading Webster's dictionary?"
"I always read the dictionary in my spare time." Komodo answered, snatching it back and returning to the book. She was at the J's.
"The point is you're reading while YOU COULD BE HELPING! Komodo, it's almost like you don't care about anyone's emotional well being." Said knuckles.
"You're a fine one to talk. And besides, he's just a person, there's like six billion in the world anyway, nobody's gonna miss him or anything." Argued komodo. "Did you know jerboa means any of the small, long legged leaping rodents of the family Dipodidae?"
"Come on, Mr. Sonic, you gotta tell us what's wrong." Whimpered Cream. Sonic's response was a pitiful moan. He buried his face into Amy's shoulder and burrowed deeper into her arms. Amy sighed and rubbed Sonic's back, stroking a hand across his quills.
"I don't think he's ever gonna talk." Fliara said from her perch on the lamp. "It's almost like he's shunning reality."
"Who wouldn't? Reality sucks!" Shouted Zoz. Komodo nodded her head in agreement but otherwise remained in her little, alphabetized, up to date since 1984 world of words.
"Come one, Sonic, please tell us what's wrong." Begged Amy, giving Sonic a hug.
"No." he pouted, not moving.
"Sonic! ...Sonic, what can I do to get you to tell us?" Amy asked. Sonic didn't respond.
"I could make some hotdogs." Suggested komodo, looking up from her dictionary. Everyone glared.
"First of all, Sonic likes chilidogs, not hotdogs, and second of all, you can't cook!" Quarreled Knuckles.
"They're microwave-able! Geese! What's the difference between a chilidog and a hotdog anyway?"
"One's hot and one's cold." Said Fliara. She also got a few odd glances, this time even from Sonic, who had decided to finally move his tear-stained face from Amy's shoulder. Fliara paused. "Chili...? Hot...? "
No response was heard from her friends.
"I'm not right, am I?"
"No, you're not." Said komodo, standing up and exiting the room. Sonic soon afterward looked around and said.
"If you really want to know what's wrong..." Sonic began, pulling away from Amy. "I-It's this."
All stood perfectly still as Sonic took the ripped-up pieces of the letter out of his pocket. He set them out on the floor, and put them together, letting everyone in the room read the contents of the letter.
Dear Friend,
I'm really happy that you agreed to this, Ames!
I still can't believe we can really pull this off behind Sonic's back!
All I know for sure is that there's gonna be one happy hedgehog tomorrow night!
"Hey, this is the letter I wrote to you, Amy!" Said Sephiroth. "But why does Sonic have it?" He asked. Tails gave a slight gasp.
"Of course! I must have accidentally given Sonic some of Amy's mail!" The fox said, ears perked.
"But that doesn't explain why he's so sad." Said Fliara, who was too far away to read it.
"I know what's happening, Amy." Sonic said, his voice shaky with grief. Amy, not understanding the roots of Sonic's misery, said.
"...I'm sorry, Sonic, I guess the surprise is-"
"Surprise? What are you talking about! You're leaving! You're leaving me! Why, Amy! Why?" Sonic shouted, standing up, tears blurring his vision. "Why!" Amy paused, and stared at Sonic, not understanding what he was talking about. And uncomfortable silence fell upon the room like a stifling blanket; it felt like any words said would be absorbed into the thick tension hanging in the air.
"Sonic, what are you talking about? I'm not leaving you!" Amy partially laughed; taking a step towards the blue hedgehog in attempts to embrace him. Sonic backed away, his ears flattening and a scared expression overcoming his face. He didn't understand.
"But then- ...b-but what about the letter, and him!" Sonic accused, pointing to Sephiroth. "And then what is he talking about in the letter? What about tonight! What's happening?"
" ...Sonic, don't you know?" Amy asked, still not quite fully sure what the depth of Sonic's understanding was. "Today is your birthday!"
"You're leaving on my birthday?"
"No! No, Sonic, no!" Amy said, grabbing Sonic in a hug that he couldn't manage to escape from, again stroking his spines and cuddling him to death. Sonic squirmed away, or at least tried to, but only managed to get Amy to hold onto him tighter. In a few seconds Sonic gave up. "Sonic, tonight, we were throwing you a surprise party."
Something clicked in Sonic's mind.
"W-what did you say?" He asked, wondering if...
"Sonic, today is your birthday, and I was going to try and do something special, to make up for the mess we made of last year. Anyway, Sephiroth overheard me talking to Fliara in the park one day, and offered to help. And, well, it was actually his idea for the whole surprise thing, and-"
"Y- you're not leaving me for Sephiroth?"
"No! Eww!" Said Amy. Zoz gasped in horror.
"Don't say that in front of Sephie-wephie!" Shouted Zoz, seizing the villain in a hug. "He's better than your smelly hog any day!"
"Sephie-wephie?" Asked Sephiroth, feeling just a little degraded.
Sonic tore himself from Amy and looked at the note. It made sense now!
I'm really glad you agreed to this, Ames!
She was agreeing to his idea about the surprise party! Sonic realized.
I still can't believe we can pull this off behind Sonic's back!
He couldn't believe that they could pull off the surprise party behind my back!
All I know is that there's going to be one happy hedgehog tonight!
The happy hedgehog was supposed to be him! Sonic stared at the note, unbelieving. He staggered back, and fell on the couch. He looked from the note, to Amy, to Sephiroth, and back to the note again. Then, without warning, he leaped into Amy's arms, laughing at his own stupidity.
"I can't believe I actually thought that- ...Why didn't I guess... oh, Amy, I'm so glad I was wrong!" Sonic exclaimed, clinging to Amy like a drowning rat to driftwood. (Hey, it's the best simile I've got.)
"I'm just glad we got that mess straightened out." Amy said, petting Sonic's quills.
"I think you owe someone an apology." Said Rouge, pointing to Sephiroth.
"I think Sephiroth owes ARIS an apology." Argued Sonic.
"She's dead. And apology's not gonna do her much good." Said komodo. But, since the fact that she was dead was still a partial annoyance to some people, Sephiroth agreed to apologize to all the fans of Aris (there were three) and then Sonic apologized to Sephiroth, (okay, so what if it was sarcastic, it was an apology. Sort of. Not really, actually, but... okay, it wasn't, but who cares? Not me!)
And so for the rest of the day the surprise party went as planned. Komodo spent the rest of the afternoon playing metroid prime 2 while Zoz, Knux and Rouge watched. Tails, Amy and Sonic were in the living room talking to Shadow and Cream; basically a five-way discussion, and Alexi wasn't there at the time but who really cares? The worst she could be doing is going on a mad rampage in the city and slaughtering people like cattle... okay, okay, that's a BAD thing, but if Oakshire was real, maybe We'd care. All in all the celebration was quite a success, despite the misunderstanding and Sonic was quite happy.
So, once the festivities had ended and Sephiroth went home, the characters called it a day and went to bed. Sonic closed the door behind him as he entered his room. He was both tired and exhilarated; he was just so happy hat he had been wrong about the entire mix-up. He collapsed onto the blue & green bed, staring up at the ceiling. He was really quite unsure how he would have thought that in the first place. He felt kind of stupid; knowing that if he had just said something the whole catastrophe could have been avoided. It was nobody's blame, Sonic knew, but he still felt like an idiot. But, as with all idiots, Sonic was happy anyways!
He sighed to himself, and looked to the drawer. He opened it, and took out the envelope that caused all of this mess. He stared at it for a moment, and laughed to himself. How could one little letter cause so much trouble? Sonic shook his head and decided to keep the envelope in the drawer, to remind him of this entire event. As he placed the envelope back inside, his eyes wandered to the little velvet box. He sighed lightly. To tell the truth he probably would end up marrying Amy one day. But today certainly wasn't the day. That was for sure. Sonic just wasn't ready. He wasn't mature enough. He wasn't smart enough yet. After all, he hadn't said anything when he thought Amy was lying to him and he hadn't even tried to talk about it with anyone. Sonic was still just a kid. If he really were "grown up" he would have known what to do.
But, Sonic could live with how things were so far. Maybe someday he'd change, but today just wasn't it. And he could wait. It was no hurry.
After all, he had his entire life to grow up.
THA IND!
"YAY! MY FIRST COMPLETED STORY! HUZZAH!"
"Don't celebrate now, you've still got a lot of work to do!"
Shadow's got a point. I'm still writing the scary story, which is currently there, and I'm also writing a new Oakshire story, where me and some friends attempt toform a band and go on tour, to the blue blur an co.'s distress. They come along, and... picture a road trip with guitars. Picture a road trip with guitars and blenders. Yeah, you get it now.
And there's the problem of people's worst fears in the scary story. I've already decided Fliara, Sonic, Amy, Alexi and Rouge's worst fears, but I need input on the other characters. The other characters will be Knuckles, Shadow, and Tails.
Sonic's worst fear will be blood. I've determined that he doesn't like blood due to the fact that he only fights robots (robots don't bleed) and that he carries no weapons such as guns or knives.
SO anyway if you've go any ideas for Knux, shad and Tails' worst fear, tell em. Cause I'm clueless. Also, there's gonna be a new chapter in loted pretty soon. Like in the next week, so have some popcorn handy! And I hope you liked the story and whatnot and etcetera And I hope you have a good day! UNLESS YOU'RE A PREP OR A STUPID RAP-OBSESSED HERD-MENTALITY IDIOT! Then you shall die when I take over the world.
Zoz coughed symbolically.
"Forgive me. We take over the world."
"I get Russia!" Shouted Zoz. "And Italy!"
"Only if I get Africa!"
"DEAL!"
Oh yeah, by the way, the reason Fliara thought a chilidog was cold is that... never mind, I'll explain in the next chapter of Fear. YAY! It's coming soon!
