A month later...
The
wedding day was one day away and Knuckles was nervous and exited at
the same time. He and Rouge were sitting together on the couch, it,
like everything else in the house, was hand made. He turned to his
future wife and smiled broudly. She smiled back before grining
differently and saying
"I can't wait to see what you look
like in a tux knux, ha that should be a laugh!". He growled and
said
" Yeah but not as funny as you in a dress! All ive seen
you wear is that same suit all the time.. Oh yeah and nothing at all"
he added under his breath. Her eyes wideded and she gave him a slap
but soon after the two laughed and hugged each other.
At the
emerald shrine...
Knuckles stood at the end of the master emerald
shrine, his nervs over powering him and his breath caught in his
throat. He wore a sort of traditional robe type thing instead of a
tux to supprise Rouge and keep with his ancestors traditions. He also
had his long hair out of its dreadlocks to alough it to flow in he
breeze and once again supprise Rouge, although Sonic had tried to get
him to put it up in a pony tail, something Knuckles had blatenly
refused.. Sonic stood by his side, he was the best man and did wear a
tux, which Knuckles laughed at out of nerves. He knew everyone there
exept the preist, who was an ederly fox. On his right sat Vector,
Sasha, Charmy, Espio, Aquariun and Chaos and on his left Big, Omega,
Shadow, Siberia, Tails and Talim . From the courner of his eye Sonic
gave him a thumbs up as Rouge began walking up. Knuckles thought he
was going to faint. The antisipation built up until it threatened to
burst out of his chest. But as he saw her a new sensation grew in his
heart, a sensation of love. His soon to be wife had a long white
dress on but unlike over weeding gowns it looked completly natural
with no frills or anything like that. He struggled to breath as she
walked on the shrine, the master emerals glowing brightly behind
them. Rouge smiled as Amy and Cream walked behing them, carrying
flowers. The preist began his serimony, going through his resited
words until he cam to the improtant part.
"I do" said
Knuckles, no longer nervous. He turned to Rouge and reapeated
himself
" I do" she said, smiling at Knuckles.
" You
may kiss the bride". Knuckles felt as if time slowed down as he
leaned forward to kiss Rouge. That moment would last forever in his
mind as eveveryone cheered. They broke the kiss and Rouge threw her
flowers and they sailed through the air, landing in Siberias arms.
She looked down in shock and turned to Shadow, who smiled. Everyone
cheered but Amy looked alittle dissapointed that the flowers didn't
go to her. 'Oh well' she thought ' it probably not true
anyway'. After the wedding party began to draw to a close Shadow
and Siberia stood up. For the first time in his life Shadow looked
nervous and everyone instanly caught onto that fact. He cleared his
throat and said in a shaky voice
" Ok guys I have some news"
he said. Before he could finish Sonic looked up and said
" What
are you getting married as well! I knew that the boques never lied!".
Shadow shock his head and looked a little shocked at his statement
but somehow found the courage to continue.
" No Sonic we're
not, but Siberia was to nervous to tell everyone so im going to
instead" he paused, sucking in breath and causing everyone to tence
up considerably. He licked his lips before Siberia took over and said
shakely
" Im pregnant" the whole room gasped and frooze. A
pregnacy in the Sonic gang had never happened before as only the
older ones were only just coming into age. Knuckles jaw dropped, he
looked to Siberia stoumuch, which didn't show any signs, but he
knew Shadow wouldn't lie. His heart thuddered becuase for the first
time he realised that they were no longer kids or teenagers but
adults which meant adult things were bound to happen. He suddenly had
a thought of each and every one of the group gradualy having children
and , although he didn't want any of his own yet, he still felt
saddened at the fact that he could never carry on his legacy . He
sighed and Rouge noticed him, she placed an arm on his shoulder and
smiled kindly. He smiled back and thought to himself that it could be
a lot worse, he could be alone without rouge as well.
The next
few weeks passed without incident. Knuckles and Rouge went on a honey
in the carabian, Shadow and Siberia began to make plans for the baby
and Sonic moved in with Amy. The newly weds had recently returned
home and were now laying in bed with each other. The honeymoon had
resulted in Knuckles fur turning a browner shade of red and Rouge fur
becoming darker, although it was still notacably white. Knuckles
slowly sturred and rolled over to face Rouge, only to find that, he
was the first one to wake. 'Thats strange' he thought, as he was
usually woken by Rouge far earliar than he would want to. He shrugged
and let her sleep, after all that flying she must be tired. For
another hour he sat their and still rouge didn't wake up. He got
impatiant and knugded her with his elbow, she mumbled but didn't
wake. Sighing , Knuckles sucked in a breath and bellowed
"ROUGE!".
Instantly she shot up, she looked around confused and said in a tired
frenzy
" Huh? What! What!". When she saw him their she said
" Whats wrong?". Knuckles gave her a shocked looked then said
"
Whats wrong! You've been asleep for like 3 hours longer than usual!
Thats what!"
"Huh? I have?" She said, taking out a watch
and looked at it. She sighed " Your right Knuckles, wow, how
weird...". Knuckles shock his head and climed out of bed, heading
for the makeshift kitchen. From their she heard him call out
"
What do you want for breakfast Rouge?" Without thinking Rouge
blurted out
"Milkshake!". She heard a confused grunt from the
kitchen as knuckles came into the room with an eyebrow raised.
"
Milkshake?" Rouge blushed and knuckles said while scratching his
head " im mean, I could get you some, but i'd have to go of the
island, do you really want it that badly?" Rouge suddenly realised
that she wasn't that hungry at all and said
" Actually no,
not really...". Knuckles looked at her confuse for a few seconds
before shrugging his shoulders and walking out. They had planned to
visit Siberia and Shadow as Siberia was coming up to two months
pregant and they wanted to see how both of them were coping. So after
Rouge had changed she wandered out side. Looking for Knuckles who had
gone to forege some breakfast for himself. Her mind wandered as she
walked in random directions. She continued like this until her
absentmindedness caused her to fall into a bush. A bush that happened
to have hundreds of tiny berries on it...
She suddenly felt
ravanous, as if she hadn't eaten for days and eyeing the delishous
looking berries on the bush, she began to devour them. She had almost
completly finished them of when a sick feeling in her stoumuch caused
her to stop. She gagged a few times before recovering and again going
in search of Knuckles. However, after walking a few meters she felt
the sick feeling again and she felt something moving up her throat.
She dived in the bush and began throwing up vilontly. She threw up so
many times she lost count and when it finnely stoped she wandered,
shakely to a small pond and bathed her face.
She had never thrown
up that badly in her life. What was wrong with her? She sighed as she
realised that the berries must have been poisonas and felt shamed at
her stupidity. Normally she would have asked Knuckles if something
growing on the island was safe to eat but for some reason her hunger
over took her and she ate them without thought. She really was acting
strange today...