THis story is based off of an RP that my friend and I are contasntly making up. I decided to put it in story form. This story will contain slash (m/m relation ships)in later chapters. So again if you don't like, don't read. glares at people who don't like it but read it any way I better not catch you flameing my fic. --.
Family
February 19 3235 Tuesday 3:00p.m.
A red female echidna with lavender eyes takes a swing at her mate.
"YOU STRUCK ME!" takes another swing.
"Knuczema calm down." the black and red hedgehog dodges it.
"I'LL HIT YOU SO HARD YOUR RELATIVES WILL FEEL IT!" the angered female echidna prepares to take another swing.
"Knuxie, I didn't mean-BLAM" Shadow the hedgehog gets hits square in the face and slams flat on his back on the floor. An 'ow' came from the black and red female echidna and she placed a hand on her cheek glared at the other female who had hit her brother.
A red male echidna with deep violet eyes leans over Shadow.
"Told ya she doesn't like being hit." Knuckles reminds him with Sonic chuckling over his shoulder. Just as this was said, a huge crack appeared on the egg just to the left of them on the coffee table.
All attention was now focused on the egg. A gasp came from the now worried Knuczema as she rushed over to her egg.
"I think you hit Shadow a little too hard" came mockingly from Blade, a white and blue male echidna with a robotic arm. The black and red female echidna, Yasha, ignored her mate and went over to her best friend who was now watching the egg intently.
The chao like cream colored egg cracked again.
Crick!
Crack!
CRICK!
Small pieces flew off of the egg. Shadow had recovered and come over to sit next to his wife. Everyone even Blade, who wasn't all that fond of Knuczema, formed a tight circle around the egg as it hatched. Knuxie could only watch in awe as her egg hatched painfully slow. Shadow too was right along side Knuxie a little nervous as well. He placed his hand around her waist and drew her closer as Knuxie returned the gesture with both arms.
Knuckles sat watching wondering if it was going to be a girl or a boy, while Sonic sat next to him curiosity all over his face. Yasha and Blade sat with almost blank looks on there faces. Yasha almost always frowned…when she wasn't smiling.
Finally a large piece came off of the egg and revealed a tiny baby inside. Knuckles and Yasha gave full smiles as a now ecstatic Knuczema gently lifted the small creature out of what was left of the shell and stood cradling the new baby in her arms. Shadow stood as well and got behind Knuxie and wrapped his arms around hers.
The baby looked like an echidna more than it did a hedgehog save for its tiny hedgehog ears. It also had thick hair and his fur color was all black with red stripes, a big one, starting low at his forehead and spreading on out, just like its fathers. It's made its first yawn.
No words could describe how much love she was feeling for Knuxie baby right now, or how much love Shadow was felling for her. They didn't notice everyone else leaving the room. As they left Yasha took Blades hand and smiled at him, Blade tilted his head in her direction and smiled but it looked more like a smirk.
Shadow rested his chin on Knuxie's shoulder as they watched their…..son. They watched their new son. And Shadow was obviously very proud and for Knuxie it didn't really matter.
"So." Shadow spoke. "What are you going to call him?"
Knuczema looked up at Shadow and grinned. "Well. I was thinkin' of Adrian."
"Adrian?"
"Adrian Heart."
"Adrian Heart?" he quirked a brow.
"Yeah." was all she said. Her natural half-lidded gaze turned to her husband.
Shadow gave in to those gentle, yet demanding (well she was an echidna) lavender eyes.
Sigh. "If you say so." Knuxie grinned again and gave Shadow a quick peak on the cheek.
They looked back down in time to see Adrian opening his eyes, only half way. They were shinning golden-yellow. And he closed them right back. This made Knuxie and Shadow smile.
November 2 3236 Saturday 7:36p.m.
Knuczema opened the door to her house and walked in charring a big bag in her hand. The door was unlocked. It's always unlocked because there's almost always someone at home.
Yes it was HER house. The same house she paid for by herself after only five months after Knuckles had found her when she was only fourteen. The same house she spent a week painting and a YEAR decorating the interior to her liking. Then Shadow showed up on her door step one day badly injured. She fell in love with him. He moved in. No Charge. Then she met his sister, who he'd wronged in the past. She kinda wanted revenge but she and Yasha had become good friends. She didn't have a place to stay so Knuxie took her in, gave her her own room. No charge. Then Yasha met up with an old friend. She didn't even know why the HELL she let Blade move in! She didn't like him. He didn't like her. But Yasha did, a lot. So he moved in, even though he broke half her windows she STILL let him move in! No charge. And SONIC! OH Sonic 'needed' a hiding place from Amy, and since he knew Amy was a little afraid of Knuxie, he kept coming and ended up staying. No charge. And she didn't even know how knuckles ended up living here! Didn't he have an emerald to guard! No charge. And for the nine months she carried Adrian, growing inside her! No charge. She let these people in with open arms. These foos' didn't even pay rent! An-!
Her trains of thoughts were intruded when she saw a black blur go by. She smiled and pretended not to notice and walked over to the couch sitting the large bag down. She heard small speedy foot steps. She whipped her head up and looked around.
"A.J.?" she called to her son by his nickname. No answer.
"BOO!" squeaked A.J. grabbing the pant leg of his mothers sleeveless denim body suit.
"OH:" Knuxie pretended to be startled. "Oooh. You really got me this time." She bent down to but up A.J. but Shadow beat her to it. A.J. giggled all the way up to Shadow's shoulders. Shadow looked in the bag.
"What's this?" He saw a big box that said Dance Dance Revolution. "Another video game I see."
"What I like video games." A.J. peeked over his fathers head into the bag. Knuxie took the box out of the bag and showed it to him.
"It's a video game." she told him. He just looked at it. He didn't know what that meant.
"Hey Knuxie" Sonic called form the kitchen entry. "Ordered out for pizza."
Knuxie immediately frowned.
"Don't worry, I got it covered heh heh." he assured her rubbing the back of his head. Yasha appeared in the entry way holding a soda playfully pushing Sonic aside. She opened her soda and looked at the box in Knuxie's hands. She snorted in disapproval.
"Knuxie, you know I don't dance." she toke a sip of her soda.
"Neither do I." Knuxie sat down the box down. "But I like the music. Plus it's a good workout" she proceeded to open the box, but noticed to people were missing in action.
"Where's Blade?" Knuczema and Blade's strong dislike of each other had subsided some after A.J. was born. At least to the point where they wouldn't end their arguments in some kind of crazy competition.
"Oh. He's with the egg." Yasha grinned taking another sip of soda.
"WHAT?" Both Shadow and Knuxie found themselves dumbfounded after that statement.
Just as Yasha said this Blade come from upstairs with a grey chao like egg in his arms. As soon as Knuxie saw this she immediately went into a fit of hysterical laughter.
"HIM?—WHA HA—WITH AN EGG?" she bent over clutching her stomach she was laughing so hard. Apparently Blade didn't find anything about this. He growled, did the bold thing, and slapped Knuxie in the back of her head. All laughter stopped. A.J. instantly whimpered and buried his head in his Fathers quills (they didn't bother him), and Shadow sighed.
"YOU STRUCK ME!" Hits Blade in the face so hard, yep you guessed it, his relatives felt it. And the egg in Blades arms cracks and everything stops.
"GASP! Did I hit him to hard!" Knuxie sounded a little devastated.
'Knuxie that wasn't your faul-" Blade 'shh'ed them all as if he were trying to watch TV. Knuckles walked in the door with a large sized bottle of liquor and some frozen fruit flavored drink mix cans. He saw everyone sitting around the coach and wondered what was up.
"Hey guys what's-" Yasha 'shh'ed him. So he squeezed between Knuczema and Sonic to see for himself. It shocked him to.
"WHO'S EG-" this time everyone 'shh'ed him. He just stood there bewildered while the egg chipped and broke apart until a tiny fist punched through the surface. Yasha smiled, and Blade just watched.
The whole time A.J. didn't know what was going on but he sure was fascinated. He stared wide-eyed at this foreign round object.
Another punch. The tiny fist drew back and after a few seconds a small whimper was heard. Blade broke off another piece of the egg and pulled out the new born echidna surprising everyone. He sat it on his lap sideways facing Yasha who reached out and rubbed her baby's head.
Knuxie was excited, Shadow was happy for his sister, Knuckles thought about how it was going to be with two little brats destroying the place, and Sonic let out an 'Aww'. Knuxie remembered her son on her mate's shoulders. She lifted him of his shoulders and over to where Blade was sitting. He looked at the tiny grey and purple echidna.
"Baby?" he, using one of the words his mom taught him, looked back at his mom.
Knuczema nodded.
"He's your cousin." she told him.
A.J. looked back at the baby.
"Boy?" he said grinning back at his mom and then back at the baby.
"Indeed he is." Yasha laughed. Snickering also came from the others.
"Smart kid." said Blade smirking.
"I know." Knuxie replied with a slight competitive tone.
"Name?" A.J. chirped at Blade. He only spoke a few words but he knew when and how to use them. He'd been taught well.
"Hm." Blade smirked. "Kito." He said, the child's last name automatically being Ishigawa. Yasha smiled and took her baby from her husband. A.J. followed the baby over to her. He toke the baby's hand. Kito squeezed it. A.J. giggled.
"Kito and A.J." Knuckles broke the silence. "We're gonna be yellin' those names for a while. Knuczema playfully nudged him in the side. It was true though. A.J. was already a hand full.
Knuxie thought.
'They may not pay any damned rent.' But…' she laughed inwardly. '…what's a family for.'
June 13 3239 Friday 12:00noon
It's been four years since A.J.'s birth. Three since Kito's. They both got along so well. But damn were they BAD.
"A.J AND KITO!"
No answer.
"A.J!" when she still got no answer see stepped out into the back yard. Knuczema frowned. Hard enough till she started to look a lot like Knuckles. Shadow was standing next to her. And he loved it when she frowned.
Knuxie spotted a hole that could have been dug only by A.J. He was the only one of the two with spiked knuckles. Retractable knuckles. Knuczema lifted a hand to about the height of her chest and moved it around following the vibrations she felt in the ground. She stopped and proceeded to dig underground herself as Shadow just watched with his arms folded. He heard some hollering, some rustling, and then he saw the top of Knuxie's head who then climbed backwards out of the hole she'd made pulling up Kito and A.J. along with her. And thus she fused at them about digging holes in her back yard and tracking mud all over her house and that if they didn't clean it up their names were going to be mud.
Meanwhile, Yasha was sitting on the coach next to Knuckles who had his egg in his lap. Yep, that's right, Knuckles is now going to have a child to take care of. Who was the mother? Someone that no one, especially Yasha and Knuczmea, liked. But Knuckles was still very found of her. Even after all she'd done to him, now leaving him alone with their child. Guess that's what love is. The mother is Rouge, also kwon toYasha and Knuczema as 'That Bat bitch'.
Knuckles sat indian style on the coach with the emerald green egg laying on its side in his lap. He and Yasha sat watching TV. A piece of the egg came off.
"Hey look, its hatching!" Knuckles exclaimed. Yasha smiled.
"Congratulations." she said. "Dad."
Knuckles felt nervous after that last word. He had no time to think, the egg shattered leaving to black leathery folds in its place. That got a couple of priceless looks form Kunx and Yasha.
Sonic walked trough the front door.
"Hey guys whats u-WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" Sonic dropped his ice cream cone. Another priceless look.
"…it hatched." was all Yasha said.
The two black folds unfolded, and reviled the mostly echidna looking infant. Its fur color was lighter than Knuckles, like a faded red. And his hair was kinda messy; out of place and not straight like Kito and A.J.'s. It had spiked knuckles like its father, and the black folds were small yet large bat wings. Obviously a trait from its mother.
"Whoa." was all Knuckles could say.
"I wanna' see it shine!" came from the kitchen.
"Don't you think your way of discipline is a little too harsh?" asked a more masculine voice.
"That's why it's called discipline." said the more feminine. Foot steps were heard as Knuczema emerged from the kitchen. She saw the infant.
"It hatched." she said. "Hey Shadow come here."
He did and said the same thing. "It hatched."
Everyone was gathered around the egg now. Yasha called to her son.
"Kito."
Kito came gleefully to his mother "Yes mama!"
A.J. peered from around the corner after Kito. Knuxie beckoned for him to come. He walked over, muddy rag in hand. Yasha and Knuxie parted to let their sons trough.
It seemed like all in a matter of at least two seconds the baby turned his head in Kito and A.J.'s direction, gave an evil grin showing all his tiny sharp teeth, and Kito screamed.
"AH! DEMON!" and got behind his older cousin while A.J. looked at the baby and sneered.
Everyone else was taken aback by their odd behavior.
"A.J" Knuxie scolded her son.
A.J. began to protest "But-" but just received a frown for his mother.
"It's not going to hurt you Kito. It's just a baby." Yasha tried to reassure her son, but he kept his position behind his cousin.
Knuckles finally picked up his baby and held it under the arms in front of him. He made a weak grin.
"Heh heh, I'm a daddy."
"Let me guess." began Sonic. "It's a boy."
Knuckles examined his baby. "Yes, actually, it is." He blinked. 'I have a son' he gave another weak grin at the thought
"We know have three boys in this house." said Shadow who wasn't showing much emotion right now. Neither was Blade who had just appeared a moment ago surprising a few.
"Where have you been?" asked Yasha a little annoyed.
"Out." was all he said leaving the room to go upstairs.
"Well?" Knuxie asked flopping down on the coach next to Knuckles. "What ya gonna name him?"
Yasha flopped down on the other side of Knuckles.
Knuckles had been thinking of a lot of names but he liked one in particular.
"Dante." He said.
"Dante?" Knuxie and Yasha said in unison.
"I like it." said Knuxie smiling while Yasha said "I guess so."
A.J. wasn't sneering at Dante anymore but he had this blank look of distrust across him face while Kito, no longer behind A.J., was instead on the side of his mother holding on to her knee looking over at the baby.
"Come here A.J." Knuxie said gently. He did and was picked up and sat on his mothers lap. Which was his favorite place to be. He looked at Dante once more his distrusting look softening. Dante leaned toward him with a cute curious look. A.J. half smiled and did the same. Then Dante turned to look at Kito the same way. Kito leaned forward also. Dante then faced forward, grinned evilly and snapped his wings hard slapping A.J. and Kito the face.
This mad A.J. MAD. And Kito's innocent, unsure demeanor turned completely opposite.
"RIP HIS WINGS OFF!" A.J. yelled, and they pulled on his wings.
Dante was just strong enough to draw his wings in to bit Kito's hand. Kito released the wing and Dante slammed into A.J. and proceeded to bit A.J.'s ear. Big mistake. A.J.'s young mind snapped and he lunged at Dante's throat.
"ADRIAN!"
"DANTE!"
"KITO!"
All three names were called at the same time. Some in anger some in worry.
Sonic and Shadow stood posted up on far wall of the living room watching the whole episode.
"GEEZ. Those are some violent kids." said Sonic. "Any ordinary kids their age would have been crying by now."
Shadow had his arms folded. "Sonic." he spoke. "Those aren't ordinary children."
As years passed on and the children grew, so did their abilities, understandings, friendships, and most dangerous of all their rivalry. And the more A.J. and Kito fight with Dante, A.J.'s emotions go haywire.