What Would He Like For Christmas?

Rouge the bat rummaged through her music cataloge. "There has to be something in here he'll like," she said to herself. "But what does he like? Classic, country, punk, rap, pop, rock, Heavy Metal?" Her finger stopped on a page entitled: Crush 40. "Maybe he'll like that!"

"What are you doing, Rouge?" asked a voice behind her.

Quickly the bat turned around and hid the cataloge behind her back. "Umm nothing, Amy," she said sweatdropping. "What would I be doing?"

"Well," Amy said putting her hands on her hips. "You could be helping me, Tikal, Blaze, and Cream and her Mother decorate the house for tonight. Or..." she closed her eyes halfway and put on a sly smile. "Are you trying to find a gift for Shadow?"

Rouge blushed. "That is none of your business, Amy Rose!" the thief shouted.

"So you are trying to find a gift for him," the pink hedgehog said triumphantly. "I knew it! Want some help?"

"No, thank you," Rouge shot back. "Last time I asked for your help for something you painted my bedroom pink!"

"Hey pink is a good color!" Amy protested.

"Not for me!" Rouge shouted. "I hate pink!"

"Oh yeah. You like black and red."

Rouge aimed a kick at Amy. "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" she screamed.

Amy dodged the kick and went running. "I was just trying to help!" she shouted. "Sheesh!"

Rouge sighed and dropped the cataloge. It no longer held a potental gift idea. "This is harder than I thought it would be," she said shaking her head. "What would a person like Shadow like for Christmas?"

She sat down at her computer. "Maybe I'll find something online..."

"What were you doing, Amy?" Cream asked when the pink hedgehog came into the living room.

"I was trying to get Rouge down here to help us," the pink hedgehog replied. "We'll never get done in time if she doesn't help us."

"What is she doing?" the rabbit wanted to know.

"Christmas shopping."

"In her room?"

Amy nodded.

"WAH!" Tikal's voice screamed suddenly. "HELP ME!"

Cream and Amy looked toward the Christmas tree where Tikal had been trying to put the lights on the tree. They saw she'd somehow gotten tangled. The two friends sweat dropped.

"I think we should help her," Cream said.

"Good idea," Amy agreed. The two ran toward the echidna princess. "We're coming!"

As the two untangled Tikal, Blaze and Vanilla, Cream's mother, came out from the kitchen. "And during the holidays," Blaze was saying as she carried in a plate of cut out cookies. "most of the servants had a party and ...WAH!" She threw the plate in the air, which was caught by Cream's Chao Cheese, when she saw what had happened to Tikal. "What in the world? What are you doing?"

Tikal, Amy, and Cream looked at the cat queen. "Umm," Amy began. "Tikal got tangled in the lights. We are trying to get her free."

"But we're not doing a very good job!" wailed Cream.

Blaze stared at them a moment then said. "Here let me," she walked up to the girls.

Amy and Cream stepped back. Blaze stared at the lights a moment then grabbed them from the bottom where Tikal's feet were. With a mighty jerk she pulled the lights upward and off Tikal.

"See," she said turning to the other girls who stared at her in amazment. "There's nothing to it." She tossed the lights to Amy. "Here, you know how to put them on the tree. You'd better do that. Tikal can hang the wreath on the door."

All the girls sweat dropped. "Okay..." Amy said.

Blaze took a giant wreath out of a box and handed it to Tikal. "Here," she said. "but before you go outside put a coat on or you'll freeze."

Tikal took the wreath. "Okay," she said heading for the coat closet.

At that moment Rouge came down the stairs. "What did I miss?" she asked.

"Nothing," Amy said shoving a box of Christmas balls into her hands. "We were just starting to decorate the tree."

"I can't," Rouge said.

"Why not?" Amy demanded.

"I have something to do," the bat girl headed for the coat closet. "I'll be back in a few hours."

"Hey!" Amy shouted after her. "How are we going to get the house ready for the party if you don't help?"

"I don't know," Rouge said slipping on her coat. "Maybe you could ask one of the boys to help you..."

"WE CAN'T DO THAT!" Amy shouted. "THIS PARTY IS A SURPRISE FOR THE BOYS!"

"Well too bad," the thief headed for the door. "If you have to, call Lumina."

She opened the door and headed outside.

"Wait!" Amy called but the bat girl was gone.

"Amy," Tikal said from the coat closet.

"What?"

"I can't find my coat," the echidna princess replied. "I think Rouge took it. All I see in here is a pink one, a cream colored one, a vanilla colored one, a royal purple one, and a black trench coat."

Amy grinned. "I bet a Chaos Emerald Rouge is going to scream then come running back in here in 3...2...1!"

"AHHHH!" Rouge ran back into the house. "Whose coat is this? It itches like crazy!"

Amy laughed. "I told you so."

"I don't see why we have to come to Amy's house so early," Knuckles was saying to Espio as the two trudged through the snow.

The chamelion shrugged. "How should I know," he said. "I barely have any idea what they are even doing there."

"Decorating for Christmas," the echidna replied. "I think they want us to help them put Santa's sleigh on the roof."

"The roof!' Espio exclaimed. "That heavy thing! Oh no! I'm not helping with that again! Last year when I helped them with that sleigh they dropped it on top of me! They can just make Vector and Big help them!"

Knuckles chuckled. "I don't really care what they make me help them with just as long as I get to see Tikal."

"I heard Blaze is here this year," Espio commented. "I wonder how they convinced her Majesty to help them decorate."

"I bet they told her a certain chamelion was coming," Knuckles teased.

Espio blushed. "You're crazy," he said. "Blaze barely notices me! She spends most of her time talking to Sonic."

"I highly doubt Amy will let Sonic spend any time with Blaze," the M.E. guardian replied. "You know how jealous she gets."

"Don't I ever."

Knuckles saw Amy's house. The outside decorating was almost done. The only things left to put up was the nativity scene and... the Santa sleigh. "There's the house," he said. "I think I see Tikal by the front door. "HEY, TIKAL!"

Tikal had been consintrating on putting that fat wreath on the door that when she heard Knuckles shout to her she jumped, startled. Suddenly a huge gust of wind blew up and started blowing the wreath away.. with her still holding onto it!

"WHOA!" she gasped feeling her feet leave the ground. "HELP!"

"Looks like she's in trouble," Espio comented mildly as Tikal flew toward them.

"She is!" Knuckles exclaimed. He ran forward. "I'M COMING, TIKAL!"
Espio watched his friend grab onto Tikal's legs. He started to fly away too. The chamelion shook his head. "He should have seen that coming," he muttered. "I'd better help them."

Espio ran forward and pulled a HUGE throwing star (I don't know) out from nowhere. He threw the star at the wreath and the blades cut it in half. When this happened the wreath pieces and it's passengers fell hard onto the ground. Espio ran up to them and leaned over. The two echidnas lay there with big swirly eyes.

"Maybe I should have done something else," he said sweatdropping. "Are you guys all right?"

Knuckles recovered first. "Espio! What did you do that for!" he demanded standing back up.

"I'm sorry," the chamelion said. "I was just trying to save your lives."

"But look what you did to Amy's wreath!"

"I know!"

"Guys," Tikal said. "Please don't fight. I don't like when people fight. Let's just forget about it and head inside, please."

"All right, Tikal" Knuckles agreed. "But I'm only doing it because you asked me to."

"Thank you," she said bowing.

Knuckles blushed. Espio rolled his eyes.

They went into the house.

The instant the three stepped inside Amy pounced on them. "Knuckles! Espio! You're here early! All well. Since you're here early would you mind doing me a favor?"

"It depends," Espio said still remembering the Santa sleigh. "What do you want us to do?"

"Could you guys run to the store and pick up a few things?" she asked.

Espio sighed in relief. An easy job... "Oh course we will," he said.

"Good!' Amy handed him a list. "This is all the things we need," she informed them. "Be sure to get it all or this party will be a flop."

Knuckles looked at the list. "Let me see that," he said taking it from his friend. The list fell open and rolled halfway across the room. "ALL OF THIS!"

"Uh huh."

More sweat drops "Oh boy," they said.

"Well aren't you going to get them?" Amy demanded.

"Yes." the two said smiling nervously.

"Then get to it!"

The two left.

A few hours later after Espio and Knuckles had returned from their shopping the rest of the guests started to arrive. Upon the arrival of Vector and Big Amy asked them to put up the Santa sleigh and Nativity scene which they agreed to do upon her promising them an extra piece of cake.

Charmy and Tails also arrived a little later. By then all the work was done so they continued their rivalry for Cream's attention. Shadow was one of the last people to arrive.

"I don't even know why I'm doing this," he said to himself. "I don't belong with them. I'm no good at parties. What if someone asks me to dance? I can't dance!"

He reached up and knocked on the door. I just hope Rouge or someone else I know pretty well is here...

The door opened. Amy's head poked out. "Shadow," she said. "Hey Merry Christmas. Umm, did Sonic come with you?"

"No," Shadow replied repulsed at the thought. "Why would Sonic come here with me?"

"Sorry," she said looking around. "I was hoping he'd be here already."

Shadow said nothing. He practically knew why Sonic wasn't there yet. The blue hedgehog was probably afraid Amy would try to get him under the mistletoe.

"I guess he's late," the black hedgehog said. "Can I come in?"

"Sure," she said opening the door wider. "Everyone else, except Sonic, is already here."

That's what I was afraid of.. He didn't tell Amy his thoughts though. He just said. "Thank you." and stepped inside.

A/N

This was origanally going to be a one shot but I realize I had too much stuff to write so I'm going to make this a two shot instead. (If I don't get carried away again). Sorry. This fic kinda has a lot of different pairings in it. Sonamy, KnuxTikal, TailsCream, CharmyCream (They are fighting over her) VectorVanilla, EggmanVanilla (you'll see), EspioBlaze (I dunno), and the main paring for the fic ShadowRouge. I hope this doesn't offend you. I'm trying to do multiple stuff because it's a nice Christmas Eve type fic. The next part will have all the fluff and stuff. I hope you can wait.