The Sonic Christmas: Chapter Two

"C'mon Knuckles, it's only a few hundred feet!" Rouge assured, patting the frightened echidna on the back.

Knuckles and Rouge were going up a ski lift on a large icy mountain. They decided to go on their first vacation without Sonic bugging Knuckles about him having a major crush on Rouge. Rouge had on a pair of pink earmuffs, pink goggles and a white coat with pink cuffs around it. Knuckles only wore only a green scarf, red goggles and a hat. Knuckles gripped tightly to the back of the chair, while looking down at the ground, which seemed to get farther and farther away from him. Rouge, however, was calm and bored as they were lifting upwards into the sky.

"W-what happens if we fall?" He asked, gripping harder.

"Well, I can just fly myself back up, but if you were to fall, well…you'd probably break some bones, and be rushed to the hospital. They'd have surgery on you and you'd probably never be able to walk again. Is that a problem?" Rouge teased Knuckles who was doing his very best to hold his temper back.

"That's not funny!" Knuckles growled at the bat, but Rouge simply just smiled.

"Of course it's not, it's the truth! And besides, you've never done this when Tails lifted you. How come you, after all you've been through, be afraid of heights?" Rouge asked, puzzled why the guardian of the Master Emerald would be scared of something as simple as a sky lift.

"Well, I've never been THIS high before!" Knuckles told her. Rouge just sighed and looked up, to see that they were just at their point.

"Here we are Knuckles! Death Mountain!" Rouge told him. She pushed the echidna off the ski lift and jumped down, on top of the mountain. Knuckles almost lost his footing, but then regained it in fright as he looked down the mountain. They were like over a thousand feet in the air! He couldn't even see the bottom of it! There were about a few hundred trees all over the whole thing. And what scared him the most was the skeleton with a hat leaning against the tree only about twenty feet away.

"Rouge, why do you hate me so much?" Knuckles asked, jumping into Rouge's arms. Rouge frowned and dropped Knuckles. "C'mon Knuckles. Shut up and get on your board. I heard that if you are able to survive the mountain, a magical spirit of the mountain will give you gems and you know how much I like gems." Rouge explained, placing her feet on a pink and black snowboard before shifting her pink goggles over her eyes. Knuckles gulped before doing the same.

"Ready Knuckles?" Rouge then pointed her board down the mountain.

"No." Knuckles answered, retreating backwards, but was grabbed by his dreadlocks.

"Too bad. Here we go!" Suddenly, Rouge pushed her foot off from the top and they started to sail down the mountain. She went left and dodged a few trees as Knuckles climbed into her arms, shrieking like a little three-year-old girl.

"I'M GONNA DIE! I'M GONNA DIE!" Knuckles cried out, completely blocking Rouge's view with his head.

"Knuckles! Move your head! I can't see!"

Unfortunately, Rouge's voice was muffled as Knuckles hold tighter. They both failed to notice the rock in the deadly path. The board nicked the tip of the rock, causing the two to fall off their boards, tumbling down the mountain. Eventually, they noticed a large cave in the way and tried to stop themselves from crashing into the back of it. They failed and found themselves sliding on the ice floor, and crashed to the back of the cave. But, thanks to Knuckles head, the impact caused the whole cave to shake. Before the two could even get up, they saw a large glacier fall from the top of the cave, and crash into the entrance, completely blocking their paths.

Rouge was the first to get up. She skated her way to the glacier and as she tried to kick it, she fell back and slid right next to Knuckles. Knuckles helped her to her feet and they both looked at the glacier.

"Maybe I can break it." Knuckles said, sliding to the glacier. He punched it as hard as he could, but…

"Ack! My Knuckles are stuck!" Knuckles tried to say, trying to pry his hand out. Rouge slapped her forehead and shook her head.

"Well, this is going to be a wonderful Christmas indeed.

"I'm finished!"

Amy exited the dressing room and walked to the area where Sonic was. She posed, eyes closed, and waited for an answer.

"It's lovely but…"

Amy shifted one eye open, but then opened her eyes to see that the person in front of her wasn't Sonic. It was an orange hedgehog instead. "I'm not Sonic."

Amy growled and pulled out her hammer in a defensive stance. "Who are you and what have you done with Sonic?"

The orange hedgehog waved his hands in defense, sweat dropping a bit. "Take it easy! I didn't do anything! He left the store about five minutes ago and…"

"Sonic left me?" Amy asked in disbelief, lowering her hammer.

"Well, yeah. He went to the…" He paused as he began to see Amy twitching pretty uncontrollably. "Uh, miss. Are you alright- WOAH!" The orange hedgehog began to back up as he saw the pink hedgehog's eyes begin to glow and bright green. All of the sudden, the pink hedgehog began to morph and change before his very eyes.

Shadow looked into the sky, as the soft snow fell around him. He was sitting on the edge of the ten story building, wondering more and more about his past. His eyes lowered to the sky as he watched the specks below enter the other buildings near and far from him. He had decided to refuse to come to the Ski lodge with Rouge, Knuckles, and Omega and had no idea about why people were so excited about this holiday.

"Hey Shadow, Whatcha doing up here?"

Shadow snapped out of his trance and looked behind him to see a white female hedgehog standing only a few feet away from him.

"Oh. Hello Jayln." Shadow said as the blonde white hedgehog sat next to him.

"Are you ready for Christmas?" She asked. Shadow made a puzzled look on his face. Christmas? Shadow turned his head to her direction.

"Christmas?" Shadow asked. Jayln smiled.

"Well, yeah. You know, with the lights and presents and get-togethers. Those type of stuff."

Shadow frowned and shook his head, eyes closed.

"I don't think I've ever heard of that before."

Jayln gasped. How could no one not know about Christmas? There was more of a chance of a person surviving a plane crash than a person to not hear about Christmas.

"So, let me get this straight. You have never heard of Christmas? Ever?"

Shadow shook his head. But Jayln just smiled.

"Let me tell you about Christmas." Jayln started, as she wrapped an arm around Shadow's neck.

Well, that's the end of Chapter two. Chapter three will come by soon!