Author's Note: I've updated the profiles chapter with new characters and a few more info I missed since my post.

Chapter Ten

Fun in the Sun

An early morning on the coast, the gulls were cawing as they dove into the sea to catch their morning breakfast. A beautiful beach house hugged the end of the sands of the beach. Inside the house and on a foldaway; we see Tails snoozing on the bed with his fox-like Chao named Ace. Tails just recently reunited with his parents and now he had a younger brother and sister. He laid there; even as the rays of the sun hit him through the shutters on the windows.

"This must be a dream," he thought as he opened his eyes.

Then he felt something beside him. He turned his head to see a Chao sleeping beside him.

"This is defiantly not a dream," he thought.

Then his nosed picked up something cooking from the next room. He slowly rose out of bed so that he wouldn't disturb the Chao but it woke up and stretched before he took off using its wings. Tails slipped on his sneakers and proceeded into the next room with his Chao, Ace, following him. He went into the next room to find his mother cooking breakfast.

"Morning, Miles or do prefer Tails?" she greeted him as she flipped something over on the oven.

"Right now, it doesn't matter with me," he replied as Ace took a seat on the table near him.

His father soon came down after he had gotten the morning paper from the front door. He poured himself a cup of coffee as soon as he entered the room. He sat down and took a sip of his coffee before he turned to read the paper.

"Here's something that might be of some interest to you, Miles," he said as he handed Tails the paper.

Tails took the paper and looked at the first article before he left out a snort, "I already knew that Sonic would make the front page news."

"Read the one below it," his father replied.

Tails turned the paper over and to his surprise; it was an article concerning him over the previous day's event.

"We thought that you needed recognition over what happened since your friend might have taken all the credit for what happened that day," his father said as he saw the look on his speechless son's face.

Sometime later the twin five year old foxes entered the room and took their seats at the table just as their mother had started to set their plates at the table.

"What are you all going to do today for the last day of vacation?" their mother asked her children after they had finished breakfast.

"I want Miles to take us flying again," the young male fox said.

"Yeah," his twin said.

"I think not," Tails said, "I fly a lot better without carrying anyone and my plane is an open cockpit. I don't think Mom would approve of it."

They seemed hurt and they didn't argue after Tails had said that. They left the beach house, with Ace on top of Tails' head, after they had said good-bye to their parents and walked on a path that took them along side the resort town and the beach. They continued to walk as the talked over what to do first as they entered the park. They walked down a short flight of stairs and a voice called out.

"Miles!"

They turned to the source of the voice to see a young vixen running towards them. Behind her was a fox that slowly walked towards them as the vixen ran towards them. She ran towards Tails and gave him a hug.

"Hello Miles," she said after breaking off the hug. "Sorry about that because I'm still in shock that you are back and alive."

"Not at all Amber," Tails replied.

"Hello Austin and Judy," Amber addressed the twin five year old foxes.

"Hi, Amber," they replied in unison as the fox with Amber approached them.

"Hello, Bruise," Tails said sounding displeased.

The fox named Bruise approached them and stood face-to-face with Tails.

"Don't you dare say any kind of insult towards Miles," Amber angrily said to Bruise. "There is a nearby lake, Miles, if you are interested in starting there first," Amber coolly said as she turned her attention toward Tails.

"Sure," Tails replied as he turned to Amber.

Padre Lake, a large lake that hosts several water activities. It is currently very busy due to the waning months of summer. Tails, with old and new friends, made their way towards the dock as they overlooked all of the boats passing through the area.

"It looks beautiful," Tails said in awe at the sight. "I've seem some beautiful sights before, but this one seems to be near at the top of my list."

A boat passed them in the distance and Tails recognized the ones in the boat to be some of his friends from the previous day. They let out a whistle and waved his hands to get their attention and they waved back before they turned the boat towards the dock. The boat had pull up beside the dock showing the driver and two other passengers.

"Having fun?" the walrus asked.

"Just trying to have a fun time for the last day of family vacation," Tails replied.

"Try water-skiing with us, Miles," the rabbit asked with a southern accent.

"Oui," the coyote asked with a French accent.

"As long as you have enough lifejackets to go around," Tails said.

"We have more than enough to go around, Miles," the walrus replied.

They were all handed lifejackets and they put them on. Bruise, however, said that he had other things to do besides water-skiing and Tails knew that he couldn't stand being around him due to his appearance. Tails spotted water skis in the back of the boat but he also saw a single board in the back.

"Why is there a wave board in the back of the boat?" Tails asked.

"That would be my cousin's since he prefers wave boarding over water skiing any day," the walrus replied. "If you would like to borrow it; I don't think he would mind."

Tails took off his sneakers as the rabbit slid the wave board onto the dock and while the others climbed into the boat. Tails slip his feet into the restraints on the board and then he was handed a handle that was attached to a long rope to the boat.

"Ready?" the walrus asked.

"Ready when you are Rotor, and Ace, stay in the boat," Tails replied and the Chao was hurt by what Tails had said but he still obeyed.

The walrus named Rotor started the boat's engine and began to pull away from the dock. The boat started out slow and then it started to pick up speed at a slow rate of speed. Tails was preparing himself as the rope slowly was pulled by the boat. The rope reached its end and Tails was pulled off the dock. He landed in the water and with the boat's speed. He then was pulled by the boat as he began to ski on the surface of the water.

"I think he wants more speed!" Amber yelled over the roar of the engine.

"Roger that!" Rotor replied as he increased the boat's speed.

Tails was having the time of his life as he zigzagged behind the boat as he did flips on the waves left in the boat's wake. He did multiple stunts in the air from the ramps and on the rails that were on the lake. After Tails had his turn, Amber took her try on the water skis but wiped out on one of the ramps on a blotched landing. Austin and Judy wanted a try but Tails told them that they were too young to try and that their parents wouldn't be too proud if Tails allowed them to water-ski.

"That was fun and refreshing," Tails said after they had returned to the dock after two hours of being on the lake. "What's next?"

"How about some snorkeling down near the beach?" Amber asked.

"Yeah," the twin foxes said.

"I would love to," the rabbit said, "but I have a cousin to pick up within the hour."

"I decline due to ze fact that I am meeting my father," the coyote said.

"I can't since I'm meeting family later," Rotor said.

"Fine by me," Tails said as the put his sneakers back on.

They left to go in their respective directions. Tails, with friend, family, and Chao, left the lake as they proceeded through a thin forest as they made their way towards the sea for snorkeling. As they neared the end of the forest, they saw a cloud of dust and a figure jumping into the trees from the cloud of dust. They ran towards the site where the figure once stood to find nothing and they heard voices approaching their location. It was a small mob of teenage girls and they were approaching the location the mysterious figure once stood.

"Where'd he go?" one of them asked.

"Who?" Tails asked slightly confused.

"Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"Uh… that way," Tails thought quickly and pointed in the opposite direction they came from.

The mob ran passed them as they ran towards the lake they had just left.

"Typical, some people can't allow someone that famous have a moments peace and see him as an equal!" Amber said sounding annoyed.

"Can you see him as an equal?" Tails asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes," she replied in a huffy tone.

"Alright Sonic, you can come done now!" Tails yelled towards the trees.

Something or someone was moving in the tree above them and a blue hedgehog dropped to one of the low hanging branches.

"Thanks for the assist. I can't even get a moments peace here with these girls trying to get me to date them or worse… marry them!" the hedgehog said.

Something was heard near them and it was another mob running towards them.

"Got to go!" the hedgehog said and he left in the opposite direction after he had dropped from the branches with the mob running after him.

"That was Sonic the Hedgehog?" Amber asked after several seconds of silence.

"That's Sonic alright and a very good friend too. He seems to be in trouble with some fan girls who are lovesick for him," Tails simply replied.

"You know Sonic the Hedgehog!" Austin and Judy asked in unison.

"Yes, I will tell you later about my times with him since it will interfere with our fun for today," Tails replied.

They crossed the sands of the beach as they made their way towards the boat that will take them snorkeling. Tails made sure that the twins listened to him so they would not get themselves into trouble. They had a fun time as they explored the nearby coral reef as they looked at the multiple species of fish that inhabit the area. Ace was able to come along for the dives but he couldn't stay under the water as long as Tails could.

After two hours of snorkeling around the various spots on the coral reef, Tails and friends decided have a picnic on the beach. They returned to the beach house that was owned by Tails' parents to fix a picnic basket for their picnic. Their parents were not home but they were able to fix their food for their picnic. They left for the nearby beach after they had fixed their picnic basket and gathered their beach supplies before they headed for the beach.

They found a good spot to set up for their picnic on the beach which was only a few feet from the ocean's waves. Tails was pressured by his younger siblings into telling them how he knew Sonic but he frequently declined. Although Amber would have sided with him but she was curious what he had done over the past five years. Tails was out voted and even Ace wanted to know what he had done since they had been separated. He was about to begin until something nearby caught his eye. It was a group of people gathered around in a circle as they watched something going on.

"What's going on over there?" Tails asked as he pointed towards the group.

"I don't know, but whatever it is. I don't think it looks good," Amber answered as clouds of dust were seen from the location.

Inside the circle, there was a fight going on. Not a fight between two combatants but a fight that uses creatures known as Chao. On one side, was a beige colored rabbit with long ears that came to the back of her head, brown eyes, and she wore a light blue sundress that came down to her knees. On the other, was a brown porcupine with black eyes. In between them were two Chao. One of them looked like the brown porcupine and he had razor-sharp quills on its back and the other was a light blue Chao with a red bowtie around its neck.

"Give it up girlie, you can't win!" the porcupine shouted at the rabbit as his Chao started to attack the rabbit's Chao as it laid on the ground. "Your Chao is pathetic and weak!"

"That's not very polite!" the rabbit shouted back as her Chao continued to lay on the ground.

"This fight is over and you clearly sent my cousin into this fight forcefully!" the voice came from a brown rabbit with a southern accent.

She was then hit in the abdominal by an elbow before she took a fist to the face. She laid on the ground for a few seconds before she came up groaning from the attack and her nose was bleeding.

"Stay out of this!" the porcupine shouted at her.

"That's not" the young rabbit began but was cut off when her Chao was knocked near her feet. She proceeded to pick it up but her opponent's Chao started to hit the motionless Chao towards the opposite side.

"Pathetic!" the porcupine said after he had picked up his opponent's Chao by one of its feet.

He throws the Chao to the ground and kicks it towards the young rabbit. The Chao lands half-ways between them but the rabbit couldn't get her Chao since she was held back by two more porcupines twice her size. The porcupine Chao hits its opponent and sends it to the feet of its master. The Chao goes in for another attack but its attack was halted by someone or something. The Chao was sent backwards towards its master like a spiked ball. After the Chao had stopped rolling, he looked angry at what had given him a bruised nose and he looked at who had hit him. He was staring at another Chao that looked like a fox dressed like a pilot.

"That was clearly a disregard for the rules of fighting with Chao," the voice came from a fox who had pushed his way through the circle as he made his way with one of his feet blocking the now motionless Chao from the porcupine's view.

"No one tells me what to do!" the porcupine shouted since he was enraged. "Who made you boss of Chao fighting and this fight is by my rules! Just who are you?"

"My friends call me Tails, but you can call me Miles," the fox calmly replied.

"Miles? Now I remember, you were in this morning's paper. I think that article is a lie and you made it all up!"

"Funny," the fox named Miles replied, "I don't recall saying anything to any reporters after what happened."

"Stay out of this fight and I'm not finished with her yet!"

"The fight is over and you clearly disregard the rules that state: 'if a Chao lies unconscious for five seconds; the fight is over.'"

"The way I fight is to show that the weak should not live."

"Survival of the fittest?"

"That's right, so stay out of"

"I won't! You clearly have no compassion for Chao and since you hurt one of my friends (correction two). I have no choice but to show you how to fight a fair match. I can see that you have a small gang of friends here and," he waved his tails so they could see them, "my tails can be deadly weapons if they decide to attack."

The porcupine just laugh and as if by cue two more porcupines approached the fox from the rear. They were only met by a sound of a whip and they came out with a scar near their eyes on the side nearest the fox.

"Like I said," as the two porcupines backed away with their hands over their scars and as the rabbit picked up her unconscious Chao, "they are deadly weapons."

No one seemed to speak after witnessing what had happened. Their attention was turned to the fox as he stood confidently with his Chao in front of him with its fists raised for a fight. The Chao looked angry and on every exhale; it let out a low growl.

"You want a fight? I'll give you one you hero wannabe!"

Two Chao and two different points of view on how a fight should be. The porcupine thinks that only the strong shall survive the fight and should live why the weak die in the fight. Tails believes that the fight should be fair and have honor for the Chao who are knocked unconscious on the ground. Who shall win this fight?


Preview:

This is Tails! This Chao fight was clearly unfair and unethical to the rules stated. My opponent's Chao fought dirty and my opponent's gang sends their Chao out to make it even more unfair. This hothead does not even think of me as a hero but more of a wannabe. I will show him what happens to them after they mess with my friends. Who shall prevail? Find out next time!


Copyright: Sonic and Tails are both copyrighted by Sega. Amber, Bruise, Austin, and Judy are all copyrighted by me. The Chao named Ace is also copyrighted by me but not his appearance. Rotor is copyrighted by Archie comics.
Post Author's Note: I re-described Tails again because I shifted the point of view away from him. I'm saying this because somebody's review states that I shouldn't re-described the characters in the same chapter again. BUT if you shift your point of view; you MUST re-describe that character because the character(s) in the new point of view may or may not know them (that is what I think and it is true to me).