Title: A Christmas Tale - Chapter 2

Rated: K+

Summary: Tails decides to go for a flight using his Tornado plane and then... When it starts to fail at the highest height it can go, he finds something amazing.

Slowly but surely Tails started to open his eyes. "Uhhh... Woah..." He felt completely and utterly refreshed. He was laying on a bed. Wait... What?

Looking around slowly - He started to realize he wasn't hurt. He wasn't even injured in any way. The light from the Castle...

It slowly clicked in his head that he was inside the castle, somehow.

"Where... Am I?" He asked to no-one in particular.

"You are in the Castle of the Forest Heaven. How do you feel, Miles?"

Tails blinked. "I didn't... Who are you? And how do you know my name?" Tails asked as he turned and slowly got up. He was in a white robe and his twin tails were also being hugged by soft fabric. A girl with Green hair tilted her head at him.

"Everyone knows you here, Miles. You are practically family to us."

Tails blinked again. "Family? Woah Woah Woah. Slow down." He nursed a brand new headache. "Let's start at the bottom... What is your name?"

The girl tilted her head to the other side. "Francis. Francis Prower."

Tails' eyes widened. "But... I'm the only Prower on Mobius..."

"That is... Correct. But we aren't on the planet's surface, are we?"

Tails furrowed his brow. "Okay. Okay. Let's assume I believe you, F-Francis... Tell me - Who else is here?"

Francis smiled warmly at him. "Your entire race is in this castle - We came here when that evil scientist destroyed what was originally ours."

"So, you're saying... My entire family is here too?"

"Uh-huh." Francis nodded. "Even your mother, Amelia, and Father, Artemis are here."

Tails widened his eyes again. This was all too much. "S-So... Everyone's here..." He looked down at the floor and, sure enough, it was covered in clouds with a special type of floor. It was so soft... Almost like the clouds themselves.

"I was born a few years back. I'm only 4. 5, Next April."

Tails blinked. "Wait for a second... If you are 4... And I'm 9... Then... Wouldn't that-"

Francis blinked and was instantly thinking along Tails' lines. "Make me, your sister, in a way? Yeah... I guess so."

Francis moved to the left a bit and showed Tails her tail. She had another hidden, yet she didn't realize that Tails could see that, clear as day.

Tails smiled for once. "Ya know what? I'm not gonna argue. I need to find Sonic first, though... I was supposed to have a meal with him."

It was Francis' turn to wide eyes, "Sonic? Sonic The Hedgehog? The world-famous Blue Hedgehog? Fastest thing alive?"

'I see Sonic's fame goes faster than him...' Tails chuckled and nodded. "Yeah... That's him. I'm his best bud. Or, at least, that's how we view each other. He rescued me. When Robotnick almost captured me. That was a dark day..." Tails shook his head, ridding himself of the memory.

Francis gulped. "It's best you don't say that name in front of anyone else..." She shuddered.

"What, Robotnick?"

Francis nodded rapidly. "Yeah."

Tails blinked in partial confusion. "Why?"

"He was the one who destroyed our original home..."

Tails nodded after realizing. "Okay. Well... It would be difficult to talk about Sonic and I's adventures against him without calling him such... What do you call him?"

Francis blinked. "We call him, the Dark One."

Tails chuckled slightly, remembering a certain BLACK hedgehog. "Eh... Might be difficult with that one. See... There's a Silver hedgehog, I know of, and... A Black one."

"Is he E-Evil?" Francis asked. She genuinely looked scared.

Tails shook his head. "Nah. Just..." He looked to the clouds again. "...Moody." He grinned.

Francis nodded. "Oh... I see..."

Shadow sneezed which made Amy Rose jump almost out of her skin.

"Don't DO that!"

Shadow rolled his eyes. "Sorry."

"Where's Sonic?"

"Faker'll be back soon. He said he wouldn't be long."

"SONIC"

"FAKER"

"S-O-N-I-C!" Amy repeated and got out her piko-piko hammer

Shadow sighed. "Fine..." He didn't fancy getting knocked unconscious today. Not like Sonic the other day... No, thank you.

Super Sonic roared across the skies, breaking sound barriers as he eventually came into view of a massive castle with adjoining buildings and turrets and blinked. "Woah... Okay. That must be where Tails ended up!" He flew towards it and could feel an almost impossible barrier between him and the castle. "I gotta reach him..."

[To Be Continued...]