Chapter 2

I woke up with a screaming headache. I have no idea where I was. I looked like I was in a tent, lying on a bed roll.

I felt me forehead for my goggles. They weren't there. Now I was pissed off. Who ever has the nerve to touch my goggles was going to get hurt. They had no idea who they were messing with.

I tore the blood soaked bandage off of my forehead since the refuse bleeding had stopped and crawled out of the tent.

I took a look around. I was in a camp site in a secluded area by a stream. Somebody had lit a fire. Around that fire were the three hedgehogs. Manic was sitting on a log fiddling with a piece of scrap metal. It looked like he was trying to shape it into something.

Sonic was sitting cross legged on the cold dirt floor gorging himself on chili dogs. Where he got them, I have no idea.

And there was Sonia, by the stream with a rag in one hand and something else in the other. She was scrubbing something violently.

"Hello, Hedgehogs." I said out loud, trying to get there attention.

Manic was the first to notice me. He stopped what he was doing and then said, "Hey there Snow. How are you feeling buddy?"

"As you can see." I said pointing to my head, "I feel great."

"Well that's good." Sonia said, not taking her eyes off of her scrubbing.

Sonic grunted in agreement through a mouth full of chili dog.

" Oww." I said, grabbing my head. "I have a pounding headache." I said, holding back tears of pain. It was that bad.

"Well, I bet you would, Dingo had hit you very hard." Manic said, resuming his fiddling.

I gave a confused expression. "Dingo? Who is that?" I asked.

"That would be a shape shifting, Australian, idiot who has more muscle than brains." Sonia said, still scrubbing.

"Wow, it seems you really hate the guy." I said.

Sonic grunted through his chili dog.

"How long was I out anyways." I asked, sitting down on the ground. The coldness didn't really affect me. My fur was thicker than any other animal's fur.

Sonic held up 3 fingers. What could he have possibly meant? Days? Weeks? Months? What was he talking about?

"Um, 3 what? " I said.

"Days." Sonia said.

"By the way you were bleeding, we weren't even expecting you to wake up for a while." Manic said.

"Well, I guess you were wrong." I said.

Sonic had finished his chili dogs and was standing up. "It's time to juice and jam, guys. Now that Snow is better, we gotta get moving." Sonic said, walking to a van that was parked near by.

"Um, can you give me like five minutes Sonic? I'm almost done cleaning these." Sonia asked. She had been scrubbing what she was scrubbing for a while now.

Sonic groaned. "Fine. Be quick."

"What are you scrubbing anyways?" I asked.

"These." Sonia said, setting her rag down and showing me something. They were me goggles! I could recognize the teal on them anywhere.

I conjured up an ice axe. Nobody touches my goggles. Nobody.

"Give those back now!" I screamed, waving the ice axe threateningly.

A look of pure fear was in Sonia's eyes. "Why are you getting violent over a pair of goggles? There just goggles."

"Yeah man. What's the big deal?" Manic asked, scared for his sister.

"I tell you what the deal is. Those goggles were given to me by my mother right before, before…" I started to say.

I dropped my ice axe shattering it and dropped to my knees. Tears were starting to flow from my eyes. "They mean a lot to me because they were given to me by my mother right before she died."

Sonia's expression turned from fear to guilt. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know." She said, handing them to me.

After my goggles were fastened across my forehead, I wiped the tears from my eyes. "It's okay. You didn't know." I said.

"Well, now that the emotional moment is out of the way, let's get going." Sonic said.

"Yeah, quit crying with lover boy there Sonia, and let's get going." Manic said.

Sonia and I glared at Manic. "Manic, we only me a couple days ago!" Sonia yelled.

"You freaking idiot!" I yelled.

Manic raised his hands defensively. "Well sorry. It's just Sonia has been known to fall in love with just about every guy she has seen in less that 5 minutes."

My eyes widened and I looked at Sonia.

"It's not true." Sonia said.

"Oh really." Sonic said joining in on the conversation. "What about Stripes?"

"Okay, one time." Sonia said.

"What about Knuckles?" Manic said.

"Guys, guys. Stop talking about Sonia's love life. It's none of your business anyways." I said.

"Thank you, Snow." Sonia said.

Sonic sighed. "We shouldn't be fighting with each other, we should be fighting butt-nik. So let's get out of here."

We all nodded and walked to the van.

Well, there's chapter 2. Did you dig it? Let me know.