STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me.

Chapter Eight:

It's So Blue

"It's beautiful…"

"It's so blue…"

"Yes it is."

"A more of the calming blue don't you think?"

"Yeah…"

"But it's blue."

Sonic smirked, "That's because blue is the best color, Shadow."

Shadow glared at him and pointed at the lake, "It's more like a green blue!"

"Sea green!" Amy chirped.

Shadow put his finger on her lips without looking at her but staring at Sonic, "Blue shouldn't even be a color."

"What!?" Sonic growled, "Well, black and red shouldn't be colors."

"Yes they should be-"

"In hell!" Sonic yelled.

"Alright boys," Blaze walked in between them, "Let's just enjoy this time without fighting," she glared at Shadow, "And without stupid comments," she turned to Sonic.

"What!?" Sonic wailed this time.

Shadow laughed as the blue blur while Rouge was over at the bank, looking in. Knuckles whistled while he walked up to his girlfriend, "You okay?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" she asked, staring at him as she crouched on the ground.

"What'cha looking at?" he leaned over.

"Just fish," she pointed to the trout, "I wonder why they don't go back deeper into the lake."

"Maybe we can catch them," Tails said, coming up to her right side as Knuckles stood on her left.

Rouge shrugged, "They seem so alone…."

"Like a thief!" Sonic hollered.

Tails rolled his eyes and gasped, "Come on, Cream!" he grabbed his girlfriend's hand; "I'll show you how to fish!"

"I'm an herbivore, Tails!"

Tails stopped and grinned at her, "I wonder if I could make you the first carnivorous rabbit."

She glared, "You dare try and you're sleeping on the couch the rest of this trip."

"I'm joking!" he exclaimed with a laugh as he tugged her along to a giant rock that poked out.

"Spider! Spider!" Manic screamed as he twirled around, hitting his pants, "GET IT OFF! SONIA! MOMMY!"

Sonia bit into her sandwich and chewed slowly, "Who's he?" she pointed at Manic, "Why's he here?"

"I'm asking myself that same question," Sonic told his sister.

Amy and Blaze put their shoes and socks on the grass and put their feet over the bank, their toes barely touching the cold water. Shadow chased Sonic after he whacked him with a tree branch (You know, those ones that are tiny and slim and hurt even more than a whip, yeah those).

"FAKER!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" he ran towards the water but halted right at the end.

Shadow ran into him and knocked them both in the water with a splash. Sonic came up, freezing and chattering his teeth.

Shadow held the wet weed of some sort and looked at the group, "Is this sanitary?"

"Ummm," Rouge bit her lip, "Well, it's in the mountains, it has fish in it and weird plant life…so I'm guessing…no."

Shadow shuddered and made his way out, "Disgusting."

Sonic followed in after but Shadow turned around and pushed him back, "Stay in the water."

"You stay in the water," Sonic came out and tried pushing Shadow but instead got the two in a wrestling match.

"GUYS!"

They froze with Shadow on top choking Sonic and Sonic about to punch Shadow in the face.

Blaze glared with vicious gold eyes, "What did I just say about fighting?"

"To not to," they said simultaneously.

"Exactly," she hissed.

They let go and got off one another but glared at each other, "Jerk."

"Asshole," Shadow told him.

Sonic watched as Blaze turned back around. The cat talked to Amy while Silver skipped rocks that he found, "How's the bakery and flower shop?" the cat asked.

"Fantastic," Amy said right before Shadow was pushed into the water with Sonic tackling him, forgetting his phobia with water.

Amy sighed, "I'm going to pretend I didn't see or hear that…"

Blaze nodded, "I give up."

Tails pointed at the giant rainbow trout as he ate, "I wonder if they eat bread…"

Cream had more of a BLT sandwich. Just without the bacon, so it was a TL sandwich. Cream watched with an eyebrow raised as Tails threw the bread to them. The fish leapt up and ate the bread on top of the water.

"Wow!" she squealed in delight.

Taking a piece of bread herself, she threw it and the ducks raced each for it. The fish beat them to it though, eating it with its nose popping out of the water for only a second. The ducks hovered over the fish so you couldn't see it anymore. Cream's shoulders sunk but Tails nudged her with his, "Come on," he threw the piece of bread in his hand over to the side and the ducks raced each other again, even biting one another.

Tails quickly gave another piece for them to race for and then took one off of the bread, throwing it to the fish. It came out of the water like it had before. Cream laughed and threw one, the ducks came racing back there, and splashing water on each other with their feathers until a brown one ate the bread.

"Come on, Vector," Alicia encouraged, "You're an alligator right?"

"CROCODILE for the last time!" Vector yelled.

Espio chuckled as the green Mobian walked slowly in the water. He slipped and fell, "I'M DROWNING!" he threw his arms around, "HELP! SOMEONE SAVE ME!"

The group turned their heads to him, "Vector?" Alicia nervously asked as she went forward to him, the water going to her ankles and she was shorter than Vector.

"I'M DROWNING! SOMEONE! HELP! SAVE ME! I'M TOO POOR TO DIE! I WAS GONNA BECOME RICH! THIS IS BULL CRAP!"

Espio was standing in the water, it barely went to his knees and he was further than Vector. Shadow and Sonic where heading to the deep part, though Espio wouldn't tell them and would just let them figure it out themselves.

"Vector," he tried saying.

"HELP ME! DON'T JUST STAND THERE!"

"Do you think he has a bigger fear of water than Sonic?" Knuckles whispered to Rouge who nodded, "And he's a crocodile."

Alicia touched his shoulder, "It's only inches high Vector," she said and he completely stopped.

He looked around, "Oh…I knew that. I was just testing to see if anyone cared about me."

"Obviously not," Charmy blurted out.

Vector growled and ran towards, "Why you!"

Charmy screamed and flew over the water, "HA!"

Vector huffed and tapped his foot with his arms folded, "Charmy…"

The bee stuck out his tongue, "Blah!"

Manic watched as the spider crawled up his arm, "Spider, spider," his voice became high, "Sonia! SPIDER!" he ran towards the water, "GET IT OFF!"

Sonia put her empty sandwich bag away, "I wish my friends were here…"

"Hey!" Amy turned around, "What about us?"

"You guys are my friends, but I meant my best friends," Sonia said.

"No," Sonic told her, "You meant your boyfriend," he pointed at her.

She clapped slowly, "Congratulations, you win the noble prize of being dunked."

"What?" he froze in the water, now waist high.

Shadow popped up behind him with an angry face, "YOU'RE DEAD!"

"AHH!" Sonic screamed before he was underwater again.

"I'm still trying to figure out how they're still stupid enough to go in there," Amy stated.

Silver shrugged and threw the rock, letting it skip three times, "They're guys, it's what we do."

His girlfriend beside him rolled her eyes, "Sure…"

"It's true!" he protested.

"Please!" she turned to him, "The only thing you're good at is an eating contest."

"Ooooh!" Knuckles laughed.

Silver glared at the red echidna then the purple cat, "Okay, so maybe my gift is to eat-"

"Gift!?" she snorted, "Ha! It's more like a life reputation for you!"

Knuckles was finding this hilarious and you could bet if Sonic could hear that he would laugh too and make a smartass comment. Shadow was still gone as they wrestled underwater. Resurfacing, the ebony hedgehog pushed Sonic away who came up to breathe, "I win!"

Sonic growled and tackled him in the water as Sarah got in.

"Hey!" she yelled to the girls, "Come in! It's great!"

"And contaminated," Rouge muttered.

"Well," Sarah paused, "Okay besides that."

~~~~.~~~~

"I won the hot-dog eating contest! That was it!" Silver put his hands on his hips while he stood in the water.

Everyone was in the water by, except Charmy who was flying high above Vector's head screaming/singing, "NOBODY LOVES YOU! NOBODY LOVES YOU!"

"CHARMY YOU ARE DEAD! DO YOU HEAR ME!? D-E-A-D!"

"Hey, guys," Alicia looked around, "Where'd Scourge and Fiona go? They were at the cabin."

Sonic shrugged while he floated near Sarah, "They probably stayed there to do you know what."

She scrunched up her nose, "Disgusting and you guys have no clue where."

"I never thought of that," Knuckles said slowly with his eyes going like saucers.

Knuckles sat at the bank while Rouge was in the water. His arms wrapped around her neck and he held her there. She didn't mind this day, it was sunny and Knuckles was with her. It was just the mud/sand in the water that made her cringe from the feeling. Alicia was still ankle deep with Vector. Espio was ahead of them, straight forward with Tails. Cream was at the beginning of the water, it barely touching her toes.

Sarah had her hands on Sonic's stomach while he floated, using him as a flotation device. Blaze stood near Silver, "And the ice cream eating contest!"

"That wasn't a contest!"

"It was a bet, that's a contest!"

"Bets and contests are a totally different thing!"

"Not in this category!"

"So!?"

"What about that snow-cone eating contest?" Blaze put her hands on hips.

"Oh enough!" Silver yelled, "So what? I love eating contests! And I'm good at them! So?"

Blaze just stopped, "…I don't exactly know."

"How'd we get to this conversation?" Silver tilted his head.

"SONIA! SPIDER!" Manic ran into the water, flinging his arm around still.

His sister and brother rolled their eyes at the identical time. Sonia was thigh deep in the lake, motioning Manic to come over to her. He whimpered like a baby, tears and all, as he went over to her.

Sonic took hold of his arm and flicked the spider, "It wasn't even dangerous."

"All spiders are dangerous."

"No," Sonia threw his arm out of her grasp, "You're just being a baby."

"You're just being a baby," he mocked.

Sonia glared, whacking him upside the head, "Ow!" he held his head, "Sonia!"

Sonic pointed at his sister, "Aren't you supposed to wait an hour after you eat?"

~~~~.~~~~

"Come on, Manic!" Sonic hollered for his brother at the end of the line, "By the time we get back to camp, it'll be next winter!"

Sonic led the group, holding hands with Sarah who had a backpack on her. Amy followed with Shadow right behind her. Rouge and Knuckles with Tails and Cream were behind those lovebirds. Silver and Blaze held hands, walking side by side and swinging their hands as high as they could with each step. Vector was glaring at Charmy who still flew up above him. Alicia was chattering away while in front of Espio, she was jumping over tiny rocks and climbing on big ones to jump down. Espio just listened to her babble.

Sonia was behind them all with only her whining brother behind her. Manic was dragging his feet, "I hate walking though!"

"Then next time, don't come."

By the time they got back, it was like next winter. The temperature dropped as they came to the creek crossing. Amy frowned, "We have to walk? Why not just build a bridge?"

"That," Sonic plunged in, "Would be a fantastic idea, Ames. So you can say that to Mr. Barker."

He carried Sarah with him. Amy yelped when arms were around and the water seemed closer. She could hear Sonic's teeth chattering in front of her. Knuckles and Rouge flew over and landed without getting a single drop of water on them.

"Not fair!" Manic whined as he walked through.

Sonia was in front of him and rolling her eyes. Cream snuggled into Tails while he flew across quickly. Silver actually remembered to use powers this time to lift him and his girlfriend up. Shadow and Sonic both ran to the other side after walking two steps in the freezing water. Sonia met up with them just as quickly.

The group all stared at Vector who was easily walking through the water now. Alicia was splashing, as if she couldn't feel the cold. Espio just stared at the water before sighing and following her. Charmy was giggling still while he flew.

Sighing, she rubbed her fingers through her wet hair. The red echidna watched her from the bed, "Well…."

"Well what?" Rouge was in her black gown that went to her knees before climbing in the bed with him.

"Aren't you gonna give me a goodnight kiss?" Knuckles asked while she turned off the lamp on her side.

Her arm swung back and hit him the face, "Goodnight," she muttered before letting her arm fall back down.

"Ow!"

~~~.~~~

Tails watched Cream get into bed and put pillows around her, "What are you doing?" he walked up to his side of the bed.

"Getting warm."

"By making an igloo out of pillows?"

"Yup," Cream had pillows on all her sides, even two over her body, "This way, I'll stay warm all night," she patted-with difficulty-beside her on his side, "You coming?"

Tails stared at her, "It's July."

~~~.~~~

Scourge impatiently waited for Fiona to get her butt out of the shower. Once the fox did, Scourge hurried and pushed her against the wall.

"Someone's desperate," Fiona blankly said.

"Move it!" he pushed her out of the bathroom and shut the door.

"Sheesh, he could've just asked to take a shower first," Fiona muttered while climbing into the bed.

~~~.~~~

Manic watched his sister from the kitchen as he claimed the couch, "What are you eating?"

She was licking a spoon with a peanut butter jar in her hands, "Peanut butter."

"Disgusting."

She froze and turned to him, "You don't like peanut butter?"

"Nope," he leaned on the pillow to get in a better position, "Never have and never will."

Sonia shook her head and charged at him, "No brother of mine will hate peanut butter!"

"What!?" Manic was too late as the spoon was shoved into his mouth.

Sonia smirked while Manic gagged and rolled down onto the carpet, "Help me!" Manic choked, "I'm allergic!"

Sonia's smirk faded, "Oops…"

~~~.~~~

"What's the commotion?" Sarah asked before putting her book on the nightstand and glanced at her boyfriend in the doorway.

"Manic ate peanut butter."

"And?"

Sonic climbed in their bed they shared, "He's allergic."

"Oh my God, shouldn't we call the hospital?" Sarah threw her covers off of her.

Sonic put them back on her and swung his arm over her stomach, "No, he's fine. All you have to do is give him some water and leave him be."

"Won't he die?"

"Won't we not care?"

~~~.~~~

Espio layed in the bed with Charmy curled up in Vector's tail. Vector watched the bee sleep while lying on the bed, "No matter how weird this is, no one is to hear of is this, correct?"

"Agreed," the chameleon said with his eyes to the roof.

Vector put on a smile, or he tried, "You're thinking about that wolf, aren't you?"

"What? No."

"Admit it. You like her," Vector teased.

"Vector, I will push you off this bed if you say another thing about her."

"Fine," Vector sighed and smacked his lips-closing his eyes and cuddling his pillow.

Espio sighed and kept his stare on the ceiling. Vector hummed a tune and Espio's shoulders dropped in annoyance, "Espio and wolf girl, sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G," the crocodile whispered.

"Her name is Alicia."

"So you are thinking about her."

"I didn't say that. I remember everyone's names," Espio said.

"Yeah right. When she shows up tomorrow morning, she'll be thrilled to see you and your heart will skip a beat watching her smile."

"Vector," Espio smiled gently and very tiny as he warned his friend.

"I'm just saying. You should date her."

"Vector."

"You two look cute together. You could get married and have kids and-"

WHACK!

With one push and a slap, Vector went to the floor. Charmy awoke and glared at Espio, "Gee, Espio. What'cha doin' that for?"

Espio sighed, closing his eyes and sleeping. Charmy grumbled and grabbed Vector's tail again while the green Mobian climbed onto the bed again.

"He'll admit it."

~~~.~~~

"Manic's dead," Silver walked in.

"What?"

"He ate peanut butter and now he's unconscious by Sonic whacking him upside the head. Sonia was guilty."

Blaze blinked while he climbed in bed and snuggled up to her, "What the hell are you talking about?"

~~~.~~~

"Rose."

Amy put her knees to her chest while lying on her side of the bed. Shadow poked her, "Aren't you gonna come over here?"

"Nope," Amy simply said while there was a gap between them, a huge gap.

Shadow's ears went back and he frowned, "Why not?"

Amy shrugged, "Don't feel like it."

Shadow growled something under his breath and moved over to her. Wrapping his arms around her waist tightly and nuzzling into her quills. She moaned and tossed in his grasp, "Shadow," she whined, "Go to bed."

Shadow wasn't gonna give up just yet. He started licking and nipping her neck. She giggled and pushed his face away for him to only back, "Go away, stop that!"

"Shhh," he said while nipping her shoulder little by little, "You'll wake them up."

"Shadow!" she hissed/whispered.

He stared at her. She sighed in relief and held his held on her chest, "Good. Now go to sleep," she kissed his forehead.

His ears went forward and she laughed a little, "Shadow," he started nuzzling into her again.

She groaned in frustration and this only made Shadow smile. He started purring loudly. Amy pushed him away and covered his muzzle with her hand, "Shush!"

They stared at the door but no one came. Amy sighed and let go. He dived right into her shoulder again and gave her licks and bites. She bit her lip to keep from moaning and tangled their limbs together-wrapping her legs around his. He continued this until she started to close her eyes. Shadow stopped and kissed her cheek while she fell asleep.

"Good night, Rose."

"Hm," she hummed in agreement.

He smiled against her skin and planted kisses along her neck. Her hands went to his chest, a begging motion for him to stop and let her sleep. He chuckled and wrapped his arms loosely around her, "You win…for now," he playfully growled and bit her shoulder.

She jumped and her eyes sprung open, "Shadow!" she gasped with a whisper.

He let go and chuckled before licking the bite. Amy leaned her head against his chest cautiously. His playful smile faded and he leaned into her face, "Relax, Rose."

"You bit me," she protested, whining up at him.

He frowned and kissed her, "That's because you're mine. And mine only."

She smiled and nuzzled into his upper body for the last time, "Goodnight, Shadow."

He kissed her forehead, "Pleasant dreams, love."

~~~.~~~

Five miles out from Cabin 13 where the group had an eventful night and day, Big was kicking his feet against the bank of the creek.

His fishing line relaxed against his fishing pole. He sighed, "So alone," he sang softly, "…" he sniffed and looked at Froggy who was beside him, gazing into the water, "Looks like it's just you and me, Froggy."

Froggy looked up at him before leaping into the water and disappearing.

"Froggy!"