Chapter 2: Enter Axel
Returning to his tree, Sonic closed his eyes and took some more time to think. He couldn't get Amy out of his head, why did she run away? Perhaps it was too much for her to take in at once, perhaps she didn't like her as much as he thought. Sonic shook his head at the thought. He had never felt much towards Amy, but seeing her today he thought he was about to lose her, the thought of it made him feel sick. These thoughts lingered in his mind as his eyes felt heavy, and he drifted off to sleep...
Sonic woke up a couple of hours later, he yawned and stretched his arms over his head. Only then did he realise he wasn't holding on to the tree and before he could react he fell to the ground with a thud.
"Whoa!" the red hedgehog yelped as a blue blur hit the ground infront of him. "Hey, are you ok?"
"Yeah, fine." replied Sonic, who was being helped up by the stranger.
"My name's Axel," he said cheerfully. "Who are you?"
"Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog." Sonic smirked and took a second look at his new friend. He looked a couple of years younger than Sonic and had red fur and very dark brown eyes, three quills were spiked up vertically on the top of his head and curved forwards and he had two large quills at the back of his head (not unlike Silver's). "Hey, do you know the time?"
Axel took a look at his left wrist, it seemed he was expecting a watch to be there. "No, sorry I dont have a watch." he replied. Sonic's first response would have been to say: "Well done Sherlock!" but considering the consequences he just smiled and said "Okay, no problem." It seemed that Axel wasn't the brightest spark.
"Hey, you wanna come to my house? I don't think my mom'll mind." Axel asked.
"Errrm...yeah sure, why not?"
"C'mon, it's not far from here." Axel dragged Sonic off.
"Mom i'm home!" Axel shouted as he burst through the door of his house, Sonic in tow.
"Mom's gone out, I'm in charge." Sonic looked up to see where the voice had come from and noticed a girl, maybe a year or two older than himself whom he took to be Axel's sister. She had a pretty face, the same fur and eye colour as Axel and her hair/quills fell neatly over her shoulders. Sonic couldn't help looking down and realised she had a body to die for, almost as nice as Amy, he thought.
Axel groaned and lead Sonic into the next room but not before he caught sight of the clock on the wall, it was quarter past one. "That's Amber," Axel told Sonic. "Shes my sister and she's pretty bossy."
"I figured," replied Sonic, which seemed to greatly amuse Axel. "So, how old are you Axel?"
"Sixteen." He replied.
"You look younger." At this comment Axel muttered something under his breath, but quickly changed the subject; "You want something to eat?" He asked when they arrived at his room.
"Yeah that'd be great."
"I'll get you something, wait here."
Sonic heard Axel's footsteps as he walked downstairs. While he was gone, Sonic had a look at his room, the walls were littered with posters from comics or of bands that he had never heard of. But then his eyes were drawn to the shining object lay on the windowsil. It was a chaos emerald, the kid had probably found it lying on the floor a while after they had scattered themselves. At that, Axel came through the door with what looked like two square shaped biscuits. "What are these?" Sonic asked.
"Pop tarts!" Axel replied enthusiastically, "I ate mine as i came up, try it."
"Hey these are pretty good!" said Sonic, eating the second one in one bite. "I'd better get going, I'll see you around, Axel."
Axel smiled, "No problem. See ya!"
As Sonic was walking away he suddenly remembered Amy. "Crap!" He thought to himself, he was going to give it an hour or two for her to think everything through before he went to her, but not too long so that she didn't think he cared. It'd been more than four hours. Sonic took a wild guess as to which direction her house was in and took off at speed.