Chapter 5: "Really really."

At 9:00am, Sonic was woken by his alarm clock, he clumsily swung for it and by pure luck he hit the snooze button. "Ughh.." he hadn't had a great sleep. After having breakfast, he went outside with no particular place to go. He decided to go to one of his favourite places, after running, it took him not much more than a minute. He arrived at a river, it was quite wide, with a clean, blue wooden bridge across it. As he approached, he realised someone was already sat on he bridge, it was Axel.

"Blaze?" Axel turned around and saw Sonic, "Oh, its you."

"Always nice to have a friendly welcome." Sonic grinned as he sat down next to him. "You really like her don't you?"the last time

"I guess so..." Axel looked down.

"Look, you hardly know her."

"I dunno."

"Y'know, I could go out with Silver for a while, so you could start talking to her."

"You'd do that?" Axel looked up.

"Sure." Sonic put his thumb up, Axel returned the gesture.

Sonic's right. Axel thought. I'll get to know her, she'll probably turn out to be not so great.

"Wanna go over to thier universe now?" Sonic broke the silence.

"Now?" Axel perked up.

"Sure, lets go, I'll just get Tails first."

It wasn't long before the three were stood in front of the machine, a bright portal in front of them.

"C'mon, Blaze and Silver are at Marine's house," Tails told the hedgehogs, "I visited her earlier." He knocked on her door.

"'Allo mates!" Marine's enthusiastic voice made Axel laugh.

"Is Silver here?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah, 'im and Blaze, come in." Marine stepped aside to let them in. The house was just as Sonic remembered, from the last time he and Tails crash landed on the island.

"Wanna go for a walk Marine?" Tails asked, "We gotta catch up." He smiled.

"Yeah sure," Marine replied happily. She tossed the keys to Blaze, Sonic only just noticed that she and Silver were in the room, "Lock up if you go out will ya?" Blaze nodded in reply as Marine and Tails left.

"Silver," Sonic said, "Why don't we catch up too?" Silver looked at him questioningly;

"We've never met before," he said. Sonic smiled and stuck his thumb up.

"All the more reason to go out!" Silver laughed, he had to admire Sonic's confidence.

"Well, Blaze, you wanna go for a walk?" Axel said, he looked up at the cat and then scratched the back of his head. "Y'know, 'cause everyone else is..."

Blaze shrugged, "Sure." she said. Silver and Sonic had already left, so Blaze locked the house and left with Axel.

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The two had been walking for a couple of hours although it felt like much less, just talking, Axel had told Blaze about his sister, meeting Sonic, finding his chaos emerald and whatever else he could think of, Blaze had suprisingly opened up slightly and told Axel about her being princess and having fire powers as Axel listened in awe. Blaze for some reason stopped while they were talking.

"You don't beleive me do you, about my royalty and my flames?" She said.

"I believe you." Axel smiled and put his thumb up, a habit he had got into recently got into due to a certain blue friend. "Why don't you show me?"

Blaze sighed, "It'll freak you out." she looked away.

"Show me." Axel looked into her eyes and tilted his head slightly, "Please?"

His childishness made Blaze smile a little. "Ok." Her hand ignited. Axel's eyes widened. Blaze sighed again, "You can run away now if you want."

Axel stared open mouthed, then gathered his senses and looked at her; "You're incredible..." He went to hold her hand, completely forgetting about Silver, plus the fact that it was on fire... "OW!" Axel recoiled in pain.

"I'm so sorry!" Blaze waved her hands about apolgeticically, then looked at the hedgehog. He was laughing!

"I can't believe I forgot it was on fire!" he said, still smirking.

"You're so naive," Blaze couldn't help but laugh a little. Axel looked up into her amber eyes, forgetting about his smouldering glove and hand, and then he kissed her, and she was kissing back. It felt amazing. But Axel thought and pulled away. "Axel..." Blaze looked down at the floor.

"I shouldn't have done that, I shouldn't have done that..." Axel panicked. "I'm sorry!" He ran away, leaving Blaze to just walk back to Marine's.

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By the time Blaze was back at Marine's, the others were already back. She braced herself and walked in. "Hey Blaze!" Silver wrapped his arms around her. She sighed, then recieved a questioning look from Silver.

"Where's Axel?" Sonic asked looking behind her.

"Went home." Blaze replied quickly, unnerved at Silver's face, he looked like he was beggining to put two and two together, or maybe she was just paranoid. Sonic saw this as well, and decided to leave. "Well, guys, I don't wanna overstay my welcome, I'll see you all tomorrow maybe," Sonic said as he got up and opened the door, "Coming Tails?" his yellow companion nodded and followed him out, "See ya guys." they both said in unison.

The duo made there way back to the portal and to their own universe.

"I'll catch you later Tails," Sonic said.

"Sure" said Tails, he smiled and flew away. Sonic, however, took off in search of Axel, It wouldn't take long to find him with his super speed, plus he already had an idea of where to look.

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Sonic was right. He saw the red figure sat atop the blue wooden bridge hanging over the river, he was throwing stones into the water. "Axel." Sonic sat down next to the him as he had earlier that day, "What're you doing?"

"Skimming stones." Axel said and recieved a funny look from Sonic, "I never said I was was doing it well." he looked back down.

"So." Sonic's tone turned quite serious. "What happened with Blaze?" his voice was suprisingly calm yet firm.

"I kissed her..." Axel's eyes remained fixed to the water, "Silver's gonna kick my ass if he finds out."

"I reckon you could take him," said Sonic, "Oh wait, psychic, damn."

"Good to have some reassurance." said Axel.

"Nah, you'll be fine, go for it." Sonic smiled, "Y'know Silver's not the type to hurt people, and if he tried, I'd look after you."

"Really?"

"Really really."

"See you later Sonic, and thanks."

"Its what I'm here for buddy." Sonic watched Axel as he walked away, and started to think about his own problems, I'm right, not just about Axel, I should go too. Sonic made his way to Amy's house once more.