You'll need to download 4 songs, which I will provide the links to. Please go to this webpage(copy and paste it into your browser), right click the links at that page, and save target as. When the song is noted, play it (that includes the ones that are supposedly sung except Resist). Please, enjoy.
Song play: Rush – The Color of Right
Tails woke up to see the morning sun sink through the closed blinds of his bedroom windows. He didn't hesitate to get up and move to the edge of his bed. He stretched out his arms and yawned. He looked over at his clock, reading 7:51 am 5/25/2009. It was a wonder to see a week go by so fast. It really didn't bother him. He had more important things on his mind. Like, the party.
Tails walked out of his bedroom and straight to his bathroom. Though he still has sleepies in his eyes, it really didn't cause him to hit a door or a wall. But, it happened a few times, and Sonic was there to witness it. Tails turned his shower on by pulling the only lever down, and flipping a switch for hot water. Same ol' Tails, making things a bit more… Simpler. He always had his days, making things to ease life's problems. Some would think this wouldn't ease life's problems, but, if everyone took thought of it, it actually did.
Tails got in the shower as it turned warm and steam began to fill the bathroom. He let the water soak through his fur, and he began to push down on his fur. Within a minute, he had the shampoo ready. He found it really unnecessary for soap. Later, he would use the conditioner. A quick five minute shower, and he was out. He grabbed a towel from the rack, and started to dry himself off, but he turned to a big poof ball. Tails kind of chuckled cause of how he looked.
"Well, at least I got my comb," Tails said with a chuckle. He started to brush his fur down, and low and behold, he was fine. He brushed his teeth and got all of his regular hygiene stuff done. Tails was set and ready to go. Tails walked to his kitchen and began to fill up a cooler sitting in the middle of it with ice. After that, he threw his sodas and his package of hotdogs into it. He was definitely set now. Tails grabbed a remote off the counter and turned some music on. The first song to come on was "The Color of Right" by Rush. Tails loved this song. He always closed his eyes to this song as it played.
"I don't have an explanation…," Tails began to sing with the song. After a while, he started to make his breakfast, just some scrambled eggs. He quickly gobbled them up, and took a seat on his couch listening to his tunes. He heard the door knock. He got up and opened the door. It was Cream in a white shirt and white shorts.
"Hey Tails," Cream said.
"Hey Cream," Tails replied. Cream walked in and sat down on the couch with Tails.
"So, you all set for the party?"
"You bet."
"You got everything then?"
"Yep. And I'm bringing a bit extra."
"What's the extra?"
"You'll see."
"Come on, tell me… Please." Cream started to beg. Of course, Tails kept his word and wouldn't say.
"I'm sorry Cream."
"Don't worry, I'll wait. So, you ready?"
"Yep."
"Let's go then." Tails and Cream stood up. Tails grabbed the cooler and a small blue box type thing. He placed it on top of the cooler, and he pulled a handle from the cooler and started to roll the cooler with him. As they walked out of the house, the door automatically locked, and they were on their way. "I hope the others come."
"They will." Tails moved his left hand over to Cream, and she grabbed his left hand.
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"Sonic!" Amy yelled.
She probably was yelling at Sonic for the past half hour to get up. Knowing Sonic, he doesn't really listen to Amy a lot. Mostly because he's giving her a hard time. Giving the usual quotes: "Gosh Amy", "Leave me alone", "I'm trying to sleep", "I got better things to do than wake up to seeing you." At the same time, Amy had her replies to each of those: "Don't start", "Hell no", "Sleep!? Are you crazy! It's 10 o'clock!", "Don't test me." At this point, Amy was getting frustrated. She had to deal with this…. A lot. She decided to leave the room and see if he would get up. Of course, you know he didn't.
Amy went to a spare bedroom and grabbed one of the pillows. She walked back into Sonic's room. Sonic was all curled up under his blankets. Amy raised the pillow and started to wack at him.
"Get up!"
"Never!" After about 5 minutes of her hitting him with a pillow, Sonic decided to grab his pillow and start hitting her back. Well, it worked on the first hit, but Amy's hammer skills were much better than just regular pillow smashing. Amy swung her pillow to the side and smacked Sonic over to the side, and fell off the bed.
"How about now?"
"I'm out of bed, are you happy?"
"Oh yes." Amy gave a "hmph" and started to walk off with her pillow. Sonic just laid there. He finally got up and walked out to the kitchen with Amy. Amy kept her pillow. Uh….
"So what time is it?"
"11 o'clock."
"Dang, we gotta call the others."
"Definitely." Amy began to cook something on the stove. She was making her speciality blue berry pancakes. Everyone died to have her pancakes. She was really skilled in it. Sonic picked up the phone and dialed.
"Hey, come on over man. – Sure. – Ok. – See ya then. Later." Sonic hangs up the phone. He dials again. "Yo, get your butt over here." Sonic hung up the phone a few seconds later. He dialed once more. "Hey, come on over here when you are ready. –Alright. – I didn't… need to know that. – Alright, bye." Sonic hung up the phone.
"What time?"
"Probably within the hour."
"Perfect, Pancakes will be done in time."
"Can't wait, you make some great pancakes." Amy looked at Sonic, and they just stared at each other in the eyes. Amy looked back at the pancakes, and Sonic continued to stare.
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Shadow was pretty much ready for everything. Knowing him, he was always a step ahead, but he didn't know many things about how people act… He's starting to learn because of that blue hedgehog he knows. Tails has been a great help, but still. Shadow was skating on his little booster shoes on over to Sonic's. He was gonna be the first to Sonic's.
Why does Shadow keep thinking about Azuru? Maybe Sonic was right. They are meant for each other. They seem too alike. But still, looks like Shadow's got a crush. Right now, it wasn't bothering him. He felt his stomach grumble on him, and he started to go faster. He really wanted food, and he knew Amy was cooking. When Sonic invites you over like that over the phone, it's obvious. But, conversations with Shadow on the phone will only last up to at most 1 minute. But the conversation that took place earlier this morning was only 3 seconds.
Shadow was at least 100 yards away from Sonic's house. He was the first to arrive.
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"Just something simple today," Rouge said to herself. He picked up a black shirt, and black shorts. They were more like jerseys, since they weren't a snug fit, and air went through like nothing. Rouge began to dress up with these clothes. After she was done, she looked up at the mirror. She had tons of pictures all over the sides of it. Just of the whole gang, she always loved to look back at those days. She loved those days.
Rouge walked out of her room, and out of her house. She started to fly with her bat wings and headed down to Sonic's place. Nothing else was on her mind. Just the party.
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Shadow was sitting down with Sonic, and the door bell rang. Sonic ran to the door and it was Tails and Cream.
"Hey you two." Sonic said.
"Hey Sonic," They both said. They walked in and Tails placed his cooler down. They all walked to the table in the kitchen and joined in with the conversation. "Hey Amy."
"Hi you two. Ready for pancakes?" Amy asked.
"Sure." Tails said.
"Yum-yums!" Cream said. Amy had tons of these pancakes ready. All they needed was…
"You know, there is a door bell." Sonic said. Knuckles and Rouge walked in and closed the door.
"Yeah, we know, but this is much easier." Knuckles said.
"Phht, whatever." The whole gang was here, ready to gorge pancakes and head to the park. These are probably the exact things that happened last time they had a party. But it was so long ago, it was hard to remember. Only certain things were remembered.
"I don't know man, I think more people will come today." Knuckles said.
"Maybe." Tails said. "Man, I gotta get groceries tomorrow."
"Already?" Sonic asked.
"You raided my fricken fridge."
"Oh." Slight pause. "I'm sorry." Everyone started to laugh a bit.
"You need to learn to get your own food Sonic," Rouge said. Sonic walked up, and opened his fridge. It was stocked up on a lot of things. Everyone was surprised.
"Why do you raid Tails' fridge then?"
"Hey, I get hungry quick."
"Yeah, me too, wanna be friends?" Tails asked. Of course that sparked laughter. It kind of reminded everyone about that time back in last Christmas. Everyone got in this conversation about Scrooge and his crap about Christmas. Well, Cream's mom, Vanilla, was trying to say what Scrooge would say. 'I don't like saying merry Christmas.' Tails had his reply ready, and it was impromptu. 'Me neither, wanna be friends?' Everyone was laughing, and Vanilla lost it. She didn't expect it, poor girl, having to deal with these crazy people.
"Ready?" Amy asked.
"YEAH!" Everyone yelled. Amy slapped pancakes on everyone's plates, and then put the syrup on each one.
"You didn't have to do that Amy," Sonic said.
"Nah, it's ok." Everyone began to eat, conversation was gone. The equation was simple. Food equals pancakes, so pancakes plus forks equals no talking. Sonic's was more complicated. It would take Tails a very long time to actually figure that one out. Sonic was done with his pancakes first, but he wasn't rude after he completed. He was actually being civil, he took a napkin, cleaned his face, then took the plate to the sink and washed it. Surprising.
"Were you hungry or something?" Rouge asked.
"Yeah, why?" Sonic replied as Knuckles finished too. Knuckles did the same as Sonic did, cleaned his face with a napkin, and took his plate to the sink and washed it. The others were now aware of this. The only thought in their head at this point was 'they must have been hungry.'
"You guys act like you haven't had food for months," Amy said. "Want more?"
"No thanks," Sonic and Knuckles said.
"Alright then." Everyone continued to eat their own pancakes, and as they finished, everything was cleaned up and ready to go. "Well, how did you all like it?"
"Was really good!" Everyone said.
"You make some awesome pancakes, Amy," Knuckles said. Amy was flattered. She was a really good cook. Most of the time, she was always cooking… Especially cause Sonic doesn't want to cook. Sonic cooks well, but only when he feels like cooking, which, in some cases, can be rare. At this time, it was time to get to the park, and maybe burn off these pancakes with maple syrup that was consumed. Tails was the first to get up, and he walked to the stuff he had brought. Everyone had gotten up too, and was behind Tails.
"Well, like the last time, there will be a lot of people," Tails said. "This will be a lot of fun."
"Can't wait," Sonic said. Everyone agreed.
"Glad to hear it. Let's go." Tails grabbed the handle on his cooler, and lifted it a bit. He walked out of the house with the others right behind him. Sonic stopped, and locked the door as he got out last. Tails and Cream grabbed each other's hands, and continued to walk toward the park with the others a few steps behind. In about ten minutes, they would arrive at the park, but time goes by fast on a fun day. They arrived at the park, and headed on through it. They walked down the little path it had. On the left side, was a lot of grass, and a few buildings from the town. To the right, were tons of trees which weren't very tall. It was like a mini-forest, but before you could actually get to the forest, there was at least 50 feet of grass between the sidewalk and the trees. Tails put his cooler right next to the sidewalk, on the right side. He took the blue box that he had and pressed a button. It opened up, and he pulled out 4 metal rods. He put them on the bottom of the box, and placed it on the ground.
"What is that?" Sonic asked.
"You don't recognize it?" Tails replied.
"No."
"It's my barbecue."
"Oh." After just standing around and conversing, a few people had come to join. Just the regular town's people. Acquaintances. People around the town would bring their own coolers with drinks and such, and if they wanted, they usually came over to Tails and asked for some. Tails didn't care; he actually encourages people to come up and actually have some of it. The people that came would say hi, and everyone would reply back with their hi. More and more came, and the crowd ended up mixing with the Sonic and the others. Tails left his grill and cooler where it was, and joined with the others. It was getting towards mid afternoon, and more and more people were coming.
"What do you all think is gonna happen?" one guy said.
"Maybe the fireworks, like last time," Someone else said back.
"Do you think there will be fireworks?" Cream asked.
"Maybe." Someone else said.
"Some things never change you guys," Sonic said. Everyone agreed with that. A lot of things never changed in their town. "Hey Tails, do you have any card tricks?"
"Why?" Tails asked.
"Well, maybe you can entertain us. Show us some new tricks you got."
"Well, I don't know."
"Come on!" Someone yelled.
"Please, man. Let's see them!"
"Tails, do it for me?" Cream said. Tails looked at Cream, and everyone kind of got quiet. Tails looked up and smiled.
"Well… alright." Everyone started to cheer. Tails walked back to his cooler and such, and opened it up. He pulled out a small blue sleeve, and pulled out a deck of cards. He walked on back over, and everyone was happy. They would finally see more tricks from Tails. He probably had some more that he never had shown. "Ok, I'll start with this one. I think this will be a good little trick." Everyone was ready for this, they all had attention. Tails was skilled at card tricks. He gave his deck to someone. "Shuffle it, please." The person started to shuffle the deck. "Oh shoot! I forgot to remove the jokers." He gets the deck back and starts to look through the deck, and pulls out the jokers, and puts them on the grass below them.
He then shuffles the deck himself, and then puts the deck out, flat on his hand.
"I want you to cut this deck into two parts." Tails said. The guy took the deck and split it, and Tails held his other hand out. He has two decks at this point. "Pick a deck." The person picked the deck in Tails' right hand, and Tails gave that deck to him. "Ok, I want you to pick a card from that deck, but, it can not be the top 5 cards, and I don't want you to look at the cards." The guy goes through the deck, and picks a random card. "Go ahead and look at it, and show everyone else." He shows everyone the card, and Tails doesn't see the card. The card was a jack of hearts. "Put that card in the middle of the deck. Then take the top card of the deck, put it in the middle as well. Amy, Rouge, and you, hold your hands out." They held their hands out. He pointed toward the guy with the deck. "Ok, take three of the cards at the top of the deck, and put them in each of their hands, so each person has one card." The guy passes the top three cards to Amy, Rouge, and the other person. Tails just stood there, not even saying a word at this point. "Flip over the cards." They each flipped the cards up, and each of the cards was a jack, diamonds, clubs, and spades. They all flipped out. They dropped the cards, and Tails picked up the cards that were dropped.
"Holy cow!" Someone yelled.
"My gosh, Tails!" Sonic yelled. "How the hell…" Tails started to laugh a bit. Everyone started to calm down, and some people were explaining what happened to the people that didn't see what happened.
"Another!" Someone yelled.
"Alright." Tails said. Tails fanned out the cards. "Pick a card." A certain person looked around, then he stood up and picked a card, the 5 of clubs. "Show it." Everyone looked at it, except Tails. "Put it in the deck." The guy put it in the deck, and he handed the deck to Knuckles. "Hold on." Tails removed his gloves. Some people were confused at this. Tails grabbed the deck, shuffled the deck, and took a step toward the guy who selected the card. "Ok, now…" Tails picked up the top card, and showed it to the guy. "This is your card." Everyone went 'woah!', and confirmed it was the 5 of clubs. Tails placed the card on top the deck again. "Ok, I want you to put a hand out." The guy put his hand out, and Tails put the card, face down on it. "Now, take your other hand, and put it on top, like a sandwich." The guy does what was told. So now, his hands were together, with a card between them. "Ok, look at this card." Tails picked up top card, and it was a 3 of diamonds. "Remember that card." He placed the card on top of the deck. "Now, when I put the card under your hand, the cards will change." Tails took the card, leaving it face down, and let it go under the sandwich hands. He pulled it back out into full view, and flipped the card over. It was the 5 of clubs. "Now, look at the card in your hands." The guy opened his hands and flipped the card; it was the 3 of diamonds.
"Oh my god!" the guy yelled. He dropped the card and started to shake his hands. He started to run around, yelling 'oh my god'. Everyone else was freaking out too, Sonic and the others were jaw dropped… literally.
"Tails… god dang." Rouge said. Tails started to laugh a bit to himself. Everyone just started to talk about the trick to the others who didn't see them, and just other random things, Tails wasn't going to do any more tricks. Tails grabbed his gloves and put them back on.
"Crazy kid," Knuckles said as he rubbed his hand on top of Tails' head. Tails knelt to the ground and began to pick up his cards. He turned his head to the left as he picked up the last card and saw 7 figures walking towards them. He stood up, and got a clear view. It was the counterparts. "Sonic, look." Everyone looked and saw it was the counterparts. Sonic and the others lined up as the counterparts walked to them. They stopped directly in front of Sonic and his pals, in a line such as theirs. They just stood there, no words. The others noticed this whole thing, and they turned silent, watching it. Swift put out his hand towards Sonic and smiled.
"Sorry about everything man, should of thought things through." Swift said. "So, we cool?" Sonic kind of wide eyed at this. He smiled as well, and grabbed Swift's hand.
"Yeah, we're cool," Sonic said. "Don't worry. Thanks for joining us."
"Awesome, thank you so much." Everyone cheered at this, Sonic and his pals, along with the counterparts joined into the crowd again, though, of course, the conversations were all among different people. For example, Rouge and Manos were having their own conversation about jewels. Who knew? Tails, Cream, Mileka and Cocoa were in their own as well.
"It's cool that you all came," Tails said.
"Yeah, thanks for inviting." Mileka said. "Actually, I want to ask you about something."
"What's that?"
"Do you think we are bad people?"
"Of course not!"
"Why would you think that?" Cream asked.
"I don't know, cause of everything we did." Mileka said. Cocoa put his right hand on Mileka's left shoulder.
"Don't worry Mileka." Cocoa said. Mileka looked up at him and smiled and hugged him. Cream and Tails looked at each other and smiled. They were surprised. They were love birds too. Cocoa seemed like a quiet person. He really didn't say a lot, but he was a very kind person.
"Hey big guy," Sonic said and put his hand on Tails' shoulder. "Care to make some grub?"
"Sure," Tails replied. "HEY! IF YOU ALL WANT SOME BRAUTS, YOU BETTER GET OVER HERE!" Mileka, Cocoa and Cream got scared at his sudden yell. Tails noticed them with strange faces and kind of laughed. "Sorry, had to do it some way." Tails walked over to his grill with the others following him. Amy, Mya, Swift, Shadow, Sonic, Azuru, Ruby, Knuckles, Rouge, and Manos walked on over as well. The whole crowd came too, what's up with that? Tails opened the grill and cooler and pulled out a package of bratwurst. He turned the grill on and waited for the metal to heat up a bit.
"Oh man, you gotta have these Swift," Sonic said. "Tails makes some killer bratwurst. "
"Can't wait!" Swift said. "I love those things."
"Hey, Amy, have you ever boxed before?" Mya asked.
"Of course!" Amy replied. "It's my exercise."
"Really? Wow."
"Oh yeah, you should try it. It works you out like crazy."
"You should be doing man exercises." Knuckles said.
"We're women, Knuckles," Amy said.
"So, take pride in things."
"Knuckles, don't be such a bonehead," Rouge said. "Everyone does their own thing." Knuckles kind of felt like an idiot. This wasn't the first time he said something stupid, if not completely idiotic.
"Yeah I know." Tails began to cook the bratwurst, and he walked on over to his cooler and pulled out condiments. He them on a small table he pulled out from the cooler. Tails walked back to the grill to tend the bratwurst.
"Wow, those are looking good." Sonic said.
"I… want them now!" Ruby yelled.
"Wait wait, they'll be done, relax," Tails said. Tails placed the 10 brauts he was cooking on a plate, and placed it on a stand on the side of the grill. He put 10 more brauts on the grill and began to cook again. "You know, you guys are in for a treat."
"Why do you say that?" Someone asked.
"I make really good food."
"Tails, don't mess up," Rouge said.
"I won't, shut up." Everyone began to laugh. It was rare that Tails would mess up something so delicious. Bratwurst is his specialty. After cooking another 10, he started to cook the third set. He had one more to go after this. The sun was starting to create the late afternoon effect. Instead of being the bright thing it was, everything began to darken orange. All of a sudden, people got into this conversation about how much they eat and such. Tails had to join in on this after the final set of brauts were made.
"Shoot, man, you should see me in contests." One person would say.
"Whatever dude, my fridge turns half empty within a day." Another person said.
"What are you talking about, this guy right here raids my fridge," Tails said pointing to Sonic behind him with his thumb. Sonic kind of wide eyed, showing a face of 'wait, what?'. "He probably doesn't even eat what he has."
"I really don't seem him do it," Amy popped up. A few started to laugh.
"I use to raid my fridge, but now I can't do it because this person won't let me." Swift said pointing to Mya.
"WHAT?!" She yelled. Mya hit Swift on the head. "Excuse me?! You make the fridge like it was brand new, every week." Everyone got a crack out of this.
"You are so abusive."
"I am not!"
"Well, you guys, brauts are ready. The condiments are here too, so, eat up." Tails told everyone. Tails got two brauts, and started eating. Everyone else got their fair share, at this point, there was only about 7 brauts left. It gives the idea how hungry these people were, everyone got at least 2 brauts. Tails looked around, and couldn't find Shadow, but then, he spotted him off away from the crowd. "Hey guys, look, two crazy people." Tails pointed. A little bit of people looked at Shadow and Azuru. They look good together, both strange, hard-headed, everything you could imagine. "Hey, I got a plan; let's yell at them, like a chant or something."
"Like what?"
"I don't know."
"Oh Tails, you are so mean," Cream said.
"It's not mean, it's fun." Tails said. Cream smiled, closed her eyes and shook her head.
"What are we talking about?" Knuckles asked.
"Chanting at Shadow and Azuru," Tails said. "I know! I'll call Shadow and get him to look, then we should chant 'let's go Shadow, let's go'." A few people laughed.
"That's perfect!" Knuckles said.
"Let's do it!" the guy said.
"Ok, well, tell everyone else to get ready." After about a few minutes, everyone was pretty much situated, and knew what to do. Hell, they even got Sonic, Rouge, Amy, Swift, Mileka, Cocoa, Ruby, and Manos into this. "K, we ready?"
"Yeah," everyone said.
"Cool." Tails turned around to Shadow and Azuru. He saw them talking to each other, though he didn't know what. Tails started to laugh a bit, but he got rid of it. "Hey, Shadow." Shadow turned his eyes to Tails then turned his whole body over to Tails' direction. Azuru moved as well.
"Let's go Shadow, let's go!" Everyone started to chant. They would clap after saying let's go the second time. Shadow began to feel like going crazy. With everyone chanting, it was a surprise. He put his hand on the front of his face, and Azuru went up to him and put her hands on him.
"Come on Shadow, they're just havin' fun," Azuru said. After a few minutes of more of the chanting, everyone finally yelled 'yeah!' then started clapping at the same time, with the occasional "woo!" from others. At the end of the clapping, everyone couldn't resist laughing. Shadow even laughed. Everyone started to get quiet again since Tails was telling them to quiet down a bit.
"Hey Shadow," Tails began. A few people started to laugh again. "Get over here and have some food. There is plenty left."
"As long as you don't annoy me," Shadow said.
"Annoy you? Why would we do that?" Tails covered his mouth a bit, to hide some of the laughter. Shadow and Azuru walked over and grabbed 4 brauts and began eating.
"Wow, Tails. These are pretty damn good."
"Thank you."
"You're a wonderful cook," Azuru said. Swift, Mileka, and Cocoa walked on over to Tails.
"We need to know how you make these good brauts!" Swift said. "They are so delicious."
"Best we've ever had," Mileka stated. Cream looked at Tails.
"Are you gonna tell them?" Cream asked. Tails chuckled.
"Nah," Tails said.
"Aww, come on," Swift said.
"Maybe later." A few people started to cheer all of a sudden, everyone else looked to see what was going on. Knuckles… he was juggling. Maybe it wasn't embarrassing, seeing as how he was juggling three sticks of fire. Everyone was amused at this, the get-together just seemed to get better and better every minute.
"I knew he was gonna do it again," Rouge said.
"Juggling?" Manos asked.
"Oh yeah, you should of seen him last time," Amy said.
"Is this what he really does in his spare time?" Ruby asked.
"Most likely," Sonic said. Tails was right next to Knuckles now, with his own sticks of fire, they were both juggling in sync, every move, every throw, every catch was in sync. A few people started to cheer, Tails and Knuckles began to throw the sticks higher and such, making it seem like they'd miss them, but they didn't. Knuckles and Tails then turned and started to pass the sticks to each other, starting another juggle.
"Holy cow," Swift said. "That's crazy."
"Wait till you see what else they can do," Sonic said. Tails and Knuckles kept everything in order, so they decided to spark some excitement, something they never attempted to do. When they would catch a stick, they would throw their arms backwards, causing the stick to go up while behind their backs, and they would catch the stick with the other hand and throw it out again. This didn't slow them down, a lot of people were going 'oh my god' or their usual 'woo!'. Swift and Mileka started to nod their heads.
"For a hard-head, Knuckles can actually do something good," Ruby said.
"You're tellin' me," Rouge said. They both laughed. "He can do some pretty cool things."
"I take it this is one of them," Manos popped in.
"Oh yeah," Rouge said. Tails and Knuckles threw their last sticks, caught them, threw all three into the air, caught one, started to spin one over and over again, caught another, did the same with it, then on the last stick, they caught it with the two spinning sticks. Everyone cheered and Tails and Knuckles held their hands out with the sticks. They walked back up to the crowd, waving the sticks around to calm down the flames till it was gone.
"What else do you guys do?" Mya asked.
"A lot of other things," Amy replied. "Things change after a few years."
"Like what?"
"Life styles."
"Big time," Swift said. Mya and Amy turned to Swift. "Everything has to change."
"Hey, Swift." Sonic called out. Swift turned around to Sonic. Sonic was at the cooler Tails had with them, and he pulled out a couple of drinks. "Here." Sonic threw a bottle at him. Swift looked at the label, "SOBE Elixir".
"What's this?" Sonic walked up to Swift with his own "SOBE".
"It's a drink."
"Yeah I know that, but what?"
"Just a drink man, it's healthy." Amy was right about life style changes. This example was obvious. "It's really good." Sonic opened his bottle and started to drink a bit of it. Swift looked down at his drink. Swift finally opened it and took a sniff from the opening. Swift loved the aroma and he took a quick drink.
"Wow, this is really good."
"Told ya." Tails, Cream, as well as Knuckles walked to the cooler and got their own SOBE's and started to drink off the bat, but they joined back in with the crowd. Someone started to talk about stories and jokes and such, everyone got into it. The sun set was now here, and everything was getting to a calm and soft mood.
"I've gotten tired of my friend here waking up in the early morning and announcing it to the entire house," Some guy began. A little bit of laughter came, but it died off quick enough for the rest to be explained. "So, what I did, is that I buttered the kitchen floor. Since the phone was in the kitchen, it'd be perfect. So, I set up a camera to watch this. I called the home phone, and since he was in his room, he ran out to go to the phone. Well, as he ran out, he slipped on the floor, hit a trash can as he slipped and fell down." Everyone started to laugh. "But it didn't stop there. Since we have tile at our front door, I buttered that too the next day… Cause obviously he didn't learn. I recorded this too." Laughter once more. "When he came back home, he didn't run, but, he definitely did slip and fall again."
"I got a story that relates to the butter," Knuckles said. "Since Rouge has this problem where she likes jewels and will take them, I buttered the master emerald. This thing is huge, and it was heavy, you can image how strong these things are. Well, one day, she tried to take the master emerald, hands slipped and her face went straight into the emerald." Everyone was yelling practically the same thing 'ohhh.. ow'. "Oh yeah, she definitely was hurting, remember that Rouge?"
"Oh yeah, my nose bled and stuff," Rouge said. "It hurt so bad, but I learned my lesson."
"Not like that guy's friend," someone yelled out. Everyone bursted into laughter.
"That's good." Tails said. "Here, let me tell you a story. Knuckles, I'm pretty sure you remember this."
"I think I know what you're talking about," he said smiling.
"Ok, well we were all at my house, just hanging out… I recorded this one too." A few people laughed, with Tails smiling a bit. "So, I decided I should try and scare Amy." Sonic heard Tails telling about the story.
"Wait, I want to hear this," Sonic said.
"What?" Amy asked.
"Tails is telling a story."
"Oh! Come on Mya!" They all walked to the crowd and heard Tails continuing the story.
"So I gave Knuckles a camera and told him to get ready. I took a shirt; put the head on the back of my head and over so you could only see my face. Knuckles started to record and I was talking to the camera. This is exactly what I did too." Tails bent his knees and held his arms out in opposite directions. "Ok, I can do this." Some people started to laugh. "Now, what I'm going to do is sneak up, and scare Amy… And Knuckles is trying not to laugh at this point. So I go down on my knees, and start to crawl to Amy, and she's sitting on the couch talking with Cream. So I manage to go the side of the couch without her seeing me, and I jump up and go 'ah!' and she screams and falls to the ground." Everyone started to laugh. "I felt kind of sorry cause she was paranoid for a few days after that."
"Tails, you were so mean when you did that!" Amy said.
"I was having too much fun."
"Amy, don't be mad, the others do it to me too," Mya said laughing.
"Oh, I remember those times," Cocoa said. "Oh man, remember what happened after Swift scared ya?"
"Yeah, I chased him down with a broom." Quite a bit of people were laughing. The evening began to draw in, the sunset still gave off its light. Everything calmed down more, and this gave Sonic a good idea.
"Hey," Sonic whispered to Shadow. "Get Azuru and come here."
"K." Shadow replied.
"Amy, Mya, come over here in a minute. Bring Mileka and Cocoa too."
"Alright." They replied. Sonic walked a little ways from the crowd. They were still enjoying the stories and randomness going on. This is what town park parties are for, fun, relaxation, and the people. Sonic had something else planned for everyone though. Something unexpected. After the others gathered up, Sonic was ready to explain what he wanted to do. "Ok, I have an idea. I think we should ask Tails to play some music for us."
"Tails plays music?" Mileka asked.
"Oh yeah, he's pretty good too. I was thinking about mentioning it to him, and then everyone else."
"What if he says no?" Amy asked.
"We'll encourage him." They all thought about it. "Sound good?"
"Yep,"
They all said.
"Cool, let's do this." Sonic
and the others walked back to the crowd, and acted like nothing was
up. Sonic had this all under control. People, along with Tails,
Knuckles and Cream, were discussing random things, like the game that
was so ever popular in their town.
"Man, we should play as a team," some guy said.
"Sure, but you gotta see my record," Tails said. "Knuckles and Cream aren't so shabby either."
"Are you gonna join the tournament next week?" Some guy asked.
"If you all are gonna cheer us on, hell yeah." Everyone started to give each other high-fives and yell 'yeah!'.
"It'll be fun." Cream said. "It's always fun."
"Hey Tails, can you play some music for us?" Sonic asked.
"Wait, what? Why?" Tails replied.
"Hey, you guys, want Tails to play some music for us?" Sonic announced.
"Yeah!" Everyone yelled. "Woo!"
"I mean, I'll play if you---." Tails was interrupted when Sonic rushed off. He was suddenly back with all instruments possible, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Jazz bass, and a nice drum set. "Why do you have to do that?" Tails walked over to the instruments, and picked up the acoustic guitar. There was a chair too, so that gave Tails the ability to actually sit down. Tails was surprised that Sonic didn't forget anything. Tails grabbed a cord and plugged it into his acoustic guitar, as it had a pickup. "Ok, so, you all want me to play a song huh?"
"Yeah!" everyone yelled. Tails strummed the guitar then stopped it.
"This first song then, is a dedication to a special someone. And she is here." Tails smiled and kind of blushed. Cream blushed, and luckily only a few people saw her blushing. "This song… is called Resist." Tails began to strum his guitar with the melodies of that particular song. Tails kind of swayed off, like he would close his eyes and sort of move it around as he played. Tails then stopped playing for a quick second, then began to strum again, and began to sing.
"I
can learn to resist
Anything but temptation
I can learn to
co-exist
With anything but pain
I can learn to
compromise
Anything but my desires
I can learn to get
along
With all the things I can't explain
I can learn to
resist
Anything but frustration
I can learn to persist
With
anything but aiming low
I can learn to close my eyes
To
anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the
things I don't know
Nuh
nuh nuh-uh-nuh
Nuh nuh nuh-uh-nuh
You can surrender
Without a prayer
But never really pray
Pray without
surrender
You can fight
Fight without ever winning
But
never ever win
Win without a fight
Nuh nuh nuh-uh-nuh
Nuh
nuh nuh-uh-nuh
I can learn to close my eyes
To anything
but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I
don't know
I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but
injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don't
know
Nuh nuh nuh-uh-nuh …"
Everyone started to cheer, it was probably one of the most beautiful things they had ever heard, Cream was feeling something indescribable, she was really happy to hear such a beautiful song dedicated to her. Tails, learning a song and dedicating it to the one he loves. Cream didn't hesitate to run to Tails, and Tails immediately stood up. Cream jumped to hug him, and Tails had his hands around her at the same time.
"That song was really beautiful," Cream said. "Thank you." Cream kissed Tails, and everyone noticed this and cheered. Cream backed away with a smile. She was at the verge of crying. Tails put the guitar down near the chair and walked over to the other instruments. He grabbed the jazz bass, put a strap on it and placed it around him. Knuckles ran over to the drums. Knuckles… playing the drums? Cream walked over to the electric guitar, and plugged the cord in. She put a strap on it and placed it around her. Wait, so Cream plays guitar too? What about that whole thing about things changing that Amy mentioned?
"Have you both been practicing the songs?" Tails asked. Cream and Knuckles replied with a nod. "Cool." Tails attached a small mic on his neck, and attached one to Cream and Knuckles as well. These mic's were barely noticeable. "Ok, obviously you all want us to play some songs right?"
"Yeah!" Everyone yelled.
"Well, we have a couple more songs to play for you all." Tails tapped a string.
"Oh man, this is gonna get good," Sonic said.
"What song will they play?" Swift asked.
"Probably another cover."
"It amazes me," Amy said. "That they could do something so creative and fun. They work hard, ya know?"
"Yeah, especially when we aren't around."
"Alright," Tails began. "This song is a personal favorite of mine, and it's called… the pass." Tails put his fingers in the right position on the fret board of his base. He was waiting for the cue from Knuckles. Knuckles began to tap the cymbals, in a 1-2-3 manner. Knuckles beat the bass drum as Tails played the notes on the bass, and sliding to the new notes when necessary. Cream would follow with a small chord after this. After 4 beats, the singing began.
"Proud
swagger out of the schoolyard
Waiting for the worlds
applause
Rebel without a conscience
Martyr without a
cause
Static on your frequency
Electrical storm in your
veins
Raging at unreachable glory
Straining at invisible
chains
And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring
down into a heartless sea
Cant face life on a razors edge
Nothings
what you thought it would be
All of us get lost in the
darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time
in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
(all sing)Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around
and walk the razors edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the
door on me
Its not as if this barricade
Blocks the only
road
Its not as if you're all alone
In wanting to
explode
Someone set a bad example
Made surrender seem all
right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to
fight
And now you're trembling on a rocky ledge
Staring
down into a heartless sea
Done with life on a razors edge
Nothings
what you thought it would be
All
of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the
stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at
the cars
(all sing)Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razors edge
Don't
turn your back
And slam the door on me
No
hero in your tragedy
No daring in your escape
No salutes for
your surrender
Nothing noble in your fate
Christ what have you
done?
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to
steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers
turn to look at the cars
(all sing)Turn around and turn around and turn around
Turn around and walk the razors edge
Turn
around and walk the razors edge
(all sing)Turn around and walk the
razors edge
Don't turn your back
And slam the door on me"
As the last time, everyone went crazy when the song ended. A good song. Tails and Cream walked up to Knuckles, and they all started to give each other high fives while everyone still cheered and such. Tails and Cream walked back to where they were originally.
"Ok," Tails began. "One more song. This is also a personal favorite of mine. This one is called Totem." Tails went up to the amp he was using and pressed a button labeled "Drop". He walked up to Cream's amp and pressed a button labeled "one step/time multiplay". He walked back on over, placing his finger in the correct position. Cream got her hands ready too, now they must wait for the cue. They began to play in a fast paced manner, keeping everything in sync. Within a few seconds, Tails began to sing.
"I've
got twelve disciples and a Buddha smile
Garden of Allah, Viking
Valhalla
A miracle once in a while
I've got a pantheon of
animals in a pagan soul
Vishnu and Gaia, Aztec and Maya
Dance
around my totem pole
Totem pole...
I believe in what I
see
I believe in what I hear
I believe that what I'm
feeling
Changes how the world appears
(Cream: Woah oh oo
woah oh oh)
Angels and demons dancing in my head
Lunatics and
monsters underneath my bed
Media messiahs preying on my fears
Pop
culture prophets playing in my ears
I've got celestial
mechanics
To synchronize my stars
Seasonal migrations, daily
variations
World of the unlikely and bizarre
I've got idols
and icons, unspoken holy vows
Thoughts to keep well-hidden
Sacred
and forbidden
Free to browse among the holy cows
(all sing)That's why I believe
----
(Cream: Woah oh oo woah oh
oh)
Angels and demons dancing in my head
Lunatics and monsters
underneath my bed
Media messiahs preying on my fears
Pop
culture prophets playing in my ears
----(start guitar
solo)
Angels and demons inside of me
Saviors and Satans all
around me
Angels
and demons inside of me
(cream: And Deeeemons)
All around me…
----(all sing)
I believe in what I see
I believe in what I
hear
I believe that what I'm feeling
Changes how the world
appears
(Cream: Woah oh oo woah oh oh)
Angels and demons
dancing in my head
Lunatics and monsters underneath my bed
Sweet chariot, swing low, come for me"
And the
people went crazy again. Tails, Cream, and Knuckles were done, this
was the first time they had played in front of a crowd of people,
especially people that didn't know they played music. It was
awkward they even did anyway. Kind of loops back when Amy mentioned
about things changing.
Cream and Tails put their
instruments down by the drums and Knuckles got out of the drum set.
Knuckles and Tails locked hands by the thumb and hit each other's
body to one another. Then, Cream and Tails did a quick hug, along
with Knuckles. Sonic and the others approached.
"Wow you guys," Sonic said.
"You guys rocked," Swift said.
"You are all amazing," Mileka said. "I love your voice, Cream."
"Thank you," Cream said.
"That was very nicely done," Cocoa said. "I'm very impressed."
"Very cool," Azuru said. "What do you think Shah-dy?" Shadow glared at Azuru.
"It was good," Shadow said. That's all Shadow would say. He really never commented anything.
"You all should play here more often," Amy said.
"Nah," Tails said. "Maybe some other time." Tails was right. This was probably a primary reason why he didn't want to play in public, cause then everyone would want them to all play again. -A repeating process-. Tails made an emerald appear, and put it in the middle of all the instruments. "Chaos control." All the instruments disappeared, they must have gone back to his house.
The night drew closer, the sun was almost gone below the horizon. Everyone was now fully calmed down. The party was just amazing. Tails was the life of the party… Mainly cause of Sonic's loud mouth, but nonetheless, it was all fun. Their counterparts even enjoyed the time. It was cool for them to come. Sonic and the others now wanted the counterparts to actually stay in their town, live in the relative area.
"You guys should move down here and stay with us," Amy said. "It would be tons of fun."
"We'd like to," Manos said. Manos started to sway her head back and forth. "Sadly, we got problems of our own."
"Maybe we'll visit again soon," Ruby said.
"That would be awesome," Tails said. "Always fun down here. Whenever you all want to come down, just come on down."
"Hey, guys, it's almost time for fireworks," Shadow said. Everyone turned to the direction of the beach, exactly where the sun set.
"How do you know?" Swift asked.
"They do this all the time." They all waited for the fireworks. Waiting, waiting… The anticipation was killing them. They were wondering what kind of fireworks would be used this time. At that moment, a small orange spark flew from the ground and up. It exploded with a green circle and with random designs in the middle. Another spark came up, and exploded, and as it exploded, it continued to shoot out more and more sparks. After that, another orange spark came up, exploded in a double ring, creating a sphere like effect. Once more, another spark came up, and when it exploded, it spread out so far, it gave the illusion it would hit you, and it have off a huge bang, creating a ringing in their ears and somewhat shaking the ground. One came out, and as it exploded, it had glitter like sparks shoot out as it came down.
Two sparks shot out, and as they exploded, the sparkles started to flash out and it sounded like popping noises. Three sparks came out this time, one went higher than the others, and they exploded three different colors, and they were so bright, they'd blind you for a few seconds. More and more came, just exploding, one after another, bright flashes of all colors, loud bangs, the whole works. More and more just kept shooting out. The ground around them began to light up as if it was day time again with artificial light. Soon, all the fireworks were gone, and done. Everyone began to cheer, and such. The fireworks were much better from last time, they all enjoyed it.
"That was awesome," Swift said. "Fireworks are banned where we live."
"What!?" Sonic yelled. "Are you crazy!?"
"Yeah, it sucks."
"Start a revolution," Some guy yelled randomly. Swift laughed a bit.
"Wish I could. They are a lot more strict down there."
"Who cares?"
"You heard the man," Sonic said laughing too. The other counterparts gathered up to Swift. Sonic and his pals gathered up too.
"We had a fun time," Mileka began. "We'll definitely visit again. This was the greatest time I've ever had."
"You guys leavin'?" Knuckles asked.
"Yeah, we have to." Ruby replied. "Sad, I know, but we have to. We all want to come back soon."
"Don't hesitate to come back," Sonic said.
"Soon, we'll have our rematch, Rouge," Manos said. Rouge started to laugh a bit, leaving the others confused about that.
"I'll be ready, hun." Rouge said. Sonic and Swift put out their hands and shook them.
"We still cool?" Swift asked.
"Hell yeah," Sonic said. "Have yourself a good night."
"You too." Knuckles and Ruby shook hands as well. Tails, Cream, Mileka, and Cocoa just had their hugs… but Tails and Cocoa just shook hands. Amy and Mya had their hugs as well.
"I'll miss you," Mya said.
"I'll miss you too." Amy replied. Amy started to get a tear in her eye.
"Tails," Cocoa said. "You're pretty cool, ya know that?" Tails kind of smiled and scratched his head. "You are a really cool person to hang out with."
"Really?" Tails asked.
"Big time."
"Tails, Cream," Mileka began. "I'm sorry for all the trouble."
"Like I said, don't worry about it." Tails said.
"Well, I hope we can all visit again."
"We hope so too," Cream said. Cream and Mileka hugged once more. "Take care you two."
"Right back at ya." Mileka and Cocoa grabbed each other's hands and walked a bit back behind the group. Mya, Swift, and Ruby walked as well. Where was Shadow and Azuru…? Everyone looked over to their left and saw Azuru and Shadow by the trees. They were… holding hands. Everyone's jaw dropped… literally. Shadow, Azuru… holding hands.
"You are such a cool guy," Azuru said.
"Thanks," Shadow said. Azuru just stared into his eyes and then smiled.
"Look, I have to go, but… We'll see each other soon." Azuru moved herself closer to Shadow, and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Sonic and the others were now in total shock. She let go of his hands, and started to run to the others, looking back at Shadow. Everyone looked back at the counterparts. A small white ring appeared on the ground, and they began to glow. They all disappeared as a small flash of light came out. The last of the lighting in the park were the lights of the city. Amy, and Cream got a small tear in their eye. Even Sonic was feeling a bit down. They wished they could stay, but, as they said, they had to go.
"Lets hope we'll see them again," Sonic said.
"I have a feeling we will," Tails said. Cream and Amy had a small tear go down their cheek, and they wiped it away. Definitely a sad moment.,,
The night had sunk in all over; it was now close to 11 o'clock. Several people had left already, and they gave their good byes. But some refused to leave though, and those some were Sonic and the others.
This is the kind of night you wish for, something calm, something you wouldn't want to end. Something that you and you're friends can get together and enjoy the time. But, it was close to its end.
"Well, I'll see you all later," Some guy yelled. "This was awesome!" Everyone in the crowd went 'woo!'. "See ya!". They all gave him the good bye, and he was on his way. A lot of other people started to leave, and everyone was giving each other the good byes as well. The last remaining people was Sonic and his buds and 7 guys. They looked like they were all in the same group, so no wonder they haven't gone yet.
"You guys have fun today?" Knuckles asked.
"Oh yeah," One guy said. "Today was awesome. Best party we've had yet."
"Couldn't agree more," another guy said. "I love these things."
"Oh, and by the way," one guy began. "You're brauts are excellent." It was a little too late to be mentioning that… How long ago was that? It didn't matter, you lose track of time when having fun.
"Thanks man," Tails said. All of the seven guys came up to shake their hands. Everyone shook each other's hands.
"It was very nice to see you guys again," a man said. "My name is Jake, by the way."
"Nice to meet you Jake," Sonic said.
"Nice to meet ya," everyone else said at their own time.
"Nice to meet you all," Tails said.
"Likewise," One of them spoke out for the others. After that, they began conversations, stories again. What else can you do with only 14 people around?
"Ever have that feeling like you're being watched?" one guy said.
"No, I'm usually the person watching," Rouge said with a wink. The guy went phht.
"You know," the silent guy began. "Why is it just some girls won't leave me alone, and some just think I'm creepy?" Shadow kind of laughed.
"Some girls are imaginary and some just think you're creepy." Shadow said. Everyone started to laugh, even the silent guy did, though he kind of set himself up for that. Majority of the conversation was now insults back at one another, similar to this one. Sonic mentioned something about an 8 ball that gave answers.
"I asked it a random question," Sonic began. "And then I was like, are you fricken kidding me, and I shook the ball again. And it said 'Most likely.'" Everyone started to laugh.
"Sonic, you shouldn't rely your life on an 8ball," Shadow said.
"Yeah I know that. The 8 ball is for fun."
"There was one time I was using it," the braut guy began. "And I was with these guys. I'm pretty sure you all remember this. And we were fooling around making fun of each other. I was like 'Is Bill nothing but an ass?', and it said 'No'. Then I asked 'are you lying?', and it said 'most likely'." Everyone started to laugh, him and the others were laughing even harder, since they were there to witness it.
"Guys, like what Mr. Shadow said, don't rely your life on an 8 ball," Cream said in a 'make-sure' kind of voice. Everyone chuckled, except for one particular hedgehog. Sonic walked over to Shadow and patted him on the back.
"It's ok Shadow, she was messing around." Sonic said.
"Yeah, I know," Shadow said. Looking away. They all continued the wise cracking, and multiple conversations now existed. It was almost time for their departures. As the night grew older, Sonic and Amy were close to each other. They wouldn't stop looking into each other's eyes.
"Sonic, I had a great time today," Amy said.
"I did too," Sonic said. "Let's not forget this night." Amy and Sonic just stared into each other's eyes, and Amy had thoughts about Sonic doing something unexpected. Sonic moved his head down and kissed Amy on the cheek. Amy became flustered. "Love ya, Amy."
"Oh Sonic!" Amy hugged Sonic immediately. "I love you too!"Amy gave a quick kiss over her own on Sonic's cheek.
"Wow, look at those two," Rouge said to Knuckles. Tails, Cream, and the others saw it too. One guy went 'owww', in a 'damn!' kind of voice. Rouge and Knuckles knew it all along. They knew the day would come. Sonic actually showed his love in some way.
"They are meant for each other," Knuckles said.
"Shoot, look at them," One guy said. "They match!" Sonic and Amy separated and continued to look at each other. Sonic and Amy walked back over with the others.
"So, what's up with you and Azuru, Shadow?" Sonic asked.
"Nothing." He replied. Everyone knew he was lying. That's the thing he hasn't learned yet. When someone asks another person about something along the lines of 'what's up with…' or 'what's going about the…', and you say 'nothing', you are obviously lying.
"Come on Shadow, we know you're lying."
"Why would I lie?"
"He's a good liar," some person said. Tails nodded his head.
"Yep," Tails said.
"Shadow, please tell us," Amy said.
"Come on sugah," Rouge said. "Spill it." Shadow still refused to say anything to these crazy people. Everyone continued to rant at Shadow, because he would say anything. Shadow needed to get it off his chest now.
"Ok." Shadow said. "How do you say, I have… feelings for her." Now everyone was silent. "What?"
"And?" somebody said.
"And I love her?" Everyone started to cheer.
"My buddy's got a girl friend now," Sonic said as he side hugged Shadow.
"Shut up…"
"Come on you guys, Shadow and Azuru, that's crazy love right there." Knuckles said.
"No kiddin'." Tails said. "They are practically alike."
"Maybe except that Shadow is a guy and Azuru is a girl," some guy chimed in. A few people chuckled.
"Dang man, I'm getting tired," another guy said.
"Me too," Jake said. "Well, it was good getting to know you all."
"Likewise," Tails said.
"See you all later, have a very good night."
"Good night," Everyone else said at random times. The others started to walk in a group fashion out of the park towards to the city buildings. It was them left, and that was it. It was a long night, they were all tired. They were ready to just go home and get some sleep.
"Good night everyone," Shadow said. "See you all later."
"Peace," Sonic said.
"Later man," Knuckles said.
"See ya," Tails said.
"Good night, Shadow," Amy said.
"Good bye, Shadow," Cream said. Shadow teleported away, and of course, he was gone. He wasn't going directly home, they all knew that, but whatever.
"We're gonna go too," Rouge said. "Good night."
"Bye you two." Sonic and Amy said.
"See ya," Tails said.
"Good night," Cream said. Rouge and Knuckles started to walk out towards the city buildings, but after a while, they stopped watching them. Tails and Cream were just standing there, staring at each other.
"Cream, I have something for you." Tails said. Cream was surprised. Tails walked over to where the cooler and such still was and pulled out a super small box. He walked back over to Cream and held it out to her.
"For me?"
"Yes." Tails smiled. Cream grabbed the small box and opened it. She saw a necklace in side. Tails pulled it out by the ends, and held it out for her to see. There was a small blue gem that resembled an emerald, but had the color of Tails' eyes, a beautiful blue, encircled by a ring and attached to the rest of the necklace. The rest of the necklace had small brown cylinders circling it, but in between 2 of them would be a small blue gem, resembling the top of an emerald, but much smaller than the gem on the necklace. There were 4 total. The brown cylinders had gel like designs on them. The blue gem in the middle started to glow a bit, then it died away.
"Tails… it's so beautiful."
"I made it….for you." Tails took his hands and went around her neck. He connected the ends of the necklace and he moved his hands away. Cream was so speechless, Tails had dedicated a song to her, and he gave her a necklace later that night, Cream didn't know what to say.
"Wow," Sonic said out of nowhere. "That's a very cool necklace. Did you make that, Tails?"
"Yep," Tails said.
"Oh, Cream, it looks so beautiful on you," Amy said.
"Thank you," Cream said. Cream's eyes began to water up. A couple of tears came out, and Tails wiped them away. Cream jumped to Tails, and they gave each other a hug, but they stayed there. After a few minutes Cream moved back a bit and just stared into Tails eyes.
"Hey, we're are gonna walk around the town, you want to come with us?" Sonic asked.
"Sure," They both said. They all began to walk out of the park together; Tails and Cream's hands were locked together. They walked the same way out of the park that everyone else did, towards the buildings of the city and such. They entered into the town and saw the lights, still bright as ever, shops all closed.
"It's crazy how quiet this place can get," Amy said. It was very quiet. Really, the only thing that could be heard was footsteps coming from them.
"Well, everyone went to sleep," Tails said. "We all got tired out." They continued to walk around the town, around the blocks, just looking at everything. Whenever they walked around a street they've been to, they always look around like its new and they've never seen it before. It's the same with everyone, they all got that problem. They went down the street they were on, and passed the usual shops. As they continued walking, they reached the end of the street, and to their right was the path to the houses they lived at.
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Rush – Lake Side Park
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They started to walk down the dirt path towards the houses they lived at. They passed Rouge's house first, which was dark, no lights on whatsoever. They continued on their walk, and passed by Knuckles house. It was dark too, either they were really tired or those two never even went home. Knuckles door light would of actually been on if he was home, so it kind of gave that away. They continued their walk, and within a few minutes, they came close to Sonic's house.
As they got in front of Sonic's house, Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Cream just stopped in front of each other. Sonic held out his hand and Tails grabbed it.
"It was a lot of fun today," Sonic said.
"Yep," Tails said.
"Have a good night, both of you." Tails and Sonic let go, and Amy came up to Tails and gave him a hug.
"Good night Tails," Amy said.
"Good night," Tails said. Amy and Cream hugged.
"Good night Cream."
"Good night Amy," Cream said.
"Bye," Sonic said.
"Bye," Tails and Cream said. Sonic and Amy walked to the house door, and Sonic unlocked the door and walked in with Amy following. Tails and Cream began to walk again towards Cream's house, with hands locked again. Cream's thoughts were all about Tails, not about what happened today, but just… him. She just adored looking at him. The eyes that sparked a beautiful blue, cute fox ears, and his never ending smile.
They finally reached Cream's house, and they stood in front of the walkway to the door. Tails turned to look at Cream, who was already staring at him.
"I hope you had a good time," Tails said.
"I did," Cream said. "It was a lot of fun." Cream gave a quick kiss on cheek. Cream and Tails started a hug and stood there for a few minutes. Tails and Cream separated a bit, but they continued to hold each other, Tails hands on Cream's sides, and Cream's hands on Tails' arms. They stared into each other's eyes for a minute or so, and then began to close in. Their lips met and they kept it there, and soon they had tilted their heads. They had both opened their mouths and closed on each other, Tails felt Cream's tongue slip into his mouth, though he freaked out again, it didn't bother him. He then slipped his tongue into her mouth as well, and they continued this. They separated slowly, with their mouths still a bit opened. They soon were back in the same position they were at. Cream let go, but Tails had not.
"I love you Cream," Tails said.
"I love you too, Tails," Cream said. "Good night." Cream gave a kiss on Tails cheek and started to walk off to her door. She reached her door and opened it and walked inside. As she went inside, she just stopped and stood there. She looked down at the necklace Tails had given her.
Tails began to walk home, thinking about Cream and the others. He began to think of the old days, back a few years ago. Things had changed so much from earlier times. He could remember many things, such as the big birthday party everyone threw for Tails. He had been so busy with things that he forgot his own birthday, but it all changed when he arrived at his house that night. He was definitely in for a surprise.
Tails had reached his house and entered on through. As he walked in, he turned on his radio with the remote on the table, and 'Lakeside Park' began. He continued on through his house and walked to the bathroom and brushed his teeth as necessary. He left the bathroom and headed down the hall toward his room. He went in to his room and turned a small light on. He walked over to a small little table with a picture of Cream on it. There was a necklace sitting by her picture, and it was similar to the one he had given to her. He picked it up, and put it around his neck and connected the back.
He turned the light off and walked out of his room and out to the living room area. As he listened to the song being played, he began to think of many things, the whole deal this week, the counterparts, his friends, and the girl within his heart. Today had reminded him of the many things he loved about life, and these were it. Nothing could break the chain of lightning between them.
Tails looked at his necklace and his eyes began to water. He closed his eyes, and two tears slipped down his cheeks. He then smiled.
"My friends," Tails said. "You are all there for me." Tails began to shed more tears. "All of you." Tails turned the music down a bit and walked on over to the hall way. He walked into his room without turning the lights on or anything. There was a little bit of light coming from the windows. He took a seat on his bed, still thinking, still shedding tears of happiness. He looked over to the back of the bed where his alarm clock and such were and saw the picture he had placed there. He stretched on over and grabbed the picture, and pulled himself back up. He stared down at the picture he was holding in his hand. The picture of him and everyone else. They were in their own poses, Knuckles with a thumbs-up, Shadow with his arms crossed… and smiling. Tails and Cream had a hand up with two fingers up, Sonic pointing at the Camera with a strange smile, and Amy holding up her hand with two fingers up as well. He began to cry a bit more. He continued to look at the picture, he loved it so much.
Tails stood up, holding the picture and still looking at it. He walked a bit to the table where the picture was and placed it down to its original place. Tails walked back to where he was on the bed, and sat down again. He took his shoes off, as well as his socks and threw them near the door of his room. Tails stood up once again and walked to his bedroom door. He closed it, slowly. When the door finally shut, he started to walk toward his bed, and he walked to the right side of it. He stopped as he neared the pillow on the right side of the bed, and stretched out his arms and then pulled them back in. He grabbed the blanket on his bed and pulled it to the left. He sat down on the bed and pivoted himself on to the bed. He pulled the blanket over him, and he just sat there. He turned to the group picture and looked at it once more, and he smiled to himself. He turned away, retaining his smile of the friends inside the pictures. He laid his head down on the pillows behind him. He turned his head to the right and closed his eyes. Tails began to drift away to sleep, leaving his thoughts intact.
"Memories last forever."