Sleepless In Spagonia
Part 2
Day
No Need for A Festival!

The halls of Spagonia University would have been eerily quiet if it had not been for the energetic conversation going on between Professor Pickle and Chip. The two figures were walking slowly towards Amy Rose's room at the end of the corridor.
"It's a good thing sonic has decided to rest, don't you think Professor?" Said Chip.
"Yes I do, my boy, yes I do."Said the Professor. "What that dear boy needed was a goodnight sleep and I'm glad that plucky young girl managed to persuade him. We all need a good rest now and again, Chip my boy, and Sonic is no exception."
"I just wonder if he managed to sleep is all, he is quite fidgety at times." Chip stopped as he reached Amy's door." Do you think we should just go in?"
"Of course not, my boy, a gentleman always knocks before entering a ladies abode!" exclaimed the professor.

As the professor began knocking on Amy's door, Chip was puzzled.
"Amy is a Lady?" he asked himself quietly.

Sonic

For Sonic, The night had been peaceful allowing him the rare chance to recharge. Waking up to find Amy wrapped around him, however, did come as a bit of surprise. Staring at her for a moment Sonic decided not to wake her and chose instead to enjoy the heat of the sun pouring in through the window.

Sonics thoughts turned to the Festival that Amy had spoken of, whilst absent-mindedly stroking Amy's hair. From his vantage point at the window, Sonic could make out much of the festivities being set up in the huge square at the centre of town, though the festival itself was likely create a great many stalls and party areas across the entire of Spagonia.

"Maybe this might just be fun after all" Sonic whispered to himself.

Turning his attention to Amy, he stopped stroking her hair and began to gently shake her awake. His efforts only gaining a sweet sigh escaping from her, Sonic decided to leave her a little while longer.

"There just finishing everything off at the festival, we can go a little later." He said

as he finished speaking there was a knock at the door.

Amy

Amy's night had been totally sleepless, the only thing she had managed to enjoy was rest rather than sleep and, of course, Sonic. Being able to hold her Hero, had been one thing, but for Sonic to hold her back all night long had made her so happy and excited that the idea of sleep seemed ridiculous.

She had been awake all throughout Sonics soft stroking of her hair and had nearly died of happiness at the thought that Sonic was comfortable, for once, around her. When Sonic had tried to wake her up, Amy had not wanted to "waken up"; the thought of that night ending was not what she wanted. The knock on the door, however, forced her to awaken as Sonic rose to unlock the door.

"Oh hey Professor good to see ya!" Sonic exclaimed.

"It's good to see you too sonic my boy, I thought I'd better get you up so that you two wouldn't miss out on the festivities." Said the professor.

As Sonic was about to answer the professor, both their attentions were drawn to Chip, who was making his way over to Amy. Chip, floating in front of Amy's face, took a bow.

"I am oh so sorry for disturbing you, my lady; forgive us for this unforgivably intrusion into your humble abode." He said

at this both Sonic and the professor exchanged glances of bewilderment as Amy giggled and petted Chip.

"It's ok Chip I don't mind." Said Amy

Sonic blinked for a moment as he tried to remember what he was going to say to the professor.
"I...um...oh yeah, I thought the festivities were only just finally being set up?" he asked

"Ho Ho Ho, my dear Sonic, the festivities were set up yesterday, what you see being put up in the square is, what i am told, a Special Event, A Grand Finale, so to speak. The event itself is being kept under wraps so we'll simply have to wait until tonight at midnight before we find out what it is. Now I suggest that you and Amy hurry along!" At this, the professor left, beckoning Chip to follow. Chip, with a bow to Amy, and a thumbs up to Sonic, left also.

Sonic, watching Chip leave slapped his hand across his forehead and sighed.

"That little guy can be seriously weird sometimes."

Amy, rising from the windowsill, chuckled.

"Sonic we better get going, some of our friends will be there setting up stalls and attractions."

Hearing this Sonic turned round and said casually.

"Pretty funny time to be having a party when the worlds split apart."

"Oh don't be such a pain, I explained this before, the festival is about unity, so what if everyone wants to have a good party and some fun!" she bristled.

Sonic merely shrugged, smirked and reached out his hand.

"You ready to go to the festival then, Lady Rose?"

Amy smiling answered cheerily

"I sure am!"

Sonic and Amy
The Festival Of Unity
The Stalls

"Wow, they really pulled out the stops!" said Sonic.

A myriad of small to large stalls surrounded the two hedgehogs, selling a wide variety of commodities, some valuable finds from far off shores, others mere trinkets. The atmosphere that surrounded the city as Sonic and Amy walked around amazed the blue hedgehog, people happy and smiling, taking the time out to forget about the calamity that had fallen upon the world and enjoy themselves. There were people from all over the world who had already been saved by Sonic and people who lived on the continent that Spagonia belonged to milling in and around the wondrous sights to be seen.
All of this served to make Sonic all the more happy that he had accepted Amy's invitation.

Amy watched as confetti fell from the sky sprinkling around them, turning around and around until a familiar orange colour caught her eyes. Immediately recognising Tails she grabbed Sonic and made way to the two tailed fox.

"Look Sonic, it's Tails he's got a stall open!" she cried

Tails' stall was full various pieces of technology that he had converted into toys and trinkets, Sonic was shocked by the shear amount of items on his stall. Tails, realising his best friend was near, beckoned the two hedgehogs over.

"Hi Sonic, hi Amy, glad to see your taking a break, want have a look at my wares?"

"Thanks Tails, how come your selling so much stuff?" asked Sonic

"Well a lot of the stuff I've got I realised people might like but I also need to make some repairs to the Tornado so I decided to sell some spare odds and ends, I mean I made a couple more fake Chaos Emeralds, obviously not exactly like the last one, and they sold like hotcakes, I've got double the money that I hoped for!" Tails said cheerily.

"Do you know who else is here?" asked Sonic

Tails nodded his head
"Yeah Knuckles has set up an attraction somewhere around here, and Rouge and Shadow are here as a security detail from G.U.N. Cream and Vanilla are here selling homemade food and I could have sworn that I saw Vector, Charmy and Espio around here somewhere."

Sonic, seeing Amy beckoning him over to her, smiled at Tails.

"Thanks, gotta go buddy, see ya later!"

As Tails watched his best friends go, his attention was drawn to the bell tower. For a second, in Tails peripheral vision, he could have sworn there was someone up there.