Chapter 5: Knowing thy self

I woke up but kept my eyes shut because of the light, I knew I wasn't in my bed because it smelled too clean and the bed wasn't as soft. I crack my eyes open and see white walls all around and as I open my eyes all the way I realize im in a hospital. I look around as the door opens and see a doctor walk in with a clipboard in his hands.

"I see your awake how are you feeling today" he says with a smile

"Um pretty good but my question is what happened, all I remember is horrible pain in my chest and then nothing" I said with confusion on my face.

"Well" said the doctor "it so happens that the bruise you got from the laser somehow got infected because of radiation from the robots power source".

"So now I have radiation poisoning? that's just great" I say with thick sarcasm in my voice.

"Oh no you don't have poisoning though I don't know how, your just as healthy as before you got hit with the laser" said the doctor with some surprise in his voice.

"So what your saying is im healthy enough to leave" I ask "yes you can leave right now if you want and I cannot stop you" said the doctor.

"okay thanks for everything doc" I say as I swing my legs off the bed and get up noticing that I had a hospital gown on I say "um do you know where my phone is I need to call someone for some clothes" the doctor walks over to a bin and grabs my phone out of it and hands it to me. I take it and start going through my contacts when it occurs to me 'I didn't even get the number to Sonics house ugh im such a fucking doofus' while im mentally berating myself I notice that Sonics number was in my phone 'must have put it in when they brought me here' I hit the call button and two rings later I hear it pick up.

"Hello" said sonic

"Hey sonic its drake" "hey drake you feeling better" he asked with concern "yeah I feel a lot better could you do me a favor"

"Sure what do you need?"

"Well I need you to run some clothes here so I don't go home in a hospital gown"

"Sure no problem ill have them there in a sonic second"

"Thanks sonic see you later".

I hang up the phone and sit on the edge of the bed wondering why I wasn't truly affected by the radiation when there came a knock on the door. "It's open" I say as sonic steps into the room with my clothes in his hands "here's your clothes drake" he says with a smile "thanks sonic I owe you one" I say as I head to the bathroom to change.

I walk out of the bathroom about five minutes later because it's apparently difficult to put clothes on when you have a tail I walk with sonic out of the hospital. As we are walking I am still wondering why the radiation didn't kill me. I mean come on it was deadly radiation and I survived it like it was nothing. Apparently I had a thoughtful look on my face because I heard sonic say "hey drake penny for your thoughts"

I look at him and say "well im just still wondering why the radiation didn't affect me. I mean not that im complaining or anything but I should still be in there in pain and agony. But for some reason it's like it never even happened and im confused"

"Well let's go to tails' house and see if we can find something about your type" said sonic with a matter of fact tone. I looked at him and said "what's that supposed to mean" giving him the stink eye.

"You know, what you are because if I didn't know better you are a pretty rare mobian. There are not many dragon mobians around from what ive seen and I have been pretty much everywhere" he said holding his hands up in defense as he made his point.

"Oh ok well lets head on over then don't want to keep the curious fox waiting" I said as a sweat drop formed on my head. We start walking towards mystic ruins where tails' shop is because he likes the quiet and the space helps too. As we get to his house sonic knocks on the door and hear 'hold on' from inside a couple seconds later the door opens and we see tails standing there with some grease stains on his fur. He looks at us and says "hey guys come on in" and he moved inside and sonic followed.

As I followed sonic I didn't take into consideration that I was taller than sonic when a loud 'THUNK' was heard as my head connected with the top part of the door way I fell on my ass now with a knot forming as I rubbed my head I heard hysterical laughter and saw sonic holding his sides trying to keep from falling and tails is on the floor kicking his feet both of them were laughing.

I look at them and scowl a little "damn that hurts and it's not that funny geez" I say trying and failing to hide the smile that was forming because I for some reason found it funny also.

I stand up and still rubbing my head and say "tails I need some info on dragon mobians can you help?" he looked at me and nodded still chuckling I thought 'yeah ill get you back' chuckling to myself. Tails led me to his study, as I walked in I saw bookshelves lined with both large and small books as well as a computer sitting at a desk with a picture of cream at an amusement park as a screensaver.

I look at tails and say "well looks like someone has a little crush huh?" I laugh as I see the fox blush and move the mouse quickly to remove the picture. I look over at sonic and see him with a knowing grin as he walks over to the bookshelf and starts looking for something that relates to what I am.

I decide to help sonic look through the shelves as tails goes to various sites on the computer and we have been at it for over five hours and to be honest I was getting a little tired and so were the others but just as me and sonic were going to call it quits we hear "hey guys I found something" so we run over to tails and see he has a history site up with pictures and historical stuff.

"According to this you are one of the rarely seen dragon race which has just been recently discovered by explorers, it's believed that they can use the forces of nature to either ruin or better their surroundings" tails said reading from one of the pages. "It also says that the markings on their scales tell what element is their strongest and here" he says switching over to a different page "it says that the races scales rival that of the toughest metals known in the world and that they have great strength and powerful regenerative abilities".

As im looking at the page I start thinking 'well now I know why I healed so fast, and why my punches cracked that robot plus I have a dormant power also'. I look at tails and sonic and say "wow I never would have figured this out without you guys" I smiled as I said this.

I look at my phone clock and it reads 10:05 pm "well I don't know about you guys but im tired and its getting late, why don't we pick this up tomorrow" I said stifling a yawn as sonic and I wave goodbye to tails and head back to the house. We arrive around 11 pm and I notice someone sleeping on the couch I look at sonic and say "um were you expecting anyone today?" "Not that I know of" said sonic as he walked over and looked at who it was.

"well well isn't this a pleasant surprise its none other than manic, guess he decided to crash here for the night im just going to let him sleep so he can better explain in the morning" said sonic as he walked into his room. I walk in my room and take a quick shower, I exit the bathroom in nothing but my underoos and climb into bed I lye there and think of how interesting it's going to be as I drift off to sleep.