A/N: Thanks for the alerts, faves, and reviews! Also thanks for some point-outs you may make/have made. I'll try to keep this fic as far away from the uncanny valley as possible! So suggestions are always apreciated!
Anyways, here is the newest chapter, don't worry, we'll get to the Werehog soon. But for now, enjoy!
CHAPTER 2: DOZING OFF IS NOT GOOD AT ALL
In which Sonic spends the next days roaming around Apotos, and where he may have to embrace for a naughty surprise.
After Tails left the plaza, Sonic turned around and walked down the stairs and tried to think of the things he should do while Tails was gone. He stopped for a while when he heard Tails' plane start up and saw it flying away.
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Back on the main part of the town, Sonic looked around for a place to visit. He wasn't hungry, so there was no point in going to a restaurant. Shopping was also out of the list, he wasn't really in the need of anything, and he was short on rings.
He stoppped for a while to think. When he was doing that, he almost nodded off and fell. "A-Ack!" he eeked and regained balance.
Okay, now he knew what to do.
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Sonic roamed along the island's streets asking for directions for anything like an hotel. The villagers told him of a cozy building not so far away from a hill, and Sonic headed that way.
On the way, he couldn't help but to look at the bracelet Chip had given him. Its orb seemed to glow faintly. Maybe it was due to the moonlight, or maybe it was supposed to do just that and he hadn't even noticed.
Although he could sweat it wasn't giving any light in the day.
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After some more minutes of walking, he was finally there.
A somewhat tall building (comaperd to the others) was looming over him, it had the typical white-ish coloring all the other buildings shared. It also had a neatly-kept wooden sign that said 'Hotel'.
Upon entering he was greeted by a small lobby with two couches and a TV. He then looked to the reception, which had nobody in it.
Sonic stumbled towards the counter and noticed a service bell. Due to how desesperated he was to get a nice, well-deserved sleep, he began to tap the button. The tapping soon turned into quick pressing, then into mashing as he demanded the service.
DING DING DING DING DING-
"Mrmh!" a voice coughed.
Sonic stopped mashing the button and looked up to a uniformed lady looking at him.
"Oh! You're Sonic the Hedgehog, aren't you?" the woman chirped, removing the annoyed scowl she had on her face.
"Uh... Yes! Yes I am!" Sonic chirped proudly, "Can you give me a room? Free of charge?" he begged.
"Sure!" the woman replied, "But no such thing as getting it free." she teased.
Sonic pouted.
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In his room, Sonic stared at the bed for a while. He wasn't the person who needed this kind of pampering when it came to resting. But his whole body just begged for some sleep.
He shook his head and approached the window to take a look. In a place like Apotos there wasn't much to see refering to the city, but his room had a rather nice view of the sea.
Back in his room he closed the curtains and sat on his bed, rubbing his hands against the mattress.
"Well ain't this confortable-"
ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ...
Sonic fell fast asleep. After all, isn't he the fastest thing alive?
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Sonic was in a weird position when he lazily opened his eyes for the first time. It was morning already, but the curtains were of a deep, rich mahogany color so sunlight could barely get in.
It took him a while to kick his laziness and rise up to his knees. When he managed to do that, he looked at the alarm clock in his night table.
11:42 a.m.
He was still half-asleep, so it took him some moments to let the information sink in...
"11:42?!" he eeked, stumbling out of the bed, "I think I overslept!" he continued, trying to stretch out.
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With a tired face he exited the hotel. The hotel itself hosted a breakfast service, but it closed at 11:30, so the hedgehog had to eat outside.
He found a little restaurant which still had breakfast dishes so he decided to go in and take a look. After he finished eating, he paid and left the building, decided to do some things to wake him up.
Looking at the pathways, he thought of maybe running around the bridges and roads of the archipielago of Apotos. But the place seemed rather busy, so maybe it wasn't such a good idea since he could accidentally ram into someone.
'It wasn't like that some days ago' he thought. And he was right. Due to the incident of the planet, the whole place was almost deserted if you didn't count the villagers and hardcore travelers. Paths like the ones in Apotos were always open and didn't have people who could get hurt when he passed through. In fact, any path was always open for exploration, especially at night, when everybody was too scared to come out for leisure.
Sonic walked towards a rail to look down at the rest of the town while he pondered.
Looking down at the rest of the island seemed to entretain him, because he remembered the first nights of the incident when he was running around the rooftops to bust some Nightmares or Frights. The whole place was practiaclly new for him, as he had never been around many cities or towns in his whole life.
Sonic looked around and saw the people walking past him, then turned back to the bird's eye view. This somehow remembered him of when Chip thanked him for helping him discover so many new places, friends and things; when Sonic himself was also a newbie to this sort of stuff. He just didn't mention it.
Before the world splitted apart he barely even knew anybody around. Now they all seemed so familiar to him... Almost just as Tails and Amy.
Sonic turned around and decided to walk just like the people around him were doing. He would rather run around a bridge or jump across rooftops, but walking along the road and blending in with the other people didn't sound so bad now.
After all, it didn't when he was with Tails!
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The tourist routine was actually quite fun for him as he dicovered more and more little places that apparently had opened when the first continent was restored. But of course Sonic was too busy restoring the other continents to even notice.
The moon was out again like yesterday, and Sonic felt glad he didn't need to hide behind some random large object just to let a searing pain and a purple cloud transform him into the Werehog.
He still felt tired, so he went back to his hotel room to get more rest.
Back in the lodge he actually took the time to close the curtains properly, set up his alarm clock, and tuck himself to bed. He yawned and turned off the lights this time aswell.
But just like the last day, he fell fast asleep.
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BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP-
"Shut up... Shut... UP!" Sonic screamed and hit the clock's Snooze Button. Maybe setting it up like that was a bad idea.
The hedgehog sat up and rubbed his eyes, the clock marked 9:00, just like he wanted it to do. So atleast that was something positve, because he could take breakfast at the hotel and didn't have to go around wasting more rings.
He went to the bathroom and poured cold water to his face, seeing how these days he was very sleepy. After that rude wakening, he grabbed his room key and stumbled towards the door, not really compelled to do much this day.
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After a not-so-great breakfast Sonic walked out of the hotel decided to find more things to do at Windmill Isle to hopefully speed up the time he had to wait for Tails to come back.
He took a path that lead to the part of the town that was closer to the sea. After some minutes of walking he noticed a little market set up in a square plaza not so far from where he was standing.
"Now THAT wasn't here before." he chirped, but he wasn't really intrested in looking at the shops, so he let the thing pass. Maybe later?
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After buying another Sundae Supreme from the local Ice-cream Man, Sonic looked at the sea while he walked across the cobblestoned path, he accidentally bumpen into a person, making the hedgehog drop his ice-cream and making the boy drop all the books he was carrying.
"A-ACK!" they both eeped, as the boy fell face-first into the ground and ontop of his pile of books, and as Sonic stumbled backwards and dropped his ice-cream, aslo getting his arm stuck on one of the sidewalk's rails.
"Watch out!" Sonic scolded, removing his arm of the rail and standing up.
"Sorry, sorry..." the boy eeked, picking up his books desesperately. Sonic rolled his eyes and helped him stack up the books faster.
"Where did you get those books?" Sonic asked as he helped the boy rise up again.
"At the library, it's not so far from here. Just walk down this road!" the boy chirped, "Sorry, but I must go! Thanks for helping me! ...And sorry for your ice-cream."
"It's okay." Sonic shrugged, and the boy left the place walking as fast as he could.
Sonic looked at the road. So there was a library in Windmill Isle, eh?
He wasn't the one for reading, but he thought the day was already boring, so perhaps he could find an intresting book or maybe fall asleep after reading a horrible one. Either way he would kill time.
So off he went jogging.
Not noticing his bracelet came off when he took his arm off that rail...
A/N: Phew! Sorry this chapter was a bit boring, but of course I was not just going to put in filler. And don't worry, by the next chapter stuff will happen!
Thanks for reading, have a nice day! (Or night or whatever.)
