A/N: Thanks for all the views so far! It really means a lot to me.
BTW, this chapter would have been posted some hours before if my freaking modem hadn't lost connection when I was about to save the file...
Anyways, enjoy!
CHAPTER 3: CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WIN PUBERTY!
In which Sonic is in for a nasty surprise at a library.
After losing his ice-cream due to crashing into that guy with the pile of books, Sonic decided to take his advice and kill time at the local library, which was some minutes of walking away. This time he paid attention to the road and to whoever walked past him to avoid another accident.
Some moments later he arrived at the library, which had a poster near the glass doors that read: 'Nightime Sale! Open until 10:00 p.m.'
Well, since it was already afternoon, maybe spending the rest of the day in the library wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Sonic was greeted by a large area filled with bookshelves, chairs and couches. At the entrance there were some tables with books and a sign that read: 'NOW TRENDING'. He took a closer look at them, but then shook his head and looked across other aisles.
The place was full of shelves and several different areas, making him feel a bit confused. He finally ended up in a section called 'TRAVELING'. He grabbed a random book and ended up with a book about Chun-Nan as a whole.
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As he read through the book he thought that Chun-Nan was a place that's better to see than to read about. And as a person (or er, hedgehog) who had been constantly running around the world for the past weeks, he was right.
Sonic placed the book back on its bookshelf and walked away, looking for more aisles with intresting books to read.
As he was walking, he walked across a reading section for kids, where a young woman and a boy were sitting on bean bags.
"Now, what book do you want to read?" the woman asked.
"This one!" the boy chirped and pulled out a book that read 'The Human Body' on it. It was clearly not from the children's section.
Sonic noticed the woman made a weird face and held his laughter.
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It was late in the evening, and the sun began to hide away. Sonic noticed this through one of the building's windows. But since he felt confident that the wouldn't transform, he shrugged and resumed his search for books.
He ended up on a section of the library about cooking, and grabbed a book about barbecue. His stomach growled due to how neat the pictures of the food looked.
'I should have eaten something...' Sonic thought as he returned the book to its shelf and walked away.
As he walked, he came to a realization. His stomach was not growling.
He was not hungry, he was in pain. A lot in fact.
Sonic jerked and clutched his stomach with one hand. He looked down and noticed his arm began to come grayish in color and grew a bit of fur.
'Nononononono' Sonic repeated in his mind as he franatically looked for an exit. He noticed the emergency exti not so far from him. But he decided not to take it, as it would cause more havoc that there needed to be.
So the only was out was through the main entrance.
Uh oh.
Sonic took a deep breath and began to ran as fast as his aching legs would allow him, knocking over any table or pile of books in is way.
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"So, when a boy goes through puberty, they grow body and facial hair, they get bigger, get a deeper voice, and so on..." the woman from the kid's section read.
"Really?" the boy who was near her asked, before he turned his head to a growing noise, "Wait, do you hear that-"
"OUT OF MY WAY!" Sonic eeked in a raspy voice as he leaped over the two persons, making the woman duck for cover and the boy to scream.
When Sonic landed on the ground, he continued running although he almost lost his balance. When he was far away the people looked at where he had gone.
"Hey sis," the boy eeped, "was that guy having his puberty?" he asked. The woman still had a confused look on her face.
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Sonic opened the doors with great force and stumbled outside. He looked around for a place to hide.
None.
Then, his eyes focused on the path's rail. He approached it and peeked out. There were some buildings below which connected to some plains and cliffs. There wasn't really any option, so he leapt into the roofs and crashed.
He tried to stand up to continue running, but his body was in the middle of the transformation, so he was too weak to move another inch.
Restrained to the place he was in, Sonic managed to rise up to his knees and let the rest of the change occur.
The fur of his arms got thicker as his arms got bigger and more muscular. His hands also grew, tearing through his gloves and changing to a pale blue color. His nails also turned into sharp claws.
His abdomen grew and got filled with fur as well. His legs didn't grow in length, but the grew thicker to support his new bulk. His shoes also transformed. The white stripe they had became silver embellished with three large spikes, and the soles grew cleets. Sonic's socks also got a bit ragged, but unlike his gloves, they didn't rip apart.
Sonic tried to hold his head as his ears twisted into looking more wolfish. His muzzle elongated and his front teeth grew sharper and longer. Two fo them grew so big they couldn't fit in his closed mouth.
His eyes also changed shape, with his eyebrows growing heavier and making his eyes look more menacing.
But at last, the transformation was over. He was still shivering, and at the end he let out a scream and fell to the ground.
Breathing heavily, Sonic opened his eyes and wimply moved one of his hands to take a look at it.
"A-Aw... shoot..."
A/N: Well, there you go! As I said earlier this would have been quicker if my modem hadn't screwed up, but the results were still the same.
I hope you enjoyed reading it just as much as I enjoyed writing it!
