Chapter Two: The beach

"Thanks Tails! Later!" Sonic waved as his friend sped off in the Aqua Blast, then turned to the palace.

The whole space time fiasco was only three weeks ago, and it had already been restored to it's former glory, the white marble floor glimmered in the sunlight as he opened the door, passing two gaurds and making his way to Blaze's room. "Hey bab- Blaze!" He walked over and hugged her, then sensed something up, "You alright?"

"I..." She paused as she looked away, then looked back, "Are you sick of me?"

"Why would I be sick of you?" the hedgehog gave her a concerned cuddle.

"I mean, you've been here for three weeks, seeing me almost all the time, you must be getting sick of me."

"Me?" Sonic grinned, "Naw. I love it here, there's no rush to get back home. What's brought this on?"

"Well, as you know... I'm not very... accustomed to relationships." Her frown was broken as she couldn't help but smirk when Sonic ruffled her hair up.

"I'm not getting sick of you any time soon. Come on. Lets go to the beach at Marine's!"

"But-" Was the only word Blaze could say before Sonic pulled her by her hand.

"C'mon! I've not seen you in a bikini before!" Sonic then yelped as Blaze's hand set on fire as she shot him a death glare, "Plus it will be... fun...?"

Blaze sighed and shook her head, but then, to Sonic's delight, she went into her closet (the big walk in type, she is a princess) to get changed.

She came out - to Sonic's dismay in a white t-shirt and purple, baggy trousers. It didn't take the quick feline long to notice his dissapointed look. "Yeah, the swimsuit's under these." She sighed as she walked out of the room on her way to her plane, which Tails had reccomended she get a few weeks ago. It wasn't long before the two landed on Seagull Beach. Blaze was warmly greeted by Marine, who wrapped her arms around her.

"Blazey! It's been yonks!"

"Like I said before Marine, a week." Blaze slowly backed out of the hug, trying not to offend the young raccoon.

"Same thing. You comin' in the sea?" She gestured excitedly to the blue mass that Blaze recognised to be the ocean.

"Um... I'll pass, thankyou, Marine."

"Oh.." Marine frowned, untill Tails took her arm.

"I'll come in with you." The vulpine grinned as he pulled her into the water, making her laugh. She seemed to completely have forgotten about Blaze.

"Kids..." The feline muttered as she watched the two playing around, Marine was wearing a tube top and swimming shorts, Tails was in the nude as usual. Blaze laid out a blanket on the sand and laid back on it, enjoying the sunlight. That is untill she opened her eye, "Are you waiting for something?" she sat up and glared at Sonic, who was sat in the sand staring at her.

"No...no not at all." Sonic tried conceal his grin as he returned to digging his hole in the sand. Blaze glared at him for a few seconds, then took off her clothes, revealing her white bikini as she lay back to enjoy the sun once more.

"Close your mouth, Sonic."

"How did you know!? You have your eyes closed!"

"You just told me." She then heard some muttering, followed by the sound of digging, she opened her eyes, "Why are you digging? It's childish."

"Hey." Sonic pointed his small, plastic spade towards her, "You're never too old to dig a hole... man I wish Knux was here."

Blaze got a couple of seconds silence after that, then: "I gotta say Blaze-"

"Remind me of how small my breasts are, and I will kill you."

"What? No. I was gonna say you look really... nice." Sonic had to think twice about saying 'fit', as he didn't want his backside alight, but thankfully, the cat smiled.

"Erm, thanks."

Sonic smiled back at her, despite her having her eyes closed. Then continued with his hole, beggining to doubt that a flimsy plastic toy was a passable digging tool.

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"Tails stop it!" the raccoon and fox were both waist deep in the sea, and despite Marine's pleas, Tails continued to splash her.

"You gonna make me?" He grinned as he watched her pathetically hold her hands up in an attempt to block the water. Then, in a shriek of vengeance, Marine dived on the unsuspecting vulpine. His eyes widening as he was submerged in the watery depths, to emerge a few seconds later, coughing and spluttering to see Marine stood a few feet away, her arms folded proudly and her nose in the air. He got her back good though, spinning his tails around to create a massive - well, five foot - wave, knocking her over completely. Tails was laughing for about thirty seconds until he noticed a severe lack of Marine.

As he scouted the surrounding with his eyes, he could not see Marine anywhere. He automatically assumed the worst. His fear grew further as he felt himself be yanked by his ankles, his face hitting the water roughly.

Bringing his head above the surface once more, he heard that infuriatingly cute laughter.

"Mariii-iiine!" Tails whined.

"I 'ad yer worried there mate." She grinned proudly, which, to Tails' dismay, made him smile slightly.

"C'mon, lets get back to the beach."

"O'roight cobbe-whoa!" Marine tripped over, her body floatied after she hit the water. "I'm ok." She grinned and stood up quickly, Tails giving her a concerned/wierded out look. "No way..." Marine's body went underwater again, and she soon came out with a glimmering, wet gem.

"Wow, what are the chances?" Tails took the yellow Sol Emerald off her and admired it. "Let's get back to the other two." Marine nodded in agreement.

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"Sonic are you still digging?" Blaze sat up and looked at the cobalt blue hedgehog, who had a blanket where the hole had once been and was looking guilty.

"Erm, no. Just this blanket." He smiled.

"Guys!" the two turned to see Tails and Marine running towards them, Tails had a shiny thing in his hand. "We found a Sol Emerald."

Sonic grinned, "Cool, so we can go back home now?"

"Yeah." Tails said proudly, "I'll just need a machine to enhance and control it's power, it's fairly simple so I could get it done by tommorow."

"Great!" Sonic smiled again as he saw Tails heading for his trap as the fox walked up the beach, standing on his towel.

"Argh! What the-!?" Within half a second, Tails found himself waist deep in sand, Sonic found himself crying ith laughter, and it only took Marine a second to be doing the same.

"Never too old to dig a hole..." Blaze repeated Sonic's previous words as she watched Tails pathetically trying to use a stick to pull himself out of the tight space, Marine and Sonic refusing to help.

I put a lot of effort into these stories, review please! Also, I have another story (I may have mentioned this before but ah well) called "A Hero's Life" which isn't doing so well reviews wise, which isn't helping me get over my writers block, so take a look at that if it interests you. Thanks for reading!