A Fox with a Look of Stone

But a Heart of Gold

(Chapter 2: The Ride of Truth)

(Hey, ladies and gents. It's Psycho again to write you another riveting chapter of this story. The last chapter was not as liked as the first so…. Sorry. But anyways thanks again to Rad Dudesman for his good feedback. Anyways Psycho out!)

Standing in a large bedroom, stood Blaze. She had began to go into a slump of love, Sonic was getting to be typical, he started to, not take her input into consideration. Also, recently, she had begun to think of Jason, her thoughts had her own conversations. "Where is he?! I haven't seen him for 2 months! He's such a pussy!" one thought said.

"But, you've already waited for him to tell you more about his past!" Just then she had put a sighing face on, as she remembered how he was when he had first come to the village.

Flashback….

"Hey Jason! Come on! We've got to get to auntie raccoon's, before nightfall!" Young Blaze shouted out to her new friend as she ran to her Auntie's cabin. She was quite a fast cat, able to get from one end of the island, to the other, in a matter of seconds. But, to Jason this was quite a displease. (Wow! I really like to say "quite") He was never fast, as soon as he tried to run, he'd fall straight onto his back. So, he tried to give a fast jog after her.

"(Huffing and puffing) hu..hu..hu.. Wait hu…hu.. I can't hu..hu… run as hu..hu.. Fast!" He said as he tried to get the words out, through to hard breathing.

"hihihi, silly!" and suddenly she stopped right in from of him, making him fall of his face, trying to dodge her. "Pft…pft… HAHAHA! You're so funny Jason!" to this Jason gave her a mean glare, making her get a confused face.

"Rrrrrr… stop that!" Just as Jason shouted that out, there was a pause until, Blaze burst out in tears at the mean show of anger to her. "Wait! Wait! I didn't mean that!" Jason said to clam Blaze's crying.

"Sniff, Sniff, you hate me!" then Blaze burst into even more tears as she ran away from him.

"Wait Blaze! Don't run away!" just then Jason had to think "I can't run after, at her speed." Jason darted his eyes and head around trying to think of a way to catch up to her. Just then a idea went into his head. Jason ran up a few boxes next to a market stand, and place, that Blaze ran into. He jumped onto the metal part of the stands, and shot electricity threw his feet to boost him along after her.

Blaze through her teary eyes and running, saw Jason, skating on the stands after her. She quickly, increased speed to a cave so that Jason couldn't get her. Soon as Jason saw this, he jumped from side to side of the stands, to increase his speed to get her. With a stroke of luck, Jason was able to get in front of her to stop her.

"Blaze! Please don't cry! I didn't mean it!" just as he said that Blaze ran into him, knocking them both over. Blaze softly onto him but Jason, he had to fall onto the arranged brick pathway.

"Sniff, sniff, do you, sniff, mean it?" Blaze said trying to recompose herself.

"Well duh. Why would I chase after you on rooftop and let you crash into me, if I Didn't want to make it up to you." Jason said in a slightly light hearted tone.

"… thank you Jason." Blaze said that as she gave him a small kiss on his forehead, making him blush redder than the Red Chaos Emerald. "Hihihi. We gotta get to Auntie's." Then blaze jumped gracefully and ran away, leaving Jason in thought but, later got up and chased after again to the outskirts of the village.

Back to present…

"Huhhh.. I miss him."

Then back on Windfall Island, Marine was at the hall of the Wave Tornado, tapping her foot impatiently waiting on Jason. "Man. I'm doing this for Jason, and he's not even here on time."

"What was that Marine?" Marine just jumped in her boots to the voice, as Jason walked in and on to the Wave Tornado. "Sorry I was late. The market place is hell at this time of day."

"Oh! It's alright!"

Jason was glad to be on the Wave Tornado, after this long. If he wasn't at the beach sleeping, he was usually at sea, breathing in the ocean air. It made him feel like a king on his throne, looking over his subjects.

"Aye! Shall we set sail for the Jeweled Palace?"

" Yup. We gotta get there before nightfall." Just then, the Wave Tornado set it's path to the Jeweled Palace. After about 2 hours of sailing, Marine took it up to herself, to figure out why Jason was never there when Blaze was around.

"Aye Jason! I don't what to invade your bee's waxes but, why don't you see Blaze, when she's back on the island?" that was followed by a gigantic pause by Jason "Well, spit it out!"

"…. I just don't want to talk about it ….."

"But, I don't like me pals fighting! Is it about the way Blaze is?"

"…"

"Is it her smell?"

"….."

"Is it the way she talks, because that always bothered me."

Jason imminently thought to say "How dare you talk about her like that!" but Jason kept quiet until "… it's not her ….. It's me."

"Well what do yer mean?"

Marine was his friend sense he first met her, at a age of 1 year old. Could she keep his giant secret? Marine was known for her, urrr…. Slip ups but, for something this important, Jason knew, that she'd keep this secret to the grave. "Urrr. Marine? Can you keep a huge secret?"

Marine thought long and hard about it but, in the end said "urrr… yeah! Why do you ask?"

" I mean keep it! Not just "oh yeah!" secret! I mean a secret that you'd never tell anyone!"

With this Marine mad a cross you heart motion, accept it. "Til death, it's not out."

"Alright." Jason had a long sigh and a pause until he continued "Well, I've kinda, got some feelings for her."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean the feeling that, you've got butterflies in your stomach. The feeling that, when I see her, it lifts my heart to cloud 9. The feeling that, I could have her cuddle up next to me and tell me what's wrong."

"Err… What?"

"I'm kinda, sorta, maybe, possibly…"

"Well give me it."

"….. In love with her."

This was quite a surprise to her because, through seeing Blaze for so long and being her best girlfriend (no not a girlfriend. Not that way, like a girl's best friend but, not a best friend just a best friend of gender) she had known that Blaze had started to develop feelings for him.

"Well uhh.. I'll keep the secret."

"Good… are we there yet?"

"Land ho!" just then a humongous palace was in front of the boat. Then Jason gave a relieving sigh.

From a very high window of the palace, Blaze saw the Wave Tornado, as usual but there was something on it. So certain purple, pupiless fox, wearing long, cyan sweat pants, being puffed at he bottom. With purple, cyan, and yellow running shoes with metal at the bottoms. With a dark purple and dark gray sleeveless, striped shirt with a cyan vest, having the sleeves go a little ways out, and a huge gray chain around his neck with a huge, golden ring on it. And the vest had his signature logo on the right top side. Yup, it was Jason. (I just described him to you guys and girls for you. Your welcome!)

"(gasping) it's him. He came." Blaze said as she bursted out the door and down the stairs to see him.

Jason thought to himself "I'll try and be as nice as I can."

(Well that was an chapter! Sorry if you don't like all the flashbacks but, I need them to tell the story. So to summarize, Blaze longs for Jason, Jason like Blaze, both don't know each other do, and they're at a the palace, so yeah. Review and like ( if you did ) this chapter. Anyways Psycho out!)