A Fox with a Look of Stone

But a Heart of Gold

(Chapter 3: The Jeweled Palace)

(Sorry ladies and gents, for no chapter on Sunday. Super Bowl was crap, and had to stay at my grandparents till 9:00 PM, so no work done. But I'm still doing daily updates. Anyways Psycho out!)

Blaze ran, as fast as she could, to see Jason jumping off the boat. She got right to the door before, falling on her face, tripping as she got to the door. Regaining her composer, she opened the door and saw a purple, eyeless fox coming down the ladder.

"Hey Blaze! You miss me?" Jason said as he jumped off the ladder. Blaze just came right up to him as he got off and just had a long pause. She just stood there, until she slapped him across the face, making him do a double take as she stared at him. But instantly she grabbed him in for a big hug.

"Duh, I missed you! 2 months, is a long time!" She said getting her hug tightening on him.

Jason giving her a confused smile said "umm.. it's nice seeing you too Blaze." Blaze instantly came off, turning away embarrassed. But, Jason just came up to her back and gave her a gentle hug "I missed you too." Making Blaze purr, a bit. Jason thought "I guess she, doesn't hate me."

"if we're all done with the meet and greets, I'm starving!" Marine said as she got off the boat. Jason coming off embarrassed just gave a nod to her suggestion.

"Yeah, sailing gives you a empty belly. So Blaze how about a bite to eat?"

"Um… yes! This way to the dining hall." Blaze said, motioning inside. Blaze, if any of you are sonic fans, is a princess. Jason asked her why she wasn't a queen, if there's no king or queen. She said it's because she hasn't married, that she's still a princess. But anyway she had a gigantic dining hall. She and Marine would usual eat there after awhile. Marine was quick to head towards the kitchen, leaving Jason and Blaze alone.

"So…. How have you been?" Jason asked, trying to be casual.

"Oh! Uh… fine, it gets lonely in this big palace with no one to see." She said

"Well if haven't been in this place much. Mind showing me arou-"just then Marine came out holding 5 dishes, trying to balance them, with about 5 pieces o bread in her mouth interrupting him.

"That sounds like a great idea!" she said putting down the dishes and chewing up the bread. "we can do it after lunch!" She said as she rubbed her stomach.

Blaze, giving out a little giggle said "That would be nice."

After a long lunch the trio came around the palace they went to the throne room, with Jason giving his best king expression making Blaze blush and laugh a little, leaving Marine in a fit of laughter. The next was the out yard of the palace allowing Marine to run free and Jason and Blaze to sit and talk.

"So how's your powers doing, Blaze?" Jason said

"Their doing fine, they've bin fine. I've been able to use it to create shapes with em." In an instant, Blaze made a visual of Marine running around a lot with her hitting a wall, which then the real her did as the figment did." How's yours Jason?" Blaze said as she pointed to his gloves.

"Aw…. Nothing special. Just able to fly with them." Jason said nonchalantly, leaving Blaze with a astonished expression.

"You can fly!? You're lying!"

"No Blaze! He can!" Marine said as she came over "he goes up so far! Reaching the height of palm trees!"

"Well if he can fly, then he can show me." Blaze turned to see Jason not there on the bench but, 10 feet in the air." Well I stand corrected."

"Behold! I can fly!" (Shadow749 reference, seriously watch his stuff!) Jason said stupidly as bolts of electricity shot through his legs letting him hover in the air." Shall we see the rest?"

Blaze, trying to come back for her surprise, said "um…. Oh yeah! Got to show you a few more things!" Jason came down from the air, accidentally hitting a strange looking palm tree.

"Well let's get a move on!" The three had gone through all but one room in the palace. During the walks in the corridors, Blaze kept, extremely close to Jason and holding his arm. Jason was quite embarrassed and uncomfortable, having his secret crush, being near him so tightly but, also quite nice to feel her fur up against his. As they entered the last door Marine flung open the door to see…

"And this is my bedroom." Blaze said as Jason served the room. It was laced with purple and lavender drapes and a light purple bedspread upon a purple bed. It had some pictures of sonic, tails, Marine, and herself on the walls. Jason as disappointed to not be on her wall but, wasn't displeased with it. Marine getting bored, motioned Jason to get something out. He pulled out a SEGA Dreamcast and plugged it into a gray flat screen and popped in Chao space 3. (Reference to SA2) Blaze interested in Jason's abilities to play video games. She'd play but would lose to Jason almost every time. It felt like a good time to Blaze, she remembered the time Jason and her were young.

Flashback…

Blaze had just made it up to her Auntie raccoon's cabin yelling to Jason "Hey! We gotta get some diner!" She got to the door and saw her Auntie "Hello Auntie! I made a new friend!"

"Oh Blaze! You did? Who is it?" Then Jason walked in unannounced

"um… Hello there." He said with the raccoon falling to her back shaking.

"A-a-a-away demon!" Jason had a surprised and confused stare on with the raccoon throwing pots and pans at him yelling to blaze "Get away from him!"

"Auntie! He's my friend!" The raccoon loosened her glare but then, tightening it up.

"Don't talk to strangers Blaze!"

"But miss! I mean no harm!" The raccoon didn't listen; she yelled hurtful insults that made Jason remember his classmates. This quickly made tears appear from his eyes, with Blaze turning around to see him trying to hold back tears and running away.

"Jason! Don't run!" Blaze ran after him but, Jason had got a head start and got to a palm tree and hid up there. Blaze couldn't climb trees and stood there jumping at the air to calm him down. When the raccoon looked outside to see him quietly crying into his knees, she felt quite sad for him but, not that much. After awhile Blaze gave up and went inside.

"Blaze would you like dinner?" the raccoon said. Blaze just gave her a glare and ran up to her room window to see Jason still in the tree crying. At about 9:00 PM the raccoon came up to Blaze's room to see her quietly crying too. "Blaze! What's wrong?"

Blaze looked up to her aunt with dried tears in her eyes and yelled out to her "You made Jason cry!" then she pointed out to her window and let her aunt she that Jason still had not come down, and was still crying. "You yelled at him! He was my friend, and now he probable hates me!" the raccoon saw the error of her ways and saw that he was no demon sent to curse her family. It was just a hurt little boy.

"I'm so sorry honey! I was just scared!"

"of his eyes!" she thought to herself with a long pause. "He's really sensitive about them!" The raccoon went straight out to the tree and tried to get him down.

"I'm sorry! I was just frightened! I didn't mean any of those things!" she yelled up to him. He slid down to she her. She saw the beating scars on his left and right wrists and a long dark red cut on the back of him head and a large dark purple fist stane on his right side. "You've been beaten." Jason just turned away. "You've been made fun of." He just sagged his head and sighed "It's because of your eyes, isn't?" he nodded.

"….yeah."

"I'm sorry, I just judged by your figure. You're just a hard soul that just had a rough past." She tried to scoop him up but, he jump off and told her his dilemma because this, next to Blaze, was the only person who accepted him

"Have you ever been told you're a worthless being?... even by your own parent….. Have people ever beat you for your differences….. People make fun of you for the way you look? Have you?!" she was confronted from his emotions.

"No. But, I want to help you." She gave her hand to Jason. It was a long while until he took it. "You can call me auntie."

"I'm….. Jason." He said sheepishly. They both walked to the cabin.

Back to present…

"Huh… I miss those times." The present Blaze said to herself. Jason was to focused on the game to notice. Then Jason's head started to steam, followed by about a million sneezes. "are you okay?" she rose her hand to his head, to find it burning hot. "Jason! You're sick!"

"What?(sneeze) no I'm not." Blaze could tell he was lying so did Marine.

Blaze then saw a thorn in his back. "You've got a flu thorn in you! You've got the flu!"

Jason just stared at his confused. "Well then we better get me home to rest."

Marine just got a devilish idea to get the two alone for awhile. "Jason! You're not set for travel! You gotta say here for the night!" Blaze did a little double take to Marine's comment.

"What!? No, no, no. I'll be fine." He said trying to get up but falling to his knees groaning.

"no Jason. You aren't going anywhere. You're staying here!" Jason tried to disagree and get up but, going into more pain he complied.

Marine left on the Wave Tornado to Windfall Island. Jason went to sleep quite early. Jason tried to go to the guest room but, Blaze made him stay in her room with a threat of tickles (his one weakness!) so he just stayed in there. At 11:00 PM Blaze saw that Jason was shivering in his sleep. So she cuddled up to him make his sleeping arms hug her and she got quite close to him and hugged him all night. She thought to herself. "Best good night's sleep in awhile. I love you Jason." She just did a double take but, then agreed with herself and spelt.

(Am I calling the island by a wrong name? Anyways summarize time, they get there, they go around the palace, Jason gets sick, flashback, cuddle time. I bet every couple with Blaze in it supporter hates me right now. "Yep" oh. Oh well. Just to tell you I support Sonaze, Tailrine, Knouge, and Shadamy, so don't hate me as much. Anyways Psycho out!)