A Fox with a Look of Stone

But a Heart of Gold

(Chapter 4: Let the past unfold)

(It's Psycho again. Sorry that you ladies and gents aren't liking the newer chapters as much as the first. I don't know what happen but, whatever. Still gonna write em. Also I've been lazy with updates lately, so sorry 'bout that. Anyways Psycho out!)

In a soft sandy beach, with palm trees and the ocean swaying in rhythm, a purple fox lays on the beach. Blaze walks speechless to the figure. With amazement of the moment, ran up to the figure to see who it was. It was Jason giving her a soft smile but, there was something different.

"J-J-Jason! What's up with your eyes?!" Blaze yelled out in surprise. He came up to her with a worried face to her pale expression.

"Blaze! What's wrong ? You look like you've seen a ghost." Jason was just astonished by her reaction. He always had his eyes this way. That was a lie, he had pupils, you all know that he doesn't have em.

"Jason, why do you have pupils? Did something happen? Did someone fix them? What's up?!" All Jason had was an expression of confusion.

"You need to sit down. Maybe this'll help." Then Jason grabbed her face gently and kissed her straight on the lips. Blaze had almost an entirely white face. He kissed her! What she wanted but, he acted like this was casual.

"Y-Y-You… kissed… me."

"Um.. Yeah. Were boyfriend and girlfriend. Remember?" With a gasp of excitement, she fell to the ground astonished.

"Bl…. Bla…..Blaz…Blaze!" She woke up to Jason shaking her gently on the floor of her room. It was all a dream, Jason had his pupils back. "Blaze, are you alright? You wouldn't wake up. I was worried." She just stared at the floor embarrassed; Jason just put her on the bed, rubbing his chest. "My chest felt warm all night and I found you on the floor hugging a photo that was blank." Jason pulled out the picture from his pocket. Blaze recognized it instantly; it was made that only her eyes could see it. It was the first photo she and Jason were in.

Flashback… (Sorry.)

Blaze just cried into her pillow for about, an hour thinking of Jason, and what he might think of her.

"He hates me now. I can't believe Auntie threw him out!... Why am I thinking of him of him now?" Then the door cracked a little with Blaze jumping a bit and she threw a pillow of her tissues at the door yelling "Auntie Get out!" It hit Jason, with the amount of crying she did, the pillow was quite a load, it made Jason tumble down the stairs with a bit "Thump!" She ran to the stairs to see Jason on his face quiet. Until…

"(Clearing his throat) I say! Ouch." He said sarcastically. It really didn't hurt him, compared to the beatings, he was fine. But, Blaze was quite scared to see her new friend on the floor not moving. She ran down the stairs crying even worse than before saying.

"Jason! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it!" She got down and tried her hardest to get him up but, to no avival. Her face was as red as can be and dried tears were in her fur. The aunt was just standing in front of them looking at them confused.

"Honey. Let me help you." She walked over to them and picked up Jason to see a print made on the hard wood floor stair. She helped him into the living room with a crib near a couch were they planted Jason down. "There you go, Jason." Jason just looked around to the room.

"This is quite a nice house that you have." He said complimenting the house.

"Well it's what I had to work with." Then the baby in the crib started to cry out uncontrollable. The raccoon made a bee line to the crib and picked up the baby and cradled it to stop the crying and said comfortingly "It's ok. It's ok. It's ok Marine." The baby stopped and tilted its head toward the laying Fox.

"Ga…. Go!" she pointed her arms to him wanting to see him.

The mother noticed and asked the baby "Do you want him to hold you?"

Jason like any 9 year old said to that "What?!" he never held anything of importantance, much less a baby. "No, no, no, I can't hold anything."

"Come on it'll be fine." She said as she held out the baby into his arms. "Her name is Marine." The girl store up to Jason. Jason looked down at her dishearteningly but, softly.

"Um… hello there. I'm Jason." The girl just kept staring at him, making Jason do a anime sweat drop.

"(By the way she's "I'm 1 at yhis time!" the current Marine said. Marine! Don't do that! "Sorry Psycho. I just wanted to take part." It's alright, back to it then.) Jay- san?" She said, almost learning his name."Jay-san! Jay-san!"

"Well she knows your name now." Auntie said surprisingly, Marine didn't even know her name but, she instantly learns his name. It was all quite strange. Jason started a smile that grew greater every time she said his name and his swayed her shortly for awhile. "You two'll be good friends, I can see."

"Um…. Miss?"

"Oh Jason, you don't need to call me that. Call me Auntie."

"Ok. Auntie? Are we friends?" This question didn't surprise her at all. With his look (And trust me she can tell anything from anyone with her eyes.) she could see he never had a friend at all. But, was she friends with him? Well he was Blaze's friend and he was quite polite, so she guessed.

"Yes, Jason I'll be your friend."

"Oh, thank chaos." With Jason giving a sigh of relief.

"But, are we friends?" Blaze said as she walked in, hair a mess.

"What do you mean Blaze? Of course we're friends!" With Blaze giving her own sigh of relief, walked over to him and sat right next to him and gave him s tight hug, make Jason blush a light red. The aunt just gave a little giggle to this.

"Well, this was a momentous night. Maybe we should frame it?"

"Can we Auntie? Can we?" Blaze said with a excited tone.

"If Jason's ok with it."

"um… it would be fine miss." Then Auntie gave heed for them to come outside. Then she set up a small Swordan camera (Canon reference (Gonna do these references)) on a tree and had Blaze and Jason stand next to each other, with Auntie coming behind them holding young baby Marine. It took two photos, for both of them to hold onto. From that day on Blaze, Jason, and Marine were friends, for about 7 years. Jason wouldn't go to school, even if Auntie forced him, he became part of their family. From her Auntie, Blaze knew not to bother him with his past, through she was curious. Marine grew up to know Jason and the two became great friends, for some reason no one would like her at school. People would make fun of her; Jason didn't want Marine turning out like him so, his electric powers kept her safe. People say that violence doesn't solve things, that might be right but, not in this world. Blaze never had a hard time at school, she had many friends and Marine gained popularity after awhile. Every time their friends came over, they never really messed with Jason, they thought that he was to confined. It was all going good for them, until Jason was 16, Blaze was 15, and Marine was 9, they just split apart. More specifically Blaze and Jason, Blaze became so curious that she was at her breaking point. She started to try and get to Jason through his past. She just asked occasionally at first, which Jason just swayed off. But, it got more rampeid that she asked ever night and morning, after awhile Jason became distant. But, one day was a breaking point. Jason just grabbed a piece of toast and said goodbye to Auntie and tried to get away quick so that Blaze wouldn't see but, sure enough.

"Hey Jason! Can I talk to you!" Blaze was walking down the stairs and saw Jason sneaking away. Jason, not wanting for her to keep asking him, ran out the house and down the hill to the market. Blaze, being instinctively faster than him, Sped off catching up to him, and on his tail. Jason had just got to the market place (or bazaar?) and did the same maneuvers as 7 years ago jumped onto the metal parts of the stands. With 7 years of practice Jason's speed greatly increased getting him across the bazaar quite quickly. But, 7 years for him was the same for her and she was still faster. While Jason was jumping from one side of the Bazaar's crossing way, Blaze shot a fire ball at him knocking him over and onto the ground. She just jumped on him make a circle around them to keep him from running. "Jason! What's up with you? Stop running away!" Jason just looked away but, Blaze was completely aggravated (Compare it to Somecallmejohnny's sensered mode.) so in her impeding anger she burnt up his arm hurting him a lot, making scream out a incinerating shriek. Blaze instantly let go, allowing him to get up, with him in tears. He had cried a lot of time at night, because of the beatings but, it seemed that this was the worst he cried. It was silent but, quite visually displeasing. "Jason I didn't mean it!" she tried to make it up to him but, he just ran away. That was the last time she saw him for a year. She shut herself off to everyone, her best friend went away from her, and no one saw him, except for Marine and Auntie. They tried comfort her but, to no results. She toke up her duties more because of him leaving but, the events of Sonic Rush lead to her opening more up but, not enough and Sonic Rush Adventure happened and she finally gave in and became her original nature but, no signs of Jason. Jason missed her so much but, was scared she hated him so every time she was around he'd run away.

Back to Present…

Blaze had just been staring into the photo reminicening about old times, Jason in the mean time just sat around and played Chao Space 3. Blaze slipped back to reality as she saw Jason playing. She came from the top of her bed and hugged Jason's back (If you've ever seen Smosh's "Guys guide to hugging guys" it's like the spider-man hug. Not the Man-spider on though. I'll reference a lot of YouTube videos a lot.) Making him blush again and she said "Thank you, Jason!" he gave her a small hug back and just stood embarrassed and red as mercury. Marine walked next to the door to see them hugging, so she didn't interrupt.

(That was a past in a nutshell.

"Yes"- Jason

Aw shut up. Anyway it's getting to the good part so, stay tuned. Any last words Jason?

"Yeah. Psycho doesn't own any characters cept for me; they belong to SEGA and Sonic team."

Thanks, Anyways Psycho out!)