A/N: I swear I uploaded this chapter a long time ago (2009!)... odd. Well here it is again. I'm going to continue this story now that I'm getting used to my life so stay tuned if anyone's even reading! Renaissance Fair time! Also sorry if my descrips of the characters are outdated; the last Sonic game I played was The Black Knight, hehe... whiiich may explain this chapter...
Boredom: the Sequel! :: Ch.3; The Renaissance Fair (part 1)
It was awkward. For Silver, at least.
After it was properly decided that he'd stay with the Sonic Crew until his memory returned, everyone decided that he'd rotate apartments every week until Silver found who he's most comfortable with.
First apartment was Sonic and Shadow's, so that's why he now sat on their couch. They were a nice pair; a little crazy at times but still nice. But he still felt awkward.
Because when he woke up this morning he saw Shadow sprawled out on the other couch diagonal to him, stuffing his face with a bag of chips wearing a scowl on his face. Just eating, not saying a word.
Silver looked to the kitchen. Sonic was stuffing his own face with chili dogs.
Silver looked at Shadow again.
Now, uh... was he supposed to start a conversation?
... Well, to be polite...
The silver hedgehog cleared his throat. "S... so, uhm I—"
"Yo guys!" Sonic yelled, running to the living room. "Hey. I'm bored."
Shadow looked at him, cheeks full of food. "Ah thof you were practishing yoh dance moofhs?"
"I got bored. And thirsty. Let's go get a Smushy!"
"Dammit Sonic you've had a Smushy in the last two chapters, you don't need another one!" Shadow scolded as if he was Sonic's mom.
"Chapters?" Silver murmured.
The two ignored him. The blue hedgehog just pouted. "Tch, fine..." Then Sonic looked over at Silver, who jumped upon meeting his gaze. "Hey new kid. Go on the computer and find us something to do!"
"Y-yessir!" Silver scrambled to the computer and woke it from sleep mode.
Meanwhile Sonic had sat next to Shadow on the couch and was watching him inhale the bag. He grinned a little haughtily. "You're eating a lot lately, Shadow."
"ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT?!" Shadow punched him in the face.
"X_x"
"Hey guys," Silver called. Shadow strolled over and Sonic crawled. "Uh... what about this place?"
The other two hedgehogs stared at the screen. It was the Chuckie Chester website.
Sonic gasped. "LET'S GO!"
"No way, that place is for babies," Shadow grumbled.
"But their burgers are so good! C'mon Shad, please?"
"No."
"Pweeease?"
"No!"
"COME OOOOOON!"
Suddenly Silver screamed. (So many S's!) Sonic and Shadow looked. A pop up appeared above the Chuckie Chester website. Now on the monitor was a lady lacking clothes, doing inappropriate things with two other inappropriate ladies...
Sonic shrieked. "AGHHH! MY EYES—THEY BUUUURN!"
The silver hedgehog flailed his arms, panicking. "HOW DO I GET RID OF IT, HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?!"
"PRESS ALT FOUR!"
Silver banged his head on the keyboard, somehow managing to press alt and four at the same time.
The pop up disappeared. They breathed a sigh of relief.
But they screeched again when another pop up appeared.
"ALT FOUR! ALT FOOOOOURRR!" Sonic screeched while running around in circles.
"NO WAIT!" Shadow called.
"PERVERT! (smack)"
"OW—you idiot, LOOK AT THE SCREEN!"
Both Shadow and Silver turned to look—and indeed, this time, instead of a lewd and vulgar ad the pop up had a bunch of people wearing renaissance-style garb. There was a slideshow in the middle, pictures of horseback archery, sword-fighting, giant turkey legs...
Sonic's eyes got even bigger than they already were. "Heeey... that's it!"
Silver blinked. "What is?"
"There! We're going there!"
"Inside the computer? You juvenile, that is not feasible," Shadow said like a smart-ass. Sonic resisted the urge to smack him. Silver just sweatdropped at them both.
"Look Shad, just call everyone and tell them to meet us downstairs in an hour—and tell Knux to bring his car keys!"
- x -
An hour later, down at the underground parking lot...
"What's all this hullaballoo about, my soap was just about to start!" Rouge pouted as she and the girls reached the lot. Knuckles and Sonic were leaning against the dark green suburban and Shadow, Silver and Tails were standing around.
Sonic stepped up. "Okay so we were bored this morning so we forced Silver to look for something to do on the internet and then he went to the Chuckie Chester site and Shad was like no that's for kids but their food's the bomb so I was like YEAH LET'S GO but he was like DUDE NO and I was like COME ON and he was like NO and I was like COME ON and he was like NO and I was like COME ON and he was like—"
"OKAY WE GET IT, what happened after that!?" Tails waved his arms.
"Oh. After? Well after he said NO this ad popped up but it was nasty so we alt 4-ed it's ass and it disappeared but another one popped up and we almost alt 4-ed it's ass but it was an ad for the RENAISSANCE FAAAAAIR!"
"The RENAISSANCE FAAAAIIIRRR?!" Everyone else repeated in excitement.
"Don't they have giant turkey legs!?" Knuckles gasped.
Silver nodded. "Yeah. They're like the size of Tails' head."
The echidna started drooling. Sonic nodded. "Right?! And this can be our first official outing with Blaze and Silver!" He gave the two noobs a happy thumbs up.
Blaze and Silver's expressions softened, quite touched. Sonic saying that meant they've been accepted into the group! They exchanged sheepish grins.
"Awright, then what're we waiting for? LET'S GO, YO!"
"YAAAAY!" Everyone piled into the car.
A few seconds later...
"KNUCKLES WHAT THE HELL GET IN!" Tikal yelled from the passenger's seat.
"Oh—coming!" Knuckles stepped away from his pool of drool and climbed into the driver's seat.
"Oh yeah, and we have a problem too," the orange echidna pointed backwards. Knuckles turned to look. In the first backseat Rouge, Amy and Blaze sat, the former two smiling at him. Though Blaze was looking worriedly at the seat behind them...
"Dammit Sonic get your elbow out of my mouth!" Shadow grumbled as he fought for space in the tiny 2nd backseat.
"I can't, Silver's quill is poking me in a painful way so I have to sit like this or else it hurts!" Sonic twitched back.
"S-Sorry..." Silver mumbled, fidgeting insanely too. Meanwhile Tails was squished in a corner, crying to himself because of claustrophobia.
Knuckles sweatdropped heavily. "Hey guys. One of you has to go out, then."
"What!?" Both Shadow and Sonic screamed.
"Let Sonic! He runs fast!" Shadow volunteered for him.
Sonic shoved his face. "No way! I ran a lot yesterday, I need a break! You're the ultimate life form!"
"Well you're the fastest thing alive! Or am I wrong? Maybe you're just a coward!"
"I am not a coward! Faker!"
"You're the faker! The fastest, fakest thing alive!"
"I AM NOT FAKE!"
"Then prove it."
"..."
- x -
Sonic twitched as he watched Knuckles drive the SUV out of the lot and into the street. "How lame... I wanted the AC, dengit..." A sigh.
He looked down at the address he scribbled onto his glove.
"Oh well."
Then with a burst of speed he passed the suburban, disappearing into the distance with a sonic boom.
Blaze, who had been looking out the window at Sonic worriedly, gaped as she barely saw him zoom past her. "Whoa! Oh my gosh, he's insanely fast!"
"Well he ain't called the 'fastest thing alive' for nothing," Knuckles laughed from the front.
"That's so cool..." Silver, also in awe, mumbled out as he watched the blue outline fade. "So you guys have powers too?"
"You could say that," Rouge winked. "I'm especially talented in finding jewels and expensive items. I guess my boyfriend is too."
Knuckles flexed one arm. "Plus I gots super strength!"
"I have a hammer that I can summon out of nowhere!" Amy grinned. She reached into her pocket and drew out her gigantic Piko Piko hammer.
Blaze sqeaked (she was right beside her) and covered her head. Rouge flailed her arms. "AWAY, AMY! PUT IT AWAY!"
"Phooey..."
"Anyway..." Rouge pointed to Tails, who had stopped crying but was just sitting there with a blank expression. "Tails over there is a genius. He builds all kinds of stuff. And Shad over there is the ultimate life form. Just as fast as Sonic! But for some reason he's in this car with us."
"I wanted the AC in the car," Shadow tried compensating for himself.
And Tikal turned around, giving a peace sign. "And I'm dead!" Then she turned transparent.
Silver and Blaze screamed and clutched to the corner of their seats.
"A spirit," Knuckles corrected. He swatted at her. "Stop scaring the new kids, cuz."
"Fine, fine..." Tikal turned tangible and faced the front again.
Silver and Blaze continued clutching to the corner. It was awkwardly quiet. Knuckles sighed at the mood Tikal caused and turned the radio on to ease the atmosphere...
And so the car ride continued.
- x -
Soon the suburban arrived the Renaissance Fair!
"What the heck took you guys so long?! I've been here for hours! Days! Weeks! Months! I could've ran to and from here ONE MILLION TIMES before you guys even got here! Jeez! What took so long?! Man!" Sonic rambled on and on from behind the crew as they passed through the parking lot.
"SHADDAP ALREADY!" Rouge screeched. Sonic shut up. Then she skipped over to Knuckles and held hands with him as they continued walking.
Amy eyed them. She sneaked over to Sonic's side, trying to lace their own hands together...
But then Shadow popped up out of nowhere, shoving the blue hedgie's spiky head. "Fool! You think you're all that, I could run TWO MILLION TIMES instead!"
"Psh, whatever faker, don't be jealous."
"Like I'd ever be jealous of you."
"Heh, of cooouurse!"
Amy pouted as she watched Sonic cackle and sling an arm around Shadow's shoulders. The latter tried pushing him away but eventually gave up and let the younger hang onto him, literally dragging them both to the entrance. Amy sighed and kept walking anyway.
Behind them, Blaze laughed a bit as she watched the scene. "Ah, that's good..."
"What is?" Silver asked.
Blaze eyed him for a moment. But she just shrugged. "Sonic and Shadow."
"Oh, yeah. I was worried about them too..."
"You support Sonadow?" Tails popped up.
"Sonawhat?"
"Uh, nothing."
"... I mean, I thought they were mad at each other cuz of the car thing," the cat laughed sheepishly. Silver nodded.
"Nah, we've all known each other for a while now so ill feelings don't stay long," Tikal explained as she popped up on their other side. Blaze and Silver resisted the urge to scream. "Oh yeah, and sorry for earlier."
Silver waved his hand. "It's okay... I guess..."
Blaze eyed her. "Though... were you telling the truth? Are you really... dead?"
Tikal opened her mouth to reply but was interrupted by Amy's yell by the entrance booth.
"We got tickeeeets!" the pink hedgehog was waving said tickets.
Sonic jumped around, whining like a little kid. "COME ON COME ON HURRY UP LET'S GO! I WANNA SEE SOME SWORDFIGHTIIIIING!"
"Shaddap already, we're going!" Knuckles grumbled.
Tails sidled up beside him. "Hey Knux."
"Hm?"
"Giant. Turkey. Legs."
"GIANT! TURKEY! LEEEEEEEGS!" Knuckles screeched like a rabid animal, chucking his ticket at the worker and just running inside. The rest followed.
Inside...
Everyone 'ooh'-ed. All kinds of fancily dressed people walked around, giggling and laughing merrily in British accents. About half of them were flailing giant turkey legs around too.
A waterfall poured out of the echidna's mouth. "Oh my g..." Knuckles shuddered as a guy passed him with a fresh one. "The smell... it's so... intoxicating...!"
"That's gross Knux, what if a fly goes in," Sonic murmured.
"I MUST OBTAIN ONE!" The red echidna ran off. Rouge followed him, still cursing. Sonic followed them too for some reason.
Meanwhile Amy, Tikal and Silver had wandered off elsewhere. "Aw, we should have dressed up..." Amy sighed as she watched all the people pass her. "Wow, what a pretty dress! Oh and that skirt, OH AND THAT NECKLACE!"
"Why don't we rent some outfits?" Tikal suggested. Amy gasped and nodded in excitement.
Soon the two girls were in a rental store's dressing rooms, trying out some clothes. Somehow they managed to get Silver to try out some things too.
Tikal grinned as she admired herself in the mirror. It was a gypsy costume; very similar to the one Esmeralda wore in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. "Awesome, I'm totally getting this!" she slapped some cash into a worker's hand. "Thanks, I'll return it later!"
"This is kinda heavy huh," Silver sweatdropped as he opened his curtain, revealing some armor. Then he yelped as he fell back, his helmet guard falling down and covering his eyes. "..."
The worker popped up. "Rightful sir, that is our Galahad armor. How does it suit you?"
"Suits him very well!" Tikal giggled. She slapped s'more cash into the worker's hand. "He's taking that too!"
"WOO LOOK AT ME!" Amy squealed as she burst out. The pink hedgehog wore a white, teal and blue fluffy dress with a teal headband. The jacket was slightly odd that it formed a shape around her neck that looked like a collar.
Silver 'ooh'-ed and Tikal squealed. "Ames! How prettyyy!"
"I know huh!" Amy twirled. "Sonic will definitely fall for me when he sees me in this."
"Haha! I doubt it."
Amy threw her headband at her.
The worker popped up again, this time beside Amy as he handed her a new headband. "Fair maiden, that is our Lady of the Lake outfit, very popular with young female hedgehogs such as yourself," he explained.
"CAN I BUY IT!?"
"No."
"Why not!?"
"No." The worker held his hand out.
"Aww..." Amy sighed and gave him some cash. "Well okay, I can be a Lake Lady for just one day I guess..."
"Wee! We all have outfits!" Tikal squealed in joy, picking Silver off the floor and dragging him and Amy back outside. "Let's show everyone else—"
She looked around. The rest of the crew had disappeared.
"... Lame-o's."
- x -
Unbeknownst to the three, the others had indeed gone off, but they actually decided to rent some outfits as well! Currently Shadow and Blaze were in a different clothing rental store.
Shadow was decked out in dark gray and red armor. Now usually he wouldn't bother with this useless stuff, but he was at the fair anyway, so why the hell not. He raised an eyebrow at his reflection. "Hm. Not bad."
Behind him, Blaze slowly exited her dressing room. She was wearing a fluffy pink princess outfit and a gigantic golden crown with obnoxious jewels. She looked up at Shadow awkwardly. "Um, how do I look? Please be honest."
Shadow paused for a moment.
... Then he lowered his helmet's guard, covering his entire face.
"Agh! I knew this would be too girly!" Blaze sobbed, stomping back into the dressing room and shoving the curtain close.
The hedgehog looked around the store for a bit. He spotted something, picked it up and then dropped it into the dressing room. "Try this."
Blaze squeaked when the armor almost hit her feet. "Wait a sec—a-armor?!"
"Yes."
"But it looks heavy—"
"JUST TRY IT, MY PATIENCE IS WEARING THIN!"
"OKAY, OKAY!" Blaze sweatdropped, shoving the armor on. Scary Shadow and his random yelling...
After a moment the cat came out again. Shadow nodded in approval. "I knew it. You're too boyish for a dress."
"What's that supposed to mean?!"
Ignoring her, Shadow turned to the worker and gave him enough money for his Lancelot and Blaze's Percival armor.
- x -
"I can't believe the nerve of that echidna! Ditching me, his beloved and sexy girlfriend for giant turkey legs..." Rouge huffed as she continued through the crowd. "How could he!?"
"You don't understand Rouge, those turkey legs looked really good in the picture," Sonic tried explaining.
"BUT, I'M SEXY!"
"Food is sexy to men too."
"BUT I'M SEXIER!"
"When a man is hungry, it is not always so..."
Rouge shrieked and stomped off. Sonic shrugged and followed anyways.
"Hey Soniiiiiic~!"
The blue hedgehog turned. Tails came running up to him, wearing a brown decorated apron and goggles on his head. "Whoa Tails, where'd you get that stuff?"
"I didn't like the page boy outfits since they made me look like a pansy, so I got this blacksmith one! Cool huh? It suits me, huh? Blacksmith! They fix stuff? And I build stuff?! It's like the same thi—" The fox stared as Sonic started walking away. "GRAH WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME!" he screeched and leapt on Sonic.
"AAAIIIIIEEE! LIKE, MY QUILLS! GET OFFFF!"
Meanwhile Rouge gasped as she saw the back of a red echidna. "There you are, you little..." she stomped up to him and yanked one dreadlock.
The echidna yelped in pain, being forced to turn around. "OWW, WHO—"
"YOU!" the white bat wrenched him closer. "HOW COULD YOU DITCH ME!? FOR GIANT TURKEY LEGS, EVEN! GIANT TURKEY LEGS WON'T LOVE YOU BACK, YOU KNOW! GIANT TURKEY LEGS CAN'T CUDDLE WITH YOU! WANNA KNOW WHY!? CUZ THEY GOT NO ARMS, DAMMIIIIT!" then she threw the dreadlock back at him and broke down sobbing.
Everyone stared, but Rouge didn't care. It was her Renaissance Fair and she'll cry if she wants to!
Though she stopped when she felt strong arms embrace her figure. And then he spoke... with a British accent. "My beloved. Giant turkey legs are nil compared to your angelic visage."
"W... what's with the speech."
"It's the Renaissance, why not."
"Well, okay. I forgive you." Rouge giggled and looked up. They sure make up fast... but then the bat noticed how he had bronze armor on. "Wow, you rented a costume too, Knuckles?"
"Knuckles? I am Gawain, my beautiful maiden," the echidna corrected as he helped Rouge stand. "Sir Gawain, a Knight of the Round Table!"
Rouge eyed him. Red-orange fur, lavender eyes, white crescent-shaped patch of fur on his chest... definitely Knuckles' features.
She sighed; well, whatever. They were at a Renaissance Fair after all. She grabbed his hand. "Okay. Fiiiine. Gawaaiin. Now come on, I'm hungry! Let's get some medieval ice cream!"
Nodding, Knuckles— the echidna threw an apple at my head.
OW! What the!?
"My name is GAWAIN, not Knuckles, you incompetent narrator!"
Jeez fine! GAWAIN, okay. Nodding, GAWAIN let Rouge led him to the food booths. Sonic followed too, Tails still chewing on his head.
- x -
Amy, Tikal and Silver continued through the fair, looking at all the stalls. As they walked they passed an archery range.
"Three dollars! Three dollars for ten arrows!" the lady at the stand yelled out.
"Archery! Hey Silver, you any good with that?" Amy looked to the other hedgehog.
Silver shook his head. "I've never tried before—"
"TRY IT NOW!" Tikal grinned. The girls dragged him to the stand, giving the lady three bucks. The lady gave them a bow and ten arrows.
Amy handed Silver the bow. "Okay so, you know what to do right? Aim at the center."
"I don't even know how to hold it..."
Tikal gave him an arrow. "You'll figure it out."
Silver paused for a second. He struggled a bit as he tried figuring out how to load the arrow, somehow getting it in there.
"Now don't hold back!" Tikal cheered.
Amy did the same. "Yeaahh! Go Silver!"
The hedgehog aimed. He pulled back, then let go...
The arrow flailed four inches away from him. Amy and Tikal fell over.
Silver flailed his arms. "WAIT, WAIT! I messed up on that one! The wind was like... hold on, lemme try again..." And so he loaded another arrow...
- x -
Blaze sighed as another girl came up to her, begging for a picture. The cat looked to the friend with the camera, smiling a little awkwardly. A camera flash. Then the two girls thanked Blaze before running off squealing some more.
Blaze walked back to Shadow who'd just been watching with an amused expression. "Man, I'm getting tired Shadow... that was the fifth girl already!"
"Percival must be a popular knight," Shadow shrugged before biting into his own giant turkey leg. "... Hey, this isn't bad..."
"But still! Wouldn't you think they'd realize that I'M A GIRL TOO!?"
"Silly kitty! Back in the Renaissance nobody cared what gender you were, as long as you're hot."
"... Aaagghhh." Blaze huffed as they continued walking. "I think I need to buy some jewelry with feathers or glitter or SOMEthing, cuz it's starting to get out of ha—" she was cut off when another girl came running up to her. "... Seriously...?"
"O-Oh! Aren't you Sir Percival...?" the girl stuttered. "Picture! Can I? With you, I mean? Oh no, I'm getting all jumbled and flustered and embarrassed like a high school girl and her first crush!" she giggled. Her friend that was with her squealed madly. Then they held hands and jumped up and down.
Blaze looked to Shadow for help.
But he was too busy wolfing down his food. "HOLY EGGMAN ON A STICK, THIS IS DELECTABLE OMNOMNOM!"
The cat's eye twitched, just turning to pose with them...
- x -
"Err, Silver..."
The two girls sweatdropped heavily as they continued watching Silver's attempt at a bull's eye. They eyed all the failed arrows, both far and near the target... mostly far though...
"SHOOT!" Silver missed again. He slammed another three bucks on the table. The lady grinned at the money, handing him ten more arrows.
Meanwhile Amy was staring at Silver. Since he was wearing heavy, non-ventilating armor and it was hot out, the male hedgehog was sweating pretty profusely now. "Silver, Iiiii think that's enough..."
"Five more minutes!"
"But you stink," Tikal grumbled. "... Figuratively and literally."
"Hold on, six more arrows!"
Tikal and Amy backed away as the sweat puddle got bigger. "..."
"SHOOT! MISSED AGAIN!" Silver slammed more money on the desk. The lady cheered, despite covered in his sweat from his rabid movements...
- x -
Rouge and Knu—I mean, GAWAIN, sat at a table together under the shade of a tree, gazing lovingly into each other's eyes as they shared an ice cream soda.
"Look at them," Sonic grumbled. He sat at another table right under the sun since all the others were taken. "How gross! Eww! Gazing lovingly into each other's eyes as they share an ice cream soda... yuck!"
... Grr.
"Don't be jealous," Tails rolled his eyes from beside him. Then he turned to the feast in front of him: giant turkey legs, baked chips, steak sandwiches, pizza, chicken filets, etc... he visited fourteen different food stands since he couldn't decide what he wanted. The fox cackled and clapped his hands together. "YAY FOOD THANK YOU JESUS!" Then he proceeded to stuff his face.
Sonic ignored him, just gnawing at his chili dog.
After a moment Tails looked up at him. "And why are you eating a chili dog. At a Renaissance Fair."
"I like chili dogs, okay!"
"And why didn't you rent an outfit? Even Rouge has a maiden-thing going on."
"I'm too cool for that school, yo. Psshh."
Tails shrugged, continuing to inhale his lunch.
"Heeey~! It's a small world after all!"
The two looked up. Shadow and Blaze waved their greetings, sitting at their table. Sonic raised an eyebrow at their armor. "You guys too?"
"So!? It's the RenFair," Shadow eyed him. "Why not you?"
"I'm too cool for that school, yo. Psshh."
All of a sudden a girl came up to their table. She was wringing her hands together nervously. "U-uh, hi! I was wondering..."
Shadow shoved Blaze forward. The cat held back a sob as she was dragged up, forcing a smile for another picture. Then the girls ran away squealing.
Sonic stared. "Uh..."
"Apparently Percival's real popular!" Blaze grumbled, sitting back down. "Look! I even bought a girly necklace thing!" she pointed around her neck. Indeed, a girly pink necklace with feathers and jewels adorned her. "But they don't caaare! All I wanted was to watch some fencing and maybe eat a steak sandwich or something, but now I'm being harassed for pictures every two seconds—"
Tails slid one of his many steak sandwiches Blaze's direction. The cat squee-ed, thanking him.
Sonic looked at Shadow. "I'm surprised no one wants a picture with you."
Shadow raised an eyebrow at him. "Why would they."
"Cuz you're Lancelot, aren't you?"
"Who?"
"Yanno, Lancelot!? The one who eats-a-lot? AAAAHAHHAHAA!" Sonic cracked up insanely at his own lame joke, banging his fist on the table and convulsing. The other three just stared...
Meanwhile, at the other table...
Gawain looked at a nearby clock. "Oh, my precious Rouge! I believe the time has come to prepare for the battle..."
Rouge blinked, sliding the finished ice cream soda away. She had to admit, she kinda liked how the echidna was talking at the moment; he used cute words like 'beloved' and 'dear' and stuff. But for now she pushed that thought aside, focusing on what he said. "Wait, the battle? For what?"
"Against the Black Knight and the evil Sorceress!" he explained, getting up. "I am afraid I must leave. However if you wish to view the battle, please show up at the Grand Arena this coming noonfall!"
"... What?"
Gawain handed her a flyer.
The Black Knight VS The Knights of the Round Table!
Now Showing at The Grand Arena!
Show times: 9am, 12pm, 3pm
Come one, come all! IT'S GOING TO BE RATHER AWESUUUUM!
"Ohhhh. It's a show."
"Not so, my darling. 'Tis a battle!" Gawain started walking backwards. "I'll miss you, beloved! Stay strong for me! I will come back... I PROMISE!" then he turned and ran away.
Rouge stared. She sweatdropped as Gawain passed Sonic's table, then did a double take and started talking to them. She shrugged. "Well whatever, I've done my romantic-thing and hung out with these guys long enough! Time to chill with the other three..." The bat stood and walked off.
- x -
Like Rouge saw, Gawain ran away, but when he passed Sonic's table he did a double take and backed up.
"Do my eyes deceive me? 'TIS SIR LANCELOT!" he screamed, flailing his arms insanely.
Shadow sipped at his soda boredly.
Blaze elbowed him. He jerked out of his trance. "What?"
"Knuckles is calling you."
Shadow looked up at Gawain. "What do you want?"
"Sir Lancelot!" Gawain went down on one knee, crossing his fist over his chest. "And Sir Percival as well!" He eyed Blaze. "Have you lost weight, Sir Percival...?"
Blaze raised an eyebrow, looking down at her stomach. "I actually thought the armor made me look heavier..."
"Ah, matters not! However now that we three have gathered, our next mission is to find the mighty King Arthur. Only he can lead us in the battle with the Black Knight this noonfall!"
Shadow and Blaze stared blankly.
"Oooookay Knux, I think you're taking this RenFair thing a little too seriously," Sonic cackled, patting his shoulder.
Gawain blinked, looking to the voice.
Sonic blinked back.
"KING ARTHUR!" Gawain sobbed, slamming himself on the ground and bowing repeatedly at the blue hedgehog's feet. "MY KING! You were present the entire time!? Why have you not spoken!?"
"King?"
"How can he be a King, he's not even wearing a costume," Tails sweatdropped.
Gawain looked up. "The Blacksmith is present as well?! Goodness, the Gods are truly watching over us! It is certain now: we will prevail in the final battle!"
"... If you don't smack him, I will," Shadow told Sonic.
But before any smacking could occur Gawain had gotten to his feet again. "Come your majesty, fellow knights and noble blacksmith! Time is of essence; we must prepare for the confrontation at hand!" he grabbed Sonic ("JEEZ KNUX WHAT'RE YOU DOING—") and slung him over his shoulder, running off.
Shadow, Blaze and Tails exchanged glances but followed anyway.
Though later they'd make sure to smack Knuckles a good one.
TBC...