Four loud thuds sounded on the vacant building's roof. Sonic's ear flicked in irritation, he'd landed flat on his face and now his jaw hurt from where it had jutted upward violently. Luckily nothing was broken.
"Uhg, I hate teleportation…" Kyra grumbled as she got up. Shadow and Tails glared at her. "Give us a warning before you do…whatever you did." Shadow growled as he rubbed his head from where it had hit the concrete. Tails nodded, trying to hold his tongue.
"So," Sonic said as he brushed dirt off of his fur. "Where are we?" Kyra leaned over the side of the building, a content smile on her face. "Tuscany. Where else?"
Sonic looked over the building to see twisted streets, old buildings and some tourists and children prancing in the streets playing. The sun was beginning to set.
"What's the time difference between America and Italy?" Sonic asked as he continued to look at the emptying streets.
"About seven hours from Station Square. It was around noon when the explosion went off just now." Tails replied as he adjusted the device for his left ear hearing. A high squeal was coming from it at the moment, and a small knob helped get rid of it.
Kyra nodded in silent agreement. "That'd make it about 5:50 right now. C'mon, we'd best get going."
Shadow growled. "What makes you think that we're going with you God knows where? We just met you and-"
"And I've gotten you out of trouble twice, which means you owe me double. Let's just count you coming with me to a safer, shenkaii-not-allowed bar and inn a half-way in the payment. Now are you coming or not?" She said as she started down the building without a second glance.
Sonic and Tails rolled their eyes and started down after her. "C'mon. Might as well since we're in this far…" Sonic grumbled as a headache began to build from the impact when they'd fallen. Shadow hesitated before following reluctantly.
Once at the bottom of the building, Kyra was already a few yards ahead. Sonic looked around the area they were in, only to find a few windows open and the din of people setting their tables and talking in Italian. Once a lean man poked his head out a window and waved, a friendly "ciao!" following.
Rounding a corner between buildings, they went to the back of a brick alley. The back of the alley was blocked off by a large brick wall, leaving nowhere else to go.
"You sure you know where you're-" Sonic started, only to be surprised by the brick wall moving to the side, revealing a thick wooden door with a silver knocker and handle.
Kyra grinned at their surprised expressions. "Yes, I do," She turned the silver handle and opened the door to reveal a bar. "So don't worry 'bout it."
The floor was a faded, rough, wooden setting with a bar to the left that went on for about twenty feet or so. To the right was a large dance floor, a few round tables were scattered around and an old jukebox rested in the left-hand corner. A flight of stairs were at the end of the bar leading upwards and a few pool tables were in another room along with a poker table.
A small stage was in the front of the bar and the song "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley was playing, a few couples that Sonic assumed were from the fiftiess or before had abandoned their drinks to dance, judging on the dancing style. A rustic chandelier hung over the bar, providing dim light and an eerie, yet welcome feel.
"Oy, Kyra!" Sonic's ears perked up as a red-brown dingo wearing a Hawaiian fishhook necklace and Bermuda shorts poked his head out of the room with the pool tables. His accent was Australian.
She grinned widely. "Hey, Diego! How are ya?" The said dingo shrugged and picked up a pool stick from the rack on the wall. "Not much. Care for a game of 8-ball?"
"Only if you play a game of football with me," She countered as she took off her jacket. Diego rolled his eyes. His ears then perked up as he noticed the trio that had come in with Kyra. "Shadow and Sonic Hedgehog? Miles 'Tails' Prower? What-"
Kyra went over to the bar and ordered a glass of scotch. "Long story." As Diego was about to go out the door, an attractive purple fox with vibrant green eyes rushed past him and threw a hug around Kyra, almost knocking her over. "Ky Ky!" She said in an excited American accent. She was wearing a short black dress with a deep purple hem and a pair of black fingerless gloves with a bracelet adorning a skull pendant hung on her left hand.
Kyra had a wide smile on her face as the fox quickly let go of the hug. "Hullo, Lilac! How are you?" Lilac shrugged. "Same old-same-old. Oh! Hello there!" She said happily as she noticed the others, holding a hand out to Shadow. "I'm Lilac, that idiot there is Diego." She motioned with a hand. Diego rolled his eyes. "Thank you for the introduction, Lilac…"
"No problem!" She called back playfully. Shadow's ear twitched in slight irritation, but he shook her hand anyways.
"Shadow Hedgehog." He said bluntly. Tails waved at her and introduced himself, as did Sonic. "Nice to meet all of you! So, what are you doing here?"
Kyra butt in before Sonic could respond. "Business, Lilac." She said as she started toward the pool room. Lilac nodded. "Perfectly understandable. C'mon! I want you to meet the rest of the gang." She grabbed Shadow's hand and began dragging him toward the pool room.
The inside of the room was a red brick walls with the same wooden floor. An old Coca-Cola machine was off to the side along with some pictures hanging on the walls- one being an autographed picture of The Beatles. Two pool tables were in the room and a poker table was in there as well.
Sonic's ear twitched in irritation as he noticed the familiar shape of Scourge sitting at a table with a two human males and a girl with choppy, dark brown-red hair. She was racking up the red and yellow pool balls on the table.
"…All I'm sayin' is that if you are Sonic Hedgehog's opposite, wouldn't that make one of you gay?" Said an Australian guy wearing a white T-shirt, blue jean pants and a cowboy hat with an eagle feather attached to the band around it. He had dark blonde hair and one eye was brown, the other an aqua-marine.
Sonic felt his cheeks heat up at this, as did Scourge in an offended flush before countering. "No! That's not true! I'm not gay, if anything he's the one that's gay! Geez, Ollie! Where'd…? Just why?" The guy named "Ollie" raised a brow, as did Kyra. Diego and the girl also raised brows. Kyra then smirked as she noticed Sonic and Scourge flushing.
"Okay then, Scourge. Who here didn't notice the flowers in the garden were carnations?" Kyra asked aloud. The others all turned to her with wide grins and raised their hands, resulting in Scourge flushing more. "Any fool would notice that," Scourge growled. "That doesn't prove anything!"
Lilac leaned over his shoulder and pouted. "Daww…is wittle Scourgey all mad?"
Tails snickered, trying to hold back a laugh. Scourge's ear twitched as he heard this and in turn both ears flattened back. "….Those bastards are standing right behind me, aren't they?" Ollie and the other male, whom was reading a book and had a pair of glasses on, as well as Diego and the other girl all smirked at him and nodded.
Setting his jaw in irritation, Scourge slowly turned around to see them. Kyra was leaning against the wall, a mocking smirk on her face and arms crossed. "….I sure picked one hell of a day to quit smoking…." He muttered irritably.
Kyra rolled her eyes as some of the other people laughed. "Oh shut up you ninny!" She said playfully as she took a cigarette out of his pack that was laying on the table. Scourge grumbled as he then took out a vile with a clear liquid in it. "Here's your friggin' rattlesnake venom…" Kyra grinned with delight, a mischievous glimmer in her eyes. "Fantastic!"
The red-haired girl looked over at Sonic, Shadow, and Tails with curiosity while all of this was going on. Sonic noticed she had light green-yellow eyes that had the same glowing effect as Kyra's.
"Oh yeah," Lilac said as she recalled something. "Umm, this is kind of our little circle of friends," She directed Shadow's attention to the red-haired girl. "That's Alys and the guy reading the book is her mate, Victor- she's from Scotland and he's from Wales. You've already noticed Ollie," Ollie tipped his hat in greeting.
"And you know the rest of us," She chuckled. Shadow smirked at her slightly edgy behavior.
Victor took off his glasses and closed his book before smiling and saying, "So, you are the infamous trio that is having…how do you say now? 'One big cluster-fuck'? And please excuse our grammar, Miles." Alys snorted in laughter and Diego rolled his eyes as he set up his aim.
Tails rubbed his neck in slight embarrassment. "Heh, sure thing, Victor."
Sonic ignored the remark (and Scourge) before glaring at Kyra. "You could say that, but I still don't get why we are in Italy…"
Victor and Alys raised brows at Kyra, who laughed nervously. Alys rolled her eyes. "Oh for God's sake, kid! You didn't tell them?!"
"She's always been bad at explaining herself, love." Victor muttered in irritation.
"Don't blame me!" Kyra exclaimed before their discussion basically faded into nothing other than blah-blah-blah to Sonic and the others.
Diego was left with an unfinished game, his ears flicking in annoyance. "So, Tails," He said in attempt to strike up conversation. "You ever play eight-ball?"
Tails furrowed his brows in confusion. "Eight-ball?"
"Oh you know- pool. You wanna try?" He asked as he began to rack up the balls again. Tails turned it down reluctantly. "No thanks, Diego. ….But could you show me around?"
Diego looked at Sonic for approval as did Tails. Sonic smirked at Tails before laughing slightly and saying, "Go ahead."
Sonic's ears then perked up slightly as he was about to turn to talk to Shadow, only to find that he was deep in conversation with Lilac and Victor.
'Well hell…' He thought to himself before sighing.
Walking out of the room, he leaned against a wall trying to figure out the song that was now playing, which happened to be 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks.
He also noticed that almost all the people here were demons, varying from those in books such as Danish trolls to those that he'd never even heard of.
"Excuse me, sir," Sonic's ears flicked toward the childish voice and looked over to see a young male faun with hazel eyes and dark chocolate and white fur extending from a small happy-trail and on his arms before turning into the legs of a deer.
"I was wondering if you saw my sister? She's- oh, never mind!" He exclaimed before prancing off to meet a female about a year or two younger than him. Sonic was staring at where the brother had been moments before.
Okay…fauns. Fauns are real too….
A loud yelp sounded from where he'd just come from. Poking his head in, Sonic furrowed his brows as he noticed Diego and Scourge hanging from the chandelier, Ollie on the table and a large brown and cream wolf crouched in a corner snarling. All the girls were laughing their heads off while Tails and Shadow were behind them staring at something on the floor in fear.
Sonic's ears rolled back and his eyes widened as he noticed what they were all staring at.
In the middle of the floor was a dog-racoon thing that stood about two feet tall on its hind legs and its testicles were about as big as its torso.
"What the hell…?" Sonic started only to be interrupted by a hysterical Kyra.
"It's a- haha! I-It's a t-tan- haha! Tanuki….!"
Diego and Scourge growled at it continuously. "That's not funny, Kyra! Those things can kill you!" Diego barked.
Tails laughed. "Kill you? How?"
"It t-bags you to death!" Diego growled, tails between legs. That shut him up.
Tails's ears rolled back and he stared at it in utter fear, his tails twitching and mouth open slightly in disgust.
Sonic chuckled at Tails's reaction, even though he found it revolting himself. Tonight was going to be fun…
Authors Note:
Wow! It's been so long since I posted the last chapter! Please don't kill me…(lol) Anyway, For this chapter we have a character that actually isn't mine or Sega's!
Lilac is a character created by my very good friend Sprinkles-on-cupcakes, and of course Sonic, Shadow, and Tails all belong to Sega. I hope ya'll had a good laugh (or awkward feeling) at this chapter and I'll try to post the next one as soon as possible. Thanks!