Hey guys! I'm on a roll, my internet is starting to work thanks to my aunt! And I get to post this chapter up too! How great is today? Anyways, here's the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own Team Chaotix, anything Sonic or Sega. Dark-Illusion-Detective does however own Illusion and Charcoal.
Onward to Chapter Two! Don't forget to review guys!
Chapter Two
Charmy's honey colored eyes looked toward Shaylah when she mentioned Illusion; his interest was on her as he sat down next to the dead serious looking Illusion. The bee then noticed how solemn, even how sad Illusion looked when her name was mentioned.
"I guess I should say that Illusion's a bit different."
"We're all different."
"Yes... but not in the way she is."
"Care to explain?" asked Espio.
The queen looked down and sighed. Then her ruby eyes looked at Vector and Espio with pure intensity that could make shivers go down anyone's back.
"Of course I will. Besides, now that I know a little bit about you, then it should be fine if you knew about my daughter."
The duo nodded at that and Shaylah began, "Illusion as you can tell is already different just by the fact of her being the only one with white fur. Not only that but she has these strange markings on her; surely you've seen them?"
Espio nodded as Vector took a peppermint from the bowl of candy. The chameleon sweatdropped at the alligator's sudden movement but kept his focus on the queen.
"Not only is her appearance different... she has powers that aren't even suppose to belong to her."
Vector gave a confused look at that, "now when you say powers she's not suppose to have... what exactly do you mean?"
"Here's a simple explanation of that; she's able to camaflouge with her surroundings, and she's able to change her age."
Espio looked shocked, "she can camaflouge?!"
"That's what I mean. It's because of those two things that we never allow her to leave this building. As far as research shows us, camaflouge is only an ability that chameleons, such as yourself, can have. As far as the age changing, we're not positive what that is about."
"She never leaves then?"
"That's right."
"So this must be her first time to a restaurant right?"
Queen Shaylah nodded. Espio glanced at Vector to see he was thinking really hard about this. He turned away from him and sighed, "okay because she's got these abilities then what does that mean when someone finds out about this?"
"We plan on not having anyone find out. Usually Illusion's powers are very stable except for a few times when she gets excited then she'll turn into a young kid. And as time moved on, the more we've found out that Illusion is able to maintain her age and keep herself visible when she is able to talk to people. That is why she talks to most of our servants here."
"That explains why Illusion was so friendly."
"However she's usually never that friendly toward anyone. It sometimes takes a while to get on her good side. I suppose it's because there's such a young kid with you."
Charmy blinked and he looked at Illusion to see that she was still sitting down; her attention was glued to her mother and that's when the bee whispered, "can we turn visible please?"
The white cat nodded as she revealed them to the others; no one seemed to notice. Charmy buzzed toward Vector and scared the living crap out of the giant alligator.
"Charmy! Where did you come from?!"
"From my room," replied Illusion as she calmly walked into the room. "We were spying on you guys."
Shaylah gave a disapproving look and Vector let out a hardy laugh as he patted her on the head.
"You'd make an interesting spy!"
"Thanks!"
Espio looked at Illusion and realized that she wasn't that much younger than he was. Maybe by two years? He shook off that random thought and turned his attention to Shaylah.
"Which restaurant are we going to exactly?"
"A place called Remembrance. It's a very elegant and fine restaurant with the best drinks around."
Charmy grinned at the sound of that and asked egarly, "when are we heading out then?"
"A little while longer; we must wait for Collin to come."
"Collin?"
"He's my dad!" cheered Illusion, obviously happy. Shaylah shook her head as she picked the fourteen year old up from her feet and placed her down next to her. "Mom! I'm not a little kid!"
"You can be one sometimes."
"But that's only on accident!"
This arguement and a few other conversations took place for the next hour or so until finally King Collin arrived with his son Charcoal. Collin was a dark gray color with a white patch of fur that was shaped like a starburst on his forehead. He had strict eyes and a stern voice as he questioned, "is everyone enjoying themselves?"
Everyone nodded as Shaylah got up and walked over to King Collin and gave him a kiss. Charmy looked grossed out as he gave a quick shudder and Illusion smirked at the bee's reaction. The king and queen looked at the others and asked if they were ready.
"Yes sir, we're ready."
"Ready as we'll ever be."
"Lets go!"
Illusion just nodded. Charcoal gave a thumbs up at the detectives before walking out of the room with King Collin and Queen Shaylah. Charmy flew on Vector's shoulders and Vector made sure the small bee wouldn't fall off as he started heading out. Illusion got up from her seat and followed the duo as Espio walked next to her.
"How old are you?" casually asked Espio as Illusion looked at him.
"Fourteen. How about you?"
"Sixteen."
They all made it to the vehicle and they started to make the long drive to the restaurant. As everyone else was talking, Espio and Illusion said nothing. Espio's striking gold eyes looked out the window and watched as the people stopped in their tracks and waved egarly at them. Illusion grinned as she waved back to everyone who waved at her. The looks on the people's faces made Charmy happy as he joined the young cat. Illusion looked at Charcoal and noticed he was smiling widely.
"What are you so happy about?"
The dusty black cat shrugged as he replied, "nothing really. We're going out for once, that's pretty exciting."
"Yea I know! I can't wait!"
"We'll be there in a few minutes. Then we can have anything we want."
"Even uncle Sherman's bananna milkshake?!"
Charcoal laughed as he messed Illusion's hair up, "anything but that. I don't see how you can love that."
"It's really good. If you tried half the stuff that he made you'd be dying for more too!"
"While the other half of the stuff he makes will make you wish you were never hungry in the first place," stated Charcoal.
"That's mean! He's a great cook!"
Charmy saw the duo bickering and he got out of his seat and flew in between them, "that's enough guys! No need to fight."
"The bee's right."
"His name is Charmy."
Charcoal rolled his eyes, "whatever."
Silence seemed to pursuit them as the drive to the restaurant seemed to last forever. The vehicle suddenly stopped and threw Charmy, Illusion, Charcoal and Espio out of their seats while everyone else was able to stay in their seats somehow.
"What just happened?"
"We're there," stated King Collin as Charmy rubbed his head. Charcoal laughed at the fact that his younger sister flew out of the seat and slammed into Espio.
"Oh shut it will you Charcoal!"
"Illusion!"
"Sorry dad... sorry Charcoal," muttered Illusion angrily as they all got out. Charmy looked at everyone as they walked toward the very large 3 story building. Their footsteps were silent as they walked on the small dark red rug that was placed in the entry way to prevent the dark hard wood floor from getting dirty. Espio noted whoever was the owner of this place must've been a neat freak; nothing was out of place or had a trace of dirt.
Moments after the group arrived to the restaurant a young fox walked up to them, holding their menus as he asked, "welcome... would you like a table for eight?"
The king and queen nodded.
"Follow me please."
Charmy flew onto Vector's shoulders and the group made their way to the second story. The room they were guided into was massive; dark hard wood floors like the previous floor, a dark red rug as they entered, a few windows, and a large table was in front of them. The king, queen, and Charcoal sat together while Espio, Vector, Charmy, and Illusion sat together. Charmy, of course, separated Charcoal and Illusion so they wouldn't start a food fight or anything like that.
That's when Vector saw they weren't the only ones in the room; about three men were there as well. They looked sort of like they were siblings; their eyes were identical in their onyx color, but they were bickering with each other. His attention was torn away from the small group as Espio motioned to the waiter that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
"I'll have a coke, two hamburgers, two orders of fries and chips... and I think that'll be all."
The waiter gave Vector a strange look but the look disappeared as King Collin gave the waiter a quick glare that said 'give them whatever they want'. Shortly after writing down what they wanted, the waiter made a quick escape back to the lower floor to get their order ready as fast as he could.
Charmy grinned as he looked around the large room; it was a room like this that made him look like a dot compared to everyone else. The bee then noticed Illusion who kept her glance at the small group that was there with them. Her green eyes seemed to be focused on something, Charmy followed her glance and saw why she was being so still and silent.
"Espio!"
"What?" asked Espio in a quiet tone like Charmy was using for once.
"Those men have-"
"Here's your order," interrupted the waiter who came back with everyone's order. Charcoal grinned as he thanked the waiter and so did everyone else.
"What were you saying Charmy?"
"Those men have-"
"Pass the salt please," said Vector as he waited for Charmy to pass him the salt. The small bee was getting very angry for being interrupted. Instead of passing the salt Charmy stung Vector, causing him to yelp. "What was that for?!"
"I'm trying to tell Espio something."
"What is it?"
"Those men over there," Charmy motioned toward the small group of men who were now casually talking rather than bickering like before, "they've got a sniper under the table."
"How do you know?"
Charmy glanced at Illusion who slowly ate her food but she still stared at the sniper that was under the table. Although you had to look through the small section visible from the table cloth and the floor, and see through the darkness to see the large sniper. Espio frowned as he said, "um, King Collin?"
"Yes? Is something wrong with the food, you haven't touched it."
"No sir, we have a bit of a situation."
"What is it?" questioned the clueless king.
Espio then whispered the observation that Charmy made. King Collin then whispered it to his wife and to Charcoal; he didn't bother telling Illusion, he noticed she already knew because of her stare.
"What do you suggest we do?"
"First off, when the waiter comes we tell him that we're leaving, make up an excuse... um... the food sucks or something like that. Then we leave as fast as possible."
The king and queen nodded at Charcoal's suggestion. Espio looked at the dusty black cat and saw he didn't seem that worried at all; he seemed way too calm to be in this situation. Charmy then whispered, "why can't we just expose him? Tell the waiter about it so no one gets hurt?"
"They have a weapon, no one else here does... if we expose them then we're as good as dead."
"Charcoal!"
"I'm just stating the obvious father."
That's when the Chaotix made a strange observation; if no one was allowed to bring a weapon in, how the hell did someone sneak into the three story building with a large sniper rifle, was able to order and no one had realized the weapon was there? And why was Charcoal being so calm rather nervous like his mother and father?
"Weapons aren't allowed here are they?"
"No they're not. Why?"
"How did they get in here without anyone realizing it?" questioned Espio. Everyone froze as they heard two clicks. They knew the sniper had clicked but where had the other one come from?
The men looked toward Charcoal with a glint in their devilish eyes, no one said anything as everyone turned their attention to Charcoal who seemed to be completely still like them. The men smirked, revealing their sharp fangs, causing Vector to slowly grab Charmy.
One of the men reached under the table and he drew out the sniper rifle. He pointed it toward the group.
"You're the boss, you give the orders," said the man who held the rifle. Charcoal stood up, a small pistol in his hand.
"With pleasure," he replied as he looked at his family that stood completely still, he got out of his seat and walked about 10 steps away from them and pointed the pistol at them. "No body move other wise they're going to have a pretty nasty wound in their chest."
Cliff hanger! I'm sorry I cut the chapter short, I need some time to think of what could happen now. Please read and review! I'll update as soon as I can!