This is probably my favorite chapter I've written so far, so, enjoy :)
Waking up the next morning was like waking up at a co-ed summer camp.
"Dude, you kept farting in my face all night!" Shadow complained the next morning to Sonic.
"It's not my fault you decided to sleep right next to my ass," the cobalt blue hedgehog retorted. "You knew I have a funky digestive system."
"It still stinks in here," Silver gasped, waving his hand in front of his nose. "How many chilidogs did you EAT yesterday?"
"Twelve."
"Come ON."
"You're gonna overstuff yourself someday," Amy warned her boyfriend.
"No I'm not," Sonic said, patting his tan stomach. "I've been eating like this for years."
"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU GUYS, I'M STILL TRYING TO SLEEP, DON'T MAKE ME PULL OUT MY FUCKING GUN!" Aidan yelled from the corner, curled up in the blankets.
"Stop cussing, Aidan!"
"Chu!"
"WHO GIVES A FUCK, CREAM CHEESE?"
The whole scenario was quite a sight, and I had to laugh, even though Rouge looked like she was having a really bad hangover in the corner, puking, and Blaze was still passed out on the bed. Aidan did not look asleep at all, but rather pissed off and glaring at everyone.
"Ooh, somebody's getting mad," Amy said in a sarcastic tone. "I'm so scared."
"I will do it you know," Aidan said again, getting angrier, standing now. Cream and I shrank away from her, knowing that once she got mad, she was not afraid to hurt or kill the other person. I didn't exactly want to get in her way if she happened to lunge after Amy to strangle her to death or some crazy crap like that.
"I'd like to see you try," Amy retorted, pulling a huge hammer from thin air and raising it above her head, ready to bring it down.
The room was silent except for Blaze's breathing. Aidan's nose scrunched up and her eyes narrowed, her mouth pressed into a thin line. I could see her frame shaking violently as her blood boiled, and her ears twitched. "Oh shit, you should not have just said that Amy, really bad idea," I said.
Aidan, fast as lightning, grabbed her new favorite pistol I had seen her shoot earlier from the belt on her waist and, darting forward, pressed it against Amy's forehead. "Wanna have a go NOW?" Aidan growled. "It's fully loaded and look." She flipped a switch. "Safety is off."
Amy's eyes widened tremendously with a few tears. Her mouth quivered, and her voice came out in a terrified squeaking noise. "I surrender."
"Good. Now shut up and let me sleep for, what, 10 minutes? That's fair." Aidan smiled brightly, flipping the safety switch back to On and putting her gun away as if it were a piece of candy. She laid back down on the blankets, wrapping her red fox tail around herself.
"Now what would make this PERFECT would be a Yo Mamma Fight," Sonic mumbled with a grin.
"I HEARD THAT."
I burst into laughter, and seconds later heard a quiet yawn from my other side. Looking over, I realized that Tails had awoken. His eyes were half closed as he stretched his arms behind his back. However, his eyes widened when he saw the rest of his little group. He leaped up from the bed and leaned into the bars, grinning. "Sonic!"
"Lil' bro!" Sonic called out, holding up his hand. "How's my main man?"
"Fairly okay," Tails replied, still grinning. "You?"
"Never been worse," the cobalt answered, stretching his legs. "Haven't been able to run freely in a while. It's pissing me off."
"Sorry to hear," the fox responded, his smile fading. Then he caught a sight of Shadow, then of Rouge. "DUDE. Now I really feel sorry for you!"
"You missed last night," Silver said. "They were all, like, WHOA; it was so funny."
"Nice to know you find Rouge's evil amusing," Shadow said, his arms crossed. "You know it wasn't my idea."
"It will be next time, dearest," Rouge drawled, not over her hangover. She strutted over to Shadow and tiptoed her fingers up his chest. He cringed at her puke breath. "You'll be dreaming of me once I'm away. You'll be screaming, struggling as you try to imagine my lips upon yours. Soul mates are meant to be together."
He shivered, but threw her hand to the side. "Whatever. You're just a thief and a money-loving ho who uses men and acts like a bitch when she doesn't get her way. And we are most definitely NOT soul mates. I'd notice if I loved you or not."
Her eyes narrowed. "All right, Shadow the Hedgehog, you asked for it." She kneed him in the crotch, and I could tell she really put her muscles into it because he was on his hands and knees, taking a few shuddering sobbing breaths as pain shot through him.
Sonic comforted him for a moment before looking up at Rouge. "What was that for?" Sonic yelled; Shadow was actually crying, tears streaking down his face as he rubbed his nose, which was getting really snotty and disgusting. It killed my heart to see a boy shed tears after such an attack.
Rouge smiled deviously. "Oh, nothing." With that she picked up her makeup bag and began smoothing about five times more lip plumper than she needed over her mouth. It smelled like cinnamon.
I tapped Amy, who was standing closest to me, on the shoulder. "Do they usually act like this?" I whispered.
"Occasionally," she breathed. "But Shadow never cries like this in public. This is definitely memorable." She yawned. "I need more sleep."
Not seconds later, Mason walked up to my door and entered, bringing me clothes. "Morning, Renata. Mephiles has suggested that today you rest instead of work in garden. Change anyway." He walked out, popping his neck.
"You have to work in a GARDEN?" Cream asked.
"Yeah," I said. "The weather is CRAZY out there. Blistering hot sun one day, freezing the next. Yesterday I thought I was going to die of dehydration."
Cream cocked her head to the side, which I took was a sign that she was confused. "But it was cool and foggy yesterday when we snuck up to the building."
I looked up. "What? No it wasn't, unless the weather is different where you were than the achomedla garden."
"The achomedla?" Sonic said. "Those things are grown in, like, greenhouses with temperature setting things. There's a huge projection above that makes everyone working there THINK that that's the real weather when actually it's all electronic."
Everyone stared wide-eyed at him, then Shadow's eyes brightened as he looked up at the blue hedgehog, smiling wide. "When did you get smart?"
Sonic glared at him. "I've been smart a long time."
"Uh, hate to break it to you Sonic, but most of the time you're completely retarded," Silver said.
"He is not!" Amy yelled.
"Amy, just be quiet for a while, okay?" Sonic said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"No, not as long as they're dissing my BOYFRIEND!" She screamed her words and pulled out her hammer, hanging it threateningly over Silver's head.
"My head hurts," Cream moaned, rubbing her forehead. "I can't stand all of you shouting like this."
"We're sorry, Cream," Tails said from across my room. "I'm not involved in it, if that helps."
The little rabbit looked at him, her frown ebbing and replaced by a small smile. "I'm glad you aren't. If you were I don't think you and I could still like each other."
Sonic chuckled. "You guys are too cute together; if you two broke up I might just have to put it on television."
"As if we ever would," Tails grinned. He then blew a kiss to Cream across the room, which she grabbed as it flew above her head. I smiled, realizing that Cream wasn't single after all, and agreed with Sonic - they were adorable. Young, innocent love.
I noticed seconds later that Aidan was growing more and more distant. It was slightly unnerving. She hadn't spoken since Sonic's Yo Mamma comment, which was somewhat understandable. I figured she was still pissed at him.
But when I looked over to her, I saw that, while she had been sitting in her corner, her eyes had glazed over and her hands were pressed to her temples. She let out a quiet groan that I knew only I could hear.
I knew she was having another vision, but I didn't know what about. All I knew was that it was stressing her out. Was someone dying? Was she being tortured in her vision? Whatever the hell was going on, I wanted to find out soon.
She waved me over, and I rushed to her side; everyone else seemed to be oblivious to her.
She pressed her hands to my temples through the bars. "Look," was all she said before my mind saw the shock, fury, and unimaginable pain of a whip being cracked upon a familiar hedgehog's back in a strange, old-black-and-white-movie-quality scene, faintly hearing his cries for mercy under the unknown character who possessed the torturous weapon, which was slicing through the hedgehog's back, leaving thick streams of blood gushing. Then he put down the whip, and the hedgehog leaped up to grab at the front of the hooded figure, pleading to be set free. Before the hedgehog could take another breath, the figure took a dagger from underneath its hood and slid it through the hedgehog's chest, and began laughing.
Holy SHIT! I leaped back away from her, and as soon as we lost physical contact, the scene flew from my mind, leaving me a bit dizzy from the sudden departure. I had to blink several times before my vision straightened up again and I could see clearly.
Sonic was staring at me like I was high on something; everyone else but Blaze, who was still asleep miraculously, was staring at Aidan with a look that said this had happened before.
Then Shadow ran up to her and shook her hand roughly, trying to break her out of her glassy eyed state. "Aidan! What are you seeing?" I noted that he didn't make her show him the vision, which was probably a good thing considering what she said next.
Her voice barely belonged to her, and her eyes turned to him, wide and afraid. "It's you," she rasped. "Shadow, it's you. You're being murdered."
And with that last comment, she started crying, and a sudden wave of nausea took over her and she threw up all over the floor.
:O OMFG... R&R.
~gabl
