Mission Objective: Recruiting the Knights

( Sonic's P.O.V.)

"Uh…" I moaned, as the blurry images of shapes and colors began to distinguish as my vision started to clear it up.

"Hey, he's waking up." I heard a familiar voice, but I couldn't recognize who. Soon I could hear the pounding of footsteps and a door slamming open, making me realize that I must be in a room.

"Where am I?" I lazily asked I attempted to lift myself from the bed I was laying in, but was a lavender hand soon gently pushed me back down.

(Normal P.O.V.)

"Don't get up, you're still injured." Percival said as she looked at the knights who had ran into the tan room. Gawain, Galahad, and Starkage were very worried for the hedgehog, Lancelot and Lamorak just leaned against to wall, one was worried while the other one wasn't, and Tails, like her, was practically seconds away from having a heart attack when they saw the hedgehog's conditions.

"Hey, Percival," Sonic replied, giving his famous smirk, "what happened?"

"You gave us a heart attack, that what happened." the lavender cat yelled causing the blue hedgehog to flinch. "Caliburn told us what happened. Why are you always acting so cocky, the kingdom doesn't need their king killed?" she scolded. Tails let out a sigh of relief, feeling a slight déjà vu moment.

"He does this all the time, you'll get use to this." the young fox said. "He's been in worse situation."

"Yeah, good times." Sonic said as he sat up on the bed as the memories of fighting Chaos, Dark Gaia, and the one that caused his life to truly be on the line, Erazor Djinn. Percival just stood up from the chair that she sat in and walked away, looking as if she was minute away from burning the king.

"Well, what do we do?" Galahad asked as he watched Sonic stumble out the bed, his seemingly losing feeling for a few seconds.

"What else." Sonic replied, as he smirked at the group, "We go after the Black Knight."

"By the way you got beat, I think he improved himself." Lancelot said.

"I know. I meant searching for the other knights. We leave tomorrow at noon."

"Wait, I'm supposed to be knighted at noon." Tails interjected. Sonic sheepishly smiled at his brother.

"Sorry, I forgot." He replied, "We'll leave after the knighting ceremony is over." Everybody nodded in agreement. "Alright then, I'm off." The king soon rushed out the room leaving behind a fading blue blur and a gust of wind.

"I'll make sure he doesn't get into trouble." Lancelot said before following after the blue hedgehog.

(Tomorrow, Near Noon)

Tails along with a few other becoming-knights stood outside the royal court room, which was brimming with villagers and other knights. As the two guards opened the door and the royal trumpeters played the royal entrance, the yellow fox entered, approaching his friend who stood in a royal red robe. He laughed inside at the trouble it took to make the hedgehog wear the robe.

Flashback

"Sir Sonic, it's time to get up." A gray koala replied as its head popped out from behind the door.

"Uh…fine." the blue hedgehog willingly got up from his bed and placed on his shoes.

"Don't forget you have to put on your royal attire, your majesty." the koala quickly said before slamming the door, not wishing to see the now frozen hedgehog. Sighing hard, Sonic rushed out the room, having to be occupied by Percival so he wouldn't get into any trouble, and went on his morning run. Several minutes later, returning back to the castle, Percival brought up the question he didn't really want to hear.

"So, you're ready for the ceremony?" the lavender cat asked as she easily kept pace with the hedgehog. Sonic nervously shrugged.

"I'm happy to knight them, but to do it in that cape, you might as well splash me with water." Sonic jokingly said as he and Percival entered the town, causing clothes to flutter on the clothesline, and the children to cheer as they watched a blue and lavender blur go by.

"Come on, we won't have the same trouble as last time will we."

"You of all of people know that I don't like being royally dressed." Entering the castle, the duo slowed their speed so they wouldn't disturb the staff. Turning down a few halls, they soon entered the royal chamber. The walls had royal blue and green stripe walls, a tan ceiling, and a bathroom. A dresser, a king size bed, a large rug that sat in the middle of the room, a nightstand, a sword holder, and five pictures that was spacey hanging on the wall by a silver nail were the only furniture in the chamber. Soon, a few of the royal staff entered the room carrying a red robe. Gulping, the hedgehog attempted to scurry away from the attire, only to be held back by Percival.

"Come on, it's just for a few minutes." she said as she smiled at the blue hedgehog. She let go and muttered. "This is going to be a long morning."

(Few minutes later)

Tails was walking down the hallway to the royal chamber, excited to be knighted by his brother. "Hey, are you ready…Sonic." the young fox said as he peered into the room to find the hedgehog desperately avoiding Percival and the royal staff.

"Sonic stay still." Percival shouted as she attempted to grab the hedgehog, but missed him by a quill as he dashed over to the other side of the room.

"Can't we just have the ceremony without the robe?" the hedgehog pleaded before jumping over to another part of the room. "I guess not." Tails tried to hold back a giggle of the event happening in the room before rushing in to help.

Flashback ended

Tails kneeled on one knee and lowered his head as Sonic unsheathed Caliburn from his holder that was on the side of the throne and approached the fox. "Do you, young Miles, wish to be knighted?" The fox flinched, hating be called by his real name."

"I do."

"Will you fight for the honor of thy kingdom and only accept chivalry as a reward."

"I do."

"Will you protect the kingdom, even if it cost your own life?"

"I do."

Then, I Sir Sonic, ruler of Camelot, knight thy," The blue hedgehog softly touched the fox's shoulder with Caliburn, allowing the sword to rest on his right shoulder, "you shall now be known as Sir Miles, Knight of the Whipping Tails." Sonic then lifted Caliburn off the fox's shoulder. "You may now rise now." Tails soon lifted himself and bowed before approaching the group of knights that congratulated him for his success. They soon waited a few more minutes as Sonic knighted the other knights. As the others congratulated the newly knighted, Sonic and co. exited out the room. "Finally, it's over. I always hate this thing." the blue hedgehog said as he disdainfully tossed the robe on to a coat hanger.

"It's necessary to wear the royal attire at special ceremonies." Caliburn stated, earning an irritated moan from his holder.

"Anyway," he said as he exited the castle along with the others and pulled out a map of the large kingdom of Camelot, "we need to go look for Nate." He then looked at group, "Where was he last seen at?"

"He should be in a cave or a house located in the Deep Woods." the black and red hedgehog replied.

"Alright, let's go." The group than departed for the long journey ahead of them, unknown to the group was a shadow hiding among the rooftops, smirking to itself before perusing the group.

Me: I wonder who the mysterious figure is. Another chapter done. The OCs are coming starting with one of Nate the Werehog's OC. I'm still accepting OCs, so you can submit them; they may be good, evil, or neutral.

Note:

Due to school, I'll mostly be updating on the weekend (I don't how many times or how frequently). I might have chances to update on weekdays, but until then look out for this story on the weekend.