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Stopping outside a small and quaint little cottage in the clearing of a forest, Sonic looked over the place and gave a low whistle. "This is quite a nice place. I guess this is where I live." guessed Sonic and started to walk to the cottage.
Hearing Tails talking in the cottage, Sonic went to push the door open, but stopped and leaned his ear against the door to hear what his best friend was ranting about. "I really wish Sonic would go and build a house of his own. I mean, he just keeps mooching off me and doesn't help me or anything," Tails rambled to himself, "I know he's my best friend, but I just really want him to live in a different house."
Leaning away from the door, Sonic rethought the conversation Tails was having with himself. "Gee, Tails wants me outta here? Oh well. Guess I'll head into town and see what I can find there," Sonic decided and he started to walk away, "maybe I'll become a musician…like I always wanted to. Sorta out of practice with a guitar, but I'll be okay."
Walking down the dirt road, whistling no song in particular, Sonic saw Shadow standing on a wooden fence post as he glanced around and Sonic stopped whistling as he jogged to his arch-rival. Jumping onto one of the other fence posts next to Shadow, Sonic greeted, "Heya Shadow. Long time no see."
Turning to face Sonic, Shadow scowled and groaned, "Oh great. It's you…" He jumped off the post and crossed his arms. "What do you want now?"
Jumping off his fence post, Sonic answered, "I'm looking for people to join my band and go to the city. Care to join?"
"Tsk. I'm not helping you in this stupid story…or in achieving your dreams." Shadow responded. He then smirked. "I'd rather crush them. It's more fun."
"You-" Sonic started and Shadow made a rude gesture at Sonic with a smirk before Sonic clenched his teeth. "You're seriously messed up. What from? Didn't get enough hugs when you were growing up?"
Shadow's smirk disappeared as it was replaced with clenched teeth and the Ultimate Life Form once again made a rude gesture with a string of profanity before taking off out of sight. Shrugging with a lack of surprise of how his arch-rival was treating him, Sonic resumed his journey to the city and was about to start whistling again, but stopped as he saw Knuckles leaning against a wooden fence post, clearly depressed about something. Going up to the red echidna, Sonic crossed his arms and asked, "Heya Knuckles. Why so glum?"
Looking up at the world's fastest hedgehog, Knuckles sighed before getting to his feet and answered, "I don't know. Mainly because people take advantage of me I guess."
"Ah. How about you come with me with to the city and be part of my band?"
"Really? You mean it?"
"Sure. What can you play?"
"Well, I can't play anything, but-" Knuckles began.
"Great. I don't have a drummer, so you can cover that." Sonic cut off and the azure hedgehog and crimson echidna started walking down the road to the city.
After walking a few hours, Knuckles and Sonic saw Rouge perched on a wooden fence, clearly saddened by something and the pair went to the female bat. "Rouge. Why are you so depressed?" questioned Sonic and Rouge sighed again before looking between Knuckles and Sonic.
"Oh, I haven't found any jewels lately. I can hardly be called a treasure hunter if this keeps up." She explained. She gave another sigh of depression. "I don't know what I'm going to do if that happens."
"Rouge. Why not join us? We're gonna start a band and go to the city to play.
"Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt.
"Great. What can you play?
"Well, I can play piano," answered Rouge as she jumped off the fence, "I'm out of practice, but-"
"That's alright. As long as you can play…it's cool with me." Sonic interrupted and Rouge gave a slightly surprised look before the Guardian of the Master Emerald, the treasure hunting bat, and the world's fastest hedgehog continued to the city of where they were planning to be rich and famous.
Still continuing their journey, Rouge flew over Knuckles and Sonic, extremely tired and annoyed about having to listen to Knuckles and his thoughts about her and her obsession with jewels and her shoes to prevent herself from kicking him as hard as she could where it hurts. Soon, they came across Amy sitting on a large rock next to a wooden fence and Sonic was hesitant, but the group went up to the pink hedgehog that looked upset. "Amy? Why are you so blue?" questioned Sonic.
Looking up at the cobalt hedgehog, Amy started, "Oh-"
"Never mind. I don't really wanna listen. Can you sing?"
"Well-"
"Ah, it doesn't matter. Come join us. We're going to the city to be the best band ever and we don't have a singer." Offered Sonic and Amy jumped to her feet at the idea of being in the same band as Sonic.
"Okay! This is gonna be great!" Amy agreed, full of excitement from what she agreed to and Sonic gave a look that said he had no idea what he just did before the quartet resumed traveling to the city of hopes of making it big.
After a few hours of walking, it turned to late evening and Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic came across a large oak tree and Amy and Knuckles laid down at the base of the tree while Rouge hung by her feet on a branch and Sonic stretched out on another bench, not wanting to be up all night paranoid about Amy ambushing him while he slept and, as a result, preferred to fall out of the tree. Attempting to fall asleep to dreams of her and Sonic getting married and living happily ever after, Amy noticed a small flickering light from a tiny house in the distance and pointed to it as she informed, "Hey. There's a light in that house over there. Maybe they'll let us stay there for the night."
Getting to his feet, Knuckles looked in the direction Amy was pointing and responded, "It's worth a shot."
Amy got to her feet as Rouge and Sonic dropped out of the tree and the quartet of a future band headed in the direction of the light.
Stopping outside the house, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic peeked through the single window and saw a tall and extremely round figure hunched over a buffet of food before they dropped to the ground, huddled together, and the four of them looked at each other. "Well, let's go ask if we can stay for the night and-" whispered Amy.
"Hang on. I got a better idea," Sonic interrupted, "let's play a song to catch their attention and they'll be so awestruck at how awesome we sound that they'll insist we have to stay there."
"Good idea, but we got a tiny problem with that," Rouge told him as the four of them stood up and broke apart from their huddle, "we don't have any instruments for us to play."
Seeing a guitar, a set of drums, keyboard, and a mike appear out of nowhere, each member of the group went to their instrument and Knuckles questioned, "Where the heck did we get the instruments?"
"No clue." Sonic answered. He looked at the rest of his band as they looked at him. "Okay everyone. Are you ready to rock?"
Rouge responded as she stretched her fingers, "Let's see what we've got."
"Alright. On the count of three. One…two…three!" Sonic exclaimed and began to strum a hard rock tune, Knuckles wailed some genre none of them could identify on the drums, Rouge played something in the jazz genre, and Amy sang something associated with country.
Taking her hands off the keyboard keys and covering her ears, Rouge swore before she groaned, "Maybe we should've thought this musician thing through more. We sound awful!"
Looking at the female bat as everyone stopped whatever they were doing, Sonic retorted, "Are you saying that we suck? And that you wanna get kicked out of the band?"
"No, I'm just pointing out that maybe we should've practiced a song or two or something before we played for an audience." Responded Rouge as she uncovered her ears. She peeked inside the cottage. "Looks like we have no audience anymore."
"Ah, too bad for them. Let's go inside." Stated Sonic and the group dragged their instruments into the house.
Eggman huddled in the bushes outside the house where he was minding his own business and about to start eating his supper when he heard the worst music every that resulted in him to flee. "This is ridiculous! There's no reason why some music should scare me out of MY house!" he thought to himself. He moved towards the house, but stopped. "But if they're still there…they'll drive me away again."
Torn between the decision of having his house back or facing the music, Eggman sat on a stump as he thought about this dilemma before he finally had a revelation. Standing up, he mustered up all the courage he could before he started to sneak towards the house. "If they think they can scare me away…I"LL scare them away!" he cackled to himself as he made it to the door and opened the door as quietly as possible.
After eating as much as they could, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic found comfortable spots to sleep. Amy was huddled on a blanket, Knuckles curled up and sucking his thumb on the floor, Sonic on the mantle above the fireplace to keep away from Amy, and Rouge handing from the ceiling. Just about to close her eyes, Rouge heard a noise that sounded like a door opening and dropped from the ceiling. Seeing the tall round figure stumble around the house, waving his hands around to feel where objects were before his hand reached towards Rouge. "Hey! Who do you think you are?" she screeched as his hand nearly touched her and Amy and Knuckles jumped to their feet as Sonic dropped off the mantle.
Rouge delivered a kick that sent a screaming Eggman flying into Knuckles who punched him into Amy who whacked him with her famed Piko Piko Hammer into Sonic and Sonic nailed Eggman with a spin attack that sent him flying out the door.
"Who was that?" questioned Amy as she tapped her weapon against the ground in case she had to use it again.
"I don't know." Knuckles answered.
"Who really cares?" Sonic responded with a small shrug.
Putting a hand on her hip, Rouge suggested, "Well, I guess we're gonna have this house to ourselves. Why don't we just stay here?"
Amy, Knuckles, and Sonic nodded in agreement at the proposition and all four of them heard the ding of an elevator and saw the doors were open. Making a mad dash for them, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic made it through before the doors slid shut.
Stopping inside the elevator as the doors closed and felt a shift as they began to move, Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic looked at Blaze, Silver, and Tails and Blaze asked, "So, how'd it go?"
"Well, we were going to be this big awesome band, but SOMEONE said we sucked." Replied Sonic as he looked at Rouge and the female bat shook her head with a scoff for a response.
"Well, it's true. We all had a different genre, out of tune, and in general, didn't sound good," Rouge retorted to the cobalt hedgehog as she put a hand on her hip and looked at him, "we wouldn't have stood a chance."
"Yeah, says you." Mumbled Sonic and Rouge shook her head as she rolled her turquoise eyes at him.
"Okay, okay. That's enough already. The story's finished, so there's no reason to keep talking about it." Blaze told the bickering pair as they opened their mouths to continue the argument.
Not wanting to say that the other was right, Rouge and Sonic turned their backs to each other, giving each other the cold shoulder, and Blaze shook her head with a sigh of disapproval. The elevator halted to a stop and the doors slid open before Amy, Blaze, Knuckles, Rouge, Silver, Sonic, and Tails marched into the next story.
My comments:
The genres Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic play: I just picked random ones. The first four songs that came up when I hit shuffle on my Ipod.
The instruments Amy, Knuckles, Rouge, and Sonic play: I just felt like giving them those instruments.
I know this isn't one of the better fairy tales I wrote, but I still hope you enjoyed it and please review.