Hi again guys and gals! I'm back for another episode of Cosmo's rose! Aww, stop moaning and complaining; it'll be fine! By the way, I sort of hate all of you… because of this fanfiction that (OMG) people wanted me to continue, I rewatched all of Sonic X last night with GG360 (check her out). I got to episode 77 and 78 and just lost it, I cried for over an hour! It's just so sad, y'know! The Japanese version is even sadder! GG had left my house by then though, so I was all alone in my wailing and sobbing. Anyways, I'll stop taking up your time so you guys can read the chapter I have yet to write! Chao~
Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic X, if I did, Cosmo would still be alive with many beautiful plant/fox hybrid babies.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Tails bolted upright, searching around wildly, "Eggman?!"
"Hey, little buddy! It's me, Sonic! Open up the door dude!"
Tails sighed; of course it'd be Sonic to wake him up from his first good dream in a while. It wasn't something to be surprised about. "Yeah, I'm coming… Give me a second, okay?" Rubbing his eyes of any signs of sleep, Tails got up and stretched. "Ah, ow!" A jolt of pain shot up his spine forcing him to sit back down. 'I fell asleep on the sofa again… No wonder my back is hurting.' He thought to himself. He'd been doing that a lot lately, he wouldn't be able to sleep in his room so he would make his way out to the living room and fall asleep. Tails would have to fix that, just in case his parents ever decided to stop by. If they saw him asleep on the couch, they'd make sure papers got signed for him to be sent to Happy Acres. That would be inevitable.
After a good 2 minutes of aching and stretching and yells from Sonic to hurry up, Tails got to the door and opened it to be greeted by the blue hedgehog with a ferocious hug.
"Hey bud! How've you been doing? Hardly see you around these days! …Got any food, man?" Sonic asked and stated all in one go, leaving Tails wondering what to say first.
He settled with this, "Hi! I'm fine. Yeah, I know, sorry. And there are some cakes from Cream and leftover casserole in the fridge." Tails then turned towards the couch where Sonic was now sitting, eating a slice of cake.
"Thanks! Ser Ir've cerme ter tell you," Sonic swallowed the bite of cake, "That you have been cordially invited… heh, cordially. That's a fun word… Core-du-a-lly, heh."
Tails mentally facepalmed. "Cordially invited to what?"
"Oh right! You have been cordially…" the blue hedgehog chuckled slightly, "invited to my 18th birthday party!" He coughed slightly. "U-uh, I swear there won't be anything umm, dirty that could harm your 14-year-old mi-"
Tails stopped him, "I get it! I get it!"
"Why does everyone keep doing that to me?" Sonic muttered/huffed too low for Tails to hear. Then in a louder voice, "Great! So you'll come then, right?"
"I don't see why you're even bothering to ask, of course I'll go!" Tails said, receiving a slap on the back from Sonic that made Tails wince slightly.
Sonic took his hand back. "Cool beans, bro. Well, I actually gotta run; lots of party plans and stuff! More people to invite and all that jazz. I'll message you when the date is settled." He stopped in the doorway, "Oh, and don't forget to keep taking care of that plant, kay? Seeya!" And with that, he was out the door, leaving only a blur of blue that dissipated in a matter of seconds.
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Amy's POV
"Streamers?"
"Check."
"Balloons?"
"Check."
"Food?"
"Check."
"Banners?"
"Check."
"Love potion?"
"Umm, Ms. Amy… I don't think that would be wise."
I coughed. "Oh Cream. Sweet little Cream, you'll understand someday that desperate times call for desperate measures when you're trying to get a man!" I did a fast double take. "But don't you dare go after my Sonic! He's mine, mine, mine! Besides, it'd technically be pedophilia now if you were to try to go after him! So don't you dare do it!"
"But, wouldn't that go the same for you too, Ms. Amy?" Cream said. It would so not! I'm mature enough to be Sonic's age even if I'm not biologically! We're also totally meant to be together so age obviously doesn't matter between two people so in love!
"Wait a second. Sonic is eight-fricken-teen years old! He's totally eligible to be married! What if he runs, literally, into some other chick and married her!? No, Amy! Don't you dare think like that! Sonic will wait for me! And if he doesn't… ooh boy would he get a beating!"
"A-Amy?" Without noticing I had summoned Piko-Piko hammer AND had spoken my thoughts aloud. Oh Sonic, he made me do the craziest things sometimes! Even when he wasn't even doing anything!
"Oh silly me! Sorry Cream, but I just get so worked up over Sonic; let's get back to the party planning." I thought for a second, "Or~ we could talk about you and Tails! How has that been going?" I gave Cream a smirk and watched her flail about and stammer comically.
"Y-you and I both k-know that… that…" She stopped.
"That the two of you have done pretty well the past couple of years? Do you sense the blonde babies yet? Because I do!"
"Amy! S-stop it! Even if it were true, I don't think that I should try to go for anything…" Her head drooped. Cream was obviously thinking about Cosmo again. The past 3 years still hadn't really erased that memory. It was sad and all and I do still really miss the plant girl, but…
"We can't dwell on the past anymore! Cosmo was a great person, but we can't let her memory stop us from moving on in our lives! She wouldn't want that. She would want us to be happy and look up to a brighter future!" I lifted up Cream's chin and looked her in the eyes. "So head up!
Almost instantly, Cream looked much happier. I knew I should be a teen therapist. I'm just so good at it! First of all though, I have to catch Sonic. Sigh, 3 years and I STILL haven't caught that blue haired hottie. Knuckles might be right; maybe the only way to Sonic's heart is through chili dogs. Now where to get a chili dog suit… Maybe Chris's world has them. No matter that now, at least Sonic confides in me now! He came to me first to tell about his birthday! Obviously I already knew, but it's the thought that counts! "Oh, Sonic…"
"Ch-chao?" I snapped out of my daydream and saw that I had grabbed a hold of Cheese and was practically snuggling him to death. I released the Chao immediately.
"Uh whoops." I said lightly chuckling while Cheese and Cream just stared at me.
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3rd Person POV
Sonic got home to find Myrica staring at him from his couch. "Hello again, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"…Hi." Sonic muttered while rubbing his emerald-green eyes. "I figured you'd be gone by now."
Myrica cocked her head to the side slightly. "There are more important matters to attend to than finding proper but temporary living conditions. Now sit, we must discuss how to go about this." Sonic did as he was told, even though sitting made him antsy.
He cracked his knuckles and worked at the muscles in his fingers that were starting to cramp while Myrica talked about operation 'seedling'.
"As long as Miles has been doing his usual care for the plant, things should be fine and the effects should take place in at most 48 hours and at least 5 hours. However, it will be the aftermath that we will have to deal with." Myrica said and Sonic groaned. He was still trying to accept who exactly was in his living room so all this operation mumbo jumbo was giving him a pretty bad headache. Oh what he wouldn't give to be able to go run around some more… "Plus there is the matter of school," Myrica looked at Sonic out of the corner of her eye. "Or college-slash-work for some others."
"Do I really look that old?!"
"No, the analysis I took before coming here told me everything I need to know." She laughed slightly to herself, "And more."
Sonic facepalmed, "Uh, okay… well, I'm going to go for a run."
"You do that, Sonic the Hedgehog."
"Yeah… and please go ask someone if they know of any places you could stay at… besides here. I don't know what I'd do if my girlfr-" Sonic choked on his own words and flailed slightly. "Wouldn't want any of my friends discovering you and asking you questions, you don't seem like a real good liar."
Myrica stood up and spluttered, "H-Hey! I could be!" She hung her head, "But you're right. Well, until later." She left the house.
"Waaah! Why does everyone come to me for help?!" In an attempt to clear his mind, Sonic rushed out the door and ran all around town before finally settling back on a hill to think.
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In the middle of his daily chores, Tails got a phone call from Amy.
"Hey Tails! Guess what Cream and I did~"
Not even bothering to guess, Tails replied. "What?"
"We planned Sonic a surprise birthday!"
"But he just stopped by this morning to invite me to his own party?"
Amy's voice got slightly shrilly, almost annoyed. "Yeah, well, knowing Sonic as well as I do, he probably hasn't even planned a party!" Tails nodded, it was probably true too. "So anyways, go to Cream's house at around 5-ish tonight! Bye Tails~"
"Bye, Amy." Tails said, but she had already hung up. The Kitsune shook his head slightly; his friends were way too fast for their own good. He looked at the clock. Tails had an hour until he had to get to Cream's house. To occupy his time, he took out a piece of paper and began a rough draft of a new ship. It was small, definitely not meant for space flying, had 6 wings that hung close to body and went all around the ship that resembled more of a rocket. The wings also extracted in flight and made the ship faster. Each wing had a slight curve to them along with a rim that ended in a point. The ship would be powered by a chaos emerald that had to be inserted in a clear capsule that you could see when outside the ship. It was fairly obvious who the ship was modeled after, and similar to all his other rough drafts, it ended up in Tail's garbage.
"Why do I torture myself like this?" Tails asked himself aloud. It was always an internal fight when it came to Cosmo. He'd want to think about her, but then he'd beg himself not to. Tails was his own worst enemy sometimes.
The fox looked up at the clock again, 4:46 it read. Hopefully Amy and the others wouldn't mind him arriving a couple of minutes early. Tails threw on his shoes and gloves, ran downstairs to his workshop, and grabbed another one of the few things Tails had been able to make, a new set of running shoes for Sonic. The hedgehog went through shoes faster than anyone Tails ever knew, so he figured Sonic would appreciate the new set. They were built so that Sonic could run longer and faster without causing any pain to his feet. Tails had seen his feet once and there had been an infestation of blisters and bruises that Sonic had sworn up and down that he didn't notice nor did they hurt. It was still a gruesome sight, so better safe than sorry!
Tails was then out the door and heading towards Amy, flying only occasionally. He got there 5 minutes to 5 o clock; guess he wasn't all that early after all. When Vanilla, Cream's mother, answered the door, Tails was greeted by banners, streamers, balloons, and nearly all of his friends. Even Shadow seemed to have showed up!
Amy squealed with delight when she saw Tails, "Great, you came! Sonic should be here soon so go put your gifts in the dining room and come back here to hide!" She rushed Tails out of the living room, "Go you silly fox!" She shoved him into the dining room/kitchen area, making him crash straight into Cream.
"A-Ah! Sorry, Cream!" He exclaimed, mumbling bad things about the pink hedgehog that'd caused this. Tails stood up and helped Cream to her feet, thankfully she hadn't been carrying anything like food, that would've been messy and Amy probably would've killed both of them even though it had been her fault. After Cream was standing, Tails pulled his hand back to his side quickly, she blushed.
"It's okay, Tails. It was an accident." The rabbit looked down at the ground to hide the blush creeping onto her face, "It's nice to see you…"
Tails grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "It's great to see you too! Now we'd better hurry up so we don't miss surprising Sonic." He put the package with the shoes on the dining room table. Cheese peeked inside the package and gave Tails a thumbs up. "Haha thanks Cheese. They're supposed to make it so that Sonic doesn't hurt his feet as much while running. You see, the padding on the inside of the shoe is slightly squishier so they form to Sonic's feet better making it so he doesn't get as many blisters or bruises." He looked at their confused faces. "U-Uh let's just go."
The trio left the room and kneeled by Amy who was crouching behind the couch. "Well you guys sure took a while! I don't even want to know what you were doing in there…" Tails and Cream blushed. "No matter that now, Espio just sent us the signal that Sonic is on his way!" She sighed dreamily and dazed off into 'happy Amy land'. "Oh I can see him now! 'Oh, Amy, I can't believe you went through all the trouble just to make me happy! Will you marry me so I can do the same for you?' then he'll hold me in his arms while I weep and say 'Sonic! Of course I'll marry you! I've been waiting for this all my life. I even know what to name our children…" She spaced off so long that she missed her cue to jump up and say 'surprise' when Sonic walked in. Her face was fuming.
"Whoa, thanks guys! It means a lot!" Sonic exclaimed, looking around at all of his friends.
Knuckles walked up to him and gave him a good slap on the back, "Don't mention it man! Now come on, there's a party to throw!"
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The party lasted into the late hours of the night. It was filled with laughter and smiles and music. Knuckles had invited his new girlfriend, Julie-Su and in trying to make Knuckles jealous, Rouge clung onto Shadow the majority of the night. It escaladed quickly and instead of making Knuckles jealous, it became clear that Rouge had grown some feelings for Shadow over the years. (A/N: Yeah I'm a shadouge fan, sue me ^_^) Knuckles and Sonic got in a fight over a slice of cake at one point which ended with both covered in the cake, much to Cream's sadness. The rabbit yelled at the boys about wasting food. Sonic had laughed and slapped a piece of cake in her face, thus making everyone laugh. Amy tried getting everyone to play spin the bottle but no one was up for it, so everyone turned it around on her and played hide and seek, that was a bad idea though, because Amy summoned Piko-Piko hammer and started smashing Cream and Vanilla's house. Thankfully Vanilla didn't give her too bad of a punishment, but the end of the party had to be spent fixing and cleaning the house while Vanilla stood aside and supervised. Before everyone left, Sonic opened up his presents and gave a quick speech.
"I just wanted to thank everyone for planning such an amazing event. It's a shame that Chris and Cosmo couldn't be here, but I know that they're both thinking about us wherever they are! Anyways, it's been a peaceful few years with only minor problems from Dr. Eggman and I couldn't ask for better people to spend it with." To everyone's surprise, tears rimmed Sonic's eyes. "We've been through so many obstacles together and we've been with each other through it all. I'm serious when I say that I love you guys. I even love you, Shadow! No homo~" Sonic got a 'humph' coming from Shadow's direction and everyone chuckled. "So, here's to many more adventurous years together! Hip, hip, hooray!"
"HIP, HIP, HOORAY!" Everyone cried out and rushed up to give Sonic a huge group hug which was broken up when Knuckles yelped.
"Hey! Who touched my butt?!" Everyone started laughing again.
"Knuckles, you're such a loser!" Amy teased him.
Rouge butted in, "He tries oh-so hard doesn't he?"
"I resent both of those statements!" Knuckles retorted back.
"Really now?"
"Yeah, really!"
And just like that, the bat and the Echidna were back at their usual bickering, only stopping when Vanilla said that it was time for everyone to go home. Everyone bid their farewells, wished Sonic a happy birthday, and left for their homes.
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Tails got home in a content mood, he hadn't been that happy in a long time. It was good to be around his friends again. He fell back onto his couch and hung his head back. Closing his eyes, he thought about the amazing people he knew who graced him with such beautiful memories. Before falling asleep, Tails came to a conclusion that he was tired of living his life the way he had been. 'From this point forward,' Tails thought to himself. 'I'm going to be happier. I'm going to do everything in my power to move on from my past.'
He never noticed the green-haired, cerulean eyed figure watching him from his hallway.
You all have no idea how long this took me Dx I kept getting distracted by everything. Stupid secret ADD :P Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the second chapter! I'm trying my hardest to get these written and out there~
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