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Theos: That she did!
CrusaderTransformer1: Enjoy the chapter and I do not own Sonic or the Sega company. I own only myself and the girls own themselves and the chao they created for this story. Again, enjoy.
Cassandra and I knocked Sonic down so that we could enter before him, much to Sonic's dismay and the gang's amusement.
"Are you entering the race?" A rabbit that looked very much like Cream softly asked us as we entered with Cream following us. Sonic was blowing a raspberry at us and Tara was blowing one back at him.
"Hi Mama!" Cream said behind us as she entered.
"Hello Cream, are you going to enter the race?" Cream's mother asked.
"Yes Mama," Cream replied, then gestured towards us, "This is Tiffany, her sister and also my friend, Cassandra, and her friend Tara."
"Hello girls, I'm Vanilla, and if you haven't guessed already, I'm Cream's mother. It's very nice to meet you." Vanilla said, shaking my hand.
"Likewise Vanilla." I replied and then Cassandra added, "Cream, you can go ahead and sign in before us."
"Okay." She replied and signed her name on a sign-up paper with a pen provided by her mother, who asked her to be careful in the race.
I signed after her, then Tara signed, and after her, Cassandra signed as Sonic entered.
"Brats...pushing me down like that." Sonic said to us teasingly.
I just grinned evilly and stepped aside so that he could sign. Cassandra, Tara and I went then went out so that the other people could get in and we rode our gear around a big pillar to kill some time while they signed up.
"Shadow doesn't know that today's the last day to sign up!" I heard Rouge exclaim, and I nearly flipped on my Magic Broom in surprise and found myself hanging on by one hand while the girls laughed as they rode past me.
"He knew, he signed in yesterday." I then heard Vanilla say assuringly, and felt relief at that, while I stuck my tongue at Cassandra and Tara as they passed again!
The girls and I were in the middle of raspberry contest when everybody came back out.
"Hey you guys! Quit that, we've gotta get out of the mall before it closes." Sonic said, then ran and jumped up to hang on my feet, much to my displeasure.
"GET OFF!" I yelled at Sonic, grunting a bit with his weight added to mine.
"Make me!" Sonic said challengingly.
I started kicking and swinging while hanging onto my Magic Broom with two hands and Sonic was just swinging there, having a good time while I wasn't! Then someone familiar came to my aid.
Shadow came up with his gear-shoes on and reached up with one hand. He caught one of Sonic's feet and pulled down.
The unsuspected pull on his foot made Sonic let go, and I was relieved to no end.
"Quit that, Faker!" Sonic yelled when Shadow continued to pull on his foot, dragging the hopping blue hero over to Amy.
"Sweet, sweet relief from the fat blue hedgehog." I said out loud, continuing to dangle.
"I'M NOT FAT!" Sonic yelled at me.
"COULD HAVE FOOLED ME FATSO!" I yelled back.
Shadow chuckled quietly with his eyes shut, making everybody look at him in surprise.
"Finally someone who shares my opinions." Shadow said, opening his eyes and looking at me.
I'm pretty dang sure that I was a deep shade of purple when he looked at me.
"SHUT UP FAKER, I'M NOT FAT!" Sonic yelled turning on him.
I was trying to get back on my Magic Broom correctly when TWO MORE PEOPLE grabbed onto my feet and hung there! I looked down to see Cassandra and Tara hanging from my feet with one hand while the other held their Magic Brooms, very much acting like Sonic only they were acceptingly lighter. Still, I groaned nice and long at being hung on again.
"What are you DOING?" I asked them after I finished my groan.
"Hanging around." Cassandra told me.
I was about to shake them off when I had a better idea!
"Well, go hang around on Sonic, let's see how he likes it!" I told them, grinning evilly again.
"OKAY!" Both of them replied, letting go of my poor feet and jumping onto Sonic, making him yell.
"GET OFF!" Sonic yelled, running around in a circle with the two monkeys (Cassandra and Tara) hanging on his back.
"NO!" Both of them replied.
I let go of my Magic Broom to land onto the floor slightly hard and stepped back in time to catch my Magic Broom in my hand.
Shadow strolled up while I was watching Sonic run around in a slight blur while the girls were laughing and having a great ride!
"Did the points come in handy?" Shadow asked, taking in my outfit and gear with his ruby-red eyes.
"Um...yes." I replied, turning my face away so that he wouldn't see me blushing.
"I'm glad, you look really nice in that outfit. I like the hat too." Shadow commented.
"Thanks." I replied, my heart doing some funky dance in my chest.
Chao Breeding Music plays...
Both of us snapped our heads to the left to see Sonic standing still and Cassandra holding out a CD player that she must have bought behind my back while Tara was giggling. Then all of them acted very maturely and started singing this...
SHADOW AND TIFFANY! SITTING IN A TREE! K...I...S...S...I...N...G!" All three of them sang loudly.
"GIVE ME THAT CD PLAYER NOW!" I roared, charging at Sonic and the girls while the music abruptly ended.
The girls jumped off while running in one direction while Sonic ran in the other, I took after the girls while Shadow took off after Sonic.
"I'M GOING TO HURT YOU!" Both Shadow and I yelled in unison as we ran after the people we intended to punish.
This chase was basically the same as before when I chased Cassandra, only it involved two girls and Shadow chasing Sonic. We chased our people until a speaker came on, making all of us stop in our tracks.
"The mall is closing, please exit the building and have a nice day." The speaker said.
"Yes! Saved by an announcement!" Sonic cheered as he ran past me.
"You just got lucky, it won't happen again, Faker." Shadow growled at him as he also passed me.
"Same goes for you two!" I said to Cassandra and Tara, earning raspberries in return.
I was walking out with everybody else when I remembered the points.
"Hey Rouge, what do we do with the left-over points?" I asked, running up to catch up with her.
"Well, you can't keep them unfortunately." Rouge told me, "You have to hand over the cards to a person on the way out so that the points will be put in games."
"Dang it! I'm never going to have this many points again." I muttered as we headed out.
Cassandra and Tara were just as disappointed as I handed the card to a purple hedgehog guy in a booth as we exited the greatest mall we had ever been to.
I put my Magic Broom with everyone else's gear, along with Cassandra and Tara's Magic Brooms, and climbed into Tails' plane. Cassandra and Tara had climbed in after I had taken their Magic Brooms from them and I sat next to them, easing my tired self into the seat.
"Here Tiff, I grabbed the girls' and your clothes while you were chasing the girls." Rouge said, handing us three bags as the Chao climbed onto their owners' laps.
Chao weren't allowed in the mall, so they had to stay in the plane and wait for us to come back.
I know what you're thinking, they allow racing gear in the mall and a lot of other stuff, but they won't allow pets? It confused me too.
"Thanks Rouge," I told her gratefully, laying my clothes bag on my lap.
I suddenly thought of something I had forgotten a while ago and I reached into my shorts' pocket, pulling out the blue Chaos Emerald. I held it up with one hand and stared at it while the girls were chatting about how fun Mickey's Grand Mall had been.
"HEY! Tiffany has a Chaos Emerald!" I heard Charmy say loudly.
I suddenly found that every single person on Tails' plane was staring at us and the Chaos Emerald in my hand.
"What?" Tara asked, looking at everyone.
"I still love you!" Charmy said to Tara, hearts lighting up in his eyes again.
"EEP!" Tara said and jumped over Cassandra to land painfully into my lap.
I just didn't say anything and just wrapped my tails over her so that she was hidden.
"I don't get it, I had some Tic-Tacs!" Charmy complained, forgetting about the Chaos Emerald and flying back to his seat.
"Where did you get that?" Sonic asked us, suspicious once again.
Cassandra and I rolled our eyes at him, (while Tara continued to sit on my lap and stay hidden by my tails) and we took turns telling how we had been in the backyard (as humans) and Cassandra told them how they had been playing Rouge and Cream when the two Chao and Emeralds showed up. I had been in the tent when that had happened, so I was curious to how they had appeared.
"We saw something bright in the grass and we went to see what it was. And I found the Chaos Emerald, despite what TARA says!" Cassandra said, aiming the comment at my tails where Tara was.
Tara said something in defense, but it was muffled by my tails and it went un-heeded by everyone.
"And when I picked up the Chaos Emerald, it flashed really bright." Cassandra continued, "And then there was Dixie and Rouge standing in front of us."
"And then they were yelling at me to come see something," I said, taking it from there, "I came out the tent and Cassandra was holding the Chaos Emerald, along with Dixie, and Tara was holding Rouge." (The Chao, not the jewel-thieving bat people!)
"Tiffany was so surprised that she fell onto her butt!" Cassandra said to everyone.
"THANK YOU CASSANDRA!" I said, giving the brat a look that said, 'I was getting to that part!' and she stuck her tongue at me.
"Is Charmy gone?" Tara asked, poking her head out from my tails.
"Get off." I ordered and she pouted as she went back to her seat.
Then came the part where Cassandra told everyone how she and Tara took off flying and how mad I was when I had finally got a hold of them.
"And then she yelled at us." Cassandra said simply.
"SHUT UP!" I growled at her.
"Like that!" Cassandra said, ignoring me and making the others laugh, except for Shadow and Omega, naturally.
"Anything you want to add?" I asked her, still seething a bit.
"Yes." Cassandra said, giving me an evil grin.
I knew I was going to regret asking, but I did anyway.
"What?" I asked.
"I like chocolate milk!" Cassandra told me.
"ONE OF THESE DAYS, POW! TO THE MOON!" I yelled, shaking a fist at her.
The statement itself wasn't what made me mad, it was where she got it and I KNEW where she got it was what made me mad. She, Tara, and I used to watch this show called Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends all the time. And this character called Cheese (And I don't know what HIS problem is) would say "I like chocolate milk." or "I like cereal." in a strange way. Cheese is an extremely strange character, let's leave it at that. Cassandra and Tara absolutely love the guy, they imitate him all the time!!!!
Cassandra, Tara, and everyone else were laughing their heads off at me. I just rolled my eyes and sat there. Cassandra and Tara then chose to tackle-hug me.
"GAH! Get off me!" I said, even though I didn't make a move to make them get off.
"NO!" Both of them told me, continuing to glomp me.
"HEY TARA! I still love you!" Charmy said, zooming back over.
I think Tara finally had enough of Charmy and hiding, so she told him how she felt.
"I love you too, Charmy!" Tara said to Charmy.
Charmy was so thrilled, he whooped and flew in circles and then fainted dead away on the floor. The other two from Chaotix team were staring at him in confusion.
"Oooooookkkkk!" I said, looking at the now still bee.
"That was the weirdest thing I've ever saw." Cassandra said and then looked at Tara quizzingly, "Did you really mean that?"
"Yeah, he's funny!" Tara replied.
"Then why were you hiding behind my tails all the time?!" I asked her.
"I don't know, probably because they're soft!" Tara informed me.
"OY VEY!!!!" I said, "Let's continue with the story already!"
"Yes, let's. Before anything else goes all weird." Sonic agreed.
Then the girls took the pleasure of telling how Eggman's voice had appeared out of NOWHERE and a portal had opened out of nowhere as well. The girls were really excited as they told them how it started sucking them in and how I tried to hold onto them so that we wouldn't. Course, we ended up getting sucked into it anyway.
"And then we landed on Tiffany's back!" Tara said, making me cringe at the memory and Sonic suck air through his teeth.
"And then when she sat up, there was a lot of loud cracks!" Cassandra said, making everyone look at me in concern.
"It didn't hurt, it actually felt pretty good." I stated, making several giggle.
"I'll bet." Shadow said.
Then the girls told the part of how we insulted Eggman, made him mad, and then destroyed his robot with Team Blast or Emerald Blast.
And then Cassandra and Tara happily told how we beat up Sonic before they had all arrived.
"You did NOT beat me up! You just stunned me!" Sonic protested while the others, even Amy, laughed at his expense.
"How like a man. So prideful." I said out loud.
"So true, so true." Amy said, wiping away a tear from her eye.
"Amy!" Sonic said in surprise, looking hurtfully at his pink woman.
"Are we there yet?" Cassandra suddenly asked.
Everyone stared at her like she had grown a second head.
"Where?" Sonic asked her.
"To wherever we were gonna go." Cassandra told him.
"I haven't even started flying the plane, silly." Tails told her.
"Oh." Cassandra replied, sinking into her seat and blushing.
"So you guys were humans." Vector said, looking at us with curiosity.
"Yeah." I replied, giving him a look that said, "What part of that didn't you understand?"
"Chris would be so jealous." Sonic said laughing, shaking his head.
"Would he now?" I asked, looking at Sonic.
"Oh yeah." Sonic said, his eyes on the ceiling as he nodded, "He's been studying for Mobia for a long time and trying figure out how to turn into one of us."
"Maybe if I let him have the Emerald for a little bit, his wish will come true?" I suggested, holding it up.
"Chris has touched the Chaos Emeralds many times, Tiff." Amy told me, "And nothing ever happened when he did."
"Really? That's too bad." I said, feeling sorry for Chris.
"Maybe if he touched ours with one of us, he would!" Cassandra said suddenly.
Everyone looked at her again, this time with interest.
"That might work, it worked with you guys!" Knuckles said thoughtfully, "Hang on a sec, I gotta ask the Master Emerald a question."
He left to be by himself in the back of the plane and Rouge tried to sneak after him, but the rest gave her a stern look. She pouted at us while Knuckles shut the door behind him.
"No, no, no!" Tara told her, shaking a finger.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again, all the world's jewels are mine to keep!" Rouge protested.
"Try to steal it some other time." I suggested, "Knuckles wanted to ask it something."
Right after I said that, Knuckles burst through the door.
"Speak of the echidna!" I said, looking at him in surprise as he halted and stood there panting and staring at us.
"What it say?! What it say?!" Both Cassandra and Tara yelled/asked.
"It told me why they're able to change into Mobians!" Knuckles said, panting before saying, "They're the chosen protectors of the Cross Emerald!"
"The WHAT?!" The gang including me yelled in surprise, all of his quills flying straight in the air.
"SAAAAWEEETTTTT!" Both Cassandra and Tara yelled, jumping up with their hands in the air.
"We don't know what that means!" I yelled/pointed out, making them calm while sitting back down and then looked at Knuckles, "What exactly do you mean, Knuckles?"
"The Master Emerald showed me a prophecy from my clan that three strangers from another world, change into Mobians, and they would bear an Emerald that was just as powerful as the Master Emerald, but more holy. One bearer would be as blue as the sea, one would be like the shade of a rose, and the last would be like the robe that royalty wore." Knuckles said, staring at us hard, "They each have a part of the Cross Emerald."
"And you think that we're the ones in the prophecy?" I asked, looking at Cassandra and Tara.
"I KNOW YOU ARE!!!" Knuckles yelled with his rather sharp-looking teeth showing, making me lean back with fear, "THE MASTER EMERALD NEVER LIES!!!"
"Calm down, Knucklehead!" Sonic said, pulling him away from us, the echidna still glaring at us, "She was just making sure she heard you right!"
None of the rest of us, not even the girls, had anything else to say about the prophecy right at that moment, especially not to an angry echidna.