I woke up the next day and told my grandparents that a friend was driving me to the airport. I lied about that, of course. I walked to the old shack. Before I could even knocked on the door Tails and Sonic came out. Tails had a remote controller in his hands when he pressed a button, a pathway and Tail's airplane rose from the ground. We got into the plane and proceeded to the next town where David McArthur lived.
When we arrived, there was a white boy with short black hair and green eyes. He was dressed comfortably and looked at us with a smile.
"I hope you are all prepared, David, because it takes about nine hours to get to Paris." said Tails as he prepared the plane for the next flight.
"Of course I'm ready. I'm so psyched for this adventure!" David said with the kind of enthusiasm I admire. He is really going to need it to complete the mission. Despite the fact that this adventure we are embarking on is a dream come true, we are in danger. No one told me this but I know that it is true. However, I won't share my worries with the others for fear of destroying their spirits. In the midst of my reflective state, I saw David looking at me.
"What's your name?" he asked. "Hi I'm Esperanza Fuentes. I was the first to be recruited and uhm it's nice to meet you. "
"The feelings mutual. I was told that you're our chaos emerald tracker."
I was a bit overwhelmed by this statement. I could only nod my head yes.
"It's time to go ,you two. Let's save the chatting for the plane ride." said Sonic.
While getting into the plane I noticed that only four people could fit into the plane. Maybe, technically five because Sonic sometimes rode on top of the plane. Shortly after we took off, I fell asleep. I ended up dreaming about the world of clouds I was admiring before I had fell asleep.
When we arrived in Paris it was midnight and no moon was present which made the night even darker. There was a the silhouette of a great castle.
"That is the Château de Thoiry and we will be staying in our base beneath it." announced Tails. "Be sure to be careful the animals that are part of the castle's zoo roam around free near here".
David and I nodded our heads while we exited the plane with Sonic who had once again turned into his werehog form. Sonic walked over to the tree closest to the castle and knocked on the trunk of the tree threes times. Ground adjacent to the tree rose and revealed a slope down into the base. As Tails drove the airplane down into the base he mentioned that Sonic probably went to go survey the surrounding areas. I looked around in surprise I hadn't realized that Sonic left us. I then explained that Sonic can't communicate with us in his werehog form. David just nodded. "Do you want to go and sit in one of the gardens with me? I know that you can't be tired yet." asked David.
"Only for a little while, we can't stay out all night or the jetlag will be terrible." I replied. I suddenly felt uneasy as if something terrible was going to happen.
We sat down on a bench in one of the nearby gardens. David directed his attention up at the stars. "There so numerous and so much more brighter here than where I live." David said in awe. I looked up at the stars too. They were still as numerous, and mystical and bright as I remembered them where I live. I turned to look at David. His gaze was still directed towards heaven and his beautiful green eyes were sparkling. "I guess all of the lights in your city obscures the view off the stars. The funny thing about light is that darkness makes it shine the best while other lights just blind and distract."
"That's an interesting notion." said a voice from behind. I turned around and looked up. It seemed to be Dr. Eggman in his egg mobile. "David you're coming with me." demanded Eggman.
"Why on earth would I do that?" shouted David.
"You act as if you have any choice." retorted Eggman. He opened up a capsule that released small pods that turned into robots as they were falling. The robots quickly cornered us and reached out to take David when a furry dark blue outstretched arm punched all the robots so hard that they were knocked down into one pile.
"Sonic" David and I gasped. Sonic gave us a smile and a thumbs up to assure us that everything would be fine. The robots got up again and started to swarm around Sonic but Sonic did a cartwheel damaging the robots in his way. He then jumped into the air and then smashed into the ground causing any robots to be paralyzed.
I recognize that move…. It's the Werewheel Rush.
I felt a rush of wind passing me by as David was swept up by a claw from Eggman's mobile.
"The emerald will be mine." exclaimed Eggman as he fled the scene. Sonic then picked me up and ran back to the tree near the castle and made sure I was safe with Tails in the base before heading out to find out where Eggman took David.
Tails led me to a small room and tried to reassure me that we will rescue David. I sat down on the bed just a bit dazed. I was trying to figure if what just happened was real and trying to deal with the fact that I wasn't able to prevent David from being kidnapped. I'm starting to worry that David and I might be dead weights to Sonic. Even though we can help with gathering the chaos emeralds, we are still two more people Sonic has to protect which will hinder him.