Burned
Chapter 2 of Burned, based around Disney's "Frozen." We get to meet Sonic in this chapter and Blaze finds out that living alone isn't as easy as it looks. No copyright infringement intended, this fanfic is considered fair use. Frozen belongs to Disney and Sonic belongs to Sega.
Chapter 2
Kingdom of Isolation
The sun rose over the horizon of the desert, sending rays of bright glowing sun washing over the sand and rocks. The sunbeam crawled along the desert floor until finally reaching a sleeping cat.
"Yawwwwn" Blaze's eyes adjusted to the brightness of the morning sun. "Err... ow! ow! ow! My back!" Princess Blaze always had her morning ritual back at the palace- wake up, take a shower, get dressed, and eat breakfast.
"Time for a bath." Blaze set up camp near a small creek meandering through the desert, fortunately for her, Blaze never had to take cold baths, she could simply make the bath as hot as she wanted with her fire, and she liked her baths HOT.
Blaze picked up her frilly fussy royal purple ornate dress. "That's not me anymore, that perfect girl is gone." Fabric singed and shredded as Blaze began burning her dress to create a new look, transforming it into a desert inspired tunic. Blaze was about to style her hair a princessy bun, when she glanced at her reflection in the water, "hmm... three spikes of hair in a ponytail... I like that, I'm going to keep it like this."
"Grrrrummmble... Ugh, I'm hungry, I guess this is the catch of living on your own." Blaze always enjoyed a wonderful healthy breakfast spread at the palace. Meals were one of the few times she left her room.
Looking at the stream, Blaze saw something moving. "Fish? FISH! I want fish!" Fish was Blaze's favorite food, all cats love fish.
"I'm gonna catch you!" Blaze tried to catch a fish with her claws, but it was too slippery and too fast, she tried and tried and tried and failed and failed and failed. "Awwww I'm hungreeeee. Maybe leaving the palace wasn't such a great idea after all."
Blaze looked around and found some desert nuts and berries, they weren't very good, bland and tasteless. Time passed and lunch-time rolled around. "Grrrrummmble... Agh! I'm so hungry! I shouldn't have run away from the palace! I can't live by myself at all! So much for my kingdom of isolation."
"Sniff sniff." Fortunately for Blaze, her cat nose could detect scents miles and miles away. "Mmmm... I smell food, that way!" Blaze sped across the desert at mach speeds, her hunger only made her run faster.
Blaze sped through the desert, it was a beautiful corner of the world that she had never seen, ruins of ancient civilizations and sun-bleached bones dotted the empty canvas of the desert, civilization was nowhere in sight...
After running for miles, finally, Blaze came across a run-down building, smoke smelling of cooked meat billowed out of the chimney, the dilapidated sign said "Knuckles' Roadhouse"
"There are other animals living way out here? I always thought the desert was empty." Blaze paused as she reached for the handle. "This makes me nervous, going to a place like this, I don't like meeting new animals, but I'm so hungry."
Blaze finally mustered up the courage to turn the knob and open the door.
"Creeeeeek..."
In front of Blaze was a dingy dark roadside dive bar. Unsavory characters, wolves and hyenas sat at tables drinking and playing pool. "Oh no... a dive bar, I've heard of places like this before. What have I gotten myself in to? This place is disgusting."
Blaze's hunger drove her to speak to the bartender, a red echidna with dreadlocks who looked much like her friend Tikal, except with a scowl on his face.
"Yo welcome to Knuckles' Roadhouse, I'm Knuckles, what can I get'cha?
Blaze looked at the menu scrawled on a dusty blackboard. "Ham-bur-gers? Sloppy Joes? Veggie Loaf? What the heck is all this? They don't have food like this in the Sol Kingdom."
"Hey hurry up, are you ordering anything or not?"
"Err..." Blaze was terrified to try any of these foreign concoctions. "Umm... maybe... could you please make me a fish scaloppine?" Peeped Blaze, nervous at the bulky impatient echidna in front of her, nothing like her friend Tikal.
"A fish scalo-what? Listen kitty, we aint got no fish here, so order something off the menu or scram!"
"Ring! Ring!"
"Huh?" Knuckles was caught off guard as the phone rang. "Hello?"
"Hello, this is the health inspector, is your refrigerator running?"
"Yes of course its running."
"Well you better go catch it then! Bwahahahahaha!"
"Sonic? SONIC! Is that you Sonic!? Why I oughta!"
ZOOOOOM!
Just then Blaze saw a blue blur zoom straight into the bar and right next to her stood a handsome blue Hedgehog. "What? But how? How could he run so fast?"
"Do what Knuckles? Lose another race chasing refrigerators?"
"Grrr... you jerk! That only happened once!"
"Hey..." The mysterious blue hedgehog turned his attention away from the angry echidna."
"Please don't talk to me strange hedgehog." Thought Blaze.
But that's exactly what the mysterious hedgehog did.
"Hey kitty cat, you lost or something? I've never seen you here before."
"Um... no... I'm just passing through that's all..." Blaze's stomach growled. "Grummmmble."
"It looks like your hungry too. Well you've come to the right place!" Said the stranger. "Knuckles my man, two chili dogs please."
"Coming right up. Hey Big! Cook us two chili dogs!"
After a few seconds, an large obese dark violet cat came out of the kitchen, setting two chili dogs on the bar.
"Wow, I didn't know there were other cats way out here." Thought Blaze.
"Heh, I thought you were hungry, cats love eating, right Big?"
"Dat's right, its how I got so fat."
"So dig in, kitty cat!"
The hedgehog scarfed down his chili dog with his hands. "He's not using a knife and fork, how rude!"
In front of Blaze was a strange looking dish, a peasant dish, far removed from the elegant plates she dined on in the palace. This looked like a bizarre cheap sausage in an oblong piece of bread topped with what looked like a ground meat and vegetable sludge. Frankly, it looked disgusting, not fit for a princess at all, not fit for such a refined palette.
Blaze just stared at it, even though she was hungry, she wouldn't eat such a vile... disgusting... thing!"
"Hey what's the matter?" Questioned the hedgehog. "Not going to eat your chili dog?"
"No thanks, I appreciate it, but I'll be fine."
"Gruummblllle"
"Well your stomach says differently, tell you what, why don't we make a little bet?"
"A bet?"
"Sure kitty, I win and you eat a chili dog."
"And if I win?"
"If you win I'll have Big here catch you all the fish you can eat."
Blaze had never encountered such confidence, such recklessness, someone who actually had the gall to challenge her to a race."
"No one can beat me! Your on hedgehog!"
"Great! Last one to the mountaintop loses. I'll see you from the finish line, kitty!"
Knuckles counted down.
"On your mark!"
Blaze and Sonic both glared at each other.
"Get set!"
"I'm going to win!" They both thought.
"GO!"
Out of the bar sped a blue and lavender blue, keeping neck and neck across the desert.
"Your pretty fast there kitty cat!"
"As are you, hedgehog."
The two barreled across the desert, running through hills, turns, and loop de loops.
"I'm not going to lose to a peasant!" Blaze was determined to win. Up ahead was a deep gorge. "Perfect!" Blaze kept running and hovered across the gorge with her fire shoes,
"Wha? She can fly? Well I guess that just means I'm gonna have to run even faster!"
Blaze landed on the other side of the gorge. "Hah! Beat that, peasant!"
"Of course I will kitty cat!"
Impossible! Right besides her was the hedgehog again!
"How in the? How did you get up here so fast?"
"Easy, I just ran up the wall."
It was apparent now that this hedgehog was no pushover, Blaze had never seen anyone even keep up with her in a race, but that doesn't mean she's about ready to lose. "I know I can beat him!"
Up ahead Blaze saw a wall of fire. "Perfect!" Blaze rushed straight through the fire. "He's not going to get through that!"
BURST!
Out of the canyon wall exploded the hedgehog, bursting through solid stone!
"You can't lose me that easily hot stuff!"
"Grrr.. He never gives up!"
Up ahead was a straightaway, this was it, nothing left to do but run, run to the top of the mountain, in the lead was Blaze...
Hedgehog...
Blaze...
Hedgehog...
Blaze...
And at the top of the mountain, by milliseconds, the winner was...
The hedgehog!
Blaze was shocked at losing, for the first time in her life, she had lost a race.
"What? How could you beat me?
"Don't worry kitty, it was a fluke, your just hungry that's all, now about that hunger."
Blaze remembered the bet she made with his mysterious blue hedgehog. "Oh no..."
"Oh yes! It's chili dog time!"
The embarrassed princess once again found herself at Knuckles' bar, staring at a freshly grilled chili dog right in front of her, Blaze was disgusted at the sight of this bizarre food, but she made a promise, and the nobility of Sol never went back on their word.
"Well, dig in." Said the cocky hedgehog, already eating another chili dog.
"OK Blaze, you can do this, just one bite."
"CHOMP!" Blaze felt the taste of meat, bread, spices, and vegetables swirl in her mouth. "Say, this isn't half bad for a peasant dish."
Blaze finished her chili dog just as she had promised. "So whatd'ya think? Pretty tasty huh?"
"I suppose... it was acceptable fare. At least I'm not hungry anymore"
"So does that hungry kitty got a name?"
"I'm princ... I'm Blaze... just Blaze."
"OK then Just Blaze! I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"It...it's nice to meet you Sonic."
Just then the doors of the bar swung open. "Did I just hear someone say Sonic?" Standing in the sunlight was the shadow of a pink hedgehog tightly gripping an oversized hammer.
"I know your here Sonic, you always go to this filthy bar. Hah! I've found you!"
The angry pink hedgehog was staring straight at Sonic and Blaze. "Gasp! And your with another girl! I'm gonna pulverize you for this, Sonic!"
The angry pink hedgehog raised her hammer, smashing a wooden table to smithereens!
"Whoa! Gotta juice Blaze! Catch'ya later!"
"Hey! Come back here Sonic! You come back here right this instance mister! Don't you dare run away from me!"
Blaze was alone at the bar again, finishing off the last of her chili dog.
"Sonic eh?" The lavender cat's cheeks were turning red. "This is going to be very interesting..."
Chapter 2- End
Thanks for reading Chapter 2. I liked making Sonic cocky, arrogant, and jerkish because its more how he acted in the original games, in the modern games he's too much like his Sonic X self. I liked putting Knuckles and Amy in here too. The Sonic/Knuckles relationship here is more of a rivalry and one-upsmanship. And Amy is her usual possessive self. I liked how Amy was acting in Sonic Rush, she didn't want Blaze falling for Sonic. I think next chapter will be back to Marine, While Frozen focused mostly on Anna, I want to focus mostly on Blaze, the Elsa of this story. Please rate and review.