Chapter 4 of Burned, based around Disney's "Frozen." Marine, the Anna of this story sets out on her plan to find Blaze. No copyright infringement intended, this fanfic is considered fair use. Frozen belongs to Disney and Sonic belongs to Sega.

Burned

Chapter 4

Let the Flames Blaze On

Rrrrumbleeee... put put put put grrrrrrr...

Gliding... no, more like shaking across the desert was Marine the Raccoon riding on her new vehicle, the Marine Desert Speeder.

"Kkkkriiiiikeeey thiiiis riiiide is buummpyyyy!"

The Marine Desert Speeder was an old jetski that Marine had modified to glide across the sand, the problem was that none of Marine's machines were ever that good! She never had a lot of money so they were all cobbled together from old junk parts.

"Bump bump bump bump"

"This thing better hold together until I find Blaze."

"Brrrrrummblllllleeee..."

"Huh?" Marine felt the earth vibrate and a trembling sound reverberating behind her, she turned her head and saw a cloud of thick brown dust billowing over a herd of stampeding wildebeests!

"Bloody 'ell! A stampede!" Marine floored the gas, pushing the Marine Desert Speeder to its limits! The stampede was getting closer and closer! The Desert Speeder couldn't handle such speeds, it was shaking violently and spewing thick black smoke.

"Blimey! Their gonna get me! This thing can't go fast enough!"

The stampede was right behind Marine, she could taste the desert dust in her mouth, the thunder of hooves shook her ears and vibrated her bones!

"I'm not gonna make it! I'm gonna die!"

All of a sudden, Marine saw a red biplane zoom by, a rope ladder fell right in front of her.

"Grab on!" Yelled the pilot, Marine could barely hear him over the roar of hooves and debris.

"I have no choice, I gotta jump!'

Marine thrust herself from the seat of the Desert Speeder, grabbing ahold of the rope ladder, escaping the stampede by inches. The daring raccoon climbed the swinging rope ladder, finding a seat in the back of the red biplane. Looking at the carnage beneath her, she saw the Marine Desert Speeder being trampled to smithereens.

"Waaaaaahhhh! The Marine Desert Speeder is dead!"

Turning around to greet the rescued raccoon was the pilot of the biplane, a young two-failed fox. "Awww don't cry, have a tissue."

"Sniff... Its just that I worked so hard on the Desert Speeder, and now its destroyed, nothing I make ever works right."

"Hey don't worry about it," said the fox. " We can just build a new one back at my workshop."

Marine's ears perked up and her tears evaporated. "You know about making machines?"

"Heh, I may know a thing or two, my name's Miles Prower, but all my friends call me Tails."

"G'day mate! I'm Marine the Raccoon! Thanks for saving me Tails."

"So Marine... what brings you all the way out here to the middle of the desert?"

"Its a long story Tails. I'm trying to find my mate Blaze, she ran away from home and I think she's lost somewhere in the desert. Something really bad happened when she ran away."

"Oh? What's that?"

"The winter... its like it just vanished when Blaze left, all the snow and ice just disappeared, its practically summer in the Sol kingdom."

"That's horrible!" Exclaimed Tails. "I love the winter, I can't imagine life without it! My friend Sonic and I would always go snowboarding in the winter, just thinking about it just makes me want to sing!"

Oh the snow will be bright
And I'll read in the candlelight
In winter.

Hot cocoa in my hand
Ice and snow across the land
In winter.

I'll finally be able to ski
And I will get to see
What Sonic thinks of me
Just imagine how much cooler I'll be!
In winter.

Da da, da doo, ah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, boo
The hot and the cold are both so intense
Put 'em together it just makes sense
Ratdadat, dadadadoo

When life gets rough I like to follow my dreams
and have fun with Sonic and Cream.
Oh the ice will be blue
and you'll be there too

In winter...

IN WINTER!

Marine giggled "Haha Tails you like singing just as much as I do!"

"Yep, Singing is a lot of fun, now let's go find your friend Blaze!"

"Right o' Tails!"

Blaze woke up in her old dilapidated room on the second floor of Knuckles' Roadhouse. The sunbeam crawled through the dusty window, yanking at the eyes of a sleeping cat. Her eyes were caked with the salty tears of last night. "Why did I have to treat Sonic like that? Marine... why do I always keep pushing everyone away from me?"

Blaze stretched and took a hot shower in the mildew stained bathroom.

"Oh well... its a new day... everyone makes mistakes... let it go Blaze... let it go..."

Blaze dried off from her refreshing morning shower, steaming the water droplets straight off her lavender fur. She got dressed in her purple desert tunic and walked down the creaky wooden steps to Knuckles' bar.

"Good morning Blaze." Greeted Big the Cat, the fat chef. "I made you a fish omelet, I caught them myself this morning."

"FISH!" Blaze gobbled down the fish omelet with her bare paws. Normally she wouldn't have such bad table manners, but she hadn't had fish in two whole days!

"Thank you Big, that was tasty."

"No problemo, us cats love fish."

"Yawwwwnnn" Knuckles the Echidna walked up to his bar.

"Mornin' Big, Mornin' Blaze."

"How rude, omitting the 'good' from 'good morning.' And his hair is a mess."

"Good morning Knuckles."

"Hey Blaze, Sonic says your pretty fast and pretty strong, he says you almost beat him in a race."

"No... not really"

Modesty was always one of the princessy values that Blaze had to adhere to, but not anymore. Blaze didn't have to be Miss Modest, that perfect girl is gone.

"Yes Knuckles! I am strong and I am fast!"

"Great! Maybe you can take Sonic down a peg or two, tell you what... I got news of a Chaos Emerald in a cave near here, its worth a pretty penny, think you can find it?"

"A Chaos Emerald? That must be the Mobian version of a Sol Emerald. I must find it!"

"Yes Knuckles! Yes I'll find it!"

"Great! Here's a map. This cave is out there in the desert, its called the Desert Labyrinth Zone. You've got to be really careful in those types of places Blaze, they are filled with traps and danger."

"Don't worry about me. I can handle anything! That's what my flames are for."

Blaze found herself at the mouth of a cave at the edge of the desert on the slopes of a mountainside. She had never experienced anything like this before, real adventure, all by herself. Blaze and Marine would always play adventure in the palace, but this was the real deal.

Entering the cave, in front of Blaze was a vast labyrinth of loops, turns, and platforms. It was beautiful, ancient crystals illuminated the air, shimmering off the pools of crystal clear water, and the Chaos Emerald was just waiting to be found.

"Wooow! This place is huge! So this must be what being a treasure hunter is like."

"Zooooooom!"

Blaze sped through the labyrinth, her feet took her wherever she wanted to go, she had never felt such a blend of emotions all at once- excitement, freedom, danger... "I love this feeling! I just have to sing!"

Down here in the labyrinth
No one to tell me what to do
Down here in the labyrinth
Every step brings something new!

Dodging spears left and right
Burning robots with my fire
Freedom is here in my sight
Because that's what I desire.

I don't need a maaaaaaaaap!
*click*
I stepped on a trap?

"I stepped on a trap!"

Blaze heard a click and noticed a pressure switch under her feet.

"Rrrrrrummmmmbbbbllllllleeee..."

Blaze felt the earth shaking and a loud sound coming closer.

"Uh oh, this can't be good!"

A huge boulder was rolling downhill towards Blaze!

"Oh my god!"

Blaze sped up, running furiously down the hill, as fast as her feet could take her. She was going so fast that she tripped on a rock beneath her, sending her tumbling down, crashing on a wall.

The menacing boulder was getting closer and closer!

Blaze tried to stand up, but she was frozen in fear! The boulder was feet away from crushing her to death!

"Nooooo!" Wailed Blaze.

Chapter 4- End

Its getting harder and harder to piece together the events of Frozen and fit them into the Sonic world as the story goes on. I wasn't going to make a song based on "In Summer" because I didn't feel like putting an Olaf in this story, but I made Tails sing the song because he and Sonic seem to like the winter stages in various games. The scene where Marine runs away from the wildebeest was also inspired by the Lion King.