Chapter 3: Down in the Tokyo Pub
"Morning sleepyhead!" Sonic was the first to awake. He stood over Shadow, grinning his teeth widely, startling the ebony hedgehog out of his slumber.
Shadow immediately followed his instincts which were to jump up into a defensive stance, moving toward whatever had woken him out of his slumber to fight at any given moment. He glanced around the camp, seemingly dazed until he focused on the blue hedgehog in front of him who had run several feet back away from the black and red hedgehog.
"DAMN YOU SONIC." he marched back to his blanket which lay on the ground and sat with a plop atop it.
Sonic now wondered whether waking him in such a happy manner was the best thing to do as it resulted in the ebony hedgehog refusing to speak with him now, and simply pout as Sonic put it, though the ebony one claimed otherwise.
"Sorry, Shads."
" "Sorry, Shads." " he blatantly mocked, "My name is Shadow by the way, in case you forgot."
"Sorry Shadow..." Sonic tossed a biscuit to him, "We're not really...getting off to a good start, are we?"
"No." he admitted bluntly, "We aren't."
Emerald eyes wandered up to crimson ones which analysed his own in return. He glanced down to their backpack and noticed the fruit packed within, "You want a banana?" he reached for said fruit.
"Sure." he sighed, taking the banana to peel it, then placed chunks onto his biscuit, "Our personalities clash."
One of the cobalt's ears flattened slightly, then he let out a laugh, "A lot!"
A black eyebrow raised in amusement, "It's surprising we're actually related." he watched emerald green eyes flit from tree to tree, "Sonic, that's not your real name, is it?"
"Uhh...wh-what?" he blinked a few times, rendering the question in his mind several times before answering, "Yeah. That's my name."
"No," he shook his head, "is it your real name?"
"My real n-name?" Sonic looked away now. He hadn't expected this question to pop up just yet, he knew it would, just not so soon, "Not really..."
"I suppose," he began, cocking his head to one side now rather curious what Sonic's real name was, "you want me to tell you my name?"
"Wait. Your name? I thought it was "Shadow." "
"No. Shadow's my nickname. People've used it so much, many think it is my real name."
"I've never heard you called anything other than that."
He laughed. Laughter. He hadn't experienced this sensation in such a long time...
"My name's Fl..."
"Wha?" Sonic made a face which looked confused as he tried not to laugh at Shadow's embarrassment. He received a glare from his muffled chuckles, "What is it, Shadow? I promise I won't laugh."
"F-Floyd." ….and that was followed by a burst of laughter by the cobalt hero who had promised not to laugh, "SONIC, YOU ARSEHOLE!"
"I'm sorry, Shadow!" he struggled to keep his fits of giggles under control, "I just never expected you to have such an outdated name." a glare followed, "I'm not saying I don't like it!" he panicked, noticing the glare as he continued, trying to reassure, "I do. I just...I haven't really heard of it..I think off a few old TV shows or something."
"Hmph." he knew his brother would laugh, but brushed it off. He would give his payback later... "What about your name, eh?"
"Well...my name's kinda long." he started, "And it's old too..."
"Should I laugh?" poison wrapped his each and every word, ready to do exactly what its owner had just said.
"Not if you...nevermind." he rolled his eyes, "Olgilvie. Olgilvie Kay Michaels Maurice."
"Olgilvie? Kay?" Shadow listened in amusement once again as he repeated Sonic's name over and over in his mind, "Olgilvie Kay...Michaels Maurice. You weren't kidding when you said it was long."
"Haha. Absolutely not!"
"I kinda like it, though." the faintest of smiles appeared on Shadow's tan cheeks, "Did I ever tell you that I have a daughter? Or rather, that I had whole litter?"
"No!" he exclaimed excitedly, "You have a daughter?" he inwardly wondered if she looked exactly like him, or took after him in personality or looks, "I wanna meet her!"
"Whoa. You are not dating your niece." he put his hand up, making the sternest expression possible, but suddenly burst into laughter, "Flora's barely eight years old, anyway."
"NO! No, no. I want to meet her. My niece." he reassured, "Erhm...I think she's my niece." looking up and wondering if he had just lost his chance to meet her, "You said her name's Flora? What's she look like?"
"She looks exactly like me, except her quills are curly, and she has orange stripes and eyes instead of red."
"Awww! She sounds adorable!" each were seeing sides they never knew existed on the other. Sonic smiled, then his face turned to one of disbelief, "Wait...the Ultimate Lifeform, Shadow the Hedgehog has a family?"
He hesitated. A few moments went by, then minutes, still, Shadow didn't answer the last question.
"What about the rest of your kids...?" he bit his lip. Had he touched upon another touchy subject that was hidden with shrouded pieces? "You did say you have...a litter, didn't you?"
Crimson eyes looked into the direction of the cobalt hedgehog, then back again to the ground where their owner's feet were tucked underneath him, "Had."
"Oh-ohhh...I'm sorry."
"It's fine." he sighed, "Sonic. Whether you believe me or not about us being brothers, there are some things I do want you to know. And only you. I don't have anyone else to share this with. You're my only family except for Flora." he turned to the cobalt hedgehog, the serious tone in his voice enveloping every word, "And about my name: if I ever hear that you've told a single living or dead soul upon this planet or extraterrestrial, I swear I will personally hand you your coup de grâce."
"No problem, Shadow – or shall I say, Floyd?" he sniggered at the ebony hedgehog's sudden red face who threatened him once again, "I'm sorry, Shads..I shouldn't've...y'know."
"Thank you. Just don't call me Floyd in front of others – except Rose, Silver, Scarlett, and Flora." he looked to the east, "We should hurry if we want to get back on schedule. We're already half a day behind from lolly-gagging around."
Sonic tossed a glance over his shoulder, then took off around their camp picking up everything and packing it away, "I'm ready when you are." he winked, passing Shadow his backpack.
With that, the two took off in separate gold and blue blurs, each trying to see who could out-rival the other. They continued on until they reached the outskirts of Tokyo, where, according to Shadow, he found a farmer's market on a small side street by "coincidence."
"C'mon, we need to take a quick rest."
"I suppose so. We could use some more food too, for the journey back." the cobalt hedgehog wandered off to a nearby table where a farmer had tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, and cauliflower among other things, "Hey Shads, how about th–Shadow?" he pivoted on his heels looking for the ebony hedgehog, when he did find him, he was off on the far end of the alley.
"Yeah, Sonic?" he stuffed his bag of what looked like fruit into his knapsack.
"What've you got there?" Sonic tried snatching the backpack, but failed, "C'mon. You ain't got crack, have you?"
"No!" he snapped back, "Have you – hey!" he lunged forward trying to grab his backpack back when it was snatched out of his hands.
"Aha! Cherries?" he held the bag of black cherries up, out of the bag, "Why are you–? You like cherries!" he clapped his hands once, grinning widely as his black and red counterpart seized the bag of cherries from him.
He stuffed three cherries in his mouth, marking his claim over the bag he held tightly in his hand, "Buy your own bag."
"I don't want your cherries." he cringed remembering the flavour of those tiny red balls, "You can keep 'em! Those things are nasty!"
"Suit yourself." sulking off with his prized possession, he didn't even so much as wince when Sonic let out a long bellow of laughter at the ebony hedgehog's odd cravings and possessiveness over his cherries.
"I'll..." tearing his gaze off his counterpart, he glanced to the rest of the marketplace filled with vibrantly coloured fruits and vegetables, "I'll go buy us some more food..." he spotted a cantaloupe then some oddly shaped vegetable he assumed, "I wonder if he likes those? Or maybe those things! – I'm gonna try it!" his gaze fell to a petite hedgehog at the end of the alley. She smiled. He smiled.
When he approached her, he noticed that there were people scattered all about her on a pub property, some on balconies, some in the alley, many of them were dancing to the beat of a ripe tune, but all of them, including the female hedgehog, were holding a glass... "Or maybe I'll just try that." he winked at the girl, guiding her back into the pub...
Several hours later...
It was past midnight – far too past midnight – as a hoverskate caused water from a puddle to splash several nearby pedestrians, presumably drunken out of their minds to not care that they had just been splashed, "That dumbarse better be around here somewhere. I'm gonna skin him when I–" his jaw dropped when his gaze fell to the inside of a pub he was near, "Good God have mercy." and there he was: the hero of Mobius, Sonic the Hedgehog, grinding another female hedgehog whilst making sexual advances to her as they made their way up the stairs and into a small room.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" the ebony hedgehog was staring at his cobalt counterpart, scrutinising his every movement as he took another sip of his drink.
"Hiya...Shadooowww." he grinned stupidly at the hedgehog before him, his head swaying from side to side unevenly.
"I leave you alone in Tokyo for one evening and I come back to find you drunk." he snatched the iPhone off the counter, turning it on to show Sonic the screen, "Do you know what time it is? It's FIVE IN THE MORNING!" he screeched.
"I haffff...condoms." he giggled uncontrollably, "Yeah, condoms. Want some?" with that, Shadow clouted the poor sap so hard he probably wouldn't've woken up until the next evening.
Motioning to the bartender, he threw a threatening gesture toward him, "Did you give him the brandies?"
"No, sir. One of the ladies did." he pointed to the waitresses out on the floor.
He pointed back to the drunk, blue creature beside him, "Do you know who he is?"
"He's Sonic the Hedgehog."
"YOU ARSEHOLE HE'S FIFTEEN YEARS OLD." he snarled, one of his eyes twitching ominously at the poor man behind the counter, "You don't ever give a fifteen year old alcohol."
"I didn't give–"
"It was your waitresses you hired!" he turned to the blue hedgehog who was out cold. Heaving a sigh, he noticed two girls by a water cooler talking, "Two gallons of water for him. Ginger and cherries with vodka for me. To go."
"Here's you ginger vodka." from a few feet away, he slid the requested cups across the counter to the duo.
"The water?"
"I'm sorry – w-we don't have gallons of water. We have bottles if yo–"
"On the contraryI don't want your bottles...I'll just take these gallons of water." with a smirk, he slung the blue hedgehog over his shoulder before marching to the only water cooler in the pub and dragged the four gallon container off its pedestal.
A/N: Hahaha. Wow. I wasn't expecting this chappie to come out the way it did either.. I want to show the other sides of these hedgehogs that we don't normally see. The idea of having Sonic drunk was really a weird sort of...I dunno. He wants to experiment, I guess. Sorry I changed it suddenly from the marketplace to the pub so quickly. I'm only showing important events, not every little detail of 'he walks up and down the rows, finally getting bored of the marketplace and spots a pub. His curiosity takes control and slinks away into the night.'
Okay, that coulda worked too... O.o
Anyway, among other things, I've decided to make this is an official spinoff of the 'Adventures' series. Hope you enjoy the rest of the story!
~Andi Rose