Day after day, Sonic would sneak out to play with Tails, they were gleefully unaware of what was going on in the side-lines, despite constant nagging from Blueblood.
"Now, Sonic!" he would say. "You are royalty, you must act as such!"
"Don't tell me what to do." growled Sonic, folding his arms.
"I'm older than you, so I can if I want." said Blueblood.
"NO. You can't!" argued Sonic.
"YES. I can." argued Blueblood.
"NO. YOU CAN'T!" cried Sonic.
"Stop arguing!" snapped Twilight, who was studying."Trying. to study.."
Sonic rolled his eyes and ran off to his bedchamber, he let himself sink into his bed as far as he could go, his royal robe falling to the side. He tried to lie his head down, but it fell onto a hard surface, it was a book, it read, Chaos Energy. Now, Jules had trained Sonic before on how to use chaos energy, but why had Jules given him this now? Sonic looked at the book and picked it up, this book was a dark green, the title in gold letters, and it was a rather large casebound book. He looked at the pages, in seconds he got engrossed with the words on the page, and read on for hours.
Shining Armour passed by the bedchamber, and saw Sonic reading the book, he then went to Celestia and Jules.
"He likes the book," said Shining Armour, bowing.
Celestia and Jules smiled.
After many hours, Sonic realized he had to go to Tails, Sonic dashed to him immediately.
"Sorry for the wait!" said Sonic.
"It's fine," said Tails. "Wanna play knights?"
"Yep." said Sonic, enthusiastically nodding, taking out the wooden sword from underneath the back of his robe.
"How do you even do that?" asked Tails, curiously.
"I just do," said Sonic, grinning.
Tails picked up his wooden sword, and started fighting with it, causing them to laugh when they both pushed each other at the same time with the tips of the sword.
When it was nightime, Sonic eventually went back, only to find another book sitting next to the one that Jules gave to him, this book was about magic, like Jules had taught Sonic how to use chaos energy, Celestia had taught Sonic to use magic, not everyone liked Sonic for having both of these things, whenever he'd go down to play with Tails, he'd always get glares from people, mostly from Lightning Dust, Shilling and Trixie. Sonic wasn't sure if it was because of him being a prince, the fact he defended Tails or because he had chaos energy and magic powers - he didn't really know; nor did he care.
Sonic opened the book, and of course, got engrossed, he kept reading till the end, not realizing the deafening silence that went through the castle. He lost track of time. Just like when he was playing with Tails, probably just an old habit. When he got to the end of the book, Sonic thought about sleeping, he thought it was later than what it really was. He threw the cover over him, and tried to close his eyes to sleep, but he just couldn't do it. He heard something in the hallway, it sounded like his mother, and his father, and Blueblood, Sonic couldn't prevent himself from getting out of the bed and going to see the conversation.
He was right, it was Celestia, Jules and Blueblood. Something was up though in Sonic's eyes and thoughts. Celestia looked worried, no, not even worried, solicitous. That was a better way of putting it, Jules looked shaky and distressed. Blueblood looked mortified. Sonic knew something bad was, or even had, just or was going to happen.
"Dad?" said Sonic, gulping. "What's going on?"
Celestia sighed. "Sonic, I need to talk to you for a minute.."
"Okay.." said Sonic, nodding slowly.
Celestia and Sonic went to where Celestia would teach Sonic magic, it was a large, empty hall, with large stain glass windows, filled with colours. Sonic normally enjoyed being here, but for once, he didn't want to be in the hall, he just wanted to be back in his bedchamber reading Jules or Celestia's books that they'd given to him, or being out, playing with Tails, despite the looks he'd get.
"Sonic, our kingdom...Equestria, it's under threat." Celestia explained, her voice cracking. "Your father...he's going to...war..."
Celestia looked as if she was about to burst into tears, but she didn't. She looked as if she was. But she never did, not then and there. Sonic gasped at hearing this piece of news.
"W-what..!?" he cried, his voice echoing in the hall due to his volume.
Sonic collapsed into Celestia's arms, and Celestia held him close, like how she would do when he was little. Sonic normally felt on top of the world, he would normally felt superior, he didn't know if it was his powers, or being the son of a king and queen. But at this moment. He felt small. Tiny. Nothing. His own father, was going to war, and had the risk of being seriously injured, or even worse, death. Sonic had to be the strong one here. He was not going to cry, maybe by some luck, his father would come back okay. But there was the what if factor, it scared him, he felt sick to the stomache. He hated it.
Later, Sonic finally managed to get back to his bedchamber, he threw himself on the bed, head-first. He was still in shock and horror that his father was going to war. And his mother added in something else too. Jules was going to war, tommorrow morning. Probably at the crack of dawn, after tonight, Sonic had the horrible chance of never seeing his father again.