Blackshade
Chapter 10: Adapting to the Crowd
Phew today was a busy day!
But let's get started ;)
3 Days Later
"Three days... THREE DAYS AND AMY STILL DOESN'T APPEAR" Sticks cried as she put a 'missing' poster on a lamp post along with Antoine.
"I still can't help but blame myself for this.. if only I would've kept quiet"
"Monsieur for the last time it wasn't your fault! None of us saw this coming!"
"I know but still... are you sure it wasn't Bob?" Antoine asked.
"Bob was the first person I went to when I couldn't find Amy. But he was missing too! I have no idea where the hell he could be!" Sticks yelled.
"Sticks we must remain calm"
"What if something horrible happened to her!?" Sticks yelled.
"What about the police?"
"The good for nothing government told me I had to wait 72 hours till they began the investigation UGH!" Sticks kicked a rock in frustration.
"Why would they do that?"
"Since Amy technically 'ran away' they see it as a tantrum from her part, like if a child were mad at their parent and they ran away to give everybody a scare, usually the police don't take part in investigations with those cases till 3 days later"
"But that's stupid, what if the child runs into trouble?!" Antoine asked.
"Well that's the government for ya" Sticks said as she sat down on a bench.
"When did you file the report?"
"Two days ago" Sticks said as she rolled her eyes.
"You mean they won't begin the investigation till tomorrow!?" Antoine asked receiving a nod from Sticks.
"Ugh, then we must keep looking we can't give up"
"If I find Bob I'm going to wrap my hands around his neck and choke him until he tells me where Amy is!" Sticks yelled making a choking method with her hands.
"But where could he be... where could Amy be..."
"Amy where the hell did you leave the sponge!" Fiona yelled.
"Right here ma'am" Amy said as she gave Fiona the sponge.
"Congrats you can remember where you left things, NOW SPONGE THE FLOOR!" Fiona yelled as she pointed to the ballroom floor.
Amy had only been in the castle for three days and she already despised Fiona with a passion.
She had made very close amends with Blaze, Rouge, Cream, and Mina, who showed her around the castle.
She still couldn't believe she lived in a castle and boy was it beautiful.
The girls have already kept her updated on everything going on in the castle, such as HOW they all became into vampires and more importantly, The Ghouls Ball coming up.
Amy still couldn't believe that there were vampires surrounding the whole world this whole time and she never knew.
Sonic and Tails had gone on a 2 day trip around the world to give all the other vampires their invitations to the ball, which gave Fiona more of a reason to boss everyone around.
"MASTER SONIC COMES BACK TODAY AND I WANT THE CASTLE SPOTLESS!" Fiona yelled to all the maids as they all cleaned up the castle.
"Instead of giving out orders maybe you should help us" Amy said under her breath.
"WHAT WAS THAT PINKY!"
"Nothing ma'am" Amy said as she rolled her eyes.
"THE MASTER HAS ARRIVED!" Charmy yelled as he flew into the room.
"EVERYBODY TO THEIR POSTITIONS!" Fiona yelled. "Pinky do you remember how I told you to line up?" Fiona asked as Amy nodded.
"Good but don't forget to put the sponge back!" Fiona ordered as Amy ran to go put the sponge away.
All the maids and workers got into their position and they all noticed how Amy was struggling to reach up to the cupboard to put the sponge away.
Fiona rolled her eyes and face palmed as the doors began opening.
Tails walked in first and lined up in front of the workers and noticed Amy trying to sneak back into her line.
"This can't end well" Silver whispered to Shadow.
Sonic walked into the room and Amy ran towards her line causing her to trip on the rug and falling in front of Sonic.
Sonic looked down indifferently and raised an eyebrow at her.
Fiona quietly put a hand over her mouth and tried to hold in her laughter as Amy's friends stared at her in fear and sorrow.
"Oops" Amy said as she sheepishly smiled at Sonic.
Sonic lifted his hand and snapped his fingers while pointing at her line signaling her to get in position.
Amy's face was so red she almost looked like Knuckles as she quickly stood up and went to her position.
Cream lightly patted Amy's back as Amy covered her face in her hands.
Way to go Amy Rose...
Bob was right when he would tell her she was as clumsy as her mom.
Sonic began walking in between everybody as Cream signaled for Amy to get ready to bow.
When he past by Cream she noticed how she crossed her legs, put her hands at the end of her dress and squatted vaguely.
Amy repeated her actions but lost balance on her crossed legs and was on the verge of falling until Sonic put a hand around her waist and pulled her up.
"Sorry... I'm not used to doing this" Amy said feeling her cheeks becoming hot again.
Sonic looked at her in the eyes and got closer to her face, "Next time I won't catch you" Sonic whispered, their lips being 1 inch apart from each other.
Fiona clenched her fists and puffed her cheeks at the sight while all the other servants were silently celebrating Fiona's misery.
Sonic let go of Amy and walked in front of everyone.
"Release" Sonic said as Fiona went up to him.
"How was your trip master?" Fiona said while twirling her hair.
"Great" Sonic said as he left Fiona on the spot and walked up to Amy.
"Can I talk to you?" Sonic asked her as he neared her.
"Of course.. yeah.." Amy nervously stated as Sonic led her to the balcony, leaving a fuming Fiona in the ballroom.
"How have you been doing so far?" Sonic asked her looking at a distance.
"Minus the falling... great" Amy said as she looked up at him.
"I'm really sorry about taking you away from your friends" Sonic said as he looked at her.
Amy didn't respond and looked down, she surely did miss Sticks and Antoine.
Sonic put his hand under her chin and lifted her head up causing her to look at him in his eyes.
"Have you started gardening?" he asked her, giving her a soft considerate smile.
Amy's heart skipped a beat and her cheeks turned a tint of pink when he smiled.
He looks so handsome when he smiles...
Amy shook the thoughts from her head and shook her head.
Sonic removed his hand from her chin and grabbed her waist.
"Grab my neck, I hope your not afraid of heights" Sonic changed his considerate smile to his typical smug smile.
"Wait what?" Amy asked but couldn't finish as Sonic flew them both up in the air.
Amy clinged onto Sonic's neck for dear life as they lightly floated down toward the rose bud.
Amy had her eyes closed through the entire small flight but opened them when they landed down and stared in awe at the beautiful scenery.
"Wow oh my chaos! It's beautiful" Amy exclaimed as she inspected the small flowers around the area but was most fascinated by the black roses on the side of the castle.
Those look just like the roses Antoine gave his little friend.
"It's amazing!" Amy said as she kneeled down next to the black roses and eyed them.
Sonic stared at her in... admiration.
Something about this girl made him feel queasy inside his stomach, the smile he gave her a couple moments ago was the first real smile he's given anyone in years.
He just... felt like he needed to make her happy no matter what... oddly enough despite him being the saddest creature in the universe he didn't want to see her depressed.
And something inside of him told him he had to bring her to the garden.
"These are beautiful!" Amy said as she gently touched a rose and softly touched its petals.
"I call them Blackshade" Sonic finally said as he walked up to Amy.
"Blackshade?"
"Mhm call me crazy but these roses are very important in my life, or should I say afterlife" Sonic said as he rolled his eyes.
"I don't think that's crazy at all, I find it wonderful that you have a big passion for something" Amy said as she smiled at him.
Sonic looked over at her and suddenly felt that queasy feeling again.
No one has ever understood my passion for Blackshade... and she didn't even ask me how they became so important to me...
"I can tell you know a thing or two about roses"
"I used to always garden with my mom, gardening is something I've always had a passion about, that's why I got really giddy when you assigned me this job" Amy responded.
"Well the way you tend Blackshade is not the way you attend your regular rose, Blackshade should never be watered because that causes them to die faster, you give them blood instead"
"Blood? Why blood?" Amy asked.
"So that they can live eternally, just wanted to give you a heads up before you commit a stunt like the one just moments ago" Sonic winked at her as Amy flushed a deep shade of red again.
If only Sonic knew that she wasn't blushing because of the embarrassment of the stunt in the castle...
Sonic stood up and began stretching his arms unaware that Amy was taking notice of his masculine features.
"Well that was a long trip and I'm tired so I'm going to sleep for awhile"
"But it's still daylight"
"Haven't you read any books?" Sonic asked. "Vampires are creatures of the night" Sonic said as he winked again and helped Amy up.
"So your servants stay up 24 hours a day... cause they don't sleep during daylight" Amy asked confusingly.
"I'm just messing with you Amy, those are just rumors, yeah we love to hunt at night but we need our night sleep too, I'm just really tired so I'm going to take as how you mortals call it, a nap" Sonic said.
Sonic was making Amy feel so comfortable that she asked the biggest mistake she'd ever asked.
"Master Sonic... how did you become a vampire..."
Sonic's face automatically darkened and Amy knew she had committed an error.
Sonic turned to looked at her and responded, "None of your business."
Amy was taken aback at his cold tone of voice and immediately regretted her question.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean..."
"Just drop it." Sonic said as he walked away from Amy leaving her staring at him in sadness.
And it was all going so well...
"YOU DID NOT" Rouge exclaimed to Amy as Amy nodded.
The 5 friends had all gathered up in Amy's room to chat about how their days went before dinner.
"Rule number 1 in this castle Amy, NEVER ASK MASTER SONIC ABOUT HIS PAST!" Blaze said as she combed her hair.
"I didn't know I feel horrible!" Amy said as she covered her face in her hands.
"It's okay Amy, Master Sonic won't hold it against you" Cream said as she patted Amy's back.
"Yeah the master ain't the kind to hold a grudge forever" Mina said.
"That still doesn't help wash the guilt away! Me and my big mouth"
"It's okay Amy, you didn't know, and Master Sonic will take notice of that and forgive you" Cream said.
"And yes Amy vampires can forgive" Rouge said as she rolled her eyes as Amy cracked a smile.
"See there's the smile we all like to see" Blaze said.
"Speaking of smiles, Sonic sorta gave me the most sweetest smile when we were at the balcony today Amy said as she twiddled with her fingers.
When Amy heard no response she looked up and noticed all the girls staring at her wide eyed.
"What?" Amy asked.
"He.. smiled at you?" Mina asked.
"Yeah"
"NO WAY! Master Sonic never smiles at anyone, like NOBODY! Not even Tails!" Blaze exclaimed.
"So?" Amy said.
"So THIS IS SAYING SOMETHING! If he smiled at you that could mean that..."
"He feels pity for me?" Amy asked.
"NO it could mean that he likes you!" Blaze squealed as Amy looked at her oddly.
"Like me?"
"Yeah like it's obvious he feels some sort of connection to you, you could tell. Like he caught you when you were about to fall like if it were me he'd probably let me fall" Rouge said.
"YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN THE LOOK ON FIONA'S FACE PRICELESS!" Mina exclaimed.
"Oh yeah about that, does she like him or something?" Amy asked.
"Oh please the only reason Fiona is obsessed with him is because of his looks and his position as master, she wants to get with him to be 'queen of the kingdom'" Mina mocked as she did air quotes.
"If he didn't have those qualities she wouldn't even pay attention to him" Rouge said as she rolled her eyes.
"She wouldn't be a very nice queen" Cream said as Blaze nodded her head, agreeing with her.
"So Amy?" Rouge said as she gave her a smug smile.
"What?"
"You like Master Sonic too?" Rouge mocked as Amy's cheeks began flushing.
"W-what... no!" Amy exclaimed.
"Mhmmmm" all the girls stated as Tails announced from outside the door that dinner was served.
"Saved by the Bell" Rouge groaned.
"Not only do I love that show but I also gotta go" Amy said as she walked out the door.
"Saved by the Bell? There's a show called that?" Rouge asked the rest of the girls as they shrugged.
Rouge began walking out as she muttered, "I gotta look that up"
Sorry for the late update!
I'm currently getting ready for school since I start Wednesday -_-
Ugh...
So about that, I may be updating less often since this is piles of work we're looking at.
But I'll try to update every weekend.
Shadow: You better not go on a writers block like all your old stories.
Me: I won't I promise! Well stay tuned for the next chapter of Blackshade ;)