Here's chapter 14. This chapter takes place at the same time as chapters 8 through 13, and is the last chapter to take place at the same time as previous chapters at the moment. Hope you like.
The door has just closed. Sonic, Amy, Tails, Cosmo, Knuckles, Tikal and Jack have left the apartment to search for the master emerald. About 15 minutes ago about Nick, Judy, Finnick, Retsuko, Fenneko, Haida, Ookami, Washimi and Gori had also left so now the children were alone. Because Locke II, Pachacamac II, Speed, Flora and Alex were the oldest of all children, the responsibility of taking care of Koka, Hana, Nicole and Jerry was left to them.
Before the adults left they had been planning what they wanted to play first. They came up with several options, so they wrote each option on different little pieces of paper, put them in a small each and Speed took it upon himself to grab one of the papers. The option that had come out was to play a video game. Fortunately Koka that day had brought his video game console that day with the permission of his parents to be able to play with Hana and his new friends.
Once the television was turned on, put it into video game mode, and set up the console, everyone sat down. Since the console had only 4 controls, everyone had to take turns to be able to play. Since Koka and Hana were the ones who had played the most before, they first played by themselves to teach the others what the game was about and how it was played. It was a fighting game where you could play with several different characters. Koka and Hana played two rounds alone in which they each won one of the rounds.
"So you already understand how to play?" Koka asked.
"It is not that complicated. True?" Hana asked.
Speed, Flora, Alex, Locke II, Pachacamac II, Nicole and Jerry shook their heads as a sign that it was not complicated and they had understood everything.
Once Koka and Hana started a new game they all agreed that Nicole and Jerry would take the other two controls. It could see at the beginning that the twin half siblings had a bit of trouble controlling their respective characters. But it didn't take them long to figure out what each button on their respective controls was for. Finally the game ended. Although Nicole and Jerry didn't win if they had fun.
Then it was the turn of Locke II and Pachacamac II. Although they weren't used to coming into contact with technological devices, they didn't see that it was so complicated. So they started playing against Koka and Hana. They did take the first try quite easily. They were even quite difficult to beat during the round. At the end of the game, the echidna twins were the winners of the round, and it was surprising for someone who didn't come into contact with such devices.
Now it's Flora and Alex's turn. Although they did have a lot of knowledge about many computers and technology devices, they had never had the opportunity to use a device like this before, so its use would be interesting for them. The twins were quite careful to see when they decide the movements that their characters would use in the video game. The game finally ended. Flora and Alex were tied, they had beaten Koka, but lost to Hana. They still had a good time.
Finally it was Speed's turn. Although he was intermediate in technological gadgets, he did not mind trying something new. He just hoped it was as much fun as facing Eggman in real life. Once the game started, Speed did what he learned in practice by watching the other kids' previous rounds and the ways Koka and Hana played with their respective characters, which they used in each previous round. At the end of the Speed round, Koka and Hana were in a triple tie.
After that last round, they took turns again and played together for about 45 minutes. Where groups of children who had not played before played with each other and had fun. When they finally finished playing they turned off the TV, unplugged the video game and put it in a backpack.
"Well, now what can we play?" Nicole asked.
"Hopefully it's just as fun," Jerry said.
"And it will be, rest assured. We will play hide and seek. One of us will have to count to 10 while the others hide. The first to be found will be the next to search" said Speed.
"But we don't know how to count yet," Nicole said, pointing to herself and her half-brother Jerry.
"Don't worry, it will be up to you to hide in each turn" said Flora.
The gray vixen and the striped rabbit jumped for joy upon hearing that.
"Well, I offer to be the first to count," Alex said.
They all nodded their heads. While the green two-tailed fox turned on his back and began to count slowly to 10 to give his friends the opportunity to hide anywhere in the apartment.
"Ready or I'm not going" said Alex finished counting and was looking for the others around the perimeter.
To the fox's advantage he had good hearing and a good sense of smell, so he used his natural abilities to find the other children.
He first he went in the direction of the kitchen and in one of the cabinets near the sink he could hear a noise, and when he opened it there was Koka hidden.
"I found you" said the two-tailed fox.
The gray-colored red panda just laughed and came out of hiding.
"Well, now that I found you, stay in the room while you find the others. It's fine?" Alex said.
"Okay" Koka said leaving where they told her to stay.
The green two-tailed fox continues his search. He goes to one of the rooms and when he hears another sound he approaches the closet and when he opens the door he finds Speed and Jerry hidden together.
"I found you. They are the second and third that I just found" said Alex.
The purple hedgehog and the striped rabbit came out of the closet.
"Well done Alex, who you met before us? asked Speed.
"He went to Koka, he was in one of the kitchen cabinets" replied the green two-tailed fox.
"Well let's meet him. Jerry, would you like us to run to the living room?" asked the purple hedgehog.
"Yes, I would" said the striped rabbit.
Speed put Jerry on his shoulders and asked him to hold on tight. After those, both children disappeared from one second to another. Alex continued searching for him.
He went to another of the rooms and entered without making a noise. He could hear two sounds behind the window curtain. As he approached and moved it behind them, Locke II and Pachacamac II were hidden.
"I found you, although if I'm honest I thought you would be the last I would find" said the green two-tailed fox.
"Well, as we are in a small place we did not have many options to hide" said the orange echidna.
"If we were in a more open space, hiding better would have been an easier job" said the red echidna.
"Although at least they weren't the first ones I found. I already found Koka, Speed and Jerry. They're in the living room right now," said Alex.
"Well then we will go there" said Locke II and Pachacamac II.
After that the echidna twins left.
"Well, I just need to find Flora and Nicole" said the green two-tailed fox to himself.
I look everywhere and they had a hard time finding them. I look in the other rooms, in the bathroom, I search the kitchen and even the living room and they were nowhere to be found. After giving a tour of the apartment 5 times he finally couldn't take it anymore.
"It's fine. I give up you win" said Alex.
"How good!" he heard himself say in two voices.
Suddenly a ceiling sheet moved from the ceiling and there appeared the alien and the gray vixen.
The two-tailed green fox began to fly towards the ceiling and with that he helped lower his twin sister and his friend. Once he got back to the ground, they were all gathered.
"How did you get up there?" asked Speed
"We managed to find a small ladder in a closet and with it we were able to climb," said Nicole.
"The hardest thing was keeping silence for a long time so that they wouldn't find us," said Flora.
"Well, it explains a lot. Now it's Koka's turn to count and the others to hide" said Alex.
After that they all went into hiding. They played hide and seek until everyone had to count once, except for Nicole and Jerry who, as they had mentioned before, still couldn't count.
Once they finished playing hide and seek they had one more game in mind.
"And then how would you like to play truth or dare?" asked Speed.
"How do you play that?" Koka asked.
"Okay. You spin a bottle or something like that. If the upper part of the bottle is pointed at someone, that will be the one who will have to tell a truth or dare a challenge that will point out the lower part of the bottle" said Speed.
Understanding it, they all sat in a circle. Although they didn't have a bottle, they found an empty plastic vase and used it for the game. Since they didn't want to use something made of glass or that it would break easily because they could hurt themselves.
The vase began to rotate and stopped at the position where Alex was pointed at Jerry.
"Well, Jerry. Truth or Dare?" said the green two-tailed fox.
"Truth" said the striped rabbit.
"What's the worst prank you've ever done?"
"Well the worst prank I've ever done was once when Uncle Finnick was babysitting Nicole and me. He fell asleep and I took advantage and painted his face with a marker. The funny thing is, he didn't find out until after he left his house."
All the kids started laughing at that funny story.
The vase spun again and this time the position was pointed from Hana to Flora.
"So Flora. Truth or Dare?" said the hybrid.
"Dare" said the alien.
"Then I challenge you to help me get the cookie jar from the kitchen."
"Oh no problem".
Both girls went to the kitchen. Flora lifted Hana into her arms and took a few cookies from the jar. Once they got back to the living room, Hana handed all the children (including Flora) a cookie and they all ate it.
Once they finished eating, the vase began to rotate and was in the position was pointed from Speed towards Koka.
"It's okay Koka. Do you prefer truth or dare?" said the purple hedgehog.
"Right" said the brown red panda.
"Well, what is your secret hobby?"
"Well, uh... well" Koka didn't know what to answer since it was a rather rare hobby that he only knows that his mother and great-grandmother have.
"Something happens?" asked Speed.
"Nothing happens, I will tell you my hobby, but I will not tell you in a spoken way" Koka said with his head looking down.
The red panda pulled a small microphone from one of his trouser pockets and when he raised his head he had a different expression on his face and had the mark of the kanji for fury on his head. Then he began to sing a song in Death Metal style with a rather thick tone of voice that sounded like that of an adult and not that of a 6-year-old child.
"THIS IS MY SECRET HOBBY!"
"I KNOW IT'S NOTHING COMMON. DO NOT JUDGE ME FOR THAT! "
"I KNOW I SHOULD CHOOSE ANOTHER HOBBY!"
"BUT I REALLY LOVE THIS AND VERY MUCH!"
Once Koka finished singing his expression returned to normal, he put the microphone in his pants pocket and lowered his head in shame. Since he did not want to see the reaction of others.
The other children started clapping, leaving Koka shocked.
"You sing pretty well," said Speed, raising his thumb.
"It's great," said Flora.
"That kind of music is interesting," said Alex.
"I approve," Locke II said.
"Me too" said Pachacamac II.
"Could you sing again?" Nicole asked.
"We'd like to hear it again," Jerry said.
"Please sing again" Hana said.
Koka blushed at the positive comments from his friends, therefore she agreed to sing again. He took the mic off of him and started singing again like he had never done before.
I hope you liked this chapter. From time to time there will be chapters focused on children, so stay tuned for that.