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World: Sonic and the Secret of the Rings (Game)
Couple/Premise?: greenyvertkins: I'm just curious as to how my idea would be approached if someone else used it as inspiration to write their own interpretation. Basically, its a prologue to Secret Rings, how Sonic comes into possession of the Arabian Nights storybook - Amy bumps into Tails in Station Square and not seeing Sonic with him, inquires about where he is only to learn that hes sick and back at the workshop in the mystic ruins resting. So Amy visits the antique shop near city hall and knowing that Sonic likes to read, buys the Arabian Nights book which she finds inside the shop. Theres a prompt for you :)
Dedicated to: greenyvertekins
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Prompt:
Amy is looking around in different shops and thrift stores, poking her head around decorations to see if anything catches her eye.
A spooky looking old library is looming like an antique near the center of some of her favorite small stores, but it looks more like a worn out, roman pillared building than a library…
She gave it a funny look, trying to look inside, but the hallow wind that passed gave it an old, ghostly sound as if time itself had stopped there.
She shivered in fright and realized the lights were off. Probably not open.
She continued on.
As she did so, she saw Tails walking about, something that was unusual most of the time, and happily dashed over to him.
"Tails!" she swung her arms out to greet him, passing small street over to him, as he turned to look to her.
'If there's Tails, then there's a Sonic!' she excited leaped into his arms, and looked around over his shoulder, before pulling him away and patting his shoulder.
"How are you!? It's been too long!"
"H-h-hiya, Amy." Tails was being pushed back with each hit, but kept his feet at their post, before shaking his head out of the dizziness from being pushed back and forth.
He then smiled weakly, his head down slightly, being submissive to her usually very direct and overbearing personality. "I've been alright. How about you?"
"Great!" she opened her mouth to show a huge grin, before then turning serious and looking behind him, squinting her eyes to narrow her focus and looked around the range behind Tails, then turned to glance behind her. "…Is Sonic with you, today?"
He rolled his eyes, typical Amy.
"Not today. He's kinda sick, actually." he scratched the back of his head.
She gasped, turning to him and blinking in surprise. "Sick!? Oh no! My poor Sonikku!" she put her hands in fists up to her face, her eyes sparkling and growing big with concern and love.
"Yeah. He's okay though. Recovering well." he fanned lightly his hands out in front of him, before gesturing as he spoke on to comfort and then explain. "He just showed up out of the blue one stormy night. And you know how I am with storms… HeeEEhhhh.." he squirmed, having a dislike for lightning and thunder.
"I opened the door after a few knocks that weren't from any hammer of mine… and then I saw Sonic, shivering a smile, raising a shaky and cold thumbs up, and then sneezing. Drenched. He looked awful but he tried to play it cool. Slept for hours. He's doing better though, no need to worry." Tails sweat dropped, seeing Amy's concern grow as she leaned forward, picturing the horrible scene.
"So… He's all better now?"
"Yep! He's just taking his time looking over my library."
"Pfft."
"Hey! A few stacked bookshelves is TOO a library!"
"N-no, not that. Though we could argue on that definition but… anyway! Sonic reads books?" she shook her head, not going to contemplate on 'unimportant opinions' when it came to some new information on Sonic!
"H-huh? Well, yeah! You didn't know?" He placed a foot forward, his hands on his hips, and leaned toward her. He innocently looked up to her, smiling.
"I know something you don't about Sonic? That's refreshing to hear! I-I-I mean! N-not that I supposed you thought you knew everything or whatnot.."
His save was badly timed, as she gave him a slightly irritated look, but it was more comical than intimidating.
Which was nice, can she can be intimidating when she's mad…
"Heh…Heh.." he shyly straightened up and stepped back, giving her space. "Anyway," he gestured his hands out again. "He's been flying through most of my adventure series. It's pretty amazing! Not only is his mind sharp, and his feet fast… but his eyes are like scanners from another world!" he laughed, pointing to his eyes. "He flips through pages like his finger's a race car! I once tried to see if he even comprehended what he read. He's actually pretty insightful too…"
Amy was trailing off in thought.
This new information could be key to her!
So, boohoo, she missed her chance to nurse Sonic back to health.
But now~ She could enter Sonic's life more with a love for reading! She could read to him, or him to her, and maybe they could even start a 2-person only book club! Ah!
"I love it!" Amy exclaimed, jumping to one foot.
"…You what?" Tails looked confused.
She twirled and blew a kiss up to the sky, "Thank you, Cupid!~ I have my answer!" she then waved cutely to Tails, "Gotta go! I have to find Sonic the perfect story! One where it'll entrap him in love for me by his love of the story~ Then we can talk about it for hours!" she ran across the street, as cars honked and slammed to break for her.
"A-Amy!" Tails outstretched a hand to her, but then quietly withdrew it and shook his head, scratching his head. "Sonic's right. It's hard to keep on track with her thinking, sometimes…" he continued to shake his head, sighing slightly to himself, and walked on.
He pouted a moment as he did so, "She didn't even ask what I was doing out here… hmph."
"Tails!"
Tails turned to look across the street.
Amy waved again, holding her arm up high, "Good luck buying new gadgets and doohickeys for the x-tornado!" she then took off down to the creepy, old library.
Tails paused a moment, but smiled. A pleasant surprise.
"Eh, maybe she knows more than just Sonic." Tails nodded forward, then looked up to the sky. "But hush up, Cupid! We don't need her getting any more ideas…" he joked, and continued on down the lane… before…
"Ahh!" he gripped his head. "I'm the one that gave her an idea!"
Amy slowed her pace by the library, getting an odd feeling of eeriness from it. She frowned, before looking inside.
She was surprised to see lights sudden… were those… lanterns?
"Book people sure can be weird with their tastes." she commented and shrugged, going in and hearing the bell echo through the large, marble building.
She looked around, before a figure in a cloak, their face hidden, saw her and put the book they were taking back down, and walked over to her.
"…Tarot master… you dabble?" The woman gestured a long sleeve out to reveal her hand, pointing to Amy.
"Y..Yes? Well, kinda. Used to. Wait, how does that-?"
"This is a special library. One that reveals identities and secrets."
"Ohh… this is one of those 'specially themed' places." Amy used the bunny ears, and then looked around, trying to be polite about people's interests and nodded. She put her hands up in front of her and ignored the previous weirdness.
"You come searching for an adventure?"
"Yeah! For my hero~" she swooned, cupping her hands together and holding them up by the side of her face.
The woman looked down.
"…What color is this… hero?"
"Blue? What of it?" Amy furrowed her brow to the woman, before putting her hands on her hips. "Look, Lady. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but you sure get nosy with your fortune tellings." she pouted. In her studies, she had learned to be more show-oriented than this woman was letting slide.
The woman looked away to the side, "Forgive me. I'm out of practice with…" she looked up to Amy. "…Customers." she then turned around and grabbed a lamp, walking onward.
Amy leaned up, and just shrugged, walking on after her.
The woman seemed to hunch, before Amy saw a book, and stopped to pull it out. "King Arthur? Hmm… okay!" she pulled it out.
"Come this way." the woman called, looking back for her.
"Yes, Ma'am!" Amy quickly followed her, as the woman slowly hovered up to a taller shelf, and pulled a book from it.
Amy's mouth turned into an amazed 'o' and she looked excited. "Now that's a show!" she gave an open-grin to the woman, as she hovered down, and handed Amy the book.
"This… is the story of which your hero was destined to-"
"Let's see!"
"..!"
Amy snatched the book right out of the woman's hands, not hesitating for theatrics and turning the pages open, flipping through and then reading the title.
"Ah..!" the woman reached forward, as if afraid of Amy opening the book.
"…Arabian…Nights? This is some kind of foreign tale?" Amy looked to the back of the book. "OOoooh! Is it an adventure/romance!?" she got all pumped up, looking pretty sold on it if it was.
"U-umm…" the woman was hesitant, not used to Amy's blunt speech.
"Ah, doesn't matter. I'm sure if he's 'destined' it's all pointing to me being the perfect girl for him, right? Haha! Tarot cards! You can really trust those things. Better than a silly horoscope. Although, those don't get half the recognition they deserve." she hurriedly put the book with the other one, then pointed a finger up to the woman as if stating her facts and started walking away, humming a bit as she went to the counter.
The robed woman looked a bit unused to Amy's antics, especially her quick nature, and sighed.
She unhooded herself.
"Destiny has a way of preparing us all for the future… May the Blue hero be swift in saving our stories… Be back soon. Messenger Rose." she bowed, showing a beautiful ordainment on her head, some jewels of Arabian decent, and some medieval symbols along the designs of her head-wear.
Rushing back to Tails's place, Amy burst open the door, "Heelllo~" 'For the money I spent on these relics, he better not just leave them on Tails's shelf to dust over again!' Amy hid her anger at the ridiculous pricing of the books, but strode in as Tails sweat dropped, seeing her suddenly make an entrance.
"Hello, Amy." he spoke out, but it seemed he was a little nervous to have her. He smiled to Sonic, who just smiled back to him, and looked over to Amy.
"I heard from Tails you have something for me?"
Sonic was lounging on the couch, as Amy rushed over, happy to see he looked fine.
"You look great!"
"Thanks! Tails really fixed me up. Seems he's more than just good with tiding up planes." he looked to Tails, who smiled at the praise, and bowed dramatically.
"I'm only as good as my tools. And in this case, my medicine cabinet." he joked, and walked back into his open kitchen.
Amy nodded and turned to Sonic, holding out the bag she had.
His eyes widened and he blinked them a moment, before seeming kinda curious and taking them from her.
"What's this?"
"You know! If Tails told you I was coming, he must of also mentioned telling me about your love of books!" she put her hands behind her back, leaning a few times on one outstretched leg as she looked away, blushing lightly while he rummaged through the bag.
"Huh? Some more adventures?" he took out the two books, and looked at their covers.
"Em-hmm!" Amy nodded, growing excited to see him looking more and more giddy towards them.
"Thanks, Amy!" he looked up, winking to her. "I appreciate it!"
She squee'd slightly, before rushing to the couch to sit next to him.
"Now, remember! You can't stand me up just to finish reading them, okay?!" She puffed up a cheek, making sure he knew how upset she would be if he did so.
He laughed, and scratched a hand behind his head, "Don't worry, Amy. I understand the cost." the nodded to her then, reassuringly, before setting the books aside.
"So… you're really feeling better, right?" Amy looked much more concerned now.
He smiled back to her, kicking a leg over his other one and leaning back, getting more relaxed and just chilling.
He raised a hand up as he spoke, "You bet! I may need to crash a little while longer though. Just until the mildew dries up."
"Mildew?"
"Hahahaha!" Tails suddenly started laughing, hitting the counter.
Sonic looked away, embarrassed a bit as he sweat dropped and tried to avoid Amy's question and Tails's mocking.
"Wh…What's so funny?" Amy blinked her eyes.
"Sonic thinks he might be allergic to mildew!"
"I am not!"
"You very well could be!"
"I was cold! I was wet! It was clearly nothing but bad timing!"
"Hahaha! You were sneezing and having a fit like a drama king! If this happens everytime it rains, you should be more careful about it."
"Emm…" he folded his arms, looking away and seeming annoyed. "Never bothered me before…"
Amy smiled with a slight giggle.
It was good to be with her old friends again.
They always made life so much more interesting! and fun, too!
Sonic found there was one more thing in the back, poking him from the side, and so he reached in, before pulling out a strange looking ring.
"Huh? What's this?"
"Oh! That." Amy looked a little apologetic at him seeing it.
"They called it a 'bonus' for purchasing two books. I hope you don't mind. It's a little tacky…" she sweat dropped, looking to him with closed eyes.
He looked fascinated by it, and looked it over.
"Sonic and rings? I think he'll be just fine with it." Tails joked, as Sonic smiled to him and then looked to Amy.
"Is that all?"
She nodded, "I promise, no other rings."
"Okay."
He looked back at the ring and then suddenly started to laugh.
"What's the matter? Is it really that odd looking?"
"Oh no! I'm just glad this wasn't what I thought it was, haha!" Sonic joked too, as Amy caught on and rose up, looking upset.
"I WOULDN'T BUY A TACKY LOOKING RING FOR A WEDDING BAND!"
"Well, that's good." Tails covered his mouth, snickering too. "Did you.. Pfft… Did you purposefully avoid taking it out of the bag, Sonic?"
Sonic smacked his knee, and nodded to his friend, as if not able to speak from his laughter right now.
Embarrassed by their sudden burst of laughter, she flushed red in anger and stormed out. "You two are both unbelievable! Hmph! I'm leaving!"
She slammed the door behind her, as Tails and Sonic watched before looking back at each other.
"You'll have to thank her and make up for that." He commented.
"Yeah… I wonder if she'd be okay with chilidogs?" Sonic leaned back, and exaimed the ring more closely… carefully… before starting to get sleepy.
"Maybe one of these book before I nap again."
He lazily reached for one.
Tails nodded and walked off. "I'll be in the other room if you need anything."
"Right." Sonic opened Arabian Nights and set the ring down next to the clock. "Let's see.. a story that doesn't start with 'once upon a time'? Amy really did step it up for me. Heh." he grinned, a signature smile now.
Eh. He'll thank her later~
He fanned his hand as he thought about how to make it up to her, before leaning back and across the couch, starting the new storybook adventure!
(I enjoyed this very much XD thanks for the prompt! and thanks for helping me out Green! :Db I combined the adventures a little, did you notice that? xD lead it right into the game for ya :) )