Sonic and the Mystic Mage Ch 3

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"Sonic and the Mystic Mage"
Chapter 3

Miia looked at Sonic like she's never seen him before. "You know, the world hero 16 months ago," he said.

Still not getting it, "I've... never heard you," was all she admitted.

Sonic was shocked at what she said. "You've never heard of me?! Oh, c'mon, Miia, everyone knows their hero!"

"Not everyone, evidently," replied Miia. "Yet I have a few cosplays of everyone besides you. But in truth, I've never heard of you."

"Oh," the blue hedgehog said, a little dissapointed. I don't get it, he thought. Why hasn't she even heard of me?? "Well, that's all right," Sonic said. "It's all right if you haven't heard of me, I'm cool."

"I, uhh, like that crystal around your neck," Miia admired as she noticed the cerulean crystal around Sonic's neck.

"Crystal??" Sonic looked at her quizzically. Then he noticed the blue crystal she said about and his eyes widened. "Hmph, looks like things got fairly ugly."

"Ugly?" Miia asked. "How do you mean?"

Sonic sighed and said, "It's a long story, I'll explain it to you later."

"You can tell me on the way to my house."

"Huh?"

"I'll show you where it is. Let's go!"

Knowing that he can't talk my way out of this, Sonic decided to follow Miia. He caught up with her so he can walk beside her.

"So, Sonic," she asked. "What was this ugliness you're talking about?"

"Well," Sonic began. "It started out with a dream: I was at some beach at night, and then there's this girl all dressed in gold with gold hair and red boots and eyes, and she said that she's sorry about something, but I don't know what. And then the dream ended with her mouthing something; something that I couldn't make out of. And then I woke up, and all of a sudden, I was blinded by that light, and I was in some black space, and there was the same girl I saw in my dream. Then she touched my chest, and I sorta blacked out for a while, and the next thing I knew..."

"You were drowning in the lake," Miia finished. Sonic blushed in emabarassment when she said that. "Th-that's because I can't swim, what would you expect?"

"Hmm." was all that Miia said, and she and Sonic didn't say anything for a short while as they walked.

Suddenly, Sonic felt the urge to run (he sometimes runs when he needs to, usually with a friend), so he grabbed Miia's hand so she can run along with him.

"Wha--? Hey!" Miia yelled because she felt like she was being yanked. "Sonic, what are you--?! I can't run that fast!!"

"It's all right!!" Sonic yelled back. "Just put your head up and run!"

And they were running all the way to Miia's house as fast as they could.

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Miia and Sonic are now in Miia's bedroom and she was sitting on her bed laughing with delight. Sonic was laughing along with her and she spread out on her bed.

"Feels great, doesn't it?" asked Sonic.

"I-it does," the red-haired tomboy replied, trying to recover from laughing. "I've never run so fast like that before..."

"I figured you might like it since you huffed a little at me."

"But I didn't huff at you," said Miia. "But I liked the run, thanks."

"Heh, it was nothing." The two didn't say anything for a minute.

Suddenly, Miia said, "Oh, crap! I almost forgot!" as she sat up quickly.S onic looked at her confused. "Why, what's wrong?"
        
Miia sighed to calm down. "A few minutes before I rescued you, I got text messages from my mom and dad saying they'll be coming home late tonight! If they find you here, they are so going to pop a vein!"

"No problem," said Sonic with optimism.

Miia freaked, "No problem?! Of course it's a problem--"

Sonic quickly got on her bed and put a finger on her lips to quiet her and calm her down. "It's okay," he said. "I've met your par--"

Sonic was cut off when he heard the door open from downstairs. "Miia!" a manly voice boomed. "I'm home!"

"Freaking hell," Miia said. "Dad's here. And he's back sooner than I expected." She scratched the side of her head confused. She went downstairs to see her dad. Quietly, Sonic followed her overheard Miia talking with her father, who is known as Fumio Kyouko. "Did you recieve my text message?"

"No," replied Miia. "Someone bumped into me after I got Mom's, I wasn't hurt though."

"So, is there any left over supper?" Fumio asked next. "I'm starved after a hard day's work.

"Well, there's some eggrolls in the fridge." Though this was not an intended pun, Sonic snickered, but as quietly as possible, to avoid being discovered (if you were snickering quietly even when there is no pun intended or other than that, but then someone hears you, well, the consequences could be somewhat disastrous).

"Three eggrolls," said Miia after she closed the fridge door. "I think two should be enough for the--" Miia dropped the plate as she noticed Sonic hiding behind the wall, but with his tail and back quills showing*.

Fumio turned around fast and noticed his tail and quills peeking and came up the stairs as Miia stayed behind and did a face-palm. Fumio looked at him straight at the eyes and suddenly he hugged him with tears dripping on his shoulders (manly tears, you might think).

"I just wanted to thank you again for saving our baby girl 16 years ago," he cried.

"Whoa, hang on a sec," Miia ran up the stairs to see her father squeezing Sonic to death (Amy Rose reference). "Dad, would you please let him go?"

"Sorry," said Fumio as he let Sonic go. "I'm just glad to see that you kept Miia safe and sound all through to us."

"Uh, it's okay," replied Sonic. Then he hung his head down slightly when he said that. He remembered clearly 16 years ago as he was exploring his old human friends' world.

*Flashback*

As Sonic was looking and running around this countryside, he heard sirens wailing very loudly. He followed the sirens all the way to see an apartment building that was on fire.

Sonic then noticed a man and woman begging one of the firefighters to go search for their baby, which was in the building. Without hesitation, he rushed in through the flames in search for her (Sonic was unclear on if the baby is a boy or a girl, but to him, that was just a guess).

Everywhere Sonic looked, the baby was nowhere to be found, and he worried that she might have been burned alive.

Suddenly, he heard a small cry from near. He looked on his left an saw a suspicious-looking small, white-pink bundle. He approached it, and he wondered if this was the baby the man and woman was looking for. He double-checked, and she is, and she's crying with fear. Ignoring all danger (and as a burning piece of wood was dropping), Sonic picked her up in his arms and tried  to run out of the building as fast (and as best) as I could, but the flames were too much, though he didn't want to jeopardize the baby's safety.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a bright glowing mark appeared on the baby girl's forehead. It glowed harshly; it felt somewhat similar to the Chaos Emeralds, but different. Is this Chaos Control, or something else similar to that?

All of a sudden, in a bright flash of light, Sonic was outside the building, and the firefighters have already taken care the flames. Despite his confusion--like how did this happen and how was the baby able to obtain this power (even at such a young age)--he rushed to the man and woman who he believed is her parents.

"She yours?" Sonic asked them as he gave them the baby he rescued.
"Yes, thank you!" the woman cried happily as she took her baby from Sonic's arms and snuggled her. He smiled at the parents finally reunited with their kid, crying with tears of joy and gratitude.

"Thank you so much, Sonic," the woman finally said. "You always do have a good heart."
"Much obliged," the blue heor said. "Tell your kid I said 'Hi' when she grows up. Laters!"

*End of flashback*

Yes... Sonic thought. I remember it clearly...

But then his thoughts are interuptted when Miia and Fumio were arguing.

"You would've at least told me instead of just hiding it from me all these years!" Miia was saying.

"Your mother and I was just waiting for the right moment," her dad argued back calmly.

Miia was really flustered up. "What right moment?!" she snapped.

"Your 17th birthday," her dad answered. "And don't get flustered up with me, young lady."

Knowing that he couldn't take this any longer, Sonic intervened in the argument. "Hey, come on you guys," he said. "So what if it isn't Miia's birthday or even Christmas? The bright side is," I turned to Miia,"You got to see me in person."

"In... person?" she asked, calming down a little. "I mean, don't get me wrong, but, like I said, I've never even heard of you before, and..."

She trailed off as Sonic stared at her with a happy smile on his face. Miia opened her mouth to speak, but sonic cut in, "16 years; no wonder you've grown so much all this time. You were adorable back then as long as I can remember."

Miia blushed an earth red when he said that. "Y-you don't have to rub it in, you know!" She gave an exasperated sigh and went back upstairs.

"I'm gonna hit the showers," she called. Sonic then went back upstairs to her bedroom. Fumio followed him there also. As he walked in to her room, he saw on the left and back walls a variety of pictures; half of them been taken with a camera, the other half just drawing techniques, pictures printed out, cosplays, colorized images, you name it.

"Here," Fumio pulled out an extra bed from under Miia's bed. If Sonic hadn't known any better, this is a special type of bed which you pull out an extra cot with two knobs or handles.
"To be honest with you, Mr. Kyouko," said Sonic ("Mr. Kyouko is what he will adress to Fumio for the time being). "I pretty much dimensional-transferred to this world, and--since I don't know how to get back to mine, maybe... you could... let me stay for the time being?"

Fumio pulled out an extra blanket out of Miia's closet, but he heard Sonic ask his question, "Here? Until you figure out how to get back to your own world?"

"I have a lot of friends there," confessed Sonic. "One of which who was once an enemy to me. I'm pretty much sure they are all worried sick about me as I'm worried about them."

"Well..." Fumio was deciding. "I'll have to check with Miia's mother when she comes home."

Suddenly the front door opened from downstairs. "And she's back before you know it!" Sonic exclaimed exclaimed.
"Miia, sweetheart, I'm home!" a feminine voice said.

Fumio ran downstairs to meet up with his wife. "Miia's in the shower right know," he said. "But Mayaan, our guest will be... staying here for the time being until either he or his friends get back to their own world as soon as possible."

"But this guest," Mayan (now identified) said. "Wouldn't be Sonic the Hedgehog, would it?" As you can see, Sonic deserves a lot of recognition every now and then like now and 16 years ago.

"Yup," Mr. Kyouko replied.

"I don't know," doubted Mayan. "What if he sheds?"

"I've been house trained, ya know," Sonic said said as he came down the stairs. What he said wasn't a total lie, for he is an anthropomorphic hedgehog. "Really I am. Sort like being treated as a human being like you guys, right? I mean, let's not get all racist here."
"Well..."

"I mean, think of it this way: it's a way of showing your gratitude for saving your kid from the fire 16 years ago. You could've thought of that except that I specified it for me and my friends' benefits and hopes of finding me and returning home. So whaddya think to that?"

The Kyoukos were about to think about it until Miia said from upstairs, "[scoffs] So you're going to let him move in?" Her hair was stringy from the wetness, and was wearing pajamas with a chiuaua pattern on the pants part and design on the tank top part.

"Miia," Mayaan said, "Please don't be rude; Sonic is our guest for the time being."

"I know that, and you know that." Miia turned around and went straight to her bed, and she was about to climb into her bed when she rammed her foot into the cot (and yelped in, addition) Fumio pulled out for Sonic. Emphasis on 'move in', he thought.

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Later that night, Sonic was lying awake in his new cot. He somewhat liked it better when he was sleeping on the roof a very long time ago. As he was lying awake, his thoughts went straight back when he was rescuing Miia from the burning building and the mysterious mark that glowed on her forehead. Then he fast-forwards to what he said to Miia when she blushed. Did I make a sexual-sounding comment back then? he wondered. Or was I just treating her like a little kid? I guess either way, it did embarrass her, and I felt bad about it.

Sonic then stood up on his cot and stood up tip-toed. His face was a little closer to Miia's, but he didn't care, though, he doesn't know why, either. "Sorry," he whispered. "About earlier." And then he kissed her lightly on her cheek and laid back down on his cot. He pulled his blanket on his shoulders and went to sleep.



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