Chapter 2
The next morning, Amy looked around the market place and watching the fakirs, snake charmers and even belly dancer she was very amazed. While Sonic and Chip were sitting on a rooftop of a fruit stand eating their breakfast, Sonic spotted Amy who was wandering around, he blushed. When Amy saw a small boy trying to reach an apple from an apple cart.
"Oh my! You must be very hungry." said Amy, feeling sorry for the boy and gave him an apple and was about to leave but she stopped by an angry voice.
"You better be able to pay for that apple, missy!" said the apple salesman angrily.
"Pay?" asked Amy confusedly since she had never been the outside the palace before.
"Nobody steals from my cart!" snarled the apple salesman and he grabbed Amy's
arm.
Sonic and Chip saw the whole thing and they were shocked.
"I'm terribly sorry, sir. But I don't have anymoney." said Amy.
"Do you know what penalty is for stealing?" asked the apple salesman angrily as he picked up his sword.
"No! Please, let me go to the palace, so I can get money from the sultan and give them to you!" gasped Amy in fear as she pleaded for mercy.
But the apple salesman didn't listen and he was about to cut her arm, Sonic showed up and grabbed the man's arm and stopped him.
"Thank you for finding her, sir!" said Sonic as he shook the man's hand. And then he turned to Amy and grabbed her along with him. "I've been looking all over for you!"
"What are you doing?" Amy asked, not knowing what was going on.
"Just play along!" Sonic whispered.
"You know her?" asked the apple salesman.
"Yes. She's my sister! And she's wacky in the head." Sonic replied.
"She said she knows the sultan." said the man with his arms crossed.
"She thinks my buddy Chip is the sultan!" said Sonic.
"Who? Me?" asked Chip confusedly.
"Oh, wish sultan. How may I serve you?" said Amy, pretending to be crazy as she bowed down to Chip, which confused him.
"Tragic, right? But no harm done!" said Sonic as he gave the man one apple and then he turned to Amy and taking her along with him. "Come on sis! Let's see the doctor!"
"Hello, doctor! How are you?" said Amy to a florist girl which confused her.
"No, wacko! That's not the doctor!" said Sonic as they kept walking.
The apple salesman was very confused until he saw Chip stealing his apples. And Chip noticed him and flew fast as he can. Sonic and Amy saw Chip flying away with the apples, then they heard the apple salesman's screaming voice.
"Come back here, you thieves!" yelled the man.
Sonic and Amy ran away as fast as they could.
Meanwhile in the palace, Robert talked to his grand vizier Wakim about Amy and the suitor business.
"Wakim, my trustworthy grand vizier! I need your wisdom!" said Robert.
"Is there something wrong, your highness?" asked Wakim.
"It's this suitor business! Amy refuses to choose a husband. And she rejected 20 suitors. What am I going to do? She's such a hopeless girl!" sighed Robert.
"Maybe I can divine a solution to your problem. But I need to borrow your beautiful and mystic diamond!" said Wakim and he pointed at a hot pink ring that was in Robert's finger.
"My ring?" asked Robert as he looked at the ring. "But it's been in the Rose family from generation to generation!"
"Yes! It's necessary to find your daughter a suitor!" replied Wakim as he used his staff to hypnotise Robert. "Don't worry! Everything will be fine!"
"Everything will be... Fine..." repeated Robert being hypnotized.
"The ring please!" said Wakim politely.
"Yes, Wakim... Here you go.." said Robert as he took off his ring from his finger and gave it to Wakim.
"Thank you! How generous, your highness!" said Wakim as he took the ring, "Now run along to the library and read a good book!"
"Yeah... That would be.... Nice..." smiled Robert.
Wakim went into his secret lab, placed the ring onto his magic hourglass, pulled a lever which opened the ceiling and the sunlight ray streaked through the ring which activated the hourglass.
"Sands of time, reveal to me who can enter the enchanted cave!" said Wakim.
The hourglass showed him a picture of Sonic in the bottom of the hourglass.
"Yes! There he is! My diamond in the rough!" Wakim smiled evilly.
