Chapter 5
Later on the beach, here Tails and Knuckles rested after helping Sonic out. When he saw his new legs he smiled. Suddenly Chip showed up.
"Hi, Sonic!" Chip smiled as he looked at Sonic's new legs. "Wow. You've got legs."
Sonic nodded as he tried to get up and walk or run but he fell onto the shallow water.
"Yeah. Sonic's turned into a hedgehog. He's gonna make the hedgehog prince fall in love with him and he's gonna kiss him." Tails said.
"And he's only got three days." said Knuckles looking crossed. "Just look at him. On legs. On hedgehog legs! What would his mother say? I'm gonna march myself straight home right now and tell her."
When Knuckles was about to go back into the water, Sonic picked him up and shook his head.
"Hey, don't you shake your head at me, mister!" said Knuckles sternly. "Maybe there's still time. If we could get that witch to give you back your voice, you could go home with all the normal fish, and just be . . . just be..."
When Knuckles was about to finish talking, he changed his mind as Sonic looked at him with his sad puppy eyes.
"Just be miserable for the rest of your life. All right, all right. I'll try to help you find that prince." sighed Knuckles. "Boy. What a softy I'm turning out to be."
"You know, Sonic. If you wanna be hedgehog, the first thing you do is to dress like one." said Chip as he picked up a torn out sail.
Meanwhile while Shadow was taking a walk on the beach, he still couldnt stop thinking about his hero with a beautiful voice.
"That voice. I can't get it out of my head. I've looked everywhere, but where could he be?" Shadow thought to himself.
After the dress was made and Sonic wore it.
"Wow, Sonic. You look great." Chip smiled.
Suddenly Tails turned around to see Shadow walking.
"Look! Someone's coming!" Tails said.
Knuckles hid inside Sonic's dress, Chip flew away and Tails hopped into the water and Sonic sat on a rock. When Shadow showed up and saw Sonic.
"Hello!" said Shadow as he looked closely at Sonic. "You seem familiar.. Have we met?"
Sonic nodded.
"I knew it! You're the one I'm looking for!" Shadow smiled. "What's your name?"
When Sonic was about to say his name but he couldn't because he gave away his voice to Malinda.
"What's wrong? You can't speak?" Shadow asked.
Sonic shook his head sadly.
"Oh, then you couldn't be who I thought." said Shadow.
Sonic sighed silently. But then, he tried to use his body language but Shadow couldn't exactly understand that but tried to translate the body language. But Sonic slipped and fell off the rock until Shadow caught him in his arms.
"Whoah. Careful. My, you must have really been through something." said Shadow as he took Sonic to his castle. "Don't worry. Come on. Let's go to castle. You'll be alright."
Later in Shadow's castle, Sonic was in a royal bathtub while an orange female bat named Mrs. Gray washed him.
"Washed up from a shipwreck. Oh dear, you poor thing. But don't worry. We'll have you feeling better in no time." said Mrs. Gray sweetly as she washed Sonic and then she picked up Sonic's clothes which Knuckles was inside. "I'll just get this washed for you."
Mrs. Gray placed them in the royal laundry room where the other maids were washing did the laundry and one of them was washing Sonic's ragged clothes with Knuckles. Not none of the maidens saw Knuckles as went into the kitchen.
Later in the dining room, Shadow and Owlan had a conversation.
"Be reasonable, Shadow.. Nice young ladies and gentlemen just don't swim around rescuing people in the middle of the ocean and then ,flutter off into oblivion." said Owlan.
"I'm telling you, Owlan. He was real. I have to find that guy." said Shadow feeling desperate.
Suddenly Mrs Gray showed up with Sonic who was wearing fancy clothes which Shadow blushed as he looked at Sonic.
"You look wonderful." Shadow blushed as Sonic bowed to say "thank you".
"Come here, you must be famished. Let me help you my dear boy." Owlan smiled as he led Sonic to the table and gave him a seat. "Quite comfy?"
Sonic nodded as Owlan and Shadow took their seats. While Shadow and Owlan had a little conversation about it wasn't every day they had a dinner guest, Sonic picked up a nice clean fork and combed his quills until he stopped as he saw them stared dumbfoundedly at Sonic using a fork that way. He embarrassedly placed the fork back. Then, he saw Owlan smoking a pipe. The owl noticed the way Sonic looked at the pipe.
"Do you like it?" asked Owlan with a smile as he let Sonic borrowed it. "It is rather fine..."
When Sonic tried the pipe, he blew it's contents into his face. Sonic felt sorry that he didn't mean that. But Shadow laughed innocently.
"Oh dear!" said Mrs. Gray.
"Sorry, Owlan!" chuckled Shadow.
"Why, Shadow. That's the first time you smiled in weeks." smiled Mrs. Gray.
"Yes. Very amusing." said Owlan sarcastically as he wiped his face with a napkin. "What's for dinner, my dear Mrs. Gray?"
"Oh, you're gonna love it! Chef Eggman's been fixing his specialty, stuffed crab!" Mrs. Gray smiled.
To be continued.
