Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ A Gift of Love ❯ Snow, Roses, and Butterflies ( Chapter 7 )

Disclaimer: SEGA and Sonic Team get the actual characters while I get the annoying kids! WOOT!

 

To answer your question Iamsomeone, no. Cream is at an after-school arts-and-crafts thingy. But I can put her in here if you want.

 

Dippy, may I call you Dippy, DIPLOMATIC_FOX? Yeah, on the evil scale, you're about the cotton candy from Hell. Which puts you just above me, the black sheep of heaven.

 

CHARMY!!! AAAAH!

 

Espio studied the room. It was covered in undefiable goop. Miraculously the kids were immaculate, and the “clowns” were doing a horrible job of snacktime.

 

Yep, nothing out of the ordinary here!

 

“Please,” Sonic begged while kissing Vector's toes, “don't leave us with him and these kids! We're tortured enough as it is!”

 

“Umm…not our problem!”

 

“Why you…”

 

Vector and Espio looked nervously at each other, then shot like rockets out the door. “OKGOTTAGOBYE!”

 

Knuckles looked around at the scene. Sonic was banging his head against the door, Shadow tried to get up from the goop, but slipped and fell face first again. The room was an absolute mess, and the kids were…wait…the sugar seemed to be going down! They were rubbing their eyes and yawning. Obviously after snack time came nap time.

 

“Sonic! Shadow! They're sleepy!”

 

All…but one.

 

“IWANNAPLAYAGAMEWHATDOYOUGUYSWANNAPLAYIMBOOOOOOREDENTERTAIN MEIMGONNATELLESPIOWHEEEEICANFLYCANYOUFLYIBETYOUCANTYEAHHEDGEHOGSCANTFLYWHEE EEEEEIMABEEBEESFLYICANSINGWANNAHEARABCDEFG…..”

 

“This won't do!” exclaimed Knuckles. “Sonic, Shadow, get the kids in the nap room. I'll take care of the bee.”

 

“Can I take a shower first?” asked Sonic, “first I get splattered with peewee pee, now I'm covered in gross glop. I need to get clean!”

 

“CLEANBEANGREENSTEAMSPLEEN!”

 

Charmy was buzzing around in figure eights so fast he looked like a blur.

 

“NO! NOT UNTIL YOU GET THE KIDS TO BED!”

 

Sonic and Shadow picked up the kids one by one, careful not to get them too messy, into the nap room. They had to take off their gloves since they were all ruined. Their nice, white, clean gloves!

 

They laid each one down on a different multicolored mat and laid blankets over them.

 

“But I'm not ti-aaaaaaaaawwwwh,” said the rebellious green hedgehog. He had been the ringleader for all of Sonic's torture.

 

“Yes you are,” said Sonic, putting a blanket over him.

 

At last they were quiet. The only sound in the room was the sound of soft breathing.

 

“You know,” said Shadow, “they're kind of cute when they're sleeping.”

 

“Want me to bring in some of my baby pictures?” teased Sonic.

 

“I'll pass.”

 

They walked out. Knuckles was desperately trying to clean up and control Charmy at the same time. He was accomplishing neither task, and Charmy seemed more hyper than ever.

 

“MY BUTT ITCHES!”

 

“So?”

 

“SCRAAAAAAAAAAATCH IT!”

 

“Eww! No!

 

“I'M GONNA STING YOU!”

 

Charmy launched an attack at Knuckles, but instead went in circles trying to catch his stinger. Knuckles face vaulted.

 

“Look,” said Sonic, “what do you want to do?”

 

Charmy hovered for a moment, thinking. Then he brightened up and snapped his fingers. “I WANNA PLAY HIDE-AND-GO-PEEK!”

 

“I think you mean hide-and-go-seek.”

 

“YEAH THAT'S WHAT I SAID; HIDE-AND-GO-PEEK! YOU COUNT I HIDE!”

 

“Ok….” The three turned around and started counting. Charmy turned and zoomed into the closet, laughing the whole time. But as soon as he shut the door, the three of them ran over to the closet, threw a TV and a Telletubbie movie in there, and locked and barricaded it. There was no chance of escape. The kid didn't even bang on the door or whine to get out. He was too immersed in the screen.

 

“YESSSSS MY PRECCCIOUSSSSS…YESSSSSS….EH-OH…PRECIOUSSSS….”

 

Meanwhile it was feeding time for the babies. Knuckles had voluntarily volunteered to do it, and had rushed into the room with spoons, baby food, bibs, and bottles of milk. Shadow had ran into the bathroom with the shower in it, calling dibs on the shower first. That left Sonic all alone in the mess. He began to mop it up. He was just about to get out the vacuum, when he caught the little green hedgehog groggily walking out of the nap room.

 

“And just where do you think you're going?”

 

“To pee.”

 

“Alright, but make it fast.”

 

Then the green hedgehog looked up at him with sadness in his eyes. Sonic sighed.

 

“What's wrong?”

 

“I…can't. I won't!”

 

“What are you talking about?”

 

“I thought I could face the potty, but I can't today. I need to go outside instead!”

 

“Oh now I understand. You aren't potty trained yet, are you?”

 

“No…but I don't wear dipies anymore. The potty monster's mean and nasty, I go outside.”

 

“Why is the potty monster so scary?”

 

“Cuz it is! Now I really gotta go!” the kid took Sonic by the hand and led him to a spot far away from the rest of the playscape. He then began to…erm…leak.

 

“This is gross. How old are you?”

 

“Five and uh-half!”

 

“You're a big boy! You shouldn't have to pee outside!”

 

“THERE'S A MONSTER IN THE POTTY!”

 

“Listen, what's your name?”

 

“Kerrek.”

 

“Ok, Kerrek. Do you want to be a big boy?”

 

“I'm not a big boy?”

 

This was tough. It was like when a girl asked you if she looked fat. If you say no, she says, “you're a liar!” and if you say yes…we all know what happens then (hands up who's been in this situation!).

 

“No, you're a big boy I guess, but do you want to pee outside your whole life?”

 

“Can I?”

 

“No.”

 

“Then no, I guess not. Do I have to face it now?”

 

“No not now, its just-”

 

“SONIC! SHOWER'S ALL YOURS!”

 

“Will you excuse me? I need to clean myself.”

 

“GO AHEAD. FINE!”

 

Sonic zoomed into the shower. Finally all the pee and wasted food was being washed down the drain. The blue hedgehog let out a loud, lengthy sigh as the warm water rinsed off the muck. He scrubbed himself with the bar of soap, which looked like a light purple butterfly, and got out.

 

Sonic wrapped a towel around his middle and dried himself. He was about to leave when he saw something on the sink. It was Shadow's cologne.

 

He carries this around with him?

 

He popped the lid off and took a whiff. It was a very appealing scent. One that would have chicks sniffing his footsteps, if they were lucky. Why on earth would he bring this to a daycare center? Did he expect to find someone special here? Maybe he was trying to pick up a single mom or something. Sonic chuckled to himself imagining Shadow with a miniature Shadow (AWWWWWNESS!).

 

Any who, Sonic applied the cologne and walked out. Naptime appeared to be over, as the kids were merrily playing again. Kerrek walked up to Sonic and stomped on his toe.

 

“If I don't wanna go on the potty, I don't have to, got it?”

 

“Fine, whatever, lets play something until the day is out.”

 

Just then the door that was holding Charmy fell down because a single termite had been hacking on it all this time. It died just after it finished the door, and it was hanging by nothing on the ceiling.

 

The little bee didn't move from the closet. Sonic swore he saw a little speck fall from nowhere, but he shrugged it off. Charmy looked worse than ever. He had huge bags under his bloodshot eyes, his wings were all crumpled up, and his helmet was on sideways. He was foaming at the mouth for some odd reason, and he was shaking uncontrollably while rocking back and forth, one hand in his mouth, the other one wrapped around his legs.

 

“P-p-preciousssss….precioussssss,” Charmy's head turned towards them at about the speed of frozen molasses and frowned.

 

“GET THE LIGHT AWAY! LIGHT BAD FOR ME AND MY PRECIOUS! LIGHT AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!”

 

Charmy curled up into a little ball, eyes still glued to the cheesy 2-year-old show. Sonic leaned the door back up, and nothing more was heard.

 

The girls crowded around Shadow again. This time, though, they were nice enough to let him pick the game. Shadow was teaching the girls martial arts. They were doing a drill to see how good their senses were. Shadow had set up an obstacle course and told each girl to memorize it for 5 minutes. After that he blindfolded them and told them to run the course. In just a few tries, the girls' sense of awareness had been honed. Now he was teaching them how to spar.

 

“Ok, just like I taught you. Ready…set…spar!”

 

The match was between the yellow cat and the pink fox. Both were in karate gear, and both were fierce.

 

The pink fox started off with a kick towards the head. The cat grabbed it and twisted, smiling triumphantly toward her mentor. But then the fox bent her knee and flexed it out again rapidly, causing a direct kick to the face. The cat used the kick to bounce off the wall and follow through with a fury of punches. The two had created a massive fight.

 

Shadow, in black karate gear, brought his hand down sharply and ordered them to stop. They stopped, bowed, and sat down.

 

All this time Knuckles had been trying to feed all the babies. He had gotten most of them to eat, but this last one was very fussy. Knuckles took a spoonful of the mashed squash and held it to the baby's mouth.

 

“Open up the tunnel…here comes the train…choo choo! Choo choo!”

 

The baby's mouth stayed shut. Knuckles stuck his thumb and finger between the baby's lips and opened it up. Then he plopped the gunky food in and closed. The baby seemed to swallow it, but then he wound up splattering it all over Knuckles.

 

“Bababa! Bababaaaaaa!” squealed the baby. Knuckles wiped himself off with a rag and got a bottle instead. The baby cooed.

 

Knuckles picked up the baby and went to sit in the rocking chair. He got a pink blanket and covered himself with it. The baby put his hands on the edges of the bottle as Knuckles fed him. For every few sips he took, the baby dribbled about a third of it. But Knuckles didn't mind. He wept it up every time. The baby pushed away the bottle and squealed. The red echidna set the bottle down and began to burp the baby.

 

He smiled as the baby let out a burp and relaxed on his shoulder. He liked the baby better than the pet rock he used to have.

 

AWWWWWWW! BTW, for those who don't know, the “pet rock” is the Master Emerald. Just thought I should clarify that incase anyone was wondering. I also need ideas for what they should do next chapter. Suggestions please! Oh and Review!