Under Fire

Chapter 4 - Dinner

One by one, the group was shown to their rooms by Lystra. Each one nicer and more luxurious than a five-star hotel room.

Amy's room was painted a light, calming pink color. Rouge's room had a heated pool (their equivalent of a hot tub) in the middle of her floor. Cream got Zara's old room, which had all the stuff a six-year-old could want. Sonic's room was right next to the gymnasium, which had a track out in back. Shadow's room was nicer than any kind of hotel room you'll ever see. Knuckles' room had a beautiful sweeping view of the whole kingdom, which reminded him of Angel Island. Sapphire's room was courteously stocked with the royal library's entire collection of books in brail. (one of the former Kings was blind as well) Tails' room overlooked the stables, Charmy's room had a remote-controlled bed that he was constantly messing with and Silver's room resembled Shadow's.

Espio was the last to be shown his room. Lystra opened the door in one sweeping motion and waved Espio in after her.

"Here you go..."

"Espio." the male chameleon stated.

"Oh, Espio." Lystra smiled and walked over to two glass doors on the other side of the huge room. She then opened those doors to reveal a large balcony with black railings and a fantastic view of the setting sun.

Espio was too busy staring at the purple sunset to notice Lystra silently scurry away. She as about to shut the door behind her when she heard Espio's voice calling after her.

"Thank you, Lystra."

Dinning Room

Everyone had gathered in the enormous dinning room for dinner. The ceilings were amazingly high, with three chandeliers hanging down. The table itself was an elongated rectangle that took up most of the room, with fifty chairs on each side, and one chair at each end of the table. The chairs had red velvet cushions on the seats and were so comfortable it felt like you could sleep on one.

Tryphaena had seated herself at the head of the table.

On the left side of Tryphaena sat Zara, Tails, Cream, Espio, Sapphire, Rouge and Knuckles.

On the right side of Tryphaena sat Blaze, Sonic, Amy, Silver, Shadow and Charmy.

Soon the cooks brought out multiple carts full of silver platters, then setting them carefully on the silk table cloth-covered table.

The appetizer was sliced dragon fruit. The main course was a huge hunk of meat that no one could really identify, but they thought it was delicious. The servers poured red wine for the older members of the team but gave exotic juice to Charmy, Cream and Tails.

But half-way through the meal Charmy started to act up.

"When's the dessert com-" Blaze's eyes widened in horror but before Charmy could finish his sentence Sapphire kicked him in the shin.

"Shut up!" the blue bat hissed under her breath.

"Ow! I don't ha-" Sapphire discreetly threw a fork at the bee's head, nailing him in the eye.

Blaze let out a sigh of relief, she had deliberately told everyone to mind their table manners and not speak unless they were spoken to.

Now, Tryphaena wasn't really paying attention put when she saw Charmy cradling his eye in pain she raised an eyebrow.

"Blaze, is their something wrong with your friend?"

Blaze gritted her teeth.

"No, no Tryphaena, he just got some lemon juice in his eye." she smiled innocently.

Tryphaena looked at the insect sideways but continued to slowly sip at her wine.

Master Emerald Shrine

"EEEEERRRRAAHH!" a wail of misery echoed off Angel Island.

"GAH! Dana, what...in the HELL did I use?!" Sean shouted as he gritted his teeth and tried to sit still.

Sean had forgotten to bring toilet paper to Angel Island today therefore the three had to look inside the crude guide book Knuckles had left for them. It hadn't turned out so well. But so far Sean was the only one that went to the bathroom that day.

Dana didn't bother to conceal her delight in Sean's ichty-ness as she flipped open the guide book.

"It says right here... 'Do use the weird-smelling plant with red-tinted leaves." Dana squinted at the book closer. Her smiler growing wider.

"What?!" Sean demanded, resisting every urge he had to sticking his hand down his jeans.

"Uh...there was a smudge. It actually says 'Do NOT use the weird-smelling plant with red-tinted leaves.'

"...WHAT?!"

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