How To Grow A Few Feet… Hopefully

Chapter 1:

28.6.2011 Deathy: I'm writing another story about one of my OCs from Unsure for Title. Sadly, Fanfiction you may or may not get this. I'm going with Helios "Spike" Echidna this time! Enjoy this little sweet heart.

Disclaimer: "But I was told by one of the greatest heroes ever that I'll have a growth spurt one of these days and be a foot taller than my own dad!" – Helios "Spike" Echidna

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The little red echidna sat on his bed room floor stretching. If he could just stretch a little bit more, he could stretch his body some. This would result in another centimeter in height. After his stretches, he runs to the frame of his bedroom door. He takes a tiny green maker. Standing as straight as he could, he marks his height. He seemed to have grown a little bit more, but not much.

"Yes!" he sang dancing about his room.

"Helios?" His father walked in front of his nine year old son's room. Helios looked up at his father and blushed. Ending his dance, he places his hands behind his back. He looks up at him with innocent saffire eyes. "What are you celebrating son?"

"Um…" He said staring at his feet. He pointed to his frame. "I got a little taller." He admitted.

Knuckles looked at the frame. Sure enough there was a mark that was a little bit taller than last one they had taken. However, this echidna knew that the green marker meant that Helios had measured himself, so it wasn't completely accurate. "I see." He said with a nod. He grabbed the red marker that he was to use when measuring his son. "Why don't I measure you again? Just to be more accurate."

"Okay." Helios walked up happily to his father. He stood as straight as he could without cheating. Knuckles smiled as he fixed his son's slouch. He had a bad habit of it when getting measured, especially at school. He seemed to be very shy when at school. Knuckles knew that the monotonal speech was a normal around new people. Knuckles need to help him work on that. As the red echidna touched the red pen to Helios's exact height, his eyes widen. "Helios, son, you measured yourself wrong. Very wrong." He stated.

Helios looked up at his father in disbelief. His saffire eyes became watery as he looked back down at the ground. Tears painted his floor. Helios ran to his bed and hid his face under his pillow. He hid the rest of his body under the blanket that Knuckles had hand made for him. "Why can't I grow any?" He sobbed into his mattress.

"Helios." Knuckles tried to comfort him. He had no clue how to, but he was going to try. "It's okay if you are growing." He assured him. "Bit by bit. Everyone is growing at their own pace."

"But how come I'm so small?" He asked as he looked up at his father with a pout.

"Spike." He called him by his nickname. "Whoever said that you were small?" He gave him a noggie. "Because you're not small at all!"

Spike laughed along with his dad as he struggled to escaped his father's grasp.

"Now." Knuckles said releasing him. "I only said that you measured yourself wrong. Now let's go see what you're true height is."

"Okay!" Spike answered as Knuckles stood up with the boy in his arms.

"Now time for Super Spike!" He chuckled. The little boy got into position as his father ran around the room in a big figure eight. "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Super Spike! Here to save the day!" He placed him back on the floor.

Helios's eyes widened and bugged out of his sockets. "I grew!" he screamed. "Look daddy! Look!" He said jumping up and down.

"I see." Knuckles chuckled. "Now, why don't we go make breakfast." He winked. "You're mother and sister are gone for the weekend. So we can somewhere and have dude time."

Helios laughed as he followed his dad to the kitchen. "Dude time?" He repeated. "Have you been taking parenting advice from Sonic again? Or Tails?"

"Tails." Knuckles stated. "Sonic's boy is younger then you. Therefore he comes to Tails and me for advice."

"Daddy?" Helios asked. Knuckles looked at him. He knew that expression O' to well. His little Spike was wondering about something.

"Yes?" Knuckles answered as he pulled a frying pan out of the cabinet. F

"How can you go taller?" He asked innocently. His saffire eyes were big and round.

Knuckles thought for a moment. "Well, good rest helps you grow." He thought. "But too much isn't good either. Exercising is good. Then you have a healthy diet. Which reminds me, what do you want for breakfast?"

"Um…" The little boy thought a moment. "Omelets and bacon with tea!" He said with a broad smile.

"Very well then." Knuckles laughed. "You sure love tea don't you?"

"Yes!" Spike answered as he gathered his supplies for it. "Mommy has been teaching how to make Da Long tea. I'm going to help her in the tea shop soon."

"Really?" Knuckles questioned as slapped bacon into the frying pan. "Any other reason why you like tea so much?"

Spike looked at his feet and bite his lip. "I just really like tea." He stated as he began preparing tea.

His father nodded knowingly. "Uh-huh." He stated smugly. "I remember a day, long, long ago. Where you, son, didn't really care about tea so much. You just thought it was a good skill to have. And let's see," He began to think back. "It was when we went to that birthday party, wasn't it?" He looked over at Spike who was working intently. "It was Sammy's birthday, but it turned into a tea party because of his baby sister. If I recall correctly, you sat outside, under an apple tree, far away from everyone." He flipped the bacon and glanced over at his son. The boy was glaring at him silently. He then turned his sapphire eyes quickly towards his tea. "You seemed to have an aloof attitude towards most things. You still do sometimes." He noted. Helios turned his head to the side. "And as my memory serves, Shadow's little girl, I can't remember her name for the life of me…" he pondered on the little girl's name for a few moments. "Well," He sighed coming up with nothing, "Whatever her name is. She saw you over there. And without a word, she got up and walked over to you. She looked at you straight in the eye and invited you to tea. And then before you could even open your mouth to respond, she grabbed your arm and drug you to the table telling you all about her favorite kinds of tea. It was after that day, if I recall that you began trying to make tea perfectly." He placed the bacon on a plate.

He looked up at his son still making tea; his face was now flush. "Tell me, son, does Shadow's little girl have anything to do with your liking of tea?" He asked with a knowing smirk.

Helios glared up at his father. "Father, her name is Amy. And shut it." He hissed.

"I'm your father. This is my job." He stated. "Now come eat something. You're way too scrawny to be talking to tough right now."

Helios laughed at his father's humor. "At least let me finish the tea first. And shouldn't be making eggs any way?"

Knuckles glared at him and turned back to the stove. "Well played son. Well played." He mumbled. Helios chuckled. "Don't make me get you, Shorty." He warned. The little boy bit his lip.

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03.8.2011 Deathy: This one took a while to do, huh? It's been like 2 months? Wow. That's a lot. Well, I'm currently working on an animation medley right now. And These guys will be in it! Mainly that fight scene between Ian and Alexander from Chapter 16. I'll add this as a bonus chapter to Unsure of Title. Enjoy! Please READ & REVIEW! Thank you!