Cristmas Eve at Sonic & Tails

Christmas Eve with friends

An old fic, originally written in my native language a few years ago. Translated to English recently, with the help of my friend.

I posted it on my Ao3 account (same name as here) yesterday, but decided to post it here as well. There's an upcoming Shadow, Sonic and Rouge focused fanfic (muuuch more developed than this one) that will definitely be posted on Ao3, not sure about here. Depends on the feedback. :p

Also, the cover was drawn by me and can be found on my Instagram and Twitter (still the same name).

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A blue ball was moving forward with amazing speed, leaving behind only a bright smudge and splattering mud. Fortunately, it has already left the city full of its habitants. Civilised anthros have grown tired of being splashed by the grey goo splattering from underneath the sporty shoes of a certain unruly hedgehog, who at the moment was running to the meeting organised by his closest friend. Actually, they lived together, but the blue menace had a morning routine of long runs, their time not measured by any clocks. Now, he was speeding through a less populated countryside, where the amount of screams towards him wasn't as much. The blue blur finally stopped abruptly before the gate of a small house that was standing in the middle of a cluttered yard. The hedgehog, used to this sight, calmly opened the gate and walked towards the entrance door. After entering, he walked through the corridor to the living room, leaving traces of mud behind. There, a sight of the invited friends welcomed him.

„Hey, Sonic!" called out a yellow-furred fox, who was the organiser of this meeting.

„Hello there!" Sonic answered with his usual grin, making quick eye-contact with the fox, then looking at the rest of the comers.

„Now I know which one of you is responsible for the mess," muttered a red echidna that was wearing boxing gloves with two sharp spicules.

„Says homeless," the blue one answered, his wide smile never fading.

The hedgehog and the fox lived together ever since they first met. None of them was a big mess-maker, but because of their constant „duties" they didn't have much time for tidying. That's why their house wasn't the cleanest. This year, however, the two friends decided to take responsibility known by every worthy host.

„Have you told them yet?" the older one asked his housemate. He shook his head.

„Not yet. You're a better speaker, I wanted to wait for you," the fox answered.

„Alright." Sonic took a while to think about his speech, took a look around the room, and when he spotted tea cups on the table, he took one and jumped with it on the table. The silent conversations between his friends have completely stopped.

The hedgehog wanted to tap against the edge of the cup with a spoon, but he couldn't find any of those. Despite that, the teenager still wanted to make his speech somewhat formal. He made a serious face that would put any snob to shame, and for even better effect he hid his free hand behind his back, and only then started his performance.

„Dear friends, ladies, gentlemen, and you, Shadow." The mentioned rival 'hmph'ed silently. „We all gathered here to be witnesses of a wonderful event. An event so grand, it would be able to drown all fish in all the oceans. An event, which..." Sonic paused for a moment to think of his next words. „which has never been witnessed, because it is so bright, it is able to blind the sharpest eyes of the sharpest creatures of this universe." The speaker looked in the direction where his gloomy counterpart was seated with his coworker. „To be exact... We all gathered here in celebration of a beautiful marriage..."