Week of Mischief and Pain
Chapter 4- Day 2
Amy's House
I own Alesha, Roxy, Zareen and Simon. SEGA owns the rest of the characters and I do not own American Idol or Dragon Tales.
Tails had come over to Amy's house to fix her TV that Sonic had accidently broken last week by throwing a chair at it while watching American Idol. Tails had now been working on the TV for over two hours.
Amy came down the hallway with Cream, Cheese and Simon following her.
"Ok Tails were going to the store for a while. Do you need anything?" Amy asked the little kitsune as she pulled her jacket over her arms.
"Yeah... could you get me the third season of Dragon Tales for me?" Amy stared at him.
"It's uh... for a friend." Tails quickly added.
"Ok, Tails." Amy humored him as she, Simon, Cream and Cheese filed out the front door.
10 minutes later
A heavy knocking was heard at the door and Alesha came from the guest room to open it so Tails wouldn't have to. She opened the door to see Big the Cat.
"Uh... can I help you?" she asked, completely repelled by the less-than-appealing ball of lard.
"Yeah, uh... Amy wanted me to come pick something up." Big replied in his usual dumb voice.
"Oh, so you must be Big. Amy said you'd be stopping by. Please come in." Alesha said as she opened the door as far as it could go-which was still not wide enough. The obese cat lumbered in the door-squishing Alesha up against the wall for a bit. When the raccoon managed to get the door shut she backed up and took a big gulp of air.
"Ok Big, please follow me." she tried to be polite as she lead him into the kitchen were Zareen was sitting on the table playing jacks with Roxy.
"Zareen, this is Big. He's the other member of Amy's team." Zareen looked up at big. At first her expression was blank but then a grin started to crease her lips.
"Hi!" Big greeted. Upon hearing the cat's greeting Zareen burst into uncontrollable laughter. Alesha struggled to keep a straight face.
"Come on big let's get you that book." Alesha smiled as she lead him into the living room.
"Finally, after three hours I'm finally finished!" Tails announced, putting the TV back up in its proper position while heaving a sigh.
"Hi Tails!" Big walked over to Tails and picked him up and squeezed him in a big hug-but while doing this his over-sized gut knocked over the TV-shattering it. Big put Tails down-who just stared at it with an open mouth.
"..."
"Ok, bye Tails!" Big waved as he continued to follow Alesha into the guest room where she picked up a book that Amy had told her to deliver to the cat. "101 Tips and Tricks to Losing Weight".
"Here you go Big." Alesha handed Big the book and then began to show him to the door.
Meanwhile
Zareen was still in the kitchen when she saw movement on the table. She turned her head in time to see a green frog licking a piece of fruit.
"Gross." Zareen grabbed a hammer out of the tool box Tails had left on the counter and swiftly brought it down on the amphibian with a "SPLAT!"
"There." Zareen said as she dropped the hammer in the sink. She went back over and stood in front of the mess wondering how in the world she was going to clean it all up when Big and Alesha re-entered the kitchen. Since the hedgehog was standing in front of the table, Big couldn't see Froggy.
"Ok guys, thanks. Hey have you guys seen my pet frog, Froggy anywhere?" Zareen's eyes widened as she looked over her shoulder. "Shit!"
"Uh... hey Big, look over there!" Zareen pointed in the opposite direction. Once Big looked away Zareen grabbed a near-by table cloth and threw it over the frog.
"What? I don't see anything."
"Oh what a shame nice having you over I'm sure Froggy just hopped home yeah that's it see ya later drive safe!" Zareen shoved Big out the door and slammed it before he could say anything else.
"What the heck was that about?" Alesha asked Zareen.
"Um... yeah..." she then went back into the kitchen and lifted up the table cloth.
"Oh god what have you done?!" Alesha dragged he hand down her face.
"Well what are we going to do?" Zareen asked.
"What do you mean we? I didn't do anything, you're the one that killed the thing!"
"GAH!" Zareen ran a hand through her quills. She then got an idea. She walked into the living room and sat- cross-legged next to Tails.
"Tails..." Zareen smiled and Tails looked at her with big aqua marine eyes.
"Yeah...?" Tails knew she was going to ask for something.
"I need your help." Bingo.
"With what?"
"Uh.. I 'sorta... kinda... killed Froggy." Tails' eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"And I was thinking, oh, I don't know, that you could help me get Big a new frog?" and being the ever-generous fox he was, Tails agreed to help Zareen.
"But the only place were going to find that kind of frog is a swamp just outside the city limits- we can take me plane-the X-Tornado there-come on."
Nasty Smelling Swamp
Zareen and Tails had just landed in the heart of a foul smelling, boggy swamp.
"So were are all the frogs?" Zareen questioned, looking around at the lifeless excuse for a habitat.
"Oh, they only come out when it rains." Tails explained.
"Ok... so when does it rain?"
"Right about... now." A roar of thunder rumbled over the landscape and vibrated in the hedgehog's and fox's ears before a downpour of fat rain drops cascaded down.-soaking both of them.
"Great." Zareen huffed as she folded her arms.
"Look! They're coming out!" Tails pointed to the pond, where about 25 frogs were emerging from.
"I'm on it!" Zareen did a spin-dash across the slick mud and to up to a frog. She pounced on it and thought that was it, until she learned that frogs can be slippery. It wiggled from her grasp and hopped away at surprising speed.
"Damn!" Zareen cursed as she tried to stand up.
"AH!!" She looked to her left and saw Tails being dragged by a frog across the mud.
"Tails! Let go!" Zareen shouted over another thunder boom. Suddenly a frog went between her legs, startling her, causing her to slip on the mud. She growled as she regained her footing. She locked on to another target and ran full speed at it, but this time slipping so her feet went above her head, falling face down in the mud before she could even reach the frog.
"FUCK!" Tails then dropped from the sky in front of her with a "THUD!"
"This is harder than I thought." Tails said, his face covered in mud.
"Ya think?!" Zareen said, agitated. She then saw the perfect target.
"Tails listen. You see that frog?" Tails raised his head and wiped the mud caked around his eyes.
"Now I do."
"Ok, so how about we both rush at it at the same time? You come from the left and I'll come from the right, ok?" Tails nodded as the two got into position. Zareen gave Tails the signal and they both rushed the frog at the same time. But the frog had different plans. At the last possible second it leaped into the air and Zareen and Tails head butted each other.
"OW!" They both exclaimed at the same time as the frog hopped away.
"DAMN IT ALL TO HELL!!" Zareen screeched as she pounded her fists into the muddy ground like a little kid throwing a temper tantrum.
Tails thought all hope was lost when suddenly a frog hopped on top of Zareen's head. He then snatched it and held it down with all his might.
Finally it was over
Amy's House
The frog wrangling duo brought their prize back to the house, once there changing clothes and drying off.
"Hey... something's different about this frog." Zareen stated. Tails came over to the coffee table were the frog was sitting.
"You're right. The real Froggy had a tail."
"You serious?! There is no way in hell that I'm going back to that swamp!" Zareen almost shouted as she picked at some mud that was crusted around her eyes.
"Well all I know is is that this frog needs a tail." Tails said. Zareen looked around. She then saw Cream's art kit and got an idea.
10 minutes later
Zareen had did it-sorta. She had made a make-shift tail out of green construction paper. Now all she needed to do was attach it.
"Here, let me do it." Tails offered as he took the paper tail and taped it onto the frog.
"Uh... Tails?"
"Yeah?" Zareen picked up the frog and held it up. Its tail was located in the...wrong area.
"It looks like a dick!" Zareen giggled. Tails rolled his eyes as he correctly attached the tail.
Later
After dropping Froggy Number 2 off at Big's Zareen and Tails got back to Amy's and plopped down on the couch. Zareen pulled out her phone.
"Amy? You still at the store?" ... "Yeah you should probably pick up a new table cloth."