#crawled back to hell for those echidnas

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“Welcome to The Lost City of Albion! I’m Gala-na, and I have awaited your return to the Motherland!”

Mermaid Gala-na for MerMay 💖

[writtenfan]

Ah, The Joys of Parenthood, They’re your Whole Underworld ya know?

DisneyHades x Reader

Taking care of the little fire-crackers can be a lot, Hades sure feels that way...

Oh geez, s-settle down, kiddos… No, no. No! No!! I take a call for two seconds! -” he holds up two fingers and waves them in the air looking down at his kids, fussing and running around the room. 

“TWO. Itty bitty SECONDS!, and all of you go Lord of the Flies on me.”

You watch Hades breathing heavily, trying his very very best to keep himself calm tempered but his flames give away how angry he is by their frantic bursts of red between the blue. His internal de-fuming was interrupted by a loud-

 BAM! 

As one of the three kids, tripped over their father’s smoke and onto the rug which made him snap his head to them, grab them by their shoulders with the same smoke they tripped over and pulled them towards him.

They look up at him will a giddy smile and he scrunches up his nose and gives them a closed smile back, which looked absolutely phony.

“Cool it, you little pest, or DADDY’S going to, lose it. Capiche? You don’t like it when daddy goes Koo-Koo! Koo-Koo! Right?!” he hisses through his teeth and your child shakes their head with a worried frown and slowly walks off towards a bunch of books laying on the floor.

“Oy Vey, KIDS! Alright, ok, Calm down Hades. In and out, remember what Hera told you? Oh ho ho, ho…feeling dumb now aren’t ya? How you shoulda thought twice before-” he stops himself and closes his eyes, taking a deep breath in an exhaling hot smoke as he opens his eyes lazily.

His voice turning eerily sweeter, “Ahem. Daddy can only handle sooo MUCH~! Before he decides to take the late abortion, option...

... AND THROWS YOU IN THE STYX!!!”

Well. He Failed at Being Calm.

His fire sparks a dazzling red which causes all of your kids to halt and say their apologies to their father, significantly slowing down in the process, all except one kid. Who seemed to be completely running on adrenaline and just wouldn’t sit still.

“Thank you. You little brats… Geez, and watch your sibling eh? Oy, I shouldn’t have given them those cookies…but they kept bugging me and bugging me. Works for the dog, I give them a treat and badabing! They’re off my back for an hour or two. But this little smutch right here?! Sheesh!” He mocks a buzzer sound. “Wrong answer. Never again, you hear me?!” he points to your child who gives their father a sharp toothed grin.

You lean against the stone door frame and some of the stone crumbles off the wall and his attention shifts to you and the smirk on your face. He sizzles down automatically. 

The blue flames flicker once again on the top of his head. His face turns to this sentimental big-eyed and blushing grin. 

“y/n! sweetheart, the exquisite object of my affection…” he glides his way towards you, and you meet him in the middle of the room. 

Your kids turn their head and smile at you, with a few hi (mommy/daddy’s) but once again become preoccupied with the one child that just wouldn’t stop putting pieces of books into the fire. You tell them to stay away from the breakables with a laugh as you watch the youngest drop the books and run towards a statue while the middle child is just trying to pull the younger one way from it. 

This den had turned into the colosseum pits of Rome more than once and It didn’t help that it was filled with old irreplaceable books and rickety bookshelves crawling with Underworld bugs. (Which Hades uses as a light reading snack ugh). Along with a cluster of breakable glass containers and cylinders holding whatever the hell they held, littering the floor.

This place was a disaster zone. The few screaming statues that stood around the room sure didn’t make it peaceful either and right on cue you watched your oldest accidentally fall into one after tugging with the youngest and you leaped forward as you saw the statue jolt but were greeted with, “Aye aye, I got it, it got iiiit…” As a burst of smoke pushed against the other side of the statue stopping it from falling while picking back up the oldest on their feet and grabbing your youngest by the back of their collar and hovering them over the fireplace, (which had absolutely nothing to prevent a child from falling inside) plopping them down on the huge intricately woven rug made by The Fates. 

Unexpectedly Hades pulls you into him by the waist and spins you around in a circle. “Angel face, Baby. heh, do you think you could? Uh, handle them, for me? For a little bit, of course.”

  You give him a look.

“ Ay heheh...I just have to go to another business meeting, haha yeah. He rests his hands on your waist and isn’t afraid to hold them firmly, oh he knew how to make you soft.  

“You know Echidna right?! Right. Husband Typhon… the mountain guy… you know. 6 weeks ago at the pool party, best Feta Me Meli you ever had? Well. They’ve been impatient recently and I rather not get on her bad side…or have them on mine. So, watch little Cerberus Jr. for me until my meet up is over, cool? Cool.” He gestures to your three kids who have now restrained the youngest who was flickering little bursts of red around their hair. (He collectively calls them Cerberus Jr. Quite often.) Sweat is rolling down Hades’s forehead and sizzling off in steam just as it formed, his face still in complete pleading mode, lips pouted, eyes all big...

“Please?!” he clears his throat.

 “I mean, ha-ha-heh please dearest? I mean, I deserve it! I bet your liking this top-notch parenting your witnessing eh?” He blows hot air on his knuckles and rubs them on his chest as if shining it. “Well, I hope this turns you on… But I’m kinda running a bit low on steam, or should I say, smoke.” he grumbles. 

Your eldest yells from across the room as they're putting all the books on high shelves to stop the youngest from continuing to shred them into the fire. They then say something about how “Dad” gave the youngest some oatmeal cookies that had him bouncing off the walls. 

“You little snitch,” Hades mumbled under his mouth giving his child the eye which made them shudder and look away. You turn to Hades with an eyebrow raised, and he places a hand on your back and turns you around from the kids gilding you towards the door.

“But even though I’m ha top, repeating what you said last night, DILF. Of the Underworld and all-” He chuckled proudly and you laugh and turn your head to the kids, and you catch one rolling their eyes and you give them an ashamed little chortle “-I got to get some work done, that isn’t…this work.”

He grins sheepishly and you roll your eyes and smile. But remind him that you’re not going to be the typical stay at home (mom/dad) that he may want you to be. As you caught him slipping earlier with such an expectation from you. Which made you make him spend time with the kids in the first place.

“Oh YES! GODS. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!” 

He clasps both his hands around yours and shakes them frantically and you start laughing which makes him grin. “I promise boss, I won’t let you down. Overtime even and ill clock in early (ma’am/sir) I'll even stay in late…and help you, liquidate the debt …if you know what I mean…” he wiggles his eyebrows and you are bombarded with little kisses all over your face as he says “Muah” for each one, you try pushing him off you but he turns you around as you do so that his back is now towards the door. He pulls away from you laugh as he gives you a salute, but before slipping through the door he points to the kids.

“If you make your (mother/father) mad or sad or anything but glad! I’ll give you all a worthy punishment for your demi-dis“ass”ter’s got it?” He points to himself and then back at them and they reply in obvious dread and you wave him off but he just gives you few air kisses, “I’ll take ya on a little trip to doom-and-gloomingdales and get you something swanky, we’ll have Pain and Panic watch the kids.” He gives you a wink and clicks his tongue as he leaves and you walk over to your kids. 

Scooping up the youngest who was on a sugar high and watch their little flames of anger die down as you held them from their middle with ease and you smiled as they started laughing as you hoisted them up on your shoulders.

“How’re (mommas/daddy’s) favorite kids doing huh. Driving him mad eh?” you chuckle as you walk over to your other two scamps.

“We’re you only kids…”

“I’m the favorite!!”

“BOW DOWN TINY MORTALS FOR I AM HADES!!”

You smirk up at the one on your shoulders.

“Oh, please don’t copy your father there’s enough of him already.”

[lyrazehedgieboiii]

Sonic Babies! (Oneshot)

I still have some asks, and don’t worry, I will get to them, I just had a sudden urge to write this story, and I just couldn’t help myself tho-

    “WHAT. THE. HELL. JUST. HAPPENED?!” 

Amy and Tails stood in shock as three baby hedgies and a baby echidna were on the floor, gurgling at the sight of the older hedgehog and fox.

    “T-They just turned into babies...” Tails murmured. “I told them to stay away from the machine. What do they do? Go near the machine. Chaos, now I have to fix this...Amy, I hope you’re not ma-” Tails turned around to find Amy laying on the floor, while baby Sonic was nuzzling Amy’s cheek, baby Silver was climbing onto her stomach, baby Knuckles was chewing on Amy’s thumb, and baby Shadow was rested on Amy’s legs. 

   “I had no idea they were so CUTE as babies!” Amy gushed as Silver giggled at her. Amy got up and scooped them all up into her lap and cuddled with them. 

   “Hey Amy, do you mind watching them while I find a way to reverse this?” Tails asked the pink hedgie, who had stars in her eyes.

    “Yeah! Don’t you have a stroller from when you were younger?” Amy replied, and stood up. She saw a red chaos emerald, and assumed that it was Shadow’s, so she gave it to Tails to keep safe. 

    “Yup, it’s under that table, Cream used it last week for Cheese’s kids.” Amy nodded, and grabbed the stroller, and put everyone in, or at least three of them in...

    “SONIC!” Amy screamed. Baby Sonic had wires in his hand, and even though he was a baby, he still had that annoying smirk of his. “Put the wire down, or you will be in time-out faster than you can run!” Sonic dropped the wires immediately and Amy could see tears starting to make its way down his cheeks. She ran to him and hugged him close to her. “I’m so sorry, Sonikku. I promise I won’t yell at you like that, again. Or at least while you’re a baby. All you have to do is be a good boy to me. That applies to you three as well,” Amy looked at the infants which were playing with the stuffed animals in the stroller.

    “M...Mama!” Everyone suddenly went so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. Sonic giggled and continued to babble. Even Knuckles, and Silver started saying ‘mama.’ Shadow only grunts, and mutters something that sounded like “momma.” Amy squealed and scooped them out of the stroller and hugged them once again.

She put them down into the stroller, again, and gave them pecks on the cheeks, and then giggled.

     “Your older selves would kill me if I did that.” Amy walked out of the workshop, leaving Tails processing everything that just happened.

- In The Village -

    “Now listen here, boys. You have to be on your best behavior, and no crying. Got it?” She commanded the boys, but they only tilted their head. “. . .Let’s just you do.” She walked with the stroller, earning many odd stares from the villagers, but Amy didn’t seem to notice. “Let’s see, Shadow likes oranges (LMAO IDK) Silver likes honey, Knuckles likes grapes, Sonic likes chilidogs...There isn’t any chilidog flavored baby food...I’ll buy some of this, and if he doesn’t like it, I’ll just blend up the chillidog!” She bought everything, until she saw Blaze, Rouge, and Lyra standing near a boutique. She walked over to them (Let’s talk about her outfit first)

 She’s wearing a Ditsy Floral Print Square Neck Dress (Link to dress on Pinterest) With a white sun-hat with roses on the side.

     “Why do these little guys look like our boys?” Rouge asked with interest, focusing mainly on Knuckles.

     “Oh, you know, I fucked all four of them and gave birth to their kids. Their names are Dash, Emo, Weed, and Steroids.” Amy sarcastically said. Blaze and Rouge looked frightened for a moment before they realized that she was only kidding. “They’re the boys, I have to take care of them. Long story short, they got into an age-changer invention thing, and they all turned into babies. Aren’t they the cutest? Especially little Sonic.” She bent down and started cooing to him. “Yes? Who’s the cutest little baby in the whole universe? You are! Yes you are, yes you are~!” The girls watched as Amy fangirled over her crush as an infant.

    “Wow, Pinky. I’m guessing if you and Big Blue were to have a kid, he’d look just like that.” Rouge smirked. Amy blushed.

     “That is, if he actually likes me...” Amy muttered. “But what about you and Knuckles, hmm?” Amy smirked back at her. This time it was Rouge that had gone the same color as her favorite red echidna. Amy giggled at her reaction. “Anyways, we should buy some clothes, because they’re only covered by their normal outfit, but the sports tape was there, and Amy was worried they’d wrap it around their necks and suffocate.

    “I have some baby clothes from when I was taking care of Cheese’s children. Maybe that could fit on them?” Blaze asked. Amy nodded eagerly.

   “Yes please! I don’t want to waste money on something that won’t even come to use later on!” Amy squeaked out in agitation. They all separated to retrieve everything they needed for the boys. They all met back at Amy’s house.

    “Okay, now, we should feed them. Yes~, we should feed your chubby wittle tum-tums!~ Yes, we should! Who wants chilidogs, and grow so big and strong, and have your little Ames swoon over how handsome you are?~” Amy continued to baby-talk to Sonic, as he only giggled and fell over to his side. This made all the girls go crazy over how adorable and pure he was acting. The others, desperate for attention, dragged themselves onto the girls’ laps. They all fan-girled because the boys they’ve wanted since, well, FOREVER, crawled into their laps submissively! 

    “OH MY ASS, THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME, KNUXIE IS ON MY LAP! I mean, not the way I wanted, but YES.” Rouge squealed with excitement. She stroked his dreads, while Blaze was running her hands through Silver’s quills. Lyra was gently traced the red stripes on Shadow’s quills, being very light, so he wouldn’t get all moody and fuss about it. Sonic noticed this and grimaced at them. He climbed up on to Amy, and nipped at the top of her dress.

   “Oh my goodness! Uhh, what am I supposed to do? SONIC! Stop nipping at my dress, little gummy bear!” Amy said, grabbing baby Sonic’s torso and lifted him up, while he flailed his arms and legs around. “Stop it! Do you want any chilidogs?” Sonic immediately stopped and smiled with his mouth open. He put his tiny little hand in his mouth and gurgled. Amy inwardly swooned, her cheeks heating up. Even as a baby, Sonic was still a ladies’ man. She put them on a floor, after putting a plastic tablecloth cover under them, and prepared their food. Amy mashed up the chilidogs, making sure it wasn’t too spicy, and fed it to Sonic.

He happily ate it with no complaints, but you couldn’t really say the same for Knuckles and Silver. Silver constantly kept rejecting the food, and Knuckles wouldn’t pay attention. Knuckles seemed to look at something else, which wasn’t exactly food...

   “WOAH MY CHAOS! KNUCKLES! I’M NOT FOOD!” Rouge yelled as Knuckles pounced on Rouge and attempted to pull down the heart on her outfit. After a few minutes of squirming and yelling and Lyra having to pry Knuckles’s hands off with a crowbar, Silver and Shadow seemed to be enjoying the show in front of him, and Sonic was laughing hysterically and clapped his hands. After all that happened, the girls decided that the boys needed a bath. 

Amy filled the bathtub up, strapping Sonic to her with a scarf, seeing as she didn’t have those baby-body carrier things. (I’m not going to look it up to confirm its name) The bathtub was too deep for the kids, and they couldn’t exactly sit on their own, so the girls got their swimsuits and went into the water with them. They used washcloths to cleanse them, covering their eyes when they got to the lower body. They gurgled and giggled. (Lmao I keep repeating the same words over and over again) Shadow, being Shadow, only huffed, while his tail wagged. Lyra chuckled at his reaction.

Now, you might be wondering, ‘Doesn’t Sonic hate water?’ Why yes, he does. I forgot to mention that Amy had a hard time getting him into the bathtub, he kept spindashing out of the tub and Amy had to catch him before he fell on the ground. 

    “Sonic! Get in the bathtub, NOW.” Amy gave a deadly glare to Baby Sonic, and he widened his eyes, a little creeped out by her, but didn’t obey her. He tried to run, but only being around six months, he had a little trouble crawling. Amy picked him up, and distracted him by kissing him on his bare stomach, while he laughed. While he was chortling, Amy quickly bounced right into the tub. Silver was making the bubbles and water float. As if sensing Sonic’s fear of water, he made the water fall onto Sonic. Blaze scolded him, while Amy glared at him.

Sonic smirked at Silver, while Shadow did something that wiped the smug look off his face. Shadow took a toy that could soak in water, and he squeezed it, causing the water to fall all over Sonic. He whined, splashing water into Shadow’s eyes, and before the girls could even blink, they started a water fight. They got the babies out before the fight got physical.

Amy got a call from Tails that the age reverse mawas face, and they quickly took them to Tails’s workshop. 

    “Are you girls ready?” Tails asked. The girls were internally crying. They had grown emotionally attached to the babies during the one hour they had them. Perhaps it was because the boys gave more attention to them more than they had when they were adults.  They brought the kids in blankets, so the neighbors wouldn’t start rumors.    

     “Can we just say goodbye?” Blaze asked in a depressed tone. Tails nodded.

     “Take all the time you want. I don’t think anything’s gonna happen, anyways.” He replied. The girls smiled.  

   “Even though the babies are far more charming, cuter, kinder, and actually appear thankful when we do something for them.” Amy sighed as she snuggled Sonic into her arms. “But I love him more as his normal self. Even if we have to endure their dumb, cruel behavior, we still love them. Don’t tell them we said that, or else.” Amy continued, before glaring at Tails to keep the secret. Tails nodded rapidly. They placed the babies in the invention, after giving them kisses on the cheeks and forehead. 

   “One...Two...THREE!” And with that, the boys were back to normal. The girls ran up to them, and hugged their favorite boy, from Amy to Sonic, Blaze to Silver, Rouge to Knuckles, and Lyra to Shadow. Sonic didn’t know what to do, Silver hugged her back, Knuckles was blushing by the ‘you-know-what’ squishing against his chest, and Shadow was trying to push Lyra away.    

  “Sorry, Knuxie. It’s just that...we missed you!” Rouge cried as she jumped on Knuckles once more. Once Tails explained what had happened, Sonic grabbed Amy’s waist and whispered into her ear. 

  “By the way, we could see and hear everything while we were babies. We could also control ourselves.” Insert a blushing Amy Rose processing everything he had just said.

[mobius-prime]

163. Sonic the Hedgehog #95

Okay, I'm calling it. Whoever drew up the initial plans for that cover has one hell of a webbing fetish. Spaz, Harvo, whichever of you it was, I'm onto you.

Enemy Mine

Writer: Karl Bollers Pencils: FRY Colors: Frank Gagliardo

Sonic the Hedgehog, as one might imagine, is immensely relieved to be out of school for the day.

*sigh* Oh, Geoffrey. You were just on the cusp of being an actually likable character, and then the power went to your head. Have you forgotten that not only did Sally reject you quite a while ago, so you have absolutely no recourse for being so weirdly protective of her time and space, but that Sonic is literally her childhood best friend whom she prefers to spend most of her time with? At this point you're literally just being a dick for no good reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Sonic has tried to visit her multiple times ever since being confined to Knothole, only to get the same response each time, and afterwards, Geoffrey would just so happen to neglect to mention the attempted visit to Sally. Oh, I'm sure he'd justify it to himself as just making sure she's not distracted from her royal duties, but we all know the real reason why he's continually turning Sonic away like this.

Back in Robotropolis, Eggman has brought Snively out to see Colin, and Snively acts genuinely happy to see his father once again, though we know it's just an act. However, a few blocks away, every Overlander on the street finds themselves scared half to death as a rampaging Kodos, foaming at the mouth and yelling incoherently about losing the sword, bursts from the very pavement below and begins swinging his greataxe wildly. Eggman immediately recognizes Kodos, and dispatches some shadow-bots to chase him out of the city, only furthering his carefully crafted image as a protector of Overlanders against the "furry menace."

Within Knothole, Sonic happens upon Tails' abandoned bookbag in the dirt on his way home, with his internal monologue telling us that he should have recognized something was wrong right away, but at the time only figured he was helping Tails out by retrieving it. He returns home, unenthusiastically replying to his parents' questions about his day at school and skipping out on dinner in favor of lying in bed musing. After a moment's thought, he realizes that he can't stand hanging out in Knothole and doing nothing any longer, and so under cover of darkness he sneaks out, intending to head to Robotropolis to hopefully help the unwittingly-imprisoned Overlanders there.

Basically everything Bunnie ever does only cements her position as one of my favorite Sonic characters of all time, to be honest. Also, I forgot to mention it last issue, but her new outfit is ridiculously cute and suits her super well. She and Sonic make their way to the city and do some aerial reconnaissance, and are stunned at the sight of the Overlanders seemingly peacefully living their lives within the city, unmolested by Eggman's nefarious plans. With no real way to "rescue" the willing citizens of the city, they head back, but on the way happen upon a scene neither of them would have expected in a million years.

Back in Robotropolis, Eggman calls Snively to his HQ, ready to reveal to his nephew finally why he hasn't roboticized everyone in the city yet. He gestures to something offscreen, of which all we can see is a pair of robotic boots, and Snively wipes away a tear of admiration at whatever he's seeing… this can't be good. Meanwhile, Hope goes to bed after her fright last issue, mentioning to her grandma that she saw a robot that looked like an animal, and Agnes reassures her that there's probably a good explanation for it, though she begins to wonder to herself if that's true after all. Within the forest, Sonic and Bunnie leap into action against Kodos, since he seems to be clearly the crazier of the two combatants in front of them. In his rage, Kodos grabs Bunnie and throws her into Sonic, dazing her, and Sonic, with his previous failure to protect the king from injury still fresh in his mind, insists that Bunnie head back to Knothole without him, which she does angrily since she doesn't want to be left out. Sonic tries to use his speed to fight against Kodos, who is still screaming nonsense about the sword, clearly addled out of his mind by something, and when Sonic tries to dodge he falls straight into a web spun by Uma Arachnis herself, becoming stuck and unable to evade Kodos' next axe strike. However, just before he's cleaved in two, Uma leaps in while her enemy is distracted and knocks him cold.

ARE THOSE SPIDER EGGS? Okay, no. No, no, nope, not doing this. I am not prepared to watch Uma Arachnis become the mother to a thousand tiny spider Mobians crawling all over the place. It's just not happening. I'm moving into the next story now. Goodbye.

When Destiny Calls

Writer: Ken Penders Pencils: Ron Lim Colors: Frank Gagliardo

Knuckles is having an extraordinarily bad day. The Chaos Syphon has only accelerated the growth of his powers, and now he finds himself on the floor in the Southern Tundra, overwhelmed by agony. Athair and Tails teleport in, and Tails is horrified to see his friend in pain, darting forward to try to help. However, Knuckles warns him away, and suddenly the image of the Floating Island appears before them.

Tails is transported to the island by Athair, and finds Knuckles inside some kind of facility there, sobbing on the ground and begging for the pain to stop. Honestly, it's painful to watch even as a reader - I know I won't stop going on about how awful Gala-Na is, but this is her fault. Well, I guess technically a lot of it is Locke's fault, but damn, at least he cared to some degree about protecting his son from suffering. Meanwhile Gala-Na was, again I stress, totally ready and willing to abduct and torture a teenager to soothe her own fears about his relation to Dimitri. Tails rushes over to Knuckles, again stating his desire to help, but Knuckles, seemingly not recognizing where he is or who Tails is, punches him square in the jaw before releasing another uncontrolled blast of energy, knocking Tails out. Athair teleports Tails away once again, and brings him straight to the lair of… Merlin Prower! Hey, remember him? We've only ever seen him a small handful of times, as just a lonely old wizard watching over his nephew from afar, but now he's angered to see Tails unconscious and injured, blaming Athair for what's happened. Athair insists that the world now needs "the Chosen One," because again, remember, that's what Tails apparently is in this universe, but Merlin says that it's not Tails' job to save the echidnas from their own hubris.

Well now! This is an actually interesting tidbit of information here. How exactly have the Ancient Walkers come to the brink of death, since they're essentially deities? I suppose those answers will have to wait…

[shedreamsofstars]

Cataclysm of the Heart - Chapter 2

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The water roared down his ears, amplifying the beating of his own heart as it hammered in his chest. Cold panic began to settle into his bones as Sonic realised he was submerged fully, the water running over his skin like a spreading fire.

It wasn't burning.

The sane and logical parts of his mind knew that, reinforced that even.

And yet his fear won him over.

No matter how much he told himself that water couldn't burn him, nothing could stop the hot searing feeling that crawled over his skin at the thought. All he wanted to do was do scratch at it, to bat every drop of water coating his fur until he was as bone dry.

If he didn't find a way out quickly then he'd probably end up driving himself mad. He needed to get out of here, to get to somewhere where just existing didn't drive him crazy. He needed to get somewhere he could breathe.

Escape.

That was the only word he let through the barriers in his mind as he began to search for a way out. He was fairly surprised that even through everything going on, he could still somehow see through the water. Not completely, but enough for him to gauge that there was some sort of movement going on beyond the glass.

He wasn't so sure why he was surprised by the fact - water was clear after all. But still, it was new for him. Something moved again and Sonic tried to pin point what it was, or who. Eggman? Had he come back expecting to watch Sonic's last living moments. Surely he'd be too busy implementing the next phase of his plan - whatever the hell that was.

Sonic squinted to try and get a better look but the movement of the water as it rushed around inside the tank fractured the image behind the glass. That and the rapid stream of air bubbles that escaped his lips meant he couldn't make out much of anything except maybe a flash of...

No.

No, surely she couldn't be here. But there was no one else that pink belonged to.

His lungs burned as he tried to push closer to the glass, the need for air growing more and more unbearable every second he refused to give in to the impulse. He kept reminding himself that all he would end up with was a lungful of water, not that his body seemed to care.

Already he could feel the light-headedness settling in and blurring the edge of his vision. His body felt heavier than ever as he pushed his nose against the glass roughly, searching for that flash he'd caught earlier. For the girl that would undoubtedly be responsible for it.

Nothing.

The room beyond looked exactly as it had when he had first entered. Pristine and empty.

... and full of sparkling white dots?

It took too long for him to realise what was happening and by the time he did, Sonic's vision was already blacking out as the last of the bubbles rushed from his mouth.

Still he refused to take a breath. What a way to go he thought as his eyes drifted closed and let in the darkness. Drowned in the one thing he detested more than anything in the world. It was almost funny if it wasn't so goddamned true.

He had lost the little air he had managed to capture and now it seemed he had run out of time to find a way out too. But even as his skin burned against the water, his body battled the desire to breathe - Sonic found his thoughts lingering on one thing.

Eggman.

Even in his semi-conscious state, Sonic couldn't help but wonder what the Doctor had hoped to achieve by ending him. He had mentioned that he would destroy the world as they knew it, but what did that mean? Sonic's world or the whole world?

Surely the man wasn’t so crazy to destroy the one thing he wanted most - Mobius. Even as the thought crossed his mind, it was seeming more and more likely that Sonic wouldn't be there to stop him if he had indeed gone insane. But his friends, he knew they could stop him with every fibre of his being.

They would never let the world fall to ruin, with or without him.

That was the last coherent thought he had before his body betrayed him and he let his lungs breathe in, slipping from consciousness as he choked on a mouthful of water

"Amy ... hey."

The girl stood before him, frozen and still as he met her gaze. He knew he'd see the hurt in those green eyes even before he'd chosen to go looking for her in the crowd but it was nothing like he had imagined. Seeing the glaze of tears, the pain he knew he was responsible for ... it was a shock to say the least, and it cut him deep.

He hadn't wanted this, for either of them.

He knew it was a bad idea to try and talk to her after the vigil, but she'd left him no choice. He'd tried everything else to get into contact with her but she had either ignored it or had made herself scarce. So much so that even Cream hadn't known where to find her the majority of the time.

If he wanted to explain himself, it would have to be now when she couldn't run and hide. He opened his mouth to speak but no words came out and he closed it again, shaking his head. What was he even supposed to say?

Amy watched him struggle to find words with a cold and even gaze, but judging from the look on the girls face he doubted she had even noticed he'd tried to say something. He waved a hand to catch her attention and she startled, looking at him as if she had almost forgotten he was there.

“Good bye Sonic," she said abruptly.

Before he could have a chance to say a single word more to her, the girl turned and walked away. Sonic stood watching her with his mouth hanging open for a moment before registering that she was walking the wrong way. Her home was in the opposite direction... where he was stood.

Wherever she was headed now was only to avoid him - something she had become just as adept at as she had once been at finding him. He couldn't lose this opportunity he realised, feet spurring into motion with a single thought.

He halted beside the girl, spinning so he faced her. He heard her gasp of surprise as she almost walked into him again but managed to catch herself at the last second. “Amy,” he sighed into the wind. “Please, just hear me out.”

She blinked and shook her head. “I don’t want to hear anything more you have to say Sonic. I’ve heard everything I need to, so please …” she pleaded, trying to push past him and failing. “Please stop rubbing salt into my wounds.”

Sonic bit his lip, reaching forward to place his hands on her shoulders. “I can’t just leave Amy. I can see you’re hurting and-”

“You know the reason so why are you still here."

“Because I care about you. Do you think I like seeing you this way?”

"Stop Sonic," Amy said, voice quivering as she shrugged off his hands. "Don't you understand? You pretending to care is so much worse."

She wrapped her arms around herself as if she was cold, rubbing her arms as whatever control she had over her emotions snapped and the tears streaked her cheeks. He hated them. Hated the fact that he was responsible for making her hurt all over again. But he needed to set things straight. She had to understand that it was for her.

"Amy, I said what I did because I cared about you. If we were going to die, I didn't care about the sacrifice I was making, I just wanted you to be happy."

Something wild and livid flashed in her eyes at his words and Sonic recoiled at her seething tone.

"Well, I'm sorry Sonic. I'm sorry I'm such a sacrifice for you."

"That's not what I meant -"

“No, what you meant was worse," she said, hastily wiping away the water staining her cheeks. "But what truly hurts the most is that you knew Sonic. All this time you knew exactly how I felt about you and you did nothing. You ignored it until the one moment you felt you could use it to paint yourself as the selfless hero."

“W-what?" Sonic stammered, completely dumbfounded by her accusations. What was she talking about. All he had wanted was to make things easier - being the hero had never even crossed his mind. She had it completely wrong. "That ... that was never what it was about."

"Well you certainly didn't do it for me, otherwise you would have known that I would never want that from you. I would never want you to live a lie. If you're only talking to me now to feel better about yourself then please stop and just leave me the hell alone.

“Ames,” Sonic said before he felt a rough hand on his shoulder pull him back a few steps. He turned to see a stony faced echidna glaring off into the space between both him and Amy, trying exceedingly hard to remain neutral.

"Is everything alright here?" Knuckles said firmly, finally turning to look at Sonic.

The hedgehog hadn't had a chance to catch up with him before now but Knuckles undoubtedly already knew what had gone down between himself and Amy. There was a fiery conflict in those purple eyes that seemed like he both wanted to punch him and hug him at the same time and Sonic was grateful that he at least could partially see his reasoning.

It seemed like no one else ever would at this point. Especially not the one girl he had done it all for in the first place he thought as Amy stared him down with cold hatred in her eyes.

"Everything's fine Knux. I was just leaving and Sonic was going to stay exactly where he is. Isn’t that right?"

Sonic sighed, shaking off the red echidna’s hand and admitting defeat for now. He needed for her to know the truth, but perhaps it was best to give her a little time. Let her emotions settle enough for her to see a different facet of the truth - his truth.

“Actually, I should probably go and find Tails," he said quietly as he turned and began to walk away. "You guys take care," he called over his shoulder, nodding a goodbye at the red echidna as he seamlessly slipped into the retreating crowds around them.

Thanks for reading lovelies. Let me know your thoughts if you can. Until next time, chao :)

[sylvaniaschoolofmagic]

Quidditch pt. 2 (The Trouble with Treble)

[Sonic and Knuckles wonder how the hell Vector hasn’t burned down his own house yet, and discover something interesting about Espio.]

Sneaking out of the castle after dinner wasn’t as easy as the two friends had expected. They promised not to tell anyone about what they were doing, which included Mighty and Ray, who had been hanging around the entrance hall all evening. Knuckles wouldn’t have a hard time leaving the castle through a window, especially since he could glide. Plus, the Hufflepuff common room was only partially underground, so climbing out one of those windows would just lead him directly to the lawn outside. Sonic, however, would be in Gryffindor tower, a much harder locale to escape from if one was trying to be stealthy. He could jump out the window and then run down the side of the tower to catch himself, but there was a much higher chance of someone seeing him if he did that.

What they eventually wound up doing was having Knuckles sneak out through the Hufflepuff common room, then sneak over to the base of Gryffindor tower, and catch Sonic as he jumped out. It was much quieter than the hedgehog sprinting wildly down the side of the tall tower, and Knuckles’s strength made it an easy catch. Because they had to coordinate their breakout, though, they took a little while to sneak out of the castle. They hoped they wouldn’t be too late to meet Espio, if he’d been able to sneak out at all.

“Espio’s a chameleon,” Knuckles whispered as the two started sneaking across the grounds, keeping close to the treeline so they wouldn’t be easily spotted from the castle. “He can probably blend in pretty well. I bet he got out of the castle no problem.”

“Yeah, but even the best chameleons can’t become completely invisible,” Sonic tsked under his breath. “And even then, he wouldn’t be able to turn his clothes invisible. He’d have to be out here without shoes on, and it’s been getting colder out.”

“Well then, we’ll ask him when we get there. On top of all the other stuff we need to talk about,” the echidna hissed as they crept through the grassy hills.

They half snuck half ran to Vector’s hut, not going full speed but fast enough to make up for lost time. The grass rustled underfoot, and they could hear the trees creaking in the autumn wind as they passed. It was light enough outside that they could see where they were going, but it was still pretty dark and creepy. All in all, not a night they would like to be caught sneaking out on.

The two reached Vector’s hut by the edge of the forbidden forest, their trek not taking too long at all. They slowed as they reached the house, the lights on but all the curtains drawn. Smoke was billowing out the chimney, suggesting there was a big fire in the fireplace even though it wasn’t terribly cold yet. They could hear voices coming from inside: Vector’s unmistakable brass, and Espio’s more hushed tones. The two friends shared a nod before Sonic walked up to the door, placing fist to wood.

After the knock, the voices inside stopped dead. Some skittering could be heard, and Sonic and Knuckles exchanged some confused glances. “Uh, it’s us? Sonic and Knuckles?” the young hedgehog said, just loud enough that his voice would carry through the door. “Espio told us to come?”

A moment later, the door cracked open, Vector peering out at them with one eye. “Hey, kids. Thanks fer comin’,” he said, pulling the door open all the way and quickly ushering them inside.

The small hut felt like an oven inside, the fire blazing hot and immediately drying out their mouths. The little house was primarily just one big room inside, with a large bed with multiple quilts shoved against one wall, and a well-loved kitchen against the other. There was a round table with chairs that were too large for the young students, and on one of the shelves was an old muggle record player that looked like it had been rigged to run on magic.

Espio was sitting on one of the too-tall chairs, his legs pulled up and away from the floor. This was likely because there was something shifting under Vector’s bed, causing the whole thing to shake and bump up and down as it moved. “Hey, glad you could make it,” the chameleon said nonchalantly, as if this kind of scenario was something that happened every day.

“What,” Knuckles said, eyes fixed on the bed as Vector closed the door behind him, “is under there?”

The croc beamed as he stepped over to the bed. “Oh, this little fella’s name is Treble. ‘Cause she’s a little treble-maker!” he laughed, goading the mystery creature out from under his bed. He was met by a little puff of flame, causing him to quickly retract his hand. Sonic noticed that his normally-white gloves were pretty burned up, somehow still holding together.

As the creature emerged, Sonic and Knuckles knew why Espio was curled up on a chair, and instantly moved to join him. A large, feral lizard crawled out from under Vector’s bed, smoke pouring out of its nostrils with every breath it took. It had dark scales, long, talon-like claws, and yellow eyes that seemed to focus on everything at once. Its snout was long, as was its body, and it had a pair of leathery, crumpled up wings on its back.

“Vector,” Knuckles croaked, perched on top of the croc’s dining table, “is that… a dragon?”

“‘Course she’s a dragon!” Vector laughed as Treble nipped at the toes of his shoes. “Y’ever see anythin’ else that breathes fire like that? Why’d’ya think it’s so hot in here, huh?”

“Whoa,” Sonic breathed, eyes open wide. He knew he lived in a world of magic and all, but he never expected to see a dragon up close like this. In fact, before that moment, he had never thought, oh hey, dragons exist! That’s right! He’d heard them mentioned in conversations once or twice, but it was always about how dragons used to be everywhere on Mobius. Nothing like this. “Um, is that really… Safe to have? It’s kinda big, and your house is sort of… small. And made of wood.”

“Yeah, that’s what I needed your help with,” Espio admitted. “Vector got the dragon egg without considering the consequences of raising an illegal dragon in his hut,” he said, giving the groundskeeper a squinted glare, “and now we need to get rid of her.”

“Can’t you just let her go? Release her into the wild?” Sonic asked, eyes glued to the dragon that was stalking around the floor of the hut.

“Are you kiddin’?” Vector said. “She won’t last out there! She’s too small and vulnerable to be on her own! She’s just a baby!”

“She’s a DRAGON,” Knuckles hissed, maneuvering himself to stay as far away from Treble as possible.

“We’ve already got a solution worked out,” Espio said. “We arranged for some former Sylvania students to come and take her. They’re studying dragons in Chu-nan, so she can grow up safely with her own kind. That way, Vector is happy, Treble is happy, and I don’t have to help him hide a dragon in here anymore.”

“Okay, awesome,” Sonic clapped his hands together. “So… where do we come in?”

“The only way for those guys to pick up Treble and get out of here quickly without being spotted is for us to get her up to the top of the astronomy tower,” the chameleon practically groaned. “Vector’s got a crate all set up for her, but the problem is getting her up there. Knuckles, you could carry her easily, couldn’t you?”

“Yeah, I should be able to,” Knuckles said, though he didn’t sound happy about it in the slightest. “Only looks like she weighs a hundred or two pounds. But still, getting her from here up to the top of the tallest tower in the castle won’t be easy. We’ll be spotted in a second.”

“Not if Sonic keeps a lookout and lures any teachers away from us. I’ve seen him run, he won’t get caught.”

“That’s true,” the hedgehog agreed. “I can get Froggy and whoever else off your guys’s tail, easy.”

“And if that’s not enough,” the chameleon said, a bit more confidently now, “I have a trick up my sleeve that’ll get us out of a pinch. What do you guys say?”

Knuckles grumbled something under his breath, a string of syllables that Sonic couldn’t quite understand. “It’s not like we have much of a choice,” he said, louder now. “Either we help you out, or Vector gets busted for having a dragon on campus, and we get hunted down as accomplices because we knew about it.” He sent Espio a dirty look. “You so owe us after this.”

“I’ll help you with every homework assignment for the rest of the year.”

“And?”

“And I’ll give you cash. Ten sickles. Each of you.“

"Aaaand?”

“Fine, and you can borrow my manga collection! All of it! Deal?”

“Deal,” the echidna smirked, shaking his hand.

Sonic shot Knuckles a quizzical look. “You like manga?”

“Nope. Just wanted to get under his skin,” Knuckles shrugged.

Espio rolled his eyes as Sonic laughed. “Oh good,” the hedgehog said, “I thought you only pushed my buttons. Good to know you do that with everyone.”

“If you kids are done chattin’,” Vector said, leaning over to pick up Treble like she was just a huge house cat, “we gotta get this girl boxed up and up on the top of the astronomy tower before eleven.”

Getting Treble into her crate proved to be a huge hassle. They not only had to cram the dragon into the container (that luckily had been charmed with a fireproofing spell), they also had to fit in fifty additional pounds of raw meat and brandy for the dragon to eat, and her blanket (a chewed up, ripped, and charred husk of cloth), and her teddy bear (which looked remarkably like the blanket, only with bits of fluff stuck to it). She wanted to be in the confined crate even less than she wanted to be in Vector’s confining hut. By they time they got her and her luggage into the crate and sealed it up, it was a few minutes after ten. They had under an hour to get the payload to the very top of the castle without anyone noticing them. Piece of cake.

ooo

Carrying Treble through the castle while trying to be stealthy was not easy. The dragon didn’t enjoy being in a crate, and she liked being carried around even less. She wasn’t too heavy for Knuckles to lift, but she kept moving and shifting, making her crate more difficult to hold.

“Where the heck did Vector even get a dragon?” Knuckles hissed, struggling a little bit juggling the crate and walking up the stairs. Espio was with him, helping him keep balance and guiding his feet. Sonic had run a little bit ahead, keeping an eye out for anyone wandering the castle halls at night.

“Apparently,” Espio rolled his eyes, “he won the egg off some guy in a pub. It hatched about two weeks ago.”

“This thing’s only two weeks old? Holy–”

Sonic sped down the stairs to them, his face reading pure panic mode. “Eggman’s coming,” he breathed.

Knuckles’s eyes went wide, and he cursed under his breath. “What do we do?”

“Set Treble down,” Espio said. “You two get out of sight.”

“What about you?!” Sonic gasped. “You can’t just–”

“I’ll handle it, it’ll be fine. Trust me.” The chameleon shooed them off, gripping the crate as Knuckles set it down on the stairs. The echidna climbed over the railing on the stairs and dropped down, landing on a staircase below as Sonic zipped away as silently as he could.

Knuckles landed safely on the stairs, and he looked back up at Espio. What the hell does he think he’s doing? He’s going to get himself caught! he thought, his heart nervously pounding in his chest. He could hear Eggman’s boisterous footfalls coming down the steps, getting closer and closer. He saw Espio set his hands solidly on the crate, and then… Espio vanished entirely, his clothes and the crate disappearing along with him. Knuckles blinked, wondering if he just missed something, or if he was tired and imagining things because he was up so late at night. But lo and behold, Eggman walked down the steps without noticing anything out of the ordinary. The professor hummed and muttered to himself as he walked right past Espio and the dragon, more preoccupied by whatever was on his mind than his surroundings. What the… How did he…? Knuckles thought, completely baffled.

Once Eggman was completely gone and out of earshot, he climbed back up the steps, getting back to where Espio and Treble were. Sonic returned a moment later, and Espio and their charge flickered back into view.

“Whoa!” Sonic whisper-shouted as the chameleon and the crate reappeared right before his eyes. “How’d you do that?!”

Espio shrugged, his breathing a little heavier than he had been a minute ago. “I mean, all chameleons can blend into their environment. I’ve always just been really good at it, I guess.”

“Yeah, but that was completely invisible!”

Knuckles nodded, furrowing his brow. “Yeah, plus you did it to your clothes, and the crate as well. I’ve never heard of anyone being able to do that.”

“I… Look, I don’t know. It’s just… a thing I can do,” the chameleon said awkwardly. The crate shifted and bumped, and he held it steady. “C’mon, we gotta get her upstairs.” He handed the crate off to Knuckles and started climbing the steps.

Sonic and Knuckles shared a surprised look for a moment before they started to follow after him.

The rest of the journey up to the astronomy tower wasn’t too eventful, with no other teachers currently stalking the upper floors. Treble had quieted down for the most part. Perhaps being invisible had mellowed her out, because she wasn’t moving around as much as she was before. Carrying her up to the top of the astronomy tower was a fairly easy job, especially with that part of the castle as empty as it was.

They climbed out of the hatch door at the top of the tower, climbing out into the chilly open air. Knuckles hoisted the crate up onto the roof and heaved a sigh of relief. “Finally, that felt like it took forever.”

“We got her up here, though!” Sonic smiled, stretching his arms up over his head. “Now we just gotta wait for her to get picked up. Then she’s home free!” He bent down next to the crate, peeking in through the gaps in the wood.

“Don’t tell me you’re getting attached,” Knuckles gruffed.

“Well, I mean, she is pretty cool. Not every day you get to smuggle a dragon through the school.”

The echidna rolled his eyes, and Espio grinned. “I don’t think I’ll be missing her much. My tail still has some bite marks.”

“Ouch, yeah, I guess you’ve been helping Vector out with her, huh?” Sonic chuckled. He patted the top of the crate and stood back up, looking between the box and Espio.

“Heh, yeah. Unfortunately. Thank you both for helping out with this by the way, I don’t know if I could have done this without your help.”

Sonic beamed. “No prob, Es!’

Knuckles raised an eyeridge, putting his hands on his hips. “You’re welcome, though it looked like you had things covered just fine back there.”

The Ravenclaw tucked his hands inside of his pockets and tapped one of his shoes against the stone floor. “Honestly, that was kind of a fluke back there. I’ve never made myself and something that big totally invisible before. I don’t even know how I do that in the first place.”

“I think I might have an idea,” Knuckles smirked. He opened his mouth to say more, but several brooms whooshed overhead, their riders circling around and landing next to them all on the roof of the tower.

Right on time for the trade-off, the small group of alumni had arrived. They didn’t stick around to chat much, having time to do little more than shake hands and say “thank you” before they started hitching the crate up to their brooms. That was fine by Knuckles; he was looking forward to going back inside and collapsing in his bed. It was a little too late in the evening for pleasantries.

It only took a few minutes before Treble was secure, her crate attached to each broom by a rope. The alumni left almost as quickly and quietly as they had come, wanting to get the dragon away from the school grounds as soon as possible. Sonic actually waved goodbye as they flew off.

“I can’t believe that actually worked,” Espio sighed. Though his posture change was subtle, he shifted and looked more relaxed already. He was eyeing the spot in the sky where the other wizards and Treble had headed, now far enough away that they were out of sight.

“Me either,” Sonic said, yawning now that their job was done. It was getting close to midnight, which for the eleven-year-old, was much later than he was used to staying up. “I’m ready to hit the hay. Either of you want a lift back to your dorms?”

“Um, the Ravenclaw common room is close enough to walk,” the chameleon said in a somewhat nervous tone. “And besides, I don’t have the strongest stomach. I don’t think I’m ready to move at your speed.”

The hedgehog shrugged. “Alright, suit yourself. Knuckles?”

“Yeah, I’ll take you up on that,” Knuckles said, rolling his shoulders around in his sockets. He was tired from carrying the heavy crate up all the way up there, and he didn’t want to have to climb all the stairs to get back down to the basement. “C’mon, before someone catches us up here. See you in class, Espio.”

“Yes, see you there,” Espio waved as Sonic and Knuckles climbed back through the hatch and entered the castle.

It didn’t take long for Sonic to carry his friend down to the basement, hoisting Knuckles up bridal style and dashing down staircase after staircase. When they got to the kitchen corridor, he set Knuckles down, giving the echidna a second to regain his balance after the dizzying run.

“Eugh, and I thought climbing up the astronomy tower was bad enough,” Knuckles grunted.

“Yeah, but it was worth it. Treble’s going to a good home now, instead of being stuck in Vector’s tiny house.”

“True. And we learned something about Espio in the process.”

“The whole turning invisible thing?” Sonic looked around, suddenly hoping that Espio wasn’t lurking invisible nearby to hear them talk about him. “Yeah, that was insane.”

“Mm. We’ll have to keep an eye on him,” the echidna said with a knowing nod. “I’m pretty sure we’re not the only Chaos-gifted kids in this school.”

[travelling-accountant]

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7 species of Wildlife spotted on Kangaroo Island

As you will notice when reading my blogs, we love to go search for wildlife during our holidays. Kangaroo Island turned out to be one of the best places to do so. To give you an idea of what you may encounter, I’ve listed the main ones below.

Kangaroo

Of course, how could it not be… One thing’s for sure: it’s pretty clear where the Island’s got its name from. There is even no need to “search”, you encounter them all the time. We’re not complaining though – it’s an amazingly weird animal and every time we saw one, we were still thrilled. As a side note: apparently the KI kangaroo is smaller than the species on the mainland.

Wallaby

The kangaroo’s little brother was numerously presented as well. When you have seen both the kangaroo and the wallaby, the difference is pretty obvious – but in the beginning we didn’t have clue, to be honest. Wallabies are typically seen when dusk is starting to set in.

Koala

Another amazing inhabitant of Kangaroo Island is of course the koala. It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!!! Initially we were looking high in the tree tops of the bushes in the areas known for koalas. But it turned out we could find them a lot easier than that. We were lucky enough to see one with her young in a tree just on the side of the road. The young was learning how to grab some leafs for the smaller twigs, by crawling over its mother’s back. Amazing! But afterwards, on the Heritage Walk (in Flinders Chase National Park) that we did around 4pm in the afternoon, there was a male sitting at less than 3 meters from us (no, I’m not exaggerating – the picture below is evidence!). Needless to say we took way too many pictures of him. And then, all of a sudden, he’s making this pig-like loud noise. They do that for marking their territory, we learned. Unforgettable!

Echidna

I didn’t know this one before we went there. It looks like a larger hedgehog, but has this longer thin muzzle that it’s using to look for ants and termites. Again – cute!!! We were lucky enough to spot one during the Platypus Waterholes hike that we started at around 9am, when Flinders Chase NP opened. But it’s really not easy to distinguish from all the twigs and leafs on the ground. We saw a second one when we did the night tour at Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. It was not too dark yet, so were able to get a better picture of it.

Goanna

Goanna is a kind of big lizard. It’s a pretty ancient species and is so cool to watch. When it has spotted you (and of course it does way before you spot it), it stops moving. But if you’re patient enough, it starts moving again and that’s the best part of it. We saw two of them during our stay, one in the bush and one on a parking lot.

Cockatoo

There was a time when we weren’t really interested in birds, but over time we have been starting to look at the different bird species more and more. In Belgium we don’t see a lot of colourful birds, so we think they’re pretty boring – but when making our trips we recognized that there are actually a lot of pretty birds out there. And the pink and white cockatoo that we saw in KI certainly is one of those. They move in huge flocks, so when they fly up it’s a blur of white and pink, which is really nice to see. And we think they look pretty slick with their head feathers pulled back nice and tight 😉

Opossum

As you will probably know, opossums are nocturnal, so we only saw them when we did the night tour at Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. During the walk we saw two of them looking down at us from the treetops (I know, the picture below doesn’t stand out in quality, but that’s the best we could get it: to not annoy the animals too much, the guides pull their flash lights back from the animals after a second or two). After the tour however, we saw a lot more of them… on the road. After a 1,5 hour car ride back to our cabin, a lot of them were crossing our path. Luckily we were driving 60 km per hour (max), because they just keep running right in front of the car! Cute: yes, smart: I don’t think so! Instead of going left or right (you know, maybe trying to get out of the car’s way?), they just kept going straight on, turning their heads at us like saying: “what the hell man, this is my territory”. We were very relieved when we made it back safe and sound, without hitting anything alive (because besides the possums also quite a few kangaroos and wallabies were coming out of all directions).

Other Countries we visited

Have a look at the other countries we ‘achievied’ to visit, and other Achievies…

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Behold Zara-Ra!

Just a little something something for @julie-su 👉👈

I wanted to try out another infinite canvas app for doodling and brainstorming, I liked using Freeform but it makes my iPad want to delete itself lol.

Zara-Ra was such a delight to draw 💕

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Anyone else wondered what this man would look like without his helmet?

No? …Just me? Welp here’s a sketch that took way too long to draw thnxs hyper fixation

And here’s a bonus doodle with a limited color pallet that took half that time because I just love this guy 🖤

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Surprise! It’s Kraggy!

A lil gift I made for the wonderful @julie-su for his special day, what a better way to celebrate than Puggle and Kragok being cuties. <3

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Been obsessing over the old Archie Sonic comics I used to read as a kid. I was always really interested in the Knuckles family saga especially the Brotherhood of Guardians. Soo here’s a little drawing I did of Janelle-Li to practice drawing them silly echidnas to fuel the trip to the d i s s o c i a t i o n s t a t i o n ✌️😎

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This mother’s day I dealt with my mommy issues by drawing Voni-Ca ft. Baby Spectre 😎🤙

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I was really happy with how my portrait of Janelle-Li turned out so I figured I draw my personal fave out of the brotherhood, Spectre!

I thought this piece was gonna be super easy and take me less time to draw in comparison (due to the lack of echidna pineapple hair lol) but I was wrong.

It was all fun and games until I reached the helmet…🥲

Still! I feel like my childhood self would be happy to see this piece so yee. 👉👈🥺

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Just a man and his horse 🤠

I had to give him the hat y’all I couldn’t help it

He inherited it from his Papa

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A tired Spectre

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Thinking of h i m 🌙✨