The Breeze of Fate, by Luigi2
Chapter 1, Part 1
It was a bright and sunny
morning. Stripes was leaning on his arm, looking out of the window at Mobius’s
Great Forest, groggily longing to go out and take a nap at his special tree in
the middle of an out-of-the-way clearing in the forest. The young tiger was so
absorbed by this that he didn’t notice that the teacher was asking him a
question.
“Mr. Tigre!”
Stripes started and barely
stopped himself from jumping out of his seat. His hat flopped off of his head
and onto the desk in front of him. It was a blue baseball cap with a red “S”
embroidered on the front. He quickly snatched it back up and placed it back on
his orange furry head, carefully fixing it between his rounded ears.
He finally glanced up to his
teacher and blushed under his fur when he realized that the whole class was
looking at him and that some were giggling. “Uh…,” he began. “Sorry, ma’am, but
I wasn’t really paying attention,” quickly tumbled out of his mouth.
‘I can see that, Mr. Tigre,”
she responded. “I’ll repeat myself once more. The question is, ‘What is the
most used form of transportation throughout the world of Stellon, especially in
the
“…Warp pipes of various
colors. Green are the most common.” Stripes replied confidently after only
about a half second of thought. His knowledge of other worlds, unbeknownst to
his teacher, had little to do with monotonous textbooks or carpal
tunnel-inducing notes and a lot to do with his favorite video games that featured
those worlds as their settings.
“Very good,” responded the
teacher, not the least bit surprised at the prompt answer. Stripes had proven himself to be a very good student, at least when he tried.
Glancing at the clock, she continued, “Alright; we’re out of time for today.”
The students started to noisily gather their books and papers, and the teacher
had to raise her voice to be heard. “Remember: test tomorrow on the various
worlds’ forms of transportation! Be sure to study! Class dismissed.”
The diverse group of
students quickly crowded through the door. The average age among them was
around fourteen or fifteen years. Stripes himself was fifteen. Despite sharing
their age, the students all looked distinctly different from one another. Most
were native Mobians, who in turn were made up of many different animaloid
species, such as dogs, rabbits, hedgehogs, and squirrels. Other species could
be seen scattered in the crowd. Here, a Funginade from the
Mobius was a relatively
normal sized planet. It actually resided in the same star system as other
inhabited planets, which is rare in any galaxy. Currently, the main part of the
planet’s population was prospering. Only a few years before, the vile Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik
had been terrorizing the population by forcing them to be his robotic slaves.
After he took the capital city of
This school and the
surrounding neighborhood were near the edge of Mobiathon
and right up against the
As Stripes waited to get out
of the door of the school, he checked that his cap was still on straight and
that his blue socks were still rolled down against his shoes. Lastly he made
sure that the white laces on his green sneakers were properly tied.
Stripes, in case you haven’t
figured it out yet, was a tiger of the bipedal animaloid variety that makes up
the majority of Mobius’s population. His orange fur had black stripes scattered
throughout, giving him his nickname. The tiger’s actual full name was Tophantos
Tigre (Author’s Note: Anagram, anyone?), but, for obvious
reasons, he preferred to go by “Stripes”.
Outside the school, Stripes
met up with his best buddy, Hedgey. Hedgey was a brown hedgehog who was
supposedly a cousin of the legendary freedom fighter, Sonic the Hedgehog.
Hedgey himself closely resembled the “Blue Blur” except for his color and the
fact that his spines were much smaller and more numerous than Sonic’s. Like
Stripes, Hedgey sported a blue cap and sneakers. Unlike the tiger, the cap bore
a letter “H” on the back and he wore it backwards. His socks were black to go
with his white sneakers. The laces were also black and a black zigzag went down
the sides of the shoes. Hedgey’s other distinguishing feature was that he was
always wearing a t-shirt. The one he was wearing today had the words “I ♥
Princess Peach” printed on the front and a picture of the
“How was your day in our
favorite place in the world?” Hedgey asked
sarcastically.
“Oh, just stupendous!”
Stripes replied in the same tone. “You?”
“Just maar-velous, my dear ol’ chap!” Hedgey declared, jokingly
sporting a foreign accent.
They both chuckled as
Hedgey’s humor started to relieve their stress from the school day.
Little did they know that
what was to happen next would do anything but make them chuckle…
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“Arf arf!”
Louie Geetoo
rolled over in bed, sleepily ignoring his pet’s barks. He was a Toon, a native of Toontown, a metropolis on the planet
sometimes called Disnearth. Like on Mobius, the
inhabitants of this animated region were mostly animaloids,
though Toons resembling humans were common elsewhere
on the planet. Louie himself was a lime green-feathered duck with an orange
beak and orange, shoeless webbed feet and legs. He was tall (for a duck) and
had a thin body. At the moment he was in his blue, feather-patterned pajamas
and nightcap. His snores could be likened to the sound of a log being sawed in
two.
“Whine. Woof!” the unusual pet standing next to the bed
continued. Her name was Yummy, and she was Louie’s pet, a turquoise-furred
Doodle. Her body was shaped almost like a large jellybean and seemed to float
above her two long paws. She had darker green stripes on her back and tufts of
hair of the same color between her two small, round ears. Her turquoise tail
was wagging excitedly.
“Just five more minutes,
Mom,” Louie mumbled into his pillow.
“Woof!” Finally losing
patience, Yummy dug through Louie’s gag bag and pulled out a full and very
bubbly seltzer bottle. Gripping it tightly in her oversized jaws, she soaked
her owner with a big splash.
“Ack!” Louie
cried as he jumped straight up and hit the ceiling. “Alright, you darn Doodle! I’m up! Here’re your morning jellybeans,” he said
grumpily after dropping back onto the floor. He reached into a pocket and
pulled out some multicolored jellybeans to feed to Yummy.
She took them eagerly and
almost immediately walked away to go outside, the heart floating above her head
showing her appreciation. Doodles have the ability to show their emotions and
thoughts by showing pictures above their heads.
Louie pulled some clothes
out of his wooden double-doored wardrobe and dressed. Today he was wearing a
light blue t-shirt with the seemingly random number “19” centered on both the
front and the back. He wore dark blue jeans-style shorts that matched his shirt
well. Like most of Toontown’s citizens, and ducks in
particular, Louie preferred to keep his webbed feet bare.
After breakfasting, checking
his gag supply, and refilling his jellybean bag, Louie followed Yummy out of
the door of his small house and onto the estate he shared with his friends.
No one was there.
“Guys?” Louie called out. “They should be up by now…,” he
said, more to himself than to Yummy. She was standing right next to him and
looking just as worried, as the sad face above her head showed. She whimpered
and the sad face changed into the likeness of a wacky-looking robot.
“You saw a Cog?” Louie asked
with considerable surprise. Yummy seemed to consider that for a moment and then
nodded earnestly. “But they were all kicked out of Toontown over a month ago!”
Louie continued. “We’d better head over to
Immediately, Louie pulled
two portable transportation holes seemingly out of nowhere and plopped them
flat onto the grass. He and his pet each hopped into one, teleporting to their
destination with worry for their friends urging them on.
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Second chapter coming in the
near future! Stay tuned! (Or should I say “tooned"?)
Disclaimer: I don’t own
Sonic, Robotnik, Mobotropolis,
Peach, Mobius, the
This fic actually ties in
with another called Quest for Destiny!, by
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1221247/1/
Chapter 1 of my fic occurs
right before Chapter 30 in Q4D!.
If you’re interested in
Toontown, then go check out Disney’s Toontown Online at www.toontown.com.