Shadow the Hedgehog

"Ok, you were right," thought Hope to Melody. "Very well then. I shall show you to my court room," replied the regal Hope as she turned and headed further into the castle. "You shall be given quarters and a tour of the castle." ---- "Ok then. Any suggestions?" asjed Zamy, kicking the ball back.

"You are in my kingdom, I am the princess of these lands, though I can assure you I'm quite in control. I'll only be titled queen when I come off age. I suppose you'll want to be treated as foreign ambassadors as opposed to spies?" ---- "It's fine," said Zamy, jumping for the ball.

"That must be the odd ooking device on your belt then." "Erm yes. Can you tell us where exactly we are? It's obvious a different Zone, but we don't know anything other than that," replied Hope to her counterpart. --- "Don't remind me."

"I see. How exactly did you get lost?" --- "I'd hope you weren't."

Hope looked at her counterpart.   "I...er....nice to meet you?"   Her counterpart's expression changed from annoyance to confusion.   "There's no one alive foolish enough to do such a poor impersonation for any nefarious purposes. Who are you and what are you doing here?" she demanded. ---- "Exactly."

Hope steadied herself before seeing that she had bumped into a not-so-amused version of herself, extravagently dressed. ------ Zamy leaped up and hit the ball down towards Miles.   "Well it means I won't be lonely," she laughed.

"We're almost there," said Hope, turning a corner and bumping into someone. ----- "Well at least I'll likely drag you all down with me," laughed Zamy.

Hope tried to keep up. ---- "Point taken," rpelied Zamy, knocking the ball back.

"True." Hope cautiously ventured inside the hall, the sounds of voices in the distance echoing off the walls.   "Well at least someone's here to tell us where we are." ---- "Yeah, though I'm not sure what else could go wrong at this stage."

"Tell me about it. I see the door's open to the main hall over there. Should we.. go in?" ---- Zamy hit it into the air.   "I just hope this all works out."

Hope walked into the castle's courtyard, pasing under a large arch.   "it's kinda creepy, I'm expecting someone to just pop out."

"I was being rhetorical. I don't really see any guards on the outside, maybe it's an old one just open to tourists? Let's check it out." ---- "There's no rush at least."

"It could be, I don't recognise that banner up there for instance. But who else has a castle on Mobius?" ----- Zamy laughed. "They'd have my head if I even let you have a peek at any files."

"I dunno. The castle just looks a bit more... different than I remember. I still can't work out what that jolt was caused by, it may have knocked us off course." ----- "I'm sure we can find something to put your brain to good use."

"So do I." Hope stood upright and headed toward the castle, so.eomething feeling off. ---- "I'd call that a good thing."

Hope looked up. "Yeah, I see your point. If I remember correcyly it's open to visitors part of the day sometimes. We can stumble on over." ---- Zamy laughed.

"My teleporter is fine! It must've been something else. Ateast, I think so. Can you see tgw castle anywhere?" ---- "How devious."

Hope arrived in the middle of a field, woblbing slightly.   "Woah, that felt a little bumpier than usual." ---- "That could work."

Hope nodded and activated the teleporter. ----- "Good point. I may have to leave the decision up to you."

"That opens a whole can of worms. And that's understnadable, I'll program something in and we can be on our way to the Kingdom of Acorn maybe? It's usually peacdful over there." ----- "Yeah, that's true."

"I'm not sure that'd be much consolation. So, do you want to head anywhere?" ------ "Maybe some kind of a draught could work, but that could obviously blow back at you."

"I'm not so sure. Immortality isn't easy, as Shadow has said many times." ---- "Don't be, it's fine."

"Well now you mention it she probably could," laughed Hope. ----- "I know, I was just joking."

"Well there's always hope I guess." ---- "Don't have permission from Zamy? I didn't know someone shared my name," laughed Zamy.

"You mean that woman whose over 1000 years old and for some reaosn acts like a kid?" ----- "Of course I am. So how exactly would you do it without being caught?"