FoxFire Studios and SuniPhenix Studios Present... Sonia and da Fox: Final Chapter By: Emily Smith (soniadah@aol.com) (This isn't the end of Sonia and Davey--just this series. Specials like 'A Time For Honesty' , 'Haunted Fantisies', and 'ShadowedLight' will still contain the love story of the tall couple.:D ) (((**Davey**)) This is for you, hon. **** Davey Crockett, Pippkin (c) David Gonterman Sonia Hedgehog (c) Emily Smith Phenix Mechhog (c) Emily Smith & David Gonterman **** "Let's try again." Sonia said crosslegged on a mat in front of Davey. She patted his chest and smiled. Her hut had a relaxing glow as the sun set over the horizon. "The pratice we put in will make us more comfortable 'talking' to each other. I feel more comforted when you're in my mind." "Ow." Davey rubbed his chest. It was still sore from Sammi's out-lash, and Sonia patting it didn't do much good. "Oops...sorry, hon." She placed her fingers on a pattern down his face--he claimed it to be a 'Vulcan Mind-Meld'--whatever THAT was. Sonia thought the incantation: _*Linked in Mind, Follows no Time, We are One*_ And they were. **** Sonia and Phenix looked around the barren landscape of nothingness. Suni looked at Phenix, "Were..is he?" Phenix shook her head, "Memory Trances are weird things. I think..." The orange android turned suddenly as the landscape came to a odd 'suburbian' scene, "I think...this is David's past." "What's THAT?" Sonia said, pointing to the huge arch in the hazy distance. Phenix shook her head. "I don't know. I think...it's the Arch of St. Louis." "Really. Whatever. It's the 'Gateway Arch'. Huh?" A high pitched cry came from the small brown-brick house on the road. The tall hedgehogs turned around, ears pricked. "Woah." The noise resounded again. "That's odd. Let's check it out." Hedge and Mech hog stood near a window. A short, buissness-like woman was there, standing with a paddle poised over her brown hair. She was screaming at a young boy, who was crying. Phenix turned away as the woman brought the paddle down on his behid. Sonia looked on in rage. Her voice choked as she remembered something... something she'd rather forget, when she and P were wisked into the Internet Version of Davey's Dark Side. Her tears blurred the next strike, as P's voice filtered through the boy's wails of mercy. "I think...that's David." "..stop...saying...that..." **** David landed with a 'splash'. He looked to see where he was...blinking frusiously he gathered his surroundings. The Sutherman's pool. The Sutherman's where a nice couple who had a small pool in their back yard. In the summer, it was always open to the children of the neighborhood. Dave had made a few friends here. The kindly old couple never let anyone make fun of another. The pool was a social, fun, happy place. U Until the accident. Mr. Sutherman drowned one night, falling in and bumping his head. I was closed and the kids had to go to the public pool. Dave had gone to his funeral, and watched from the fence as the watery wonderland was covered up. He had loved the pool. He was in the shallow end, and up to his waist in water. He stepped out and then realized: "THIS IS THE SUTHERMAN'S POOL!!!!" What the hell was he doing in the Sutherman's pool in the middle of Oakmonth..or August. In St. Louis, it was NEVER this worm in Aug- "WHAT AM I DOING IN ST. LOUIS?!!?" He relized it must have been the Memory Trance, and it had put him in the dead of June with a bad migrane and soggy underwear. He grumphed and heard a noice in the distance. A cry, pericing as a bell, rang through his large ears. Tears and anger choked him back as he relized the sorce. And with a stiffed sob, he took off. *** The young boy, who looked about 7, took a small rabbit out of his 'foxhole'--a pile of sheets, clumped together. He sniffed and rubbed his sore rear. "Stupid mom. I hate her." Sonia and Phenix sat in the corner of the room. They had be observing the young boy for over an hour. After his mother left, he had gone into a spell of playing. "Pippkin...what do you think of my grades?" young Dave said to the rabbit, holding up a slip of paper. S and P exchanged looks and thoughts. *So THAT'S were Pippkin was started...woah.* The doll made a nod, "I think they're wonderful, David." "Thank you." David smiled. "Stuffed Rabbits can't talk!" "Shhh!" "He's not stuffed, gals. You know that." Hedgehogs turned to see fox. A distuaght and tired-looking fox. FoxDavid looked over with glassy eyes at LittleDavid. He sat down and cried. "Oh, Dave, it's okay! It's only a memory--" Sonia tried to console. "a painful one, suni. remember the mansion?" he sobbed, "that's what this is. another mansion." "No, it's not. This is just your scape of the past. It's all real, but not real anymore. You don't have to hide this from me, hon. I love you." Sonia hugged and kissed Davey. She looked around. "Where did Phenix go?" *** "Who are you?" The tall, orange hedgehog bent down on one knee. She smiled. "I'm Madilyn. And you are...?" "My mom told me not to talk to strangers. Especialy wierd, different ones." He made a face. "I don't listen to my mom. My name's David, and this is Pippkin." He held up the rabbit. Phenix tried not to snarl. "Yes..we've..met." She changed the mood with a lively grin. "So! Whattcha drawing?" LittleDavid held up a picture of a well-drawn fox. "This is me. I'm free here. See? That's the kind ol' Mister n Missus Sutherman. They have a special fox pool--" "--For only me and my friends." LittleDavid looked up in awe as FoxDavid looked down. "WHO are YOU?!" "I'm...er...Davey Crockett." "So'm I!" LittleDavid pulled a coonskin cap with the same tail as David's acorn baseball hat. Sonia smiled a Phenix. *Let them talk. We owe it to them. He needs to make peace with himself.* "David...P and I are going to scout farther. We'll meet you at the Arch." "Okay." the two said in unison. Both females tried not to laugh. *** "All this stuff...hey! P!" Sonia pulled a picture from the bottom of David's desk drawer. "Lemme see!" Phenix snatched it out of her hands and looked at it in wonder ment. "It's..it's...Julian! Woah, was he a gentle and thin guy!" "Yeah..he's holding a baby..awww, it's DAVID!" She chuckled and cooed. "He's so cuuttee!!" P giggled. "Awww...woozziiee wozziee wooozzie!" She nuzzled the photo. Suddenly, a door slam was heard. "GET OUT!" *** Davey looked at the young boy snuggled in the foxhole, cuddling the rabbit costume. He reached out the flesh arm, covered with pads, fur, and claws, and delicately stroked his.. *his*..brown hair. *Kids are so sweet and innocent. That's what got me into trouble half the time. Being a dreamer, a boy with no bounds except the confines of society.* He brought his left arm up to his face. *And what did it get him, get *me*? A lifetime of putdowns and depression. Now that I'm a hero...i don't have to worry...about...that..anymoorrree....* "Mister Davey?" FoxDavid looked at LittleDavid with tear-stained eyes. "I-I- um..." Searching for words, something struck out in his mind. "David?" "Yea?" The little boy got up, pulling off the covers. "Do you remebemer your--" "GET OUT!" "...dad...?" **** SuniPhenix meet up with Dave and Dave in the hallway. LittleDavid cowered behind FoxDavid's legs. He pointed a small finger at the two humans locked in combat. "That's Dad. That's Mom." "Oh, sh--" "YOU ARE A TERRIBLE FATHER!!!" Astillia screamed, "You are sucha bad example of..." "Ally, PLEASE, I--" Julian pleaded, holding out rough hands. His computer tech's uniform was smugged. His blue eyes were saddened, and his head snapped back at his wife's blow. "Don't CALL me that, bud! I want you OUT!" Astilla snarled. Not one to be called on for abuse, Julian held his anger back. Instead, in a level voice, he repiled. "I want to see my son. Again. One...last...time." David, David, Sonia, Phenix, and a shuddering Julian David Kintobor walked into a small room. A crib was in there, with a mobile of many different forrest animals. A cooing sound came from the caged bed. "My son...David." "Hey, dat baby's us!" LittleDavid said, looking at a petrified, staring FoxDavid. "...dad..." he gasped. "David...David James Kintobor...I love you, my son. I will see you again..." the kind red headed man said, rocking a small boy in his arms. FoxDavid's heart froze as his father uttered the last words before everything melted away. "I will see you again...some day." **** "No more...!" David sobbed, "..no...more!..please!" Sonia touched his face and brought it up to hers. "No more, Davoy." He smiled at his enderment name. Back to reality, he stretched out stiff feet and gave Sonia a bear hug from behind. She placed her hands on his and nuzzled into his chest fur. They sat there, lost for words, until Davey spoke up. "Sonia, would you ever want to have kids?" She looked at him, a smirk on her face. "With who?" "You." She laughed and turned around in his arms. "Wait till yer married, David." They kissed sweetly. Hand in hand, they walked to the Ring Pool in the Lagoon. As the moon shone on the waterfall, it seemed like magic was everywhere. David and Sonia took their normal spots near it, dipping their toes in the shimering water. "Dave? What would we name them?" Sonia said, snuggling up to him again. "I dunno..." David leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Maybe...James and Madilyn?" She chuckled softly and snuggled into his fur again. The sun begain to rise as the moon fell, spreding a crimson glow over the two animals. Sonia smiled into his skin as the golden ball regained it's course above Mobius. "Wait till yer married, Fox. We've got a long time to think about that." The sky turned from purple to blue as Sonia and the Fox embraced, in body, in mind, and in love. Fin *** Well, there it was. And all Sonia and Davey's adventures (and relationship) are continued in BAM and SHLT. I want to thank all those people that made this possible...you know who you are. And 'specialy...guess who? ((((((******David Gonterman*******))))) One of my best friends, and man, I LOVE you, man! Let's all congragulate him on all his accompishments: A succsesful web page (kewl to the max: http://users.aol.com/dgonterman/home.htm A great writting arm A great drawing arm Good taste in women ::flutters eyes:: And, of cource, just being him. >>CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP!!!<< See Ya! SuniPhenix