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Island of the Angels - Sky Riding Paradise turned beachfront property!

Who: Knuckles and assorted friends take a short vacation. (Even if you didn't reply to his initial entry about it, feel free to come along.)
What: Hanging out on Angel Island for the weekend.
Where: Angel Island. Yep. Bet you didn't see that one coming.
When: Late afternoon on Friday through to Sunday morning. (Backdate land aaa sorry I had work.)
Warnings: WHO KNOWS!?

It had been something more of an open invitation this time, so, the group was a little different than his last trip to Angel Island with friends. Actually, most of the people who went the first time were no longer at school. Big, Bark, Katrina, Fawful, Blaze, Marine, Siren. It was a little sad to think of the fun time they had had a little over a year ago, being they were all gone now. Still - This weekend would make up a brand new crop of memories.

It wasn't too long of a trip once you got out of the harbor. He'd made sure to set her down close by the shoreline when he'd parked his small continent in the sea.

The ferry he'd rented pulled up at the beach and the dock he and Bark had quickly constructed out of logs and rope last year in anticipation of the first group trip. Some people were probably going to bring thier own transport over and that was fine. It wasn't exactly a hard place to find, after all.

((OOC: So people seemed pretty happy with the idea of doing some sprite pictures like the last one. If your character already has some sprite sheets, feel free to use those. If not, I've made a couple for a couple people and I'll try doing more. XD Otherwise, if you want to do regular pictures or photoshops or what have you, those are more than fine too. Or, if you don't want to do anything, that's cool too! It's not like it's mandatory bra. XD Just have fun. Use other characters sprites in your stuff, but try keep everything IC.

So, P. much I'll post up some locations and you guys can start threads for your dudes wherever you like and other people can join in. If you have never played Sonic 3 and Knuckles, you could check out this video here. It's a little over a half hour long but it has the entire game. XD If anyone wants to see any other environemnts from the games here, let me know and I'll make them! ))

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Pit stood atop a hill with a low slope that sneaked down and ran into water. The pool below was speckled with Chao, and they seemed like such carefree creatures to the young angel. They made him smile and he hadn't even acquainted himself with one yet. Truthfully, he was a little shy.

He'd heard about them from Knuckles that day and longed to meet one; finally, his opportunity gleamed. They looked almost identical to how he pictured them in his head. Sweet little inhabitants of this island. Really cute, too. Could they transform into him? If he was fit enough to, could he turn them into angelic figures? Pit wondered if Knuckles was closeby.

Knuckles was indeed pretty close by. He was feeding one of the more timid Chao a Chao Nut that he'd shaken from a tree. The little thing took it, it's little top-knot turning into a heart as it ate greedily.

He turned and saw Pit standing there watching. He walked over. "They're neat, huh?" he asked his winged friend. "You could go down and see them - they don't bite. Even the ones with sharp looking teeth!"

Well now! Pit hadn't noticed any Chao with sharp teeth. How bizarre. Even then, he wanted to assure Knuckles that he wasn't scared of them like he had been with Harley. These guys were nothing troublesome at all. "Are you sure I won't disrupt them?" he asked. "Part of me is worried I'll make them run away or something, as stupid as that sounds."

"It doesn't sound stupid." Knuckles reassured him. "Here. Watch."

He placed his fingers to his lips and gave a whistle. The first one went mostly ignored, but at the second, several blue heads turned, and little bodies started crawling in their direction. The ones who were totally absorbed in whatever activity they were enjoying just carried on as though nothing had happened.

Knuckles hefted the closest one off the ground and handed it to Pit. "There you go!"

An inundation of delight surged through Pit as the pudding-shaped creature was presented to him. He hesitated, as though this was a delicate moment, then gingerly took the Chao from Knuckles and smiled in warm spirit. It was really cute and so delightful. His hold on the Chao grew more secure and relaxed as he brought it closer.

"Hi. My name is Pit," he told the Chao. "It's nice to meet you."

The Chao gurlged and laughed, sounding very much like any other baby. It reached up with round, un-fingered hands and poked at Pits cheeks, the little emote on top of it's head forming into a question mark.

Knuckles laughed. "He's not quite sure what to make of you, Pit, but he likes you. They like to be held gently and talked to."

More of them were wandering over to see what was happening. "Geeze, Pit... no wonder this place is called Angel island... now they've caught sight of you they all seem to want to get a better look."

The idea that they were all curious about him sent interesting shivers over his nerves as his eyes flew from Chao to Chao. The signals on their head were so peculiar! Most of the time they were round periods, but a few of them morphed into question marks just like the one in his arms did. Exclamation marks too? It must be an indicator for their feelings. Pit blushed slightly and looked back down at his new friend.

"Imagine that!" he remarked with a tiny laugh. "Do you think I'm interesting?"

The Chao sure seemed to! It stood up in his hands, looking his hair and laurels over with big shiny eyes.

"I think you've made a new friend, there." Knuckles said with a grin. "And if you look carefully... see how his topknot isn't quite as yellow as it was when he came over? You're so pure of heart you're changing his color already."

The blue was almost unnoticeably slowly draining from the Chao's skin to be replaced by white. It was a very, very slow process, more noticeable on the Chao's yellow emote than anywhere else. If continued, that would become blue in time.

"I..." Speechless. He couldn't believe it. He really could make them transform. Pit noticed the small fluctuation of pigment alteration and stared at it like the sky was sprouting a beautiful rainbow. His mouth hung open and he was torn between disbelief and sheer joy.

"So long as you treat him kindly, he'll keep changing like that. You could feed him some of the fruits on the ground if you wanted to - He'd like that, I think." Knuckles said. Pit seemed so in awe of the fact that the little guy was transforming, albeit slowly. He couldn't help but grin - the first time he'd realised that some of the chao were starting to look like him, or change into white, angelic little creatures like Pits new buddy, he'd felt that same overwhelming sense of pride.

At the mention of fruit, Pit took to scanning the grass for some of them. His feet carried him away from the crowd- he was careful to avoid stepping on any. They seemed to want to follow him, mostly out of lingering inquisitiveness.

Nestled by a rock, Pit spotted a citrus fruit that shared appearances with a grapefruit. Piqued by this attractive object, the angel sped up a little to scoop it up, carefully balancing the Chao in his arms as he did so. With a bright new smile, he pitched it into his palm and proudly showed it to Knuckles. "Like this?"

"That's fine - You'll wanna peel it first. They don't like the skin." Knuckles suggested.

"Oh! That makes sense." He knelt to the ground and allowed the Chao to perch on his bent knee as his fingers got to work breaking the tough fruit shell. The similar blue creatures encircled the angel, heavily occupied by gawking at his simple procedures. The task proved slightly difficult, but by cramming his fingernails and digging at the peel, it quit clinging to the juicy treasure inside. He wondered how the Chao liked eating this fruit and he looked at it, turned it around like it was a miniature puzzle.

He showed it to the Chao, embarrassed. "Would you like me to feed you a bite? Or can you take care of the rest yourself?"

The Chao answered him by taking the whole thing and munching it down hungrily with a lot of very happy sounding grunts and grumbles of approval.

"I do believe he likes it!" Knuckles laughed.

Pit laughed alongside Knuckles, charmed by the Chao's voracious appetite and overall cuteness. "That's good! I hoped you would like it." He prodded the creature on the head as a display of affection as he ate.

...And then he felt guilty about the rest of the Chao. They probably wanted food too, right? Attention? He tried smiling at them all to show that he acknowledged them still.

"You can play with as many as you like - they're pretty easy going." Knuckles said, picking one up and tickling it inder the chin to make it giggle. "You know... if you wanted one as a pet, I'd be more than happy to let you take one home. I know you'd take care of it. Lash is actually taking one too."

Pit's eyes grew wide at that prospect. "Wait. You mean I can... take one home? Wouldn't they miss their friends?" The angel entertained the idea of keeping a pet for a while, now. But it was such a responsibility! It almost seemed too good to be true.

"Well, if you were worried over that, we could find you an egg." Knuckles replied with a smile. Such a nice guy, worried over them feeling lonely or seperated. "That way, as soon as it hatched, it would know you first. If you want one - I won't be offended if you say no. Pets are a big responsibility and not everyone has the time for one, y'know?"

He contemplated this for a moment. If the Chao never knew any other Chao before and the first person he saw was Pit, that would mean he wouldn't be stealing satisfaction with a lifestyle the Chao already knew. If someone were to capture him and keep him selfishly caged up away from his home in the sky, there was no way he could ever be happy. The idea of hatching a baby Chao was just too delightful. It became incredibly difficult to resist bringing one home.

But then, another issue snapped the track of his thoughts in half. "What about its parents? Don't Chao have parents? Wouldn't that be egg stealing?"

"Chao parents really don't have anything much to do with thier eggs." Knuckles replied, still holding the Chao he'd picked up. "They make the egg and then just wander off. The newborns can eat normally and crawl around so there's no need for the parent to do any real mothering and so long as the Chao have company of some sort, they're happy enough."

The uncertain feeling was alleviated. His lips expanded in a smile.

"...I can really take one with me?" Yet, he still couldn't believe it!

"I said so, didn't I?" Knuckles replied with a laugh. Pit's excitement was fun to observe - Knuckles felt like he was Annual Gift Man.

"Let's see if we can't find you an egg."

Pit's exhilaration gushed out like a broken dam. Elatedly his wings flashed out and he sprung to action, ready to follow Knuckles on their way to find a Chao egg. Face animated by happiness, he said, "I've never watched anything hatch before my own eyes! Ever! This is going to be great!" The angel was bouncing in place.

"Even better than just watching, you'll be the one doing the hatching." Knuckles explained. "Contact makes the eggs mature faster, and gentle contact always hatches happy Chao -- Ahh! Here we go!"

Inbetween some soft looking tree ferns lay an egg. Like the other Chao eggs, it was gently spotted with blue around the edges and yellow at the top. Knuckles held the fern fronds aside and gestured to it. "It's all yours, Pit."

The mere sight of the egg sent Pit back into his breathless awe. He looked to Knuckles, first, then carefully bent down to scoop up the egg, handling it as charily as if he were trying to maintain a pine needle on his fingertip. This was so fantastic... He couldn't blame anybody for being this excited.

"Thank you, Knuckles." His smile could light up a whole town. "I'll take the best care of it." After a pause, questions about the care of Chaos wriggled into his mind one by one. "How do... I mean, what can I feed it? Do they have basic needs? It probably need to sleep, I know that... they seem pretty playful, and obviously they have to have food and water. How long do they live?" So many questions, but Pit wanted to make absolute sure he gave this Chao precisely what it needed.

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