Winner for the title of King of the New Year for the night
December 12, 2023 at 9:35 AM
Scourge and Fiona were sitting in their cave at a very long table, eating boiled macaroni with ketchup and cheese. The fox herself prepared this dish not only for herself, but also for her adoptive father with the tail of a snake. In addition to the macarons, Scourge himself even warmed up cups of hot chocolate cocoa for himself and the fox. During dinner, the snake-hedgehog looked at the wall clock and said:
β Itβs already nine oβclock at night. After dinner, we'll play sad music on the piano organ before bed and go to bed.
β Okay, dad. β Fiona agreed and took a glass of cocoa, took a sip, and then immediately spat it out from the burn. She looked at the naga indignantly and said: β It's hot!
β This is such liquid chocolate. It is always heated to drink. It warms. β the snake answers.
β Clear. β She did not argue with him and continued to drink cocoa carefully so as not to get burned. At the same time, she ate pasta. β Tasty.
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While in a very large cave-like hall, Scourge sat on a large rock shaped like a chair and played very sad and eerie music on a large floor piano and floor organ, somewhat reminiscent of the music for the atmosphere of Transylvania in horror films. Naga played with his eyes closed and tried to listen to the music, feeling its sad atmosphere and trying to dissolve in it. At that time, Fiona was sitting next to the rams and only lightly beat the discs from the drums in the desired rhythm of her adoptive fatherβs music. True, the fox got bored and decided to somehow diversify the music. Scourge widened his eyes and looked at Fiona herself, not realizing that she was now playing, interrupting his music? At first she began to hit the discs more often, and then she began to drum like a real drummer and seemed to have ignited real rock. In addition, she even imagined herself as a rock singer on stage in Mobiustown and sang out loud: βͺ We will start the performance, we will open the show. βͺ βͺ There's bright light here, that's goo-o-od. βͺ βͺ After all, Iβm not just a fox, anyone will understand. βͺ βͺ The time has come and we are rocking togethe-e-er. βͺ Scourge himself also appeared on the stage next to her in a business suit and a purple shock wig, who sat on a huge wooden chair and also played the organ, but this time he played the piano, as if playing such and such a rock melody on an electric guitar . Fiona continued to drum and sing: βͺ This is a show! Chic and shine! βͺ βͺ Get louder sing! This is my concert! βͺ βͺ This is a show! Chic and shine! βͺ βͺ Get louder sing! This is my concert! βͺ Fiona throws her drums and drums aside as she steps onto the stage and begins to dance. At the same time, she also continued to sing, and Scourge still played the guitar and even shook his head to the beat of rock music. βͺ And one more thing... Chic and shine! βͺ βͺ A hundred eyes see us from nowhere. βͺ βͺ Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a... βͺ βͺ Wa-a-a-a-a-ah. Wa-a-a-a-a-a-ah. Yes! βͺ Scourge pressed his clawed fingers full force on the keyboard, causing the organ to emit a loud sound of melodies from all the pipes at once, and then played to the end while Fiona danced and finished singing: βͺ This is a show! Chic and shine! βͺ βͺ Get louder sing! This is my concert! βͺ βͺ They clap for me, I'm at the top's! βͺ βͺ After all, Iβm not a fox, Iβm a countess! βͺ All the spectators in the hall immediately began to applaud and shout joyfully. Scourge gets up from the piano and also goes out onto the stage, after which he and Fiona smile and bow to everyone who liked their song and music. Fiona especially began to blow kisses to everyone in gratitude with her eyes closed. Suddenly, Scourge himself lightly pokes the claw of his index finger into her shoulder and the fox's eyes widen. At that moment she returned from her fantasies to reality and again found herself in that very cave, and Scourge himself was still sitting at the organ, but at the same time he looked at her very menacingly, because she had ruined his own music with her gag. β OUT!!! β the snake shouted, pointing the fox to the exit from this cave, for he no longer wanted to see or hear her. At least for now. Fiona made a sad face and lowered her head, went to the exit, where Scourge pointed her to. She was a little offended by her adoptive daddy for not letting her dream. Before leaving, she even kicked her drums, one of which rolled naked right under his stone table, hinting that she was offended by him. Scourge didn't care. At this time, when the fox left, he calmed down and, smiling, continued to play his favorite on his floor piano, floor organ.***
Fiona returned to the cave, where there was a crib in the form of a nest, there she lay down and folded her arms over her chest, making her eyes stern. She was both offended and furious at the same time. I especially noticed, next to her nest on the wall, her childβs drawing of her and the naked man himself; she turned away completely, just so as not to see the drawing itself with this green freak. So she lay in the nest until Scourge himself crawled here, also folding his arms on his chest. At first he looked at Fiona a little sternly, but then he rolled his eyes, stuck out his tongue and still decided to ask for forgiveness. Although he himself was disgusted to endure all sorts of apologies. β Okay! I'm Sorry! You're a good girl, but you're not a good striker. β says the naga, and the fox blows on her bangs in her hair and, turning away, asks: β What do you understand? β Okay. So what do you personally want to do? β asked the snake.***
Fiona didn't have to think long. They and the huge snake began to play chess and Scourge almost won with his black pawns. Fiona had only the last pawn left in the form of the white king. The fox didnβt want to lose to him so easily and decided to cheat. β OH NO!!! MOBIANS!!! β Fiona shouted, pointing behind Scourge. β WHERE??? β the naga himself was frightened and turned to where the fox pointed. He even began to sniff to find them by smell. While Scourge was not looking, Fiona managed to quickly remove all the extra black pawns and put back all her white ones and made it so that now she was almost winning. Having finished, she said: β Sorry, it seemed to me that there was a huge tarantula there. β Oh, you coward! β Scourge grinned and looked back at the small chessboard. Suddenly he noticed that something was wrong. β Wait a minute! Did the pawns really stand like that? β Of couse. I didn't touch or clean anything while your back was turned. We play honestly, as agreed. β Fiona lies. β Okay. β the snake did not argue and began, looking at his black pawns, to think about what and where to go next. Realizing that the white pawns had surrounded him, he decided to retreat behind the black king from square βD-7β to βD-8β. He realized that he was losing to her when Fiona made her move with the white queen and surrounded the black king again. β βLosing to this little girl? What a disgrace!" β then he decided to cheat too. β Oh, by the way, your drawing is beautiful. β Which? β Fiona didnβt understand, and seeing that Scourge was looking somewhere, she turned there and saw her childhood drawing, and then laughed. β Have you forgotten? I drew it for the first time when I was five years old and then I already showed it. That's when you suggested hanging it on the wall as a portrait. β while she was explaining, Scourge slowly turned the chessboard over and now it turned out that Fiona was playing black, and Scourge was playing white. Fiona noticed this immediately and was indignant. β Hey! You're cheating! β Where did you get the idea? β I played white, and you played black. Do you think that I wonβt understand that you deliberately distracted me and quietly turned the chessboard over? β the fox asked indignantly. β Said she, then was the first to start cheating, distracting me and moving all the pawns to other places. β the snake answers, grinning and folding his arms over his chest. Fiona immediately widened her eyes and didnβt understand: β βHow did he guess?β Scourge immediately grinned and knocked the chess out of the way and patted Fiona on the back. β Come on, Fiona! You cheated and I cheated. Everything is fair! If you cheated, then I can too. And there is nothing wrong with that when crooks make an honest compromise. By this time it was already eleven and the naga and the fox, having decided to forget about their disputes, went to sleep in their common nest.***
At this time, Cream went to bed early in her bedroom. Even when Vanilla and Ice came to tell their daughter a bedtime story, but the daughter refused and went to bed early in a good mood. She believed that tomorrow morning would be a good day and that she would be lucky. Unless, of course, she succeeds. In this case, dad and mom just kissed her on the forehead in turn and left the room. Cream slept very well that night. She dreamed of running through the forest in the summer, all cheerful and joyful, together with Scourge himself. True, at first Fiona sat on the side and was sad that she was not taken along to have fun. The rabbit drew attention to the unfortunate woman and called herself. Afterwards, the three of them had fun and ran around and played tag. From such a good sleep, Cream even smiled in reality with her eyes closed. Her faith in the best and that she would succeed was so strong.***
The next day, when Cream got up, she brushed her teeth and was just getting dressed and getting ready to go out when, by coincidence, the lemur Tangle came to visit her parents. β Miss Tangle? Hello. Are you on a visit or on business? β Yes, Cream, I came to see your mother on business. I heard that you don't have enough banana juice for the holiday tomorrow. My sister Whisper and her son and I bought three kilograms of banana juice, but it turned out that we bought too much by mistake and we only needed four kilograms. Don't you need an extra kilogram of juice? β asks the lemur, they will hand you a large jar of juice. β Yes. Thank you. We just don't have enough juice. β Cream answers and accepts the jar. β Don't despair, Cream. β Tangle felt sorry for the rabbit, patting her on the head. β Your whole life is still ahead of you. You will also become social, like us, and you will earn as well as the rest of us and buy more, just like us. β Little sister, how long can I wait for you? We're late for voting. β the she-wolf Whisper called her, along with her son the wolf cub. β Aunt Tangle! β the boy also called her. β I'm coming. β says the lemur and gets ready to go. Cream quickly put the can of juice in the refrigerator and ran after them. β Miss Tangle, Miss Whisper, wait! β she says, having caught up with them. β I'll go with you. I will also vote. β Is it true? What about your parents? They won't vote? β asks the wolf cub. β No. They will be busy all day now. Dad is at work, and mom is at home. Until the evening they wonβt care about me and they wonβt even notice that Iβm gone. So I can go for a walk alone for now. β Well, you're lucky. Mom and Aunt Tangle won't let me go even a step. At all. They work in turns and take turns taking care of me every day. β the boy answers indignantly. β Who will you vote for, Cream? β Whisper asked. β I wonβt tell you, otherwise youβll jinx it. I want my participant to be unexpected for the whole city. β the rabbit answers slyly, for this was part of her plan for today. Together the whole city came to the white house, where the mayor himself stepped up to the podium and began speaking into the microphone: β Citizens, Mobiustown! This year, before the last preparations for the New Year, a competition is being held for the title of the King of the New Year, which our city, as you all know, holds once every ten years. Today we will collect your votes for one person or Mobian, who tonight will be the very king of the New Year and will participate in various competitions, and at the end he will receive a special prize.β Having finished speaking, Knuckles listened to the applause of all the townspeople. The mayor's security guard, Eggman, is next to take the podium as the echidna gives him his seat. β The mayor is waiting for your proposals. All the townspeople began to discuss and whisper among themselves who they would vote for. At this time Cream shouted joyfully: β I'M PUTTING FOR SCORGE!!! The mayor, his guard and the rest of the townspeople looked in surprise at Cream, who said out loud a name that must not be named. The townspeople dispersed and Knuckles and Eggman looked at the rabbit. She confidently wore a green hedgehog mask on her head and held two signs in her hands. One had the inscription βI demand freedom of speech!β, and the other βNaga Scourge is my choice!β Knuckles and Eggman were outraged and approached the rabbit. β Dear Cream, did we warn you? I seem to have forbidden to mention this name. β says the mayor. β I donβt care about your word ban. I am an individual and have the right to say what you will not make me stop saying so easily. And I say I vote for Scourge. β Enough! Here's your fine! β Knuckles wrote out a fine for the rabbit on a piece of notebook paper. She snatched it from the mayorβs hands, crushed it, put it in her mouth, chewed and swallowed, looking sternly at the mayor, and then said: β I don't care about your fines. Even if you fine us a billion, we still donβt earn that much. But I'll still say Scourge's name. β I SAID DONβT YOU DARE CALL THAT NAME!!! β Knuckles shouted at the child and all the people were shocked that the mayor yelled at someone elseβs child. Cream looked at Knuckles silently at first, and then said the name again: β Scourge! Knuckles wrote another fine to the rabbit, and she again tore it out, ate it and then spat in the mayor's face. β You will not force me to remain silent. I will say this name out loud as many times as I want. The fact that you are the mayor does not give you any right to prohibit us from saying any words or names. β Cream is right. β the wolf cub intervened and stood up for the rabbit. β Laws on life, in order for everyone to live well, should be determined and decided by the people themselves, and not by rulers. I also demand freedom of speech. β It will not happen. Do you understand? β the mayor assured, folding his arms over his chest. β This is not a good mayor, this is a bad mayor. He doesnβt think about the people, he thinks only about himself, and he doesnβt care about others. β Cream says, pointing her finger at Knuckles. β Not true. I care about the people and love our entire city in which we all live. β assured the mayor. β If this were true, then you would not forbid us to say what we want. If we want to call Scourgeβs name, then we will call him as much as we want and you donβt dictate to us. β says the wolf cub and takes one of Creamβs signs for himself. β DOWN WITH MAYOR KNUCLES!!! WE DEMAND FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!! Immediately all the other children joined in and also began to demand freedom of speech. And Tails, and Sammy, and Nellie, and Tiny, and Benny, and Charmy, and many others. And then the parents themselves and other adults joined them and also began to shout all at once: β FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!! WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK SCORGE'S NAME!!! Even Sonic and Shadow, as well as Ice, who arrived a little later, also began to shout: β FOR SCORGE AND FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!! Even Shade came and also started shouting, raising her fist: β SCORGE!!! SCORGE!!! SCORGE!!! Knuckles couldn't stand all this riot from the people. They all together and many times call Scourgeβs name that the whole city wonβt have enough money at all, and he cannot legally have the majority of the money so that the whole city will be poor. Unable to bear all these screams, the echidna gave up and shouted: β OKAY, OKAY, THAT'S ALL!!! I GIVE UP!!! β Taking a breath and calming down, he said: β I will cancel my stupid ban on you calling Scourgeβs name. If only they didnβt mention him too often in front of me. All the peoples immediately rejoiced and began to celebrate the victory in their strike. The father even hugged the rabbit, proud of her courage. β So what? Do you accept my vote for Scourge as New Year's King? β she asks the mayor. β Well, there is a small caveat. β Knuckles replies and Eggman brings the mayor his book of Mobiustown. β The book of Mobiustown says: Remember Scourge more than once, since the New Year no longer delights you. β I know what the rules are in this book. It also says: No matter how rude a Mobian or a person is, we always wait for him on the New Year's holiday. Including Scourge himself. β Yes, but... β the mayor tried to come up with a lie and a page. β I'll find now! Here! The book also says about our competition for the title of King of the New Year: Scourge cannot be awarded this title, he comes down from the mountains, bringing trouble with himself. Cream was indignant and said: β You came up with it, there is no such thing there. β Why not, there is. I am the mayor, and half of this book was also written in my own hand, since I added my own prohibitions there. β Knuckles answers. β Show! What page is this on? β Cream looked slyly at Knuckles. Knuckles didnβt know how to get out of it and was leafing through a book. After all, in fact, he also came up with this and never touched the book itself. β My bookmark!... Where is it? Lost it somewhere! β the mayor closes the book and continues to lie: β These words are in the book. β We don't believe you. You're lying. - Ice stood up for his daughter. β Ice is right. β Sonic answers. β You always hated our little brother Scourge since school and always bullied him. You shouldn't have been nominated for mayor. It was you who had to live in the mountains in that cave all alone and suffer there for everything that you did as a child. β This is true. β Shade intervened. β I was there then. I saw all this with my own eyes. β Shade, youβre always there for me. Why are you on their side now? β Knuckles asked her, and Shade answered him: β Because I was the only one who liked Scourge and, unlike some, I didnβt bully him at school. β Thatβs why we all vote only for Scourge. We want Scourge to become the king of the New Year tonight. Scourge is our choice. β said Cream. Knuckles pouted his lip in anger and was ready to scream again, but he restrained himself and said: β Okay. I admit it. I was a bully as a child and it was my own fault that Scourge grew up to be such a monster. Let him come down to us from the mountain! I assume you all decided at once to vote for Scourge? β asks the mayor and all the people nod at once. β Fine. Scourge is officially declared the winner of the title of New Year's King for the night that night. β the people began to rejoice, dance and sing: β But remember! If Scourge does not come to us for the reward before nightfall, then the reward will go to someone else. And I will choose another one myself. Do you understand? But the people didnβt listen any further, because they were all cheerful and everyone was singing a new song that they had just come up with about Scourge. Knuckles presented Cream with a certificate of honor as the winner for the title of King of the New Year for the night, and the rabbit, looking at the mountain itself, decided to go up there to convey the invitation to the snake himself. Her plan was a success.
