Happy early Halloween you guys! I wrote this story for three of my favorite things. Halloween, Sonic, and creepy rituals. Enjoy!
It was a week before Halloween and Cream was so excited. Cheese, her mother, and herself had thought it appropriate to throw a spooky slumber party. Cream had just picked out costumes for herself and Cheese the other day and was so excited to show her friends. She messed around with her fairy wings as she set the table with goodies. Her mother even let her bake! She had made white chocolate popcorn balls, black and orange cookies, and bowls of candy corn lay on the table. Two hours until her friends came over. Cheese had just got done hanging the fake cobwebs as Cream hung up the rubber bats.
"I'm so glad the annual slumber party is here! Aren't you Cheese?"
"Chao!" The little chao said as he tilted his wizard hat back and waved his wand.
"Watch where you wave that thing Cheese! You could turn me into a frog! " Cream said in pretend as she ducked down. They both giggled as they ran about and finished picking the movies they were going to watch.
When the night had just begun to show, her friends arrived one by one. After all of them had arrived, Cream lit the jack-o- lanterns and began the night.
"What's the first thing you guys want to do?" One of Cream's friends asked the others.
One friend came back from the kitchen with a plate of cookies. "Well I want to eat first."
They all nodded and grabbed sweets from the table.
"Let's watch a movie next!" The squirrel dressed like a vampress said.
Cream popped in Casper the Friendly Ghost (her mom would only allow this and black/white horror movies.) and they began to watch. They laughed in delight as the movie ended and they put in The Little Vampire. Afterwards, they painted some small pumpkins and waited for Cream's mom to go to bed. When she did, they looked up paranormal videos on the web.
They were in the mood to be spooked.
"Hey why don't we do some creepy rituals?" A dalmatian dressed as a princess asked.
"What are those?" Cream asked as Cheese lay ontop of her head.
"All the older kids do them. They are the scariest thing at overnight parties. I brought over a few papers of the newest ones made. We will some of the first kids to do them!"
"Well, are you sure they won't hurt us?" Someone else asked as they nervously ate some candy corn.
"Won't know until we try."
They all nodded hesitantly and waited till eleven to do the first one. The Hellfire Ritual.
(A month earlier with Iris and Mephiles. They heard that Tail's Doll and had made their own creepy rituals and decided to check it out themselves.)
Iris looked up creepy rituals on her computer, Mephiles watching over her shoulder.
"Says here that whenever a mortal does a creepy ritual, they are usually looking for some supernatural reward for completing it. If they survive to complete it."
Mephiles got done brushing his predator teeth and came back with his shoes on. "Well it does sound interesting. Can we make our own?"
"We can. Oooh we can curse, kill, anything we want." Iris said, interested in this new demonic fad. "The Tail's Doll curse already has so many people participating!"
"Hmm..if I do mine it would be fairly simple. At night of course, maybe..bowls of fire? Yes, bowls of fire. They would have to face death and fear to get a reward. If they survived they would get to live... a longer life then if they had died." Mephiles said as he laughed evilly.
"Hmm.. I guess living after the ritual does count as a reward. Alright, yours is sent." Iris said as she posted his ritual. "What do you want to name it?"
Mephiles thought. "How about, the Hellfire Ritual?"
(Transition!)
"Alright girls, everyone outside." The dalmatian said as they carried out bowls that were to hold the fire. She held the sheet with the incantations they were to chant.
Cream was in the back of the line and held the last bowl close to her. Cheese held the sticks they were to use to burn.
"This seems dangerous. We shouldn't play with fire."
"Don't you guys want to be the coolest kids at school? When they heard we did this, they will be in awe." The squirrel said as she started to light the bowls and sat on the ground.
After all the bowls had been lit, they all began to chant.
"Hellfire bright, Hellfire's spite." Over and over again.
Soon, it seemed like the ground got hotter and hotter. The fire around the group flared up and made them uneasy. Before they could stop, they all passed out on the ground as a faint laugh could be heard. Mephiles laugh.
"Foolish children. Why did you want to play my game?" Mephiles said as he appeared through the screen of fears.
The children looked terrified of the dark hedgehog.
"We just wanted to try it out." The dalmation said, now shaking and wanting to go back.
"Should have thought of that before. Now, you must play for your lives." Mephiles said as he disappeared and their fears reappeared. "Cream...I never knew you were into rituals?"
"I'm not." Cream said. She met Mephiles whenever Iris had taken them to their once castle. She was the only one not afraid.
Mephiles was impressed. He frowned at the others.
So the girls tried to face their fears and surprisingly, they had all survived. Mephiles knew Cream was Iris' favorite mortal and gave her an extra reward of some candy. He was a bit disappointed that none had died, but had a good story to tell his wife instead. He vanished into the night, leaving the girls on the ground wondering if what they did was real.
"Well... onto the next one I suppose.."
