Sonic is © to SEGA. Ten little Indians is © to Agatha Christie.
CHAPTER 1: TEN ANTHROMORPHS WENT OUT TO DINE; ONE CHOKED HIMSELF AND THEN THERE WERE NINE
Sonic and his friends were driving through a storm when they saw a light ahead. As they came closer, they realized that it was a large building.
"It looks like a hotel." Tails said. They drove up to the building.
"Good evening. This is Mayflower Hotel. Would you like to rent rooms?" A tall man in a red suit asked.
"Yes, sir." Sonic said. So after five minutes of checking in and getting their luggage, they were waiting down in the parlor. The bellhop had gotten juice and non-diet drinks for the kids and diet sodas for everyone else.
"I don't think I quite like this place." Knuckles said after the bellhop left.
"Why? What's wrong with this place?" Sonic asked, smirking.
"I don't know. I just have a really bad feeling."
Silver was just sitting around nonchalantly. He noticed something on the wall. "Hey, guys? Is it just me or the wall a different color there?" He pointed to a squarish red patch on the wall. They looked at it and concluded that it was just a piece of wall that was colored differently. As they sat back down, Knuckles brought his hand to his throat and began coughing and gagging.
"Knuckles?" Sonic asked. Knuckles didn't respond. He was coughing and struggling to breathe. Then, as if he never stood, Knuckles was on the floor, blue in the face and his tongue hanging out. At first, you could hear a pin drop. Then a scream rang out. Rouge ran out of the room, screaming. She came back with the bellhop 2 minutes later.
"What happened?" Amy asked, holding her hand to her mouth.
"It looks like he choked on something…" Silver pointed out.
Tails took out one of his test tubes and ran a quick test.
"His soda had some sort of toxin in it." Tails concluded.
"Do you think it was suicide?" Silver asked.
"………………………………………could be………of course, suicide is performed only when extremely guilty of something, so it's highly unlikely." Tails answered. "So my guess is that he was murdered. The only question is……who would want to kill Knuckles?"
"Maybe he's still here! I think we should call someone." Blaze suggested. Silver picked up a nearby phone and dialed 911.
"Hello? I'd like to speak with the police. Hello? Is someone there?……………………No answer………the line is dead." Silver said, hanging up the phone.
"That's always a bad sign in those horror movies." Amy said.
"Well, nothing's going to happen……………Although, with what happened to Knuckles……………………" Silver said. Aloud crash echoed from upstairs and someone screamed. They all ran up the stairway, only to see that a statue fell over.
"Whew…that was scary." Tails said.
"Huh? Where's Rouge?" Cream asked. Everyone looked round. Rouge was nowhere in sight. They ran down while Silver stayed behind. He looked at the statue.
"Huh? It's covered in dust, as if nothing touched it. Too weird……"
Meanwhile, downstairs, they realized that Rouge had fainted. They all were relieved until they heard another, too familiar scream.
Blaze gasped. "OMYGOD! SILVER ISN'T HERE!"
They ran up the stairs, to find Silver being strangled by a figure with 2 things on its back. When it spotted them, it turned, dropped Silver and ran. Sonic ran after it. It ran into a room, and Sonic paused. He motioned for Shadow to follow. Shadow loaded his gun and Sonic prepared for a spindash. They jumped into the room.
"FREEZE!" Shadow yelled. Tails was inside. He raised his hands in defense.
"TAILS!? W-Were you out in the hall just now!?" Sonic asked, shocked.
"No! I was in here! I was looking for whatever knocked that statue down."
"Did……you see something run in here?"
"Of COURSE not! This little betrayer killed Knuckles and then attempted to kill Silver!" Shadow said, ready to fire.
"WHAT!?" Tails yelled.
"SHADOW! CALM DOWN! We've no evidence that Tails did this, not that he ever would!" Sonic yelled.
"THAT THING HAD TWO TAILS! WHO ELSE COULD IT HAVE BEEN!?"
"WE'RE NOT EVEN SURE THEY WERE TWO TAILS! I just know that Tails wouldn't do this in his own will!"
"Sonic, I got a glimpse of the guy's face. It wasn't Tails, but it was…" Silver said.
"What!?" Shadow asked.
"It looked like Tails, but it wasn't Tails. Tails could have been framed!" Silver said.
"GUYS! Two of the statues are gone!" Amy called. Indeed, two statues, a bat and an echidna were gone. That left 4 hedgehogs, 1 fox, a rabbit, a cat, and a vase of flowers.
"Yikes……" Sonic said. After they were asleep, Silver got out of bed, careful not to wake Blaze up. He walked to the red patch on the wall and felt around it. He felt a latch and opened the area. Inside, he found a removable plaque. He pulled it out. He read it. He gasped and ran upstairs. He shook Blaze awake.
"Huh? Silver, what time is it?" He motioned her to be quiet.
"Look at this." He whispered.
"An old nursery rhyme. So what…?"
"No! Look! Ten little Indians went out to dine. One choked himself and then there were nine! Nine little Indians stayed up very late. One overslept and then there were eight! Don't you see!? The murderer is killing them off like this."
"You're nuts…" Blaze said, falling back asleep.
"NO I'M NOT!" Silver yelled as quiet as he could. "Remember! Knuckles choked to death, and Rouge is…" He gasped. "C'mon! We've got to help Rouge!"
"Silver! Wait until tomorrow. You'll see that you're just being dumb!" Blaze lay down.
Silver sighed and chuckled. "Heheh……you're right! I'm just too nervous. Goodnight Blaze." He fell asleep in a few minutes.
1 dead. 2 gone. Is 3 really a lucky number?
To Be Cont'd…