"I decided to give it a shot on trying to make a terrifying Sonic fanfic. Some of the setting and hover cars mentioned in the story are from the game Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. Lisa could you-"

Lisa: "Yea, I'm on it. Here we go with the disclaimer. Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters, including places and games are © to SEGA. Only the plot of the story and perhaps the Tails' doll are © to Ziggy7332. Except I doubt it that the Tails' doll belongs to her. *Whispers* I bet she doesn't even have one. Okay, I'm done Steph!".

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Sonic- 19

Amy- 16

Tails- 11(turning 12)

Cream- 10

Rouge- 21

Knuckles-20

Shadow- ?(He's over 50. Let's presume he's 19, like Sonic)

~Tails' Surprise Present~

It was nighttime and outside of the highway tunnel was the rain pouring down. Even though it was fall, the forecast in the morning promised that there was a likely chance that there would be rain today. The predicament came true, except that they forgot to mention that it would rain in the afternoon. Piled in a hovering van was the well-known anthropomorphic animals that the world would turn to when danger became present. The hovering, tan colored, van belonged to the mother of the peach colored rabbit, she was sharing her seat and seatbelt with a little blue chao. They both were sitting in between a pink hedgehog and a white bat. The van had eight seats, the girls were on the middle row sleeping. On the back row was a red echidna and a black hedgehog with red strips on his arms and legs, that seemed awfully somewhat similar to the blue hedgehog sitting on the front passenger seat. The echidna and the hedgehog were sitting on the two farthest seats in the row leaving the seat in the middle vacant. Both were looking outside bored out of their mind. The blue hedgehog that was mentioned earlier had his feet on top of the dashboard and he was pretending to be a playing an electric guitar. He was lip-syncing and playing along with the song on the radio "Meant to live" by Switchfoot. In the driver seat, well driving of course, was a yellow fox who seemed to be tired and sleepy. It was all quiet, except for the song going on in the radio and with Sonic moving around. Despite the fact that they were all tired from having a great day. They still hadn't forgotten that today was Tails' birthday, he was turning twelve!

Tails fought with his eyelids trying to keep them open and focus on the road, but they got too heavy for him.

"Yo Tails! This is your part on the song", Sonic told his yellow buddy. Tails didn't respond back. Sonic looked at the time on the stereo, 10:34PM it read. Sonic sighed heavy and turned to look at everyone behind in the backseats, they had all fallen asleep. He kept his gaze on Amy and smiled to himself. Sonic turned to look at Tails and was going to ask him what he car he liked at the car show convention till he saw the young fox dosing off on the steering wheel.

"WHOA! TAILS WAKE UP!", Sonic shouted grabbing the steering wheel. Tails head shot up and looked around frantically.

"What happen!", Tails asked now alarmed, but still tired.

"Yeah, what's going on?", Amy asked rubbing her eyes and yawning. Rouge and the other were starting to wake up.

"Nothing, I just think that maybe I should drive. All of you can go back to sleep", Sonic said. Tails nodded and took the van off to the side of the road. Sonic and Tails got out and traded spots. Contently, Tails sat on the passenger seat and make himself comfy then he fell asleep. Sonic chuckled and got the van back on the highway road. After a few minutes, the van got quiet again. Sonic turned off the radio, he was now consumed in the darkness and silence lurked around him. There was a few cars on the highway and the rain still continue outside of the highway tunnel. He passed a sign that said 'Megalo Station next exit'. Great! Just another twenty minutes and we've finally arrived at the Mystic Ruins and then another half an hour to get home. Sonic rolled his eyes at this thought. He didn't exactly know how he started thinking about it. Perhaps it could be because everything around him was quiet or it could be that he felt alone. But, whatever it was caused him to think about what happen earlier at Tails' surprise party.

*Flashback*

"Take a bite Tails!"

"Yeah!"

"BITE IT! BITE IT!", everyone started to chant. Tails was in the middle of the table standing in front of a delicious birthday cake that Vanilla made for him. He looked shyly around as his friends were smiling and urging him to take a bite. Tails gave in and leaned forward to take a bite out of the cake. Slat! His face went into the cake. Tails rose his head, his muzzle and face was all covered with cake and icing. Snap! Snap! Snap! came the sounds of cameras and flashes of light as Tails looked around. He began to laugh and soon everyone joined in.

"Who pushed me in?", Tails asked still laughing. Everyone pointed behind him and sure enough was his best buddy, Sonic, standing there with a huge grin plastered on his face.

"You ARE the birthday boy".

"Wanna taste my cake?", Tails asked with a mischievous grin on his face. Before Sonic could figure out what he had in mind, cake was splattered onto his face. Again cameras snapped away and laughter arose as they all looked at the two boys with cake on their faces. Vanilla came up to the boys with wet cloths on her hands. Sonic and Tails thanked her and started to clean their own faces.

DING DONG!

"I'll get it!", yelped Tails energized that he was having such a great birthday party.

"Hello!", Tails greeted happily as he open the front door. There was no one, off in the distance the sun was beginning to settle down. Since it was autumn, the sun would go in earlier.

"Huh!?", Tails peaked out his head and looked around, still no one. He was about to step outside when he felt that his right foot kicked something. Tails looked down and saw a present box sitting there on his doorstep. Tails grabbed it and went back inside.

"Who was it Tails?", Cream asked.

"Oh no one, but they left this present on the doorstep", Tails said holding up the present box for everyone to see. The present box was black with a silver ribbon tied around it. For Miles Prowler, the little card hanging from the present said.

"Well open it Tails! I wanna see what's inside!", Knuckles told the fox. Tails turned his attention to the present and started to take off the ribbon. Then he took off the tape that sealed the box's flaps together and open it. Tails just stared at the object inside the box.

"Tell us what is it already!?", Knuckles cried out impatiently. He walked over and looked inside, he gasped. Tails reached in and pulled out the item that had made Knuckles gasped. Everyone in the room also gasped once they saw what it was. It was a stitched up Tails doll, it had all the exact features that Tails had to his sneakers all the way to his twin tails and bangs. But, what was most freaky about it was the eyes it had. It's muzzle didn't show any signs of a mouth, but the eyes were just outlined. There was no blue irises, they were just white, the pupil was even white.

Tails put it back into the box and went to leave it in his bedroom closet. When he came back he looked at everyone else. They were all silent, still shocked and kinda creeped out of the doll. The silence was broken by Sonic.

"That was some unique doll. Well, guess what I got for you Tails. I got seven tickets for the hover car convention that going to be in Central City!" , Sonic exclaimed cheerfully. This caused everyone to forget about the doll and start a conversation on the types of cars that they liked or know.

*End of Flashback*

Sonic couldn't help, but think of how the doll's eyes looked like. It was almost as if they were watching everyone and listening to everything that they were saying. Like as if it was alive. Sonic snapped out of his thoughts and looked at rear mirror without feeling an intention to do so. He saw something yellow, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He did a double take and looked back at the rear mirror, his eyes widen in terror. Sitting there in the vacant middle seat between Shadow and Knuckles was the Tails doll. His white eyes were looking straight back at him in the rear mirror. Suddenly it moved! The Tails doll turned its head and looked at Shadow. Out of nowhere, it took out a knife and began to climb up Shadow heading towards his neck. Sonic slammed on the brakes of the van. Everyone in the van lunged forward, thankfully they were all wearing their seatbelts.

BBBEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPP!

Someone behind them blew their car horn angrily. The driver of the car shouted out colorful words as he passed by them .

"What the hell Sonic!", Shadow shouted aggravated. Everyone was waking up irritated at what Sonic had done. Tails reached over and put the emergency lights that way the cars coming up from behind wouldn't crash into them.

"Is everyone alright?", Amy asked as she looked at each one of them. Rouge was rubbing her chest where the seatbelt was pressed upon due to the sudden stop that had Sonic made.

"Yea, what was that for?", Knuckles asked. He was rubbing his head where he hit the side of the window.

"I swear that I just saw that freaky doll that Tails got! It was about to cut Shadow's throat!", Sonic explained. Shadow smirked at Sonic, Cream and Amy looked concern, and Rouge was looking at him with disbelief.

"I think Sonic was falling asleep", Cream stated.

"Chao!", Cheese agreed. Everyone else nodded in concur. Sonic sighed heavily and knew that if he keeps on trying to convince them about what had just happen. They still wouldn't believe him and would just say that he was falling asleep and dreaming things. Maybe I WAS falling asleep! I think I was imagining things since everything was quiet and dark. Yea! Maybe that was it! Well, whatever happen wasn't real. I'll just put it behind me. Sonic thought trying to reassure himself that what he saw was his imagination running wild. Confident that he found out the reason of what he saw, he smiled to himself and continue on the drive back home. He turned on the radio, "His World" by Zebrahead started to play. By then everyone has resumed back to their slumber leaving Sonic alone once again.

"This is totally my song!", Sonic exclaim to no one in particular. He began to rock out on the song and sing along with it. If only he knew that what he had just experience wasn't really his imagination or a dream. It will be back. O.O!

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Yea I know kinda weird isn't it. I'll probably have the rest of the chapters done by October 1st, maybe even the whole story o.O Who knows, but I can't promise that. So tell if it's creepy enough, that way I would know that I need to work on it to make it even more eerie.

Watch out for the Tails' doll!! O.o!