Shadow's Arrival
Chapter One
Kai is owned by black hearted evil, Jayln is owned by Jayln (No fooling!) Gahlik is owned by Shadow T Hedgehog, and Ghost is owned by Ghost. (I honestly didn't see that one coming.) I own Vinny, both the human and the person. I think I'll call the hedgehog V.B. like before...
It's amazing how life can change so greatly from day to day. One day you could go to school as a basic, average kid, and then the day after a group of heroes including sluts, voodoo practitioners, lightning-fast runners, strong fighters, and transparent, memory erasing hedgehogs. Like that'll ever happen to me. Watch, it'll happen to my friends, or something. Even my sister, even though she practically lives at the mall...or my sport-obsessed sister...now THAT would be interesting...
Vinny's thoughts the night before IT happened...
It was a bright, sunny morning, the first day of summer break. Inside a house that is perched on top of a hill, an average boy wakes up. He opens his sapphire eyes, and slides his hand through his blonde hair. He climbs out of bed, making his green and orange sheets. He swiftly gets dressed in cargo pants and a 'Shadow the Hedgehog' and 'Miles "Tails" Prower' shirt. He slides down the banister, speeding down two flights of stairs. At the bottom, his foot catches on the small pole sticking out, and he falls forward and lands on his face. The boy stood up, taking a quick glance around to make sure nobody saw him, and the doorbell rang.
"Looks like I timed it right." The boy said as he opened the door, and gasped. Standing outside were his heroes Shadow, Tails, Knuckles, Espio, and Tikal. He also saw Sonic, Amy, and Rouge standing behind them, as well as a black echidna, a green hedgehog, an onyx hedgehog, and a whitish-blondish hedgehog that had her hair tied back in a ponytail.
"Wow...I never thought this would actually happen...only who are those four people in the back?" the boy asked. The green hedgehog spoke up first.
"I'm Vinny the Hedgehog, over here is Kai the Hedgehog, and Shadow's stalker, and last, but not least is Jayln the Hedgehog. Both of the girls I named are obsessed with Shadow, just as a forewarning." Vinny said. The boy nodded, then froze.
"My name's Vinny! You know what, just...call me..." he started. The hedgehog quickly added something.
"Just call me by my real name, V.B." V.B. said. Vinny the human nodded, and gestured for them to come in. They all entered, and Vinny stopped Rouge.
"Wait a second...are you living here?" Vinny asked. Rouge nodded, and Vinny continued.
"Then you're not going to be able to dress like a slut, Rouge. Better go change." Vinny said. Rouge sighed, before walking into the bathroom. V.B. stopped and turned around to face Vinny.
"Oh, I'm sorry. That black echidna with the yellow streaks in his quills and the...weird chao is Gahlik, who practices voodoo. How I managed to forget him, I have no idea..." V.B. said. Vinny nodded as Gahlik stood up.
"Do you have any video games like Pikmin 2...I mean Half Life 2?" Gahlik asked. Shadow immediately stopped examining the house for an emergency escape pod and walked over. Jayln and Kai, who were guarding the emergency escape pod, walked over as well. V.B. took out a Gamecube controller.
"Well, I have Shadow the Hedgehog." Vinny said. Everyone froze. Vinny gulped.
"Right...down...there...why?" Vinny asked. He was immediately crushed by the stampede to get downstairs. The only one who jumped over him was Espio, who had turned invisible.
"Next time, just say no...hey, a package!" Vinny exclaimed as he saw a brown box next to the door. He ripped open the package, and whooped when he saw that he got his love gun.
"I'll be able to mix up real mischief with this..." Vinny said, smiling evily before going downstairs.
"Black hearted evil...Brave hearted hero..." the music blared as Kai shot her way past various black and red aliens multiple times in the head in the game. Rouge and Amy were standing in the corner, not amused by the game. Vinny conspicuously hid the gun under his shirt, and Rouge looked up. Finally fed up, Amy thought of something.
"Who wants to play Truth or Dare?" Amy called out. Everyone ignored her. Amy's eye started twitching.
"What are you, chicken?" Amy asked. Rouge couldn't help but grin in a mocking way. Everyone hastily sat down. Kai gasped, and shot up. A ghostly white hedgehog rematerialized right where Kai sat. He grinned, and Vinny looked confused.
"Hey Vinny. I'm Ghost, and I figured it'd be fun to scare everyone like that." Ghost explained. Kai slowly sat down next to Ghost, and everyone gave Ghost a weird look. Ghost simply shrugged.
"Okay, now that a brief moment of terror is over...Kai, Truth or Dare?" Amy asked. Kai looked at Amy, before replying.
"Dare. Give it your best shot." Kai said smugly. Amy thought about this, and had a small, private conference with Rouge.
"Kai, you have to be locked in the bedroom right next to here with Ghost and V.B." Amy said. V.B. had a stunned look on his face. Ghost and Kai exchanged confused glances, but shrugged, and entered the room. V.B. hesitated, but walked into the room nonetheless. He stood next to the window, and stared out of it longingly before they closed and locked the door.
"That's not all, Kai. If we enter the room, the dare is over. If any of you leave the room, then we get to give you a more embarrassing, a more hilarious dare. And, you have to stay there until we say otherwise!" Amy exclaimed. They heard what sounded like someone banging their head against the wall as they turned their attention back to the game...
Inside the room...
"Do either of you know what's up with this strange dare? I've got to admit, this is weird, even for Amy." V.B. commented. Kai and Ghost shrugged, and V.B. sighed.
"Man...there's nothing to do here but talk...what do you wish to talk about?" Ghost asked. Kai and V.B. looked at each other.
"Well, I've always wished to talk about a nightmare I've had...but it's very random...well, here I go..." V.B. said. Kai took a pillow from the bed, and laid her head on it. Ghost sat up on the bed intently.
Outside the room, with the others...To see what happens, of course!
"Why'd you send them into the room?" Tails asked. Shadow and Gahlik nodded. Amy had another talk with Rouge before answering.
"To see what happens, of course!" Amy said. Tails shrugged, before realizing something.
"I think I'll take Kai's turn for her...hmmmm...Shadow, Truth or Dare?" Tails asked. Shadow looked at Tails, his crimson eyes glaring.
"I dunno, you tell me." Shadow said in his usual cold, emotionless voice. Vinny rolled his eyes.
"Okay, Dare. You have to... stay in that room over there with Jayln!" Tails exclaimed. Shadow shivered, and Knuckles, with Rouge's help, pulled the two of them into the bathroom, which was conveniently placed nearby, and closed the door for the most part. Espio turned invisible, and Vinny handed him the camcorder he pickpocketed from V.B. Espio grinned a perverted grin before turning on the camera, and looking into the bathroom.
Inside the Bedroom...
"You're saying that instead of a giant food fight (Shadow's Tormentations, chapter 6) it was a war, with everyone against you? Even me, Kai, Jayln, and Blaze? And you were completely unarmed with a giant target that said 'Shoot Me' with rabid marshmallows eating you? And Bimbo, my stuffed flamingo...I mean Kai's stuffed flamingo was beating you over the head with a brick?" Ghost said. V.B. nodded, and Kai, who had fallen asleep, flipped sides.
"And you know what's also weird? Vinny and I have similar personalities, meaning he probably ordered a love gun through Fedex or something...not that I would, or anything." V.B. quickly said. Ghost nodded, then shivered at the thought that he was hit with it, and he looked at another guy...he felt like vomiting at the thought.
"I don't even want to think what would happen...if someone was hit and fell for me..." V.B. said. Ghost nodded, and Kai, still asleep, seemed to stretch in her sleep.
Outside the room...
"Poor Shadow...normally, I'd be a good person and call them out...but this is too hilarious!" Gahlik exclaimed. Knuckles and Tails were laughing, Espio was trying not to laugh, so his cover wouldn't be blown, Vinny was laughing as well, leaning against a wall for support. Rouge and Amy high-fived each other, and were giggling uncontrollably. Shadow had a look of utmost terror on his face, and Jayln's eyes were closed. Shadow's eyes darted to the door being slightly open, and then back to Jayln.
'Why me? Why do I get the feeling I'm being watched? Is there a crack in the wall? Something's not right...' Shadow thought.
Shadow quickly slid out from under Jayln, and ran out of the room, Espio moving just in time. Espio turned visible and hid the camcorder. Jayln walked out of the room, and sat back down. Shadow shot Tails a look of deep loathing.
"Rouge...Truth...or Dare..." Shadow said, his right eye twitching. Rouge thought before replying.
"Dare." Rouge said. Shadow grinned so creepily that Knuckles was creeped out, and had to cover his eyes.
"Then it would appear...Rouge and Tails...get the honor...of making love to each other in the bathroom I was just in." Shadow said, and then quickly realized something.
"Oh, and you won't get any privacy, you must do it, and you can't stop until I say you can." Shadow said. Knuckles groaned, and Rouge sighed unhappily. Laughing, Sonic pushed Rouge into the bathroom, and Espio carried Tails in. "What does that mean?" Tails asked Espio innocently. Espio just gave him a strange look, before dropping him onto the floor.
"Better get it over then..." Rouge commented. What happened next surprised the rest of them.
Inside the bedroom...
"I think that after the game, he'll fire the love gun...we need to be prepared." V.B. said. Ghost nodded, and watched as V.B. drew an exceedingly accurate map of the house. He used a small pencil as a pointer as he talked.
"If he does, we could hide here, Point A, down here in the bathroom, the only door with a lock. If that doesn't work, then we go to Point B, the deck outside. We can scale the chimney from there, and hide at the top. However, if that fails, then we go to Point C, which is his own bedroom. I know exactly where that is because I fully examined the house; it's on the third floor. Then, if all else fails, then you turn both of us, Kai if she hasn't been hit, transparent, and we hide somewhere like the closet. Do you understand?" V.B. asked. Ghost nodded, and they looked at Kai, who started to wake up.
"Can we include her in the plan?" Ghost asked. V.B. nodded, and then saw a chance to get in a joke.
"Sure, but I'm sure you'd prefer it if we hit her with the love- hey, what are those guys doing out there? It sounds almost like they're having people..." V.B. paused, exchanging looks with Ghost. "Oh no, they aren't..." V.B. said in horror. They heard the sound of liquid suddenly slapping against the walls, and they ran over to the window, and barfed.
"They are. They are." Ghost replied, leaning out the window. Ghost looked down, and gulped.
"I hope that Vinny didn't like those pink plants that much." Ghost said. V.B. nodded, and Kai sat up, groaning.
Outside the bedroom...
"I'M BLIIIIIND!" Vinny roared.
"OH GOSH MY EYES!" Espio exclaimed, the two of them yelling at the same time. The two lovebirds were actually...enjoying it. Everyone closed their eyes, and when they opened them, a white liquid covered most of the walls, and they heard people puking from the locked bedroom.
"I think I started a new couple, just trying to get revenge!" Shadow exclaimed, his eyes burning. Tails and Rouge ignored them.
"Stop, STOP!" Shadow exclaimed, his hands over his eyes. Gahlik was playing video games as a distraction, and Amy was watching. Tails and Rouge walked out of the room, blushing. Gahlik felt it save to go back, and he did. Amy followed him, and sat down next to Rouge, but kept a distance between them.
"Rouge, it's your turn, choose someone to pick Truth or Dare." Gahlik said. Rouge nodded.
"Let's see, we have Amy, Gahlik, Vinny, Knuckles, Espio, and Jayln left...Espio, Truth or Dare?" Rouge asked. Espio replied without a second thought.
"Truth. A ninja never gets involved in humiliating situations." Espio replied. Rouge scowled, before coming up with an embarrassing Truth.
"Espio, we've caught you in the girl's locker room vents before. How many times have you really been in there?" Rouge said.
"Oh really?" Vinny said in a sassy voice. Gahlik was laughing, and Espio was looking at the floor.
"Umm...sixteen." Espio muttered. Amy, Rouge, and Jayln gasped before kicking Espio between the legs three times.
"Only sixteen? I've been there loads of times...before...oh crud." Knuckles said as the girls loomed over him. Outside, a window shattered as a red echidna was thrown out of the third floor into the road. Back inside, Vinny and Gahlik were whispering to each other, calculating a game plan.
"Ouch...the room was empty fifteen of the sixteen times...you found me the sixteenth time...Amy, Truth or Dare?" Espio asked.
"Dare." Amy replied. Espio grinned, and shadows danced across his face, spooky music played, and lightning flashed in the background. Everyone gulped.
In the bedroom...
"Okay, Kai?" Ghost asked. They had just told Kai the game plan, and she was a little confused.
"Okay, only how can you be sure he has a love gun?" Kai asked.
"We don't. But you can use your x-ray vision to guarantee our suspicions. Kai, if you please?" V.B. asked. In response, Kai's right eye turned gold, and she looked at the door. She saw that underneath Vinny's shirt was a mechanical device that had a switch that had different levels, labeled 'Schoolgirl Crush', 'Basic Love', 'Crush', and 'Undying Love'. Kai shuddered, and hey right eye turned back to its normal color.
"He's got one, and it can make people in love...for good." Kai said. V.B. and Ghost gulped, and started reviewing the plan.
"Something tells me that something's going to go horribly wrong...like usual." Ghost said. V.B. nodded, and they just knew he was right. And of course, he was.
Chapter One comes to a close, and now suspense is in the air, like usual. Vinny's got a weapon that can make people love each other forever, Espio's got a scary dare up his sleeve, and who knows how Knuckles will react when he realizes there are sharp rocks at the bottom of the house, not to mention now not-so-pink flowers as well...
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