By
Sakura Courage Solo
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Author's Notes:
Yeah, I could probably have thought of a better title... at least it's somewhat better than my first title, which was "Manic and the Chaos Vampires". Anyway, this ish my first attempt at a scary, Hallow's Eve type fanfic, so I hope you like it! Flame it if it's stupid! lol.
Disclaimer:
I don't own Sonic Underground, but I blasted wish I did! Eh-heh... anyway, I'm not getting paid for this either, so don't sue! n.n;
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Chapter 1
"Terror"
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Manic breathed heavily, watching his breath flow from his mouth in the frigid air, rain falling heavily from the stormy night sky above as he sat hidden in a dark alleyway.
His crystal blue eyes searched the shadowy area carefully, his heart racing in his chest. He was sure it was still there... ready to pounce on him if he made the wrong move... he could feel it watching him...
That's when it struck, a dark figure leaping straight down at him from the top of the nearby building, letting out a ghastly shriek of battle. Manic let out his own shriek, but more of surprise, and leapt to the side, barely getting out of the way before the figure would have caught him.
Manic turned on his heels and ran; ran as fast as his tired legs would carry him. The water that was once standing in large puddles on the ground now rippled and splashed out as the green Hedgehog ran frantically through them, in an attempt to escape his pursuer.
He reached up to his pendant as he ran, trying to call out his drumkit, but it was no use. The pendant hadn't enough charge since the concert he and his siblings had done earlier.
His siblings... Sonic and Sonia... how he wished they were there to help him right then. How he wished that he hadn't left the Van to get supplies for restock, only to be attacked by this... monster!
Manic glanced back over his shoulder as he ran, almost sighing with relief when he saw no one chasing him. Perhaps he'd finally escaped it...
Wrong.
Manic looked back forward to look where he was going just a bit too late; too late to stop before he ran right into the waiting arms of his attacker, who grabbed him tight with an especially strong, uneasing grip.
"Ungh! Let go of me!"
The green Hedgehog yelled, right in the face of the blakc Fox who had just captured him. The Fox simply sneered, revealing his sharp, vampiric fangs.
"Sonic! Sonia! Help me!"
Manic scremed in literal terror, struggling futilely against the Vampire Fox's iron-like grip. The Fox's sneer then turned into a smirk when he saw the green Hedgehog's pure terror, his sensitive ears pleased by the sound of Manic's rapidly beating heart.
"Someone! Anyone! Please, help! "
Manic screamed as loud as his lungs would allow, hoping someone would answer his call.
"That's right, let me see your fear... it makes the meal all the better. "
The Fox said in pleasure as Manic continued screaming futilely for help.
"No one can help you now... "
With that, the black Fox ever so slowly, gently and painfully sunk his fangs into Manic's jugular vein, starting to feed leisurely on his red life fluids.
The green Hedgehog was stunned to silence as he felt the Vampiric Fox start feeding off of him, seemingly petrified as his worst fears became reality.
The Vampire fed for a good while, slowly and leisurely as he seemed to very much enjoy the taste of the green Hedgehog's blood. Manic had a pure heart, the Fox had sensed, which was exactly why he had targeted him specifically. To a Vampire, the more pure one's heart is, the better the blood tastes, and Manic's blood was like the finest wine to the black Fox right now, and he wanted to enjoy it.
Finally, after the Vampiric Fox had had enough, he gently pulled his fangs from the green Hedgehog's neck, then pulling away from him and releasing his grip on him, watching him fall into a large puddle on the ground in a crumpled heap, the blood from his neck staining the water red before the wound seemingly healed itself.
The Vampire chuckled slightly and immediately took his leave, leaving the unconcious... or perhaps dead? ... Manic, laying there in his bloody puddle of rainwater...
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"Manic, where are you? "
Sonia called out for her little Brother the next morning, as she and her older Brother Sonic searched the city for him. So far, they'd had no luck.
"Manic! Manic, come on! Can't ya hear us? "
Sonic called out, his Sister then sighing before saying,
"Something bad's happened to him, Sonic... he should've been back by ten O'clock at the LATEST last night! Where could he be? "
"I dunno Sis, but we're gonna find him. Don't worry. "
The blue Hedgehog said, hoping to reassure his pink-quilled Sister, even though he wasn't so sure they would find their brother himself.
It was then that the two of them heard a groan a couple of alleys away, both of them turning to the sound and immediately following it, hoping it was the Brother they were searching for.
Sonic was the first to get to the source of the groan, where he indeed found Manic, who was curled up and shivering in an old, large blanket he'd found in a nearby dumpster, and was sitting in a dark corner of the alley, where no sunlight was hitting.
The blue Hedgehog walked over to his baby Brother, gently placing a hand on his shoulder and saying his name to get his attention. Manic immediately jumped, looking ready to flee out of terror, his eyes wide and horrified looking. He stepped back from Sonic, as though scared of him.
"Get back! Stay away from me! "
The green Hedgehog yelled, Sonic REALLY worried now as he took a step toward Manic.
"Manic, it's me, Sonic! You don't have to be afraid of me! "
Manic seemed delusional though, his crystal blue eyes darting about in an almost psychotic manner. He grabbed a metal pipe from the nearby dumpster and took a swing at Sonic's head with it, the blue Hedgehog barely evading.
"Manic, what the heck's your malfunction? "
Sonic asked frantically, catching the pipe as Manic made another wing at him with it. The blue Hedgehog jerked the pipe from his Brother's hands and tossed it aside, then grabbing Manic by his shoulders and shaking him gently.
"Manic! Manic, get ahold of yourself! It's me! Sonic! "
"S-Sonic... ? "
Manic blinked a time or two, seemingly regaining a bit of himself as he looked on at his older Brother. The blue Hedgehog nodded a bit, watching as his little Brother's body stopped shivering so badly. Manic then hugged Sonic's neck suddenly, starting to cry into his chest.
Sonic was a little surprised at first, but soon hugged his Brother gently, hoping to get him calmed down. He looked off to the side, seeing Sonia was there by now. He gently patted Manic's back as he said,
"C'mon Sonia, let's get him back to the Van... "
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Manic later found himself laid up in his bed in the SU Van, his Sister gently patting down his forehead with a cool cloth to try and relax him. It was working, his body now relaxed rather than shivering, and he looked and acted more normal than psychotic now. Sonia managed a smile.
"Feeling better, Bro? "
She asked, the green Hedgehog nodding a little as he replied,
"Yeah, thanks Sis... "
Sonic then walked over with a few leaves of mint that Sonia had told him to get from the supply cabinet, the blue Hedgehog handing them off to his sister and watching her ever so gently rub the leaves against Manic's chest and shoulders, the massage relaxing their little Brother some more, as well as did the scent of the mint leaves that was now being released. The green Hedgehog breathed a sigh of contentment.
"Good to see you're feeling better, Manic... but... just what happened to you last night? "
Sonic asked, sitting on a chair nearby. Manic glanced over to him with his crystal blue eyes and replied,
"Well, I was... I was attacked by this Monster... "
He began, then thinking to himself,
'Wait, what am I doing? I was bitten by a Vampire! That means... oh my gosh, that means I'M gonna turn Vampire! I can't tell Sonic and Sonia THAT! Who knows what they'd do if they knew that? I can't let it on... '
Sonia looked shocked and asked in alarm,
"A MONSTER? "
"Y-yeah, a Monster... "
Manic replied, then thinking,
'As long as they don't know it was a Vampire, then I'm in the clear... for now... '
"What kind of Monster? "
Sonic asked, Manic stuttering a bit before finally managing,
"It was too dark and rainy to see... I just know it was NOT a normal thing... I just felt pure evil and terror from it... "
"Well, don't worry Manic, you're okay now. "
Sonia told him, gently hugging him as he thought to himself,
'Yeah, sure I'm okay... '
He gently hugged her back, hoping he could figure something out...
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Later that evening, Manic was starting to slowly but surely feel the effects of his vampiric body. He was starting to feel a bit of pain from the ceiling lights in the Van, and Sonia quirked an eyebrow when she found him up on a ladder, putting up a translucent, blue plastic over the lights.
"Manic, what're you doing? That blue plastic is making the entire Van look blue on the inside! "
"Hey, just what's wrong with blue? "
Sonic asked with a smirk, Sonia sighing exasperatedly before looking back up at Manic, who replied,
"Oh, y'know, just conserving energy. If I put this special plastic over the lights, then it'll like, bounce some of the energy back into the circuits and save battery energy in the Van. "
His sister simply huffed at his lie, Manic knowing good and well that he was putting up this special plastic to filter the ultraviolet rays away from the light.
"Well, anyway, um... that done, I think I'm gonna make us some dinner. I'm starving. "
He proclaimed as he jumped off of and then put away the ladder he'd been on. He headed over to the small stove/kitchen area of the Van afterwards and started fixing dinner for himself and his siblings, figuring he'd best stuff himself full now, so he wouldn't crave... dare he think it... BLOOD later.
Manic shuddered at the thought of craving the blood of others, but tried to keep his mind off of it for now. He found some ground beef in the small refrigerator/freezer and used it to make some cheeseburgers for dinner. Actually, a LOT of cheeseburgers. Manic wanted to try and get himself good and full right now.
He sat down at the table with his older Brother and Sister, trying his best to act natural in front of them, but they could see his nervous state. The two decided not to ask him though, figuring it was just recoil from the night before as they ate their dinner.
Then, without really thinking much of it, as if it was a natural thing, Manic took the bottle of ketchup that was on the table and started drinking down it's thich, red contents. Sonic and Sonia gave him a look of surprise, Manic quirking a brow before asking,
"What? Something wrong? "
"Well, you're kinda... drinking Ketchup... "
His Brother pointed out, Manic sweatdropping slightly and looking at the near empty bottle in his hand. He yelped a bit and put it down quickly, then laughing nervously before making an excuse,
"S-sorry, I guess my mind was off on another planet somewhere and I accidentally picked it up instead of my soda... "
Sonic and Sonia both quirked an eyebrow, but against heir better judgment decided to let it go, Manic then finishing off his third cheeseburger and heading to bed early.
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Later that night, as Sonic and Sonia slumbered peacefully in their beds, Manic was silently writhing in his bed. His stomach felt the worst it had ever felt, feeling like someone had just reached inside of him and twisted it into a hard knot. He figured his body was starting to reject normal food, and now regretted eating so much of it at dinner.
The green Hedgehog finally rose from his bed and started toward the bathroom slowly but surely, finding it quite hard to walk with such pain in his stomach.
When he made it to the bathroom, he leaned over the bowl just in time to empty the contents of his stomach, which was actually quite a lot after all he'd eaten at dinner.
He moaned slightly after he had finally finished, slowly standing up and grabbing a nearby washcloth to clean his face with.
His face... he winced as he felt his mouth start hurting pretty badly. He reached in with his fingers to massage his gums a little in an attempt to soothe this sudden pain...
He felt two, new bulges under his upper gums.
His crystal blue eyes widened a bit, and he immediately went to the bathroom mirror to look at his reflection. He was just in time to see two, sharp fangs slide down from his upper gums.
"Oh, no... "
Manic murmured as he stood there, horrified at what he saw.
"F-fangs... ? No... "
He whispered, sliding down to his knees and murmuring,
"No... I'm... I'm a Vampire... "
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End Chapter 1
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So, how did you all like that? n.n I hope you all enjoyed it! I already have chapter 2 written, and I'm about to start writing the third chapter! I might update with the second chapter tonight, and I hope to have this story all done and posted by Hallow's Eve night, but if I can;t finish it up by then, you guys won't hold that against me, right? n.n;
Anyway, please, oh please, oh PLEASE read and review! This is my first attempt at a scary story, and I REALLY wanna know how i did! Please leave me a review? Please? Erm, anyway, Happy Hallow's Eve, people! Hope you all get lots of good candy! n.n