CHAPTER 1: TAILS DOLL CURSE
By : Owlbro
This is a true story, I should know, because it happened to my best friend and I.
One stormy day my friend and I were lallygagging around in a local gamestop in search of classic sonic games. That's when we spotted it, the only sonic R in the store, and man did it bring back terrible memories of the theme songs. We both cringed, but my buddy still grabbed it, and with a crooked smile.
"We are so going to play this,and we are going to hate it!" He said far too excitedly. I sighed and nodded reluctantly, he scurried up to the cashier and placed on the counter with an eager smile, The man at the counter looked at the container with wide frightened eyes and tried to stop us from buying it. But my friend adamantly insisted on buying the game, after a while an angry fat man stomped out of the back room and began scolding the cashier for his lack of customer service. Then he turned us and smiled his bald head sweating,
"Please take this, it's on the house, I am sorry for the inconvenience." He said handing us the game in its rightful container. My friend smiled triumphantly and we left without another word, but the cashier's sad eyes followed us as we walked down the street back to my house. When we arrived we were greeted by 2 cheerful puppies and one rather sassy kitten.
"Mom! We're home!" I yelled, we pushed back the puppies gently, and my kitten jumped on my friend's shoulders.
"Hey honey! Oh your friend is over? Well go have fun, I'll be up in a second with some popcorn!" She said with a smile from the kitchen door way. I waved and thanked her before dashing up the stairs with my friend trailing behind me kitten and game in his arms. When we got into my room we threw our stuff into the corner and sat down on the bed in front of the TV. My buddy got up and popped the game into its console and hopped back onto the bed next to me, handing me a controller. We began playing the game, it seemed pretty normal to me, the start was the same as always. Then we went to the character selection screen and found that we could choose normally locked characters, we figured that maybe it was just a hack, so we continued playing thinking that it was pretty cool! So we just continued playing. I do have say that my friend was right,,,,I hated playing it, the theme song killed me. My buddy beside me laughed happily and won the round once again, the achievement sound played and we had unlocked super secret character, Tails Doll, he seemed like a pretty good character, so my friend played him. He began the game and played for a few minutes before the screen froze it began to glitch, the screen went dark after a few seconds, I turned to my friend with wide eyes and grabbed onto his arm in hopes of some kind of security, he watched the screen as it blinked onto a gruesome picture of a pile of bloodied bodies lying behind a small dark figure with a bright smile. I got up in a panic and turned off everything, unplugging it and taking out the disc and breaking with my hands. I peered over at my friend with wide eyes.
"NOPE NOPE NOPE" I said throwing my hands up and hugging my friend tightly continuing to nope into his shirt. Well at least now I can see why people thought I was gay. While hugging him I heard a small mew. I looked up at my friends face and instead seeing the small fluffy face of my extremely sassy kitten. I smiled and began to laugh,I pulled out my cat out of my friends shirt and kissed its nose. My friend looked at me with an awkward smile and I stood up.
"We are never playing a game like that again dude" I said holding my cat, he nodded sadly.
"Can we play something else then?" he asked with a small smile I nodded and pulled out another sonic game and we played, my mom came in a few times to drop off some snacks, and to tell us she was going out to have a nice dinner with my father, I looked at my friend
"Pizza" we both said simultaneously, I got up and got the phone, and my buddy pulled out his wallet, We called up the pizza place and ordered a large meat pizza, we were told that it would take about 30 minutes to get to my home. So we waited, and waited, and waited, until finally there was a knock at the door, I threw my front door open and happily expected it to be my pizza, instead I was faced with a, doll, a tails doll. I shut the door quickly and rushed back to my friend curled up at his side.
"BRO YOU ARE ANSWERING THE DOOR NEXT" I semi yelled into his side. He looked down at me and coughed out some words, a small pink dusting his cheeks.
"Sure" he said in a small rough voice, I was frowning deeply and petting one of my cute little puppies while watching my friend play a level of Halo still glued to his side. About 25 minutes after the first incident the doorbell rang again, my friend got up with a lazy groan before pulling open the door my kitten peering out the door on the side table. He payed the pizza man with a small smile and took the pizza, he looked down and saw the Tails doll, he picked it up without a single real thought. My kitten hissed at it its claws jutting out of her paws, she lunged at the doll and ripped it from my buddy's hand and tore it to shreds tearing up the red gem on it's head. After she finished her duty she pranced away with a proud look. My friend looked at the shredded doll and sighed he walked back into the living room and set down pizza in front of me, I smiled at him warmly and threw open the lid the husky meat smell exiting the box, warm steam entering the air, my mouth water as I reached for a slice, I picked it up and devoured it.
" Oh yeah your cat tore up that doll that was on your porch" My friend said scarfing down a slice of pizza, I looked at him with wide eyes dropping my pizza.
" . . .Now" I said with a very serious tone. My friend gave me the 'aren't you going overboard' look, I simply nodded before standing up and going into the front room and picking up every scrap of the doll, even the little bits of chaos gem left on the ground, I brought them with me into the back yard setting the bits into a spare water bottle box and motioned for my friend to give me my father's lighter. (Yes He does smoke cigarettes). I lit the fire and lowered it down to the box and lit the edge of it on fire. There wasn't much smoke but we still waited until we were sure the doll was gone. I turned to friend the small fire flickering out besides us.
"Please Say you'll spend the night I am seriously spooked, to the max right now." I said with wide eyes, my friend nodded reluctantly pink dusting his cheeks, I thought it might of just been from the fire, well at least he said yes! I thought to myself, I turned and turned on the hose and put the fire out, turning to my friend I stretched my hand out for him to take. He hesitantly took it and I led him back inside, rambling on about it was for the security of us both, I think he believed me! Well anyway! so my friend and I plopped down on the couch and picked up more pizza stuffing ourselves, by 10 my parents had arrived home from their dinner date. I smiled sleeply at them before falling asleep on top of my friend, who I'm assuming set me in my bed.
The Friend's POV
'Today was filled with awkward boners, no, I couldn't be….I couldn't like him right? I mean yes we are both 15 but still I can't...Can I? NOPE I CAN'T' I thought shaking my head setting my friend down in his bed, it looked comfy I wonder if I just...the next morning I woke up in my friend's bed him curled up at my side with a soft smile crossing against his pale freckled complexion,...he looked really cute….NO I CANNOT LIKE MY BEST FRIEND NO NO NO I mentally screamed at myself before trying to escape and slip onto the floor,make it look like I was there the whole night. But a weight kept me pinned to the bed, I peered down to my clothed chest and spotted….one sassy cat and 2 snoring puppies turned on their back on my broad chest. I smacked my forehead and groaned, it is impossible to get out of this situation, so instead I laid there, the weight on my side growing as my friend held onto my arm and side. I am so overly screwed right now. It's been an hour, I HAVE TO PEE I thought my leg began to fall asleep and the kitten that was once on my chest rested on top of my head. The two puppies had left, but I had another dilemma, instead of puppies my best friend was laying on top of me. This did not help that fact that I AM NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM. I groaned and covered my eyes with arm, when I felt shifting on my stomach, I looked and saw my best friend looking at me his eyes droopy and his sunburst hair sticking out in random places.
" Mornin Luxy" He said with a small yawn, 'damnit….I think I do like him, this is going to be awkward' I thought giving my friend a curt nod.
" John, get off I need to pee" I said in a frank and deep voice, he squeaked and jumped off of me stuttering out words, I didn't care because I soon as he got off I rushed to the bathroom. After a quick bathroom break I went back to John's room and found him nowhere so I went down stairs and saw him staring at the tv while flipping pancakes blindly.
"LUX YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!" he shouted not looking away from what sounded like the news. I came down the stairs and grunted before turning to the television,
" 5 children found dead this morning, All after purchasing Sonic CD at local game stores, Police say that store clerks advised them against buying certain copies of the game, Killer unknown, Now onto the weather"
The weather news continued playing as John and I looked at each other, Had we just dodged a bullet?