Please Bleed, Thanks.

A Sonic story by Will Counter

Tails entered the dusty old manor. It'd been a while since he'd last met with Sonic... Too bad about the blue guy, really... Killed by a Yaoi fanatic who tried to make him kiss Big under the Sword of Ledouche, which was a sword shaped like that moron from MXC's fat head... Suffice it to say that they got into a fight and Sonic ended up being thrown into the sword, and consequently sliced horrifically into two equal halves. It was still fresh in Tails' mind.

Sure was nice of the guy to leave him the estate, though... But...

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Flashback

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Tails read the hand-written will for the eighth time.

And I also wish to transfer ownership of Hedge Manor to my dear friend and "brother", Miles Tails Prower. But I must warn him that there is more to the old home than meets the eye.

What could that MEAN!

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End Flashback

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Tails took a few steps into the dusty old foyer, examining a few old trinkets, Sonic lunchboxes, Sonic games, even a Sonic Grandfather Clock in one corner of the room...

Svink!

Tails whirled around to the door.

"... Hey, Sonic. SONIC!"
"Yo."
"But you were... I saw..."
"You saw right."

Sonic, who had been facing to the left, turned. His left and right halves were unnaturally stitched together, scabbing up and the skin portions of his face were ghastly pale, dark circles around the eyes--really not pleasant, no, not at all... Sonic started towards Tails. He grabbed him by the throat, causing Tails to yelp in pain, before lack of airflow told him to save his breath. He kicked at Sonic, but of course his legs were too short, and he ultimately accomplished nothing besides wasting his energy. Sonic moved into the next room, and as his vision blurred, Tails could see that it was an old kitchen. Sonic walked over to a clock, and started messing with it.

Tails passed out.

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He woke.

Blood. Tails saw blood. His blood. On... a grave. He read the tombstone, grasping his bleeding chest.

"Sonic..."

He felt something under the hand he was using to support himself. A note.

Tails...
I truly am sorry, but if I am to remain in this world, I need something valuable to every living thing... Blood.
Tails...
Please bleed. Thanks...

Signed, Sonic the Hedgehog.

"Why? Why does Sonic need blood? Why me? Why not Eggman, or Amy, or Cream? Why do all these bad things happen to me? It's not fair, it's not fair, not fair, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..."

Tails passed out again, from blood loss.

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He woke again.

He was in a hospital, stitched up and bandaged around his chest. He was hooked up to these machines... But... Everything looked burnt... Blood was everywhere... The walls... The roof... The floor, however, was clean. The blood that dripped from the roof and walls just... evaporated. Tails sat up, and needles popped out from his skin. He looked at them... Green? Blood is red, why is there green in the syringe? Tails left the room and looked down one end of the hall he was on. Nothing. No doors. No elevators. No people. Just more blood.

Blood.

Tails looked down the other end.

Something moved. There were four doors in this room, and, at the end, a single elevator.

Tails went back into his room, and looked around. He picked up a scalpel from the floor and went down the hall with four doors.

Something moved, Tails saw it again, but he just walked past the door, hoping it wouldn't bother him. He reached the elevator and pushed the button.

BUUZ!

Tails had hoped to keep quiet. Silly, silly, Tails. Always hoping, never getting. Tails turned, and almost threw up. The thing... was all bloody, it was smothered... it looked like a giant pair of tweezers attached to a human skull that had a snake for a tongue. tails stepped back, but didn't notice that the elevator's doors had opened. He fell, and fell and fell... He tried to spin his tails to fly. They were gone. They'd been cut off. He fell and fell and fell, and then...

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"Hey, WAKE UP!"

She struck him across the face. He opened his eyes. Amy.

"Hey Amy..."
"Are you alright? You looked like you were having a nightmare..."
Tails looked around. The same room.
"Yeah... Amy... I think I saw..." Tails hesitated. Amy was not the person who you would go and tell that you saw their dead crush.
"You saw what?"
"A... uh..." Tails looked around. Amy was the only thing in the room, there were no chairs, just a TV... Amy didn't watch TV that much...
"What did you see?"

"Uh... I saw this great... uhhmm... thing... " He noticed Amy's bracelet. "It was wierd. It was a ring, you know, one of the big ones, but it wasn't big. It was the same size as... maybe, that bracelet."
Amy looked at the bracelet. "It's not THAT much smaller than a normal ring."

Not much else to talk about with these two. Amy left. Tails went back to sleep.

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To be continued...