Me:Ok,here's another chapter :3


Aya led the others around the mansion, most of the time, every door they came to was locked, when they reached the Archive door, Amy spoke up "Oh, why don't we just give up?! We aren't finding anything that could POSSIBLY help us!" She said, Aya turned her head and sighed, she took Snowball back from Blaze,"Amy might be right, but we can't give up yet!" She said, running past the group, the others followed her, Amy scoffed but ran after them, when they reached her mother's room, Aya thought she heard someone mumbling, it might just be her imagination, she opened the door, and saw a woman standing by the window,"Huh?" Aya said, the woman turned around, whiteish-blue skin, blood coming from her head, dirty blonde hair and bloodshot eyes, she was wearing a maid-like dress,"GIVE HER BACK! GIVE HER BACK RIGHT NOW!" The group covered their ears before exiting the room, and slamming the door, all of them (Hence Blaze and Shadow) Were panting "That was unexpected.." Sonic said, "I'm just glad we left before she did something to us.." Tails said, they all noticed Aya was gone, "Aya?" Blaze said, looking around, Aya came out of the bedroom with a bloody key, "The Archives key!" She said,"Now we can go inside the Archives, everyone!" She said, excitedly, and she ran towards the Archives hall


Opening the door,the others followed Aya into the room, Amy stepped on something, and looked down "Huh?" She said, picking up a pendant, then, a little girl appeared behind her, she had the same skin color as the woman, only difference was she had no clothes on and had grey, cloudy eyes with tears flowing out of them "Oh, Hello!" She said in surprise "...Mommy.." "Wh-' "Amy?"

Suddenly, all of them were seeing a flashback, Aya's Father doing an experiment on the same little girl, Maria, the doctor's helper was standing next to the table "Don't worry, once the doctor is done, you may go back to your mother.." she said, the little girl simply replied with screams and cries, "Now calm down, we just want to try this medicine on you..." He said, sticking a syringe in her arm the little girl shook violently before passing out, "Wh-what is this?!" Amy asked Aya, she was terrified of her friend's father now, Aya was on her knees "Stop..Stop that! STOP!" She screamed, the flashback was over and they were in the archives again, Aya was on the floor, the little girl disappeared, Aya had her eyes closed tightly, and her hands were on her head, she kept saying 'Stop! STOP THAT!' Silver and Sonic ran over to Aya "Aya, your ok! Calm down!" Silver said, Sonic said the same, Aya woke up from her little scene and looked up at Silver with teary eyes "Aya?" he asked, the girl hugged him tightly "That was horrible.." She said, Silver caressed a teary little cheek, "It's ok.." he said, Aya just cried more into his furry, and now damp, chest "Who would ever think of doing that to poor children like that little girl?" Amy said, still shaking a bit in fear from what they just saw, Aya sniffled and looked up from Silver's chest, "L-let's go.." She said, Amy looked at the pendant as they made their way out of the Archives, she pressed the button on the side and noticed a picture of a girl and her mother...who looked just like the mother who shrieked at them and the girl who appeared behind her, she let out a gasp, "Guys! That little girl was the daughter of that woman in Aya's mom's bedroom!" "Really?" Tails said, looking at the locket, he realized this too "You're right, Amy! We should give that woman this pendant." He said, they all agreed and ran to the same room they saw the woman in, sure enough, she was there, looking at them, Amy stepped forward with the pendant, the woman's eyes widened and she came closer, the little girl appeared next to Amy as if on cue, "...Mommy..." She whispered, "S-Sweetie?" "..MOMMY!" The girl cried out, running to her mom and hugging her, they both vanished, leaving the group a Chaos Emerald and a gem for helping them reunite.

Amy and Aya ran and picked up their rewards "A Chaos Emerald!" Amy said, the others looked at what was a yellow emerald in Amy's hand "If we find the other six, we can get back home!" She said, excitedly, the others (Hence Shadow) were relieved, but didn't notice Aya, who was looking sadly at the ground "You guys are gonna go home?" she said quietly, "Well..Yeah..we can't stay here forever, y'know.." Sonic said, rubbing the back of his head, Aya looked at them "I hope we don't find the emeralds for a while, I like having you guys as company when father is working.." she said

Flashback

In the morning...

Amy and Aya were picking flowers in the garden while Tails was with Snowball, "Hey, Aya?" "Yes, ?" "Does your father like to make flower crowns?" "Oh yes, he is very good at making them, too." She finished, Amy smiled "I remember when me and my friend Cream used to make them all the time." Amy said, picking another flower and putting it in her lap, Aya looked at the pink hedgehog and smiled "You must have been good friends, then." Aya said, "Yeah.." Amy replied, After a few minutes of silence and flower-picking, Aya spoke up, "I bet you miss Cream a lot, huh?" "Yeah, but I'm glad we're friends too" She said, Aya smiled and hugged her friend

At Lunch time...

Aya watched Maria take the tray of food out of the Cafeteria, Aya sat and ate alone most of the time, unless Alfred was done with his work, then she'd eat with the two of them, a few minutes of poking at her steak later, Sonic, Tails, Silver, Knuckles, Blaze and Silver walked in, Aya brightened up as they sat down while Silver went into the kitchen to cook for them, "Sorry we were so late, Maria was outside your room door doing Lord knows what.." "It's Ok, Sonic, she was probably fixing her dress or something.." She said, the others laughed, Blaze's was more of a chuckle, Silver came out with some more steak "Lunch is served!" He said, passing them out to Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Blaze. He kept one for himself, Aya smiled at them laughing and talking, Tails even got Aya to join in every now and then.

At Bedtime...

"So then, Jack said: 'I'm sorry for all the bad I've done, I was angry and I just wanted revenge on you for bullying me..' he said, then, the bully slightly smiled 'Well then, thanks for saying sorry...but I'm still gonna kick your butt tomorrow.' 'I know..' Then Jack turned to the red-eyed stranger and said 'I don't want to curse people anymore, I can just ask for them to stop what they're doing, not that the bully will, but the others might' He said, the stranger nodded and took away his power, walking away in the shadows, only his red eyes were still showing" Shadow said, "The end" he finished, "Thank you for reading to me, " Aya said, Shadow looked at her and mumbled: "You're welcome.." he said, Aya looked at him and smiled, Shadow was actually a softie if you got to know him well enough, Shadow got on his knees and gave Aya a peck on her head "Goodnight, Aya.." He said, She smiled "Goodnight." She replied, and fell asleep in less than a minute

"We'll be sure to stay for a little before leaving.." Sonic reassured her, Aya smiled and nodded "Let's go save Father!" She said, running out of the room, the others following behind her, Amy putting the Chaos Emerald in her little Hammer Space


A few hours later, they found the Cafeteria key and went inside, it was a mess, Silver and Knuckles went with Aya to the kitchen while the others checked around the actual dining area, when they got there, there was a wolf/dog thing eating raw meat, "Oh My God.." Knuckles said, Aya covered her mouth, Snowball tightly in her grip, "Be very,very,quiet.." Silver said, they all went around the area, Silver almost tripped on a piece of a rug that was pointing up, he caught his balance and looked down, "What is this?" he asked himself, bending down and pulling up the rug, throwing it aside, it was hiding a metal door, "Whoa..Guys, come here" he said loud enough for them to hear, Aya and Knuckles ran over, "It's a secret door, maybe we can use it to get to the basement." He whispered, Knuckles opened the door, only to reveal pitch black darkness, "It's too dark, we can't risk going down there and running into something.." Aya said, Knuckles closed the door "What can we use for light?" he asked "I found some oil in the cabinet, if we can find a lamp, maybe we can use it as a light source." She said, "But where are we gonna find a lamp?" Knuckles asked her, Silver spoke up "I recall seeing a safe in your mother's room, Aya, maybe she has something in there that we can use." He said, "Good idea, to the safe!" Knuckles said, they all ran out of the kitchen and told the others about their plan, and then, they made their way to Aya's Mother's bedroom


"Nothing, I can't open it." Tails said, the others groaned, after fifteen minutes of Tails trying to unlock the safe, nothing seemed to work, the codes he tried only resulted in failure, "There has to be some way.." Aya said, thinking, she saw a piece of paper on the ground just outside her mom's room, "Huh?" She said to herself, walking over and picking it up, she read it "Interesting..Guys! Look at this!" She shouted, running into the room again, Silver took it out of her hands and read it, it said:"Barrels in (Me:My memory of what it said is blurry, please tell me if I did something wrong) the first floor hall, west side of the wall, Chandeliers at the entrance, Red Dolls in the doll room, and paintings in reception..What the heck does that mean?" Silver said, handing Aya the paper, "Maybe it means how many there are?" Tails suggested, they all shrugged, what else could it mean? That sounded like the only reasonable answer they could come up with, they all split up and ran to the rooms

Amy went to count the barrels "One, two, three...seven barrels!"

Sonic went to the entrance, dodging the corpses swinging arms and lunging attacks, "One, Two-Hey, watch the shoes bud!-Three, four Chandeliers!"

Blaze and Silver counted the Dolls "One, two, three, four, five, six Red Dolls." "Wait, Silver, we missed two of them." Blaze said, pulling back a curtain, the dolls had creepy smiles on their faces, which made her slightly cringe "Oh, ok then, make that eight, Eight Red Dolls." he said

Shadow and Aya went to count the paintings "Two paintings, Shadow" "Easy enough, let's go." He said, then, a painting started to shake "Huh?" Aya said to herself, walking over to the painting, Shadow noticed it moving too, "Be careful, Aya." He said, she nodded and looked at it, it was the Mona Lisa from that place..France right? A corpse lunged out, Aya screamed "Aya!" Shadow said, she struggled to get away from it, she felt a pair of teeth bite into her side "Ouch!" She yelped, Shadow ran over and started to yank on the corpse, Aya screamed as it bit her skin, trying to make an opening for it to eat her, after much struggling and Shadow trying to get it off, he finally punched it and it fell towards the wall, helping Aya up, the two ran out of the room, Aya putting a hand on her hip, which was slightly bloody, they finally came to a stop when they reached her mother's room again, the group looked over at the panting and gasping pair, they then noticed Aya was hurt and ran over, Tails put Snowball on the bed and ran over, Aya was then bombarded with questions like: 'Are you ok?' or 'What happened to your hip?' or 'Did you get attacked?'"Enough Questions!" Shadow snapped, leading Aya next to the bed and then he started treating her wound, the others looked at her hip and noticed bite marks "Did something happen, Aya?" Blaze asked, Shadow was about to turn to her, but Aya stopped him, "I was attacked by a corpse, me and Shadow were counting the paintings in the Reception when I saw a painting move, I went to investigate it, when it lunged out of the painting and started to bite me, if it weren't for Shadow, I would have become its dinner." She said, Shadow finished treating her wound and stood up "It may not be much of a bandage, I only had a handkerchief and some medical cream your mother had to treat it." He said, Ayasmiled "It's ok Shadow, you did your best." She said, he gave her a quick flash of a smile before turning to Tails, who was putting in the code "7-4-8-2" he said, the safe opened and he grabbed the lamp out of it, Aya then smelled something pleasant and ran to his side, "Mom's Perfume! I remember that smell from the perfume she always wore, Father gave it to her for their anniversary..I think I'll keep it as a good luck charm." She said, Picking it up and putting it in her pocket, she picked up Snowball and they continued their quest to save Aya's Father.


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