STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me. So does Dave Barker and Tim.

Chapter Three:

Cabin 13

"Sarah! I thought you said it wasn't that far!" Manic whined in the very back of the group.

"I haven't been there in forever, Manic; I was just saying that so you guys would follow me!" Sarah yelled back.

"Ugghh," Scourge moaned as he carried Fiona since she said she broke a hangnail and wouldn't walk any further; and Scourge was not going to stay all alone with these guys.

"Oh hush, Scourge, I'm trying to sleep," the female fox whacked his chest.

He rolled his eyes and looked farther down the empty road, "Hey, guys!"

Everyone stared back at him, kind of wishing Sarah had made them stay home.

"What?" Shadow growled, "Your girlfriend need a drink now?"

"No, there's a semi coming!"

The turned, watching the massive semi truck haul an empty load towards them.

"Maybe we can flag it down," Sonic suggested.

Shadow raised an eyebrow at him, "Faker, we're in a huge group, do you really think he would miss us?"

"…"

Shadow smirked as the blue blur had nothing to say.

"Guys come on, just flag him down anyway," Sarah broke up their would-be-fight.

Sonic jumped up and down, "Here! Here!"

"Faker, we're not going to die…"

"You never know!" Sonic said, jumping higher.

The semi, a black and green one, stopped next to the group, quite surprised to see that many walking. Sarah climbed up the steps and asked the driver to roll down the windows. When he did, Sarah saw that he was a black dog with a white spot around his left eye, with ice blue eyes that reminded her of Scourge.

"What can I do for ya?" he asked in a southern accent.

"We need a ride to Brick Creek."

"I just came from there, some Mr. Barker guy wanted another cabin up there and-"

"And you brought it up there?" Sarah guessed.

"Yeah, it's not that far; you guys just go that way not a football field's distance then turn off near the left on the road and another mile you'll be there, I'm sorry but I can't turn around on such a small road," he explained.

She smiled anyway, "Thanks!"

She got off and the truck drove off, leaving the group behind.

"What! He's comin' back right?" Manic asked which caused Sonia to roll her eyes, "Manic, he wasn't going to help us."

"That jerk!" Manic hollered after the truck.

Sarah glanced at the hedgehog, "Manic, he gave us directions because he couldn't turn around on this small of road."

"Oh…." Manic said as everyone started walking off again, following Sarah, "Hey guys! Wait up!...I said wait up!"

He was pretty far away from them then. His arms drooped and he started slowing down.

"Guys!" he whined, tears forming.

"Just ignore him…" Sonic muttered, getting a smile from his friends.


"Guys I see the cabins!" Sarah yelled.

The road they were on was a dirt road going uphill then down into the cabins place and the creek.

When the group got up and caught their breath Manic finally caught up, "Guys…wa-wait…u-up," he collapsed on the ground but no one cared or pretended to notice.

"So downhill race, Shadow?" Sonic said, getting ready.

"No! You guys could trip and fall and get hurt, absolutely not!" Amy commanded, getting in between the two who were getting ready to race.

"But Ames-"

"No buts!" Amy interrupted with her hands on her hips.

"Yeah-"

"Zip!" she said.

Shadow tried to say, "Ro-"

"Nope!"

Sonic sighed, "Am-"

"Shush!"

Sarah rolled her eyes, "Come on, Am-"

"Shush, I said!"

Sarah raised an eyebrow, "Did you just shush me?"

Amy opened her eyes that she had closed to listen around her, "Truck….."

"What?"

"TRUCK!" Amy said as everyone looked behind them and saw a big red truck coming for them.

"AHHHH!"

Shadow grabbed Amy and ran off to the side of the road with everyone following him.

The truck roared past them and down the hill into the cabin place.

"Asshole!" Shadow flipped him off.

"Come on, guys," Sarah comforted as they headed down the road.


When they got down they saw cabins on hills, cabins in the center of the place and one right to the side of the road. On it was a sign that said "Dave Barker's Office"

Outside the cabin was the red truck that had almost ran them over. A white dog with brown paws came out of the pick-up and walked up to a blue anole lizard that had brown eyes, "Tim, the cabin come yet?"

"Yes, Dave, it did," the anole lizard said, nodding to his boss.

"Good, where is it?"

"We got it down by the creek where it's supposed to be, sir," he said watching his boss walk out on the dirt road around the truck and see the group.

"Ahh, new people, what can I do for you folks?" he walked up as Shadow hid behind Sonic.

"Cabin," Amy said smiling at him.

He smiled back and glanced behind his shoulder, "Tim!"

Tim came racing with a piece of paper and keys, "Here, sign this and tell us how many people will be staying and these are your keys."

Sarah took the paper to read while Amy held onto the keys.

"How much do these cost?" Sarah asked.

"Depends how many people are staying in one cabin and these cabins are huge miss," Tim said as Dave looked at each one of them.

The dog stopped at one and glared, "You were the guy who yelled at me and flipped me off!"

Sonic looked at him, "N-no…that was," Sonic turned around but Shadow wasn't there…in fact Shadow was nowhere to be found.

"What the-?" Sonic started.

"I should make you pay more for doing that…but since I'm feeling nice I'll let it go," Dave almost growled.

"So that'll be…eight hundred dollars and fifty cents…" Tim calculated.

"That's…cheap…."

"Yes, well you guys came early when we have hardly any people so we try to get more and put the prices down," Tim told her.

"How much do they usually cost?" Rouge inquired, looking at the papers.

"About a thousand for a group of five or seven."

She raised her eyebrows, "Wow."

"Yeah, but I don't make up the prices, he does," Tim said pointing to Dave.

Dave smiled warmly, "Yes, ever since I decided to buy this place in-"

"Listen, Mr. What's Your Bucket, I get it, you bought this place before dinosaurs roamed—I would love my room right about now," Manic stood up in front of his friends.

Mr. Barker apparently didn't like to be interrupted nor be called that name, "Fine," he said through gritted teeth.

Tim smiled a little and led them to their cabin; it was upriver a bit, not all the way since the creek went on for miles.

Here's your cabin, number thirteen," Tim informed before leaving.

Amy looked at the group, "Isn't that an unlucky number?"

"Most hotels don't have that number," Sonic agreed.

"This isn't really a hotel, Sonic," Knuckles folded his arms as Amy unlocked the door and opened it.

The group walked in and gasped, "Wow…"

"That was really cheap to pay for this!" Sonic exclaimed, holding out his arms.

The main room had wall of rocks then wood, rugs laid out, chairs with fur, a fireplace and a door that led to the kitchen probably. The group heard steps coming down the stairs and saw the black missing hedgehog, "Shadow!"

Sonic gripped the hedgehog's shirt pushing him up against the wall, "You were lucky Mr. Barker was in a good mood today!"

"Sonic!" Amy wailed, yanking him off.

Sonic brushed himself off, "Fine, but you're lucky you didn't do anything else-"

"Actually Faker, I picked out our room," Shadow snaked his arm around Amy's waist.

Sonic glared at Shadow, "You…you…" he pointed at him, "I don't know what you are you but I'll figure it out…"

Sonic stormed away with his nose so far up in the air while he went to cool off some steam.