Thanks to Hande, Lucy and Mikaela for reviewing! It would be nice to get more reviews though…
Tachi: SHOUT OUT TIME! *looks at list* Check out Lucy Labrador's story, 'What a Long Hard Life.' And, Hande's story…'Left 4 Dead-
Sammy: *poofs in* FRYING PAN! *nearly hits me*
ZOMG, who gave the crazy Commander a frying pan? HANDE!
Chapter 4: 4 Minutes Before Death
(hee hee, the chapter title was done on purpose)
"A Ghost Trick? Oh, so YOU, were the one trying to kill me last night." Sonic looked at Shadow, crossing his arms.
"I didn't know…I think I used the Ghost Trick while I was asleep. You shouldn't have come in my room anyway." Shadow glared back at Sonic.
"Wow! These skills sound exciting! What else can you do?" Tails asked.
"Well…I'm not sure." Shadow concentrated, and switched back to the ghost world.
"Welcome back. If you're here about your Ghost Tricks, then you'll find out your other skill soon. Now, you should be on guard..."
"Who are you anyway?" Shadow asked.
"Me? I'm just a messenger of Fate and Death. You might meet me…if your friends are unlucky enough to die."
"I don't trust you…"
"Then don't. I don't like you much anyway…you've stopped Death from claiming its victims many times, and it's not happy. But now, I guess you're going to give it an impressive kick in the nuts."
"Why are you being so mysterious? Tell me what's going to happen!"
"You'll see…in the meantime, good luck. Have fun with the Ghost Tricks." the voice faded.
"Well…since that voice is gone…it can't hurt to possess a few objects…" Shadow grinned.
Back in the real world, Sonic was looking at Shadow, who was apparently asleep on the floor.
"So, he gets special powers? As if he wasn't over powered already…" he said.
"I've never seen anything like it! When I went to the meteor crash site, there was no trace of it…but the crater's still there. The shards of the meteorite might have disintegrated into the atmosphere."
"So we're going to be breathing in magical meteorite dust now? I hope I get a good power."
"No…it's in small amounts that probably wouldn't affect people."
"Shadow better not be lying- what?" Sonic shouted, pointing at the toaster. Tails turned around, and saw it was shuffling up and down. It stopped, and a cupboard door started opening, then slamming shut.
"Shads? Are you moving this stuff?" Sonic asked. The door stopped moving, then a marker on the counter picked itself up, and wrote in a newspaper.
'Don't call me Shads!' the note read.
"Well, this is great…we now have an invisible Shadow moving things around the workshop…" Sonic muttered.
'Damn straight!' the marker wrote.
"But, could you warn us before you start moving stuff around…?" Tails asked.
'I'm writing a note, and my body's asleep on the floor. It seems that whenever I use Ghost Tricks, I lose control of my body and fall unconscious. This is really my soul moving objects…' Shadow wrote.
"Well, enough Ghost Tricks Shads! What about a friendly race?" Sonic asked, grinning. The marker rolled unto the floor next to Shadow's body, and he got up.
"Humph. I'll win." Shadow smirked.
"Well, you don't have a Chaos emerald!" the two hedgehogs sped out, leaving a blinking Tails.
"Looks like things haven't changed at all, around here!" he said to himself.
The speedy pair sped through the forest, with Sonic in the lead, surprisingly.
"Hey Shads! Slow much?" he yelled back at Shadow, who was trailing behind him.
"Oh, don't worry faker…I'm just getting started!" Shadow powered up his hover skates, and passed right by Sonic.
"That's not fair! Take those things off!" Sonic shouted.
"You didn't say I couldn't use them." Shadow smirked, vanishing into the distance. Sonic slowed down as he heard something in the bushes. He turned around.
"Are you trying to creep up on me or something?" he asked whoever was behind him.
"Sorry hedgehog. I'm just doing my job." a voice said.
Back with Shadow, he had paused to catch his breath.
"Strange…that faker hasn't caught up with me. I better go and see what he's doing." Shadow muttered to himself.
'BANG!'
"What the heck was that…?" he wondered. He quickly ran back to where Sonic was, and saw his rival lying on the ground.
"Sonic…?" he asked, walking over. The blue hedgehog didn't move, and then Shadow realised that there was blood on his fur.
"Holy Chaos!" he shook Sonic, but he didn't move.
"He's…dead…" Shadow muttered sadly. He wasn't sure how it had happened, but Sonic was dead.
"Yes…this is what I predicted." the voice spoke.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because…you can still change his fate. Switch to the ghost world."
"Fine…"
Shadow's vision turned blue, and he found himself as the red flickering flame again.
"There's one last Ghost Trick you have. Four minutes before death. It isn't a common Ghost Trick, so you should be glad you got it."
"Wait…are you saying I can travel back in time?"
"Yes. Possess your friend's body. You should be able to communicate with his soul."
Shadow sighed, and prepared himself. He possessed Sonic's body, and found himself in a blue vortex, with a green flame in front of him.
"…Sonic?" he asked, looking around.
"…Huh? What happened…?" a voice echoed from the green flame.
"Is that you? You're a flame…" Shadow muttered.
"Shadow…? Oh, wait, I think I remember now!" the green flame hopped up and down, and turned into a see through Sonic.
"Whoa. I'm a ghost? But that means…"
"Yeah. You're dead. But do you know what happened?" Shadow asked.
"Hmm…not much, really. I think I was ambushed from behind…" Sonic said.
"Newly dead souls can't remember their death, Shadow. You'll have to go back to four minutes before he died."
"Right…and how do I do that?" Shadow asked.
"Who are you talking to?" Sonic wondered.
"No-one."
"Concentrate, and you'll go back in time. You better brace yourself though."
Shadow concentrated, and to his surprise, he saw a vision of a red clock turning backwards, then everything went blue. He found himself back in the forest, and…Sonic was still alive.
"Wow…these Ghost Tricks really are something." Shadow said to himself.
"Yes. Now…you'll be able to watch his death, and then prevent it with your Ghost Trick of possession. But, I should warn you…you can't manipulate living things. Only objects. Now…go forth and give Death a kick in the nuts!"
4 Minutes Before Death: Sonic
(yes, I will write that.)
Sonic looked around, and saw a grey ferret walk calmly out of the bushes, holding something behind his back.
"Sorry hedgehog. I'm just doing my job." the ferret said.
"Er…who are you?" Sonic asked.
"It doesn't matter…but you, my amigo, came into contact with shards of the meteorite that fell around here…I can sense its power on you, but it looks like you're not the one with the Ghost Tricks…nevertheless, it's my job to…get rid of people who know about the meteorite…it cannot be known about, nor can it be reported to those military people…"
"What are you talking about?"
"Once again, I am truly sorry. But you are playing with things that are beyond your understanding…" the ferret whipped out a gun, and pointed it at Sonic.
"Wha-"
'BANG!'
*end of account*
"…So, that's what happened…I have to stop that ferret somehow." Shadow muttered.
"Heh heh…why don't you try possessing that bear trap over there? It was right next to the ferret. Should make him run screaming for his mum."
Shadow looked around, and saw a clean looking bear trap near the bushes. It hadn't been set, and it looked almost brand new.
"Yeah…that'll work."
Trick Time!
(why can't I write that out as well?)
Shadow possessed a rock, and waited as the ferret came out of the bushes.
"Don't forget…you have only 4 minutes. You can bring your friend back an infinite amount of times though." the voice reminded Shadow.
"I'll remember that…let's see…I can't just hop over to the bear trap…I have to possess objects to get there. Let's see…" Shadow looked around for a path, and quickly found one.
"OK…rock to bush, bush to tree, tree to…old…tin can thing…to trap! Yes, that should work." he muttered to himself.
"Say, could you hurry up? The ferret's still ranting about his reasons, but…he's going to take out that gun soon. I would have dodged the shot…but I didn't have any warning." Sonic said.
"When did you get here? I thought I'd left you in that blue vortex."
"I followed." Sonic said smugly.
"Ugh…just keep quiet, and let me do the Ghost Tricks around here." Shadow growled.
He followed the path of cores, and then realised the ferret's foot was right on the trap, so he rolled the can to distract him.
"…A can?" the ferret wondered, stopping mid rant and moving his foot slightly off the trap.
"I knew ferrets liked shiny objects!" Sonic shouted.
"Shut up, blue hedgehog…I think it's time for me to carry out what I came for…" the ferret whipped out the gun, and was about to shoot Sonic, when-
'SNAP!'
"ARGGHHHH! MY FOOT!" the ferret collapsed on the floor, trying to get his foot free.
"I think you shouldn't move too much…here, let me help you." Sonic kicked the gun away, and tried to help the ferret up.
"Well done, Shadow. It looks like you've changed his fate…but this won't be the last time you use that Ghost Trick to stop someone dying."
"Huh…then I better get back to my body…" Shadow said.
Fate Averted!
*Insert Ghost Trick theme music here*
So, Shadow managed to get back to his body, and went back to the workshop. The ferret was sitting on a chair with his eyes half closed, as Tails bandaged his paw.
"I don't get why you're helping me…I should be doing my job." the ferret muttered.
"Well, in return you can tell us why you tried to kill Sonic." Shadow said, crossing his arms.
"Tried to kill me? Erm, Shads, he did that…" Sonic pointed out.
"You remember being dead?"
"Yeah…you were some ghostly red flame thingy, and you somehow turned back time…"
"What's going on?" Tails asked.
"Nothing…"
"How humiliating…to be caught by the same targets I'm meant to be assassinating…" the ferret complained.
"Oh, so you were sent to kill us? By who?" Shadow asked.
"…I can't say, but hedgehog…be prepared to suffer the wrath of the Black Claw Clan!" the ferret shouted.
"…The what?"
"Never mind."
"Well…we'll question you in the morning." Shadow smirked.
So...Trick Time! *Ghost Trick music plays*
Tachi: What she means, is REVIEW time. *Ghost Trick music screeches to a stop*
Yeah…that…Shout out for Mikaela! (Because a certain old guy interrupted Tachi) Check out her story, The Chronicles Of The Fanfiction World! Now, I have Maths work calling me.
BTW…I heard about a news story, where a teenage boy died from deep vein thrombosis by sitting at his computer often for 12 hours. Please people, take breaks regularly, and if you get pins and needles in your leg…GO FOR A WALK IN THE NICE FRESH AIR OUTSIDE! Just a warning. That's why I didn't update yesterday...my aunts are scared I might get that. Anyhow…may StarClan light your path!