Chapter 3

Hey everyone! Hope you liked the last chapter, we finally find out who 'He' is! Well, if you hadn`t guessed already.

Anyway, Chapter 3 is up! Enjoy! XXX

The hedgehog pondered hard as he paced around the room, the worn out red carpet fading under his feet, the creaky floorboards creaking loudly.

Sonic winced. This place was creeping him out. Not that it hadn't creeped him out before now.

The blue hedgehog looked around the room, observing it. In all the time he had been here, he had never taken the time to notice the room he was restricted in. All of his time had been spent looking out the 1 window in the room.

It was a living room set up, you know the normal fireplace, coffee table and sofas. But there was something very...off about it.

Sonic already knew this wasn't a normal place. He had learned that over his past few...he didn't know how long he had been here.

But that didn`t bother him now. All suicidal thoughts were pushed to the back of his mind. He had swallowed his fears and decided to continue surviving.

But a small part of him still gave up on him. It was telling him to stop, not to believe such lies, that he should just give up. It was trying to hold him back.

'You`ve been stuck here for ages, nobody`s came for you, nobody even knows your gone'

The blue hedgehog blinked hard, shaking his head in hopes to get the spiteful words out of his mind.

Sure half of it was true, the last one he hoped was fake, but he refused to listen. Sure he had hated himself ad life when he got into the routine here but that was all behind him.

The cause of his depression was caused by the thoughts of him never getting out, dying. Nobody could imagine him being miserable or alone and now that he had experienced what it was like, it felt weird.

What would Tails say? He had always looked up to Sonic, imagined him as an invincible, fearless wrecking machine.

But now if he knew what was going on, where his hero was he would probably never look at him the same.

'I don`t care, I just wanna get out of here!' Sonic thought.

He looked out the window. The rain had quietened and slowed down, leaving big puddles on the ground and after drops on the large, wide window. Even though it was still slightly raining, that little sunbeam, that little ray of hope still shone brightly through the dull skies.

He smiled, the first smile ever since he had got here.

'I`ll get out' He said, walking to the coffee table 'It`ll be easy!'

He grabbed a match and lighter from the table and lit it. There were no light switches available.

Sonic moved the lit match around; trying desperately to fight the dark that threatened to shut him in. Not that he was claustrophobic or anything but the fact of being more alone frightened him even though 2 minutes ago he had just thrown all ugly thoughts and words away.

'Calm down Sonic, come on your the hero! There are innocent people trapped in here, you have to help them'

He stepped forward, moving slowly as if he was scared to knock something over.

*Thunk!*

The hedgehog spun around in shock. It sounded as something had fallen...or was thrown?

He advanced slowly towards the stairs that were set up at the side and looked at the bottom of them. He reached down, feeling it to understand it. He held it shakily in case it was dangerous.

He held it closer to the match, finding himself slightly desperate to identify the object.

As the small flame`s glow covered it, Sonic identified the object as a small corked bowling ball.

'The strangest thing to fall down the stairs' Sonic thought as he unplugged the cork and pulled a rolled up piece of paper.

On it in red letters read: Your done for.

Sonic scratched his head. 'What?'

Suddenly, he heard thumping coming from the stairs. He looked up and gasped as he saw a whole bunch of bowling bowls rolling down the stairs towards him.

'Yikes!'

The hedgehog shot off using his famous speed for the first time in ages and hid behind a wall as he heard the bowling balls crash against a table in the hallway.

He peeked out and stared. 'What was that all about?'

He looked around. There was no culprit. Now Sonic wasn`t one for believing in ghosts or haunted things but this resembled most ghostly situations.

The hedgehog shook off his thoughts and went out into the hallway. He looked up the stairs and he swore he could see a shadowy figure at the top of them.

'Only one way to get more answers' Sonic said and he started to slowly walk up the stairs, hearing faint laughter following him.