FINAL DESTINATION: SONIC STYLE

Hello. I'm back! Apologies for the delay, as I said previously, I have had a week up at my Nan's. Great time there as well.

I got 3 games for my Xbox up there: DJ Hero, DJ Hero 2 and HAWX 2. Love all of them. I also got the first of the Final Destination books and already, I love it. I recommend it to all Final Destination fans... That also slightly involves you, Bloody... If you're a fan...

This chapter I'm gonna have to think about for reasons beyond the mortal realm...


CHAPTER 7

SEEKING HELP

"Okay, that's it! We're getting help whether anyone likes it or not!" Carlos declared as he, as well as Anna, marched out of Aquapolis. They had unfortunately witnessed Knuckles, or what was left of him, 'slop' out of the first jump, as Carlos told the inspectors and detectives, not 10 minutes ago.

This infuriated him. Sure, he should be slightly relieved that he was dead for the way he treated them at the theme park, and the other deaths should have infuriated him, but now, Carlos was on the verge of insanity!

With now just Rouge, Shadow, him and Anna to go, they needed assistance... Fast!

"I agree. We need some answers and we need them now!" Anna seemed to see eye to eye with Carlos as she approached the car.

They opened the doors, buckled themselves in, and Carlos reversed out of the parking space and drove out of the parking lot.

His destination? Mobotropolis. He had a good friend who happened to be a secret sorcerer. (A/N: I think I spelt that right. Hmmm...) Maybe she could help.


SCREECH!

The tyres skidded to a halt as Carlos stamped the brakes.

The two slowly exited the car and began walking towards where Carlos' friend's shop was located, which was in one of the dark alleyways of the city.

The two took a left turn, heading into a pure shopping street. Shops were here, there and everywhere, but then again, every street was like this.

But there was something strange about it... The street was practically empty. Usually, the street was packed to the point of suffocation.

'That's odd. The street's empty. Why?" Carlos asked himself, but he shook the thought away and continued to concentrate of finding his destination.

The two eventually came, after a 5 minute walk, to a dark alleyway. A wind blew down the alley as if to say, 'Go back...' But they ignored it and went ahead anyway.

Anna noticed that the windows in the shops were black as night. The only lights that shone were some old fashioned candle-powered lights that hung on a metal rod that was stuck to the ground. She clung to her boyfriend in fear as she saw some red eyes shimmering in the dark.

This made Carlos chuckle slightly. "Don't worry. I've been down here more times than you can shake a stick at. It's perfectly safe as far as I'm concerned."

"As far as you're concerned?" Anna repeated uneasily.

"You get the idea." Carlos said confidently.

Eventually, they came to a shop on the street. The words, 'Cauldrons Galore' were barely visible due to the paint being stripped off.

When they entered the building, a door bell rung, alerting the owner of a customer. The pale aroma of herbs and cold, unused metal wafted amongst Anna and Carlos' noses.

They wandered about the shop for about a minute, before a Lynx was spotted in the corner of Anna's eye.

"Ah. We have a customer." she squealed excitedly as she ran back into the shadows of the upper levels.

"Who was that?" Anna asked fearfully.

"The name's Nicole. Nicole the sorceress." A voice cropped up from within the shadows behind Anna.

Anna jumped around in fright to see nothing but shadows. "Show yourself!" Anna demanded.

"Ooh. She's a feisty one, isn't she Carlos?" Nicole asked from a different area of the room.

Carlos shrugged. "I dunno. Never really thought about it. But she's right, come on out. I haven't seen you in ages."

There was an uncanny silence in the room. Eventually, Nicole gave in. "Spoil sport. You always used to get involved in the fun stuff and make it better. That's why I loved you."

Anna's eyes widened. She turned to Carlos. "She was your...?"

"Yep." Nicole's voice popped out from behind Anna once again. Anna turned around to face the lynx, and she actually stayed put. Her red fur was glistened with small black stripes. Her ruby red eyes shimmered against the dim lighting of the shop.

A velvet blue toga covered her body tightly, but had a sort of looseness to it, which made her breasts look bigger by illusion. Her feet were bare as she walked towards Anna, examining her closely. (A/N: Before you read on, no, this is not Nicole that was used in that old Satam Sonic series.)

"What are you doing?" Anna asked, but she got no response except for Nicole circling her.

"Good choice Carlos. You really know how to pick 'em. I've been expecting you." Nicole admired, aware that Anna had no idea what she was on about, but ignoring that fact.

"Is that why you're wearing that?" Carlos pointed towards the toga Nicole was wearing.

Nicole chuckled quietly to herself. "And that smart side still stands after a long 2 years" she purred seductively, waltzing up to Carlos and circling him, just like she did with Anna.

"If you're trying to get me to come back to you, then it won't work. Besides, we need a bigger favour." Carlos stated sternly.

"You wish to seek help from beyond the realm of the living, am I correct?" Nicole predicted.

Carlos pointed at her and was about to speak when he realised that she was right. His finger flopped as he stood back.

"Listen. We went to the Mobotropolis Theme Park about a week ago, and we'd gotten on Nemesis. When it was about to go, Anna had a premonition about us all dying on the ride." Carlos explained.

"And let me guess. You got off and some of your friends have already died, but in the same order they would have if they'd stayed on the ride?" Nicole interrupted accurately.

There was another silence about the shop. Carlos and Anna both dropped their mouths. How did she know?

"Um..." Anna started.

"How did you know?" Carlos finished.

Nicole turned around, as if to be slightly ashamed. "I've seen this before." she quietly stated.

"You have?"

"Yes. I know what happens; the ride was meant to crash, but a lucky few survived the disaster by escaping their supposed, 'one-way' fate. But then one-by-one, Death comes for them all." she said quietly, hiding the tears in her eyes.

"And there's no escape. Are you saying we can't stop this?" Carlos stepped forward worriedly.

"Carlos, no." Anna insisted, but Carlos went and hugged Nicole from behind, making her tears roll down her face as she refused to reveal her true reason for her sadness.

"It's okay. What's up?" Carlos asked soothingly.

Nicole sniffled slightly. "It's nothing. Just a memory." she lied.

Carlos let go and pulled out a piece of scrap paper and a pen. He handed Nicole the paper, a load of numbers on it.

"What's this?" Nicole asked dumfoundedly.

"We gotta go now, but if there's anything you need to tell us, then phone this number. I'll be on the other end." Carlos explained, revealing to Nicole that those numbers made up his phone number.

"Thank you. I will contact you. And if you require anything, then don't hesitate. Just redial the number." Nicole said, wiping her tears and smiling.

Anna then walked up to Carlos. "It's getting late. We should get going." she whispered, heading towards the door.

Carlos nodded and followed her, waving to Nicole before leaving the shop.

Once again, another silence filled the shop, but the presence of fright, sadness and memories was visible to Nicole.

"If you continue with your journey, then good luck... You're going to need it desperately..."...

Well. That took a while, but it's done. I made Nicole up from the Satam Sonic series, but it's not her.

BTW I am actually rather embarrassed to admit this, but I now have some sort of 'artificial' love for Nicole. I don't know why, but...

SB-420 ;)

Date: 1/08/2011

Time: 18:30