Chapter 7: Getting There

Both the rabbit and the fox were still sound asleep, in very good dreams. Thirty seconds later, Tails wakes up and stares at the rabbit. Suddenly, a knock came making him jump, that caused Cream to wake up,"Tails! We have to go," Tails gets on his pajama pants quickly and goes up and unlocks the door.

"This damn early?" Tails says wiping his eyes.

"Sorry, it was Sonic that wanted to go early," Sally answered.

"Okay," Tails replies and gets the paper and gets dressed, he goes upstairs and they were all ready to leave, but the enchidna comes in at the last minute.

"Where are you goin'?" He asked.

"You know, the vampire thing," Tails answered showing the paper.

"Well I'm coming to make sure if things get ugly, I will protect you," Knuckles added.

The fox rolled his eyes,"oh bother," Sonic chuckles.

They get out and the three but Tails wondered,"so...how do we get there?" the hedgehog asked.

"Just follow me guys," Tails answered and he sees purple with a blood trail again.

"What is the distance?" Sally asked.

"Not that far," Tails answered. He flies up and puts his hands out and Sally grabbed his left wrist and Sonic grabbed the right.

"What about me? Am I going to walk!" Knuckles yelled.

Tails managed a chuckle," of course not, just hang on to one of my legs."

"Okay," Knuckles replied and grabbed his left leg.

"Now lets get there," Tails says and he flew up and set off. About thirty minutes later, they all get there,"here is the place, right here."

"In this cave?" Knuckles questions.

"Yes, it tells me it is here, seems pretty reasonable, for vampires to hold something," Tails answered.

"So... who goes in first?" Sally asked.

"I will," the fox answered quickly. He goes into the cave and sees a hill that goes down in the darkness,"don't worry, it is just a hill going down that leads to a set of rooms with torches."

"Okay," Sonic answered and goes in without hesitation," he's right."

"Were going in," Knuckles notifies and Sally followed him inside to the cave.

"Where are the others? when I mean others I mean the vampires," Sonic quickly asked.

"Just this way, behind those doors," Tails answered,"don't show off, or you all except me will die."

"What do you mean?" Knuckles asked.

"It means don't smile you fool," Sally answered.

"Ready?" Tails asked. Sally and Knuckles nod.

""I'm always ready," Sonic whispered. The fox opes the door and hundreds of other vampires were roaming the floor.

"Wow," Sally says.

"Damn , this is like a hideout for vampires," Knuckles says.

"Except its not a hideout, it is a competition or a gathering," Tails added.

"You like to ruin everything sometimes, do you Tails," Knuckles says.

"I do, when it is relevant," Tails replied. A wolf vampire comes to him.

"I haven't seen you around here, your first time?" The wolf asked.

"Yeah, fresh meat," Tails answered.

The wolf noticed him holding a paper," whats that?"

"Oh, I'm somehow one of the chosen to be in the competition," Tails answered.

"Not bad, you little fox," the wolf replies giving him a small punch in the arm.

"Am I the only one that is a fox in the competition?" Tails asked.

"Yeah, boy you are lucky, the others are wolves,hedgehogs, and I don't know the rest of the others," the wolf answered.

Tails was surprised by that he was the only fox in the competition,"I am the only fox."

"Yeah, and I have never seen your kind, you are unique," the wolf compliments.

"Thanks," Tails replies.

"I wish you luck," the wolf says," I will see you in the competition," and the wolf strode away.

"What did he mean by 'unique'?" Knuckles asked confused.

Tails giggled,"man you are a fool Knux, he meant my tails," Tails answered. Suddenly a female hedgehog vampire gets on the pipes.

"Does anyone want to challenge me?" The hedgehog asked.

"Come on, you don't have to be shy Tails, this is your chance to beat someone of your own kind," Knuckles replied.

"Okay I will," Tails replied," I will!" He yelled raising his hand. Tails reveals himself and climbs up the pipes to her level.

"Well, I have not seen you around here, fresh meat?" The hedgehog asked.

"Yeah, I'm fresh meat," Tails answered. The hedgehog gives him what she has, a pipe as a weapon.

"Here, kind and fair," the hedgehog says,"ready?"

"I'm always ready, who fires the first shots," Tails answered getting into his fighting position. They both stand there, ready for who was going to attempt to hit, who does it and the fight begins.

"Go!" Someone says with a familiar voice, he noticed the voice and looked back and the hedgehog goes for the hit toward his head. The fox quickly turns around and blocks her hit with the pipe in a horizontal position.

"Not bad, for fresh meat," the hedgehog compliments.

"Not bad for yourself too," Tails replied and pushed her away. The hedgehog goes for another hit and he blocked it again, then quickly turns and hits her right side, but did not hear any bones break.

"Your fast,'' the hedgehog says, trying to to maintain her scream.

Tails shrugged,"its natural, I was fast from the beginning."

"I see," the hedgehog replies. The fox goes for a hit toward the head and she was fast enough to block the strike, but did not expect him to do an additional attack, the fox hits her right side but she could only block it with her arm, but it did not break," why are you not breaking my bones?"

"I am not even hitting you that hard, you want me to kill you?" Tails asked wide eyed.

"I guess, you wanted to challenge me," the hedgehog answers back. She goes for a strike again and he blocked it. The fox then managed to get the pipe out of her hold, then jumps back," what are you doing?"

Tails drops the pipe,"kind and fair, like you said," Tails replied giving her a wink.

"I have had enough!" the hedgehog yells and throws a punch, but Tails grabbed the fist,"how are you doing this?"

"I knew from all along that you were going to use those attacks, I know what your going to do, so don't try me you little piece of pathetic meat," Tails answered.

The hedgehog widened her eyes in disbelief,"really? Me?! A pathetic piece of meat!" The hedgehog throws another and it came to the same fate. Tails pushed her away and they both stand there, waiting for a punch or anything. Thirty seconds later, the hedgehog pounces him to the floor trying to suck him dry. Tails managed to get her off.

"Get off of me," Tails yelled," you thought you were going to suck me dry, did you?" The hedgehog did not answer. Tails pounced her and she tries to get him off but he pins her arms down while stabbing them with his clawed hands. She tried to maintain her scream, she thought he was going to do the same that she did but he did not. He puts his head to her neck and bites the right side of it. The hedgehog screams as he bites with more pressure and adds more until the chunk of flesh was in his mouth, after thirty seconds, it was in his mouth, he stops and gets off of her and she managed to get up," your very tasty," he compliments spitting out the chunk of flesh.

"I have met my match," the hedgehog replies groaning loudly.

"Yes, you have met your match, I'm going to be your rival for hundreds of years," Tails replies back," also, not bad for a hedgehog, and I know someone faster than you but does not know what you are going to do next."

"I don't want to fight another foe, I'm in no condition to do another," the hedgehog says.

"Good choice," Tails says nodding.

"I will see you again soon,"the hedgehog says and she walked away. Tails goes back to the others.

"Damn, why did you bite a chunk of flesh than rather suck her dry?" Knuckles asked.

"Its more painful, and I wanted her to live," Tails answered.

"And blood loss," Sally added.

Suddenly the vampire master comes up, he looked like Sonic but slightly darker than him and has black eyes with a red dot in the middle and blood id on his gloves, and dripping from his eyes,"I want the competitors, I want to know each face and what they are and they look like."

"Who is that?" Knuckles asked.

Tails sensed it was the vampire master,"it is the vampire master you fool."

"He looks a lot like me, he may be my secret brother that I did not know," Sonic says confused. The other fifteen vampires go and bow to him.

"Where is the sixteenth one, I ordered sixteen, not fifteen!" The vampire master yells. Tails goes and bows to him,"are you one of the chosen ones?"

"Yes,"Tails answered and showed the sheet and he took it.

"Round one will begin tomorrow," the hedgehog says,"alright go back to your things and responsibilities." All sixteen vampires go back and the master goes away.

"We need a room," Sally says.

"I will find one," Tails replied. The fox goes and finds stairs that no one go and the rest follow him and he found a room,"we will stay in this room." the room had three beds.

"I sleep with Tails," Sally quickly says.

"I will sleep isolated," Knuckles says.

"Same,"Sonic replied. They all get n the bed with their call outs and they all fell asleep ten minutes later.