A/N: Well, here it is. The finale of Murder on Green Hill Island. Let's see if you were right about the killings. The who and why. Well, please enjoy this finale and don't forget to leave a review to let me know what you thought of the finale, and this story as a whole.
Chapter 9
"And welcome back to Golden Stories with Gold," Gold beamed. "It's time for the thrilling conclusion of the Green Hill Island murders, thanks to our first hand recount with Sonic T. Hedgehog. So, Sonic," Gold turned to the hedgehog. "Please, what happened after you saw your best friend mercilessly stabbed by Shadow."
"Sure…" Sonic said quietly, shuddering at the grin that Gold gave him. It was almost like she was enjoying watching him think back to the time. Enjoying it for the ratings. That's all the stupid Tenrec cared about. She didn't care about Sonic, his plight or the death of his friends. She was just using his story to become more famous… more famous than he used to be or has since become after the incident.
"Sonic… you were saying…" Gold rotated her wrist, signaling Sonic to keep talking while flashing him the fakest of smiles.
"Right, yes, so… I turned to Shadow and stared into his cold, crimson eyes…" Sonic began.
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"Are you deaf?" Sonic screamed, throwing his hands up in the air. "How the fuck could you do this to us? Your friends!"
"I… I didn't do this. I swear it to you, you've gotta believe me," Shadow raised his arms up defensively to protect his body, weary that Sonic was about to throw a devastating punch. Shadow took a step back, not removing eye-contact from the frustrated hedgehog.
"Bullshit! We saw you in the camera," Amy snarled bitterly.
"Yeah, and it all fits together," Mina chimed in. "Amy said she saw red when her attacker tried to kill her. You have red eyes, red quills!"
"You were also with Knuckles alone when he went missing and were fast enough to rush into the forest and dispatch Sally when she got separated from the rest of the group!" Sonic accused.
"But why would I kill Cream? I loved her!" Shadow screamed in defiance.
"That was probably a lie," Amy spat. Shadow turned to the hedgehog and shot her daggers, silencing her.
"C'mon Sonic, you know me. Besides, why would I have done all this?"
"It doesn't matter Shads, you're the killer. All the clues add up. You were alone with Knuckles. You were alone in the forest when Silver was killed and when Amy was attacked. You were alone when 'searching' for the rope in the mansion. You have red all over you. Everything adds up," Sonic said plainly, staring into Shadow's eyes.
"Exactly! Everything fits together too perfectly. For me to orchestrate this whole thing, I would have had to do a lot of planning. I would have had to scope out the island beforehand to know all the shortcuts. I wouldn't have been so sloppy. Every single death leads to me. If I really killed them all, why would I make it obvious?" Shadow spoke.
"That… that does make sense," Mina replied finally after silence descended upon the group for a bit.
"And you saw the footage. I stared directly at the camera. Mina said that her helpers had all been killed since their vitals weren't showing on her tablet. If I killed them, then I would have known where the cameras were hiding. Why wouldn't I shut them off before I killed Tails? Why would I look straight at the camera that Mina pointed out? It's all too convenient," Shadow finished. Sonic raised his eyebrows, understanding the hedgehog's defense.
"Yeah but you were shown on the camera. We have proof!" Amy added.
"But something doesn't add up. You are known to be a really light sleeper, and don't sleep as much as the rest of us. Surely you would have woken up at night and seen Fiona leave. You would have been the only one to know where she was, and at what time apart from Tails," Sonic pondered, scratching the back of his head in thought.
"Wait… that's it!" Shadow exclaimed excitedly.
"What's it?" Amy and Mina asked in unison.
"Sleeping! I was worried after Fiona left in the night that the killer might try to strike us while we all slept. I brought a camera with me to take pictures of the island as a keepsake for Cream and myself. After that night, I set it up over there to face the road so if somebody tried to leave, we would be able to see who followed them. And it's out of the blind spot of the other camera," Shadow snapped his fingers.
"I bet it will show my innocence! Just let me get i-ugh…" Shadow began but groaned, cutting himself off. His eyes bulged wide as he felt an immense pain shoot through his body. Suddenly, Shadow let out a gut wrenching scream as he felt something sharp twist in his flesh before being wrenched out with tremendous force.
Sonic gasped as Shadow stumbled forward before falling flat on his face, a knife protruding from his back. There, standing behind him, with blood stained on her hands, was Amy Rose!
"Oh, no… look what he made me do," the hedgehog pouted. "What a waste of life. Such a shame, really. He was just supposed to go to jail, but now look at him." Amy looked up at the sapphire hedgehog that she adored, grinning with malice as she showed him her pearly white teeth.
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"Wait… so the real killer was Amy? Now I'm confused," Gold interrupted him.
"It was simple, really. Amy tried to frame Shadow. She did from the very beginning. But her biggest fault was that she made it too obvious," Sonic confirmed.
"But, if Amy was the killer… then why? And how?" Gold asked, completely perplexed by Sonic's tale.
"Well that's the interesting part. So, after dispatching Shadow…" Sonic continued his story.
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"A-A-Amy?" Mina and Sonic gasped.
"I'm sorry it had to be this way," Amy sighed, wrenching the knife out of Shadow's back and cleaning the blood off of it with the bottom of her skirt.
"It was all after that night. That party where you ruined my life!" Amy yelled, brandishing the knife like a crazed lunatic.
"Whoa, whoa Amy, calm down," Mina raised her hands, palms facing Amy as she tried to calm the hedgehog.
"I'm perfectly calm," she cackled, tilting her head to look at the mongoose, twisting the knife in the air.
"What happened that night?" Sonic asked, taking sneaky steps backwards while Amy's attention was on the mongoose.
"Don't act like you don't know what you did, Sonic!" she cried out angrily, poking the air in front of him with the knife as she took a step forward, closing the gap that he had tried desperately to create between the two.
"I remember it like it was fucking yesterday. I haven't stopped thinking about that night in the months since then…"
The moon was enormous in the sky, illuminating the dark earth below. Sonic waved goodbye to his guests, leaving Sally and you alone in the house. I was walking back to my house when I realized that I had forgotten my purse at your place. I hurried back and knocked on the door, but there was no answer. It swung open, like it hadn't been closed so I decided to quickly get my things and leave. That was when I heard the thumping coming from his room.
I hurried down the hallway towards your bedroom, worried sick. I thought somebody was attacking you! I was coming to rescue you, my love! But how was I thanked for my act of bravery and heroism in the face of danger? A kiss? Something more? NO! I was thanked by getting to see you balls deep in another girl!
"Nice," Mina mumbled sarcastically, rolling her eyes as she interrupted Amy. "We're all dead because you couldn't keep it in your pants."
"Not the right time Mina," Sonic glared angrily at her.
"Ahem," Amy coughed, brandishing the knife out in front of her, which quickly gathered their attentions again. "As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," she narrowed her eyes directly at Mina, twirling the blade.
I felt so betrayed. So devastated. I had spent the past who knows how long trying to get you to do that to me. I couldn't take the betrayal any longer. I couldn't sit by at let that… that slut steal you away from me. I rushed, tears streaming down my face, ruining my make-up and mascara that I did especially for you, over to the only person I knew that I could count on. My best friend… old best friend… Cream.
After telling her the story, what did she do? Did she comfort me? Did she tell me to never give up? No! She got excited. Cream went on and on about how she thought you two were sooooooo cute together and how she was the one that helped get you guys together at the party and made it happen.
My best friend betrayed me too! My best friend and my love both went behind my back to purposely ruin my life. I knew this was just a call for help though, Sonic. I was in love with you, and deep down I knew you were just confused and still in love with me. I just had to make you see it! That's when Cream said how she really wanted to have another party with all of us but instead of one night, she wished it was for like a weekend somewhere. So I began planning…
"Amy, I wasn't confused! You're just crazy," Sonic yelled, taking a step back.
"Oh Sonic, don't worry my love. I won't kill you. We'll be able to live out our days here on this island. The basement in the mansion is quite spacious. I just can't have any witnesses… so she has to die," Amy pointed the sharp point of the knife at the mongoose who swallowed in fear. "Anyway," Amy smiled, looking back to Sonic and completely shifting her tone from malice to cheery.
I was the one who convinced Cream to come with me to get a lottery ticket, as a good luck charm since Eggman had finally been defeated for good. She was skeptical, but I can make that stupid rabbit do whatever I want. Afterwards, I bribed that echidna who reads out the numbers to do a fake taping of her picking out Cream's numbers that I told her was a 'prank' on my friend. Having a family friend in that kind of job really comes in handy! Anyway, after we filmed it, I quickly put it in the television and pretended that it was live, getting Cream over.
You should have seen how she reacted. She was so overjoyed that she let one important fact slip. She mentioned how she couldn't wait to tell Shadow the good news. Why Shadow, I thought, and that's when she finally came clean about their secret relationship that they had been having behind closed doors.
"But you were just as surprised as us when we found out about their secret relationship yesterday," Mina interrupted again, earning another snarl from the pink hedgehog.
"Just because you're a shit actor doesn't mean we all are," Amy giggled. "I just made sure to be the first one to react to him to make it that much more genuine. Whenever any of you thought about his reveal, my question right after is the first thing that came to mind. Simple psychology," she giggled again.
"But how did Cream afford this place if she never actually got the money?" Sonic asked, scratching his head.
"Simple. I found the owner of this little island and killed him. I left in his will that he would leave the island to me because I was his long lost relative. The police didn't even think twice. I just pretended to be the guy and responded to Cream's message when she tried to rent it," she said proudly before continuing with her story.
Shadow. The name kept spinning around in my head and it just made so much sense. Cream set you up with Sally, ruining my life so I would set up somebody she loved. Shadow would take the fall for her death and Sally's and you would be so sad that you would come running to me. It was perfect. I planted the seed in Cream's head about the mansion and helped her find the island that I owned and the rest you know.
However, fate had a way of intervening because when Cream invited Mina to the island as well, I did a little bit of digging, since I never knew her that well. Imagine my surprise when I discovered her little acting failure and her reality T.V show plan. I knew I could use the camera set up around the place to frame Shadow. When we arrived, on the first night in the mansion before I killed Cream, I made sure to go dispatch her little camera team on the island and shut off all the camera's except one. I knew Mina would eventually go check them and when she found one that worked, it would reveal the truth!
I was quite proud of my Shadow mask. It looked so authentic from the far away view of the camera. It took me a month to get it just perfect, and I did have to steal some of Shadow's fur while he was sleeping to get it just right, but in the end I couldn't be prouder. The rest, they say, is history.
"So you've been planning this for months? The whole thing?" Sonic asked, his mouth falling agape at how far Amy went just to get revenge on him and try to force him to fall in love with her.
"Correct," Amy smiled, showing her teeth.
"So after killing my team, you killed Cream and then Sally. But why everybody else and why did you wait so long to finally frame Shadow? And how did you even do it? It makes no sense," Mina asked.
"I didn't think I would need the mask, but all of you were just so stupid," Amy hissed.
After dispatching Cream and cutting the power to the mansion, I had time while nobody was suspicious to rush off and take care of Sam, Dave and Bill, poor guys. Faking surprise was easy and from there it was simple. I made sure to go off with Tails when he tried to work out the wiring and electricity of the house. You know how the little fox gets absorbed in his work. He had no idea that I slipped away. I was just lucky that Sally was all alone since I thought I might have to take care of Rouge as well. I had the most fun I've had in years as I slit that man stealing squirrels throat. Her screams for mercy were ironic, considering she was pure evil. I made sure to hang her up for good measure. Did you ever wonder why Sally was hanging from the tree even though her throat was cut when no other body was put on show? I wanted you to see her for what she was. I wanted you to know the pain I did before finally breaking down. Then I would be there to comfort you, my dear Sonic. I'd put the pieces of your heart back together. The heart that would, has and always will beat for me.
After killing Sally, I quickly rushed back to the mansion and dispatched Knuckles. I'm already quite strong, but it was easy to overpower him because he thought I was friendly. With Shadow being the only person alone with Shadow and my alibi with Tails cemented, it wouldn't take long for everybody to place blame on Shadow and call it a day. But then all of you fucking forgot about him as a suspect after his little admission and all turned on Silver!
I had to kill again, somebody close to Shadow. I needed to get him angry and lose his cool. Anything for you guys to turn on him. I didn't want to use my disguise because, as authentic as it looks, there was no way I could use it with that camera in that space at the time so Rouge had to go. To throw suspicion off of myself and further frame Shadow, I made sure to give myself a little flesh wound and ruffled up the carpet a bit. Then smashed my head against the wall to give myself a bruise.
"Wait… the dint in the hallway wall that Tails noticed…" Mina breathed, remembering the event and the detail Tails had shared with her afterwards. "I just assumed that must have happened when you tried to escape."
"I noticed Tails looking at it so I quickly groaned, pretending that I just woke up so he wouldn't inspect it any further," Amy replied before continuing her story.
I made sure to mention how, because the electricity was out, all I saw through the darkness was red. Shadow's red eyes and streaks in his quills but no… nobody picked up on it. You just threw Sonic in the cell because he found Silver's dead body. That was the hardest part of all this. While we all walked back I had to find a time to quickly slip away, faking needing to go to the bathroom. It wasn't hard to find Silver since I had the use of one of the little devices that I stole from Mina's little stage hands to show me where everybody was on the island. I just managed to slip away before you came smashing through the forest towards Silver.
They all blamed you and chucked my precious Sonic in a cell and that just couldn't be allowed. I stayed awake that night, waiting for somebody to wake up and go to the toilet or something so I could kill them, take some of their fur and put it on Shadow so we could have a 'big' reveal. Eventually Fiona and Tails had a little talk and the vixen stormed off angrily. I followed her into the mansion where she tried to rob a safe, which was ironically empty, and she fell of the balcony. I took a little bit of her hair and rushed back. Unfortunately, just as I got back I saw Scourge begin to wake so I had to ditch the evidence and pretend that I was asleep.
After Scourge rushed back to Sonic, I made sure I was the first person to leave so that the others knew that I couldn't have stayed behind. Knowing the shortcuts around the island from my initial stake out and preparation, I hid out of sight to make sure you all left the body. But Blaze just couldn't stop herself from playing detective. After I noticed that she inspected the body, I knew she would notice the hair and possibly even discover the actual crime scene on the third floor. Poor thing, figuring it out. I had to silence her.
It was easy for me to use the little shortcut that proved so handy to make it back to Scourge and Sonic first, which would have all added up to you guys. But Scourge went overboard and made all of you think he was the killer. That's why I suggested we all go diving. It would give me time to come finish him off and frame Shadow. However, Scourge put up more of a fight then I anticipated and didn't have enough time to plant my evidence. I only just made it back in the water before all of you came out of the water. I wasn't deterred though, since I just kept planting the seeds of doubt and knew eventually Shadow would be blamed. Besides, I was going to kill Mina next and frame him but little Tails stayed behind. I didn't want to kill him, truly, but he discovered Scourge's body and I just couldn't have that.
Thanks to all my time wielding my hammer, throwing it at enemies I worked up quite the arm and aim. It was easy to hurl daggers through the air. I made sure to quickly pull on one of Shadow's hoodies that I stole from his bag and don the mask before attacking. What I didn't count on was the brat would have hidden another camera. I couldn't risk it revealing the truth. He deserved to rot in prison for being with that back stabbing Cream. They aren't allowed to be together, not even in the afterlife, but he needed to die. Death was too good for him. For all of them, but I did what needed to be done!
"You're… you're insane!" Sonic yelled after she finished her recounts. "I'll never let you keep me here. I'd rather die!"
"It was supposed to just be us two, Sonic. The survivors of a bloody massacre that a jealous hedgehog created because of our love and how the love of his life didn't love him back but now this is how it ends," Amy laughed.
"Amy, there is no love between us. There never was and never will be," Sonic spat, disgusted at the pink hedgehog that he once considered a close friend. Amy's eyes glinted with an obsessive passion as her smile grew wider.
"Well then, if we can't be together now, then we can just be together in heaven, forever!" She yelled as she lunged at Sonic.
Sonic jumped backwards, narrowly avoiding the incoming onslaught of slashes from the crazed hedgehog thanks to his quick, keen reflexes. Amy growled a deep, guttural moan escaping her lips as a twisted from crossed her face.
"Stop running away. You're always running away from me," she bellowed lunging once more time, only to miss her mark again. She let out a high pitched squeal of anguish and frustration as Sonic took his golden opportunity. The sneaky, speedy hedgehog sidestepped out of the hedgehog's frantic slashes, grabbing both of her arms. He held her wrists tightly, trying to disarm Amy as he restrained her. She shouted and struggled, thrashing and kicking at the stronger hedgehog who was restraining her but he was just too powerful for her.
"Mina, quick, disarm her. I don't know how much longer I can hold her," Sonic breathed, clearly struggling to contain Amy.
"R-Right," Mina muttered, shaking herself out of the confused and shocked state that Amy's ferocious outburst had put her into. She jumped over, reaching for the pink hedgehog's hand and the bloody knife, still coated with the glistening crimson liquid that was Shadow's blood.
Amy roared, stomping her foot down as hard as she could on Sonic's toes. He bellowed in anguish and, in the moment his concentration was interrupted, Amy thrust her elbow backwards with all of her tremendous strength right into Sonic's gut. He loosened her grip, stumbling backwards whilst clutching his stomach, willing himself not to vomit from the impact.
Amy, now free, tightened her grip on the knife before slashing at Mina whose reflexes were too slow to avoid the blow after Amy broke free. The knife cut through the flesh on Mina's arm, opening a deep gash. Blood oozed out and Mina cried out in pain, falling to one knee as she clutched the wound in desperate attempt to stop the blood flow.
"You're as bad at fighting as you are at acting," Amy mocked in demented voice. Her deranged eyes glinted like the sheen on the scythe of the grim reaper stalking his next victim in the moonlight. However, just as Amy tried to stab Mina through the heart, finishing the little songoose off, Sonic dived over at Amy, wrestling her to the ground.
The two hedgehog's rolled across the ground, friction causing them to come to a stop as dust billowed around the normally pleasant field. The blade Amy wielded flew out of her hand, sliding to a halt a few meters from the two.
Amy and Sonic both looked at each other, exchanging glares. Amy's, filled with a psychotic love, highlighted to Sonic her unstable state as his fear reflected back at her through his emerald eyes.
"Quick Mina, grab the knife," Sonic yelled, rising to his feet as he tried to reach the knife but Amy was ironically too quick for him. She got onto her hands and spun her legs around in a circle, the heels of her shoes colliding with Sonic's shins as he made a desperate dash for the disarmed knife, causing him to collide with the ground. Amy jumped up and grabbed the knife before Mina had time to retrieve it.
"Sonic, run," Mina urged, rushing over to him, her hand pressed firmly to the open wound on her arm. She helped Sonic up, letting out a painful grunt as she used her stored strength to haul him up to his feet. Sonic cringed, the weight of placing his foot on the ground too painful after Amy knocked him over. It felt like he might have broken his ankle on the fall, or at least twisted it but the threat of the unhinged, knife wielding hedgehog was enough to shift the pain out of his mind.
Together, Sonic and Mina made for the woods, planning to outrun Amy in the dense forest. Sonic struggled, only barely keeping pace with Mina due to his injury instead of breezing through the trees like usual. Amy was hot on their tail, gaining slowly as the dodged and dived through the think undergrowth of the forested portion of the island.
Slowly, they made their way closer to the other end of the island. The canopy above them began to open up a bit and the green, vibrant leaves became more and more absent on the trees. The windy, framework of branches slowly transformed into bare branches, much like the icy, twisted fingers of a phantom, looming ominously above them. Sonic and Mina hurried along as fast as they could, slowing further with each passing minute as the succumbed more to their wounds until they reached a taller, thicker tree in front of them with part of a noose tightened around one of the wicked branches.
Sonic and Mina pushed through the pain, rushing over to the tree. Unfortunately, just as they passed the thick trunk of the impeding tree, Sonic's shoe caught a growing root that emerged from the ground like a pipe. He screeched in agony as his sore ankle buckled up from the sudden loss of motion and he fell forward, taking Mina down with him.
They both looked back up at Amy who had just emerged into view. She had struggled to keep up with them, losing them more than once in the dark, dense forest but seeing them both helpless on the ground not twenty meters ahead filled her with a sadistic glee.
"Till death do us part," she whispered as she sprinted at Sonic, the knife brandished in her outstretched hand. The crazed flame in her eye burned brighter than ever as she closed the distance between the at a breakneck pace, her knuckles growing white from the force that she was clutching the knife until suddenly her foot caught something.
Amy was so content on the cowering, fear-filled body of the helpless sapphire hedgehog that was always occupying her mind that she didn't notice her surroundings. She didn't notice the treacherous tree. She didn't notice part of a slashed, hanging noose and she certainly didn't see the deceased body of Sally Acorn lying on the ground. Amy tripped over the squirrel's limp, lifeless body and collided on the ground. Her outstretched hand fell first, her wrist cracking with the impact as it hit the ground until her body followed suit. Amy bellowed in pain as her chest hit the ground, straight on the sharp blade that she clutched in her broken, bent wrist.
"Sonic…" she breathed in anguish as the knife protruded deep into her chest, piercing her lung. Amy began coughing frantically, small dollops of blood exploding from her mouth with each cough as her lungs filled up with the hedgehog's blood. Amy eyed Sonic who stared back at her. She wasn't going to give up that easily.
Amy stretched out her hand, dug her nails into the dirt and pulled herself. She growled in pain, the knife scraping along the ground, digging deeper into her flesh as she pulled herself along the ground, closer to the hedgehog.
"You'll… never… keep… us… apart…" she gasped, blood filling up her mouth as she heaved herself across the ground. Mina cried in fright at the traumatizing image of the dying hedgehog crawl across the dirt like a mutant, deranged spider stalking its prey.
"Sonic," she moaned as she closed the final gap and reached out for his leg, trying to feel him one last time. Sonic quickly recoiled just in time, bringing his leg up to his chest as her palm crashed down. She just missed him as her hand collided with the dirt. She let out one final nightmare inducing moan as the disturbed, ever engulfing flame of Amy Rose finally petered out as her head fell into the dirt, dead. Sonic and Mina sat in silence, too shaken up to speak as they watched the dead body of Amy rose, bloody still slowly trickling out of her mouth like dribble.
After some time passed, the two animals finally rose and made their way back to the mansion in silence. Together, they pushed the boat down to the shore and set off, out into the wild blue yonder, leaving the island and all the horrible memories behind them forever.
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"And, well, that's the end of my story," Sonic concluded with only one final minute left before the shows scheduled finish time.
"Wow, truly horrific," Gold breathed. "But I was told you were the sole survivor of this tragic event. You said that you and Mina both escaped the island on that boat but when you were found by that ship, you were the only one on the boat."
"yes, that's true. Unfortunately, that would that Mina got when fighting with Amy proved to be fatal. Amy sliced an artery and with no aid in time, she bled to death," Sonic sighed as he looked down to the floor.
"I'm so sorry," Gold said in a dull, saddened tone. Suddenly, however, she quickly perked up and looked at the camera just as Sonic opened his mouth to speak again. "Well, there you have it. The tale, recounted by the sole survivor himself right here, and nowhere else, on Golden Stories with me, Gold the Tenrec. Don't forget to check back next week for more interviews, and remember, stay golden," Gold smiled at the camera as she signed off. Sonic glared angrily at her for cutting him off and not even mentioning his name as she signed off.
Gold simply smiled back at the sapphire hedgehog before getting up and walking over to the crafts table to fix herself a glass of water.
"Thanks for cutting me off," Sonic said sarcastically.
"Thanks for the publicity. This was our most viewed broadcast ever. I'm going to be more popular than ever," she cheered as she walked off down the hallway. "enjoy readjusting to society," she looked back to see his face for her own amusement but the sight she saw made her blood run cold. Instead of the fearful look she expected, she saw him smirk at her before rushing off out of view.
Gold racked her brain, not able to get the menacing smile of Sonic out of her head. She ran through the all he said in his story. Suddenly, without realizing it, so many things he mentioned didn't add up, but one in particular.
'He said Mina couldn't receive aid and succumbed to her wounds, but Sonic himself said her found a first aid kit and threw it in the boat before Tails' death. He said there were bandages, meaning they could have stopped the flow of blood enough and disinfected it so that she could have survived. And if she really did die, why wasn't her body on the boat with him when he was found,' she thought. Suddenly, it hit her. She opened her eyes in fear as the glass dropped from her hand and shattered into a thousand tiny fractals on the floor.
"S…Sonic…" she breathed in the shadowy hallway.
"Yes?" he whispered. She felt the icy cold breath of a phantom on the back of her neck. She quickly spun around, coming face to face with two emerald circles and a row of pearly white teeth illuminated in the darkness. "You called?" he asked, smiling.
"You… you said Mina died from her wounds… but there was a first aid kit on the boat and when you were discovered, her body wasn't there," she said, trying to stop herself shaking like a leaf in front of him.
"Perhaps the first aid kit wasn't enough. Perhaps there wasn't enough bandages. Perhaps she fell overboard while I was sleeping and I couldn't save her body. The sharks do get hungry at night and I was awfully tired after that ordeal. Although, maybe if you didn't keep interrupting me all the time just to self-promote yourself and your show, I could have answered those questions. But no, you were only thinking about yourself and acting like a bitch to me the whole show," he smiled.
"S-Sonic… you… you're…" Gold stammered, fear taking control of her body as she realized it was just him and her in the dark, secluded hallway.
"Goodnight, Gold," Sonic said as he faded away into the darkness. "Sweet dreams."
Gold was left standing alone in the hallway until slowly, a smile of her own crossed her face.
"Hmmm, what an idiot," she laughed as walked off towards the door. She pushed open the back stage door, the cool, night air whipping her face. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a crumpled up piece of paper, tossing it to the floor. The hallway grew dark as the light that shone on the small piece of paper began to fade as the door closed until none of the little piece of paper advertising a cruise ship to a island paradise could be seen…
A/N: Well... there you have it... the conclusion of MoGHI. Did you guess the correct killer? Did you piece together all the clues and figure out her motives? Did you like it, or was it just a massive anti-climax? And most importantly, did you understand the cryptic epilogue or was it just dumb, confusing or just plain stupid? Did it even make sense? Please let me know your answers to all these questions and, if you liked this story, please consider leaving a favourite. Like all my stories, I will be posting an Authors Notes concluding chapter a little later to give my thoughts, some highs and lows and, most importantly, I'll clarify the ending a little better if you're a bit confused. If you have any lingering questions, picked up on some things that didn't quite make sense, or just want a shout out, don't forget to review. Thanks so much for reading, this was a lot of fun to make. I enjoyed trying my hand at a murder/mystery/horror story and I had a lot of fun writing Amy's final death scene. By the end of the week, the authors notes will be posted so get your questions in early and, thanks one last time for reading. Your support means the world to me and have a great rest of your day, I hope this was enjoyable.
