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The night had passed slowly by, Knuckles still carrying Cream and Tsuki. They had fallen asleep leaning into him, which looked pretty cute. Knuckles wasn't tired at all, he could go a few nights without sleep and luckily they had made great progress through the night. The only trouble he had was keeping the sleeping girls balanced on his shoulder, making sure they suddenly didn't fall backwords or forwards. Slowly in the distance, he could see the Haunted Mansion looming in the dawn sky. Luckily it only looked like a huge house so he would have no trouble getting the girls inside. "Hey, wake up. We're here." he said loudly, waking Cream and Tsuki up. Cream and Tsuki slowly opened there eyes, still feeling a little tired from the lack of sleep they had had. Knuckles lowered them to the ground then rolled his shoulders in a circle. "Man.... My shoulders are soo stiff..." he muttered to himself. Cream rubbed her eyes while Tsuki yawned then watched as Knuckles walked slowly away from them towards the big house. Cream and Tsuki stared up at the huge house, their mouths open in little 'o's. "Woooow... It's huge!" Cream gasped, taking Cheese into her arms and holding onto him so he wouldn't suddenly fly off. "That didn't take long." Tsuki giggled, stretching her arms into the air. "Yeah for you..." Knuckles muttered to himself, his shoulders still a little stiff and sore. After about 10 minutes, they finally reached the huge door. Knuckles stopped first and gazed up the huge wooden door which had one gigantic brass knocker on the front of it, in the shape of a lions head. He raised his hand to grasp onto it but just as he got close to touching the knocker, the huge wooden doors creakily swung open. Knuckles stood there with his hand still raised in mid-air, a huge sweatdrop forming on his head. Tsuki and Cream were hiding behind him, unsure of what was going to happen. "I guess we go in then..." Knuckles said, taking the first few steps into the mansion. Not wanting to be left alone on the outside, Cream and Tsuki scurried in after him, keeping up close to Knuckles. When they reached the middle of the huge room, the doors suddenly swung back closed, banging loudy and causing everyone to jump. Cream made a small scream when it had banged and clinged onto Cheese tightly, who slowly turned into a choking, purple chao... "What was that!?" Tsuki said aloud, spinning on the spot and gazing around the room. Cream whimpered and looked down at Cheese, who was now a nice shade of purple. "Oh! Sorry Cheese!" she said, letting him go and watching as he flew up and gasped in little bits of air, slowly regaining his proper colour of blue. "I guess we're not leaving for a while..." Knuckles menchined from the door. He had wandered over to the door after it had shut and was pulling on the handle from the inside but it was tightly shut. He looked about the room. It didn't look so spooky or haunted. All there was, was pictures hanging on the wall with, no doubt, long dead people painted into them. "Let's go... Best not to stay in the one spot..." He said to Cream and Tsuki, walking through the huge room towards the flights of stairs at the other side of the room. He was watching the paintings, noticing that the eyes were following him as he walked. He shivered to himself. The three of them made their way up the stairs and out the door which again slammed behind them and locked them in. Whatever it was didn't want them to leave....
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It was about 5 hours after dawn (Dawns about 4, 5 in the morning). Sonic and MieMie had made great progress from then, they were now in the Lost Jungle. "It didn't take as long as I thought it would!" MieMie said cheerfully. "Yeah as soon as we get through here we are at Mystic Mansion" Sonic stated. "Oooo" MieMie muttered. "Sonic. How come it kept raining in Frog Forest?" MieMie asked out of curiosity. MieMie was so intrigued by the Frogs that she started chasing them. "Well, we think they have magic abilities, most people just think is superstition." Sonic Muttered to her as he tried to keep an eye on where he was going. He would usually run, but MieMie had finally gotten tiered of running. After all she hasn't run that much except from Sonia's DNA (But lets not get into that again). " There's so many plants here…" MieMie mumbled. "It's not the plants you should be looking out for…" Sonic said. "Oh?" MieMie replied They continued walking for a while until MieMie Piped up "Sonic… Did you hear something?". "Erm… No?" Sonic said questionably. "Isn't that a little unusual though?" MieMie asked. "Now that you mention it…" Sonic muttered under his breath "We walk with caution now… It might be because were getting closer to Mystic Mansion." Sonic said. "Oooo" was MieMie's short reply. They came upon a clearing a couple of mins later to spot Shadow looking around causiosly with a scared looking Miaka attached to his arm. "Whats he up to?" MieMie whispered to Sonic. "Dunno lets go ask" Sonic said. "Come to think of it… What's Miaka doing?!?!" MieMie grumbled.
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Hiya again! I know I left a message at the top but hey I feel like adding more!
After this there maybe only one more update, depends on if Miaka and myself can be bothered. Well that's all for now as my gran, aunt and uncle are coming down.
p.s Please other people review more! Pwease? puppy dog eyes
Oh and I believe my first reviewer chanced her name as u can tell if u look at the reviews. (thought I'd best point that out incase u wonder…) Oh and thanks for the 3 reviews Shadowlover101!!! (I feel privileged to get 3 reviews from the same person! Hehehe!)
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