Disclaimer: If you are offended by exorcisms or are part of a culture that disapproves of them, please do not continue with this story.

Sonic chatted with Espio and Tails as they waited out on the porch of the small house owned by Tails. Knuckles had told them to wait outside while he 'prepared'. For some reason, now that Knuckles was there in the area, the very feeling of the house was easier and less threatening. Tails looked in through one of the windows and saw his red friend setting out the two Chaos Emeralds that he had. This was the last thing he had to do, and opened the door the let everyone back inside to the main room. It was very quiet there, and it was almost as though Knuckles was disturbed by what was going on inside the house. But with that, it looked like he knew what he was dealing with the minute he stepped into the residence. Sonic noticed Knuckles motioning to a chair that was set in the middle of the room; he sat wearily down.

"You sure you're ready to go through with this?" Tails asked with worry clear in his eyes. Sonic lifted his hand as a signal to stop,

"Don't even make me think about it Tails." And so Espio aided the red echidna in his work to strap Sonic's limbs to the chair. He fidgeted at the feeling of being restrained, but it was for the best he figured. Once he was tightly constrained to the chair, Knuckles started for the hallway,

"We're gonna do a sweep of the house. Hopefully we can corner it over to you." And he motioned for Tails do follow.

A few minutes later, the house began to feel heavy and deep. The blue restrained one tapped his foot impatiently to try and relieve some of the tension. Also feeling the tension, Espio spoke.

"My energy may provoke the demon to possess me. Perhaps it wasn't a good idea to restrain only you." Espio said with rare amusement in his tone. But he felt a horrible mass of energy pass straight by him; he struggled to catch his breath. When he looked down at his blue companion, his head was slightly down and he stared at the carpet in front of him.

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Barbaric hisses were heard in the main room. Espio struggled to keep Sonic down and from breaking the chair too soon. The fur on his back was bristled. Upon re-entering the room Tails was stricken with fear. He wanted to ask what had happened to Sonic, but he already knew. He had been possessed; this was the beginning of the battle. The young fox aided Espio in his struggles to confine the possessed hedgehog to his chair; Gaining growls and extrinsic hisses. Knuckles never let his gaze leave Sonic, who was thrashing himself and throwing snakelike hisses at his captors. He lifted a small book and cleared his throat.

"All who are present repeat after me please." Tails and Espio turned their attention to the exorcist. And then it began.

The red one began reading entries from the small book in his hand. Upon hearing this Sonic (or rather the possessed body of Sonic) began hissing louder and snarling. He screamed at the top of his lungs with every entry and word that projected out of Knuckle's mouth. The demon inside him was forcing him to fight against the restraints with brute force, more than the others knew Sonic had. The exorcist held out a chaos emerald close to Sonic, who threw his head to the side and screamed in pain. Sweat was running down the possessed one's face. Everyone there could tell that the demon was in pain as the exorcism went on. Sonic screamed again while thrashing left and right into the chair, jarred with pain.

"Stop praying stop praying! It's not gonna help you!" He yelled at Knuckles. But he continued with readings from his small booklet.

After a long battle of wills, the demon seemed to surrender. Sonic moaned and slumped to the side of the chair. He was out of breath, and exhausted with purple rings under his eyes. Tails sighed, it was over. Finally they could have their lives back. He smiled at Knuckles, but the echidna hadn't finished yet. Instead, the red one was positioned for another battle. Standing by for another round. Knuckles made a move towards the weakened hedgehog, and put a Chaos Emerald up to his forehead. The possessed arched his back and let out a shriek of pain. But he was quiet after that, wilted from the constant fighting. A quiet snarl emanated from Sonic, and he grew a wicked grin on his face. Much like the one in Tails' dream. He grimaced up at the echidna in front of him.

"You don't have the power to win!" The possessed then made a move to lunge at Knuckles, but was yanked back by his two captors Espio and Tails. Not over yet.

Inside his head, it was dark. Completely dark. To his right was the deep abyss that carried on for who knows how long. To his left was that demonic boy. The little boy gone rabid and was causing him and his best friend so much trouble was staring at him with those horrible glowing eyes. He was face to face with a demon. Sonic felt weak then, he felt like he was losing a battle. He was about to lose himself. The demon in front of him was growing bigger than him, until he was looking straight up at it.

The exorcism continued for almost an hour after that. Filled with wails, shrieks, hisses, snarls and screams and all other ferocious noises that none of them thought would come from the hedgehog. But he was possessed after all; it wasn't Sonic at all that they were holding back, only his body. It hurt both the young fox and his red friend alike to see him wail in pain though. Even if it wasn't the real Sonic they were holding down; it still put a real burden on their hearts to be causing him this much physical pain. The echidna made another move to put a Chaos Emerald up to the possessed's forehead. One last wail of pain rang in the ears of all of them. Sonic then fell limp.

It was felt instantaneously. The feeling of eyes bearing down was gone; they weren't being watched anymore. The hedgehog's legs buckled and his friends helped him back into the chair. He was extremely fatigued and looked as though he had been in a fist fight with someone for hours. But he opened his eyes and had that same beautiful glow to them. Tails dove into his arms in a tight hug.

"It's over." Knuckles sighed. He put a gloved hand on the head of the battered blue hedgehog and ruffled the fur there. Sonic acknowledged him with a dopey smile.

"And we can't thank you enough." The blue one answered back. Espio worked to untie Sonic's restraints, and with each freeing of a limb he stretched it. But once the chameleon finished, he simply acknowledged everybody with the salute of his index and middle finger to his horn, and left without a word. After the awkward silence of wondering where Espio was going, Sonic snickered.

"Another win for team Heroes!" He raised a fist into the air.

"And what have we learned from this?" Tails scolded Sonic with his hands on his hips.

"Don't go into abandoned houses." The blue one rolled his eyes. There was an uproar of laughter from the three though. Even though the incorporeal being proved a worthy opponent for the team, they overcame the hardships and pulled through. It just comes to show that truly nothing can bring down the Heroes. They could finally live in peace again, for now…

The End

Author's Note: Well that's the (terrible) end of this story! I now realize that there really wasn't as much Tails Doll as I'd hoped, but I like the story as a whole. I'm sorry if you didn't enjoy it as much as I did.

Disclaimer: If you are of a certain religion that is against exorcisms or if you are offended by this I am deeply sorry. But I told you not to read it if you are offended by such acts! If you like, please review, if you hate, don't review and simply go on your merry way. Thanks for reading!