Chapter 11: The Bad Future
Sonic opened his eyes and looked around. A smile came to his face. It had worked. Then he frowned; this wasn't the Transylvania he knew. It had changed completely.
"Where am I?" Sonic asked. He walked around the area, looking for anyone he could talk to. The land was desolated; Sonic gulped and looked around. Finally, he saw someone and walked up to him. "What happened here?"
The man looked at him. "You don't know what happened?" Sonic shook his head, and the man began to explain. "There was a huge battle in this area a long time ago. It serves as a kind of reminder of how powerful our rulers are."
"Who are your rulers?" Sonic asked.
"Ivan, Tails, and Lucina." The man looked at Sonic in confusion.
Sonic's eyes widened in shock. Then he turned and walked away to his old house. "How could this have happened?" He asked Vlad and Shadow.
Maybe it has something to do with you leaving, Vlad said.
"That makes sense...but how? Maria and the other vampires could have handled them on their own...we need to find some history books; they'd tell us what happened."
Sonic ran off to find a town, which would hopefully have a library or something close to it. He walked in and looked around. The library was deserted, so he got out a book of vampires and began to read. Sonic settled into a seat and flipped through until he came to the section about Ivan. The vampire had gone to Carfax Abbey and formed an alliance with the Cult of Dracula. They attacked a week later with stealth and surprise. Maria and the others had tried to fight back, but the war lasted for years until the vampire leader was killed, allowing Ivan, Lucina and Tails to take over. Sonic frowned at the news. He hadn't expected anything like that to happen.
He continued to flip through the book until he found the section of Dracula, and began to read. Everything he read was stuff he already knew. None of it seemed to be anything new. He had been Dracula, after all. Then he came to a quote by Maria, and read it.
"This war has been going on for too long...our last hope is Dracula, but he has gone, and is nowhere to be found...if he hadn't had left, we could have won."
Sonic felt tears coming to his eyes as he stared at the quote. Being the cause of their deaths wasn't something he wanted. He closed the book and walked out of the library with it in his hands. Sonic had to do something; he couldn't lie around and allow this to continue; not after what he had read. Sonic thought about everything. What he had to do first was gather as much information about their reign as he could. He looked through the book, and saw the information. During the vampire's reign, they had transformed almost everyone in the world into vampires, and had been ruling with ruthlessness. Tails and Ivan also had a kid as well. A small smile came to Sonic's face. Then he thought about what could be happening to everyone."I should have never cured myself..." he said to himself. "Or come back to this time."
Vlad and Shadow began to speak. Don't start thinking like that, Shadow said.
There's no way you could have known this would happen. Just try to fix it any way you can, Vlad added.
"It's my fault!" Sonic yelled. "Maria said that I was their last hope!"
You didn't know that would happen, Sonic, Shadow said. You thought they would be able to handle it.
The former vampire growled in anger. "Well...they didn't. I didn't even know what Ivan, Lucina and Tails were doing! If only I had payed attention..."
There's no sense in beating yourself up over it, Vlad said.
Sonic sighed and nodded. "All right...anyway...why don't we pay them a visit?"
He closed his eyes, and transformed into Vlad. lad looked around for where the other vampires were living. He saw the castle in the distance and chuckled, then turned into a bat and flew off. It had to be stealthy as it entered. When he landed on one of the castle's windows, he looked inside. The bat hung by the windowsill. It heard Ivan speak, and began to listen.
"How is everything going?" Ivan asked.
"Good," Tails said. "Our rule is going well, and the vampires are under our command."
The evil vampire smiled and looked at their son, Damien. "What about you, Damien?"
"I'm fine," Damien said with an evil smirk.
Ivan smiled. "Good. What have you been doing the past few days?"
"Not much; just hanging out. We've been ruling for over 2000 years and it's been fun."
"Indeed. I don't know what happened to my father, but he has not been seen in ages. But Sonic is no longer a vampire, so he can't harm us."
"We should think of something to do," Tails interrupted. "It's getting boring."
Ivan grinned. "Let's feed, then, and visit Chris."
Tails and Damien nodded in agreement. They turned into wolves and ran off. The bat screeched and it flew off, following them. Vlad watched them as they found something suitable to feed from and attacked. It changed into a wolf mid-air, and pounced on them, growling. Vlad howled, and dug his fangs into the three vampires, releasing wolf venom. The vampires screamed as it happened, trying to shove him away. The wolf howled as it injured them even more, sending the venom into their veins. Finally, they teleported off. Vlad smirked and turned back into Sonic.
"What did you do to them?" He asked his split persona.
I injected them with some wolf venom.
Sonic nodded. "Doesn't wolf venom usually wither kill vampires or turn them into wolves?"
Yeah. I don't know what it'll do to them, though. Or if that was even an actually good idea.
"It's fine. We'll just continue to eavesdrop on them until we find a way to attack." Vlad fell silent as Sonic followed the other vampires. "I know I'm not a vampire anymore but is it possible for me to become Dracula again?" He asked.
Dunno. You could give it a try.
Sonic sighed and thought about it, then shook his head. He didn't want to become that evil monster again unless he had no choice. The hedgehog read through the book and saw the chapter on the vampire rituals. A smile came to his face as he remembered those.
"Guess I have to study them." Sonic smiled. "Let's go find something to eat."
He smirked and ran out of the house and into the village. There, he saw a restaurant and walked inside. Sonic sat down and looked at the menu. Sonic sighed as he read down through everything. He didn't see anything for Chili Dogs. It was the modern age, 2014 to be exact. He missed having regular food. Sonic nodded and ordered, then began to eat.
Sonic, I have a suggestion, Shadow said in his mind. Why not go back to the past and battle them there? That way, this never would have happened.
"If I'm going to go back in time, I might as well go back and prevent Ivan from going against me in the first place."
That might work, but you may end up in the same time as you left.
Sonic sighed. "I'm not sure. Maybe later, after I defeat them here. Although would that change anything?" He asked Shadow.
I don't think there would be much of a point to going back if you defeat them here.
"But I just got here, and everything's all messed up...Let's hang out here for a while longer, to see what they are doing, and then we will go back to the 1800s."
Sonic looked up as the waiter came back with his food. He smiled and ate, then went home. The hedgehog sighed and looked at the books some more, then fell asleep.
