Entry #6-1
12/4/12

7:30 AM

After six days of no activity, Sonic decided to come with me to check out the park. I have a feeling I missed something there. Besides the forest, which I hope I won't go to a while, there's the old warehouses I have yet to check out.

Based on Tail's advice, I decided to bring the camera with me, as a Chaos Counter.

***
8:15 AM

It was around 40° when I arrived at the entrance of Rosewood. This is nothing compared to my time, where all of the stuff with global warming is compiled, but it is considered "warm" for Sonic's standards of December.

After 5 minutes from my arrival the familiar breeze whipped my face. It was Sonic.

"Hey." he greeted me.

"Sup?" I answered

"Ready to go?"

"Sure."

We started to walk toward the warehouses. Nobody was in the park this morning, so it was relatively peaceful, but the observing tower in the distance, in the woods, still stood. After the encounter with Cream's doll, I felt uneasy.

"So, this is where you got knocked out?" Sonic said.

"Yep."

"Ah..."

We continued to walk on silently for the next few minutes. As we got near the warehouses, Sonic started to speak.

"It's all about the speed, my friend. You would've gotten away."

"You know I can't run that fast." I retorted.

"You could've tried." Sonic grinned.

Next thing I knew, Sonic dashed right toward warehouses stopping just in front of the nearest one. I decided to fly through the rest of the way.

***
The warehouses were old, and were just as Shadow described, on the verge of collapsing. The old rusty pillars continued to hold up the place. I decided to check the nearest one, labeled in fading black paint as 1.

The door was padlocked, but it did nothing to resist breaking when I held out my hand.

Sonic pushed the door open and walked inside.

"Hey Silver!" his voice echoed out of the building.

"What?"

"Come look!"

I walked in the warehouse. The inside looked like it had been empty for decades. There was a large hole on the roof, which helped light up the whole room. There was also a pile of concrete and rusted metal hastily piled on the side of the building.

Sonic was facing one of the walls. Besides the peeling paint, and an occasional graffiti. Three large diagonal hashtags greeted us. It was sprayed with white paint and a red dot marked the center.

"It's been expecting me..." I muttered.

Sonic nodded.

"I guess that means something is waiting to be found." he said, "Looks like its scavenger hunt time."

***
There were about six other warehouses. One by one, we broke through and looked inside, but to no avail.

It was in Warehouse #5 when...

"Hey Silver! Found something."

I stopped kicking around and removing the rubble and came toward Sonic.

He took out a tin box from the rubble and brought it out to me.

Sonic then shook the tin box.

Thunk. Thump.

"What could be in here?" he asked.

"Let's find out."

I opened the tin box, and took out the contents inside. There were about ten sheets of papers in the box, each one covered with drawings...children's drawings. Most of them were self portraits of the kids, surrounded by flowers, on the beach, etc. But, in each one of them, Cream's doll appeared in them, and there was this one, which had a small black figure, drawn in crayon in the background. It was a small figure, but there was something... awkward about it.

There was also a small chess piece included, a white pawn.

As I examined each drawing and held the pawn in my hand...

"What the hell...?" Sonic muttered as he examined each one of the pictures, "are these previous owners?"

I looked somberly at each drawing.

What have these kids been through? I thought.

The thought of being manipulated...being like Cream sickened me.

I decided to check out the camera footage. It was then, when I noticed that the screen was starting to get funny. I looked around the warehouse, there was nothing.

"We better get out," I said, pointing the camera towards Sonic, "I think we're being watched."


Some concepts in this entry, is thanks to reader Pikachu9112. Thank you Pikachu.

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