"Once they arrived, at Sonic and Tails' house. They discovered they brought an unwanted visitor. The reptile lie on they floor, they were certain it was dead, but was it really?"

Part#18 Day of Rest or a New Challenge?

"Fury, you look tired!" said Sonic, examining Fury's eyes. Fury surely did look tired, he was slumped over and his eyes were barely open, and they looked cracked up. "Braah" cracked Fury " Tell me s-s-someth-thing I don't- t-t-t know!" said Fury weakly, his message turning out this time. Sonic shrugged and backed up, suddenly he tripped, "What the.." started Sonic, surprised. Tails turned to see that Sonic had tripped over the large reptile. "S-Sonic!" said Tails with worry in his voice. "Yeah Tails?" asked Sonic. "Uhh, looked at what you tripped over!" explained Tails, not knowing what so say.

Sonic turned his neck around, a crack was heard as he turned. When Sonic could see what he was sitting on, yelled and sprung up, and backed away slowly. "Damnit!" said Fury, "Sonic did the less work and his bones and muscles are giving out." Sonic didn't grill on the subject, that was the end of it and they focused on the problem.

"I Can Deal with it!" explained Tails, "A Matter of fact, I want to check out that teal crap that keeps coming out of it's slot".

"How are you going to make sure it's dead?" asked Sonic, not exactly "OK LET'S KEEP AN ASSASIN LIZARD IN OUR HOUSE!"

"Well" started Tails. "I'm going to inject a Toxic gas into its lungs, hearts, kidney and stomach."

Sonic thought for a minute, "Ok fine!" said Sonic, "But don't stink up the house or your allowance is going to pay for me and Fury's medical bills and some Febreeze!", Tails laughed, surprisingly. But Fury just stood there, leaning over.

"It's air sealed so none will leak out" explained Tails as he dragged the lizard into his workshop. He closed the door after he slammed the scaled body onto his research table.

Fury whacked his hand against Sonic's arm. "Can't even take a little work!" taunted Fury, weakly. Sonic turned to face Fury, ready to make a comeback, but didn't.

"Every time I look at you, you look worst. Get some sleep!" Ordered Sonic,

Fury sighed, "I don't exactly have a bedroom now do I?" asked Fury impatiently. "Actually, you do" said Sonic, he walked away and moved over to a room, he opened the door, Fury followed slowly. When he caught up with Sonic he turned to see a room.

Inside there was a bed, spare pillows and blankets, two tables and a drawer.

"You can sleep here" explained Sonic.

Fury sighed and walked in, "Thank you, but for now can I just sleep on the couch and at night sleep in here?" asked Fury.

Sonic shrugged. "I Guess" he said, Sonic walked out, "You can watch some TV to if you want" he added as he walked out.

Fury limped over and grabbed two pillows and two blankets and walked slowly over to the couch. Right before he lied down, he heard the words "Hey Fury, Come here!" screech across the room, it was coming from Tails workshop, although that wasn't who it was.

Fury trotted over to Tails works shop. Once he got in a large heavy object was thrown at him. Fury caught it.

"Put your stuff in it!" ordered Sonic.

"Whatever!" said Fury as he trotted off. Sonic followed. Fury walked over to couch and sat down. He examined the item, it was an electronic vault. Fury pulled on the door's handle, it opened the vault was not locked. Fury un-strapped his sword and it's sheath from his leg and put it in.

"Close the door!" ordered Sonic, and Fury did so and closed the vault's door.

"Now type in the password you want for it." He continued. Requiem

Fury thought for a moment then punched in 7,3,7,8,4,3,6. Or, the word Requiem.

Sonic did not ask for the password, just took the vault and put it beside the couch, and then walked away.

Fury shrugged and lied down and pull the blankets up to his neck. He closed his eyes and slept.

Two hours he awoke by a knock at the door. He opened his eyes and peered at the door, the handle turned slowly and the door opened.

"Sonic?" shouted a cheery young voice. Sonic trotted out, Fury peered up to see a pink hedgehog looking down at him. When Sonic made it to Fury and the pink hedgehog, she asked "Who's this?"

"That's Fury" explained Sonic. "Oh" said the pink hedgehog.

"Fury this is Amy" said Sonic, Fury remained silent, he was too tired. Although he had rested, he felt more tired, but relieved, this wasn't a painful tired as before, just a normal tired.

"He looks tired" observed Amy, "uh, He is" explained Sonic, "So, why are you here?" he asked, "This!" said Amy angrily shoving a newspaper into Sonic's face. Sonic grabbed the newspaper and pushed it away.

"Read!" said Amy angrily. Sonic grabbed the newspaper from Amy and read the head title, "Cold Winter Ahead!" said Sonic, examining the headline, "Yes That's right, We should be expecting a cold and bitter winter."

"Not that!" Said Amy as she pointed to an article further down, it showed a close up picture of Sonic, Tails, and Fury, the article's head title read, "Museum Robberies, Local Hero?".

Sonic began to read aloud.

"Last night at the Station Square Museum, another robbery accured. Two guards were found unconscious due to trauma to the head. After the two recovered one admitted he saw a blue blur speed by while he patrolled past the door. Once police forces entered the building they all of the security guards, slaughtered, with in human cuts ripping their stomachs open. They were dead. Later police found local hero Sonic the Hedgehog and renown scholar Miles Prower. But there was another, a black echidna porting a large sword was also with them, this could explain why the guard's chest were ripped open.

But police think not. The three were found, killing a large 7-foot lizard. The lizard has immense claws witch could have also explained the ripped up corpses. After this charges were realized from the three figures."

Sonic read the rest of the article in his head then gave the newspaper back to Amy. "What?" asked Sonic, when he noticed Amy was staring at him. "What did you steal?" asked Amy, frustrated a little. Sonic sighed and grabbed the chaos emerald of a table. "What did you need one of those for?" asked Amy, "Knuckles needs it" said Sonic, sort of telling her not even half of why they stole it. Of course they really stole it to destroy another shadow creature, but Amy didn't need to know that.

"Your Lucky the police didn't catch you with that you know!" said Amy. Sonic didn't say anything, he turned around and noticed Fury was gone.

He shrugged and faced Amy again. "We have that lizard with us you know, Tails is going to do research on it." He explained. "I want to see it" ordered Amy. "Fine!" said Sonic as they walked off to Tail's workshop.

Meanwhile, Fury was in Tail's workshop as he worked on putting the gas into the lizard. He had placed a mask on the lizard's mouth and nose and was drilling it in. He pulled a new mask over the one he drilled in, and walked over to his computer. Tails tapped a few keys, "Now Air-sealing" said a man's voice coming out of the speaker as the mask tightened as much as it could. At that moment Sonic and Amy walked in.

Tails looked to see Sonic and Amy, "Hi!" said Tails cheery. "Hi" replied Amy she said as she waved to Tails and walked over to the lizard, "Wow!" said the pink Hedgehog ins astonishment as she examined the nearly seven foot long lizard.

Tails grabbed a tube and slipped it into a round hole with a metal plate surrounding it that he had built in, he slipped it in and they heard a snap, it was a tight fit, and just fitted it. "The hole leads to his kidney" explained Tails as he walked over and pressed hard on the lizard's back, "And that opens the flap in it's neck" he explained shortly after.

"Trying to act smart eh?" nudged Sonic. "Shut!" ordered Tails, who walked over to his computer and tapped some keys on his computer "Now releasing blight" said the same male voice from his computer. "I can only hope the blight will work, I don't know if it will work on the lizard." Explained Tails "We have to hope it will work, or that Fury killed it" he finished. Sonic, Amy and Fury nodded in agreement.

Fury glimpsed at the mechanics part of Tail's workshop and saw parts for something spread out on a table, he couldn't tell if it was for an airplane, or a robot. Sonic noticed Fury was looking at them, "Tails, why don't you work on the Thunder-Cyclone anymore?" Sonic asked Tails. "You know that new type of engine I was working on?" asked Tails, "Yeah" answered the blue hedgehog. Tails walked over to a chair by one of his computers and sat down. "A few years back, if you can remember I experimented with the unlimited power of the chaos emerald. My new engine makes copies of the chaos emeralds, they may look a little different but have the same amount of power, and same qualities except they cannot be removed from the engine." "Yeah I remember, I remember seeing you crash down while I spent a relaxing weekend at that resort downtown. " Tails turned red as Amy and Sonic laughed. "Well, I fixed it this time. As you can remember Sonic I got it right later. " Reminded Tails. Sonic stopped laughing, so did Amy. "And saved your life after you fell from the Egg Carrier" continued the two tailed fox.

"The thing is, I can't make copies of the same emerald. I need every chaos emerald. And if we haven't noticed we haven't had a chaos emerald" explained Tails. "But now we do!" he remembered as he ran over grabbed the chaos emerald from beside Sonic. He ran over and hooked the engine to one of his computers and placed the chaos emerald in one of the slots. He ran over and opened a program on it called "Thunder ver. Engine".

Once he opened the program, a white screen appeared and a few seconds later a message popped up saying "Chaos Emerald Found" and two options 1). Start Copying, or 2). Cancel. Tails click on Start Copying and a new screen popped up, similar to the file-downloading screen. But instead of a file going from the world to a folder, it showed the chaos emerald and the engine, and an arrow moved from the chaos emerald to the engine, and started over just as the page going into the folder would. Tails turned around ready to say something in excitement that his new version of his airplane and mech. When he saw something odd. Tails turned in awe as a new lizard, transparent like a ghost was being ripped from the lizard's body. Tails ran over to the research table to get closer, the transparent figure struggled as it was being ripped from the lizard. Tails looked and noticed it was an exact copy of the reptile. Could this be the reptile's spirit? When the new reptile was completely removed from the body, it snapped right in front of Tails, who could feel the wind of it blow his hair back. Tails wanted to say something, but he was to startled by this to say anything. The lizard stared at him then exploded into a cloud of purple mist, and dissolved, vanishing.

Tails stood there, still for several moments and then spoke up. "What was that?" he asked.

"I didn't see anything" said Amy at the same time as Sonic said "Stop Hallucinating". "Tails was never the same after the vodka incident" explained Fury. Making a joke. Sonic and Amy laughed. Tails felt like saying "Shut the fùck Fury" but he didn't, he calmed down. "I think the Lizard is dead" explained Tails calmly. Sonic and Fury could see the confidence in Tails eyes, so they took his word. And Amy soon saw it to.

"Well" started Sonic, "We have to go back to Angel Island soon" remembered Sonic. "How is Knuckles?" asked Amy. Sonic was about to say something when Fury interrupted. "Stupid!" he snapped, "Ignorant!" he yelled again, "Psychotic, and he's a bleeding heart' he finished. "You really don't like Knuckles do you?" asked Sonic. Fury didn't say anything but crossed his arms and stared angrily, but Sonic could tell that Fury was using bitter body language, witch spelt out "What do you think smart-àss?". "Ill take that as a yes!" said Sonic backing out, before they got in a fight. "Maybe you guys should wait a few days for Fury to cool off after all that time with Knuckles" suggested Amy. Sonic agreed. Sonic looked at the clock. "Care to have lunch with us?" asked Sonic. Amy smiled and the two walked off to pick something out and Fury followed. But Tails sat in his chair, not budging.

"He looked like he saw a ghost, his eyes big, pale and glossy, his iris sticking out off his pure white corneas. But the question here is, did he see a ghost? Does he actually have a sixth sense strong enough to see the undead? This is what will leave Tails wondering, for sometime."