Disclaimer Notes- I don't own Tails, Sonic Team and SEGA owns him. But Vince, Ruby, and Steve are my creations. Remember, the story is from Tails' POV. Also that though the name is "The Village", this has nothing to do with the movie. Enjoy and RR please.

Chapter 2- Into the Darkness

Death, it seemed I was just waiting for it to get me. The world seemed to be spiraling right in front of me, even though all I saw was darkness. My end seemed so near, but something told me, inside of me, not to die just yet. Soon the darkness was coming to an end and I saw a light, it seemed so far away from me, but it all of a sudden I felt a sharp pinch on my arm.

I woke up in a rush jumping up from where ever I was and grabbed my arm. I felt a small liquid coming out of my arm and guessed that it must be my blood. As my sight slowly came to, I saw that I was in some sort of small bedroom, with only a candle lighting the whole room. The walls were all rock-like and the ceiling was too. I was sitting on a bed that looked rather bloody, too much for just my blood. On the bed there was something small moving around my legs, I moved closer and saw that it was a rat. It was just staring at me when I saw in its teeth small drips of blood. It had bitten me and caused the small pain that woke me up! I looked at the rat and just grinned. I quickly looked at my arm and it only seemed he bit me once, but it still hurt and saw blood slowly making its way out from the cut. My body was covered in blood and bandages. Both my shoes were off and one foot was wrapped around in a cast-like way. One of my tails' seemed to be in really bad shape because it was wrapped around in a lot of bandages and when I tried to move it I felt a huge pain inside it. I slowly rubbed it trying to sooth the pain away. As I looked did this, I looked around and saw a note next to the bed that read:

"Dear stranger,

I don't know who you are, but it when I found ye it looked like someone had done a number to ya so I knew you weren't one of them thus I helped ya out. Why you may ask? Well I'd never leave a young person on the road in as bad shape as you were in. You were in a bad shape when I found ye, so I did all I could to nurse you back to health. Your second tail though, which scared me at first by the way, was too severally broken so all I did was put a splint on it. Incase you're wondering, you are in me home about a mile from where you were, and don't ye worry about anybody finding it, me home is well guarded by lots of traps I put near it, and the only safe way to get in or out of it, is through a small tunnel that leads to a canyon, just to the side of "Suspendido" village. I left ye some clothes since those rags you were wearing aren't going to protect ye from the chilly nights here, along with all your things ye had. I also left ye a map I drew so you could find that tunnel I mentioned. It's a little badly drawn, but then again I'm not a good artist. One last thing, I also left ye a pack a bullets for that gun you had with ye. Only 10 bullets, but pray that you don't have to use 'em since they're a bit old. Don't ye be bothering to look for me by the way, I'm going to get all the things I need and leave this place. Good luck stranger, and may those demonic eggs never hatch within ye.

P.S: Don't thank me, since I almost cut ya up when I saw your 2nd tail. It's not common to see 2-tailed folks around these parts, don't ye know?"

Once I finished reading the note, I just smiled since someone I haven't even known just saved my life, but that part about the eggs left me wondering and confused. I thought about what it could've meant but only for about a second, and soon put the note on the bed and looked around again. The place seemed very dusty with a more examined look and on a dark corner of the room, I saw a ladder that lead upwards. I climbed the ladder, but as soon as I pulled up I felt a sharp pain inside my shoulder where my deep cut was at and I made my way down before I fell. I rubbed my shoulder and tried again, this time only using my other arm to pull myself out of the basement. I climbed into what seemed to be a small house, just like the one I was before. As I looked around to see if anyone was here, I found nothing on the small house. I just felt more depressed and relieved at the same time and sat on the floor and gave a deep sigh. As I sat there on the floor I thought of getting the radio back to see if Ruby, Vince, and Steve were ok. I went back down to the bedroom/basement and saw a box on the floor, next to the candle. I walked over to it and opened it. Inside was my radio, along with a piece of paper and some clothes. I took the radio immediately and spoke into it.

"Hello? Can anyone hear me?" I said to the radio.

(Static…)

"Ruby, Vince, Steve? Are any of you there?" I said to the radio.

(Static...)

"Come on guys, I can't rest easy if I don't hear your voices" I said to the radio.

(Static…)

"Listen, if any of you guys can hear me, listen well. I'm going over to a village called Suspendido, so if you guys can make it, I'll be waiting there," I said to the radio.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure you don't go waiting too long for your friends," someone said in the radio.

At that moment, I went speechless. Confused and baffled, I talked into the radio once more.

"Who is this?" I yelled to the radio.

"Oh, don't you go worrying about that. We shall soon meet each other, that is, unless one of my pets eats you alive. For you see, they like their meat fresh and raw, and they haven't had some in quite a while now," said the same voice in the radio.

"What pets? And what have you done with my friends?" I yelled at the radio.

"Oh, don't worry about them, you should worry more about yourself,my two-tailed friend," said the same voice in the radio.

"How do you know who I am?" I asked.

"Let's just say your reputation precedes you, and I'm really into the young famous types, hehehe. I'm really looking forward to seeing you Mr. Prower, though I won't think you'll be doing the same, since I expect you to be dead once I see you." The same voice said, soon after bursting into laughing.

"Listen to me you sick freak, I may be injured but that doesn't mean I can't find my friends and escape from this place!" I yelled to the radio.

"You called me a sick freak? Brave words coming from a freak such as yourself, eh Miles? Well, I must make my leave, I do hope my pets leave your fur intact, as it will make a fine rug in my living room." Said the voice again, then bursting into a laugh once more.

Right at that moment the radio went into static once more. I was left staring at it, waiting for something to come out of it, but nothing happened. I threw the radio in fury because someone had kidnapped my friends. I felt bad, if not even worse than I had ever felt before. What did that man, or thing, have in store for my friends or me? But why did he want to kill us in the first place? I took no time to think or wait any longer. I took out the things that guy or girl left me in the box. I took out the gun that I found, along with the 10 bullets he/she left me and loaded them into the gun. I put on the clothesin the box, whichwere a red jacket, a knife with it's holder, 2 black colored gun holsters, a pair of finger-less black gloves, and a pair of black boots. I put them all over my wounds slowly and put the gun in one of the holsters. I slowly made my way to the top of the stairs to the house, and walked out the door. I carefully looked around to see if anyone was outside or near the home. I closed the door and walked towards where the cave was located.

Outside it was still foggy and seemed like the same time as when I arrived here with the others. While on my way, I saw dozens upon dozens of bear-traps laid out in the field, hidden below some leaves, others in plain site, and some with small animals dead in them. One of them had a small animal with its leg caught in it. As I saw it I felt sorry for it because as it tried to free itself, it stepped in another trap nearby and it snapped it's leg clean off. As it gave a cry of pain, I kept walking, trying mybest not to step on one, or hear the dying animal since there was nothing I would be able to do. As I kept walking, avoiding the traps, and trying my best to deal with my broken tail, I kept getting the feeling that someone was hiding in the woods, just following me. But every time I thought I heard something, as soon as I turned there was nothing there. After a while I saw a small cave behind some boulders on the side of a cliff, guessing this was the cave mentioned in the note. Before entering the cave, I looked over the cliff and saw that I must have been several hundreds of feet from a village below since I could barely see it among all the forest. I looked all sides for an exit from this forest but saw nothing but more and more trees. I walked back and sat on a rock and tried to contact the others on the radio but static seemed to be the only thing on. As I entered it, I heard a distant howl in the fog. I looked to where the howl came from and saw something in the fog running with amazing agility.

The image was not "normal", nor did it look natural. It was a huge parasite that looked almost identical to a praying mantis, but ithadhugerazor sharpblade-like arms and it changed color to blend in with the environment, and it was alsothe size of a small car. On one of it's huge pincer's it had what looked like a wolf, still alive and trying to get out of it's grip. The mantis then threw the wolf hard on the floor, and looked like it broke it's spinal cord because it was still breathing, but not moving much. As the mantis went down to devour the wolf alive, all I heard was it's horrible teeth rip the wolf's flesh off his bones. I quickly turned away from the horrible sight and went deep into the tunnel. As I walked down I heard as crashing sound from behind and saw that the dim light coming from outside had vanished.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Sorry for the late update, but I promise the next one to be longer and answer more questions than this one. R&R. .