(A/N Chapter six, yay! Huge writers block again, BUT I FOUND THE CURE! Well, for this kind of fanfic. I got a ton of new ideas from playing Sonic Adventure 2. Tell me if the scary stories I make suck and if you have any scary stories that you would let me submit in the story, e-mail me the story at Sango48182aoldotcom. Thanks for the reviews!)
It was late at night; everybody was tossing and turning in bed. They all had one thing running through their heads, nightmares.
-Tails' nightmare
Tails was walking down a cheerful forest trail; it was bright and sunny outside. Tails looked around at the scene before him with joy on his face. Just as he was about to skip along the path, a storm blew in rather quickly. Tails was sopping wet within minutes and needed to find somewhere nice and dry.
Tails noticed a house farther up the trail.
"That's weird, I never noticed that there before." said Tails.
He began running towards the house, now practically blinded from the heavy rain.
He approached the house and knocked on the door………..no answer. He knocked again………no answer. This time Tails banged on the door with his fists and ended up knocking down the door.
"Uh-oh, now I have to go in and apologize!" groaned Tails.
Tails trudged into the house, it was pretty empty. There wasn't even a chair or small table in sight, let alone a person.
Tails slowly walked up the creaky stairs and through an odd smelling hallway. A door down the hallway suddenly shut itself with a bang. Tails went towards that door so he could find the owner, apologize, and get out of here.
Tails opened the door and looked around; this room was empty too from the looks of it. Tails began to walk around the room and noticed a black and white picture of a family, next to it was a door.
Tails walked up to the door and slowly opened it. It led to a dusty and moldy room with no windows and a trap door. Out of curiosity, Tails opened the trap door and looked down. There was someone hanged by the handle of the trap door. Tails ran out of the room screaming and shut the door ferociously behind him. Tails leaned against the door panting and noticed the black and white picture, it seemed….different.
Tails looked at it closer and saw that all the people in the picture had fangs.
Tails backed away from the picture slowly, he was about to leave the room, when the door disappeared.
Five seconds later, the people in the picture burst out, sending shattered glass everywhere.
Ballroom-
Tails woke up and bolted up in his bed, screaming. He had a cold sweat and was panting. Everybody was still asleep and didn't seem at all disturbed by Tails' scream.
Tails pulled the covers over his head, now afraid something was going to jump out at him any moment. He couldn't fall asleep though, whenever he closed his eyes, he saw the fanged members of the family portrait.
When he finally fell asleep, he kept on having the same dream over and over again, every time he dreamt of the house, it seemed more threatening and dangerous
He dreamt the dream over about six times until morning came and light streamed through the stained glass windows.
Everybody got up and was asking Tails why he seemed so disturbed. Tails wouldn't answer.
As everybody was getting ready brushing their teeth and pulling on some fresh clothes under their covers (excluding the boys ), the servants they ha seen the day before came in and announced when everybody was ready, they would lead them off to the dining room where they would eat breakfast.
Everybody got ready in a hurry eager to see more of the castle, not counting Shadow who just sat in the corner staring at the floor.
When everybody was ready, the servants led them through the numerous hallways once again to the dining room Rouge and Knuckles had seen that night.
Lucius and Veronica were sitting at the end of the table, which was laden with sausages, eggs, bacon, cereal, and every kind of breakfast food you could imagine.
Everybody sat down, once again girls on one side boys on the other.
When everybody was settled in and began eating, the servants were rushing around tidying up the dining room removing cobwebs from pottery and dusting off paintings which looked like they hadn't been cleaned for years!
When everybody was done eating, Lucius and Veronica stood up and received everyone's attention.
"We would like to give you a quick summary of the things we are going to do while you are staying here. We shall start with today. Today you will be free to wander the house and explore. We have a guest arriving today; he is in fact a good friend of ours and has been for many years. We hope you show him respect.
Tomorrow we have another guest arriving who was the runner-up of the contests you all won, she will be invited to the castle, but only for this week. You will be staying for the entire month.
This weekend is the annual bonfire nights which we hold every weekend. On bonfire nights, we tell stories around a large bonfire in the courtyard, and I must say Veronica is an excellent storyteller. You will very much enjoy hearing what she has to say." Lucius announced. He looked over to Veronica who continued on.
"The next week is when our runner-up will leave the castle, but you will all be staying. It is also the week in which we will show you the path to our lake which you are allowed to visit anytime after we show it to you. We do ask though that you don't try to go there until we show you the way. We have not cleaned out the lake of anything that might harm you like glass or tin foil." Veronica looked over to Lucius who was speaking again.
"On the third week, we will have a small festival at our castle. The festival will include a grand feast, a race (Shadow and Sonic prick up their ears), and a treasure hunt (Rouge and Knuckles look at each other for a second)." Lucius looked to Veronica who was now speaking.
"On the final week, we shall hold our annual grand ball in which we invite several of our friends and we hold a ball at or castle. You may ask someone to go to the ball with you." Lucius and Veronica grinned.
"Well now that that is settled, Lucius and I have some things to attend to. Please enjoy yourself while you are here. Our friend will be arriving this afternoon. He is staying with us until winter when he shall return home to his family." said Veronica.
With that Lucius and Veronica left the room leaving eve5rybody else to look around exchanging curious looks.
Finally, to break the silence, Sonic stood up and said "Well we shouldn't waste our time here, I'm going to explore this place a bit, anybody want to come with?"
Tails walked up to Sonic along with Cream.
"Anybody else?" said Sonic.
Knuckles moved uncomfortably in his chair remembering his agreement with Rouge to go back to the library. Amy walked up to Sonic eagerly and looked around to see if anybody else was coming.
Nobody else moved. Sonic shrugged his shoulders and walked out of the dining room with Amy, Cream, and Tails close behind.
Shadow walked slowly out of the room looking back at Rouge and Knuckles before he went out of the room.
Rouge looked over to Knuckles when Shadows footsteps disappeared and said "Let's go."
Rouge got up and walked towards the door with Knuckles following her reluctantly.
Rouge pulled the map out of her pocket and looked it over carefully before setting off in the direction of the library.
They passed a few servants along the way, but they all disappeared as Rouge and Knuckles approached the library. They once again went through the purple doors into the huge library. Knuckles stood with his arms crossed looking around.
"Well what are you waiting for, get reading! Are you illiterate or what?" said Rouge.
"I'm very literate for your information." said Knuckles walking up to a bookshelf and looking at a few titles hopefully as if one would jump out at him titled "Everything You Need to Know About Dracula's castle", fat chance.
Knuckles poured over different books reading the text carefully while Rouge randomly took books off of the shelves and flipped through the pages.
A couple of hours later, Knuckles was sitting at a table piled high with books and Rouge was at the very top of the library flipping through another book.
Knuckles suddenly heard someone close the door. He got up to look, but couldn't see through all the books he had been looking through. He heard Rouge shriek and automatically was racing up to the top of the library to see what was wrong.
When he reached the top, there was a bat, like Rouge, standing there. He had black fur and was wearing black jeans and a black v-neck shirt. His hair was tied up in a short ponytail and there was a bite mark on his ear giving him a wild look.
Rouge was panting behind him and seemed to have been surprised by his arrival.
"Why, hello. You must be another contestant. My name is Drake."
(A/N Ok, I'm sorry, but I can't do a Rouge Shadow relationship, I just don't see how they could like each other! But I do want to set some sparks up about Rouge. I will try to put Kyra in the next chapter, she does seem like a good character, and I hope I toned down the swearing and pervertedness. Hope you liked it! Please review, I need more opinions before I start chapter six.)