(Yay, chapter 15! I've been obsessed with writing out my story lately, I wanted to make my last chapter longer, but I had the worst urge to just post it so I ended it in the most craptactular way ever. So, thanks for the reviews, and on with the story!)

"And the winner is…SHADOW!" cried Lucius.

"Shadow!" blurted Tails.

Susie and Star-la were cheering loudly as Tails nudged his way through the crowd. He was surprised when he saw the Sonic was the only one not at the finish line. Tails ran up to Shadow and asked him "Where's Sonic?"

"I don't know…" he shrugged. "…and I don't care. He was right next to me one moment, and gone the next."

"Did he break a leg or something?" asked Tails.

"I don't know, if he did, the servants will find him. They are clearing out all of the tape right now."

Veronica walked up to Shadow with a fine crafted mahogany box and said "Congratulations, inside this box is your prize."

Shadow opened the box and smugly took out the prize.

"A chaos emerald!" blurted Tails.

"Lucky me." smirked Shadow. He pocketed the emerald in one of his invisible pockets and walked off.

Lucius once again picked up his megaphone and yelled out "The next event will be our treasure hunt, in which the contestants will seek out a chaos emerald hidden somewhere in the conservatory." he said pointing to the greenhouse. "The person who finds the emerald will win what they find. I'm afraid metal detectors and magnets would be useless here, and any electronics are prohibited."

Several people threw aside their supplies and looked around fearfully hoping that everybody else was as helpless as they were. Knuckles was jabbing the air getting ready and Drake was moving his wings around.

"You know Knucklehead, when I win this contest, I could bring Rouge out of her hiding with that beautiful emerald." he said in an extremely silky voice.

"At the buzzer, 3...2...1..." cried Lucius. A loud buzzer sounded and the contestants raced towards the greenhouse. Knuckles and Drake were gliding causing cheers from the entire crowd. Once inside the conservatory, people were searching through plants and digging through bags of soil. It was a funny sight to watch actually. Drake and Knuckles sped through the greenhouse searching in places nobody else had thought of, like the inside of a frog's mouth that issued water into a well and inside an electric light.

After an hour, some contestants flopped down on benches while others left the greenhouse giving up completely. Knuckles and Drake were still searching.

Knuckles was thinking as fast as he could. They said inside the conservatory, and he had looked everywhere. Well, he knew they didn't sneak anything in or leave any loopholes. The just said conservatory, which only meant one other thing, greenhouse! Unless…

Knuckles frantically searched his mind for what he remembered of that map Rouge found. He remembered something about the conservatory, it was a passageway, something about shovels….. He couldn't remember.

"Bingo!" he whispered racing towards the shovels. He grabbed one and stuck it in a crack in the ground, he heard a clicking noise and a frog at the nearby well stopped spurting water. Knuckles raced over there and lifted up the frog. There lay the chaos emerald. Knuckles grabbed it and raced out of the greenhouse and yelled "I got it!" triumphantly.

There was an explosion of applause as he raced toward the crowd. Knuckles couldn't help but laugh a bit as Drake walked out positively pissed off.

"You know what, Drake…" said Knuckles when Drake approached "maybe Rouge won't be so afraid to go near your hideous face after I comfort her a bit with this."

Drake was now officially pissed off to the maximum, which seemed to please Knuckles very much. Tails came rushing up to Knuckles. "Knuckles, we need to find Sonic, he never came out of the castle from the race!" said Tails anxiously.

"No kidding, we better hurry." replied Knuckles.

They ran towards the race entrance and began to look everywhere. They even checked behind paintings and tapestries in case he fell through a secret passageway.

After searching that path as much as they could, Tails and Knuckles collapsed on a stone bench outside. Knuckles pulled his chaos emerald out of his invisible pocket and examined it with admiration.

" Knuckles, do you think Sonic is alright?" asked Tails.

"Sure!" he said convincingly. "He'll be fine. Shadow probably just shoved him into a wall and knocked him out for a bit. He'll be fine."

Tails looked up at the sky and sighed. "You can see the stars so easily out here, and they are so pretty. You can't see them like this in the city." said Tails dreamily.

"Yeah…" said Knuckles looking up at the sky.

"Wait a minute, did we just have a girly moment?" asked Tails.

"As far as I know, that never happened." replied Knuckles.

Tails and Knuckles went back to the ballroom and Tails was ecstatic to see a familiar face.

"Sonic! You're back, what happened?" cried Tails.

Sonic was sitting on his bunk with a cast on his right leg going from is toes all the way up to his thighs. It pretty much covered his entire leg.

"Hey Tails, I broke my leg in the race. I managed to trip over a chair some idiot threw in front of me." said Sonic.

"He was a slow runner anyways and gave up the race so he could set up the track. The lazy cheater." huffed Amy who was sitting next to Sonic.

Knuckles went up to Sonics bunk to explain the hunt in full detail while Tails went up to Star-la and Susie.

"Star-la, Susie, can I ask you something?" asked Tails.

"Sure, what's up?" asked Star-la.

"When your plane crashed, was there anybody else left, well…alive?" asked Tails.

"No." said Susie. "We were the only people left from what we could tell."

"Are you sure?" asked Tails.

"Positive." answered Star-la.

Tails sighed and slumped off to bed. No matter what they said, that dream still seemed real to him.

Sonic sat up straight in his bunk and adjusted the position of his leg.

"So, anyone have a good story?" asked Sonic.

Nobody answered.

"Come on, anybody?"

No answer.

"Come on you guys. Who haven't we heard from?"

Everybody pointed at Shadow.

Shadow looked around. "Why the hell do you all have to point at me? It doesn't matter though. I've got a story. Now, this is how it goes…"

-story-

There was a girl babysitting for these parents who were going to an all night party. She was the kind of popular girl, you know, a cheerleader and everything, Anyways, she was babysitting these twins, and they were real afraid something bad was going to happen to them. So the babysitter promised that she would go up and check on them no matter what to make sure they were ok.

So the girl went downstairs and flicked on the television. There was a news report up that some crazy lunatic or killer was on the loose and he was believed to be in the area. So the girl went around and made sure all the doors and windows were locked. But she conveniently forgot to lock the cellar door. So guess what, the killer got in and hacked the girl's arms off at the elbows.

The twins heard the noise downstairs, but they suspected the girl was just moving furniture. And, for the remainder of the night, they heard this odd noise. Thump thump dra-ag. Thump thump dra-ag. It kept the twins up all night.

When the parents got home, the saw the stairs covered in blood, and the dead babysitter at the top of the stairs. She apparently was trying to get to the twins. It was either to check on them like she promised, to get help, or out of her own insanity kill the twins herself.

-story end-

"Come on, everybody's heard this story!" said Knuckles.

"I haven't." said Tails.

"Well, a lot of people have. It's just an urban legend." said Sonic.

"I thought it was cool, someone tell another!" said Tails.

"I have one." said Star-la.

-story-

There was this group of people drilling for oil in Algeria around the 60s or so. The group had been drilling the same well for the last year or so. It was supposed to be the deepest oil well in the world.

One day, while the crews were digging, their drill would come back up slightly moist, very hot, and with parts missing. The crew took a break to repair the drill real quick and took a temperature reading in the well. They were getting readings of over 2000 degrees Celsius at some pieces of rock the drill didn't touch.

They began to wonder what was going on down there, so they dropped a microphone down there to figure out what was going on down there.

They slowly dropped the microphone down the well, after a while, all they heard was complete silence. Then, they started to hear this noise, like howling wind. As they lowered the microphone more, they found that it wasn't wind making that noise, it was moans and screams from down below, the sound of all the tortured souls of Heck.

They stopped drilling the well and hoped to God that whatever was down there, stayed down there.

-story end-

"I've never heard that one before," said Knuckles slightly shaken.

"I don't remember where I heard it. Probably "The National Inquirer" or something." said Star-la.

"That was scary…" said Susie.

"Cool how about a-" started Sonic.

"NO!" screamed Tails.

Everybody looked at Tails.

"Uh, I just thought that…we should just go to bed and save some stories for the bonfire tomorrow…" added Tails sheepishly.

"Sounds like a plan, I'm beat." said Knuckles with a yawn.

"Me too, whipping Sonics ass may not be that hard, but I'm still a bit tired." said Shadow.

"If my leg wasn't broken, I'd destroy you." said Sonic.

Everybody got under the covers and drifted to sleep.

-nightmare-

The gray cat awoke in her small area, still completely trapped with no way out. She put her shirt over her mouth and began to beat on an area of the plane where there was only a sheet of metal in her way of freedom. She picked a rock up off the ground and began to dent the metal up, but it wouldn't move or give in. She tried to push on the rubble on top of her, but she wasn't strong enough. A gust of wing blew and more ash blew into the area. She began to cough and rubbed ash out of her now bloodshot eyes.

She desperately tried to lift up the sheet metal, but as she did, the rubble above her shifted and when she set the sheet metal down again out of exhaustion, the roof went down farther leaving her in an even more cramped area. She helplessly tried to push the rubble around, but only succeeded in blowing around more ash. She coughed into her arm and fell cold to the ground.

-nightmare end-

Tails woke up from the dream, he had once again broke into a cold sweat, but wasn't so shocked. He sat up straight and tried to regain his thoughts.

That gray cat again… he had no clue why she kept coming up in his mind. He remembered Sonic telling him once when he was little that "If you dream the same thing twice, it's bound to mean something". Tails' dreams were like lightning, in a way. They never repeated themselves, they always seemed different. This couldn't be a normal dream.

The cat now seemed in even more danger, the walls were closing in on her AND she was probably dying of thirst because she had already swallowed so much ash. Tails wished Drake didn't have the grounds patrolled, or he could go out there right now.

Tails sighed and lay his head on his pillow again. There was nothing he could to, he was helpless. All he could do was pray that the girl survived to see true daylight again.

(I'm making this story too corny aren't I? It's like my friends say "We aren't corny, we're cheesy!". Anyways… thanks for all of the reviews, hope that you guys liked this chapter. I'm still obsessed with finishing this story, but school starts Wednesday! NOOOOO! SCHOOL! GET IT AWAY! Anyways… I won't have as much time to write my story, so you won't get updates as often. 8th grade is gonna suck, I can tell that much. BYE!)