(Chapter 16! It's go time (god that sucked). After reading your reviews, I realized that Sky is gonna kill me. Anyways, I'm trying to finish this story before I get too far in the school year. Thanks for all the reviews. You are so nice (tear). This chapter is dedicated to…………………….um……MY 7th GRADE ENGLISH TEACHER! For reminding me to space after a period, to make paragraphs, and use exclamation points! See that? Right there, exclamation(!) I did learn something in your class! Ok then, on with the story!)
The next morning, Tails looked out one of the stained glass windows and saw the blurred image of a guard by the forest edge. He still couldn't do anything about that plane crash.
As he walked to breakfast he noticed Sonic up ahead limping on makeshift crutches.
"Hey, Sonic!" yelled out Tails.
He raced up to Sonic to help him along to the dining room.
"You know Tails, it's nice of you to help me, but I'll be fine. And as soon as I get this cast off, I'm facing Shadow in a rematch." said Sonic.
"Right now, concentrate more on getting better. I can't make it to Drake's hideout because he's got guards on patrol." said Tails.
"Hmmm, then who says we set up a little distraction?" asked Sonic.
"Like what?" asked Tails.
"I'll tell you after breakfast." he replied as they approached the dining room door.
When they entered there was a flash of pink and blue and Amy had Sonic pinned on the wall.
"Sonic are you all right? Is your leg feeling better? I hope you feel better!" said Amy rather fast.
"Amy!" Sonic wheezed.
"What?" asked Amy still gripping Sonic.
"Air!"
"Oh, sorry Sonic." said Amy releasing him from a rib-cracking hug.
"You know Amy, maybe you should try putting egghead in a headlock of doom." said Sonic.
"Ewww, touch that stupid moustache monkey? No way!" replied Amy.
"Wait a second, I just realized, didn't Drake kidnap you?" asked Knuckles.
"Kidnap me? No! I just went into town to buy a pretty dress for the ball next week. I had to stay at this icky motel though." said Amy.
"You mean, you WEREN'T kidnapped?" asked Tails.
" Of course not! You know Sonic, speaking of ball…" said Amy.
"Can we talk about this later?" asked Sonic.
"Of course!"
Tails snickered. So Drake didn't have Amy, but what about Cream? Amy would know if she had gone to town too. And Rouge, she had been gone for a while. Tails knew for a fact she didn't just disappear off to the mall.
He dwelt on the subject while he ate breakfast. When he finished, he was once again the only person left in the room.
He walked out into the hallway and made his way to the ballroom. On his way, he heard the voices of Amy and Sonic talking. He peered around a corner ad saw them talking.
"Come on Sonic, you know it." whispered Amy.
"Amy, I think that-"
"Sonic, I know and you know, so just say it!" she whispered.
Sonic threw his head back and closed his eyes. He mumbled something under his breath.
"Hmm?" asked Amy.
He mumbled again.
"I can't hear."
"YES! OK, YES!" yelled Sonic.
Tails put his hand over his mouth and ran to the ballroom. When he managed to get to his bed, he sat down and began to laugh his head off.
Everybody else was looking at him like a lunatic.
Tails finally stopped laughing and said "It's nothing."
Shadow had cocked an eyebrow and Susie and Star-la were looking at him like he was a madman.
Knuckles was smirking, he must've guessed what happened . He mouthed "Did he say yes?"
Tails nodded and Knuckles began to laugh into his pillow.
When Amy and Sonic came into the room, Tails and Knuckles both grinned widely.
"What are you so happy about?" asked Amy.
"Oh, umm…Tails said that, he had a ghost story to tell." said Knuckles.
Tails mouthed to Knuckles "I do?"
Knuckles nodded vigorously.
"Uh, right! Yeah, my um…story." said Tails.
Sonic cocked an eyebrow, but didn't say anything.
"Ok. It goes a little like this…."
-story-
There was this girl babysitting one night-
-interruption-
"Wait a second, haven't we heard this one before?" asked Shadow.
"It's different, so shut up and listen." said Tails.
"Now, anyways…"
-story-
The babysitter was reading a book while the kids were playing with their toys. While she was reading, one of the younger kids told the babysitter "Clown hurt me."
The babysitter didn't understand, then she noticed a toy clown about the size of the children.
"Don't be silly, it's just a toy." she said, and she went back to her book.
Then, the oldest kid who was probably around five said "The clown hit me." the babysitter closed her book and looked at the clown.
"You are just being silly, clowns don't hit, they make you laugh." said the babysitter.
The kid just shook his head and said "Not this clown."
The babysitter called the parents and told them the kids were all right. When she asked them how to turn off their toy clown the parents replied "They don't have a toy clown."
-story end-
"That's scary, did it mean it was like, a ghost or something?" asked Amy.
"Hey, I remember that story, it really happened around our neighborhood." said Sonic.
"Exactly. It was a really short guy that would hurt kids for fun while they were watched by a babysitter or something, then he would kill them at night and the babysitters would be blamed." said Tails.
"And if they told them the truth at court…" started Star-la.
"They wouldn't believe them because it is so unrealistic." finished Susie.
"That's a pretty clever plan." said Knuckles.
Everybody looked at him weirdly.
"What? It's not like I would go around doing that. It would be a giveaway seeing there aren't many red echidna clown toys out there." said Knuckles protectively.
"Yeah, but there are also a lot of idiots out there." said Shadow.
"Yep, just like you." replied Knuckles.
"Ok then, enough you two." said Sonic. "Who else has a good story?"
"I do." said Susie raising her hand feebly.
"Ok then, let's hear it."
-story-
One day, at a wedding reception, the guests decided on a drunken game of hide and seek. The groom and bride agreed and they all went to hide while the groom had to find them.
In a matter of time, the groom found everybody except the bride. He got everybody together and they all looked for her, calling her name and yelling that she could come out now, but they got no answer.
After searching for hours, the groom decided that she had second thoughts about marriage and fled the scene to get on with her life as usual, so the groom followed suit. He never got married, but he did adopt two kids and fostered some whenever he could. He became a kind man and forgot about the incident, until one day he got a call from the morgue. They said they had found a girl in a trunk at the place the wedding reception was held, and the girl turned out to be his missing wife.
-story end-
"Omigosh, did that really happened?" asked Amy.
"From what I can tell, no. I overheard the story from a couple of people sitting near us on the airplane." said Susie.
"Where were you two going on that airplane anyways?" asked Knuckles.
"That is for us to know, and you to find out." answered Star-la.
"Ok then, any other stories?" asked Sonic.
"I've got one!" squealed Amy.
"Uh, ok then." replied Sonic.
"Alright, this really happened, so pay attention.
-story-
One Halloween, Amy was driving home from a party dressed as a witch. She was driving to her apartment when she noticed a girl walking on the side of the road. ( Wait, can Amy drive?) She pulled over and asked her if she needed a ride.
The girl nodded and climbed into the car. She gave her address and hoped she wasn't to far from where Amy was going. Amy told her it was no big deal and made her way to the address.
As she watched the girl in her rear view mirror, she noticed that her hands and shoulders were badly scarred and she had a series of long scratches going across her face.
When she arrived at the address, Amy turned around and the girl was gone, which was odd because she never heard the car door open. Amy noticed that she had left her overcoat in the car and grabbed it from the backseat. She walked up to the house and rang the doorbell.
It was answered by an old man with wispy hair. She told him that the girl had left her overcoat in her car.
The man smiled and said "Every Halloween that overcoat goes missing, and every Halloween night my dead daughter leaves it for someone to bring back."
-story end-
"That did not happen." said Tails.
"Yes it did." protested Amy.
"Last time you told me that story, you said it never really happened." replied Tails.
"Well last time I told you the story you were littler and I didn't want to scare you." said Amy.
"Yeah right." huffed Tails with his arms crossed.
"I wouldn't have gotten scared anyways. It's not even a scary story." said Tails.
"Which is why you slept with the lights on in your room for the next week or two." smirked Amy.
Tails mumbled something under his breath that sounded oddly like "So did you."
"Right, anyways, who has another story?"
"How about Knucklehead?" asked Shadow.
"Why, yes. Knucklehead DOES have a story to tell." answered Knuckles.
-story-
One day, some old woman was putting her groceries in the trunk of her car and some nice little kids asked if they could help her out. She accepted their help graciously (If that's a word.) and they helped her load her trunk.
When they were finished, they closed the trunk and walked away with grins on their faces. The old woman guessed that they were just glad to help. She drove away, but noticed she was being followed by someone.
She guessed that they were just going the same way as she was, but when she parked in her driveway, they did the same. So she got out of her car and said "What do you want?" they replied "Don't open your trunk, a kid is in there with a knife."
-story end-
"I heard that really happened." said Star-la.
"I think it did, only it was an adult or something like that. It wasn't a kid." replied Knuckles.
"Ok, anybody else have a story?" asked Sonic.
Tails looked out of the stained glass window near his bunk and noticed that there was nobody on guard.
Anxious to check out that plane crash, he slipped out of the ballroom and sped outside to the woods.
He looked around to make sure he wasn't being followed, nobody was around, so he ran as deep in as he could before anybody could notice him. He stopped to take a breath and walked on through the forest.
After walking for a while, he was afraid he was lost, but he saw a clearing ahead.
He ran towards it and could only stare in awe at what he saw.
A plane had crashed head first into the ground and had broken in half. Both of the wings had snapped in half and chairs and suitcases were thrown all over the place.
He walked up to the plane and noticed that there was a pile of rubble similar to the one in his dreams by the wing of the plane. He ran up to it and began to dig through it, this must be where the cat was, it was just as he remembered.
He dug through the pile and expected to see the gray cat laying there were her brown hair covering her face like she was the last time he dreamt about her.
Instead, Tails screamed at the sight before him.
A skeleton lay curled up among the rubble, some of it's brown hair still matted on it's skull. Tails thought it must be the wrong person, but then he noticed the familiar runes scratched onto the plane.
Tails fell to his knees and began to cry, he was too late. A couple of years too late.
What he saw were glimpses of the past. Snippets of the last hours of her life.
On the wing of the plane was the name "Autumn". That must've been who the cat was.
A tear landed on the skeleton as Tails thought "I should never have come here. I would rather just keep on dreaming about her than see her actual fate."
Tails finally stood up and wiped the tears from his face. He was going to bury her, let her rest in peace.
He began to dig a deep hole with his hands and lowered the skeleton into the grave.
Sadly, he took the wing of the plane and used it as a tombstone at her grave, with her name at the bottom. Tails grabbed a stick and scratched "R.I.P" below her name and gave her his last respects.
He couldn't believe it. After thinking that he would be able to save her, to let her live, he found her already dead for a long time.
He didn't even know why she was in his dreams. She was already dead by time he came here, he couldn't have helped her. All he could do was bury her in the ground and find out who she was.
After Tails left the woods, he never spoke of the incident again, but the grief for the cat, still remained.
On the way back, Tails noticed another clearing were he was guessing Star-la and Susie had crashed.
Tails began to wonder how many people had died in these woods. Either on impact, or slowly and painfully, like Autumn.
(Awww, it's so sad! I had top force myself to do that, I didn't want to because it was so miserable. I felt so sorry for Tails (sniff). Anyways, I hope you guys liked those stories. They were not my originals. They were urban legends. I'm running out of ideas! If you have a good scary story that you wouldn't mind me putting in this story, e-mail me! Anyways, NO! SCHOOL IN TWO DAYS! DON'T MAKE ME GO!)