Chapter 9

Kylee stared at the cealing from her bed, she was given drugs to help the pain, and she was like a zombie. She heard her nurse in the other room right beside hers, 112.

'strange' she thought 'I could never here this good...'

Kylee felt a slight shock down her spine. It made her shiver. then she noticed she had touched the metal handle this at the side of her bed

'if this is all I have to do, I will die of bordum...'

Shadow onpened his eyes and looked over at the fake window painting. It was night in there to!

"What the hell?" he jumped out of bed and walked over to the painting. It was so beautiful, then he thought about the other window painting. he walked out of his room and over to the other, darker, room. He walked in and saw what he had expacted to see: Tails. he was in the picture but died. And there where bugs everywhere.

"uhhhggg, grose..." Shadow walked out of the room and over to the castle entrance.

he stood and looked at the door for a couple of seconds before he opened it and walked back up to the quiet house.

Knuckles was standing in the kitchen with a cup of coffee. he hadn't been able to sleep, because of Tails' disapperance. They looked every where but they found nothing. Everywhere except behind the boards, they all knew Tails wouldn't go back there if Sonic told him to, but Knuckles argued about that. He had suggested that something had posseded Tails and made him go down that hallway. Knuckles finished his coffee and walked to the boards downstairs. He moved one of them and stepped through and walked down the hall

"well he could be possesed...I meen he hasn't been doing his usual smart stuff..." Knuckles turned right, he walked a bit more until he came to the halls end. there was a picture of a black triangle witha light blue background.

"Not a single door...and a weird picture...this house is just weird" The picture started to warp clockwise

"like I said, weird" when the "picture" stopped rotating, it opened up from the middle out in all directions, in a spike formation. The echidna stepped into the metal tunnel,

"Now I get it, Tails must have come down here and saw this! its really in his field..." Knuckles walked until he came to another painting, it did the same warping thing. He jumped out of the tunnel and onto the floor. It was made from shiny black glass.

"hmm I wonder what this stuff is?" he punched it made a big dent in it. But it just popped back to its origanal state. He looked around the room he was in, all black glass, the painting behind him and a door infront of him, also made of the black stuff. he walked over and opened a door, into a hallway, very wide, and also amde of the black material.

"Ok this is just getting weird... he walked down the hallway to his left, and came across a three doors, opening the one to his right, he looked in and saw piles and piles of the black stuff, and a light blue creature, with a snake-like neck, and head, with big pure black eyes four long arms and a body of bloby, blue stuff. Its "hands" had black "gloves made from what appered to be that strange material. It was sorting the black stuff. Knuckles slowly closed the door. He looked in the one to his left, same thing.

"well i can guess what whats in here..."

Knuckles opened the door right in the middle and saw thousands, no, hundereds of thousands of black barred cages, all with glassy black rocks in them, The cages where in extremely long rows and many cages high. He walked down the row directly infront of the door he came through, and looked into a random cage. The "rock" started to transform into him, except it was all black, not red. It looked at him. Knuckles' jaw dropped and he backed away from the cage, only back into another cage, with a "rock", it reached out, as another Knuckles, and tryed to pull him into the cage with it. Knuckles screamed and ran for the door, and out into the hallway. He looked for the door, but couldn't find it.

"OH GOD! I've got to get out of here, and fast" He heard a noise come from the room he was just in. One of the "rocks" came out into the hallway as a three headed snake. Knuckles turned pure white as it slithered towards him. It came closer, but at a slow pace. finnaly Knuckles found the door, and ran into it slaming it just in time to. The "rock" banged against the door making a huge dent but it returned back to normal, only to be slamed at again by that monster. Knuckles walked over to the picture on the wall, this time it was of a big castle, but he really didn't care he just wanted out.

"Open, come on..." The picture started to warp. it was just opening when the "rock" crashed threw the door and bit at Knuckles, He managed to aviod it but the other head got a hold of his shoe. Knuckles screamed and kicked the rock in the face. He jumped for the tunnel, he made it but lost his shoe, to the "rock". the terrified echidna watched the picture close, leaving the "rock" out in the other room. He stared at the back of the picture and fainted.