8:00 A.M.
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Cream was writing down her questions in a notebook as she walked to Sonic and Tails' house. She knew the way there by memory, so she didn't pay all that much attention to where she was walking. She was on page twenty now. She started on page one. As she walked, she stared up at the sky, seeing if that was all of her questions. Then, she heard something. She turned. nothing. So, she just kept walking, going a little faster. Then, she slowed a bit. And she heard it again. It sounded like... Music. She had heard it before... Classical, but with a hint of macabre to it. She ran. Fast. The music grew louder. She ran faster. Louder. Faster. Louder. Faster. Singing. Louder. Cream was running so fast she couldn't breathe. She couldn't quite make out what they were singing... it was in Latin... She could make out the pronunctiation...
"Elstos seekere heyobel ananagee"
Then a name... She couldn't quite make it out... Se... Seph... Sephi...
"SEPHIROTH!"
Then she remembered. The song. The name. It was from some dumb game Tails had mentioned once... "Kingdom Spades" or something like that... It played during the boss fight in a coliseum against a guy with long gray girly hair and a big sword and a black wing. The music seemed to fade. Cream turned. A human was standing in the road. No, not just any human. It was the man from the game, wing and everything. The music started again, louder than ever. Cream turned and tried to run, but she tripped over a tree root. The music seemed to intensify. She turned. The man was walking towards her. The voices were now singing something else.
"Veni veni veni vaus. Vena vohi vachi daus."
Then a number of female voices...
"Glorioso Gloriosa"
"SEPHIROTH!" Cream got up and ran again, but the man yelled something and a number of blue meteorites struck the ground in front of her, halting her only chance of escape. She turned and watched as the man approached her. He knelt down in front of her, and held up an artist's rendering of Tails. "Have you seen this... uh... person?" The man asked, obviously unsure if 'person' was an accurate term. "Wh-who wants to know?" Cream asked, trying to sound tough. Then the voices answered her question. "SEPHIROTH!" "What do you need Tails--er, that guy for, Mr. Sephiroth?"
"The black hedgething can supply me with what I need to achieve my ultimate goal of merging with the planet, if I can eliminate the fox creature."
"Really? This fox, two tails, about yea high?" Asked Cream, putting her hand in the air to indicate height. "Yes, that would be him." replied Sephiroth. "Nope, haven't seen him since last month. He left here for... uh... the Death Egg! Yeah, thats it." Sephiroth put his face directly in front of Cream's, and said "I hope for your sake you aren't lying." Then, he was off. But then, Cream remembered something; "Hey can you move the rocks?" Sephiroth, without stopping, snapped his fingers and the "rocks" vanished. "Thanks!" And she was off on her way to Tails' house. She took out her notebook and jotted down "Warn Tails of impending doom."
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4:00 P.M. Cloudy.
Tails was sleeping rather peacefully, for once. Since he had become a vampire, his dreams had been riddled with unpleasant images. So, as you can imagine, he was just a wee bit angry when someone started beating on the closet door. Then he found humor when he heard Sonic whisper, very quietly, "Tails? Are you asleep?". 'Oh, no. You just stuck a jackhammer next to my ear, is all.' Tails thought cynically.
"No, not anymore..."
"Good. Cream is here. She has twenty pages of questions."
"Happy happy, joy joy."
Tails got dressed, by which I mean put on his shoes, and went downstairs to see if he could come up with twenty pages of lies. He walked downstairs, and sat down on the couch, next to Cream. "You... had some questions?" He said, trying not to move his mouth too much. Cream was the only person who had been left out of being told about what happened at the funeral, as Tails had learned. They said it was for the better that she not know. Yet. The yet part is what really worried him. Cream started reading from her notebook. "What happened to your eyes? They look different somehow..." Tails said the first thing that came to mind. "Contacts."
"Okay. Next question. Why did you want to know about my cows?"
Tails thought up some nice four letter words while he thought up a good cover for that question. "They seemed a little strange the other day when I was walking by... ?"
"You don't seem to smile much anymore. Why not?"
"... uh... uh... Duck."
"What?"
"Duck!" Tails yelled as he pushed Cream to the side, barely avoiding the knife that was coming towards them himself. Sonic came in and saw the scene. Then he saw the window the knife broke. He took the knife off of the gound and threw it back at the assailant. It caught the assailant's hair, but, as we all know, hair is not a vital organ... Or an organ at all. The person didn't seem to like having his hair cut, so he dove in and tackled Sonic. It was Sephiroth. Cream looked over and saw the winged man, so she dragged Tails up to his room and locked the door behind her. Then she wrote down a new question, and asked it. "Have you been to a dentist lately? Your teeth are very out of proportion." Tails was relieved that Cream wasn't all that bright. And he also felt stupid for yelling 'Duck!', knowing that it would have blown his cover if Cream wasn't a nincompoop. Then she read something else. "There is a guy named SEPHIROTH that a black 'hedgething' hired to kill you." Then she quickly added, "But I'm sure you already know that." Tails was far too busy wondering why there was a Final Fantasy character in his house to worry about what he planned to do. Normally SquareEnix wouldn't like that. He recognised the black "Hedgething" as Shadow.
"Tails?"
Tails looked over to Cream, who had hidden in his closet, and was motioning for him to follow suit. Tails ran into the closet, and closed the door almost all of the way, just enough for him to look out of the crack in the door. He saw Sephiroth walk into his room, holding Sonic by his arm in one hand, with the Masamune, his sword, in the other. Tails had always thought Sephiroth was only as tall as Bigs, tops. He had been wrong. Sephiroth was much taller. He lifted Sonic up, and said, "Where are you hiding, little demon?" That really stung. "Tell me, and I may let your little friend here live." Sephiroth held the Masamune to Sonic's throat.
"Five."
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"Closet."
"Huh?" Sephiroth looked confused, then stated, "No, one is before two, stupid." The he realised what Tails had meant. He threw Sonic onto Tails' bed, and walked over to the closet. He grasped the handle, and turned it slowly in a cliche fashion. He opened the door, and...
Sonic jumped on his head, and was trying to blind him. He looked atTails and Creamand yelled, "Run! I got Hair Boy!" But before they had a chance to run, Sephiroth grabbed Sonic, and pierced his chest with the Masamune. Then he pried Sonic off of the blade, and threw his body on the ground. Then he turned back to Tails. The kitsune seemed to be in shock. So, Sephiroth took his sweet time walking over to Tails, picking him up, and carrying him out the door. That was as far as he would get. Something inside Tails just sort of... dissapeared for a moment or two. His vision blurred, then intensified, and then everything went to shades of red. His thought process slowed to the most basic of emotions.
'Kill... Sephiroth... Killed... Sonic...'
Tails grasped Sephiroth's arm, and squeezed. Tightly. Sephiroth started to twitch, but it obviously wasn't hurting him. So, Tails pulled. Hard. Too hard. Sephiroths forearm was no longer where it should have been. It was on the ground. But, Sephiroth wasn't bleeding. In fact, he was smiling. He took the Masamune, pointed it directly at Tails, and said, in a very calm tone for a man missing a forearm, "I was told to kill you. I was just going to bring you back to Brotherly alive. But, now? Heh. I always wondered if a little thing I have been working on would work on your kind. Demon." He raised the Masamune into the air, and yelled, "MULTINOVA!" Blue meteorites landed all around Tails, but he easily dodged them. Tails ran, as fast as he could, and launched himself towards Sephiroth. And connected. Tails ripped off Sephiroth's other arm. Sephiroth wasn't smiling anymore. Tails stood on Sephiroth's shoulders. Sephiroth didn't even try to escape. He was too stunned.
"I... I'm one of the most difficult bosses in my realm... and yet, here..." Crunch. Sephiroth's head landed next to his body. Tails slowed his breathing some. Then he heard something. A heartbeat. And it was rapid. He turned. Cream was standing in the front doorway. She had seen the whole thing. And she was scared. And crying. Tails' vision returned to normal, and he could think more clearly now. "Cream..." Started Tails, but before he could finish, Cream slammed the door. He heard it lock. Then, he heard a voice. An evil sounding voice. "Tailsey, you got some splainin' to do..." it sang. "Whos there!" Tails called out, surprised. "Oh, you'll find out soon enough. But for now, you should really explain to Cream what happened. Before she calls Animal Control." So, Tails reluctantly walked to the front door. He knocked. Nothing. He knocked harder. Nothing. So, he walked around and crawled through the broken window. He searched for Cream, but she wasn't there, so he looked around the rest of the house. He eventually gave up and went up to his room, where surprisingly enough, Sonic's body was gone. Tails looked around his room for a bit, then decided to check his closet. He was reaching for the knob, when Cream burst open the door, and tried to tackled him, but hurt herself trying to knock him down. Then she got up, and tried to run downstairs, but Tails grabbed her by the arm. She screamed, but he just ignored her. He sat her down on his bed, and covered her mouth with his hand.
"Cream, there aresome things you should know..."
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To be continued...
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TC Chan writes...
mew...you have a super twisted sense of humour...i like...and very sarcastic at times...whihc is good. i love the idea of the vampires and such, and the whole cow thing...keep this up, its funneh!
You spelled "which" wrong. Also, the cow wasn't really supposed to be "funneh". Thank you for letting me do that, I feel like an awful person now. But awful is good. So it works out.