Yay! The next chapter! Hopefully this will be slightly better than the last since it isn't 5 o clock in the morning. TT lol I won't do that again, damn my permanent insomnia! Shakes fist
Everyone else : OO Why is she shaking her fist at thin air?
DISCLAIMER (...) I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY, AND IF I DECIDE TO USE IT, I DON'T OWN THE CAMERA OBSCURA EITHER (IF, I said IF, we'll see)
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Sonic leant on the desk contemplating over his dream. 'Is Shadow really alive? My dreams usually mean something important, and my eyes...they're still red, they're must be something going on here, and I intend to find out.' He switched on his computer and sat back and waited for it to start up.
His house was small, but easily big enough for just himself to live in, and a friend to stay if he wanted. He hadn't had too many people over lately though, he'd been so caught up with trying to find Shadow, he felt so guilty, his friends had tried to help, but they couldn't do much. It had a living room, full of knick-knacks and souvenairs from his and his friends' holidays and travels round the world. There was small kitchen to one side and the bathroom on the other. There were two bedrooms, the guest room, which was just big enough to fit a double in with a cupboard, and his bedroom, the next biggest room in the house, was decrated cream and red, he'd always been a fanof the oriental style, and he had a futon bed and a few cupboard built into the wall where he kept most of his stuff.
His computer finally finished starting up and he clicked onto a file he'd been adding to over the year with everything that had helped him get closer, hopefully, to finding Shadow, if he was alive, or if the worst should have happened...
He snapped out of his thoughts as he scrolled through a few pictures, he'd got acess to the Ark files when he'd asked Gun VERY nicely, it wasn't as top secret as it had been before since everyone had witnessed the fight to save the Earth in outer space and knew that Shadow was existent in the least.
Suddenly his computer went crazy as a thousand different programs started up at once, Sonic couldn't keep track of them as they all activated themselves. Then they suddenly stopped and on the screen was a solitary program, one Sonic hadn't seen before.
Catiously he scrolled down it, it didn't look like the computer was going to do that again. He read through the text, his eyes went wide as he read on.
'Experts are baffled by an incident discovered earlier today by man hiking in the local woods, after hearing his claims of a disaster in a small village deep inside, authorities followed him skeptically, to discover a horror beyond all belief.
There is a small village in the woods that was until recently known by very few people who stepped up after hearing of the tragedy that had befallen it, many of who have helped the police in their investigations. Hundreds of people were found dead in the village, not a single survivor was found, except one black and red hedgehog on the outskirts, covered in blood and staring at the dead bodies surrounding him, shaking and absoloutely terrorfied, the police have decided to question him when they are sure his mental state is stable.
The incident is being investigated as murder, although the few people who claimed to have had knowledge of the village's existence, insist it was a repentance, they were paying for something horrible they did. They all claimed this, but psychiatrists report mental instability in the past, although they have been deemed stable enough to lead normal lives, despite constant claiming of the repentace.
All victims in the village bore deep slash marks, some even had holes straight through their bodies, police officer Parker describes it as 'a horrific scene, and the authorities are going to work round the clock to find whoever is responsible for this evil deed and make sure they are punished to the full extent of the law.'
We have to ask though, who could possibly take out a whole village? It would take a group of at least fifty to even TRY to partake in a mass murder of this calibre, and even so, sources say the village is well protected, unfortunately they will not tell us any more, saying it would be too dangerous, but one thing's for sure, such a calmity hasn't been seen around here since the great war.
Police urge people not to panic, but to be catious, and for anyone who had information to step up. A new home for the black and red hedgehog who identifies himself as Shadow is being prepared as soon as possible, until then he will stay in the care of a local mental care facility, until he can be deemed fit to continue of with a normal life.'
Sonic's mouth hung open as he read the report, then he noticed a couple of pictures at the bottom, one was of the police officer the reporter had talked to, and the other was of Shadow, he looked younger than before somehow. 'But isn't Shadow immortal? I thought he didn't age.' Sonic shrugged off the thought and mused on some more pressing thoughts. 'Was this report here before? I don't remember if being here, and it just appeared after the computer went crazy, why did it do that anyway?' He shook his head, all these questions were giving him a headache.
He put down his hand to rest it on the desk, to feel instead of the sturdy wood, a piece of paper underneath his glove. He lowered his head to see a thick piece of paper on his desk with the words, 'The repentance,' on it. He turned it over, and to his suprise saw a photo of Shadow, he was in his super form, and the outlines of something covered the ground, but the lighting in the picture wasn't good, and he couldn't tell what it was.
'Where did this come from?' Sonic questioned in his mind, examining the photo carefully, 'this is getting way to weird.' He scanned the photo and added it to his file, as well as the news report, then rested his elbow on the table, thinking carefully. Everything that had happened in the last 24 hours seemed to be connected, the mansion, the deaths, and Shadow was in the centre of it all.
And the even more suprising thing was that the news article was dated 50 years ago.
It immediatly caught Sonic's attention when he saw it scrawled in the top right hand corner, 50 years ago, that's when Shadow lost Maria...could the events be linked together? He decided to go to the window, a place where he usually thought, for some reason he liked being by the window, probably because he liked the outdoors, a lot more space to run around in, another thing he hadn't done for a while. Sonic sighed, 'I need to sort myself out.'
He leaned on the windowsill and closed his eyes, he could hear the soft drizzle outside and the wind blowing through the trees. They pattered and blew against the window, and he listened as he stood deep in thought, trying to find the connection between all the strange goings-on he'd experienced in the last day.
His ears perked up as he heard a new sound. He opened his eyes and turned round quickly. A short bang, nothing more, but it was followed by another, and another, slowly getting louder, almost like the sound of someone walking.
He ran to his bedroom, where the sound was coming from, getting ready to defend himself against any intruders. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who was in his bedroom. Standing in front of him was Shadow. He wasn't sure what to do, what to think, he just stood there, as did Shadow, the silence cutting through the air.
Finally, Sonic got over the shock and with a cry of joy he wrapped his arms round Shadow, smiling happily, more than happy.
"Shadow! I thought you were dead!" Shadow stood still in Sonic's arms and waited. The blue hedgehog realising he'd been holding on to Shadow for some time, let go of him with an embarassed chuckle. "Sorry." He looked down to the floor, flushing a slight pink, hoping that Shadow didn't notice him blushing.
"Sonic," the blue hedgehog's head shot up at the sound of his name, he waited patiently for his counterpart to continue, "you're in trouble, you've got yourself caught up in something dangerous." Sonic frowned, this was not the conversation he was hoping to have with his supposedly deceased friend. "I can't get you out of it, but I can help you." Shadow took out something he'd been holding behind his back, it was antique camera, he handed it to Sonic who looked at it in confusion. "Just use it, use it to fight against the mansion, I'll try to help you, but, there's difficulties." The black hedgehog's eyes lowered.
Sonic suddenly felt a wave of tiredness rush over him. He rapidly found it hard to keep his eyes open. Shadow helped him to his bed, and Sonic heard the black hedgehog speak as his last moments awake passed.
"Just use the camera, I believe you can do this."
Then, he drifted off to the manor of sleep.
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Oooooh, well I hope this chapter is better than the last, and I decided to use the camera obscura, so I suppose this is defintely a crossover between fatal frame (project zero) and sonic, but only because of the plot and camera. Most of it will be different, don't worry.
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