STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me.

Chapter Five:

Shadow and Knuckles' Tall Tale

"Sonic…"

"Wakey, wakey."

Shadow and Knuckles had woken up and saw Sonic sleep walking again, "I didn't even know he did that."

Shadow looked at him, "Yeah, Amy said he did because Sarah said when he crashed at her place, the next morning when he wasn't there, she thought he left but there was no note or anything."

"So what happened?"

"Turns out Sonic had gotten on the roof with the ladder."

"You sure he wasn't just doing that for attention?" Knuckles asked.

Shadow shook his head, "Sonia said that it happens twice every week."

"Cool," Knuckles said both the boys looking at Sonic who was on the couch.

Shadow picked up his feet while Knuckles picked up his arms, "Where should we put him?"

"The creek!"

"We are so bad…" Knuckles laughed as they went outside.

The sun was up; it had to be near seven o' clock. Shadow and Knuckles looked at each other when they were at the creek, "One…Two…Three!"

"AHHH!"

"Run, damn it!"

"Where to?!"

"I don't know!" Shadow yelled as the guys ran from Sonic.

"I'll get you guys for this!"

"Run!"

"I'm running!"

Shadow and Knuckles turned into the trees while Sonic was out of sight; they layed on the ground hiding by trees and bushes. When a blue blur past them, they got out of their hiding spots and high-fived each other, "Nice man!"

They turned towards the trees, two a little ways from each other, "Come on, better to be safe than sorry," Shadow said as he headed in between the two trees.

Knuckles followed right beside him. They got to the trees and he stopped, "Shadow...I feel like someone's watching us…"

"Me too…" Shadow looked around.

"Now!"

"Ahh!" the two fell on the floor after tripping over something.

Shadow got up and looked at what it was; a string, "What the-"

"Die, mister!"

"What!" he saw two little bats about five years old (Both mine).

Knuckles was still down and staring at them, "Kids?"

They held up sticks to the men, "Trespassers!" one yelled.

"This isn't your land," Shadow said staring at them.

They were obviously twins; they both had brown fur and black wings with darker brown eyes, "Yes it is!" the other one said.

"Who are you then?" the first one asked.

"I'm Shadow and this is Knuckles," Shadow said pointing to the echidna that was still lying down.

Shadow rolled his eyes and picked him up.

Knuckles stared at them, "But these are kids."

"So?"

"We were taken down by four year olds, Shadow!" he yelled.

"Five!" the first one yelled while the second one nodded.

He held up only four fingers though, Knuckles laughed, "Then why are you holding up four fingers, kid?"

"It's Fritz, mister!" the first one said.

"Fritz?" Shadow asked with his eyebrow rose, "What kinda name is that?"

"The name my mother gave me!"

Knuckles laughed, "You got told…."

Shadow rolled his eyes, "What about your brother?"

"I don't have a brother…" Fritz said.

"That's a girl!" Knuckles yelled.

She smiled, "Die, mister!"

She ran up and tried to tackle him but he moved causing her to fall and hurt her nose, "Oww!"

"Hey!" Fritz said, "Never hurt my sister!"

The two looked at each other, "Run?"

"I'm going with run," Knuckles nodded.

The two ran as fast as they could but those kids were smart. Paint balloons hit Shadow's face while mud hit Knuckles in the arm. They kept being tripped and wherever they turned one of the twins would be there.

"They're everywhere!" Knuckles yelled.

"Just run!" Shadow said barely missing a water balloon.

It hit Knuckles though, "I'm shot!"

He pretended to be dead, Shadow rolled his eyes and ran back for the echidna who was on the ground, "Come on!" he grabbed him and ran.

More water balloons came everywhere, "Hurry!"

"We're being shot at! We're being shot at!" Knuckles yelled as Shadow dragged him along.

They ran out of the trees to fall in the creek, Shadow resurfaced, "Knuckles!"

"Here!"

Knuckles stood up and walked over to Shadow to help pull him up, "What the hell was that!?" Shadow yelled.

"Little demons…" Knuckles grumbled.

Shadow looked around, both wet and now cold, it was only seven-fifteen in the morning, "Where are we?"

"Who knows…let's head down river and get clear of these trees though, just in case you know?" he suggested.

Shadow nodded and the two headed down the creek. It was silent. Kinda

"I can't believe that was a girl."

"Sonic, did you see Shadow or Knuckles anywhere?"

They were eating outside since it was nice that morning, no fog, just the sun shining.

"Yeah…they threw me in the creek!"

Scourge stopped eating, "Now where are they?"

"Probably still hiding," Sonic guessed.

"Hey!"

They turned and saw a wet Knuckles and Shadow.

"What happened to you guys?" Sonia asked.

"Oh, we were hiding from Sonic in the trees when these little twin bats only five years old beat the crap out of us," Knuckles nodded.

"Are you guys okay?" Rouge folded her arms.

"Oh, we lived…barely," Shadow stepped forward.

"No, I meant have you guys gone crazy?" Rouge picked up her plate.

"Why would you say that?" Knuckles dropped his arms.

"Come on, guys, little kids beating you two up? Seems impossible," Amy said taking a drink of her orange juice.

"It…We didn't make it up!" Shadow stammered.

Manic nodded, "Right…you guys just came back wet…no bruises or anything."

"They threw little balloons of paint at me! Hitting me in the face!" Shadow pointed to his face.

Silver leaned back in his chair, sarcastically answering, "Wow so horrifying…"

"They threw mud at me!" Knuckles complained.

"You sure it was mud?" Scourge smirked.

"Why aren't you guys covered in mud and paint then?" Fiona asked though she was ignored.

Knuckles glared at him, "They kept tripping us with yarn around the trees!" he yelled.

"And did you land in a pile of mud?" Sarah asked.

"No, but then they threw water balloons at us!" Shadow continued.

Amy folded her arms, "Yeah, I'm really sure that about killed you."

"We fell in the creek running away!"

"That's what a smart person would've done, good job," Blaze said sarcastically.

"Did they dive in after you and then beat you up?" Tails asked.

"No, we didn't see them after that; we walked down to the creek crossing though!"

"The what?" Manic asked.

"It's where trucks and four-wheeler's can go up in the mountain and get across to other cabins!" Knuckles explained.

"So, did you guys walk back in the water?"

"No, we aren't that big of idiots!"

"Yet this story seems…" Amy trailed off.

"Not true," Sonic finished for her.

"But it was!" Knuckles wailed.

"Yeah they were five years old; one of them was named Fritz!" Shadow told them.

Everyone was silent, crickets chirped in the background.

"You gotta believe us!"

"Right…" Amy said.

"It was true!"

"I'm still trying to get how these kids beat you up," Sonia said.

"They didn't beat us up in like fighting, they were nice at first when we introduced each other," Knuckles said.

"Then what?"

"The girl tried tackling Knuckles but he moved and then Fritz yelled at us because she hurt her nose," Shadow continued.

"Man…you guys had quite a morning," Sonic nodded.

"Yeah!" Knuckles nodded.

Sonic stood up and walked to them, "To think this all up."

He walked away with everyone else, "But it wasn't a lie!" Shadow yelled.

Knuckles wailed after them, "It happened!"

"Sure it did," Manic said while they walked inside leaving the two alone outside.

"It did!"

Knuckles watched Rouge go in, "They were demons!"

"They won't believe us with that!" Shadow whispered.

"Oh right, they were evil though!" Knuckles changed his words.

The door closed and you could hear the lock, "They locked us out!" Shadow gaped.

"What now?" Knuckles questioned.

"I don't know," Shadow turned around.

Standing there was Fritz and his sister with balloons. Filled with what the two older guys didn't wanna know, "Run!"

~.~

"Do you believe them?" Amy inquired, playing with her food.

"Not at all," Silver shook his head.

"Maybe if they gave us some proof," Cream shrugged.

~.~

"Run!"

"Would you quit saying that Shadow! I get it! Run from crazy kids!"

"Watch out!"

"Oh, is that what you're going to say now?"

"No! Watch out!"

They ducked as the balloon filled of paint hit the window.

"Move it!" Shadow shoved Knuckles as a balloon hit the side of the cabin where he was just crouching.

~.~

"What was that?" Sarah's ears swiveled to listen.

"What was what?" Sonic said looking at her.

Scourge looked around, "I heard it too."

"Me too," Tails agreed while Cream nodded.

Amy stopped washing the dishes, and looked around the room then shrugged, "Might have been a bird that hit the cabin."

"How could a bird hit the cabin?" Sonic asked.

"I'd doubt they would miss it," Amy stated.

"Yeah…I doubt it wouldn't see it so I don't know why a bird wouldn't move out of the way from a big cabin," Sonic glared at her.

She stopped washing the dishes again, "Why don't you go and check what it was then?"

"I will," Sonic said as he unlocked the door and went outside.

Manic laughed and locked the door while Sonia rolled her eyes, going back to her magazine.

"Look!"

"What!?" Shadow asked looking around.

"Sonic!"

"What?"

Shadow dodged another paint balloon and they ran towards the blue hedgehog.

Sonic rolled his eyes, "Would you guys knock it off, we don't believe you!"

His eyes widened as a balloon went pass him and landed on the white door, "I'm guessing we're going to have to pay for that…."

"And the window," Shadow nodded.

"DIE!"

The three looked at the kids, "Them?" Sonic laughed.

They nodded, "They're just kids," Sonic said.

"AHH!" the girl tackled Sonic.

He screamed like a girl, "GET HER OFF!"

"Run?" Shadow looked at Knuckles.

They watched as Fritz came closer to them, "Run," Knuckles agreed once more at the tiring word.

They ran as Sonic was tackled by the girl, "Hey guys! Come back!"

~.~

"What is that yelling?" Amy went to the door.

She opened it and saw Sonic with tied hands and tied feet. A little girl was standing by him smiling. She smiled at Amy who smiled nervously back at her, "Hi?"

She smiled evilly, "DIE!"

"AH!" Amy tried shutting the door but the bat got in quicker.

Amy watched as she ran in the kitchen and everyone ran out, "What is it?"

Everything got silent, "Maybe….it ran out the window…." Manic whimpered.

They all jumped and screamed when glass was heard, "Where's Silver?" Blaze wailed.

"I think…" Tails said looking at the kitchen.

"No…"

"AHH! LITTLE DEMON!" he ran out of the kitchen and out the front door to outside.

Everyone stared at him, and jumped when the girl came out of the kitchen with an innocent smile on her face, "RUN!" Manic screamed following Silver's footsteps.

Silver screamed, tripping over Sonic while Manic tripped over Sonic and him, "AHH!"

"Upstairs!" Amy yelled as the girls and she went upstairs.

The men being scared out of their wits ran outside tripping over the ones in front of them.

~.~

"I think we lost him…" Knuckles looked around.

They were in the trees again and everything was quiet…too quiet. Shadow looked around and stepped forward to fall in a hole, "AHH!"

"Shadow!"

~.~

"Where are you?" her sweet voice went throughout the cabin.

Blaze and Sonia hid in the bath tub while Rouge hid in one of the big closets. Amy hid under a bed with Cream.

"I know you're in here," she said again.

'There's gotta be something to calm her…candy is out of the question though,' Amy thought.

~.~

"Shadow?"

"Ugghh…I hate those kids…."

"Shadow, man, you're alive!" Knuckles said as he stared in the dark, deep hole, "Wonder how long it took them to dig this…"

"Does it matter?"

"Want some help, man?" Knuckles held out his hand.

"That would be nice…"

~.~

"Got off of me!"

"Sorry…"

"Oww! That was my nose…"

"I think I sprained my foot…"

"I know I broke someone's ribs…"

"...Might've been mine..."

The guys got up and untied Sonic, "So much for not believing in Shadow and Knuckles," he said once he got loose.

"I don't know about you guys but from now on I am believing those two…" Manic nodded which made the others agree.

"Yeah…but where are they now?" Silver glanced around.

"Probably being attacked by that Fritz boy…" Sonic put his hands on his knees.

"He's real?" Scourge inquired.

"I don't know if that's his name but yeah…he's real…" Sonic bobbed his head.

"What now?"

"Ow!"

They looked at Silver who had paint on his face; they turned to stare at the boy who held even more balloons.

"Well, the good news is that Shadow and Knuckles got away from him…" Espio trailed off.

"Yeah, but the bad news is that he found us!" Charmy yelled flying away with Vector following him.

"RUN!"