A/N:Ten reviews and four chapters. Hm...not bad. It's a lot more than most people get. I'm expecting fifteen reviews after my fifth chapter, however. It's just what I like, so don't get angry, okay?
8:30 A.M.
That was the time when Tails woke up.
He didn't know what was in store for him, though.
He stretched first before leaving his room. He decide to turn on the T.V so he wouldn't have to listen to dead silence, which was creeping him out ever since his encounter with the Tails Doll. As he did, he went to go make himself some coffee to warm himself up. The news channel went on, and Tails didn't pay attention to it at first. But then, as they came up on an oh so familiar subject, he concerned himself with the horrific news.
"Here in the Station Square Care For Creatures Hospital," the anchorwoman replied. "another mystery had occurred just yesterday. In Room 298, a cream-coloured rabbit named Cream had been missing from her hospital bed when she had been carried over here by Shadow the Hedgehog at late afternoon. However, there was no sign of a struggle when doctors had checked the room, making this mystery as confusing as it would've been with the struggle. We have no evidence of why she has left as of yet, but we'll be following this story as far as it goes."
Tails, stunned by the news, turned off the T.V at once. He was completely deaf at the sudden silence that once filled him with such horror as he thought about what the anchorwoman just said. She said there was no struggle. Tails thought. But why would Cream suddently leave the hospital? It doesn't make any sense. She's not that type to just leave the hospital, let alone anywhere, when she needed to heal. Unless if she had a good reason, which I don't see what reason so important there could be that she had to leave a hospital room.
A chilling thought came to him. What if someone made her leave? What if she was abused? What if...what if she was possessed by something? Like...like...
Then, it hit him. The Tails Doll! It would've done something like that! It would've command her to go anywhere it wants her to go. But..but why possess her? And what kind of evil plot is the doll up to? What is it trying to do? And what does it need Cream for?
All these thoughts were cramming into his head as fast as the speed of sound that he wouldn't be surprised if his head exploded. His brain was saved when he heard the door knock. He went to answer it, and saw Sonic, along with Shadow and Rouge. He looked at all of them, still dazed at his previous thinking.
"Guess you guys heard the news, huh?" he said.
"Guessed right." Sonic said, although his fake hyperactive tone of voice didn't match his sneering facial expression, probably from the news about Cream.
"Poor little rabbit." Rouge said with sympathy. "I hope she didn't go anywhere too far."
"If they weren't able to find her around Station Square, I'd say she went pretty far." Shadow said.
Rouge glared at him, although she did considered that he has a point. Sonic and the pair stepped inside, and Sonic noticed immediately that the news was troubling Tails.
"Something bugging you, Tails?" he asked.
"Well, I'm just worried," he replied. "about Cream. I mean, there isn't any proof that someone had forced her out, so what do you think caused her to walk out by herself?"
"Maybe Eggman has something to do with this." Sonic said at once.
"Sonic, not everything that goes wrong has something to do with the Doctor." Shadow argued. "It could've been anything else."
"Nu-uh!" Sonic retorded. "It has to be Eggman. I mean, how many kidnaps had been involved without him?"
"That's not a good reason." Shadow said acidly. "You just want to think he's up to something."
"You just don't want to admit you still got respect for him, even after your years apart!" Sonic said.
"What does that have to do with this situation?" Shadow asked. Before Sonic could answer, Tails interrupted.
"Guys, please! We can't solve this problem with you both constantly arguing."
"He started it!" Sonic said stupidly. Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Oh, will you stop it!" Rouge said. "Like Tails said, we're not going to solve anything if we-"
"But Shadow started it!" Sonic interrupted.
"Sonic, shut up!" Shadow retorded.
"No you shut up!"
"Shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"Sonic, I'm warning you!"
"Oh yeah, well-"
"SHUT UP!" Tails cried out. "Why don't you both shut the hell up so we can discuss this shit that's been thrown in our fucking faces?"
All three of them stared at Tails in awe. He had never in his life cursed like that before. Well, to say the least, not in front of them.
Sonic broke the silence. "Wow, Tails. You're mad."
Tails could only twitch in anger. After a couple of minutes, he sighed and said "Sorry, guys. Sorry for blowing up like that. But I really want to talk about this so we could figure out a way to find Cream. You understand, right?" He blushed after replaying his cursing remark in his head.
Sonic wrapped an arm around Tails. "Sure we do. We're sorry. Now, what were you saying?"
Before Tails could open his mouth, someone burst through the door. It was Knuckles.
"Geez, Knux." Sonic said. "Knock much?"
Knuckles ignored him. "Guys! I know where Cream is!" He was breathing heavily, giving a sign that he ran there. He was also covered in sweat, and his eyes were wide with fear. "I know where Cream is!" he repeated. "She's on my island! But something weird is happening! You guys have to come! Come on!"
Tails didn't hesitate as he stepped inside his newly made plane. He had now made it seat a total of 4 for goodness sake as he, Sonic, Shadow, and Knuckles got on it. Rouge had planned on flying there.
"Are we all ready?" Tails called behind him.
"We've been ready ever since we got here! Now let's go!" Sonic shouted.
Tails heard Shadow muttered "idiotic blue pig" but decided not to pay attention to it. He turned on the ignition, and was soon out of the workshop. Rouge flew beside them as they made their way to Angel Island. What they didn't expect, however, was a storm, as black and grey clouds coated the sky. Tails groaned in disappointment.
"This is gonna be a bumpy ride," he shouted behind him. "so hold on tight!"
"Damn." Rouge said. "I don't want to fly in this kind of weather. Take a perfect day to wear expensive make up!" She sat on one of the wings of the plane, being so light weight that it made no difference to the balance.
Tails cringed as he heard the rumble of thunder. He had always been afraid of storms, the only thing taking his mind off from it was if he was doing one of his favorite leisures. The storm became more dangerous as the wind picked up speed, and in no time, rain began to pour down. Rouge had to cover her head from being knocked off for the rain was pouring down hard and the raindrops act as heavy bullets. The path was blurred as the winds stirred the droplets, making it look as if the plane was in a waterspout.
"I can't see!" Tails shouted, trying to squint into the storm. "It's no use! We'll never make it!"
"You have to, Tails!" Sonic said. "You just have to!"
"But I can't see!" Tails shouted. "And the storm isn't helping!"
"I can see my home from here!" Knuckles said.
"Knuckles, now is not the time!" Sonic called.
"No!" Knuckles shouted. "I could see Angel Island! We made it!"
Tails manage to peek through the rain and rain clouds as the big, green, beautiful floating island came into view. He smiled.
"We made it!" Tails said. "Prepare to land!"
He turned his plane to where the island is, and landed near some trees. Luckily, the trees were near the shrine where the Master Emerald sat upon. Everyone got out, and Tails looked at the shrine.
"Such a beautiful emerald." Rouge said, admiring the big jewel on the shrine.
"Don't think of any ideas!" Knuckles warned.
"I wasn't." Rouge said, failing to pull off the innocence she intend to do.
"So where's Cream, Knuckles?" Sonic asked.
Tails, to his horror, saw something strange on the shrine. "Um, guys..."
They all look to where Tails was looking and gasped. Cream was on the shrine, but she didn't seem like herself. Stitches and patches and a whole bunch of other stuff were on her, yet she stand perfectly still, not wincing in pain or anything. She had a red aura around her, and her eyes had lost it's brown twinkle, instead being replaced with a deep deadly black.
She extended her hand to touch the Master Emerald. Knuckles made a move to stop her, but Sonic pulled him back.
"Let me go, Sonic!" Knuckles shouted. "She might do something horrible!"
"It's best to know what she's doing." Sonic said in a forced calm voice.
Knuckles still wanted to stop Cream, but decided to watch with a disdainful look. Cream began to glow green as the power of the Master Emerald had been absorb. It rushed through her veins as the glow grew brighter. The Master Emerald began to lose it's color, and, in no time, it was a dull, transparent grey.
Knuckles was beside himself with the sight. "I DON'T BELIEVE IT!" he shouted. "SHE'S ABSORD ALL OF THE MASTER EMERALD'S POWER!"
"But how could she do that?" Rouge asked. "I mean, no one could do that but you, Knuckles."
"I'm just as confused as you are, Rouge," Knuckles answered. "but for right now, I don't care! She's going down!"
"Knuckles, no!" Sonic and Tails called as Knuckles ran to Cream. 6 year old rabbit girl or not, he lets no one do that to the Emerald.
As he was closing in on her, she turned her head to stare at him. He found himself frozen on his tracks. He felt coldness all over that he was sure someone had put him in an extra freezing freezer. She walked over to him, and reached out to touch him...
She fell.
And then a horrible kiddy cackling erupted. "OH, THE SHINY SUN!" it said. "HER SOUL HAS BEEN TAKEN! BUT NOW I HAVE HER! I AM YOUR OMEGA! I AM YOUR NIGHTMARES! I AM THE GREAT GOD OF EVIL! NOW THAT SHE HAS THE POWER, I DO NOT NEED HER!"
"It's him!" Tails cried. "It's the Tails Doll!"
Knuckles, who finally could move again, just stood in confusion. Wha...?"
"Shadow!"
Rouge's cries were followed by Shadow's grunts as he was picked up from the ground, but instead of glowing red, he glowed a dark black. He held his neck and his eyes bulge, as if he was being stranggled. The rings he had on each wrist broke off, and the shine that was placed in each on of them was stripped off. The gold color fade, and Shadow suddently fell. He looked weaker than before.
"Shadow!" Sonic cried.
They all ran over to the black hedgehog, who had trouble getting up.
"Are you okay?" Tails asked.
"I think," Shadow replied. "yeah."
"What just happened?" Knuckles asked, who is as confused as ever.
"Forget about that! What about Cream?" Tails was already kneeling over her, checking to see if she's still alive.
"I don't think she's dead." Sonic said. "Her soul's not there, that's all."
"But isn't that what being dead is?" Tails said in a semi-squeaky voice.
"Well, it's death where you can possibly get someone back, is it?" Sonic said.
"Huh?" Rouge asked.
Sonic opened his mouth, but even he didn't know what he was saying. He's not sure whether Cream is dead or not. She could be...
"I don't think she's dead, either." Shadow grunted out.
"You don't?" Rouge asked.
"No. I mean, it's like Sonic said. Her soul may be gone, but we could still get it back. I'm still stumped on what that...thing needed with the Master Emerald's power. Or my rings." He looked at his wrists disdainfully.
"I hope you're okay." Rouge said, watching him as he frowned on whatever he was thinking.
Something seemed to click on him. "If that doll is so mighty and powerful, then why did it need that kind of power?"
"Well, what do you think?" Sonic said. "He just wanted to be extra powerful like any other villian. I bet this is one of Eggman's schemes! I should've known. He would want this kind of power. He would-"
"I doubt the Doctor would be involved in any of this." Shadow said. "He is brilliant, but I know he could come up with something better than to beat us all with a doll."
"I guess." Sonic said. "But how can the doll move without anyone controlling it?"
"Oh, for goodness sake!" Tails cried. "It's because the doll is haunted! Hasn't it hinted on you already?"
"Tails, that thing killed Amy, and possibly might kill Cream, if she isn't dead." Sonic said. "But if this means I have to force myself to believe that it could move by itself, then I'm not sure if I want to investigate this any longer."
"Sonic, when are you going to believe there are some things that cannot be explained?" Tails said, in which his voice was high enough to be called a shout. "It was haunted the day Eggman had created it! Sure, Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles were equally dangerous, but the Tails Doll has something the others don't! They were programmed to destroy, while the Tails Doll has a mind of it's own. Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles have weapons for power. The Tails Doll has the power of the De-"
"Load. Of. Shit!" Sonic interrupted. "I don't know why you're making up cock-and-bull stories for these kinds of situations, but I'm not having it! I'm going to go look for the doll, go for the person controlling it, and attack him straight away!"
"Him?" Rouge said. "How can you be sure it's going to be a male person? If you ask me, I find it sexist!"
"Keep your mouth shut, then!" Sonic shouted.
Rouge looked taken aback. "Well, excuse me! Maybe if you wouldn't put in a specific gender-"
"What the hell are you so concerned about the gender?" Sonic retorded. "I could put in any gender I want. Besides, this isn't about identifying the sex of the person. This is about solving the mystery of Amy's death and figuring out what's wrong with Cream! But no," he rounded on Tails "obviously a certain doll is brought to life and is here to kill us all! And the only way we should stop these murders is to kill the doll, which won't be so easy because he holds the power of the Devil, and he is so mighty powerful than we are-"
"I never said he was powerful than we are!" Tails yelled, already angered by the sarcasm in Sonic's voice. "I just said he was very powerful, but I never said-"
"And now we have come to a conclusion that the Tails Doll will kill us all because one smart person decides not to pay attention to anything dooky related and all the others continue to pursue the doll until all of them got killed!" Sonic finished.
He had never thought he had so many faces of hatred turned to him, even Tails, who looked like he was having a twitching extravaganza. Shadow just glared at him, although it was a lot more piercing than before. Rouge was holding Knuckles back from throwing any punches, but she looked as though she want nothing more than to rip the tail off of Sonic's blue behind. Sonic gave them all a cocky grin, which seem to worsen their already grim and angry expressions.
"Come one, guys." Sonic said. "We better hurry up and get out of here, before anything else goes wrong. Knuckles, tell us if anything else goes wrong."
Knuckles's mouth was very thin at the moment, so he refuse to talk at first. But after Sonic cocked his head to the side, he muttered "Okay." He took hold of Cream and promised to care for her, well, her body at least.
Sonic, Tails, and Shadow went on the plane, while Rouge stood beside Knuckles(they were not sure whether she'll fly somewhere or stay). The storm was calming, so it didn't take long for them to get back to Tails's workshop.
As soon as they hit landing, Tails parked the plane inside the building. Shadow took off. Then Sonic ran after him. Tails was angry that Sonic didn't say goodbye. But then after the quarrel they have, he's probably better off keeping his mouth shut until Sonic came to his senses. He went to his room and slept. This seemed to become a habit of his, but then again, he's always working, so he could use a siesta everyday.
Sonic ran around the forest where Eggman's base use to be, where Big's house is, and where that ancient tower he was sent in last time were located. After having a round with Rouge and Tails, he thought he could run the anger off. However, it still stuck to him as he sat on a stump taking a break. Then, out of nowhere, he felt a hook penetrate his flesh. He choked at first, then fell silent.
It was the Tails Doll.
It dragged him out of the forest, enjoying the scent of blood as the wound bleed, singing it's horrible theme song it put into a strange eerie remix. It's red gem collected the blood that was coming out of Sonic. But it didn't care much for it. After all, it will get the one thing it wants...
Sonic's soul.
It cackled in the same kiddy eerie laugh as it carried him higher, increasing the intensity of the pain that must be searing in Sonic if he was still consious. It has power, and one soul in his red gem. Sonic's soul will give it more power. Then it willbe the almighty god.
It's red gem glowed as the forest slipped into darkness. It was about to storm again.
A/N:May I please have some reviews? If I get a total of 15 reviews, then I'll continue. I have 10 so far, so please keep it up!