Chapter 7
Blood dripped off the ceiling, but Tails Doll didn't bother to clean it up. It was just one drop of many, on this bloodstained floor. In his home.
His hideout.
What a typical stereotyped place for an evil monster. A run-down mansion no one had bothered to touch in fifty years because it was ugly. No one bothered to take it down, as it wasn't even the city's land. It had belonged to the village that stood behind the mansion. The leader of that village was an old crotchety man, who refused to let the city tear it down.
"It's better for me, at least," Tails Doll muttered to himself. "I have a home, a hideaway from the world. A place to carry out the writing of my blood stained legacy. A place to feast..."
His cold orbs turned to the six bodies hanging from the ceiling from ropes around their necks. The five teenagers, Taylor, Mike, Colin, Jeremy and Brandon. The sixth body was a whore, a mother who was cold and uncaring. Madeline Noble's face remained blue and choked. Her lips were white and her eyes were bulging from her sockets.
Behind those six bodies were the shadows. And hiding among them were the rotted skeletons of the doll's past victims. Before he was caught. Before he was put in the ground.
"But they'll never get me again..."
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Sonic and Tails clapped. Rouge and Shadow finally gave in when Amy had gotten stabbed, and had given them the chaos emeralds.
It was time to find the Tails Doll.
Knuckles had the Master Emerald seek out the power on Tails Doll's head.
An old mansion...
"It's time to destroy it," Sonic said. Tails could only nod.
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Celestia approached the mansion with fear. She had to warn her master of the police. They were coming.
The door creaked open and she stepped inside cautiously. Knowing her master, Celestia expected to see blood, but the sight of the bodies startled her. Especially the six fresh ones.
"What are you doing here, girl?"
Celestia whipped around to see the Tails Doll hovering in the air four feet away from her.
"M-Master...the police know you're back and plan to come find y-you..." she stammared.
"So?"
"Well, s-shouldn't we be prepared to leave? T-There are many other souls around the world to f-feast upon..."
"You haven't been doing your job, Celestia. You promised to lead me to souls, and all you've done is feed me the six souls in a week and a half," the doll hissed.
"B-But..."
"You're a failure. I don't need you," the doll silenced her. "I shall go somewhere else, but I don't need the extra baggage."
With those crypic words, the doll vanished, leaving Celestia trembling.
A few seconds later, she smelled smoke. Gasoline. And heat.
She knew well that she had failed her master and was now paying the price with her soul. Falling to her knees, she sobbed and sobbed.
"I'M SORRY!!!"
But no one was there to hear the last cries of a teenaged girl as the entire mansion burst into flame.
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Super Sonic, Tails and Knuckles stood in front of the firing mansion. The Tails Doll's last place. Tails knew his doll counterpart well, and had to try finding it.
Or let it come to them...
A shrill laugh filled the air, chilling all three of them to the skin beneath their quills, fur and dreadlocks.
"You're too late, fools. I don't plan to remain here, after my slave has failed me. Perhaps I shall go elsewhere...the world is large, after all. Many souls await feasting..."
"Damnit!" Sonic yelled, looking around. But there was no answer.
Where had the Tails Doll gone after that day? No one knew the answer. The murders had stopped and the blood had been cleaned. An uneasy peace settled again over Station Square.
Uneasy...because Tails Doll is still alive. But no one knows where he is.
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Too short, I know. I'm posting another chapter as soon as I write it up, and that'll be the end. My way of saying sorry for keeping everyone hanging.