CHAPTER ONE IS FINALLY HERE! Sorry for the wait. Just in case anyone wants to know, Alice has a bio in the forums. .net/topic/33005/12434414/1/
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BTW, I took TWO sonic personality quizzes, and got Cream on both of them. As a guy, I find this embarassing. Let me know if you are laughing at me right now.
Chapter One
Locked Away
~Chase~
"Alice! What have I told you about going to that school?!"
A booming voice shook the walls of a crumbling mansion. Small creatures would've scampered as quickly as their little feet could carry them. Daylight was no longer spread across the continent. The Moon was now high in the sky, piercing through the black sheets of clouds that pounded the earth with rain.
The father's voice roared louder than the thunder that shook the sky, "I know you've been sneaking out during the day! How dare you disobey me!" a single man stood in a room littered with dolls. One could mistake his daughter for one. She cowered on the floor, her tiny bones rattling audibly. She looked up at her father with her chocolate-brown eyes glistening.
Her father sighed, "Alice..." he knelt down to his daughter's level and pushed back her black hair to reach her shoulders, "If they found out you were here, we would have to run again. There's no where else to go, this place was our last shot. And you're risking it by sneaking out."
The girl, "Alice", fought to hold back tears, "I'm sorry...Buy I don't want to stay locked up in this house anymore. I wanna go to school, like the normal kids..."
The man held his daughter close, "But we aren't normal, Alice. If the world knew what you are, they would try to hunt you down. Both of us. And I can't stand the thought of losing you."
Alice pleaded, "Please...let me go back...just one more time...I promise never to go again."
The father hesitated in his answer.
"I'm sorry Alice...I can't let you go..."
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"YAWN...Man, I'm tired." Tails stretched out his tiny body across his bed, "I can't believe my luck today! Stupid Sonic, he got our bags mixed up. Again!" With another yawn, Tails disappeared in a swaddle of sheet and blanket as he stared out his window as he did every night.
Tails enjoyed looking up at a full moon before falling asleep. The glowing light always seemed to cheer him up. He felt safe in a world that could produce such beauty. It wasn't long before he found himself falling asleep.
Unfortunetly...he would have that same nightmare....
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"Ahh! Go away!" Tails voice echoed in the dripping blackness that surrounded him. A shadow was begining to engulf his body, a beastly growl came from behind him. His entire body was wracked with terror, and no matter how fast he runned, the beast could always go faster.
Tails tripped and fell flat on his face. He turned back only to find himself directly under the creature giving chase. It let out a ravenous exhalation, drool dripping from it's fangs. It's eyes pierced into him. His heart felt like it was going to explode.
As the creature pounced, Tails heard a voice. It was distant, but familliar, "Tails...? Tails! Wake up!"
"W-what? I can't hear you!"
"Buddy, get up! C'mon!"
"Where are you! I can't find you!"
"Wake up!!!!"
Tails' eyes shot open. What felt like hours inside his nightmare, and there he was, bolted up right in his bed, the light from the ceiling illuminating the room. Sonic was at his bedside, "Jeez, Tails, that musta' been some nightmare you were having. Amy and I could hear you from the other room. C'mon, you're sleeping with us tonight."
Tails stepped off his bed, gripping onto his pillow for dear life. His heart was still beating at a million-miles-a-minute.
"Why am I having these nightmares? And just who is that girl in them? She seems so...familiar...."
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"Tails! Breakfast!" came Amy's cheerful, bubbly voice once again. Tails slowly opened his eyes. The color blue filled his sights. He quickly realized that Sonic was still on the bed and turned over. The clock read ten-thirty.
"Ahhh!" Tails screamed, bolting out of the bedroom and into his own. Amy peeked in and watched him rummage franticly through his dresser, "Amy! It's already ten-thirty! Why didn't you get me up! I'm gonna be late!"
Amy giggled and placed a hand on the kit's shoulder, "Tails, calm down. Look outside." Tails' popped up to his window. Outside, all the buildings were smothered in a thick layer of white, made even bigger by the flakes falling from the sky.
"Snow day! Yeah!" he cheered.
Tails quickly wolfed down his breakfast, showered, and threw on his winter clothes. Charmy, Cream, and himself had told each other that every snow day, they would meet somewhere in the city.
"Have fun, Tails!" Amy saw him off as he dashed out the door, laughing the entire way.
The snow crunched under Tails' shoes, much to his delight. Every inch of concrete and metal was now garnished with billions of crystals, giving the city a shine, much different than the one he saw every morning. The air was scented with the crisp air of winter. It was intoxicating. Tails took a deep inhale and sighed happily.
The sound of quiet buzzing reached his ears. The buzz of tiny bee wings, "Charmy!" he greeted the little bee as he came in for a landing in the soft snow beside him.
"Yo!" Charmy greeted back, brushing the snow off his chest, "A snow day in November, can you believe it?!" Tails could see the hyperactive kid shaking with excitement.
"I know! Hey, you know where Cream is?"
"Down by the school. C'mon."
The two zoomed off towards the school. Unaware that they were being followed...
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One breath, and enough space to draw a face in the glass was created. Cream ran her finger across the smooth glass and drew the face of her faithful chao, Cheese.
Cream the Rabbit, final child in Tails' personal troupe, seems to have the most common sense out of the trio. Though sometimes the adults questioned if hanging around two little boys was good for her intelligence.
"I can't believe they closed the school down..." Cream whined in a typical, childish fashion. Unlike her two friends, Cream actually liked going to schooll. Apparently she didn't realize that someday that fact would get her butt kicked. But, even so, she did approve of the snow's beauty, and wouldn't wish anything else could've happened today.
The whurr of two tails soon reached her ears. She turned to the two boys with a smile, "Hey guys! Snow day! There's no one in there!"
"We know!" Tails and Charmy said in unison.
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Around the back of the school, another child loomed. Careful in her steps, remaining absolutely silent, "Just one last peek in the window. Daddy will never know."
Alice hid behind the window sill and raised her head slowly. Though, she was suprised at the fact that there was no one in the class except for the teacher, "On lunch, maybe?" she thought to herself. But she gasped when she saw the teacher write, "Snow day" on the calender, "gasp! No!"
All Alice had wanted to do was to see the group of children one last time before she was locked away forever in the prison she called home. And now it had been ripped away from her. Alice fell to her knees, trying to fight back tears, "I can't believe this..." she thought, her face buried in her palms. She slammed her fist into the snow. Red hot with anger, the snow began to melt under her palm.
Alice didn't know how long she had been there, but when she heard laughter, she knew she could stay no longer. She placed a palm on the glass for the final time. And with a sigh of defeat, ran off around the bend, trying to escape before someone saw her.
Unfortunetly, Alice decided to go right. Which was Tails' and the gang's left.
Alice skidded to a halt when she saw them, frozen in her movments by fear. She was caught. The group stopped their chatter as Tails looked up. He didn't recognize the flowing black hair on the girl in front of them. Let alone the clothes that looked like a doll's. A doll's from a hundred-years-ago. When Alice didn't respond, Tails pushed out a, "Hello?"
The poor girl had never spoken to anyone outside her family, and didn't know how to respond to other children. A frightened whimper was their only response.
"Hey, you okay?" Charmy asked, inching closer. With every move he made foward, Alice took a step backwards. Her pulse racing to the point where she thought her vains were going to burst. Anything she tried to say came out in a strained choke.
"What's wrong?" Cream asked. That's it, Alice couldn't handle it anymore. Three people were already on to her. If she didn't leave now, she would be caught. Alice spread her wings, and boosted off into the sky, leaving the three caught in the turbulance she left behind.
They looked to the sky to see her fly away. Cream noticed something else, "Hey, what's that?" An object had fallen in the snow, right where Alice had been standing. She walked over and picked it up. After brushing the snow off of it, it was revealed to be...
"A teddy bear?" said Tails, intrest peeked.
"She must've dropped it." Cream pointed out, looking back to the sky. Alice was still visable, but she had gotten much smaller since she left, "We...we can't just leave it? Can we?"
"Mm-mm, let's follow her." Tails, Cream, and Charmy each went up into the air, trying to follow the little black dot that was Alice.
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Alice snuck back into her house as quickly and quietly as she could. Hopefully, her father hadn't woken up since she left.
But when she heard his foot tapping, she knew she was done for, "Alice..."
The grimness in her father's tone immediately proved his silent rage was real. Alice hesitated in turning around, her body trembling with fear, "Y-yes father...?" Alice's father was one of those men who could get so angry, they would lose their ability to yell. He always hated yelling at his daughter, but in his house, disobeying the rules was a crime punishable by court martial. Alice couldn't take is glare anymore, she dropped to her hands and knees, "I'm sorry! I couldn't help it! But I'm so tired of not being able to see the real world!" Alice calmed down and looked up at her father with tears cascading down her cheeks, "I-I just wanted to see it one last time..."
As his daughter's eyes fell back to the floor, the man knelt and held his daughter close, "Alice...I'm sorry this is the way we must live. But neither of us can change the fact that we're...what we are..."
Alice pulled away from him, "And just what are we? Just because we're different, we don't get the same rights as everyone else? You'd always said that there are problems with the world, and I know that's one of them, but maybe if we weren't so afraid of what they would think, we could fix it!" Alice as practically screaming out at her father now, much to his suprise.
"Alice! You of all people should know that if we took one step out there, they would massacre us! They would show no mercy to you just because you're a child! And they would make me watch as they tear you apart limb from limb!" There were tears in the father's eyes now, as the mere thought of his daughter being dragged away in front of him was unthinkable.
If Alice were any normal child, her father's words would've sent her running and crying in an instant. But they were true to a point, and Alice was always one to question why.
"I'm sorry...I promise never to go back..."
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"Y-you sure this is the place...?"
All three of the children's bodies were shivering as their gaze met upon the old mansion in front of them, "We followed her here, right? This must be the place." Tails answered Cream's question with a tone as shakey as her's.
Some kind of malicous evil seemed to be surrounding this place. Every step the made closer to it, the temperature seemed to plummet further, sending painful chills running down their tiny spines.
The three gulped audibly.
"W-well Charmy...go up there!" Tails said, as if he had expected Charmy to do so, pushing him towards the front step.
"What, me?! Why do I have to do it?!"
"Because you can fly away if something tries to attack you." Cream responded, completely serious.
"So can the both of you!" he retorted.
"Just knock on the door!" Tails and Cream shouted in a moment of strange unison.
Charmy gulped once again as he was stared down by the menacing gaze of the house in front of him. His thoughts whipped by at a quick rate, "What am I so nervous about? It's just a house. A stupid little house. There's probably not even anyone inside..." Charmy's grip on the teddy bear in his hands tightened to the point of rediculousness. He felt like ripping the teddy's head off, flying home as fast as he could, and lock himself in the bathroom, regardless weather Vector was in there like last time or not.
Charmy jumped at the creak! his the stair made as he put his foot on it. He turned back to Tails and Cream, who were still edging him on. With a sigh, Charmy flew up to the door, and quietly knocked. So quietly in fact, it was difficult to tell if he had actually knocked at all.
"Oh well, no one's home! We'd better go!" he stammered.
"Oh for the love of--I'll do it!" Tails said bravely, ripping the bear from Charmy's hands and going up to the front door himself. Unfortunetly, he had the conflicted feelings about seeing what was on the other side of that door. Regardless, he took a deep inhale, and knocked.
Three seconds...no one came...five seconds...no one...thirty seconds...nope.
"Wow, I guess no one's home." Tails said to himself. After a moment's thought, the kit set the bear on the porch, "They'll get it later, c'mon, let's bug Vector!" he cheered, flying off with the rest of the group.
Unbeknowst to them however, Alice was watching from her window the entire time. As they were quickly swallowed by the horizon, she pulled the curtains back and looked away, trying her best not to cry...
end chapter one.
sorry about the long wait and the short chapter. I'll post the next one MUCH sooner. Now PLEASE! I AM FEED BACK STARVED! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT PEOPLE THINK! JUST ONE REVIEW PLEASE!