"I've always had a study obsession with Wicca and witchcraft, Silver. I'd give anything, anything in the world just to see even the remains of a witching ground. It's my life-long goal, as the one thing yet for me to master in study."

"That's really cool Tails; I'm actually more excited to be getting up there now." Silver commented smiling.

"Well, according to Shadow, the legend is fake... But even then, Shadow, wouldn't the house still be there?" Tails looked back at Shadow, who was purposely lagging behind the group for some reason.

Shadow didn't answer, not only was he paying that much attention due to their current location but he didn't know what a house was.

"Shadow? Hellooooo? Anybody in there? Shadow?"

"Hold up, lemme take care of this." Ado stopped walking, and once Shadow was coming closer to him, he spoke. "HEY TALL DARK SCARY DUDE, ANSWER US!" He screamed at the top of his lungs to get Shadow's attention.

Snapping back into reality snarling at Ado rage blazing through his eyes, naturally he would have slashed out but Silver had gotten there first and pulled Ado away smiling slightly embarrassed.

"Got his attention, guys!" Ado flashed an innocent smile back at Silver and Jake.

"Alright, n-now before you kill us, S-Shadow, would you mind telling us the story behind the witch, and the campers who went missing? I want to know what REALLY happened that night." Tails added in nervously.

Shadow thought seeming to try and recall the memory. "Just some unlucky Mobians that had climbed up there when I had been as well." He stated glaring at Arrow not buying his cute act.

Tails thought for a moment, then realized what he meant. "Y-you killed them?!"

Shadow nodded, "They were really filling but they tasted horrible." Shadow muttered inwardly gagging, he remembered that really well since it had been one of the worst meals of his life.

"T-that's so cruel... How... How can you DO shit like that to living beings?" Tails started gagging from the thought of slaughter.

"Survival. Like any other predator would do." Shadow replied not finding what the big deal was.

Tails shuddered out of fear. "It's just... So scary..."

"It's a way of life though, Tails, I mean... Even we do it for sustenance..." Ado hugged himself against Jake just for cute effect.

"Yeah Tails, it's like eating a burger or something. The cows don't like it like we don't like the idea of us being eaten." Jake stated wrapping an arm around Ado as they walked on.

"B-but that's a different story, those cows are genetically birthed with growth hormones that cause them to die anyways! They're put through pain all their lives, and the farmers relieve them from their stresses when they murder them..." Tails started tearing up when he said "murder."

"Tails you of all people know that eating other living things is a way of any life cycle. Whether you're the prey or the predator it's sorta important because we're not all built to do the same thing. Like I don't have a big enough brain to be smart like you." Silver started smiling sympathetically.

"Well thanks for the thought, Silver..." Tails looked down on the map. "Oh, we should be at the hiking path pretty soon, just another couple minutes and we'll be there..."

Something clicked in Shadow's mind, some of the plant life there let out toxic spores at this time of year. He swept himself in front of the others and blocked the path ahead.

"What the hell, Shadow? Why are you in the way?!" Tails tried to push him aside.

"It's not safe to go any farther, if you do then expect to get yourselves killed. The safest way I know of is if we head back a bit and climb." Shadow stated pushing them back, he didn't care for the others really, he just wanted to keep Silver safe.

"Ugh, we have to go BACK?! Shit, my feet are starting to get sore..." Ado sighed into Jake. "Alright, fine, we'll follow..."

"Ado, you sure? I mean, he could just be trying to trick us, he ate the last group who came up here..." Tails asked.

Hearing every word Silver followed Shadow anyway. He knew Shadow wouldn't do something like that. "C'mon guys." He called, getting farther away from them.

"Grrr... Jakey baby, mind carrying me?" Ado started drawing circles on the weasel's chest, trying to get his attention, meanwhile Sonic and Tails took off following Shadow and Silver.

Jake chuckled, "Sure but you're going on my back."

"Oh? What's this? The Seme WANTS to be under me?" Ado joked as he put his arms over Jake's shoulders, lifting himself onto his back, his legs wrapped around the weasel's sides.

"C'MON, YOU'RE LAGGING BEHIND!" Tails yelled from down the path.

Jake burst into a fit of speed before slowing down to talk. "Ha, ha very funny." Jake joked stopping not far behind Silver.

"Keep your focus on the walking, horsey!" Ado moved his hand to tightly squeeze Jake's butt momentarily, giggling.

Jake smiled and pulled Ado more comfortably up his back and walked on.

Finally they had reached where Shadow had wanted to climb and most of the others obviously didn't like the idea of going that way since it involved climbing a high distance, it was steep, and it looked like it might collapse at any second.

"Um... You SURE this is safe?" Tails stared up at the cliff.

"Dammit, I'm gonna have to climb on my own, aren't I?" Ado thought for a moment. "Unless..." He looked back at Jake, who was out of breath and panting from already carrying him the running distance.

"I've been using this way for a long time nothings ever happened." Shadow stated looking up at the rock formation in meek admiration.

Silver smiled nervously before he approached the wall grabbing a big of it and holding on. "C'mon guys, it looks like this'll be fun, and if Shadow thinks it's safe then it must be." Although Shadow didn't approve of this, the hedgehog especially wouldn't be able to climb all of this and there wasn't exactly a place to rest right away. So once the hedgehog had climbed high enough he slithered his way under the belly of the ivory one getting him to hold onto his regular position on the ebony's back climbing by his own arm strength.

"Well that's a bit unfair." Jake muttered making his way up as well. Silver faintly blushed in embarrassment, he could make it on his own but apparently the naga thought otherwise.

"So HE gets to hitch a ride..." Ado mumbled to himself, growling a bit, but grabbed onto the wall nonetheless and started pulling himself up its surface.

Silver asked Shadow to stop for a second, just to wait for Tails and Sonic to get started too.

"... Fuck..." Tails sighed under his breath, not in a mood for rock climbing. Nonetheless, both followed up the cliff.

Probably an hour later maybe less, they had reached the approaching top of the cliff. By now as well everyone was bushed and exhausted. Well except Silver who was basically forbidden to leave the naga's back no matter how much pleading and complaining there was.

Tails grappled hold of the ledge, hanging on for dear life. He kissed the edge of the ground, laughing like a lunatic. "W-we're here, mister ground, FINALLY! No more climbing, hehehehehehe!" Above him, Ado had pulled himself up, and was helping Jake.

"Ten bucks says he's fakin' it for dramatic effect." He whispered to the weasel, reaching down to grab his hand.

"Twenty says he's finally lost it." Jake gasped, very beaten from the long work out. He pulled himself up with Ado's help and was in fact very grateful. "Thank Chaos that's over with."

"It IS over with... Right, Shadow?" Sonic was cuddling Tails, trying to comfort the little fox.

"Yes." Shadow replied simply letting Silver slide of his back. Personally the ivory hedgehog felt bad having a ride while the other's labored to get up here.

"This SO better be worth the work, Tails..." Ado mumbled, looking around. A while up the road from where they were standing, a gloomy, damp house lurked at the cliff's end. Barely visible from low hanging fog, the wolf had to concentrate to even make out the house's outline. "Is that it, way over there, Naga?"

The naga spun around, "Go and see for yourself."

Ado growled, back backed off. "Not worth getting worked up over a beast like you..." He mumbled to himself, tugging at Jake's arm. Meanwhile, Tails had already begun to excitedly run off into the fog, babbling random excitement.

"Tails wait! We don't know what's over there!" Silver yelled soon following Tails's direction.

"Who cares?! We'll get to see a real witch's house!" Tails started maniacally laughing, until he completely disappeared from sight.

"I've really gotta learn how to keep him away from all things nerdy..." Sonic dashed off, leaving the naga alone, save for Jake and Ado.

Shadow had caught Jake staring at him with a suspicious eye. He growled lightly snapping look away. Seeing Tails's, Silver's, and Sonic's bodily figures disappear into the foggy atmosphere he laid down on the warm rocky surface to soak up the sun's heated rays of warmth.

"So does that mean we just leave him here?" Ado whispered into Jake's ear, trying not to show fear for the Naga.

Jake pondered for a moment. "Well I honestly have no interest in the whole witch thing and honestly even though he's a blood thirsty killer I'd rather take my chances with him." Jake mumbled sitting down on the ground dragging Ado with him rubbing his chest.

"T-Tails? You here?" Sonic slowly creaked open a large, dusty, wooden door, stepping into the dark corridors of the ghastly estate, followed by Silver. The only source of light in the rooms were a couple damply lit candles on he walls, blazing with blue flames.

Silver had waited for Sonic to come; since he had heard him following and he had lost track of the kitsune and dared not go any further. He was definitely freaked out by this place and wasn't afraid to show it since he clung to Sonic's back. And it didn't make him feel any better that Tails was roaming around here freely without a care.

Sonic took full advantage of the scared hedgehog on his back. He pretended to jump a little. "W-whoa, Silver, did you just hear that noise?!" The sneaky hedgehog grinned. "It almost sounded like... A GHOST..."

"Ghost's aren't real." The ivory male whispered meekly. He had a hard enough time believing himself as it is.

Sonic started to laugh deeply in an attempt to freak out Silver. "They're going to get you, Silver!" He whispered.

"That's not funny Sonic!" Silver blurted getting slightly worked up. By this he was not impressed at ALL. He hurriedly left the cerulean male behind and charged his way on to finding Tails. Suddenly it seemed much more interesting then sticking around with him.

"Awww, c'mon Silvy, it was just a joke!" Sonic yelled in desperation.

Silver turned around steaming into the blue hedgehog's face. "Well it wasn't funny!"

Sonic sighed in defeat. He could do nothing else left than follow Silver through the house, keeping his distance. Seemingly lost, Silver led himself into a dark, almost empty hallway, only filled with lights from candles hidden in little niches in the walls. As Silver passed by a niche, still arguing with Sonic from afar, a figure jumped out from over the candle, hissing at him.

"SHUT UP ALREADY!" The familiar fox's voice rang through the hallway.

Silver screeched falling to the floor close to wetting himself. Soon after he realized it was the kitsune and sighed in relief his chest still pounding and his skin still pale. "God dammit you scared me!" He yelled trying to look more angered then terrified.

Tails started giggling, trying his hardest not to burst into a laughing spasm from Silver's reaction. "D-don't piss yourself, hedgehog!" He joked, barely able to talk without cracking his voice.

"I'd RATHER he piss himself, that way we could take his clothes off, no questions asked..." Sonic mumbled to himself, having caught up with the two.

Silver looked down a little embarrassed. "C'mon stop it, it wasn't that funny." He muttered slowly picking himself up dusting his body off.

"H-how was it NOT funny, Silver?! We're in a crazy haunted house, and you're frikkin scared shitless!" Tails's eyes started watering from all the laughter.

"Yeah, what's the worst a witch could do to us, anyways? I doubt she'd want to kill people in her own house, what'll she do, raise the temperature a little, and sweat us out?!" Sonic added in, laughing.

"Well… now that you mention it, it is getting a little warm in here." Silver concluded grabbing his shirt and airing it out.

"Wow, mind over matter, Silver?" Tails laughed again, but was suddenly out of breath. "Hey, you're right! It IS getting hotter in here..."

The heat got to the point where it seemed unbearable and Silver immediately took his shirt off. "It's still too hot."

Sonic smiled devilishly. "I think it'd be cooler with your pants off, too, Silver..." He joked.

'I swear, if he's doing what I think he's doing...' Tails thought to himself.

"Maybe." Silver said, fumbling for his jean's button and zipper.

"D-DON'T ACTUALLY TRY IT!" Tails screamed out, before sonic quickly ran up behind him and covered his mouth with his hand.

"Hehehe, and by that, T-tails of course means that y-you should try it anyways!" The blue hedgehog tried defending.

Silver gave a confused look, "But he just said not to do it."

"He was just joking, c'mon, Silver, you know Tails, he's always joking around, hehehe!"

'Fucking... Fanservice...' Tails growled from behind Sonic's hand.

Silver considered moments ago when Tails had been laughing. "Yeah I guess." Slowly he did so.

Sonic laughed to himself, released Tails, and slowly inched up towards Silver. When he got close, he pushed Silver backwards into a wall, grabbing both of the ivory hedgehog's arms in one of his own, pinning them above his head against the wall with delightful ease. Sonic, driven with sexual tension, used his free hand to claw and rip a large gaping hole into Silver's undershirt. He forced himself closer, kissing his victim.

Silver struggled against the other's hold. The only thing he could really move was from his waist down and right now literally none of that was going to help him in his situation. The ivory male glimpsed at the kitsune in the background. Did they plan this, were they going to do the same thing like they did at the hot springs? Silver glared at Tails, hurt and anger in his golden amber eyes.

Tails reeled back, away from the two hedgehogs, reaching behind him for something, anything. He kept his head fixed on Silver; he just couldn't bring himself to look away. He felt something hot burn his fingers. It clicked; he could use the candlesticks in the wall niches. He grabbed the lit wax candle, tossing it aside, onto the fine rug along the stone floor. In his hands held the iron frame, as he snuck up behind Sonic, striking him over the head with it. As the cobalt hedgehog became dazed, the blow not hard enough to nock him unconscious, he slumped down to the floor, releasing Silver. Tails stared at the ivory victim, smiling with pride and excitement.

"Wanted a lemon scene? Well, TOO BAD, ya Bronies..." Tails yelled, sticking his middle finger up directed towards what Silver perceived as thin air.

(LOL Tails VS the Fourth Wall, Take Three.)

Confused, Silver cautiously reached for his pants. He took a few steps back still keeping eye contact with Tails's back then scurried into the metaphoric safety of the pants. Silver looked over at Sonic still a bit dazed. "I don't know about you Tails but I'm leaving this guy here."

Hearing Silver's voice broke Tails out of his concentration. "Huh? Oh, Sonic? Well... Are you sure we should just leave him like this? I mean... He is still our friend... Even though he..."

"He's your boyfriend and he was just kissing me." Silver confirmed, remembering that he needed to wipe his lips. "I don't know about you but I'm not waiting for him to get up." Finally Silver grabbed his shirt and steadily headed off.

Tails sighed. "You're going the wrong way." He started walking in the opposite direction. "Exit's this way." He beckoned for Silver to follow.

"I knew that." He huffed, trying to hide his embarrassment. He ran a little behind Tails as they finally exited the creepy house.

Jake sighed. "Oh look they're coming back." He said sitting up just barely being able to see them in the haze but was able to hear Silver's upset voice rambling about something. "Silver sounds as joyous as ever."

"Why doesn't anything ever work right anymore?" Ado noticed Sonic's disappearance, knowing what was coming up.

Shadow awoke from his nap groggily. Silver had come back as far as he could tell from all the loud ruckus. He stretched in a number of odd movements and then slithered his way over to the approaching Mobians.

"What the... Hell... Happened?" Sonic slowly arose from his spot on the floor, taking in a deep breath. "Wait a second... Do I smell something burning?" He shook his head violently, opening his eyes. All around him, the room was ablaze, and the fire was closing in. "Did they do this?! N-no, they're just too innocent, they wouldn't leave me to burn to death!" He stopped for a moment. "Unless... That damned weasel must've knocked me out, and then taken them away after!" Enraged and frightened, Sonic covered his face with him arm and stampeded through the flames, using his body strength to knock down a burning wooden door. To Sonic's surprise, the fire had already spread throughout the entire house, and the next room over was just as bad as the room he had woken up in. He desperately looked around for a solution. "Where's the fucking exit?!"

Mephiles had been wandering in the burning house, it wasn't going to kill him but since some Mobians considered the place fascinating there was decent hunting. But since the house was burning it completely destroyed the whole purpose of hunting up here. He was damn straight angry and he would definitely destroy the cause of this disaster. Soon he found a blue Mobian, probably scared out of its mind. But that didn't matter; it was the cause of this. Mephiles snarled at his prey, this thing was going to be sorry.

Sonic spun around, noticing the Naga, just on the other side of the room. He screamed, not having anywhere to run. "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" He yelled out, trying to make himself sound brave, hoping the monster was too dull to recognize his obvious fear.

Charging forward Mephiles ignored the Mobian's question and went eagerly straight for the kill.

Sonic screamed again, ducking out of the Naga's way, and made a blind dash through the flames, not caring where he was going; only wanting to leave.

He chased after him, cursing for missing the first time. His prey was fast but that only added to the want of that thing dead.

Sonic squinted, barely able to see with all the smoke. In the distance, the shape of a door started coming into view. He changed directions, running straight towards it, only to realize at the last second that it was actually the shape of a picture frame on a wall. In a split second, the hedgehog crashed into the wall, falling to the floor.

'Shit... Nothing else to do... Please, don't let me die, I'm too young, there are so many things I haven't done, yet!'

Unfortunately for Meph he wasn't able to stop fast enough and ended up topling over top of the Mobian into the wall crashing through the wall. The naga opened his eyes after the crash only to find it led him outside into the open.

Sonic looked up, seeing the large hole in the wooden wall. "YES! FREEDOM!" He screamed, jumping outside, onto the ground, kissing it passionately. "I love you, ground, I'll never take advantage of you again!"

"What the fuck was that?" Jake questioned looking over towards Silver and Tails since they were the last ones in there.

"I wouldn't know." Silver muttered sitting by the naga. Then yelling could be heard and it was obviously Sonic. He perked up more awake once cries of help could be heard.

"Well, what the hell are we standing around talking for?! Let's go!" Ado grabbed Jake's hand, pulling him down the trail towards the source of the screaming.

Silver chased after them seeing as the source was Sonic they needed to help him. Even with the event beforehand. Ado and Jake had a good start before he or Shadow, or Tails even got up. Once they had finally caught up they just stood there gawking at the scene that was unfolding. They were afraid and he would have been too but probably most of all he's relieved. "Oh thank goodness. I thought it was something serious." The silver male stated getting a nod of approval from the ebony naga at his side.

"What the fuck do you mean this isn't serious, are you blind?" Jake hollered shaking Silver and repeatedly slapping him across the face to see if he was delusional from shock or something. Shadow growled from the back of his throat not understanding what the damn weasel was doing but he was positive it was an insult of some sort.

"Somebody kill it before it goes crazy!" Ado yelled, hiding behind Jake.

Finally gaining his senses back, Silver pushes the weasel off of him giving off an annoyed frown. He casually walked over to the enraged naga and gently tapped him on the shoulder. For that he earned looks from his friends that would have screamed 'Are you flippin crazy?!'. "What?" Mephiles growled through his clenched teeth, his eyes not leaving his prize.

"That's my friend Mephiles, and I'd kinda appreciate it if you didn't kill him." Mephiles got up and snarled ferociously at the smaller male, he was mad alright. The gray naga lifted his arm to hit Silver, but stopped once he realized it was him.

He bent down beside Silver's ear and harshly whispered. "If I didn't owe you so much you would've been next!"

Tails' jaw dropped. "D-did he just t-talk to the thing...?" He looked to Shadow, hoping for an answer.

Shadow of course didn't hesitate to ignore the kitsune. He slithered forward, "I'm surprised to see you up here." Mephiles growled obviously not pleased by either the Mobian's or his brother's presence. "Look at what had happened. We just lost a whole hunting ground because of these worthless rodents!"

"Calm down, there's still plenty of other's rich places within our territory." Shadow snapped back, not impressed by his brother's behavior. "Besides it still was my time of the day to be up here not yours."

Mephiles growled in anger. It was embarrassing to say that he came up with their time tables up there and yet he was the one breaking their hunting rules. He hissed in agitation and studied the rest of the group. "Pitiful." He muttered. Shadow smirked as seeing that he agreed fully.

Silver noticed the dramatizing atmosphere that his friend's were experiencing and decided that he might as well attempt at lightening the mood. "Guys this is Mephiles, Shadow's brother." He smiled nervously gesturing at the intimidating naga before them.

"Wait a second, did you just say brother?!" Sonic freaked out, still scared of the ruthless Naga.

"How many of them are there?!" Tails asked Silver.

"No it's only them. But then there are these three really nasty girls." Silver stated helping Sonic up, thinking he had been on the ground long enough. "But we don't need to worry about them; Shadow and Mephiles scared them off, right?" Both naga silently nodded in assurance.

Jake cleared his throat grabbing everyone's attention. "I think we should be going now, that house is gonna be falling down soon and I'm not too keen on being around when it is so can we leave now?"

Tails walked over to Sonic, hugging him. "Sure, there's nothing left to see anyways. Anything else you guys wanna do today? The agenda's pretty empty..."

"Maybe we could…" Silver said drifting off into thought not having anything come to mind.

"Maybe we could get a little ways away from here and then we'll decide." Contributed Jake still edgy about the burning building.

Annoyed by the weasel's complaining Shadow grabbed Silver by the arm dragging him away sure that the other Mobian's would follow. Not to long after they did.