Chapter 8: Coffins
Shadow and Silver gasped and backed away slowly.
Mephiles, now possessing Sonic, chuckled and walked slowly towards them. "Surprised?"
Silver bared his fangs as the possessed vampire came closer.
"Leave Sonic alone, Mephiles!" Shadow was beginning to transform into his wolf as he said this, Silver as well.
Mephiles turned into a wolf also. "Never," he said. "He is my puppet now and I will never leave this body."
Shadow snarled, baring his teeth ferociously. "Then we'll force you out!" He leaped at Mephiles, a fresh snarl ripping from his throat.
Mephiles snarled and pounced on him also. The two wolves fought with ferocity, each one wounding each other gravely. Shadow howled and sank his teeth deep into Sonic's shoulder, causing the possessed vampire to howl in pain and rage. Silver had managed to make his way around to Sonic's back, now he leaped forward and latched onto Sonic's back.
Mephiles snarled and dissipated into red mist, sending Silver crashing to the ground and almost flattening Shadow, then quickly reformed in wolf form next to both of them. He pounced and knocked both Shadow and Silver to the ground. The two wolves stood up and snarled, then launched themselves at the possessed vampire, but Mephiles disappeared and reappeared behind them. He lunged at Shadow and Silver, knocking both wolves to the ground. The three vampires saw the sunrise and reverted to their normal forms.
Shadow hissed at Mephiles. "Give back Sonic!"
Mephiles grinned. "If you insist," he said.
Shadow's eyes widened in shock. "Wait...you're actually giving him back?" Now his eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"Well...in case you've noticed, the sun is coming up. I'll be back soon." He laughed, then stiffened. Sonic's eyes closed and he collapsed the ground as a red mist lifted from his body. Shadow and Silver ran over to him. Sonic groaned in pain and got up.
"What...what happened?" Sonic asked.
Shadow helped him up. "Mephiles, he possessed you." He quickly looked back at the sunrise. "We have to hurry, the sun is rising!"
Sonic's eyes widened and he nodded. The three vampires ran back to the house but didn't notice a red mist following them. Once they got inside, they saw Tails sitting on the couch. he looked at them and sighed.
"You guys barely made it back," Tails said dryly. They looked at him. Tails noticed Sonic and frowned as the three vampires walked into their room. "Sonic? What's wrong? You look tired."
"I am, Tails. It's just that...Shadow told me that when we were out, Mephiles possessed me," the vampire said.
Tails gasped. He looked at Sonic, extremely worried, and was about to ask him when he noticed the sun. The fox sighed; he would ask him later that night when they woke up. Another thing that he wanted to tell them was that Shadow, Silver and Sonic needed to sleep in coffins from now on.
"We'll talk tomorrow." He hesitated, then continued. "But...you guys are going to have to sleep in coffins from now on."
"What?" Sonic asked. "How come?"
He looked at Shadow and Silver, who also looked shocked.
Tails rolled his eyes. "Sonic, you're all VAMPIRES now, vampires sleep in coffins." He held up his hand to stop Sonic as he opened his mouth. "And don't say anything about me going along with the stereotype or that being a myth. The blinds in your rooms won't stop all sunlight from getting through; a coffin, however, will."
The three vampires looked at each other and sighed.
"All right," Silver said. "Do you have them here already, or..."
Tails nodded. "I sent Blaze for them. She'll be back soon. For now, you can all wait in the living room, or in your rooms."
Sonic nodded. "We'll be in our rooms."
Tails sighed, and watched them leave. A few minutes later, Blaze walked inside with three coffins.
She looked around then turned to Tails "Where are they? The sun is almost completely up." He nodded to the stairs. "They're in their rooms. I'll call them down." He took a deep breath than shouted. "Sonic! Shadow! Silver! Blaze is back!"
"Cool," Sonic said. "Bring the coffins to our rooms!"
Blaze sputtered indignantly then shouted back. "Come get them yourself! It was nearly impossible for me to drag them to the house! I'm exhausted!"
A few minutes later, the three vampires came back downstairs as they started to yawn. They looked at the coffins and sighed, then picked them up and went back upstairs without saying a word. As they reached their rooms, the three passed a mirror in the hallway but couldn't see any reflections of them in it.
Silver started and looked at the mirror again. "We don't have reflections," he said.
Sonic nodded. "Vampires can't cast reflections in mirrors." He put a hand to his chest but couldn't feel a heartbeat. "And our hearts aren't beating anymore."
Silver's eyes widened. "So...technically, we're...dead."
Shadow looked at them and nodded. "Yep. Vampires are undead beings, Silver."
"Pretty neat," Sonic said, and yawned. "I'm tired; so I'll see you two tonight."
Shadow and Silver nodded, went in their rooms, and got in their coffins. Sonic sighed and entered his coffin, closing the lid as he did so and went to sleep. He failed to notice a red mist enter the coffin and fade into his body. Mephiles had possessed Sonic once again.