Daphne was sulking in another room when Dave walked in. He paused. "Oh... I... I'm sorry, I'll leave you in peace." He turned to go but she caught his wrist.
"Please don't, no one would talk to me so..."
"So you decided to start sulking?" She nodded, smiling slightly. "Alright. I'll stay. But I'm a vampire now so... just be careful. If you need to stab me to get me off, do so." He said. He held a knife out to Daphne, but she didn't take it.
"I don't use weapons. I've never hurt someone intentionally." She said. Dave sighed and ran a hand through his spikes.
"I never said...."
"I didn't say you did." They sat there in silence for awhile then Daphne looked at him. "Can... can I see the skull?" She asked hesitantly, she was starting to get the real seriousness of this vampire threat. He pulled back his jacket, the bandages had been removed, the scar was dark red, sitting on his grey chest. She gently ran her fingers over it. "Does it hurt?" She asked. He shook his head. They sat in silence for awhile longer while she explored Dave's looks with her eyes. He was handsome, no doubt about that, the fangs made him look even more dashing. She gradually noticed he was humming a tune, his eyes were closed. "What are you humming?" She asked.
"Eh, a new song I'm composing." He said, then he sighed. "I might not be able to be part of my band anymore, because of being a... a vampire." She stood up.
"Would you like to hear me sing?" He looked at her in surprise.
"Sure." She smiled. She started dancing and cleared her throat.
I haven't got much time to waste, it's time to make my way...
I'm not afraid of what I'll face, but I'm afraid to stay...
I'm going down my own road and I can make it alone...
I'll work and I'll fight 'till I find a place of my own...
The others walked in and froze, Dave and Daphne hadn't noticed them, they sat down and watched the hairdresser perform.
Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump,
Don't ever look back, oh baby.
Yes, I'm ready to jump,
Just take my hand.
Get ready to jump.
Daphne grabbed Dave's hand and pulled him up, he watched her steps closely, then managed to copy them, the others watched, amusement showing on some faces, others were trying to not laugh and ruin it. The guitar chaos king and a hairdresser, going around, leaping up for the rafters, dropping and spinning, rolling and leaping up, pushing off the walls and doing the most outrageous dance moves, but they worked with the song.
We learned our lesson from the start, my sisters and me...
The only thing you can depend on is your family...
Life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree...
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see...
Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump,
Don't ever look back, oh baby.
Yes, I'm ready to jump,
Just take my hand.
Get ready to,
Are you ready?
Zero found Garcia pulling him up, and making him dance too, he saw some of the others shaking with laughter and made faces at them, before starting to dance, it was invigorating in a way.
I'll work and I'll fight 'till I find a place of my own...
It sways, and it swings and it bends until you make it your own...
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
I can make it alone...
(My sisters and me)
Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump,
Don't ever look back, oh baby.
Yes, I'm ready to jump,
Just take my hand.
Get ready to jump.
Are you ready to jump?
Get ready to jump,
Don't ever look back, oh baby.
Yes, I'm ready to jump,
Just take my hand.
Get ready to,
Are you ready?
The others applauded and Dave and Daphne noticed the others for the first time. They went red and tried to sidle off but the others dragged them back for congratulations. "You were fantastic! Where did you learn those moves Daphne?" Gloria asked.
"Oh, here and there." Louis shoved forward and grinned.
"She was a dance teacher before she became a hairdresser." The others laughed and smiled, of course. Dave did not have an explanation like that, he simply shrugged and said he was good at copying others. They went into G-force's control room and saw her moving invisible things around in the air in front of her, she seemed to be in a trance, then they realized she was wearing a helmet that was hooked up to a machine. They tapped her shoulder and she jumped, they heard a loud honking noise. She pulled it off her head.
"I was trying to update my high score in a game my Dad made." She said, smiling. "What were you needing?" Sonic put a recording of Dave and Daphne's dance in her computer. G-force watched, her eyebrows raised. "Wow, they're pretty good. Anything other than that?"
"Yes, do the other vampires use cell phones?" G-force's ear twitched and they stood in silence for a few moments.
"Yup, they do. Sure as rain."
"Rain isn't always sure." Said Shadow. Zero followed him out of the room. "What do you want Zero?" Asked Shadow. Zero fidgeted.
"Well..."
"Get on with it."
"I still want to know why you chose me to go with you when you went to meet G-force." Shadow sighed and turned around.
"First of all Zero, you have to understand that I'm not a heartless person." Zero nodded uncertainly. "I chose you because... you reminded me of myself when I was younger, aboard the ARK. You certainly do have more on your mind than I did at that time, but essentially you are like I was." Zero's eyes widened with amazement.
"Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes." Zero continued to follow him. "What are your other questions Zero?" He asked, a smile on his face. Zero eagerly started.
"Well first of all, what was the ARK like? No one has told me anything about you other than that which everyone seems to know. And no one seems to know what it was like on the ARK before you restarted it." Shadow started explaining it to him.
Dave nodded his head in time to the music then paused, the last note dissolving into the air. He heard whispered noises around him. "Hello?" No one replied, the whispers continued without pause. He uneasily started playing again, but then the music was ripped to shreds as he accidentally played a wrong note, but it wasn't his fault... a voice in his head suddenly started telling him what to do to sneak up on victims, and asking if he wasn't hungry... he was, in two ways, the normal way, and the vampiric way. He started to go crazy from the questions and instructions going around his head, he smashed the guitar into the wall, it died with a discordant wail, he clawed at the walls, himself... in his craze, he couldn't seem to remember how to unlock the door, the instructors patiently told him how, until, in his animalistic state, he managed to open the door. He tore into the hall, wings ripping themselves out of his skin to hang in the air, blood dripping from them. His pupils and irises disappeared, to leave his eyeballs completely white.
He ran into Garcia, she screamed for help once before his hand closed around her neck. He would have bitten her if a stern voice in his head hadn't told him he couldn't suck her blood, she was already a vampire. He dropped her onto the floor and loped away down the hall, letting out a chilling howl... there was no intelligence in that noise, just a bestial desire to kill. Shadow and Zero skidded to a stop beside Garcia, who's eyes were wide, her mouth opened and closed like a fish gasping for air, but no sound came. The others raced towards them and reached them just as Garcia managed to say. "David... they've got his mind... they've made his bloodlust rise... stop him..." She fainted. Zero dashed off down the hall. Shadow called after him.
"Wait Zero! This could just be a trap! If you get ambushed you can't fight them all off!" Zero called back over his shoulder.
"I don't care! We have to save him, it's not his fault." He transformed into a bat and took to the air, zooming high above the city, bats were faster than dragons, but dragons were more powerful.
"He's coming." A voice hissed. Dave raced into the alley, face wild, fur blown this way and that. The gang leapt out of hiding to rob him... but then he wasn't there, he was behind the leader, he leapt on the man and brought him down, lowering his head, Dave plunged his fangs into the man's neck. The others cried out in horror and fled, the leader's cries and struggles grew weaker, and weaker, until they were nonexistent. Dave stood up and got off the lifeless form.
"Hungry... stop... good.... evil..." His voice was distorted, he was trying to fight the control over his mind, his fangs and teeth dripped blood, and his mouth was covered in it, he wiped it off on the back off his arm and licked it off his teeth. "Hunt." The control resumed complete dominance as he bounded off in search of another victim. Project 002 watched Dave, carefully directing Dave towards an area where there was some more prey.
"Edmund!" He turned.
"Dew." Brawley and Curtis (a.k.a. Project: 004 and Project: 005) where laughing at her appearance. She glared at them.
"Edmund, Garcia's against us now." Curtis and Brawley stopped laughing.
"I would have guessed, she tried to stop me from attacking that new vampire we're controlling right now." Edmund was silent.
"Edmund? What do you think about this?"
"I will pass my judgment once I hear the rest of your story." Dew told him what had happened, his face was emotionless, you couldn't tell what he was thinking. "It appears that this Zero is more formidable than we thought, Garcia and him where connected by a strange bond which I cannot understand, perhaps that is what called her to him."
"Call it what it is man! It's betrayal!" Spat Brawley, Curtis agreed with him. Dew nodded. Edmund looked at them.
"It might not be, we do not know what the ending outcome will be, everyone's choices are constantly changing what will happen, nothing is certain except that the future is constantly changing with our choices. Garcia going to Zero might not be betrayal. As far as I can understand it, she would fight to protect Zero, but we have no evidence she would fight to save the others, and even then it might be a ruse to get Zero to trust her so that we can capture him." Curtis was standing at the edge of the roof and suddenly motioned for quiet.
"Zero himself is coming." He hissed. Edmund swiftly healed Dew's injuries and strode to the edge of the roof.
"Are you quite sure?" He said quietly.
"Positive." Said Curtis. Edmund nodded.
"Prepare to ambush him."
"What happened to your ideating back there?" Asked Dew, annoyed that Edmund hadn't declared they kill Garcia the next time they saw her.
"This is simply a chance, we aren't going to waste it. We shall use Dave to our advantage to capture Zero. Dew, I still believe what I said, but there are other things to consider. If we stand by and do nothing, eventually we will either have to go to their side or die." Brawley growled as he watched Zero run past.
"He gave me a beating, I want to beat him too!" Edmund held out a hand to stop his brother.
"Be careful Brawley, from what you told me, he is powerful enough to beat any one of us, we have to hit him at the same time. We will weaken him later, then you can get your revenge." Brawley smirked.
"It just better not take too long." Edmund's face remained expressionless as he landed on the ground with a gentle thud.
"These things never do." He said, before walking off.
Shadow frowned. "I can't help thinking that this is a trap." Garcia sighed.
"I can't access their minds, only Zero's, so I can't tell you if it is, but Edmund will probably decide to ambush Zero if he sees him, and Brawley gave Edmund command over Dave so Edmund will probably turn Dave against Zero." Shadow looked puzzled.
"Who is Edmund, and who is Brawley?"
"Oh, sorry, I forgot you didn't know them." She explained what Brawley and Edmund looked like, and then told them about her other brother, Curtis. "Curtis agrees with whatever Brawley says, and he is almost as cruel as Brawley... he just doesn't cut skulls into people's chests." Suddenly G-force's ear quivered.
"Guys, we've got a problem. Dave has attacked three people in the poor section of town." Shadow sighed and stood.
"And that's where Zero is going to be, dammit why does everything have to be this hard?" Sonic looked puzzled.
"What's hard about that?" Shadow shot Sonic an irritated glance.
"The poor area is the easiest place to get ambushed." Amy walked over, with a silver hedgehog and a purple cat trailing behind her. The silver hedgehog smiled uncertainly.
"I might be able to help you out with finding him."
"Oh would you? What's your name?"
"I'm Silver the Hedgehog, this is my friend Princess Blaze the Cat."
Finally Silver is officially in the story.... and what will happen to Zero?! Why does Edmund seem unconcerned about Garcia's being with Zero's friends? WIll Dave actually fight Zero? What is going to happen to them all?! That will be answered in the next chappie folks! XD And the vampire hunt is really getting started here... it sorta died down after the fight with Dew. R&R and tell me what you think... I hope you aren't irritated because of the fact that the vampire hunt stopped for awhile.
Disclaimer: CrazyNutSquirrel does not own Sonic and co. She only owns the vampires, Daphne and Louis, Lilly, and the three hedgehog siblings! ^_^