You know those stories a lot of people seem to read but rarely comment? This is one of those, well, that's what my views seem to suggest anyway…


Haunted House Saga: Chapter 22 – No Hosts But Ghosts

Shadow, Rouge and Omega were once again walking along the right path on the first floor of the ghost infested house. They had not yet seen any ghosts since they entered, but it hasn't been long since they entered anyway. Shadow walked ahead of the other two, with Omega following close behind and Rouge sitting on his right shoulder.

"So Shadow…" Rouge began. "Do you have any idea where this leader of the ghosts may be? Or who it is?"

"Not a clue at all." He replied without hesitation. "So to make it easier, it'd be best to split up and each look on one floor, and then meet up in an hour or two to see if we find anything important." He nodded.

"I am in full agreement with that plan." Omega responded, while Rouge shrugged.

"Then it's settled. Omega, you should probably check this floor, Rouge, you check the second floor, and I'll take the third floor, because it'll probably be more interesting."

Rouge got to her feet before saying, "You do know I'll just look around for anything valuable in this place, right?"

"Yes, but I thought for once you could actually try to not be self-centred and help us out."

"Well don't count on it much. Maybe you guys could help me search this place for valuable items after you're done."

"Let's not and say we did."

Meanwhile, Sonic and Tails were currently strolling along the middle path and passed a few rooms along the way before Tails began talking. "So Sonic, how are we going to rid this place of the ghosts anyway?"

Sonic shrugged as he looked at the rooms they passed. "I don't know, I figured you could build some ghost tracer and trapper machine, or something."

Tails stared at Sonic with a serious look on his face, the kind of look which dignified serious business. "It doesn't work like that, Sonic, these things take time."

"So what do we do now?"

"Maybe we could find a big room and I could build it at some point…maybe an hour or so."

"Sure thing."

On the second floor of the large house, Omega transformed his right hand into a machine gun as walked along the long corridors. From his visor displayed a first-person shooter look as dark purple ghosts similar to the ones from Sonic Adventure 2 came out through the walls and opened doors, which Omega blasted thoroughly as he moved on, then blasted a few on a chandelier high above before entering a room to look around. A ghost jumped out from behind a black stereo which Omega immediately fired at before the ghost disappeared.

Omega scanned the room before leaving and searching some of the others on the same floor while continuing to blast any nearby ghosts at the same time. Omega picked up some machine gun bullets in a cabinet located in the next dark room, then proceeded to blast three ghosts waiting outside before looking through the next room on the floor.

Meanwhile, Rouge slowly wondered down the same path on the first floor and sighed as she looked around. "Now, if I was the owner of this house, where would I keep my valuables…probably some cabinet somewhere, or maybe a basement."

In an area nearby, Sonic and Tails had found the living room, complete with a red leather couch, a fireplace, various paintings such as the Sega logo, Sonic's old soap shoes, and a portrait of SA2 giving a grizzly bear an uppercut. Tails was busy working on his new invention while Sonic sat back on the couch and looked around. "This is quite a nice place."

"Sure is." Tails replied.

"I wonder why none of those ghosts have shown up here yet."

"I just hope they can wait until I finish working on this." He said, not looking away from his work.

Suddenly, as if right on queue, one ghost came in through the wall opposite of Tails and slowly approached the unsuspecting fox. Sonic noticed the ghost seconds later and said, "Tails, there's a ghost behind you."

"Huh?" Tails spun round and glanced at the ghost, and then ran off a moment later. "Run awaaaaay!" He jumped behind the couch seconds later.

At that point, Amy ran into the room carrying her hammer as she exclaimed, "Have no fear, Amy Rose is here!" Before the ghost had a chance to react, she whacked it from the right side of its face, sending it flying back out through the wall. "That oughta show 'em!" She said with a nod.

"Hey Amy." Sonic waved.

Amy spun round and waved back. "Hey Sonic."

Tails came out from behind the chair, looked around, then got to his feet. "Amy? What are you doing here?"

"Well I came here with Cream…"

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Amy and Cream were approaching the house on top of Creepy Hill as they walked through the forest of decaying trees. Amy concentrated on something else in mind which pushed her forward while Cream and Cheese seemed worried as they glanced at the trees within the area.

"Amy, are you sure this is the place?" Cream asked.

"Of course I'm sure, my Sonic sense is never wrong." As they reached the house, Amy took a quick sniff. "Hold on, my Sonic sense is tingling again, so he must be here. Let's go!" she said before rushing in while Cream and Cheese quickly followed and shut the door behind them.

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"And that's about it." Amy shrugged. "I don't know where Cream has gone to though; I just hope she's alright. That chao of hers may be quite a haxer but I don't think Cheese has ever dealt with ghosts."

Sonic got to his feet and stretched for a few moments. "Well, I guess we'd better look for her, huh?"

"Thanks Sonic." Amy replied. "Oh, and Tails, what happened to Blaze? I haven't seen her recently."

"I told her that three emeralds would be needed to activate a portal leading to other dimensions, so she set off with an emerald radar I built the next day, to find the seven Sol emeralds before attempting to go back to her dimension. She's been gone for about two days now, so something must be up…"

"Oh, alright."

"Cool 'n stuff." Sonic responded.

On the third floor of the house, Shadow proceeded slowly, looking out for any sudden signs of movement. As one ghost popped out from beneath the floor, Shadow quickly hit it with a chaos spear then performed a chaos blast as several surrounded him. Shadow entered a room shortly afterwards to the right and found a small map presenting all the areas in the large house. "Why on earth would this place need a map?" Shadow took the map with him and left the room. He then took out a walkie-talkie like device and contacted Rouge. "Rouge, have you found anything?"

"I haven't had any luck, I found a pearl necklace but it's a fake, can you believe that?"

Shadow rolled his eyes. "Is it asking too much for you to help us out first?"

"Yes. Yes it is."

"I'll get back to you later." Shadow disconnected and continued down the slightly twisted path ahead of him. Further ahead of the path Shadow found a dark blue top lying on the ground. He approached it with caution as he looked out for ghosts nearby and then picked it up.

Back on the first floor, Sonic, Tails and Amy walked along a short corridor and suddenly stopped. Sonic then said, "We should start from the first floor."

Tails quickly interrupted him. "Just a moment!" Tails said with his hand held out.

"What is it?" Amy asked.

"Jibble sandwich."

Sonic and Amy groaned as they walked on while Tails followed as he said, "Well I thought it was funny…"

Outside the large house, Team Chaotix finally arrived at the top of the hill and entered. They then looked around for a few moments.

"Whoa! Huge place is huge!" Charmy exclaimed as he spun round in circles.

"Well we'd better put together the ghost catching machine and get to work!" Vector said seconds before they walked on ahead.

A while later, Shadow, Rouge and Omega met up in one area on the second floor. "So did you guys find anything?" Shadow asked.

"Nothing of importance." Omega replied.

"Well I found a fake pearl necklace, a fake gold bar, and a fake ruby encrusted with fake diamonds. It's not a good day at all." Rouge said with a deep sigh.

"Could you at least try to care?" Shadow asked.

"I'll consider it."

"Alright, let's continue." Shadow, Rouge and Omega left the area in different directions and went back to their chosen floors.


Songs used:

Technologic – Daft Punk
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Tails bought a silver computer from a shop and brought it back to his laboratory. He broke it after a short while, then fixed it back up, realized it still didn't work and threw it away and replaced it with a gold one. After upgrading it he began work on designing a robotic version of himself, using various tools in the process. After he was done he appeared to be wearing goggles as he faxed it to someone, and then changed the file name to 'Technologic.' The design of the robot turned to the screen and then said, "Technologic." Tails then removed the goggles and turned to the screen before nodding. "Technologic."