Chapter 5
A Hunger Unleashed
Robotnik smiled and turned around. The sliding doors opened and Snively was standing beside a SWATbot holding a light brown Mobian cat. Robotnik's smile turned into a grin and he motioned for the SWATbot to bring the Mobian over. Sonic stared at the cat with hungry eyes. He stared at the cat's whole body and then when he looked at the cat's neck, he licked his fangs as he saw small purple veins on its neck where the blood ran through. The cat looked at Sonic in happiness and clapped his hands.
"Sonic The Hedgehog, I knew you would come and save me!" he exclaimed.
Sonic grinned a devious smile and licked his fangs again, staring hungrily at the cat. He saw Sonic's expression toward him and got a scared feeling in his gut that the hedgehog wasn't himself as he saw Sonic's gaze. Snively came up beside Robotnik.
"Sir, should we leave the room once we let him go?" Snively asked his uncle.
"Yes. I wouldn't want to see all the blood the hedgehog will spill," Robotnik said.
Snively looked at Robotnik in shock.
"Why, sir? But I thought you liked trying to kill the Mobians," he said.
"I do, but the hedgehog may come after us next once we let him go," Robotnik explained.
Snively and Robotnik left the room and the doors closed behind them. Though Robotnik stayed behind to listen to what was happening. The SWATbot pressed a button on the computer's control panel and the chains holding Sonic down, let him go. Sonic jumped off the lab table and stared at the cat in front of him.
"Come on … err … Sonic, let's go while you're free," he said as he backed away.
A deep chuckle emanated from Sonic.
"No time for escape. I am so very hungry," Sonic said and lunged at the cat.
The cat screamed and tried to dodge, but Sonic was too quick. Sonic pinned the cat against the wall and smirked at him. The cat looked into Sonic's eyes and saw that they weren't their usual black-brown colour, but instead a blood red. The cat gulped at the hedgehog's next movement.
"Sorry about this little kitty," Sonic teased.
The cat squeaked and Sonic chuckled. Sonic opened his mouth wide and the cat saw two of Sonic's fangs get longer. Then, he bit down on the cat's neck. His fangs going into the veins and sucking the cat's blood like a leech. The cat screamed in pain and Robotnik smiled as he heard the mobian's screams. Sonic kept his fangs in the cat's neck until he was full.
He wanted to crack the cat's neck once he was finished, but pulled back quickly. His eyes returning back to black. Sonic looked at the blood drained, pale cat in front of him. He looked at his hands and saw some blood. Sonic felt something on his face and wiped his mouth and looked at the back of his glove and saw more blood. Sonic's eye widened and he backed away, terrified of what he had done.
"W ... What am I? Why did I do that? I ... I killed someone," Sonic said.
Robotnik heard Sonic's voice and knew he had snapped out of it. He opened the sliding doors and saw Sonic on the other side of the lab and cat lying just a few metres from the doorway. Robotnik's grin turned into an evil smirk. Sonic saw Robotnik and rage boiled inside of him.
"What Did You Do To Me?" Sonic yelled.
"I did nothing, hedgehog. I just simply awoke the being that you now are," Robotnik answered Sonic.
Sonic's anger boiled more, like it had been inside lava.
"Which Is What?" Sonic shouted.
The hedgehog's anger had changed to despair as his eyes continued looking over to the dead cat. His eyes watered with tears as he imaged how he had killed the cat. Robotnik smiled wider at the distressed hedgehog.
"A vampire," he said.