Chapter 7

The Truth Always Hurts

Once they arrived back at Knothole, Sonic put the girls down and started panting. There was smoke coming off his body, which he guessed meant that what Robotnik said was true. The other Freedom Fighters came over to Sonic, Bunnie and Sally and kept asking them questions about their mission.

Antoine kept asking Sally if she was alright, which she kept irritably saying "yes". Rotor was attending to look at Bunnie's arm which had a small dint in the palm, probably from taking the bars out of the cell. And finally Tails was asking why Sonic had smoke coming off his body. That seemed to catch everyone's attention as they all looked at him. Sonic looked at them with wide eyes, frozen in place.

"Yes, Tails is right. Why do you have smoke around yourself?" Sally asked, pointing at him.

Sonic rubbed the back of his neck in nervousness.

"Well, I … err … guess Robotnik put something on me to release smoke to make it look like … I was catching on fire," Sonic explained to them, speaking of the first thing that came to his mind.

"Are ya'll sure?" Bunnie asked. "It does look like you're really on fire."

"I'm sure, Bunnie. I'm fine," Sonic replied.

"I am not thinking zat. You did not look fine when we were arguing zis morning and your eyes turned red," Antoine commented.

That comment sent a shiver up Sonic's spines. Did Antoine already figure out what he was? Nah! That couldn't be. If he did, he would be whimpering behind Bunnie saying "Do not hurt me vampire!" Even so it still made Sonic freeze in place as everyone looked at him suspiciously for an answer.

"Maybe that was just the reflection of the sun in my eyes and it made them look red," Sonic said, smiling nervously.

"No, I am positive your eyes were zee colour of evil," Antoine said, glaring at the hedgehog as well as shaking at the same time.

"Well, whatever it is, you need rest, Sonic. You were put through a lot in this mission and you need the rest," Sally told him.

"Got it, Sal," Sonic said, winking and giving her a thumbs.

She rolled her eyes at him and he ran into his hut. He shut the door, closed the windows and fell on his bed. The smoke disappearing from his form as he lay in shadows. He sighed and rolled onto his back and stared at the ceiling. He opened his mouth and felt the fangs in his mouth where his canines used to be. The fangs slid out of his gums and became longer as Sonic's thumb rubbed against them, feeling the sharp, piercing tip.

He heard a knock on his door and took his hand away from his fang, but accidentally scraped his thumb against it as he pulled it out. He hissed in pain and grabbed his thumb. The fang had ripped through the fabric of his glove and had made a small cut in his thumb where blood was starting to drool out of. His fangs slid back up into his gums to hide from view.

Sally opened the door and walked into the room, Sonic hid his thumb behind his back as not to arose any sort of blood seizure he may have if he sees the blood. Sally sat on the edge of his bed and looked at him in concern. Sally left the door open but none of the sunlight was long or wide enough to hit Sonic because his bed was in a corner.

"Sonic, I need to ask you something," Sally told him.

"What is it, Sal?" Sonic asked.

"What did Robotnik really do to you?" she asked.

Sonic bit his bottom lip, being careful his sharp fangs didn't pierce it.

"I mean, what you said before. It didn't sound…" Sally was cut off as Sonic sighed. "…Believable. Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Sonic, please, tell me. There can be something we can do to help," Sally told him.

"I don't know, Sal. I mean … Robotnik did something to me and then … I changed," Sonic told her.

"You changed?" Sally asked, eyes widening. "What do you mean?"

"It's complicated to explain, Sal," Sonic told her.

Sally put her hand on his gloved one that was on his stomach. He looked at her, charcoal eyes meeting sapphire blue.

"Sonic, you … don't have to tell me this instant. You can tell me later, okay," she told him.

Sonic's eyes widened in surprise.

"And if I still can't tell you then?" Sonic asked.

"I'll have to get it out of you the old fashioned way, forcefully!" she said, smiling.

Sonic put both hands to the side of his face and his eyes looked around the hut in fake fear.

"OH NO! I'm Shaking In My Sneakers!" Sonic exclaimed.

Sally laughed and when Sonic took his hands away from his face, Sally looked at him in concern.

"Sonic, how did you get blood on your face?" she asked him.

Sonic's eyes widened in fear.

Oh No! I put my thumb near my face by accidence and put some of the blood on my face! Sonic exclaimed in his thoughts.

"I … err…" he sighed and held out his hand and showed her the small blood cut.

"How did that happen?" she asked him in both concern and seriousness.

"I guess I was in such a rush in here I must've hit my thumb against something sharp," he answered.

He had lied to Sally lots of times before, so why did it feel so different to lie today? Was it because of what Robotnik did to him? Or was it because he was afraid of what he might do to his friends if he didn't tell them what had happened to him? Sally looked at him in suspicion and then looked back at his thumb.

"Well, let's clean this up," she sighed.

Sonic nodded as she walked over to a cupboard and got out a first aid kit. She walked back to Sonic once she closed the cupboard door and sat back down at his bed's edge. Sonic sat up on his bed and held his thumb out. Sally took out a water sprayer and sprayed his little cut and his face. She then wiped the blood from his face and thumb and then put a bandaid on his thumb's wound.

"There, that should do it," she said.

"Thanks, Sal," he said as he hugged her.

She gratefully took the hug as a sign of appreciation from Sonic. A smell went into his nose. He sniffed it and his eyes turned red and his fangs slid out as he closed the distance between his mouth and her neck. Sally noticed his hesitation in letting her go as quickly as usual unlike the other hugs they've had.

"Sonic? Are you alright?" she asked him.

He stopped. His fangs quickly sliding back into place and his eyes returning back to black. He let go of her with an apologetic expression on his face.

"Sorry, Sal," he said.

Sally looked at Sonic in confusion.

"What are you talking about?" she asked him.

He gulped and quickly jumped off his bed and ran outside. He had to talk to someone he trusted. He had to talk to someone. He had to … tell someone what was wrong with him.

Okay, updated three fics tonight. WHOA! Nex updates won't be for awhile because a) no internet at where I'm going on these holidays and b) writers block. Hope you like this chapter because I think its pretty interesting because its showing a little more of Sonic being a vampire. I'm Sonic SatAM obsessed now. So I may do Shared Metal Limbs as my next fanfiction to put up.

VFMH OUT!