Chapter 11

The Tabishee Monarchs

When Sonic and Sally got back to Sonic's hut, the hedgehog looked at the chipmunk and took in a breath. He was glad all that was over with and he could finally breathe. Sally looked at Sonic in concern; he seemed to be taking it really hard about what he now was and she was worried for him. He hadn't spoken a word the entire time they had been walking back to the hut and it made her think that him being a vampire was bothering him more than it bothered the others.

She didn't have to wait any longer for Sonic to respond to her. A thought then, crossed Sonic's mind and he put his gloved hand in his quills and brought out NICOLE. Sally gasped and shook her head at herself; through all that had happened they had forgot about NICOLE and if Sonic had gotten any information from the computers while at the factory.

"So, what did you find out while you were there?" Sally asked Sonic, wanting to know what he found out before he was captured.

Sonic gave NICOLE to Sally; who took it as Sonic folded his arms across his chest afterwards. "Not much. Only about something called 'The Tabishee Monarchs', whatever they are." Sally frowned and looked down at NICOLE. Sonic noticed Sally's expression and frowned also. "What? Have you heard of them?"

Sally nodded at his question. "I've heard of the name, but I don't know what they are." She looked at Sonic with a smile. "But it's a good thing Robotnik had the data or else we may not know what it is."

Sonic nodded his head at her. "It may be connected to me be being bit or something about vampires."

Sally nodded at that. "It might. If Robotnik has it and wanted you then something must be connected to it."

Sonic nodded and tapped his foot while pointing at NICOLE. "Well, what are we waiting for? Are we gonna check it out or what?"

Sally chuckled and nodded as she opened NICOLE up and the small hand-held computer turned on. "NICOLE search for the data on 'The Tabishee Monarchs'."

Sonic continued tapping his foot as NICOLE was searching her systems full of data for that one spoken file. "Searching, Sally." Sonic groaned and rolled his eyes. Sally smiled at his impatience; even though he's now become a vampire his patience span hadn't changed.

A few minutes of a foot tapping and continuous whines from Sonic and NICOLE finally beeped, making Sonic jump and look at the small hand-held computer. "File 'The Tabishee Monarchs' found, Sally."

Sally smiled at that and looked at Sonic; who had a smile as well. "Display, NICOLE."

A few noises came from the hand-held computer before she answered, "Cannot display; only explain."

Sally was confused at this. Why couldn't NICOLE display the data? Was this the kind that couldn't be displayed and was only information? "Why can't you display it?"

"It has no display file … I am only able to explain what is on it," NICOLE told Sally.

Sally nodded and sighed. "Okay then, NICOLE, tell us what 'The Tabishee Monarchs' are."

"Yes, Sally," NICOLE said and began to process Sally's request before beginning her explanation. "The Tabishee Monarchs are an ancient Tribe that was cursed many years ago by a dark wizard. The curse changed them into demons; they couldn't go into sunlight and could only drink the blood of the living to survive. Once every blood moon one out of the Tribe would wander off and try and find 'The Pure One' that they shall turn into one of them and break the curse. Every blood moon they would fail as they don't know who 'The Pure One' is. To this day the Tribe still thrives and wishes for the curse to be broken by 'The Pure One'."

Sonic and Sally stared at the hand-held computer and then looked at each other. "The Tabishee Monarchs…" Sonic swallowed almost afraid to say the word. "…is a race of vampires?" His voice went high as he said it.

Sally looked back at NICOLE and nodded at his question. "It sounds like it. Maybe they're the ones that sent that man to bite you?"

Sonic looked down as he thought about this; his mind wondering that too. "Maybe, but it said they had failed countless times."

Sally nodded at this and looked back up at him. "But this information may not have been updated for years."

Sonic became worried and swallowed a lump in his throat and sat down on his bed. "If so … there must be a reason that wizard cursed them…" He looked up at Sally with frightened eyes. "…right?"

Sally walked over to Sonic and sat beside him on his bed. "Sonic, the file said it was a dark wizard so it may have cursed the Tribe for an unknown reason. They may have been good people before they were cursed and then they have to resort to drinking … blood."

Sonic looked down and nodded at this, sighing. "I guess." He stood up, clenching his fists in the process and glared out the window. "Well, we should get ready." Sally stared at Sonic in shock at his sudden attitude change. "Let's find them and see what information we can get out of them."

I know I haven't updated this story in a long time, but I've had huge writers block and I also had to figure out what to do for the backstory of 'The Tabishee Monarchs'. So, if the backstory sounds kinda lame ... it was my first try at doing a backstory for an ancient tribe or whatever. So, tell me how I did on the backstory. I Need To Know!

P.S. I will be rewriting 'A Love From The Past' because I find that that story doesn't have much of a plot only random lines mixed in with characters coming in at any random time and I just don't like that. I like dramatic tension and anything to do with drama and 'A Love From The Past' doesn't seem to be holding that. It seems to be holding a more comedy feel than drama. So I feel up to the need of rewriting it into a better version. It will still be up until one of my recent stories is finished and then it will be deleted, but don't worry ... it will be replaced with the rewrite. You know rewrites are always better than the original. XD

Anyways, hope you enjoyed!

VFMH OUT!