#1 The Revised Version of:
"VIRUS"
By Draco Master
Chapter 1
Characters: In Order of Appearance
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Princess Sally A. Acorn
Miles(Tails) Prower
Sonic M. Hedgehog
Lily S. Gold * Draco Master
Draco 'House of Drawl' * Draco Master
Rotor Tusker
Antoine De'Colette
Bunnie Rabbot
Chuck Hedgehog
***** Note From Author!: I never thought I'd get this FanFic done and on the
net. One real quick thing before we get started: This story moves fast so
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PROFANITY 0 Mild cussing
VIOLANCE 0 No Violence
SEXUAL CONTENT 1 Mild Kissing
NUDITY 0 No Nudity(Tough Luck)
Overall Rating: G
Part 1
Sally stared down idly at her feet soaking in the power ring pool, watching
the ripples spread out bigger and bigger. She was in such deep thought she
didn't notice Sonic jog up behind her.
"Hey, Sal," Sonic called. She didn't stir. "Sal...SAL!" with that final
call Sonic grabbed her shoulders.
Sally jumped up and gave a quick yelp. "SONIC!" Sally gasped grabbing her
chest. "Don't ever sneak up on me like that again!"
"Yeah...right." He muttered under his breath.
"So what's on your mind?"
"Oh... nothing important."
Sonic could see that this was not true, but decided to leave it alone, and
ask her later at breakfast the next morning. Sonic then sat down beside her
holding her close, watching the sun creep behind the Great Mountains. There
they sat for about 'five minutes' when Sonic jumped up.
"What's wrong?" Sally asked startled.
"Chili-dog attack!" was all she heard before an excession of sonic booms
blew her down as he sped off.
Sally grinned.
"Sonic never seems to think with anything but his stomach."
She sat there watching the sun sink deeper as the few clouds changed from a
bright orange to a deepening blue, till a seeming black curtain covered
the sky. Seeing there being no benefit in sitting outside catching a cold,
she got up and trotted to her hut.
<15 minutes later in the multi-purpose room kitchen.>
"Keep ze handz off mi denner!" Antoine barked as he snatched his hot dogs
from Sonic's grasp.
"Common Ant, can't I just have one?"
"No!, abzolutly not!"
With that Sonic got down on his knees and begged Antoine to give him a hot
dog.
"Hmm...What will you do for me?" Antoine asked noticing the sudden
advantage he had.
"Anything!" Sonic begged, noticing Antoine beginning to cave in.
"Anything?...Well..." Antoine thought, then a grin formed on his face.
"I've been so beezy lately I haven't had time to... wash and iron me
uniforms."
"Anything but that!" Sonic added remembering the last time Antoine scammed him
into washing the heavy fabrics.
"Well then, I'm guessing I'll be having a good snack, no?"
"Fine!, I'll wash your stupid uniforms."
"...and iron" Antoine corrected.
Sonic grumbled after receiving the hot dog, while Rotor and Bunnie stood
behind him attempting to stifle their laughter. Sonic took no notice but just
jogged pass them out the door making a beeline to his hut. He nearly forgot
to open his door when he screeched into his hut and halted in front of his
oven. He ripped open his food cupboards and pulled out a can of beans and a
hot dog bun. He poured the beans in a miniature pot after putting it on the
stove. After a few minutes of letting the beans warm up, he took a ladle
and scooped some beans, and poured them over his hot dog and bun. He then
sat down preparing to scarf his masterpiece. But before he took a bite he
noticed something, from the corner of his eye, stirring in his bed. He
slowly crept over to his idol of rest. He could make out some sort of
figure under the covers. He lowered his hand to take off the blankets, but
just before he grabbed them, the form began to scream in a high shrill voice.
Sonic fell back in astonishment. He quickly picked himself up and grabbed the
covers pulling them back. On the bed laid a two tailed fox screaming at the
top of it's lungs, while ripping at his head fur as he struggled back and
forth.
"TAILS!" Sonic screamed.
Sonic grabbed the bundle of fur and shook him thinking the kit was merely
having a bad dream. But to no avail the kitsune just kept screaming. Sonic
started to panic, he picked up tails and sped off to Rotor's workshop.
"NICOLE," Sally said to her miniature computer. "Please show me a map of
Robotropolis with all known computer serv..."
Sally was cut off when she heard a fur-raising scream. A scream pain. Sally
shot up as a chill ran down her spine.
"That came from Sonic's hut!" she thought as she ran out forgetting to turn
off NICOLE.
Tails carried on for another 2 hours, he kept screaming even after his
voice went hoarse. Rotor tried to knock him out with 10CC's of morphine, but
after injecting him for the third time without results he gave up. A crowd
began to gather out side the workshop which Sonic and Sally were attempting to
fix.
"Please go back to your huts." Sonic and Sally shouted over the crowd for
what seemed to be the millionth time. But got the same results as the last.
Sally and Sonic pushed their way back into the shop as Tails *finally*
droned down to a whimper.
"Hey big guy, how you feeling" Sonic asked a little etchy and in deep
concern.
"ugh...wha...OOOOOOH my head!"
Sally walked over to the fox's side.
"You're going to be alright. How do you feel!" Sally asked.
"OOOoooOOOhhhHHHhhh...Like having my head in a vice, during an ice cream
headache." was his reply
"Hey sugar-blue, how's Tails?" Bunnie asked walking in and using her
cybernetic implants to push the door close in order to keep some unwanted
visitors, who were now pushing on the door, from entering.
"He's pulling through." Sonic answered.
"W-What happened?" Came Tails' voice.
"We're not too sure yet." Sonic said looking up at Rotor who was looking at
a printout sheet of the bio-scanner.
"I don't understand." Rotor said in confusion.
"What's wrong?" Sally asked.
"I don't know. It could just be the scanner, but..."
"But what?" Bunnie asked.
"But... " Rotor continued while looking at a monitor. "It's operating
systems all check out at 100%. *But*, when I check Tails' neural status the
only thing it found was encephalitis."
"encefawhatsis?" Sonic asked scratching his head.
"Encephalitis. In other words: an increasing pressure inside the skull due
to swelling of pus produced by a brain infection. Or what you would call
'A Common Headache'."
"Wait!?!... What you mean to say is that what Tails just went through was
nothing more than a little over-thinking?" asked the confused hedgehog.
"No, that's what the scanner says. *I* think that it's something more
serious."
"What makes you say that?" Asked Sally.
"Well, for one thing the computer can't find out what caused the over
exertion of pus to his brain. Another thing I noticed was this..." Rotor
approached Tails, then carefully pulled his head forward a bit.
"Look." He pointed to a small mound on the back of his head.
"So, he bumped his head on something." Sonic said tapping his foot.
"No, look at his skeletal readings." Sonic and Sally took the paper then gaped
at what they saw. The paper was a B/W x-ray of Tails' skull. The bump was
actually caused by a part of the back of his skull itself, which was either
growing or being pushed out."
Tails collapsed back on the table allowing the morphine to finally take over.
"I would like to have him stay here overnight so the computer can monitor
and alert me of any changes in his condition." Sally nodded.
Later on, after the crowd had dimmed, Sally, Sonic, and Bunnie quietly crept
out, so's not to disturb Tails, and walked back to their huts.
Sonic woke up. Well... Actually he never really got to sleep, but when he
did his dreams would become filled with screams. They were screams of
terror, the screams would seem to fill his mind pushing out any other
thoughts he may have. He would try not to listen, but the cries of mercy
kept ringing in ears driving him near insane.
Seeing that he was drenched in sweat, Sonic grabbed a towel, and a pair
of sox, then he stumbled into the shower. But he blacked out before he was
even able to turn on the water.
Tails woke up. He looked around almost forgetting why he was in Rotor's
workshop. Feeling as if he hadn't eaten in days, he pulled out various wires
causing a number of pulse alarms to go off. Tails stood still for a moment
half expecting to Rotor rushing out of the back, but after about five minutes
Tails gave up and flew to the mess hall. There he saw Bunnie and Sally deep
in conversation about the raid planned that evening.
"...we can get Uncle Chuck to retrieve th.."
"...but then Robotnik could become suspicious tha..."
"...don't worry, we'll shutdown the bot server..."
"...but you know that he has all hi..."
Bunnie, Sally, and Tails looked up when they heard a scream followed by a
sharp silence.
"That came from Sonic's hut!" Sally gasped, turning pale and then
mysteriously, she felt a rush of deja-vu flow over her.
Sally raced through his front door. She looked around but didn't see
anyone. She then heard someone wheezing from Sonic's bathroom. Sally rushed in and
found Sonic sprawled out on the floor. Sally got down on her knees.
"What happened?!?" Sally asked barely able to keep from trembling. But the
only thing he could say was "Help...me..the pain" Sally held his hand. With
her other hand she reached to her boot and pulled out her computer.
"NICOLE, neural scan level five."
"Processing." NICOLE replied. "Neural limbic system in critical condition.
Limbic system activity level, 20% and decreasing."
Sonic stirred attempting to look into Sally's eyes
"Thirteen percent."
A tear formed and fell down his cheek.
"Eight percent."
Sally gripped his hand as if to convince her self that if she held to him
he wouldn't leave.
"s-s-Sal" Sally locked eyes with Sonic "Help..me...I..love..yo..."
"Neural Limbic System Failure, Sonic Hedgehog Status: COMA"
PART 2
Uncle Chuck took his nephew in hands and carried him to Rotor's hut. He
walked in when no one answered his knocking.
"Someone find Rotor"
"I'll go" Antoine replied as he left the shop.
Seconds later they heard Antoine shriek.
"Sacre Bleu!"
No matter how useless it was, Antoine kept shaking Rotor's lifeless body.
Finally he stood up and left to report.
"NICOLE, do a level eight neural scan for cause of limbic system
failure on subject: Sonic Hedgehog and Rotor Tusker"
"Processing E.T.C (Estimated Time of Completion) one Hour thirteen Minutes"
Tails walked in, his face streaked with tears.
"How's Sonic?" He muttered as he stood beside Sally. She didn't answer. She
to felt tears forming in her eyes, but quickly brushed them away.
Bunnie stood watch. But her mind was on other things, a rumor had
spread that the reason Sonic and Rotor fell into comas was because of an
ancient virus that could be casted by druids, wizards, mages and other
things that Bunnie felt to be nothing but fantasy. Sonic and Rotor had been
the only ones, so far, to be claimed by this virus, and still there was no
improvement. But then she remembered the night before, Tails had something
like this, just more dramatic, but then he woke up feeling fine the next
morning.
Bunnie was so deep in thought she didn't notice two figures walk up to
her.
"Ah-hem"
Bunnie turned her head calmly still deep in thought. But gasped when she
didn't recognize the two figures. There in front of her stood a old, male
squirrel in a white cloak holding a staff, part of his face was covered by
the hood of his cloak, but Bunnie could tell that he looked to be about
sixty years old. Beside him about a head shorter stood a pink female Echidna
no more than 11 years old.
"Identify yourself." Bunnie said, a bit more rash than she ment, and taking
an offensive stance.
"Gladly..." Said the cloaked squirrel. "I am the White Wizard Draco of the
House of Drawl [Authors Note: No relation to the word 'drawl']."
"And I'm Lily" said the pink echidna blushing a bit.
"I seek the one named Miles Prower" said Draco.
"Analysis complete."
Sally woke up with a start.
"Unknown virus found."
"NICOLE, can you give any information about this Virus?"
"Processing..."
Sally closed her eyes, she felt a slight pain in her head. She
opened a drawer pulled a bottle and read it:
ADNIL(r)
For use in relieving:
Coughing
Aching
Headache
Stuffy Nose
Fever
So you can have a decent life medicine.
Caution - Do not exceed 2 pills per hour. Do not use
if pregnant (unless two-headed kids don't
bother you). Do not give to young Mobians
3 years or younger without consent from
a legal Mobian physician.
She didn't care about the caution and swallowed three pills without water.
"Process complete, listing"
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Virus Name:
Virus SCI. Name:
Virus Level [Minor 1 - 5 Fatal]:
Virus Symptoms: Nasia, Critical head pains, loss of sight, coma, and morphication
neu3235, brain tumor, brain abscess, and/or death.
Virus, areas affected by: Parts of cerebrum, and Neural Limbic System.
Virus Contageiousy: Physically Transmitted.
Virus Origin: Miles Prower
Virus, Time To activation:2 - 10 hours, depending on sex, weight, age, and
species.
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Two things caught her attention: Virus Symptoms, and Virus Origin.
"NICOLE, state proof of Virus Origin"
"Virus matches blood DNA samples taken from Miles Prower."
"NICOLE, can you give me some info on the symptom: Morphication neu3235?"
"Processing...Listing"
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Name:
SCI. Name:neu3235
Info: neu3235 is a legend among wizards. For more information lookup Wizard
Legends in early Mobian encyclopedia.
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"NICOLE, bring up wizard legends concerning morphication neu3235."
"Processing..."
"Do not bother." Replied a voice behind her.
She turned around to see a cloaked squirrel, a female Echidna, and Bunnie
standing inside the door.
"May I help you?" asked Sally.
"No, the question is may *I* help *you*?"
Sally just stared in confusion.
"I am the White Wizard Draco of the House of Drawl. And this is my
apprentice, Lily." he said nodding to the pink Echidna.
Sally stood up
"Princess Sally Alecia of the House of Acorn."
With that the wizard gave her a quick nod in respect.
"Now may I ask why you are here?" Sally asked.
"First, I wish to ask you why you are interested in neu3235?"
Before she was able to reply, the Wizard continued.
"Let me guess. Twelve years ago, a two tailed fox by the name of Miles
Prower was found in the outskirts Robotropolis during the coup. Since then
he grew up with the Freedom Fighters as a Son or sibling. Now, 12 years
later, he was found screaming and complaining that his head hurt, and later
on, people started slipping into comas?" Sally was shocked. "Ye-Yes."
The Wizard chuckled a bit. "What Miles Prower, or Tails as I've recently
heard, has just witnessed unto you the morphication of a sixth sense. You
see, when th..." he was cut off when Sally threw herself to the floor and
started screaming. Bunnie got up to help her friend, but Draco pulled her
back.
"Has she come in physical contact with any victims of the virus?"
"Umm...Yeah" Bunnie said hazently.
"Go get everyone else who has come in contact with any of them."
Bunnie left and returned with Antoine, and Tails. Sally seemed to have stop
screaming, but still whimpered in pain.
"I didn't get Chuck because..."
"That's fine, he's a robot, right?"
Bunnie nodded.
"Good, the virus doesn't effect robots, now, go stand beside Sally." Draco
commanded them. "Except you."
He said pulling Tails back beside Lily. Tails looked at the young echidna.
She was a bit shorter than he was, she wore a crystal pendant around her neck,
her eyes were a crystal blue, her dreadlocks were pink, like the rest of her
body just a bit darker, she also had green ribbon that was tied at the end of
her longest dreadlock, which was about 2 feet longer than her. She smiled at
him when she realized he was staring at her. He blushed as he looked away. He
then stared at Draco as he began to chant in a long forgotten language, as
he did, Tails noticed the pupils of Draco's eyes were replaced by a glowing
blaze, as well as his staff, every second it got brighter and brighter, then
the staff began to flash like a strobe light. At first the flashes were at
an even, steady pace, but then it started to speed up. It kept speeding up
to a point where it just a continual flash that burned their eyes. Then
everything dimmed.
PART 3
Sally sat up. She looked to her side and found Antoine, and Bunnie
Lying next to her.
"What happened?" She asked her self. She looked to her other side and saw
Tails sitting about 3 yards away on a chair next to Lily deep in discussion.
"Whoa!, you were an orphan to?" Tails exclaimed.
"Yep. Before I was even one year old. I was found in the woods by a
technician. His name was Joeple, I lived with him for eight years, you could
say he was a dad to me. He would take me camping, shopping, hikeing..it was
great. But I didn't really know that till I lost him. The town was taken over
by Swat-bots while I was out camping with a friend, when we returned..."
She stopped to brush away a tear.
"The whole village was burned to the ground. But while we stood there in
shock we didn't realize that a swat-bot had come from behind and grabbed my
friend. The next thing I saw was my friend being carried..." She stopped and
put her face in her hands and started weeping. Tails hugged her, Lily let
her head rest on his shoulder as she spilled her emotions. Tails stroked her
dreadlocks. A few minutes later Tails pulled back and looked
into her eyes.
"Tell ya what, for now on I'll be your friend. How's that?"
"Thank you..." she replied brushing away some stray tears. She embraced
Tails giving him quick kiss on the cheek. Tails blushed a bit, then looked
to his side when he heard some movement.
"Hey Sal." Tails called when he saw her get up.
"Hey Tails," Sally said while giving him a *What*-have-*you*-been-upto look.
He just blushed more.
"When's dinner?" Sally asked.
"Dinner!?!"
Sally was confused by his reaction.
"How long have I been out?" She asked.
"Let's just say It's almost lunch...Again." Lily said to Sally.
"Dang!, I knew I should of listened to the caution label." She muttered to
herself. "Oh... by the way, can one of you explain to me what happened."
"Sure..." Lily answered. "Draco called upon magic to disinfect you and your
friends."
"Magic? Isn't that something made up for fairy tales?"
"Nope, it's as real as grass is green."
"Is Sonic, and Rotor go..."
"They'll be just fine."
As if on cue, Sonic began to stir. When Sally noticed, she raced to his
side, then she jumped on to him.
"OOOOF!..." Sonic cried out. "Sal wha..." Sonic was cut off when Sally
landed him kiss after kiss.
Lily & Tails tried to keep from giggling when they saw Sally express her
excitement.
PART 4
Sally, Sonic, and the rest of the freedom fighters sat down at a large
round table used for debates. The subject of the meeting was about the new
visitors Lily and the Wizard Draco.
"Now that we all have had the time to recuperate, we would like to ask you
and your friend some questions." Sally said groggily, being half-asleep.
"We would be glad to answer any questions to a certain extent." Replied the
Wizard.
"Vat do you mean to a zertan extent?" asked Antoine.
"Never you mind my friend" Draco replied again.
"First we would like to know a little bit more about you than just your
name."
"Of course... I'm usually known as the Wondering Wizard because I'm on a
continues search for conflicts of nature, phenomenon's and such, but I'm
primarily in search of new pupils, to teach the ways of Magic, which is the
reason I'm here.
About 12 and a half years ago I had some friendly acquaintances in
Mobotropolis, before the reign of Robotnik. One of which was an infant
two-tailed fox."
Tails gasped "W-What?"
Draco ignored the fox and continued on.
"He was the son of Elizabeth, and Kilos Prower. Even when he wasn't even a
year old I could see that this child would one day become a being of
endless power. Noticing this, I approached the child's parents, who
consented into allowing me to administer this power to their young kitsune.
I later took the child and ordained him 'Miles Prower Wizard to be'. In
doing this a 'virus' like organism was created but laid dormant till he
came of age, which would be three days ago. When the virus became active, it
stimulates the brain in a certain way that... well what you could say is
'He grew a sixth sense.' But not only is this sixth sense used as an input
to the brain like other senses, but also as an output *from* the brain, sort
of like speech."
Tails just sat in awe not knowing how to react.
Sally spoke. "Exactly what does this sixth sense do?"
"The meaning of it is to aid its benefactor's capabilities to call upon
magic, whether it be good, or evil, it's his choice.
The End
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