The door quickly shut with a loud crash, leaving the final four brave souls in pure darkness.

"Okay, this can't be good…" Sonic repeated. He slowly pushed himself up from the floor, standing up on wobbly legs. The other three did the same.

"I can't see a thing in here…" Knuckles stated, looking around for any source of light.

Silver was shaking slightly. "G-Guys, what if t-the clown comes a-again?" he asked.

"Enough with the clown, Silver!" Sonic snapped. "It isn't coming back!"

Shadow had been walking around sightlessly, feeling along the wall for a light switch. Luckily, he found one.

But the power was still out.

"Hey! I found a flashlight!" Knuckles pointed out, turning on the handheld light. He turned it on, and immediately the room lit up.

"Looks like we're in the Master Bedroom." Shadow guessed. With the very little aid of light, they were able to examine the room closely. The walls were painted a baby blue color with splotches of white. The carpet was a dark navy blue and the curtains on the massive window in front of them were white as well. A large king size bed stood along the wall with a thick blue plaid comforter on it. Two dressers were seen in the corner, and the fan above their heads had diamonds hanging from the lights.

"I'll say this is a master bedroom…looks fancy." Silver lifted an eyebrow in surprise.

"I wish the power would come back on," Knuckles complained, rubbing his arms. "It's freezing in here."

Shadow looked at the echidna. "I noticed it's a little colder in here than the other rooms," he said. "It wasn't this cold when we first came in."

"It's rumored that a room with spirits in it will become cold. I guess the Tails Doll and his little friends found us." Sonic said.

"'Found us'?" Knuckles snapped. "If you remember correctly Sonic, they were the ones who threw us in here!"

A silence followed the echidna's retort. The only sounds that were heard was the howl of the wind outside and the tree limbs hitting the house fiercely. The lights were still off, but as the wind blew in from the now open window, the curtains swayed in the wind and revealed a full moon outside, brightening up the room and tinting everything a midnight blue.

"There really isn't anything interesting in here…" Shadow stated softly. "Maybe it would be smart if we just leave before that doll shows up."

"Fine, if you insist!" Sonic smiled and stood with his arms crossed. "See ya outside, pal!"

"Huh?"

"You said we should leave." Sonic repeated. "I'm not going anywhere and neither is Knuckles or Silver. So, I guess it's just you."

"Well, I was just saying. I mean, we are practically just standing here doing nothing, and just waiting for that…that thing to come after us again."

The blue blur shrugged. "And so what if he does? What's the harm? We've seen him 2 or 3 times already. What's the worst he could do at this point?"

"Hey, guys!" Silver called from near the window. "I found a balcony outside this window! Is there a door anywhere along this wall? Maybe we could go out here!"

Shadow walked up to wall and while Knuckles shined the flashlight on the wall, Shadow was actually able to find a small door leading outside to the small porch-like balcony.

"It's unlocked. Want to go outside?"

Step by step, the mobians carefully set foot outside the balcony. Below their feet was the backyard and out in the distance was a small field. Fog hung low to the small hills, moving along with the wind.

"Wow…now this is pretty cool." Sonic admitted. He hopped up on the stone railing and sat down.

"I think this part of the house makes it look at least a little normal." Silver added. "At least the ghosts can't get us from out here."

Sonic smiled as the cool autumn air blew past him. "So…what do you think?" he asked.

The three looked at him. "What?"

"This is the best Halloween we've ever had! Huh, am I right?"

Shadow smirked. "This was pretty good. Better than just trick-or-treating."

"How did you find out about this house anyways, Sonic?" Knuckles wondered.

"You want to know who told me?" Sonic smiled.

"Who?"

"Rouge."

Shadow looked up, quite shocked. "Really? When did she tell you about this?"

"About a week or so ago. She told me that she was walking down this street past this house and said she had seen lights on even though the house is abandoned. She believed it was paranormal activity." the blue hedgehog explained.

"It's too bad she had that G.U.N. mission tonight. If she was curious about this house, I'm sure she would have loved to have been with us." Shadow said.

"Yeah, she told me to bring you guys inside and check it out since it's Halloween and all." Sonic added. Shadow just laughed quietly.

"You think we should start heading back? Maybe meet up with the others for some more trick-or-treating?" Knuckles suggested.

Sonic nodded and hopped back down from the railing. He patted the stone gently, dust flying off of it. "Well old house, you sure gave us a scare tonight. But I'm afraid we'll have to leave." he said.

As the four stepped back inside the master bedroom, they were shocked to see that the power was still off.

"Man, maybe the house really did loose power without the help of the ghosts." Knuckles said.

Suddenly, they felt the floor beginning to rumble and shake. Silver had the door to the hallway open, but it unexpectedly released itself from the hedgehog's grip, and slammed shut.

"Uh…I'm guessing the ghosts don't want us to leave quite yet…" Silver swallowed nervously as he backed away from the door. The floor continued to shake roughly, and the mobians were growing more nervous by the second.

"Just stand where you are and maybe they'll know we are about to leave and never come back…" Shadow ordered. They waited a couple more seconds before making any sudden moves.

Finally, the floor stopped shaking and all was silent once more. "Don't move." Sonic said. "Maybe they'll leave us alone."

A lamp came flying right over Silver's head. "I'm out of here!" he panicked as he ran to the door and began yanking on the doorknob.

"Silver!" the other three yelled simultaneously. Now everything was being thrown at them. Lamps, books, flower vases, and even music records were being thrown in the air.

"I can't get the door open!" Silver cried. He stopped yanking on the door and stood for a minute, panting heavily as he tried to look for another way out.

"Everyone! Go back outside to the balcony!"

They ran in total panic mode to the door, swinging it wide open and bursting out into the open.

"Everybody okay?" Sonic asked, out of breath.

"Guys! HELP ME!" Silver bellowed loudly with fear. He was literally being dragged in by an invisible force by his feet, his hands making claw marks onto the carpet.

Knuckles rushed forward and grabbed the hedgehog's wrists, pulling the opposite direction. However, even the echidna's unbelievable strength wasn't enough to pull him back outside. He, too, was being dragged along.

"Shadow!"

The darker hedgehog sighed and grabbed one of Knuckles' wrists and pulled. Now surely with the unstoppable strength of both Shadow and Knuckles, it would have been enough to pull Silver outside.

Nope.

By the time Sonic joined in to help, all four of them were yanked inside the room again by one powerful pull, and when they looked back at the door, they could see it visibly being locked, and to top it off, a red glow surrounded the framing of the door.

There was no way out.

"Well, I never thought I'd die this way…" Knuckles muttered. "Stuck inside a haunted house and hunted by a ghost."

"Dude, one stupid ghost isn't going to kill us." Shadow pointed out rolling his eyes.

Suddenly, three ghosts appeared in the darkness, flying in thin air and staring with threatening eyes.

"Don't. call. Them. Stupid. Shadow!" Sonic yelled loudly as the ghosts began chasing them around. However, they all disappeared as quickly as they appeared.

"Where did they go?" Sonic asked quickly. As they looked around, their eyes landed on Silver standing in a lazily way. His arms dangled in front of him and he was hunched over some. He was motionless.

"Silver? You okay?"

The hedgehog didn't reply. However, he did straighten his posture and he slowly turned around and faced the other three. And even though his eyes were closed, he started walking towards them.

"Silver? C'mon man, this is getting freaky!" Knuckles backed away and Silver came closer.

And when the hedgehog finally opened his eyes, his irises did not shine a bright gold, but instead a deep red.

The three ghosts were possessing him. His lips formed a smile, and he let out a low laugh. But before the ghosts could do anything else, Silver was able to snap out of it. He groaned as he got on his knees and shook his head.

"Silver! Dude, the ghosts just possessed you! Are you okay?" Sonic asked, helping the futuristic hedgehog to his feet. Silver shivered once and stared with horror filled eyes.

"The clown…" he whispered.

"That wasn't the clown…" Shadow pointed out, sighing and pinching his eyes together. He opened his eyes when he felt Sonic rapidly tapping him on the shoulder. He flung his shoulder to get Sonic to stop. "What?!" he snapped. Sonic pointed and even in the darkness, he could see the blue blur's shaking finger pointing to something they all feared.

The twin tailed doll stood (well.. floated) in front of them, it's large eyes glowing red.

Sonic stepped forward to speak. "Look, we're leaving now. If you can just unlock the door, we'll leave and never ever come back!" he said.

The Tails Doll didn't speak. All he did was hover above the ground, coming closer and closer and closer to Sonic…until he was completely eye level with him.

That's when it let out a shrill scream as painful as nails on a chalkboard. The four covered their ears and squeezed their eyes shut.

"We need to get out of here!" Knuckles bellowed over the loudness. The Tails Doll let out a low growl and held out his hands. Instantly, they became fire and he began swinging his fists wildly at Sonic and his friends. Screaming like crazy, Sonic ran to the door, yanking on the locked door knob.

"Move!" Knuckles shoved the hero out of the way, and let out a yell as he punched through the wood. Luckily, this door wasn't protected, and they were able to run out into the hall with the Tails Doll hot on their heels.

They trudged down the stairs as fast as their thin legs could carry them, but Silver tripped over his loose costume and plummeted to the ground, knocking down Knuckles, Shadow, and Sonic. They crash landed onto the first floor, and without wasting any time, jumped back up still screaming like a crazy person, and ran down the massively long hallway.

Sonic looked back as he ran to see that along with the Tails Doll, the other ghosts in the house followed behind him. Even the clown that terrorized Silver followed, laughing wildly at the friends' fear.

"Clown!" Silver screeched, running faster than ever with his hands up in the dusty air.

Sonic flung the front door open and was still screaming as he ran from the house. Shadow, Knuckles and Silver stopped on the sidewalk, completely out of breath. As they stood, they watched Sonic running down the sidewalk screaming like a little girl.

"Yeah…bravest of us all…" Shadow snorted. Knuckles rolled his eyes but there was hint in his facial expressions that he was a bit spooked. And poor Silver was standing with his arms wrapped around himself, shaking violently and his eyes widened in fear."I…really…hate clowns now." he whimpered.

Shadow laughed. "Well, I guess you can say I'm the bravest of all of you! You hear that Sonic?!" he yelled, his voice echoing through the night air. "Shadow the Hedgehog is the bravest!"

"BOO!"

Shadow literally jumped out of his fur with a shrill scream as a familiar voice behind him laughed loudly.

"R-Rouge?!"

The young bat was standing behind the group in a witch costume, laughing so hard that she was crying.

"How was your night, Shadow the brave?" she asked. Shadow was so embarrassed that his right eye began to twitch.

"Okay! I-I was not scared! I was caught off guard! I didn't expect you to be here! I-""Shadow, relax! I was just playing around." Rouge chuckled. "So, I take it you guys went through the house, huh?"

"You bet we did! Can you believe the Tails Doll was in there?! Sonic and I haven't seen that thing in years!" Knuckles asked in disbelief.

"Oh really? Then I guess you guys had a real scare then." the bat giggled. "I always knew that that house was haunted with a bunch of ghosts because I went inside once and there were a lot of them. But I never knew that the Tails Doll would be involved…" she said in a shocked tone, even though she knew exactly why the Tails Doll was there…

As the group began walking back down the sidewalk, Shadow had to run to catch up. "Just to let all of you know, I was NOT scared at all!" he snapped. "A-And if you tell anybody, I-""Yeah, yeah…we get it, Shadow." Rouge rolled her eyes. "Why don't we go find Sonic? Even though he just might be on the other side of the world by now…"

The guys laughed at the statement as they continued walking down the sidewalk.

Back at the haunted house, a familiar villain came up from behind the house in his floating machine. He had a long mustache, and was dressed a pumpkin.

In his hands, was a handheld remote and when he pressed the single red button on the front, an exact replica of the Tails Doll appeared beside him.

Eggman laughed a hearty laugh. "Hehehe….Happy Halloween, Sonic the Hedgehog!"

A/N: So if anyone is confused, the house was normally haunted by ghosts, but Eggman and Rouge decided to team up and give Sonic and his friends a fun Halloween with the belief that the Tails Doll was in there as well. And it seems both Shadow and Sonic aren't the bravest of them all! Haha! Well, this is the last chapter and I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! I know it's a day late, but Happy Halloween everybody! Review please!