Chapter Nine: Stop the Hooligans!
December 20, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Notes:
We apologize that we haven't written new chapters for this fanfic for a long time.
One of the three hooligans lightly touched the door handle, but before they could open it, they immediately heard a man’s voice behind them.
— What are you doing here? — counselor Kolya himself came to see if the boys were sleeping and did not expect to see girls here. They turned around and saw the counselor, they didn’t know what to do now. Do you know that it's already bedtime and everyone should be in bed?
— Yes, yes, sorry! We accidentally played on the street until late. We promise we won't do this again. — the left one made excuses.
— Fine. I believe you. But why did you come to the boys' house? Shouldn't you be at the girls' house?
— Really? We thought that this was our house. Well, that is, for girls.
Kolya widened his eyes at what he heard and asked a little embarrassedly:
— You don’t know how to read? — he asked and pointed them to a large blue poster made of a board nailed above the door, on which there was an inscription that he read out loud, albeit a little crookedly, which made it seem as if he was illiterate: — Here. It is written in Russian: “Hauze vor de boize.” — in fact, it was correctly written “House for Boys.”
— A! — the hooligans pretended to realize it and slapped their foreheads with their palms. — We just didn’t pay attention. We are already so tired that we don’t look around carefully. You will forgive us for such a misunderstanding.
Oddly enough, the slightly naive counselor believed them.
— Okay then! For the first time I forgive. Go to your house to sleep and don’t be stupid like that again! — he said and, passing by, quietly opened the door.
The toys of a two-tailed fox, a zebra and two skeletons hid behind the door for now and silently, clinging to the wall, moved through the door. The counselor, making sure that all the boys were sleeping, quietly closed the door so as not to wake them up and went to bed himself. He didn’t even notice the living toys that came out of the door that was open thanks to him, because he didn’t look at his feet. The girls just went down the stairs, reached their house and hid, hiding under the railing.
Seeing that the counselor went to his tent to sleep, next to his sister’s tent, they immediately grinned.
— Yeah! How? Stupid and naive uncle! — they whispered to themselves about the counselor.
And they again began to sneak from here to the boys' house. They didn’t even know that Knuckles’ toys, along with Sonic and Tails from “Sonic: BOOM,” had quietly and unnoticeably come out from behind the door a couple of minutes ago and followed them, and then hid behind the stones on the grass. Knuckles asked the hedgehog and the fox to take the rope that one of the boys accidentally left lying on the grass and pull it between the stones. As the girls were sneaking around the place, Sonic and Tails pulled it on unnoticed, and the girl who was walking in front immediately tripped over it and fell, almost screaming.
— Quiet! Why are you falling? — the one standing behind asked her.
— I didn’t fall, but tripped over something. — she answered her and looked around. But there was nothing here that she could trip over. Because after she tripped, Sonic quickly pulled the entire rope towards himself and hid with her.
— What did you trip over here? There's nothing here. — said the one who stood between the two friends.
— I actually tripped over something and fell! Honestly!
— Quiet! Otherwise, all the boys, girls and counselors will wake up! — the one standing behind scolded her friends in a whisper.
The hooligans looked around. The houses and tents were in the dark. Plus, snoring could be heard somewhere in one of the tents and it sounded a little louder. This means no one heard them, and everyone continues to sleep. Breathing a sigh of relief, they stand up and continue sneaking towards the boys' house. This time they carefully looked around and even under their feet, so as not to stumble this time.
They had almost reached the stairs to the boys' house and had just begun to climb when the other Tails, who was hiding behind a wooden ball on a column near the railing and holding an extra pillow in his hand, sharply pulled it out and hit the one that came first. She got hit in the face with a pillow, stepped back and fell. Her two friends stepped aside. The leader of the hooligans took the pillow off her face and began to grumble in a half-whisper:
— Who dared to throw a pillow at me?
— It's not me.
— And not me.
Sans, who was hiding behind a stone, took out a bucket and began to make terrible moans into it, which echoed from the bucket. The hooligans heard this terrible sound.
— What is this? Ghosts? — asked the hooligan in the middle.
— Stop it, Lisa! — said the main one. — Everyone has known for a long time that there are no ghosts.
— But, Varya, what if ghosts still exist, and the fact that we try not to believe in them only angers them and they, frightening us, try to take revenge on us like this so that we believe in them?
— Don't make up nonsense! You need to spend less time on the Internet and be outside more. Otherwise I’ve seen enough of all sorts of stupid videos with editing on YouTube. — the one behind explained.
— It’s good to torture Lisa, Sasha! — Varya stood up for Lisa. — Everyone went.
They just took a step forward at the same time, when suddenly Sonic, Tails and Knuckles slipped chicken eggs under each of their feet. They stepped on it with their bare feet, a crash was heard, and the girls felt something cold and disgusting, they lowered their heads and the trio contorted their faces in disgust.
— Ugh! What kind of disgusting thing is this? — asked Lisa.
— Who put this here? It wasn't here a second ago. — said Sasha.
Sonic and Tails' BOOM toys, along with Knuckles, quietly taunted them while hiding in the grass. Another toy Tails shushed them and, silently waving his hand, beckoned them to him. They ran after him and hid behind a stone. From there, a pumpkin head with a creepy face and light from a candle inside slowly rose. The toys lifted the pumpkin and were hidden behind counselor Kolya’s robe. At this time, Sans continued to make terrible moans echoing from the bucket. The very semblance of a scarecrow slowly stood up and walked straight towards the hooligans. They turned in the direction of the sound and when they saw that semblance of a monster, they were so frightened that at first they wanted to scream, but they closed their mouths in time, fearing to wake up the others.
— Who you are? — Varya asked.
Sans began to answer in the same creepy voice and echo from the bucket:
— I-i-i'm a mo-o-onste-e-er! I'm ve-e-ery hu-u-ungry-y-y and want to eat hooliga-a-ans like yo-o-ou three.
Then the girls could not resist and screamed at the top of their lungs in fear, fearing that this monster would now eat them. Their screams were so loud that they woke up not only those sleeping in the tents, but also in the houses for boys and girls.
— What's happened?
— Who is screaming?
— What's that noise?
Tails, Knuckles, Sonic, Papyrus and Sans immediately pretended not to be alive and their likeness of the monster fell to the ground, as much as the pumpkin head rolled right under the feet of the hooligans and this frightened them even more, so that they screamed even louder, hugging each other. The pumpkin head itself stood under their feet and was turned with an eerie muzzle towards the girls themselves.
At first, all the children, from boys to girls, were the first to come out of the tents and wanted to find out what was there. Following them, the same ones came out of the houses, and the counselors were the last to leave. They looked at the hooligans very sternly and at the same time asked:
— What's going on here?
— The-e-ere-e-e's a-a-a mo-o-onste-e-er he-e-ere! — Varya said in a stuttering voice, pressing closer to her friends, who were shaking with fear along with her.
— What? There have never been any monsters here! — counselor Yuri was surprised, not excluding the possibility that the girls simply imagined it.
— Bu-u-ut we-e-e rea-a-ally saw hi-im! — said Aria, trying to prove that her friend was not lying.
The counselors looked at each other, trying to understand what had happened and why a pumpkin and a robe were lying on the ground. Picking up the pumpkin from the ground and turning it towards him, the guy grinned, looking at the carved face.
— Is this your monster?
The girls hastily nodded their heads, and Kolya paid attention to the robe.
— Just a minute! This is my robe! What did he forget here?! — Picking up the thing from the ground, he found several children's toys. — Whose is this?
— This is ours! — Misha and David shouted from the crowd of children, after which they came forward and picked up Tails, Knuckles, Sans and Papyrus. Nadya and Stephanie came out next and also took the remaining toys.
The children whispered among themselves, and the counselors could not understand how the things ended up on the street, and the three girls were scared out of their wits. Suddenly Kolya remembered that the girls had allegedly mixed up the houses before and he had an idea.
— So... What did you three forget near the boys’ house at night?
The hooligans immediately looked at each other. They already guessed that they were in big trouble.
— Everything is clear... They decided to make a joke on the boys again. And aren't you ashamed?!
The girls didn't know what to answer. They played pranks on the boys purely for fun. Without any malicious intent, such an answer will not suit everyone.
— I see... In the morning we will contact your parents and discuss your further stay at the camp. Now everyone go to bed! — Yuria said and she and her brother went to their tents.
All the children went back to their tents and went to bed. Stephanie even laughed a little and quietly, imagining how these toys followed them at night and scared them. Yes, and for the sake of it, as she herself believed. As her friend Nadya was also getting comfortable in bed again, Stephanie leaned slightly towards her Sonic and Tails BOOM toys and whispered to them:
— Thank you for stopping these hooligans.
— Who are you telling this to? — Nadya turned to Stephanie with curiosity, and she answered:
— Not no! This is me, thoughts out loud. We don't know exactly who scared the three of them so much.
— Oh, well, yes. — Nadya agreed and got ready for bed. — Good night!
— And you. — Stephanie answers.
All the girls have already fallen asleep. Even those three, who were ashamed of what they had not even had time to do yet, barely lay down in bed and closed their eyes, afraid that the monster would suddenly come to life again, burst in here while they were sleeping and eat them. And Sonic and Tails from BOOM just didn’t understand one thing: Where and most importantly, how exactly did this girl (Stephanie) realize that it was their doing!?
And in the boys' house at that time, David, before falling asleep, did not understand how his toys Knuckles and Tails, as well as Misha's toys, ended up on the street with those hooligans? Maybe they stole it from them while they were still sleeping? It’s unlikely, because then they would immediately make fun of them.
Suddenly David remembers that once upon a time, when he had his birthday before last and was still living in the city before moving to Krasnogurbinsk, he and his guests somehow accidentally noticed that all his toys were alive. They then accidentally got scared of them, but his father then calmed them down and told them that he and his mother had also once seen something similar. Plus after that, a couple of days later, Sonic, Shadow and Silver disappeared. Fortunately, their beloved neighbors, the Omarovs, then miraculously found them at home and returned them to them. And last year, in the winter, when they were flying to Japan, and their house was almost robbed by bandits with a corrupt policeman, the latter, like crazy, insisted that some kind of ghost or brownie allegedly lived in their house, who was trying to protect their house. And besides, Stephanie still took Tails and Knuckles with her from his house. But is it a little strange? Why did she only take them? After all, she could also take Sonic with his hand torn off, in order to please him a little, so to speak. Although he deliberately did not take it with him, since the hand could fall off sooner or later. It feels like Stephanie knows something about toys and is hiding it from everyone, including him.
Only now, Drayton, looking silently at the ceiling and not making a sound so as not to wake anyone, began to think about all these facts and wondered, what if it was true, about what his dad and mom told him? Do toys really come to life when they are not looking at them or are sleeping? In any case, he decided to go to sleep and think about it further tomorrow.
He was already asleep, and then Tails and Knuckles came to life and started whispering.
— Thank God, I thought he wouldn’t fall asleep. — said the echidna. — It’s great, by the way, you came up with this with a scarecrow and a scary voice.
— Yes, and you can also say those products. Are we still a good team?
— Well, yes. Maybe. By the way, these new friends of yours... They...
— Yes. Sorry! Didn't introduce you to them. One skeleton is a little tall. His name is Papyrus, and the one who is shorter and a little plump is Sans. The zebra's name is Birch. They said they were based on the game Undertale. — Tails answers. — Okay, we’ll introduce you tomorrow. Now it's time to sleep. — The two-tailed man stretched his arms up and turned on his side, covering himself with a blanket.
— You are right. Good night! — Knuckles said and also turned on his side and also covered himself.