"It is gone," Marcellus stated, "We wrong it with our show of violence towards it. Zen again, it is not like we could 'ave 'urt 'im, any more zan we can 'urt ze air we breathe. 'Owever, it was still a stupid, wicked and futile idea."
With a slightly deflated tone, Barnardo added, "It was about to speak too, had the cock not crowed."
"And then," Horatio chimed in, "it acted startled, as if it were a criminal, caught by the law. It has been said that the crow of a cock awakens the god of day, what with that trumpet-like call, and it scares all wandering ghosts near or far into scurrying back to their hiding places. We have just seen proof that it is true."
"Zey also say zat just before Christmas," continued Marcellus, "zey crow all night long, so zat ze night our Sauveur was born, no spirits dare stir, no planets strike, nor fairies cast spells, or witches able to charm. So 'allowed and gracious is za night."
"Yes gentlemen, I've heard of the same thing and believe it in part," Horatio interjected, "but it is not the Even of Christmas. It is but a normal day; look! The sun claws its way above those hills in the east, giving the sky around it a crimson bath. For now, let us leave this watch, and impart what we have witnessed tonight unto young Hamlet. He might have more fortune in trying to get the ghost to speak, should we find that the ghost can in fact speak. Do you not agree that the least we could do is tell him, if not to coerce the apparition to speak, then to do it out of our duty to him and love for him?"
"We shall do it. I know where we shall find 'im zis lovely morning," Marcellus said, emphasizing the adverb in a display of sarcasm.
A/N: I guess I should put a disclaimer here so I don't get shot at or kidnapped by The Copyright SWAT team or something. I own not a single cell of any of the Sonic characters used in this story, SEGA and/or Archie Comics do. Also, the story of Hamlet is not owned by me either, although no one really knows who owns it and therefore can take credit for being the original author because Shakespeare's scripts of it are but his own stage adaptation of an ancient story/stories whose origins and credibility are still being debated today.
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