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Hey everyone! Here's another chapter for you! And just for you guys to know, I am going to talk a lot about Sally's pregnancy in this story. I am not married, nor do I have a girlfriend or any kids, so forgive me if I am not one hundred percent correct with all of this stuff.

I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog

I woke to the sound of the royal kitchen staff talking in the other room. Opening my eyes, I sat up and looked down to see my wife, Sally, still soundly sleeping next to me.

It had been five months since we found out that she was pregnant, and ever since then she has been reduced to sitting around and sleeping, and she HATES it. The only thing she likes is all the pickles and ice cream she gets to eat because of her cravings.

After getting up, I fix my ruffled quills and put on my kingly attire, consisting of my shoulder cape and crown. I give Sally a kiss on her forehead and leave our bedroom to see what the kitchen staff was talking about. They were gathered around the television, which was turned on to News 11.

Upon noticing me, they bowed to me, "Good morning, your majesty." One of the maids said, "Did we wake you?"

"It's not that big a deal." I replied, "What's going on?"

She moved out of the way, so I could better see the TV. On the screen was Sasha the cat, the head reporter, at the town park. Behind her were two body bags, blood was all over the place.

"For those of you just tuning in," Sasha began, "There has been a terrible tragedy in New Mobotropolis. Another Couple has been found dead. The boyfriend's head was severed from his body, while the girlfriend's jugular was cut after being stabbed in the stomach. The authorities have also found a message written next to the female victim. Here it is now."

The camera zoomed in on where the female's body was. There, written in blood was a message:

That makes 6. Another will end up like this, unless you step down, your highness'. And a texting-like smiley face was drawn underneath.

In the past few weeks, random couples were being brutally murdered, but there was never any messages or anything. Now apparently, the Killer was targeting people to attract my attention.

The camera went back to Sasha, who continued with her report. "This message has apparently been written to King Sonic and Queen Sally. It is unknown on how they are related to this crime-"

"Hey, guys..." said a sleepy voice from behind me. "What's going on? I heard my name." I turned to see Sally looking at us, her eyes had a few dark circles around them.

"It's nothing!" I interject quickly so she would avoid seeing or hearing the TV. The last thing she needs right now is to see a murder scene with a bloody message written to her. So I begin to direct her to the living room, also signaling the staff to change the TV's channel.

She sat down on the couch and I helped her put her feet up. Another thing she liked was all the attention I was giving her. I don't mind it so much, but I often find myself waking up at three in the morning to get her something. Not even Eggman had me up that early in the morning.

"So, how'd you sleep, Sal?" I asked as one of the staff members handed her a cup of tea.

She looked at me with a pleasant smile, "Oh, just wonderful!" Then her smile darkened, "Except I kept waking up every thirty minutes...and it was a pain in the ass to wake you up." Her expression then went back to happy, "But I know how busy you've been lately so I can't blame you."

I gave her a smile and got up, being around her when she has mood swings is not a good idea. Once I entered the other room, I quickly closed the door and faced the staff. They gave me a look as if they were expecting me to yell at them.

"Call Nicole, Knuckles and Antoine." I order them, "Tell them to meet me at the park."

"What are we going to tell the Queen, Sir?" asked one of the male staff.

"Just tell her I went out for some air."

I left the castle and headed through the gates toward the town park. On the way, several Mobians greeted me. Megan Acorn, the widowed wife of Sally's late brother and former king Elias, was taking a walk with her daughter Alexis and they greeted me. I also saw Rotor and we chatted for a few minutes. He was reduced to a wheelchair after Shadow's betrayal, but he modified it so it is faster and can fly.

After making it to the gate of the town park, I waited for Knuckles, Antoine and Nicole to arrive. Nicole took no longer than a few seconds to arrive, I keep forgetting that she was a part of the city. Knuckles arrived a few minutes later. And Antoine came shortly after that.

"How's it going, blue?" asked Knuckles.

"Good," I reply, "Why don't we go check this thing out?"

We entered the park and headed toward the crime scene, which was swarming with reporters and civilians. Several police officers were keeping them at bay. We pushed our way through the crowd until we reached the officers.

"We would like to enter." I say to one of them.

"I'm sorry, sir." He said, he was eying a reporter trying to get to the crime scene, "But civilians are not permitted on the crime scene."

"I think my credentials speak for themselves, officer." I say to him. He turned his head to see me and almost jumped out of his boots.

"Y-your m-majesty..." He stammered whilst bowing to me, "I-I-I did not know that it was you. P-please, forgive me."

"It's alright. Just let us pass please."

"Yes, sir." He moved out of the way and we crossed under the yellow caution tape to the crime scene.

Once inside, we walked to the site where the message was. A forensics team was just about to clean up the mess when we stopped them. They had managed to pick up little to no evidence at all. We convinced them to give us a few minutes.

Knuckles and Nicole kept me covered as I walked towards the message that was written for me and Sally and began to examine it. We didn't want any cameras spotting me and to have my wife see me out here.

"So zis is why I was called out here?" Asked Antoine, "Sonic, I don't have ze time to watch you exzamin a crime scene. I've been busier than ever since Jacques was born and with our second un ze way..."

"There is no way finger could have written a message this neatly." I say, cutting off Antoine. "It was painted, with most likely a paint brush. Nicole, Search the bushes for any sort of writing instrument."

She began to search the bushes and I walked over to where the boyfriend's body was found. Upon observation, it appears as the killer got the jump on the kid and hacked his head of with several blows. So either the weapon was the definition of dull, or he wasn't that strong.

"Sonic!" exclaimed Nicole as she came out from one of the bushes with an object in her hands. "I've found it!"

She handed me a six inch long artist's paintbrush. The bristles were smeared in blood and it looked as if there was some residue on the handle. I only had one thought on my mind.

"We should get this to Rotor. I saw him about ten minutes ago so he shouldn't be far. He could help us." I say the the group. We left the crime scene and headed for Rotors house, it was the most logical place where he would be.

The killer wanted my attention and now he's got it and he's got another thing coming if he thinks he'll get away with this.

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There's Chapter 2 for ya!

And I'm still working on Sonic School days. I seem to have a serious case of writers block when I come to that one fanfic for some reason.

Any ways, please review and DON'T Flame.