Chapter 2- Worst Case Scenario

Shadow awoke the next morning with a yawn. If another person had been 'mysteriously killed' then Station Square was in big trouble. He pulled his shoes on and grabbed the keys to the apartment; he didn't want to have to deal with the koala at the front desk again. He opened the door, jogged down the stairs and slammed the last door behind him. He knew he could have just sat at home and watched the news to check his theory but he thought it best to find out himself, and he needed to check for bite marks.

A few hours of silent walking later Shadow had begun to believe that it was only a one off occurrence until he'd walked to Cream the rabbit's house. To his dismay the house was surrounded by yellow and black police tape as well as a large crowd. Shadow didn't want to have to face one overly emotional person let alone a whole crowd but he had to talk to someone find out what was going on.

He wandered up to the house to have a weeping hedgehog hug him and use his shoulder as a tissue. Shadow was not happy about this in the least, he hated people touching him let alone crying on him. He groaned and attempted to push the blue hedgehog off but he wouldn't budge. He looked over to the rest of the crowd, almost everyone he knew was there, and in fact there was only one face he didn't recognise.

Shadow finally pried at sobbing Sonic from him and decided to investigate this new face. She was a purple cat with her hair pulled up into a ponytail and a red stone set in her forehead. She turned to look at him with her sad yellow eyes he stared back, nether of them wanting to look away.

"What are you looking at Blaze?" asked a familiar voice. After a few seconds of scanning his memory Shadow recognised it as belonging to Silver the Hedgehog. So this was the Blaze that Silver was always going on about. She really didn't look like the kind of person that would be friends with the white hedgehog, but as he knew looks can be deceiving.

"Nothing" Shadow picked this moment to approach them, they didn't seem too emotionally unstable.

"So what happened here?" He asked coldly

"Cream, Vanilla and Cheese were all killed, they have puncture marks on their necks and their blood was drained which is the probable cause of death," replied Blaze just as coldly as Shadow had asked. Behind her Silver sniffed before faking a smile in his direction.

"Hi Shadow," he mumbled weakly from behind the purple feline.

"Hello Sliver, who's your friend?" he replied monotonously.

"Princess Blaze the Cat of the Sol Emeralds" Said Blaze in a very practiced manner.

"Shadow the Hedgehog and Ultimate Life form" he said not wanting to seam less important then her. Shadow stuck his hand out for Blaze to shake but she just looked from his hand to his face and back again. "You going to shake my hand or not?"

"That wouldn't be a good idea" she muttered.

"Come on," he said grabbing her hand. He immediately pulled away waving his more then slightly singed hand trying to cool it down. "What the hell was that?!" he screamed at the cat.

"I told you not to!" Responded Blaze.

"How was I supposed to know that you were super heated?!"

"Perhaps the 'Ultimate Life Form' should be more careful!"

"Very funny Princess freak!"

"Shut up emohog!"

"Emo, that's rich coming from the pyromaniac!" Shadow had only guessed at that last comment working but it had definitely struck a nerve. Blaze stepped towards him, massive amounts of heat radiating from the cat. Over her shoulder he could see Silver signalling for him to stop. Many of the mobians present were already gathering around them, no way Shadow would back down in front of them. He took a step forwards. Now the heat was unbearable, he was sure his fur would catch fire any moment. Blaze looked shocked at him approaching but quickly returned her face to a blank mask.

"Stop it you two!" yelled a young voice as the two turned they saw it belonged to Tails the Fox, "Cream is dead and you two are fighting over something this stupid?!" He yelled tears streaming down his face "I hate you both!" he screamed and ran.

Silver the Hedgehog was back at the house that he and Blaze shared. Blaze had to go off somewhere to be alone so she didn't kill anybody after her run in with Shadow. Silver was sitting on the cheap couch, one of the only pieces of furniture in the room that was not burned beyond recognition from when Blaze heard that Cream was dead. Silver rubbed his sore eyes, he'd been crying a lot even though he didn't know Cream very well. He just wished that Blaze could let her emotions out more.