Chapter 2

New Friends

VANILLA, CREAM, CHEESE

Queen Vanilla called for her daughter, Cream, to come have lunch. The excited rabbit raced over, her blue and yellow Chao friend trailing behind.

"So Mommy, I really can go?"

"Of course dear! But you and Cosmo must take another person with you."

"Alright mommy! I will invite Magic!" Cream yelled.

"Cream, that's fine. I will have Jackson escort you, Cheese, and Cosmo to the Witch Kingdom. I'm very surprised you didn't invite Amy."

"Well, mommy, Amy, Night, Blaze, and Rouge are having a big-girl sleepover at Blaze's palace." Cream explained. Cheese gave a hearty "Chao, Chao!" Behind her.

Vanilla smiled. "Alright. You and Cheese must be back before the start of Sundown, alright? Then maybe you and some other girls can have a sleepover!"

"Oh, really mommy? Thank you!" Cream hugged her and left.

AMY, BLAZE

"NOOO!" Amy was racing around Blaze's palace. "I LOST IT!" She was looking for her Chaos emerald. Blaze ran up to her.

"I will have the guards look for it, OK?" Blaze told her.

"But what if its not here!" Amy cried. "Oh, no!"

TIKAL

Tikal was walking to Chao Garden, where all the Chao came and played. Suddenly, she heard voices, and hid behind a bush.

"Those rotten folk! Witches, vampires, and Demons! The only decent ones are the Elementals, Healers, and faries!" A large brown coyote was talking to a dark yellow lioness.

"I don't mind the Demons, but the Werepeople are getting on my nerves!" She growled.

"My friend Alek, was attacked by a vampire!" The man snarled.

"Calm the fuck down, Sheath! Hawk did you good when he killed the eldest prince vampire!" The lioness snapped.

" Mika, he let the silver vampire get away!"

"Well the little one went into Were-people territory."

"Stop bickering you two!" A dark red cat and a brown hedgehog store into the clearing.

"The only enimes of us there are Vampires, Witches, Werepeople, Demons, and the Elementals!" The hedgehog girl told them.

"Aubrey, I don't think we are enimes of the Elementals." Mika reminded her.

"The Earth Kingdom is responsible for earthquakes, Fire causes eruptions, Ice is hurricanes and such! The only Elemental that we like is Wind!" The cat snapped.

"Blade..-" Mika began but was shove by Sheath.

" We need a group! We are the Dark Slayers!" Blade hissed.

Tikal covered her mouth in horror and backed up as a huge black tiger and a pink falcon brought in a tied up yellow cat. Tikal recognized her as Mala, one of the Healers. Tikal ran away, as fast as she could to the Chao Garden. What was going on?

SHADOW, MANIC, SONIC

Shadow, Sonic, and Manic were walking through the forest. It was so quiet.

"Amy's super annoying!" Sonic complained.

"Sonic, bro, she's awesome and super nice. You just are mean to her!" Manic told him.

"Wait." Shadow spotted something shiny and red on the ground. It looked like a mini chaos emerald! Shadow could believe it, as Chaos Emeralds could grow and shrink on command. "There's a Chaos Emerald in those bushes." Sonic walked over and grabbed it.

"Hey that looks like..." Manic began.

"Amy's Emerald!" Sonic finished. "She must have lost it on her way to Blaze!"

Shadow smirked. "I think Faker is a stalker!" Manic snickered.

"Am not!"

"Then how do you know she is at Blaze's?"

"Because Sonia told me!"

"Whatever!" Manic sighed.

SILVER, GLADE

Silver sat outside, his little brother Glade next to him.

"It's your fault!"

"What?!" Silver turned to see a picture of Xavier in Glade's hand.

"It's your fault he died! You're so scared when he died, you didn't try to save him!"

"I didn't know he would get shot! He told me to run, and I did!" Silver yelled.

"You still could have saved him!"

"He was half-dead when I got to him!"

"So?"

"I couldn't have saved him!"

Glade started crying. "I'm sorry, I'm just mad that he'd died."

"I am too, Glade."

CREAM, CHEESE, COSMO, MAGIC, CHARMY, TAILS

Cream, Cheese, Cosmo, and Magic were walking to the Chao Garden and saw two boys. One was a two-tailed yellow fox and the other was a black and yellow bee.

"Hi." Cream said shyly.

"Oh, hi!" The bee said cheerfully. "Who are you?"

"I'm Cream, and this is my friend Cheese!"

"I'm Cosmo.."

"I'm Magic!"

The fox boy spoke up. "I'm Miles Prower, but everybody calls me Tails."

"And I'm Charmy! Charmy the Bee! How come we don't see you at school?"

"Oh, um, well, we don't live around here." Cream replied.

"Oh, I see. So where do you live?"

"Umm..."