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(The next morning)

Rouge's body was covered by a white sheet in the bathroom, Shadow was investigating the body, Tails, Sticks and Amy were in their rooms, while Sonic and Knuckles were in the kitchen trying to find what happened the night before.

"I-I'm lost." Knuckles said.

"What for?" Sonic asked.

"Like...How did Rouge die?" Knuckles asked.

"I don't know, she was just sick and then out of nowhere she died." Sonic replied.

(Meanwhile with Shadow)

He was still investigating Rouge's body when Tails came up behind him.

"Shadow?"

Shadow turned and saw Tails, hands clamped together in front of his chest, he was also shaking a little.

"What is it?" Shadow asked.

"H-h-how did Rouge die?" Tails asked.

"Hmm, from what I could find, there were no marks on her body, no stabs, no bruises...nothing, so my guess is that she was poisoned, though I don't know how or why it happened." Shadow explained. "It seems like we have a murder case on our hands."

"Murder?" Tails asked.

"Yes, why would Rouge poison herself? Why would Rouge plan to do this to herself?" Shadow smirked. "Get the others in the lobby, now."

Tails nodded and left to get the others.

(Later)

Everyone was in the lobby by the stairs, Sonic was leaning on the banister on the left, Amy was sitting down on the second step, Tails and Knuckles both sat on the fifth step and Sticks was sitting on the bottom step on the right, while Shadow walks around.

"So why are we here again?" Sonic asked.

Shadow stopped in the middle of the room. "We are here to talk about what happened last night."

"Ok, is this some sort of interrogation?" Knuckles asked.

"Yes, from what I found, Rouge was killed." Shadow said.

"Killed?" Sticks repeated.

"By who?" Amy asked.

"I don't know, but I know one thing...we may get a lead right here, right now." Shadow said.

"And what is that?" Tails asked.

"Ok, everyone, do what you were doing before dinner." Shadow commanded, but no one moved. "NOW!"

The others jumped and quickly ran off, Sonic, Tails, Sticks, and Knuckles ran up to their rooms while Amy ran off into the kitchen.

Shadow was now by himself in the lobby. "Much better, now where to go first?"

Shadow decided to head to the kitchen first and confronted Amy.

"You here first?" Amy asked.

"Yes, well it was obvious where I was going first." Shadow said.

"Let me guess, I'm the main suspect cause I was in here with Rouge?" Amy guessed.

"Possibly, what's this?" Shadow noticed a small patch of white powder on the counter in the middle.

"I don't know." Amy replied.

They both went towards the substance but they didn't get too close.

"I have no idea what that is." Amy said.

"Did you find something cooking dinner the previous night?" Shadow asked.

"Well, we found rat poison under the sink." Amy replied.

Shadow went over to the cupboard under the sink and opened it, inside was cleaning liquids/utensils and the rat poison with the lid slightly opened.

"Do you have any reason to dislike Rouge?" Shadow asked, picking up the rat poison and closes the lid.

"No! Why would I?!" Amy shouted.

"Well." Shadow stood up. "Until I get more evidence, you are the main suspect, for now." Shadow took out a pair of handcuffs and attached them to Amy's wrists.

"Fair enough." Amy acted like she didn't even care.

"Come with me." Shadow left the room and Amy followed quickly behind.

They went into the lobby where everyone had already left.

"Where is everyone?" Amy asked.

"In their rooms." Shadow responded.

"Ok..." Amy said getting a little nervous.

Suddenly Sonic appeared above them scaring them.

"Hello!"

"Woah!" The both of them jumped back as Amy clutched her chest, while Shadow shouted.

"Don't do that when we have a MURDERER ABOUT!" Shadow shouted angrily.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down. It's just a joke!" Sonic attempted to calm Shadow down.

Shadow took a deep breath and calmed down. "Ok, well don't do that again!"

"Ok! Ok!" Sonic said.

"Good...now." Shadow said.

Shadow took Amy and cuffed her to a banister, with one hand free.

"You will stay here until further notice." Shadow said, going upstairs, leaving Sonic and Amy by themselves.

"So what now?" Sonic asked.

"Well, I'm handcuffed to the stairs, so I won't be going anywhere." Amy pointed out.

"Who do you think is the killer?" Sonic asked.

"There are a lot of possibilities, Chuck, Sticks, me, you, everyone is a suspect." Amy said.

"Actually, just to make sure." Sonic walked over to the phone that was beside the staircase and attempted to call Chuck.

Sonic picked up the phone and pressed the numbers, but nothing happened.

"I can't call Chuck." Sonic said, then he noticed the cable snapped.

"How come?" Amy asked.

"Someone snapped the cable." Sonic responded holding the snapped cable, with wires sticking out.

"Great, so we're stuck here?" Amy asked.

"Most likely."

Amy looked up and saw Tails leaning over her.

"What are you doing here?" Amy asked.

"I'm trying to find Knuckles and Sticks, have you seen them?" Tails asked.

"Nope." Amy replied.

"Me neither." Sonic said coming back into view.

Amy was starting to get uncomfortable due to the handcuffs.

"This is really starting to bug me." Amy said.

"Who did this?" Tails asked.

"Shadow, he suspects that I'm the killer because of the fact that I was in the kitchen last before last night's dinner." Amy explained.

"I can get you out." Tails said.

Tails pulled out a small device that looked like it had four legs on each corner and a small laser on the bottom.

"What is that?" Sonic asked.

"I call it a 'Heat Spider' there probably is a better name for it, so Heat Spider it is." Tails placed the device on the chain holding Amy on the banister.

A small orange laser came out of the device and eventually it cut the chain, freeing Amy.

"Thanks, if you would like it, I can help you find Knuckles and Sticks." Amy said.

"I'll come with, I need to get a better layout of the house." Sonic said. "Haven't been here since a was a kid, bout' 3 years old I believe."

"Let's go then." Tails said as he picked up the device, which now had a glowing green on it.

Tails looked at the device again to see that the lights were now off. "What? It just turned off."

Suddenly thunder crashed with a loud noise outside the house.

The trio jumped at the sound.

Then they heard a door opening and closing at the same time consecutively, it came from the hall on the left.

"What...is...that?" Sonic asked.

"Someone is there."Tails said as he went towards the hall.

"Wait!" Sonic and Amy said at the same time.

"Don't go alone." Sonic said as he and Amy followed Tails to the hall.

Eventually, they got to a corner and saw a door, which was

swinging open and then it closed itself due to the open window, with the curtains flying everywhere.

"Close the window!" Amy shouted.

Sonic and Tails closed the window which stopped the door moving and the curtains went back to normal.

"Now what?" Tails asked.

Suddenly a figure in black, holding a knife rushed the trio but got knocked down when Sonic gave a hard punch to the figure in the face, knocking the figure unconscious.

"Where did he come from?!" Amy shouted.

"Remember, might not be a guy." Tails said as he crouched down.

"What are you doing?" Sonic asked moving back towards Amy.

Tails slowly reached for the mask, he felt goose bumps crawling all over his body, teeth clattering together as his body shakes in fear.

He removed the mask, but it was the head of a mannequin.

The three heard breathing from somewhere around them.

Tails stood up and looked at the others.

Suddenly a figure jumped down behind Tails and held him hostage.

"Ah! Let me go!" Tails struggled to get out the strangers grip, nut stopped when the stranger held a knife to his throat.

"Don't move one inch." the stranger said in a deep, dark, cold voice, that wasn't familiar.

"Leave him alone!" Sonic shouted.

The stranger held the knife closer to Tails' neck, with the tip of the edge touching his neck.

"Don't do this." Amy said summoning her piko hammer.

"Who says I should?" The stranger said.

The stranger quickly stabbed the knife into the side of Tails' throat and blood began to spurt out landing on the others.

"NO!" Sonic shouted and tackled the stranger down as Amy held Tails, trying to stop the bleeding.

Sonic punched the stranger in the face multiple times in the face before the stranger stabbed Sonic in the side causing him to let go and therefore the stranger ran off.

Shadow quickly came into view as Sonic was on the ground in pain, Amy was crying while holding Tails' lifeless body.

"What the hell happened?" Shadow asked in an angry state.

Sonic and Amy couldn't say anything as Sticks and Knuckles came back into view and saw the disaster of what had happened.

Status:

Sonic: Alive, but wounded.

Amy: Alive

Shadow: Alive

Tails: Dead, the cause of death: stabbed in the neck (Chapter 2)

Rouge: Dead, the cause of death: Poisoned (Chapter 1)

Sticks: Alive

Knuckles: Alive