Chapter 4: That liquid... blood?

Author note: Oh my gosh, VAMPIRES!

Daphne screamed, "OH MY GOD! Louis! Lock up the shop, say we're closed, do not let anyone in! We'll stay like this until the vampires are exterminated!" Then she shuddered, "Nasty creatures." But Zero didn't share her feelings.

"Why do you call them creatures?" "Because they suck your blood, they're not natural." Then Zero decided to come clean with all of them, at least, the ones who didn't know. "I'm not natural, I escaped from Loriel's, I am known with them as Project:001." Daphne stared, but Shadow was the first to speak, "Those idiots are experimenting with life?" He questioned. Zero nodded, "Yes, I'm the first test that actually survived. There were others, but they hadn't been awakened yet, they all had these long tails, with a triangle like shape at the end, and all their tails were red. And they all had fangs."

Shadow smirked, revealing his, "I think then, Daphne, that these vampires are experiments from Loriel's, you, come with me." Said Shadow suddenly, pointing to Zero. "Me?" "Yes you." "What are you two capable of doing?" Asked Lilly. Shadow smirked again, "A lot."

Zero looked at Shadow curiously. "Shadow?" "Yeah?" Shadow asked, sounding distracted. "Why did you choose me to come along with you instead of someone else?" Shadow came to an abrupt halt. Zero almost bumped into him, "You want to know why?" Zero nodded, Shadow had turned around, "Let's go see my friend G-force." "G-force? What kind of a name is that?" "What kind of a name is Zero?"

G-force turned out to be a pink hedgecat, she had bright red hair with most of it falling down over her left orange eye, her other one was neon green, she had a piece of metal twisted around her right ear, the end was melted back into the circle at the top, and the end near her head... you couldn't tell, it disappeared into her hair. She had a deep magenta headband on, red lipstick the color of blood, a white muzzle, a dress with a black part for the top (there were really short black sleeves too) and then the lower part which ended just a few inches above her knees was the same deep magenta color her headband was. Besides that she had black fingerless gloves and bright pink boots that were white near the back and had black soles.

"Hi, I'm G-force, you can call me G for short." Said G when Shadow introduced her to Zero. "H...Hi. I'm Zero." Said Zero, immediately intoxicated by her. Shadow chuckled, "G, would you see if there are any leads on were the vampires might be?" G smiled, "Just a sec Shady." She said, the metal glowed, "Wha...?" Asked Zero, "She can receive transmissions from anything with that ear of hers, radio, TV, cell phones, home phones, anything, just name it." "Short-wave radios?" Asked Zero. Shadow nodded, "She's like some kind of communication device. She can broadcast into whatever channel she chooses."

"Vampire sighting on Prower avenue." Shadow rolled his eyes, "Why they had to name streets after us I'll never know." "Who's 'us'?" Asked Zero. "Sonic, me, Knuckles, Amy, Tails, Silver, Blaze, Cream, the Chaotix..." "All of us who help take a back seat, we MIGHT have something named after us, depends on how much we helped, but we never get PLACES named after us." Said G-force, then she smiled, "I would like to have a clothing shop named after me." Zero smiled, I'll see if I can do that, because it's for YOU. Thought Zero.

"But isn't it too dangerous for her to come?" Asked Zero, G-force was with them to find the vampires. "You need me to check for vampire sightings." She pointed out. Zero sighed, then Shadow stopped and turned to Zero. "What kinds of powers do you have?" He asked suddenly, Zero became nervous, "I..um...well..." "Come on you have to have SOMETHING if you're going to help us fight vampires." Zero hung his head, expecting a rejection, "I... can shape-shift, in my real form I look like an oval." "What's your real color?" Asked Shadow curiously. "I'm see through, not a real color to my name." He said, looking even more dejected.

"Well I for one believe in you." Said Spazzy. Drummer jumped down from the roof of one of the buildings, landing beside Spazzy, "I second that, you're a sport and nothing will change that... well... maybe Gloria will..." Said Drummer smiling teasingly at his sister who ignored him, "If you're going vampire hunting we're going too." She said, "It wouldn't be nice if you left me out." Said Daphne appearing with Louis and Sonic. "Don't forget me!" Said Lilly making an appearance. Zero gave a bewildered grin.

Shadow smiled, "Not everyone has problems with that sort of thing Zero." He said. Zero looked up, "Once Shadow was just a villain to everyone, a zero, but now... he's a hero, he's saved the world with spectacular me quite a few times." Said Sonic, putting on a fake generous look. "Yeah right, I've saved the world without you sometimes too." Said Shadow crossing his arms. Suddenly they heard a scream and a squirrel ran past them, "THEY'VE GOT THE GUITAR CHAOS KING!" She screamed as she ran past them, Sonic's eyes widened, "No way! Not Dave Riskrack!" "Dave Riskrack?" Asked Shadow, Zero was happy to not be the only one who didn't understand what was going on. "He's the latest big name in the music industry, I'm surprised you don't know of him Shadow, he's one of your biggest fans. The one who's convinced most of the public you aren't evil." Shadow raised an eyebrow. "Really."

"Well let's go help!" Said Zero, morphing into a dragon, a thin, very good looking dragon, "You don't neglect your looks do you?" Asked G-force. Zero blushed, "Can we get going already?" He turned around and took flight.

Something pounced on him from an alley, "ZERO!" Yelled Gloria. The two tumbled from the air and hit the street, "SPIRIT CONTAINMENT!" Said Zero, his voice sounded like the thunder coming from the storm clouds that had suddenly appeared. But Zero's eyes were also completely white, no pupils anywhere. He had fangs too, long, wicked things. The vampire wiped it's fangs, "I don't understand... why aren't you a vampire?" "Project: 004, did you really think you - a lowly vampire - could beat one of my power? The first one created? You are weaker than me, if you and the other projects were to ambush me you might stand a chance, but alone you are nothing. Where did you leave your last victim?"

Project:004 laughed, "He has my mark on him, a skull cut into their chest, made noticeable by the blood gushing from the wound. If you weren't immune I'd be carving it into you at the moment." Gloria skidded to a stop, falling because while skidding she slipped in some blood, Zero whipped around, "Gloria!" Project:004 ran off. "This liquid made me... wait..." "It's blood." Said Lilly in a horrified whisper. They followed it into an alley, a grey hedgehog with spikes just like Shadow's lay on the ground, eyes closed, new fangs creeping out from his mouth.

Shadow picked him up, "We'll have to take him somewhere." "How about your mansion Shadow?" Said G-force. "You have a MANSION?!" Sonic exclaimed, "I only got it yesterday, I'm assuming you heard me call Rouge to tell her?" G-force nodded. "Can you stay out of my phone conversations please?" He asked, G-force sighed, "At the moment sure, there aren't any for me to intrude."

Author note: Sorry that took such a long time! Hope you liked it... Oh yeah... READ AND REVIEW!!