Chapter Ten

Crushing Fury

Later as Amy and Sonic were laying on the bed together in each other's arms, Sonic was startled by his mobile phone ringing, he leaned across to his jeans that lay crumpled on the floor and fished his phone out of the pocket.

"Sonic Hedgehog here!" he said "Shadow?" he said shocked "what! What's going on?" Amy sat up immediately "what is it Sonikku?" she asked, "It's Shadow!" said Sonic "we have to get to Blaze's apartment now!" said Sonic, he quickly pulled on his clothes, Amy did the same, when she was dressed, she grabbed the photos that were on her desk.

Amy closed her eyes, "oh god no!" she thought, Sonic grabbed her hand, "come on!" he said "let's juice!" Amy nodded "ok" she ran with Sonic to the front door, as soon as they got outside, Sonic turned to her. "Hang on Amy" he said, Amy held onto his shoulders and Sonic revved up his feet and they ran off towards the city.

When they arrived at Blaze's apartment, they could see the fire brigade there and Blaze's house was in flames, Amy then looked terrified "oh shit!" she cried "Blaze!" she ran towards the house and she saw Shadow, Rouge and the others there looking at the fire.

"Where's Blaze?" screamed Amy "where is she?" she then looked towards Silver who was sitting down crying his eyes out with a couple of firemen around him, and Tails was there trying to comfort him. "Oh God no!" cried Amy. She ran over to the head of the brigade and demanded to know where Blaze was.

As she ran over a fireman, a large brown bear grabbed her and pushed her back "stay back miss!" he said "where's Blaze?" Amy screamed "where is she?" the fireman looked at Amy "are you her friend?" he asked "yes!" screamed Amy. The Fireman was just about to answer when a couple of firemen came out carrying a bodybag.

"Sir!" one of them, a leopard, ran over, "we found who was in the house, she never made it out" Amy felt tears roll down her cheeks, "NO!" she cried "Blaze!" she collapsed crying, Sonic instantly ran over to comfort her. Silver looked up from crying, he then saw the bodybag and tried to run over "BLAZE!" he screamed "NO! Please!" the firemen who were near him pulled him back and Tails kept trying to comfort him.

Much later Amy and Sonic went to the Morgue with the police to see how Blaze had died, they were waiting outside the room with the chief of police and the head of the fire department "it looks like she was still in the house when the fire started" said the Chief of the fire department.

The Chief of Police looked at him, Amy and Sonic looked up at the door again wondering if the guy was going to come out and give them a report. Amy then picked up the pictures she had brought so she could find Blaze's picture. Just as she was about to sort through them, the door opened at a grey rat appeared in a green uniform.

"I had a look at Miss Blaze's body" he said "she was so badly burnt it was difficult to identify how she had died, but we had a look and it seems she broke her neck and skull which killed her before the fire consumed her" Amy placed her hand over her mouth in sickness and sadness. Sonic shook his head and bowed his head sadly.

After a while, Amy and Sonic walked back to Amy's house, as they did Amy finally found Blaze's picture, it showed Blaze watching a fire-eater near a stall, and also there was something else in the picture, like some sort of red and orange light that was covering half of her body. "What's there?" asked Sonic, pointing at the strange light on the picture.

Amy lifted up the picture, "that fire eater looks like he's throwing a flame in Blaze's face" she said "that proves it!" said Sonic "remember what the guy said?" Amy looked at Sonic. "Blaze had died by head trauma and broken neck before the flat burned, so somehow" he paused "I have a hunch, that she was trying to light the stove and the gas flame exploded in her face making her fall backwards!"

Amy looked at the picture, "oh God Sonic!" she cried "I think you're right" she looked at the picture more closely and she could see the flames looking like they were aiming at Blaze's face. Then Amy had a vision, seeing Blaze all charred up after being consumed in her fiery apartment.

"Amy…" said Sonic suddenly with worry, "if Blaze was next in line, she was sitting behind Knuckles and….." "That means that Silver must have been sitting next to her!" said Sonic. Amy looked at him with fear, "then Silver's next in line!" she cried. She then began to look for Silver's photo.

She then found it, it showed Silver coming off a ride and behind him was a large modal of a bear holding a large axe above his head, "Sonic" she said pulling him towards her, Sonic looked over her shoulder at the photograph of Silver. "Look that that!" she pointed at the axe that was above Silver.

"Shit!" said Sonic, "that axe there, it looks like it coming down on his neck" Amy studied the picture, "do you think he may be decapitated?" she asked, "I don't know" said Sonic, he took the picture from Amy so he could look at it more closely. "Wait!" said Amy, she pointed at something else in the picture, it was an old grey fox magician performing a levitation trick with his female brown wren assistant and even though he was levitating the girl he also looked like he was levitating the axe.

"Oh my god!" cried Amy, she then realised what the clue could be, "Come on Amy" said Sonic "we have to get to Silver's and warn him about it!" Amy looked unsure, "come on Amy!" said Sonic "it's the only way we may be able to save him and maybe the other survivors!" Amy looked up and him and then nodded.

When they got to Silver's apartment, Silver was sitting in his living room mourning over the death of Blaze. He was sitting on his sofa holding a picture of Blaze in his hand, every so often he would stare at it and tears rolled down his cheeks.

After a while he stood up and began to walk outside into his garden, he had bought a magnolia tree so he could plant it in his garden and mark a spot for Blaze. When he did, he saw the chopping log near the door along with the axe he used for chopping wood of the fire.

He then saw the Magnolia tree and began to take it to the bottom of the garden so he could plant it, as he did he heard a banging on the gate which made him jump, he turned to see Sonic and Amy standing there "Fuck!" he cried "you scared the shit out of me!"

"We're sorry Silver" said Sonic, "we came to see if you were ok" said Amy opening the gate so they could get in. "ok? I've just lost the woman I love and cared for! How do you think I feel!" he threw down a little spade he was carrying and fell on his knees trying to hold in the stinging tears of sorrow that his heart was begging to scream out.

Sonic ran over to Silver and dropped to his side, and placed his hand on his back, Silver knelt there trying to hold in his tears, he had never felt so heartbroken that the woman he cared about, and she cared for him, the only woman he ever loved was killed in a freak accident.

"Look Silver" said Sonic, "I know you feel distraught right now…." "I'm heavily distraught!" said Silver "do you honestly think I'm going to let this go? Do you!" "Er, no" said Sonic, "Look Silver" said Amy "the reason we came here was to warn you!" "Warn me?" asked Silver looking up surprised at the two hedgehogs.

Amy then showed them his picture, "look, since we got of the roller coaster, those who got of the roller coaster have been dying in freak accidents! Espio, Knuckles and now Blaze!" Silver stared at Sonic and Amy for a long time, "No!" he said "you fuckers are crazy!" he turned to get the magnolia tree he had dropped.

"No!" cried Amy "Silver! We're not doing this as a cruel joke! We're doing this to save you!" "How!" shouted Silver "how can you save me?" "Look!" said Sonic, "when we were positioned on the roller coaster, Espio was behind Charmy and Vector, then Knuckles, then Blaze and you!"

"Bullshit!" shouted Silver, "look even if you guys say it is true! I don't care anymore! I don't give a fucking damn!" as he shouted his levitation powers began to mix with his anger and heartbroken emotions and began to get stronger and stronger, and then the log that the axe was leaning against lifted up and the axe fell on some logs causing a seesaw.

Silver got angrier and angrier and he didn't see what his powers were doing as he was so busy getting so angry. "You fuckers are crazy!" Amy then saw the log shiver a bit, then it dropped, then the axe flew into the air and towards Silver. As it did the axe then sliced through Silver's neck beheading him.

As the axe decapitated him Amy and Sonic screamed, and Sonic fell backwards to the grass in shock, Silver's head fell from his shoulder and rolled on the grass, then rolled between Sonic's legs, as it did, the eyelids and lips still continued to move. Sonic almost fainted from the shock, whilst Amy just watched with sickened and shocked tears as Silver's headless body collapsed on the grass and began to leak blood from the neck.