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Shadow was leaning against the wall with his arms folded, a scowl on his face. As soon as he heard about Charmy's disappearance, he had let out a heavy sigh and walked away from the group without another word.

The rest of us huddled around in a circle, trying to figure out the next course of action.

"We should split up into teams and go looking for Charmy," Amy suggested in a clear confident voice, a smirk on her face.

I snorted and the smirk fell off her face as quickly as if somebody flipped a switch.

"What?" she asked in an irate voice. "Do you find something funny Ms. Crazy B…MMMM" Sonic quickly covered her mouth with his hand.

"Don't start that again!" he hissed. "Do you want to have to search for two missing people?"

Amy glared daggers at the blue hedgehog before crossing her arms and pouting. "Well I just don't see what's so funny about my idea," she mumbled.

I smirked at her. 'Splitting up, yeah, because that worked so well the last time you guys did it.' I laughed. 'You guys got lost so fast, it's embarrassing.'

Tails looked hurt by this statement. "Well we're not from this area. I'm sure that if you came with us, we could find Charmy in no time at all." He looked at me with big hopeful eyes.

I rubbed my chin thoughtfully. 'Well I am a Hufflepuff,' I said in a thoughtful voice. 'They are particularly good finders.'

Everyone else looked at each other confused.

"What the hell is Hufflepuff?" Knuckles asked incredulously, confusion written across his features.

Rouge shrugged. "I don't know, but it might be best to just humor the kid. She seems to freak out a lot when we question her weirdness."

Knuckles looked at the bat thoughtfully. "You`re right Rouge." Then he smirked. "You know I think this must be the first time that you're actually right about something."

Rouge glared at the red echidna for only a moment before bopping him on the head.

"You`ve got a lot of nerve Red-boy," she growled.

The hot tempered echidna raised his fists at her as if he was going to hit her back, but decided against it with a regretful sigh. He didn`t want another lecture about not beating ladies.

Espio hadn't said a word the entire meeting. He was sitting cross-legged on the floor, deep in thought.

Finally he sighed. "I can't help but feel that this is partly my fault somehow," he said sadly, uncrossing his legs and putting his head in his hands.

He was met with glares all around.

"This is your entire fault!" Sonic snapped. "You lost Charmy when we were trying to find the auth… I mean Glittering Wolf." He cast a quick glance in my direction.

I smiled at him encouragingly and mouthed the words 'thank you.'

Sonic gave a small nod and Knuckles took up the rest of the conversation. "You were supposed to keep an eye on him! Major ninja fail!"

Espio glared at the entire group. "My ninja skills include acuminating and espionage. Nowhere in my ninja training was there a class on babysitting annoying bee children."

'I'm back!' I said in a singsong voice, completely interrupting the flow of their conversation.

They all jumped and looked back at me in surprise.

"She left?" Tails whispered confused.

"Wow! She's better at sneaking around than Espio!" Sonic whispered back amazed, causing the purple chamaleon to to throw a ninja star in his direction.

'I know we have this little "Charmy has gone missing problem", but don't worry. I found a solution!'

Everyone looked at me expectantly. "You found Charmy?" Amy asked, doubt on her face.

I looked at her for a moment before responding. 'I said I found a solution, not Charmy.'

Amy rolled her eyes. "What's the solution?" she asked in an annoyed tone.

I smiled at her. 'We'll just replace him! I already found the perfect candidate.'

Everybody looked skeptical, but wisely decided to see how the whole situation played out.

"Who'd you get?" Rouge asked curiously, a wary look in her eyes.

'Oh trust me this'll work out great!' I walked over to the door and stood in the doorway. 'Come on sweetie. I promise that it won't go like last time. There will be no yelling or anything. Trust me,' I said in a voice that was sweet and gentle.

Shaking slightly, Cream stepped into the room and waved nervously at the others.

"You brought Cream here to replace Charmy?" Espio asked incredulously. "She's a girl!"

'Congratulations! You've learned what girls are.' I commented dryly. "They're like six! You really can't tell the difference at that age. I'm sure Cream will do a lovely job as the seventh dwarf.'

Everyone looked skeptical and Cream looked a little afraid.

I sighed and put an arm around her, causing the poor little rabbit to flinch slightly. 'Seriously sweetie, I'm not gonna yell at you again. I've changed a lot since you last saw me. Psychological meltdowns do that to you. I swear that nothing is
gonna happen okay?'

Cream gave a quick nod of her head and attempted a small smile.

"I'm really happy to be a part of this production Ms. Glittering Wolf. I hope that I do a good job," she said timidly.

The others gave her reassuring smiles, and nodded their heads. None of them seemed to be able to form words.

Cream walked slowly to the stage in order to begin her performance with the others when Vector came barging in.

Everyone looked at each other again.

"When did Vector leave?" Knuckles asked exasperated. They were missing everything today.

Vector had a rather proud look on his face as he proclaimed, "Yeah! I'm two for two!" he said pumping his fist in the air.

I gave him an annoyed look. 'You shouldn't leave without telling people first Vector. It's impolite.'

Shadow looked at me and spoke for the first time this chapter. "Didn't you do the exact same thing?" he asked in a bored tone.

I glared at him. 'Shhhh! Nobody asked you!' I turned my attention back to Vector. 'What do you mean two for two?'

With a smile he reached behind him and pulled out Charmy.

My expression brightened, and I quickly shoved Cream off the stage. 'Your services will no longer be needed. Please get lost.'

Cream once again ran crying out of the room.

Everyone glared at me once again, but said nothing.

They turned to Vector.

"Where did you find him Vector?" Espio asked amazed. "You've never been this good at finding things before."

"Yeah!" said Rouge. "You sure you didn't just kidnap him yourself so you could look like a great detective by 'finding' him?"

Vector glared. "I don't really know how I found him. Maybe the author was sick of this chapter and didn't really know how to end it."

He looked at me for confirmation and I just turned lightish red.

'Since we've found Mutey, we can continue on with the production. Let's try to lose anyone else now though. Okay guys.'
I turned to them and did a quick head count.

'Espio, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Vector, Charmy, Rouge…' I trailed off. 'Where the hell is Shadow?' I asked annoyed.

Everyone looked around the room.

"Oh no! Not again!" they moaned.

"What again?" a voice asked from behind them.

They all turned and stared gratefully at Shadow.

"What?" he asked. "I had to go to the bathroom."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

No more searching chapters!