Disclaimer:  Sorry, don't own a thing.  I don't even own the general idea of this fic.  Not anymore.  The characters in this chapter are all properties of SEGA and Sonic Team. 

Chapter 3

My name is Amy Rose, a cute and cheerful girl.  At least, I once was.  I just found out that Sonic is missing.  He can't be dead though.  I need some time to think this out. It is just so confusing.  Where could Sonic be?

This is absurd.  How can Sonic be gone?  But…  Shadow is right.  Maybe Sonic isn't dead just… just…  Oh, I don't know!  I may follow him around a lot but that doesn't mean I know where he is every other time!

I continued walking around Station Square a little trying to clear my thoughts.

I was about to turn when I heard a soft whirring.  I recognized the sound.  I immediately quickened my pace.  Please don't be him.  Please don't be him.  Please, please, please don't be him.

I broke into a run, as the hovering sound got closer.  Where could the others be?  Maybe they're at the Café? Might as well go there to check.  The humming got closer and I really didn't want to turn around and see who or what it was so I quickened my pace some more.  I have a very good guess what it/he might be.  So I just continued running towards the Café.  I may be fast but he is faster.  In fact, he's just a little bit faster than Shadow and So- I have got to stop that train of thought.  I could still hear the humming over the sounds of my boots pounding against the ground.

If he is faster than Sonic then maybe…  No, never, I have really got tot stop that train of thought.  I wanted a short brisk walk not a race!

I'm panting right now but I realized there was something wrong.  Why wasn't that creation picking up the pace?  It knows that I'm slower than him then why doesn't he hurry up?  I mean, not that I want him to catch up to me but why isn't he trying?!  Oh this is just too confusing!

I didn't stop, both mentally and physically.  The thoughts of the recent news that Sonic may be gone was still running through my head, again and again the half-formed thoughts of what might've happened to him repeat themselves.  That and the running were really bringing me to my nerves.

The only thing I can hope for now was that I could reach the Café soon…

~Nightvixen~