Amy sighed as she flopped down on her bed. She was sharing a room with Flame, Sierra, Serena, and Pacific. She liked company, so she stuck with them. Amy looked down at her clothes. Her day clothes were still on, so she needed to change them. She walked to the closet and opened it. All of her new favorite colored cloths and other gear was already in there. Amy noticed a note attached to the inside of the door of the closet.
I figured that you would like this stuff. If you want, you can go shopping for anything that you need. We'll also replace the wardrobe if you want.
~Krystal
Amy smiled and threw the note into the trash bin. She looked and found a black tank with plaid flannel pants. Amy smiled and pulled off her clothes and replaced them. She sighed and noticed a black case in her closet. She pulled it out and found her laptop.
"No way," Amy muttered and picked it up.
She brought it over to her black and maroon bed and turned it on. It had full battery and Amy logged in. Pacific came out of the bathroom and was wearing similar clothes to Amy. But hers were blue and her flannels were blue that faded to purple at the bottom. Pacific noticed the laptop and jumped on the bed, startling Amy.
"Whatch looking at?" Pacific asked.
"Nothing really. Krystal gave me my old laptop," Amy said.
The background popped up and Sonic was there. Amy looked at the thing. She waited for the internet to load and she looked for a new picture. Setting it to the background, it said "Life is random. So am I." Pacific laughed at it.
"Nice," she commented.
Amy nodded and started to look around.
"You got mail," said the computer as an email popped up.
Well, here is your laptop. I figure that you would like it.
Amy shook her head and chuckled. She turned off the laptop as she started to get sleepy. She muttered something then crawled under the covers. She turned out the lights and fell asleep. She was having the best memories come forward in her dream. She smiled as she fell into a deeper sleep.
Meanwhile, the others were looking for her. Sonic had explained that he wanted to apologize to Amy. Shadow and Silver wanted to beat him to a pulp again, but Tails said that it would get them nowhere. So they split up and looked for Amy. Chaotix went to the west side of the large island and Sonic Heroes went to the East side. Silver, Blaze, Shadow, Vanilla, and Cream searched the north. Rouge and Omega, being one of the best at finding people and jewels, were at the south. They had been searching nonstop for quite a few hours. They were worried sick for Amy and it was 1:00 am. Cream fell asleep on Vanilla's arms as the continued to search.
Sonic stomped his foot in worried, fear, and heartbreak. He needed her. And he couldn't find her. He searched everywhere.
"Sonic," said a tired Tails. "We should head back."
Sonic shook his head.
"No. I need to find her and apologize," he said.
"Well, we need to find her tomorrow because if we want to find her, we need our strength and sleep," Tails said, yawning.
Sonic sighed, knowing that he was right. He turned and headed back toward Tails' home.
"You're right Tails. Let's go home," he said.
"The others might have found something," Tails said, hoping to lift Sonic's spirits.
He nodded and they started to walk back to the house.
The others, however, didn't find a thing. Shadow and Silver were deeply depressed, because like Sonic, they had deep feelings for Amy. In fact, Silver was going to ask if she wanted to catch a movie later, but Sonic HAD to scare her away. Silver gripped the chair harder, trying to stop the pain. The door opened and Sonic and the others walked in. Shadow was on the couch and looked up.
"Nothing?" he asked blankly, hiding his feelings carefully.
Sonic hung his head and nodded. Rouge wasn't happy and neither was Blaze because Amy asked them if she could start over with them. She said that she just wanted to be friends with them. Rouge, being the brave one tonight, stood up.
"We can find her in the morning. Right now, we need to make sure that we have enough sleep for tomorrow," Rouge said.
Nobody disagreed and they all went to bed. Silver and Shadow went to their rooms. Sonic stayed back a little and pulled the flower that he got for Amy out of his quills. He sighed and filled a vase with water and put the flower in it. He walked to his room and just collapsed on the bed.
X•X•X•X•X•X•X
Amy sighed and woke up to the peace of the morning. She yawned and stretch, groaning went she felt the joints snap back into position. She looked at the clock and sighed. It was 10:21 am. She was always a deep and long sleeper. She got out of the bed and headed to one of the bathrooms. She noticed that there were three, so she took the one closest to her. She walked in and found all of her products. She turned on the shower and shed her clothes. She washed her hair and face while the others woke up. Pacific woke up to the sound of a shower and woke up Flame.
"Let's make some breakfast," she said.
Flame mumbled a little, but got up. She walked over to the twins and woke them up. The twins made the beds while the others cooked the food. They heard the shower turn off, but continued with their job.
Amy stepped out of the shower and looked at the mirror. It was fogged up, so she couldn't really see her reflection, only her outline.
'That is very much like a girl I know,' said a voice in her head.
She knew it wasn't Krystal or any other person. It was her godling. Amy continued to look at the mirror. She leaned forward and wiped off the face. Part of her she could see.
'That is what you are now,' said the godling.
Amy sighed and started to dry and put on her clothes. Today, she was in a light blue skirt that stopped at mid-thigh, showing off her killer legs. She had on a teal tank with light blue streaks on it. Amy looked at her hair, which was a mess because of the drying. She took a brush and brushed her long quills. She felt them curl at the end and Amy looked at herself. She needed make up. She pulled out some mascara and put it on. She lined her eyes with a sparkly dark blue and used a lighter blue eye shadow. She threw on a light blush and looked at the mirror again. The fog had faded and now, standing there, was a beautiful hedgehog.
'The one that you have always been, and you just discovered it,' said the godling.
Amy realized that she was right. Amy straightened her back and shoulders, making her breast seem slightly larger, but she didn't care. She knew that she had to act the way she looked. She was beautiful and knew that her love belongs to the one that earns it and truly deserves it. She smiled and walked out of the bathroom. The twins looked at Amy. Sierra dropped the pillow in her hands and ran up to Amy.
"Whoa. You look great," she said.
Amy smiled.
"Thanks," she said.
Sierra nodded. Amy realized that she had no shoes on. She walked to her closet and looked through the shoe drawer. She looked and looked until she found the perfect ones. They were Converse that went up to her knee! They had a beach painted on them and the water was a beautiful blue. Amy smiled as she thought of the beach and the way that she and her friend always had fun. She frowned at that thought. Her friends were probably worried sick! She sighed and walked into the kitchen. But she didn't feel ready to see Sonic again. She figured that she could spend the rest of the day with her new friends. But why was something telling her to go back? The girls had just finished breakfast and they called for the others to come in. Amy sighed and sat down. Serena looked at her.
"Something wrong?" she asked.
The other girls looked up at Amy. She sighed and put her fork down.
"I probably gave my friends a heart attack. I never told them where I went, so they probably searched all night," Amy said.
Serena seemed to understand.
"You want to go back to them?" she asked.
"Not today. I can't face him yet," Amy said.
Pacific hugged her and looked at her.
"You don't have to yet. Take as long as you need," Pacific said.
Amy smiled back and nodded.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I'm eating my food now," Sierra said as she pretended to ravage the food.
Everyone laughed and ate their breakfast with a lighter mood.
Meanwhile, Sonic and the others had just woken up. Sonic decided to search a little by himself. So, he grabbed some food and started to head out the door.
"Hey Sonic? Where are you going?" asked a sleepy Cream who just woke up.
Sonic smiled at her.
"I'm going to do a little searching by myself. I really am sorry for what I did to her. I didn't even mean to say it," he said to Cream.
Cream put a finger to her chin as she thought. She was still in a sleepy state, but remembered everything about her. The way she ran, the way she smiled, the way that she got off the occasional heartbreak that she got from Sonic…
Cream's eyes widened and she completely woke up. Sonic looked at her, wondering what she was thinking. She looked at Sonic.
"We need to wake up everyone! I think I know where to find her!" Cream said as she ran to wake up the people on the west side of the house. Sonic instantly ran to wake up the people on the east side. Cream pounded on the door to Shadow's room. He grumbled and opened the door.
"Wake up! I might know where Amy is! Wake up the others too!" she said as she took off to wake up her mom and the other fast people.
Shadow threw on his shoes and ran through the house, waking up other people. Sonic got tired of waiting for Silver (he hadn't answered the door in 1 minute), so he kicked it open. Silver was snoring on her bed. Sonic sweatdropped and flipped the mattress. Silver woke up when the mattress fell on top of him. He threw it off of him and glared at Sonic.
"What the HELL!?" he yelled at Sonic.
"Hey! Wake up and smell the coffee! Cream might know where Amy is!" he said.
Silver's eyes widened and Sonic and he ran to the living room. They reached it as the others ran in. Cream was pacing, thinking more and more about Amy's habits. She always went to a certain place when Sonic gave her some heartbreak. And Amy was much more athletic than they thought. Only Cream knew this. She remained silent about the fighting with swords, guns, knives, and everything that can be used to fight or protect herself. She also didn't tell them that she could run faster than Sonic and could climb like a monkey. She could swim forever and has the best stamina in the world. Cream came out of her train of thoughts and looked at everyone who wanted an answer from her. She looked at Sonic.
"Remember when Amy used to chase you?" she asked.
Sonic's eyes saddened at the thought, but he nodded.
"Every time you would get away, Amy hid. She always went to either the forest or the ocean. Most of the time at dark. She also kept something from all of you. Only I knew about it," Cream said.
"What do you mean?" asked Shadow.
"Amy learned how to fight, run faster than Sonic, climb faster and harder than a monkey, increase her stamina to an extremely high level, and swim faster than Shadow running over the water," Cream said.
Everyone showed shock.
"That's probably why we haven't found her. She is a master at unseen movement and false tracks. She taught me how to move unseen and tracking, but I haven't tried to find her before."
"Well, can you at least try?" asked Sonic.
Cream nodded and looked embarrassed.
"I, errr…Need to change into something that I use for tracking people," Cream said.
The others nodded and left to go put on their clothes and jewelry and other stuff. Cream walked to her room and looked in her closet. She pulled out the outfit and looked it over. It was slightly wrinkled, but it doesn't matter. The outfit was a long sleeve grey top with faded green streaks on it and dark jeans. They weren't black and they were flares.
"Black is never good if you want to be unseen. It's too dark and makes it seem like there is a darker spot in a shadow. You want a lighter color with blotches on it because if messes up the vision around you," said Amy's voice in her head as she put on the clothing.
She grabbed her grey cloak and put it on. She felt the material and found everything that she needed, from her compass to her knife. She threw up the hood and looked at herself in the mirror. She had more curvature to her body and some small breast, but other than that. She looked like she did when Amy first trained her. She shook her head as something came forth in her mind. She opened the door and walked down the hall. Everyone was in the living room and was ready to go. Cream slowed her pace and breathing. She made her steps so smooth that her body did not move at all. Nobody saw her or even noticed her. Not even Espio! They were all waiting. Cream stopped in the shadow of the door way. She moved very slow and leaned on the wall. Sonic looked her direction and huffed.
"Where is she?" he asked.
"You're looking at me," Cream said, startling everyone.
Cream stepped out of the shadows and walked across the living room, ignoring the gaping mouths. She opened the door and looked back to them.
"Coming?" she asked.
The group nodded and they took off. She stopped at the field that Amy ran from. It was slightly weathered, but Cream could make out tracks. The others gathered around her. She leaned closer to the ground and looked at foot print. She her eyes followed the tracks for a little while longer. She decided to explain to the other animals. She pointed a finger to the small indents were Amy stood when realization hit her. Cream was still on her knees.
"She stood here and faced to the west," Cream said, looking to the sun, which told the time and direction that she was facing.
Cream glided over the ground while coming to a stand she pointed to shoe prints on the ground.
"She ran east, and she was going fast," Cream said.
She ran to the tree line and the others followed. She looked at the ground again. To the untrained eye, it looked like nothing important. But to Cream, who was trained by the best, it was Amy's tracks.
"She made it to the tree line and ran to the west," Cream said.
She looked at the tracks and motioned for the others to follow her. She started to go through the brush and she moved so smoothly, that they lost her in 2 minutes. They looked around for her until she landed right behind them, scaring Knuckles into an almost scream he turned around and all he saw were ice blue eyes in a dark hood.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" he screamed and passed out.
Everyone looked at Knuckles, who had a little ghost over his head. They all started to laugh and point at him, especially Charmy.
"HAHAHAHA! I wish I had a camera!" said Charmy.
Cream reached into her cloak and pulled out a digital camera. She tossed it to Charmy who smiled.
"SWEET!" he yelled and took a picture of Knuckles.
Cream took the camera back and looked down at Knuckles. She looked back up.
"I'm not carrying him," Cream said.
Silver sighed and used his powers to pick him up. They followed Cream and Cream slowed down so that they wouldn't loss her again. They hit a rough part of foliage, but they made it through. When they came out, they found a very small clearing with a large and very healthy tree. There was a bare patch next to it. Cream told them to come closer. Cream knelt by it.
"She ran her and curled up. But the ground is very strange. It gives off an extremely powerful energy from it. I don't know what type," Cream said as she touched the spot.
Silver was curious, so he touched the spot. He hissed and brought his hand back immediately. A shock wave went through his arm, making it numb. Everyone looked at him.
"It's a high concentrate of holy power. Holy power can hurt telepaths," he said.
Cream pointed to another area and they noticed several different pairs of foot prints. All of them they didn't recognize.
"This is what doesn't make sense. Her foot print is replaced by another's and she met some people. They appeared to have leaded her to the beach. All of their tracks disappear in the ocean," Cream said.
Shadow knelt by the spot. He touched it. He felt a slight jolt and a small amount of memories to come to him. Crying was what he saw. He took a sharp breath and pulled his hand away. He looked at Silver.
"Why did the spot give me a small figment of her memory?" he asked.
Cream answered before Silver got the chance to.
"You have to be the friend or a lover of the person in order to see that," Cream said.
Everyone looked at Shadow in shock. He blushed.
"I'm not her lover. I'm her friend," he said.
He said it normally, so everyone believed him. Sonic and Silver felt jealously rip up his insides as he thought of…
"Oh? What is this?" asked Cream, bringing them out of their train of thoughts.
Cream was holding a black rose with blood on it. She looked around for tracks and found none. She frowned and looked back at it. A red droplet landed on it and Cream looked up. Her eyes widened and she gasped.
"Oh my god," she whispered.
The others walked over there and looked up. What they saw made their stomach plummet and their hearts to skip a beat.
Hanging from the tree was a fox. His neck was cut open, showing the trachea and vertebra. His arms had many lacerations and his stomach as cut open, intestines and internal organs coming out. His eyes were rolled back and he was hanging by the tail. Blood dripped off him and onto the flower.
Cream gulped and took a deep breath. She set the flower down and started to climb the tree. Shadow snapped out of it and grabbed her cloak, preventing her from climbing higher.
"What are you doing?" he asked as the others got out of the trance.
Vanilla cried and Vector tried to comfort her. Sonic and Silver looked at each other and looked at Cream. Charmy and Tails were so shaken that they clung to each other. Espio tried to calm them and Rouge tried to too, but she was having trouble keeping her breakfast down as did everyone else. Cream looked at them.
"I need to get him down and see what kill him," Cream said.
She was also having problems keeping her breakfast down, but she had to figure this out.
"Let us get him down," offered Silver.
Cream shook her head and freed her cloak, climbing up the tree faster than they could catch her. She made it to the branch equal to him and looked at him. In his back, there was a carved message. Cream left that for when she got him down. She looked around and found the rope wrapped around one of the branches further up. She climbed higher and untied the knot. She slowly lowered him to the ground. When Cream set him down, she just jumped down. She landed gracefully and looked at the others. She walked over to Tails and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I know how much you might hate this, but you're a smart person. We need to perform an autopsy on him," Cream said.
Tails gulped and nodded. Cream got Charmy off of him and helped him over to the body. He was pale and he sat down next to Cream. She pulled out a knife and turned him over. On his back was the message. She read it out loud.
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you!
But sadly,
These roses are wilted,
These violets are dead,
The sugar bowl's empty,
And my dagger is stained red.
So, my dear Rose. I was hoping that you would turn like this. Run away, little girl. Run away, like you always do! But mark my words. You will be mine," Cream said.
Shadow, Sonic, and Silver did not like that. Cream sighed and shrugged. She then started to perform the autopsy.
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Amy and the others had just finished shopping and were laughing.
"Wow! Who knew that this many girls can spend so much money?!" said Sierra.
They laughed and walked back to their room. They put the stuff away and sighed.
"What now?" asked Sierra.
"Hover boarding," Amy said.
"Genius!"
Amy laughed and walked to her closet. She looked around until she found a board. It was a blood red with a heart with an arrow through it. It read "Heart-Broken." Amy smiled walked over to Sierra, who had one that was simple with skulls running across the bottom. Pacific and Flame were asleep and Serena was leaving.
"I'm just going to the forest," she said.
Amy waved and Sierra and she ran out the door. They ran down the hall and out the door. They jumped on their boards and hovered to the park for some fun, having no idea that a person was lurking in the shadows. She smirked and rubbed her hands together.
"Victor will be pleased to see that his bride-to-be has finally grown up," she said darkly.
She disappeared into thin air.
A.N.: Gaspith! Dead dude with a message for Amy carved on his back? And who is the spy? Find out in the next chapter!
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