Another chapter for you guys. Hope you enjoy this one.

And for those that had questions:

o513o and mdizzle: You guys will just have to wait and see. Some of your questions will be answered in this chapter, though.

Phantom68: Oh yeah, there will be more deaths coming.

Stick around and again, enjoy. YW3 out.

The next day, Amy and Cream were walking along inside the Station Square shopping centre. Usually, Amy would go out shopping almost every other day, but today was special, at least to her. Her and everyone else were going on a picknick, and she wanted to look her best for him.

As they walked, they came upon a large clothing store.

"Oh my Miss Amy," Cream said, "I'll bet there are tons of pretty dresses in there!"

"Yeah, it looks like there are lot's of outfits that'll be sure to impress Sonic!"

Amy stopped and stared up into space, daydreaming about the blue hedgehog.. "After all, I want to look my best for him today. It's not everyday that me and him get to go on a picnic together."

Cream scratched her head. "Uh, I thought that Tails and me were coming too."

Amy snapped out of her daze. "Oh…yeah, of course you are. I'm sorry."

The two walked into the clothing store and began browsing through the girl's section for some dresses.

About an hour or so later, both Amy and Cream emerged from the store, each carrying two full bags of outfits under their arm.

"Wow Amy," cream said, clearly a little worn out. "You don't think we over-did it, do you?"

Amy shook her head and smiled. "No way, cream. If there's one thing you need to know about shopping, it's always good to have variety."

The little rabbit smiled brightly. "Oh, Okay."

The two walked through the mall toward the exit, along the way glancing at several displays set up in the windows of various stores. They came up on an electronic store, with several radios and working TV's in the window. Cream stopped when she noticed that there was a cartoon on the screen.

"Oh, I love this show!"

She stopped and stared at a big screen TV, which showed a grey and white rabbit being chased by a short hunter in a baggy brown outfit. The hunter was wildly shooting away. "I'll get you you screwey 'wabbit!" he said with a lisp.

Cream laughed. "He never ever catches the rabbit."

Amy stood behind Cream, tapping her foot in slight impatience. "Hurry up cream, I want to get home as soon as I can so I can see which dress will look the best."

Cream snapped out of her trance like state. "Sorry Miss Amy. Coming."

As the two turned to walk away, when suddenly the image on the TV changed. It now showed the image of a reporter standing in front of a very familiar lake setting.

"We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin. A murder has occurred at Never lake."

Amy stopped. She slowly turned back around and faced the TV. "Never lake? That's where I first met Sonic."

Cream noticed Amy suddenly tense up and stare at the TV. "What's wrong miss Amy?" she asked out of concern and confusion.

The reporter continued.

"That's right. In the late hours of last night, two young teenagers were brutally beaten to death by an un known assailant."

Amy suddenly lost her composure. She dropper her bags and rushed over to the store window, glaring at the TV with wide eyes.

"What happened?" She more exclaimed than asked, as if the reporter were standing right in front of her.

"The victims were found in a lagoon early this morning, both brutally beaten by someone or something that is at this time unknown."

"Who were they?" Amy said, her tone giving away her anxiety.

"We go now to Station Square's Chief of Police, Captain Kane Hodder." The camera turned to show a huge form of a man standing on the shore of the lagoon where the events took place, glancing down at two bodies. His massive frame, plus those of the doctors around him, blocked all but the feet of the victims from the viewers. At the sound of the reporter, he turned around and stood up.

"Mr. Hodder," the woman asked, "What can you tell so far?"

The captain glanced back behind him for a minute before facing the camera again. He sighed.

"Well, I don't know what to say. So far we don't really have any leads. But whoever or whatever did this really had no remorse. I mean, I've seen some ugly scenes in my time, but this nearly tops al of them."

"Have the doctor's been able to identify the bodies?"

"No. These people were messed up pretty damn bad. Their faces were literally ripped apart, and from what I'm told most of their skull features destroyed, making dental records useless. All we can definitely say was that they were human and not Mobian."

Amy let out a sigh of relief. "Good," she thought, "At Least Sonic is safe."

She still fixed her eyes on the TV however, as she now felt both concern for the two victims, and curiosity out of whom they were.

"If you'll come over this way," Hodder said, "We'll show you the scene."

He stepped back over the yellow police tape and back toward the bank. The reporter followed, motioning for the camera man to do the same.

"Ladies and gentlemen," she said quietly, "What is about to be shown is extremely graphic. If you are squeamish or have any small children watching, we recommend you shut off your TV set for the duration of this broadcast."

Amy continued to watch the TV, out of curiosity. Though her hear was racing at the though of looking at a dead body; or two, and she couldn't hide the fact that she was frightened.

As the doctors moved aside, the grizzly scene was unveiled. The two bodies had been dragged onto the bank, their naked corpses covered with lake debris and dirt. Their faces were beaten in, the girl's face distorted and bulged out, while the boy's was melted and twisted into an unrecognisable patch of skin. Decomposition had already started to set as well, and parts of the skin was beginning to turn black.

"Oh my God," Amy slowly exclaimed. She couldn't believe how bad it all looked.

Cream was even worse off. Her young mid had started playing the images back in her head in horrific fashion.

"Th…that's horrible." Her voice was shaky, like she was going to cry. But in reality, she was about ready to throw up. "Those…poor…people…"

Amy realized the eight-year-old rabbit had seen everything, although Amy wasn't really feeling much better. She turned away from the TV, and quickly put a hand over cream's eyes.

"We don't need to se anymore Cream. Don't worry."

The rabbit was still in shock, though.

Those people were killed…who would do such a thing?"

"I don't know, Cream."

Amy slowly bent down and picked up her bags.

"But I think we need to go."

They slowly walked towards the exit.

"Sonic needs to know about this," Amy said to herself.