It was 6:00 on a crisp autumn morning, and an alarm was blaring throughout the room. A drowsy Link rolled over and hit the alarm until it shut off, then sat up and looked at the time. He wondered why he was up so early. Then a smell filled Link's room, a smell that could only be from his mom's famous breakfast burritos, which she only made on one special occasion: the first day of school.

Link got up and checked his hair in the mirror. He had golden brown hair, that wouldn't seem to fall the way he wanted it to. So, to keep himself from looking bad on the first day of school, grabbed one of his green baseball caps from the closet and put over his messy hair. Perfect, he thought to himself, and ran downstairs to chow down on his favorite breakfast.

Now Link was no model, but he certainly wasn't ugly. He had a pale-ish complextion, but not so pale that he looked like a ghost, he was very muscular, even though he never really worked out, and he was around 6 foot, which made him seem tall compared to the people he hung out with. He ran from his room to the kitchen where his mom and sister were waiting for him. His sister, Aryll, was the first to speak.

"Good morning, sleepyhead" she said with a smile.

Aryll was 14 years old, 3 years younger than Link, and had bright blond hair that she had tied in a ponytail.

"Ugh" Link grumbled, sitting down and grabbing a burrito.

"You don't sound too excited for school, honey" his mom said, as she put another burrito in front of Aryll. "Aren't you happy that you get to see all of your friends again?"

"Link has friends?" Aryll laughed, poking Link's shoulder until he turned and growled at her.

"Of course I have friends!" Link said with a mouthful of burrito. These burritos seemed better than the ones he had in years past.

"Oh yeah, you hang out with all the 'non-human' kids" she said, sticking her toungue out at Link.

"What's wrong with that?" their mom chimed in, "they're nice people."

The "non-human" kids Aryll is referring to is obviously Sonic and Company. They moved to Hyrule after Dr. Eggman had finally given up on fighting Sonic and went to bother someone else. I think his name was Mario or something.

"Mom, why does Link have to drive us to school? Can't I just take the bus?" Aryll complained about this topic since last year, when Link got a car.

It wasn't that Link was a bad driver, it's just that, like any brother would, he liked to play tricks on Aryll while driving. One time he left her behind when he saw her flirting with one of the boys after school. Another time he made her believe his car was stolen, and she had to walk all the way home. That one was worth getting his XBox taken for.

"Face it, squirt. I'm your personal bus driver now." Link said as he finished his third burrito and tapped her on the head. "Be in the car in 20 minutes or I'll leave without you" and he ran back up the stairs to get dressed.

On the other side of town, it was 7:45, 15 minutes before school started and Tails bursted into Sonic's room and yelled at him to wake up. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails all lived together, because with the Ring to Rupee transfer, everyone that came to Hyrule could only afford 3 apartments between them all. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails decided to room together, with Shadow, Jet, and Silver taking another apartment, and Rouge, Amy, and Cream taking the third one.

"Do you really wanna be late on the first day of school?" Tails was more upset than another person would be about this, because unlike most people, he actually LIKED school.

"You underestimate me too much, Tails." Sonic said with a chuckle, and used his super-sonic speed to run through his bedroom to change into his clothes, run to the bathroom to "fix" his hair and brush his teeth, and even had time to grab a pop-tart. He was back to the spot he started at, pop-tart in hand, in 10 seconds flat. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah. I'll go make sure Knuckles is ready and meet you at the bus stop." Tails said, laughing as he left Sonic's room.

Sonic went in to double-check his outfit. He wasn't used to wearing clothes, but unlike the people at home, the people of Hyrule don't seem to respect his "indecency" as they called it. Sonic thought about school as he walked to the bus stop. He didn't have many friends, but he definitely had a lot of respect from everyone after beating up the worst kid in school, Ganondorf. That's how he met Link, too, Ganondorf had been picking on his favorite person to pick on, and Link's crush, Zelda. Link ran over and went to fight Ganondorf himself, but some teachers held him back. Then, in a cloud of blue, Ganondorf was on the ground unconcious, and Sonic was standing next to him with a huge grin on his face. It was worth the 3 weeks of detention he got from it because since that day, Ganondorf hadn't been a problem.

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails sat in the corner of the bus, as they did last year. Sonic was dressed in his usual solid color cutoff t-shirt (it was red today) and jeans. Tails, everyone's favorite Freshman, had a striped polo and long khaki dress pants. And Knuckles, the "style guru" of the school had his school-famous black and red snapback hat tilted slightly off of his head, a Wiz Khalifa t-shirt, and baggy cargo shorts. He wanted to make himself known at that school, but he got just a bit more popular than he wanted to. That never seemed to bother him, though.

The bus pulled in as soon as Link's did. Sonic was the first off the bus (obviously) and immedietly ran over to greet his friend that he hadn't seen in months. Link sent Aryll off to go to her class and then said hi to Sonic.

"Long time no see, bro!" Sonic said with a smile. He had a very boring summer, so seeing a friend made his day just a bit brighter.

"Hey, Sonic. Have a good summer?" Link was grabbing his bookbag out of the backseat.

"If you consider sitting around helping Tails practice baseball and watching old reruns of 'That 70's show' all summer fun, then yeah."

"Really? The King of Swing, Sonic, had barely any plans all summer?"

"Very funny. I would've had plenty of plans if you wouldn't have ditched me and gone off with you're cooler friends all summer!"

"I don't think my grandma and grandpa count as cooler friends than you."

"Oh Link you flatter me!"

"I do what I can. Come on, don't wanna be late for first period."