It was the middle of the afternoon. Knuckles was watching T.V in his wooden house he made with his friends help about a year ago. There was a vault that the master emerald lays and have security so he wouldn't worry about it when he's gone. It was close to winter which why he was covering himself with a blanket sitting on his black leather couch. He heard his wrist communicator ringing, he picked it up

"Hello?" He asked.

"Hey Knux. It's Sonic. Tails and I are going to this shrine, do you wanna come?" The blue hero asked.

"Ya sure." Since he got nothing to do.

"Great, come to this area." Shows directions. "We'll be waiting." Sonic hangs up. Knuckles grabbed a red sweatshirt then went off.

"Hey Knuckie." He groaned to that familiar voice.

"What is it, Rouge?" Rouge was wearing a brown jacket with a logo of G.U.N on the arms and flying down to him.

"What's with the attitude? Sleeping the wrong side of the bed?" The bat asked.

"As if. Why are you here?" The echidna asked with his hands on his hips.

"I want to see how you're doing. Is that a crime?" She asked rubbing his head, making him blush a little but at the same time annoyed.

"You better not steal the master emerald while I'm gone." Knuckles walked away.

"Why would I?" She asked flying away.

~20 minutes later~

Sonic and Tails was waiting at an shrine

"Hey Knuckles." Tails greeted holding a small computer.

"Hi you two. So what's is this place?" Knuckles asked.

"Well, this a shrine of a vampire being that lived when the echidna clan was still alive." Tails explained while looking at his computer.

"Vampire? That's weird." Knuckles commented.

"That's not weird to me. We fought a lot of strange creatures before so a 'vampire' isn't weird." Sonic commented.

"True." After looking around the shrine, they found a text of echidna language.

"Can you read this?" Sonic asked the echidna.

"Luckily I read and learn the language." "Who ever drop echidna blood in this shrine, will awaken the master of vampires Caedis." Knuckles read. (Caedis is Latin for blood)

Tails looked up Caedis in his computer.

"It seems that Caedis used to drink echidnas' blood a few years ago. And the only vampire which is the master of his kind. The echidnas sealed Caedis in this shrine to not cause anymore trouble again." Tails explained.

"My kind did something good? That's new." Knuckles rested on a stone then felt something cut his leg. He looked back to see a thorn bush with his blood on it.

"Are you alright? That cut looks deep." Sonic said.

"Nah it's fine." The echidna said while Tails tied his bleeding leg with a bandage. His blood from the branch dripped to the dirt ground. In the shrine, was a black small fluffy bat woke up smelling the air then licking its visible two fangs on its mouth. It flew to a small window to see a blue hedgehog, two-tailed fox and

"A echidna." He said smiling.

"Well see ya next time." The three went out as the sun goes down. The bat opened the window licking the blood on the branch then followed Knuckles home. As Knuckles closed the door, the bat slips in unnoticed. When the echidna went out to a vault, the bat flew behind him. Knuckles was checking the emerald.

"Seems good." He said. He felt a hand covering his mouth and an arm holding Knuckles' arms together. He turned his eyes to see a black bat but without wings with red blood eyes. He had an hairstyle that looked like was from the 1900's. He had blood stained gloves and blood red boots. Knuckles saw the bat two fangs then felt a painful sharp on his neck. The echidna's screams were muffled and trying to get out of the bat's grip. Eventually the bat let go letting Knuckles hit the ground bleeding out.

"It tastes so good to drink echidna's blood." The bat said licking the blood on his fangs. Knuckles tries to speak but all he could say was muffles while holding his bleeding neck. The bat stooped to his level.

"You might be wondering who I am? I'm Caedis the master of all vampires. Well used to before your kind killed all of them. But since you're the last of the echidnas, I'll let you live." After Caedis smiled Knuckles blacked out from the loss of blood.

I hope you like this story so far. I got this idea from a manga and anime series called "Vampire knight" which I grew to love. And I want to write a vampire story so I got this idea. Also it's close to Halloween so ya. Question: What monster do you like the most, Vampires or werewolves? And leave a review ;3