"Hey, it's that new albino kid!"

"I hear she's a straight out hippie! Can't you tell from how she dresses?"

"Sally's cousins went to her last school. They told her that she froze the entire gym by holding out her hand!"

"That's nothing! I heard she caused a power outage when she used her staff that allows her to manipulate light!"

"I heard people used to call her the Blinding Arctic Monster!"

"Hmm...that doesn't fully describe her. Let's go with Nasty Arctic Monster and Awful Blinding Bitch!"

As she walked down the hallway, Kara Blanchard tried her absolute hardest to ignore the words of her classmates surrounding her. This was the sixth new school she's gone to in almost a year now and every school was the same. She'd show up her first day and within three days, everything about her would be known. From her cyrokinesis, the ability to manipulate ice, to her ability to manipulate light with a staff disguised as a white bracelet with a single silver charm on it along with her abilities to fly, teleport and it always finished with her amnesia and being an orphan. This has been going on since she was a little girl, specifically when she accidentally hurt kids her own age back in kindergarton with her cyrokinesis. She was only a little girl and had heard the kids saying how they wished they could go ice skating. Not understanding her powers that well at the time, Kara just stomped on the ground and the resulting ice sent a bunch of kids home with concussions. From then on, she started jumping from foster homes every few months since there was always an incident she caused but had no control over. Now, here she was, a sophmore in high school and the rumors surrounding her had only increased. She did her best to shield herself from it all but...Kara was an emotional girl and was not known for holding her feelings in very well.

She sighed and looked down as all the memories she just let wash over her faded away. Kara was, in simple terms, a hippie. Her waist length white hair, which had silver tips, was usally down and her icy blue eyes could see into a person's soul. But what made her a hippie were two specific things: her clothes and her guitar. Currently, Kara wore a hippie style peasant blouse with icy blue flowers embroidered along the bottom, jeans and white ballet flats. Around her forehead rested a white headband with a silver snowflake in the center. Where she got it, Kara couldn't remember, but it was that snowflake that started the rumor of her being a hippie in the first place. Her guitar was currently placed safely in her locker, waiting for her to use it some time when she returned to her foster home. Kara was also extremely pale and with her white hair came the albino rumor. The poor girl had at least ten rumors about her by the time she was 10, having woken up as a possible orphan and amnesic five years earlier.

Kara sighed as she continued down the hallway, ignoring the rumors and anything she could possibly sense, something she thought she could chalk up to her light manipulation.

Some people may call my powers a gift from the gods...right now they feel like a curse. Kara thought as she entered her chemistry classroom, her first class of the day, and sat down in the back corner, trying to hide as much as possible.

Amy Rose raced down the hallway of Station Square High, searching for her friends, or in particular, Ryan Craig Griffith or Sonic to his friends. With her pink hair cut into a bob and her sparkling jade eyes, Amy was a very pretty girl. Wearing a red shirt, white pants and red tennis shoes, she could've been teased as a candy cane. But few people would mess with her for one reason and one reason alone: her giant ass hammer, actually called the Piko Piko Hammer, was hidden as a crystal pink heart on her red headband. Amy was also known as one of the strongest girls in the sophmore class, so mess with her and you better start running.

"Sonic!" Amy cried gleefully as she found the boy she was looking for. With spiky blue hair and emerald colored eyes, Ryan Craig 'Sonic' Griffith was one of the most liked kids in school...and the fastest, though some people would say otherwise (cough Jet and Shadow cough). Wearing a blue and white hoodie, jeans and red and white shoes with a gold buckle, Sonic was taken by surprise as Amy jumped on him a second later, squeezing all the air out of him.

"Amy..." He gasped as she hugged him tightly. Beside Sonic was one of his best friends, Miles 'Tails' Prower. Tails was special, as in he's a genius, being 14 and a sophmore. Of course, with his brain, he could have graduated, but he became friends with the gang when he was in 8th grade and met Claire Robinson, or Cream as the group called her. She was Amy's best friend and the sweetest girl you'd ever meet. She was 14 like Tails and one of only two freshmen in their huge group of friends. Tails had blonde hair and kind blue eyes. He had on a light yellow shirt, khakis and red and white shoes similar to Sonic's. What made him really unique, however, were the two twin fox tails he had, hence his nickname. With his tails, the boy could fly, which was what made him even closer with the group. Seeing his friend starting to turn as blue as his hair, Tails said,

"Um, Amy? I think Sonic can't breath." Amy gasped and released Sonic, who started gasping heavily. Everyone in the school also knew Amy was 'madly in love' with Sonic and Sonic knew better than anyone else how strong her hugs were. When he first met Amy, he thought he would've died had a teacher not stepped in in time.

"I am so sorry, Sonic!" Amy cried.

"It's...okay, I...guess." Sonic panted, "Thanks...Tails." Tails gave his best friend a thumbs up before he said,

"We've got to get to class, guys. C'mon." Sonic was grateful cause that meant Amy wouldn't try to hug him again. Don't get me wrong, he likes her and they are very close friends but her hugs were way too tight some times. Sonic took off in a blue blur, he had been able to break the sound barrier since he was 10, with Amy and Tails not far behind him as they raced to class.

Kennith 'Knuckles' Shard walked through the hallway, searching for his sister, Tikal. While Knuckles was a junior, Tikal was only a freshman and the older Shard sibling was, to put it bluntly, completely and almost ridiculously overprotective! Knuckles was so overprotective that whenever a guy so much as looked or said a word to Tikal, they'd end up being thrown into the building next door.

Posessing amazing strength, Knuckles was the brawn in the large group of friends he shared with Tikal. With red hair and piercing violet eyes, he could intimidate a person a mile away. Wearing a simple red shirt, military pants and red, yellow and green shoes, Knuckles smiled as he saw his sister walking towards him.

Tikal had shoulder length light orange hair and colbalt blue eyes with little to none similarities with her brother. You could barely tell they were siblings unless you met their father. Tikal wore a short sleeved dress that was white on top and had a diamond pattern along the bottom in green and pink along with sandals. She was a very pretty young girl and very naïve at times, leading to Knuckles worrying more than he should at times.

"Hello Kennith." Tikal greeted as she met Knuckles halfway. Unlike most of the people in their group, Tikal made a point to call everyone by their real name, the only other ones being Takeshi Kaneko, or Espio, and Cream who also called everyone Mr. or Ms.

"So, how was your class, Tikal?" Knuckles asked as he fell into step with her.

"It was good." Tikal smiled, "I learned more about the Roman empire." Being a freshman, yet also being super smart in her own way, Tikal had taken on all the honors classes and the only AP class offered to her grade, AP World History. She had had homework over the summer but she still felt the class was worth it and interested her greatly.

"Did any boy do anything?" Knuckles asked, wondering if he needed to keep an eye on Tikal's biggest 'nerd' class.

"No, Kennith, no. Everything's alright." Tikal reassured. Knuckles gave her a look but dropped the topic as they continued walking when they ran into none other than Rouge Bayle, a close family friend of theirs.

"Hey Tikal, Knucklehead." Rouge greeted as she fell into step with the Shard siblings. With her shoulder length ivory hair and aqua colored eyes, Rouge was a very beautiful girl, indeed. Wearing a dark purple shirt, black jeans and black boots, Rouge looked like any ordinary teen. Yet, she was far from ordinary, having been scouted by a modeling agency a couple months earlier. She was still working on a balance of it all though since she was also captain of the cheerleadering squad and trying to keep her grades up. Though she was managing, Rouge had told her boss she'd have to quit soon because now that school started it would be too much.

"Hi Rouge." Tikal smiled nicely as Knuckles only nodded. Another thing about Knuckles and Rouge is that they had a long standing rivalry that most people doubted would ever fade away. There were days where Rouge even got out of school early and it wasn't for a modeling gig, leading everyone to think she was plotting something against Knuckles, though the truth was far from that and would be hidden for as long as Rouge could keep it hidden.

"Come on, Knuckles, or we'll be late to algebra 2!" Rouge said as she grabbed Knuckle's arm and dragged him away to the only class they had together. Tikal only continued on her way, giggling as she did. She had bet on the two of them falling in love one day since she was a little girl and thought they would be very cute. Shaking those thoughts from her mind, the young Shard girl made her way to Accelerated English.

Several minutes after the last bell rang, Venice 'Silver' Faust and Barbara 'Blaze' Jewel walked out of the school and made their way to the side, both waiting for their rides. Despite having only met last year when Blaze moved to Station Square, the two had become the best of friends. Wherever you saw one, the other wasn't very far behind. Of course, they had become friends in the first place thanks to their unique abilities.

With his silver hair and golden eyes, Silver was seen as a pretty nice guy and it showed. Wearing a silver t-shirt, jeans and black, white and blue boots, Silver didn't look anything special but he was. With his psychokinesis, Silver could move anything, big or small, and could even fly or teleport. Though naïve and sometimes immature, Silver had a big heart and a strong sense of justice that led him in life.

Blaze, on the other hand, was different. With her lavender hair pulled up into a ponytail and eyes as golden as Silver's, Blaze was completely different than her best friend. Wearing a violet shirt under a white jacket, white jeans and matching boots, Blaze had originally come off as cold and distant, which was the most ironic thing Silver ever heard in his life. Blaze posessed pyrokinesis, meaning she could manipulate fire. She had been teased most of her life about it and only saw her gift as a curse until she met Silver and, later, Sonic and everyone else. They helped her accept who she is and gave her a stronger sense of purpose, one could say.

"What do you think the English project's gonna be about?" Silver asked.

"I'm not sure, Ms. Robinson wasn't specific." Blaze answered. Their teacher, Ms. Robinson, just so happened to be the mother of Cream, Vanilla to be precise. Because of that, all of Cream's friends knew about English ahead of time, though other times, like now, they were as lost as everyone else.

"Maybe it'll be a partner project and we could partner up!" Silver said excitedly. Blaze only laughed, since Silver always had hope no matter what.

"Silver, you are so naïve." She stated. Before Silver could ask what she meant, a car honked. The two looked up and saw none other than Takeshi Kaneko, or Espio as Sonic had nicknamed him because of his 'ninja reflexes' as the blue blur put it, waiting for his friend. Both Silver and Espio were orphans at a very young age, Espio before Silver, who had been 5 at the time. When they had met, Silver had come to rely on Espio as an older brother and the two were some of the closest friends in the group.

"I'll see you later, Blaze." Silver said as he waved bye to his friend. Just then, Blaze's father, Mr. Jewel, who was a math teacher at the school, pulled up. Blaze nodded with a smile as she ran to her own car.

"Ready, Venice?" Espio asked.

"Yep." Silver smiled as he gave his friend a thumbs up. Espio, with his dark purple hair with a yellow streak and gold colored eyes, nodded as he started the black Toyota and left Station Square High. Espio wore a purple shirt under a black jacket, brown pants and black Adidas shoes. Being one of the most soft spoken and serious members of the large group, some people wondered how he came to be such good friends with Sonic of all people, who was widely known as Espio's complete and total opposite. The answer was sitting next to him. Since Espio was a year older than Silver, being one of four juniors in their huge group of friends, he had looked out for him since he came to the orphanage. When Sonic came into the picture, it was Espio's job to watch him and Silver and that in turn got him involved with the group. The two remained quiet until Espio asked,

"Your anniversery's coming up soon, right?" Silver sighed and looked down.

"Yeah." He nodded, sadness overwhelming him. The anniversery Espio was talking about was the 10 year anniversery of Silver coming to the orphanage, therefore losing his parents and twin sister in a span of minutes. It still hurt the psychokinetic which was why his friends, especially Espio, were always careful on that day. Though Silver's heart no longer hurt whenever he thought of his parents, it still hurt every time he thought of his missing twin, who he knew, without a doubt, was still alive. But after 10 years, he was starting to lose hope.

Claire 'Cream' Robinson smiled as she walked up to the counter in the library to check out a book with the help of her friend Shadow Midnight, the biggest rival Sonic had and the last junior of the group. With her two blonde pigtails tied back with a blue ribbon on each and innocent brown eyes, Cream looked the youngest in the whole group. Her overall appearance was one of childish innocence with her orange shirt with a blue ribbon on the collar, light orange skirt and brown shoes with white socks. Cream also had a power similar to Tails, though it was also different. She could turn her pigtails into rabbit ears so she could fly and also turn her pet cat, Cheese, into a mythical creature known as a Chao to help her fight when needed.

"Hello Mr. Shadow." Cream whispered as she reached the counter.

"Hi Cream." Shadow nodded. Shadow was the most mysterious member of the group, most of them weren't even sure how he became a part of the group since he and Sonic had the worst rivalry in the whole school. With his black hair, which had red streaks, and red eyes, Shadow was the personification of darkness. He wore a black shirt, black jeans and white, red and black air shoes. To add to his mysteriousness, Shadow had the strange ability to wield an ancient power known only as Chaos Control, making him a very tough opponent.

Shadow checked out the book she was getting, a history book about Rome so it was obviously for school, and nodded,

"There you go."

"Thank you, Mr. Shadow!" Cream grinned when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. Turning, she was surprised to see a girl sitting all by herself. "Mr. Shadow? Who's that?" The freshman asked.

"I'm not sure. She's just been sitting by herself the whole time." Shadow shrugged, "She's done it for the past three days."

"I feel bad for her." Cream said but she felt the girl was...familiar. Her eyes widened as she realized that she knew the girl from her art class. Making a mental note to sit with her tomorrow, it would be rude to go up now and besides, her mother might get worried if she stayed too long, Cream waved goodbye to her friend before she ran out of the library, excited for tomorrow.

Okay, so now I need to explain a couple things. First, thank you all for reading this, it means a lot to me. Second, this is inspired by Gray Flame by gamerprincess13 but it will not be the same. However, there will be some similarities, such as the names cause I'm not creative in that field. However, this shall be my own story and have my own plot so anything unintentionally similar or identical to gamerprincess13's story is not on purpose. Finally, this chapter was just meant to introduce the main characters, specifically my OC Kara. It was also to serve as a prologue so you could get a feel for everyone before they all come together. There will be at least two stages in this story. The first stage is all about Kara being integrated into the group, recovering her memory and growing more confidence in herself. The second stage will go more into the secret lives of these characters I'm going to write with adventures similar to the games. Along the way, there will be several pairings. From what I've seen so far, the main pairings will be Kara/Shadow, Sonic/Amy, Tails/Cream, Tikal/Espio, Knuckles/Rouge and Silver/Blaze. More might come into play later such as Vector/Vanilla since I like that pairing. But remember, this is my first time writing any of these pairings, since I haven't gotten Shadow into my other stories with Kara in them yet (if you want to learn more about Kara in the games or Sonic X then check out my other stories Snowflakes and Shadows and Gotta Go Fast). I hope you all enjoyed and please review to let me know what you thought. Oh, and if any of the characters were written wrong, let me know so I can go back and fix them. Happy New Year!