Please enjoy this short story. I do not own anyone from the Sonic/Sega franchise and all rights belong to Sega.

Amy Rose stomps into the school hallway, as she heads to her first period class that she would be late to. She growled under her breath, incident from this morning replaying in her head as the anger and frustration grew. It was viewable on her face. Just one look at the hedgehog and you could tell she was angry. Her feet stomp on the ground along the lockers as she mutters under her breath, "Stupid Sonic, stupid Sally, stupid bus driver, stupid parents..."

"Amy?" She jumped and turned to glare, shouting a loud what in return. Her eyes feasted on Shadow's form as he leaned against the lockers, his eyes staring into hers. Her breath caught in her throat and she let out a growl. Her emotions and frustration and heat were all swirling up inside of her, creating a pink monster. He put a hand out cautiously and put it on her shoulder, "What's wrong?"

She let out a sigh and closed her eyes, "It's so stupid... I was on the bus this morning minding my own business. Every guy was looking at me curiously and every girl was glaring for some reason. Sonic started getting really close to me and was being weird, and then Sally started yelling at me. The bus driver asked what was going on and of course, I'm the one who got blamed when I didn't do anything wrong to begin with. So then I had to go to the principals office and wait for my parents only to be told I'm grounded, so now I'm trying to head to first period and get all my anger out of my system before I snap on someone."

Shadow sniffed the air curiously, then glowered down at her. "I figured you would like to have Sonic's attention on you."

"I outgrew that whole Sonic thing..." Amy mumbled under her breath. Her cheeks turned a bit red and she held onto the edge of her shirt. He gave her a curious look.

"Then why was he being weird to you?"

"B-Because... I..." She gulped a bit, "I'm in heat."

Shadow blinked, then covered his nose. He thought he smelled something sweet but just assumed it was her perfume.

"It just sucks. Guys are going to be all over me for the next five to 7 days and I'm going to constantly be in trouble." Amy looked at Shadow, who had turned and tried to focus his attention on something else. A light bulb clicked in her head and she stepped a bit closer to him. "Shadow~"

He stepped back a bit, trying to keep his distance, "Hm?"

"Mind doing me a favor?"

He let out a deep breath and tried to focus on making eye contact with her, "What kind of favor?"

"Well... you see, you don't have anyone. So I figured..." She moved her hair away from her neck and rubbed it slightly. His eyes widened and he looked at her a bit shocked. "Well, if you would just put some of your scent on me, it might keep the guys away from me until my heat cycle is over. I don't expect you to date me or anything, but it would just save me a lot of stress if you could do that for me." His heart started racing a million miles an hour and there was a light pink tint to his cheeks.

"Um but uh, don't you have class to get to? I never took you for someone who would skip class..." He tried looking away again, focusing on a locker, a ceiling fan, a tile, anything but her green eyes. She smiled a bit, "I'm already grounded so what's the worst that could happen?" She takes his wrist, and pulls him towards an abandoned stairwell away from the cameras. He gulps and she leans against a wall, pressing herself into it almost, as she moves some hair away from her neck. She could see the panic in his eyes and moved a piece of hair back over her shoulder as she frowned.

"Shadow, you don't have to if you want to. I understand if this would be too uncomfortable for you."

He shook his head, "I'm just helping out a friend. No... big deal..." He leaned forward and closer to her neck, moving the piece back over her shoulder and behind her where it belonged. His nose twitched at the sweet smell coming from her. His hands instantly took her waist, pinning her to the wall as he closed the small space between their bodies. He let his scent cover hers. She let out a low mewl as his scent hit her nose and her ears flattened as she became submissive. He growled deep into her ear as his hands tightened on her waist. His lips brushed against her neck, teeth lightly scraping fur. She gasped and her hands went to tangle themselves in his chest fur. His tongue lightly poked out and started to lick the sweetest spot on her neck. She moaned, her eyes dialating a bit, before she pushed Shadow off.

"I-I think that's e-enough..." Her breathing was heavy as was his. Both their faces a deep tinted red. She looked at the ground, "T-Thanks Shadow... I'll see you later." She stepped out of the stairwell and walked to her class, a small smile gracing her lips as she twirled a piece of hair on her finger. Shadow remained in the stairwell, a bit taken aback by his own actions. He leaned against the wall, and sunk to the ground, his heart and mind racing.

A few days had passed. Amy was currently in gym. After the incident, it seemed no boys had become interested in her again. Sonic hadn't yet seemed to notice that she had been marked, and she would like to keep it that way. Sonic and Shadow were rivals, so it was no doubt if he could get a whiff of that scent he would easily tell it would be Shadow's.

Today was dodgeball. The first group consisted of Amy, Sonic, Rouge, Tails, and Sticks. The second group was Sally, Shadow, Knuckles, Cream, and Peri. Sally sent Amy a death glare. The pink hedgehog knew she would be the squirrels target. Her eyes locked with Shadow's after a few seconds, and she waved. He simply nodded his head in response. It seemed that even though he had been embarrased after their last encounter, his normal icy self was back. Rouge threw an arm around Amy's neck and smirked, whispering into her so no one could hear, "So, who's the lucky guy?"

Amy blushed, "W-What do you mean?"

"Oh come on Amy, there's a very strong scent around you. Is it a hedgehog? Cat? Wolf?" Amy blushed and put a finger to Rouge's lips to shush her.

"Listen, this is only temporary to help me get through my heat cycle. Me and this guy aren't together, he was just helping me." Amy reassured her bat friend and turned to look at the coach as he stood in the middle of the gym, whistle at the ready. Rouge sighed, "Fine. Don't tell me. I'll just figure it out later then with some snooping." She smirked, "Let's beat that squirrels tail."

Amy nodded and turned to the game. The coach blew the whistle and everyone ran for a ball at mid court. Sally tried to hit Amy multiple times, but the pink hedgehog dodged them perfectly and threw her own back at the squirrel, who also dodged them. Meanwhile Rouge was teasing Knuckles as she flew in the air and avoided his hits.

"You bat! That's cheating!" Knuckles cried out as he missed her again. She smiled in return.

"Oh babe, using your super strength is also cheating~"

He turned red, "DONT CALL ME BABE!"

Meanwhile, Sonic and Shadow, the legendary rivals, were having an all out brawl in their super forms as they gun shotted the dodge balls at each other. Red eyes glared into green ones as the two fought each other.

Meanwhile, Cream and Tails stood on the side lines because they are terrible at sports. They just giggled and talked as Sticks who was still on the field, dodged the balls, "THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING THEIR MIND CONTROLLING DEVICES IN THESE BALLS. THEY WILL NEVER GET ME!" And Peri was currently sitting out because she broke a nail and was crying about it.

Amy and Sally both threw a ball at each other simultaneously. Each ball hit the other right in the head and the two fell backwards with a lot of force. Sally was knocked out instantly as her head smacked into the floor hard. Amy was caught by Sonic before she could fall over. She looked up at him with surprise and he opened to ask her if she was okay before something hit his nose. His eyes narrowed with confusion and she tried to remain calm. He leaned down and sniffed her, to which Shadow from the other side let out a growl at. Sonic looked at Amy again with a serious look, "Someone marked you?"

"N-No one marked me. I don't know what you're talking about." She countered.

"Amy, someone marked you. Who was it?" Sonic looked serious now as Amy stood up on her own, wiping at her gym shorts.

"It was no one. No one marked me." She said again, avoiding Shadow's eyes and staring straight into Sonic's. He grabbed her wrist and sniffed again, this time his head whipped around to look for a certain someone who had been in the gym, but Shadow had disappeared.

"I guess... If you don't want to tell me who it was then that's fine. Just..." His voice was low, "Please tell me it's not Shadow, and I'll be fine." Amy gulped, but nodded. "It's not Shadow. Me and Shadow aren't even friends, so why would he mark me?"

Using this logic was enough to make him back off, then he went to go and check on Sally and anyone else who was hurt. Amy let out a sigh of relief as Rouge flew over and the coach called the game to a tie. The bat helped her up, "What was that about?"

"He could smell the other person on me." Amy rubbed her neck subconsciously, "So he was asking about him."

Rouge raised an eyebrow, "Why is it any of his business? Doesn't he have stuck up Sally over there?"

"I don't know..." Amy whispered to herself. The two made their way to their next class, Amy excusing herself to the restroom before she made it. Amy sighed when she finished releasing her inner liquids but cursed when she heard the bell ring. She stepped out of the stall and walked over to the mirror to wash her hands. She walked out of the restroom and turned down the deserted hallway to class when a hand was put on her wrist. She jumped and turned to see Shadow once again. He looked angry and Amy frowned, "Shadow? What's wrong?"

He glared down at her, "If we aren't even friends, then don't come to me anymore asking for favors." Amy's mouth opened up and she glared back.

"I'm sorry, I said that so you wouldn't have to be on the receiving end of my heat cycle. I didn't want Sonic to go after you when it's my mess."

"And I volunteered to become a part of your mess because I considered us friends Rose. But I guess that doesn't matter to you as long as you don't have horny men up your skirt all day." She gasped but bit her lip. He had never said something so mean to her before. She turned without saying a word and walked away, not bothering to talk to him after what he had said to her.