Sonic Adventure High is based on the characters and world of my Sonic Adventure 3 story , but it is in an alternate timeline. This story does not apply to the story of SA3, and vice versa. Note that this may contain some spoilers to SA3.
One major difference from SA3 is that instead of a third person perspective, it is in a first person perspective – each chapter is in the eyes of a different character.
And one last thing, this is a Japanese high school – just like in the anime.
YUKI THE HEDGEHOG'S POV
April 1, 2011
School Dormitory
Today starts off to a peaceful morning. I'm sleeping softly on my side with my knees bent up. My blanket is pulled down to my waist. I'm sleeping quietly without making any noise. And then, suddenly…
Waking up, breaking out
This is what it's like to be free
Rip it up, tear it down
This is what it means to be free
Jet sounds a distant roar behind you
As you try to clear your head
You start to look and answers find you
Your inner purpose lies ahead
Waking up, breaking out
This is what it's like to be free
Rip it up, tear it down
This is what it means to ``be free
Waking up, breaking out
This is what it's like to be free
Rip it up, tear it down
This is what it means to be free
My alarm clock is going off. My dream is interrupted as I slowly get back to real life. I flail my hand around the alarm aiming for the snooze button, then when I lift my sleep mask up, I moan in realisation. Today is the first day back at school.
The feeling of having had spring holiday and then having to go back for another year sucks. Why do we have to go back to school? We just did a whole year not too long ago, and now we have to do another year? But now, I'm just sounding lazy. I guess when you wake up on the first day of school, we all feel pretty lazy.
I've found the snooze button. I could just hit it and sleep in for an hour or two, or I could just get my fat ass out of bed and be on time. Even though I like the sound of the former more, I end up going with the latter. Meanwhile, Sonic seems like he's going with the sleep in option.
I knock on Sonic's door, whose room is right next to mine. "Morning, Sonic!" I shout from behind his door. "Hate to always bring the bad news, but it's the first day of school."
Oh wait, before you get confused – this is all happening in the dormitory we live in. I live in a co-ed dorm, actually. The only other people who live here are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Kaori. Which is odd because this is one of the nicer looking dorms in Shikokou. Me, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles are in the second floor where the boy's rooms are, and Kaori and Amy are in the third floor where the girl's rooms are.
"Can I come in?"
I hear Sonic yawning and rolling over in his bed. "I've finally found it! The world's biggest chilli dog!"
Uh oh, he's dreaming about chilli dogs. I better wait until he wakes up himself.
Half an hour later, at the monorail station…
The six of us are all sitting at the station waiting for the monorail that will take us to school. I observe the conversation going on around me.
"Man, can you believe it's back to school already? It sucks that we only get a month of spring holiday." Sonic complained.
"I always look forward to going back to school! Although it's probably because I'm so smart." Tails responded.
"Yeah, I don't know how you can be so smart, Tails. I've really never been that good at academics…" Kaori added.
Sonic chuckled. "Just cos you're popular, doesn't mean you're doing well at school Kao-Tan!"
"Huh! You're not all that bright when it comes to school either, Sonic!"
Sonic turned his head over to me. "So, you lookin' forward to school Yuki?"
I shrug my shoulders. "Well, we have to go back sooner or later."
"Yeah. On the bright side, it's always fun hanging around with our friends at high school. I wonder if there's going to be any new people this year we'll make friends with…"
"Hmph." We heard from a black hedgehog walking by and parking himself at the seat beside us. "Don't tell me I have to sit in the train with you on the first day back, faker."
"Same as ever, huh Shadow?"
"How was your school holiday?" I decide to ask. Me and Shadow don't normally talk to each other directly. I don't know if Shadow favours me any more over Sonic or not.
"It was alright, I guess." And that was it - he didn't go into detail. He turned his head to be greeted by a certain golden retriever.
"Hi Shadow!" She cheered. "Hola mejor amigo!"
That means 'Hello best friend' in Spanish. She usually inserts Spanish into her sentences because she was born in Caviella.
"Good morning, Esmerelda!" He perked up at the sight of her and got up to give her a big hug. He was smiling, a very rare sight indeed.
"I can't believe how different Shadow acts around Esmerelda. It's like he's a whole other person!" I exclaim.
"I've known him longer than anyone else, so I would know." Sonic responded. "I swear, Esmerelda and Rouge are the only two people he likes."
I could hear them talking to each other in Spanish. Shadow began learning how to speak that language from Esmerelda since last year.
"¿Te ha gustado vacaciones escolares?"
"¡Sí! Me alegro de haber pasado mucho tiempo con usted!"
"¡Gracias! Las clases de español que me estás dando han sido realmente dando sus frutos!"
"I have no idea what they're saying…" Kaori sighed.
After their conversation, Esmerelda turned over to us. "Catgirl!" She called over to Kaori.
"Oh, hey Esmerelda-Chan." She greeted. "Hey Emo."
"He's not an emo, you stupid little cat!" She shouted at her.
"Morning, faker!" Sonic greeted Shadow afterward.
"I swear, call me emo or faker one more time and I'll shoot both you and the catgirl, faker!" Shadow threatened as he reached for his glock.
In the monorail, I sat in between Sonic and Kaori. Tails, Knuckles and Amy sat facing us. Shadow and Esmerelda sat with each other on a different car, presumably to get away from Sonic, whom both of them clearly loathed. Soon the doors closed, and the train took off to the school.
"Hey, Sonic." Amy was the first out of us six to talk on the train. "Hey, Sonic. Sonic. Sonic."
"Amy, what!?" Sonic finally answered, sounding annoyed.
"I love you."
"Yeah, you told me at least 30 times over the holidays. Some mornings you burst into my room and told me, and most of the text messages I got on my cell phone were from you, all saying I love you Sonic."
"Do you love me back?"
"Well you're not making your chances better trying to force it on me."
"You're just shy, aren't you?"
Sonic facepalmed. "Amy, really! I don't love you!"
"You don't love me yet!"
"Whatever. End of conversation." Sonic decided it was a waste of time arguing with Amy.
Sonic transferred over here from Pingasville in 9th Grade. We became friends almost immediately.
"Hey guys." Sonic brought up a topic of his own.
"I heard over the holidays Shadow called Silver a dick."
"How'd you find out about that?"
"I called Shadow one day to tell him something and at the same time Silver was calling Shadow. Silver must've said or done something and then Shadow just shouted out something along the lines of you're a dick."
"Is Silver really a dick?"
"Yeah, he is sometimes. Most of the time. By the way, he won't be coming to school today."
"Why not? What happened?"
"Shadow beat him up, giving him severe injuries."
"Oh, of course."
I looked over to my left to see Kaori gazing out the window right next to her. From this angle she looks really pretty. She always looks pretty – I've seen some boys hit on her, but she always rejects them. Kaori is actually very popular at school. I make up my mind to tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. "Hey, Kaori-chan."
"Oh, hi Yuki."
I make small talk. "Were you thinking about anything in particular just then?"
"I was just thinking about when we get back to school and see our friends."
"Can I talk to you?"
She nodded. "What do you wanna talk about?" As with most girls with her name, Kaori is friendly, cheerful and fun to hang around with. True, some of the time she can be a super bitch (you'll get to see for yourself later) but Kaori is a great friend when she's in a good mood.
Once we get to school…
Once I get to school, I soon find the class assignments posted up on the board, where there are quite a few students looking. I walk over and search for my name. I'll admit, none of the home room teachers here are winners. In fact, they're all villains. So I just hope I don't wind up with Hakai, my demonic brother and the worst teacher you could possibly wind up with.
"Ah, here I am." I remark once I've found my name on the assignments. "I'm in Classroom 7-E. With..." Then I take a look at my teacher. This is the worst thing that can possibly happen to me on my first day back... Classroom 7-E, Hakai Akuma.
My body can't handle the sheer amount of anger and I pass out.
Next thing I know, I slowly wake up to find myself lying in the nurse's office.
"Chris Throndyke?" I ask the teenage boy who just happens to be the nurse. "Why are you a nurse?"
"I was afraid people would ask me that..."
"Did I miss anything while I was passed out?"
"You did sleep through the whole start of year assembly."
"Oh, well that's not much of a loss."
"Class will be starting right about now."
I can't be late for the first day back with Hakai as my teacher! I think frantically. I have no time for questions. I leap up and bolt out, headed for my classroom, hoping I'd make it time before my loathed brother arrives. I also sorta wanted to get the sight of Chris in a woman's nurse outfit away from me.
As fast as I can possibly go, I sprint my way upstairs and to class 7-E. Come on, where is it, where is it?! I ask in my thought as I count down the classrooms... 7-B... 7-C... 7-D... finally, 7-E! I rush inside the door, hoping I was in time.
I was graced to see that once I got inside, Hakai had yet to arrive. I let out a sigh of relief.
"Heeeyy! Yuki, my man! Sure is good to see you in the same classroom as me again!"
"Sonic! We're in the same home room again!" Having my best friend in the same classroom helped soften the pain of having the worst teacher at school.
"So, you know we got your brother for the home room teacher this year, right?"
"I'd rather no one has to bring it up for me."
The door opened, and I was waiting for Hakai to show up and be a jackass. Instead, it was another student.
"Hey guys! I just had to take care of something for archery club. I'm not too late am I?" It turns out Kaori just happened to be in the same home room as me and Sonic!
"Kaori-chan! You're in this classroom too?" I ask cheerfully. I had thought they put me and Kaori in different classes, but thankfully we're in the same one again.
"Yo, Kao-tan!" Sonic invited Kaori as he wrapped his arms around both me and her. "Looks like we're all in the same class again, just like last year! The three amigos! Something tells me we're in for a fun year!"
Maybe this school year won't be so bad after all... I think to myself positively, only for those hopes to be shattered when Hakai walked into the room ready to begin the day.
"Okay, who's here on time? I better not have any students late on the first day! You should know better than that!" He threatened.
Much to my concern, a brown-furred male cat arrived late. "Excuse me, Akuma-Sensei, I really had to take a dump the moment I got here, and I couldn't hold it in until lunchtime. Where do I sit?"
Hakai turned his head to the poor student slowly. "As I was saying the moment before you showed up, no one dares show up late on the first day! Let me tell you, if you hadn't gone to the toilet you'd be shitting yourself right now!"
He placed his left palm right in the middle of the student's chest. That hand started glowing purple, then he fired a blast at point-blank range, knocking him out.
"You should count yourself lucky. I only had to use less than 10 per cent of my power there. Next time that happens, I won't be so soft."
The positive thoughts changed to realistic thoughts. You know what? This is gonna be even worse than I thought.
Lunchtime
I escape the classroom and join Sonic and Kaori out in the hallway, where they've met up with Tails.
"I've been meaning to ask you, how's it like in a classroom with all 16-year olds Tails?"
"Last year it felt a bit intimidating, but it's okay now. It makes sense that I got promoted up four years."
"Yeah... for a fox cub, you really are smart! Academics really aren't my thing... oh well, I'm not too disappointed with myself."
"You're very smart in other aspects. You're also very nice and pretty. I'm glad we go to the same high school."
"Aww! Thanks!"
I walk up to them hoping I'm not interrupting the conversation between Kaori and Tails.
"Hey Tails. How's your first day going so far?"
"I ended up with Metal Sonic as my teacher. It could be worse, I guess."
"Speaking of worse, the three of us got Hakai."
"Huh."
"Wow, did you hear that? They were unlucky enough to get Hakai! What losers!"
I overhear some random punk student mock us as he and his friends approach. I turn over to see three supposedly bullies, two guys and a girl.
"I may have ended up with my despised demon brother, but you don't have to make me feel any worse."
"You're brothers with him too? Man, I really pity you!" The white male hedgehog taunted me, the one who was first to speak.
"If you're picking on all of us, I just wanna let you know that Tails didn't get Hakai." Sonic protected Tails.
"I've been at this school longest out of the four of us, and I've had to put up with people like you for three full years now. I really hate it."
"What, did you expect to scare us with that little story of yours? Or did you want to bore us?" The green male cat sarcastically asked Kaori.
"Are you gonna get your little claws out and threaten to scratch us, kitty? Sounds terrifying!" Added the red female wolf.
Oh, if only you knew about Kaori's claws, you wouldn't be saying that about them. I thought at that moment.
"Maybe I will, and maybe it'll really hurt." Kaori threatened as she drawed out her notoriously painful claws. "Let's get it on!"
A big three-on-three battle ensued. A big cloud of dust emerged from where the battle took place. Eventually, the battle ended and we emerged victorious. "Uh, guys?" Tails begun as he walked back up to us. "I don't think this one's breathing..." He informed as he pointed to the white hedgehog.
I watched as Sonic examined the body. After a few seconds, he planned what to do. "Yuki, Kao-Tan!" He boomed at both of us. "You were involved in this too, you have to help me bury the dead body!"
"Sonic, are you crazy?" Kaori objected. "I don't even think he's dead!"
Sonic paused for a moment, then turned to me. "Yuki, you don't get a choice here, you're still coming." He walked back over to the "dead" body and softly kicked it repeatedly while looking at me.
"What is it?" I ask him out of frustration.
"You have to carry him." He instructed me. "I don't want dead hedgehog germs, and seeing as Kao-Tan won't be accompanying us, that's for you to deal with."
I shake my head as I pick up the hedgehog, and we proceeded to leave the school building and out to somewhere where we could bury him a grave. "Sonic? Remind me why I agreed to be your friend." I ask him sarcastically.
Somewhere off the school property
Once Sonic picked where to bury the body, he got out two shovels, one for me and one for him.
"Sonic, why did you bring two shovels to school with you?"
"I was prepared for situations like this on my first day, why are you questioning me so much today?" He started digging. "C'mon, drop 'im anywhere and help me out, or I'll be digging till the next cherry blossom festival!"
"I'm not doing this."
"Why not?"
"Because he's not dead!"
"Does he have any of a pulse for the last 15 minutes?"
"I don't think so..."
"Then he's dead. Now stop complaining and dig, dig, dig!"
20 minutes later...
I decided to help him dig just for the sake of shutting him up. Maybe the hedgehog we're digging this grave for will regain his consciousness sometime now. I hope so, because we haven't even managed to dig two feet deep yet.
"This is not the best choice of soil for digging, let me tell you! Darn you, Shikokou nature!"
"By the way, it's now evening. We've just missed half the first day back at school, congratulations."
"So what? You're actually trying to get a degree now?"
"I'm not so much worried about my education as I am what Hakai will do with us the next time we cross paths."
"Come on, we can't be scared of him! Where's our spirit gone?"
"I'm not scared. I just hate him."
"We all do. Make a bridge and get over it."
Then, I heard a voice from behind us... "What the hell are we doing here?" He asked.
"Yuki, he's become a zombie!" Sonic cried in terror, before he jumped right into my arms like in a Saturday morning cartoon. "Get the chainsaws and shotguns! The zombie apocalypse has begun!"
"He's not undead. He's alive. Like he always has been."
"You're those poor guys who ended up with Hakai that he fought, aren't you?"
"Question: have you become a zombie?"
"He's not a zombie, they don't exist!"
"Well, when the apocalypse does start and where we've all been collecting our weaponry and survival skills, you've just been laughing at us telling us wrong, who'll be laughing then?"
"Whatever, let's just get back to the dorm. The others will be wondering where the hell we've been."
"I'll tell you what we've been – tricked. Played with like toys for his own sick entertainment."
"Do you actually put up with this guy?"
"Yes, but I sure don't like it..."
April 2, 2011
The next day, we had our desks and chairs taken away from us as punishment for skipping school. We had to sit on cardboard boxes.
"At least I knew better than to put myself through another one of your episodes." Kaori taunted Sonic.
"Hey, you're teasing me! Hakai! She's teasing me! Give her a box to sit on!"
Hakai begun charging up a Reaper Cannon in his hand. "You were saying?"
"I hate the crappy teachers in this school..."
END OF EPISODE ONE!
