A/N: Alright gain, here we go again. So just FYI for all my wonderful readers and reviewers, I am now moving out and working a full time job while going to school, so if I'm slow at this new story, just know you have my deepest apologies! This story really speaks to me and I really like the emotions and words that come to me when I write. So I hope you all enjoy it. Please do review. ^_^
Chapter 1
"Uh, I'm going to be late again!" A pink hedgehog ran down the street and around the corner. She was on her way to the university.
Standing on the front steps of the college was a rabbit. "Hurry Amy, you might make it today!"
"Cream," Amy huffed as she came up the stairs. "You shouldn't have waited for me."
The door was about to close, but Cream caught it with her foot. "Come on!" Amy jumped to the top of the stairs. The two ran down the corridor and turned into the class room, five seconds later the professor entered the room.
"Phew..." Amy sighed. "That was close, thanks Cream."
Cream just smiled holding up her leg. "Lucky rabbits foot."
"Let's see if the luck holds out, and make it through this class." She and Cream hurried to their seats.
Amy sat close to the window on the far side of the class. Though she always tried to be on time and do well, her heart wasn't always in it. She went to the university and lived life, but she often wondered if there was more to life than just what she learned in the classroom. She stared out the window as the teacher's voice faded, and her mind wander off somewhere beyond the sun's horizon.
If only she knew just what lay beyond that rising sun.
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"Master." a figure stood in the light of a doorway, the sound of battle roaring behind him. "They've infiltrated the lair," Blood trickled down his arm, forming a pool on the floor. "We must get you out of here."
"No, I will stay and fight!"
"Master, you must go." the wounded said with conviction. "If you're captured they'll be no one to lead us, and all we've worked for will be lost." He dropped to one knee. "If you die so does our cause." He looked up his eyes full of certainty. "Master...you must live."
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"alright class you're dismissed." The professor said as she began erasing her notes from the whiteboard. "Accept you Ms. Rose." She kept her back to her student, cleaning the board until the rest of the class was gone. "Amy, I've noticed you find it difficult to pay attention during my lectures," She wasn't speaking in spite or in anger, but in pure concern. I've also heard you've had the same problems in other classes as well. If this class or these subjects do no interest you then why do you continue to attend them?" She asked. "Ancient world history, mythology, and ancient literature don't seem to be of any interest to you at all." She looked downward trying to see Amy's eyes. "You could choose something else, science, biology, poetry, something you'll enjoy?"
"I have to take these classes." Amy finally looked the teacher right in the eye.
"Why is that? Why would you take classes you don't like?"
"Because I promised my grandmother." She held her book to her chest. "My grandmother went to this school, she majored in these classes."
"Why would you're grandmother make you take the same classes she did?"
"She can't make me do anything," Amy looked away. "She's dead."
"Oh Amy, I'm sorry." The teacher retracted slightly.
"She asked me to take these classes." Amy continued. "She raised me, and paid my full tuition for my entire school career, I don't think it's asking too much." She moved to walk to the door. She looked over her shoulder at her teacher. "And I want to be just like her."
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"Well, see you tomorrow." Cream had her backpack on her shoulder. She walked down the steps. "And Amy,"
"Yeah?" She smile sitting on the rail of the steps.
"Get a new alarm clock."
Amy rolled her eyes with a smile. "Bye Cream." She waved her friend off. She looked upward, the late afternoon sky was clouding up and she could feel a strong wind blowing in a storm. She began her trek home. She felt rain drops as they began to fall from the sky. "Of course it would rain on the day I don't have an umbrella." She sighed. The rain only got heavier as she went on. "I gotta take a short cut home." She turned and headed down an alley as thunder cracked over head. The thunder was suddenly followed by a loud crashing sound. She turned quickly to look behind her. The sound had been something smashing into the trashcans that were strode all down the alleyway. "W-Who's there?" She said as she took a step back. Thunder pounded again and Amy saw someone stand up from amongst the rattled cans, but within seconds they fell.
"Hey," Amy moved to the array of garbage cans. "Are you alright?" She moved the cans aside and saw a figure laying there. A crack of lighting lit up the sky and she realized it was a black hedgehog. "Hello...?" She leaned down looking at him. "Can you hear me?" As she looked at him, she realized how striking he was, his large black quills striped with red, a smooth muscled chess, and his face it was so handsome. She moved closer and reached out to touch his neck for a pulse, but suddenly his hand flew up catching her by the wrist, his now open eyes were burning bright red. Before she had time to react he pulled her into a kiss.
"UM!" She blushed her eyes widening as he kissed her. "U-uhm," Her struggle lessened as he pulled her body into his, and her eyes closed as he deepened it.
He parted with her at last. She was blushing as she leaned into him her eyes soft and her breathing still rapid from his kiss. He held her in one arm as his eyes stared into hers. She felt those glowing red eyes on her as if they were burning embers. "Ah you've found yourself a meal have you." A voice came from the darkness of the street.
"And a rather tasty looking one at that." Another voice sounded.
Amy's eyes opened fully as she saw two figures coming into the light of a street lamp that was flickering on and off. One was a tall slender purple wolf with glowing green eyes. With the wolf, was a purple weasel. His eyes were glowing icy blue.
"We hate to interrupt your feast Shadow, but we've come an awful long way to kill you." The she wolf smiled showing her fangs.
"Yes, but don't worry she won't go to waste, I'd be happy to finish her off." The weasel grinned. At first Amy thought it was her imagination, but as he approached, the weasel was growing. His fur was turning darker and his eyes were glowing brighter and brighter. "Now hand over the snack and prepare for your own death."
Amy's eyes quivered. She couldn't believe it, was this how it was all going to end? Murdered by these monsters? "Don't be afraid." She looked up at the one holding her. His crimson eyes were glowing as he stared at the weasel and the wolf. "They are nothing but fleas on my back now." He stood up and moved to stand in front of the weasel and the wolf. His eyes began glow just as bright and his body was growing now.
Amy was backed against the brick wall as she watched. Suddenly the black hedgehog dropped to all fours, his body didn't stop growing and his teeth, no they were fangs, they grew large and sharp. Amy gasped as she watched the transformation. His hands and feet turned to paws, his muzzled deformed growing longer and into large jaws. His fur grew longer and his ears larger. Suddenly she realized that he was now a giant wolf. At first she thought he was solid black, but she noticed that his long black tail had two red streaks in it. She also saw that the weasel was taking the same transformation, but he was bigger and seemed even more terrifying with his bright icy eyes and his sharp claws extended, ready for a fight, now in the form of a solid black wolf.
The purple she wolf, did not transform, but stayed in her two legged form, with an grin. "What's this? Protecting a mere mortal? She must have the taste of a delicacy." She looked to her weasel. "Fang, why don't you take a bite?"
The giant black wolf turned it's blue eyes on Amy, licking his lips as he approached. He was only a few feet away when he was suddenly tackled in the ribs by Shadow. Fang rolled up onto his side looking at his attacker as his ears went back and he showed his fangs, before lunging at the striped tailed wolf. Loud barks and growls burst from each of them as they brawled violently.
Amy was pressed up against the brick wall as she watched. She thought her heart was going to burst from her chest, it was beating so fast. "You should be afraid." She turned quickly to her left and saw the purple she wolf approaching her. "It's only natural for prey to be afraid in the last few moments of its life when it knows it's about to die." Her eyes were turning yellow and death was shining in them. Amy closed her eyes, she could feel the she wolfs breath as she opened her jaws and her ivory fangs, glittering in the moonlight, pressed against Amy's jugular. She was just about to take a bite, when suddenly she stopped, her ears perked.
Amy opened her eyes and saw the wolf backing away. "Fang, to me!" She called the giant black wolf to her side. Fang had suddenly changed back to his two legged form. "We'll meet again Shadow, when there are less vermin involved." She and Fang vanished into the darkness.
Amy was still pressed against the wall as she saw the great wolf throw his head back and let out a howl. It was so loud that she had to cover her ears. Her ears and her head were ringing. The sound was growing so earsplitting that she fell over still holding her ears and fainted.
Shadow was standing over her, he gently used his muzzle to flip her over onto her back. He was taking in her scent when three other wolfs came around the corner. One was black with a red underbelly and chest. The second was also black, but with a yellow muzzle and ears. The third, like the others, was black, but the fur from the paws to mid leg was red on all four feet. The three began to approach Amy's body, but Shadow turned and lashed out at them growling. He turned back to her and then motioned with a bob of his head for each wolf to come forward slowly and one at a time. Amy's eyes opened for a moment of consciousness, she could see the faces of wolves all around her. In the next minute she passed out again. After Shadow was sure each of them had gotten a good whiff of her, he picked her up in his jaws and vanished into the darkness of the streets.