"Hmm?" Shadow muttered as he looked at his classes. His next class was Physics, which he knew wasn't going to be hard. He knew a lot about science since he spent most of his life around scientists. Shadow walked down the halls trying to get past the other students who were walking to their next class also. Shadow could hear a bunch of giggling and whispering, but decided to ignore it. All the girls thought Shadow was so hot, in that bad-boy way and they couldn't help but stare. He finally got to his classroom to see Knuckles at the back with his legs up on the desk and his hands behind his head. Shadow knew he was probably sleeping and thought of a devious way to wake him up. He walked over and slapped Knuckles on the back of his head like Rouge would and Knuckles woke up with his eyes wide and quickly put his legs on the floor and his hands on the desk.
"I wasn't sleeping Rouge!" Knuckles yelled out, but only Shadow could hear him since the class was so loud. Shadow snickered and sat next to him while Knuckles glared at him.
"Ok class, welcome to the new year! I'm your Physics teacher Mr. Huffman." A small, chubby rat said as he made his way to his desk. Everybody in the class stopped talking and put their hands on their desk acting like they were perfect. Shadow and Knuckles just rolled their eyes and leaned back in their chairs. "Before we start Coach Ruben has a special announcement." Mr. Huffman said as he took out some papers from his bag and wrote something on the board. Soon a giant grey bulldog came in wearing a baseball cap and sweats.
"Welcome back students! It's that time again when we're looking for new members of the Mobius Tornadoes Football Team!" The coach said with some of the boys cheering. Shadow and Knuckles knew what football was and seemed kind of interested…well, mostly Knuckles. "This year we are going to crush the other schools from the other states and show which school rules!" Coach Ruben said raising a fist in the air. "Tryouts are tomorrow! Be ready for anything!" The coach said as he walked out of the room. Knuckles and Shadow looked at each other and then started to whisper while the teacher was talking about things.
"So, you think we should tryout?" Knuckles asked as he lowered his voice.
"We're supposed to be on a mission." Shadow said as Knuckles rolled his eyes.
"Rouge said Eggman is on some retreat for the school. He's not going to be here for another month! We might as well enjoy this hell we're going to be living in." Knuckles said as Shadow pondered the possibility of playing football. "C'mon, I like crushing things and you like beating things up. We might as well do it without getting in trouble." Knuckles said.
"All right, I'll tryout." Shadow said as Knuckles smiled happily. After class was over Knuckles and Shadow went their separate ways to their lockers. Shadow had Economics next and was heading towards his locker when he noticed Amy getting her books out as well. Amy was actually one of the first people to be nice to Shadow. Shadow made sure he was nice to her. He actually enjoyed Rose's presence, but Shadow never took it as a having a crush on Amy, but he definitely liked Amy more than the others. Shadow got his books out of his locker and began to make his way to his class, but stopped when he noticed more than usual whispering behind him. He turned around and saw a grey hedgehog walking down the hall with girls trying to get at him. He kind of looked like Sonic, but he had his quills pulled back into a ponytail and had three bangs over his right eye. He had green/blue eyes and wore a white T-shirt with a blue hoodie and had a silver chain with jeans and dark blue Vans. His name was Darren Rivers, but around the school he was known as Romeo. He was a total ladies man and he always got whatever he wanted. He could sweep girls off their feet with just a small smirk, he could get any girl he wanted and he had his eyes on Amy. He quickly made sure he looked good and made his way to her locker. Romeo put his elbow against the locker by her and looked at her.
"Hey, what's a pretty girl like you doing by yourself?" Romeo said as he lifted Amy's chin to face him. Amy rolled her eyes and moved his hand away from her chin.
"I'm going to class and I don't need to be late." Amy said as she closed her locker and picked up her name.
"Well, I can't just call you pretty girl so what's your name?" Romeo said as he stepped in front of Amy.
"The name is Amy and I'll just call you move lover boy!" Amy said as she pushed him aside.
"Hey, hey, hey why you got to hate on me like that? I just want to get to know the most beautiful girl in school." Romeo said as he put his hand on her chin again.
"Well, good like trying because I rather not know the school player." Amy said as he moved his hand again. Amy already heard about Romeo from Luna. Luna pretty much gave Amy the 411 about the school and who she should look out for.
"I'm not a player, am I so bad that you think that?" Romeo asked as he made a puppy dog face. Amy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
"Listen, I'm not interested. There are plenty of other girls that would like you, but I really don't want to be late for class." Amy said as she started to walk away when he slid in front of her again.
"Come on, I don't bit—"Romeo said before he was cut off.
"She said she isn't interested." Shadow said stepping in between Romeo and Amy. Amy was shock that Shadow came and was now defending her. Amy knew that Shadow was extra nice to her more than the others and sometimes wondered if he would be a good boyfriend. Only sometimes though.
"Who do you think you are?" Romeo asked as he glared at Shadow.
"My name is Shadow and you need to back off!" Shadow said never removing his cold glare.
"What are you? Her boyfriend?" Romeo said as he pushed Shadow back. Shadow stumbled back a bit, but quickly pushed Romeo back landing him on his ass. Romeo got up and tackled Shadow to the floor and the two went head on. They were throwing punches left and right, but Shadow was obviously winning. Shadow stopped when he heard the warning bell ring. Shadow swung Romeo off of him and into the lockers.
"Lay off Amy or next time I won't show any mercy!" Shadow said as he dusted himself off. Romeo just scoffed before getting up and walking away. Amy could have sworn she saw him wipe some blood off his mouth.
"Thanks Shadow, that guy was really bugging me." Amy said as she and Shadow rushed to class through the almost empty halls.
"No problem. Shit we're really going to be late for class. Wait, I got an idea, what's your next class?" Shadow said as he and Amy stopped in the now empty halls. Amy was rummaging through her backpack as she tried to find her list of classes. When she finally did her eyes searched the paper of listed classes.
"Economic, Economics!" Amy said as she stuffed the paper in her pocket.
"Ok, hold on tight." Shadow said as he picked up Amy and started running down the halls. Shadow was going slower than he would usually go because he didn't want to burn the soles of his shoes out. However, he still was going pretty fast; fast enough for Amy's quills to blow back. Shadow stopped when they were right outside the classroom and put Amy down carefully before they both walked in hoping the teacher wouldn't notice. She was writing something on the board as they came in and hid in the back. They both let out a sigh of relief, but then stopped when the teacher spoke without turning her head.
"It's nice to see you two can join us, Mr. Shadow and Ms. Rose." The teacher said as she kept writing on the board. The class was holding back their laughter as they all turned back and looked at them. Shadow and Amy just put their heads against the desk to avoid further humiliation.
"Sorry I made you late." Shadow whispered to Amy when the class turned back around.
"It wasn't your fault; it was that jerk's fault." Amy said as she pulled out her notebook.
"Yeah, but I shouldn't have fought him." Shadow said as he began to write what the teacher wrote on the board.
"Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm happy that you defended me, it was really sweet." Amy said as she finished writing what was on the board. Shadow smiled a bit and just continued to write. After class they both walked out to their lockers and were talking about how their day was going so far.
"So, I met this girl named Luna and she's going to eat lunch with us." Amy said as the two walked through the crowded halls.
"Oh, well I guess that's cool. Knuckles and I are going to try out for the football team tomorrow." Shadow said as he tried to speak over the other people talking.
"Really? That's great! I bet you'll be the best on the team." Amy said as they stopped at her locker. Amy was getting her books, while Shadow just leaned on the locker next to hers.
"I doubt I'll be the best, we don't even know the other guys playing." Shadow said as he looked at what class he had next.
"Come on Shadow, I've seen you fight. You can really kick some ass, and I'll bet you can rip through those guys and score like a million times." Amy said as she reached for her books.
"Whatever, I bet Knuckles will be better, you've seen him mad." Shadow said as Amy laughed before accidently dropping a book. They both went to pick it up and bumped heads. Amy busted out laughing as Shadow just laughed a little; they both stopped and just stared into each other's eyes.
'His eyes are so beautiful.' Amy thought as she stared into Shadow's fiery crimson eyes.
"Hey are you guys going to pick up that book anytime soon?" Silver said as he and Sonic just stood there. Shadow and Amy got up and went back to where they were.
"Anyways…Knuckles told us that you guys are trying out for football." Sonic said.
"Yeah, do you guys want to try out?" Shadow said as the four of them started to walk to their classes.
"Nah, I'm already decided to go out for track and I can't let this pretty face get hurt." Sonic said with his usually cocky smile. Shadow and Silver rolled their eyes at Sonic while Amy just giggled a bit.
"What about you Silver?" Shadow asked as they turned the corner into the main hall.
"I don't think so; I may be strong, but not that strong without my powers." Silver said lifting up the bracelet he had on. "Besides all I can do is jump really high and throw a few good punches and kicks." Silver said as he shrugged his shoulders. Suddenly a white rabbit approached them wearing a basketball jersey.
"Hey, did you just say you can jump really high?" The rabbit asked Silver. Silver thought for a second he was going to ask him about his powers.
"Yeah?" Silver said wondering what the rabbit wanted from him.
"Well, you should come and tryout for the basketball team you'll be great!" The white rabbit said as he handed an orange flyer to him and walked off. Silver looked over the flyer it said tryouts were tomorrow. Silver thought he might as well since the others were trying out for sports.
"Well, there you go we're all going to be in sports!" Sonic said as he pulled Shadow and Silver in a head-lock, which they quickly got out of.
"What about Tails?" Amy asked.
"I don't think he'll want to play sports, but we should ask him at lunch." Silver said rubbing the back of his head.
"Well, I should really head off the class guys, bye!" Amy said as she left the group of boys to head off to her next class.
"Yeah, we should all get going." Sonic said as he took off to his class. Silver and Shadow said their goodbyes as they headed to their next class. Knuckles had been sleeping in his Calculus class since he got there. He wasn't used to getting up this early and actually being productive. Rouge walked in and noticed the sleeping echidna and smirked before she walked over and sat next to him. Rouge leaned in to his ear and smiled.
"Wake up Knuckles!" Rouge yelled before she went back to her seat as Knuckles freaked out a bit.
"God Rouge, can't you let me sleep?" Knuckles said as he checked if he could still hear.
"You should be happy that I even woke you up. I could have done a lot worse things to you when you were asleep." Rouge said as she crossed her legs and waited for the teacher to arrive. Knuckles rolled his eyes and pulled out the books he needed as he just face forward like Rouge did. "So, I hear you might be trying out for football Knuckle-head." Rouge said turning towards Knuckles.
"I am, and I'm going to rip those other players the shreds." Knuckles said raising his giant fist in the air. It was now Rouge's turn to roll her eyes while she just turned her body towards Knuckles.
"Whatever Knuckles, you never know these kids. They may look easy to beat up, but they might beat you on the football field." Rouge said teasing Knuckles.
"Yeah right, I can beat these guys in my sleep." Knuckles said as he tried to go back to sleep, but Rouge just slapped him awake.
"Hey sexy how about you come and sit by me?" A black bat said motioning Rouge to come sit next to him. Knuckles eyes shot open from the sleep he was trying to get again and he stood up.
"Why don't you just sit in your little corner and fuck yourself! She doesn't want to!" Knuckles said before Rouge could even say no, which she was. Rouge turned around shocked to see Knuckles defending her. The black bat stood up and made his way to Knuckles. He was a bit taller than Knuckles and had some muscles, but Knuckles knew he could take down this meat-head with one hand tied behind his back.
"Really? Is that true?" The bat said turning to Rouge.
"You bet your ass it is." Rouge said not even being a little scared of the giant bat.
"Well then, I guess I can just have some fun beating up your boyfriend!" The bat said lifting Knuckles by his collar. Knuckles just chuckled before he quickly punched the bat in the face making him let go of Knuckles. The bat quickly regained his balance and charged towards Knuckles, while Knuckles just grabbed the bat's fist and punched him in the face again. One of the bat's friends came and got him from the ground telling him that this wasn't the place to do this. "This isn't over! You got that echidna?!" The bat said as he waved his fist at Knuckles while the teacher walked in and noticed some blood on the floor he knew a fight had gone down.
"Alright who started a fight?" The teacher asked the class as they all pointed to the bat. No one liked that stupid bat so they all agreed to let Knuckles off the hook. The teacher pointed outside towards the hall which the bat knew meant he had to go to the principal's office. Finally it was lunch and Tails was looking for any of his friends after he got a tray of food. He quickly spotted Silver and Cream sitting at a table near the window and he rushed over there.
"—then the kid raised his hand up and said it was a problem and the whole class started busting out laughing." Silver was telling Cream about something funny that had happened in his Statistics class and she was cracking up when Tails came over and sat next to Cream.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Tails said as he set his tray down.
"Hey Tails, I was just telling Cream about what happened in our Statistics class." Silver said as Tails recalled what happened and started to laugh. "By the way Tails the guys wanted to know if you wanted to try out for any sports?" Silver asked as he took a bit of his sandwich.
"Nah, I'm not that strong and I'd probably be killed in every sport." Tails said as he took a sip of fruit punch.
"Come on, you might be good in basketball since you got those two tails to help you get in the air." Silver said pointing the Tails' tails.
"I think I'm good, besides I've decided to join the debate team." Tails said as he began to eat.
"I'll bet you'll be really good." Cream said as she ate some pudding. Tails blushed a bit when he spotted Knuckles and Rouge walking over.
"Hey guys, so what's been up with you? By the way Knuckles got into a fight." Rouge said as she and Knuckles sat next to Silver.
"Well that's going around a lot." Sonic said suddenly appearing as he and Shadow sat down.
"What do you guys mean?" Cream asked as she drank some OJ.
"Well, Shadow here got into a fight with some gray hedgehog that is apparently called 'Romeo'." Sonic said as he put air quotes around 'Romeo'.
"Wow, sounds like some guy. Well Knuckles got into a fight with this black bat who was hitting on me." Rouge said as everybody choked on something they were eating or spit out whatever they were drinking.
"Knuckles was defending you?" Tails asked as he tried to stop chocking on a chip.
"Yeah?" Rouge said not seeing why it was so weird.
"Wow Knuckles, seems someone likes someone." Sonic said as he and Tails laughed. Knuckles hid his blush as he just glared at Sonic.
"Shut up!" Knuckles said slamming one of his fists on the table.
"Calm down Knuckles. I was only kidding." Sonic said holding up his hands innocently. Lucky for Knuckles Amy came before anyone could say anything else. She was with Luna and everybody was quick to notice her.
"Hey everybody this is my new friend, Luna Moon." Amy said as she looked at Luna who smiled nervously. Everybody welcomed her like she was their friend for years. Luna let her guard down after the warm welcome and sat down at the table.
"So, Luna you've been here for all these years and we're just new, can you give us the low down on everyone and everything?" Rouge asked looking at her fellow ivory companion.
"Well, you see the grey hedgehog right there…" Luna said pointing to Romeo making Shadow and Amy roll their eyes. "He's Darren "Romeo" Rivers. He can pick up girls like it's nothing. He always win Prom and Homecoming king and always gets what he wants." Luna said as the group turned away from Romeo.
"That's no shock to me." Amy said as she took a bite of her sandwich. No one questioned her because she obviously looked annoyed.
"Well, the girl right there…" Luna pointed to an orange mongoose with long straight brown hair and green eyes. "She is the girl version of Romeo. Her name is Karen Purnup. Her family is one of the richest in the school and she is considered to be the most popular girl here. She wins Prom and Homecoming queen and is a really catty girl." Luna said as Rouge scoffed.
"Well, I think it's time to knock her off her thrown." Rouge said as she crossed her legs and smirked.
"And right there…" Luna said pointing to a light brown fox with a group of kids around him laughing at whatever he was saying. He actually looked like a nice guy. "His name is Reese Romaro. He throws the best parties and he's one of the funniest guys in the senior class. Everybody is great friends with him and he is always nice and always has a great laugh for anyone. He also used to be my boyfriend." Luna said smiling sadly at her former boyfriend as everybody turned around to her.
"He used to be your boyfriend?" Amy asked as she looked at Luna who seemed like she was trying to not seem upset.
"Yeah, we broke up last summer because things were getting too complicated." Luna said as she looked down at her food. The 'popular' kids didn't like the fact Reese was dating Luna. Reese didn't care what they thought because he loved Luna and never wanted to let her go. However, one day Reese was beaten up because of the fact he was dating Luna and Luna couldn't see him get hurt, so she broke up with him. They haven't talked since, but Luna still loves him but she can't say the same for him. She doesn't even know if he likes her anymore. The group didn't question her about it because they didn't want to make her more upset.
"Well, is that everybody?" Cream said trying to change subject.
"Yeah, everyone you should look out for." Luna said lifting her head up from her tray. Amy smiled at her, but then realized someone was missing.
"Hey, where's Blaze?" Amy asked looking around. Silver's eyes widened and he started to look around panicked. How could he not realize Blaze wasn't with them? He quickly removed himself from table and began to look around the school, but then stopped when he saw her in the library reading a book while she sat against the wall. Silver walked over to her and sat next to her. She didn't even look up from her book because she knew it was Silver.
"What are you doing here?" Silver asked as he looked around the library.
"Oh, I wasn't that hungry and I had nothing else better to do, so I decided to read." Blaze said as she held up her book.
"Why didn't you come and find me? I would have hung out with you." Silver said as he stretched out his legs.
"I knew you'd probably be hungry and I didn't want you to miss lunch because of me." Blaze said as she looked at Silver.
"Well, you do know me well enough to know I was really hungry, but I would have still come and hung out with you." Silver returning his gaze back to Blaze who was blushing a bit.
"Well, you're here now so I guess we can hang out now." Blaze said checking the clock on wall. They had 15 minutes before they had to get to class. "So, did I miss anything?" Blaze asked Silver after checking the time. Silver smiled and told her about Shadow's and Knuckles' fights, his classes, Luna, and about the kids Luna talked about. "Wow, I guess I missed a lot." Blaze said as she and Silver got up.
"Yeah, but this was only half the day. You never know what the other half will bring." Silver said as he and Blaze walked to their class together.
(A/N): Sorry doesn't have much romance, but I'm really trying to develop the characters the more. I promise to bring more when I get to the next chapter.