Sonic and Tails' Chemistry Class had started. The assignment for today was that they would be doing a lab on soluble and insoluble substances. As the teacher was sorting people out to hexagonal tables in the back of the room Tails caught Sonic staring at the Periodic Table poster.
"Trying to memorize it?" He asked.
"No Tails, I'm just thinking about how I can stop this. I'll have to get his cane away from him."
Sonic hushed as the teacher came over and sent him and Tails to a table near the window in the back of the classroom.
"That bat on the end of it is made of silver. I can't get near him while he has it with him." Sonic held his head in his hand.
"Don't stress out about it. You'll stop him, just not right now, we have to work." Tails reassured.
"What use does the concept of whether things dissolve have in my life?"
"Well, someday you might need this stuff since you go practically everywhere you want to. Com'on help me with this lab."
Sonic sighed and watched Tails fiddle with the lab equipment they had in front of them. He had just started the lab while Sonic watched him.
"Tails I can't do this."
"Sure you can Sonic, just follow these instructions."
Tails pointed to the instructions taped to the table. Sonic narrowed his eyes at the table. This is all a waste of time Sonic thought. I could be out doing whatever I want and stopping bad guys.
"Tails," Sonic whispered to the fox. "Don't you wish we were out of here?"
Tails stopped what he was doing and sighed.
"Sonic we've been over this. I know you don't like going to school. You have to."
"I wouldn't mind if there was actually something worth my time here. I'm not going to live forever so I have to live my life to the fullest."
"Sonic you're 15 years old, you have lots of time."
Sonic laid his head on the table and groaned.
"Don't lay in the sand sample!"
Ky had left his little stepsister to go off to his next class. Kris floated down the hall to her last class of the day.
Kris pulled her backpack up on her shoulders and quickly headed to her last class of the day and sat in her seat; letting her heavy backpack fall to the floor. She saw Blaze on the other side of the room with her nose in a spell book. This class was an elective potions class. There was a diverse age range and wasn't just limited to witches and wizards. The teacher rolled out from behind her desk and stood up.
"Hello, please take your seats. It's very nice to see all of you are here today. We are starting a project today. It will be a partner project."
Some kids looked at each other.
"Your project will be to create an entirely new potion using building blocks from lesson 4 and 5 of your textbooks."
Some of the students shuffled around in their schoolbags for their Potions book.
"We'll be working on it all throughout today and for the next 4 days of class. Just make sure the potion you create is school appropriate."
People started whispering to each other. As soon as the teacher was done talking she assigned the groups. Blaze ended being in a group with Kris.
"Um…Hello." Kris said to Blaze, trying to get her attention away from the spell book.
"Oh!" Blaze jumped and closed her book when she realized she was being spoken to. "Hello."
"We're project partners. Did you hear the assignment?" Kris asked.
"Yeah, we have to build what we learned off lesson 4 and 5 and create something new." Blaze answered.
"So, do you have any ideas of what you want to make?"
"I don't know."
The two girls tossed around ideas.
"Wait! I have an idea!"
Sonic jumped up from his seat when the bell rang and rushed out of the classroom.
"See ya at home Tails!"
"See ya!" Tails called after him
Sonic ran around corners to get where he needed to be but just as he was getting there he bumped into someone.
"I am so sorry." He apologized without looking at who he bumped into. He hoped it wasn't Shadow again.
"Watch where you're going." Grunted a yellow hedgehog. He dusted off his black jacket and dark denim stone-washed jeans.
The hedgehog stood up right but he still was small compared to Sonic.
"Who are you?" Sonic asked.
"My name is Ky." The hedgehog answered. "I'm a vampire if you couldn't tell."
"I didn't ask that."
"Well now you know."
Ky picked his books up off the floor of the hallway before they could be trampled by other kids walking through.
"Hey, have you seen my baby sister anywhere? She's supposed to meet me by the double doors before we go home."
"Baby sister?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, Snow Leopard, ghost, has a light blue and blonde streak in her hair, is wearing a camo T-shirt today, wears boots all the time. Have you seen her?"
"I think I've seen someone like that today."
Kris appeared pushing her way through the crowd.
"There she is!" Ky exclaimed.
"Sorry I'm late; we got held up cleaning the potions classroom." Kris apologized and explained.
"That's your baby sister?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, this is my baby sister Kris. I call her "baby sister" because she's younger and it makes her mad." Ky explained as Kris started glaring at him.
"Little sister would be fine." She grumbled.
"Whatever." Ky ignored her.
"Did you hear about what happened at the blood drive today?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, we were there." Ky answered.
"I know Shadow did it."
"Yeah we figured." Ky and Kris nodded.
"I'm just having a problem. The top of his cane is-"
Suddenly the area around them got dark. Kris shrank back.
"The school day is over." Shadow said coldly. "Go home." Shadow pushed the 3 students out of the building.
"Maybe this conversation can wait for another time and place." Kris suggested.
"Yeah…Maybe at Tails' house." Sonic added.
Sonic waited for Tails to come out of the school.
"Tails, we want to have a meeting at the house. Is it okay for them to come over?"
"Who are they?" Tails asked.
"That's Ky and Kris, they saw what happened."
"Okay, so what are they going to do?"
"I'll tell you when we get home."
