Sonic, Tails, Ky and Kris walked home as the sky started to lighten. Their shadows started to appear as the sun rose, Ky started to run to avoid the sun's painful rays and was the first to smack the door of Tails' house, hit the door face-first and smash his nose on the wood. Blood started running from his nose onto the welcome mat on the ground in front of the door. Ky held his nose.

"Come on! Walk faster!" he shouted.

Tails started flying faster towards his front door. Ky ducked when Tails reached into his cape for his house key.

"Hurry up!"

Tails inserted the key into the lock and turned it. The click of the lock opening up could be heard. Tails removed the key, turned the knob and opened the door. Ky was barely seen as the door swung open. He planted himself on the couch and put his feet crossed on the coffee table with a bored look in his eye.

"So…What're we gonna do about Shadster?" He asked.

Sonic and Kris shuffled inside the door and shut it behind them. Tails flew into the kitchen to get after school snacks for all of them. Sonic sat down in a bean bag and Kris leaned on the television.

"What're we gonna do?" Ky repeated a little louder and in a more interested tone of voice.

Tails came back into the room with a tray of snacks and set it on the coffee table. Ky moved his feet.

"Well, how did he get caught the last time?" Tails asked.

"A freshman caught him gorging himself behind the school." Ky said lazily.

"…Really?"

"Yes. I know it was stupid of him, but he probably wasn't all there, you know how vampires get when they feed sometimes."

Tails sat down in the chair on the left side of the couch.

"Sonic said something about the handle on his walking stick though."

"I said it was made of silver and I can't get near or touch it."

"Right." Tails nodded. "So maybe we'll have to get it away from him."

"That is also what I said."

"Is there any way to get rid of the silver top?" Kris asked.

She crouched down from standing and sat cross legged on the floor.

"We could try to melt it." Ky suggested.

Nobody was listening.

"WE COULD MELT IT!" He repeated.

"But do we have enough heat to do that?" Tails replied. He flew out of the chair to his computer in his bedroom. He booted up the computer and waited for the login screen to pop up. He typed in his password and proceeded to the internet to make his search. Tails had left the room for 20 minutes before he came back with results.

"Well do we?" Sonic asked.

Tails held up a piece of paper that he had printed out. The paper read: How to Melt Silver Items. Below the title was a picture of a blowtorch. Sonic got up and took it from the fox cub.

"Tails, what do we have that can produce this much heat?"

"I might have something. Wait here." Tails flew off, leaving the others in an awkward silence.

"So…What are you?" Sonic asked Kris.

"Well, I'm a vampi-"

"You already told me that. I meant her." Sonic pointed to Ky's little sister.

"She's a ghost" Ky answered.

Kris growled.

"Let me talk on my own."

"I didn't think you would answer."

"It's nice to meet you both."

The siblings smiled.

Sonic, I couldn't find anything." Tails announced as he flew in the room again. He was covered in dust.

"Darn it. How are we going to melt it now?" Sonic asked and thought. "Wait…Blaze! Maybe she can help us!"

Tails started nodding. "Yeah! Maybe."

"Who is Blaze?" Ky asked.

"Oh!" Sonic answered. "She's a friend of mine. You'll see her."

"She's in my potions class." Kris told Ky.

"Oh. How can she help?"

"She has fire powers." Sonic explained. "She probably can help us melt the cane. We might be able to get her to help us while Shadow isn't paying attention."

"I have her phone number if you want me to call her. We have each others' numbers because of the project we're doing." Kris offered while reaching into her backpack to find her phone.

Sonic nodded.

"Yeah."

Kris found her phone and called her project partner.

"Blaze is it too much trouble for you to come over to Tails' house right now?... I'll give you directions after you leave the dimensional portal."

Kris gave Blaze directions to Tails' house with the help from Tails himself and soon there was a knock at the door. Tails ran to get the door. The lilac cat was standing in the porch.

"Hello." Tails greeted and let her into the house.

"It wasn't very hard to find his house; it looks exactly like his head." Blaze commented.

"Hey Blaze!" Sonic greeted from across the room.

"Hello Sonic." Blaze replied. She stood until Tails offered her a seat on the couch. "So what did you want me for?" She asked.

"The reason why I called you is that we need your help." Kris answered. "We know Shadow did something at the blood drive."

"And we need you to help us melt the silver bat on the top of his walking stick since I can't go near it. Then we'll be able to confront him about what he did." Sonic added.

"Who is this?" Blaze asked.

"He's a mean old vampire who's our teacher. He's very unpleasant to be around. I'm sure you'll get him next year. He keeps stealing from the blood drive." Sonic answered.

"How do you know he did steal?" Blaze asked.

"I followed his scent and found him with the scent of blood He was acting real suspicious. Also there was a thievery at the drive today."

"We saw him behind the curtain before chaos struck too." Ky added. "He never learns and apparently he doesn't know what the word "banned" means."

"You don't either." Kris mumbled

"You're banned too because of your temper tantrum!"

"Stop bringing that up!"

"Calm down!" Tails shouted.

Kris and Ky both looked at Tails with an angry expression and sat down as far away from each other as possible.

"Will you help us?" Sonic asked.

"I don't know." Blaze answered.

"You said you owed me a favor the last time I saved you from the top of someone's roof and you were too scared to come down."

Blaze thought back to the incident during the summer and blushed hard in embarrassment. She had accidentally gotten a spell wrong and teleported herself on top of a building. She was petrified of the great height and couldn't move until Sonic saw her and helped her down. She said that she'd do him a favor as thanks.

"But what if we get caught?" Blaze asked.

"I have a backup plan." Sonic answered.

"…Okay, I'll help."

"Great! It won't take that long." Sonic exclaimed.

Sonic shook Blaze's hand and smiled.

The next day after Sonic had told their backup plan the group was on the move for next Tuesday. What happened the day before would never happen again.