Legend of the Moonstone

Chapter 10

Halloween

Even after that day, Shadow reamained the same. Except, now instead of pouting when I beat him at somthing... He smiled. We still tried to beat eachother at playing the violin, which drove Mrs. Bennet crazy. And raced on cardio days in Physical Education. Everyclass was like a competition between the two of us. But every day they got more fun!

One day during luch period, I was sitting with Spike and enjoying lunch. Then a red haired chipmunk came and sat across from me. "Hello." She politely said. I looked at her. "Hello, can I help you?" She pulled out a notepad. "Yes, I am Sally Alicia Acorn. The class president. I have heard much about you and I would like to interview you." "For what?" I asked.

"We are doing a survey on individuality. And since you are so popular here, I want to see your perspective." I never really like serveys, but individuality is a serious topic. "I guess I can answer a few questions." I said. "Great!" Sally said.

"Okay; Why is individuality an important thing in life and how is it improtant to you?" Asked Sally. "Well, individuality is important because is affects things, the friends you make, the choices that you make for yourself. And I personaly think that if I stopped doing the things that define ME as ME. Then I would cease to exist at all." Sally put away her pen. "Thank you, I think out of every servey answer, your's was the best." She walked away. Spike smiled at me "I like your answer to."

It was late in fall. Hallows eve was drawing near. Me, Amy, and Spike were out looking for costumes. We had been invited to a party in the Palace of Acorn in Mobitropolis. It was being hosted by the Princess Sally herself and everybody in knothole was invited.

We entered one of those all year- round halloween stores. "This one looks cute." Amy said, pulling out a pink bunny costume. "Amy, you're not supposed to be CUTE, on Halloween you have to be SCARY!" I said with a facepalm. It was a tight fitting outfit made for young adult women. It was also the same shade of pink as Amy, so it would be like Amy really was a rabbit. "Whatever, just get what you want." I said after Amy complianed about how I didn't approve of her costume.

Spike tugged on my shirt and I turned around to look at him. "Can I get this one?" Spike asked holding up a costume. It was a make up kit for making a werwolf. "You want to be a werwolf?" I asked Spike. He nodded. "Okay, hold on to it." Spike had a delighted look on his face.

I went to look around for my costume. And boy did I find it! It was a ballroom costume. The dress was long enough so that it touched the ground but I could add a little more poof. It was black satin, and some layer of red matierial was draped over the bottom of the dress. I knew that I had to have it.

Amy paid for her bunny costume, and I paid for Spike and myself. As we walked home, we spotted Sally, who was having trouble carrying loads of bags. "Hey Sally, do you need any help with that?" Amy asked. Sally looked to see us. "Well, if you want. But wait a minute, because Sonic and some others are coming in with another load." We saw a couple people bringing in mere bags. I identifyed Sonic and Tails. But the other three were drawing a blank.

There were two females and a male. One was a brownish female rabbit who had robotic legs and one robotic arm. "Hello." I said to her. "Hello sugar, I'm Bunny, Bunny D'coolette. And this is my hubbie, Antione." She said in a southern accent hugging a light tanish Hyena with blonde hair. "Hello, it is very nice to be meeting you." Antione said in a french accent. The other female was a fox like me, but she was pink and also looked part cat. "I'm bliss." She said holding her hand out. I shook her hand and obsrved her. She had a very curvy figure, the only thing that was small was her stomach. Trust me, the rest of her was pretty big. It made me feel flat.

I was the only one to notice Sonic nudge Tails with his shoulder. "What?" Tails asked. "I think now would be a good time to ask her Tails, after all the party's tonight." Sonic whispered to Tails. Tails nodded. "H-hey Bl- Bliss?" Tails was nervous. "Yeeeeess?" Bliss said adjusting her deep v neck shirt.

Tails started sweating. "W- will you g- go to the party as m- my d- date?" Tails was now bright red. "Oh my god! I thought you'd never ask! C'mere!" Bliss said. She then squeeezed Tails tightly, burying his face in her chest. When she let go, Tails was as red as a tomato. Everyone laughed and we all proceded to the palace.

It turns out, that those bags were filled with decorations for the party. "Do you guys want to stay and help?" Asked Sally to Spike, Amy, and I. "Sure." We all said. Decorating was fun! Me and Spike blew up some balloons of different colors consisting of different colors. Like black, orange, and purple. Sonic and Sally were placing some already carved pumpkins around the ballroom. Tails and Bliss where hanging some different types of lanturns and hanging cobwebs on the ceiling. And Bunny, Antione and Amy were setting the nack table. When we all finished the ballroom looked great! "Thank you for your help everyone! Now hurry home, you need to get dressed up."

Me, Spike, And Amy hurried home to get ready. Amy dressed in her rabbit suit, I did Spike's make up. He looked very much like a werewolf, he scared himself looking in the mirror. I got in my dress and did my makeup. "Oh, my Taylor! You look so beautiful!" Amy said to me before we left for the party.

When we arrived, Spike ent strait for the nack table. We saw that the ballroom was filled with people! Everybody in Knothole was there! I even saw Azure, who was dancing with Nikki. They looked quite happy. Bliss was dancing with Tails, Sally with Sonic, Bunny with Antione. Even Amy danced with Mighty to "Keep him off my back". But I was the only one who didn't have a partner.

I was going to just go sit the party out, but I felt a tap on my shoulder. I looked around me to see a black hedgehog behind me. "Want to dance?" Shadow asked me. "Sure." I siad. I was blushing at this point. Shadow looked quite handsome tonight, He had a burgendy red tuxedo on. Wait, Why was I thinking this? Why can't I look away from him? And more importantly; What was this feeling in my stomach?

As me and Shadow wallked towords the middle of the dance floor, everybody stopped dancing to watch us. Two people at school who constantly try to out wit eachother, are now dancing together. "Try to keep up." Shadow said. "Is that a challenge?" I asked with sparks in my eyes. "Not if you're too scared." Shadow said, motioning to the Dj to play a song for us to dance to.

A lively tune started to play. Me and Shadow started with a simple waltz, and it kept geeting more complicated. He twirled me around the dance hall. He would toss me in the air and elegantly catch me like it was nothing. When the song drew to the end, Shadow twirled me a couple of time times. And right at the end, I fell back into his arms. And so the dance ended with that one pose.

We stood in this position for a while. Shadow looked into my eyes, as I did his. We leaned a little closer to eachother. "That was great!" Sonic said, startling Shadow so much that he dropped me. "oops, sorry." Sonic said, he helped me up. Sonic left, so to avoid getting in trouble for startling us. "Well, Shadow that was quit rude of... Shadow?" I said. Shadow was gone, but there was a letter on the floor near my feet. The note read in neat cursive writing;

Meet me in the garden behind the palace

- Shadow

I let out a huge gulp. I didn't know what to think of the letter! It made me feel ways that I can't even describe. But that didn't matter. I couldn't just discard the letter and not go. I gathered all my courage, and headed towords the back of the palace.

Spike- Courtesy of swiftshadow123

Azure and Nikki- Courtesy of leon29 the wolf

Bliss- Courtesy of omega