Chapter 14: Dark Moon

Sonic groaned in pain and exhaustion as he sat up in his bed. He felt like he had been in a boxing match with Knuckles and then been run over by an eighteen wheeler truck. He remembered that Emma had said that he would feel bad one today. The day of the dark moon. The day where all his sea fae powers and his ability to transform; the only thing from sea fae side that he kept was the ability to breath under water.

He slowly got out of bed and stumbled down the stairs, still in his pyjamas. Down in the kitchen, Uncle Chuck was humming to himself as he set the table from breakfast. When he saw his nephew wasn't ready to go to school he frowned and crossed his arms.

"Why aren't you ready for school?"

"Uncle Chuck, I don't feel right." He moaned as he slumped into a chair.

"Sonic, you can't just decided not to go to school because your powers are drained." He frowned. "It'll be like this every month, and if you keep taking a day off school once a month eventually someone will notice."

Sonic wanted to argue but he knew Chuck was right. With another groan he got up and went up to get changed...

"Whoa, you look horrible." Amy grimaced when she saw the blue hedgehog. His clothes were crumpled, his normally neat quills were a mess and his was sweating like a pig.

"Shouldn't you be in bed?" Tails frowned.

"I wish, but Uncle Chuck said if I kept taking a day off school every month someone would notice." He yawned as he rested his head on his desk. Amy and Tails sighed as Sonic started to fall asleep.

Suddenly the teacher burst into the classroom with the bang. He saw Sonic asleep on his desk and frowned as he walked over to him. When he still got no response his slammed his books on the desk, scaring poor Sonic half to death.

"Stay awake please Mr. Maurice." He said before walking awake...

Later that day, everyone was gathered in the drama hall for their lesson but Sonic still felt terrible. As the day had slowly progressed he started to feel extremely dizzy, tired and increasingly light headed. His friends were getting worried and said he should go home, but he was adamant that his was fine and he could last the day.

Just as he was about to fall asleep again, the drama teacher burst in with with smile on her face and a spring in her step. She seriously wasn't helping Sonic's headache.

"Alright children, today I want you all to partner up and start role playing." She happily chirped and everyone groaned.

She didn't seemed to notice and pulled out a box of cheap costumes and told them all to grab a costume and begin. Sonic pulled out a dog costume, Amy a nurse, Knuckles a wrestler, Tails a mechanic, Scourge an officer, Breezie a princess, Fiona an angel and Sticks as a caveman. Their drama teacher told them to partner up.

Amy with Tails, Knuckles with Breezie and Sticks with Fiona. Sonic groaned as he was forced to partner up with Scourge, who just smirked.

"Alright mutt, get down and beg." He mocked as they began. Sonic responded with an angry growled, which earned him a smack across the muzzle.

"Bad mutt." Scourge laughed, but the smack seemed to be the tipping pointed for Sonic.

His vision became very blurred and everything seemed to be spinning. The green hedgehog frowned in confusion when he saw the dazed look on his face and he started to sway slightly. He gasped when Sonic suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"SONIC!" His friends cried as they rushed to his side and the teacher called an ambulance...

The young blue hedgehog groaned in pain as he returned to his senses. He slowly opened his eyes but quickly closed them again with he was blinded by a strong, white light. As his eyes adjusted to the light he saw that he lying in a hospital bed with an IV in his arm. He looked around and saw his friends standing by the door and a doctor was hovering over him.

"Good to see you're awake Sonic, you gave us quite a scare." He smiled as he wrote on a clipboard. "I'm Dr. Quack, I'll be in charge of your care while you're here."

"W-What's going on?" Sonic asked as he slowly sat up.

"You passed out at school and they brought you here, we've tried to call Uncle Chuck but there's no answer." Tails explained as he shifted nervously. "They've also taken a sample of your blood." He added.

"Don't worry Mr. Maurice, it's just a necessary precaution, we'll be doing some tests to found out what caused you to faint and how we can prevent it in the future." The doctor explained with a smile as he got back up. "I need to go check on my other patients now, but call me or one of the nurses if you need anything." He said before leaving.

Once he was gone, his friends almost pounce on him.

"We need to get you out of here, now." Amy hissed as she dragged Sonic out of the bed.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because they've got your blood! If they examine it they'll find out about your fishy side!" Knuckles exclaimed as he and Amy tried to pull Sonic to the door, only to be blocked by Tails.

"Wait! Let's just think about this; if they have Sonic's blood, it won't matter if he runs away or not, they'll still find out about his sea fae side and they who knows what they'll do to him."

"Probably send me to a zoo, or dissect me." He grimaced before calling Emma Nets to see if she could do something. After about eight rings the call went to her voice mail. He sighed and hung up.

"So what're we gonna do?" Amy asked.

"We need to get my blood back before they can test it."...

It took them a small while for them to come up with a decent plan to get Sonic's blood back before the doctors found anything. It had taken some debating but they all agreed that this plan was better than just asking for the blood back. The plan was for Amy and Knuckles to distract the doctor while Sonic and Tails snuck into to lab.

As Amy and Knuckles got ready to distract the doctor, Sonic got dressed in a porter's uniform with a mask as Tails climbed into a laundry cart.

"Alright let's go." Amy sighed and she and Knuckles walked up to Sonic's doctor. "Excuse me Doctor, me and my friend was just wondering what it takes to become a great doctor like yourself." She smiled nervously.

"Well young lady, I would love to explain the ins and outs of medical school with you and your friend but I'm afraid I need to see how Sonic's doing." He smiled and headed to Sonic's hospital room.

She and Knuckles tried to stop him but it was too late. He entered the room and was shocked to find it completely empty. He quickly turned to Amy and Knuckles with a small glare. The two teenagers gulped in fear...

As Amy and Knuckles kept the good doctor busy, Sonic casually walked down the hospital halls with Tails in the laundry cart. A few porters, nurses and doctors gave him a few funny looks but shrugged it off as a new employee who just started today. Sonic followed the director signs on the hospital walls until they came to a door locked with a key code combination.

As Tails cracked the code Sonic kept watched for anyone coming. The doors beeped as they opened and Tails scoffed at the pathetic excuse of security. Once they were safely inside they ditched the uniform and the cart and made a dash for the door. When they entered the lab they saw computers, test tubes and rakes full of small tubes of blood.

"Can I help you?" A voice suddenly asked, causing them to flinch. They quickly turned and saw a woman in a lab coat eyeing them suspiciously.

"Y-Yeah, my blood was taken here for testing and my friend here loves all things scientific and wanted to see how blood gets tested; Dr. Quack gave us permission." Sonic quickly lied with a casual grin. The woman continued eyeing them for a few minuets before smiling.

"Oh, what's your name then?"

"Sonic Maurice." He replied and she typed the name up. She walked over to one of the racks and picked up a small test tube full of blood and handed it to Sonic.

"That's your blood, now just give me a second and I'll show how we test it." She smiled and went over to the computer.

Once her back was turned, Sonic and Tails shared a look before the hedgehog let go of the tube and left it fall to the fall. But their eyes widened in fear and confused when the tube harmlessly bounced off the floor with a clink.

"Oops, don't worry boys." The woman smiled as she picked up the tube. "That's why we put them in thick plastic, I'm always dropping them." She smiled and put the blood back on the rack.

Sonic looked to Tails with panic, hoping the kitsune had another plan. But the look on the boy's face told him he didn't. Before they could do anything else, however, the lab doors burst opened and Sonic's doctor walked in with a fearful Amy and Knuckles behind him.

"What are you two doing here?" He glared.

"They said they wanted to see how blood was tested, they also said that you gave them permission." The lady frowned in confusion.

"I did no such thing." The duck glared, but before he could say anything else there was a beep from the computer and a sheet of yellow paper slid out of the printer.

"Ah, that'll be your test results Sonic." She smiled.

"Wait! It's done already?!" Sonic cried in fear as the doctor picked up the sheet and started reading it silently. Tails, Knuckles and Amy all shared panicked looks as Sonic looked ready to run at any moment.

"Huh?" Dr. Quack muttered in confusion and Sonic broke into a cold sweat as the doctor looked at him. "It seems that you're a B- blood type, it's very rare, but I can't seem to find anything unusual here, you're completely normal."

Sonic just sat there, dumbfounded.

"Is there any reason you can think of that could cause you to faint the way you did?"

"W-Well, I've been staying up late studying and maybe I skip a few meals." He lied with a nervous grin as the other let out a silently sigh of relief...

After getting a long, boring lecture about how there bodies needed a proper sleep and eating scheduled, Sonic and his friends were finally able to leave the hospital. Now Sonic was able to get a hold Emma at her store. As he spoke to the old, crazy cat lady on the floor Amy called them a cab to take them all home.

It was now getting dark and they all knew their families would probably starting to get worried.

"So what she say?" Tails asked when he saw Sonic walking over to them.

"Apparently when the moon's completely covered not only do my powers and ability to transform disappear but so does any trace of sea fae in my DNA; nice of her to let me know." He glared as they chuckled.

"So, you guys wanna get a movie?" Amy asked as they climbed into the cab. As they drove away from the hospital, Knuckles and Tails nodded in agreement and they turned to Sonic to see what he thought. But they all burst out laughing when they saw the hedgehog had fallen asleep...

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